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MORE NEWS:HEAD IN THE GAME TODAYS OPINIONEDITORIAL: Keep the faith; Next step.

SPORTS: BREAKING EVEN

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SIGNIFYING NOTHING: Jesse Ortiz 16 on rejecting his spot on the deans list.

Whitney Hogan and Dan Davies builda student task forceto evaluate theeff ectiveness of theColleges concus-sion educationprograms. Page 19.Page 3.

James Jelin 16 on taking the semesteroff to work on Shenna Bellowssenate campaign.

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Page 18.With two straight wins, Bowdoinfootball has a .500 record.

ALL AMERICANSDoubles partners Emma Chow15 and Tess Trinka 18 earn All-American honors.

College proposes changes to sexual misconduct policy

BY RON CERVANTESORIENT STAFF

Caputi to step down after fall seasoAfter nishing his 15th seasonas Head Coach of the Bowdoinfootball team, Dave Caputi bids

farewell to the College

Christianfellowship

moves to newhouse onHarpswell Rd.

BY GARRETT CASEY ORIENT STAFF

Democratic candidate for MEgovernor speaks at Helmreich

Over the past several weeks, Bow-doin students were invited to voicetheir opinions on proposed changesto the Colleges sexual misconductpolicy in order to improve compli-ance with the federal governmentsTitle IX requirements.

Title IX is an amendment to theHigher Education Act that prohibits sexdiscrimination in education.

Benje Douglas, Bowdoins new direc-tor of gender violence prevention andeducation, has been working closely

BY NATHAN GARNERSTAFF WRITER

with students to cra f these changes.We have taken recommendations

from students and put them back intothe policy. Now we are reviewing itwith the College council and then oth-er members of the professional sta ff ,said Douglas.

According to Douglas, the changesfall under three main categories: revi-sions of formal policy and the panelreview process for misconduct cases,con dentiality, and the addition ofa gender-based violence category.T e Gender-based violence policyresponds to federal requirements tospeci cally target dating violence,

domestic violence and stalking.T ese types of misconduct were

were covered under the previous pol-icy, but there was no formal pathwayfor reporting sexual assault. T e policychanges dictate a more speci c pro-cess under provisions of Title IX thatis proportional to the seriousness, ac-cording to Douglas.

In his new position, Douglas notonly creates new policies, but alsocounsels students who have been vic-tims of sexual misconduct and workswith student organizations like SafeSpace, Bowdoin Men Against SexualViolence (BMASV), and V-Day on Please seeTITLE IX,page 6

Head Football Coach Dave Caputi,who has been a mainstay on campussince the start of the millenium, an-nounced on Tuesday that he wouldbe stepping down from his positionat the conclusion of this season.

After a good deal of thought andconversations with (Bowdoin Ash-mead White Director of Athletics)Tim Ryan, I have decided that thiswill be my last season as head foot-ball coach at Bowdoin, said Caputiin his official statement on the Ath-

Maines Democratic nominee forgovernor and current congressmanMike Michaud delivered a brief speechand elded questions from students inHelmreich House on October 5.

Michaud stuck to the stump speechhe has delivered around the state, tellingthe story of his early political careerwhen he split time between the GreatNorthern Paper Mill in East Millinock-et and the state legislatureand de-scribing what he accomplished duringa 12-year tenure representing Mainessecond district in Washington, D.C.

Recent polls have showed a tightthree-way gubernatorial race betweenMichaud, Republican incumbent PaulLePage and Eliot Cutler, an indepen-

educational programming.Douglas expressed enthusiasm for

working on sexual assault prevention atBowdoin. T ere were already so manypowerful things already going on cam-pus, that, as a professional, made it excit-ing to come to a place that was alreadydoing a really solid job on these issues.

Leah Alper 17, co-leader of Bow-doins chapter of V-Day, an interna-tional organization to stop violencetowards women, said that sexual mis-conduct continues to be a pressing is-sue on campus.

dent. Two polls were published lastweekone giving Michaud a 42-36 leadover LePage and another showing LeP-age winning 41-40. Cutler had the sup-port of 16 percent of voters in each poll.

With polls showing Cutler in a distantthird, Michaud focused his criticisms onLePage, citing the current governorsfailed policies as his reason for enter-ing the governors race.

Our biggest liability as a state is ourgovernor, Michaud said.

Michaud highlighted some of hispolicy proposals, including investing inrenewable energy, his Maine Made jobsplan, and expanding Maines Medicaidprogram under the A ff ordable Care Act.

Medicaid expansion is one of theissues that separates Michaud and

Please seeCAPUTI,page 17Please seeMICHAUD,page 5

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Jacqueline Colao 17 discusses her personal experiences with race with a group of peers at Baxter House on Thursday. The event, titled What Does Race Mean to You?was run by newly-founded student group Alliancefor Discussing Diff erence, Racial and Ethnic Spectrums in Society (A.D.D.R.E.S.S.) as an extension of their whiteboard campaign, which took place earlier in the semester. A.D.D.R.E.S.S. is one of two new diversity initia-tives on campus aimed at encouraging open dialogue about race at the College. For more on these initiatives, see feature story on page 3.

ALEX PIGOTT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

A FOOTBALL FAREWELL: Dave Caputi will retire at the end of this season, his 15th at Bowdoi

letics website.Caputi will nish out the rest of

his 15th season with the College, andaf erwards a national search will beconducted to nd his replacement.

According to Caputi, he ap-

proached Ryan with his intentions toleave, and they decided to announcehis decision as soon as possible forthe sake of any recruits who were

Please seeBCF,page 4

UP FOR DISCUSSION

The Christian Fellowship atBowdoinformerly called theBowdoin Christian Fellowship(BCF), which is no longer officia llyrecognized by the Collegerecent-ly celebrated the opening of theJoseph and Alice McKeen Chris-tian Study Center at 65 HarpswellRoad. The center is off campus but

located near Farley Field House,and will serve as the venue for thefellowship to conduct bible stud-ies, engage in weekly group discus-sions, and host guest speakers.

The space is named after Josephand Alice McKeenBowdoins firstpresident and his wife. Accordingto Rob Gregory, one of the volun-teer leaders of the group, McKeenworked to spread the gospel toBowdoin students, and the Chris-tian Fellowship at Bowdoin aims tofollow in his footsteps.

An open house was held at thecenter on September 27 and featuredOwen Strachan 03 as a keynotespeaker. Other alumni of the fellow-ship travelled to Brunswick to attendthe event.

T e Christian Fellowship at Bow-doin acquired the o ff -campus proper-ty because it is no longer an o ffi cially

BY MEG ROBBINSORIENT STAFF


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HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTGREEK LIFE: David D. Pearce 72, the US Ambassador to Greece, addressed students on Wednesday in Quinby House. His talk touched on the recent Greek economic crisis and other challenges in the Mediterranean region.

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On Wednesday at around6:30 p.m., diners in Thorne Hallwatched as a man dressed as azookeeper rushed into the roomdemanding to know if anyonehad seen his pandas. Momentslater, multiple people dressed infull-body panda suits appeared anddragged the man away, as the crowdwatched in stunned silence.

Mimi Paz 17 bore witness tothe spectacle. She was seatedwith two friends when the inter-loper burst onto the scene.

This guy walked into Thornewearing a green button downand a tan cap looking like a zoo-keeper, said Paz. And he says,Has anyone seen my pandas?He kept repeating it.

Paz said that he then joined atable of fellow diners. Thorne,according to Paz, went back tonormal until moments later,when four people dressed aspandas ran in, dragged the zoo-keeper out, and left.

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Paz said she was mystified bythe anonymous creatures invad-ing the dining hall as s he enjoyedyogurt and Cracklin Oat Bran cereal.

I have no idea who these peopleare. I didnt recognize a single oneof them, she said.

Overall, however, diners inThorne seemed to enjoy the dis-play, laughing and applaudingwhen it ended.

It was like a little show withdinner, add ed Paz.

The pandas and the zookeeperwere unavailable for comment.

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closely with Chris Nowinski, thefounder of Sports Legacy Insti-tutea non-profit focusing ontreatment and prevention of headtrauma in athletesand a formerprofessional wrestler. She wouldlike to apply some of the things shelearned working with Nowinski toimproving concussion educationat Bowdoin. Fencik would also likethe College to work on bringingNowinski to Bowdoin as a speakerand to screen the documentaryHead Games.

All Bowdoin athletes undergobaseline impact testing before be-ing cleared to play. These tests areused as reference points when de-termining when it is safe for ath-letes to return to full activity. Stu-dents are required to return to fullacademic activity before returningto athletics.

While Fencik believes that theBowdoin Athletic Departmentdoes a good job treating studentswith concussions and helpingthem recover, she believes theycould improve on their preventionprograming.

I think its great that we havethe education, and its pretty infor-mative, said Fencik. But its justnot presented in a way that reallyshakes athletes and lets them knowthat concussions are a very seriousissue.

This meeting also comes on theheels of a larger NCAA initiative,which has made several grants

In an effort to improve the Col-leges concussion education pro-gram, Associate Director of HealthPromotion Whitney Hogan andDirector of Athletic Training DanDavies met with a group of studentathletes yesterday. The meetin gaveHogan and Davies an opportunityto hear students thoughts on theeffectiveness of the Colleges cur-rent concussion education pro-grams and to hear their sugges-tions for the future of the program.

