{"id":127151,"date":"2019-09-20T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=127151"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:58:56","slug":"bates-in-the-news-sept-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/20\/bates-in-the-news-sept-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Sept. 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Elizabeth Strout \u201977<\/h3>\n<h5>Elizabeth Strout on Returning to Olive Kitteridge \u2014 <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Elizabeth Strout \u201977 thought she was \u201cdone\u201d with Olive Kitteridge, the central character in her 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Until, she told <em>New Yorker<\/em> fiction editor Deborah Triesman, one day in a European cafe when Olive \u201cjust showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108379\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167.jpg\" alt=\"Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author Elizabeth Strout \u201977 stands with President Clayton Spencer following their interview about Strout\u2019s approach to writing, the role played by Bates and Maine, and Strout's latest book &quot;Anything is Possible.&quot; The Reunion event was SRO in the Fireplace Lounge of Commons. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\u00a0\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/170610_Elizabeth_Strout_Clayton_Spencer_0167-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author Elizabeth Strout \u201977 stands with President Clayton Spencer following her 2017 Reunion discussion with Spencer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Olive, Again<\/em>, will be published in October. The sequel features Olive as she ages and her interactions with other characters deepen and change.<\/p>\n<p>The books\u2019 Maine setting, Strout told Triesman, is inextricable from its characters. \u201cOlive \u2014 my Olive \u2014 would not be Olive if she lived anywhere but Maine,\u201d she said. \u201cShe is like a barnacle clinging to the rock of the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/this-week-in-fiction\/elizabeth-strout-08-05-19\">Elizabeth Strout on Returning to Olive Kitteridge<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, July 29, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2019\/09\/01\/prize-winning-author-elizabeth-strout-reprises-mainer-through-and-through-olive-kitteridge-now-older-and-possibly-wiser\/\">Elizabeth Strout reprises Olive Kitteridge, now older, and possibly wiser<\/a>,\u201d <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Sept. 1, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Michelle Greene<\/h3>\n<h5>Bates College receives its largest-ever federal grant \u2014 Multiple outlets<\/h5>\n<p>Maine and national outlets covered the announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/16\/bates-announces-3-97-million-national-science-foundation-grant-for-visual-database-project\/\">Bates received a $3.97 million National Science Foundation grant<\/a> to build a video database to support research in fields that rely on the analysis and recognition of images, such as neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Michelle Greene, the principal investigator for the grant, will lead the creation of a Visual Experience Database comprising some 240 hours of video clips that depict everyday human activities and, importantly, simulate human vision and track head and eye movement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119152\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Rothmann '19 of Andover, Mass., participates as a subject in an EEG neuroscience thesis experiment for a first-person story she is writing for the Bates Communications Office. Hanna De Bruyn \u201818, Old Lyme, Conn., is the thesis student who is working on the supervision of Michelle Greene, assistant professor of neuroscience in the Bates Computational Vision Lab (Hathorn 108). \u201cWe are piloting the experiment for these students\u2019 thesis experiments. They were piloting Hanna\u2019s experiment. She\u2019s interested in looking at the extent to which visual masking actually inhibits perception. So when you take a visual mask, you take an image followed by another image, you\u2019re impaired at understanding the first image. The question is why. So what we\u2019re going to do is take the neural activity that we\u2019re measuring. And the nice thing about EEG is that it measures millisecond by millisecond electrical potentials that are generated in the brain , we measure them from the scalp. And we can see over time what the brain is processing and we use machine learning, we put these signals into a computer system tha t reads out the extent to which there is information about what the picture is. We\u2019re wondering, does that information persist when you change the image? Does that persist over time? Hannah\u2019s made the experiment, and we are going to try it out to make sure everything\u2019s ready for participants.\u201d -- Michelle Greene, assistant professor of neuroscience, says of three thesis students in neuroscience: \u201cThey\u2019re all terrific, I might add.\u201d Hanna De Bruyn \u201818, Old Lyme, Conn. Katherine \u201cKatie\u201d Hartnett \u201918 of St. Paul, Minn., and Julie Self \u201918 of Redwood City, Calif. Hanna is the only student to appear in this set of pictures.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/180312_Sarah_EEG_0023-2-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Michelle Greene (right) works with student researcher Hanna De Bruyn \u201918 to prepare an EEG test in March 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Greene told Maine Public, the process of collecting video clips for the database will involve trained members of the project team, including Bates students, &#8220;going out into the world wearing head-mounted cameras, like a GoPro. We&#8217;ll be recording what the world looks like as we engage in some common, everyday activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/08\/16\/bates-college-receives-its-largest-ever-federal-grant\/\">Bates College receives its largest-ever federal grant<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Aug. 16, 2019<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/post\/bates-will-use-largest-federal-grant-its-history-video-database\">Bates Will Use Largest Federal Grant In Its History For Video Database<\/a>,\u201d Maine Public, Aug. 16, 2019<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/51a6ff7ff25b4791949f9e65cb0dad27\">Bates will use largest federal grant for video database<\/a>,\u201d The Associated Press, Aug. 16, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Peter Goodrich \u201989<\/h3>\n<h5>Timeout: 9\/11 still a painful day for those who knew Peter Goodrich \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>On the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, <em>Sun Journal<\/em> sportswriter Tony Blasi returned to the story of Peter Goodrich \u201989, the track and field All-American who died on Flight 175.