The Bowdoin Orient - Vol. 148, No. 16 - February 15, 2019

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Wome omen’ n’ss storie storiess take take cente centerr stage st age Pay disparities disparities W reveal the power of a label Bowdoin housekeepers earn less than custodians at local high schools by Calder McHugh and Eliana Miller Orient Staff

As Bowdoin’s housekeeping sta trudges through the snow to work in the wee hours o the morning, comparing their job title, beneits package and union representation to local counterparts is likely ar rom ront o mind. However, ater an Orient investigation last spring re veale d that many hous ekee pers struggle to make ends meet, these distinctions appear key to their overall compensation and wage increases. Financial insecurity among support sta has maniested itsel in multiple ways. Many o the College’s housekeepers and groundskeepers regularly work second jobs to supplement their Bowdoin income. Others have reported visiting the local ood bank, eating ood let by students in Watson Arena locker rooms or even contracting the Bowdoin men’s hockey team to take care o young children, as the local Children’s Center is o-

ten unable to accommodate their unusual hours worked. Some o these employees, who work to keep the College running, have noted that they do not eel well served by their institution. he calculation o their wage and beneits package is more complex than irst meets the eye. When it comes to pay equity between B owdoin’ owdoin’ss support sta and their peers across the county, labels are important. Bowdoin’s housekeeping sta makes less money than the average janitor or cleaner in Cumberland County, but more than the average maid or housekeeper. Bowdoin, which touts what it calls a county-best beneits package in order to attract workers, pays its housekeepers signiicantly less per hour than two local high schools. Several actors distinguish Bowdoin rom other employers—the absence o unions, notably, but also how hourly jobs are class iie d in the irs t place.

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RISE UP: This weekend, dozens of women, including Ayana Harscoet ’21 (center), performed in the third an nual production of RISE. The show featured nearly 50 original stories submitted by women in the Bowdoin community. Trauma Trauma emerged as a prominent theme among this year’s submissions. by Emily Cohen Orient Staff

Stories o riendship, trauma and political activism share the stage this weekend at the third annual production o “RISE: Untold Stories o Bowdoin Women.” his year’s show, true to its roots, represents diverse experiences o Bowdoin women, even when WAGES,, page 5 they may be diicult to hear. Please see WAGES

Debuted in 2017, RISE is sions, trauma and sexual asbased on written submissions sault or abuse emerged as more rom the Bowdoin communi- prominent themes than in prety, and is organized and pro- vious years. Te RISE team— duced by student group EM- comprised o Montsi Madrigal POWER. Ater collecting new ’18, Jenna Scott ’19, Aisha submissions last semester, the Rickord ’20, Devon Garcia ’21, group o writers, producers Emily King ’21, Renita Shivnand directors chose nearly 50 auth ’21 and Elwaad Werah stories to tell this year, only ’21—chose to include these seven o which have been told stories as an indication o the in the past two productions. evolving experiences and conAmong the new submis- cerns acing Bowdoin women.

“Given the history o the show and how delicately we’ve treated everything in the past, women eel comortable to express themselves in every thought that they have, whether that’s a ully ormed thought about how much they love their boyriend … [or] a question o what counts as sexual assault,” said Scott.

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First-gen Fi rst-gen alumnus elected trustee chair by Calder McHugh Orient Staff


KEEPER OF THE KEYS: An Orient investigation finds that hourly wages for Bowdoin housekeepers are lower than those of many janitors and custodians in Cumberland County.

Robert F. White ’77 P’15 has been elected unanimously to serve as the chair o Bowdoin’s Board o rustees. His term will begin on July 1, 2019. White succeeds Michele G. Cyr ’76 P’12 who served as chair or three years and will continue to serve on the B oard. he Board o rustees, which consists o 42 members, held its annual meetings on campus last weekend. A ma jor to pic o discu ssion w as the

uture o higher education in the ace o polling data that shows that Americans, and particularly conservatives, see less value in a college education than they used to. White, though, is optimistic about the uture o the College. “here are lots o headwinds that ace higher education but I have conidence that we will continue to thrive in the uture,” White said in an email to the Orient. White is amiliar with overcoming the odds. A irst-generation college student, White

was able to attend Bowdoin because o a generous inancial aid package. While here, he studied economics and mathematics and was the starting goalie on the 197475 men’s ice hockey team that won the Eastern College Athletic Conerence (ECAC) Championship. Since his graduation, White is likely known best or his chairmanship o Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential bids. Close riends rom when they ounded Bain Capital together, Romney reers to

White as “Q” or “he Quail,” given that the “bobwhite” is a type o quail. White, who joined the Board in 1993 and has served under three College presidents—Robert Edwards, Barry Mills and now Clayton Rose— is clear-eyed about the priorities o the institution. “I don’t assume the role until July. Between now and then, I plan to do a lot o listening,” he said. “But our priorities include maintaining our commitment

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Annual Annu al winte winterr flu outb outbreak reak swe sweeps eps acro across ss Bowd Bowdoin’ oin’ss campus campus by Nina McKay Orient Staff

Over the last ew weeks, pro viders at Health Services have treated hundreds o students with �u-like symptoms. Tis noticeable uptick in �u cases would be unusual at most other points in the academic year, but according to Jeffrey Maher, di-

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rector o health services, an increase in �u cases immediately afer Winter Break is an annual occurrence. With the high volume o requests or appointments, providers at Health Services have been seeing more patients than usual in an attempt to accommodate everyone. On some days, Maher has been

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double-booked, seeing between 18 and 24 students each day instead o the usual 13 or 14. ypically, all providers at Health Services together treat at most 40 students each day; in the past couple o weeks (on the busiest day, 57 students were treated). “Te actual �u virus is in the community year-round, but it picks up afer the holidays,”

said Maher. “[Tis is] primarily because, once the weather gets cold and people are spending more time together in con�ned spaces, they’re sharing their germs in a more concentrated way.” Health Services diagnoses students with a “�u-like illness,” but this does not mean students do not have a strain o the ac-

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tual in�uenza virus. Maher explained that, since two or three students went off-campus and received swab tests or in�uenza viruses that came back positive, there is no longer a need to conclusively test any individual patient. “Once we know in�uenza has in�ltrated a community, we no longer need to swab someone

or the �u … we diagnose the �u as ‘�u-like illness,’ but we don’t necessarily call it ‘in�uenza A’ or ‘in�uenza B’ precisely, because the treatment is the same,” said Maher. Students diagnosed with �ulike illnesses exhibit symptoms

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The curling team ends its regular season and turns its attention to nationals. Page 12.

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STUDENT SPEAK: What is the most romantic thing in the dining halls? Alex Alex With Withers ers ’21

“Will Bucci.” Ural Mishra ’20

“Connie.” KODIE ODIE GARZA

Friday, February 8 • A group o students reported being stranded in a College van with a lat tire in Connecticut. A security oicer assisted by procuring roadside assistance. • A student who reported a pain in the neck was given an escort to Mid Co ast Hospital. Saturday, February 9 • A student ell lat on his ace on an icy quad and received a laceration. An oicer escorted the student to Mid C oast Hospital or treatment. • A student using a curling iron iron caused a ire alarm alarm at Quinby House. • A men’s men’s lacrosse athlete practicing his crat crat inside the Farley Field House struck a ire sprinkler head, causing a ire alarm and a  lood. • A student exiting Stowe Inn on a dead sprint opened the glass door by kicking the crash bar. he glass smashed. COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

Sunday, February 10 • Students at Osher Hall reported the aroma aroma o a burning cannabis at 2 a.m. Monday, February 11 • wo students were seen lugging a long prone object and disposing it in a dumpster at Moulton Union loading dock. he object turned out to be an old rolled up carpet. • A student experiencing dizzy spells was transported to Mid Coast Hospital. Tuesday, February 12 • A student slipped and ell on snow covered ice near Russwurm House and injured a wrist. he student was treated at Mid Coast Hospital. Wednesday, February 13 • A student who injured a hip on a skiing trip was escorted to the Mid C oast Walk-In Clinic.

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BOWDOIN AMONG TOP FULBRIGHT PRODUCERS, AGAIN Bowdoin was again lauded as one o the top Fulbright-producing institutions or the 2018-2019 academic year, with 19 students receiving Fulbright Student grants. Among Bachelor’s institutions, only Williams had more awardees, with 22. Tirty-seven Bowdoin students had applied or Fulbright awards, yielding a 51 percent success rate. Among all colleges and universities, only Smith College—which had 17 grantees out o 31 applicants—did better. Overall, 22 percent o Fulbright applicants receive grants according to program data, although the percentage varies widely by country. Te Fulbright U.S. Student Program places recent graduates, as well as graduate students, in research and teaching positions in more than 140 countries. Bowdoin’s recipients are now working in Indonesia, aiwan, Nepal, Spain, Germ any, Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Malaysia. Phoebe Tompson ’18 was one o the students who received an English teaching assistant grant. An Earth and Oceanographic Science and Hispanic Studies double major, she now teaches young children in Valle Gran Rey, a small town in the Canary Islands, the Spanish volcanic archipelago located off the coast o Morocco. “I have to laugh sometimes because it eels like this experience was tailor-made or me,” she wrote in a message to the Orient. Tompson credited the Offi ce o Stu dent Fellowships and Research, particularly Assistant Director o Co-Curricular Opportunities Kate Myall and Director o Student Fellowships and Research Cindy Stocks, or guiding her through the application process. “We laughed together, we cried together and they were with me every step o the way,” Tompson wrote. “Tey understand the process and the program, and do their jobs with incredible effi cienc y and so ul.”

