Beacon Hill eying 2017 immigration-related court ruling. Here\u2019s what the decision means \u2014 Boston Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"](\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeMAL9U25W4_z4YYEm5JxE45bBqCcpOLk2S08N4AP5r33j9VhMmmp194O2aPpbIjcnGoJaWgXZOB8wSY_3_d8fHbp51HqMnW-gzgthy-VU0P9ChWrz6zmsKyGrx-1rmb209oRRYvw?key=Ahiv-pTwMa7qvckU-LLXKKRV\")
Sarah Sherman-Stokes \u201905 (Boston University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSarah Sherman-Stokes \u201905, a clinical associate professor of law at Boston University and associate director of the university\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, offered her expertise in a Boston Herald<\/em> story discussing proposed immigration legislation in Massachusetts<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile federal immigration authorities can issue detainers for people suspected of civil immigration violations, per a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, local law enforcement cannot arrest people based on these detainers, Sherman-Stokes explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like a letter to Santa \u2014 \u2018we wish you would hold this person for us,\u2019\u201d Sherman-Stokes told the Boston Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe new proposed legislation would, conversely, allow local law enforcement to detain people suspected of civil immigration violations, in conflict with the court ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nElizabeth Strout \u201977<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMiranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction \u2014 The Guardian<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"book](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/tellme.webp\")
Tell Me Everything<\/em> is the eighth novel from Elizabeth Strout ’77.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nNovelist Elizabeth Strout \u201977 was shortlisted for the 2025 Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction for her most recent novel, Tell Me Everything<\/em>, The Guardian and other media outlets report<\/a>. Strout has previously been longlisted four times and shortlisted twice for the Women\u2019s Prize, considered one of the U.K.\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn Tell Me Everything<\/em>, Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, beloved characters from Strout\u2019s previous novels, meet and form a close friendship in the aftermath of a shocking small-town crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cAs Lucy puts it, \u2018People are mysteries. We all are such mysteries,\u2019\u201d writes Alexis Schaitkin in a review of the novel for The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cStrout\u2019s best work exhibits some of this same duality, her prose style at once familiar and beguilingly unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWilliam Stringfellow \u201949<\/h3>\n\n\n\nWilliam Stringfellow: The modern prophet who helped hide Daniel Berrigan from the FBI \u2014 America Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"William](\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe5AuISeH19jsei-aB-3HT2g1zwzHn8HgKZwXG0k_Qma9Dmfde4Pw34y0pqLlYLUYjjt2rZTDfx0dslZu9R7BuSH1yTO2EVQm_Q8yi6GPBGRpz-mOMVomz0Il0zfd7qLHDdOUsciw?key=Ahiv-pTwMa7qvckU-LLXKKRV\")
William Stringfellow ’49<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nWilliam Stringfellow \u201949 is perhaps best remembered for hiding the priest and pacifist Daniel Joseph Berrigan in his home until the moment that the FBI succeeded in catching Berrigan, wanted for destroying draft records. This dramatic history, however, is but one small glimpse at Stringfellow\u2019s storied, influential life, writes James T. Keane in a profile of Stringfellow in America Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nA devout Episcopalian, Stringfellow was also an activist, lawyer, and theologian, whose unconventional views on faith often put him at odds with fellow church members and the greater American public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t exactly an evangelical, and despite his insistence on the primacy of the Bible, he was also no fundamentalist,\u201d Keane writes in America<\/em>. \u201cSome of his ideals were simpatico with liberation theology, but he was no fan of any marriage of ideology and Scripture. He was certainly outspoken, and did not mince his words when critiquing fellow Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt Bates, Stringfellow is remembered through the Multifaith Chaplaincy\u2019s Stringfellow program, which supports students by nurturing their interest in social justice activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nShirl Penney \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\nShirl Penney is building an empire in sunny St. Pete \u2014 Tampa Bay Business & Wealth<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\nShirl Penney \u201999 has had a transformational impact on the U.S. financial industry, reports Tampa Bay Business & Wealth<\/em> in its profile of Penney<\/a>, who shared his remarkable story of grit and resilience; he grew up extreme poverty in Eastport, Maine, born to a teenage mother who could not take care of him and raised by his loving step-grandfather.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Shirl](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/shirl.webp\")
