{"id":158368,"date":"2023-11-09T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=158368"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:05:41","slug":"ladd-library-lost-found-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/09\/ladd-library-lost-found-october-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladd Library Lost & Found: October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we were setting out the display of items for this edition of Ladd Library Lost & Found, Professor Emerita of Mathematics Bonnie Shulman stopped by because something had caught her eye: a Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus graphing calculator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I need one of those,” she said \u2014\u00a0not to add up grocery or heating bills but, as she explained, for a course she’s coming out of retirement to teach during the winter semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The course is “Mathematics for Social Justice,” which teaches students how to put their math skills in service of real-world, socially relevant issues. In fact, Shulman herself created the first iteration of the popular course about a dozen years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I consider it the crown jewel of my teaching career. I couldn’t resist the offer to come back and teach it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And need for calculators? Her students will use the venerable TI 84 on a simulation probability model for a unit on “Driving While Black or Brown,” she explains.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The venerable Texas Instuments TI 84 graphing calculator, lost and not yet found at Ladd Library. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In addition to the TI 84, here’s what we saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Book, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture<\/em>, a series of nearly 1,200 entries about Chinese cultural subjects written by an international team of specialists and edited by Edward L. Davis<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Men\u2019s basketball shoes, size 12, by the Chinese sports apparel company Li-Ning, specifically the Yu Shuai XiV Boom Low, with an Orlando Twilight design.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Notebook with multivariable calculus math problem set <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Apple AirPods Pro<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Apple AirPods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Book, New Religious Movements<\/em>, by George D. Chryssides explains that an organization founded \u201cwithin the past 150 or so years\u201d cannot be easily classified within one of the world\u2019s main religious traditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Broken Ben Folds yo-yo with words: \u201cNever gonna say Yolo no mo,\u2019\u201d a lyric from his song “Exhausting Lover”


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  • Black iPhone charger by POWERTEK, 6 feet long<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Leather bracelet bearing the characters \u201cUWCD 2023,\u201d which might refer to a United World Colleges school, Dilijan College, is the 14th member of the UWC movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • White iWALK mini portable phone charger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • White MacBook charger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Glass water bottle featuring the wordmark of the Kessler Scholars program, part of Bates’ first-generation-to-college Bobcat First program, with sticker of the Bates Student Writing and Language Center and Cold Front, an ultimate frisbee team on campus<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Reading glasses by Lunette Optic in orange-lined velvet case <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Silver snake ring with green gem and blue detailing\u00a0


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  • Dummy SD card by Dell, used as a place holder to protect the socket’s electrical contacts and mechanical mechanism<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Galaxy print stress ball <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Glass Bates water bottle<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Book, Half Broke Horses, <\/em>a true-life novel by Jeannette Walls depicts the freedom of rural life, its joys and struggles, and celebrates the courage and spirit of its protagonist, Lily Casey Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Chemistry exam with a celebratory sticker of a cat dressed as a pirate. (The exam’s “coversheet” asks the student a few non-chem questions \u2014 such as “What did you do for fun this week?” and “How are you feeling about the exam?” \u2014\u00a0which gives the professor a chance to check-in on their students’ well-being.


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  • Silver costume sunglasses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wooden hair comb by Beijing W-Town <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Fuscia-colored tumbler by zak! <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Student ID card from Auburn Middle School<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Travel electronic adapter by Trans-World International<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sticky-tab pad by Semikolon with a mustache-shaped sticky note bearing the words \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t know\u201d on the outside cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Black-and-white checkered stainless steel tumbler with plastic inner liner by Room Essentials <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Green and white trucker hat by Pacific Headwear<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Foot-shaped bottle opener<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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