The Bowdoin Orient - Vol. 148, No. 15 - February 8, 2019

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MUSIC FOR MUNCHKINS: Casey Edmonds-Estes ’22 plays bassoon at the Bowdoin Children’s Center. Student performers help kids discover music through live performance. See Page 8. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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Te Orient’s midyear approval ratings showed that the senior class is overwhelmingly dissatis�ed with the Career Planning Center (CPC)—but urther investigation has shown that approval varies widely by industry, with students looking to enter consulting and technology generally expressing positive sentiments while students in arts and communications are the least happy. Executive Director o the CPC Kristin Brennan noted that or most students, the timing o the job application process varies by industry. Recruiting or �nance and sofware engineering occurs in the all, or example, and hiring or most other �elds ramps up in the spring. “Te inherent challenge or a student navigating this terrain is, ‘what does the job search or me look like?’—not ‘what does the job search search look like, like, period,’” ’” she said. “Because they actually look so different.” Still, some students say they eel certain industries have more support than others. Just 43 percent o students looking or jobs in arts and entertainment were satis�ed with the CPC, compared to 73 percent o students looking or jobs in technology. Bowdoin’s online job board, eBear, currently has �ve job postings listed under the industry o “Arts & Entertainment,” which includes the subcategories “Film/Video,” “Perorming Arts, “Graphic Arts,” “Visual Arts” and “Music.” By contrast, 45 jobs are listed under “Education,” 31

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Seventy-nine current seniors conveyed their attitudes towards career planning in an Orient survey. Those who hoped to work in technology or education felt that the CPC has been helpful in their job search, while students planning to work in communication, journalism, arts or entertainment were underwhelmed. Overall, 59.5 percent of seniors felt the CPC has been helpful in their job search, while 31.1 percent felt it has been unhelpful. These figures are similar to those reported in the Bowdoin Orient Student Survey two weeks ago. under “Finance and Banking” demic year, the Consulting and and 18 under “Consulting.” Finance newsletters list an aver“Whenever I go on [eBear] age o 13.1 jobs each week, while looking or something �lm-re- the Arts and Communications lated, or science communica- newsletters list an average o 5.5 tions-related even, there’s really jobs per week. just not a lot on there there,,” said said Railey Railey Beyond eBear, the CPC offers Zantop-Zimlinghaus ’19, an Earth the Liberal Arts Career Network and Oceanographic Studies major (LACN), a consortium o more with a Cinema Studies minor. than 30 colleges that includes a Tis disparity exists beyond job database. Several Several o Bowdothe current snapshot. Te CPC in’s peer schools in the LACN, sends out weekly newsletters such as Bates and Middlebury, with job and internship oppor- also subscribe to other services, tunities or each �eld that they such as Handshake. have ound on eBear. Tis acaTese services provide access

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to a greater number o job postings in �elds where Bowdoin lacks, such as communications. For example, a Bates student searching on Handshake would currently see more than 150 jobs and internships in journalism. By comparison, LACN lists just a dozen. Brennan, who started at Bowdoin this past all, emphasized that the CPC aims to support all students—regardless o what they want to do.

Political donations by Bowdoin aculty and staff surged during the 2018 midterm cycle and universally supported liberal causes, according to an Orient analysis o data rom the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). Donations made by members o the College’s Board o rustees were varied between Democratic and Republican groups and candidates, but donations to liberal causes ar outnumbered donations to conservative causes. Employee donations recorded by the FEC amounted to $22,148 in 2018, with the entirety o the unds going to lef-leaning can-

didates or groups. Te �gure exceeded the $18,626 that was donated 2016 and is nearly our times as much as the College’s employees donated during the last midterm cycle in 2014. Proessor o Government Michael Franz, whose research includes campaign �nance, noted that the 2018 election cycle included more competitive races, both in the primary and general elections. Te number o races and the hype around them could have energized donations rom both parties’ bases and may explain the uptick in donations. “I think we'll �nd, given how many competitive elections there were, that there was more money

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Last April, Bowdoin announced its carbon neutrality neutrality,, two years ahead of schedule—but the connection to the environment goes back much longer. A look at where the College has been and where it is going.

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George Lopez puts on a special, Super Bowl-inspired show. Page 7.

Students look to stay in Maine over the summer. Page 9.

A group of Bowdoin students spends their weekends out on the ice. Page 12.

Lowell Ruck ’21 questions Bowdoin’s connection to Maine. Page 13.

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PAGE TWO SECURITY REPORT

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STUDENT SPEAK: What is the state of YOUR union? Conner Lovett ’19

“Drunken dismay.”

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• Officers and counseling service assisted a student in distress. • An officer checked on the well-being of a student student near South Campus Drive. • An intoxicated student at an event at Sargent Sargent Gym was given an escort to his residence hall. • A student at Coleman Coleman Hall reported that that three men had entered the hall. The men were determined to be alumni who visited briefly and then left the building.

Friday, February 1 • A baseball player received a nose laceration from being hit in the face with a ball during practice. The student was escorted to the health center. • Concern over a suspicious package delivered to Massachusetts Hall turned out to be unfounded. Saturday, February 2 • Loud music at Howard Howard Hall generated a noise complaint. • An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxiintoxicated student at Coleman Hall. • Officers assisted a child child visiting the Museum of Art who was reported to be displaying signs of seizure. Brunswick Rescue transported the child to Mid Co ast Hospital. • A fire alarm at Quinby House House was caused by the use of a hair straightener. • A candle flame at Quinby House activated activated a fire alarm. (The use of candles in campus buildings is n ot permitted. Try battery operated candles instead; they look real and create a lovely ambiance.)

Sunday, February 3 • Cooking smoke activated a smoke alarm inside Stowe Inn. • A student at Appleton Appleton Hall with �u symptoms was provided an escort to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic. • A student who fainted fainted at Appleton Appleton Hall was was transported to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation. • A student cooking food food activated a smoke alarm at 86 Federal Street. Tuesday, February 5 • A student with ongoing pain symptoms symptoms asked for an escort to Mid Coast Hospital. • Two folding tables were severely damaged in the basement of Ladd House. • A student who was kicking a soccer ball accidentally damaged a light fixture at Appleton Hall. Wednesday, February 6 • A student reported a man acting suspiciously on the Maine Quad. Officers monitored the man for a short while and he left campus without incident. • A student at Mayflower Apartments requested an escort to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation of flu symptoms.

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‘Humorous and informative:’ two professors explain Brexit ly dormant voter bases, noting that a signi�cant portion o Orient Staff “Leave” voters had not been Broken promises and active in politics beore. straight-up lies were the subLaurence, wearing a hal ject o discussion on uesday Union Jack and hal-EU �ag evening as two government tie, told the 200 attendees that proessors tried to explain some British tabloids spun Brexit. a series o lies regarding EuTe process has been even rope long beore Brexit. Tese more complicated by the de- myths, Laurence said, included eat o Prime Minister Teresa purported EU bans on curved May’s proposed deal or the bananas, double-decker buses split on January 15. May has and barmaids’ cleavage. PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT another chance to win over her Jared Foxhall ’22 described EXPLAINING THE EXIT: Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies Henry Laurence (left) and Associate Professor of Government Laura Henry Parliament on February 13. the talk as “humorous and in(right) discuss the potential implications of Brexit, including the possibility for conflict along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Speaking beore a large ormative.” crowd in Kresge Auditorium, “It was shocking to see that Ireland, or no deal will be bro- tive classes, “British Politics people that would have voted attendees o the talk would Henry Laurence, associate many o the metrics illustrating kered, orcing the establish- and Society” and “Te Politics ‘Remain’ and now wish they remember some o the deeper proessor o Government stark ideological divides mir- ment o a hard border. o the European Union.” How- had, although turnout was very moral and political questions and Asian Studies, and Laura rored that o the United States,” I the latter occurs, it would ever, Laurence soon realized high.” at play. Henry, associate proessor o he said. be the �rst time since the Good there was popular demand or He also ascribed dishonesty “I people came away realizGovernment, discussed the With the Brexit deadline Friday Agreement that a hard the talk. as a theme that has relevance in ing this is important—not only approaching March 29 exit only six weeks away and the border returned to Ireland. Te “We quickly realized there today’s society, both in the UK in its own light, but or what date. Tey re�ected upon the prospect o a no-deal Brexit, 1998 deal, brokered by ormer had been demand or it,” he and in the United States. it tells us about how politics is bitterly ought 2016 reeren- the proessors identi�ed the Senator George Mitchell ’54, said. “We were talking to our “he ‘Leave’ campaign headed in all democracies— dum campaign narrowly won most signi�cant unresolved ended a bloody, decades-long riends and a lot o them said promised things they couldn’t then that will be worth it,” said by “Leave” supporters, those issue as the border separating ethnonationalist con�ict. Lau- they’d like to come.” possibly deliver,” he said. “he Laurence. who advocated in avor o the Northern Ireland, which is rence and Henry suggested Re�ecting on the talk, Lau- politics o promising antasies When asked about his tie, United Kingdom (UK) leaving part o the UK, and the Repub- that such a hard border could rence highlighted a ew lessons is unortunately a powerul Laurence explained he purthe European Union (EU). lic o Ireland, an EU member. trigger a renewal o violence. he hoped observers had taken way to win elections and a chased it online rom an artist Laurence and Henry high- Laurence and Henry surmised Speaking afer the talk, Lau- away. terrible way to run a country, cooperative. lighted the skill o the United that either a “backstop” will rence admitted that he and “First is that elections mat- and that’s very relevant or all “Te tie was quite cheap,” Kingdom Independence Party be agreed upon, effectively Henry had originally intended ter, they have consequences,” o us.” he said. “But the express ship(UKIP) in energizing previous- extending the status quo in to give the talk to their respec- he said. “Tere are a lot o Laurence said he hoped ping—not so much.”

