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<\/a>Gregg “Vinnie” Vincent, Bates campus mail supervisor, shows off the May 1987 issue of Canoe magazine that arrived from the USPS at Bates on April 13, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n
Of course, the first thing Vincent did when the aged magazine arrived at the Chase Hall mailroom was to email Gooding to let him know.<\/p>\n
In fact, Gooding remains a subscriber to the mag, renamed Canoe & Kayak<\/em>.<\/p>\n In the \u201880s, Gooding used to canoe the Androscoggin \u201cwhen it was still yellow and foamy.\u201d He now works at Marshall University, is married to Grace Tallman Gooding \u201889 and canoes various West Virginia lakes and rivers in one of his three canoes or his kayak. \u201cFor the serious canoeist, they\u2019re like our golf clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n The College Store\u2019s annual Non-required Reading List<\/em> is an eclectic compilation befitting its source: Bates people near and far. As we await this year\u2019s list, here are some faculty-suggested titles from last year.<\/p>\n Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success<\/em> by Matthew Syed<\/p>\n Suggested by Helen Boucher, associate professor of psychology: \u201cA book about the success of elite athletes. How do they perform at what seem to be otherworldly levels? How do they squelch self-doubt and why do they sometimes choke under pressure?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation<\/em> by S. Bear Bergman and Kate Bornstein<\/p>\n Suggested by Erica Rand, Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies: \u201cThere are more people to learn from than Chaz Bono.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Moonflower Vine<\/em> by Jetta Carleson<\/p>\n Suggested by Michael Murray, Charles Franklin Phillips Professor of Economics: \u201cLanguorous, compelling story of a Missouri farm family in its early 20th-century beginnings and late 20th-century adulthood.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life<\/em> by Karen Maezen Miller<\/p>\n Suggested by Bonnie Shulman, professor of mathematics: \u201cWhat it means to be aware within our daily routines. Here is an ordinary woman, finding happiness and wisdom at the bottom of a laundry basket, and love in the kitchen sink.\u201d<\/p>\n Julia Ofman \u201915 evoked the familiar Bates theme of being torn between two Commons loves for the Dining Services Valentine\u2019s Day poem contest:<\/p>\n It\u2019s Wednesday night, about 5:30 p.m. I\u2019m on my way to dessert. But then, just as I pass the softserve machine I follow your gaze to try and locate the object of your affection, your lust. My pace quickens as I try to reach the table at the same time you do, I speed walk the last foot to get to the pie tray, I have no regret.<\/p>\n At 6:08 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2010, a custodian noticed that the Crosley flat-screen TV in Frye Street Union was gone.<\/p>\n After a few calls around campus, to see if it had been borrowed or was being replaced, Campus Safety and Security logged the incident as a theft.<\/p>\n By summer, the case was still open but getting cold.<\/p>\n Then the college got a call from a man in Minnesota. Apparently he was working through his addiction program. \u201cHe wanted to make amends \u2014 clean out the closet, come clean,\u201d recalls Mike Voisine, an officer with Campus Security and Safety.<\/p>\n The man admitted stealing the 42-inch TV for drug money during a cross-country drug and alcohol binge that ended in Maine. He said he had no connection to the college but wanted to pay back his crime. Voisine says the thief probably found a propped-open door to get inside.<\/p>\n After checking with the Lewiston police to make sure they weren\u2019t involved in the situation, Voisine and his security boss, Tom Carey \u201873, agreed to accept restitution. \u201cAnd we received the full value, $1,249, from him and his parents,\u201d Voisine says. \u201cHighly, highly unusual,\u201d Voisine adds.<\/p>\n The college will not pursue criminal charges. \u201cHe came to us with a problem and a solution,\u201d Voisine explains. \u201cBates is still a place where if you ask for some help, you\u2019re going to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Burn the final draft<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Eat lunch for an extended period of time (i.e., taco bar)<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Pop champagne!<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> Spend at least 24 hours out of Ladd<\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> Have a spa day<\/p>\n 6.<\/strong> Go to the Goose \u2014 with adviser!<\/p>\n A trending topic in psychology is self-control: how and when it works, and why it sometimes doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n A recently published psychology study, based on a Bates senior thesis, suggests that thinking about money can boost self-control.<\/p>\n Having money on the brain helps self-control, according to a study co-authored by Monthe Kofos ’11 and Associate Professor of Psychology Helen Boucher.<\/p><\/div>\n The study appears online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/em>. It\u2019s co-authored by Associate Professor of Psychology Helen Boucher and psychology major Monthe Kofos \u201911, based on his thesis research with Boucher last year.<\/p>\n Who are the big names in self-control research?<\/strong><\/p>\n Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs are two. He lectured at Bates in 2009 \u2014 I\u2019ll never forget his talk about self-control and the concept of free will. Vohs is an expert in the psychology of money.<\/p>\n How does a Bates psych major go about developing thesis ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n In our research methods class, Michael Sargent encouraged us to design projects that bridge and connect already established ideas. The idea is to form new platforms that future research can expand upon. When Helen Boucher explained that there was this out-of-the-box idea that she wanted to try with me, I jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n Where did you get the specific idea to test money and self-control?<\/strong><\/p>\n Helen and I arrived at the final thesis idea by looking at Baumeister\u2019s and Vohs\u2019 work as well as some other papers.