{"id":139160,"date":"2021-04-15T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=139160"},"modified":"2021-09-10T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:32:24","slug":"139160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/15\/139160\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: April 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marcelle Medford<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Portland Museum of Art examines Homer\u2019s portrayal of African Americans in <em>Harper<\/em>\u2019s illustrations \u2014 <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>Press Herald<\/em> review of the Portland Museum of Art\u2019s exhibit <em>Freedom<\/em>, which looks at illustrations created by Winslow Homer for <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> during the Civil War, quotes Marcelle Medford, assistant professor of sociology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some of Homer\u2019s paintings are praised for empowering Black figures, explains reviewer Jorge Arango<em>, <\/em>his illustrations depict denigrating images of Black figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medford says that negative depictions of African Americans imply Black people were weak and simply \u201cwaiting around for Union soldiers to come and free them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This denies the reality, proven by W.E.B. DuBois, Medford says, \u201cthat Black folks have always been architects in the fight for [their] freedom and liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2021\/04\/04\/art-review-portland-museum-of-art-examines-homers-portrayal-of-african-americans-in-harpers-illustrations\/\">Portland Museum of Art examines Homer\u2019s portrayal of African Americans in <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em> illustrations<\/a>,\u201d <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em>, April 4, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"punctuation\">Dan Sanford<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Punctuation: We analyze how the use and meaning of punctuation marks has evolved \u2014 <em>Maine Calling<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining a discussion hosted by Maine Public Radio\u2019s <em>Maine Calling<\/em>, Dan Sanford, director of Writing at Bates and Academic Resource Commons, weighed in on exclamation points, misplaced apostrophes, and the \u201chighly contested\u201d Oxford comma (which you&#8217;ll notice we just used.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Why does the Oxford comma fire up people?&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe point of the Oxford comma is to reduce ambiguity and just make it clear what\u2019s happening in the grammar of the sentence, which is what a lot of punctuation does,\u201d says Sanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But why does the use of the Oxford comma and other punctuation fire up people?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one, the U.S. and the United Kingdom often differ in punctuation rules, including the Oxford comma, which is often used in the U.S. &#8220;That difference tends to lead to a lot of disputes,&#8221; Sanford says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, \u201cPeople are passionate about every aspect of language, and punctuation is an aspect of language. Our identities are so tightly woven into the languages that we write&nbsp;and speak. So of course people have these strong feelings about punctuation also.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Sanford points out, &#8220;there is no right or wrong&#8221; with punctuation like the Oxford comma. &#8220;There&#8217;s just the system you&#8217;re using and whether you&#8217;re following the rules of that particular system.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/post\/punctuation-we-analyze-how-use-meaning-punctuation-marks-has-evolved\">Punctuation: We analyze how the use and meaning of punctuation marks has evolved<\/a>,\u201d <em>Maine Calling<\/em>, April 4, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"schofield-debt\">Paul Schofield<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should there be a limit on how much debt a young person takes on? <em>\u2014 The Conversation<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. laws generally allow adults to go deeply into debt, as long as they can find a willing lender.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But maybe the laws should change, argues Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/duty-to-self-9780190941758?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><em>Duty to Self<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2021)<\/a> in an essay in <em>The Conversation<\/em>. \u201cI suggest that the ability to accrue vast amounts of debt puts people in a position to commit injustice against themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, the concept of injustice involves \u201chaving one\u2019s own interests and choices discounted or ignored by some other person who selfishly prioritizes himself or herself over others,\u201d Schofield explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/ExlBl1XXEAga12S-675x900.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139173\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/ExlBl1XXEAga12S-675x900.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/ExlBl1XXEAga12S-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/ExlBl1XXEAga12S-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/ExlBl1XXEAga12S.