<\/p>\n<p>Blasi had interviewed, written about, and gotten to know Goodrich as a student as he racked up track and field awards and majored in math and physics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127224\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127224\" class=\"wp-image-127224 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989-900x729.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Goodrich '89, shown throwing the shot put for Bates, &quot;was a gentleman,&quot; said classmate Greg Nespole '89. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)\" width=\"900\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989-900x729.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989-370x300.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989-200x162.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/goodrich-shot-put-c1989.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-127224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Goodrich &#8217;89, shown throwing the shot put for Bates, &#8220;was a gentleman,&#8221; said classmate Greg Nespole &#8217;89. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year, Blasi talked to Goodrich\u2019s classmate Gregory Nespole \u201989. \u201cPeter was a kind, thoughtful man who was modest, though highly exceptional as a student and athlete \u2014 a gentleman,\u201d Nespole told him.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer, Nespole has long worked in Lower Manhattan, and his office is near the 9\/11 Memorial. \u201cI lost many friends,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is still a painful day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/09\/11\/timeout-9-11-still-a-painful-day-for-those-who-knew-peter-goodrich\/\">Timeout: 9\/11 still a painful day for those who knew Peter Goodrich<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Sept. 11, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Christopher Petrella \u201906<\/h3>\n<h5>Colin Kaepernick wants you to know your rights \u2014 <em>PAPER<\/em> magazine<\/h5>\n<p>Chris Petrella \u201906 had a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFPetrella\/status\/1163807934251507712\">major editorial role<\/a> in a recent issue of <em>PAPER<\/em> focusing on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ny-colin-kaepernick-paper-magazine-guest-editor-woke-black-excellence-20190821-ewwdxkewnrddtbcs4ojacdg2ji-story.html\">bastion of black excellence and wokeness<\/a>,\u201d by the <em>New York Daily News<\/em>, carried the theme \u201cKnow Your Rights\u201d and featured Q&amp;A interviews with 10 black thought leaders, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/27\/get-proximate-to-people-who-are-suffering-bryan-stevenson-tells-bates-college-commencement-audience\/\">2018 Bates Commencement speaker Bryan Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109617\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109617\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Petrella '06 makes a point during a meeting of the college's Justice and Equity Reading Group on Sept. 13, 2017. Petrella, faculty lecturer and associate director of programs for the Office of Equity and Diversity, is the group organizer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/170913_petrella-Justice_Equity_Reading_0016-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Petrella \u201906, director of engagement at American University\u2019s Antiracist Research &amp; Policy Center, makes a point during a meeting of the college&#8217;s Justice and Equity Reading Group in 2017, when he was a Bates faculty lecturer member of the Office of Intercultural Education staff. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The issue\u2019s lead story, \u201cColin Kaepernick Wants You To Know Your Rights,\u201d was written by Petrella along with radio host Miabelle Bocicault and scholar Ameer Hasan Loggins. The trio also wrote the introductions to each Q&amp;A story.<\/p>\n<p>The entire issue was guest-edited by Kaepernick, the football player-turned-social activist, whose current efforts with his Know Your Rights camps teaches young people their legal rights and, importantly, how to exercise them.<\/p>\n<p>A friend and part of Kaepernick\u2019s inner circle, Petrella is director of engagement at American University\u2019s Antiracist Research &amp; Policy Center.<\/p>\n<p>Read the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.papermag.com\/know-your-rights\/\">Know Your Rights<\/a>,\u201d <em>PAPER<\/em> Magazine, Fall 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Michael Rocque<\/h3>\n<h5>The U.S. Attorney got the numbers wrong. Here\u2019s a look at D.C.\u2019s actual incarceration rate \u2014 <em>DCist<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>A recent debate in Washington, D.C., saw criminal-justice reform advocates saying that D.C. imprisons more people than any of the 50 states. At the same time, the district\u2019s U.S. Attorney said the opposite, that it sends fewer people to prison than any state.<\/p>\n<p>The news website <em>DCist<\/em> turned to criminologist Michael Rocque, associate professor of sociology at Bates, to untangle the numbers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81190\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/140814_Michael_Rocque_0042-W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/140814_Michael_Rocque_0042-W.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Rocque, assistant professor of sociology. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/140814_Michael_Rocque_0042-W.