The Bowdoin Orient

A Bowdoin student reported seeing three teenage males stealing a bike outside of Druckenmiller Hall on Monday night at approximately 10:30 p.m. The student reported the incident to the Office of Safety and Security, continuing the ongoing investigation into a series of recent bicycle thefts.

A new campus publication is hitting the presses this semester. The Globalist, an international affairs magazine with chapters at various colleges and universities, will publish its first Bowdoin edition this semester under the leadership of juniors Max Staiger, Gus Vergara and Stanton Cambridge.

Burglars allegedly pried open the rear door of the Brunswick Variety Deli early Thursday morning, stealing cigarettes, change, and a drop safe with a combination.

Bowdoin has announced that its endowment earned a return on investment of 22.3 percent, rising in value to $904.2 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, up from $753.5 million in fiscal year 2010. The increase in value is the College's sixth-highest single-year gain since 1970.

Bowdoin is set to get a technological makeover. The installation of a new student information system will allow students to register for courses online for the first time ever. Members of the Board of Trustees and President Barry Mills approved the purchase of the new information system, called Banner, at a May trustee meeting.

The Bowdoin Office of Safety and Security and the Brunswick Police Department (BPD) are continuing their investigations into a chain of recent burglaries on campus and the surrounding area. Following football practice on the afternoons of September 9 and 10, several students reported items missing from the football team's locker room in Pickard Field House, including cash, credit cards, cell phones, athletic apparel, a team playbook and stereo equipment.

In the aftermath of a Waterville Police Department (WPD) raid on an off-campus party last weekend, more than 50 Colby students are now facing alcohol-related charges.

The University of California, Berkeley was thrust into the spotlight this week after the Berkeley College Republicans held a controversial bake sale. The event was protesting a student initiative supporting a state Senate bill to allow race, gender and ethnicity to influence admissions decisions at California's public universities. The group's Facebook page listed the prices for its baked goods, which were intended to reflect the impropriety of affirmative action in the college admissions process: $2 for whites, $1.50 for Asians, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans, and 25 cents for Native Americans. All women received a 25-cent discount off those prices.

When we returned to Bowdoin this fall, we noticed changes around campus and most of them were positive.

On Wednesday, September 21, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal met their families in Muscat, Oman, after being released from Evin Prison in Iran following two years of imprisonment.

The idea of campaigning for a job with a goal of diminishing its importance has always confused me, but that's exactly what Republican hopeful Rick Perry has pledged to do.

To the Editors: As a proud graduate of the College, I am thrilled to hear that chapel is taking place in a school founded by evangelical Congregationalists.

The grading system is currently set up such that Bowdoin students can easily sail through four years of college without knowing the details of how they compare academically to their peers. And as long as the College refuses to release the student body’s average GPA—not to mention the average grades given by each department—this will continue to be the case.

On Wednesday evening, students held a vigil on the Walker Art Building steps in protest of Troy Davis’ impending execution in Jackson, Georgia. Davis’ execution was a miscarriage of justice and a failure of the American legal system.

"That's so college." What a phrase—it recalls stories of all that's good and wild about college: all nighters, crappy light beer and sexilings.

"Every college student needs a Bundt pan," my mother said sarcastically as she watched me pack. She should have known I would take this as a challenge.

There's really only one word for bagels in Brunswick, Maine: ignorant. Finding a good bagel in this area is just about as easy as finding the local synagogue.

Unlike many other liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin's Career Planning Center (CPC) website does not display the post-graduate plans for the Class of 2011.

Monsters will be invading Portland's Space Gallery tomorrow night. The punk-influenced, garage-pop trio Mango Floss features three Bowdoin alumni—Sarah Wood '10, Farhan Rahman '10, and Peter McLaughlin '10—and their debut album, "Monsters" features songs like "Godzilla" and "Sociopath." The group will be playing these songs and others from "Monsters" when they hit Space Gallery's stage.

I suppose I've been in a concert-going mood as of late. This Sunday, I ventured to Lewiston to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee to see renowned DJ and electronic sample artist Pretty Lights perform.

Associate Professor of English Ann Kibbie will present a lecture on Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train" next Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Main Lounge, Moulton Union as part of the Bowdoin Book Lecture Series. Highsmith (1921-1995) was an American novelist and short story writer who was perhaps best known for her psychological thrillers. Her works have garnered both commercial and critical acclaim.

Bowdoin's student-run theater group, Masque and Gown, will be putting on its annual 24-hour show this Saturday.

Last Tuesday evening, a friend informed me that Washed Out was opening for Cut Copy at the State Theatre. A few phone calls and some extra daytime hours in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library later, I was in a car with four friends driving to Portland.

This week, I am switching gears to discuss a genre of electronic dance music—dubstep—that has reached unprecedented levels of popularity over the last few years. For those new to the scene, dubstep songs are set at around 140 beats per minute, are usually dominated by a powerful bass line, and typically incorporate heavily manipulated sound waves to produce a unique style of electronic music that is bound to set any listener's head bobbing.

"I love sleepin' in on Saturdays / and I love college football games / I love not acting my age / and good Barbeque," sings Eric Church in "Love Your Love the Most." Call it weird, crazy, depressing, pathetic, absurd, call it whatever you want, but Eric Church pretty much sums up my life in this song, and no verse is more fitting than the very first lines listed above.

Thanks to a string of successful performances, the women's sailing team is now 10th in the country in Sailing World's College Rankings, its first time on the list since 2003. The women's team finished eighth in the 16-team Regis Bowl at Boston University with a total of 94 points. The boats mixed rookies and veterans, as Emily McNeil '14 sailed with Charlotte Williamson '15 and Lizzy Hamilton '15 sailed with Isabel Low '13.

When last weekend's field hockey games got close, the crowd looked to one player: Cathleen Smith '13. Smith helped Bowdoin to victories against Middlebury and Williams, as well as to the No. 2 ranking in the country this week. "As a team we've been improving every single game with our connections across the field," said Smith, who was named NESCAC Player of the Week on Monday. "Our goal is to keep improving in every practice and every game."

Coming off impressive singles play at the Stony Brook Invitational in early September, the men's tennis team kept the ball rolling at Williams last weekend. At the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Championship, unseeded singles players led the way for Bowdoin. In the singles bracket, Chris Lord '14 and Nicholas Fenichell '12 both had impressive runs and collected several victories.

After outscoring opponents 127-0 over its first four games, the women's rugby team gave up its first points of the season in a 22-7 win at Colby. Bowdoin opened the scoring after about 15 minutes of play when a series of pick-and-goes by juniors Dani McAvoy and Uche Esonu fed captain Katie Mathews '12 for the try. Colby responded on the ensuing possession with a long run to tie the game.