The Bowdoin Orient- Vol. 145, No. 6 -October 23, 2015

In his inaugural speech as Bowdoins 15th president, Clayton Rose spoke to the necessity of full-throated intellectual discovery and discourse to an audience of former presidents, guests, alumni, faculty, sta! and students in Farley Field House Saturday morning. His speech, Why We Are Here, echoed the Inaugu-ral Weekends overall tone in praising the liberal arts and expressing a continued need for dialogue.

[Bowdoin] is a place where we are sheltered from much of the angst and struggle of the real world, Rose said. And this is as it should be: it should be comfortable and safe enough to al-low us to engage in our core mission of full-throated intellectual discovery and discoursewhich is most decidedly un-comfortable and unsafe.

Echoing his convocation speech and his address to " rst-years, Rose stressed the need to be intellectually coura-geous and maintain faith in the value of the liberal arts despite e! orts to reduce the value of this education to salaries.

Chair of the Board of Trustees Debbie Barker 80 thought Roses remarks pre-dicted his role at the College.

His commitment to the liberal arts is steadfast and, at a time when the value of this form of education is being ques-tioned, he will be a great spokesperson and supporter, Barker said in an email to the Orient. Finding ones passion and listening and engaging in dialogue with othersespecially if people disagree are hallmarks of the liberal arts tradition.

Ethan Barkalow 18, who attended the Installation Ceremony, found Roses

speech good, but too general.I think, if anything, I wouldve wished

I got a little more speci" c information for what he was going to view his presiden-cy, he said.

# ough only 125 of the approximately 1,100 attendees of the ceremony and fol-lowing luncheon were students, some partook in the weekends other events or watched the Installation Ceremony online.

It was a big event and Ive talked to President Rose a couple times in passing on the quad, said Jenna Scott 19, who watched the ceremony on live stream. As a " rst year too, I feel for him a bit.

Regardless of their level of partici-pation over the weekend, students ex-pressed their hope that Rose would use

his role to preserve the good of Bow-doins past while creating a new, even better future.

Tyrone Li 16 said he hopes that Rose will continue former president Barry Mills legacy of improving " nancial aid as well as mirroring his constant pres-ence around campus.

Bowdoin has a di! erent history than the one we live in, Bill De La Rosa 16 said. # ere is a divide between the old Bowdoin and the new Bowdoin.

De La Rosa, who spoke at the Installa-tion on the importance of being global citizens before anything else, empha-sized his hopes for Rose to increase di-versity on campus and help students

Inauguration celebrates liberal arts, Rose urges uncomfortable discourse

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PASSING THE TORCH: Chair of the Board of Trustees Debbie Barker 80 (right) hands President Rose (left) the College Charter before o! cially pronouncing him the 15th President of the College. Former presidents Barry Mills (center) and Bob Edwards were among the guests, alumni, faculty, sta" and students who attended the Installation Ceremony last Saturday in Farley Field House.

THE INAUGURATION OF CLAYTON ROSE

VALERIE CHANG , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

THE FIRST COUPLE: Rose (left) and his wife Julianne (right) jumped right into the community in the days following Inauguration, participating last night in How(w)ell Do You Know Me, a spino" on the Newlywed Game, hosted by Howell House.

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The government and legal studies department will no longer give out the Jefferson Davis Award, named for the president of the Confederacy who was also awarded an honorary degree from Bowdoin in 1858. The change was President Clayton Roses idea and was approved by the Board of Trustees last weekend.

It is inappropriate for Bowdoin College to bestow an annual award that continues to honor a man whose mission was to preserve and institu-tionalize slavery, said Rose in a press release provided to the Orient.

The Jefferson Davis Award was a cash prize presented to a government and legal studies student excelling in the study of constitutional law. The United Daughters of the Confedera-cy (UDC), an association of female descendants of Confederate soldiers, endowed the Jefferson Davis Award in 1972. Bowdoins Board of Trust-ees voted at its meeting last weekend to return the entire value of the en-dowed fund to the UDC.

Honoring Richard Morgan

Though the Jefferson Davis Award

has been discontinued, a new award honoring the late professor Richard E. Morgan 59 will ostensibly take its place by recognizing the same accomplishment in constitutional lawMorgans specialty.

You wouldnt want toin any way, shape or formassociate the remarkable accomplishments of Professor Morgan as a scholar and teacher at Bowdoin and all the things that he stood for and his values, with Jefferson Davis. Thats wholly inappropriate, said Rose in a phone interview with the Orient.

Morgan taught at Bowdoin, his alma mater, for 45 years before pass-ing away suddenly last November. He was a renowned constitutional law scholar.

He could see a major case com-ing well before it was ever picked up in the press, said James Stoner, a constitutional law professor at Loui-siana State University and a friend of Morgans, in an interview with the Orient last November. He knew constitutional law so well that he had a whole feel for what the Court was doing and, mind you, thats not because he thought the Court was doing the right things, but he still

BY EMMA PETERSORIENT STAFF

A new government and legal studies department award will honor Richard Morgan 59

Please see AWARD, page 3

Please see ROSE, page 4

BY RACHAEL ALLENORIENT STAFF

It costs $61,354 to attend Bowdoin this year. As the comprehensive fee crosses $60,000 for the " rst time, the milestone is an opportunity to explore the long-term questions the College fac-es about a! ordability for students and its own " nancial sustainability.

Without adjusting for in$ ation, the fee has more than doubled in the last 20 years: the comprehensive fee charged for the 1995-1996 academic year was $26,500. In 2015 dollars, that is equal to $43,637; the increase to $61,354 amounts to a 41 percent fee increase af-ter adjusting for in$ ation.

# e basics of Bowdoins story are common, both among its private liberal arts peers and colleges and universities more generally: tuition and administra-tive fees have increased dramatically at institutions across the country. However, certain factors make the rising costs of a Bowdoin education and the Colleges response unique.

! e roots of increasing costs

Unlike many larger universities, whose budget increases are o% en due in large part to increasing costs of re-search, the vast majority of Bowdoins annual budget is devoted to the salaries and bene" ts of the Colleges faculty and sta! those " gures account for 63 per-cent of this years budget.

# us, as the College adds new posi-tions and the costs of bene" ts such as health care increase, many see few ways to prevent rising costs.

# is is a really people-driven prod-uct, Director of Student Aid Michael Bartini said of what Bowdoin o! ers. Unless the product changes, somehow weve got to be able to manage this.

Financial aid, another area where spending has increased dramatically in recent years, accounts for another 23 percent of spending. # e remaining 15 percent is dedicated to a variety of expenses like utilities, equipment and travel costs.

With 85 percent of ones cost structure

Comprehensive fee over $60,000 for the fi rst time

BY JOHN BRANCH AND VERA FENGORIENT STAFF

Jefferson Davis Award discontinued by College

Please see FEE, page 5

SPORTS: OFF-CAMPUS CAREOrthopedic Associates in Brunswick works with theathletic trainer to treat Bowdoin athletes..

FEATURES: SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Students showcase summer research in annual symposium.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: BELOW THE LINE

New York set designer Bill Wiggins discussed his work and networkedwith students.

OPINION: EDITORIAL: Commit to memory.Page 14.Great books, great questions.

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Smith Union. You could spend a whole day in here and not have to leave. Theres food, bathrooms, comfy couches theres

always a lot going on.

Pamela Zabala 17

STUDENT SPEAKWhere is your favorite place on campus?

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My favorite place on campus is my bed. I didnt leave it until 11 this

morning.

Skye Aresty 16 June Lei 18The Quad because when its late at night and the stars are out, you can sing and nobody will hear you.

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SECURITY REPORT: 10/15 to 10/22Thursday, October 15 A man was seen acting suspi-

ciously on Sills Drive near the Out-door Leadership Center. An officer monitored the mans activity until he left the area.

A broken window was reported in the stairwell of Brunswick Apartment U.

A student filed a late report of a stolen bicycle from Pine Street Apartments. The bike was a dark gray Ranger Jams mountain bike.

A neighborhood noise complaint resulted in an unregistered event being dispersed at Pine Street Apartments.

Friday, October 16 An apartment door was damaged

at 8-10 School Street. Students reported that four male

teens entered Hyde Hall at 9:30 p.m. and were acting suspiciously. A short while later security o5 cers found the group near Searles Hall. One member of the group was recently trespassed from campus for an attempted bike the6 and was in violation of the tres-pass order. BPD charged the juvenile with criminal trespass.

A minor student was observed in possession of a handle of hard alcohol on the Quad near Banister chapel.

