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Raisa Tolchinsky 17 on the value of doing nothing and Stevie Lane 15 on trying to fi nd a condom.

Ben Brewster 14 joins the Tulsa Roughnecks of the United Soccer League.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: LIGHT/DARKExperimental theater department show Light/Dark plays with lighting on and off stage.

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Remembering campus icon Wil Smith 00

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WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY: Miranda Princi 17 and Jared Littlejohn 15 perform during the Improvabilities show last Saturday night in Kresge Auditorium.

NESCAC deans issue second Alcohol Survey

From Senior Commons to Tower parties: 50 Years of Coles Tower

12 hospitalized, 4 arrested in Wesleyan MDMA incidentBY SARAH DRUMMORIENT STAFF

BY MAURA FRIEDLANDERORIENT STAFF

BY JOHN BRANCHORIENT STAFF

BY KATE WITTEMANORIENT STAFF

A total of 12 Wesleyan students were hospitalized last weekend due to complications from using the drug MDMApopularly known as Molly. Following an investiga-tion by the Middletown Police De-partment (MPD), four Wesleyan students were arrested on Tuesday night. Molly is a psychoactive drug that has the properties of a stimu-lant and a hallucinogenic and is known as a party drug.

After taking the four students into custody, MPD searched their rooms and found drugs and/or paraphernalia in each one. Two of the students were charged with in-tent to sell controlled substances, and all four were charged with pos-session. Their court date was set for March 3.

According to a February 24 press

release from MPD, four of the hospi-talized students were transported to Hartford Hospital for more serious care, while the remaining eight were treated at nearby Middlesex Hospi-tal. As of Tuesday evening, 10 of the patients had been released and two remained at Hartford Hospital.

It is believed that the drugs that the students took on Saturday night were laced with a substance other than MDMA.

This particular batch may have had a mixture of several kinds of designer drug chemicals, mak-ing the health risks unpredictable and treatment to combat the ef-fects complex and problematic, said Chief William McKenna of the Middletown Police Department in the press release.

According to a Wesleyan student and friend of the hospitalized stu-

Please see MOLLY, page 4

On March 1, the NESCAC Alco-hol Survey will be administered to students at Bowdoin and nine other NESCAC schools. Trinity is the only institution that has elected not to participate this year. ) e survey, administered every

three years, was * rst implemented in 2012 and was coordinated by Bow-doin. ) is year Tu+ s will coordinate the survey, compile the data and share the results with its peers over the summer.

Dean of Student A, airs Tim Fos-ter said that this survey will strongly resemble the previous one in terms of content, consisting of both quali-tative and quantitative questions about students decisions pertaining to alcohol use on campus.

Among NESCAC schools, Bow-doin had the highest response rate, at 79 percent, for the last survey.

I think the sample is plenty large enough for us to feel like it gives us

a pretty good indication of behavior and practices revolving around alco-hol on campus, said Foster.

Information from the last survey was used in the fall of 2012 to imple-ment new alcohol education pro-grams such as Alcohol Screening Day. Peer Health also expanded its Peer 2 Peer program by meeting with stu-dents individually at the beginning of their * rst year at Bowdoin to discuss the Colleges drinking culture.

Programs such as CHOICES and the Alcohol Team (A-Team) have in-

creased their programming on cam-pus since the survey to better address the needs of the student body.

Associate Director of Health Pro-motion Whitney Hogan said that most of these programs have been very well attended and have certainly played a role in in- uencing the alco-hol culture on campus.

I would sayanecdotallythat I have seen less transports over the last few years, said Hogan. Based on

Please see ALCOHOL, page 6

Wil Smith, a Bowdoin graduate from the Class of 2000 who stands as one of the most cherished and well-known recent alumni of the College, died at age 46 last Sunday a+ er a pro-tracted battle with colon cancer.

He served as both the director and associate dean of multicultural student programs at Bowdoin, but he is perhaps best known as the 28-year-old undergraduate Navy re-servist and varsity basketball player who attended Bowdoin while rais-ing his toddler daughter, Olivia.

The Bowdoin community was notified of Smiths death by an email from Dean of Student Af-fairs Tim Foster at 10:48 on Sunday morning. At the time of his death, Smith was the dean of community and multicultural affairs at the Berkshire School, an independent preparatory high school in Shef-field, Mass. He also coached the schools girls basketball team.

An aviation electronics techni-cian in the Navy, Smith came to Bowdoin a+ er being transferred from Italy to the Naval Air Station Brunswick (NASB) during the * rst Gulf War. He met Head Basketball Coach Tim Gilbride in 1995, and Gilbride encouraged Smith to apply to the College.

In our conversations he started saying, Im thinking about going to college, and I said, Well, would you be interested in considering Bowdoin? said Gilbride. He said, Sure, how do you think it would

be? and I said, Well, you havent been in school for a while, youd need old transcripts.If thats something youre interested in, Id love to help.

Because of his already atypical cir-cumstances, Smith did not tell Bow-doin that he had sole custody of his daughter, Olivia, when he matricu-lated at the College. When it became clear that he was playing the role of a single parent and full-time stu-dent with limited ways to make ends meet, the Bowdoin administration, Smiths friends and his teammates stepped in to help.

In a video interview of Smith and his daughter, who returned to Bow-doins campus this past June, Smith said, From my time at Bowdoin, and di, erent places Ive beenwhere

Please see SMITH, page 3

In the fall of 1964, Bowdoins president James Stacy Coles wrote in delight to a friend about the seniors he noticed around the Colleges new Senior Center, the 16-story tower that would later bear his name.

[They] seem to walk about with greater pride, he wrote. They have spontaneously spruced up their per-sonal appearance.

Last fall marked 50 years since the completion and opening of the Senior Center, now known as Coles Tower. Since then, things have changed: students living in the Tow-er relish the ability to go to brunch at Thorne Dining Hall in their paja-mas. Just as it did in 1964, though, the Tower primarily houses seniors and plays a significant role in the cultural fabric of the College.

Originally, the Tower was con-ceived as part of a larger program called the Senior Commons. In a senior thesis tracing the history of the program, Benjamin Brennan 08 wrote that it was an effort to bring about sweeping social and curricu-lar changes at what was regarded as a very traditional school.

Please see TOWER, page 5

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IN REMEMBRANCE: Wil Smith 00, former director and associate dean of multicultural student programs, passed away on Sunday after a long battle with colon cancer.

Results from the 2012 NESCAC Alcohol Survey:

-Two thirds of Bowdoin respondents reported that they only drink beer and/or wine.

-5 percent of underage students who drink reported they have operated a motor vehicle while under the infl uence.

-93 percent of Bowdoin respondents said the Colleges alcohol policy encourages calling for help in alcohol-related emergencies.

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WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY OLIVIA

Im going to hug my parents. My mom bolts toward me when I

come out. When I see them, I know Im fi nally home.

Im going to text my twin and tell him Im on Spring Break, knowing full well

that he is not on Spring Break.

Julian Barajas 17

STUDENT SPEAKWhat is the fi rst thing you are going to do over Spring Break?

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH

The fi rst thing Im going to do is get off the plane in New York City, look at the ground and thank the heavens for no

snow.

Diamond Walker 17

Im going to get huge by shovelling snow.

Sam Monkman 18

A COOL PARTY: The creation of the Ice Palace

ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTLIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION: Students watch the opening night of the theater departments spring show, Light/Dark. The show begins in the lobby of Pickard Theater and takes audience members throughout Memorial Hall before they settle into their seats in Wish Theater. The show runs through Saturday. Read the full story on page 10.

BY THE NUMBERS

53,63853,638physical items checked out in

a year

electronic reserve hits in a year

6262jigsaw puzzles completed in H-L

and Hatch Science Library in a year

Victor Leos 16

As the cold continues, students camp out in the library more and more, posting up for hours to avoid going outdoors, and often only emerging for meals. Here are some statistics about the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.

93,28793,287

It was icy. It was gigantic. It was a remarkable human feat. 5 is past weekend, many students attended a party called the Ice Palace, just out-side of Harpswell 9. 5 e party took place inside a bona 6 de igloo, and students slipped out wondering: How exactly was this frozen oasis created?5 e mens rugby team had answers.5 e ice palace was my baby this

year, said Paul Delancy 17, a mem-ber of the team, which sponsors the party. Its all about technique.5 e boys arrived early the day of

the party and divided into teams. 5 ey packed the snow into recycling bins to make icy bricks. Since the snow was dry this year, they had to pour water all over the snow bricks to hold them together. 5 ey then stacked the bricks, building a wall to the height of one brick beyond the head of the teams tallest member, to protect partygoers from the wind. 5 e construction took hours.

You just had to throw men at it, said Delancy, who described himself as primarily a strategist for the opera-tion. It was like three men per brick. It was rough. We may have violated some human rights. I dont know.

Kote Mushegian 17, another member of the team, said he enjoyed the Ice Palace experience.

