First-Year Seminars Introduce Students to Intellectual Life
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FALL 2016 VOL. 88 NO. 1 MAGAZINE First-Year Seminars Introduce Students to Intellectual Life TEAM CAPTAINS HONE LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES: AMERICAN GOVERNANCE IN THEORY AND ACTION FUNDED INTERNSHIPS TRANSFORM SUMMERS AND LIVES TALKING IDENTITY WITH PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR SUSAN FALUDI contents fall BowdoinMAGAZINE Volume 88, Number 1 Fall 2016 Bowdoin features Magazine Staff Editor Matthew J. O’Donnell Seen 16 Founding Principles Director of Editorial Services American Governance in Theory and Action Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 BY ANDREW RUDALEVIGE 16 Executive Editor Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government writes Alison M. Bennie about a series of fifteen short videos that provides an overview and Design Frost is but slender weeks away, basic understanding of the foundations of American government. Charles Pollock Tonight the sunset glow will stay, Mike Lamare PL Design – Portland, Maine Swing to the north and burn up higher 18 An Intimate Introduction And Northern Lights wall earth with fire. Contributors BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM • ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIAN HUBBLE James Caton Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, What do Cleopatra, James Bond, Jane Austen, utopian communities, Douglas Cook And yet the cold blue word is spoken: nongovernmental organizations, young adult novels, and the US 18 John R. Cross ’76 Say goodbye to the sun. Supreme Court all have in common? They are among the thirty-seven Leanne Dech The days of love and leaves are done. first-year seminar topics the members of Bowdoin’s Class of 2020 Rebecca Goldfine Scott W. Hood had to choose from during registration for fall 2016. —Robert P.T. Coffin, Class of 1915 Megan Morouse Tom Porter Morgan Reilly ’18 24 Getting a Leg Up Melissa Wells BY REBECCA GOLDFINE • PHOTOGRAPHS BY DENNIS GRIGGS Photographs by: From Osborn Ng’imor ’18 building a library in Kenya to Satya Kent ’19 24 Brian Beard, Dennis Griggs, Bob Handelman, studying beavers in Washington state, Bowdoin’s funded internship Michele Stapleton, and Bowdoin College program helps students pursue unpaid summer internships. Archives. On the cover: The door handle on the Maine Street side of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 28 Taking Charge Photo by Michele Stapleton. (The winter 1980 BY ANNE STEIN • PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRED FIELD AND BOWDOIN ATHLETICS issue of the Bowdoin Alumnus featured a photo College sports are supposed to be fun, but leading close friends can of the distinctive handle trimmed in snow.) be a challenge. A new program is teaching Bowdoin’s team captains BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) how to be effective leaders, on and off the field. is published three times a year by Bowdoin College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent undergraduates, members of the senior class, faculty and staff, and members of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. Departments Please send address changes, ideas, or letters to the editor to the address above or by e-mail 2 Mailbox 58 Weddings to [email protected]. Send class 3 Almanac 64 Deaths news to [email protected] or to the 34 Class News 65 Whispering Pines address above. Advertising inquiries? e-mail Photographer Fred Field captured this young buck silhouetted against an autumn morning fog at Bowdoin’s [email protected]. Coastal Studies Center. The lines of poetry are from “The Corner of the Year,” which appeared in Coffin’s 28 collection Apples by Ocean (The MacMillan Company, 1950). BOWDOIN | FALL 2016 [email protected] 1 Bowdoin Bowdoin Mailbox Bowdoin In Huge Measure Of Course! Almanac ill De La Rosa, “The face of misfortune and egarding John Carter ’58’s note about Harriet Beecher B endurance,” indeed. His story is both wounding and R Stowe and where Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written: Hyde A DIGEST OF CAMPUS, ALUMNI, AND GENERAL COLLEGE MISCELLANY uplifting. I’m glad you chose to tell it in the spring/summer Hall wasn’t built until 1917. Ms. Stowe had moved on by then. issue. He is the kind of Bowdoin graduate we can all Russell McMullen ’68 applaud, a young man who has seized every opportunity offered him, and then given back in huge measure to people less fortunate than he. I’m so glad that Bowdoin “got “Liberal arts colleges are well suited to lead the SAVING inside him,” as Mel Allen said. The whole issue is full of Centennial Effect WHITMAN-WALKER interesting things, but I did miss John Cross in the back of ongratulations to Kirby Hight ’38 on his 100th birthday way in this renewal of American community. A sense In 2006, Don Blanchon ’86 the book. C [Class News, Spring/Summer 2016]. I