Saturday, October 17 Brunswick Rescue transported

an intoxicated student from Hyde Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

Officers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student in Winthrop Hall.

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

A silver-blue Schwinn bicycle was reported stolen from a bike rack at the Visual Arts Center.

A spectator fell and injured a hip at the football game at Whittier Field. Brunswick Rescue transport-

ed the man to Mid Coast Hospital. A woman spectator attending the

cross country meet fell and injured a knee in the parking lot near Lu-bin Squash Courts. Brunswick Res-cue transported the woman to Mid Coast Hospital.

The Yellow Bike Mozart was reported stolen from the bike racks at Coleman Hall.

A Coffin Street resident reported numerous students walking down the street in possession of alcohol. Several students were subsequently warned for possession of alcohol.

A loud unregistered event was dispersed at Harpswell Apartments and four residents were held respon-sible for the violation.

A student was warned for exces-sively loud music that was disturb-ing residents of Chamberlain Hall.

Sunday, October 18 O5 cers checked on the wellbeing

of an intoxicated student at 7 orne Hall and later at Pine Street Apartments.

A student who cut a 8 nger on a door latch at Moulton Union was es-corted to the Mid Coast Primary Care & Walk-In Clinic.

A black Nishiki mountain bike was stolen from a bike rack at Howell House. 7 e bike was le6 unlocked and was not registered.

A mountain bike that was stolen from Stowe House Inn was recovered by Security and returned to the owner.

A white and silver Gary Fisher Advance mountain bike was stolen from the bike rack near Hyde Plaza. The bike had been left unlocked.

Brunswick Rescue transported a student with severe head pain to Mid Coast Hospital.

Monday, October 19 A leaking ice machine caused

water damage in two Druckenmiller

Hall laboratories. A parent requested a wellbeing

check on a student. A man and woman were report-

ed to be having an argument on the Main Quad. Officers checked the area thoroughly, but the people were not located.

Tuesday, October 20 A student reported a suspicious

man in the area of McLellan Street and Harpswell Road. The matter was referred to the BPD.

A student with a severe migraine was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

Security assisted the BPD with their investigation of a missing woman in Brunswick.

A student reported seeing two suspicious men who appeared to be interested in a laptop and other belongings left unattended on a stu-dents desk at Hawthorne-Longfel-low Library.

Wednesday, October 21 At 6:15 a.m., an employee re-

ported seeing an intoxicated woman (not a student) talking to herself near Admissions.

The Yellow Bike Einstein was reported stolen from a bike rack at Coleman Hall. The bike had been left unlocked.

Thursday, October 22 Security o5 cers located one of the

suspects from Tuesdays incident at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library back at the library. 7 e suspect had been previously trespassed from College property for suspicious activity, but that order expired in 2013. BPD was called to reissue a trespass warning barring the suspect from all campus property. 7 e second suspect was also identi8 ed and he will be issued a tres-pass warning as soon as he is located.

Right here. Right now. With you.Brewster Taylor 18

ITS ONLY A FLESH WOUND: On Sunday, a student who cut a nger on a door latch at Moulton Union was escorted to the Mid Coast Primary Care & Walk-In Clinic.DIANA FURUKAWA

Theres a new way to rise to fame on campus. Is it by parachuting from the topmost peak of Hubbard? Per-haps its by creating an original rap mixtape to Raise Songs to Bowdoin?

No, not quite. But if you capture those things on camera and post them to Snapchat, it might well be.

This week, the newest Snapchat fil-ter and story option, NESCAC, Our Campus Story, burst onto the scene. The Snap Story compilation includes Snaps from schools across the NES-CAC trying to capture their schools unique NESCAC-ian magic.

But for these small liberal arts schoolsisolated in the wilderness, frigid in the early autumn and popu-lated with far fewer students than monster universitiesmaking the Snap Story is the equivalent of ex-treme fame.

Its a ticket to glory on campus. On a small campus, being the chosen one, being featured in the minuscule video clip that the big wigs at Snap-chat headquarters decided to run, is the equivalent of being Zac Efron and getting cast as Troy Bolton.

Students are becoming overnight sensations. Campus is wild. Its any-ones game out in the Maine woods. Brunswick has become a mini Los Angeles where an anybody can be-come a somebody in mere seconds, sans the implants and the drugs.

When asked what her newfound fame means, Mimi Paz 17, the first Bowdoin student to break into the

elite NESCAC Snap world, said, I feel like when Im walking to class, people look at me differently. I feel like my daily life is disrupted.

Paz rocketed to stardom by simul-taneously riding a hot pink bicycle built for one with her roommate.

Paz is definitely considering new career moves based on her success as of late.

I want to take it to the next lev-el, she said, noting she might next try a two-person unicycle ride to further secure her status as a Snap celebrity.

Emily Serwer 16 was not one of the lucky ones.

I probably sent in, oh, I dont know, 20-plus videos. Its been con-suming my life for the past couple of days.

Serwer has committed herself fully to the pursuit of this ultimate goal, unyielding in her quest for fame, glo-ry and the full five seconds of the un-divided attention of the entire school league.

I feel like its one of those things you work up to, Serwer said, Ive been here for four years, and I feel this would be my crowning accom-plishment.

Serwer has no intentions to give up in the hunt for the kind of fame only the high-level NESCAC story can provide. Other students are just as vigilant in their hunt for this fan-tastic and all-encompassing fame. The NESCAC was unavailable for comment as to whether or not they will officially change their name to the NESNAP.

Were Live: Snapchat story comes to NESCAC

BY OLIVIA ATWOODORIENT STAFF

SNAPS FOR BOWDOIN STUDENTS: Mimi Paz 17, Olivia Atwood 17 and Evan Schweikert 18 were featured this week on the NESCAC Snapchat Live Story.

I appreciate the mirrors in Moulton Union because theyre very spacious. You can

spend a lot of time there without anyone judging you.

Justin Pearson 17 questioned the constitutionality of an internal election that would allow the cur-rent Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) Interim Vice President for Student Organizations Emily Serwer 16 to remain in her post as a full member for the rest of the year. He voiced this concern during public comment time at Wednesdays BSG assembly meeting. Serwer was ap-pointed to the position following the transfer of former Vice President for Student Organizations Wylie Mao 18, but Pearson maintained that she was not an elected student and therefore could not participate in the vacancy election, which is con-stitutionally restricted to members of the Assembly.

Disagreeing, BSG President Dan-ny Mejia-Cruz 16 and Vice Presi-dent for Student Government Af-fairs Michelle Kruk 16 maintained that Serwers interim appointment effectively made her a member, and therefore was eligible to run. In response, Pearson accused the Executive Committee of setting a dangerous precedent of extra-con-stitutionally creating rules in order to give the chance for Serwer to stay in the position though unelected by the student body.

BSGs constitutional provisions on a vacancy are not extensivein

the case of a vacancy, the Assem-bly votes to elect one of its current members to fill the spot. Accord-ing to Mejia-Cruz, the timing of Maos resignation from the College left the Executive Committee in a bind, leading them to appoint Ser-wer to the position in order to have the post filled before the fall. He acknowledged that it was a constitu-tional gray area.

Serwer has previously served as BSGs non-elected Director of Pro-gramming, and ran unsuccessfully for the position of BSGs Vice Presi-dent of Student Government Affairs last spring.

A number of voting members of the assembly eligible to run for the vacancy against Serwersuch as several At-Large Representativesare also appointed by the BSGs executives and not elected by the whole student body.

After the meeting, Pearson said that his objections tied into broader concerns about the BSGs opera-tions, arguing that in uncertain situ-ationssuch as this one, or during the confusion over the server crash,

which stalled last Aprils BSG elec-tionsdecisions devolve to the presi-dent or BSGs executives in a way that is neither transparent nor fair.

Mejia-Cruz noted that his deci-sion to ask Serwer to fill the post was only taken after getting the sup-port of the BSGs Vice Presidents, and having talked out all of his op-tions with several Deans.

Should Mejia-Cruzs motion be passed at a BSG meeting two weeks from now, an election amongst the Assembly will be held to choose be-tween Serwer and any other voting BSG members should they choose to oppose her. When the motion was opened up to the rest of the Assembly members for questions or concerns on the subject, none were raised.

After the meeting, Serwer seemed largely unfazed.

I understand where Danny was coming from, she said. I under-stand the need to now have an elec-tion to officially fill this position, and I dont object to public comment about the constitution. Its nice to actually hear that the student body has some interest in it.