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that students who earn a spot can come regardless o their amily’s �nancial situation and ensuring that the experience is transormative while at the College and beyond.” Now a lecturer at Harvard Business School, White has gotten the chance to better understand the diiculties o teaching in the last hal decade. “My experience at Harvard has given me much greater insight into what it takes to be an eective teacher,” he said. “It’s really challenging, and Bowdoin is blessed to have so many great teacher-scholars.” White stressed throughout his correspondence with the

Orient that he is honored to have the role. For his part, already mentioned Rose believes that Romney’s ormer conidant can serve with a similarly steady hand at Bowdoin. Describing White as “very dierent” rom his predecessor, Cyr, Rose also noted that “rom a governance perspective, there are very ew people who know the College as well as Bob.” “Bob’s educational background, his success story as a irst-generation inancial aid student, his academic and athletic success here and then the work that he did in building one o the great irms in the world and being involved in two presidential campaigns, very ew people have had that kind o panoply o experiences,” Rose said.

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reflects on Dr. King’s legacy by Viv Daniel Orient Staff

During Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s May 1964 visit to Bowdoin, Wayne Burton ’66 asked what the civil rights movement had to do with him, a white kid at a white school in a white state. King answered, “I your conscience stops at the border o Maine, you’re less o a person than you should be.” Fify-�ve years later, King biographer and Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker aylor Branch posed a question to a crowd o Bowdoin students, Brunswick community members and alumni, including Burton: “What are race relations in Maine?” Branch is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author o “America in the King Years” and a MacArthur Fellow. On Wednesday, he gave a lecture titled “Te Radical King: His Final Years” in Kresge Auditorium as part o the programming or Bowdoin’s Black History Month and Beyond, which runs throughout February. Branch’s response to the question o race relations in Maine echoed King’s holistic approach. Race relations in Maine, as in the whole o the United States, “are the barometer o the democratic experiment.” In his lecture, Branch laid out the actors that made King’s later years so radical: optimism and a undamental belie in democracy. Benjamin Harris, director o the Student Center or Multicultural Lie, thought about a variety o actors when inviting Branch to campus. “I’ve tried to bring people who are committed to talking about King, but also olks who have a message o social justice and change and the betterment o the human condition and who are doing the work o King,” he said. Harris hopes to use quality events to encourage students to grapple with social justice in their own lives. “Black History Month is, o course, not just February,” he said. Tis goal or urther re�ection was, on Wednesday Wednesday at least, widely achieved. Jay Yoon ’21, who works with the Student Center or Multicultural Lie,

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ANALYZING ACTIVISM: In the keynote address for Black History Month and Beyond, Taylor Branch focuses on the development of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s core values and resistance strategies and how they relate to democracy. democracy. called Branch’s talk “reassuring and uniting.” “Everyone in the room was nodding and rethinking what MLK really meant or America,” she said. Yoon’s coworker at the Center, Ray arango ’20, enjoyed the ocus on King’s more controversial stances. “It reminds us that we sanitize the history and remove the complicated stuff we don’t always agree with,” he said. However, some students wished Branch’s talk had gone urther. Kinaya Hassane ’19 wanted to know even more about what made King so radical and how his ideas are still

agreed to allow young children to walk into police dogs and �rehoses that America could conceive o the Civil Rights Act. Protesters were able to “ampliy their belies with suffering.” suffering.” Branch also drew a direct line between radical nonviolence and democracy, comparing King’s “irrational aith” in the promise o democracy to that o the Founding Fathers. “Nonviolence is a vote,” Branch said. During King’s �nal years, Branch was a college student. His political actions at the time landed him at the pivotal 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, where he was part

Everyone in the room was nodding and rethinking what MLK really meant for America. –Jay Yoon ’21 challenging mainstream ideas today. During his talk, Branch ocused on the development o King’s core values and resistance strategies. Afer witnessing the student sit-ins and Freedom Riders o the early 1960s, King recognized that there were “in justices that words words alone cannot cannot reach” and adopted a new strategy o cultivating what Branch called “public trust.” Tis strategy centered around nonviolent sel-discipline and sel-government. According to Branch, it wasn’t until King

o the movement working to deeat the party’s pro-Vietnam wing. As Branch tells it, King’s staff begged him not to come out against the Vietnam War, but the civil rights leader did anyway. “He recognized you can deend democracy with violence,” Branch said, “but you cannot propagate it with violence.” violence.” Violence, as King understood it, could be both physical and spiritual. Spiritual violence included poverty, which Branch highlighted as part o

King’s radical agenda. As a historian, Branch connected the themes and events o King’s era to the present. He noted how George Wallace, who served as the governor o Alabama or our terms between the 1960s and the 1980s and supported Jim Crow policies, created a new political vocabulary by turning his racial animosity into animosity towards big government. Branch explained that this tactic continues to be used today. Branch also underlined King’s experience with backlash against social progress. Branch described King’s lie as a “struggle or decency,” a phrase not out o place in current political discourse. “We lutter back and orth between taking democracy or granted and saying it’s in crisis or retreat,” he said and argued that we need to adopt more o King’s irrational optimism. “He woke up every morning and nothing would change,” said Branch, but King maintained his “driven audacity.” Harris hopes that urther Black History Month and Beyond programming, as well as programming celebrating the 50th anniversary o the Russwurm Arican American Center and Aricana Studies department planned or next November, will continue to make students grapple with the current state o race relations in Maine and in the Bowdoin community.

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Inaugural lecture discusses steadying institutions through times of turmoil three areas where those political and social orces were placOrient Staff ing institutions under stress: Bowdoin students and com- international security, humanmunity members gathered in itarian rights and environmenKresge on Monday or Proes- tal protection. sor Allen Springer’s inaugural In an interview with the lecture as the William Nelson Orient, Springer explained that Cromwell Proessor o Consti- these topics were relevant to tutional and International Law his own work and to the interand Government. ests o U.S. citizens. Speaking to a rapt audience, “I do most o my own work Springer stressed the impor- in an environmental arena, tance o valuing international so I was particularly interestlaws and institutions in his lec- ed in the Paris Agreement,” ture, titled “Institutional Resil- said Springer. O his ocus ience in urbulent imes.” imes.” on NAO, he explained that “Te question o how inter- “there’s been so many … airnational institutions evolve, ly signi�cant attacks by the even survive in a changing rump administration talking world seems particularly rele- about whether NAO still [is] vant today, today,” Springer said in the a relevant institution.” institution.” opening o his lecture. “ProAlthough the issues Springmoting institutional resilience er brought to light have signisuggests the need to strike a icant domestic implications, balance between a continuing they also carry a broader imcommitment to existing prac- portance or the international tices and making adjustments community. that respond to new political “All o these are areas where and social orces.” orces.” I know that there's been a lot o Springer ocused the talk on political turmoil surrounding

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Scott and Madrigal, the directors o RISE, cited activism surrounding the Supreme Court nomination o Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused o several instances o sexual misconduct, as a potential inspiration or women to share their stories. In September and October o last year, Bowdoin students participated in a walkout and in local and national protests. “I think having the whole Kavanaugh [accusations] come out allowed a lot o women to eel empowered to use their voice,” said Madrigal. “So we had a lot more stories about trauma. And that was—it was some heavy material, but it’s so important that it is told. It i s so import ant.” “here are parts, i you go to the play, you can see, and you’re going to say, wow, thank you to the woman who shared this,” she added, “because somebody needs to hear it.” One submission was a letter to U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) whose historically moderate positions made her a deciding vot e in Kava nau gh’s con ir mation. Bowdoin students protested outside o Collins’ Portland oice two weeks beore she voted to conirm Kavanaugh. Scott invited Collins to attend a perormance o RISE, but Collins’ oice responded that she would be unable to attend. RISE leaders recognize that

in a productive way. “A big part o my involvement in RISE rom the beginning ... is to make sure that any discussion o gender violence is done in a really sae way and done in a way that relects what our sexual misconduct policy is,” Peterson said. One member o the RISE team, Shivnauth, represents EMPOWER on the Alliance or Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), a coalition o student groups that meets under Peterson’s oice and the Sexuality, Women and Gender Center (SWAG) to coordinate eorts to prevent gender-based violence. hrough meeting with those groups, Shivnauth gained tools to ensure that these diicult discussions continue, starting with RISE. “Oten, Bowdoin students—all o us in general— eel like we’re in this bubble, and we see things going on in the news, but they don't— while they hit hard or a short period o time, they don’t necessarily translate into action or decisions or changes,” said Shivnauth. Advocates rom Sae Space and members o Bowdoin’s Counseling Center, along with representatives rom Sexual Assault Support Ser vices o Midco ast Maine (SASSMM) and hrough hese Doors, a local domestic violence agency, will be present at every show to oer support and assistance to audience members. RISE leaders explained that the broader goal o the

not just U.S. policy but the polTe William Nelson Cromicies o other countries,” said well proessorship ocuses Springer. largely on these types o inHowever, he argues that, it’s ternational issues, making not just question o policy. Springer—in the estimation “Coming up with good, o Paul Franco, proessor o clear and effective standards government and chair o the o law is an important part o Government and Legal Studies this as well, to strengthen the Department—a good �t or the institutions, and to make it position. possible or them to respond “Springer’s lecture on ‘Instimore effectively in the uture,” tutional Resilience in urbulent Springer said. “I think that law imes’ was a perect inaugural is an important part o making lecture or the chair in that it institutions resilient and effec- highlighted the importance o tive when they are being chal- international law, even in times lenged politically.” o international institutional Te William Nelson Crom- weakness,” said Franco in an well Chair is an honor given to email to the Orient. a proessor who specializes in “It is a genuine honor to constitutional or international receive the Cromwell Chair, law. Springer is only the third in no small part because o the person to hold the proessor- person who preceded me in it,” ship since it was established said Springer. “Richard Morgan in 1948. Te position has been held the Cromwell Chair with open since Richard Morgan such distinction or so many ’59, a proessor o constitution- years. Dick was a good riend al law and the second person and a wonderul colleague and to hold the William Nelson we all miss him very much.” Cromwell proessorship, Ellery Harkness contributed passed away in 2014. to this report.


