{"id":132534,"date":"2020-04-24T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=132534"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:26:59","slug":"bates-in-the-news-april-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/bates-in-the-news-april-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: April 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jack Allard \u201916<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Former All-American lacrosse star released from hospital after long coronavirus battle \u2014 multiple outlets<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 17, Jack Allard \u201916, a two-time All-American lacrosse player and politics major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, walked out of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as medical staff applauded.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_132586\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132586\" class=\"size-large wp-image-132586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Allard '16 (left) and classmate Charlie Hildebrand celebrate a big ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ lacrosse win over Tufts in April 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/16041_Mens_Lacrosse_Tufts_2999.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Allard &#8217;16 (left) and classmate Charlie Hildebrand celebrate a big ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ lacrosse win over Tufts in April 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>Allard\u2019s dramatic story \u2014 his weeks long fight with COVID-19 \u2014 had drawn steady attention from the national media but this happy chapter was particularly well-chronicled.<\/p>\r\n<p>Not long after first showing COVID-19 symptoms in mid-March, Allard was hospitalized in New Jersey. He was placed on a ventilator and later airlifted to Philadelphia to take part in a trial for an experimental treatment. There, his condition improved day-by-day.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RHSBOYSLACROSSE\/status\/1251141155640741888<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due in part to Allard\u2019s young age and otherwise good health, his family speaking out, and his high school and college lacrosse teams rallying around him, his story drew international attention.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe took personal responsibility for lifting the Bobcats to national competitiveness,\u201d wrote Lasagna. \u201cMost importantly, his teammates will tell you that he is a better and more giving person, a more caring mentor than he is an attackman.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Five weeks ago, former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RHSBOYSLACROSSE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RHSBOYSLACROSSE<\/a> standout and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½College?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½College<\/a>  All-American Jack Allard was confirmed positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. He was put on a ventilator. Last Thursday, he walked out of the hospital. For Jack and the hundreds more who have recovered, we\u2019re optimistic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lj5JFlZ5Yk\">pic.twitter.com\/Lj5JFlZ5Yk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMurphy\/status\/1252306749274689540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From his family\u2019s home in Ridgewood, N.J., Allard told Matt DaSilva of <em>US Lacrosse Magazine <\/em>that his story should serve as a cautionary tale.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to listen to our scientists and our doctors when they give us warnings and give us guidance,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople my age think it\u2019s not going to hit them and, if it does, it\u2019s going to be a slight flu. That\u2019s clearly not true. It took me to my knees.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the stories:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uslaxmagazine.com\/college\/men\/jack-allard-covid-19-took-me-to-my-knees-grateful-for-lacrosse-family\">Jack Allard: Covid-19 \u2018took me to my knees,\u2019 grateful for lacrosse family<\/a>,\u201d <em>US Lacrosse Magazine<\/em>, April 22, 2020\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2020\/04\/19\/jack-allard-coronavirus-cases-lacrosse-star-released-hospital\/5162103002\/\">Former All-American lacrosse star, 26, released from hospital after long coronavirus battle<\/a>,\u201d <em>USA Today, <\/em>April 19, 2020\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andrew Mountcastle<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ professor leads effort to print coronavirus protective gear \u2014 <em>Sun Journal\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Collins of the Lewiston <em>Sun Journal <\/em>reported on an initiative led by Assistant Professor of Biology Andrew Mountcastle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/shields-up-bates-helping-to-ease-ppe-shortage\/\">3D-print face shield visors to protect medical personnel from the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"824\" height=\"900\" class=\"wp-image-131884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_4944-824x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_4944-824x900.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_4944-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_4944-1406x1536.jpg 1406w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_4944.jpg 1757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><em>Andrew Mountcastle, assistant professor of biology at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, wears a face shield incorporating 3D-printing technology. Mountcastle helped coordinate a team of staff and faculty who are printing visors to ease a shortage of such personal protective equipment. (Courtesy of Andrew Mountcastle)<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Androscoggin County Emergency Management Agency is distributing the shields, which faculty and staff from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Bowdoin, Colby, and other institutions with access to 3D-printers are creating.