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<\/a>\nSwita Charanasomboon ’04 poses in Somerville’s Davis Square. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Brooklyn<\/h2>\n
Half a block behind me, American statesman Thomas Jefferson is lost in conversation with Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor-in-chief. In front of me, three members of a dodgeball team, clad in American Apparel’s finest red and white booty shorts, pass a rubber kickball among themselves. The fourth member of the team and I discuss the difficulties of managing our interns at work.<\/p>\n
The occasion is Trick or Drink, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Halloween tradition, but instead of visiting a few ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ residences on a chilly Lewiston night, our costumed group \u2014 representing ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ classes of 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2002 \u2014 walks past tire shops and apartment buildings on Fourth Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Read Noah’s story.<\/a><\/p>\n Somerville It’s 8:15, and I’m on the MBTA’s Red Line doing the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":230,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13272,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265\/revisions\/13272"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½_Magazine\/2008-summer\/features\/080502-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Mag-NDavis-0989.jpg\")
\nNoah Davis ’05 hangs out on the fire escape of his Smith Street apartment in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. Photograph by Ryan Heffernan ’05.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"