STANDING TOGETHER: Dozens of Bowdoin women shared the stage at the opening performance of RISE in Kresge on Thursday. Performers Performers acted as the mouthpieces for women who submitted personal stories to be shared in the annual show. “Every year we get more diverse participation, which we’re always thank ul or,” or,” said Madrigal. “We want to make RISE more encompassing o the Bowdoin experience, and the Bowdoin experience is no longer h omogenous.” With its debut production in 2017, RISE replaced the annual production o Eve Ensler’s “he Vagina Mono-

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INSIGHT ON INSTITUTIONS: In his talk, Professor of Government Allen Springer discussed ways international institutions could adapt to political and social forces in order to remain relevant in the coming years.







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Wages and labels Te Maine Department o Labor codes those with the title o “housekeeper,” “custodian” or “janitor” into two categories—either “janitors and cleaners” or “maids and housekeepers.” Te classi�cation corresponds with a signi�cant pay difference. In 2017, the most recent year or which data is available, Cumberland County (which includes Brunswick) “janitors and cleaners” were paid on average $14.10 per hour while “maids and housekeepers” made only an average o $11.28 per hour. Merrill Huhtala, the program manager or Occupational Employment Statistics at the Maine Department o Labor, explained the different duties that distinguish the two job categories. “Janitors and cleaners keep buildings in clean and orderly condition; they perorm heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning �oors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass and removing rubbish,” Huhtala said. “Te “ Te maids and housekeeping cleaners—and here’s the distinction—they perorm any combination o light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments such as hotels and hospitals in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds and replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls and vacuuming.” Matt Orlando, Bowdoin’s senior vice president or �nance and administration, says that most o what the housekeeping staff does on a day-to-day basis alls under the job description o maids and housekeepers. Huhtala said that the maid and housekeeping label is actually used quite sparingly at educational or residential institutions such as Bowdoin. “I [housekeepers are] doing light cleaning in the dorms and that sort o thing, they’d be coded as the maids and housekeeping cleaners,” he said. “But my experience has been, most o them get coded into the janitor and cleaner title. Because they’re running �oor buffers and that sort o thing. We don’t see too many maids and housekeeping cleaners [in the county].” In Cumberland County in 2017, 3,040 workers were classi�ed as “janitors and cleaners” while only 1,070 were classi�ed as “maids and housekeeping cleaners,” suggesting that most custodial staff do the heavier work required to be labeled as the ormer.

While speci�c data on private institutions is not available, the ma jority jority o custodi custodial al staff staff at schools schools,, colleges, hospitals and other residential acilities are categorized as janitor janitor and cleaner, cleaner, accordi according ng to the Maine Department o Labor. Similar to the “heavy cleaning duties” that Huhtala attributes to janitor janitorss and cleaners cleaners,, Bowdoin Bowdoin classi�es the job o Housekeeper I, the entry-level housekeeping position, as “heavy work.” Te job description or Housekeeper I at Bowdoin, listed in a posting this past all, explains under the section “Machines, ools, Equipment & Work Aids Used” that employees will be asked to use, at various times during their job, job, “Genera “Generall cleani cleaning ng hand hand tools, tools, buffer (side-to-side), burnisher (straight ahead), walk behind and ride-on scrubber/sweepers, vacuum (including backpack), shower/ oam gun, kai-vac, �oor re�nisher, stair walker, carpet extractor; and two way radio. rad io.” When surveyed by the Orient last spring, Bowdoin’s housekeepers reported making an average o $13.09 per hour. Tis wage is higher than the 75th percentile o maids and housekeeping cleaners in Cumberland County but lower than the wage earned by the average janitor or cleaner. Te College has marginally increased pay since last spring. At the beginning o this academic year, wages or second-shif hours went rom seven percent more than the worker’s hourly pay to 10 percent, while third-shif hours went rom 10 percent to 15 percent on top o normal hourly pay. Weekend hourly pay also increased by $0.20 or all workers, and the College adopted an already-planned increase o $0.25 to the minimum starting wage or all employees. Mt. Ararat High and Brunswick High, the two nearest public high schools, employ only those classi�ed as janitors and cleaners, and currently pay starting wages o $17.42 per hour and $20.75 per hour, respectively. Bowdoin’s current starting wage or the entry-level housekeeping position is $12.35 per hour, with plans to raise that number to $12.50 per hour this summer. Te two high schools oten ask their staff to complete tasks that are not in the job description o Bowdoin housekeepers. At Brunswick High, or example, custodians are also responsible or tending the grounds, as there is no separate groundskeeper role. Representatives rom both high schools noted that turnover is low.

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WAGE GAP: Bowdoin pays its housekeepers a significantly lower starting wage than Brunswick High and Mt. Ararat High, but does include shift differentials through which housekeepers can make more than the starting wage. The average salary for Bowdoin housekeepers is also lower than the mean janitors and cleaners salary in the County. Mt. Ararat High School and bene�ts package is] what interests Brunswick High School still most people when they hire on represent outliers in the county. with us.” Both local high schools also oTese comprehensive health er generous bene�ts packages. insurance packages are comparaComparing benefits ble to those offered by the C ollege. President Clayton Rose is Custodians at local public schools quick to mention that Bowdoin can choose rom our different is near the top in the county packages covered by Anthem with regards to hourly com- Blue Cross. Te Maine Education pensation or housekeepers Association Bene�ts rust Stanand has a bene�ts package that dard Plan, the most popular plan he reerred to in the all as “sec- amongst employees o the Brunsond to none.” wick School District (which inIn surveying local businesses, cludes Brunswick High), offers a the Orient ound that the College low $200 deductible. pays its housekeeping employees Meanwhile the most popular an hourly wage that is similar plan among Bowdoin employees, to many o Cumberland Coun- the Bowdoin College PPO Health ty’s retirement homes, ast ood Plan, offers a higher $500 deductchains, big box retail stores and ible as well as higher co-pays. hotels. Its bene�ts package, which Although premiums are higher has three health care options with in the Brunswick School District premiums that include vision and ($120 per month versus Bowdoin’s dental plans, ranks better than $86), the annual difference o $168 many custodial jobs. is made up in less than a month’s Mt. Ararat and Brunswick work due to higher hourly wages. High employees, though, also Bowdoin also offers two speak highly o their bene�ts high-deductible health plans packages. (HDHP). Monthly premiums “Te bene�ts are antastic. are lower in these plans—$52 per Te pay is OK,” said Stephen month or HDHP Option 1 and Reed, the custodial supervisor $31 or HDHP Option 2. Howevor Maine State Administrative er, high deductibles are ofen less District (MSAD) 75, which in- appealing or workers with greatcludes Mt. Ararat High. “We pay er risk o injury, seeing as they very little little as ar as out o pocket have to pay more out o pocket goes or medical insurance. We beore their insurance plan benhave dental care too. I think [our e�ts kick in. Housekeeping and

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custodial work is physically taxing, and Bowdoin housekeepers requently report injuries, according to a survey conducted by the Orient last spring. According to Orlando, about 35 percent o Bowdoin’s employees choose to be covered by these two HDHPs. Unlike local public schools, Bowdoin offers a 401(a) retirement plan, which employees are eligible or without making their own �nancial contributions. Local high schools only offer a 403(b) retirement plan, which Bowdoin also offers as a supplemental plan. “For us, our compensation program is precisely designed so that our hourly staff are among the best paid on a total compensation basis in the region and in the state,” said Orlando. “Tey have secure, year-round jobs, and they have insurance, retirement and a host o other bene�ts that quite ofen other employers don’t offer.” Unions Aside rom hourly pay and titles, the biggest difference the Orient ound between high school custodians and College support staff was union representation. Bowdoin’s hourly employees are not unionized—but the high school custodians who receive higher wages are. “We �ght really hard to keep our health insurance the way it is when we go into negotiations,” said Mary Kay Dyer, chair o the grievance committee or Merrymeeting Employees Association Union, which represents support staff in MSAD 75. “When we ask our support staff what is it that [they] want us to

go in and argue or, the �rst thing they’ll tell you is, ‘Don’t change our health insurance.’” Membership in unions allows employees to bargain collectively rather than as individuals. Union representatives and economists alike argue that this can lead to higher wages. “Union workers are ar better than their non-unionized counterparts because o their ability to bargain collectively. Tere’s strength in numbers,” said Jim Durkin, director o legislation, communication and political action or the American Federation o State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 93, the union that represents Brunswick High’s custodians. Huhtala noted that unionization could “absolutely” lead to higher wages or the College’s housekeeping staff, as Bowdoin currently leans more heavily on its bene�ts package in attempts to attract employees. Comparisons between jobs exist with the understanding that custodial work is grueling. Local community members, such as Brigit Cavanagh, the sales director at Sunnybrook Senior Living Facility in Brunswick, believe all housekeepers in the area are underpaid. “It’s probably the hardest job in the country, besides maybe plucking chickens,” she said. Aura Carlson, Sebastian de Lasa, Nell Fitzgerald, Kate Lusignan, Penelope Mack, Reuben Scha�r, Emma Sorkin and Jessica Troubh contributed to this report.

