After calling Pettigrew Hall home for much of his faculty career, Sanford Freedman and his English faculty colleagues are now in Hathorn Hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cFifty-six boxes,\u201d Freedman says, explaining how much stuff he, with help from his children and a moving company, lugged the 350 feet from Pettigrew to Hathorn.<\/p>\n
The reopening of renovated Hedge and Roger Williams halls (see page 12) started the domino effect of academic and administrative moves this summer:<\/p>\n
From Bardwell Street, the environmental studies faculty are now in Hedge, along with philosophy and religious studies, who moved from Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n
From Hathorn and Lane, respectively, the foreign language programs and the Off-Campus Study office have joined forces in Roger Williams.<\/p>\n
From Campus Avenue\u2019s Alumni House, being demolished due to structural problems, the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement is in Hathorn.<\/p>\n
From Schaeffer Theatre and Coram Library, the dance faculty have stepped into Pettigrew, joining the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival, which moved from Frye Street.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always thought that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is pretty good at not allowing stuff, whether buildings or history, to halt the occasional regathering of faculty in different places as academic needs change.<\/p>\n
As this issue shows, the concept of regathering resources isn\u2019t limited to the academic realm. Starting on page 22, we explain how ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ made great and sometimes painful changes to improve the college\u2019s career-development program.<\/p>\n
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, in her final interview as ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 seventh president (page 16), says that \u201cthe very nature of a liberal arts college is that we are always embracing change.\u201d New students and new faculty bring with them new approaches to teaching and learning.<\/p>\n
Of course, each change takes something from our shared ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ language. Many alums now hitting middle age will recall, or try to recall, that Roger Williams was the dorm that once hit High Times\u2019<\/em> \u201cPot 100\u201d list. The Bill was also known as the \u201cDome of the Hopers\u201d -\u2014 just switch the first letters of \u201cDome\u201d and \u201cHopers\u201d to get the joke.<\/p>\n Yet today, because the building has been out of commission for a few years, younger students don\u2019t even know what building \u201cthe Bill\u201d refers to.<\/p>\n Still, there are threads that speak to both past and present. In Hedge more than a half-century ago, Bert Knight \u201946 worked with chemistry professor Walter Lawrance. As the state-appointed \u201cRivermaster,\u201d Lawrance tried to get paper companies along the Androscoggin River to limit their pollution.<\/p>\n This fall, the environmental studies faculty and seniors are working on a community project, again based in Hedge, that asks a bold question: What will it take, politically, economically, environmentally, and personally, to make the most of the Androscoggin River?<\/p>\n This fall, Sanford Freedman is teaching familiar courses like Shakespeare and 18th-century British literature. But the forces of change ensure that \u201cevery course is different every year,\u201d he says. Each year, preparing a course is like \u201cclimbing a familiar mountain and taking a different route to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n See you at the summit, Sanford.<\/p>\n H. Jay Burns, Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is pretty good at not allowing stuff, whether buildings or history, to halt the occasional regathering of faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"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":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","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":[1],"tags":[10856,9914,11023],"class_list":["post-63854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-magazine","tag-fall-2011","tag-magazine-editors-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63854"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854\/revisions\/82634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}