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“On month seven in the role, I’m deeply curious about what people's experience with career planning is,” she said. “We should get more different people on different paths, because that's really i mportant.” mportant.” Afer several appointments at the CPC, Zantop-Zimlinghaus has come to rely on personal networks to launch a career in the �lm industry, using connections reerred to her by her aunt and her roommate to set up interviews. “I’ve never actually landed something directly through Career Planning,” she said. Dean Zucconi ’19, a senior looking toward student affairs in higher education, echoed this sentiment. Afer �ve meetings

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with various advisors at the CPC in the all, he said that the greatest advice he received was the name o an online job board speci�cally tailored or jobs in higher ed. “[My advisor] showed me LinkedIn, but I’m already pretty amiliar with LinkedIn, so it kind o elt like wasted time,” he said. “I elt like, not even that I was going in circles, but that I hadn’t even started making nextstep sort o progress.” Tis experience contrasts with that o Eddie Korando ’20, who is interested in pursuing consulting. Korando secured his internship or this upcoming summer directly through the CPC and indicated that his internship could potentially result in a ull-time job. “I was meeting with [my advisor], and he told me about this �rm. He said, ‘Tey have an

internship application, I think you’d be a really good �t or it. I you want me to send over your resume, we’ll see where it goes rom there,’” said Korando. “So it really sort o came up as more o a spontaneous thing.” In addition to one-on-one meetings, Korando cited consulting-speci�c resources, such as practice case interviews, which help prepare students and personalize questions to a range o businesses and �rms. Tat type o relationship between the CPC advisor and employer is one that Zantop-Zimlinghaus says she wishes were more common. “I wish there was a more personal aspect to networking, rather than just emailing someone who graduated in like 1960 KAYLA SNYDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT and being like, ‘Hey, I also go to SEEKING CONNECTIONS: Bowdoin seniors report having access to fewer job postings in fields such as journalism than in fields such as finance. Other colleges seem to offer more resources. Bowdoin!’”

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Five Five decades of the environment at Bowdoin

COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

From Kent Island to the Roux Center, Bowdoin’s Bowdoin’s study of, responsibility to and connection to place. by Harrison West Orient Staff

In April o last year, the College announced its achievement o carbon neutrality, two years ahead o schedule. Te notice came afer a decade o inrastructural overhauls—a cogenerations turbine, oil to natural gas conversion, the installation o thousands o LED lights and, �nally, the purchase o renewable energy credits. Tis achievement also ollowed two large-budget project announcements—the construction o the Roux Center or the Environment and major expansions to what is now the Schiller Coastal Studies Center. Tese measures may suggest that Bowdoin is a largely environmentally ocused school or could be seen as a timely response to the growing relevance o environmental concerns in our world. But even as the College takes steps orward, some students and aculty wonder how to reconcile the academic study o the

environment with the College’s broader goals and whether Bowdoin is ul�lling its own institutional responsibility to address environmental concerns. Bowdoin’s environmental studies program dates back to the early 1970s, when environmental awareness at the College converged with the emergence o environmental conservation as a national issue. In the ollowing decades, the program expanded, and the College deepened its en vironment vironmental al connections connections in other areas. Bowdoin’s connection to the environment has played a key role in the ever-evolving actualization o its identity as an institution. I. History In 1969, at age 33, Roger Howell Jr. ’58 became president o Bowdoin College. At the time, there was a strong mood o political erment at educational institutions around the country, largely due to opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam. At the same time,

the �rst Earth Day in April 1970 and brought together disparate 1980s when the oceanographer reach beyond the major, saysignaled the birth o a national ways o thinking around a loosely Ed Laine came to the College as ing that it should “encourage environmental movement. de�ned topic. the pro gram’s �rst offi cial direcd irec- broad environmental literacy Tese changes led to a major Tus, the goal o the program tor. Te program was expanded through course oerings and rethinking o who the College was to provide students with to include six core courses and co-curricular activities availwas or and what purposes it both specialized knowledge in began graduating between eight able to all students.” should serve. In the ollowing ew one established �eld, such as gov- and 12 majors every year. Colyears, Bowdoin began to admit ernment or history, and a broad lege pamphlets rom this time II. Interdisciplinary Studies women, became test-optional understanding o how to think describe the program as comTis emphasis on the study and completely restructured its about the environment. bining the three primary areas o the environment as interdiscicurriculum to reduce the number Meanwhile, there was a bur- o study—the natural sciences, plinary has continued in the last o course requirements outside geoning state-wide recognition social sciences and humanities— 20 years. It was o particular ocus o the major. Certain traditional that Maine’s landscape was as well as integrating service- and in the events and announcements standards were loosened amidst endangered and in need o pro- �eld-based learning. surrounding the opening o the a general push or an academic tection. In 1966, John McKee, a Robert Edwards, who became Roux Center last semester. program more relevant to con- French instructor at Bowdoin, president o Bowdoin in 1990, “Tese events recognize our temporary social and political published a series o photo- saw greater opportunity to take nearly �fy years o leadership in issues, and new interdisciplinary graphs in an exhibition titled “As advantage o the College’s loca- interdisciplinary environmental programs were established, in- Maine Goes.” Te photographs tion in order to build its unique studies,” President Clayton Rose cluding an Aro-American Stud- show trash, sewage pipes leading brand. Te Outing Club was wrote in an email to students ies major. to the ocean and the proliera- greatly expanded and took over about the opening o the Roux Tough events such as the tion o commercial development orientation trips in 1992. In these Center. �rst Earth Day went largely unac- along the shoreline. McKee in- years, the College’s advertising Te study o the environment knowledged at Bowdoin, height- tended or the photographs to increasingly ocused on the op- spans many areas o academic ened environmental awareness bring attention to the destruc- portunities provided by its coastal study at Bowdoin, with the ES maniested itsel in the classroom tion o Maine’s unique coastal Maine location. program listing nine proessors as students expressed increased and 22 contributing aculty meminterest in studying the environbers in 12 different departments. ment academically. Some enviHowever, this wide range does ronmentally-conscious proesnot inherently guarantee interdissors began offering more courses ciplinary collaboration. to meet this demand. In 1971, Vladimir Douhovnikoff, 10 departments listed courses associate proessor o biology, designated as environmentally pointed out that while there are –President Clayton Rose, Rose, in an email relevant. many aculty members on camIn 1972, Bowdoin created a pus with deep knowledge about ormal environmental studies landscape. As Edwards contributed to the the environment in their partic(ES) program. It was among the Bowdoin proessors looked growth o the natural sciences at ular sub�eld, there is compara�rst wave o schools to do so, at Maine’s unique environ- Bowdoin in those years, the Col- tively little discussion between ollowing Middlebury, Univer- mental challenges as academic lege had also took advantage o its departments. sity o Wisconsin–Madison, UC opportunities. In 1971, Chuck property on Orrs Island in Harp“Tere is a lot o room or Santa Barbara and Dartmouth. Huntington, a biology proes- swell in addition to the biological leveraging the knowledge that Rather than a stand-alone major, sor developed a senior seminar �eld station on Kent Island in we have to address environmenBowdoin established a coordi- or ES coordinate majors called the Bay o Fundy, Canada. In tal topics in a more structured, nate program, meaning that stu- “Te Androscoggin River: A 1998 the Coastal Studies Center targeted and collaborative way,” dents would pair environmental Case Study.” During these years, opened on Orrs Island with a ter- Douhovnikoff said. studies with a major in an exist- the Androscoggin was one o restrial and marine lab. Associate Proessor o Ecoing department. the most polluted rivers in the In 1998, the Environmen- nomics and Sustainability Im-

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Friday, February 8, 2019 they can share and grasp ideas quickly. Matthew Klingle, associate proessor o history and environmental studies, works across several disciplines in his own research, which relates to the intersections o the environment and human health. He admitted that interdisciplinary study is in reality incredibly incred ibly difficult. A historian by training, he took a series o classes at Harvard on public health and learned how to read sources rom other disciplines, including biomedical scienti�c research, which allowed him to approach the history o diabetes rom new angles. Klingle sees the coordinate major’s requirement or training in a particular discipline as key to this kind o work. “[Interdisciplinary study] is about knowing what you don’t know,” and or this, “you have to know something airly well … It gives you an understanding o your limitations,” said Klingle. Emily Ruby ’19, an ES–Aricana Studies major, thinks that the coordinate major has allen short o this goal. She has ound the major to be too restrictive and the our required core courses to be largely ineffective. “Proessors should be able to teach the topics that they have been studying in the last ew years as opposed to a broad survey class,” she said. Ruby believes that these required courses ofen end up sacri�cing depth or breadth, as they prevent students rom ocusing on a particular area o ES. Tis particularly affects ES–humanities majors like hersel, or whom there are ewer crossover courses, she said. While the ES department has tried to drive collaboration, it is not the only hub on campus or thinking about the environment. In particular, Douhovnikoff noted the new ecology, evolution and marine biology (EEMB) concentration within the Biology Department, which was announced last year. Te concentration, he hopes, will allow more ocused collaboration or studying environmental topics through these �elds, in which several proessors in the department work.

attachment to the environment,” said Kitrea akata-Glushkoff ’19, an Earth and Oceanographic Science (EOS) major. For her, science strengthens this sense o connection. “So much is so perectly captured in these beautiul processes that are interconnected with each other,” she said. “Te more you learn about it, the more magical it actually is.” akata-Glushkoff has also become interested in promoting more cross-cultural communication in the geosciences, as she thinks there ofen is a disconnect between scientists who extract data rom a place and the people who live in and interact with that place every day. “Tinking about the environment is so much more powerul when you’re thinking about people,” she said. “Not everyone might say that they care about some environmental issue, but everyone can say, ‘I want my neighbor to be healthy.’” Kate Dempsey ’88, director o the Nature Conservancy in Maine, echoed this sentiment. “Conservation today really is about working with resource users to design strategies that allow them to thrive as humans,” she said. Beore moving to the Nature Conservancy, Dempsey worked in affordable housing and public health afer going to graduate school or urban policy. “Trough that work, I began to understand how essential a healthy environment is to thriving communities,” she said. Dempsey was not involved in environmental issues during her time at Bowdoin. She barely knew o the ES program and would have assumed the major was only or those studying the natural sciences. Nonetheless, she does believe that her education at Bowdoin,