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Affinity nity gro groups ups band band tog toget ether her for Blind Blind Date Date Dinner Dinner by Anjulee Bhalla Orient Staff

Last night, Arican American Society (AAm), Latin American Student Organization (LASO) and Asian Student Alliance (ASA) joined together to put on the third annual Valentine’s Day Blind Date Dinner. he central goal o the program was to bring as many people together—breaking outside o their own Bowdoin bubbles—as possible, said Louis Mendez ’19, president o LASO. “People are so caught up into their own little bubble,” said Mendez. “So the reason or making it blind—you don’t get a say in who you’re getting dinner with and, at least we hope, that you’re going to meet someone new and that’s kind o a way o just breaking that bubble a l ittle bit.” While the event is a lighthearted addition to the Valentine’s Day estivities, it stems rom a desire to address shortcomings in campus dating culture, such as the dominance o hookup culture. “People think that you just have to hook up,” said Mamadou Diaw ’20. “You have to maintain hooking up because i you get too serious and things don’t work out, then everything just goes awry because the school is so small.” In particular, many eel a need to address the speciic issues aced by people o color (POC) in regards to dating and hooking up on campus. “[When the event started] there was a lot o talk about dating culture here and a lot o people o color elt like the dating scene wasn’t or them,” said Mendez. “And so we were like ‘oh, we can address that issue while also having un about it.’ For us, it was mo stly just a way to conne ct peop le and have people reconsider what it means to have this whole dating scene.” Part o this eeling o not belonging lies in a lack o visibility and inclusivity in the social spaces on campus or POC. “he idea o dating is that ... i you don’t see it, it’s not happening,” said Diaw. “I eel as though, especially in the community or students o

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such as ever, headache, body aches, coughing and sore throat. Te symptoms typically last between three and �ve days. Maher said that many students’ symptoms are relatively mild, particularly i they received a �u vaccine. “I think the �u shot is reasonably effective—I think most o the students that we’re seeing

color, [dating’s] not as visible or not as prevalent and there’s already this idea that dating doesn’t really happen to the school.” “And I eel like [the lack o couples] sort o stems rom party spaces and where people hang out,” Diaw continued. “hat’s something that’s always in the back o my mind when I’m going out with riends—I eel like I’m not necessarily a part o the space that I’m at, and I’m not deemed as the ideal person that someone’s going out to look or in that space.” his year, participation was capped at 60 people— almost twice the number o attendees as last year. his increase prompted a change o venue rom 30 Coll ege to the Cram Alumni Barn. Participants register or the event by illing out a short survey that includes typical questions such as name and class year, as well as questions about students’ avorite music

vaccinated around hal the student population, but he pointed out that a number o students receive vaccines off campus as well. Te majority o vaccines administered by Health Ser vices were given to students during �u clinics in September and October, but students are still able to walk into Health Services and ask or a vaccine during open hours or receive a vaccine during an appointment made or a different purpose,


LOVE IS IN THE AIR: (ABOVE) Brooke Berry ’22 (center) and Kaan Volkan Volkan ’20 (right) dig in to good food and great conversation. (RIGHT) From left to right, Dani Hove ’20, Darlene Ineza ’19 and Julio Palencia ’20 let the good times roll as the night continues. and “net worth.” Attendees were also asked to share how serious they were in meeting a romantic interest through the event. “Some people are deinitely hoping to ind someone and, you know, connect, and I am looking or new riends,” said Kevin Chi ’19, treasurer o ASA. “hat’s why I think this is sort o great, because we give people the platorm to do all o th e above.” Bringing dierent ainity groups together is another important theme o the program, as this year ASA joined as a sponsor o the event. “I don’t think there really is a lot o interaction across the ainity groups on cam-

pus,” said Chi. “Other than events mediated through the multicultural coalition center, there are some parties that happen sometimes, but there aren’t many chances or the dierent ainity groups to connect.”

he groups hope atten- and seeing how it can grow dance at the event will con- and include so many other tinue to grow to include more organizations and people in students rom across campus, general—that would be so and to bring even more ain- cool to see,” said Mendez. ity groups and clubs into the Roither Gonzales and Anna old in uture years. Fauver contributed to this re“Expanding [the event] port .

Residential Lie staff members come to health services to get vaccinated and encourage the other students who live on their �oors or in their houses to do the same. aylor Yoder ’19 was diagnosed with the �u last week and has slowly been recovering since. She no longer has intense �u symptoms, but she has experienced some complications and still has a cough and laryngitis. “It’s probably the worst I’d

ity o her proessors kept the experience rom being terribly stressul in terms o academics. “I think just because so many people are sick right now, it’s easier to be �exible because you’re just having to be �exible or the whole class,” Yoder said. Maher explained that Health Services works with students such as Yoder who experience complications rom the �u. Pneumonia is the most serious potential complication, but it

students hang out and drink to visit Health Services to get a some �uids … they perk up just vaccine the day he got the �u. by drinking.” But, he still plans to get a vacAlex Gentle ’19 and Spencer cine. owle ’19, who are roommates, “Tere are still a couple o were both sick with the �u other strains o �u that you can last week as well. Both visited get even i you’ve already gotten Health Services and received the �u,” Gentle said. “So I’m still sel-care packages with ibupro- planning on getting it, but I was en, ylenol and cough drops. just waiting to get get better.” Students who are too sick to go In Maine, �u season lasts to dining halls are also given until April, when the weathboxes o non-perishable oods er improves enough to allow and clear liquids that Dining people to spend time outside,










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ARTS S � ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT A F ART Chamber ensembles spark musical collaboration by Cole van Miltenberg Orient Staff

Te “quad squad” may sound like an unusual moniker or a music group, but this is ar rom the only surprise offered by the Bowdoin’s Department o Music’s chamber ensemble program. Each semester, dozens partake in a variety o independent, student-driven student-driv en chamber groups. Although participants work with an instructor, they are responsible or holding independent practices each week and curating the selection o pieces they rehearse and ultimately perorm in concerts throughout the semester. Students have rare autonomy even in terms o grades; they can participate in chamber ensemble or academic credit or as an extracurricular. Tis ormat, not ound elsewhere on Bowdoin’s campus, has opened the program up to an average o roughly 20 to 25 students in a given semester over recent years. Another unique aspect o the program lies in existing combinations o musical interests and abilities. From brass and woodwind to string groups, students o all backgrounds and academic interests are brought together by their love o music. Robert Beckwith Artist-in-Residence and Director o the Bowdoin Orchestra George Lopez is responsible or orming each group and matching them


HARMONY � EUPHONY: The chamber ensemble program, offered by the Department of Music, is highly student-driven and sparks creative collaboration in an intimate setting different from most academic classes. From left to right, Kookie McNerney, Ben Bousquet ’20, David Morrison ’19 and Ethan Hill ’21. with a coach. He looks careully or musical compatibility and personality. “During the audition process, I ask them what they are accustomed to, what they are looking or in an instructor,” Lopez said. “All o our coaches are highly experienced, but they have different personalities, so I try to match the personality o the

coach as well as the instrument type.” Selection o repertoire also comes into play in the beginning stages o each ensemble group. “I have to know the repertoire to some degree or be able to �nd access to the inormation through coaches who have a wealth knowledge o [the instruments] their students play,”

said Lopez. “We really work hard to �nd a piece that moti vates [students] and gets them excited.” A crowd o diverse yet passionate perormers comprise the groups. Jenny Wang ’22 participated in chamber ensemble at her high school and already had an idea o how each group at Bowdoin would operate beore

she arrived. “I’ve played the piano or more than 10 years now. So it’s something that I didn’t want to just give up in college,” said Wang. An experienced soloist, Wang is surprised by the dynamic musical experience that chamber ensemble provides. “Doing chambers is more like

a collaboration—you’re trying to �nd a harmony or euphony between different instruments,” she said. “Tere’s de�nitely more communication between different musicians ... and that’s just something that you can never �nd when you’re playing solo.” Ethan Hill ’21 likewise noted the sense o community that comes with the chamber ensemble program—the origin behind the group’s intriguing nomenclature. “It’s kind o like we’re our own little sort o Friendship Circle. You know, through the process o working together, there’s de�nitely a bond that we kind o get,” he said. “Last year, we called ourselves the ‘quad squad.’” Wang, Hill and others in the chamber ensemble program have extensive playing experience; however, Lopez is hoping to expand the program to students with beginner abilities in the uture. Tere is also a new initiative to open up community spaces in Brunswick or student perormances. Later this semester, there will be two major platorms on which chamber ensembles will perorm. Common Hour perormances are reserved or more advanced groups, usually string and woodwind, and take place once a month in Studzinski Recital Hall. Te major perormance o the year is the Chamberest concert, which takes place on May 9.