A group of upperclassmen wereselected to participate in the meet-ing from sports teams that may bemore susceptible to concussions.Though all student athletes par-ticipate in a concussion educationprogram every fall, the athleticdepartment is always looking forways to keep the material freshand relevant.

My hope for the meeting is thatif we decide to do any additionaleducation it can be student-drivenand student-directed, said Hogan.It will depend on what the stu-dents want.

Evan Fencik 17, a member ofthe womens soccer team, attendedthe meeting. Prior to the meeting,she discussed suggestions for im-provement in the way the Collegeeducates athletes in the treatmentand prevention of concussions.

In high school, Fencik worked

BY JULIAN ANDREWSORIENT STAFF

Athletes participate in concussion discussion

Two new campus diversity initiatives,A.D.D.R.E.S.S. and the Inter-GroupDialogue Program, are gaining promi-nence at the College by trying to initiateopen conversations about race.

A.D.D.R.E.S.S. is a currently un-chartered student club that organizesprograms to encourage dialogue aboutrace. On T ursday, A.D.D.R.E.S.S. gath-ered students in Baxter House to dis-cuss the groups whiteboard campaign,which displayed portraits of studentsde ning what race meant to them.

On September 11, A.D.D.R.E.S.S.held a similar event to promote discus-

BY PHOEBE BUMSTEDORIENT STAFF

ADDRESS and Inter-Group Dialogue program spur discussions absion of the protests in Ferguson thatoccured in response to the shooting ofMichael Brown.

T e group intends to facilitate similarconversations on a monthly basis.

For me, a big part of being a part ofA.D.D.R.E.S.S. is bringing the conver-sations we have in our meetings to myfriends, to my professors, to people Imtalking to on campus, said PenelopeLusk 17.

T e Inter-Group Dialogue Programtrains students to facilitate conversa-tions about race. T e rst training ses-sion for accepted applicants occurredthis Monday, and the training will con-tinue for seven weeks.

I think part of the reason that people

are on such di ff erent pages o f en is thatwe just dont talk about race. Its uncom-fortable, said Catalina Gallagher 16,who contributed to the development ofthe Inter-Group Dialogue Program.

Gallagher and Elina Zhang 16, Stu-dent Director of Education Awareness,worked for Dean Leana Amaez overthe summer to develop the Inter-GroupDialogue Program.

Bowdoin, to many students, is nota very diverse campus, and o f entimesthey can feel like theyre representa-tive of their ethnicity or their race,Zhang said.

Zhang and Gallagher modeled theInter-Group Dialogue Program on asimilar program at Hamilton. T e pro-

gram originated at the University ofMichigan as a course students can takefor credit.

We need to learn how to create safespaces for everyone to join the conversation and learn something fromit, whether youre a student of color ornot, Amaez said.

T ese initiatives began in response toa bias incident in April which involveda student wearing a Native Americanheaddress as a costume. A.D.D.R.E.S.S.organized a teach-in event that includedprofessors, Native American studentsand the student involved in the incident.

T ere is something unique aboutthe energy right now around thisT ere seems to be a willingness to

enter into these conversations now,Amaez said.

Amaez created an initiative this se-mester that gathers rst-generation col-lege students and professors who were

rst-generation students. T is grouphas held one dinner so far in late Sep-tember, which included about 15 sta ff and faculty members, some upperclass-men and about 35 rst-years.

Other initiatives include a continu-ation of the annual retreat for rstgeneration and multicultural rst-year students.

Its been really valuable to me toget to have conversations about raceon Bowdoins campus and also in theworld, said Lusk.

available to colleges for the pur-pose of promoting concussioneducation on their campuses. Ash-mead White Director of AthleticsTim Ryan said that while deter-mining ways to expand concus-sion education with the help of anNCAA grant is one of the goals ofthe meeting, the discussion will be very mu ch driv en by what s tudentswant to see from the education.

Were not going into this withany preconceived thoughts, saidRyan. Its more an opportunity forus to meet and talk with studentsand gather their feedback with thehope of being able to enhance oureducational programming.

The number of concussions onathletic teams have been relativelyconsistent for the last three years,going from 62 in 2011-12 to 69 in2012-13 and 60 in 2013-14. Con-cussions are an issue for all ath-letic teams, not just the ones typi-cally associated with concussions.The 60 concussions in 2014 werespread over 17 different athleticteams.

Ryan also said that he recog-nizes that concussions are a chal-lenge for all students on campus,not only student athletes.

A lot of our education has beenfocused on student athletes, saidRyan. [But] its an issue that im-pacts everyone on campus. Themore education we can do in thecommunity, the better off were go-ing to be.

COURTESY OF ELINA ZHANGADDRESSING RACE: (left to right) Matthew Williams 16, Christine Rheem 15 and Abby Roy 16 hold white boards with messages about what race means to them. The whiteboard campaign was one of many initiatives ADDRESS h


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The Information TechnologyAdvisory Council (ITAC) releaseda new Bowdoin Dining App onThursday. With the new app, Bow-doin Students can now check On-eCard and meal plan informationon their cell phones in addition to view ing dinin g hall menus. Stu-dents with special dietary restric-tions can also set different filtersthat account for their needs.

According to ITAC, almost 200students downloaded the newsoftware on the day of its release.

I like it, said Helen Gandler17, who started usi ng the new appon its first day available. Its a lotlike the old one but has some coolnew features. You can also filterout the dietary option. My room-mate is gluten-free, so she is freeto see which dining hall has moreoptions she likes.

Donald Chute 15 also praisedthe new app.

I like the features of the newone, which shows how much youhave left on your meal plan. I think

BY VERA FENGSTAFF WRITER

New dining app offers OneCard info and dietary

thats a pretty big thing, Chute said.The old one is pretty simplistic. SoI think theres an improvement.

Ruben Martinez 15, president of

ITAC and the primary programmerof the new dining app, has beengathering student feedback in or-der to help make improvements tothe app.

I got tons of feedback on dayone, Martinez said. Im workingon the things people mentioned tomake updates. We are still collect-ing feedback.

One of the concerns that has b een voiced is that the new Dining appis only available on Apple devices.Some students would like an app thatis compatible with Android devices.

In 2009, Ben Johnson 11 in- vented the Bowdoin Dining App,the rst Bowdoin mobile app. WhileMartinez used Johnsons app as aguide, the new app is separate fromthe original version.

A student-run organization,ITAC is designed to nd ways to im-prove students lives with technol-ogy, according to Chief InformationOffi cer Mitch Davis.

Our focuses are what problemsare out there now and how can wefix them, said Martinez And usu-ally our solutions are technology.

Apart from the new Bowdoin

For thousands of high-school seniorsin Maine, fall heralds the beginning ofthe college application process. T is pastweek, Bowdoin opened its campus to 80local students and their families to visitand explore the opportunities o ff ered bythe College.

T e event, colloquially calledMaine Day, was staff ed in part bystudent volunteers from admissions,such as Madeleine Livingston 16 andHallie Bates 15.

I organized the groups of studentswho were around during the transi-tional parts of Maine Dayso greet-ing families, directing families, leadingthem from place to place, answeringany questions that they might have, saidLivingston 16.

T e day began with a welcome cer-emony featuring a speech by Presi-

dent Barry Mills. Visitors were thenencouraged to attend classes, have ameal in T orne Dining Hall and at-tend talks concerning Bowdoins -nancial aid policies.

We dont have a Vermont Day or aUtah Day, but the College has a very im-portant relationship with its home state.We do go out of our way to post a dayfor Maine students and their familiesand give them a chance to go to class,meet students and faculty and hearabout admission and nancial aid, saidDean of Admissions and Financial AidScott Meiklejohn.

Part of the purpose of this is tocontinue reaching out and educatingstudents and parents about the factthat we do have great nancial aid andthat we are interested in our homestate, he added.

Despite programs intended to makeBowdoin more accessible to Maine stu-dents, there has been a downward trendin the number of applications receivedfrom in-state applicants. While in 2013Bowdoin received 424 applications, thisyear the number is down to 386. Nev-ertheless the number of admits did notchange (73 students both years), and 46Mainers matriculated into the Class of2018, as opposed to 48 for the Class of2017. T ese changes may be the resultof Maine high school graduation rates,which have been steadily dropping overthe past few years.

We peaked two or three years agowhere we had slightly over 500 appli-cants. T en, it was 460-something, andthen it was 420-something, and thisyear was 380-something. And so youreseeing on a percentage basis a prettymeaningful decline in the number ofapplications, said Meiklejohn. And sowere watching that really closely.

Maine Day is also a great way forMaine students, who may be consid-ering other schools, to fully experi-ence a school so close to home. ReedFernandez 17 attended Maine Daywhile in high school and said thatthe event helped assuage his hesita-tion in applying to a school so closeto home.

I would say that [Maine Day]made it more approachableif thatsa word you can use to describe a col-lege, said Fernandez. Staying close tohome shouldnt a ff ect anything. OnceI threw that out, it turned into a posi-tive thing because Maine has so muchto off er. Once I saw the campus andrealized that Bowdoin had the most tooff er to me, I didnt really care where itwas, I just wanted to come.