Its a dream, he said, noting that he would like to someday live in his own ice palace. Its warm in-side. Its fun. You built it on your own. Why not?

Delancy however, would not build his own frozen home unless he had company guaranteed.

An ice palace can be a lonely place by yourself, he said.

Overall, partygoers were im-pressed with the festivities.

It really made me proud of Bow-doin. A lot of schools that have as much snow might not be as inno-vative with what they do with their snow. But going to the party made me think, yeah, we do stuff with our snow, said Greg Piccirillo 17.

THE DE-STRESS MAPThe last week of school before Spring Break promises to be stressful. Here are some campus

relaxation spots to take advantage of as the work piles up.

22staff members skied or snow-

shoed to work during the blizzard to keep the library open

Watson Arena Free skate, open March 3, 4 and 5, 11 a.m. to noon.

The Childrens Corner at H-LOpen daily.

The Craft Center$25 for students at the Smith Union Info Desk. Open 24/7.

The Meditation Room at BuckOpen daily.

Skate the stress away. Spin a pottery wheel until relaxation sets in.

Read picture books instead of writing papers. Breathe deeply until Spring Break fi nally arrives.

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD

the bowdoin orientfriday, february 27, 2014 news 3

Lindemann of Special Collections retires after 15 years at the CollegeBY RACHAEL ALLEN

ORIENT STAFF

Regardless of what the general con-versations have been recently about whether the book is dead or whether libraries are going away, special collec-tions libraries have a really strong fu-ture, Richard Lindemann said. 5 ey hold materials that are unique and have a certain materiality to them which you cant duplicate through digitization.

Lindemann, director of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Col-lections and Archives, has dedicated his life to working with these documents, lending his knowledge to Bowdoin for the past 15 years.

E6 ective March 13, Lindemann will retire and leave behind enriched book collections, digitization projects and ex-hibits. His colleagues, all of whom were quick and abundant in their praise and admiration for him, characterize him by his high standards, clear goals, good humor and great baking.

I cant give high enough praise to what its like working with him, Marieke Van Der Steenhoven, special collections and archives assistant said. [He has] both an incredible sense of humor[and] of professionalism, as well as the ability to manage time and

projects. He just sets an excellent exam-ple of a working environment.5 ese strengths have served him

well over the years as he executed am-bitious projects for the College. From 2008 to 2011, Lindemann planned and organized the George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, an endeavor that com-piled oral histories about Former Sena-tor George J. Mitchell 54 and won the 2012 Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award, given biennially by the Oral History Association to an outstanding English language oral history project worldwide. In 2013, Lindemann edited an autobiography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Blessed Boyhood!: 5 e Early Memoir of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, published by the College.

Lindemann 7 rst chose to go into the 7 eld of special collections because of these types of projects, working at vari-ous archivist positions at larger univer-sities before Bowdoin.

I was happier when I was doing things, building things, making things, rather than spending a lot of time in my head thinking things, Lindemann said. Working in a library setting [gave] me a chance to be in an academic communi-tywhich I really enjoy and thrive inbut [gave] me the opportunity to work with ideasin a more tangible way.

Putting together exhibits has allowed Lindemann to do this hands-on work. Currently displayed on the second 8 oor of HL, Lindemanns exhibit Boo-kART showcases Bowdoins collec-tion of artists books (books created by artists)a collection the College would not have had without him.

Richard has grown such an amazing artists book collection, Van Der Steen-hoven said. Its an incredible resource that we have [that] students, faculty, artists and researchers from all over the country come and access.

Lindemans digitization work also mirrors this imperative of accessibility. 5 anks to a grant (one of many Lin-demann has written), the department is in the process of digitizing General Oliver Otis Howards (Class of 1850) papers. Before he leaves, Lindemann plans to complete his other projectdigitizing and publishing 19th century Brunswick resident Kate Furbishs wa-tercolors of Maine 8 ora.

[Lindemann has] helped to lead both the library and the department transition into the digital age, said Caroline Moseley, an archivist in the department who has worked with Lin-demann for 15 years.

[He has] that ability [to] see the big picture, see what need[s] to be done and

I work now, at Berkshire School, weve been fortunate enough to be around some really wonderful, thoughtful people, so it hasnt just been me. Its literally been a global village which I think has helped shape Olivia. 5 e common refrain among all

who knew Smith professionally and personally is that he was a deter-mined man who inspired the best from people.

Wil was a giant of a person. He was a peer educator, he modeled the way for others in terms of his work ethic, modeled the way regarding how to treat others, modeled the way about service, modeled the way about care and concern, said Fos-ter, who was the dean of 7 rst-year students when Smith was an under-graduate. In fact, Smith was the 7 rst student Foster ever met with. He just is one of the most remarkable people Ive known. He was a friend to me, a colleague of mine, and he was a teacher of mine.

Dean of First-Year Students Janet Lohmann, who partnered with Smith on many projects from 2007-2010, noted Smiths ability to connect with Bowdoin students who were having trouble and his humility about the significant challenges he faced as an under-graduate at the College.

I think that Wil didnt always tell his story as a mechanism for learning, Lohmann said. I think it certainly came up, and there was a legacy about Wil, but a lot of times it was just like, Im here for you. My experience got me to some place but thats not necessarily go-ing to be the same experience for you. He was really good at sitting with students and validating their own experiences.

Pieter Mulder, the head of the Berk-shire School echoed this sentiment.

Wils greatest strength might be empowering the voices of students, particularly the students whose voic-es arent always heard, said Mulder. He was deeply committed to mak-ing sure Berkshires ultimate focus was always the students and meeting their needs and aspirations.

5 ough few students currently enrolled at Bowdoin knew Smith, 7 rst year Hannah Cooke 7 rst met him about nine years ago as a mid-dle school student attending public school in Portland. What started as a relationship between a basketball coach and the young Cooke turned into an almost decade-long men-torship that led her from Catherine McAuley High School in Portland, to the Berkshire School and eventu-

ally to Bowdoin. For the past years, its been him

really leading the path for me, said Cooke. Hes been my guider and advocate.

As the girls basketball coach at Berkshire, Smith encouraged noth-

ing but the best from his players. Something he would do before

every game is he would give a very similar speech and he would always talk about how lucky we were, said Cooke. He would remind us that there were girls around the world who didnt have the opportunity to play. He would say, Were playing for all the girls around the world who dont have the chance to be where you guys are. On their shoul-ders we stand. He would say that be-fore every single game.

Cooke said that even a9 er his 2012 diagnosis of colon cancer and ensuing chemotherapy treatments, Smith was dedicated to his team.

Basketball is what kept him go-ing, said Cooke. Even when he was going through chemo, he had this commitment to us. He would never tell you how hard it was, ever. He would wear gloves at practice so he wouldnt get germs on his hands. He couldnt stay away from the gym.

When he was away at chemo, he would call us before every game and we would put him on speaker and he would give us the same speech about the girls on whose shoulders we stand but we wanted to say, Were

standing on your shoulders, too. He was so humblehe never made it about him, she added.

Cooke is now a member of the Bowdoin womens basketball team.

Another outlet of Smiths com-munity work was as the associate director of Seeds of Peace, an in-ternational leadership program that focuses on bringing together youth living in con8 ict zones such as Israel and Palestine.

In a statement issued on the Seeds of Peace website, Executive Direc-tor Leslie Lewin wrote, 5 ank you, Wil, for the countless gi9 s you have given us all and for reminding us to Do whatever you can, with what-ever you have, wherever you are. In your honor, we will do just that.

Smiths determination was ad-mired by many.

I dont think I ever saw him defeat-ed at a sense of obstacle, said Lohm-ann. He always saw a level of possibil-ity in any number of situations.

Another facet of Smiths person-ality that was hard to ignore was his humor.

He was a larger-than-life sort of person and he was a great mentor who really helped a lot of people in di6 erent situations, but I think its

really important to understand or remember his humor, said Susan Snell, an administrative assistant in the O: ce of the Dean of Student A6 airs who worked directly with Wil during his time as Bowdoins director of multicultural student programs. His sense of humor was such a big part of him.

Cooke recalls many humorous episodes involving Smith.

At the end of the school year, we had this dance called Prize Night. Its the night before graduation and everyone goesfamilies can goand every year, he ended up danc-ing in the middle of a circle with all the kids around, doing some type of throwback move, said Cooke. It just speaks to him in that the entire community surrounded him, cheer-ing him on.

Smiths exuberance was contagious on many levels for those who knew him.

When asked how he will remem-ber Smith, Gilbride said, As a great person who loved life, whos inspira-

tional to so many people in so many ways, who worked hard to make people believe in themselves and succeeded in that. So his legacy is how many people that he had con-tact with who are better for having known him.

He had high expectations for every-one but he was always proud and loved you no matter what, said Cooke. Its just this way he had about him. He be-lieved in you and when he believed in you, you believed in you and that was the special thing about him.

Sam Chase, Meg Robbins and Nicole Wetsman contributed to this report.