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but rather to encourage careul thinking about the stakes o environmental topics. He cited the principle o “equipoise,” used in medicine, which distills down to these questions: Beore thinking about how to solve a problem, one must consider i it’s really a problem, how it’s a problem and or whom it’s a problem. Tus, environmental studies is about challenging preconceptions—thinking, at the most basic level, about what the environment encompasses. Klingle noted that conceptions o the environment have ofen been quite narrow and haven’t haven’t considered how everyone COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES is intimately connected to the natural world. Public discourse, in particular, has ofen been narrated by people with relatively high socioeconomic status who want to protect certain beautiul spaces or their own interests and uses. akata-Glushkoff thinks that there could be more assumption-breaking thinking within the environmental sciences in particular. “In ES, we talk more theoretically about what all these issues o justice are,” she said. “[And] in EOS, we just don’t.” While acknowledging that this is partly due to the nature o the material, she pointed to the opportunity or greater knowledge co-production within the environmental sciences, in which the people that live in an environMINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT ment or use a resource have more DIFFERENCE OF DECADES: The College has drastically increased its investment in the health of the environment involvement in the scienti�c re- since 1966, when the above image was taken at Fort Popham State Memorial. Below, the Roux Center opened last fall. search about it. She said that seeing that hu- IV. IV. Institutional Responsibility cheaper. For this reason, Bow- group spent years campaigning or mans are harming the natural In 2001, Bowdoin established doin bought a large portion divestment beore pivoting to polworld and wanting to mitigate that its Sustainability Sustain ability Offi ce with the t he o non-additional RECs rom itics in 2017. For Ruby, Ruby, Bowdoin’s underlies her study o the environ- goal o reducing the environmen- wind arms in exas in order to carbon neutrality isn’t enough. ment, but pointed out that geo- tal impact o its campus. achieve carbon neutrality. neutrality. “BCA wants the College to be scientists ofen don’t come to the “I was one o the �rst �ve peoBowdoin also joined a con- doing more outside o the instisubject as environmentalists. “Hal ple in the country doing this,” sortium o schools to support tution in national, state and local o geoscientists end up going into said Keisha Payson, who has been the construction o a solar array politics,” she said. oil,” said akata-Glushkoff. the sustainability director at Bow- in Farmington, Maine. Te RECs She said that divestment o the doin since its inception. rom this project, which can be endowment rom the ossil uel Payson said that Bowdoin be- considered additional, will offset industry would still represent this gan tracking its carbon emissions a larger raction o Bowdoin’s kind o outward-looking action. in 2003, but the goal o carbon neu- energy use when the project is “It doesn’t ultimately matter trality emerged in 2007 as an agree- completed. what our institution’s institution’s energy ootment between hundreds o college Te next climate action plan print looks like i the ossil uel presidents nationwide. Each insti- is currently being developed by industry maintains a stranglehold –Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff ’19 tution committed to developing the Offi ce o Sustainability, Su stainability, which on our economy,” she said. a climate action plan, including a discusses its projects and strategies akata-Glushnoff, who was as a government and legal studies However, However, certainenvironmen- date or carbon neutrality. neutrality. with the SIC, a group made up o involved with the Sustainability major, was important or her later tal issues have emerged that will “Te whole campus sustain- students and aculty that meets a Office as a �rst year and sophwork. have enormous repercussions ability movement really took ew times each semester. Te new omore, said that she is proud III. Academics and Activism “Tinking about how various or society as a whole. As an off. Tat one commitment was a plan’s goals will likely be or 2030. o Bowdoin’s commitment to Students come to Bowdoin communities [and] countries International Panel on Climate game-changer across the counPayson said that this plan sustainability but sees discrepwith their own reasons or caring design healthy communities was Change report published in Au- try,” Payson said. will shif its ocus rom scope ancies between Bowdoin’s comabout the environment, which obviously incredibly grounding gust again makes clear, there is Bowdoin decided on 2020 as a 1 to scope 2 emissions. Scope mitment at an institutional level may interact with academic inter- or me,” she said. broad consensus that i carbon date or carbon neutrality. neutrality. Know- 1 emissions, which result rom and among the student body as ests in a variety o ways. ConnecKlingle wants the ES pro- dioxide emissions don’t soon all ing that the slow pace o develop- electricity use, made up most o a whole. She pointed to the low tion to the environment comes gram to encourage this kind signi�cantly, signi�cantly, global warming will ing technology would make com- the College’s 28 percent reduc- level o activism on campus and in many orms, but it ofen orig- o broad thinking about how be catastrophic. Tis demands plete elimination o on-campus tion in campus emissions. Scope wishes that more student leaderinates rom a simple awareness the environment is highly in- concrete action beyond urther emissions impossible, the College 2 emissions, which come rom ship had generated energy and one’s surroundings. terconnected with other social study o the issue and has opened set a goal o a 28 percent reduc- natural gas heating and uel used conversation around the carbon “Te reason that we want to and political issues. He pointed the opportunity in recent years tion o on-campus emissions. It by the campus vehicle �eet, hav- neutrality plan. study the earth in a scienti�c way out that the goal o the program or Bowdoin to use its power as would then match its real carbon en’t decreased much since 2008. Ruby noted that while Bowand learn more about it is that is not to create unquestioning an institution to make a notable ootprint—the amount o carbon Reducing scope 2 emissions will doin’s location and outdoor we have this initial, emotional advocates or the environment, difference. actually burned to make the Col- require more major inrastruc- culture contributes to students’ lege run—by purchasing renew- ture changes, changes , on which the Offi O ffice interest in and care or the enviable energy credits (RECs). is currently working. Payson said ronment, it doesn’t ofen translate A company or utility produc- that the new College residences to climate activism. She said that ing renewable energy receives on Park Row will require very students involved with climate RECs or each unit o power that little energy to heat. politics overlaps more with those it produces, which it can then Ruby has been working with involved in other orms o politisell to another institution. An the Sustainability Sustain ability Offi ce to devel- cal activism “because those peoREC can be additional or non– op this new climate action plan. ple share the same belie in how additional. She eels that the inrastructural change occurs, which is rom bot“I someone is going to build a changes being developed are nec- tom up as opposed to top down.”

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Lecturer analyzes premodern reproductive reproductive health by Emily Cohen Orient Staff

On Monday aternoon, Leslie uttle, associate proessor o history rom Louisiana State University, began a talk to a packed audience in the Beam Classroom by describing the “suspicious death” o Mademoiselle de Guerchy, a tabloid star o Louis XIV’s Paris. As uttle revealed, de Guerchy died due to complications rom an abortion procedure. he registered midwie in whose home de Guerchy was ound dead was charged with the death o de Guerchy and o the unborn child, and she was sentenced to death. But the tragedy with which uttle opened her talk, titled “Exploring Hidden Networks o Abortion in Early Modern Paris,” is not really the point. Rather, uttle used the example o Mademoiselle de Guerchy to spark questions about the widely-accepted notion that women’s rights in Western civilization have always progressed toward greater individual reedom, culminating in widespread liberation movements o the 1960s and 70s. With humor and occasionally gruesome detail, uttle illustrated the robust networks o abortion providers and clients in 17th-century Paris, where the practice was neither uncommon nor rigorously prosecuted. Beginning her talk with de Guerchy’s case, she admitted, was demonstrative o the exact idea she would attempt to challenge. “Retelling the story o Mademoiselle de Guerchy—as I mysel have done, as I just did again in ront o all o you—can unwittingly sup-

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than previous congressional elections,” Franz said. Te FEC’s public dataset only includes individuals whose cumulative political contributions exceed $200, meaning it’s possible that some employees made small

port the misleading narrative that I am going to now deconstruct,” uttle said. “he dramatic, well-documented case in which every emale participant ends up dead may make a compelling story, but it is utterly unrepresentative o the norm.” Associate Proessor o History Meghan Roberts invited uttle to Bowdoin ater hearing her talk at a conerence. he event, sponsored by the history department, the Sexuality, Women and Gender Center and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, augmented the content o the courses Roberts is teaching this semester: History o the Body and Old Regime and Revolutionary France. “We’re constantly bringing in present day issues and thinking about how studying the past helps us understand the present in a much more complex and nuanced way,” said Roberts o her courses. o uttle, abortion in early modern France may be considered a “twilight moment,” a term coined by historian o sexuality Anna Clark that describes activities that people are reluctant to openly discuss and document, but also do not result in complete stigmatization. In her research uttle ound discussion o abortion procedures in archival materials ranging rom police reports to royal pharmacopeia that included recipes or potions to induce contractions. “Don’t try this at home,” joke d uttle. Most abortion procedures at the time, however, were not medieval in nature. In act, explained uttle, providers o abortion procedures viewed their practice as a sort o clan-

donations to conservative causes or groups. Te liberal slant o donations rom employees didn’t come as a surprise to Francisco Navarro ’19, leader o the College Republicans—though he noted that campaign contributions are only one aspect o political action. “I think donations are unique