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel it\u2019s the least I can do to support members of my community and state who need it most,\u201d Mountcastle said.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2020\/04\/03\/bates-professor-leads-effort-to-print-coronavirus-protective-gear\/\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ professor leads effort to print coronavirus protective gear<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sun Journal, <\/em>April 3, 2020\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/shields-up-bates-helping-to-ease-ppe-shortage\/\">Shields up! ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ helping to ease PPE shortages<\/a>,\u201d <em>ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ News, <\/em>April 3, 2020\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jane Costlow\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In teaching stories of disaster, hope lies hidden in plain sight \u2014 <em>Literary Hub<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing in <em>Lit Hub, <\/em>Jane Costlow, the Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies, reflected on teaching a course, \u201cCatastrophe and Hope,\u201d during the very kind of catastrophe her students read about.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an added layer, this semester is Costlow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/my-last-year\/\">last as an instructor before she retires<\/a>. For her, there will be no opportunity to incorporate the present moment into her future teaching. But she\u2019s trying to convey to her students that upheaval like this need not be defeating.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-131924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Campus on Friday, March 13, after President Clayton Spencer announced that all students within driving distance would need to leave for home and depart campus this weekend. Others who need to make flight arrangements or have complex travel plans must leave campus by Tuesday, March 17 at 6 p.m.Students and faculty responded in a number of ways.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/200313_Last_Day_Classes_0632.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>As the end of the in-person semester was announced in March, Costlow jokingly advises her thesis student, Ava Gulino \u201920 of Wilmington, Del., to read Roy Scranton&#8217;s <em>We&#8217;re Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change. <\/em>(Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy experience of life first in the Soviet Union and then in post-Soviet Russia had convinced me \u2026 that people in extraordinarily constrained political and economic conditions make lives of dignity, lives inflected with moments of joy and commitment,\u201d says Costlow, whose background is in Russian literature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted my students to read a book like <em>Zhivago <\/em>because it\u2019s about a society that comes apart, lives that are profoundly\u2014viciously\u2014unsettled, and yet there are forms of endurance, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the essay:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/in-teaching-stories-of-disaster-hope-lies-hidden-in-plain-sight\/\">In teaching stories of disaster, hope lies hidden in plain sight<\/a>,\u201d <em>Literary Hub, <\/em>April 24, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ru Freeman \u201994<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We owe more to our young writers: On the relevance of the workshop \u2014 <em>Literary Hub<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in <em>Lit Hub, <\/em>writer and writing professor Ru Freeman \u201994 argued that creative writing faculty and university writing departments should prioritize not the craft of writing or the parsing of prose, but helping students understand their own experiences within their society and become \u201cfearless\u201d writers who speak truth to power.\u00a0 <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe must commit, as a collective, to bringing a fierce energy to our classrooms where a few students may develop an intensity of discomfort in their intestines, but most will finally identify their guts as being part of the body they inhabit,\u201d Freeman writes.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith passionate effort, our students might yet go from being a concert of crows cawing in the same register, safe within the dull shades of uniformity, to articulating the music and iridescence of a truly creative menagerie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the essay:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/we-owe-more-to-our-young-writers-on-the-relevance-of-the-workshop\/\">We owe more to our young writers: On the relevance of the workshop<\/a>,\u201d <em>Literary Hub, <\/em>April 16, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Todd Nelson \u201978<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">T.S. Eliot and Me \u2014 <em>The Ellsworth American\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired high school English teacher Todd Nelson \u201978 wrote a column for the Maine <em>Ellsworth American <\/em>about reading the poems of T.S. Eliot and, after a fashion, encountering the poet himself.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-132543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/908F7745-E98C-48AF-8D7B-E60E3882D70F-281x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/908F7745-E98C-48AF-8D7B-E60E3882D70F-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/908F7745-E98C-48AF-8D7B-E60E3882D70F-844x900.jpeg 844w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/908F7745-E98C-48AF-8D7B-E60E3882D70F-187x200.jpeg 187w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/908F7745-E98C-48AF-8D7B-E60E3882D70F.jpeg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>\u201cIt\u2019s a life\u2019s work fathoming Eliot\u2019s poems,\u201d says Todd Nelson \u201978. (Photo by Ed Hille)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelson lived for a time near the London home where the late Eliot had lived. Nelson took to the poet in high school and college; Eliot\u2019s \u201cFour Quartets\u201d helped inspire his senior thesis on religious poets.