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be able to help people to do that, she said.Leading by this example, Lindemann

has thrived not only as a manager but also as a mentor, both for his colleagues and students.

He has this way of putting people at ease that Ive experienced personally and also witnessed, Meagan Doyle, Ol-iver Otis Howard Digitization Project manager, said.

Lindemann has also collaborated with faculty to teach certain classes, such

as a lesson earlier this month on analyz-ing historical documents for Professors Patrick Rael and Tess Chakkalakals Re-construction and Reunion course.

Lindemanns balance of knowledge and humor has allowed him to both teach and connect with people during his time here.

Working at Bowdoin is a really wonderful privilege because so many of the people who work here are really dedicated and really smart, Lindemann said. Its wonderful working in an envi-ronment where other people care about what theyre doing and appreciate what Im doingWe all have to work but when we can choose whom we work withBowdoins a lucky place to be.

As of yet Lindemann has no goals for his retirement, other than to remain in Maine with his wife.

Were almost paralyzed by the op-portunitieswe could do anything and so we do nothing, Lindemann said. A9 er a year, then well reassess and think about things, but for the time be-ing well stay close to home.

His home at the department must re-assess as well, 7 nding a replacement for Lindemanns position.

Were going to miss him, Van Der Steenhoven said. Its going to be a ma-jor change, but we wish him all the best.

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE

WIL POWER: Wil Smith 00 with his daughter Olivia, photographed in Morrell Gymnasium. Smith raised Olivia as a toddler while he was a student and varsity basketball player at Bowdoin.

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SPECIAL COLLECTOR: Richard Lindemann will retire, eff ective March 13.

He had high expectations for everyone

but he was always proud and loved you no matter what. Its just this way he had about him. He be-lieved in you and when he believed

in you, you believed in you and that was the special thing

about him.

HANNAH COOKE 18

Wils greatest strength might be empowering the voices of students,

particularly the students whose voices arent always heard.

PIETER MULDERHEAD OF THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL

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After receiving 44 applications, Judicial Board appoints five new members

BY QUYEN HAORIENT STAFF

5 e Judicial Board (J-Board) re-ceived 44 applications this year, six fewer than it did in 2014.

Following an intensive application process that began in January, 6 ve new members were recently selected to serve on the board for the rest of their Bow-doin career: Indre Altman 18, Daniel Buckman 18, Nora Cullen 18, Sasha Kramer 16 and Justin Weathers 18.5 e 6 ve new members were an-

nounced by J-Board Advisor and As-sistant Dean of Student A7 airs Lesley Levy in an email on Monday.

In the 6 rst round of the selection pro-

cess, prospective candidates were asked to submit a written application which included short essay questions and a recommendation letter from a student or Bowdoin faculty or sta7 member. All applicants were then interviewed indi-vidually by half of the current J-Board.

5 ey asked a lot of questions that had to do with Bowdoin rules and poli-cies in the 6 rst round, said Kramer. But I dont know if they were neces-sarily looking for any exact answer. I think its more about assessing how you reason a di8 cult situation out or what morally makes sense in your mind.

Following a series of cuts, 24 students proceeded with the group interviews.

During the group interviews, 6 nal-

ists reviewed hypothetical case scenar-iosone social and one academicin groups of four under the observation of current J-Board members. 5 e selec-tion committeecomprised of Levy, J-Board members and Bowdoin Student Government (BGS) representative Chrissy Rujiraorchai 17then voted on which candidates to select.

We look for people who represent the student body well and who will be dedicated to the position, said J-Board Chair Jacques Larochelle 15. De6 nitely someone who understands the role of the board on campus and has the ability to be con6 dential as well as to commu-nicate well within a team setting.

Re9 ecting the ongoing trend of the

last few years, 6 rst-year applicants con-tinue to constitute the largest portion of the application pool, followed by sophomores and relatively few juniors. According to Larochelle, this years ap-plicant group was the most diverse in it has been for the past three years. At the same time, he said that the board makes a conscious e7 ort to be as representative as possible of the student body.

Diversity is something we always consider and always talk about, said Larochelle. We received a very di-verse pool of applicants in terms of gender, race, economic background, geographic location, etc., and I think we have also selected a diverse group to join our board this year.

5 e newly appointed members will have individual meetings with Levy af-ter Spring Break to go over the general expectations of the J-Board. Addition-ally, there will be a multi-day train-ing session at the beginning of Senior Week in May to prepare them for the next school year.

I hope our work on the board will encourage Bowdoin students to be the best that they can be, said Altman. I have not gone through any case yet...but I think there is a learning experi-ence behind the judicial process in that everyone can make mistakes and every-one can learn from [his or her] choices. I hope the decisions we make will a7 ect each individual in a positive way.

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Fundraising down, alumni participation up in FY 14

Total fundraising for the College declined in 6 scal year 2014 (FY14) but the alumni participation rate in-creased. During President Barry Mills 6 nal year, FY15, the College is hoping to raise $153.5 million to fund three speci6 c initiatives.

Total fundraising declined from $46.1 million in FY13 to $41 million in FY14, while the alumni participation rate increased from 59 percent in FY13 to 59.3 percent in FY14, the highest rate since FY08.

Of the $153.5 million goal for FY15, $100 million is part of the 6 nancial aid initiative that President Barry Mills an-nounced last May.

According to the Senior Vice Presi-dent for Development and Alumni Re-lations Rick Ganong 86, the College is also seeking $21 million for the devel-opment of a new Coastal Studies Cen-ter and $21 million to expand its Digital and Computational Studies Initiative.

Ganong explained that Mills identi-6 ed these initiatives as opportunities to make a 6 nal impact before he steps down this July.

Out of the $140 million, were over halfway there and we still have a lot of lines in the water, said Ganong.

Fundraising may shi: when Pres-ident-elect Clayton Rose takes over, but Ganong is optimistic about the new president.

He built a global equities business at J.P. Morgan. Hes raised money. Hes met with hundreds if not thousands of people. Hes going to be fabulous and well hit the ground running. 5 at hav-ing been said, hes got some big shoes to 6 ll, Ganong said.

Bowdoin has had incredible fund-raising success under President Mills and its endowment has grown sub-stantially. At the end of Mills 6 rst year, FY02, the endowment was valued at $430,623,000, according to the Na-tional Association of College and Uni-versity Business O8 cers and at the end of FY14, the endowment was valued at $1.216 billion.

Bowdoins most recent capital cam-paign raised a total of $293 million be-

tween 2004 and 2009 and was the largest capital campaign in the Colleges history.

We will do another capital cam-paign; its probably a few years out. I think President-elect Rose needs to get to campus 6 rst and understand Bow-doin, said Ganong. When he, with the Board of Trustees, identi6 es certain projects or initiatives or a vision for Bowdoin and we know what we need to raise the money for, then I think well structure the campaign and go do that.

Annual Fundraising

Of the $41 million raised in FY 2014, approximately $11 million was classi6 ed as annual giving and the other $30 mil-lion was designated as capital gi: s. An-nual gi: s, usually unrestricted, are spent each year and comprise approximately six percent of the Colleges operating budget. Capital gi: s include contributions to the general endowment or to speci6 c funds or projects such as a new building, the Polar Bear Athletic Fund or an endowed scholarship or faculty position. 5 e alumni participation rate is

calculated based on a total of 16,583 reachable alumni. Some living alumni are not included in the Colleges calcu-lation because they request to be put on a do-not-solicit list. 5 is rate is one of the highest in the country according to a U.S News and World Report list from December 2014. 5 e Colleges goal for alumni partici-

pation was 60 percent in FY14 accord-ing to an Orient article from last Febru-ary. According to Ganong, 60 percent remains the goal for FY15. He explained that while symbolic, alumni giving rates

are critical because they a7 ect rankings such as those published by U.S. News and World Report and Forbes, as well as the colleges bond rating.

Getting alumni to return to campus has proved to be an e7 ective technique for increasing giving. According to Ga-nong, alumni who return to campus are more likely to give (and give more) than those who do not visit. Consequently, class reunions are an important part of Bowdoins strategy.

In 2013 Bowdoin began an annual one-day campaign to increase partici-pation. During last years Bowdoin One Day campaign the College received 1,520 alumni gi: s.

Additionally, strategic targeting and cultivation is a factor in fundraising. When you throw your hook in the wa-ter, you want to catch a big 6 sh right? When we fundraise, we recognize that the college has needs and if we can get an extra zero on the check thats very important for us, Ganong said. I think cultivation takes time. Weve had meet-ings with many alumni, many parents, and sometimes its the second, third, fourth, 6 : h meeting where they say, Ok, this is a great idea.

While an increasing number of philanthropies and causes solicit do-nations from Bowdoins giving net-work, Ganong believes this has not detracted from their enthusiasm for giving to Bowdoin.

Giving to Bowdoin increases the val-ue of a Bowdoin degree, he said.

If we stop investing in Bowdoin, the value of that diploma is going to stay the same or could even drop.

