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Then as now, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was trying to use scientific principles to stop a virus that was devastating communities \u2014 the work was like being in a \u201cpressure cooker,\u201d he said in a Bates News <\/em>interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bates visit, in contrast, was \u201cfood for the soul,\u201d Fauci said. Talking \u201cwith really smart and curious students reminded me of the great privilege of having a liberal arts education.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the story: <\/p>\n\n\n\n In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina argued that government action, not the free market or private industry, is providing the strongest leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Duina pointed to the fact that large industries like airlines and small businesses alike are benefiting from emergency loans and tax cuts, while federal and state governments are coordinating public health responses. He said governments should partner with the private sector to respond to crises, and government offices themselves \u2014 like those handling unemployment claims \u2014 should expand their capacities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe must all assume, even in good times, the fragility of markets,\u201d Duina wrote. \u201cThis means that we must invest, ahead of time, in government structures, programs, and funding for challenges that will inevitably arise. And we must commit to them for the long term.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the story: <\/p>\n\n\n\n PMA Magazine<\/em>, a publication of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, asked Mainers to write about pieces in the museum\u2019s collection that resonated with them. Bates was prominent as the respondents included Associate Professor of American Studies Myron Beasley and Imti Hassan \u201923 of Portland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Beasley introduced Daniel Minter\u2019s Malaga, <\/em>a series of works that explore the story of a Maine island that was home to an interracial community before the state evicted its residents in 1912. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Beasley has himself looked hard at the Malaga story: In 2018, he created \u201cre:past,\u201d a performative dinner on the island<\/a> packed with history and symbolism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMalaga is not unique in that it is a story of injustice, racism, and forced dislocation peculiar to African Americans,\u201d Beasley wrote. \u201cThe particularities of the Malaga story, however, reveal a distinctive horror which Minter acknowledges and addresses.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hassan wrote about \u201cMount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp,\u201d an 1895 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church that shows Maine\u2019s highest peak in the brilliance of sunrise. Hassan worked at the museum as a Homer Fellow, a summer program for Maine high school students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChurch\u2019s art is a reminder that nature and humans are constantly evolving,\u201d Hassan wrote. \u201cThis work of art reminds me to live life to the fullest and remember that time is always going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the reflections: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Krause of the Lynn, Mass., Daily Item <\/em>profiled Allison Beaulieu \u201913, a local basketball champion who went on to become an award-winning emergency physician on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After graduating from Bates and then New York Medical College, Beaulieu became an emergency room resident at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. This year, she won the Massachusetts American College of Emergency Physicians Resident of the Year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s hard during the COVID-19 crisis, Beaulieu said, is that her patients \u201care all alone. There\u2019s no family allowed back in to see them. So what you have is family members on the other end of the telephone, and that\u2019s how you communicate. It\u2019s not being able to have personal interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the story: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Free market ideology won\u2019t help us during the COVID-19 crisis. Here\u2019s what would \u2014 Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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PMA Magazine<\/em>, Portland Museum of Art <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Teamwork comes full circle for doctor from Swampscott \u2014 The Daily Item <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n