{"id":159060,"date":"2023-12-08T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=159060"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:56:34","slug":"bates-in-the-news-dec-7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/08\/bates-in-the-news-dec-7-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Dec. 7, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A selection of recent mentions of Bates and Bates people in the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates Dining Services <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Heaven scent: Holiday aromas emanate from Bates College\u2019s tourti\u00e8res \u2014Maine Sunday Telegram<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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In a Maine Sunday Telegram<\/em> story about a beloved campus tradition<\/a>, Tim Cebula wrote how Bates people \u201cknow Christmas is coming when the aroma of fragrant French Canadian tourti\u00e8res \u2014 savory meat and potato pies with warm seasonings like clove and allspice \u2014 come wafting out of the dining commons kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, Dining Services chefs make about 125 holiday tourti\u00e8res to freeze and sell at cost ($12 for a 9-inch meat pie this year) to the campus community. The Bates tradition dates back close to 50 years, wrote Cebula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cebula noted that \u201cLewiston is a city rich with French Canadian heritage and influence. Plenty of Bates staffers who grew up in the area were raised with generational meat pie traditions in their own families. They know their tourti\u00e8res, and the Bates version gets their enthusiastic stamp of approval.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Walsh \u201924<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bates College students show up in droves to give back to Lewiston community, following mass shooting \u2014 New Center Maine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Darby Ray, director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, and Emily Walsh \u201924 of Cambridge, Mass., spoke with <\/em>WCSH-TV about how students have become more involved in volunteer work in Lewiston<\/a> following the Oct. 25 shootings in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harward Center helped create partnerships with local organizations to connect the students with volunteering opportunities, something Walsh said she admired when applying to Bates. “I did a lot of community-engaged work in high school and I was looking for a college that kind of also had those values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyatt Teaford \u201927<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Waiting for snow \u2014 FasterSkier<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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In an essay for FasterSkier, <\/em>Wyatt Teaford \u201927, a first-year member of the Bates Nordic ski team, described what it\u2019s like being a skier in the Northeast<\/a> and feeling impatient for the first skiable snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we were kids, we waited impatiently for everything: for Christmas, for birthdays, for dessert, for recess, and for the first snowy day of winter,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the adulthood of Nordic skiing, the first snowy day is still the source of immense anticipation,\u201d comparing the feeling to the woodland creature Badger\u2019s impatience for winter in the children\u2019s picture book Waiting for Snow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Northeast, Nordic skiers are always ready \u2014 and waiting \u2014 for a skiable snow. (Wyatt Teaford ’27)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In mid-November, college skiers out West had already skied on snow. Meanwhile, Teaford and his Bates teammates headed to Acadia National Park for some productive dry-land training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

True, the park is \u201cone of the most beautiful places in the East, but it reminded many team members of the serious inequality present in the ski world when it comes to time on snow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates College Museum of Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Art review: Range of Indigenous art on display at Maine colleges \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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“The depth of this exhibition is hard to capture<\/a>,\u201d wrote Jorge Arango in the Portland Press Herald<\/em>, reviewing Exploding Native Inevitable<\/em><\/a> <\/em>at the Bates Museum of Art through March 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition features the work of 12 contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives, accompanied by an ongoing program of dance, film, music, performance, readings, story-telling, and video by Indigenous artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raven Halfmoon, Dush Toh Dancing<\/em>, 2022, stoneware and glaze, 55 x 40 x 35 inches, Courtesy of Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM. \u00a9 Raven Halfmoon. (Photography courtesy of the artist and Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAside from mesmerizing works (including Robert Mirabal\u2019s hypnotic, trance-inducing musical composition \u2018The Society,\u2019 Michael Namingha\u2019s chromogenic print Altered Landscape 15<\/em> and Cara Romero\u2019s fiercely beautiful photographic portrait of her niece Crickett<\/em>), the exhibition is thoroughly researched and full of valuable information. The latter provides indispensable context for understanding the legacy of Indigenous art and its sidelining throughout history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates Trashion Show<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
When there\u2019s a guy on stilts who\u2019s encased in cardboard, it must be the Bates College Trashion Show \u2014 207<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cMy feet hurt. But I feel amazing,\u201d said Miguel Angel Pacheco \u201924 of Caracas, Venezuela, when he spoke about the annual Trashion Show with Rob Caldwell, host of the nightly news magazine show 207<\/em>, produced by WCSH-TV in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n