BY HARRY DIPRINZIOORIENT STAFF

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT AND COURTESY OF SASHA KRAMER

THE NEW SHERIFFS IN TOWN: Newly appointed Judicial Board members, from left: Indre Altman 18, Nora Cullen 18, Daniel Buckman 18, Justin Weathers 18 and Sasha Kramer 16. The announcement was made by Dean of Student Aff airs Lesley Levy on Monday.

GRACE HANDLER AND HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

dents, who chose to keep his name anonymous, said the party drugs taken on Saturday night had effects completely different from those of normal Molly, further indicating that the drugs were laced.

Friends of mine who took very small doses [of the drug] were still hospitalized, he said in an email to the Orient. Then there were kids who were fine that night and then woke up convulsing, vomiting and in some cases, not breathing, which added a whole other scary dimen-sion to the incident.

The investigation is still under-way to identify the source of dis-tribution and the reason for the drugs impurity.

Jennifer Swindlehurst-Chan, a 6 rst year at Wesleyan, said the events of the weekend brought the Wesleyan community together out of concern for the friends and peers of those who were a7 ected by the drug.

Most people are very under-standing about [the situation this past weekend], because they real-ize that it couldve been them or one of their friends. Theres not usually a ton of Molly at Wesley-an, but there is definitely a drug scene, she said in a phone inter-view with the Orient. At every school youll have people who do hard drugs and people who dont. In general, Wesleyan students are accepting of people who do drugs and theyre not as ostracized.

Bowdoin College Director of Health Services Dr. Birgit Pols cited

the cause of the hospitalized stu-dents unusual symptoms to Mollys unpredictable composition.

Molly, which is often used in-terchangeably with MDMA, has no consistency in terms of whats in it. The latest information from the Drug Enforcement Agency says that less than 15 to 20 percent of the Molly or MDMA that is seized has any actual MDMA in it. The main issue is that we dont really know whats in it.

According to Pols and Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster, Molly has not been an issue on Bow-doins campus in recent years. However, Foster expressed faith in Bowdoin Peer Health and Health Services to aid Bowdoin students in avoiding issues like the events at Wesleyan.

If students were to identify [Molly abuse] as a problem, I think that the peer educators would be a great group of people to address this within our community, along with Dr. Pols, he said. We havent had evidence that it has been a problem, but Wesleyan is a place thats very similar to us so its important that we pay attention.

Dr. Pols believes that the key to pre-venting an event like this is to elimi-nate a market for this kind of product.

Id like to help folks find better ways to enjoy themselvesbetter ways to stay safe and healthy that do not involve these harmful and po-tentially life-threatening drugs, she said. Id rather that every Bowdoin student understood all the risks as-sociated with this, and realized that the benefits, if there are any, just are not worth it.

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5 is was a version of Bowdoin that would be hardly recognizable to students today: a conservative, all-male institution where the vast ma-jority of social life happened inside fraternities. Classes were held every day but Sunday, and women were never allowed in campus dorms. 5 e goal was to remake the expe-

rience of Bowdoins upperclassmen, loosening these social restrictions and emphasizing engagement with the outside world. 5 e College felt that its seniors were spending too much time with younger students in fraternities, and hoped to bring them out of fraternity houses and into more contact with one another in the Tower.

5 ere was this idea that we want-ed to 6 nd a center for communal life

and intellectual life for senior men, said Senior Lecturer in Environ-mental Studies Jill Pearlman.

To accomplish this, the Col-lege created new, interdisciplin-ary senior seminars that cut across Bowdoins traditional distribu-tion requirements. They arranged for scholars-in-residence to live among seniors, and planned a new dining hall where they would eat together. Seeing this as an in-novative, modernizing program, they wanted a physical structure to match, one where seniors would both live and study together.

Hugh Stubbins, a prominent modernist architect, designed the new Senior Center. While the building was the first example of modern architecture at Bowdoin, many of the Colleges peer institu-tions, and larger universities like Harvard and Princeton, had built their own modernist buildings over the previous two decades.

At Bowdoin, students had long desired more modern facilities. An Orient editorial from 1945 lamented that the only things modern on our campus are our toilets and kitchens.

College campuses are architec-turally conservativerarely does anything new happen at them, said Pearlman.

When colleges do decide to pur-sue new architectural styles, though, the trends o7 en spread quickly.

Everyone was getting their own modernist building after the war, she added.

Construction began in 1963. On January 20, 1964, while the four-teenth and fifteenth floors were under construction, an electrical fire engulfed the top of the build-ing. Secretary of Development and College Relations John Cross 76 was then a fourth-grader living in Brunswick. In 2011, he discussed his memories of the fire in a piece for the Bowdoin Daily Sun.

We slogged through the slush left by rains that had fallen on heavy snow and joined a crowd of students and neighbors in staring up at the tower and the fire crews that battled to contain the blaze, he wrote.

Surprisingly, the fire, whose re-

pairs cost $200,000, did not much delay construction. The building opened on schedule for the fall se-mester in 1964. At the time, it was the tallest building in Maine (it now ranks second, after Portlands Franklin Towers).

While the physical component of the Senior Center program ap-peared to be a success, many stu-dents saw it as an effort to weaken fraternities and feelings about the academic components were mixed. The College soon struggled to fill

senior seminars. Following the resignation of the

Centers original director, history professor Bill Whiteside, in 1970, the decrease in interest among se-niors meant that younger students were occupying many of its rooms.

It was kind of a model that worked for a little while But by the time I was a senior, it wasnt exclusively a residence for seniors any more, said Cross. It became sort of another dorm.

By 1980, with the curriculum

largely defunct and the build-ing populated by students from a range of class years, the Senior Center was renamed Coles Tower, after the man who had presided over its creation.

Cross said the name change was a recognition that the Senior Cen-ter program had been replaced by a more flexible curriculum.

Coles Tower TodayHaving outlived its original pur-

pose and numerous subsequent

Looking Back: Coles Tower, 1964-2015architectural movements, Coles Tower fills a far different role than it did at its creation.

It still stands out. Its kind of on its own little island, Pearlman said. Like many modernist build-ings, it hasnt aged very well.

Pearlman was optimistic, though, about the renovations cur-rently taking place.

Today, the Tower is central to the social life of many students in a way that few in the heyday of fra-ternities would have anticipated.

The tower is the hub of social life for a lot of seniors, wrote Matt Friedland 15, a Tower resident, in an email to the Orient. It houses a solid amount of the senior class, so a lot of events both during the week and on the weekends happen in the tower.

It would be the place from which the Bowdoin Bubble, if it existed, would originate, he wrote.

Its definitely a social hotspot, said Lela Garner 16, another resi-dent of the Tower. Its really easy to access other rooms, not like in Brunswick or the freshman dorms where you have to go and knock on everyones door.

However, the social atmosphere dissuades some students from liv-ing in Coles as well.

It seems a bit too chaotic and hectic for me. I need a quiet space, said Bintou Kunjo 15, who lives on School Street. I think its party central.

While the senior seminars of the 1960s are long gone, classes are still taught at the top floor of the Tower. Visiting Assistant Profes-sor of English Morten Hansen has chosen the classroom in each of his two semesters at Bowdoin.

The view provides a pretty backdrop and counterpoint to discussions and lectures without being a distraction, he wrote in an email to the Orient. My sense is that most students like having classes up there overlooking the campus and the surrounding area.

Many residents appreciate the buildings social life considerably more than its architecture, how-ever.

I didnt love it at first, because it felt quite institutional, said Gar-ner. When I walk into my home, I dont want to see cement walls and lots of doors.

Its definitely as comfortable and home-y as you make it, but you have to put in a good amount of effort to make it look nice on the inside, wrote Hallie Bates 15 in an email to the Orient.

Despite reservations among stu-dents about the building itself, the Towers status as a central location for seniors seems to be having a resurgence.

In Fall 2006, 22 percent of the apartments in the Tower were oc-cupied by quads of all seniors. This past fall, that number had risen to 70 percent.

Associate Director of Housing Operations Lisa Rendall said that it is typically one of the first hous-ing options to fill up in the lottery, along with Harpswell Apartments and the quads in Chamberlain Hall.

In his piece for the Bowdoin Daily Sun, John Cross 76 wrote, My family was startled to look out

the dining room window of our home.and see bright orange fl ames shooting upwards from

the Tower.

President Coles was aware that students might see the Senior Commons as an attempt to weaken the infl uence of fraternities on campus. It is always reassuring for a college president to

know that he is about to make himself the most unpopular man on campus, he

said after the plan was approved.

Here, an annotated model of the Tower shows the placement of what is now Thorne Dining Hall

and Daggett Lounge.

An early rendering of the planned Senior Center. Archi-tects hoped the Tower would mingle with the pines, said

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies Jill Pearlman.

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There was this idea that we wanted to fi nd a center for communal life and intellectual

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It still stands out. Its kind of on its own little island.