BY MATT SHENORIENT STAFF

Collegehosts Mainestudents

Dining app, current ITAC projectsalso include making it possible to or-der from Jack Magees Pub and Grillonline, moving le storage from Mi-crowave to a new system called Ice-box and improving Verizon Wirelesscellular coverage on campus.

[For pub online ordering] weare actually working on a prototypefirst, said Martinez. And once wehave that, we are going to start a very sm all tria l, like ten p eople.

According to Martinez, afterthe website is built, ITAC will in-tegrate the site with the BowdoinDining app.

Although Martinez does not havean exact release date for the onlinepub ordering system, but he hopesthat it can be completed by the endof the semester.

COURTESY OF RUBEN MARTINEZ

The new Bowdoin Dining App provides OneCardinformation and food restriction lters.

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Im working on the thingspeople mentioned to make updates.

We are still collecting feedback.

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recognized group at the College andtherefore does not have the ability tobook regular meetings in on-campusspaces. T e fellowship had previouslyused the Chapel, Daggett Lounge,and 30 College Street for bible stud-ies and other gatherings.

Bob Ives, director of religious andspiritual life, said that even thoughthe fellowship is not an organizedreligious group at Bowdoin, it canstill meet on campusthe spacesare just more diffi cult to reservebecause College-affi liated groupsreceive preference. Ives said that hehas off ered 30 College Street for thegroups use and would like the fel-lowship to continue to contribute tospiritual life at the College.

At the end of last year, the ChristianFellowship at Bowdoin chose not to re-charter with Bowdoin Student Govern-ment (BSG), following a series of eventsthat began in the spring. In February,the fellowships advisorsRob and SimGregoryrefused to sign the CollegesVolunteer Agreement. T e agreementcontained a non-discrimination policythat they felt they could not sign due toreligious convictions, speci cally theChristian gospels interpretation of ho-mosexuality.

Af er the Gregorys, who had beenheavily involved with BCF for almosta decade, declined to sign the agree-ment, the fellowship was given twooptionsit could either re-charteras a College-recognized organizationand select new advisors who com-plied with the Volunteer Agreementor choose not to re-charter and keepthe Gregorys as advisors.

Last years BSG Student Organiza-tion Oversight Committee (SOOC)chair Danny Mejia-Cruz 16 and theOffi ce of Student Activities workedwith students in the fellowship to

nd a new advisor if they were in-terested in re-chartering, but thegroup decided it would rather keepthe Gregorys as advisors.

Harriet Fisher 17, this yearsSOOC chair, said she has not receivedany interest from the fellowship in re-chartering the group this year.

T e new house

T e house on Harpswell Road

was purchased on April 14, 2014 for$250,000. Gregory declined to com-ment on where the nances to pur-chase the property came from, butit is listed along with the name KirkDiVietro in Brunswick Real Estatetax documents. It is unclear whetherDiVietro has a connection to theGregorys or to the College.

When the Gregorys acquired thebuildinga colonial-style housebuilt in 1900it needed consider-able repairs, said Gregory.

Ryan Ward 17, one of the lead-ers of the Christian Fellowship atBowdoin, said that he believed atone point the building had beencondemned.

With the help of other volun-teers, the Gregorys worked manyhours over the summer to restorethe building so that it could be usedby the fellowship at the beginningof the academic year. They alsohired contractors to do some moreextensive repairs.

We put the time and effort andresources into making sure that itwas fit for the purpose for whichit had been set apart, said Greg-ory. And that was to do this kindof work for students who want tolearn about the scriptures and studythe scriptures on a location near theBowdoin campus.

The Christian Study Center con-sists of two unitsthe main housein the front and an apartment unitin the back. Altogether the centerhas five rooms, with an estimatedhousing capacity of five people.Ward said that although the fel-lowship is just using the space forbible studies, discussion groups,and speaker events right now, heeventually hopes residents will livein the house.

Whether its a young couplewhos staying there to kind of seeif things are working for students,or [students themselves], thats theplan for t he future, said Ward.

Club chartering at Bowdoin Although the Christian Fellow-

ship at Bowdoin is no longer o ffi -cially recognized by the College, itsrole in the Bowdoin community hasremained fairly consistent with previous years.

We still meet for bible studies; westill have other gatherings on T urs-

day nights, said Ward. We prettymuch have done what weve alwaysbeen doing, weve just shif ed it overto this new space.

I dont want to make it look likewere separating ourselves from thecampus because were de nitely n ot,he added. But we also dont want toentangle ourselves too much in theoperation of the College.

Some of the groups responsibili-ties have changed, though. In thepast, BCF selected speakers and or-ganized programs in the Collegeschapel, according to Ward. Now,Ives and the Offi ce of Religious andSpiritual Life is responsible for run-ning the chapel.

Ives hopes to keep the ChristianFellowship at Bowdoin active incampus religious life.

Even though theyre not a for-mal, organized group throughBSG, they are a religious group soI invite them to the [Bowdoin] In-terfaith Council, said Ives. I cer-tainly want to make sure that theyare acknowledged.

The Interfaith Council is madeup of the eight religious groups onBowdoins campus. Its first meet-ing of the year will take place onOctober 22. Ives has not receiveda response from the Christian Fel-lowship at Bowdoin about whetherthey will participate this year andWard and Gregory both declinedto comment on the groups plans.

Its still in discussion, said Ward.

New group part of a consortium T e Joseph and Alice McKeen

Christian Study Center is a 501(c)3non-pro t that operates on grants,membership fees and donations, ac-cording to its website.

T e fellowship is still connectedto the national InterVarsity Chris-tian Fellowship group, but with theacquisition of the physical ChristianStudy Center, it has also becomea member of the Consortium ofChristian Studies Centers. T is con-sortium is independent from Inter-Varsity. Altogether, the consortiumconsists of over 15 established studycenters throughout the country.

Many of the centers in the consor-tium are located in college towns andserve the students of the nearby colleg-es and universities in an uno ffi cial way.

For instance, the Erasmus Insti-

tute at the Five Colleges in Amherst,Mass. is an established center in theConsortium of Christian StudiesCenters that is uno ffi cially tied toAmherst. Other established centersin the consortium include the Ches-terton House, a Christian studiescenter at Cornell, and the RivendellInstitute at Yale.

Ives noted that Christian studycenters are becoming increasinglypopular around colleges and univer-sities across the nation.

Some of the leaders of Inter-Varsity have shared that they reallydont like to do this because theywant to be on the college campus-esthats their tradition, he said.But this is with a lot of changingmores and morality of different col-lege campuses and their very vigor-ous feeling of faith about preservingthe nature of marriage from theirparticular perspective.

Positive Attitudes

Despite the changes the ChristianFellowship at Bowdoin has under-gone in the past nine months, thegroup seems to be happy with howthings are going now.

T e changed venue really isnt anissue for gospel workit never hasbeen, said Gregory. T e work ofChristian ministry isnt dependenton one place, and while we enjoyedthe seven or eight years we had topreach the gospel in the chapel onBowdoin campus, well preach thesame message wherever we have anopportunity to do it.

Were really grateful that wereable to continue to do the InterVarsitywork in a place thats convenient to thestudents, he added. T at was impor-tant to them and its important to us.

Ward expressed similar feelingsof gratitude and a certainty thatrelations with the College will benothing but cordial in the future.

So far Im very pleased withhow things have gone, he said.We dont feel as though wevebeen pushed against our will todo this. This has been somethingthat we think, from our perspec-tive, is Gods will, and for the bet-ter in bringing the gospel which isessentially what our mission is andwhat we hope to do more of as wefigure out how were going to usethis space.


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LePage most clearly. In April, LeP-age vetoed a bill that would haveexpanded Medicaid to over 60,000low-income Maine residents.

T e expansion off ered throughObamacare would have a disastrous im-pact on Maines budget, as well as thosetruly needy individualsour disabledand elderlywho rely today on thescarce resources in our program, LeP-age wrote at the time.

Michaud told students at Helm-reich that there is a moral respon-sibility to expand Maines Medicaidprogram. When one student pushedback, citing LePages concern thatexpansion would be too expensive,Michaud argued that it would actuallysave money by reducing the numberof uninsured patients seeking uncom-pensated care in emergency rooms.

T e federal government would cover100 percent of the cost of Medicaidexpansion through 2016, a gure thatwould decrease to 90 percent by 2022.

Michaud also addressed the closureof the Verso mill, which was announcedon October 1. He said that the closurewas unfortunate, particularly since eachmill job is tied to ve to seven other jobsin the state, and said he would nd new

areas for job growth as governor.T ere de nitely are a lot of new op-portunities, he said. T e Maine Tech-nology Institute said if you look at jobgrowth in the state of Maine, its actuallyin the clean, renewable energy sectorand theyre good paying jobs.

T e LePage campaign blamed Mi-chaud for the closure, saying that Mi-chaud had stalled the expansion of nat-ural gas pipelines capacity in the state,which drove up energy costs for mills.

In 2013, Michaud voted againstH.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline

Permitting Reform Act, which soughtto streamline the process for permit-ting natural gas projects. Michaud,acting in his capacity as a congress-man and not a gubernatorial candi-date, explained his vote in a letter hesent to LePage on September 29.