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DISPELLING MYTH, INSTILLING FACT: In a lecture on Monday, Associate Professor Professor of History at Louisiana State University Leslie Tuttle addressed the providers of abortion in early modern Europe, focusing on 17th-century Paris. At the time, the procedure was not completely stigmatized. destine business, in which they sought to demonstrate more expertise than their “competitors” and develop a reputation o providing eective and sae care or their clients. In terms o regulation, uttle argued that neither the Catholic Church nor the state was unequivocal. Conessor’s manuals at the time suggested that, until at least the 18th century, inducing abortion beore the subjectively-deined moment when the etus acquires a soul was considered a sin analogous to lying by concealing sexual immorality, immorality, rather than murder. hough the practice may eventually have been elevated in seriousness, abortion

completed in early-modern Paris was occasionally a way to, as one midwie put it, restore a woman’s honor and salvation. o Zach Scharlau ’21, a student in Roberts’ Old Regime and Revolutionary France class, this part o uttle’s argument was unexpected. “I igured that, given how religious old society was, that abortion would have been more criminalized than it had been,” he said. “Even the Catholic Church didn’t have as extreme a stance on abortion as I thought they would have had, so that was the most surprising p art to me.” Royal law similarly let abortion in a gray area. Despite the existence o a

16th-century “ostensibly dra- made modern state criminalconian” edict against clan- ization, rather than decrimdestine pregnancy, the justice inalization in the 1960s and system appeared “extremely 70s, the historical turning ill-equipped” to prosecute point o history?” cases o abortion, said uttle. uttle said she doesn’t have “It was when things went an answer, but or Roberts, catastrophically wrong that the important part was that we see them, or the most the legal history o abortion, a part, at all,” she said. controversial topic in modern hroughout her talk, ut- political conversations, not be tle suggested that the main- oversimpliied. stream narrative o women’s “here are these dehistory is misleading. Euro- ault, easy historical narrapean nation-states in the 18th tives about the past that get century, she noted, codiied brought into our political dethe illegality o abortion in a bate all the time, but they're way that early modern Paris not actually accurate,” said did not. Roberts. “So how does the uttle let the audience to conversation shit i we emponder the question: “How brace living in shades o grey, would our understanding o which is what I real ly want my abortion look dierent i we students to do."

in that people can be very politi- the College’s Board o rustees, cal but just not want to give their which summed to $1.5 million money,” he said. “It just shows in 2018. you which out o the lef-leaning O those donations, $1.32 milaculty are more active and actu- lion went toward liberal causes, ally want to do more about it.” while $179,000 supported conserTe uptick in political dona- vative vative candida candidates tes or groups. groups. An tions rom Bowdoin employees additional $14,000 went to politistill pales in comparison to do- cal action committees (PACs) that nations made by members o have historically supported candi-

dates rom both parties. raditional PACs can make limitLeading the way in trustee ed donations to campaigns, while political giving was John Fish ’82, Super PACs can support candiCEO o the Boston-based Suffolk dates but cannot coordinate with Construction Company, who their campaigns. made a $1 million donation to Franz noted that, while canthe Senate Majority PAC, a Super didates might seek both wealthy PAC which supports Democratic and small-dollar donors, Super candidates or Senate. Fish also PACs tend to solicit money rom contributed to a number o oth- individuals who have a lot o it. er liberal groups and candidates, “Super PACs know that they including Maine second-district can play a potentially important representative Jared Golden, role in various things,” he said. though he also made donations “[Tey] can thereore try to use to the Republican national com- that to extract donations rom mittee and now-Utah Senator wealthy, wealthy interests.” Mitt Romney. President Clayton Rose doCampaign �nance laws cap nated to only one candidate— donations to individual candi- independent Angus King. Rose dates at $2,700 during the prima- made the maximum donation ries and an additional $2,700 or o $2,700 to King’s campaign in the general election. raditional both the primary and general PAC have a $5,000 per person cap stages o the election cycles. on individual donations, while King, a longtime Brunswick resso-called so-cal led Super Sup er PACs—officially ident who taught as a lecturer at known as independent expendi- at Bowdoin in the 2000s, was ture-only committees—do not re-elected to the U.S. Senate by ace legal limits in undraising. a wide margin last November.

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Si S i g h t a nd s o un d : Mu M u s ic a t th e M u s e u m When Lopez was watching the Super Bowl this past Sunday, a cerOrient Staff tain advertisement or Bud Light Te dome o the Bowdoin involving a �ery dragon and an College Museum o Art (BCMA) ice-cold brew sparked an entirely rings with music as a ull, rapt new direction. audience experiences sound interRather than ocusing on the woven with sight. On this Febru- piano as a material resource, Lopez ary night, the perormance series began to sort through the �ood o “Music at the Museum” continues pieces his new theme brought to yet another successul run. mind: the our elements. For the night’s perormer Beck“Making music tangible, invokwith Artist-in-Residence George ing painting, color, col or, landscape.” said Lopez, amiliar with recital halls Lopez. “Dealing with landscape worldwide, this experience is un- through earth, rivers through walike any other. ter, bumblebees through the air—I “It eels more hallowed—in the think it lands on the listener much best sense o the word,” Lopez said. more strongly than simply an ab“Tere’s a call to bring your cre- stract would.” ative best to the moment, because Te highlights are varied as the you’re among the best that art and elements they represent. For earth, creativity have to offer.” Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Te concert, like the exhibit it “Romance,” invokes a landscape accompanies—Material Resourc- reminiscent o a thousand happy es: Intersections o Art and the memories. Air allows the “Flight Environment—is curated with o the Bumblebee” by Nikolai intention, research and a quest Rimsky-Korsakov to ring. For waor narrative connections. Lopez, ter, “Preludes” by Claude Debussy,

you draw personal eeling toward the music through narrative, then it makes more o an impact.” said Lopez. “It gets in, somehow, rather than just staying on the surace o the skin, the ear.” Lopez uses visuals as an integral part o his teaching and his craf. His philosophy is guided by a search or relationships not always obvious to the eye or ear. “I’m very interested in the way that everything is everything.” said Lopez. “I’m particularly interested in always looking or connections.” Trough “Music at the Museum,” Lopez seeks to make the intangible tangible, the invisible seen—uniting the mind and heart in celebration o all that art, music or visual, has to offer. “I believe there’s a lot more visualization in the creation o music, both as a composer and as a perormer,” he said. “Me personally, I see bubbles or rings, each tone is a ring o a different size or color so that the sound becomes an actual thing in my mind, it doesn’t stay out there, invisible.” “There’s a call to bring your creative best In anticipation o the sold-out, to the moment.” brie program, audiences arrive in –George Lopez the space with intent, which Lopez who knows piano repertoire inti- a composer enamored with nature, believes makes a difference. Afer mately, is guided by the themes o conjures rivers. In �re, Manuel de all, listeners must seek connecthe exhibit. Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance” is all tions, narratives and the presence “I select pieces that highlight vigor vigor and energy— energy—acc accord ording ing to o heart, or themselves. directly, as a representation o the Lopez, a real barn-burner. “I you’re not looking or that, art, or that are conceptually conIn this program, as in his other my programs are quaint, but not nected by the creative impulse,” endeavors at the College, Lopez effective,” said Lopez. said Lopez. seeks to draw people in to what he In his extensive travels, Lopez Te musical program or yes- admits is arcane: classical music. has ound those connections rom terday and today had been set— Academic interest may ofen be coast to coast, abroad and at home, until inspiration struck in the most enough to bring people in to listen. no matter whose ears his music unexpected way. “But i you draw the heart in, i reaches. “I’m interested in the way that people respond [to music] with the same passion or intensity— not on the surace, but with the intangibles.” he said. “And so I can take my language on the road quite easily.” Not as ar on the road as Cuba, this time—simply down the street, under the dome o the BCMA, where the convergence o sight and sound promises to �ll an evening with illuminating new possibilities. MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT Music at the Museum will take place at the Museum o Art PavilTANGIBLE TUNES: Music at the Museum, a crowd-favorite performed by

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REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FRIENDS IN FORTUNO: Since the spring of their first year, Tobi Omola ’19 and Ellis Laifer ’19 have shared a close frienship and creative enterprise, collaborating on original songs through their music duo, Fortuno.

Por Po r t rai ra i t o f a n A rti rt i s t : Fort For t u no by David Yang Orient Staff

obi Omola ’19 and Ellis Laifer ’19 comprise the music duo Fortuno, which recently released the singles “Be” and “Feel” on all major music platfo platforms rms.. Omol Omola will will be perform performing ing in his senior recital this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall. Te following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

TO: It’s not true. EL: I could play instruments better than he can. TO: Yeah, that’s true. Q: How would you guys describe your musical genre? TO: Alternative R&B. EL: Indie R&B. It’s like a mix o produced music with acoustic sounds and also singing, sometimes rapping.

come to our honors project recital on April 13. And stay tuned to our Facebook and Instagram. EL: I don’t know what I’m doing next year. We’re talking long, long term. Ideally, I would like to be in a place where I can work on things with obi, but we don’t really know what’s gonna happen. Anything can happen.

