Bates College SCARAB The Bates Student Archives and Special Collections 1-17-2018 The Bates Student - volume 148 number 09 - January 17, 2018 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: https://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student The Bates Student THE VOICE OF BATES COLLEGE SINCE 1873 WEDNESDAY January 17, 2018 Vol. 148, Issue. 9 Lewiston, Maine FORUM ARTS & LEISURE SPORTS Kerry Manuel ’21 shares Will Hibbitts ’21 takes a Morgan Baxter ’20 discusses the women’s basketball stand on the new Speakers, Abraham Bronwell ’20’s new team’s quarky home Performers, and Protests EP, Old Mirror. game ritual. policy. See Page 4 See Page 6 See Page 11 Inside Arts & Leisure: Inside Sports: Szlachetka ’02 and Posner ’18 Winter Athletes Discuss Music and Life Brave Frigid Temps HALLEY POSNER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TORY DOBBIN MANAGING ARTS EDITOR This week, Editor-in-Chief Hal- ley Posner ’18 had the opportunity to interview Matthew Szlachetka ’02, known as the musical artist Szlachetka (pronounced SLA-HET- KA), about his upcoming album and journey in thew music indus- try. Szlachetka also spoke with The Bates Student about his future plans OLIVIA and outlook on music in today’s so- The swimming and diving team feels effects from cold temperatures. GILBERT/THE BATES STUDENT ciety. Here is an abridged transcript of that conversation that has been frostbite before heading outside for edited for clarity: VANESSA PAOLELLA practice. STAFF WRITER The Bates Student (BS): What While members of the track and have you been up to for the past few field team were not on campus dur- While training over winter years? ing break, athletes were expected to break can be arduous at the best of Szlachetka (S): I’ve pretty train on their own. For the runners times for Bates athletes, this year much been on the road nonstop, of the team, this often meant going was especially harsh due to the bit- lots and lots of tour dates. I also re- Szlachetka ’02 releases his album February 16. PAUL MOORE/ outside. However, while some run- ter cold and treacherous weather located to Nashville last March from COURTESY PHOTO ners have the ability to run inside, that persisted in the latter half of LA. I was going to Nashville for a skiers, with no other option, prac- the break. With temperatures con- lot of meetings, shows, and writing BS: Speaking of your new made, relationships that were had, ticed outside each day, doing their sistently dropping into the single sessions, and I found Nashville was album, what has been your inspira- other observations that I’ve taken best to stay warm. digits, often in addition to frigid a much better fit. Plus, between the tion for it and what has helped you note of, both from a self-reflective “I think that as a team we are all wind chill and periodic snow, many friends and colleagues I was mak- create it? standpoint and a social observation used to fairly cold temperatures, but teams had to adjust their schedules ing and meeting there, I felt a really S: That album to me is really standpoint. I summed it all up into the -5 to -15 temperatures and the and adapt to the weather in order to welcoming and warm reception. I’m getting back to that whole “road” 11 songs. At the end of the day you -30 wind chill we had to ski through train. really happy with the decision and thing- those were songs that were try to make them cohesive so that was hard,” says women’s alpine ski Predictably, some teams were was able to form this really great written from experiences and stories it tells a story, and so that it’s not a captain Sierra Ryder ’18. “To cope, affected by the weather more than team around me for the album com- from the road, and between things situation where every song is out of many of us were wearing many more others. Sports which necessitate out- ing out February 16. So it’s been a I observed, friendships that were layers than normal… [and] a few of See SZLACHETKA, PAGE 4 door activity, such as alpine skiing, really good life and career decision. us put tape on our faces to prevent nordic skiing, and the runners of frostbite while skiing down as well.” the track team, felt the effect of the Captain Brielle Antonelli ’18 cold while training the most. Yet, also added that many of the skiers perhaps surprising to some, indoor took short breaks in the lodge be- sports like basketball, squash, and tween runs to warm up, even us- Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir De- swimming and diving also had their ing hair dryers to warm their frozen own problems during this time, toes. At one point, the wind and from minor inconveniences to un- cold were so bad that some of the