Ultimately, H.R. 1900 is misguidedlegislation and would be detrimental toexpanding our natural gas infrastruc-ture in a safe and responsible manner,to say nothing of the serious long-termimpact the legislation could have on ourenvironment, Michaud wrote.

At Helmreich, Michaud said that ex-

panding natural gas pipeline capacitywas an issue on which Maines governorwould have to work with other NewEngland governors, and faulted LePagefor failing to do so on issues rangingfrom energy to substance abuse.

When the New England governorswanted to meet to deal with the drugaddiction problem [LePage] refused tomeet, said it was just a photo op, Mi-chaud said. Well if you take that attitudehow do you expect other New Englandgovernors to work with you when youneed something?

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Last week, the Orient reportedon a national pro-life organiza-tions intention to establi sh a chap-ter at Bowdoin. While there are noclub charters currently proposed tothe College, there will be an abor-tion discussion hosted by Undis-cusseda student group designedto create dialogue on campus aboutcontroversial issueson Novem-

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

Guest speakers to facilitate talks on abortionber 13, 20 and 21.

This topic will be the first is-sue up for conversation in a serieshosted by Undiscussed. KristanHawkins, president of Students forLife of America (SFLA), and fea-tured in last weeks article, will bespeaking on the 13th.

Samaa Abdurraqib, a reproduc-tive freedom organizer from theAmerican Civil Liberties Union ofMaine (ACLU), will then be speak-ing on the 20th. Aburraquib, who

was a visiting professor of Genderand Womens Studies at Bowdoinfrom 2010-2013, is now also apart-time professor at the Univer-sity of Southern Maine. She willdiscuss a pro-choice stance.

Following each speakers talkthere will be time for questions.However, the full student forumwill not be until Friday, November21 and neither speaker will be atthe student discussion. The forumis not open to the public.

BSG renews TurboVote, PolarFlix for 14-15BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

Following the slam of the ceremo-nial opening gavel, the Bowdoin Stu-dent Government (BSG) Assemblyconvened for the rst time this yearin Daggett Lounge in T orne Hall at8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. T e as-sembly got right to business by retro-actively approving three expendituresthat had been organized by BSGs ex-ecutive offi cers over the summer andin the rst month of the semester.

T e BSG Assembly is headed byPresident Chris Breen 15 and iscomprised of elected Executive VicePresidents, Class Representatives, ap-pointed at-large members, and rep-resentatives from other organizationslike the Inter-House Council and theMcKeen Center. On Wednesday nightthey unanimously voted to support allthree proposals.

T e rst was to continue fundingBSGs PolarFlix lm streaming service.Available through BSGs website, theservice allows students on Bowdoins

Wi connection to choose among aset of 15 diff erent movies each month,chosen by the executive committee.T e cost of the streaming service andthe rights to the lms is $12,000.

T e assembly then voted to approvespending $350 to fund a contract withTurboVote, a nonpartisan service thatprovides free voter registration to col-lege students. T e service also mailsstudents absentee ballots for theirhome states and sends remindersabout upcoming elections and infor-mation about voting deadlines.

T e nal proposal was to approve$800 for gelato given away to rstyear students at BSGs meet-and-greetevent at the Bowdoin College Museumof Art during orientation week. T isproposal, like the two before it, passedwithout any opposition or debate.

During the meeting, several of theexecutive committee members sharedoptimistic prospects for the year ahead.Vice President for Student A ff airs Jus-tin Pearson 17 said that he saw the goalof student government to be improv-ing the Bowdoin experience.

He stated that a vital part of do-ing that was to continue to makeBSG into something that peoplecan approach and utilize, in or-der to be an outlet where they canexpress themselves and petition tomake their ideas a reality. He citedthe existence of BSGs Good IdeasFund, a pool of $3,000 that studentscan apply for in order to financeprogramming and project ideasindependent from the usual club-funding process.

Vice President for StudentGovernment A ff airs CharlotteMcLaughry 15 echoed his com-ments, stressing the need to keep thestudents informed abo ut the servic-es BSG off ers.

People think we dont do any-thingwe need to make sure that theyknow what were doing here, that weremeeting three or four times a week totry and get things done for the studentbody, she said.

T e meeting ended around 9:30p.m. with a motion to adjourn. Notsurprisingly, it was unanimous.

LILI RAMOS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Gubernatorial candidate Mike Michauld spoke tostudents at Helmreich House on October 5.


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Sexual violence is of en not talkedabout in our society, and its also talkedabout in one image, she said. T ere isa very stereotypical idea of what a sex-ual assault is, and thats not really true,People who have experienced sexual as-saultit changes thembut not alwaysin a negative way.

Alper believes the proposedchanges greatly to Bowdoins com-mitment to the issue. She said thatalthough the College is doing a sat-isfactory job in regards to sexual

violence, there is always room forimprovement.

Alper also said she supports anevolving policy that is not a one-size-

SECURITY REPORT: 10/2 to 10/14T ursday, October 2 An underage student in Win-

throp Hall was found in possessionof two cases of beer.

A student was cited for furnish-ing alcohol to a minor.

Friday, October 3 A silver and purple GT moun-

tain bike was stolen from a LaddHouse bike rack. T e bike was notregistered with the College.

Two Coleman Hall studentswere cited for possession of alcoholand for a violation of the drinking

game policy.Saturday, October 4 An offi cer checked on the well-

being of a student who vomited atSuper Snack. T e student was billedfor the clean-up.

A re alarm at HarpswellApartments was caused by astudents use of a fog machine,an environmental health andsafety violation.

Loud music comingfrom Coles Tower result-ed in a complaint from aLongfellow Avenue resi-dent. A student was askedto lower the volume.

Sunday, October 5 A student was cited

for urinating in public in view of S outh St reet nea rHoward Hall.

Officers checked onthe well-being of an in-toxicated student in ashuttle van.

Basement wall dam-age was reported follow-ing a registered event atMacMillan House.

A red Cannondaleroad bike was stolenfrom a bike rack atBrunswick ApartmentsG. T e bike had beenlef unlocked and wasnot registered.

A bike was report-ed stolen from outsideof Hyde Hall and waslater recovered.

An offi cer re-sponded to 8-10School Street apart-ments to assist a stu-dent who returnedto nd an apartmentdoor ajar.

Monday, October 6 A local man was con-

ducting a sermon on the steps ofthe Chapel without authorization.An officer asked the man to leavecampus.

A student exhibiting u-likesymptoms was escorted to MidCoast Hospital.

A student who injured a wristduring a dance class at the EdwardsCenter for Art and Dance was es-corted to Mid Coast.

An unlocked and unregisteredred Peugeot road bike was reportedstolen from a bike rack near Bruns-wick Apartments W.

An unlocked and unregisteredgray Bianchi hybrid bike was stolenfrom a bike rack at Coleman Hall.

A student with a volleyball-re-lated head injury was escorted fromHyde Hall to Mid Coast.

Tuesday, October 7 A student with abdominal pain

was escorted from Moore Hall to theMid Coast Primary Care and Walk-In Clinic.

A re alarm at Appleton Hallwas apparently caused by a faultysmoke detector.

Wednesday, October 8 Brunswick Rescue personneltreated an employee at Stowe Inn fora medical emergency. T e employeewas not transported to the hospital.

T ursday, October 9 An unlocked dark gray

Genesis full-suspension bicy-cle was stolen from outside ofMaine Hall.

A Longfellow Avenue resi-dent reported being disturbedby the sound of loud basscoming from campus.

Friday, October 10 Two female students

were observed hangingwhat were described asinappropriate posters in-side Smith Union.

Saturday, October 11 An offi cer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student atAppleton Hall.

Sunday, October 12 A student requested an escort

to Parkview Adventist MedicalCenter for treatment of an earlierrugby injury.

An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student atColes Tower.

There was a complaint of loudmusic coming from the fifth floor

of Coles Tower.Monday, October 13 A student reported that a suspi-

cious man was in the rst oor com-mon room at Coleman Hall. Anoffi cer responded and detained a24-year-old man from Standish,Maine. T e man explained thathe had followed an unaware stu-dent into the building by grab-bing the door before it closed.Brunswick Police were noti edand the man was issued a crim-inal trespass warning, barringhim from all Bowdoin Collegeproperty.

A student was warnedfor smoking on the propertyof the Childrens Center onSouth Street, aviolation of thecenters no-smoking policy.

Tuesday, October 14 An offi cer checked on

the well-being of a studentwho was struggling withdepression. CounselingServices was noti ed toprovide professional ser- vices.

An alert student re-ported that she felt shewas being watched by aman in a black Toyotapickup truck that wasparked in the Coffi nStreet parking lot at 8p.m. T e man was de-scribed as tall, over age50, with brown hairand a beard. A Securi-ty offi cer immediatelyresponded and wasable to spot the vehi-cle and obtain a platenumber as it droveaway on Maine Street.T e incident remainsunder investigation.

Compiled by theO ffi ce of Safety and Security

ts-all approach. She believes thechanges will bring more clarity to sex-ual misconduct victims, giving themmore power and the ability to act andtake control of their situations.

Alper added that she believes theCollege can improve its response tosexual misconduct by making surestudents are aware of the numerous re-sources that are available to them.