Pearson 17 voices concern in BSG meeting over constitutionality of internal election

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

Public health initiative to combine medicine and humanities next semester

The College is planning a new ini-tiative in public health to combine medicine and the humanities and better prepare students for changing medical professions. The program is intended to appeal to students who are interested in any health profes-sion, whether they intend to go to medical school or not.

We have a lot of faculty and stu-dents who have interests in public health, but we dont have a curricu-lum about it, said Assistant Profes-sor of History David Hecht.

According to Dean for Academic A! airs Jen Scanlon, the liberal arts are good preparation for medical school and other medical professions.

We take great pride in preparing students for health professions and in doing so not just in one particular way, Scanlon said.

Scanlon approached Hecht about the concept, and he will spend the next few months working with other faculty interested in the medical hu-manities to determine what form the initiative will take.

Hecht and Scanlon said the initia-tive will likely start next semester

and possibly include course clusters, lecture series or symposia.

[The initiative will look at] med-icine from a science, social science and humanities perspective and bring students together to think across disciplines and across these kinds of boundaries, Scanlon said. Its really a lot about the kind of boundary crossing that were able to do in a liberal arts environment.

Part of the impetus for the initia-tive is the change in both medical schools and the medical profession.

Medical schools are changing in terms of what they think con-stitutes a good prospective medi-cal school student and also what constitutes a good physician, said Scanlon. [We want to] think and talk about preparing our students for health professions careers and the compatibility of that with the liberal arts more broadly.

Hecht believes that the courses will appeal to both humanities stu-dents interested in public health and medicine as well as pre-med students hoping to study some of the social implications of their cho-sen profession.

This semester, Hecht plans to talk to faculty, staff and students to gauge interest in the program.

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER AND MARINA AFFO

ORIENT STAFF

had a real sense of what direction they were heading in.

Current mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee 74 and former Bowdoin President Barry Mills 72 are among Morgans former students.

While I did not have the privi-lege of knowing Professor Morgan, his national reputation as a scholar of the institutions and principles central to American government and society make it wholly appro-priate that we honor him and his lifelong accomplishments with this annual award, said Rose.

Confronting the past

The discontinuation of the Jef-ferson Davis Award comes amidst reconsideration of the use of Con-federate symbols across the country, including at the South Carolina state house, Yale University and the Uni-versity of Texas-Austin.

Professor of History Patrick Rael wrote an essay about the change ti-tled The past keeps changing.

The changing memory of the past has always been a potent reflection of Americans shifting values. Since the Founding, our national story has never been unitary or static. It has always moved to reflect new commitments, and acknowledge (at last) old realities. This can make us uncomfortable, particularly when it

challenges what we think we know, or what we want to think, about our past. But as we change, our history changes, wrote Rael.

Davis was awarded an honorary degree from Bowdoin in 1858, three years before the outbreak of the civil war. Davis, then a U.S Senator rep-resenting Mississippi, found him-self in Maine for health reasons and decided to attend Bowdoin com-mencement on a whim (he was a close friend of Franklin Pierce and had served in Pierces cabinet as Sec-retary of War).

Even then, the Board of Trustees decision to recognize Davis was contentious given that he was an ar-dent proponent of slavery.

[Daviss] principles were dia-metrically opposed to those of the majority of the people of Maine; but when a man of his ability and prominence, from a distant state, was present at Commencement, it would have been almost a personal insult not to give him a degree, wrote Louis Hatch in The History of Bowdoin College.

Some fear the unintended e! ects of discontinuing the Je! erson Davis Award.

I worry that this change is a means of erasing that history that is still so important, said Kate Berk-ley 18. She explained that history is often written by the winners of con-flicts, and as a loser in the Civil War, its important to preserve Davis and his legacy in some capacity.

" e College will recognize Davis relationship to Bowdoin with a panel in Memorial Hall, placed next to the pre-existing plaques containing the names of Bowdoin alumni who fought in the civil warboth for the Union and the Confederacy.

We clearly do not and will not honor [Davis] in any contempo-rary way going forward. We have a historical connection with him, and that is a fact of history that is undeniable, said President Rose. One of the things that I think is important for institutions like ours is to be transparent and clear and to acknowledge our history, and then for each of us to take lessons from that history.

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We have a historical connection with [Davis], and that is a fact of history that is undeniable. One of the things that I think is important for institutions like ours is to be transparent and clear and to acknowledge our history, and then for each of us to take lessons from that history.

PRESIDENT CLAYTON ROSE

The timing of Maos resignation from the College left the Execu-tive Committee in a bind, leading them to appoint Serwer to the position in order to have the post filled before the fall. Mejia-Cruz acknowledged that it was a constitutional gray area.

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Inauguration Panelist Q&A

ANDY SERWER 81SHELLEY HEARNE 83ADAM WEINBERG 87

Whats the most valuable lesson you learned at Bowdoin?

I really learned to think indepen-dently for the ! rst time. I learned to think about thinking.

What do you think are the biggest chal-lenges facing Bowdoin today?

I think its very clear. How do you go from good to great? And where do you go from here? I mean the place is in good shape, great shape, and so how do you make it even better? And in a way, its almost easier if you come in, like if Clayton was coming in in a turnaround situation, its like oh this place stinks and ! re everyone, do this, and theres like ! ve logical things to do. Its harder because the place is in such great shape.

What is the one thing you think every Bowdoin student should do before they graduate?

Im going to say climb Mount Katah-din. Im going to say something besides that, but I really believe, climb Mount Katahdin. I really do. Because I really like doing that. " ats super cool. Its just a little bit hard, but you should do it. I think Im just going to leave it at that. Some people say have dinner at a professors house, but Id rather climb Mount Katahdin.

" at knowing is not the same as thinking.

In a day and age where theres so much pressure to follow the trends and the fads, how do you keep your eye on really producing real leaders? Versus whats the latest correct or cur-rent thing versus what really is going to matter... Dont get sidetracked by all the latest. Its really sticking to core values.

Well, I would say something like swim naked o# of Baileys Island, but... it is really important before you leave this campus to do something that gives back to the community. Not to the Bowdoin community, but to the com-munity surrounding Bowdoin... " at kind of being in touch I think is abso-lutely critical for every student to have that. Weve got to share this grace.





Make great friends. My Bowdoin friends remain some of my closest friends in the world.



I think the challenge for all of the liberal arts colleges is how to make sure we stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. Look, Bowdoin is in a fortunate place: large endow-ment, beautiful facilities, phenom-enal students, incredibly talented and engaged faculty, but the worlds changing rapidly on us, and the question is how do we continue to make sure that the education were giving you is going to prepare you to be as successful in the world (how-ever you define that) as my genera-tion was.

Probably persistence, in all hones-ty. I was an ice hockey player here, I was a pretty serious student involved in lots of things, but what I learned at Bowdoin was what it meant to re-ally work hard and to persevere, and to sometimes work through failure to find creative ways to problem-solve, and a passion for succeeding.

RUTHIE DAVIS 84

GEORGE MITCHELL 54

KEN CHENNAULT 73Whats the most valuable lesson you learned at Bowdoin?To follow your passion, to try di# er-

ent things, and really ! gure out what youre passionate about. By the time you graduate youre pretty clear on the areas that are your favorite, because youve sampled many things.


I feel like Bowdoin is doing great, and I feel like I just want to make sure that it continues its unique $ avor that is very down-to-earth. " e people here, as much as theyre really talented, smart, its getting harder and harder to get into, Id like to think that they stay well-rounded, nice people, down-to-earth people, not elitist, just cool, you know?

Ive de! nitely gone across the cam-pus in boxer shorts many timesthat would be a fun thing to do. " ats kind of like a joke answer, but I would always encourage people to, in your college ca-reer at some point, do something that no ones ever done before. Whatever it is. It could be in any areado some-thing that no ones ever done before.


I think its a challenge that faces not only Bowdoin, but every institution of higher learning, indeed, educational fa-cility. Its that the rapid change through which the world is going, what we call the information or technological com-munications transformation, will, I think, be seen by future historians as impactful on human history as was the industrial revolution. And keeping pace with that, making sense of the tremen-dously di% cult issues confronting our country and the world, preparing peo-ple to be able to deal with those chal-lenges, which cant be foreseen.


Oh gosh, I graduated so long ago that I cant remember. I guess my an-swer would be to make sure you do graduate. " at you study hard enough and get the grades so that you actually do make it out the door.

I think here I felt part of a commu-nity, and for the ! rst time in my life, had faint stirrings of self-esteem and con! dence in my ability to deal with people and issues. So for me, the small size, the warmth of the atmosphere, the welcoming attitude were the most im-portant things.