Q: obi, what can we expect rom your recital this weekend? Q:What Q: What is your creative process TO: I’ll be singing around eight The Bowdoin Orient: How did like? How does your music come songs. You can expect contempoyou two meet and start making together? rary and modern pop, pop love EL: It’s difficult collaborating, music together? collaboratin g, songs. For example, a Brazilian Tobi Omola ’19: We met in the especially with a riend. It kind o tune by this emale artist named Longellows. I guess it was that one changes rom song to song, but Joyce. I’ll be singing two Fortuno night in Smith. sometimes obi will preer to just originals, a Frank Ocean cover and Ellis Laifer ’19: Yeah, it was resh- work alone, like when he’s record- a Kanye tune. Phenomenal people man year, second semester. We just ing something and just doesn’t want are playing with me. Kevin Elk ’20 jammed jammed one one night night in a practi practice ce me in the room, which is �ne. is the drummer, Daniel Mayer ’21 TO: But sometimes it’s more is playing bass. Ariana Smith ’21, room, and we had a lot un doing it. We pretty much just played piano productive. Ofentimes i we’re jam- Isabel Udell ’19 [and] Anne Gregtogether, and then we made a song ming, we’ll be like, “Oh, we like this, ory ’19 are going to serve as backreshman year called “Steam” and we’ll record that,” and then we both ground vocalists. Nolan Roche ’19 put it on Soundcloud. take a day to come up with chords is going to play guitar and sing, and TO: TO: And our riends liked it. to add to whatever chords that were Ellis is going to play piano. EL: It was a decent song. I think introduced the day beore. Q:Anything Q: Anything to add? that was the start o our riendQ: How many songs has FortuTO: Fortuno isn’t just the two o ship—collaborating riendship, I guess. no released so ar? us. Tere is also Eli Koskoff, who is EL: We EL: We have officially two t wo songs Ellis’ riend rom Connecticut. He is Q: How and when did you cre- on Spotiy. We have more songs currently a senior at USC and goes ate Fortuno? that we’re working on, and a ew to their jazz school—a phenomenal EL: It EL: It was spring o last year, and that are �nished that are going to be musician. And I lived with them then we ended up going to L.A. put out some point in March. or a month over the summer. Now TO: In the long term, look or- we’re all one entity. Yeah, look out together, together, which solidi�ed it. He can







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INTERACTIVE AND IMMERSIVE: Bowdoin students have the unique opportunity to perform live at the Children’s Center, contributing to an authentic sensory experience for the kids and an early exposure to the arts.

Students inspire with live music at the Children’s Center once a week or a hal hour at a time, with their guitars and Orient Staff ukuleles and bassoons, to share ake a peek into the Bowdoin the magic o live music with the Children’s Center, and you might young kids. see a student plucking the strings “Mellow Music or Muncho an acoustic guitar, the notes kins”—the tradition o inviting sweetly melodic, a mother with students to practice their ina sleeping inant strapped to her struments at the Children’s Cenchest and a toddler at her side, ter—began three years ago. Te swaying to the music, listening program sprung rom a desire to with curiosity and wonder. create real, sensory experiences Te Bowdoin Children’s Cen- or the children, according to Diter, tucked behind Coles ower, rector Martha Eshoo. shares an intimate relationship Te opportunity or children with the College. Faculty and to hear music while at the same staff bring their children, aged time watching its production between 12 weeks and �ve years, is a powerul developmental here during the school week. experience that allows them to Psychology students work as in- begin recognizing the sounds terns, sitting quietly and jotting o individual instruments, and notes or interacting with the to more deeply understand the kids. Student musicians come, connections between themselves

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and their environment. “Tat interactive, hands-on kind o experience brings the material into their brain in a way that’s really concrete, and tactil e,” Eshoo said. Meanwhile, the kids are having a blast. Eshoo laughs as she recalled the children’s reactions to the music. “We notice the children pretending that they’re playing instruments. Someone will pretend they’re playing a guitar, or the harp, or, I’m sure the bassoon,” said Eshoo. “We’ve never had an instrument here like the bassoon, so that will be interesting to see.” Kai’olu DeFries ’19 has brought her ukulele to the Children’s Center or our years to play or the kids. She believes live

music has a powerul ability to affect the children. “Sometimes music helps to recenter their ocus rom a quarrel they might have had with another child or rom a all to the notes o the songs,” DeFries said. “At other times it’s something they have to be pulled away rom as their amily members prepare to take them home.” Visiting Assistant Proessor o German Andrew Hamilton, who takes his son, Benjy, to the Children’s Center, can speak to how his son’s interest in music has been kindled by the program. Benjy received a ukulele or his third birthday afer �rst being exposed to the instrument by a Bowdoin student. “Te ukulele player in his classroom so inspired him that

he takes a spiral bound book, just like the one where she has her songs written down, goes into a quiet corner, lays a Jacob’s ladder across his chest and sings Leonard Cohen songs to himsel,” Hamilton said. Trough the program, the children experience a wide range o musical styles, rom classical guitar patterns to Hawaiian ukulele songs and even olk and R&B. Students who come to play their instruments are invited to play anything they like, whether they choose to practice a d ifficult piece they’re trying to master or just play rom a selection o songs or a hal hour. Te music program is only one example o an effort to create more connections between Bowdoin students and those o

the Children’s Center. Students are also invited to come speak oreign languages to create an immersive language experience or the kids, and the preschoolers ofen visit art shows at the Edwards Center or Art and Dance, as well as the museums on campus, and �nd themselves in the midst o vast collections o new and exciting orms o art. Te Children’s Center bridges the divide between its tranquil nursery and the artistic vigor o this campus. And it does so in the most natural possible way: through the universal language o music, enjoyed by those o all ages. “‘Without music, lie would be a mistake,’” Hamilton said, summoning the words o Nietzsche. “rue words, Fred.”

‘Fashioning ‘F ashioning Modernity’ examines changing Nigerian identity by Anthony Yanez and Anibal Husted Orient Staff

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dents ormed a curatorial team, devoting their own time to organize the exhibit. Martino served only an advisory role, allowing the students to take charge o the curation.

are intentional. “We thought about the history o these ‘cabinets o curiosities’ where [objects are] placed in these glass boxes and you’re separated rom them,” said Hassane. “You’re







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English Engli sh pro profe fesso ssorr ear earns ns international acclaim your work—it can be a little di�cult to w rap your head around,” Orient Staff Marzano-Lesnevich said. Tis year, the English deIt was particularly meaningpartment brought new and now ul to Marzano-Lesnevich that internationally-award-winning the panel was excited about how talent to its aculty. Author and their book crossed genre lines— Assistant Proessor o English autobiography blended with true Alex Marzano-Lesnevich recent- crime—and prompted more sely won the prestigious France rious discussions and interviews Inter-JDD oreign book prize or about complex legal matters. the French translation o their Te book weaves together the 2017 cross-genre book “Te story o Ricky Langley’s trial or Fact o a Body: A Murder and a the murder o six-year-old JerMemoir.” emy Guillory and Marzano-LeTis award is given by a snevich’s own experience with committee o prominent French the case. Trough this braided journalists journali sts to one book interna- narrative, Marzano-Lesnevich tionally per year in any genre. Al- explores how we construct the though Marzano-Lesnevich has past through our understanding received various awards or the o ourselves and others in the book, they said this particular context o storytelling. honor elt different. While attending Harvard Law “When [the committee School, Marzano-Lesnevich took chooses] one book in all the an internship in Jackson, Louworld—even i you believe in isiana at a �rm that deended your work, even i you’re proud people acing the death penalty. o your work, even i you love Te Langley case, in which the

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mother o the murdered boy testi�ed or the murderer, triggered a trying emotional response rom Marzano-Lesnevich and prompted them to look back into the case years later, searching through court records and evidence. “I didn’t get the records [rom the case] initially thinking that I would write a book about it, absolutely not,” Marzano-Lesnevich said. “I just got the record thinking that I would put the story down, that I would stop thinking about it, and o course that’s not what happened.” Te France Inter-JDD panel noted that the extensive research done or “Te Fact o a Body: A Murder and a Memoir” set the book apart rom other competitors or the prize. Te book was ultimately written using 30,000 pages o court records that Marzano-Lesnevich traced down in

JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PRIZE-WINNING PROFESSOR: Assistant Professor of English Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich recently won AWARD ARD, page 10 an international award for their genre-crossing book, “The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.” Please see AW

Students try working in Vacationland by Penelope Mack Orient Staff

“Work in the state you love” was the tagline o this week’s Maine Employer Career Fair, which brings employees rom across the Pine ree State to campus. For Bowdoin students, that state might be the one they grew up in or one they had never seen beore arriving on campus. But all students who have worked in Maine over the summer can agree on one thing: spending a summer in this state is an invaluable experience. Ripley May�eld ’19 spent last summer planting crops at a arm in Freeport. She said she didn’t even consider working in a big city because she wanted to work at one o the small scale businesses that call Maine home. “[Working in Maine] has been good at helping me realize your

about business models. “I think that working with small nonpro�ts, o which there are a lot in Maine, is really valuable because you learn so much about the way that a company is oiled and how it works and runs,” she said. Lenoir Kelley ’19, who worked in a tech start-up in Portland, chose to stay in Maine because she elt the smaller organizations here would allow her to do more ul�lling work. “You get to do more, make more decisions and have more [o an] impact and not just be �ling papers,” she said. Carter echoed the sentiment. “Te people that you work with really treat you like an [equal],” she said. “Tey want to know what your suggestions are and what your recommendations are.” On top o the more personal

on the area around campus. He has ound that many students get stuck in the “Bowdoin Bubble” and don’t engage with the community around campus, and jobs in the area allow students to break ree. “You can get not only integrated more into the Bowdoin community that stays behind, but also integrated into Brunswick’s community and get a better sense o where we’re actually living,” Milligan said. Kristin Brennan, executive director o the Career Planning Center, agreed that working in Maine helps students engage with the community around Bowdoin. “We see Bowdoin as a part o the abric o the community in Maine,” she said. “And it is always great when students have opportunities to really immerse [themselves] in the state we live in.” Other students cited the net-

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EAST COAST EMPLOYERS: Hundreds of students attended Maine Employer Career Fair, where dozens of companies and nonprofits presented and networked with atten dees.