No offi cial changes to the policyhave been made yet. Douglas saidthat instead of having the adminis-tration unilaterally change the poli-cy, he wants to give all students thechance to share input before the newpolicy is nalized.

We have takenrecommendations from

students and put them back intothe policy. Now we are

reviewing it.

BENJE DOUGLAS

DIRECTOR OF GENDER VIOLENCE

PREVENTION AND EDUCATION

ANNA HALL , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT


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BY CAITLIN WHALENORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF JAMES JELINHANDS ON EXPERIENCE:Instead of ying across the pond, James Jelin 16 is nding enrichment closer to home as a eld organizer for Shenna Bellows campaign.

James Jelin 16 takes break from Bowdoin to work for B

BEHIND THE NAME TAGBY KELSEY SCARLETT

Museum curator nds allure in the Arctic

BY BRANDON OULLETTE

AND BRYCE ERVINCONTRIBUTORS

Not everybody gets to pursuethe career he or she dreamed ofas a teenager, but Genevieve Lem-oine, curator and registrar at thePeary-MacMillan Arctic Museum,has followed her dream to the endsof the earth.

Lemoine said she has knownthat she wanted to be an archaeolo-gist from the age of 17.

I was very lucky that th e Ontar-io government had a program forhiring high school and universitystudents to do all kinds of differ-ent things, and one of them was ar-chaeology, she said.So, I got a jobdoing archaeology in Ontario as ahigh school student for the sum-mer. That confirmed that yes, thatis what I wanted to do.

Born and raised in Ontario, Can-ada, Lemoine attended Universityof Toronto, Scarborough Collegefor her undergraduate degrees andreceived her Ph.D at the Universityof Calgary. It was not until she en-tered graduate school that she real-ized that she wanted to specializein Arctic archaeology.

In 1986, Lemoine took her firsttrip to the Arctic.

We had all the key experienc-eswe saw a polar bear at a safe dis-tance, we had snow storms, we hadour tents blown down, she said. Itsthe kind of place thatwhen you gothereits hard to leave.

Since then, Lemoine has been tothe Arctic several times, doing field

Once upon a vine pinot

noir: No happy endingsFor this weeks wine, we decid-

ed to go out of our way and takea drive to an alter-nate supermarket:the famed Shaws ofCooks Corner. Witha plethora of newwine options, we es-sentially closed oureyes and pulled abottle blindly offthe shelf. In fit-ting with our in-tent to drink inorder to go tosleep, our bot-tle is cleverlytitled OnceUpon a Vineand will serveas our bedtimefairy tale. Orperhaps, ournightmare.

Unsure ofwhat to expect,we poppedopen our 2013Pinot. AmalieMcGowan 15,a guest contrib-utorself-pro-fessed sommelierand perhaps a pretentiousknow-nothingjoined us this week.

The pinot noir grape is originallyFrench, as not so subtly i mplied byits name. Pinot, French for pine,describes how the grapes clusteron the vine like pinecones. Noir,French for black, reflects the darkcolor of the grapes.

Pinot noir grapes are quite dif-ficult to cultivate and turn intowine because of their fragility.Pinot noirs themselves have beenincreasing in popularity since the

film Sideways broughtthem to theforefront andd i s p a r a g e dMerlots.

As wepoured thewine, wewere quickto note the

blood redcolor, which

Brandon furtherdescribed as being visu ally wine-y .

The nose ofthe wine is quitefruity. Our resi-dent somme-lier picked upnotes of dark-er fruits likee l d e r b e r r y

and cherry. Ourbottle of Once Upon a

James Jelin 16 has never want-ed to go into politics. Yet, he tooka leave of absence this semester,postponing a semester abroad inGermany to work full-time as theYork County Field Organizer forShenna Bellows, Maines Demo-cratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.

I actively did not want to gointo politics because I didnt thinkI was going to come across a candi-date like Shenna, said Jelin.

For Jelin, the position offeredthe opportunity to be involved innational politics and filled a voidhe had felt on campus.

I was interning with her overthe summer and I was having a re-ally good experience, said Jelin.I feel like Ive been looking foran opportunity to really be able tocreate positive change. Id been ex-

ploring opportunities on campus,but nothing quite seemed like thething that I was really so passion-ate about.

As an intern, Jelin worked in Bel-lows Portland offi ce while living oncampus. His responsibilities includ-ed making calls, tracking event turn-out and looking up events in the areawhere the Bellows campaign neededto have a presence.

With summer winding down,Jelin started to consider a full-time job ins tead of going a broad t o Ger-many in the fall.

The campaigns field direc-tor Debbie Atwood offered Jelinthe job, and he chose to accept it.Bowdoin was also supportive ofJelins decision to take a leave ofabsence and postpone his studyabroad plans.

In an interview with the Orientlast fall, Dean of First Year Stu-dents Janet Lohmann emphasized

the Colleges support for studentswho take a leave of absence.

Students who spend time awayare served well, she said. Theygrow in wonderful ways. Whenthey come back here, they re readyto get the best of what Bowdoinhas to offer.

In order to take a leave of ab-sence to pursue nonacademic in-

terests, a student must acquiretheir deans approval, continue toconsult with his academic advisorand be in good academic and so-cial standing with the College.

It was so much easier than Ithought it would be, said Jelin. Iwasnt going to be there [Bowdoin]this semester because of Germany.So it just sort of became about what

I was going to be doing instead.Although now he will graduate in

the fall of 2016, Jelin says that he feelsthat his work for Bellows is worth-while, especially because it will allowhim to address what he nds prob-lematic in the political system.

What Im doing in this job isfighting for working class repre-sentation in our government, andI cant think of something more in-spirational than that, he said.

The biggest difference betweenhis internship and his position asthe York County Field Organizer isan increase in time and responsi-bility. Jelin currently works everyday and up to 80 hours per week.

As a field organizer, he is incharge of voter contact for thecampaign in his region. This in-cludes delegating field assign-ments, training and managing volunte ers, organi zing events andmaking calls.

Its a huge responsibility to bemanaging this because there arepeople all across the county whoare really passionate about ShennaBellows and it is my responsibilityto make sure that they get into theofficeand that Im there to trainthem, said Jelin.

At this point in the campaign,however, he is most focused onmaking persuasion calls.

Thats how we reach voters.Thats how we get people to change

Please see JELIN,page 8

work for approximately 10 years.Afterward, Lemoine saw the job atBowdoin as a perfect fit.

As curator and registrar of theArctic Museum, Lemoines respon-sibilities include managing andoverseeing the care of the collec-tions and developing exhibits. Herdiverse roles give her the ability toswitch from typing up informa-tion to performing hands-on tasks

with the collections, which keepher days exciting. She said she isespecially enthusiastic about themuseums continued growth.

Because we are an actively col-lecting museum theres always newthings coming in; you never knowwhen somebodys going to call youup and say, Would you like or

Please seeLEMOINE,page 8 Please seePINOT,page 8

A N N A H A L L,

T H E B O W D O I N

O R I E N T

LILI RAMOS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTPOLAR EXPLORER:Genevieve Lemoine said she always wanted to travel to the Arctic.


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Whether you need to catch aplane, see a concert, or spring forthat extra-special dining experience,all signs point to Portland. However,while we are lucky to have Maineslargest city nearby, the urban experi-ence for many Bowdoin students islimited to Portlands outskirts andcommercial downtown area. For-tunately, newcomer Ten Ten Pi isa worthy destination o ff Portlandstourist-beaten path.

Just a short walk from the cityswell-known waterfront, East Bay-side is a residential neighborhoodwhere multi-generational Mainers,recent immigrants and establishedrefugee populations live side by side.

Co-owners Markos Miller andAtsuko Fujimoto embrace the meld-ing of cultures in their East Baysideshop, off ering everything from cre-ative lunch specials to cuisine-com-bining baked goods, and even a solidselection of imported grocery items.

My visit to Ten Ten Pi startedas a mission to nd a certain pastryrecommended to me by co ff ee shop

connoisseur Raisa Tolchinsky 17.As I entered the shop, the alluringsmell of baked goods led me straightpast a wall of international grocer-ies and a case of lunch delicacies, di-rectly up to the bakery counter.

Inside, I found the pastry I waslooking foran almond croissantbaked with matcha (green tea pow-der)alongside imaginative bakedgoods like miso macarons, a Chi-nese sausage croissant, and German

ammekuchen ( atbread).These cross-cultural combina-

tions might seem outlandish, butthey are at home in a bakery wh oseowners met by chance, numeroustimes, in different places all overthe world.

Af er devouring the croissant,which combined sweet almond ll-ing with savory matcha depth, I tooka moment to look around. T e sparseseating, wide selection of goods andreasonable prices add to the uniqueappeal of Ten Ten Pi. T e ownersprioritize quality food over trendi-ness. In an era when hip dcor, tweegimmicks and overwrought menu ty-pography seem to be the norm, TenTen provides a refreshing departure.

Perhaps its East Bayside locationcontributes to Ten Tens no-frillsapproach. Unlike nearby MunjoyHill, Bayside has yet to experiencethe full-fledged gentrification thathas characterized Portland in thepast decade.

