Opinion: The Swiftie math of the Super Bowl is a perfect score \u2014 CNN<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mville.edu\/_resources\/images\/006-square-photos\/mville-people\/H0008_AmyBass-052.jpg\")
Sports and culture expert Amy Bass’ most recent book, One Goal<\/em>, tells the story of the 2015 Maine championship victory of Lewiston High School boys soccer team, many of whose members were immigrants from African nations. (Courtesy of Amy Bass ’92)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAn academic expert in the fascinating intersection of sport and and society, Amy Bass \u201892 wrote a pair of opinion pieces for CNN about how this year\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 with Taylor Swift in attendance \u2014 further entrenches the NFL \u201cas a bona fide entertainment industry.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While NFL as entertainment has been true for decades, Bass, who is a professor of sports studies at Manhattanville College, wrote that Swift and her fandom<\/a> took it up a notch this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn turn, the NFL embraced her presence at games and \u201cthe adulation, condemnation, and profit generation that follow her and her merry band of Swifties wherever she goes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the game, Bass summed it up<\/a>: \u201cFrom Nickelodeon\u2019s broadcast of the game, which included a lower-third caption on [Travis] Kelce on the bench that read \u201cTaylor\u2019s Swift\u2019s boyfriend \u2014 good at football\u201d to the arena\u2019s jumbotron showing Taylor downing a drink alongside longtime friend Ashley Avignone, it was yet again clear that the NFL has been thrilled with what has been called The Swift Effect on football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLarry Handerhan \u201905<\/h4>\n\n\n\nTwo \u2018extreme extroverts\u2019 find love in a pandemic bubble \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA New York Times <\/em>\u201cMini Vows\u201d story from October 2023 told the story the marriage of Larry Handerhan \u201905 and Donnelly McDowell<\/a>. \u201cIn the early months of their relationship, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two spent a lot of time together,\u201d writes Sanam Yar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/00MINI-McDowell-Handerhan-02-jumbo.webp\")
The New York Times<\/em> told the story of Larry Handerhan \u201905 (left) and Donnelly McDowell, seen arriving at their wedding reception on Sept. 30, 2023. (Photograph by Randi Baird)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHanderhan and McDowell both identify as \u201cextreme extroverts,\u201d they told Yar, but as Handerhan explained, \u201cas someone who has double-booked social activities my entire life pre-pandemic, it was such a blessing to not have anywhere to go but have someone I really enjoyed being with. I 100 percent fell in love with him on his couch, watching TV, not really moving very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple were married at Martha\u2019s Vineyard Agricultural Society\u2019s Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, Mass., on Sept. 30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nNora Demleitner \u201989<\/h4>\n\n\n\nSt. John\u2019s president Nora Demleitner appointed collegewide president \u2014 Eye On Annapolis<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/Nora-Demleitner-President-Annapolis-St-Johns-College-400x267.webp\")
Nora Demleitner ’89. (St. John’s College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nEffective July 1, Nora Demleitner \u201989 will become the collegewide president of St. John\u2019s College,<\/a> which has campuses in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M. Demleitner has served as the Annapolis campus president since 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cShe is a strategic thinker who is outcome-focused, and, most importantly, a listener who understands the needs of our students, alumni, and community,\u201d said Pam Saunders-Albin, vice chair of the board of trustees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAleksander Diamond-Stanic<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOdd radio circles are glowing around some galaxies. Now we know why \u2014 NPR\u2019s Short Wave<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe national media reported on landmark space research by a team of scientists including Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic, a Bates associate professor of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team\u2019s research, published on Jan. 8 in Nature<\/em>, offers an explanation for the origin of so-called odd radio circles, which are \u201crings of light in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum from an unknown source,\u201d explains NPR\u2019s discovery-focused Short Wave<\/em> program. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe ORCs are now thought to result from a starburst galaxy, a \u201cforce from these combined explosions can expel large amounts of shocked gas, like outflowing winds.