The Bowdoin Orient

The Office of Student Affairs determined that the men’s rugby team violated Bowdoin’s alcohol and hazing policies in light of events at an off-campus house and at the annual Epicuria party last Saturday, September 15. Tim Foster, dean of student affairs, announced the ruling in an email to all students yesterday evening. On the night of the annual campus-wide party, which is hosted by the men’s rugby team, four underage students were transported to Parkview Adventist Medical Adventist Center due to over-consumption of alcohol. The two first years and two sophomores who were transported to Parkview were all “tied directly or indirectly to Epicuria and the rugby team,” Foster wrote. Two of the students were transported from Ladd House, where the party took place.

The results of last spring’s NESCAC-wide alcohol and drug use survey, which were released to College officials last week, show that the drinking habits of Bowdoin students fall in line with peer schools, though students at the College are noticeably more proactive when it comes to calling for help in alcohol-related emergencies. Nine of the 11 NESCAC schools participated in the survey, which was distributed to about 20,000 students and designed with the intent of better understanding alcohol and drug use on each campus.

Josh Davis and Bruno Tropeano struggled when they first started Gelato Fiasco in 2007—banks were confused by the idea of gelato, and the economy collapsed just months after the company launched in fall of 2008.

The College is cracking down on vandalism this year, implementing stricter disciplinary sanctions for alcohol-related property damage. The change comes after nearly 80 percent of Bowdoin students responded that the College should respond to alcohol-related property damage with stricter disciplinary sanctions in last spring’s alcohol survey.

The results are in from last spring’s alcohol and drug use survey, and they confirm what many of us already know: Bowdoin’s drinking culture encourages responsibility and prioritizes the health of students above all else. Ninety-three percent of students surveyed think the College alcohol policy encourages calling for help, compared to only 77 percent at peer schools. Ninety-five percent of Bowdoin students believe Residential Life staff are supportive during alcohol-related emergencies—ten percent more than at peer schools. Most importantly, the survey showed that Bowdoin students are more likely to trust the administration and to call Security when help is needed. The results indicated that drinking at the College is no more extreme, nor prevalent, than at other NESCAC schools.

In light of the unfortunate events of Saturday night, we, the leaders of the rugby team, sincerely apologize and take full responsibility for what happened to our two teammates and regret what happened to the two other students who were transported. The rugby team strives to create an inclusive and fun social environment and it was never our intention to put Bowdoin students at risk. However, we are incensed and embarrassed that Dean Foster’s campus-wide email labeled our entire team as hazers who intended to humiliate our recruits and implied that we were responsible for the two additional transports.

Clicking through Bowdoin’s recently reformatted website, I have been struck by three things. First and foremost is the fact that the background picture changes every time the page is refreshed. Need a ploy to procrastinate? Keep shuffling through background pics until you arrive at professor Paul Franco and his (probably bioluminescent) white mane. Wait—this doesn’t strike you as awesome? Fine.

Next fall will mark the start of a two-year trial program that will re-imagine first-year-College House affiliation. Each house will be affiliated with four or five floors from different bricks. Howell will remain a chem-free College House and will be affiliated with floating chem-free floors.

I’m a senior and a neuroscience major. I work in a lab. I wear those blue nitrile gloves, and (sometimes) lab goggles. You may have seen me in Druckenmiller at odd hours, reading what looks to be a scientific journal article, carrying a box of crickets, or maybe with a tupperware in hand as I slip into a conspiratorial black-felted revolving entrance leading to a room where students develop film. Or maybe you don’t see me, because you prefer to avoid Druck altogether. Or maybe you’re studying in that atrium while I’m holed up in the lab. Or, for all I know, you’re hunkered down in your own lab on another floor, wearing your own blue gloves and lab goggles and sporting a white lab coat with close-toed shoes.

When Luke Holden opened the first location of Luke’s Lobster in Manhattan’s East Village in 2009, he was still employed full-time at Cohen & Steers investment bank. The company has steadily expanded over the past few years and Luke said his immediate goals are to reach Boston and Philadelphia. The long-term plan is to see Luke’s outposts in San Francisco, Chicago, and L.A.

On Saturday morning, I decided to go for a short run before meeting a friend for brunch. I started off crossing Park Row towards Maine Street. Before I knew it, I was being stopped at the crosswalk at the end of Page Street.

For most first years, college presents an opportunity for a fresh start among strangers. Most first years do not start college with millions of hits on YouTube.

Nicole Tan, or “uuuuuuuukewithme” on YouTube, has gained 5,280,969 views for her acoustic cover of the song “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj.

Tan is a prime example of talent converging with social media. She said watching YouTube videos sparked her interest in performing covers.

Jagged guitar licks, resounding crescendos, themes of loneliness and melancholy—I know it sounds like Arcade Fire, but these are all components of Grizzly Bear’s newest album “Shields.”

Maine Pro Musica, a thirty-two piece orchestra based in Rockport, Maine, performed at Studizinski Recital Hall last Saturday afternoon in the final show of their four-concert summer tour. Saturday’s program consisted of traditional classical works by child prodigies spanning several genres. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Overture to the Marriage of Figaro,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, no. 3, op.37, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4, op.90, were performed.

With the debut of a new surrealist photography exhibit, Wegman’s Weimaraners now have to share space with their artistic ancestors at the Museum of Art. On September 6, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art opened “Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic History,” chronicling the life and work of Boston photographer Fred Holland Day.

After battling nerves and difficult weather conditions in the past two tournaments, the men’s golf team aims to improve before the NESCAC championship. Due to a scheduling conflict, the team will split up in order to compete in both the Williams Invitational and the Maine State Championship this weekend.

Last weekend, the women’s soccer team bested non-conference opponent Brandeis University in a 2-1 victory.

The men’s rugby team opened the season against Bates last weekend, racking up a 67-0 score before the final whistle.

For a team of only five players, a new head coach has the potential to dramatically affect the team’s inner dynamic. For the women’s golf team, the arrival of new head coach Marissa O’Neil has served to increase their confidence and performance.

The men’s and women’s cross-country teams are off to a strong start this season after an impressive performance in their dual meet at the University of Southern Maine (USM) on Saturday.

The men’s and women’s cross-country teams are off to a strong start this season after an impressive performance in their dual meet at the University of Southern Maine (U.S.M.) on Saturday. Sam Seekins ’14, Coby Horowitz ’14, Greg Talpey ’14, Nick Saba ’14, and Kevin Hoose ’15 all finished in the top six, within 23 seconds of one another.