As one of Portlands lowest-incomeneighborhoods, Bayside is one of thelast frontiers for expensive residentialdevelopment, but construction has justbegun on luxury condos nearby. For thetime being, however, Ten Ten Pi suc-ceeds in connecting with its neighbors

by off ering undeniable value.It is clear that Miller and Fujimotohave created their own ideal neigh-borhood market and hope to sharetheir passions with East Bayside.T eir expertly curated grocery se-lection, from Japanese Kewpie may-onnaise to masa our corn tortillas,

gure artfully in their lunch itemsand baked goods.

We are inspired by great avorsfrom around the world and ethnicmarkets, Miller said. We just ndthe best stuff and mix it up.

International flavors blend together at Ten Ten Pi BaBY BEN MILLERCONTRIBUTOR

Vine has a nice silky mouth-feelwith good body. With just a quicksip, it is easy to note that the wineis quite juicy and sweet at first.Amalie noted that these initiallypleasing impressions are followedup with light hints of battery acidin the aftertaste.

More accurately, she noted thatthis wine is taking you there, thesensation building and building,but then there is a sudden firingoff and you are left crestfallen witha bitter taste in your mouth.

Wine and food are meant to bechosen together, so we carefullypaired our wine with cold, left-over slices of pepperoni pizza. Thisnoir ass pinot was washed downwell with a salty amalgam of cheeseand cured meat.

Overall, Once Upon a Vine Pi-not Noir is like the Little Mermaid

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of wines (were talking Andersenhere). Initially, you are charmedby the fruitiness and the visualappeal, but ultimately you endup stabbing yourself in the heartand throwing yourself to a waterygrave in the Androscoggin.

Additional Notes

Amalie : Take the pizza, leavethe wine.

Brandon: This wine is likemy love life: broken promises ofPrince Charmi ngs.

Bryce: While the flavor is lack-ing, Once Upon a Vine does serveas a good substitute for your favor-ite sleep aid.

Nose:Body:Mouthfeel:Taste:

Get some Once Upon a Vine Pi-not Noir while it is still on sale!Shaws: $9.99.

their minds. You have one-on-oneconversations with them and itworks, said Jelin. Its really excit-ing to learn how to really have aconversation with somebody in away that they will listen.

Jelin also feels that his semesteroff has made him better appreciatehis time at Bowdoin.

Its made me realize whatBowdoin is for, why it is importantto get an education at a place likeBowdoin, he said. I think morepeople should take breaks. And

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I feel like a mid-school break hasbeen so much more useful than agap year.

So now Ive had some of it[Bowdoin], and I know what thatexperience is, and now Ive left andIve had a taste of what the realworld is and what I want to do,he added. And now I can comeback to Bowdoin and focus on thethings that are going to equip meto be even better at that when I goout into the real world.

As the November 4 electiongrows closer, Jelin is excited torally more support during the finalleg of the campaign.

Its so clear to me that this is

what I needed to do, said Jelin.A lot of people dont know whatto do so theyre not going to doanything, but that is why ShennaBellows is so important. With agrassroots campaign, it is impor-tant that we get the s upport now.

Jelin plans to return to Bowdointhis spring, fulfill his plans to s tudyin Germany next fall, and graduatein the fall of 2016.

Frankly, when I get back oncampus, I dont know what Ill donext because its a lot less obviou s,said Jelin. But the next time I seea problem and I have an opportu-nity to be a part of the solution, Iintend to ta ke it.

My family has... said Lemoine.T e museum has received a large

amount of art produced by the Inuitpeople, trace their origins back tothe Arctic. Most recently, the mu-seum received a call from a Freeportwoman whose great-aunt was senttwo postcards from Ross Marvin,the only member of Pearys 1908 ex-pedition to die during the long jour-ney to the Arctic.

The most memorable call oc-curred in 2010, when the grand-son of a man on MacMillansexpedition wanted to donate vari-ous historical artifacts, pieces of

equipment, scientific specimens, journa ls and photo graphs.

He said, Would you be inter-ested in having some things that hehad left over? He started just list-ing all of these things and I filledup two pages, said Lemoine, whoquickly accepted the donation.

Outside of her work at the mu-seum, Lemoine enjoys rowing. Shestarted a couple of years ago and isnow hooked on the beautiful sitesshe sees and the animals she ob-serves while on the water.

Lemoine said she has enjoyed allthe places she has called home. Whenasked whether she liked living inCanada or Maine better, she joked,Well, what I tell my friends is thatMaine is almost like Canada.

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COURTESY OF BEN MILLERBREAKING BREAD:Ten Ten Pi in Portland off ers a large selection of fresh baked goods, drawing inspiration from the diversity of the East Bayside neighbocalls home. The shop also off ers imported grocery items and a menu of lunch food. Ten Ten Pi is owned by Markos Miller and Atsuko Fujimoto.


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No simple answers when it comes to ISIS in the MiddBY DANNY MEJIACRUZ AND

ALEXANDER THOMASCONTRIBUTORS

It seems that the Bowdoin Bub-ble has finally popped. While weare usually immune to the panicand the distress that the rest of theworld faces, the rise of ISIS in theMiddle East has achieved a trance-like hold over the student body.

Here at Bowdoin, conversa-tions about ISIS usually revolvearound sensationalist fearsthat our homeland is no lon-ger safe, or focus heavily onthe brutal violence and thedespicable videos of execu-tions that the group up-loads online.

As The New York Timesreported, we have Repub-licans to blame for theridiculous idea, still cir-culating now, that ISISmight try to enter the U.S. via t he Mexi can bo rder.

Additionally, in obsessingover the media coverage ofthe violence, it seems that theBowdoin community has forgot-

ten that the problems regardingISIS are both complex and multi-layered. For a new source of infor-mation, then, we might considerAlexanders viewpoint as a PolarBear now in the Middle East:

The first thing that we shouldexplore is what Arabs call this vio-lent group. It goes by many names,but throughout the Middle East itis referred to as Daesh. Daesh isan acronym for the Arabic nameof the group, Al-Dawla al-Islami-ya al-Iraq al-Sham, which sounds

similar to the word in Arabic thatmeans to crush or to trample.

People here in Qatar and acrossthe Middle East use this name to re-fer to the group and its destructiveways in one short word. T ere havebeen reports that Daesh ghters havef l o g g e d

peo-ple in terri-tory they control just forusing this name, so its the name wewill use going forward.

My assumption going into thesemester was that the war in Syriawas still a civil war being foughtbetween government forces andrebel forces made up of the Free

Syrian Army, Daesh and the NusraFront. However, a few conversa-tions with Syrian classmates havemade me rethink things.

Firstly, the majority of the Syr-ians I have talked to agree that therevolution has been hijacked by

thugs and terrorists that wishonly to gain territory

and money.V e r yfew rebel

groups

continue to fight in thename of Syria. Daesh rallies

around its own national causesand the Nusra Front rallies aroundan international call to arms. Thisis a war that is no longer aboutSyria or Iraq, even though it takesplace in both Syria and Iraq. Theinternationalization of the conflictis devastating for Syrians, because

their cities and homes are now be-ing destroyed in the name of ide-ologies and beliefs not of their ownmaking.

Furthermore, my initial ten-dency was to lump Daesh and theNusra Front in one pool of crazyterrorist organizations bent on de-stroying the West. However, thereality is that animosity exists be-tween the two groups, and Arabsexpress very different sentimentsregarding each.

Believe it or not, Daesh and theNusra Front actively engage incombat against one another, andat least a few Qatari classmates of

mine believe Daesh was fosteredby the Assad

regime to weaken the Nusra Front.Thats just one of many conspir-

acy theories that abound about therise of Daesh , but lets return to thefacts. Unlike the Nusra Front, Dae-sh has no foreign objectives at this

point because it is too concernedwith consolidating territory, re-cruiting more citizens and ensur-ing service provision in the areasit governs.

Daesh is similar in a sense tothe Taliban regime in Afghanistanpre-9/11; however, as of now it ap-pears it has learned from the Tali-bans experience and has rejectedaligning with transnational terror-ist groups like Al-Qaeda.

This is not to say that in the fu-ture Daesh wont focus its sightson the West or harbor a group thatdoes, but for now it appears to beacting solely to enlarge and protectthe territory it controls.

This point is supported byDaeshs strategic decision not to

engage in Turkish territoryin order to avoid a

g roundw a rwith thes e c o n dl a r g e s tarmy inNATO.

Daeshis not

a benigngroup, and itposes a substantial

threat not only to re-gional stability but also

to the very idea of nationalidentity. In order to be a helpful

player in this crisis, America mustbetter understand the motives andmakeup of Daesh, and what ourregional allies think of the group.Lets work on bursting the bubbleand exploring issues from the oth-er side.

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT


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GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT KATE FEATHERSTON, THE

The womens volleyball team has come out strong this fall,winning its first nine games of the season before finally fall-ing to Emory University on September 13. Although the teamhas been dominant overall and has an impressive 14-5 record, ithas struggled m ore in conference play, with a 4-3 record againstNESCAC opponents. The Polar Bears have been bolstered bystrong performances from captain Christy Jewett 16, who hasled the team in kills in recent games. Katie Doherty 17 has been valu able o n defe nse a s well , set ting a scho ol rec ord wi th 40 digsin an October 11 match against Hamilton. This weekend, theteam has three home matches lined up. It will face Bates to-day, and Lebanon Valley College and Babson College on Satur-day. The Polar Bears are striving for a strong showing against aBates team that has a much weaker 8-10 record and has gone 0-6against NESCAC teams. The two out-of-conference games willalso be crucial for keeping Bowdoins NCAA ranking strongthe team is currently ranked sixth in New England.