To be intellectually curious and to make a difference in the community.

I think the biggest challenge fac-ing Bowdoin is [that] you have this great liberal arts college, and the world is transforming at an incred-ible pace, and how does Bowdoin figure out its role in a fast changing world?


Try to meet five people that they have no relationship with, and in their last year, really try to develop a relationship, because one of the things that I find is that even at a place like Bowdoin and in any com-munity you can be too insular and its always good to get out of your comfort zone.



Compiled by Nicole Wetsman and Matthew Gutschenritter.

Photos courtesy of Bowdoin Communications

WHY WE ARE HERE: At its core a liberal arts education is about understanding, said President Rose in his inaugural address on Saturday.


of di# erent backgrounds transition to Bowdoin.

De La Rosa has already been pleasant-ly surprised with Roses tone these past few months.

He was de! nitely part of the norm of previous presidents. Besides the fact that he was a white male, he was also largely from that corporate side, De La Rosa said. But these few months [through his attendance at lectures, his emails, his ! rst address to the College about race, his welcoming of social justice events on campus] have...for me personally, really said...that he is well aware of everything that a# ects students in our contemporary society.

" e Inauguration Ceremony was pre-ceded by an Inaugural Procession across the Quad featuring delegates from a plethora of other institutions of higher education. " e ceremony concluded when Mills handed the keys to the Col-lege over to Rose.

Its interesting that Bowdoin is this unifying concept that everyone can get behind even though the school has changed drastically, said Emma Maggie Solberg, assistant professor of English.

Solberg was impressed by not only the stateliness of the ceremony, but also the collective praise of the liberal arts, espe-cially considering she does not have a liberal arts background.

Im still shocked by the liberal arts. Its such an amazingly di# erent pedagogical system from anything Ive ever come up against before, she said. So it was very interesting for me to see the alumni com-ing back and pay their respects to Bow-doin because they love Bowdoin...Im just so curious about that kind of love felt by an alum for Bowdoin decades later.

Chuck Dinsmore 69 was one of these alumni who returned for Inauguration.

Every person on the dais was a spec-tacular representation of a liberal arts education. Each bringing their own per-sonal experiences to the $ oor...examin-ing the past, enjoying the present, look-ing to the future, welcoming Clayton Rose is just a very Bowdoin experience, said Dinsmore. [" ese are] things that those of us who went to college here have come to appreciate more each year fol-lowing our graduation.

Dean of Student A# airs Tim Foster echoed Dinsmores phrasing, calling the events part of a great Bowdoin weekend.

[It was a great celebration] to see so many people come back, to see such en-ergyto have Clayton welcomed in that way, Foster said. To see three of our presidents together was powerful. Its really quite remarkable to think its only happened 15 times in the history of the College.

James Callahan, Matt Shen, Lucy Ryan, Max Larson, Gideon Moore, Harry DiPrinzio, Calder McHugh, and Matthew Gutschenritter, contributed to this report.

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GOLD MEDAL: Associate Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion Leana Amaez (left) and Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Brian Purnell (right) share a laugh while participating in How(w)ell Do You Know Me last night. They came in fi rst place.


As of August 15, Bowdoin health insurance now covers gender confir-mation surgery and services, which cost up to $25,000. The College also provides coverage for hormones for transgender students.

Bowdoins health insurance poli-cies are regularly updated by a student health insurance bene! ts committee.

It was this groups unanimous de-cision that Bowdoin should join other peer colleges and universities in pro-viding this coverage, said Student Health Insurance Coordinator Cathy Hayes in an email to the Orient.

It has become more common for colleges and universities to offer ser-vices for transgender students.

Within the NESCAC, Amherst, Connecticut College, Trinity and Tu" s cover hormones and gender con! rmation surgeries as part of their student health insurance packages.

According to Hayes, students had expressed a desire for insur-ance for transgender students to the Deans Office, Counseling Services and the Resource Center for Sexual

and Gender Diversity. This student interest combined with the prec-edents established at other NESCAC schools made it apparent that there needed to be a change in the health insurance policy regarding trans-gender student needs.

Director of the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Kate Stern sees many benefits of this policy change, even for students who will never take advantage of it.

Its a really wonderful supportive option that the College is including in our health insurance, but its by no means something that all trans stu-dents will take advantage of, Stern said. Even for trans* students that wont take advantage of it, its quite the show of support that they have that choice.

Stern believes transgender stu-dents are not the only ones who ben-efit from this change.

One thing Ive learned about our queer community is that they are quite the trans* allies and advocates, Stern said. When the College does things that support our trans* stu-dents, it means a lot to our queer stu-dents in pretty powerful ways.

Health insurance now covers gender confi rmation surgery

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being embedded in people and ! nancial aid, its a real challenge to ! gure out, said President Clayton Rose. Its very hard to dramatically impact the increase in cost or the absolute cost by ! ddling around with [the other] 15 percent.

Determining the comprehensive fee

As with most colleges, Bowdoins en-dowment subsidizes every student to an extent. For the 2014-2015 ! scal year, the Colleges budget worked out to about $81,000 per student, or about $20,000 more than what students without ! nan-cial aid paid.

Schools have some discretion in choos-ing how much they ask students to pay because of this subsidy from their endow-ment. Some schools charge one fee for all of their students. Bates, for example, simply charges one fee of $62,540, without publicizing the individual costs for things such as room and board. Bowdoin, on the other hand, does not have an o# cial comprehensive fee. Instead, the ! gure can be disaggregated into several individual costs: tuition ($47,744), fees ($468), room ($6,142) and board ($7,000).

Despite this, Bowdoin does pay sig-ni! cant attention to the total compre-hensive fee.

$ e discussion of the comprehensive fee is very sensitive. We take it really se-riously, said Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration & Treasur-er Katy Longley. We spend a lot of time on trying to strike that balance between whats the right amount to charge and whats a% ordable.

Over the past 20 years, the fee has increased by an average of about 4.3 percent annually; for the past ! ve years, the College has held that ! gure steady at three percent. $ is is a slower rate than the growth of the Colleges overall bud-get and the ! nancial aid budget (which grew four percent and six percent from FY 2015 to FY 2016, respectively).

$ e result is that the proportion of the budget covered by endowment returns is increasing slightly. With the endow-ment returning 14 percent this year, this

appears to be a viable strategy, but the long-term implications are less clear.

Longley emphasized that the College works year-by-year to determine the fee.

$ eres no ten-year plan of what the comprehensive fee should be. $ ere are certain assumptions in the budget, and well model those out, but theres no magic number, said Longley.

$ e process of choosing how much to charge is, in part, an evaluation of the Colleges costs and families ability to pay; however, peer schools also play a key role. Antitrust law prevents col-leges from communicating about their current fees or salaries, but comparisons from past years are a factor in determin-ing the comprehensive fee.

We do look at what other colleges have chargednot that it necessarily in-& uences us, but we are mindful of what others are doing, said Longley.

In a group that the College uses to evaluate its fees including the rest of the NESCAC (except for Tu" s) and other peer schools such as Oberlin and Swarthmore, Bowdoins comprehensive fee ranked third-lowest of 19 for FY 2015-2016. Its percentage increase for the same year tied for fourth.

Whats more, Bowdoins comprehen-sive fee is growing comparatively cheap-er: in FY 2011-2012 it ranked eighth, while the percentage increase ranked second.

Comprehensive fee as a symbol

Of course, with ! nancial aid, Bowdoin students pay a wide variety of amounts to attend. Financial aid expansion has been a top priority at Bowdoin in recent years. In 2008, Bowdoin announced the elimination of all student loans, re-placing them with grants. Today, about 46 percent of Bowdoins endowment is dedicated to ! nancial aid. With ! nancial aid spending increasing at a faster rate than the ever-rising comprehensive fee, Bowdoin is prioritizing accessibility to all students.

In spite of a% ordability in practice, a continually increasing comprehensive fee can be an intimidating message. It is di# cult to quantify how many students are discouraged by the sticker price, but without a clear understanding of Bow-doins ! nancial aid, some prospective

students are likely turned o% from the idea of attending Bowdoin.

We know from our experience that we are meeting a signi! cant number of students who are worried about the cost, said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn. When you can actually meet with those people and speak with them, you can accomplish something and tell them about Bowdoin ! nancial aid. If they never get as far as meeting us or asking the questions, you dont have that same opportunity.

As a result, promoting the idea that Bowdoin is a% ordable and need-blind has been a major goal for the Admis-sions o# ce.