Like many modernist buildings, it hasnt aged very well.

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SECURITY REPORT: 2/19 to 2/25! ursday, February 19 Two students were cited for furnish-

ing large quantities of hard alcohol, beer and wine weekly to a large number of minors throughout the fall and spring semesters. A report was 5 led with the Dean of Student A6 airs.

A student experiencing eye pain was escorted to the Mid Coast Primary Care & Walk-In Clinic.

A pipe burst in the basement of How-ell House. 7 e area 8 ooded with up to six inches of water. 7 e Brunswick Fire Department and the College responded. Repairs and cleanup were completed.

A student reported that her L.L. Bean winter boots were stolen from the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fit-ness. An investigation determined that a person stole the boots from the lost-and-found bin at the Buck Center just hours a9 er they were placed there by a sta6 member. 7 e boots were recovered and returned to the student.

Friday, February 20 A sta6 member reported the the9 of

a pair of L.L. Bean 8 eece-lined womens boots, size seven and a half, from the hallway near the entrance to the Morrell Gymnasium locker rooms, just outside athletic trainers o: ce 117. 7 e the9 oc-curred between 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Students cooking in the kitchen at 30 College Street accidentally activated a 5 re alarm.

A spectator at an ice hockey game at Watson Arena was struck in the head by a puck. 7 e person was treated at Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

A student reported a suspicious ve-hicle parked in the parking lot at May-8 ower Apartments at 8:30 p.m. 7 e male driver appeared to be peering into apartment windows. 7 e vehicle was de-scribed as a dark gray Toyota Camry or a similar sedan. A Security o: cer spotted the vehicle near the Watson Arena before

it sped o6 down Harpswell Road. 7 e of-5 cer was able to obtain a possible Maine wildlife license plate number of 328ASP. 7 e Brunswick Police were noti5 ed.

Saturday, February 21 A student asked for a wellness check

for a fellow student. Excessive noise was reported to be

coming from Brunswick Apartments G. A sick student at Osher Hall was

taken to Midcoast Walk-In Clinic. A student using a hair straightener in

Chamberlain Hall activated a smoke alarm. An o: cer checked on the well-be-

ing of a student with a swollen knee in Appleton Hall.

A student reported the the9 a pair of L.L. Bean 8 eece-lined womens boots, size eight and a half, from the Buck Center.

Monday, February 22 Brunswick Rescue transported an

intoxicated student from Moore Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

A student reported a suspicious per-son at Harpswell Apartments. O: cers determined that the person and two others were guests of a student.

A student with a medical condition was escorted from Hyde Hall to Parkview.

Tuesday, February 23 Residents of Harpswell Apartments

were directed to pick up excessive litter following a weekend registered event.

Wednesday, February 24 A faculty member who became ill at

Druckenmiller Hall was transported to Mid Coast by Brunswick Rescue.

A student reported the loss and pos-sible the9 of a Bowdoin soccer parka from the Chase Barn.

A student reported the the9 of a pair of L.L. Bean womens boots from the Buck Center. Investigation determined that an-other student took the boots by mistake. 7 e boots were returned to the owner. ! ursday, February 25 An o: cer checked on the well-

being of a student and the matter was referred to Counseling Services.

A student was found to be in pos-session of a small amount of marijuana.

Note: Lost-and-found bins around campus are short-term holding areas for personal property that people have lost or mislaid and hope to 5 nd within a day or two. 7 is property belongs to some-one and is not free for the taking.

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what she has observed on campus, Hogan said that this reduction may be related to students willingness to call Security and Securitys willingness to do health and wellness checks.

I think also a broader conversa-tion that has been happening on campus around students thinking about alcohol use in terms of respect versus disrespectboth respecting themselves and respecting the people around them, said Hogan.

In 2012, 93 percent of stu-dents reported that they be-lieved Bowdoins alcohol policy encouraged seek-ing help from Security or other sta6 members, compared to only 77 percent at other NESCAC schools.

I think the best way to cause change on a small campus is to get students talking about a speci5 c issue and I think theres more conversation about alcohol and alcohol use now than there was a handful of years ago, said Hogan.

Additionally, 42 percent of stu-dents reported drinking occasion-ally in 2012, while 41 percent said they drank o9 en.

By comparing the results of the last survey with this years results, the College will be able to see the impact that these programs have made on campus.

Both Foster and Hogan said

that the results of this years sur-vey will be used to think about how to approach alcohol educa-tion going forward.

I think we have to wait and see what the data tells us, but there were some interesting and somewhat sur-prising results last time that were then helpful for us, said Foster.

Along with the data from its own student body, Bowdoin receives the data of other NESCAC schools, without those schools being iden-tified. Foster said that this aspect does not diminish the importance

of the data.7 ese are peer

schools of ours and so we can see how we compare to schools that are populated by similar students, said Foster.

While we dont know speci5 cally who the other schools are, we get a good sense of how we com-pare to other in-dividual NESCAC

peer schools in certain categories, he added.

Although Trinity participated in 2012, this year it has decided against participating. Both Wesleyan and Amherst did not participate in the previous survey but will take part this year.

I think that we have a really ro-bust program on campus compared to a lot of other colleges, said Ho-gan. I would say that in general were doing more to tackle danger-ous and disrespectful alcohol use than other campuses are.

Meg Robbins contributed to this report.

I think the best way to cause change on a small campus is to get students talking about a specifi c issue and I think theres

more conversation about alcohol and alcohol use now than

there was a handful of years ago.

WHITNEY HOGAN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH PROMOTION

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Overall, this wine is very drink-able and we blew through the bottle in about twenty minutes. We should note that is not to say that this wine is one of the better ones we have re-viewed. 4 e stress this time of year brings has pushed us to be happy with anything you could serve us. Case in point, as soon as the Pinot Evil was empty, we found some le5 -over Franzia from the weekend and that hit the spot too. Pinot Evil has so ino6 ensive a 7 avor that it can be paired with practically anything you would want to eat. 4 e label suggests roasted duck, but our microwave tray of Tostitos queso worked quite well, and we imagine anything else you typically snack on would be great too.

Additional Notes:

Brandon: I can envision myself

getting very drunk o6 this wine at my next family gathering.

Bryce: Surprising is the 8 rst word that comes to mind. 4 ree bottles of this to myself could make a good night.

Nose: Mouthfeel: Body: Taste:

Get some Pinot Evil while it is still on sale! Shaws: $7.99.

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Dowd fi nds inspiration in art he protectsBEHIND THE NAME TAG

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Snow problem: Admissions shows it can handle the cold

BRYCE ERVIN AND BRANDON OULLETTE

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Pinot Evil offers pairing, mulling potential

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So here we sit. Another Tuesday, another bottle of wine, another bag of Tostitos. What is new this time is the microwaveable queso tray we bought. Nothing says class like wine and cheese, and noth-ing says klass like wine and microwaveable cheese. It is at the point in the semester where people just dont seem to care anymore. For us, that means sleeping more than any one person ever should, and more importantly, using a solo cup as the new wine review glass.

Our wine this week is a Pinot Noir from Chile. Assiduous readers may note that this is not our 8 rst Pinot Noir, but giv-en the poor quality of our last we thought we should give the variety another chance. 4 e winemakers

decided to disregard the French origins of this grape, naming their wine Pinot Evil, based on the 4 ree Wise Monkeys Japanese proverb. Meant to reference

the supposed evilness of the Pinot noir grape, Pinot Evil claims that Pinot Noir is a guilty pleasure. We couldnt agree more.

Pinot Noir is one of our favorite varieties of red wine, so we were ex-cited to break into this bottle. Impor-tant to note is that the label indicated the bottle is imported and empha-sized the fact in fancy cursive letter-

ing. Whether this is to impress any potential party guests or to dupe people into buying more of their wine, we cannot say.

We appreciated that the bottle has a screw top and as such, it would

seem to indicate the latter is true.4 e wine is a nice ruby red

color and has a pleasing nose with hints of cherries and spice. Pinot Evil has a very

smooth, silky mouthfeel and a moderate acidity that is well balanced with warm, spicy, fruit 7 avorsin short, it tastes Christmasy. 4 is is easily a cheap wine some-ones parents could bring to a holiday party to get tipsy on. 4 is a6 ords it some 7 ex-ibility and it could easily be made into mulled wine with a few added spices.

We 8 rmly believe that while the holiday season is

well behind us, the winter seems to have no end and that a hot wine is still quite appropriate in our frozen circumstances.

Making a good impression on prospective students in the midst of one of the coldest winters in recent memory may be a daunting task, but Bowdoins Office of Admissions is up to the challenge.

While some schools may be able to provide friendlier climates,

Bowdoin has come up with a unique offering of its owna sense of humor.

For the last few weeks, Admis-sions has adopted a Hawaiian theme. Snow-covered tiki torches and beach chairs grace what is left of the front lawn, and tour guides have been donning Hawaiian shirts

For Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) security guard Dan Dowd, guarding the museums col-lection is more than just a nine-to-8 ve job; its brain food for his own creative aspirations.