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Bowdoin is expecting up to 800alumni to return to campus this week-end to attend Homecoming sportingevents and in the a multitude of otherspecial events.

T ere will be so many great ac-tivities on campus this weekend foranyone to get involved in, said SarahPhinney, coordinator of reunion pro-grams. We have a schedule of openclasses for alumni to attend on Fridayand a choral concert on Saturday. Wetry to involve every college depart-ment in some way, so there is some-thing of interest for everyone.

Rodie Lloyd, director of alumni rela-tions, said that each year, di ff erent affi li-ations are emphasized. T is year, for ex-ample, womens rugby is holding manyevents in which alumni can take part.

T e aim of the affi liated events isthat alumni will reconnect not just withtheir class year, like at the reunion eventat the end of the year, but with people

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After winning the Division III national titlelast year, field hockey started off its season withsix straight wins, including a thri lling comeback victo ry ove r rival Middle bury. The team s urren-dered its No. 1 ranking when it lost to Trinityin overtime on October 4, but has since reeledoff four consecutive wins and is ranked secondin D-III. Junior Rachel Kennedy has carried theteam offensively this season, scoring 14 goalsand winning NESCAC Player of the Week hon-ors twice. The teams opponent this weekend,Conn. College, has struggled this seasonlos-ing by three goals or more against five NESCACrivals en route to a 1-6 conference record. Thegame is still important for Bowdoin, however. Ifthe Polar Bears win their three remaining con-ference games, they will finish the regular sea-son atop the NESCAC standings and host theconference championship.

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WOMENS RUGBY

T e womens rugby team continues to dominate the competition, opening with a 5-0 record this year a f er qualifying for the quarter nals of theAmerican Collegiate Rugby Association Championship last season. Despite being knocked out of the competition early, the team has not skippeda beat, shutting out its rst three opponents this year (Amherst, 92-0; Tu f s, 54-0; University of Maine, Orono (UMO), 70-0), and only giving upone try in a 76-5 win over Colby. T e Polar Bears are intent on continuing their undefeated streak against Williams on Saturday as they get closerto then end of their season. Last year, the team thrashed the Ephs 66-0 behind a sti ing defense. Williams has gone 2-3 so far this season, withlosses against UMO and Tu f s, two teams the Polar Bears have already shutout.

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s Homecoming eventsme love it even more.

T e Offi ce of Alumni Relations is incharge of many of the details of Home-coming Weekend.

We plan and market the events,as well as sending out the invitationsand attending to the ner details,said Lloyd.

Phinney said Homecoming Week-end is as important for the college as itis for alumni.

It really is an important week-end for the College. We do not chargefor the majority of the events, and theweekend itself is not a fundraiser, saidPhinney. It is just a way to keep peopleengaged with the community that isBowdoin College.

Lloyd emphasized the role currentstudents play in making Homecomingrun smoothly, and suggested they at-tend the events this weekend.

T e festivities of this weekend havebeen meticulously planned and are sureto be a lot of fun. I would de nitely ad- vise students to go and check out theevents, she said.

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The mens soccer team closed last season with aheartbreaking double-overtime loss to Amherst inthe NESCAC semifinals. Looking to go further thisyear, the Polar Bears have had a fairly promising startto the season, going 7-4 overall (3-4 NESCAC). Theteam recently strung together five straight wins, in-cluding four shutouts, before losing to Williams lastweekend. Captain Eric Goitia 15 remarked in thisweeks issue of the Orient that the team is eager toregain its footing in the conference this weekendagainst Connecticut College. The Polar Bears beat theCamels 2-1 last season thanks to a second-half goal.While Conn. College had a strong record last year,the Camels are now near the bottom of the confer-ence, battling for a spot in the NESCAC champion-ship tournament.

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Af er a rough 0-2 start to the season, the football team bounced back with a win over a rejuvinated Tu f s team at home and an away victory overHamilton. Running back Tyler Grant 17 leads the charge for the Polar Bearshis four-touchdown, 208-yard performance against Tu f s earnedhim the New England Football Writers Gold Hemlet Award, which is given by the New England Football Writers Association to the D-II/D-IIIathlete with the weeks best performance. Grant is the rst Polar Bear to win the award since 1998. Tomorrow the team will rally behind HeadCoach Dave Caputi, who announced his plans to retire a f er the season on Tuesday. To beat the undefeated Bantams, the Polar Bears defensiveline must perform wellTrinity has rushed for over 200 yards in three games, winning all of them by over 20 points.

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WOMENS SOCCERAfter a 6-0 start to the season that included

four NESCAC victories, the womens soccer teamhas lost momentum, dropping three of its last fivegames. Despite the recent lack of positive results,the teams play has not fallen apart. In each of thosethree losses, the Polar Bears lost by a single goal.Kirsten Turner 16 leads the offense, but the goalshave come from many members of the talentedsquadwith Turner sharing the teams seasonscoring title with Amanda Kinneston 15 and JamieHofstetter 16. The teams backbone has been itsstalwart defense, which has allowed a total of onlythree goals to be scored against them this season.The Polar Bear defense must continue its impres-sive play tomorrow to stop No. 22 Connecticut Col-lege. The Camels tally of 31 goals far exceeds thePolar Bears haul of 19, and in order to move fur-ther up the NESCAC standings, Bowdoin will likelyhave to keep the Camels off of the scoreboard.

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CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

The womens tennis team has had a successful fall season.Most notably, the doubles team of Emma Chow 15 and TessTrinka 18 achieved All-American status after defeating theNo. 1 seeded Emory team at the Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion Small College National Championship. The pair finishedin fourth place at last weekends tournament in South Carolinaafter losing the third-place match to a team from the Universityof Chicago. Until this year, no womens doubles team had everqualified for the tournament. The team is hosting the BowdoinInvitational this weekend and will play Tufts, Wellesley andBates.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTBY SIAREE ALVAREZ

STAFF WRITER

Pop-Up Museum in Smith draws eclectic mix of travel

Please seePOP-UP,page 10

Students passing by Mor-rell Lounge in Smith Union lastWednesday night had the oppor-tunity to strike up conversationswith strangers about objects asforeign as a blowgun from theAmazon and astragalus plantsfrom Argentina and as familiar asa Batman mask.

Starting last November, Haw-thorne-Longfellow Library, thePeary-MacMillan Arctic Museumand the Bowdoin College Mu-seum of Art have collaborated tocreate an annual series of Pop-UpMuseums at Bowdoin. Susan Ka-plan, director of the Arctic Mu-seum, defines the event as a placewhere people bring things thatthey collect and have wonderfulstories about to display and sharewith others.

Kaplan called the event a goodicebreaker for students and theBrunswick community.

This years theme was WishYou Were Here! Students, facultyand community members were en-couraged to bring items that theyfound or bought on their travelsaround the world, or even rightaround the corner.

Kermit Smyth, a mineral col-lector and Brunswick local, wason his way to collect minerals oneday when he passed by a yard sale.

BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTEYE-POPPING: Community members, students and faculty came to the Union to share unique souvenirs and the travel stories that accompany them.

He saw two vases and thoughtthey looked interesting. After ex-tensive research on one vase, he

learned that it had an estimated valu e of $300 .

Smyth decided to submit the

vase to the Pop-Up Museum , say-ing that it had an unusual design,[was] difficult to identify, [was]

difficult to put an age on a nd [had]a good story to tell.

Peter Nardozzi, another Bruns-wick resident, wanted to tell a storyas well as teach people new infor-mation with his object. He broughta blowgun used to paralyze and killmonkeys with a drug made fromplants found in the Amazon. Thedrug used in the gun is the sameone used in hospitals right before apatient is intubated.

Nardozzi said that last year hebrought a Red Sox program fromthe 1970s and has much morestrange stuff in his house fornext year.

Another submission came fromBrunswick local Otto Emersleben.He took a photo of a man in a tea-room in Baba Bukala, Pakistan in1977. When he came home fromhis trip he realized that he had theexact same teapot and cup the manin the photo was holding. Emersle-

ben had traveled to Baba Bukalain 1970 and had bought it at thattime. He thought the coincidencewas a good story.

At the first Pop-Up Museum lastyear, Emersleben brought a pieceof the Berlin Wall from a trip toBerlin in early 1990 along with anold newspaper dated November10, 1989, featuring stories aboutthe collapse of the wall.

Last years Pop-Up Museum

Minimalist Salon at the Art Museum plays host to musBeckwith Artist-in-Residence

George Lopez performed an eve-ning of minimalist music, includ-ing works by Philip Glass, Avro Partand John Adams, for the T ursdayNight Salon at the Bowdoin CollegeMuseum of Art last week. Students,faculty and community members at-tended the event, which was put onin conjunction with the current mu-seum exhibition, Richard Tuttle: APrint Retrospectiv e.

As is quintessential of [Lopez], henot only brings together music andart, but also brings together membersof the community, said Anne Good-year, co-director of the Museum.

