The Bowdoin Orient

For many in the current Bowdoin community, the name Greason may only evoke the image of the glossy tile of the College's swimming pool. Yet the man behind the name—A. Leroy Greason, former Bowdoin professor, dean and president—died in Brunswick on August 28, leaving a legacy that continues to influence the lives of many individuals and the College itself.

Students returned to campus to find that a number of changes had been made to several buildings.

While many of the changes this year are visibly noticeable, one of the most important improvements to life at Bowdoin is invisible to the naked eye. Per federal order, Bowdoin has revised its sexual assauly and harrassement policy, though Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster said the changes are slight.

In an effort to raise awareness of instances of discrimination on campus, the Office of Student Affairs has introduced a "Campus and Community Index" and made specific changes to the first year Orientation program.

The publication of this volume of the Orient marks the newspaper's 140th anniversary. We intend to mark this milestone with a number of changes to the paper that we believe will invigorate its pages. But first, we wish to acknowledge some of the criticism that has been levied at the paper in recent years.

Dear President Mills, My name is Judah Isseroff and I am a junior at Bowdoin. In my two years here, I've been able to watch you from a distance. On nice days in the autumn and spring, it has been rare to not see you strolling the grounds of the picturesque Bowdoin Quad, asking questions and doling out nods and smiles.

If you read the news media today, you're bombarded with stories proclaiming loudly that the dominance of the West is over, and that China and India already dominate the world economy. The papers trumpet the glittering office parks and high rises that house the corporate giants ready to steal American jobs. Well, last summer I worked in one of those glittering office parks. Within the walls of one of India's largest firms, the situation is just as the papers love to describe it.

It is extraordinary to think that it has been 10 years. A decade. In roughly a year, I will have spent more time in the post-9/11 world than in the pre-9/11 world.

As I flew south over the Appalachian mountains toward Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this past July, I looked upon a familiar sight. I have visited this nation more times than I can count; I have been to 22 of the 50 states and I have lived in two. I have travelled across half the country by Amtrak and I have taken road trips through the arid southwest.

To the editors: My name is Todd Lamoreau. Some of you may have known me as the physical therapist on campus here at Bowdoin for the past seven years. I was also the athletic trainer for the women's volleyball team for the past three years.

To the Editors: I found Thomas Klingenstein's piece "Klingenstein defends Claremont Review essay" (April 29) interesting.

Medium Grey will be a biweekly column devoted to current trends in the film and television world. Topics might span reviews, breaking news in the industry, or more general issues facing the medium. I'm your columnist, David Shuck '12, a film studies minor, aspiring filmmaker, and co-president of the Bowdoin Film Society. I've worked on both the development and production side of major network television, and recently returned from a semester of film production abroad at FAMU, the Czech national film academy in Prague. Please note that movie talk is based almost solely on subjective opinion, and this column is just that.

It's the off-season place. It's where you go when you don't feel like caring and it's time to eat your feelings. When asked if it's good, you sheepishly respond, "It's not not good." It's an MSG-filled gluttonous adventure that will leave you passed out on your couch for days. Placed just a stone's throw from campus, Asian restaurant China Rose provides Brunswick's premier greasy Chinese buffet fix.

One would not think, meandering around campus, that Bowdoin students are particularly lustful. Maybe it is the pastels of the omnipresent sweatpants or perhaps the relative unpopularity of sun dresses, but whatever the reason, students here just don't seem libidinous in the manner of those at Arizona State, Berkeley, or Miami. Such trivialities as reality, however, have never given pause to the editorial staff of The Daily Beast. And so, the Beast decreed that Bowdoin College was the fourth-horniest institution of higher learning in the land. Never mind the methodology; that would ruin the fun, wouldn't it?

Welcome back to another school year! Since my primary objective is to share awesome music with my readers, I have decided to widen the scope of this column beyond hip-hop releases to better achieve this goal. While hip-hop is certainly a big part of my life, it is by no means the only genre of music that excites me—I look forward to sharing other genres as well. Of course, you can still expect hip-hop reviews and recommendations about hip-hop, starting today with my discussion of the August 29 release, "Tha Carter IV."

This summer the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) offered an educational opportunity for two Bowdoin students to become engaged in museum work from the other side of the velvet ropes. Juniors Molly Clements and Max Brandstadt served as student educational assistants and assisted Curator Joachim Homann in preparing the exhibition, "Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan."

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's exhibition, "Edward Hopper's Maine," is one of its most successful to date. Andrew W. Mellon Curator Fellow Diana Tuite co-curated the exhibition with Director Kevin Salatino. Tuite remarked that in the exhibit's first month alone, "approximately 15,000 people have visited the show, whereas annual attendance is usually around 25,000."

While most fall athletes spent the last weeks of summer gearing up for the upcoming season, the sports information office was hard at work on a different kind of offseason workout: redesigning the athletics webpage. Sports Information Director Jim Caton worked with a team of students on the project, in conjunction with Presto Sports, a company which hosts numerous collegiate athletic websites.

Instead of packing up their dorm rooms in the final days of last semester, players on the women's lacrosse team were busy making program history in New York. After an 11-9 victory over The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) on May 21, Bowdoin advanced to the NCAA D-III championship game against Gettysburg the following day.

The women's soccer team kicked off its season yesterday with a dominant 3-0 shutout win in a non-league game against the University of Southern Maine Huskies. Bowdoin experienced several near misses from close-range shots in the early going and nearly put the game out of Southern Maine's reach within the first 10 minutes of play.