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The Hall effect: how a Bowdoin-taught genius made history the world … millions probably, and they Orient Staff all know who Bowdoin has no shortage o Hall is.” notable alumni to boast about. Hall served Yet unless you’re a physicist or as the princiengineer, you might not have pal o Gould heard o Edwin Hall, Bowdoin Academy Class o 1875. rom 1875 Hall was born in Gorham, to 1876 and Maine on November 7, 1855, then as the and grew up in the area, ulti- principal o mately attending the College Brunswick and continuing on to make High School enormous strides in his respec- rom 1876 to tive �eld o physics that altered 1877. He then the course o �elds such as en- attended gradgineering and technology en- uate school tirely. tirely. He is most notable or the at Johns discovery o the phenomenon Hopkins that would come to bear the University, name “the Hall effect.” rom which While Hall may not share he graduated the same level o name recog- in 1880. nition as Nathaniel Hawthorne While conor Henry Wadsworth-Long- ducting research at ellow, his contributions to Johns Hopkins in 1979, Hall science remain essential to made a career-de�ning breakmodern physics. through, discovering the “Hall “Tere isn’t an engineer in effect.” the world who doesn’t use or In layman’s terms, the Hall know about the Hall effect,” effect is the phenomenon obsaid Proessor o Physics and served when a magnetic �eld Department Chair Dale Sy- runs perpendicular to a charged phers. “Tere are hundreds o piece o conductive material, thousands o engineers around causing the negative particles

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COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

in the material to gather to one side o the object and the positive to the other. Te separation o particles creates a charge th at can be measured as voltage. Te discovery is used in a variety o types o technology to this day. “Tere are all kinds o magnetic sensors and they use the Hall effect,” said Syphers.

“Tey’re used in your automobile and in your phone. Tey’re used all over the place.” Aside rom its practical applications, Hall’s discovery enabled other physicists to make urther discoveries in the area o electromagnetism. Klaus von Klitzing’s discovery o the Quantum Hall effect won

him the 1985 Nobel Prize or Physics. Tirteen years later, the trio o Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer, and Daniel sui were awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize or Physics or their discovery o the Fractional Quantum Hall effect. “Tere was this second lie with the Quantum Hall effect and the Fractional Quantum Hall effect,” Syphers said. “Tere [were] lots o researchers researching those at [their] peak in the ’80s and ’90s. Tere were thousands o researchers around the world doing research on this again, [and] it’s all derivative rom Hall’s work .” Hall was also an inspiring educator. In 1895, Hall was appointed as Proessor o Physics or Harvard University, where he taught or 26 years beore retiring in 1921.

“Hall was one o the key moti vators vators behind putting putting laboratory laboratory experiments in science classes. Tere were none beore then, it was all t heoretical,” Syphers said. Afer a lietime o incredible work in the lab and classroom, Hall passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 20, 1938, at the age o 83. Hall was awarded or notable contributions to the teaching o physics by the American Physical Society, which is now called the Physics Proessional Society. Although Hall never won the Nobel Prize himsel, as they were not awarded prior to 1901, he made pathways or uture generations to garner the prize. Despite all o his recognition in the science realm and the bene�ts society reaps rom his discoveries, Edwin Hall is not listed in the section o Bowdoin’s website that lists notable alumni. He is recognized within the physics department, though; an annual award is given out in his honor and there is also a plaque bearing his name on the third �oor o Searles, the home o the department. “Tat’s what you would call an inside-the-beltway thing,” said Syphers.

Bowdoin dining employees: the real dinner-winners your avorite Bowdoin soup?” best. You eel like you’ve earned multiple times and Parker’s your money.” Cream o Wheat Wednesdays are But ood provides more than a Torne institution. Yes, he’s that sustenance and a paycheck or Parker. Bowdoin Dining employees as Te Orient’s “50 things to do Despite his pivotal role in Din- cooking at Bowdoin has advanbeore you graduate” reads: “6. ing, Parker is humble. He blushed tages outside o the kitchen. Many ‘Win’ dinner—be the last to leave.” when I told him that every other ches enjoy spending time with Come graduation, most students week, my roommate eagerly students. Every all, Parker looks can brag about having won Moul- awaits his Hungarian Mushroom orward to meeting new �rst ton or Torne at least once. But soup, a popular dish served bi- years, asking them about home the ultimate winner o Bowdoin weekly instead o on the typical and “grilling them while they’re Dining is John Parker, who has our-week meal rotation. rotation. on the grill.” been working or the College or “I’m kinda the soup guru, I Warren Johnson, assistant the past 35 years. guess,” he smiled. “It’s pretty sim- production manager at Moulton When Parker controls the mu- ple to [cook in such large quan- eels similarly. One o the more sic at Torne, he plays “old psy- tities]. I do it every day, it’s like gregarious cooks at Bowdoin, chedelic” hits. Strawberry Alarm brushing my teeth.” At home, he Johnson �nds working with stuClock, Te Electric Prunes, Te makes Progresso soup rom a can, dents entertaining and gratiying. angerine Zoo and Te Choc- but requently bakes and distrib- He is quick to joke around in olate Watchband are among his utes cookies, “spread[ing] smiles” the hot line. “You want two over avorites. “Tey’re tasty, aren’t through his neighborhood. easy? Sorry, we’re all out o eggs!” they?” he laughs. As “Cook I” in Parker has been cooking since he says to even the �rst diner at Torne, he lives in the kitchen, he was an undergrad at Hobart Moultonbreakast. but it is not the ood that has kept College in New York, his only “Students have made me

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college resources and avorable insurance plans. “Te people keep me here. Te schedule keeps me here; I have 11 weeks off a year,” said Parker.

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$70,000 without insurance. “I owe [Bowdoin Dining] not only or the job, but I appreciate them or all the bene�ts that come

Johnson recover saely and even gave him a hand-tapped bucket o maple syrup. Johnson also receives arm-resh eggs rom a ormer Bowdoin Dining employee. Far beyond pay, the many bene�ts o dining employment mean that staff are reluctant to leave. Te three longest tenured Bowdoin Dining staff—Parker, Director o Dining and Bookstore Services Mary Lou Kennedy and Ken Cardone, associate director/executive che—have worked at the College or a collective 96 years. Tere are ew job openings in the dining halls except or part-time student workers. “I would’ve liked to move up,” Johnson admitted, “but I’m happy at Bowdoin. It’s a community … In my opinion, the students are the real community and then there are microcosms within that. In our little








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SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL SQUASH ‘EM LIKE A BUG: The women’s squash team is traveling to Trinity this weekend to compete in the NESCAC Championship tournament. Seeded eleventh, the Polar Bears are set to face sixthranked Bates. Bowdoin opened its season in a dual match against Bates, losing 9-0. If the Polar Bears manage an upset, they will play thirdseeded Middlebury in the quarterfinals.

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ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HOCKEY HOPEFULS: Katie Leininger ’20 challenges Middlebury opponents for the puck in a match on January 18. The Polar Bears lost but rebounded the next day, beating Middlebury 2-1 in overtime.

Women’s hockey fights to redeem losing season by Kathryn McGinnis Orient Staff

As the postseason approaches, the women’s hockey team is facing a lot of pressure to keep its season alive. With a losing record for the season, the Polar Bears (3-16-1, NESCAC 2-10) need to defeat both Connecticut College (9-8-2, NESCAC 5-5-2) and rinity (8-9-3, NESCAC 5-43) in the next two weeks to be able to compete in the NESCAC Championships. he team, who swept the rinity series last year, looks to repeat its previous success in the final regular season game. But there is a night and day difference in record and recognition between the 2017-2018 hockey team—who stood at 9-7-2, NESCAC 3-7-2

he two teams appear similar, with first years occupying nearly 25 percent of both rosters. Head Coach Marissa O’Neil works hard to balance class sizes on the team, recruiting about five to seven new athletes each year. However, there are other traits in her players that O’Neil values as much as, if not more than, experience. “Game sense” and “situational awareness” are intrinsic characteristics that can often make or break a winning season. According to O’Neil, hockey is a turnover sport, meaning play is fast and fierce. Skaters must not only be aware of their own bodies, but where the puck is at all times. Captain Marissa Fichter ’19 said that “situational aware-

play against each other in captains’ practices. Averaging about 30 shots per game, the Polar Bears do not lack an aggressive offense. Yet their goal average is much lower than they would hope, standing at only 1.4. Neither O’Neil or Fichter attributed this disparity to the improved skill of their NESCAC opponents, but rather the quality of the Polar Bears’ shots. Te surest way to bypass a goalie is to aim into the net’s corners. Yet these shots are difficult, requiring excellent stick control and �nesse. In the midst of a game, it can be hard for players to properly line themselves up to make the shot. Additionally, nerves can rattle any skater’s concentration. Te team’s challenge, as Fichter called it, is to maintain

larger goal in every season—“to play Bowdoin hockey.” “Right now, especially after we’ve not had the season that we wanted, everyone is gripping a little bit too much or moving a bit too fast,” said Fichter. “It comes from [feeling] worried that we’re not going to win. But you have to find this composure [and be confident] that you are going to put [the puck] in.” O’Neil believes that Bowdoin hockey “requires the team to enter the game to win versus playing a game to not lose.” “When we [play a] game to win, you want to go out and play hockey in the sense that you’re just playing the way you need to to have your best game,” Fichter said. “[It doesn’t] matter who you’re playing.”

team is the strength of its culture and commitment to constant improvement. While O’Neil was disappointed in the season’s record, she was pleasantly surprised to see the strength of her team in the face of adversity. he women’s hockey team strives to “call people in” instead of out. he goal is to not criticize teammates for past mistakes, but to challenge them to always play harder. “I think our team is really good at holding [ourselves] personally accountable,” said Fichter. “If you’re going to have a bad day you need to focus in on yourself, too. I know we’re all trying to be really strong for one another, so it’s the idea th at you can’t let [up] because then that’s that’s letting up for your team.” he Polar Bears face the

RED: Bowdoin football announced two additions to B.J. Hammer’s staff this week. Both Matt Cochran and Braden Layer played on the Denison University football team and coached with Hammer at Allegheny College. Layer will serve as the offensive coordinator while Cochran will coach the offensive line.

JACK IN THE BOX:

Jack Simonds ’19 posted 31 points as the men’s basketball team defeated Husson (13-9) Wednesday night. Shooting nearly 56 percent, the team (14-8, NESCAC 3-5) did not give up the lead throughout the game. The Polar Bears will finish their season this weekend in two games against Connecticut College (7-15, NESCAC 0-8) and Wesleyan (15-7, NESCAC 5-3) with a NESCAC tournament on the line.