<\/p>\n Vohs, in fact, actually told me that she was a bit disappointed that she didn\u2019t come up with the research idea herself!<\/p>\n We divided about five dozen students into a control group and test group. The test subjects first completed an editing task to deplete their self-control. This is called \u201cego depletion.\u201d<\/p>\n They had to read a dense art history paper and cross out every \u201ce\u201d that was not adjacent to, or two letters away from, another vowel. Then they were exposed to money- related words. That \u201cprimed\u201d their minds with money.<\/p>\n From prior research, we knew that the idea of money evokes feelings of strength or efficacy. What we learned is that money also counteracts the ego-depletion effect. It does this by reducing the difficulty of and the effort exerted on maintaining self-control. Your paper notes that self-control helps us \u201cachieve [our] goals and live harmoniously with others.\u201d How?<\/strong><\/p>\n In our lives, success or failure is governed by our ability or inability to set and maintain goals in a demanding world \u2014 be it a daily schedule, positively interacting with a friend or aspiring to a better future self (with that killer body!).<\/p>\n Losing our self-control threatens all this. In its most severe form, it significantly limits what we are able to accomplish as a person.<\/p>\n So it\u2019s essential we understand ego depletion and how we can better counteract this threat. Some proven ways to do this are with humor and glucose intake. We suggest using the idea of money.<\/p>\n How did you maintain self-control during thesis?<\/strong><\/p>\n Working on thesis is horribly stressful, as any Batesie will tell you: all-nighters, traditionally low self-control and lots of 3 a.m. Facebook chats. So I changed my computer background to a stack of money. I had no clue if my experiment was even working, but if something was really going on here, I might as well benefit from it.<\/p>\n Other already-proven ways to maintain self-control are, as I said, humor and glucose intake. I\u2019d go on candy hunts in my dorm for a bit more self-control.<\/p>\n Do you find yourself using these findings now?<\/strong><\/p>\n Definitely! I am known among my friends as being a busy person, and I constantly push my self-control to the limit each day.<\/p>\n I\u2019m currently working in an inpatient psych ward at the local hospital as a counselor, trying to get into grad school, attempting to maintain all my extracurriculars from college, and striving to keep a healthy body and active social life. Without lots and lots of self-control, I\u2019d fall apart at the seams!<\/p>\n So after realizing that ego depletion does exist, I know I need all the help I can get to fight it.<\/p>\n Any tips?<\/strong><\/p>\n I keep my paycheck in my pocket at work rather than leaving it in the staff room (so I can touch it when a patient tries my self-control).<\/p>\n I also have a money screen-saver. And, above all, I try to laugh and smile as much as possible.<\/p>\n Life is not a carefree fairytale all the time, and while we might not always be able to change a situation, we can certainly try to make the best of it \u2014 using, of course, proven psychological principles!<\/p>\n Chosen in the 1930s by a faculty committee headed by President Clifton Daggett Gray, a series of stained glass portraits of great Western minds adorn the Chapel. In the lineup below, who\u2019s who?<\/p>\n Hint: <\/strong>Principia<\/em> keeps the bod in motion.<\/p>\n Hint: <\/strong>The original Renaissance man.<\/p>\n Hint: <\/strong>Wrote a \u201criver of gold,\u201d says admirer Cicero.<\/p>\n Hint:<\/strong> \u2019Cause this scientist is radioactive (sadly).<\/p>\n Hint:<\/strong> When in doubt, choose Heaven.<\/p>\n Answers<\/strong>: From top, Isaac Newton; Leonardo da Vinci; Aristotle; Marie Curie;\u00a0Dante Alighieri.<\/p>\n A<\/strong>. Chesapeake Bay Retriever Answer: <\/strong>C. Vizsla<\/p>\n Bring your own pooch up to code with Bates gear online at bates.edu\/bookstore<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n How strong is your knowledge of Bates\u2019 quirky, cool and colorful past?<\/p>\n
\nLiterary Entertainment<\/h3>\n
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\nYour Lyin\u2019 Pies<\/h3>\n
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\nCommons is buzzing.
\nAfter a very filling meal of noodles, beer tips, and \u201cCalifornia Blend,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
\nI\u2019ve earned it.<\/p>\n
\nI see you. My Commons crush.
\nMy heart stops, dead.
\nYou\u2019re going to the same place I am, that island of delight \u2014
\nthe dessert bar \u2014 but you\u2019re coming from the Euro Station side.
\nYour eyes are fixed on something, but it isn\u2019t me.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s Tollhouse Pie.<\/p>\n
\nto stage a \u201ccoincidental\u201d wordless exchange between us,
\nuntil I realize something far more serious is going on here.
\nThere\u2019s only one slice left.<\/p>\n
\nand without even glancing at you I scoop it up.
\nAfter it is securely in my possession, I look at you.
\nMy eyes, gleaming with victory,
\nmeet your crestfallen and pieless ones.<\/p>\n
\nThe Case of the Repentant Burglar<\/h3>\n
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\n\u00a0(Getting a) Life After Thesis<\/h3>\n
<\/a>From thesis veterans, a few pieces of advice (above) posted on the \u201cThesis Board of Lore\u201d in the Peer Writing Center in Ladd. Also seen in the center was a whiteboard featuring the following suggested PTSDs, or \u201cPost-Thesis-Submission Doings\u201d:<\/p>\n
\nMind your money, says Monthe Kofos \u201911<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/a>How did you test money\u2019s effect on self-control?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nQuiz Time: Match the Minds<\/h3>\n
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\nBates From Head to Paw<\/h3>\n
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\nClearly, dog Lola (who belongs to photographer Dana Rose Lee \u201907 of New York, N.Y.) relates to the world primarily as a Bates fan, but what canine breed would she call her own?<\/p>\n
\nB<\/strong>. Weimaraner
\nC<\/strong>. Vizsla
\nD<\/strong>. Bichon Frise<\/p>\n
\nMarch on Lewiston<\/h3>\n