\u201d Meanwhile, CNN reports that \u201cunderstanding the origins of odd radio circles<\/a>\u2026helps astronomers ultimately understand what impact the phenomena may have on shaping galaxies over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nErica Rand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\u201cGood Hair, Bad Math\u201d \u2014 Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAmong the most-read articles in the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly <\/em>in 2023 was one by Bates professor Erica Rand, \u201cGood Hair, Bad Math: Breaking Apart Gender on a Figure Skating Pairs Team\u201d The article appeared in the journal\u2019s special issue focused on sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA professor of art and visual culture and of gender and sexuality studies, Rand is a competitive figure skater, who, since 2019, has been part of a white, queer, gender-nonconforming figure skating pairs team with Anna Kellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in recent years, she’s turned her scholar\u2019s eye and her activism toward the growing efforts to expand inclusion in figure skating.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the essay \u201cGood Hair, Bad Math,\u201d Rand shares and considers \u201csome of our experiences, the challenges, and deep pleasures as we work to advance the skills and rule changes required to test and compete; to navigate racialized gender binarism and cis-heteronormitivity sedimented in training, rule, and custom; and to develop performance vocabularies to legibly represent queer gender.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPaul Schofield<\/h4>\n\n\n\nBeing homeless means not being free, as Americans are supposed to be \u2014 The Conversation<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/schofield_creenshot-2024-02-16-at-12.42.02-PM-657x900.webp\")
Associate Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield. (Phyllis Graber Jensen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nClearly, homelessness creates a state of deprivation that affects a person\u2019s well-being, writes Associate Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield in The Conversation<\/em><\/a>. The moral dimensions of homelessness, and how it \u201climits Americans\u2019 freedom,\u201d should also be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cA person who is homeless and sleeps on a public bench will often be told by the police to move. Someone who sets up a tent on a sidewalk will usually have it confiscated. Someone who urinates or defecates in a park can be arrested. Now you can see why some think that homelessness compromises a person\u2019s freedom,\u201d Shofield writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nZachary Murgu\u00eda Burton<\/h4>\n\n\n\nMental health play \u2018The Manic Monologues\u2019 comes to studio space at new Arrow Street Arts \u2014 Cambridge Day<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nCambridge<\/em> (Mass.) Day<\/em> reports the New England debut<\/a> of a play co-written by Zachary Murgu\u00eda Burton, a visiting assistant professor of earth and climate sciences, and based on his own personal experiences with mental health challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\nReporter Madeleine Aitken notes that a health crisis in 2017 \u201creset the life of (then-)doctoral student Zachery Burton, redirecting him from geology long enough to fulfill a mission on the stage: His Manic Monologues<\/em>, co-written with then-girlfriend Elisa Hofmeister, brings to life true stories that challenge what it means to be touched by a mental health condition (in Burton\u2019s case, bipolar disorder).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates College<\/h4>\n\n\n\nFood justice a tasty topic at Bates College \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Sun Journal<\/em> covered the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address by food justice advocate Bryant Terry<\/a>, which included a cooking demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cBetween cooking, and sometimes while stirring a pan, Terry offered thoughts on a wide variety of food-related issues, from what he called \u2018food apartheid\u2019 that squeezes poor Americans to the growing popularity of plant-based, corporate-created alternatives to meat,\u201d wrote reporter Steve Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe Puddle Jump<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWorld of photos, Feb. 11, 2024 \u2014 Western Australia Today<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThanks to the distribution power of The Associated Press, images from the annual Puddle Jump at Bates, held Feb. 9, have appeared in news outlets around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/alt-puddle_original.webp\")
Bates students are in mid-jump during the annual Puddle Jump on Feb. 9, 2024. Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> photos of this year’s jump have appeared around the world. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe photos were taken by Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> photographer Andree Kehn and distributed over the AP wire. Thus far, the Puddle Jump has made a splash with the Bulgarian News Agency<\/a>, that country’s official news agency, and with the online news site Western Australia Today<\/em>, whose photo editors deemed the Puddle Jump photo \u201camong the best from the international wire agencies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSivani Arvapalli \u201926<\/h4>\n\n\n\nPhoto: Only 3 percent of eligible blood donors donate \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA photo feature by Sun Journal <\/em>photographer Daryn Slover captured a moment at the first American Red Cross blood drive on campus since the pandemic as Julia Jeong \u201824 of Clifton, Va., donates blood. Sixty-two percent of the population is eligible to give blood, but only 3 percent do, according to Red Cross statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSivani Arvapalli \u201926 of South Windsor, Conn., organized the blood drive, saying she was motivated to help after the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston. \u201cI was motivated to do it, so I got it done,\u201d says Arvapalli, who is now organizing the next blood drive on campus, slated for April 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSkip Capone<\/h4>\n\n\n\nCheverus names Skip Capone new football coach \u2014 Portland Press Herald <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