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Two-time Olympian Olympia n joins Nordic ski staff sta ff by Julia Katter Orient Staff

Growing up in Paris, Maine, Assistant Nordic Ski Coach Leslie Bancroft Krichko never imagined herself representing the United States on the Olympic team once, let alone twice. But the new Bowdoin coach did exactly that, competing on behalf of the United States in 1980 and 1988. “Skiing fast was a dream of mine,” Krichko said. “I feel fortunate that I wasn’t chasing an Olympic dream [specifically]. It was just there, and I became part of it. But then, getting there, there really is nothing like it.” it.” hough Krichko was able to become a two-time Olympian, her path was not easy. A severe foot injury caused her to miss the 1984 Olympics. “I thought I was retired for good,” Krichko said. hough the journeywas hard, Krichko reflects upon her first opening ceremony with a huge smile on her face. “I still get choked up,” said Krichko. “I imagine my par-

ents in the stands and how proud they must have been and all they had done for me to get to that point.” Beyond a personal feat, Krichko’s participation in the 1980 and 1988 Olympics offered her a sense of national pride as she competed before a global audience. “I’m in this cowboy hat. I’m walking,” said Krichko. “hey told us when we walked past the vice president of the United States we were supposed to tip our hats. Something about that motion, just tipping my hat, flooded me with emotion.” Among the rarities coupled with making it to the Olympics, according to Krichko, were the material perks. “We could get tickets to everything,” Krichko said. “Of course our competitions came first, but I was able to go to all of these other events. All of the sponsors load you with gear gifts ever y day. It is really an out-of-body experience.” Having experienced many different coaching styles over the course of her career, Krichko draws upon her own experience as a competitive

MACKEY O’KEEFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SKI ME ROLLIN’: Leslie Krichko competed in both the 1980 a nd 1988 Olympics. Now, she is the assistant Nordic ski coach and races in community carnivals. racer and an Olympian to help connect with the athletes she trains at Bowdoin. “I can empathize,” said Krichko. “I understand what they are going through emotionally and how distractions like school and relationships

can affect your competitions.” After only one season of working with the Bowdoin ski team, Krichko is impressed not only with its strong skiing performance but also in its close, communal nature. She credits Nathan Alsobrook, the head

Gone fishing, polar bears hit the ice Aura Carlson Orient Staff

Last Saturday, a group of 12 Bowdoin students went to six-mile-long Pleasant Pond in Litchfield, Maine to go ice fishing. his is no Outing Club or official club trip; just a bunch of students who love to fish. hough some of the anglers prefer fly fishing or spin fishing, ice fishing is their

the winter. Pleasant Pond is the ice fishers’ favorite place to go and less than 30 minutes from campus. It’s typical to spend around four to five hours on the ice, but smaller trips are offered, too, that last approximately three hours. Jane Chang ’20 and Kenny Lamm ’20, both avid fishermen, praise the guidance and support of Macauley Lord

crazed Bowdoin alum” and previous department head at L.L. Bean for fly fishing. In 2012, Lord received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of Fly Fishers— the highest distinction in the fly casting world. Chang says the alumnus often sends out emails to a big list of Bowdoin students inviting them to go fishing and bringing them to the best

plate. Sometimes they catch larger and rarer �sh such as the largemouth bass, perch and the smallmouth bass. While most of the trips are catch and release, the students occasionally have a good haul and celebrate with a big �sh fry. “hey’re pretty small so you can fry them pretty fast,” Lamm said. he first time Lamm went fishing at Bowdoin he caught

skiing coach, with helping to shape this welcoming team. “He created this really tight-knit, passionate group of people that all have the love of skiing in common,” Krichko said. “hey really enjoy each other, and it’s like he has cre-

ated a family.” Having not always experienced this team dynamic in her own athletic career, Krichko does not take it for granted. “I just feel extremely lucky to be h ere,” she s aid.

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improvement and trusting teammates’ abilities. “We’ve been adding to our abilities and knowledge and understanding of the game [over the course of the season] and we’ll be able to put it together under pressure against some very good opponents,” said Fortson. “[he team] has been very, very good about their constant growth.” As the Polar Bears prepare for the final tournament of the season, the same mantra of steady improvement will be their guiding force.

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“Right now we’re focusing on improving any way we can, and [luckily] the results are turning out for us.” “What [qualifying for the C division] does is give us the opportunity to prove that we’re supposed to be there,” added Squiers. “It’s one thing to win the D division and know that you were supposed to do that but, to be in this place and have the opportunity not to defend your








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O OPINION Planning or the uture According to an article in this week’s edition o the Orient, many seniors are dissatis�ed with the resources provided by the Career Planning Center (CPC). In the Orient’s biannual approval ratings survey, more than a third o seniors reported disapproving or strongly disapproving o the CPC. In a ollow-up sur vey conducted this week, the number was similar, with 31 p ercent o seniors expressing dissatisaction. We think it’s troubling that the class acing the highest career stakes is so rustrated with the CPC. We acknowledge that seniors are also more stressed than other class years as the prospect o �nding a post-graduation job looms, which likely contributes to their dissatisaction, but we don’t think this is the sole cause or the widespread discontent. We believe that the CPC genuinely wants to do the best job it can. In the past ew years, it has expanded offerings or international students and launched a campaign to dispel the stress-inducing misconceptions that ofen come up regarding the career-planning process. Tereore, we eel con�dent writing about where students eel the CPC alls short and how we think it might improve. We We believe they want the b est or us, that they’re usually doing the best they can, and that this, like so many things at the College, is a question o resources and unding. One resource that could be improved is the job board. Based on the Orient’s preliminary research, joining Handshake, which connects over 700 college career planning centers and job boards, would expand our network and the opportunities available to Bowdoin students and decrease the pressure on CPC counselors. In addition, in survey responses and interviews, students repeatedly expressed the eeling that the career counselors, ofen assigned three or more �elds to ad vise on, are not always well-versed well-versed in some industries that interest students. students. For some industries, the counselors are excellent—they know which alumni to contact �rst, how �eld-speci�c interviews are structured and other details that hours o Googling won’t turn up. In the areas our counselors know best, they can’t be beat. But it is an awul lot to ask one person to have a deep knowledge o several broad career areas, and student experience suggests that it is, in act, impossible. Te career counselors shouldn’t be expected to be jacks o so many trades. Instead, the College should allocate more resources to the CPC and hire more counselors who could provide specialized knowledge in a broader range o �elds. We don’t have intimate knowledge o the College’s budget, but when allocating resources in the uture, we ask that it considers increasing CPC unding. A disconnect between our classroom experiences, which generally preach learning or learning’s sake, and advertising ourselves as capable to succeed in a proessional environment, is bound to occur. At its best, the CPC is capable o bridging this gap. We simply ask that it work harder with students who eschew pre-proessionalism in avor o ul�lling other parts o the Offer o the College. Students who do not actively seek out help rom the CPC are without a doubt harder to serve. However, we believe the CPC is capable o providing the resources necessary or post-grad success to all 1,800 o our students. Tis editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Or ient’s editorial board, which is composed of Emily Cohen, Nell Fitzgerald, Roither Gonzales, Dakota Grif �n, Calder McHugh McHugh and Jessica Piper. Piper.

At home in all all lands, except this one? Addressing the Bowdoin-Maine divide Pine Tree Perspective by Lowell Ruck

Bowdoin College prides itsel on its connection to community. Visit our website and you’ll see countless reerences to Brunswick and to Maine, touting the College’s close relationship with its Midcoast host and the state it sits in. “Maine and our hometown o Brunswick are undamental to our identity,” reads the beginning o one page, marked in bold. Conronted with this assertion, pictures rom the lobster bake and mentions o Brunswick’s vibrant downtown, it seems hard not to eel that Bowdoin is intimately linked to the communities which surround it. I agree that Bowdoin and Maine have close ties. Yet the more time that I’ve spent here, the less I have come to believe that such links are reciprocal or that they are truly as meaningul as they are portrayed to be. Despite numerous efforts by groups such as the Joseph McKeen Center or the Common Good and various other clubs on campus to connect with our community, it is entirely possible or a Bowdoin student, nestled in the comort o the Bowdoin Bubble, to avoid any sort o real connection with the outside world (no, runs to Frosty’s or trips to Sugarloa don’t count). Academically, unless you are a student o the natural sciences or environmental studies, very ew classes ever venture beyond the boundaries o campus and

what ew excursions may occur are cursory at best. Te isolation o Bowdoin students rom the rest o Maine is problematic, particularly in its similarity to the socioeconomic gul between wealthy visitors to Maine and their local neighbors. In his book “Te Lobster Coast,” Maine journalist Colin Woodard writes extensively about Maine’s history o summer colonies and how wealthy people rom away have impacted the social landscape. “Tere was—and in many places still is—an imperial dynamic in the relationship between Mainers and summer people,” he argues. “Te latter, afer all, lived in ‘colonies,’ surrounded by and dependent on the labor o ‘the natives.’ Tey were generally wealthier [and] more educated … [and] spoke, dressed and behaved differently than the locals and, while in Maine, generally socialized among themselves.” While we’re not necessarily living in a colony, there are some important parallels with the situation that Woodard describes. Roughly 54 percent o Bowdoin students pay ull price to attend this school, a cost that, at around $68,620 per year, ar exceeds Maine’s 2017 median household income o $53,024. o maintain the comorts o ine dining and clean housing and grounds, we employ locals at wages that oten aren’ aren’tt enough to get by on. And i the moniker Camp BoBo has any truth to it, we certainly don’t tend to interact with people beyond the boundaries o campus.