A Mass. native, Dowd moved to Maine in 2001 to pursue art. In 2007, he joined Bowdoins new security staff after the BCMA re-opened following its renovation.

A5 er taking studio art and art his-tory courses during his undergradu-ate years at Framingham State Uni-versity and immersing himself in a project to renovate a 19th century home, Dowd discovered his passion for found materials and objects since moving to Maine.

Im really interested in objectswhy they were made, how they were used, how long they were used, and ultimately why they were discarded, said Dowd.

Dowd draws inspiration from his local transfer stationwhere waste is depositedcollecting materials, 8 bers and random objects to use as fodder for his work.

Documentation of items, events, people and places is the driving force behind my found object and installation work, Dowd writes in his artist statement.

His work aims to highlight paral-lels between the lives of humans and the lives of objects.

Dowd analogized the patinas that objects develop and [the] wrinkles that humans develop and how people change through their lives.

According to Dowd, patinasthe

thin layer, such as rust oxidization, that materials acquire over timemay convey a variety of emotions, from comedy to tragedy to drama. His goal in rescuing these forgot-ten items and giving them a sec-

ond chance is to depict and show the beauty and history of items that wouldnt normally be praised for their aesthetic value.

COURTESY OF DAN DOWD/COPYRIGHT ERIN LITTLE ART TO ART: Bowdoin College Museum of Art security guard Dan Dowd is inspired by the art he is surrounded by every day. His own artwork focuses on highlighting the parallels between the lives of humans and objects.

When you spend this much time overanalyzing food, sometimes its important to get back to the basics. Though Im sure much of the Ori-ents readership is well acquainted with Libbys Market, it seems only right to remind everyone that Brunswicks best offering is avail-able year-round, even in the dark midterm days leading up to Spring Break. Located only a few blocks away from Maine Street on Jordan Avenue, Libbys serves a no-non-sense lobster roll that could easily be considered the best Maine has to offer.

The modest settinga small clapboard structure with the ap-pearance of a gas station sans gas pumpsenhances the culinary surprise that waits behind the counter. Food-obsessed Orient writers before me have questioned Libbys supremacy with mentions of Reds Eats, Brunswick Diner, and other crustacean-peddling competitors. I would just like to throw my hat in the ring with an emphatic endorsement of Libbys as the ideal lobster roll experience just so happens to be the most con-venient option as well.

Though the convenience store interior may seem like the typical place to stop for soda and chips during a long car ride, a few more dollars can buy you a generous

Libbys Market: a local gem we shouldnt forget to love

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BEN APPTIThelping of fresh-caught lobster in a toasted hot dog bun. Though it may lack the maritime dcor of Maines quintessential seaside res-taurants, the real spirit of the state is alive and well at Libbys. The Libby familys approach to foodall quality, no kitschmakes for great food, great conversation, and limited seating. Dont worry though; devouring the whole roll while standing at the counter is by no means discouraged.

Aside from some butter on the toasted bun (which is potato bread, of course), Libbys roll is all juicy lobster meat with just a touch of mayonnaise for cohesion, rather than the dousing of mayo and cel-ery too often used to compensate for a lack of shellfish. Many laud the inclusion of a claw in the roll at Reds Eats, but we should all be honest and admit that the rubbery pincer meat is more of an aesthetic gimmick than a gustatory treat.

Libbys doesnt advertise at all, nor does it feature the press clip-pings and banners characteristic of its competitors, but the impressive quality of their product has made it an accidental attraction. Locals, enlightened Bowdoinites, and Yelp-savvy tourists come to the counter year round, but a small, yet noticeable price-hike accompanies the arrival of warm(er) weather ev-ery year. In the off-season, Libbys rarely ever sees lines out the door, so winter is an ideal time to get your lobster fix in a hurry.

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In addition to his current Gal-lery Framing exhibition on Pleasant Street, Dowd has been showcasing his artwork predominantly across the Northeast for over 10 years. Past solo exhibitions of his include "Anna Hep-ler's Head" at the Coleman Burke Gal-lery in Brunswick and "Born Again" at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He has also been featured in several group exhibitions.

As a museum security guard, Dowd is constantly exposed to new

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artwork, which continuously gives him new ideas.

Im certainly in5 uenced by the works on the walls, Dowd said. As soon as new work goes on the walls, I cant wait to eat it up and 6 nd out about it.

Dowd said he is particularly excited to see new pieces from the museums upcoming exhibit: PAST FUTURES: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Post-war Art of the Americas.

According to Dowd, the best part of his job is meeting people and learning about new artists.

As far as aspirations for the future, Dowd hopes to continue showcasing his work in the community.

Dowds work will be included in Art in the Park in Worcester, MA, this summer, in addition to a solo instal-lation at the Masonic Temple in Port-land this July.

I would love to eventually be af-6 liated with and be represented by a gallery, Dowd said. My ultimate goal is to be a working artist that survives solely through my artwork.

Dowds work is on display through Saturday at the Gallery Framing in Brunswick as part of the Paired De-vices exhibita gathering of the work of 6 ve mid-coast Maine artists surrounding tools, hardware and ev-eryday objects.

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTFROM THE ASHES: Dan Dowd gives objects new life in his artwork, creating pieces from things he fi nds at his local transfer station.

7 e birthday of my dear roommate Jake Reiben 17 occasioned my most recent visit to Libbys. Arriving just before the 7 p.m. closing time, our group was rewarded with free chips and challenged to a homemade dice gamea chance to win the contents of that days tip jarwhile waiting for our rolls. Dan Libby shamed me into buying a female friends lobster

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roll, citing chivalry as a major part of his successful marriage, and the meal that followed was undoubtedly worth the doubled price. When the texture of the golden-brown potato bun con-trasted perfectly with the smooth lobster chunks, the stars aligned, and I had a spiritual encounter with a three-ingredient sandwich. Simplic-ity, in both quality food and friendly atmosphere, is what truly makes Lib-bys the best around; and fortunately, it doesnt look like that will be chang-ing any time soon.

COURTESY OF DAVID MANDELBAUM AND HENRY MCNAMARA ROLLING IN THE DEEP: Libbys Market may have the look of a convenience store but its claim to fame is their lobster rolls, which never fail to deliver a smooth, fresh and well balanced fl avor.

from Dean of Admissions and Fi-nancial Aid Scott Meiklejohns per-sonal collection.

Admissions has also installed a hot chocolate bar, over which a banner reads, Its Snow Big Deal.

Admissions was concerned that visitors coming to Brunswick would be a little bit scared away by our harsh weather conditions, said Head Tour Guide Adrienne Chisto-lini 15. They wanted to do some sort of visually pleasing campaign to make jokes out of it and show that were really lighthearted and optimistic people at Bowdoin.7 e Hawaiian Shirt Campaign,

has garnered a fair amount of atten-tion, with WMTW, the local ABC af-6 liate, picking up the story last week.

Michelle Johnson 15, was inter-viewed by an WMTW news crew.

7 at was kind of an accident. 7 e news was coming during my tour slot and [the other tour guides] picked me because last semester I was the

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assistant head tour guide, she said. 7 ey gave me about an hour warn-ing and were like, Be camera ready! and I was very unshowered and had just come from volunteering at a preschool, and I was like, Whatever, I can work with this!

Chistolini and Johnson feel the program has been a success. Both said that prospective students and their families have been, at the very least, amused by Admissions lat-est antics, and anything that helps Bowdoin stand out must be consid-ered a positive.

[The campaign shows that] we can make light of a potentially very dismal and depressing situation, said Chistolini. Hopefully it makes us stand out on their long college tours as a school thats a little bit different, a little bit kooky but in a funny way.

Even in late February, Bowdoin has many more weeks of snow to look forward to, and as it continues to trudge through the winter, one thing can be certain: Admissions will not allow a little snow to be-come a big deal.

Someone once saidthe Internet is indecisive on who said it 6 rstthat true character is who you are when no one is watching. Its one of those clichd sayings that people turn into posters with hip fonts and photographs of mountains. It has not yet, to my knowledge, appeared on a Hallmark card, but only be-cause Im not sure its appropriate for any occasion I can think of, even though it does be-long to that general family of phrases.

Its also a phrase that Ive always bristled at, though Ive never been quite sure why. I first heard it from a gregarious great aunt, whom I love very much and who amuses me very much. Over the course of a family weekend, she kept repeat-ing a storynot without a hint of r i g h t e o u s n e s s that she had found herself in the wee hours of one morning, alone in the house, pol-ishing her silver and china, for no reason whatsoever. Of course, in each retelling, her punch line was that you really find out who you are when no one is looking.

I remember thinking, uncom-prehending of the viciousness I felt, that doesnt make you a good person. And I feel no less bothered, still, every time I hear such senti-ments. Ultimately, I feel its judg-

mental and invasive. It invites, into those moments when we are alone, into our most private moments, a policing eye that sits in the corner and wonders aloud if youre re-ally a good person after all. I dont think we need that in our livesthe world, unfortunately, is judgmental enough; why should we invite that to be with us when we are alone?

