{"id":142219,"date":"2021-10-14T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=142219"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:22:14","slug":"say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-oct-14-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/say-what-bates-quotes-from-here-and-there-oct-14-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Oct. 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s the latest roundup of what Bates folks are saying about this and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEvery now and then you see a vestige of what used to be mixed up with a hint of what\u2019s yet to come.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Chris Streifel, a project manager for Bates Facility Services, about the renovation of Dana Chemistry Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project started with a complete interior gutting<\/a> of the building, which since its creation in 1965 has focused entirely on chemistry research and teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will conclude with a reimagined building that focuses on science teaching in order to more effectively welcome new students to STEM fields. It will also feature new, flexible classrooms for teaching across all disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Formerly a lab, this expanse on the second floor of Dana Chemistry Hall will be divided between two large, light-filled classrooms. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cOf course, these films tell a lie.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, explaining the history of interracial buddy films, such as 48 Hrs<\/em>. or Trading Places<\/em>, during a talk celebrating his Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interracial buddy film genre treats racism as something internal, implying that \u201cending racism and white supremacy is as simple as Black and white men becoming friends.\u201d Racism, of course, is structural and systemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t afford canvas but I like cardboard so no call for pity then.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Marsden Hartley, the famed modernist artist who was born in Lewiston<\/a> in 1877, writing to a friend in 1933 while travelling in the Alps. Hartley was perennially penniless during his lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts<\/em> presents artwork by Hartley alongside mementos and keepsakes from the artist\u2019s life of adventure and travel. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cToo often these students are described in terms of cost, the money needed to enroll them, for example, rather than the incredible lived experiences they bring to campus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Jason Patenaude \u201991, executive director of the Schuler Education Foundation, explaining why the foundation chose Bates to receive a grant of $50 million in financial aid funds<\/a> for students who are Pell eligible or undocumented: because Bates is recognized for supporting low-income students to graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I felt like the King of England riding through that crowd.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Interim head football coach Ed Argast, who uses a golf cart for mobility, on the rousing ovation by Bates alumni, parents, and friends as he and the team departed Ellis Oval following Bates’ 33\u201310 victory over Tufts<\/a> on Oct. 9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A veteran college football coach, Argast began his coaching career in 1979 as an assistant under the late Web Harrison ’63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interim football head coach Ed Argast gives instructions from his trusty golf cart during a practice on Sept. 10, 2021. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThey provide a perfect platform for beginning to have essential conversations about race and culture with children.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 \u2014 Professor of Psychology Krista Aronson, founder and director of the Diverse BookFinder,<\/a> on the power of children\u2019s picture books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTheir understanding is often just incredibly skewed. I think my job is to unskew that as much as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Assistant Professor of History Andrew Baker, who teaches 19th-century American history, on how students, up until they take one of his courses, often have a \u201cskewed\u201d understanding of American history. \u201cThere are so many other voices, beyond canonical texts, that can shed light on what\u2019s happening in America during the 1800s,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor of HIstory Andrew Baker makes a point during a discussion on Sept. 27, 2021, in which Bates professors shared insights on teaching about anti-blackness and white supremacy at Bates.(Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Walk, don’t run.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Football wide receiver Mohamed Diawara \u201923 <\/strong>of Philadelphia, describing a pass route that yielded a 49-yard touchdown bomb<\/a> from quarterback Brendan Costa \u201922 of Westport, Mass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He strolled the first few steps of the route to trick the defense into thinking that the play would be a run. Part of the trickeration included Costa faking a handoff to running back Christian Olivieri \u201922 of Hull, Mass. The defense bit on the ruse \u2014 jumping forward \u2014 which was Diawara’s cue to take off at full speed, getting behind the deep safeties for the TD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Football wide receiver Mohamed Diawara \u201923 <\/strong>of Philadelphia. (Brewster Burns for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI like to keep it a work-free zone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Aidan Richman \u201924 of Portland, Maine, as he relaxed on the Historic Quad near the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, saying he prefers not to do coursework outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aidan Richman \u201824 listens to music on the Historic Quad near the Peter J. Gomes Chapel. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThrough the fog of my overactive, post-9\/11 imagination, I saw him as Middle Eastern. And I\u2019m ashamed to say I saw him immediately as a threat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Michael Sargent, associate professor of psychology, in a story he told for a 9\/11 edition of Stories from the Stage<\/em><\/a>, about confronting his biases while on a plane flight from Boston to the Midwest for a wedding, and seeing a fellow passenger as a terrorist threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c<\/em>Try to stop holding fast to the things that got you here: the narrative that you are pre-med, or will major in history, when you haven\u2019t even taken your first college course.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 President Clayton Spencer\u2019s advice to first-year students at Convocation<\/a>, urging the new students to use college as a time to disrupt the existing narratives of their lives, \u201cthe identities that have defined you throughout high school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, \u201cthink of these next four years as a time to try new things, to step back and broaden the frame. As the poet Rainer Maria Rilke put it, \u2018The point is to\u2026live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Clayton Spencer at Convocation on Aug. 31, 2021. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThose are not emotions that I was ever expecting to have at this time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Rachel Carr Goodrich \u201990, describing her feelings of joy after Bates friends came together to fund the Peter M. Goodrich \u201989 Memorial Scholarship Fund<\/a>, in memory of her husband, who died on 9\/11 aboard hijacked United Flight 175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been so much joy in connecting with everybody, making this happen: a collective group of friends, honoring someone we all love and helping future Bates students,\u201d says Rachel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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