I dont see di# culty in Bowdoin af-fording the ! nancial aid expense for the students enrolled, said Meiklejohn. I think the bigger challenge is communi-cating the strength of ! nancial aid pro-

gram to students and parents who may be considering.

Financial Sustainability

Making Bowdoin a% ordable has con-tinued to be an important issue in face of rising costs.

I think the big thing right now for us to think about is how we slow the rate of growth [of the comprehensive fee], said Rose. People need raises every year, healthcare costs are going up every year, we need to be sensitive to the needs of our sta% and our faculty. But what can we do to slow the rate of growth down?

With 85 percent of the budget de-voted to ! nancial aid and faculty payroll, the short-term options are limited. $ is year the budget for ! nancial aid will be around $34.4 million, about six percent up from last year, according to the Col-

leges operating budget for FY 2015-2016. Approximately 44.5 percent of the

student body is on ! nancial aid, which is funded by the endowment fund and alumni giving. $ e College draws a sig-ni! cant amount from the endowment for ! nancial aid every year, and ! nancial aid tops the list of categories of alumni gi" s.

With all these various factors coming into play, it is uncertain how much the comprehensive fee will increase in the future.

Were going to be really digging into this in the months and years ahead here, said Rose. Its a really important issue. A middle class family that is doing just ! netwo parents that are working good jobs, if theyve got one child or two chil-dren in collegethose tuition bills, that becomes untenable, even at a very good middle class living. So thats an interest-ing social question.

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Women in computer science take Texas

Last week, ten members of Bow-doin Women in Computer Science (BWICS) participated in the worlds largest gathering of women technolo-gists at the Grace Hooper Celebration in Houston, Texas. Twelve thousand attendees took part in three days filled with tech talks, workshops, networking events and career fairs while surrounded by some of the best minds in computing.

All student attendees were given the opportunity to participate in many of the undergraduate geared activities throughout the confer-ence. Spaces like the Student Op-portunity Lab gave groups of people time to talk to mentors about topics such as applying to graduate school, succeeding in tech-interviews, or navigating the technology intern-ship scene.

Other spaces gave students one-on-one face time with recruiters from all over the country who were looking to give on-the-spot inter-views to female students and future leaders in the tech industry.

Computer Science major and Bowdoin Women in Computer Sci-

ence leader Bella Tumaneng 17 was one of the ten female students who attended the conference this year.

She said that the conference pro-vided not only opportunities to look for internships, but also to learn from other women in the field.

I found it very empowering to be around such a large number of peo-ple with whom I had something very important in common with, she said. Speakers were sharing their experiences and talking about things they do at work and in school.

Tumaneng said that she found strong support from other partici-pants in workshops.

Tumaneng believes that the lack of female support networks is the number one reason people are drop-ping out of technology fields.

Senior Computer Science major and BWICS member Gina Stalica 16 said she struggled in her early days of taking Computer Science classes.

There was a period of time where I was really intimidated by it. I was intimidated to ask guys in my class for help, she said.

Because of the daunting gender disparity in technology, BWICS aims to build on campus networks of encouragement.

As an upperclassman student I look up to seniors for advice and support, but I also try to support sophomores and freshman, Tu-maneng said.

The group hosts study sessions and workshops for its members throughout the year, and they en-courage women outside the club who show an interest in tech to ex-plore taking classes.

According to Tumaneng, lack of early tech exposure also contributes to the gender gap. One of the new aims of BWICS this year is also to broaden the scope of their support networks to the greater Brunswick community by bringing tech ex-posure to younger girls in middle school and high school.

Tumaneng believes that women in the field need the simple reas-surance that what you want to do is perfectly valid and as a result, BWICS overarching objective is to show you that you can actually do all of it.

As the field of technology contin-ues to augment its level of female representation, the prominence of BWICS on campus is as necessary as ever to empower women through its many outlets of support.

BY NICOLE VON WILCZURSTAFF WRITER

When your heroes arent human

It is a common trope in science ! c-tion to make alien or robotic charac-ters unable to understand or use the nuances of verbal communication. O" en portrayed as either emotion-less or infrequent in their emotional displays, they stumble through so-cial interaction, misunderstanding the use of sarcasm and humor con-stantly. At times they provide comic relief: the perfect companion straight man-woman-alien-robot-thing to any character. At other times they are moral centers, certain and unfettered

by emotion in their beliefs of right and wrong and of the common good. Spock and Data, the Vulcan and an-droid of Star Trek fame, immediately come to mind as prime examples of such characters.

As a child, I loved them. # eir logical thinking and scienti! c minds helped to inspire my own love of the sciences, and their unwavering cer-tainty in doing what was rightno matter the personal costinspired the strict morality that I still adhere to. # ey were my role models, my heroes, and not just because I thought their uniforms were super cool.

As a young autistic child, these characters were also o" en the only

people I could relate to. Like many autistic individualsand like my idolsI had di$ culty understanding and making sense of the nuances of social interaction. What was and was not appropriate to say and do in dif-ferent social situations was challeng-ing, and o" en impossible, for me to grasp. Sarcasm and innuendo were my nemeses, my ability to commu-nicate limited to the most literal of speech. During a time in my life when the world around me was confusing, these paragons of reason were people I could understand. But, like any other form of hero worship, this conception

Science students will bring their hard work out of the lab and into the public eye this Friday afternoon, filling Morrell Gymnasium with presentations depicting their sci-ence research.

This event is part of the Presi-dents Science Symposium, an an-nual celebration of the research conducted on and off campus by Bowdoin students.

Three students are selected by the faculty to present their work at the symposium in front of their peers, and an outside keynote speaker is invited to share their work and note how it applies in life.

Lecturer in Chemistry Michael Danahy has helped coordinate the event for the past several years.

The symposium is really meant to highlight the research thats hap-pening on campus, said Danahy. Theres always posters in Druck and in Searles about stuff that goes on here, but there isnt always a time to see in one place and at one time everything thats going on around campus.

This years keynote speaker is Professor Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University. Mirkins talk is titled Nanotechnology: A Small World with Big Potential. The speech aims to address the various biological, chemical and medical applications of nanotechnology and how they re-late to the outside world.

After Mirkins talk, the faculty-nominated speakers will present their research. This years student speakers are Julia Maine 16 of the Earth and Oceanographic Science Department, Cody Woods 16 of the Biology De-partment and James Sullivan 16 of the Chemistry Department.

They are nominated by their de-partments as students who are doing good research, and also being able to convey that research to others, said Danahy.

Maine is excited to present.Its a really fun challenge to make things

that are pretty complicated more understandable to people, she said. Hopefully I achieved that. I really hate jargony talks where only ex-perts can understand them. Thats the wrong way to do things.

Maines research at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay focused on the effects of ocean acidification on a type of phytoplankton, Emiliania huxleyi, and how these effects could influ-ence the broader ocean ecosystem.

Basically, what I want to do with my life is help fishermen and the fishing industry in the Gulf of Maine respond and adapt to climate change. Im really interested in how the biology of the Gulf of Maine will respond, said Maine.

Maines research is just one ex-ample of the roughly 200 student re-search projects conducted each year at Bowdoin across nearly every de-partment. In addition to preparing students for graduate school and be-yond, this research can supplement class work and lectures to give stu-dents a more complete perspective on science.

You really get to see what science is like when you actually do it, said Danahy.

You go off read the literature, find a way to do it, and it ends up working. Youve solved a problem that maybe no one else has ever done before. Thats something thats kind of cool at a place like Bowdoin where its undergraduates who are running all the labs here.

Student research at small liberal arts schools like Bowdoin is becom-ing increasingly popular among incoming students. The beauty of research at Bowdoin, according to Danahy, is the independence thats associated with small, undergradu-ate-only labs.

I know from my own experience that when you go to graduate school, coming out of a place like Bowdoin, youve got a leg up on a lot of stu-dents who might not have the inde-pendence of thought that you have, because youre the one whos driving that research project forward, he said.

GIRLS WHO CODE: Cory Alini 18, a member of Bowdoin Women in Computer Science (BWICS) codes in Searles Science Building.

BY MARTIN SHOTTORIENT STAFF

Presidents annual science symposium to promote student work

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Hello precious readers! Last week, I received this question (one of 112, in fact) in my google form:

Dear SWUW in Searles,

Collegiate disillusionment is a bur-den that a! ects all of us at one point or another. Well actually, I have no idea whether it a! ects all of us. Who knows what you guys do. But it has certainly a! ected me.