An academic expert in the fascinating intersection of sport and and society, Amy Bass \u201892 wrote a pair of opinion pieces for CNN about how this year\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 with Taylor Swift in attendance \u2014 further entrenches the NFL \u201cas a bona fide entertainment industry.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While NFL as entertainment has been true for decades, Bass, who is a professor of sports studies at Manhattanville College, wrote that Swift and her fandom<\/a> took it up a notch this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In turn, the NFL embraced her presence at games and \u201cthe adulation, condemnation, and profit generation that follow her and her merry band of Swifties wherever she goes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n After the game, Bass summed it up<\/a>: \u201cFrom Nickelodeon\u2019s broadcast of the game, which included a lower-third caption on [Travis] Kelce on the bench that read \u201cTaylor\u2019s Swift\u2019s boyfriend \u2014 good at football\u201d to the arena\u2019s jumbotron showing Taylor downing a drink alongside longtime friend Ashley Avignone, it was yet again clear that the NFL has been thrilled with what has been called The Swift Effect on football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A New York Times <\/em>\u201cMini Vows\u201d story from October 2023 told the story the marriage of Larry Handerhan \u201905 and Donnelly McDowell<\/a>. \u201cIn the early months of their relationship, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two spent a lot of time together,\u201d writes Sanam Yar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handerhan and McDowell both identify as \u201cextreme extroverts,\u201d they told Yar, but as Handerhan explained, \u201cas someone who has double-booked social activities my entire life pre-pandemic, it was such a blessing to not have anywhere to go but have someone I really enjoyed being with. I 100 percent fell in love with him on his couch, watching TV, not really moving very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The couple were married at Martha\u2019s Vineyard Agricultural Society\u2019s Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, Mass., on Sept. 30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Effective July 1, Nora Demleitner \u201989 will become the collegewide president of St. John\u2019s College,<\/a> which has campuses in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M. Demleitner has served as the Annapolis campus president since 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe is a strategic thinker who is outcome-focused, and, most importantly, a listener who understands the needs of our students, alumni, and community,\u201d said Pam Saunders-Albin, vice chair of the board of trustees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The national media reported on landmark space research by a team of scientists including Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic, a Bates associate professor of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team\u2019s research, published on Jan. 8 in Nature<\/em>, offers an explanation for the origin of so-called odd radio circles, which are \u201crings of light in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum from an unknown source,\u201d explains NPR\u2019s discovery-focused Short Wave<\/em> program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The ORCs are now thought to result from a starburst galaxy, a \u201cforce from these combined explosions can expel large amounts of shocked gas, like outflowing winds.\u201d Meanwhile, CNN reports that \u201cunderstanding the origins of odd radio circles<\/a>\u2026helps astronomers ultimately understand what impact the phenomena may have on shaping galaxies over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the most-read articles in the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly <\/em>in 2023 was one by Bates professor Erica Rand, \u201cGood Hair, Bad Math: Breaking Apart Gender on a Figure Skating Pairs Team\u201d The article appeared in the journal\u2019s special issue focused on sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A professor of art and visual culture and of gender and sexuality studies, Rand is a competitive figure skater, who, since 2019, has been part of a white, queer, gender-nonconforming figure skating pairs team with Anna Kellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in recent years, she’s turned her scholar\u2019s eye and her activism toward the growing efforts to expand inclusion in figure skating.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the essay \u201cGood Hair, Bad Math,\u201d Rand shares and considers \u201csome of our experiences, the challenges, and deep pleasures as we work to advance the skills and rule changes required to test and compete; to navigate racialized gender binarism and cis-heteronormitivity sedimented in training, rule, and custom; and to develop performance vocabularies to legibly represent queer gender.