Shirl Penney ’99 is founder, president, and CEO of Dynasty Financial Partners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHis grandfather told Penney, \u201cI need you to have a job where you work with your mind, not with your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2008, Penney founded Dynasty Financial Partners, which is headquartered in St. Petersburg, to give financial advisors the freedom to operate independently from traditional firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was in his late 20s and leading Citigroup\u2019s private wealth management division. \u201cI saw too many advisors being forced to push products that weren\u2019t always in the client\u2019s best interest. That never sat right with me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dynasty, with Penney as president and chief executive officer, is now a service provider to 57 partner firms representing over 500 advisors and over $110 billion in assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPenney isn\u2019t just a business leader. He\u2019s a visionary, reshaping the independent wealth management industry,\u201d said the magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nRachel Ferrante \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\nLewiston\u2019s MILL museum can be a cultural hub for the community, leader says \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Sarah Sherman-Stokes \u201905, a clinical associate professor of law at Boston University and associate director of the university\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, offered her expertise in a Boston Herald<\/em> story discussing proposed immigration legislation in Massachusetts<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While federal immigration authorities can issue detainers for people suspected of civil immigration violations, per a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, local law enforcement cannot arrest people based on these detainers, Sherman-Stokes explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s like a letter to Santa \u2014 \u2018we wish you would hold this person for us,\u2019\u201d Sherman-Stokes told the Boston Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new proposed legislation would, conversely, allow local law enforcement to detain people suspected of civil immigration violations, in conflict with the court ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Novelist Elizabeth Strout \u201977 was shortlisted for the 2025 Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction for her most recent novel, Tell Me Everything<\/em>, The Guardian and other media outlets report<\/a>. Strout has previously been longlisted four times and shortlisted twice for the Women\u2019s Prize, considered one of the U.K.\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Tell Me Everything<\/em>, Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, beloved characters from Strout\u2019s previous novels, meet and form a close friendship in the aftermath of a shocking small-town crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs Lucy puts it, \u2018People are mysteries. We all are such mysteries,\u2019\u201d writes Alexis Schaitkin in a review of the novel for The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cStrout\u2019s best work exhibits some of this same duality, her prose style at once familiar and beguilingly unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n William Stringfellow \u201949 is perhaps best remembered for hiding the priest and pacifist Daniel Joseph Berrigan in his home until the moment that the FBI succeeded in catching Berrigan, wanted for destroying draft records. This dramatic history, however, is but one small glimpse at Stringfellow\u2019s storied, influential life, writes James T. Keane in a profile of Stringfellow in America Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A devout Episcopalian, Stringfellow was also an activist, lawyer, and theologian, whose unconventional views on faith often put him at odds with fellow church members and the greater American public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe wasn\u2019t exactly an evangelical, and despite his insistence on the primacy of the Bible, he was also no fundamentalist,\u201d Keane writes in America<\/em>. \u201cSome of his ideals were simpatico with liberation theology, but he was no fan of any marriage of ideology and Scripture. He was certainly outspoken, and did not mince his words when critiquing fellow Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Bates, Stringfellow is remembered through the Multifaith Chaplaincy\u2019s Stringfellow program, which supports students by nurturing their interest in social justice activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shirl Penney \u201999 has had a transformational impact on the U.S. financial industry, reports Tampa Bay Business & Wealth<\/em> in its profile of Penney<\/a>, who shared his remarkable story of grit and resilience; he grew up extreme poverty in Eastport, Maine, born to a teenage mother who could not take care of him and raised by his loving step-grandfather.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n His grandfather told Penney, \u201cI need you to have a job where you work with your mind, not with your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2008, Penney founded Dynasty Financial Partners, which is headquartered in St. Petersburg, to give financial advisors the freedom to operate independently from traditional firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was in his late 20s and leading Citigroup\u2019s private wealth management division. \u201cI saw too many advisors being forced to push products that weren\u2019t always in the client\u2019s best interest. That never sat right with me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dynasty, with Penney as president and chief executive officer, is now a service provider to 57 partner firms representing over 500 advisors and over $110 billion in assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPenney isn\u2019t just a business leader. He\u2019s a visionary, reshaping the independent wealth management industry,\u201d said the magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nElizabeth Strout \u201977<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction \u2014 The Guardian<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWilliam Stringfellow \u201949<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
William Stringfellow: The modern prophet who helped hide Daniel Berrigan from the FBI \u2014 America Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nShirl Penney \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Shirl Penney is building an empire in sunny St. Pete \u2014 Tampa Bay Business & Wealth<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nRachel Ferrante \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lewiston\u2019s MILL museum can be a cultural hub for the community, leader says \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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