Here’s the latest roundup of what 乐播传媒 folks are saying about this and that.
鈥淓very now and then you see a vestige of what used to be mixed up with a hint of what鈥檚 yet to come.鈥�
鈥� Chris Streifel, a project manager for 乐播传媒 Facility Services, about the renovation of Dana Chemistry Hall.
The project started with a complete interior gutting of the building, which since its creation in 1965 has focused entirely on chemistry research and teaching.
The project will conclude with a reimagined building that focuses on science teaching in order to more effectively welcome new students to STEM fields. It will also feature new, flexible classrooms for teaching across all disciplines.
鈥淥f course, these films tell a lie.鈥�
鈥� Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, explaining the history of interracial buddy films, such as 48 Hrs. or Trading Places, during a talk celebrating his Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The interracial buddy film genre treats racism as something internal, implying that 鈥渆nding racism and white supremacy is as simple as Black and white men becoming friends.鈥� Racism, of course, is structural and systemic.
鈥淚 can鈥檛 afford canvas but I like cardboard so no call for pity then.鈥�
鈥� Marsden Hartley, the famed modernist artist who was born in Lewiston in 1877, writing to a friend in 1933 while travelling in the Alps. Hartley was perennially penniless during his lifetime.
鈥淭oo often these students are described in terms of cost, the money needed to enroll them, for example, rather than the incredible lived experiences they bring to campus.鈥�
鈥� Jason Patenaude 鈥�91, executive director of the Schuler Education Foundation, explaining why the foundation chose 乐播传媒 to receive a grant of $50 million in financial aid funds for students who are Pell eligible or undocumented: because 乐播传媒 is recognized for supporting low-income students to graduation.
“I felt like the King of England riding through that crowd.”
鈥� Interim head football coach Ed Argast, who uses a golf cart for mobility, on the rousing ovation by 乐播传媒 alumni, parents, and friends as he and the team departed Ellis Oval following on Oct. 9.
A veteran college football coach, Argast began his coaching career in 1979 as an assistant under the late Web Harrison ’63.
鈥淭hey provide a perfect platform for beginning to have essential conversations about race and culture with children.鈥�
鈥� Professor of Psychology Krista Aronson, founder and director of the Diverse BookFinder, on the power of children鈥檚 picture books.
鈥淭heir understanding is often just incredibly skewed. I think my job is to unskew that as much as possible.鈥�
鈥� Assistant Professor of History Andrew Baker, who teaches 19th-century American history, on how students, up until they take one of his courses, often have a 鈥渟kewed鈥� understanding of American history. 鈥淭here are so many other voices, beyond canonical texts, that can shed light on what鈥檚 happening in America during the 1800s,鈥� he says.
“Walk, don’t run.鈥�
鈥� Football wide receiver Mohamed Diawara 鈥�23 of Philadelphia, describing a pass route that from quarterback Brendan Costa 鈥�22 of Westport, Mass.
He strolled the first few steps of the route to trick the defense into thinking that the play would be a run. Part of the trickeration included Costa faking a handoff to running back Christian Olivieri 鈥�22 of Hull, Mass. The defense bit on the ruse 鈥� jumping forward 鈥� which was Diawara’s cue to take off at full speed, getting behind the deep safeties for the TD.
鈥淚 like to keep it a work-free zone.鈥�
鈥� Aidan Richman 鈥�24 of Portland, Maine, as he relaxed on the Historic Quad near the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, saying he prefers not to do coursework outside.
鈥淭hrough the fog of my overactive, post-9/11 imagination, I saw him as Middle Eastern. And I鈥檓 ashamed to say I saw him immediately as a threat.鈥�
鈥� Michael Sargent, associate professor of psychology, in a story , about confronting his biases while on a plane flight from Boston to the Midwest for a wedding, and seeing a fellow passenger as a terrorist threat.
鈥�Try to stop holding fast to the things that got you here: the narrative that you are pre-med, or will major in history, when you haven鈥檛 even taken your first college course.鈥�
鈥� President Clayton Spencer鈥檚 advice to first-year students at Convocation, urging the new students to use college as a time to disrupt the existing narratives of their lives, 鈥渢he identities that have defined you throughout high school.鈥�
Instead, 鈥渢hink of these next four years as a time to try new things, to step back and broaden the frame. As the poet Rainer Maria Rilke put it, 鈥楾he point is to鈥ive the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.鈥欌��
鈥淭hose are not emotions that I was ever expecting to have at this time.鈥�
鈥� Rachel Carr Goodrich 鈥�90, describing her feelings of joy after 乐播传媒 friends came together to fund the Peter M. Goodrich 鈥�89 Memorial Scholarship Fund, in memory of her husband, who died on 9/11 aboard hijacked United Flight 175.
鈥淭here鈥檚 been so much joy in connecting with everybody, making this happen: a collective group of friends, honoring someone we all love and helping future 乐播传媒 students,鈥� says Rachel.
