One of the first stories, by\u00a0Quartz <\/em>reporter Jenny Anderson, explained why Bates commissioned the study: to\u00a0test the founding premise of the college’s Purposeful Work program, specifically, “that happiness and fulfillment” among college graduates “comes in large part from finding meaningful work.”<\/p>\n Bates College President Clayton Spencer speaks with New York Times <\/em>assistant managing editor Carolyn Ryan \u201986 at the announcement of the results of a Bates-Gallup survey examining the role of purpose in college graduates\u2019 working lives. (Photo by Cheriss May)<\/p><\/div>\n Specifically, the Gallup study sought to “find out how important meaning was to their work, whether they had found it, and what undergraduate experiences helped most in shaping that meaning.”<\/p>\n As Anderson notes, the study shows that Bates is onto something big: “A whopping 80 percent of college graduates said that it is very important or extremely important to derive a sense of purpose from their work. Less than half had succeeded in finding it. The report…dubs this the ‘purpose gap.'”<\/p>\n Read the stories:<\/p>\n Francis majored in math and economics at Bates and played football and lacrosse for Bates. Football coach Mark Harriman described the linebacker as both a stellar student and \u201cstudent of the game\u201d; Francis understood the intricacies of each play and would come in early to watch tape.<\/p>\n A Bates connection helped Francis land an internship with the Buffalo Bills, and after graduation he worked for the Kraft Analytics Group in business analytics.<\/p>\n Now, for the Bengals, he\u2019s working to automate the production of scouting reports, so that coaches don\u2019t have to go through hours of film to understand plays and come up with game plans. The job is reminiscent of managing his many academic and athletic obligations at Bates, Francis told Kramlich.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of balls in the air that you\u2019re juggling, and long days,\u201d he said. \u201cIt definitely prepared me very well.\u201d<\/p>\n Reporting on the explosion of craft breweries in New Jersey, Alex Biese of the Asbury Park Press<\/i> talked to Eric Ruta \u201914, owner of Magnify Brewing Company.<\/p>\n Ruta envisioned Magnify as a student at Bates, when he saw local excitement around craft beer in Maine, and breweries\u2019 reciprocal focus on Maine.<\/p>\n \u201cThe original goal was to create this community around beer that we’d see in Maine with local support,” he told Biese. “We’re super-focused on northern New Jersey the same way a lot of these places are focused on Portland, Maine.”<\/p>\n Morgan Tilton of 5280 <\/i>magazine received some encouraging words and a ski lesson from Krista Crabtree \u201995, the creator of a new women\u2019s ski program at Colorado\u2019s Crested Butte Mountain Resort.<\/p>\n Companies have only been designing ski gear specifically for women since the 1990s. Crabtree, a ski racer at Bates, longtime editor of SKI Magazine<\/em>, and current director of the Eldora Women\u2019s Program, created the Elan Women\u2019s Weekend to help test a new line of multi-condition \u201cone-quiver\u201d skis and to help the testers understand their own gear.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to teach women how to look under the hood of their cars,\u201d she told Tilton. \u201cI want to help women know their ski equipment on a professional level, in order to empower them with knowledge and keep them from being taken advantage of on the retail floor.\u201d<\/p>\n Daniel Oyolu \u201915 is one of more than 60 first-year students from the African diaspora at Harvard Law School \u2014 one of the largest black classes in the school\u2019s history. In March, he helped get everyone together for a photo shoot; the result was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n Daniel Oyolu ’15 gives a presentation on legal traditions represented in the Gospel of Luke during the 2015 Mount David Summit, Bates College\u2019s annual celebration of student academic achievement. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Above the Law\u2019s <\/i>Renwei Chung spoke to Oyolu and the other two organizers of the shoot about their paths to law school, the possibilities and shortcomings of law, and the importance of representation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want all students to think, \u2018I can see myself there,\u2019\u201d Oyolu said. \u201cSometimes, seeing the possibility is all you need to take the next step. Representation offers that possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t have enough tan, sand, and swimsuits in your life?<\/p>\n All seasons of Baywatch <\/i>are now on Amazon Prime Video, and to mark the occasion, David Chokachi\u2019s hometown paper caught up with the cast member, who\u2019s had a steady stream of TV and movie roles since playing Cody Madison.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, life in the real Los Angeles is not as glamorous as life on the beaches of Los Angeles County; Chokachi and his family lost their home to last year\u2019s brush fires in Malibu.<\/p>\n He\u2019s looking ahead, though \u2014 possibly to a Baywatch <\/i>reboot, he told reporter Emily Clark.