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High in the air on stilts, Pacheco modeled an outfit by designer Sloan Phillips \u201925 of Evergreen, Colo., who wove together cardboard to create a giant dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caldwell\u2019s segment highlighted how the annual show is both silly and serious by \u201cshining a light on the importance of sustainability\u201d at Bates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Schofield<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Opinion: Liberals shouldn\u2019t scoff at people\u2019s fears of homelessness and crime  \u2014 The Washington Post<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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An opinion piece by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield in The Washington Post<\/em> noted that liberals should not scoff when conservative news outlets and politicians appear to exaggerate the homeless situation across America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schofield writes that \u201cas a political philosopher who studies homelessness and considers himself progressive\u201d he found the homeless problem in San Francisco very real. Cherished public spaces cannot serve their high purpose \u2014 \u201cfor community, for democracy, and for bringing diverse populations together\u201d \u2014 if they\u2019re littered and if those struggling with mental health are left to harass others unimpeded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Hodgkin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Androscoggin Historical Society opens its doors on Lisbon Street in Lewiston \u2014Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The Androscoggin Historical Society opened in a new location<\/a> on Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston in November and longtime member Douglas Hodgkin, Bates professor emeritus of political science, told the Sun Journal <\/em>he was joyful at the big move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m so pleased that the society has moved to a place where we can actually display much of our material\u201d and people can come to see it easily, said Hodgkin, 84, whose ancestors settled in Lewiston in 1777 and has written extensively about the area\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lies about Lewiston shooting pushed by online skeptics \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Stephanie Kelley-Romano, professor of rhetoric, film, and screen studies, told the Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>that most of the people who engage in disinformation and conspiracy thinking<\/a> probably believe the lies they\u2019re spreading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens, she said, is that when terrible things happen, such as the Lewiston shootings, they \u201ccreate some sort of horrific reasoning for it\u201d so they can feel better \u201cabout literally the randomness of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley-Romano said QAnon and other internet sites that cater to conspiratorial thinking tell people to \u201cdo your own research\u201d rather than believe what they\u2019re told by the news media and politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Knight \u201990 and Mark Kennedy \u201990<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
32 days, one big wheel: Duo re-creates historic trans-Japan trip \u2014 The Japan Times <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Cycling 1,500 kilometers from Nagasaki to Yokohama is a feat in itself \u2014 now imagine making the journey perched atop an old-fashioned \u201chigh-wheel\u201d bike<\/a>, with a huge front wheel nearly 1.5 meters above a tiny back one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bates classmates Eric Knight (left) and Mark Kennedy pose at Lake Ashi near Hakone Yumoto, in a photograph that, as Kennedy said, “sourced from an anonymous stranger who borrowed the author\u2019s camera.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vintage bicycle enthusiast Eric Knight \u201990 shipped his high-wheeler \u2014 a replica of one with a 54-inch front wheel originally made by the Victor company \u2014 from his home in Berwyn, Pa., to Japan for the adventure, and he was joined by his former Bates roommate, Mark Kennedy ’90, who lives in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, riding an e-bike, carrying luggage, serving as Knight\u2019s interpreter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The adventure retraced the last leg of Thomas Stevens’ groundbreaking global bicycle tour in the 1880s. The duo departed from Nagasaki on Sep. 24 and completed the trip in 32 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Keith \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Florida appeals court upholds congressional map championed by DeSantis \u2014 CNN<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Amy Keith \u201899, executive director of Common Cause in Florida, is helping to lead a court fight <\/a>against congressional redistricting in Florida. Supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis the redistricting is \u201ccontroversial because of the way it dismantled a Black district,\u201d according to Florida Politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis decision blatantly ignores the will of Florida voters who \u2014 more than a decade ago \u2014  demanded Fair Districts that protect representation for communities of color,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis Millett \u201949<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Veteran of the Day: U.S. Army veteran Lewis L. Millett \u2014 Aerotech News and Review<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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One of the most renowned members of the military Bates alumni community, Lewis Millett \u201949 was named Aerotech News and Review<\/em>\u2019s Veteran of the Day on Nov. 15 f<\/a><\/span>or his \u201cunique career in the military,\u201d which spanned 35 years<\/a>, from 1938 to 1973. Millett earned the Medal of Honor and the Silver Star, a Distinguished Service Cross, two Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars, four Purple Hearts, and three Air Medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millett is well-known to military historians for leading the U.S. military\u2019s last major fixed-bayonet charge<\/a>, in Korea in 1951. He died in November 2009 at the age of 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lewis Millett \u201949 is congratulated by Bob Jones, Bates alumni secretary, in 1951 after Millett received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Korea that year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Sylvester \u201950<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

World War II veteran Ralph Sylvester remembered for service to his country, Maine community \u2014 News Center Maine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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News Center Maine\u2019<\/em>s Don Carrigan remembers the late Ralph Sylvester, a World War II veteran<\/a> who died in November, as one of those people \u201cwho are memorable, simply because of how they lived, and how they treated others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 1944, Sylvester joined the invasion of Europe as part of the U.S. Army\u2019s 295th Engineer Battalion. For much of the war, Sylvester and his comrades built bridges and cleared minefields on the way to Germany. “We would go ahead of the infantry many times,” Ralph recalled in a 2019 interview. “They would say, ‘Where are you going?’ ‘Oh, up the road a piece.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, Sylvester worked for a bank, then a telephone company. After he retired, he and his wife of 70 years, Elaine, had breakfast at Bates almost daily. There, they became friends with Peter Steenstra, head coach of the Bates rowing team, which honored Sylvester earlier this year by naming the new rowing shell after Sylvester<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Tilton Gibson \u201987<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Masters in Business: Linda Gibson on quant investing \u2014 Bloomberg<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Linda Tilton Gibson \u201987, chair and chief executive officer of PGIM Quantitative Solutions LLC, talked with Bloomberg about her work leading one of the pioneering firms of quant investing<\/a>, an investment approach that relies on mathematical models and computational techniques in making investment decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interview, Gibson, a Bates mathematics major, talked about managing people with extremely high IQs, which is typical for \u201cquants.\u201d\u00a0\u201cOur firm has 29 Ph.Ds. Our CIO is literally an ex-rocket scientist who used to work at NASA. These are very, very smart people. In managing them, you definitely have to adapt your style,” Gibson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added that “we need very smart people, but EQ is equally important as IQ. I lead, direct, and manage and then sort of push them \u2014\u00a0but then just leave them alone. I want to give them the resources that they need but also give the direction that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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