{"id":139405,"date":"2021-04-30T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=139405"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:13:37","slug":"say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-april-30-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/30\/say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-april-30-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: April 30, 2021"},"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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Thanks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to begin with a thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Vice President for Campus Life Josh McIntosh, <\/em>acknowledging cooperation by students during their 11 days of in-room restriction<\/em><\/a> in early April (with exceptions for outdoor exercise and meals) after unauthorized parties in late March led to a spike in COVID-19 cases. The restriction effectively lowered the number of new positive cases.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owing One\u2019s Self<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ability to accrue vast amounts of debt puts people in a position to commit injustice against themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield, author of “Duty to Self” (Oxford University Press, 2021), explaining, in an essay in The Conversation<\/a>, why, from a philosophical perspective, laws should limit the amount and types of debt that people can take on as a \u201cjustifiable way to protect people from their own choices and to enhance their freedom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waiting and Watching <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m waiting for days when there\u2019s a thunderstorm or a snowstorm, just to watch that move past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Chris Streifel, Bates project manager for Bonney Science Center, anticipating what he and others might see from the Beacon, the two-story, glass-walled gathering place that affords a fabulous perspective on the Historic Quad and the skies above.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
A year ago, prior to the Beacon’s glass wall being erected, a view from inside Bonney Science Center of the Historic Quad. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Deep and Far<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat it feels so exceptional tells us how deep the struggle for racial justice in this country remains, and how much farther we have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 President Clayton Spencer, <\/em>issuing a statement following the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin<\/em><\/a> in the death of George Floyd.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fear Itself<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is paramount to recognize the discriminatory behaviors that accompany fear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Assistant Professor of Economics Leshui He and colleagues in China, correctly predicting in their early 2020 scholarly paper \u201cDiscrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19\u201d the growing threat of discrimination faced by Asian people worldwide<\/a>, prompted in part by fear.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Metro
Metro riders wear masks in Qingdao, China, in November 2020. (Photograph by Gauthier Delecroix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Working Together<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are not, nor should they be, competing oppressions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Noelle Chaddock, responding to a question from a <\/em>Bates Student journalist about perceived conflicts between BIPOC-led social movements. \u201cWe must work together toward racial equity, period,\u201d Chaddock said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making the Ask<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust ask, \u2018What would you like to be called?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Director of Equity and Inclusion Education Nicollette Mitchell, joining a <\/em>Maine Public Radio<\/em><\/a> discussion about the changing labels and terms used to describe groups of people. Mitchell offered a way for someone to begin a respectful discussion with another person about how they wish to describe their racial or other identity. Mitchell says that another phrase that Bates students use to begin the conversation is, \u201cHow do you identify?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in the Race<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never thought we would get to race again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 On the Bates Bobcast<\/a>, first varsity eight coxswain Elizabeth Folsom ’21 of San Mateo, Calif., discusses the rowing team getting back on the water for the first time since the Head of the Charles Regatta in October 2019. After a washed-out 2020 spring season, the Bobcats are expected to compete for another NCAA championship in late May.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"(Brewster
Hannah McKenzie \u201921 of Stevenson, Md. (Brewster Burns for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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O Beautiful<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe beauty of the Watson is almost unfathomable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Anthropology major and aspiring humanitarian Hannah McKenzie \u201921, describing the <\/em>opportunity provided to her by a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship<\/em><\/a> for 2020\u201321, and how it will allow her to explore \u201cwhat kind of person I want to be in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Together<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the new Commons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 A sentiment shared by many students in 2020\u201321, including this group on a warm February day, to describe the phenomenon of mealtime on Garcelon Field, with dining indoors in Commons being suspended during the pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Phyllis
From left, Isaac Williams \u201923 of Reno, Nev., Caleb Ireland \u201923 of Amherst, Mass., and Alexi Knight \u201923 of South Paris, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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!!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe exclamation mark is such a great tool for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Dan Sanford, director of Writing at Bates and Academic Resource Commons, during a discussion hosted by Maine Public Radio about the power of punctuation<\/a>, saying that the use of the exclamation point in social media helpfully conveys the medium\u2019s requisite \u201cwarmth and informality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird Out<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt felt very weird. But then it felt great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 On the Bates Bobcast<\/a>, Genesis Paulino ’21 of Lawrence, Mass., describes the rapid adjustment, from feeling distracted by wearing a face mask to feeling the joy of returning to competition, at 2021\u2019s first women’s track and field meet, on April 24. The field events took place at Bowdoin, while Bates hosted the track events. Paulino won the discus, placed second in the hammer, and fourth in the shot put.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Genesis
Track and field thrower Genesis Paulino ’21 of Lawrence, Mass., photographed in 2019 (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Expect the Unexpected<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe obviously didn’t fully know what to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014On the Bates Bobcast<\/a>, tennis player Nick Forester ’23 of Falmouth, Maine, reflects on the odd feeling of playing a match against a NESCAC foe for the first time in nearly two years, on April 28, 2019. With last spring\u2019s matches canceled, and having a very young team, everything seems brand new to the Bobcats in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Future Faith<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can say that out of all this, they\u2019ve renewed my faith in what the future\u2019s going to be like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Rick McQueeney, a driver for the Bates Bobcat Express shuttle<\/a>, on getting to know students as he drives them to off-campus places and services, such as medical appointments, shopping excursions, and community-engaged projects in Lewiston-Auburn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Rick
Rick McQueeney, a driver for the Bates Bobcat Express shuttle. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College(<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot to talk about these days: the return to sports, racial issues, and what the skies above Bates might bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":139453,"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":[4,7,9946,11012],"tags":[12192],"class_list":["post-139405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-exclude-from-loops","category-student-life","tag-say-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139405","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139405"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139405\/revisions\/139579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}