{"id":1272,"date":"2006-12-21T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1272"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:55","slug":"a-bates-minute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2006\/winter06\/features\/a-bates-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the world in a Bates minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo essay that answers the question: What are Bates people doing right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Winter 2006 issue of\u00a0Bates Magazine,<\/em> we tried to answer a familiar question: What are Bates people doing\u00a0right now?<\/em><\/p>\n

So we inquired around the world, finding alums, parents, faculty and students who\u00a0agreed to be photographed at\u00a0the same moment on the same day.<\/p>\n

For our minute, we chose 9:47 a.m. Eastern Time (or 14:47 Greenwich Mean Time, if you wish) on Nov. 3, 2005. The\u00a0minute\u00a0was picked randomly and\u00a0practically. We\u00a0wanted a minute\u00a0in which\u00a0our contributors might actually\u00a0be awake, whether it\u00a0be Tim Leach ’99\u00a0in the\u00a0darkness of\u00a05:47 a.m. Alaska, or Kimmochi Eguchi ’97 in Tokyo at 11:47 p.m.<\/p>\n

All our\u00a0participants can be seen above\u00a0left in a slide show. The diverse group was brought together in\u00a0an artificial construct, it’s true. Yet, I think, it is\u00a0not\u00a0difficult to view the slide show and let your mind create a pleasing sense of concord.<\/p>\n\n\t\t