{"id":146115,"date":"2022-05-03T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=146115"},"modified":"2022-05-07T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:34:50","slug":"slideshow-this-month-at-bates-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/03\/slideshow-this-month-at-bates-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: This Month at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The true joys of spring arrive as April slides into May and we experience the bittersweet tug of departure as the academic calendar concludes with Short Term. In harmony with the season, our Bates experience ripens in numerous ways at this time of year. Let us count them for you in this latest installment of This Month at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘More Like a Painter’ <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Actor and director John Turturro came to Schaeffer Theatre for this year\u2019s Bates Film Festival<\/a>, which screened his films. Here, he demonstrates what acting against a green screen can be like, in this case pretending to react to a pole that would later be transformed through computer-generated imagery into a monster. Comparing acting to another art form, he described that type of acting as a \u201csketch\u201d in contrast to the creative work that allows him to work more like a painter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ski Patrol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ethan Baker \u201924 of Jackson, N.H., who does shifts as a ski patroller at Sunday River, begins a trail check in early April.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A firefighter and emergency medical technician, he captains Bates Emergency Medical Services on campus. An environmental studies major, he\u2019s curious about \u201cstudying our relationship as skiers with climate change and how that will affect the ski industry moving forward.\u201d He adds, \u201cThe fact that I can work at Sunday River and be a full-time Bobcat at the same time is a unique and fulfilling opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saving Salamanders <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Griffin Trygg ’25 of New Canaan, Conn., holds a rescued salamander on the night of March 31, aka Maine Big Night, a statewide annual event and community science initiative that collects and reports data on frogs and salamanders. This salamander had wandered away from its breeding pool. Trygg was joined by Huck Triggs ’24 of Malibu, Calif., and Will Dewey ’24 of Ithaca, N.Y.  “It is wild how many amphibians become active, but many end up on Maine\u2019s roads where they often die,” Triggs said. “We ended up moving a bunch of these guys off the roads.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar High <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Caroline Cassell \u201924 of Woodstock, Vt., takes a bite of a big cookie during the Edible Books Festival<\/a> held at Ladd Library on April 1. Bates community members created and shared food items inspired by book titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tribute <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“Let\u2019s get up and dance!” That was the message that Director and Professor of Dance Carol Dilley (right), who retires this year after 19 years at Bates, delivered to the audience as she was invited onto the Schaeffer Theatre stage by her students at the conclusion of the Spring Dance Concert, their final 2022 performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simultaneous Study <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Emma Blakslee \u201923 (left) of Vail, Colo., prepares a debate for her evolutionary physiology class as her friend Essie Martin \u201922 of Newcastle, Maine, works on her senior thesis in geology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Triumphant Moment <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Matt Hamilton ’25 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Team captain Teddy Koide ’23 of Morristown, N.J., clinched the 5-4 victory for Bates men’s tennis against Hamilton at the Wallach Tennis Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studying While Swinging<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Kenzie Arnott \u201925 of Stowe, Vt., and Sequoia Anstine \u201925 of Steamboat Springs, Colo., chose Lake Andrews to study, recline, and bask in the sun on an April afternoon. They were reading for the course \u201cReligion, Race, and Resistance: From Black Secularism to Black Power,\u201d taught by Lecturer in Religious Studies Christopher Petrella \u201906.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiss and Tell <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Taking part in a Bates senior thesis ritual, first-year student Miles Hagedorn of Yarmouth, Maine, helps senior history major Liv Silva of North Billerica, Mass., bind her thesis in Ladd Library, then give it a kiss to make it official. The two became friends while working together in the Bates theater production of 35mm<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva\u2019s thesis, advised by Assistant Professor of History Erik Bernardino, is titled \u201cExcluded from the Gold Mountain: Anti-Chinese Misogyny and Racialized Immigration Restriction.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In writing and researching her thesis, Silva discovered that \u201cthere is a lot of room for new voices in academia who will focus on marginalized voices throughout history. I am very proud!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All Hyped Up <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bates pitcher Jared Pantalony ’22  (left) of Brooklyn, N.Y., is pumped up after retiring all seven batters he faced out of the bullpen in a 6-4 win for the baseball team over Plymouth State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictures at an Exhibition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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John Loftus \u201922 of Palo Alto, Calif., a double major in art and visual culture and neuroscience, and Bates College Museum of Art staff member Michel Droge hang one of Loftus\u2019 photographs ahead of the annual Senior Thesis Exhibition<\/a>. Loftus trained his film cameras (a Nikon F3 and a Hasselblad Xpan) on people in Lewiston and the surrounding areas who are struggling with substance abuse and, especially, those who are helping them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There He Blows <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dylan DiSunno \u201922 of East Hampton, N.Y., plays the trumpet with \u200b\u200bGlass of Water as they kick off the 2022 Bates Film Festival with a sweet, funky, bluesy (you name it) set in the Fireplace Lounge in Commons. Fans gathered to listen as they sipped cider and munched on popcorn (think movies) to launch the six-day Bates Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bobcat First! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Approximately 80 students, faculty, and staff attended the Bobcat First Banquet in the Benjamin Mays Center in April. The celebration included dinner, tributes to graduating seniors, spoken word poetry by Losseni Barry \u201922 of New York City, a photo booth, and more. At Bates, the Bobcat First program<\/a> fosters a greater sense of well-being, belonging, and self-empowerment among first-generation college students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Runner and Jumper <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Women’s track and field captain Elise Lambert ’22 of Amherst, N.H., won the 400 meters and the high jump at the Bates Quad Meet in early April<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready for Their Closeup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Spring at Bates has truly arrived when the Hathorn Hall magnolia blooms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President’s Cup <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The women’s first varsity eight helped the Bates rowing teams win the President’s Cup<\/a> for the ninth straight time over rivals Colby and Bowdoin on the Androscoggin River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With a Focus on Horticulture <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In front of Lindholm House, home of Bates Admission, Facility Services\u2019 grounds and maintenance crew pauses in their work \u2014 aerating, seeding, loaming, and raking \u2014 for a group photo. From left, \u201cDr.\u201d Phil Kenney, Jon-Michael Foley, Jeremy Lavertu, and Joe Castonguay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dashing Debut <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Luke Urribarri ’23 of East Sandwich, Mass., made his collegiate debut in the javelin for the men’s track and field team at the Bates Quad Meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fireside Chat <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Noted economist Cecilia Rouse meets with Bates students at a welcome reception hosted by the Women in Economics club at the Fireplace Lounge. Rouse is chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor of the Economics of Education at Princeton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the evening, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics Lynne Lewis and Assistant Professor of Economics Nivedhitha Subramanian engaged Rouse in a lively Q&A session in Pettengill Hall\u2019s Keck Classroom, followed by audience questions. The Women in Economics club provides a welcoming space for Bates students to explore the historically male-dominated fields of economics, finance, and consulting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Friends <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Maggie Kornfeind \u201925 of Ringoes, N.J., greets Sadie Bird, a 7-year-old Border Collie mix, on Alumni Walk. They\u2019re old friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s It All About?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Moderna scientist Chris Tunkey speaks with students in Assistant Professor of Biology Lori Banks’ microbiology class. The visit, sponsored by the Center for Purposeful Work, was arranged because Tunkey is a friend and former colleague of Amy McDonough, assistant in instruction in biochemistry and biology. Tunkey \u201cgraciously agreed to come spend the day with us and chat to the students about what he does and what it is like to work at a company like Moderna,\u201d McDonough said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bound by Friendship <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Senior music major Mathieu Moutou of Vacoas, Mauritius, poses for celebratory photographs on the steps of Hathorn Hall with friends Marcos Pacheco Soto \u201824  (left) of Santiago, Chile, and Miguel Pacheco Gonzalez \u201924 of San Jose, Costa Rica. Moutou\u2019s thesis is titled \u201cStudying the History of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto to Inform Modern Performance.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Astronomy Extravaganza <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ben Powell \u201922 of Chicago explains why the sky is blue to Katie Boss and her children Clara, 7, and Elliot, 4,  during the Bates College Astronomy Extravaganza Night held on the Bates Library Quad. This event was the final project for students taking \u201cIntroduction to Astronomy,\u201d co-taught by Assistant Professor of Physics Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic and Nicole Hastings, assistant in instruction in physics and astronomy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty-one Bates students designed 20 interactive learning activities for the annual event. \u201cIt was nice to see some current seniors who were part of the 2019 event as first-year students come by to check it out, Diamond-Stanic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Joyous Display<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Seniors Julia Henderson of \u200b\u200bKensington, Md., Kayta Tsemo of Andover, Mass., and Isabella David of New York City, pop their champagne corks, one of the various rituals associated with binding a senior thesis at Bates, on the Coram Library porch. They met as first-year students in AESOP and have been friends and roommates ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Day <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Honored on the softball team\u2019s Senior Day on April 30 were, from left, Janell Sato, Danielle Polirer, Eliza McNulty, Kennedy Ishii, Emily Samar, and Aleah Pagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reproductive Rights <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Adrian Madanes \u201925 of Argentina addresses the crowd gathered at the Keigwin Amphitheater on May 5 for a rally to support abortion rights. The rally was part of a coordinated national campus action to protest the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s possible overturn of Roe v. Wade. \u201cWe are here organizing with the reproductive freedom movement,\u201d Madanes said, \u201cWe are here to show support for reproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Begins Anew <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The early bird catches this view of Lake Andrews as light appears on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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