livers MLK Keynote Speech comfortable training conditions. ski lifts had to be closed. As the temperatures fell, many of Bates’ athletes piled on the lay- See WINTER SPORTS, PAGE 4 ers to stay warm and protect against Inside Forum: C.T.E. and Cutoff Dates: Inside the Keynote speech discusses how the classroom can be a site of change. PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN/BATES COLLEGE tinuing privatization of public this destabilize the socio-economic NFL Settlement CHRISTINA PERRONE schools, the rise of charter schools, mobility of African Americans, but sel for the former players, noted that SARAH MCCARTHY MANAGING NEWS EDITOR and the massive push for account- it heavily impeded the quest of truly while many players were opposed to ASSISTANT FORUM EDITOR ability as measured by standardized healing society as a whole. a cutoff date, ultimately they needed On Monday, January 15 Bates test scores. Because the accountabil- Another pressing challenge that a settlement to pass in order to aid College invited Dr. Na’ilah Suad ity movement shifted the lens away Dr. Nasir identified in her speech Imagine this: your loved one ex- players with their medical bills and Nasir, President of the Spencer from more nuanced and deep mea- is the resegregation of schools. In periences a rapid mental and physi- ensure security for the families of Foundation, to give the Bates MLK sures of learning, to more superficial her own words, “The resegregation cal decline, raking up doctors bills deceased players. Day Keynote Address, “The Educa- ones. It also commodified learning of schools is deeply troubling, not and draining family funds, and suf- The cutoff date does not apply tion Imperative: Dreaming a New by grading schools, creating the con- so much because of the symbolic fers an untimely death, which allows to players who suffered from dis- Public Education Dream.” text by which the public came to see investments in integration, but be- doctors to make a groundbreaking eases covered in the settlement such In the beginning of her speech, schools as a resource to be mined for cause segregation gives rise to fund- discovery, but you are forced to de- as Parkinson’s and ALS. For families Dr. Nasir discussed this year’s theme personal gain.” ing and other resource differentials.” liver pizzas to make ends meet. This like the Websters, this is devastating of “Power, Politics, and Privilege: Re- Part of the efficacy of Dr. Na- She traced this phenomenon of an is the story of Garrett Webster, the as their husband/father’s diagnosis sistance to and through Education,” sir’s talk was incorporating how Dr. increasing shift towards resegrega- son of former Steelers’ center Mike came posthumously, but his dete- stating that, “this theme captures a King would have dealt with the cur- tion in schools to residential segre- Webster. Mike Webster passed away rioration was taxing both financially core conundrum of education that rent state of our educational system. gation and the policies and practices in 2002 at the age of fifty after play- and emotionally. Although the set- can be a site of social reproduction In her speech, she revived Dr. King’s made to ensure that African Ameri- ing seventeen years in the National tlement itself limits claims from the and a site of resistance. It is a place vision of an integrated education cans were denied resources like the Football League (NFL). families of players who died before where power, politics, and privilege system and its central aim of healing G.I. Bill and F.A.J. loans to buy After his death, Webster became 2006, the judge presiding over the play out in and are reified, and is a a society torn by racism and segrega- homes in affluent neighborhoods the first player to be diagnosed with case left a legal loophole through key site of political struggle.” tion. and school districts. chronic traumatic encephalopathy which these families can have their In organizing her speech, she “[The integration movement] Dr. Nasir spent the third por- (C.T.E.). While Webster’s diagnosis voices heard. Families can file suits addressed four pressing challenges was about the kind of society we’d tion of her speech analyzing the has led to settlements between the against the League so long as they for the education system and how have if black children and white devastating consequences of school NFL and many former players and can prove they have a right to a le- they might be handled. Her first children attended school together,” discipline and the school-to-pris- their families, provisions and cut-off gal case under their state’s statute of pressing challenge was what she said Dr. Nasir, “The hope was that on pipeline.