{"id":114845,"date":"2018-04-13T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=114845"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:01:23","slug":"whats-in-the-ladd-library-lost-found-on-april-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/whats-in-the-ladd-library-lost-found-on-april-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in the Ladd Library lost &#038; found on April 13, 2018?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famed anthropologist Clifford Geertz said that &#8220;small facts speak to large issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the end of finals week for the winter semester, and in reviewing all the small items in today&#8217;s lost-and-found bin in Ladd Library, we share this big takeway: It&#8217;s been a busy time for Bates students.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy of the April 9 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em> (with a wrapper telling the student that it&#8217;s her last copy, &#8220;unless we hear from you right away.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Two black ankle socks.<\/li>\n<li>Glow-in-the-dark bracelet no longer glowing.<\/li>\n<li>Assorted earrings.<\/li>\n<li>Notebook with a boxed to-do list: &#8220;Write memo&#8230;finish gender and visual culture reading&#8230;go to the gym&#8230;start writing midterm paper&#8230;finalize &#8216;Sociology of Gender&#8217; video script&#8230;install Photoshop.&#8221; (In the margin, there&#8217;s a reminder about a bus trip for the Lost Valley Bates Takeover, a March evening when Bates rented the small local ski area. More than 450 people attended.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Red beaded necklace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_114854\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright credit-only\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114854\" class=\"wp-image-114854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/04\/lost-and-found-2018-04-13-09.51.35-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>A graded paper from English 296, &#8220;Methods and Modes of Literary Study,&#8221; taught by Professor of English Sylvia Federico. The paper&#8217;s title: &#8220;Historical Amnesia in Octavia Butler&#8217;s <em>Kindred<\/em>.&#8221; Federico&#8217;s comment: &#8220;This is a very smart discussion. Is American identity symbolized in the bodies of its most vulnerable\/abused members?&#8221; The grade: an A!<\/li>\n<li>Bates Residence Life 2017\u201318 water bottle.<\/li>\n<li>Empty DITA sunglasses case.<\/li>\n<li>Printed program for the opening of the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/02\/senior-thesis-exhibition-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior Thesis Exhibition<\/a> in the Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li>Knit cap (no brand).<\/li>\n<li>Two mismatched leather gloves (no brand).<\/li>\n<li>Two custom rubber wrist bands, one touting lacrosse, the other imprinted with &#8220;Bates Allies,&#8221; an LGBTQ support initiative that gives individuals education, skills, and ways to ensure a safe and welcoming campus.<\/li>\n<li>Copy of Thomas Hardy&#8217;s last completed novel, <em>Jude the Obscure.<\/em><\/li>\n<li id=\"contentAbstract_short\">Copy of <em>Natural Goodness<\/em> by Philippa Foot, presenting a &#8220;naturalistic theory of ethics,&#8221; according to the publisher.<\/li>\n<li>Copy of <em><span class=\"sims-lpo-header-title\">Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul<\/span><\/em><span class=\"sims-lpo-header-title\">, an anthology on &#8220;the psychological and political aspects of a woman&#8217;s body in today&#8217;s culture.&#8221;<\/span><em><span class=\"sims-lpo-header-title\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a copy of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, two black ankle socks, a busy student&#8217;s to-do list, and a graded English paper with the prof&#8217;s glowing comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":114854,"comment_status":"open","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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[4,11012],"tags":[11780],"class_list":["post-114845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-student-life","tag-lost-and-found"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114845"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114845\/revisions\/114877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}