hough Bowdoin students spend our years in Maine, our campus’s wealth and exclusion rom the outside world makes us look more like summer people than year-round residents. Considering that many o us are drawn in by promises o lobster and breathtaking views o the ocean, this is not a surprising resemblance. In order or Bowdoin to address this divide, it must irst work more space or the study o Maine into its curriculum. Currently, very ew courses that ocus on Maine are available—only two are being oered this semester, or example. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Numerous departments, rom Francophone Studies to Biology, have both the right ocus and the right tools to study Maine. Whether in the natural sciences, the social sciences or the humanities, there should be a concerted eort to broaden Maine’s place in Bowdoin’s academic lie. I possible, i it would encourage the student body to engage in such study, I believe that a “Maine” distribution requirement would also be an eective way to expose more students to the environmental and social realities o our state. Bowdoin must also ind a better way to promote student engagement with Maine outside o class. hough things like Common Good Day, Alternative Spring Break and Community Immersion Orientation rips through the McKeen Center are good ways to learn about our state, they can easily be avoided. Community service is an eective means o







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The Green New Deal needs nuclear Our America by Lorenzo Meigs

Climate change is our Cold War. While Boomers lived in constant ear o Soviet nuclear annihilation, we suer daily rom the thought—the truth—that the lie we now live is set to slowly deteriorate. Every morning we wake up to a new report telling us how many more years o inaction we have let beore the Amazon turns into the Sahara; thus, every evening, our existential dread builds. Carbon is the new communism, and it is sitting on the very soul o our generation. Worse, while the Boomers could rest assured it wasn’t really their ault—Khrushchev and Kennedy and Cuba were all people and places and ideas that were out o their control—our generation knows that in some small way, we do have the power to make a dierence. We realize that every time we drive to Portland, we ly home, we leave the window open or indeed when we eat meat, that we are actively making the uture worse. I we stop and think, we start to see that our inevitably consumptive existence, even on an individual level, is a threat not only to our riends, amily and neighbors, but to the very existence o the human race. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be this way. As much as the ongoing intergenerational and interracial warare that is modern America seems poised to take it away, we do still live in a democracy, and we can still orce the government to radically reorient the way we live our lives.

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bonize our economy and thus secure America and the world or our posterity. hat’s why Representative Representa tive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s push to wrench open the Overton window and bring the Green New Deal (GND) ront and center is one o the most promising recent developments in progressive politics. he idea o the GND has been kicking around since 2007, but it has always seemed something o a pie in the sky idea—more like Fox News odder than a political reality. hat was, until yesterday,

GND bill. Now, there’s still a lot to work out—including killing the ilibuster—but the details we have are wonderully rereshing. he bill has an overarching goal to reach net zero emissions, and it calls or getting there through an array o smart ideas such as ossil-ree vehicles, smart grids, retroitted buildings, agricultural overhaul and renewable energy investment. hus, it seems that we as a nation are inally set to go beyond measly carbon taxes and think bigger. However, i Ocasio-Cortez and all her GND advo cates are

a severe omission rom their bill: nuclear p ower. Yes, that’s right. Nuclear power. It’s sae, cheap and as clean as energy comes. he act is, nuclear power has to be the backbone o any GND proposal, and its decades-long denigration is one o the greatest environmental tragedies in history. Renewables are great, but they can never power the whole grid consistently. Solar and wind, the only renewables that can viably be implemented on a grand scale, are cripplingly reliant on weather conditions and thus produce

they need to be paired with massive battery inrastructure and, as hard as Elon Musk is trying, that technology is not quite here yet. Nuclear is the only technology we have that can produce carbon-ree power cheaply and continuously. But what about Chernobyl and Fukushima? Both were terrible disasters, o course, but with relatively ew casualties. In the Chernobyl meltdown, 31 people died rom immediate exposure, while high end estimates say up to 4,000 people could die rom

no is predicted to die rom cancer later in lie. Compare this to the ongoing slaughter that is coal power—in America alone, it kills as many as 30,000 people annually. Indeed, per unit o energy produced, nuclear is saer than hydro, geothermal, wind and even solar. What about nuclear waste? It’ss another non-i ssue; indeed, It’ it’s one o nuclear power’s many comparative advantages. I all the nuclear waste the US ever produced was put on a ootball ield, it would stack just 50 eet high . And all that waste can be stored saely in nice big containers, right next to the plants that produced it. Compare that with solar panels which leak heavy toxic metals when haphazardly disposed o in developing countries and generate 300 times more waste per unit o energy produced than nuclear. While it is true the world will eventually run out o uranium, we have at least enough to keep us going or the next 200 years, and by then, I’m sure we will have igured out the next great energy source. So, while we wait, let’s bring back nuclear. Let’s cut through the ear mongering and misinormation and recognize that we already have all the technology we need to save ourselves rom environmental destruction. Sierra Club liberals—Boomers who had their brains addled by the trauma o the Cold War—have too long been making a alse connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Let’s eschew the dribble o these misguided pensioners and instead import that midcentury nuclear dream o cheap and abundant energy







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The American Dream: reconsidered by Francisco Navarro Op-Ed Contributor

he January 2019 economic report proved that little can stop the steam o the American ree enterprise system. he Dow Jones Industrial Average had its best January since 1985, rising 7.2 percent; 304,000 jobs were created and wages rose 3.4 percent, the highest in a decade. However, according to Pew Charitable rust’s latest act sheet, 77 percent o Americans do not believe that the iconic ragsto-riches story is possible anymore—a seemingly oundational pillar o the American dream. he amed adage o the 1992 election, “It’s the economy, stupid,” evidently ails to ully encompass the character o contemporary American politics. In his “First Discourse,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau reminded French aristocrats o a truism o state building: “he ancient politicians orever spoke o morals and virtue; ours speak only o commerce and money.” While we have experienced 243 years o unparalleled prosperity and our politicians have been the most eicient communicators o commerce and o money, our American political dis-

course can certainly beneit rom invoking the Frenchman. Lamentably, Rousseau’s words went unresolved and his countrymen are currently living under their Fith Republic. he United States o America was the irst large republic in the history o the world. he idea o people giving themselves a government at such this kind o great scal e was not thought possible. I irmly believe the reason we’ve successully existed under one continuous republic is because our oundation is rooted in principles that gaze upon virtue. Our Declaration o Independence talks about certain “unalienable Rights, that among these are Lie, Liberty and the pursuit o Happiness.” Nowhere written is a guarantee o income. Our Constitution aims to “secure the Blessings o Liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” and thus ar it has succeeded largely due to its simplicity and enough structural malleability to ensure generational revisions. Yet, too many Americans equate current economic inequality as a justiiable reason or parading their disdain or the pillars o our republic. he Democratic governor o New York,

Andrew Cuomo, recently stated, “America was never that great” in response to the slogan made amous by President rump. Economic inequality is real in this country, alongside many other legislative shortcomings, but we must remember that the imperections o the American memory should never limit the potential o the American destiny. At the closing o the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a woman approached Benjamin Franklin and asked: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A Republic, i you can keep it.” It certainly cannot keep itsel, and using 21st century moral absolutes to discount the progress o our 18th century oundation is not a way to “keep” our Republic. Economic policy is exactly that: policy. As a young adult preparing to enter the workorce, I certainly avor positive economic conditions, but I also recognize the volatility o uture human legislation. o paraphrase German Statesman Otto von Bismarck, legislation is a lot like sausage making, and the product o such a process is messy and imperect. While I am a student o government with intentions to immerse mysel in

policy with the ultimate goal o writing it, I constantly remind mysel that the legislative process deserves our admiration, but never our de votion . Absolute devotion to a given economic theory and the portrayal o legislation through the lenses o “good” and “evil” are reasons or our rampant political

divide. It is hard or our immensely diverse nation to unite under a single law or ideal, but I will invoke a word commonly used in 2019 lexicon: privilege. We must remember our American privilege and remind ourselves that we all exist within this system, whether we choose to believe it or not, which eyes toward virtue. I am the son o two Cuban immigrants, and the story o my amily’s diaspora is not unique to our nation. Yet, I am only one generation removed rom a very dierent reality, and perhaps this is the reason or the lens o admiration and

opportunity through which I view this country. While my parents and grandparents lost their entire economic subsistence at the hands o a communist system, they achieved the American Dream the moment they settled in a land that permitted them the unconstrained reedom to practice their religion, educate their children and choose the manner by which to pursue their happiness. I acknowledge my American privilege, and I am grateul or it. With only $234.50 in my bank account, I am already living the American dream. Francisco Navarro is a member of the class of 2019.

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FEBRUARY FRIDAY � EVENT

Bowdoin Reads 10th Anniversary Celebration The Library will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bowdoin Reads. Students, faculty and sta ff will will share book recommendations and listen to readings by past Bowdoin Reads participants. Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12 p.m. EVENT

Build-a-Band Students interested in forming a band or performance group will meet and test out instruments in the Smith Union practice rooms. Practice Rooms, David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m. EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: President Clayton Rose delivers a speech at Senior Gift Giving Night. This event is part of the Senior Class Gift Campaign, which is meant to introduce seniors to the Alumni Fund.

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PERFORMANCE

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LECTURE

Yasmin Vitalius Trio

“Institutional Resilience in Turbulent Times”

Aquifer Ethnogr Aquifer Ethnography aphy and the the Horizons Horizons of Depletion

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Government Allen Springer will discuss how modern-day institutions across the world are responding to nationalist sentiment and various other challenges. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma Lucas Bessire will discuss human behaviors that led to the depletion of underground aquifers in the Midwest. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

Faculty member Yasmin Vitalius, Vitalius, Artist-in-Residence George Ge orge Lopez, guest violinist Robert Lehmann and violist Kim Lehmann will play an array of pieces dating back as early as the 18th century, including the works of famous composers such as Beethoven and Dvorak. Kanbar Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. PERFORMANCE

Squirrel Flower MacMillan House and WBOR will jointly sponsor the

DISCUSSION

“The Radical King: His Final Years” Author and speaker Taylor Branch will discuss his narrative history and research into the Civil Rights Movement and

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