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEliot follows me, bursts from his poems informing my own arc,\u201d Nelson writes. \u201cIt\u2019s a life\u2019s work fathoming Eliot\u2019s poems. Why not? It was a life work to write them; to weave the threads of memory, history, family experience, religion, and philosophy into self-study.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the essay:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellsworthamerican.com\/opinions\/commentary\/t-s-eliot-and-me\/\">T.S. Eliot and me<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Ellsworth American, <\/em>April 17, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anne Williams<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Piecing together the history of jigsaw puzzles \u2014 multiple outlets\u00a0<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As quarantined Americans turn to jigsaw puzzles to pass the time, several news outlets have turned to Professor Emerita of Economics Anne Williams, an expert on toys and puzzles, for a history lesson.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first jigsaw puzzles were made with scroll saws \u2014 also known as jig saws \u2014 and were intended to teach geography, said Williams, author of <em>The Jigsaw Puzzle, Piecing Together a History.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Great Depression, families used jigsaw puzzles not only for entertainment, but for income. \u201cThey set up the saw in their kitchen or their basement, started making jigsaw puzzles and selling them to their neighbors or renting them out through the local drug store,\u201d Williams told <em>CBS News.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the stories:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/piecing-together-the-history-of-jigsaw-puzzles\/\">Piecing together the history of jigsaw puzzles<\/a>,\u201d <em>CBS News, <\/em>March 29, 2020<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/05\/827582544\/a-world-in-need-of-peaceful-distraction-spurs-a-jigsaw-puzzle-renaissance\">A world in need of peaceful distraction spurs a jigsaw puzzle renaissance<\/a>,\u201d <em>NPR, <\/em>April 5, 2020<\/li>\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/03\/coronavirus-sends-demand-for-jigsaw-puzzles-surging.html\">Demand for jigsaw puzzles is surging as coronavirus keeps millions of Americans indoors<\/a>,\u201d <em>CNBC, <\/em>April 5, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Documenting history during the pandemic \u2014 <em>UPAA\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a roundup of the how college photographers were documenting the closure of their campuses, the University Photographers\u2019 Association of America featured work by Phyllis Graber Jensen, director of photography and video for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Communications Office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-131667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Students gather in front of Chase Hall to take two buses that will take them on the first leg of their trips home. One is a Concord Trailways bus, regularly scheduled daily for 3:30 p.m. pickup. The other is a bus chartered by the College.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/200316_Bus_Departure_0171A-1.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Students gather in front of Chase Hall to take two buses that will take them on the first leg of their trips home. One is a Concord Coach Lines bus, regularly scheduled daily for 3:30 p.m. pickup. The other is a bus chartered by the College. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ photography focused on the experiences of <a href=\"https:\/\/picturestories.bates.edu\/5ebf7aeebb68a6111aacbf397ec479a5\">students, faculty, and staff as ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ made the huge<\/a> and historic transition to remote learning in mid-March.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graber Jensen told the UPAA that she was guided by professional training and her instincts. \u201cI didn\u2019t yet have specific directions or assignments, just my usual internal, professional guidance \u2014 \u2018ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Communications needs to document this\u2019 \u2014 plus the unequivocal support from my boss to forge ahead.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upaa.org\/content\/documenting-history-during-pandemic\">Documenting history during the pandemic<\/a>,\u201d <em>UPAA\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Henry Colt \u201919<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In a time of crisis, a twentysomething rookie reporter learns the value of community newspapers \u2014 <em>Anchorage Press\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the coronavirus sent the country into a lockdown and sent people scrambling for information, Henry Colt\u2019s thoughts turned to his recent stint as a reporter for the <em>Daily<\/em> <em>Sitka Sentinel <\/em>in Alaska<em>. <\/em>For this 2019 graduate, the pandemic underscored the value of community newspapers.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNewspapers, of which more than one in five have closed in the U.S. during the last 15 years, are as vital to their communities as potlucks, concerts, salmon-sharing and marine-invertebrate-themed house parties are to Sitka. And in Sitka, few things are more vital than the <em>Sentinel,<\/em>\u201d Colt wrote in the <em>Anchorage Press.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWho else will tell you that an electric fishing boat took its maiden voyage? That your neighbor just won a $50,000 grant? That an injured great horned owl passed its rehabilitation test with flying colors?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWho else, when crisis strikes, will tell you exactly what\u2019s happening in Seattle, D.C., and Italy \u2014 then tell you exactly what\u2019s happening at the Backdoor Caf\u00e9, the Pioneer Home, and Mount Edgecumbe High School?