Maggie Rogers triumphs on o n ‘Heard It In A Past Past Life’ In a sense, that narrative isn’t new. In the past decade, the The Aux Cord sudden leap into pop has been by Chris Ritter made by artists as heat-seeking as Te Head and the Heart and as I should leave out the story well-established as aylor Swif. about Maggie Rogers’ rise to ame It’s that narrative that critics have through a viral video with Phar- already used to label Rogers’ derell because it is clear by now that but as nonessential. But while she deserves it. It is true that the albums like Swif’s “1989” seem Maryland singer/songwriter was suffocated by the whims o indusa student at NYU just two years try hitmakers like Max Martin, ago, making eclectic songs that “Heard It In a Past Lie” sounds used her olky roots with Euro- dependent on Rogers as the head

Rogers sounds like she’s rallying a crowd into protest in the verses, but she has that crowd dancing by the chorus. “Give a Little” also introduces Rogers’ ability to mix elements that seemingly con�ict: the “alchemy” is at work here and throughout. “Alaska” and “On + Off ” are stilly sharply eclectic, tracks �rst released on “Now Tat the Light is Fading,” a project that landed somewhere between the sounds o Flume and Fleet

but what remains assured is her voice, which has nev voice, never er soun sounded ded richer or wiser. It’s the sound o someone holding ast to their strengths against a current o unstoppable change. It may have been a viral video that set that change into motion and would shape how we were introduced to Rogers, but “Heard It In a Past Lie” �nds Rogers triumphantly reclaiming that perception. Tis is pop music, but make no mistake: she hasn’t








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SEEING SOCIALISM: Leftism is not new to Bowdoin’s campus, although it is seeing a resurgence after years of dormancy. From protesting the Vietnam War (bottom) in 1969 to reading Karl Marx 50 years later in 2019, students have been reading, writing and spea king leftist thought outsi de the classroom for decades. A new student-formed group hopes to create a new space at the College for regular meetings, readings and discussion.

In midwinter, midwinter, leftism lefti sm blooms bloom s at Bowdoin ic justice and ideas o eminism. I would also say [I’m] currently airly anti-capitalist as well.” Orient Staff Te participants o the group On uesday evenings, the �uctuate rom week to week— pink-lit walls o the basement the group’s Facebook page curthat houses WBOR hold chat- rently has 40 members—but this ter that will never run on air: past uesday, there were nine hypotheses on Marx, utopian men and two women, chatting visionss o a socialist society and or over an hour. vision opinions on where Kamala HarTe line between lefist ris alls on the political spectrum. thought and lefist action is a clear I you have OneCard access—or one or the group, which thinks o happen to catch word o the un- itsel as decidedly not action-oriofficial week weekly ly meetings me etings—you’d —you’d ented. Te Reading Group is a be privy to one o the ew places space to �oat new ideas, to wreson campus where lefism blooms. tle with socialist thought and to Tose gathered here have develop an ethos—around what come or the “Reading Group,” it means to recognize the current a weekly meeting or both stu- economic and political system as dents with a background in lef- �awed and to articulate a vision

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tackling a range o social issues, rom protesting the Vietnam War to calling on the College to improve labor conditions. But the group �zzled out afer several years, and lefism has remained largely absent rom Bowdoin’s mainstream discourse since. “Tere’s certainly been a resurgence which is welcome rom my perspective here,” said Proessor o Economics Jonathan Goldstein, a sel-proessed socialist who is teaching a class called Marxian Political Economy. “I would say there’s a correlation o sorts with Bernie Sanders and the impact he had on this age demographic here at the College.” Kunins-Berkowitz points out

mittee in high school. It was at the Mountain School o Milton Academy in Vermont where he met Kunins-Berkowitz, who grew up in Manhattan and also worked or the DSA in highschool. While spending time on a gap year together, the two began to talk about what lefism might look like at Bowdoin. Upon arriving at Bowdoin, they met the group’s �nal ounding member, Sarisha Kurup ’21, by way o an introduction by a history proessor. Kurup declined interview requests “in order to do what is most honest or the group.” Her comments are re�ective o the group’s discomort with publicity. With no school-sanctioned pres-

regular emails to members, the Reading Group coordinates logistics through a private Facebook group. “Tere is this kind o romantic idea o this clandestine group that meets in a radio station with low lighting,” said Wilson. “But there is also something nice still about having a group that you can have a conversation with. I think i we broadcasted it a lot more, we would sacri�ce the quality o the conversation.” conversation.” Member Diego Grossmann ’20 expressed rustration at the leaders’ reluctance to expand. “I have no idea why we wouldn’t want to expand it. I don’t understand why that wouldn’t just be the goal o start-

“We’re sel-aware that there is this ‘Bernie-bro’ association,” said Wilson. Such as stereotype occurs well beyond the con�nes o Bowdoin, and it is a difficult pattern to break. “Intellectuall debate has always, “Intellectua in my experience, been a really male-dominated environment,” Kunins-Berkowitz said. “I think it’s how we teach young men to be assertive and to assert their political opinions requently.” She also acknowledges that most members o the group are wealthy—many attended elite high schools where they were exposed to lefist ideals early in their educations. “I think that this has been an







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The numbers don’t lie, but the huma hu mani niti ties es stil st illl ma matt tter er Cyber Chase by Sasa Jovanovic Tere are only two kinds of people in the world. Are you lef-brained or right-brained? Type A or Type B? Are you a 1 or a 0? Quantitative or creative? Creator or builder? Art or algorithms? Numbers or words? Shakespeare or Einstein? I recently spoke to a Bowdoin student who claimed, “Bowdoin students can’t do math.” Arguably, their standards were slightly biased given an academic schedule heavy in the quantitative fields, but it raises the question—in today’s data-driven world, is the ability to code or perform calculus fundamental to being a productive member of society? Are liberal arts students who focus in the humanities or social sciences setting themselves up for failure in the Digital Age? To answer these questions, I spent two hours with Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Crystal Hall and Director of Quantitative Reasoning Eric Gaze on the third floor of the Visual Arts Center, the cozy home of the Digital and Computational Studies department. To ground our conversation, I shared two articles with them beforehand: “Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving

Checkpoints, New York Police ground as opposed to relying Demand,” by Michael Gold in on proxies we assume are gothe New York Times and “San ing to accurately capture the Francisco Wants to Ban Gov- reality. Let’s actually talk to the ernment Face Recognition,” people that are living through by Sidney Fussell in The At- these things, then see what we lantic. I encourage you to read should be measuring.” these articles yourself. Hall pointed to a grassroots During our talk, the two initiative in Chicago which professors focused on the uses sentiment analysis (text competing interests of the analysis tracking) of known state, the market and the pri- gang members in combination vate citize n o r co nsume r w ith with machine learning to track respect to issues concerning the likelihood of violence using surveillance. tweets. The initiative partners Gaze commented first. with, and provides protection “The Waze app is a great way to, incarcerated or recently reto counter the idea that the leased gang members to gauge consumer is always right. For sentiment. example, I want to use an EZ“Computer scientists can Pass. And yet, do we want the write code that can perform a idea that the government can task, but without knowing the give us tickets because of their meaning behind the data that’s access to your EZ-Pass? Most going into it,” she said. “We of us would call that invasive, need to start having a more and I agree. Surveillance is holistic discussion about data this issue that, when it ben- management. That’s where efits the consumer in terms I’m increasingly feeling we of convenience, is great, but need to go.” when it infringes upon their I asked if this necessarily liberties, is an issue.” means involving more people I asked if there is a way to with a humanities background. define this line. Hall provided Hall chuckled. “As a Galia possible solution to the di- leo scholar, everything I de vergin g inte rests. fault to is in the 16th century. “Let’s start over with the And I mean to point to this data. And let’s get the special- [century] as this watershed ists in the room. The people moment when the sciencwho are impacted by the data. es and the humanities part The people who create the ways. It is a false divide at data,” he said. “Let’s have an that moment, but it is a belief equal conversation about these that will persist until the 20th situations, so the data actual- century: the perceived ‘two ly captures the reality on the cultures,’ a division between

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ways of thinking and analyzing human experience. I think some of that comes to bear now. But I think the silos have been constructed so strongly that the people that should be cooperating are not.” My repository of Galileo informatica is sparse, so I asked Hall to expand upon her reference to the mathematician. “Galileo was a mathematician who strayed into philosophy, because he was using the telescope to look at the moon,” she said. “He was trying to bring all of the information available at the time to understand why the surface of the moon was rough when everyone said it was supposed

to be a perfect celestial body. No one had done that before—he was accused of academic trespassing. This moment is seen as when the rational mind comes to bear on science and knowledge and the creative or poetic mind is diminished in terms of what people understand as capacity to understand the world.” “The quantitative versus the qualitative,” Gaze said. “I would say the quantitative is the low-hanging fruit—it is easy to quantify things. Mark behavior with a number and categorize according to that parameter. The numbers help, but don’t tell the full s tory.”