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clearly, homelessness creates a state of deprivation that affects a person\u2019s well-being, writes Associate Professor of Philosophy Paul Schofield in The Conversation<\/em><\/a>. The moral dimensions of homelessness, and how it \u201climits Americans\u2019 freedom,\u201d should also be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA person who is homeless and sleeps on a public bench will often be told by the police to move. Someone who sets up a tent on a sidewalk will usually have it confiscated. Someone who urinates or defecates in a park can be arrested. Now you can see why some think that homelessness compromises a person\u2019s freedom,\u201d Shofield writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cambridge<\/em> (Mass.) Day<\/em> reports the New England debut<\/a> of a play co-written by Zachary Murgu\u00eda Burton, a visiting assistant professor of earth and climate sciences, and based on his own personal experiences with mental health challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporter Madeleine Aitken notes that a health crisis in 2017 \u201creset the life of (then-)doctoral student Zachery Burton, redirecting him from geology long enough to fulfill a mission on the stage: His Manic Monologues<\/em>, co-written with then-girlfriend Elisa Hofmeister, brings to life true stories that challenge what it means to be touched by a mental health condition (in Burton\u2019s case, bipolar disorder).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sun Journal<\/em> covered the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address by food justice advocate Bryant Terry<\/a>, which included a cooking demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBetween cooking, and sometimes while stirring a pan, Terry offered thoughts on a wide variety of food-related issues, from what he called \u2018food apartheid\u2019 that squeezes poor Americans to the growing popularity of plant-based, corporate-created alternatives to meat,\u201d wrote reporter Steve Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to the distribution power of The Associated Press, images from the annual Puddle Jump at Bates, held Feb. 9, have appeared in news outlets around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The photos were taken by Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> photographer Andree Kehn and distributed over the AP wire. Thus far, the Puddle Jump has made a splash with the Bulgarian News Agency<\/a>, that country’s official news agency, and with the online news site Western Australia Today<\/em>, whose photo editors deemed the Puddle Jump photo \u201camong the best from the international wire agencies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A photo feature by Sun Journal <\/em>photographer Daryn Slover captured a moment at the first American Red Cross blood drive on campus since the pandemic as Julia Jeong \u201824 of Clifton, Va., donates blood. Sixty-two percent of the population is eligible to give blood, but only 3 percent do, according to Red Cross statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sivani Arvapalli \u201926 of South Windsor, Conn., organized the blood drive, saying she was motivated to help after the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston. \u201cI was motivated to do it, so I got it done,\u201d says Arvapalli, who is now organizing the next blood drive on campus, slated for April 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLarry Handerhan \u201905<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Two \u2018extreme extroverts\u2019 find love in a pandemic bubble \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nNora Demleitner \u201989<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
St. John\u2019s president Nora Demleitner appointed collegewide president \u2014 Eye On Annapolis<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAleksander Diamond-Stanic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Odd radio circles are glowing around some galaxies. Now we know why \u2014 NPR\u2019s Short Wave<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nErica Rand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGood Hair, Bad Math\u201d \u2014 Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPaul Schofield<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Being homeless means not being free, as Americans are supposed to be \u2014 The Conversation<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nZachary Murgu\u00eda Burton<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Mental health play \u2018The Manic Monologues\u2019 comes to studio space at new Arrow Street Arts \u2014 Cambridge Day<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates College<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Food justice a tasty topic at Bates College \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe Puddle Jump<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
World of photos, Feb. 11, 2024 \u2014 Western Australia Today<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSivani Arvapalli \u201926<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Photo: Only 3 percent of eligible blood donors donate \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSkip Capone<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Cheverus names Skip Capone new football coach \u2014 Portland Press Herald <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
![\"Homecoming](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/11\/17-72football9398.jpg\")