Comments on: Slideshow: 164 days after shutdown, ֲý students return to campus /news/2020/08/28/slideshow-bates-college-students-return-to-campus/ Mon, 24 May 2021 14:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Bob Muldoon /news/2020/08/28/slideshow-bates-college-students-return-to-campus/#comment-263366 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 19:22:00 +0000 /news/?p=135451#comment-263366 Reading of students doing Tik Tok dances and popping wheelies and other expressions of ebullience on moving day, I’m reminded of a lament that legendary ֲý French Professor Dick Williamson had about ֲý in the late 70s.

“I wish there were more students riding unicycles or walking backwards or doing handstands on the campus pathways,” he said, envisioning more flair and color and diversity on what sometimes seemed back then a drab, homogeneous campus culture.

Williamson, described in his 2007 obituary as “a charismatic catalyst of ֲý community”, would surely be proud of what ֲý has become. Although truth be told, I think he was proud of ֲý then – just thought, like all great teachers, it needed a little prodding and exhortation!

Bob Muldoon ‘81

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