“However,” Gaze continued, “this isn’t to suggest that algorithms are entirely useless. They are really great and help us in so many ways. Take health, for example. Machine learning can arguably analyze symptoms and give diagnoses on a much faster pace, and more accurately, than leaving the number crunching to humans. You still want that doctor! By offloading the calculations, it allows doctors to spend more time with their patients. Almost become more human, in a way.” I checked my pulse. Yep, still human. Quantitative or creative? Maybe the answer should be both.

Running circles in the sand: on photoshoots and feminism Deep in the Heart by Surya Milner and Phoebe Zipper We were squatting on the edge of the waterfront, warm brown waves lapping at our sand-speckled limbs. Oil rigs winked in the distance, the roar of a Confederate flagadorned pickup truck occasionally punctuating the lazy

had dawned bright and clear, the horizon held a different hue than when we were last here. Empty stretches of sand yawned on either side of us, and the roar of the A/C was all there was to cut through the silence at the seafood restaurants in town. Hurricane Har vey had come and gone, leaving Port Aransas in the throes of rebuilding and rebranding. Adjusting the straps of our swimsuits, we took in the vast expanse and the now-desolate

exceptional spaces, to another space of hypervisibility: the “Celebrating Women, Celebrating Bodies” photo exhibits that occur biannually at the Center for Sexuality, Women Women and Gender (formerly the Women’s Resource Center). We were two Bowdoin 20-somethings, comfortable in our bodies and down with the mission to de-stigmatize the female nude. Showcasing our nude bodies in the middle of David Saul Smith Union

itself in its capacity to loudly proclaim a somewhat obvious, tired truth: women’s bodies— in all their variations—are beautiful, and hung up on a wall, they make for beautiful images. It speaks to a kind of feminism centered on body image, sexuality and the inescapable pull those exert on our psyches—with little reach into the ways that women’s bodies are regulated and politicized in our c urrent day. The exhibition billed itself

inevitably in.” skimmed over hips and thighs As women, we spend a lot and breasts, nervous smiles, of time thinking about how knowing smirks and heads we look. The photoshoot rev- thrown back in laughter. laughter. There els in this, mattes it on a wall was a sense of familiarity, and calls it empowering. It’s a comfort and reflection, seeing confusing time to be a young all these bodies so similar to woman in the United States, our own. But there was also we declared to the gulls ri- a nagging sense that we were fling through a nearby clump still viewing women’s bodies as of seaweed. On the one hand, just that: bodies. We were still we want to be successful, running circles in Butler’s trap. thoughtful women with caWe found ourselves dereers driven by our brains and siring an exhibit that moves our ambition. On the other beyond the female body








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Talk of the Quad THE JOY OF KNITTING

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of my free time knitting and thinking about making. I grew up with crafting, making creative objects as a part of my daily life. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have my own fabric basket, craft box and knitting needles. My mom taught me how to knit in second grade and sent me to my first of a couple knitting camps. As an eight-year-old, I learned how to make my own knitting needles and to knit a little chick, which I especially loved, because my second grade class had a class chicken named

FROM THE EPICENTER

“Yes, I was there for the earthquake … Yes, I felt it … crazy, humbling.” These words always seem to shake my listeners more than the earthquake shook me. Words have that effect. I was in the mountains of Mardi Himal on April 25, 2015 when a 7.8-magniude earthquake shook Nepal. In the three months leading up to this day, I had been traveling all around the country, staying with di ff erent erent homestay families, studying Buddhism and learning how to wood-carve—a

Peep whom I adored. After with my apparent inability receiving a drop spindle as to finish one project before a gift in third grade, I went starting the next. For a long around my house and back- time, I couldn’t conceptualize yard, collecting any fluffs of knitting without my mom. hair that my dog had shed She was the one who really to try to spin into yarn. It understood knitting, not me. worked moderately well but This is starting to change. certainly smelled like dog. I’m realizing that knitting is For me, as a kid, knit- something that is mine, too. ting and sewing weren’t any More recently, knitting has different from drawing or made me feel simultaneously painting—they were all ways ver y inde pend ent from and I could make, activities that connected to my mom. I loved. Everything that I’ve While visiting my grandpa learned about crafting, about in Vermont, my mom and I making, has been from my took a morning trip to her famom. I can’t say that I’ve vorite spinne ry. I’d be en t here always been an avid knitter. with her before when I was My excitement about knit- much younger, but I didn’t ting has ebbed and flowed quite have the attention span to appreciate the trip. This time was

different. We went into the little shop in the front of the building, shelves of yarn covering the walls. We could hear the noise of machines running in the back of the building. Peeking through the doorway, we saw skeins of dyed yarn hanging from the ceiling and the machines that we had heard earlier making yarn. After exploring the spinnery for a while, my mom and I returned to the yarn store in th e front of the building. The yarn there was easy to fall in love with. It smelled like real wool in the way that reminded you of the sheep it came from. The

colors were natural, deep and knit when I was five. It was soft. This yarn made me want the 4th of July, and I learned to make something. Eventual- with the posts of tiny Amerily, with a lot of en couragement can flags and leftover balloon from my mom and a very kind ribbon. I soon graduated to shopkeeper, I decided that actual yarn and needles and I would buy yarn to knit my produced a most uneven and first sweater. This would be ramshackle scarf fragment. I my first big knitting project. was thrilled with myself. I am I’ve known how to knit for as continually impressed with long as I can remember but the things that I can create learning how to read and fol- from strands of wool or cotlow patterns has been a more ton. There is something about recent development. knitting that fills me with Since coming back to feelings of ingenuity, creativschool this semester, I’ve also ity and excitement.” The way been talking a lot with my that Elise talks about learning friend Elise about our ex- to knit really resonates with periences with knitting. She me. For both of us, learning tells the story of how to knit was incredibly emshe learned to knit powering and allowed u s to be saying, “it was my independent, to create things grandmother we’re excited about, but also who taught allowed us to connect. To me how to connect with our loved ones who taught us and also to connect with one another. Knitting is slow and not necessarily economical, but it is full of love and thought and care. I think it takes a knitter to really understand what goes into knitting something for someone. Elise certainly does. “Knitting something for someone is an act of love. I think that knitting something for someone is just about the most loving thing you can do,” she says. “It takes time and precision and commitment. From the moment I decide to knit someS A B R I N thing for someone, to picking A L I N out the yarn, to finishing the last stitch, I have the person I am knitting for in mind.” Kaya Wurtzel is a member of the Class of 2021.

in Nepal—Is Jon Luke okay?” Adrenaline jolted through his body as he seized his laptop and pounded away at the keys frantically looking up where exactly I was hiking, where the epicenter was, how far from the epicenter I was, how big the earthquake was, whether or not I was OK. Constant news headlines about the destruction, updates about my group’s whereabouts from my trip leaders and endless phone calls from concerned friends and relatives disrupted his day. Despite my proximity to the epicenter, that day scared my father more than it startled me. It

the mountains from Kathmandu, which, because of the road conditions as well as the lack of resources, meant that no one from the cities would be there to help for months. People who watched the news coverage of the earthquake from the United States would never know about Baruwa. My family and friends would watch the destruction and worry about me without knowing that I was safer than they themselves were when they drove to work in the morning during rush hour. But, at the same time, they

power to shape their reaction. Strangely, I feel obligated to tell a more dramatic story than the story that I have. Te traumatic part of the earthquake for me was realizing how close I was to people who needed help and then further realizing how safe I was and how powerless I was to help anyone. But this experience is the story I rarely get a chance to tell.

of the kitchen, and my legs would go numb from sitting on the ground during meals. My body was not �t for this kitchen. Yet, I spent hours in that kitchen—reading, admiring the view of the valley through the window and helping my homestay mother cook. Tere was a contagious sense of ease and serenity with which my homestay mother could operate the kitchen, and despite my physical discomfort, I too felt relaxed and calm there. Her pans had holes in them; ofen times, we would lose power, and she would have to cook with just the aid of moonlight.

In conversation, my listeners want to hear how I watched an entire valley tremble in one of the afershocks, how it took � ve days to evacuate, how I would probably be severely injured or worse if the earthquake had hit six weeks earlier when I was in Baruwa. Perhaps it is for this reason that I have resisted writing about it for so long. Jon Luke Tittma Tittman n is a member of the Class of 2019.










