{"id":21250,"date":"2002-05-16T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21250"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:48:08","slug":"wylie-mitchell-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/05\/16\/wylie-mitchell-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean of Admissions Wylie Mitchell appears on New York public radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/05\/wylie-mitchell.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/05\/wylie-mitchell.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"wylie-mitchell\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates Dean of Admissions Wylie Mitchell appeared on WNYC radio&#8217;s issue-oriented talk program &#8220;On The Line.&#8221; The topic of the program was &#8220;Feeling Testy: Are Standardized Tests Fair?&#8221; Guests Mitchell and Rebecca Zwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara discussed the importance of SATs in higher education.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WNYC AM\/820 and FM\/93.9 is New York&#8217;s premier public radio station, and is fully independent. &#8220;On the Line&#8221; is an issues-oriented talk show without political slant, which prides itself in advancing &#8220;dialogue, not diatribe.&#8221; Guests have included many well-known personalities including politicians, authors, journalists, academics, entertainers, and experts from all walks of life, from New York and around the world. The host of &#8220;On the Line&#8221; is Brian Lehrer.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to clips: Below are selected highlights from the program. Clips are in MP3 format and require an MP3 player. All clips copyright 2002 WNYC radio, New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mitchell-02.mp3\">Clip 1:<\/a> Background on Bates; <em>small and tough school to get into<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mitchell-03.mp3\">Clip 2:<\/a> Why did Bates stop requiring the SAT?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mitchell-11.mp3\">Clip 3:<\/a> Caller Dan in Manhattan. <em>I&#8217;m a Bates alumnus .<\/em>..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mitchell-12.mp3\">Clip 4:<\/a> <em>Does Bates have a luxury because you&#8217;re such a small school?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mitchell-20.mp3\">Clip 5:<\/a> Caller Maria, a Bates parent in Brooklyn. <em>Hooray for Bates &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates Dean of Admissions Wylie Mitchell appeared on WNYC radio&#8217;s issue-oriented talk program &#8220;On The Line.&#8221; The topic of the program was &#8220;Feeling Testy: Are Standardized Tests Fair?&#8221; Guests Mitchell and Rebecca Zwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara discussed the importance of SATs in higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11009],"tags":[10043,11051,6658],"class_list":["post-21250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-test-optional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions\/91018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}