My own disenchantment struck junior fall. Woe is me! I thought, I am so disillusioned. I spent four months holed up in Chambo, writ-ing about myself on the Internet and getting Snapea Crisp dust on my sheets. I began to identify with vit-riolic Huffington Post commenters and trolls who hide under bridges and attack goats.

When Chambo felt claustropho-bic (which is to say, almost always), I would escape to Portland to sit in cof-fee shops. " ere, I would eavesdrop on presumably equally disillusioned middle-aged people as they talked to friends or random passers-by about their STDs. I had become a little feral. I was having A Hard Time.

Disillusionment can be paralyz-ing. And while I may belittle my own angst, it was a symptom of real anxiety produced by a series of personal heartbreaks. All this goes to say that I understand long-term disengagement to be a poor attempt at self-carethat by not investing yourself in anything, you are some-how being self-protective.Turns out, this is stupid.

O# en when I think about self-care,

I think of it as an excuse to watch five consecutive episodes of Sex in the City with my housemates while eating several pounds of Sour Patch Kids from the deli down the street. Shockingly, that is actually not what self-care is. Self-care is identifying better ways to live in order to be healthier and happierand some-times, unfortunately, means disci-pline instead of indulgence.

If you are disillusioned, self-care is probably not marathons of 90s TV in your bed. Here are my two sugges-tions to you:

1. Stop referring to enjoying col-lege as drinking the Kool-Aid. Thats like, maybe an exaggeration. Also, we dont even have Kool-Aid in the dining hall. Also, I wish we did, because Kool-Aid is fucking de-licious.

2. Get dressed. But I am dressed! you may say, as you look down at the sweatpants that you dont even like, which you have been wearing for three days. To which I respond: that is not dressed.

Get dressed with intention. Dont just wear the sweater you slept in last night. Stop bending down to grab those stained cords off the floor. When you make meaningful choices about the clothes you make at the beginning of the day, youre setting yourself up for a day rooted in other meaningful choices (which is to say, un-disillusionment).

Wear clothes that allow you to engage with other people. For ex-ample, for me this year, that meant overcoming my oppressive laziness to wear a toga to Epicuria so that I could partake in the ritual toga-making process.

Wear clothes that make you feel fucking fabulous. Choose to be vis-ible because you deserve to be vis-ible.* If you dont own clothes like that, go get some from Freeport or the Internet or Salvo or your best friends closet or sew/knit/crochet them with your own hands.

Wear a Big bird suit around cam-pus, sport Google Glass at gradua-tion, dye your hair chartreuse. Get-ting dressed means different things for everyonea favorite pair of run-ning shorts, the sunglasses that you found abroad, a suit for your Deloitte interview**, your hoverboard, be-cause who cares what the haters say on Yik Yak. Live your weird little truth. But do it with intention, with-out laziness, with care.

Also, please submit a comment card about the Kool-Aid.

Out,Katherine *this line may or may not have

been plagiarized from a fortune cookie.

**which you will inevitably wear for much longer than necessary.

David Kloberdans runs his camera repair business out of his home. Sand-wiched between a store $ lled with found items called Eds Stu! and a residential area, 16 Hall Road looks like any other house, large and paint-ed white. What lies inside, a collected life, is far from ordinary.

A little more than 30 years ago, Kloberdans settled here with his wife, a Bath native, a# er their daughter passed away in his native Colorado.

It was really, really hard for my wife to stay [in Colorado], so she wanted to go back home.

A former undercover police o% cer, Kloberdans began repairing cameras a# er a doctor recommended he take up a hobby to relieve stress from work.

" e trade came naturally to him. As a child, he spent a# ernoons a# er school with his grandfather, a clock-maker named Shep (the namesake of his shop), who let him $ ddle with

the extra clocks he had lying around. Kloberdans $ nds the inside of a cam-era to be similar.

See, a clock, that clock up there, times out the hands on it, and the chimes, thats what it times out, he ex-plained. A camera times out shutter speeds... but its still the mechanism.

I first met Kloberdans as the tough and consummately competent cam-era repairman. My photography pro-fessor, Mike Kolster, recommended him when I needed to replace a small and relatively obscure piece of my camera.

When I knocked on Kloberdans door, I had low expectations. He in-troduced me to his garage, and I left with not only the piece I was missing, but also a filter that he found and fit-ted to my lens free of charge.

I opened up a shop. I started go-ing around to different camera shops, telling them who I was, and what I did, gave them my card. That stuff just started trickling in, he said of his large collection of camera parts. After a while, you just collect them.

His camera parts collection domi-

nates his garage, though he manages to store other eclectic objects there as well. The collections companions include a Seth Thomas banjo clock, some motorcycles (his Harley has an engine designed by Ferrari), two retro slot machines that entertain his grandchildren, and stacks of bagged wood pellets that fuel the wood burn-ing stove in his basement. The clutter floods into a workshop and his living room, mingling with his living space.

This stuff is valuable, he says.Over the years, Kloberdans has

developed a large network of friends through his business. More than two decades ago, he fixed the cam-era of Claude Montgomery, a local artist known for his landscapes and presidential portraits. As a favor, Montgomery offered to commis-sion a nude portrait of Kloberdans wife at a wholesale price of $4,000. The couple politely declined. Today, both Montgomery and Kloberdans wife are deceased.

Once theyre gone, you realize what you shouldve done, Klober-dans said.

KATHERINE GIVES ADVICEKATHERINE CHURCHILL

Dear Katherine,

I am very over college. Tips for drinking the Kool-Aid once again?

Sincerely,SWUW (Senior Washed Up Woman) in Searles

Kloberdan pays tribute to grandfather with camera repair shop

had consequences.Characters like Spock and Data are

portrayed the way they are because they are based on a fundamental assumption throughout science $ ction, an unspoken truth that permeates our society and our concept of ourselves: that to be emotion-less is to be inhuman, alien, other. As an autistic person, I do not experience emo-tion in the same way other people do, and so to others I can seem at times emo-tionless. So when looking on these inhu-man characters, who were more like me than my parents or teachers or friends, I too felt inhuman.

When aliens and robots are more like you than your family is, you start to ques-tion some things. In my childlike inno-cence, I did just that. Why is my family so di! erent from me? Why am I so dif-ferent from everyone I know? Do I really belong? Am I even human?

I would continue to doubt myself well into adolescence, and it would not be until years later that I put my questions to rest,

and accepted that even though I was dif-ferent, that did not mean I did not belong.

A big part of this acceptance came from meeting other autistic people. Many autistic people say that growing up, they felt as though they were from a dif-ferent world, and had been born on the wrong planet. However, knowing that we are not alone in our experiences of the world has led an entire community of autistic people to spring up, both online and in real life. " is sense of belonging was something that I experienced far too late, and so I try to share it with as many young autistic children as I can. What I now wish I had had, in retrospect, was a role model who was also autistic. Not a character that was like someone with autism, but someone that was openly autistic, who lived the life of an autistic person, who struggled with the same things I struggled with, but who could overcome their di% culties. While I still love my childhood android and Vulcan (I cried when Leonard Nimoy passed away) and still enjoy our similarities, I try to remember that they are characters written to convey a story, and not real people living their lives one day at a time.

HEROESCONTINUED FROM PAGE 6

On battling disillusionment

DIANA FURUKAWA

ABOUT TOWNELLICE LUEDERS

CAMERA MAN: David Kloberdans began to repair cameras as a hobby to relieve stress from work after his daughter passed away. He owns Sheps Camera Repairs in Woolwich, ME.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ELLE LUEDERS

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Four years. Nearly all of us have four years to construct a major, an identity and a home in this little academic bubble in the middle of Brunswick, Maine. Nick Tonckens 16 is master of sessions in the Peu-cinian Society (the person who or-ganizes the debates). He is also the editor in chief of the Globalist, a po-sition very grounded in his life ex-perience in different countries. Fur-thermore, Nick is a self-proclaimed

policy dork (Frankly, Im a nerd and I love big picture policy issues and I always have, he said). But in all of these activities, Nick has, over his four years here, created an iden-tity and a place for himself in the Bowdoin community.

For people who have grown up in one place, four years is a short period of time to create a sense of belong-ing and an entire community to al-ways have. Nick never had any sort of standardized or consistent definition of home and therefore never had too strong of an attachment to one place.

People always ask, Oh, where are you from? Its a standard get-to-know-you question. So I have this set of rote answers; Im from Maine but also kind of from France, Nick said. The long answer is that I was born in France, lived in England, then Connecticut and now sort of Maine, sort of France. But, Im also a Dutch-American dual citizen. Those are the facts of it.