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Curling team finishes regular season on top by Ella Chaffi n

The men’s basketball team (15-9, NESCAC 4-6) ended its season last weekend after losing 65-91 to Connecticut College. Tied for eighth in the conference, the Polar Bears narrowly missed out on a bid for the NESCAC tournament to Tufts (11-13, NESCAC 4-6) by virtue of a tiebreaker. Zavier Rucker ’21 and Jack Simonds ’19 led the team’s o ff ense, ense, scoring 23 and 13 points respectively. The team will say goodbye to three seniors: Simonds, Jack Bors and Hugh O’Neil. OFF THE RIM:

LEFT OUT IN THE COLD: Last weekend, the women’s hockey team (3-17-2) finished conference play with a 2-11-1 NESCAC record after tying the Connecticut College Camels (10-8-3, NESCAC 6-5-3) in a scoreless game. It is the Polar Bears’ first losing season since 2015-2016. 2015-2016. Goalie Kerri St. Denis ’19 reached a personal achievement in the last game, though, earning a clean slate with 25 stops.

Orient Staff Te curling team ended its regular season in Utica last weekend, �nishing third out of 24 competitors. Now, the top � ve members members will continue continue to the national competition in Walland, Massachusetts over spring break, where the team is seeded seventh. Te team has doubled in size since last year, contributing to its successful season. Afer the U.S. men’s curling team won gold in the 2018 Olympics, the sport became more appealing to new players, and Bowdoin’s own team has doubled in size since last year. Tis uptick in members has been seen in both teams and clubs across the curling community this year. “We have had an upward growth which h as been amazing,” said captain Kylie Best ’19. “All of our team, except for myself, did not curl before college, so for us to be so successful with a bunch of relatively inexperienced people is fantastic.” At the Student Activities Fair last fall, the team received over 75 sign-ups. Out of the 75, over 20 students became permanent members. Uniquely, the team consists of social members who go out on the ice to have fun and those who want to become more competitive at the sport and frequently participate in the tournaments. “At the beginning of the season, we ask the entire group who wants to be considered for the [national competition],” said Best. “Some are only interested in the social aspect, which is totally �ne. Tis way, those who are more interested in being more

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SWEEP ME OFF MY FEET: Claire Pierce ’22 and Maynor Loaisiga ’22 sweep as Ella Crabtree ’22 throws a stone. The team will go to nationals over Spring break. competitive can express it early on.” Looking toward the national competition, the team expects to hold its own against northeastern competitors. Teams from the Midwest tend to be sti ff er er competition as they have smaller teams that have been curling longer. “Te hope is to win,” said captain Zack Leblanc ’20. “Last year, I think we had a little bit of a disappointing �nish; we �nished 10th or 11th. Tis year, [we’re ranked] seventh, [and] I think we can do a little bit better just

playing as well as we can.” In addition to the increase in new members, the team also added a volunteer advisor, Jonathan St. Mary ’67. He is the �rst community member to enter a mentorship role for the team. With many years of curling experience, St. Mary has competed in the Francis Dykes Memorial Bonspiel and Men’s Grand Nationals. “He had some really good pointers about strategy, which has been something that has hurt us in the past,” Best said. “We just don’t know a lot about strategy, and it’s very di ffi cult.”

St. Mary was especially inin teaching the in �ux of �rst years curling technique. His expert advice is helpful for newcomers who have no prior experience with the sport. “It’s been really helpful to have someone who knows what they are talking about give some pointers,” Best said, “rather than have people who haven’t been curling very long teaching people who haven’t been curling at all.” Tis weekend, the team will host a learn to curl event at Flight Deck Brewing Compa�uential

ny. No experience is necessary, and members of the team will be demonstrating the sport and putting on a mini bonspiel for the community. “ Tere are actually some people in Brunswick [who] are looking to bring a new sort of ice facility to the area that would be both a hockey rink and a curling facility,” Leblanc said. “So they’re putting us on to demonstrate community interest.” Te team will teach curling from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Te event is free and open to the public.








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Wo Women’s basketball ends regular season undefeated minutes per game, which, in itself, is not particularly unique in the league. What is unusual, however, is that only one player, Samantha Roy Textbook. Flawless. Ideal. ’20, averages above 25 minUnrivaled. Masterly. Exemplary. utes per game, and only two Superlative. Superlative. Pick your adjec - average above 20. tive. But one descriptor will What all this means is that attach itself to Bowdoin wom- the Polar Bears substitute a en’s basketball regular season lot and very quickly. If Shibles regardless of what thesaurus could have her players hop you pick up: perfect. over the bench directly into The final weekend of the the flow of the game every women’s basketball season other minute, à la hockey, I was a one-two-punch that suspect that she would. dispelled any doubt—if Shibles’ rapid-fire subthere was any still hanging stitution, combined with around—about the Polar an unusually deep roster, Bears’ on-court dominance. proceeds on the expectation On Friday, Adrienne Shibles’ that her players will work squad clinched the top seed extraordinarily hard for in the NESCAC tournament the short spurts of time for following their 69–58 victo- which they’re on the court. ry over Connecticut College Where this sets the Polar (13–10, 4–6 NESCAC), a de- Bears apart is in the late velo pment that , thou gh sur- quarters of games, when, as prising to just about nobody, their opponents are quickly was nevertheless a cause for losing steam, the ferris wheel celebration. On Saturday, the of energized substitutes just Polar Bears capped off their keeps spinning, methodically first undefeated regular sea- overwhelming the opponent. son since 2002-03, trouncing Clearly, this mechanism is Wesleyan (14–10, 4–6 NES- working. There is, however, CAC) 92–75. 24–0. There you one potential kink in the syshave it. tem: the Polar Bears get off to It was a fittingly dominant a slow start. In four of their end to a positively lights-out last five conference games, the season. On their way to perfec- Polar Bears have been tied or tion, the Polar Bears averaged behind through the first quar84.2 points per game against ter. In two of those games, their opponents’ 52.3 overall, they trailed until the second with the margin standing at half. 76.1 to 58.8 in conference play. Although this propensity Their closest margin of victo- for slow beginnings makes ry—four points—came in a for some thrilling comeback stunning, come-from-behind wins, it threatens to gunk up victory against Middlebur y the fine-tuned machinery of on February 1, while their Shibles’ system. “That’s not largest margin of victory, in the way we operate,” said conference, came one day later Shibles after the team allowed when they beat Williams by 37 26 points in the third quarter points. (Out-of-conference, against Wesleyan, noting that they beat UMaine-Farming- it was lackluster defense rath-

More Than A Game by Ian Ward








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O OPINION Pack the house he Bowdoin women’s basketball team has danced its way to the number one seed in the NESCAC tournament, and the music doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon—though it may be changing tempo. aylor Choate ’19 told Orient columnist Ian Ward this week that “in the postseason, everything’s dierent. Everyone’s coming at you much harder.” And as Ward notes, or the Polar Bears, ranked number one in the nation ater an undeeated season, it is truly everyone who wants a chance on the loor with them. hat loor, or as long as the team is in the NESCAC tournament, will be right here on campus, in Morrell Gymnasium. An undeeated season in sports is rare, and especially so at B owdoin. he women’s basketball team has not had a perect regular season since 2003, when it made the National Championship game beore ultimately alling to Wilmington College, 59–53. his year’s Polar Bears have already beaten the deending national champion Amherst in a game that rocked Morrell, with attendance numbers so high they threatened the ire code. Several o us were there that day, holding our breath as the Mammoths kept up a slight but steady lead through the irst hal, leaping to our eet at every three-pointer and roaring our approval as the Polar Bears took the lead. Even those o us who don’ don’tt usually enjoy basketball games were committed to threatening the structural integrity o the wooden bleachers. It was, without a doubt, the game o the season and deinitely the game o day. In comparison, that night’s much-hyped hockey game, despite its similarly close score, was lackluster. And while Morrell was packed or the game against the Mammoths and attendance has been solid all season long, we continue to hear tired tropes about how the game isn’t as interesting or physical as when the men take the court. his, we can conidently say, say, is bullshit. We dare those who disagree to go and watch the women play and not ind them awe-inspiring. he mental ortitude necessary to never have an o day is remarkable. It’s one thing to take the title, but it takes another level o skill to be the best team on the court every single day. So, let’s see i the Polar Bears can inish the job. What women’s basketball is giving the Bowdoin community is the single most alluring concept in all o sports: a perect season. And we have a ront row seat. We trust that Bowdoin students are excited or the NESCAC tournament, but we’re sending out a missive to be sure: pack the house this Saturday against Connecticut College and continue to do so or as long as you can watch this squad play. Morrell Gym seats approximately 2,500 spectators. We expect every single one o those seats to be illed. Tis editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Or ient’s editorial board, which is composed of Anjulee Bhalla, Nell Fitzgerald, Roither Gonzales, Dakota Griffin, George Gr imbilas, Cald er McHugh and Jessica Pipe r.