Lopez performed prototypes ofminimalist music, ranging frompieces composed with a 12-tonesystem to those with small recur-ring repetitions. According to Lo-pez, minimalist music involves theemancipation of dissonance, and amovement away from tonality, us-ing fewer elements to create form insound. The repetitions in the musichelp keep the audience oriented asthey listen to this non-traditionalmusical form.

The concept of stripping awaythe non-essential elements in musicis mirrored in Tuttles minimalistand conceptual art.

Theres power in the small, saidLopez, getting up from his piano topoint to Tuttles prints.

Lopez sprinkled discussion of thepieces he performed throughout theevening, relating them to the art inthe gallery and how both drew onminimalist ideals. The minimalist

movement, both in art and music,he explained, was about artistic en-deavors at the fringe of society. Thenotion of drawing meaning from

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the barest art forms defied the ide-als of mainstream postwar art.

Minimalism, Lopez continued,fosters the idea that art can and

should be experienced directly,without mediation. It encouragespeople to experience art, whether itbe visual art or music, at its surface.

ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTPIANO AND PRINTS:Artist-in-Residence George Lopez performs minimalist pieces interspersed with discussions of Richard Tuttles work at the museum.

And just as the works of Satie,Glass and other minimalist artistsreframe the standard musical land-scape, the artwork in the Tuttle ex-hibit takes things out of their ordi-nary contexts, forcing audiences to view th em in thei r immedi acy.

Its the idea of a thing unto it-self, said Lopez. The artwork itselfis making you do something.

The concept of tuning into thesmall resonated for Claire Day 18.

I liked the concept that the bigpicture is important, and thatswhat we train ourselves to thinkabout. But recognizing the small isimportant too, said Day.

Lopez suggested that our perspec-tive of en tends to overgeneralize.According to him, minimalism isabout waking up to the detail thatgets clouded by the human desire tocategorize. T e gathering of peopleat an event like the T ursday NightSalon is all part of experiencing art.

Lopez also raised awareness to thecustom of applauding at the end of apiece. Clapping is a way to expel theenergy with which the music lled us,he said. Lopez then asked the audienceto question whether or not applause feltlike a natural response to the the worksperformed, which tended to createmore of an experiential balance.

Along with piano music by Lo-pez, the event featured special per-formances from violinist HannahRenedo 18 and Assistant Professorof Dance Charlotte Griffin.

Jude Marx 18 was impressedwith the overall tone of the event.

I was surprised by how emo-tionally moved I was, said Marx. Iexpected it to be more of an intel-lectual engagement.


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PORTRAITOF AN ARTIST Stevie Lane 15

Its hard to believe that simpleloops of metal wire can be trans-formed into complex forms likehands and feet, but Stevie Lane15 makes it possible. She is ex-ploring the twists and turns ofwire sculpture through an inde-pendent study with Sculptor-in-Residence John Bisbee.

Lane is using this semester tomake a self-portrait out of blackannealed rebar wire, playing offa similar project that she enjoyedin Sculpture II.

Bowdoin doesnt have [asculpture course] after Sculp-ture II, so I spoke with Bisbeeand asked if I could do an inde-pendent study with him in wire,since that was something I reallyloved when I did it in SculptureII, said Lane.

Bisbee wasreally encour-aging in termsof what I made[for that as-signment], sothat was reallymy kind of reason for wanting tocontinue to explore my ability toarticulate shapes with wire andwork with realism instead of theabstract, she said.

The personal power of a self-portrait interested Lane.

Self-portraits are so much apart of the tradition of drawing...Icant draw well, but I see this asmy own interpretation of the self-portrait assignmentjust thatits three dimensional and mygraphite is the wire itself! shewrote in an email to the Orient.

Lane hopes that this self-por-traitset in heroic scale, whichis about one and a half times thesize of her own bodywill ulti-mately be free-standing. How-ever, making a large structureslike a full-body self-portrait andhaving it support itself will be achallenging task.

Since she doesnt weld or sol-der the wire, Theres potentialfor [the sculpture] to be a lotweaker, said Lane. You alsohave to come up with creativeways to attach t hings.

Therefore, her final project,which will go on display in thebeginning of December, may notend up being a fully-formed fig-

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ure but instead a series of body

parts like hands. To Lane, the fi-nal product is not her only goalfor the independent study.

You really get to learn...aboutyour material, she said. By nar-rowing your focus, you have topush yourself to dig deeper...and[to see] what comes out of that.

Lane is more familiar with thehot connections created byglue or soldering than the typeof work she is currently pushingherself to explore.

Ever since I was reallyyoung[my mom and I] usedto put down newspaper and gethardware like nuts and bolts ands-hooksI used to make theselittle animals by hot gluing hard-ware together, she said.

Lane is a Government and Le-gal Studies major with an English

minor andhasnt takenany visualarts coursesoutside ofs c u l p t u r e .However, shesaid Bisbee is

one of her favorite professors.This independent study is

just an excus e to get to workclosely with him, she said.

He, I think, is somehow ableto get everybody to producethe best work that they possi-bly could and I dont even knowhow he does it, said Lane.

While she has at times consid-ered a career in art, it s eems thatsculpting and metal-workingwill remain a serious ho bby.

I dont really know how farI could pursue art. I dont evenknow how Id begin, but its defi-nitely something that Im alwaysgoing to do on the side, some-thing I do do all the time whenIm at home, she said.

Lanes involvement on cam-pus extends beyond her sculp-ture. She also hosts a radioshow, co-leads the volunteerprogram Book Buddies wherestudents work with ESL stu-dents at local schools, contrib-utes to the literary magazineThe Quill, and pole vaulted onthe varsity track team up untilthis year. Next semester, shewill be pursuing an indepen-dent study in creative writing,her other artistic interest.

By narrowing your focus, youhave to push yourself to dig

deeper...and [to see]what comes out of that.

was located in the Arctic Museumin Hubbard Hall, but took place inSmith Union this year due to thelarge number of people expectedto attend.

Kaplan, Smyth and Emerslebensaid they were all a bit disappointedby this years turnout, which theythought was lower than last years.

In 2013, at least 100 people attend-ed the event, while this year there

have been far fewer attendees andfewer people who brought items.

Even though the turnout less-ened this year, Kaplan is contentwith the exhibit and the overall ex-perience of the Pop-Up Museum.

The point is people have comeand people are talking to eachother, she said. She called theevent an opportunity for peopleto get to know each other andshare stories.

Kaplan also described it as a giantadult show-and-tell [where people canshare] things that they care a lot about.

HIPSTER DRIVEL

MATT GOODRICH

At Port City, order a local brew(or, if underaged, a tonic water, noice) and whisper a bit too loudlyto the Portlanders around you thatthe only reason you're here is tosee the opener, The Twilight Sad.Bonus points if you can work in a joke about Scotti sh indep endence ,or heckle them with FrightenedRabbit lyrics. At Colby, simply lookdour and unapproachable, with ascowl that statesnot screamsIgo to Bowdoin.

Not that we have to nurse oursuperiority complex for long. Af-ter all, Saturday night brings noisysurf-rock poster boy Wavves andhis punkish super soaker soundto Morrell Lounge. Time will tellhow kindly Maine autumn and2014 treats his music, though I re-main cautiously optimistic, if onlybecause I retain a pinch of nostal-gia for the time when musiciansadded a redundant consonant totheir names.

Between his hyped sophomoreeffort Wavvves and Afraid ofHeights, the album he appar-ently released last year, Nathan

Williams has amassed an ar-

ray of tight, catchy tunes aboutsunshine, alcohol and bikinis.Since Saturday's event will feature,at best, two-thirds of the contentof Williams' auditory output, stu-dents ought to apply whicheverthey can get their hands on vigor-ously. I, for one, will be leaving myBest Coast tanning oil at home.

Pending any unforeseeable di-saster, Wavves will be the first fallconcert I've attended at Bowdoin,and I intend to enjoy it immensely.In 2011, a failed attempt to changeBowdoin students' narcotic ofchoice from alcohol to marijuanawas thwarted when contract hys-terics caused Neon Indian and hischilled out psychadelia to with-draw last minute. Surfer Blood

went on in his stead. I am told heis Kreayshawns cousin. However,I can't vouch for the veracity ofthis, for I was at the CumberlandCounty Civic Center with my fa-therand possibly the newly out-ed Deadhead Paul FrancoseeingFurthur, a jam band formed out ofthe dregs of the Grateful Dead.

My sophomore year, I wasshacked up in Reed House, tak-ing the term lock-in much tooseriously to bother checking outRJD2. Last year, as my readerssurely regretted, I was studyingin England and not writing aboutmusic. (Instead, I wrote aboutpasties and saw Godspeed You!Black Emperor).

Usually, fall semester is a muchmore agreeable time for live musicat Bowdoin than its spring sibling.Over the past month, I have seenFuture Islands and Sun Kil Moonwork magic for their Portland audi-ences in two very different ways. IfI trust the musical taste of a punklegend turned medievalist, I'll beseeing Quintron and Miss Pussy-cat at the Space Gallery in Novem-ber. Our tiny music scene, though

once a crime scene wit-nessing the death of Galaxie 500,has never quite bulged like this be-fore.

Hopefully, the E-Board canbring someone to #Ivies150 whoneither graduated from Tufts norwill break the endowment. Mysuggestions: Hansen (a band o

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