{"id":135836,"date":"2020-09-15T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=135836"},"modified":"2020-09-18T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T18:38:16","slug":"say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-sept-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/15\/say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-sept-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Sept. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An occasional roundup of what Bates folks are saying about this and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I Am What I Am<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“Je me masque, donc, je suis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read, riffing on Descartes<\/em>, created this T-shirt with a fall 2020 rallying cry, translated, \u201cI mask, therefore, I am.\u201d His face mask says, “<\/em>En fran\u00e7ais? S’il vous pla\u00eet“<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bearing Down<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“We have learned through bitter experience this summer that if we don\u2019t get the science right, we won\u2019t get the economics right. If we substitute ideology for expertise, we lose our bearings. Without a commitment to facts and evidence, we abandon the fundamentals of discourse, debate, and meaning making. This causes us to get policy wrong and hurt people. It causes us to substitute violence for persuasion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 President Clayton Spencer speaking at Opening Convocation on Sept. 1, 2020<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rule of Threes<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRespect, positivity and accountability.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Women’s soccer co-captain So Kim ’21 of Thornhill, Ontario, on her goal this fall, in lieu of the cancelled fall athletic season, to instill three key team values during practice and other team-building sessions<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brewster Burns for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heart and Head<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“We know you have been taught how to write the best five-paragraph essay ever<\/em>. We know you can recite facts and follow formulas. But now we want you to follow your heart, informed by your head to create new ways of thinking and being in the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Screen, and Film Studies Charles Nero offering advice to the Class of 2024 at Opening Convocation on Sept. 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just a Little Patience<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“Be patient with yourself.\u00a0 Be patient with others.\u00a0Be humble enough to know that you might not know everything.\u00a0Guess what? Neither do your professors.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Screen, and Film Studies Stephanie Kelley-Romano offering advice to the Class of 2024 at Opening Convocation on Sept. 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aim High<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tragedy of life doesn\u2019t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn\u2019t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.\u201d
\u2014 Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, as quoted by Charles Nero during Opening Convocation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Benjamin Mays (right) with baseball great Hank Aaron in an undated photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All You Need Is Love<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“Let yourself fall in love with the new things in your life whether that is academically, socially, or individually.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Co-President of Bates Student Government Perla Figuereo \u201921 of the Bronx, N.Y., offering advice to the Class of 2024 at Opening Convocation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We the People<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“We want you all to know that we see you, we hear you, and we stand with you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-President of Bates Student Government Lebanos Mengistu \u201921 of Somerville, Mass., speaking to the experience of Black students in his remarks to the Class of 2024 at Opening Convocation<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Co-Presidents of Bates Student Government Perla Figuereo \u201921 (left) and Lebanos Mengistu \u201921 deliver their Opening Convocation remarks on Sept. 1 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Called to Care<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“We are called to care for one another and this Bates community in ways never asked of us before. May we rise to the occasion with compassion and courage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Multifaith Chaplain Rev. Brittany Longsdorf, offering the benediction at Opening Convocation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scraping By<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“No brain scraping required.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Ellie Vance ’21 of Birmingham, Ala., expressing relief that the COVID-19 test used by Bates<\/a> is not the invasive nasopharyngeal swab<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ellie Vance ’21 of Birmingham, Ala., poses for a portrait on Alumni Walk. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Know How<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s a brush with the unknown. It\u2019s our job to guide them from the unknown to the known.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Nick Cooke, assistant athletic director for athletic performance and director of the Bates Testing Center, on his goal to help students feel comfortable with the new twice-weekly COVID-19 testing procedures<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fowl Friends<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“I really missed the ducks.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Nathan Huynh \u201923 of San Diego, a junior advisor in Page Hall, on all the things he missed, even the ducks of Lake Andrews<\/a>, while away from Bates<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been a good year for the Lake Andrews ducks. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good Hope<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m excited. I\u2019m hopeful. And I\u2019m taking it day by day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Christopher Barker \u201921 of Burlington, Vt., on how he’s approaching the fall semester<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Away<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is their world.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Rene Dumont of Auburn, with his wife, Julia, while dropping off their twin sons, Austin \u201921 and Noah ’21<\/a>, on being nearby but not hovering over their Bates lives. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collective Action<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt takes a village. It takes a team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Athletic trainer Andrew England, helping out with COVID-19 testing during move-in days, on the effort to reopen the campus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carpe Batesiana<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

“We have to count our blessings and just take advantage of being out here because who knows what could happen tomorrow.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Women’s tennis captain Haley Washington ’21 (below) of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., on the Bobcats’ return to practice<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent quotes from Bates folks, from Kirk Read’s Descartes- and COVID-inspired motto (in French) to Benjamin Mays’ call to aspire higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":135888,"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":[7],"tags":[12192],"class_list":["post-135836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-say-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135836","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135836"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135836\/revisions\/135971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}