To address addres s the th e Bowdoin-Maine Bowdoin-Main e divide, we must go deeper

PHOEBE ZIPPER

by Annie Rose Op-Ed Contributor

Tere are two homeless shelters within walking distance o campus. Many Bowdoin students, maybe even most, don’t know they exist. edord Housing operates both shelters, one on Federal Street and the other on Cumberland Street, which together provide sae and temporary housing or six amilies and 16 individuals. Tere are rarely any vacant beds. With the capacity to serve 165 individuals and amilies each year, edord Housing must turn away almost 600 more individuals who call asking or emergency housing. Since my �rst year at Bowdoin, I’ve been involved with the Joseph McKeen Center or the Common Good. o deepen my connection to the Common Good and the community, I started working there as a McKeen Fellow. I worked at edord over the summer and learned �rsthand how edord, as the primary agency helping this area’s homeless and people at risk o becoming homeless, comprehensively

extent o homelessness in the midcoast region. o o truly gain amiliarity with the realities and lived experiences aced by our neighbors right here in Brunswick, I believe that all Bowdoin students should �nd and commit to their own path out o the Bowdoin Bubble through consistent engagement with the community. Bowdoin is known or its commitment to the Common Good, and we pride ourselves on our ability to communicate across difference and are provided with plenty o opportunities to grow our understanding o social inequality in the world beyond Bowdoin. Tis may happen through conversation in the classroom or with our riends in the dining hall. But usually they’re just that, conversations. Perhaps we’ve gotten too good, too skilled at intellectualizing intellectualizing rather than actively engaging with the people actually experiencing and addressing these issues. For many o us, we keep community issues at arm’s length, distant rom our daily lives. However, many Brunswick residents, mere steps rom campus, ace the

rately educate and connect us to this place. Te �rst step is educating yoursel on challenges acing Brunswick and how the community has chosen to address them. When you head to Hannaord, be aware o what surrounds you. Behind it you’ll �nd Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, a ood pantry and kitchen and the Gathering Place, a drop-in day shelter— two vital community resources. Read the imes Record’s “Giving Voice” column— eaturing stories rom the “Core Four” organizations o Brunswick: edord Housing, Te Gathering Place, Midcoast Hunger Prevention and Oasis Free Clinics—to stay inormed on the issues aced by the local community attend the own Hall meetings (with me!) on establishing a combined shelter and comprehensive resource center in town. Te next step is direct engagement and service, through which you will learn even more rom people on the ground. Beyond participating in a Community Orientation rip, Common Good Day, an Alternative Break rip or enrolling in a community-engaged course on a tem-








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How I learned to stop worrying and love the Rocket Man by Wilder Short Op-Ed Contributor

When President rump tweeted “Little Rocket Man,” along with an image o Kim Jong-Un, the idea o donning a ull Elton John out�t (any o them work) and bellowing “I’m a rocket man,” came to mind—not the image o an existential threat o nuclear allout. Te “�re and ury” approach to diplomacy between the two world leaders applies more to their war o words than to the actual war o nations insinuated. I am not concerned about any sort o nuclear warare. Tere’s no need to be concerned; I’m positive about being positive. I have other things to stress about, like gun control, health care, rising homelessness numbers, climate change and whether there is a booth ree in Moulton Dark Room. I am not worried about a nuclear missile measuring contest. Neither leader wishes to exercise and �ex his �nger’s ability to launch rockets capable o massive damage, instead choosing to �ex his �ngers, at least in rump’s case, on the iPhone’s wonky keyboard. With the “new year, new me” mentality adopted by every 20-something or 2019, time should be taken to re�ect on the past year’s historic precedent or inter-Korean relations. Te 2018

Olympics marked a major breaking o tensions between the two Koreas, as both North and South Korean athletes walked together under the Korean Uni�cation �ag—last seen during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy. Te Koreas even �elded a joint-Korean women’s hockey team, a remarkable symbol o progress towards urthering the agenda o unity. Both leaders also presented a pro-uni�cation agenda to work towards this year; Kim Jong-Un’s 2019 New Year’s Address anticipates urther summits between the two leaders and President Moon Jae-in’s own South Korean popularity stems rom his proactive approach to breaking their land’s division with the rebirth o the “Sunshine Policy,” a South Korean approach to sofening tensions between the two nations. Te third ever inter-Korean summit held in Pyongyang also lead to a heavy demilitarization effort to eliminate the harsh border lines separating the two nations—this included disarmament o mines, destruction o guard towers and removal o troop numbers on both borders. So, any reasonable reader would say, what’s the deal? d eal? Where’s the uni�cation? Why aren’t they justt Korea? jus Korea? Why Why is Kim Jong-U Jong-Un n not in the NBA All-Star Celebrity game? Well. As easy as it is or people

to look to this past year as an inevitable sign o the possibility o a uni�ed Korea, there continue to be a ew hitches in their joint progress towards this goal. Namely, President rump. While rump will likely claim his work with Korea as a highlight o his time in office, his continued involvement only urther aggravates tensions surrounding reducing nuclear prolieration. Interviews with the North Korean population show that, while they receive these negotiations and talks positively, they dislike the idea o Western in�uence butting into Korean affairs—speci�cally looking at and seeing President Moon as a puppet. Tese sentiments may derive rom Kim JongUn’s New Year’s address, which pushes a pro-economic market plan and states his desire to continue negotiations with the South Korean government (while also stating that they would not be bullied by any bully rom the United States). President Moon himsel is a pro-unity advocate and ran on that as a campaign or election. His own uture is what slightly deters me rom remaining 100 percent optimistic. President Moon’s approval ratings rom December showed less than 50 percent o South Koreans supporting his administration. Tis declining popularity stems rom a lack o substantive plans

Le t’ss ce Let’ cele lebr brat atee so soph phom omor ores es declaring their majors On Second Thought by Brooke Vahos

walking out o my proessor’s office, I elt a little di sappointed that I didn’t eel more accomplished. Afer all, shouldn’t this moment eel more monumen-

aculty get to know students in less academic settings. Aside rom these tangible changes, students could shif their perspective on the process.

rom the meetings with Kim JongUn, economic downturn in both Koreas and a lack o substantial political reorm. Tese issues could all stem rom his continued ocus and effort on working with Kim Jong-Un—ocusing entirely on the North Korea question. I one were to be soundly positive, Moon’s agency over the assurance o the Democratic party’s election o a candidate willing to continue pushing discussions would be needed. Te 2020 National Assembly election is crucial or the Democratic party—it’s necessary or them to gain seats so that reorms could be passed by the next president elected in 2022. (South Korean presidents are allowed one term, �ve years long.) Te importance o regaining the voter bases lost by Moon’s two years cannot be overstated. He needs to ocus on effectively implementing political and social reorms as well as look into overhauling the current economic system, criticized or its poor implementation. As a young, optimistic American voter, I can assuredly say that any efforts or diplomacy rom the United States’ side can only improve in the uture. As the �eld or 2020 presidential candidates widens, it will be important to make note—as a voter—o who stands where on this issue. It’s not something to be overlooked. Yes,

it’s an existential ear or many people in the world—the prospect o being nuked—but that will only become real i things aren’t handled correctly in the uture. o recap: Americans need to push or a competent, non-bullying negotiator who can close a deal; North Koreans need to continue to be pro-uni�cation and need to understand that having more nukes

doesn’t make you cooler; and the South Koreans need to ocus domestically to ensure there will be a time to ocus internationally. Wilder Short is a member of the Class of 2022.

LILY ANNA FULLAM

Put the ‘you’ in ‘Ubear’ Say It Like It Is by Nate DeMoranville

Last year, I turned 20 on the same day that the ootball team won its �rst game in three

or us to maniest our mission dents o color, but I also know statement. that won’t solve our problem I eel a strong sense o sep- o a segregated campus. aration rom the student athhe much more challenging letes in my community. By and and time-consuming solution large, they do not look like me, or the athlete/non-athlete diand sel-segregation means vide i s to i ntegrate t he stud ent that our paths rarely cross. No body. My relationships with







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FEBRUARY FRIDAY �� PERFORMANCE

RISE: Untold Stories of Bowdoin Women Student group fEMPOWER will perform stories that showcase the diverse experiences and hardships of women in the Bowdoin community. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Smith Union information desk. Sales benefit Sexual Assault Support Service of Midcoast Maine and Through These Doors. There will also be a performance at the same time on Saturday Saturday.. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m. PERFORMANCE

ValJa V alJam m The Longfellows and Miscellania will join forces to give a Valentine’s’s Day-themed a cappella performance. Valentine Chapel. 8 p.m.


I’M LOVIN’ IT: Adam Jackson ’21, Elle Brine ’20, Eva Dowd ’22, Rubin Jones ’22 and George Marin ’22 play Madonna impersonators eating McDonalds in this play directed by Nathan Ashany ’21 and written by K Irving ’21. This was one of three one-act plays selected by the Masque & Gown board to perform on February 9, and it took home the winning prize at the end of the night.

MONDAY �� WEDNESDAY ��

SATURDAY �� EVENT

Bring Your Your Clothes to Brunch Avant-Garb Magazine will organize a clothes swap for students to exchange unwanted clothes, shoes and accessories with one another. Smoothies and reality TV will be available for students’ entertainment. Daggett Lounge, Thorne Dining Hall. 11 a.m. PERFORMANCE

Black History Month and Beyond: Concert and Showcase The Student Center for Multicultural Life, Africa Alliance,

LECTURE

LECTURE

“Queer Aesthetics, Collective Voice and Cross Species Dialogues”

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

Printmaking and installation artist Corinne Teed will discuss her work showcasing the intersections between queer theory, ecology, settler colonialism and critical animal studies. Aresty Digital Media Lab, Edwards Art Center. 4:15 p.m.

David J. Silverman, professor of history at George Washington University, will discuss eastern Native American tribes’ first contact with armed European settlers and the firearms race between competing tribes which ensued. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

The Bowdoin Orient - Vol. 148, No. 16 - February 15, 2019

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