\u2018I see something I can\u2019t shake\u2019 \u2014 The Rumpus<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n“With the graceful step of a spy and the determined aim of a hunter, Hardy delivers pieces of his heart in each poem,” writes Janet Rodriguez of the literary journal The Rumpus<\/em>, describing Assistant Professor of English Myronn Hardy new collection of poetry<\/a>, Aurora Americana<\/em> (Princeton University Press), coming out on Oct. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Asistant](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/12\/221117_Myronn_Hardy_Portrait_3620.webp\")
Assistant Professor of English Myronn Hardy’s new collection of poetry comes out on Oct. 10. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cFor me, poems begin as images,\u201d Hardy tells Rodriguez in the Q&A story. \u201cI see something I can\u2019t shake. The image remains in my mind. I dream about it. I wait for that particular image to morph, a subtle change in color or a repositioning. When that happens, I know I\u2019m in the process and nearing the page.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe forgotten teenage trailblazer of women\u2019s tennis \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe<\/em> New York Times <\/em>tells a story about a girl<\/a>, Phyllis Graber \u2014 now Phyllis Graber Jensen, director of photography and video at Bates \u2014 growing up in Kew Gardens, Queens, who wanted to play high school tennis. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHer school, Jamaica High School, had no girls team, so she asked to play on the boys team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAgainst the vogue for male chauvinism, both the coach, who recognized her talent, and the team members themselves said they would welcome her,\u201d writes Ginia Bellafante in her Big City column. But the city Board of Education said \u201cno way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n
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At age 14, two years away from her challenge to NYC Board of Education, Phyllis Graber met Billie Jean King, right, at a tennis camp in New Jersey. (Courtesy of Phyllis Graber Jensen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n“So at 16, Ms. Graber filed what turned out to be an enormously influential complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.\u201d She won the day, gaining permission to compete on her high school team in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had a gradual awakening based on what I encountered in school, in Ms.<\/em> magazine, in what was happening in the world around me,\u201d Graber Jensen tells Bellafante. \u201cIf I had been born 10 years earlier, I would have faced a much grimmer experience. I think my parents were exceptional in how they encouraged me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor more on this story, listen to this Bates Bobcast<\/em> interview with Graber Jensen<\/a> from 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStephanie Kelley-Romano<\/h3>\n\n\n\nFrom \u2018data dumping\u2019 to \u2018webbing\u2019: how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sells misleading ideas \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA New York Times<\/em> story turns to Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies to explain Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s use of logical leaps and rhetorical devices to create false or misleading anti-vaccine messages<\/a> in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKennedy tends to \u201cdump a billion studies, footnotes and pieces of evidence in front of us,\u201d Kelley-Romano tells reporter Stuart A. Thompson. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t fact-checking it, and so it feels true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an adept conspiracy theorist, Kennedy knows how to wrap a \u201cgrain of truth\u201d into his claims, says Kelley-Romano. \u201cBut it\u2019s wrapped up in speculation, conjecture and hyperbole,\u201d she explains. “It\u2019s incredibly pernicious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tyler Harper<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe moral theater of social justice parenting \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn an opinion piece for The New York Times<\/em>, Tyler Harper, an assistant professor of environmental studies, criticizes a parenting trend he calls \u201csocial justice parenting,<\/a>\u201d which he describes as \u201cparenting philosophies that see children as dangerously permeable to prejudice and that insist that antiracism counterprogramming must begin in the cradle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nSuch parenting philosophies tend to be aimed at progressive whites, says Harper, who is Black, and while they do have evidence-based foundations, \u201cas with other offshoots of antiracism, it has increasingly devolved into a self-help program for wealthy white progressives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The discourse has become a grab bag \u2014 and, one suspects, a cash grab \u2014 where serious research mingles with New Age sloganeering and self-care practices designed to soothe the troubled souls of guilty liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maple Buescher \u201925<\/h3>\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t believe in God. But I found something powerful in a church that kept me coming back \u2014 Cleveland.com<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMaple Buescher \u201825 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who writes a regular column for The Plain Dealer<\/em> and its online publication, Cleveland.com, offers thoughts about her summer spent working on a Maine island<\/a> in a one-room library, while a friend served as the organist for the island\u2019s church.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBueshcer spent time in the church, listening to her friend perform and attending services. The experience was deeply moving, she writes.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n![\"Opening](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/230905_Convocation_02959.webp\")
Maple Buescher \u201825 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, plays \u201cAshokan Farewell\u201d during this year’s memorial tree planting service, on Sept. 5 after Convocation. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cI am not Christian, and I do not believe in any higher power. So why was I so deeply moved by these religious services? The answer, I think, lies in the fact that the Bible and the hymnal were written by humans, and at the very heart of all of them are human reflections on how to live a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ken Kobori \u201902<\/h3>\n\n\n\nTwo minutes with Ken Kobori, CEO of SURF Music \u2014 Muse by Clio<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe entertainment and pop culture news site Muse by Clio offers a Q&A with Ken Kobori \u201802<\/a>, who, as founder and CEO of SURF Music, has guided the careers of Japanese, Korean, and American artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\nKobori says he is proud of a recent collaboration with Earth Wind & Fire and Little Glee Monster, which he composed and produced. And he shares his earliest musical memory: \u201cHearing Oscar Peterson’s ‘You Look Good to Me<\/a>‘ on a JBL record player from the ’70s. I still have the same JBL system at my house in Tokyo today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nRoss Brockman \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\nAn intensive A-to-Z guide to apples, New England\u2019s most iconic fall fruit \u2014 Boston Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