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I\u2019m really hoping is that we could do it again,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it would be amazing. I mean, why don\u2019t we reboot the series? If we shot it in today\u2019s world, we could do magic with that thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the story: “\u2018Baywatch\u2019 available on Amazon<\/a>,” Old Colony Memorial<\/em>, March 21, 2019<\/p>\n Jeannette Cooperman of St. Louis Magazine <\/i>interviewed Jason Hall \u201997, a community-minded lawyer, investor, and economic developer in St. Louis.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Jason Hall<\/p><\/div>\n Hall, the son of a steelworker in nearby Granite City, came to Bates because of its debate team and went on to earn a law degree at Vanderbilt. He came back to St. Louis to work at a law firm and started an LGBT bar association \u2014 a scary proposition in a state that at the time was considering a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n But in 2009 Missouri\u2019s governor appointed him to head a corporation focused on developing small tech-focused businesses, and he\u2019s worked at the intersection of business, tech, and government ever since.<\/p>\n He\u2019s now the co-founder and CEO of investment management firm Arch to Park and has started STLMade, an effort to boost St. Louis\u2019 reputation.<\/p>\n Hall\u2019s credentials could have taken him anywhere, but, he told Cooperman, it was an easy choice to come back to St. Louis after law school.<\/p>\n \u201cThe easy choice is to flock to the coasts \u2014 but if I care about the place that cared about me, I\u2019m going to go back to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n As a doctoral student in history at William and Mary, Caylin Elizabeth Carbonell \u201912 is interested in women who lived in what is now the United States before 1750. Problem is, their voices are often not preserved in archives \u2014 and if they are, the documents aren\u2019t well-labeled, she wrote in a guest post for The Junto, <\/i>a blog about early American history.<\/p>\n To find women\u2019s voices, Carbonell has to take an approach of \u201cskimming,\u201d reading over everything she can in a manageably small archive to recover notes and records that provide insight into how women lived in early America. Often, she finds what she needs on small, loose scraps of paper \u2014 notes and records folded into larger, more \u201cofficial\u201d documents.<\/p>\n Digitizing archival papers has potential to lift up overlooked voices from history, Carbondell wrote \u2014 but digitization could also perpetuate the labeling systems that make women\u2019s stories hard to find.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen creating digital resources, we might try to think more critically about the ways we categorize and tag such data so as to open up new pathways rather than reinforcing old biases,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n The blog Coast Guard Compass <\/i>highlighted the career of Janna Lambine \u201973, a Coast Guard aviator who was nominated at the Women in Aviation International Conference in March.<\/p>\n After studying geology at Bates, Lambine joined the Coast Guard and went to flight school, earning her wings for both airplanes and helicopters in 1977.<\/p>\n \u201cThis made her the first female aviator, the first female helicopter pilot, and the first female HH-3 helicopter pilot in the Coast Guard,\u201d wrote Diana Sherbs.<\/p>\n Lambine, who served on Governor\u2019s Island in New York during Operation Desert Storm, now lives on Cape Cod.<\/p>\n![\"Bates](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/0M7A0252-900x600.jpg\")
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Former Bates athlete Sam Francis now crunching numbers for Cincinnati Bengals \u2014 Sun Journal <\/i><\/h5>\n
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<\/a>Wil Kramlich of the Lewiston Sun Journal <\/i>profiled Sam Francis \u201917, who is using his football talent and proficiency with numbers to help the Cincinatti Bengals up their analytics game.<\/p>\n\n
\nEric Ruta \u201914<\/h3>\n
The Garden State is in midst of a craft beer boom, but still has a long way to go \u2014 Asbury Park Press <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nKrista Crabtree \u201995<\/h3>\n
A new women\u2019s ski camp pairs gear-testing with skills training \u2014 5280 <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nDaniel Oyolu \u201915<\/h3>\n
1L class represents at Harvard Law School, and it\u2019s picture perfect \u2014 Above the Law <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nDavid Chokachi \u201990<\/h3>\n
\u2018Baywatch\u2019 available on Amazon \u2014 Old Colony Memorial <\/i><\/h5>\n
\nJason Hall \u201997<\/h3>\n
Through Arch to Park and STLMade, Jason Hall is boosting St. Louis\u2019 brand \u2014 St. Louis Magazine <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nCaylin Carbonell \u201912<\/h3>\n
Does size really matter? Searching for early American women in the archives \u2014 The Junto <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nJanna Lambine \u201973<\/h3>\n
Coast Guard officer women aviators are \u201cthe firsts\u201d \u2014 Coast Guard Compass <\/i><\/h5>\n