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption>Bates philosopher Paul Schofield&#8217;s book <em>Duty to Self<\/em> argues that there exist moral duties to the self. One implication, he says, is that people should not be allowed to accrue large amounts of debt. (Paul Schofield photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut people can suffer similarly on account of decisions they make during their younger years that ultimately burden them later in life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, \u201cI see a case for legislation that limits the amount and types of debt that people can take on. While this may seem unappealingly paternalistic&#8230;it can be a justifiable way to protect people from their own choices and to enhance their freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-there-be-a-limit-on-how-much-debt-a-young-person-takes-on-157848\"><em>S<\/em>hould there be a limit on how much debt a young person takes on?<\/a><em>\u201d The Conversation<\/em>, April 2, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ther\u00ed Pickens<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The singing professor \u2014 <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a first-person essay in <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, Professor of English Ther\u00ed A. Pickens describes how becoming a voice student helped her to get in tune with her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started online lessons last March, as she was concluding a year-long sabbatical, to improve her public speaking and poetry recitation skills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an online voice student, Pickens navigated what her Bates students have been navigating: \u201cthe emotional terrain\u201d of having to work through assignments sometimes \u201cwithout their instructor\u2019s aid and physical presence.\u201d (Pickens, who is immunocompromised and doesn\u2019t drive because of a disability, is teaching her Bates courses remotely.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/978-1-4780-0404-2_pr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/978-1-4780-0404-2_pr.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/978-1-4780-0404-2_pr-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/978-1-4780-0404-2_pr-133x200.jpeg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Ther Pickens is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/black-madness-mad-blackness\">author of<em> Black Madness :: Mad Blackness<\/em><\/a>, which rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During in-person classes, \u201cmy students tend to respond \u2014 rightly or wrongly \u2014 to what they perceive is compassion in my voice, concern in my posture, and focus in my gaze. Some of those things translate on Zoom, but rarely all at once.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Receiving online feedback, without the \u201cscaffolding\u201d that physical proximity affords, is fraught terrain, Pickens learned as an online voice student. \u201cAs a student, I was hungry for feedback and fearful of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the best feedback from a teacher, Pickens says, offers \u201cexplicit acknowledgment of the process.\u201d For example, her voice coach always let her know <em>what<\/em> the focus of a lesson was. \u201cAll feedback was geared toward that particular goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2021\/02\/17\/professor-shares-how-online-singing-lessons-helped-her-become-better-teacher\">The Singing Professor<\/a>,\u201d <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, Feb. 17, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elly Beckerman \u201922<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the Black Panther Party taught us about building a food movement \u2014 <em>Planet Forward<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Say \u201cBlack Panthers\u201d and many white Americans think \u201cviolent militancy,\u201d writes Ellly Beckerman \u201922 of Washington, D.C., in <em>Planet Forward.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut this perception is narrow and misses much of the community support work the Panthers actually did. One small subsection of this work \u2014 but one with a lasting impact \u2014 was to ensure food security for the communities in which they lived and worked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/master-pnp-yan-1a38000-1a38600-1a38651u.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/master-pnp-yan-1a38000-1a38600-1a38651u.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/master-pnp-yan-1a38000-1a38600-1a38651u-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><figcaption>A poster, created between 1965 and 1980 perhaps by R. Dharuba, depicts a Black Panther with fist raised and chain on wrist. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The group designed a series of survival programs, which targeted a wide range of needs, including food, clothing, jobs, education, health, and more \u2014 items highlighted in their mission and relevant to the ways we conceptualize food movements today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/idea\/black-panther-food-community\">What the Black Panther Party taught us about building a food movement<\/a>,\u201d <em>Planet Forward<\/em>, March 18, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rebecca Herzig<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shamed for body hair growing up, Desi women now challenging racist standards \u2014 NBC News<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sakshi Venkatraman of NBC News turned to Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Rebecca Herzig, author of <em>Plucked<\/em>, to explain the white supremacist roots of hair removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With new waves of migration and urbanization in the nineteenth century came renewed efforts in the U.S. to medicalize and stigmatize excessive body hair, Herzig explains. Successive waves of immigration to the U.S. since then\u2014including from South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East\u2014have been correlated with increasingly stringent norms of hair removal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shifting standards can be particularly hard on young South Asian women and femmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can see new anxieties about personal hygiene, personal care, personal beauty, all getting tangled up with ideas about whiteness and race more broadly,\u201d Herzig said. \u201c\u2018How is whiteness going to be defined? How is it going to be maintained? Who is going to get the privileges associated with it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/shamed-body-hair-growing-desi-women-now-challenging-racist-standards-n1259157\">Shamed for body hair growing up, Desi women now challenging racist standards<\/a>,\u201d NBC News, March 4, 2021<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mikka Kei Macdonald \u201916<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Another \u2018really bad day\u2019 for Asians thanks to white supremacy \u2014 <em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-Asian racism is part of Mikka Kei Macdonald\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the outbreak of World War II, her grandparents met one another \u201camong the mucked-out horse stalls of the fairgrounds at the Puyallup (Wash.) Fairgrounds Relocation Center&#8230;where they were held while they waited to be transferred to one of the 10 camps across the western U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, \u201cwhen we talk about white supremacy, I hope that we recognize the full spread of its insidious reach because unless we recognize it, its violence will happen again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/another-really-bad-day-for-asians-thanks-to-white-supremacy?ref=author\">Another \u2018Really Bad Day\u2019 for Asians Thanks to White Supremacy<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>, April 4, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From yard signs to bumper stickers, Maine politics turns vulgar \u2014 Lewiston <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Political bumper stickers and signs in Maine got vulgar in 2020, with slogans like, \u201cF&#8212; [name of politician]\u201d seen frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s long been the case that voters \u201ccome up with general statements\u201d to criticize politicians, like \u201c\u2018she\u2019s screwing us over\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019s destroying the economy,\u2019 but can\u2019t explain how,\u201d explains Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley-Romano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReducing the conversation to mudslinging personal attacks prevents discussion about actual issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralmaine.com\/2021\/02\/14\/from-yard-signs-to-bumper-stickers-maine-politics-turns-vulgar\/\">From yard signs to bumper stickers, Maine politics turns vulgar<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, April 4, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tim O\u2019Hashi \u201911&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Tim Ohashi and his video savvy fit the Kraken\u2019s budding culture \u2014 <em>The Score<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/05\/to-the-victors-how-nhl-champion-tim-ohashi-11-spent-his-day-with-the-stanley-cup\/\">Stanley Cup winner with the National Hockey League\u2019s Washington Capitals<\/a> as their video analyst in 2018, Tim Ohashi \u201911 is now head video analyst for the expansion Seattle Kraken, which debuts in 2021\u201322.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohashi, a Bates psychology major who did graduate work in education before turning his eyes toward hockey analytics, sees himself, in part, as an educator, explains writer John Matisz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an analyst, Ohashi is &#8220;at ease running video sessions for large groups of players, even though not everyone\u2019s first language was English and not everyone\u2019s preferred learning style was visual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/07\/DhHA39fWsAAotFe-680x900.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Ohashi '11, a member of the NHL championship Washington Capitals coaching staff, hoists the Stanley Cup at the Lincoln Memorial on the morning of July 3, 2018. (Photograph by Walt Neubrand \/ Hockey Hall of Fame)\" class=\"wp-image-117114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/07\/DhHA39fWsAAotFe-680x900.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/07\/DhHA39fWsAAotFe-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/07\/DhHA39fWsAAotFe-151x200.jpg 151w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/07\/DhHA39fWsAAotFe.