“With the graceful step of a spy and the determined aim of a hunter, Hardy delivers pieces of his heart in each poem,” writes Janet Rodriguez of the literary journal The Rumpus<\/em>, describing Assistant Professor of English Myronn Hardy new collection of poetry<\/a>, Aurora Americana<\/em> (Princeton University Press), coming out on Oct. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor me, poems begin as images,\u201d Hardy tells Rodriguez in the Q&A story. \u201cI see something I can\u2019t shake. The image remains in my mind. I dream about it. I wait for that particular image to morph, a subtle change in color or a repositioning. When that happens, I know I\u2019m in the process and nearing the page.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The<\/em> New York Times <\/em>tells a story about a girl<\/a>, Phyllis Graber \u2014 now Phyllis Graber Jensen, director of photography and video at Bates \u2014 growing up in Kew Gardens, Queens, who wanted to play high school tennis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her school, Jamaica High School, had no girls team, so she asked to play on the boys team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAgainst the vogue for male chauvinism, both the coach, who recognized her talent, and the team members themselves said they would welcome her,\u201d writes Ginia Bellafante in her Big City column. But the city Board of Education said \u201cno way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n “So at 16, Ms. Graber filed what turned out to be an enormously influential complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.\u201d She won the day, gaining permission to compete on her high school team in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI had a gradual awakening based on what I encountered in school, in Ms.<\/em> magazine, in what was happening in the world around me,\u201d Graber Jensen tells Bellafante. \u201cIf I had been born 10 years earlier, I would have faced a much grimmer experience. I think my parents were exceptional in how they encouraged me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more on this story, listen to this Bates Bobcast<\/em> interview with Graber Jensen<\/a> from 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A New York Times<\/em> story turns to Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies to explain Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s use of logical leaps and rhetorical devices to create false or misleading anti-vaccine messages<\/a> in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kennedy tends to \u201cdump a billion studies, footnotes and pieces of evidence in front of us,\u201d Kelley-Romano tells reporter Stuart A. Thompson. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t fact-checking it, and so it feels true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As an adept conspiracy theorist, Kennedy knows how to wrap a \u201cgrain of truth\u201d into his claims, says Kelley-Romano. \u201cBut it\u2019s wrapped up in speculation, conjecture and hyperbole,\u201d she explains. “It\u2019s incredibly pernicious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an opinion piece for The New York Times<\/em>, Tyler Harper, an assistant professor of environmental studies, criticizes a parenting trend he calls \u201csocial justice parenting,<\/a>\u201d which he describes as \u201cparenting philosophies that see children as dangerously permeable to prejudice and that insist that antiracism counterprogramming must begin in the cradle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Such parenting philosophies tend to be aimed at progressive whites, says Harper, who is Black, and while they do have evidence-based foundations, \u201cas with other offshoots of antiracism, it has increasingly devolved into a self-help program for wealthy white progressives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The discourse has become a grab bag \u2014 and, one suspects, a cash grab \u2014 where serious research mingles with New Age sloganeering and self-care practices designed to soothe the troubled souls of guilty liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maple Buescher \u201825 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who writes a regular column for The Plain Dealer<\/em> and its online publication, Cleveland.com, offers thoughts about her summer spent working on a Maine island<\/a> in a one-room library, while a friend served as the organist for the island\u2019s church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bueshcer spent time in the church, listening to her friend perform and attending services. The experience was deeply moving, she writes.<\/p>\n\n\n \u201cI am not Christian, and I do not believe in any higher power. So why was I so deeply moved by these religious services? The answer, I think, lies in the fact that the Bible and the hymnal were written by humans, and at the very heart of all of them are human reflections on how to live a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The entertainment and pop culture news site Muse by Clio offers a Q&A with Ken Kobori \u201802<\/a>, who, as founder and CEO of SURF Music, has guided the careers of Japanese, Korean, and American artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kobori says he is proud of a recent collaboration with Earth Wind & Fire and Little Glee Monster, which he composed and produced. And he shares his earliest musical memory: \u201cHearing Oscar Peterson’s ‘You Look Good to Me<\/a>‘ on a JBL record player from the ’70s. I still have the same JBL system at my house in Tokyo today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nPhyllis Graber Jensen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The forgotten teenage trailblazer of women\u2019s tennis \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From \u2018data dumping\u2019 to \u2018webbing\u2019: how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sells misleading ideas \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Tyler Harper<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The moral theater of social justice parenting \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Maple Buescher \u201925<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t believe in God. But I found something powerful in a church that kept me coming back \u2014 Cleveland.com<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Ken Kobori \u201902<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Two minutes with Ken Kobori, CEO of SURF Music \u2014 Muse by Clio<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Ross Brockman \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
An intensive A-to-Z guide to apples, New England\u2019s most iconic fall fruit \u2014 Boston Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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