believe he is the that we care for one another, a sense of tolerance, took over as executive Dulcianne Vye P’83 last surviving member of my parents’ circle of childhood director of Whitman-Walker friends from Skowhegan, Maine. After a year at the Kents empathy, personal responsibility, individual freedom Health as the renowned HIV- Hill School, my late father, Linwood J. Groder ’39, followed AIDS clinic in Washington, Kirby to Bowdoin and was also a member of the DKE —those are core American values.” DC, foundered in a sea of fraternity. When they graduated from high school, Kirby, my US Senator Susan Collins during a discussion with the College community on campus in October. red ink and struggled to father, and another childhood friend, Gerald Griffin, drove remain open. His hiring from Maine in one of Kirby’s family cars to the Chicago was controversial at the World’s Fair of 1933–34. My father had fifty dollars to time, as were his cost-cutting spend, a gift from his parents. Each day he kept a careful Carb n-Neutral IN methods. Ten years later, 2020 Blanchon heads a revitalized accounting of his expenses in a small note book. When they passed through New York, a final entry said: “I guess The College remains on track to meet its goal for a Whitman-Walker. The I will know when the money runs out.” On YouTube 28 percent reduction in “own-source” emissions by Washington Post chronicled there are some color clips of what the Fair, “A Century 2020. Bowdoin’s greenhouse gas emissions were 24 the compelling story in an of Progress,” was like and some endurance testing of the percent lower in fiscal year 2016 compared August feature. To read it, go popular cars of the day. After their long journey on difficult to 2008, the base year established to washingtonpost.com and roads this testing must have made a lot of sense to our when the College committed to search “Whitman-Walker.” A Different Light young travelers. After college, and World War II, my father becoming “carbon neutral” by 2020. followed Griffin to New York and a successful career the Own-source emissions saw a 19 read with interest the article in the Spring/Summer issue of textile business. So these friends had a great effect on my percent decrease with respect to the I Bowdoin Magazine about Bill De La Rosa and his family. father’s life—and mine. base year. For more information, go to The young man has certainly accomplished much in his young bowdoin.edu/sustainability. life. The author, Mel Allen, states that Mr. De La Rosa’s mother Edward T. Groder ’60 was deported from the US. Actually, she became ineligible to return to America for ten years once she voluntarily left the CORRECTION: country. Mrs. De La Rosa’s immigration lawyer, according to We misidentified the class year for Jonathan Kahn ’83 in the the article, “had advised crossing the border (into Mexico), Class News section of our last issue. SOCIAL MEDIA admitting her past, and soon she would rejoin her family.” That attorney should be sued for malpractice. On October 20, Antionette Wearing ’17 posted this Instagram selfie with fellow students and visiting lecturer Michael Guignard ’69 Thokozani Ndaba, a South African theater practitioner, activist, and performer. Pictured with Ndaba and Professor Judith Casselberry: Elizabeth Takyi ’17, Preston Thomas ’17, Wearing, Faith Macharia ’17, facebook.com/bowdoin @bowdoincollege bowdoincollege bowdoindailysun.com Regina Hernandez ’17, Emiley Charley ’17, Mariam-Boubacar Nimaga ’17, Dylan Johnson ’17, Send Us Mail! Briana Cardwell ’17, and Lydia Woodward ’16. We’re interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us by e-mail at [email protected]. 2 BOWDOIN | FALL 2016 [email protected] 3 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac A SUPERIOR ADVENTURE Uma Blanchard ’17 is part of the first all-female team— she shares an appreciation for backcountry adventure. and possibly the youngest—to kayak completely around Initially propelled by their love for Lake Superior, the Lake Superior. Blanchard and her friend Sophie Goeks set women soon realized they could help adventure lovers out May 25 to kayak the 1,200-mile lake circumference in and, in particular, other women who want to paddle the ninety days. They finished August 18—in eighty-six days. lake. There is no established protocol for this trip. Unlike The lake captivated the women years ago. “There well-trodden routes such as the Appalachian Trail, there is something magical about Lake Superior. People who are no campsites at regular intervals and few documented spend time around the lake describe it as a spiritual place; trips to emulate. Many areas of the lakeshore are remote it is a powerful body of water. I don’t hear people talk and unpopulated. Preparing for the trip required careful about any other body of water the way they talk about planning for food supplies and resupply points and the lake, the way they feel about it,” explains Blanchard.