MOUNT DAVID SUMMIT
A Celebration of Student Academic Achievement
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, April 2, 2004
2:30-2:45 PM	Perry Atrium	Call to the Summit
		Te Deum, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)
		Bates Brass Quintet:  Timothy Cooke '04, trumpet; Jeffrey Kazin '04, trumpet; Amy Saffer, horn; Alexander Smith '06, trombone; Patrick Galligan '07, tuba
		Welcome
		Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President
		Jamil Zraikat '05, President, Bates College Student Government
		Jill N. Reich, Dean of the Faculty
Ongoing	Perry Atrium and Pettengill Lobby	Fourth Annual Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibit
	Pettengill G52 and The Ronj	A Journey of 10,000 Li:  Bates FSA in China
	Pettengill G65	Snapshots of Lewiston: Grace Fei Liu '06
Concurrent Session I
2:45-4:00 PM	Perry Atrium	Poster Session I
		Presenters from biochemistry, biology, environmental studies, math, and political science/women's and gender studies
2:45-4:15 PM	Pettengill G21	Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Responsibility
		Emily Barko '04: Narratives of Anorexia: A Qualitative Analysis
		Elizabeth Jackson '04: The Role of NGOs in the Emergence of Transnational Social Movements: A Look at the Movement Opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas
		Tanya Schwartz '04: The ABCs of Success: The Effects of Parents, Schools, and Communities on Young Children's Academic Achievement
		Heather Tompkins 04: Pathways Home: Aftercare for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
		Kara Stenback '05: Endowment Management in Higher Education
		Emily Kane, professor of sociology, moderator
	Pettengill G52	Individuals, Communities, and the Environment
		Rachel Booty '04: Soil Lead Determinations in Three Urban Community Gardens, Lewiston, Maine
		Morgan Patterson '04: The Creation and Development of a Climbing Ethic in New England
		Christopher Urban '04: Managing People and Wilderness in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont: A Study of Constructive Conservation Policy
		Andrew Whitaker '04: Miad na sine, the Strength of the Storm: Gaelic Songs and Nature in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
		Rachel Austin, associate professor of chemistry, moderator
	Pettengill G54	Economic Opportunity in Developing Countries
		Tahsin Alam '04:  Microcredit as a System for Poverty Alleviation
	Pettengill G63	Las Dimensiones de las Diasporas latinoamericanas/ The Dimensions of Latin American Diasporas
		Eduardo Crespo '04: Parlando, the Illegal Italian: Diasporas and Globalization from Below
		Julio Guevara '07: The Necessity of Exile in the Poetry of Manuel Luna
		Sara Gusky '07: Seasons of Emotion in Pablo Neruda's "El barco de los adioses"
		Elizabeth Irvine-McDermott '04: The Natural World as an Alternative "Home" for the Exiled
		Felicia Fahey, assistant professor of Spanish, moderator
	Pettengill G65	Cultural Crossroads:  Health Care, Education, and Tourism
		Erin Bednarek '05: Health in Samoa
		Jason Rafferty '05: Siofua Malōlōina: Bringing "Health" to Samoa's Rural Villages
		Julie Gage '04: Acculturation of Somali Students in the ELL Classroom at Lewiston High School
		Jesse Lewin '04: Interactions between Somali Secondary Migrants and Physicians in Lewiston, Maine: An Ethnographic Field Study in Refugee Health Care and Cultural Competency
		Valerie Wicks '04: The Search for Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in Ghana
		Heather Lindkvist, lecturer in anthropology, moderator
Concurrent Session II
4:30-5:45 PM	Perry Atrium	Poster Session II
		Presenters from biochemistry, biology, chemistry, classical and medieval studies, environmental studies, math, neuroscience, and psychology
4:30-6:00 PM	Pettengill G21	Attitudes, Behaviors and Theory:  Can We Talk?
		Samara Khalique '04: Psychosocial Attributes as a Predictor of Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Females
		Saul Miller '04: The Effect of Processing Goals on the Memory of Ambiguous Behaviors
		Katherine Papadonis '04: Early Head Start: The Benefits of Family-Style Meals
		Claire Schneider '04: Why Do Adolescent Boys and Girls Differ in Their Experiences of Aggression?  An Investigation through the Lens of Self-Construal Theory
		Kathryn Graff Low, professor of psychology, moderator
	Pettengill G52	Place and the Sacred in Poetry and Song
		Sarah Tressel '04: Comfort and Discomfort: Revisiting Ghana through Poetry
		Renée Blacken '05: Singing in the Primitive Baptist Church in Southern Appalachia, with music by Northfield: Renee Blacken '05; Henry Blackford '06; Megan Fortin '07; Paul Heckler '06; Mirka Hlavacova '07; Stuart Johnson '06; Benjamin Kercsmar '04; Nicholas Klinovsky '06; Sarah Mazur '06; Taegan McMahon '07; Jessica Ricker '07; Gregory Rosenthal '05; Sarah Sprague '07; Katharine Trautz '04; Robert Allison, professor of religion; Gregory Boardman, instructor of folk fiddling
		Robert Allison, professor of religion
	Pettengill G54	Ancient Threads in Modern Texts
		Sarah Connell '04: Hero and Goddess
		Jennifer Hanley '05: The Perversion of Ritual in the Iliad
		Martha Horan '04: The Western Flower, Shakespeare’s Mulberry Tree:  An Ovidian Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
		Jennifer McGill '04: Female Characters in Greek and Noh Drama
		Henry Walker, lecturer in classics and classical and medieval studies, moderator
	Pettengill G63	Probing Scientific Systems
		Jeffrey Levinson '04: New Variables for Quantum Interference
		Aaron Putnam '04: Recent Sedimentation of a Transect of High Arctic Isolation Basins; Queen Elizabeth Islands Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada
		Pamela Baker, professor of biology and associate dean of the faculty, moderator
	Pettengill G65	Race, Religion, and Class in Historical Inquiry
		Grace Fei Liu '06:  Snapshots of Lewiston
		Cali Lanza-Weil '06: Twenty Years of Hillel at Bates
		Timothy Larson '05: The Abolitionist Roots of Oren B. Cheney, the Founder of Bates
		Darcy York '05: Child Labor in Lewiston's Mills
		Bradley Proctor '04: What Say Banjer? The Shared Black and White Banjo Traditions of the American South
		Joseph Hall, assistant professor of history, moderator
Evening Sessions
8:00 PM	Olin Concert Hall	Bates College Orchestra:  Works by Frank and Mozart
		Featuring Cass Panuska '04, soprano, and Frank Glazer, artist-in-residence, piano
	Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall	Senior thesis performance: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe Saida Cooper '04