{"id":130281,"date":"2020-01-24T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=130281"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:20:14","slug":"bates-in-the-news-jan-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/24\/bates-in-the-news-jan-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Jan. 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mara Tieken&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">School closures can hit rural communities hard \u2014 <em>The Conversation&nbsp;<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing for <em>The Conversation, <\/em>Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken argued that the closure of rural schools can devastate students, families, and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0376-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Professor of Education Mara Tieken circulates among small groups of students as they discuss what makes good teaching. Through fieldwork and classroom work, education students learn about the field\u2019s interdisciplinary perspectives and the practical realities today.\" class=\"wp-image-116287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0376-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0376-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0376-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/05\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0376.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>In a 2015 class, education professor Mara Tieken circulates among small groups of students as they discuss what makes good teaching. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools often close for reasons of poor academic performance, budget constraints, or declining enrollments. When they do, students\u2019 relationships with peers and teachers are disrupted, absences go up, and involvement in extracurricular activities goes down, often because students have to commute longer distances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn many rural communities, schools are the largest employer,\u201d Tieken wrote. \u201cThey provide political power, and they tie people together. Once the schools are gone, the community loses all of these benefits.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/school-closures-can-hit-rural-communities-hard-128837\">School closures can hit rural communities hard<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation, <\/em>Jan. 9, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bates Museum of Art&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snow School: Bates College makes life drawing practical, if not easy \u2014 <em>Sun Journal&nbsp;<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Paradysz of the Lewiston <em>Sun Journal <\/em>covered a Wednesday-night fixture sponsored by the Bates Museum of Art: live figure drawing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/170308_FigureDrawing_030-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Klofas of Hallowell, Maine, studies a new pose by a model during a March 2017 Life Drawing session in Olin 259. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)\" class=\"wp-image-111833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/170308_FigureDrawing_030-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/170308_FigureDrawing_030-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/170308_FigureDrawing_030-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/170308_FigureDrawing_030.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Joe Klofas of Hallowell, Maine, studies a model during a March 2017 life drawing session in Olin 259. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists come to campus, often traveling long distances, to draw models \u2014 some are Bates students, others community members \u2014 holding poses of various types and lengths.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercise is valuable practice for a tricky but rewarding aspect of art. \u201cIt\u2019s good for me to be reminded how challenging it is to observe and capture what I\u2019m seeing,\u201d said Mike Hickey of Yarmouth. \u201cIt\u2019s good to be humbled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/12\/29\/snow-school-bates-college-makes-life-drawing-practical-if-not-easy\/\">Snow School: Bates College makes life drawing practical \u2014 if not easy<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal, <\/em>Dec. 29, 2019<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carissa Aoki<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today \u2014 NPR&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighborhoods that were subject to historical redlining \u2014 a racist housing practice that segregated cities and concentrated poor, minority, and immigrant residents \u2014 are hotter than non-redlined neighborhoods, Meg Anderson of NPR reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the reason for heat disparities of five degrees or more involves tree cover, according to a study coauthored by Bates Lecturer in Environmental Studies Carissa Aoki.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 37 cities around the country, formerly redlined neighborhoods have about half as many trees on average today as the highest-rated predominantly white neighborhoods on those maps,\u201d Anderson wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/14\/795961381\/racist-housing-practices-from-the-1930s-linked-to-hotter-neighborhoods-today\">Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today<\/a>,\u201d NPR, Jan. 14, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dorothy Foster Kern \u201942<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For these \u2018three Dots,\u2019 100 years of friendship, fellowship, and fun \u2014 NPR<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>National and local news outlets have noticed a curious and happy occurrence: Three women named Dorothy, including Dorothy Foster Kern \u201942 \u2014 all friends and all living in Auburn \u2014 celebrated their 100th birthdays in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kern, Dorothy Buchanan, and Dorothy Murray all became centenarians in 2019, with Kern celebrating her 100th in September with a special luncheon at Bates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of