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anchoragepress.com\/columnists\/in-a-time-of-crisis-a-twentysomething-rookie-reporter-learns-the-value-of-community-newspapers\/article_ceb6a7d2-720b-11ea-aadb-87fabfed5d9e.html?fbclid=IwAR1Hzxo4-969E2q7xDjYzQCy32G9GFavE9LuovnnXc4Pa12buU8lx_CyzeQ\">In a time of crisis, a twentysomething rookie reporter learns the value of community newspapers<\/a>,\u201d <em>Anchorage Press, <\/em>March 29, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andrew Kennedy and Michelle Greene<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When professors are cut off from their students, what do they do? \u2014 <em>207\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NewsCenter Maine\u2019s <em>207 <\/em>news magazine talked to professors Andrew Kennedy and Michelle Greene, whose remote class \u201cmovie trailers\u201d were a hit among their students and thousands of people on the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Prof_AJKennedy\/status\/1241071316599439365?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, made a trailer for his course \u201cMechanisms of Memory.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s like preparing for a baseball season, and you show up to your first game and after the fifth inning the umpire says, \u2018Well actually we\u2019re gonna play football now,\u2019\u201d Kennedy told <em>207<\/em>\u2019s Rob Caldwell, referring to the abrupt shift to remote learning.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I was learning these new tools and learning how to make videos. I went down a rabbit hole of, \u2018This is funny; I might as well try it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inspired by @Prof_AJKennedy &#39;s great class trailer and my own lifelong desire to be James Bond, I present Neuroethics 2020: The Classroom is Never Enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UfQuDhlklp\">https:\/\/t.co\/UfQuDhlklp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michelle Greene (@MGreenePhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MGreenePhD\/status\/1241353958989484032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greene, an assistant professor of neuroscience, made her trailer in James Bond fashion. Her students appreciated a section about her new teaching assistant \u2014 her cat, Tesla.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo not have those in-person dialogues is hard,\u201d she told Caldwell. \u201cThat being said, we still have deep, rich, lovely conversations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/local\/207\/when-professors-are-cut-off-from-their-students-what-do-they-do\/97-17157a1c-017d-431e-aa83-c74728dbb38d\">When professors are cut off from their students, what do they do<\/a>?\u201d <em>207, <\/em>April 14, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/coming-attractions-brighten-bates-move-to-distance-learning\/\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ professors\u2019 humorous movie-trailer videos brighten the move to remote learning<\/a>,\u201d <em>ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ News, <\/em>March 27, 2020\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mara Tieken<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating a rural access crisis \u2014 <em>Bangor Daily News\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the <em>Bangor Daily News, <\/em>Mara Tieken, an associate professor of education and expert on rural education and issues, wrote that while images from the coronavirus pandemic are primarily urban \u2014 empty streets, subways, and airports \u2014 the crisis also poses serious risks for rural communities.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-118505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/180509_Community_Organizing_Tieken_0357-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken teaches \u201cCommunity Organizing for Social Justice\u201d in May 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/180509_Community_Organizing_Tieken_0357-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/180509_Community_Organizing_Tieken_0357-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/180509_Community_Organizing_Tieken_0357-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/180509_Community_Organizing_Tieken_0357.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken teaches \u201cCommunity Organizing for Social Justice\u201d in May 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In rural areas, hospitals tend to be sparse and under-resourced, fewer rural residents than urban dwellers have internet access, food banks are running low, and newspapers that deliver important information are scaling back or closing.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, what rural communities need most is access: to health care, to the internet, to food, to information,\u201d Tieken writes. \u201cThis access will help mitigate the worst effects of an already deadly crisis. But what is particularly frustrating about this moment is that these inequalities were identified long before now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2020\/04\/22\/opinion\/contributors\/coronavirus-pandemic-is-exacerbating-a-rural-access-crisis\/\">Coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating a rural access crisis<\/a>,\u201d <em>Bangor Daily News, <\/em>April 22, 2020<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: On April 17, Jack Allard \u201916 left a Philadelphia hospital after a highly publicized weeks-long battle with COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":132587,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"Phyllis Graber Jensen","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[4,7,24,14,6,195,11012],"tags":[11261,11830,11051,12135,4583,10616,11556],"class_list":["post-132534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-faculty-staff","category-maine-world","category-news-politics","category-student-life","tag-andrew-kennedy","tag-andrew-mountcastle","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-covid-19","tag-jane-costlow","tag-mara-tieken","tag-michelle-greene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132534","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\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132534"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132534\/revisions\/135418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}