Going to college, in a way, acts like changing the place of home. The entirety of your life, short of fam-ily and high school friends, are in a

completely different place. No mat-ter the distance, the distinction be-tween the childhood home and the college home and any future hopes or aspirations towards a different place tend to muddle any clear cut definition of home.

Home is where family and social life and your personal investments all align. I dont see that ever hap-pening in one place. Home is where your friends, your social connec-tions and your personal destiny all intertwine, Nick said.

I dont think that there will ever be one place that accomplishes all three of those things for me. Just because I hope to have a career that takes me to all sorts of different places. And Ill have friends scat-tered across all sorts of places, as I always have.

So what is life like in a world where we have more than one place we could call home?

Nick has experienced that since he has lived not only in different places, but different countries. One time in particular is when he moved to America as a kid.

I didnt feel American for a long time. It took me a long time to re-ally accept the fact that Ive been primarily shaped by this country, Nick said.

I felt fundamentally like I did not have roots in this place. But I also couldnt say that I was English. I wasnt really Dutch either. I wasnt French. It made me feel a little bit like I had been robbed. I had roots. They were all just shallow.

Is that the road each Bowdoin stu-dent is heading on? Or each person that moves away for college and then

into their adult life? In a world that is increasingly small with the easy use of transportation and global communication, are we all set on a track of shallower and shallower roots?

For Nick, at least, that may be the case. Its doubtful that I would stay in one city for the rest of my life. I just simply dont see that happening. I have led a life that is too open to ever see myself being comfortable just living in one place. I would go absolutely nuts.

I think more of the population in the 21st century is going to be like me, people with shallow roots. I think traditional ways of life and identifying to your community are going to be gradually stripped away.

Yet in the wake of Homecoming Weekend, is there still a sense of at-tachment after we finally move the tassel across our graduation caps? So many graduates came back this year, be it people from the Class of 2015 or people from the Class of 1959. Perhaps Bowdoin, in its tiny, close-knit hamlet, has done the impossible in the age of transience and created a community with a sense of home that has a little more permanence.

When everyones at Bowdoin and has been there from their first year all the way through, everyone has an equal claim to being from Bow-doin to a certain extent, in that we all have an equal stake in this place, said Nick.

No one is more Bowdoin than anyone else. Theres kind of an equality there that I really love. Be-cause were all at Bowdoin and were all equally from Bowdoin and thats really affirming to me.

Searching for home: Tonckens fi nds community on campus

FINDING A HOME: Nick Tonckens 16 was born in France but has also lived in England, Connecticut and now Maine.

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DRESSED TO THE NINES: Assistant Dean of Upperclass Students Brandon Royce Diop (left), Evan Montilla 16 (top), and Paige Gill 19 (bottom) star in the Career Planning Centers Dos and Donts Fashion Show on Thursday night. Montilla, sporting a suit and dress shoes and Gill wearing a dress and low heels demonstrate fashion dos. Diop, with his too-short tie and untucked shirt display a fashion dont. The annual event aims to educate students on appropriate (and inappropriate) attire for job interviews and professional settings. This years show, produced by Arianna Cameron 16 and Haleigh Collins 17 featured students of all class years modeling sartorial dos and College faculty and sta! wearing donts. The show was kicked o! with a performance by student band The Circus and concluded with a ra" e for gift cards to local clothing retailers.

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McKee Photography and Kaemp-fer Art Grant recipients presented their summer projects at the vi-sual art departments first annual PechaKucha night, an event de-signed for the artists to display their work to the Bowdoin community. Developed in Tokyo as an avenue for designers to meet and discuss their work, PechaKucha nights have now been held in over 800 cities around the world.

The artists presentations were constrained to 400 seconds in total-

ity, consisting of 20 slides with 20 seconds to speak about each.

Its practical and kind of peda-gogical; practical in the sense that we do have a number of them to get through, but at the same time its a really useful format to think about how to talk about your work, Asso-ciate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department Michael Kolster said.

Compiled over the summer, the projects allowed students to focus on a subject and approach it indi-vidually. Grant recipients said that they faced the most difficulty in just that: working independently and

without the cushion of the Bowdoin community.

Visual arts major Hy Khong 16, whose photographic work explores Asian American identity, notes that it was this struggle that prompted the greatest learning experience.

The biggest thing I learned was that if I looked at something and my initial response was that I like it, that I should just stick with it, Khong said. I shouldnt second-guess my-self but trust that what I like is what I like and thats a genuine depiction of myself. And thats what I want for my art. I want people to be able to see it and see that this is a part of

me.The question of identity was a

common thread throughout the projects, prompting students to look both internally and outwardly to ex-plore their art.

I couldnt just take pictures of pretty things anymore, Khong said. I had to look at things through this lens of what it means to me person-allyhow do I represent these feel-ings and this confliction of an Asian identity and an American identity, and how do I represent that visu-ally?

Rachel Zheng 16, a Kaempfer Grant recipient, explored issues of

both gender and racial identity in her installation art inspired by the California Light and Space move-ment, using material and immaterial mediums to create an almost medi-tative experience for the viewer.

This movement particularly was thinking about technology and what it could do to harm the human ex-istence, Zheng said. These artists are mostly white men, and being an aspiring artist and being a woman of color, I thought a lot about how I could incorporate my identity into the work and how that could relate to a wider audience, and even if that is possible in this minimalist mode

Student grant recipients celebrate, present artwork from summer

At the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, a video plays on a loop of South African artist Berni Searles bare feet walking across surf, stone and salt in the Canary Islands. At the end of the film, we see the art-ist meld into the Earth itself. The video serves as the opening to the Museums new exhibit, Earth Mat-ters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, and shows how humans use feet to connect and form a relationship to the Earth.

Last week, the Museum welcomed both its and the state of Maines first major collection of African art, which explores the Earth as a con-nective thread between the medium of artwork and important themes of political geography and climate change in contemporary and tradi-tional African art.

The exhibit is on loan from the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The collections curator, Karen Milbourne, started to assemble the collection in 2009 when she began to ask questions about how contem-porary artists approach issues of cli-mate change and politics using new mediums. Rather than commission-ing artwork for the collection, Mil-bourne used both the Smithsonians

permanent collection of African art and reached out contemporary artists. She explained her role as gathering different viewpoints from African artists to answer universal questions about belonging to the Earth.

The collection represents 17 dif-ferent countries across the African continent and houses about 50 piec-es of varying, multimedia artwork. Since the collections inception, it has been on display at the National Museum of African Art in 2013 and the Fowler Museum at the Universi-ty of California Los Angeles in 2014.

The work in the exhibit dates to circa 1800 in conjunction with the first Europeans entering central Af-rica in search of natural resources to fuel the industrial revolution, Thomas Jefferson and the British House of Lords abolishing interna-tional slave trade and increased per-sonal travel.

All those things are happening at this time period, and it changed how people saw here and there, mine and yours, and the ancestorsyou see it in the arts, Milbourne said.

To help realize the exhibits com-plicated themes, Milbourne divided the exhibit into five distinct sec-tions: the Material Earth, the Power of the Earth, Imagining the Under-ground, Strategies of the Surface and Art as Environmental Action.

In the Material Earth and the Power of the Earth, the artists use earth as their medium to question notions of identity and define not only what Earth means, but how people choose to connect to it.

Depending on who you ask youre going to get a lot of different answers, said Milbourne. You ask some artists and [Earth] may be a particular earthen material, so it re-ally lays out what are the materials that every one of us consider to be the earth. Would it be mud?

The exhibit then moves to Imag-ing the Underground, which exam-ines the space and location of the Earth, the divine and political geog-raphy.

If you think about the under-ground, its something you can dig, dig, dig and dig, but youre never go-ing to get to the bottom of it, Mil-bourne said. Earth is something you can feel it, you can see it, you can touch it, but you cannot see through it and you cannot fully understand whats at the bottom of it, much like the divine. Youll find that for many cultures that the underground earth is a way of concretely or materially expressing the relationship things that are bigger than ourselves.

In this section, the Museum in-stalled a video by the South African artist William Kentridge in the exca-vated, lower level of the Museum. In

the animation, a wealthy business-man presses on French press coffee maker, which turns into a tunnel with skulls, bones and traditional African art objects. The mineshaft then opens up into the floor plan of the Brookes slave ship, which, ac-cording to Milbourne, calls in ques-tion all that has been excavated from the African continent and global en-tanglement.

