{"id":135028,"date":"2020-08-13T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=135028"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:52:07","slug":"say-what-bates-quotes-from-the-week-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/13\/say-what-bates-quotes-from-the-week-that-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Aug. 13, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new addition to BatesNews<\/em>, “Say What?” is an occasional roundup of what Bates folks are saying about this and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leigh’s Handshake<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLeigh had the best handshake of all time. He was not a big guy, but he would make sure he had the upper hand when he shook your hand. It was something that I always really enjoyed. Just shaking his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Men\u2019s basketball head coach Jon Furbush \u201905, remembering longtime financial aid director and official basketball scorer Leigh Campbell \u201964<\/a>, who died July 31<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leigh Campbell ’64 in a familiar spot: at the scorer’s table, here keeping the book for a men’s basketball game vs. Catholic University on Jan. 5, 2008. (Joe Gromelski ’74)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Homing In<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“It’s taught me what it really means to invest in the place one calls home.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Religious studies major Anna Maheu \u201921 of New York City on her summer work, funded by the Bates Harward Center, with the Good Food Bus, a mobile market that brings locally sourced produce to Lewiston neighborhoods<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Religious studies major Anna Maheu \u201921 of New York City. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Learning to Fall<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI spent like two hours falling down. But for some reason, I loved it. I think I did because it was just so darn hard.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Two-time Nordic skiing Olympian and Bates\u2019 first female All-American Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler \u201978, speaking to the Bates Bobcast about her first time skiing at Bates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler \u201978 skis for Bates in the 1970s. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two Words<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“Our watchwords in putting together the whole semester have been ‘choice and flexibility.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 President Clayton Spencer, speaking on Maine Public Radio’s show <\/em>Maine Calling with other presidents of Maine colleges about Bates’ approach to reopening for the fall 2020 semester<\/a>, in which all students and faculty could choose to participate in-person or remotely<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the Dot<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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John Douglas ’60 in the 1960 Bates Mirror yearbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember looking up, and I think there were about 15,000 people there. I remember seeing these red dots, all these guys smoking cigars. You had this haze of smoke and then these red dots all over the place. But that didn’t really stop you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Men\u2019s track and field legend John Douglas \u201960 speaking to the Bates Bobcast about competing at Madison Square Garden<\/a>, where he set the program\u2019s indoor long jump record of 25 feet, 0.75 inches, which still stands<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Centering the Problem<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“I have a strong preference for the term ‘anti-racism’ over terms like ‘racial equity.’ Anti-racism centers the thing<\/em>, it centers the problem<\/em>, it centers the behavior<\/em>, and it names the people who are responsible for fixing that behavior…. Anti-racism calls us to look at the very specific action, 400 years’ worth, that white folks need to grapple with and deconstruct.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Noelle Chaddock, speaking to Maine Public\u2019s radio program <\/a><\/em>Maine Calling<\/a> on the meaningful actions can people take for racial justice<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Noelle Chaddock. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Contrary to the National Interest<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“These new directives from ICE undercut our ability to educate students fully, cause unnecessary fear and anxiety, and run contrary to our national interest in positioning the U.S. as the higher education destination for talented and ambitious students from across the globe.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Vice President for Campus Life and Dean of Students Joshua McIntosh on the college’s response to guidance<\/a> issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, since rolled back, with respect to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program and remote learning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To Do List<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

 “I\u2019m not sure they miss school per se, but they\u2019re itching to do things. They are incredibly eager to put their minds to work and spend time outside around others.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Politics major Georgia Moses \u201921 of Arlington, Mass., on her summer work, funded by the Bates Harward Center for Community Partnerships, with children at Hillview Family Development, a public housing community in Lewiston<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Children's
Politics major Georgia Moses \u201921 of Arlington, Mass. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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