Auburn&#8217;s Edward Little High School, Kern was inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/20\/her-100th-birthday-approaching-dorothy-foster-kern-recalls-bates-in-the-late-30s\/\">to attend Bates<\/a> in part by a relative who taught at the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190925_Dorothy_Foster_Kern_Commons_0224-900x468.jpg\" alt=\"From left, James Jones '20 of Colorado Springs, Colo., Vanessa Paolella '21 of Dingman's Ferry, Pa., and Abby Hamilton of Yarmouth, Maine, joined Dorothy Foster Kern \u201942 of Auburn, Maine, in Commons for a lunchtime conversation about what life is like on campus now vs. how it was back in the day.Kern turned 100 years old on Monday, Sept. 23, and was on campus today for her first-ever lunch in Commons, where the dining staff serenaded her with &quot;Happy Birthday&quot; and served up a specially-prepared birthday cake prepared by Head Baker Daisy Taylor and presented by Assistant Vice President for Dining, Conferences and Campus Events Christine Shwartz.\" class=\"wp-image-127357\"\/><figcaption>Dorothy Foster Kern &#8217;42 thanks Bates dining staff and students for a birthday celebration at Commons in September. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just a kid,\u201d Kern told Maine Public\u2019s Susan Sharon, in a piece about the &#8220;three Dots&#8221; that NPR later picked up. \u201cI don&#8217;t feel any different than I did at 16.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Down East <\/em>magazine also featured Kern in collaboration with Maine Public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy life is quiet and happy, and I\u2019m doing what I like to do, but I miss people \u2014 everyone who is not still here,\u201d said Kern, who has outlived two of her five children. \u201cIn that sense, it\u2019s lonely. I miss the children that were, but I\u2019m happy to have the ones I\u2019ve got. I\u2019m lucky.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the stories:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/12\/22\/789915857\/for-these-three-dots-100-years-of-friendship-fellowship-and-fun?fbclid=IwAR2hIrmgj4cMytWLaK6F2stF-q-jalhxbHyp2eE5zHlOwxMIrlU9DyhVzgQ\">For these \u2018three Dots,\u2019 100 years of friendship, fellowship, and fun<\/a>,\u201d NPR<em>, <\/em>Dec. 22, 2019<\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/downeast.com\/history\/centenarians\/\">Thoughts on the past \u2014 and the future \u2014 from nine 100-year-old Mainers<\/a>,\u201d <em>Down East, <\/em>December 2019&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Muskan Verma \u201921<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South-Asian Americans protest India&#8217;s citizenship bill \u2014 NBC News&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting on South-Asian Americans\u2019 protests against a bill in India that excludes Muslim immigrants from a path to citizenship, NBC News<em>\u2019 <\/em>Mythili Sampathkumar talked to Muskan Verma \u201921 of Shimla, India, a coordinator of the South Asian Students Against Fascism movement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190920_Youth_Climate_Strike_Costlow_0729-1-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cI can't believe I'm even having to protest this.\u201d.\u2014 Muskan Verma '21 of Shimla, India, shares the frustration of inaction on global climate change after she addressed a crowd of at least 2,000 at Portland City Hall gathered for the student-mobilized Global Climate Strike, ahead of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and the Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23..\u201cI'm not from this country,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that shouldn't matter. This is affecting us all. And whether we like it or not, we have to take action.\u201d.A representative of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led movement for climate-change action, Verma is a double major in theater and in rhetoric, film, and screen studies. She joined a large contingent of Bates students and several faculty who attended the event, organized, in part, by the Bates Environmental Coalition..\" class=\"wp-image-127474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190920_Youth_Climate_Strike_Costlow_0729-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190920_Youth_Climate_Strike_Costlow_0729-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190920_Youth_Climate_Strike_Costlow_0729-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/190920_Youth_Climate_Strike_Costlow_0729-1.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Muskan Verma &#8217;21 of Shimla, India, addresses a crowd of at least 2,000 at Portland City Hall during the Youth Climate Strike in September 2019. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many South-Asian Americans, Sampathkumar wrote, see parallels between what is happening in India and religious and racial discrimination in the United States. Some are organizing protests in major American cities on Jan. 26, India\u2019s Republic Day holiday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verma told Sampathkumar that her group wants to send \u201ca very strong message not just to the [Indian] government, but to the people protesting that they are not alone and that protests are not happening in a void.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/south-asian-americans-protest-india-s-citizenship-bill-n1118576\">South Asian Americans protest India&#8217;s citizenship bill<\/a>,\u201d NBC News, Jan. 19, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One professor writes about rural school closures, another studies urban heat islands, and an alumni centenarian makes it on NPR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":127357,"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":[4,7,11010,14,31],"tags":[1363,11051,11992,10616,12047],"class_list":["post-130281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-arts","category-faculty-staff","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-dorothy-foster-kern","tag-mara-tieken","tag-muskan-verma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130281","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=130281"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130281\/revisions\/130306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}