Thats one playful way weve tried to literalize some of the thinking about surface and penetrating down, and connecting with the themes of the exhibition, Co-Director of the Museum Anne Collins Goodyear said.

In the final section, Art as Envi-ronmental Action, the artists exam-ine climate change as a contempo-rary issue and challenge viewers to be mindful.

Its intended to draw attention to the fact that artists are not deco-rators and artists are not passively documenting the world around them, but are the very individuals whocreate works of art to draw attention to sustainable practices, Milbourne said.

Collins Goodyear and her husband Co-Director Frank Goodyear both be-lieve that the themes of the exhibit not only appeal to the academic interests of Bowdoin students, but also the greater Brunswick and Maine community, giv-en the increase of African immigrants in Midcoast Maine over the last 20 years.

Sometimes we like to think about Bowdoin as this small college in Maine, but of course despite the fact that we may occupy a relatively small piece of territory, we know that intellectually the shadow that this place casts is tre-mendous, Collins Goodyear said. We have an opportunity with the nature of our collections to juxtapose the his-toric with the contemporary and to look across the globe at what art means today and what it has meant historically.

According to Goodyear, the exhibit also relates to the Museums goal of pos-ing challenging and thought-provoking questions.

! e exhibition asks this universal question: what is ones relationship to the land, what are our connections to this place, how do we feel a sense of belonging to this place, what does it mean when groups are either forced and volunteer to leave one area and go someplace else, Goodyear said. Its re-ally the mission of this museum to pose challenging questions and to develop exhibition that allow artists to have a re-sponse to some of those questions.

Earth matters: Art Museum exhibits African art in new collection

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MATERIAL EARTH: The Bowdoin College Museum of Arts new exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian examines Earth both as a medium for creating art and the theme for asking di! cult questions of political geography and climate change.


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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Guest director collaborates with students in theater dept. musical If you peek into a Sondheim on

Sondheim rehearsal, you will ! nd stu-dents singing, others dancing and music playingin other words, a typical Bow-doin evening rehearsal, but with one key di" erence. # e man observing, guiding and giving pointers is not a member of Bowdoins Department of # eater and Dance. Instead, this show is directed by Edward Reichert, a guest director from the University of Southern Maine.

Reichert received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music, and his resume in-cludes many O" Broadway plays and musicals. He has also worked profes-sionally at Maine State Music # eatre and many others.

Davis Robinson, a professor of the-ater, was instrumental in bringing Reichert to campus.

I have watched him work with stu-dents, and I like his rapport, said Rob-inson. He was very encouraging, even in auditions, helping [students] ! nd notes, helping them work.

Robinson and Reichert struck up a conversation through going to see shows at each others schools and trans-formed that conversation into a work-ing relationship.

Robinson and Reichert began plan-ning this show last fall. # e depart-ments show, Sondheim on Sondheim, worked on many levels.

I wasnt really interested in doing a big, splashy, old-fashioned traditional book musical, said Reichert. Because [Robinson] knows Im quite a Sond-

heim fanI was a guest for when Sond-heim came to Bowdoin two or three years agohe pretty much had me hooked. Its been a very enlightening and positive rehearsal process so far.

# e show, according to Reichert, is great for the college campus because it is educational.

It really tells you how Sondheim thinks, creatively, said Reichert. Its not just a chronological show; its really about how you create a piece of musical theater and why you write a song and how it changes over time. Its thrilling to teach [students] and expose them to so much of this amazing history.

Coming from a background other than Bowdoin, Reicherts directing ex-perience has been surprising for him at times.

Its a nice opportunity for [Reichert]

to work with students who are a little di" erent because theyre not musical theater majors, so they come at it from a slightly di" erent perspective, said Rob-inson.

# e students bene! t from working with someone who really knows the musical theater world.

Its a great experience for students to work with someone who has done tons of musicals and whose life is musicals, said Robinson. Hes worked with so many people that he knows how to help someone ! nd their strong voice and sell a song.

# at being said, scheduling has been one major challenge. In a typical musi-cal theater program, rehearsals are part of the major itself, and people o$ en show up for rehearsal four or ! ve nights a week. At Bowdoin, students go to re-

hearsals on top of their schedules.# eres so many multi-tasking com-

mitments, its complicated, said Robin-son, A lot of these students are squeez-ing [the musical] in around every other extracurricular activity.

# at being said, Reichert ! nds the varied interests of the students to be a wonderful component to the show.

I love the students. # eir interests and their courses of study are so var-ied, it makes them more interesting performers, said Reichert, I am so impressed with how talented and how bright and how smart these eleven per-formers are. Its one thing just to have a fair amount of talent or ability to do something, but when youre nice and youre bright...it just helps everything. Its refreshing...theyre producing a nice environment for art.

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of art making.For others, the opportunity to

create art over the summer induced more technical and stylistic artistic growth. McKee Grant recipient Ne-van Swanson 18 spent a portion of his summer assisting photographer Abelardo Morell 71 in his studio in Paris, France before venturing to Baja, California to complete the re-mainder of his project.

Centered on the idea of the fa-miliar, Swansons work utilized both film and digital photography to ex-plore locations around Baja.

I have one photograph of two people in a grocery store at 9:50 at night and its very intimate, Swan-son said. But its that intimacy that lends to ambiguity in that it could be anywhere. Its just a normal pic-turenot so much created overtly but rather exploring the familiar. I think I learned most importantly about finding the fascination in the normal moments that in one respect could be thought of as benign but are intrinsically powerful.

Established in 2003 in honor of former Bowdoin photography pro-fessor John McKee, the McKee Fund for Photography aims to augment the photography offerings of the visual arts department beyond the budget-ary expense restrictions. The McKee Fund awarded eight students grants this summer, while the Kaempfer Fund gave four. Initially endowed for the purpose of providing art supplies to students of demonstrated financial need, the Kaempfer Fund was able to support independent summer proj-ects this year that werent necessarily photographic.

Students submitted proposals for their projects in April, articulating the kinds of work and questions they wanted to explore and how they planned to do so. Applicants submitted a proposal as well as ex-amples of previous work and a fac-ulty recommendation.

The time and space to share and discuss one anothers work at PechaKucha night provided a valu-able outlet for the grant recipients to formally conclude their projects, and also served as potential fodder for future artistic endeavors.

The opportunity to talk about it and give it a story or narrative can be really illuminating, not just to anyone who might be listening to it, but actually to the person trying to put together the talk, Kolster said. We start to understand and learn more about our relationship to and our ideas about them. And, more

and more ideas for further work can be generated out of that process as a result.

Grant recipients also enjoyed the ability to connect with the audience and their peers through their work.

Its important for artists to talk about their work because it gives it some sort of purpose, Zheng said. Art is very personal sometimes and if you cant relate it to issues of identity or social, environmental or cultural, or anything we need to talk about as a society, there is no pur-pose. It creates a disconnect between the artist and the viewer, and art is supposed to bridge that disconnect.

Hy Khong 16 is the photo editor for the Orient.

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PECHAKUCHA NIGHT: On Thursday night, McKee Photography and Kaempfer recipients presented thier work in a forum developed by Japenese artists to meet and discuss their work. (left) Liz Snowdon 17 work explores biological forms through collage and pen ink. (below) Elena Gleed 18 juxtaposes feelings of helplessness of her family during the Nepal earthquake and her Bowdoin activities.

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Behind the glitz and glamour of the film industry, there are count-less details that go into bringing any production from page to screen. Bill Wiggins, a set dresser who has worked in the film and television industry in New York since 1985, shared his insights on what goes on behind the scenes of these produc-tions in MacMillan House on Mon-day evening.

Cinema Studies Professor Tricia Welsch led the discussion with Wig-gins, guided by a list of questions generated by residents of the house. The talk was sponsored by Lectures and Concerts, the Kurtz Fund and the Cinema Studies program.

In his 32 years of experience, Wiggins has worked with all-star directors and filmmakers including Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese and has contributed to near-ly every motion picture set in New York, including Midnight in Paris, Batman and Spider-Man 3, as well as many major TV productions such as 30 Rock and Gotham. He cur-rently works on the popular TV dra-ma The Affair, picking up various other projects in between. In addi-tion to spending 60 hours on set per week, Wiggins is the owner of Black Elk Images, in which he sells rental images for film and television.

The job of a set dresser consists of assembling physical components of sets down to the smallest detail. For a Cheerios commercial, for example, this might entail sorting through a box to pick out the most perfect piec-es. To give the students a concrete taste of what goes into a single day on set, Wiggins passed around call sheetsa piece of paper delivered to the cast and crew the night before a day of

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