{"id":9588,"date":"2025-11-12T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:41:39","slug":"whats-all-the-commotion-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2025\/11\/12\/whats-all-the-commotion-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s All the Commotion About?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png\" alt=\"Bates Student Newspaper\" class=\"wp-image-7001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-400x71.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-768x136.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-1536x271.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Every so often, you may be dutifully studying in the library when suddenly a large group of talkative middle schoolers trudges past you, led by a couple of Bates students. You might wonder what all of this commotion is about. The answer? Aspiration Days.&#8221; So begins a recent article in\u00a0<em>The Bates Student\u00a0<\/em>by Ellen Cabin &#8217;28 of Penrose, North Carolina and a 2025 Bates Votes Fellow. For those who didn&#8217;t notice the article in the student newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebatesstudent.com\/27889\/features\/what-are-aspirations-days-at-bates\/\">we thought we would share it here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Every so often, you may be dutifully studying in the library when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9590,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}