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/140814_Michael_Rocque_0042-W-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/09\/140814_Michael_Rocque_0042-W-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Rocque, associate professor of sociology. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ultimately, you can\u2019t compare D.C. statistics to state statistics, said Rocque, \u201cjust as I would caution against comparing NYC to Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contrasting data points were bandied about during a public debate over a D.C. Council bill that would \u201cexpand opportunities for certain violent offenders to petition for a reduced sentence,\u201d according to the <em>DCist<\/em> story.<\/p>\n<p>After its initial claim, the U.S. Attorney backtracked and admitted that it had used federal data that only counted inmates at the D.C. jail as opposed to D.C. inmates held by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in federal facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/19\/09\/10\/the-u-s-attorney-got-the-numbers-wrong-heres-a-look-at-d-c-s-actual-incarceration-rate\/\">The U.S. Attorney got the numbers wrong. Here\u2019s a look at D.C.\u2019s actual incarceration rate<\/a>,\u201d <em>DCist<\/em>, Sept. 10, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Edmund Muskie \u201936<\/h3>\n<h5>During his 1972 presidential race, Maine\u2019s Edmund Muskie faced at least three death threats \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>FBI files related to Edmund Muskie \u201936 and released to the <em>Sun Journal<\/em> revealed that Muskie received three death threats while campaigning for the 1972 Democratic nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t appear from the 1,038 pages of material released to the <em>Sun Journal<\/em> that the FBI ever tracked down two of the culprits,\u201d wrote the paper\u2019s Steve Collins, who obtained the files through a Freedom of Information Act request. \u201cFederal prosecutors opted not to charge the other, a mentally ill man quickly found by agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120676\" style=\"width: 1623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Edmund Muskie '36 and supporters at a 1968 campaign event, location unknown. (Burton Burinsky \/ Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)\" width=\"1613\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited.jpg 1613w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/12\/berinsky164_021-edited-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1613px) 100vw, 1613px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edmund Muskie \u201936 and supporters at a 1968 campaign event, location unknown. (Burton Burinsky \/ Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Collins also learned that Muskie had a police record (sort of). \u201cOn Dec. 28, 1965, in the tiny town of Centreville on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore, Muskie was issued a criminal summons at Broadwater Farms for \u2018attempting to take migratory water fowl with the aid of bait,\u2019\u201d writes Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Muskie paid the $25 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/08\/31\/during-his-1972-presidential-race-maines-edmund-muskie-faced-at-least-three-death-threats\/\">During his 1972 presidential race, Maine\u2019s Edmund Muskie faced at least three death threats<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Aug. 31, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Clifford Odle<\/h3>\n<h5>\u2018The Petition\u2019 addresses black liberation and white allyship in the Old State House \u2014 WBUR<\/h5>\n<p>Jerome Campbell of Boston public radio station WBUR sat in on a performance of <em>The Petition<\/em>, a play by Lecturer in Theater Clifford Odle that explores the contradictions of the American Revolution when it comes to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The immersive play, in which audiences sit around a table in the Old State House Museum in Boston, is about Prince Hall, a free black man who unsuccessfully petitioned the Massachusetts assembly to abolish slavery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127225\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127225\" class=\"wp-image-127225 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"At today's Opening Convocation ceremony, keynote speaker and honorand Dolores Huerta @doloreshuerta, an icon of the labor rights movement and civil rights leader, helped usher in the academic year at Bates by encouraging the Class of 2023 and the broader Bates community to become active in the fight against racism, anti-semitism, and sexism.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_0756.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-127225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecturer in Theater Clifford Odle (right) talks with Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read during Opening Convocation on Sept 3. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the play, Hall\u2019s friend and ally Joseph Warren encourages the petition but ultimately prioritizes the \u201cliberation\u201d of white colonists from British rule.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an example of the harm of white inaction, Odle told Campbell. \u201cUnless you are arguing and agitating for people to have the same rights that you already have, unless you are willing to put your privilege on the line, the job is not done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2019\/08\/27\/the-petition-old-state-house-slavery\">\u2018The Petition\u2019 addresses black liberation and white allyship in the Old State House<\/a>,\u201d WBUR, Aug. 27, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Julia Sleeper-Whiting \u201908<\/h3>\n<h5>Local people who are all about the work share what motivates them \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>A Lewiston <em>Sun Journal<\/em> article on what motivates community members\u2019 work featured Julia Sleeper-Whiting \u201908, co-founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100168\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Sleeper '08 (right), co-founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth, speaks with Lewiston High student Binto Matan and Gene Geiger, whose family announced a major gift on March 16 to support Tree Street's expansion. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/160316_Sleeper-Tree_Street_Announcement_0716A-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Sleeper &#8217;08 (right), co-founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth, speaks in 2016 with then-Lewiston High student Binto Matan and Gene Geiger, who supported an expansion of the youth center. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWork is about creating solutions to things happening around us and solving challenges in the world,\u201d Sleeper-Whiting told reporter Beth Herman. \u201cAs long as your focus remains on the greater purpose, the work itself remains relevant and meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/08\/31\/local-people-who-are-all-about-the-work-share-what-motivates-them\/\">Local people who are all about the work share what motivates them<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Aug. 31, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Ann Kranjec Fortescue \u201984<\/h3>\n<h5>New IMAS exec seeks cross-culture experiences \u2014 <em>The Monitor<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Francisco E. Jimenez of <em>The Monitor<\/em> of McAllen, Texas, profiled Ann Kranjec Fortescue \u201984, the new president and executive director of the International Museum of Art and Science.<\/p>\n<p>Fortescue said her 35-year career in museums was inspired in part by a Bates course on 19th-century European history that included a visit to a historical farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent two days on this farm, harvesting rye with a scythe and experiencing what it was like to live as closely as we could to 19th-century peasant farmers,\u201d she told Jimenez. \u201cThat was when a switch went off in my head in terms of, \u2018I could actually work in a museum and teach with objects.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themonitor.com\/2019\/09\/03\/new-imas-exec-seeks-cross-culture-experiences\/\">New IMAS exec seeks cross-culture experiences<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Monitor<\/em>, Sept. 3, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Bates College<\/h3>\n<h5>New students at Bates College told to become activists \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The <em>Sun Journa<\/em>l covered Bates\u2019 Opening Convocation, in which labor activist and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>The 89-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers told the incoming Class of 2023 to learn their history and engage politically to get the country \u201coff the road to fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127249\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127249\" class=\"wp-image-127249 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Huerta acknowledges applause as she's given an honorary degree at Opening Convocation. Ready to present her with the honorary hood is Michael Murray, Phillips Professor of Economics. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190903_Convocation_1021-1.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-127249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Huerta acknowledges applause as she&#8217;s given an honorary degree at Opening Convocation. Ready to present her with the honorary hood is Michael Murray, Phillips Professor of Economics. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe wonderful thing about a democracy is that we can change things,\u201d she said. But \u201cnothing is going to change unless you decide to change it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/09\/03\/new-students-at-bates-college-told-to-become-activists-2\/\">New students at Bates College told to become activists<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Sept. 3, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/convocation-speaker-to-the-class-of-23-we-have-the-power\/\">Convocation speaker Dolores Huerta to the Class of 2023: \u2018We have the power<\/a>,\u2019\u201d <em>BatesNews<\/em>, Sept. 4, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>James F. Amaral \u201980<\/h3>\n<h5>\u201cWe want people to bake\u201d: Baker, food writer team up to publish book \u2014 <em>The Lincoln County News<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Jessica Clifford of Maine\u2019s <em>Lincoln County News<\/em> interviewed Borealis Breads owner Jim Amaral \u201980, who wrote a cookbook with food writer Cynthia Finnemore Simonds.<\/p>\n<p>Amaral told Clifford that the goal of the book, <em>Borealis Breads: 75 Recipes for Breads, Soups, Sides, and More<\/em>, is to encourage people to bake, even if it costs him business at his popular bakery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to feel good about yourself when you bake a loaf of bread, no matter how it turns out,\u201d Amaral said. \u201cIt\u2019s a life-affirming thing when you bake \u2013 you\u2019re nourishing yourself, you are nourishing your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lcnme.com\/currentnews\/we-want-people-to-bake-baker-food-writer-team-up-to-publish-book\/\">\u2018We want people to bake\u2019\u201d: Baker, food writer team up to publish book<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Lincoln County News<\/em>, Sept. 9, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alum helps Colin Kapernick guest-edit a magazine, and Olive Kitteridge returns to Elizabeth Strout \u201977. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":127247,"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,"_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":[4,14,195],"tags":[11051,11416,12031,3145,3212,4698,12041,10567,11556,12039],"class_list":["post-127151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-faculty-staff","category-news-politics","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-christopher-petrella","tag-cliff-odle","tag-edmund-s-muskie","tag-elizabeth-strout","tag-jim-amaral","tag-julia-sleeper-whiting","tag-michael-rocque","tag-michelle-greene","tag-peter-goodrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127151","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\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127151"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127524,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127151\/revisions\/127524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}