Behind my preaching here is, of course, the fact that my impulse never has been and probably will never be to polish the china for no reason when I am all alone. When no one is watching, Im not sure I always like myself. I sit there, guilty

of sloth, guilty of gluttonyguilty probably of all the sins. I say to myself, over and over: this is your character, this is who you really are, and it doesnt matter what you present to the world, because here and now is the truthyoure no good, youre no good at all.

But it does matter very much what we present to the world, who we are with other people, who we are when everyone is watching and

Youre still you when people are watching

EVAN HORWITZ

348 AND MAINE STREET

theres nowhere to hide. I think, actually, that matters more. Or its worth more, to me anyway.

We have our darkest, ugliest hours alone, when no one is watch-ingand those hours are no truer, no more indicative of who we re-ally are, than when we get up and get dressed and go into the world. Theres no such thing, for me, as who we really are. Theres no es-sential and secret identity lurking beneath the surface, sneaking out in the dark. We have the powerwe mustto be who we say we are, to be who we want to be, to be who we present to the world.

What this has to do with personal style and self-fash-ioning is every-th ingal though Im not sure I can adequately express why. But its some-thing like this: self-presentation is as important, if not more impor-tant, than who we are inside. Per-sonal style can be freeing from the idea that we are who we are when no one is watch-ing and theres nothing we can do about it. Were not stuck with the self we find when we are alone, thats

not the truththere is no truth. Were all pretending, we have the pleasure and the freedom to make it up. And while I am not sure style alone can really silence voices of judgment and eliminate the mor-alizing forces that police us, from within and without, it can laugh at them and give them the finger. Somehow, this sums it up: Isabella Blow wore a silver lam dress to her suicide. Ill leave it at that.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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TALK OF THE QUAD

MY EXTRACURRICULAR IS NOTHING

At the first affiliate event we hosted at Burnett House, a few first years asked me, What do you do here? They did not ask, What is your favorite meal? Who are your friends? What classes do you like? How do you survive the workload? They also did not ask, Are you happy? Have you found love? Have you found yourself ?

I was struck by this question be-cause I was at a real loss for how to answer it. We were standing in a small circle, one of many small circles at the party, holding cups filled with cider and eating a lot of cheese. Theres something about a small circle of people that makes it easy to forget you dont know any-body in it. After all, we have been practicing standing and sitting in circles since pre-school.

Two of my best friends were standing on either side of me. 5 ey answered orchestra and a women's discussion group, Student govern-ment and organic gardening, Peer Health and outdoor leadership.

Feel free to contact me if youre

interested in any of these, they said to the first years.

Their lists probably could have gone on, but these were their main activities. These two friends of mine are bright eyed and beautiful and funny and smart. They are mu-sical and mathematical and read entire books in one morning.

Upon hearing their lists, the first years looked en-ergized instead of intimidated. So many options, so many ways to get involved. It was just what was promised in the college brochure.

I had no idea what to say. I could not answer with a list. I wanted to say, Sometimes I watch cooking tu-torials on YouTube. I 6 ll up journals and cant read my own writing. I struggle to 6 nish all my essays and readings and take-home exams. Sometimes I call my mom and talk for forty-6 ve minutes.

What do I do at college? I spend hours lying on the Ikea rug in my

room on the third 7 oor of an old house listening to Patsy Cline.

What else? Well, Im in love with someone 3,000 miles away, and loving someone takes more energy than any extracurricular Ive ever done. Sometimes I unroll my yoga mat. When I feel sick with worry,

I walk to the next town over. I get coffee

and let people rant to me about the things that hurt. Often, I bake bread and it goes horribly, horribly wrong. Im not the head of an orga-nization, but I have conquered an eating disorder.

If theres any-

thing Ive done here, its learn that it is so much harder to slow down than to speed up.

So heres to doing nothing. To the quiet moments. To the days you sit within yourself and just watch. To soft music, handwrit-ten words, silence. To listening to

the way snow sounds underfoot. To

w a t c h i n g

dusk and dawn come and go.We should be proud of the mo-

ments we do not try to fill. Not that activities and extracurriculars and

essays arent tremendous and im-portant. But sometimes I want to gather the busy students, the ones with crunched faces and big back-packs, and say, Shh. It will all be okay. Let yourself settle. Enjoy the nothingness. b

There will be times in our lives when the car breaks down, when the children are cryingtimes that will be much noisier and certainly more difficult than college. And

even then, we must commit to the moments of nothing, the mo-ments of sheer, simple joy. Eat-ing a perfectly fried egg. Open-ing an untouched notebook.

Doing nothing does not mean failure. Pausing does not mean stopping. We are stir-ring up the dust by learning so much, and we must create a space for that dust to settle.

We are all superheroes with an Achilles heel: We are afraid to stop moving, afraid that if we for one second return to our introverted Peter Parker/Clark Kent selves, the world will be too far gone to save. But the reality is, it wont. A8 er all, it does take some time to 6 gure

out what our powers are in the 6 rst place.

Raisa Tolchinsky is a member of the Class of 2017.

In kindergarten, Ms. Poger had a big bowl of buttons. They were counting buttonsmeant to help us with math. If I have eight but-tons, and I give you three, how many do I have left? Now, a little bit you need to know about me

Growing up, I had what my par-ents termed a special drawer. It was below my sock drawer, above my shirts, and it was where I kept all of the small objects I compul-sively squirreled: diminutive un-filled notebooks, miniature rubber dog models, tiny binder clips.

I had a glass cup of coinsnot even special coins or foreign coinsjust shiny nickels, mostly. So, being a small, strange child ob-sessed with collecting useless and unexceptional things, I was natu-rally drawn to the buttons.

And they were beautiful. One was tin-colored and conical, with com-plex cutouts and curlicues. One was brass, square shaped and deceptively heavy, with two-thread loops on the back. All together, they were en-chanting, tumbling over one another and tinkling conspiratorially.

Sharing may be caring, but thiev-ery is far more gratifying, and the buttons were like insects to my flypaper fingers. I started to steal them, every few days, after our math sessions. If Ms. Poger has one hundred buttons, and Stevie takes three each week for seven weeks, how many buttons does Ms. Poger have left?

When Ms. Poger discovered

that the button bowl was losing weightthat students were pilfer-ingshe took the bowl away in draconian fashion.

The idea was this: that if we were abusing her generosity in sharing the buttons, we lost the privilege of having them at all. In front of the class, Ms. Poger made a big deal out of locking the bowl away in the bottom drawer of her desk. No more buttons.5 ursday at 2:40 p.m. and Im

wondering if the same sort of logic is operating in Coles Tower, ex-cept that now, being 22, Ive graduated from buttons

Let me explain: 5 ere are 6 ve Tow-er RAs, all of whom are wonderful peo-ple. I have no unkind words to voice against them. 5 ey put nametags on our doors, they have cellphone numbers posted to theirs, and they host pizza parties on the 16th 7 oor ca-tered by Flipside. I have no real complaints.

But its Thursday at 2:40 p.m. and Im looking for condoms. Ok, oknot for use at 2:40 p.m. admit-tedly. But its i m p o r t a n t to be pre-p a r e d f o r anything and e v e r y t h i n g . Thats a rule I

also learned back in kindergarten, when, after being confronted with the impossible and explosive na-ture of the milk cartons, I started always opening my chocolate milk with the spout pointing away from

me, at my friends.So I go down a few

7 oors, to the nearest RAs door. Im look-ing for that Hallow-een-style, serve-yourself vessel full of the small, light blue packages. No luck.

I know RAs arent proctors, and maybe they arent told to pro-vide seniors in the Tower with condoms, but why not? I guess Id just assumed that all Residen-tial Life staffers had access to an off-putting num-ber of condoms with which to arm us residents.

Disappointed on

this floor, I head down a few more and stop by the next RAs apart-ment. Same thing. And none at the next RAs floor, either.

There are, surprisingly, no con-doms in the Tower.

And heres the Ms. Poger con-nectionare you still with me? I wonder if, like the bowl brimming with counting buttons, there used to be an awe-inspiring bowl of Tro-jans made available for students, a privilege which Tower residents abused for too longstealing con-doms, hoarding them, hiding them in their special drawers. Then I think about the bowl being locked away forever in someones desk. No more condoms.

Not that Im blaming anyone Im certainly not one to judge. But no matter, I still have no condoms, and now its 2:50 p.m. And so I do what any rational senior would do when the weather is below zero with windchill, and head for the nearest first year dorm.

So Im headed to West. Heywhen you got to go, you got to go. (I think Id rather not tell you all about the day in kindergarten when Ms. Pogers class learned about that.) On the first floor,

I beeline for the proctors door,

made evident by the whiteboard andat last!the condom bowl.