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption>Tim Ohashi &#8217;11, a member of the 2018 NHL championship Washington Capitals coaching staff, hoists the Stanley Cup at the Lincoln Memorial on the morning of July 3, 2018. (Photograph by Walt Neubrand \/ Hockey Hall of Fame)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Being a video coach, outside of the analyzing hockey part, is teaching,\u201d Ohashi said. \u201cAt the end of the day, you\u2019re in a room, you\u2019re using a screen, a TV, a board, and you\u2019re teaching a group of people. That\u2019s your class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nhl\/news\/2136722\">How Tim Ohashi and his video savvy fit the Kraken\u2019s budding culture<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Score<\/em>, March 24, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andrew Garcia-Bou \u201920<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Covid left a generation in limbo \u2014 <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> writer E.J. Dickson included Andrew Garcia-Bou \u201920 in a feature on 2020 graduates, \u201cone of the most star-crossed generations in recent history: born just a few years before 9\/11, coming of age during the Great Recession, and leaving college during a global pandemic and an unprecedented attack on American democracy, with unemployment rates skyrocketing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/covid-19-college-graduates-unemployment-generation-limbo-1138506\/\">How Covid left a generation in limbo<\/a>,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, March 11, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sara Gusky \u201907<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet Sara Gusky: Ph.D. and founder, creative director of Phd Athletica \u2014 <em>Shoutout Miami<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Gusky <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.miami.edu\/discovery\/fulldisplay?context=L&amp;vid=01UOML_INST:ResearchRepository&amp;search_scope=Research&amp;tab=Research&amp;docid=alma991031447713302976\">earned a doctorate in Romance studies<\/a> from the University of Miami in 2014 then promptly became an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She founded Phd Athletica, \u201ca visual homage to my doctorate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lifestyle brand \u201cbrings the global and the local together, drawing inspiration from my own adventures around the world and Miami\u2019s sprawling local garment industry,\u201d Gusky says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/shoutoutmiami.com\/meet-sara-gusky-ph-d-founder-creative-director-of-phd-athletica\/\">Meet Sara Gusky: Ph.D. and founder, creative director of Phd Athletica<\/a>,\u201d <em>Shoutout Miami<\/em>, March 3, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dana Petersen Moore \u201979<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Five climate liability lawyers to watch \u2014<em> E&amp;E News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn courtrooms across the country, a battle is heating up over whether fossil fuel firms should be held financially responsible for the local impacts of climate change,\u201d writes Maxine Joselow for E&amp;E News, listing \u201cfive of the top attorneys to watch in the ongoing climate liability brawls nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana Petersen Moore \u201979 is the first chief equity officer for the city of Baltimore, who, in her previous role as acting city solicitor, helped oversee a city lawsuit against 26 fossil fuel firms over their role in causing climate impacts such as extreme heat and flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn public, defendants criticize our case as without merit. But in court, they do everything they can to delay proceedings and avoid a public trial on the facts,\u201d Moore said. \u201cTheir days of having it both ways are ending. Accountability is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1063727523\">5 climate liability lawyers to watch<\/a>,\u201d <em>E&amp;E News<\/em>, March 16, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Craig Morgan Teicher \u201901<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guggenheim fellows announced, 26 in writing categories \u2014 <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Morgan Teicher, whose poem \u201cPeers\u201d<em> <\/em>was published in the April 5 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/news\/%category%\/2021-guggenheim-fellowships-announced\/\">won a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/180212_Alumni_Poets_0038.jpeg\" alt=\"Accomplished alumni poets from left, Gabe Fried \u201996, Christian Barter \u201890, and Craig Teicher \u201801 participated in a discussion in the Muskie Archives with students, faculty, and staff on Monday afternoon prior to their 7:30 p.m.  reading and book signing in the same location as part of the All Literary Arts Live series that is free, accessible, and open to the public.\n\nTeicher's four collections of poetry and prose meditations include Brenda Is in the Room, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Fried is the author of two poetry collections, The Children Are Reading and Making the New Lamb Take, named a Best Book of 2007 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Barter\u2019s second book of poetry, In Someone Else's House, won a Maine Literary Award for Poetry, and his latest, Bye-bye Land, won the Isabella Gardner Prize. Hosted by poet Rob Farnsworth of the English faculty\" class=\"wp-image-139175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/180212_Alumni_Poets_0038.jpeg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/180212_Alumni_Poets_0038-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/180212_Alumni_Poets_0038-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/180212_Alumni_Poets_0038-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><figcaption>Craig Morgan Teicher \u201801, recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, gestures during a 2018 discussion in the Muskie Archives that was joined by fellow writers Gabe Fried \u201996 and Christian Barter \u201890. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guggenheim Fellowships were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/announcement-2021\/\">awarded to 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists<\/a> to support the \u201cpursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the poem, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/04\/05\/peers?fbclid=IwAR0c_ml2cG5VwFpHiaNxEve0rUo1UTly5D0622XNOH5dsiSh0lVGIlUxXNE\">Peers<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, April 5, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mara Tieken<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The year of living distantly \u2014 <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maine is weathering the pandemic better than most states, but it will leave a lasting impact on us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest challenges was access to the internet and technology in general, and poorer, more rural districts often found it a lot more difficult to deal with remote and hybrid learning,&#8221; said Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2021\/03\/14\/the-year-of-living-distantly\/\">The year of living distantly<\/a>,\u201d <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em>, March 14, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mays joins Greenwood County Hall of Fame with posthumous honor \u2014 <em>Index-Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe never sought this kind of recognition or honor,\u201d said the Rev. Dwight Powell, great-nephew of Benjamin E. Mays, Class of 1920, speaking on the occasion of Mays\u2019 posthumous induction into the Greenwood (S.C.) County Hall of Fame in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt fell on us to recognize who he was and what he was trying to do for us, for the county and for the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexjournal.com\/news\/mays-joins-greenwood-county-hall-of-fame-with-posthumous-honor\/article_52de2ece-010b-51fe-9f99-5bb2efcf62eb.html\">Mays joins Greenwood County Hall of Fame with posthumous honor<\/a>,\u201d <em>Index-Journal<\/em>, April 4, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grace Ingabire \u201919<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dance, taekwondo, and Miss Rwanda: Up-close with Grace Ingabire \u2014 <em>The New Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Grace Ingabire \u201919, a dance major at Bates, won the Miss Rwanda title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her year, she hopes to help work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/africaimprovedfoods.com\/\">Africa Improved Foods project<\/a> to support greater food security among vulnerable people. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to that, to the learning process, and how that\u2019s going to help me learn more about my country,\u201d she says. She also hopes to continue her dance studio and create dance theater spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/grace-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/grace-3.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/04\/grace-3-295x300.jpeg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>In March, Grace Ingabire \u201919, a dance major at Bates, won the Miss Rwanda title. (Kigali Today)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/lifestyle\/dance-taekwondo-and-miss-rwanda-close-grace-ingabire\">Dance, taekwondo and Miss Rwanda: Up-close with Grace Ingabire<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Times<\/em>, March 21, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew Summers \u201915 and Tessa Holtzman \u201917<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empowering middle schoolers worldwide \u2014<strong> <\/strong><em>Harvard Law Today<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While on a Fulbright in South Africa, Matthew Summers \u201915, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/bates-wins-2017-north-american-womens-debating-championship\/\">a top debater while at Bates<\/a>, created an afterschool program that brought together middle-school students from wealthy Stellenbosch and a less-affluent suburb, Kayamandi, to learn debate skills, play games, and make friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Summers and fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/bates-wins-2017-north-american-womens-debating-championship\/\">Quimby Debate Society graduate Tessa Holtzman \u2019 17<\/a>, who is studying at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School, created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debatespaces.org\/our-team\">U.S. version of the program, Debate Spaces<\/a>, to connect middle school students from the Boston Public Schools with students from local private and suburban schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the pandemic shut down Massachusetts schools last spring, Summers and Holtzman decided to expand outside the Boston area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt opened a whole new world, where we could bring in students from over 20 countries,\u201d said Summers. \u201cWe\u2019re not just connecting people from across the city, we\u2019re connecting people from Newton, Massachusetts, to students that are their age in Sri Lanka, or Pakistan or Poland. 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