I sort of wish Id been d i s cove re d a senior hunched

greedily over the condoms and, for the first time in my life, choosing something over chocolate, which the kind proctor had also left in the bowlbecause it was probably hi-larious. Or incredibly frightening.

Im trying to imagine some anal-ogous sceneto throw some meta-phor in hereand I keep thinking about Santa feeding from his plate of cookies, but everything about that comparison is disturbing. Any-way, I stuff the condoms into my bag, and kindergarten math comes rushing back. If the West first years have nine condoms, and Stevie takes them all, how many condoms do they have left? Sorry, West.

Am I embarrassed? A little. Did I abuse the system in taking all of the condoms from West? Un-doubtedly. Am I judging myself just as much, if not more so, than you? Likely. But I hope that this, besides being a mildly entertaining story you read this morning while eating breakfast alone and feeling a little socially awkward about it, can be a lesson.

For all those of you who call the Tower your home on campus, dont waste your time looking for the free condoms. There are none. In the interest of efficiency, head straight to the closest first yea dormmaybe you pass Coleman on your way to the library?and stock up. And for all of you still in the dawn of your Bowdoin days, living in the first-year bricksif your condom bowl is empty, it was probably us.

Stevie Lane is a member of the Class of 2015.

THE TROJAN HORSE

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Light/Dark experimental show: a departure from traditional plays

Light/Darkwhich opened last nightexplores one of the most crucial aspects of any theater performance: light.

Sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance and directed by Professor of Theater Davis Rob-inson, Light/Dark experiments with the role of light in theater, po-etry, dance and science. Robinson produced the show with his long-time friend, Tony Award-winning lighting designer Chris Akerlind.

We found this play, Middle-town, which we both really liked as being something that is very open. [It] lets you focus on the people and how theyre affected and the references of lightness and darkness, Robinson said.

Robinson and Akerlind worked with students in Robinsons class, Theater Topics: Action, Light, and Meaning in addition to students outside of the class who work for the department.

Middletown tells the tale of a seemingly average American town and how its residents interact with one another in their daily lives, which often intersect in unfore-seen ways. Those involved with Light/Dark have taken great lib-erty with the shows scenes in or-der to more deeply examine and emphasize the power of light.

Most of the time, a playwright will give you her or his play and then theres a great deal of sense of respect for that, Akerlind said. In this, the entire company are the writers in a weird way so were not subservient to some writer,

even though the event sort of re-volves around one play that shows up a lot. Thats the spine of it, but its not the totality of it.

Monique Lillis 17 plays Mary Swanson, a woman who just moved to the town.

Its really exciting to devise your own play because you get to try out a bunch of pieces and see how they fit together, Lillis said. There was a lot of material we tried at the very beginning of the semester that just got scrapped be-

cause it didnt fit in with the show or it didnt go with our final idea of what we wanted.

The cast and crewin total 12 actors and 10 stagehandshave been working up to 20-hour weeks for the past month.

For audience members, the ex-perience begins before the show starts. Robinson and Ackerlind chose to begin the narrative in the lobby, where attendees will be greeted by shadow puppetry. From there, showgoers are led up Pick-ard Theaters back staircase on a tour of the exposed theater, where multiple lighting elements will set the stage.

And then when the actual jour-ney begins, it really is a journey. They need to go up those stairwells so that they enter the space and see it from three floors up and see all three floors activated at the same time, Robinson said.

From there, the audience will be seated very close to the stage. The show both begins and ends with elements related to black holes, which Robinson connects to life and death and bigger and bigger issues.

While the show presents light one way, audience members as well as the cast and crew are likely to have different interpretations of its meaning.

BY TOMMY LUNNORIENT STAFF

ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTDE-LIGHT: (From left) Quincy Koster 15, Sam Monkman 18, Ian Kline 15 and Emily Bungert 15 rehearse with Professor of Theater Davis Robinson. The show will run Friday and Saturday night in Wish Theater. Performances are sold out but a limited number of tickets will be sold at the door.

BY GABY PAPPERORIENT STAFF

WBOR brings pop band SUN CLUB to Ladd tonight

SUN CLUB, a pop band from Baltimore, is coming to Bowdoin for the first time tonight to play in Ladd House. Hosted by WBOR, the show is being billed as a warm concert for a cold Maine. Treefarm, a student band, will open starting at 9 p.m.

Noah Fardon 16who handles concert bookings for WBORsays that he has been trying to set up this event since first hearing SUN CLUB at the Elberta Mansion in Nashville, Tenn. several years ago. Their music, according to Fardon, is exactly what Maine needs right now to counteract the cold and snow.

SUN CLUBs name is perfectly indicative of their sound, he wrote in an email to the Orient. They write hyper, spon-taneous, guitar-driven pop with a summertime sheen to it.

As for the bands genre, Fardon could only describe it as spunky-fun-love-super-ultra-jungle-music.

SUN CLUB 4 rst came together while the members were still in high school. Over the years they have toured throughout the U.S. and Canada, received critical acclaim on music blogs, and amassed a dedicat-ed fan base. 5 ey are currently pre-paring for the upcoming release of Please see SUN CLUB, page 12

BY NICKIE MITCHORIENT STAFF

sented the perfect opportunity with Spring Awakening, a very energetic and compelling show that I have wanted to perform in for quite some time, wrote Smukler in an email to the Orient.5 e demand for a group like Be-

yond the Proscenium was made clear to Orbach earlier this fall when she noticed 4 rst years discussing how they were interested in participating in plays, but werent sure about all the opportunities available to them.

Everyone started talking about how there are a lot of people who want to be doing theater on campus,

Beyond the Proscenium, a new theater group on campus, received a large audition turnout for what will be its 4 rst production, Spring Awak-ening. 5 e cast will include students who frequently act, students who have never acted at Bowdoin before, and everyone in between. 5 e group hopes to reshape the

way students view theatrical produc-tions on campus. It plans to distin-guish itself from other theater groups by staging performances in various campus spaces other than theaters. Spring Awakening will be per-

formed in Chase Barn Chamber as opposed to Pickard or Wish theaters.

Cordelia Orbach 17 and Sarah Guilbault 18 were motivated to form Beyond the Proscenium in order to create more opportunities for people who were interested in theater but not more traditional productions. Both Orbach and Guilbault have theater backgrounds themselves and wanted to make acting accessible to more students.

Phoebe Smukler 17, who was cast as the female romantic lead Wendla Stiefel in Spring Awakening has not been in a show at Bowdoin yet and is excited to get involved.

Beyond the Proscenium pre-

Beyond the Proscenium to explore theater, space

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTCOMEDY OR TRAGEDY?: Emily Bungert 15, Jae Yeon Yoo 18, Sarah Guilbault 18 and Cordelia Orbach 17 lead the new nontraditional theater groups upcoming performance of Spring Awakening. They are, respectively, the musicals choreographer, musical director, director and producer.

their 4 rst o6 cial full-length album and European tour in May.

Fridays concert will mark SUN CLUBs fourth-ever concert in Maine. SUN CLUB guitarist Shane Justice McCord, in a phone inter-view with the Orient, shared that he was looking forward to the event in part because of positive past experiences in the state.

Maine is usually really cool.Pretty weird, McCord said.

The concert is part of a larger WBOR objective to expand Bow-doins music scene.

We at WBOR chose SUN CLUB because they are a phenomenal, incredibly wild live act that few people have heard of, wrote Far-don. And thus they fulfill two ma-

jor goals that we have: to throw an incredible party that is rooted in the brilliance of music and to chal-lenge our peers to broaden their musical horizons

by checking out a band that all are certain to enjoy, though their name might not be familiar.

WBOR leaders have been work-ing to plan a house show concert for more than a year, because inti-mate settings like Ladd House give bands the ability to connect with their audience in a way that oth-er, larger venues do not. So when Ladd House members approached

Please see LIGHT/DARK, page 11

Please see PROSCENIUM, page 12

Maine is usually really cool.Pretty weird.

SUN CLUB GUITARISTSHANE JUSTICE MCCORD

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BY ELLEN CAHILLORIENT STAFF

What is your show called?Spunky Rebkah. I forgot to fill

in the name of my show online this semester, and in the show description I wrote that I was spunky, so the radio station wrote my show name on the calendar as Spunky Rebkah.

When did you first get involved with WBOR and why?

First semesterI saw the post-ers and got excited because music has always been a large part of my life and I thought it was really ex-citing to be able to be on the radio and have control for a whole hour and play whatever I want.

Did you have any radioexperience before Bowdoin?No, but if we had get-togethers

with my friends I was always the first one to volunteer to make a playlist.

What type of music do you play on your show?

I play everything. I change the genre or category every week. For example, a few weeks ago I did Valentines Week, which in-cluded all types of love songs. Sometimes I just figure it out while Im there too.

What is your favorite typeof music?

Slow, chill rap and fun, upbeat indie rock. My favorite artists are Death Cab for Cutie, J. Cole, Drake,