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WEDNESDAY April 4, 2018 Vol. 148, Issue. 18 Lewiston, Maine FORUM ARTS & LEISURE SPORTS Ayesha Sharma ’18 Ariel Abonizio Sarah Roth- explores the intersection ’20 reviews mann ‘19 talks between southern food the 2018 to the men’s and and racism. Spring Dance women’s row- Concert. ing teams about their plans for the spring season. See Page 2 See Page 5 See Page 8 Inside Sports: Inside Forum: Baseball Splits Games A Call for BCB Against Bowdoin Transparency Historically, clubs receiving the DANIELLE FOURNIER most funding have been WRBC, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Outing Club, Club Frisbee (Wom- en’s and Men’s), Club Skiing, and The Budgets & Clubs Board the Equestrian Team. (BCB) is the governing body for One critical element missing all club funding on campus. There from the budget process is specific are currently 94 active clubs and feedback from BCB to clubs for the great majority receive funding budget cuts. When BCB does not through BCB. The ten members of approve requested funding, its ex- BCB are students selected through planation often does not enable an interview process by the Com- clubs to understand the cuts and mittee Selection Board. I served improve their budget processes. as BCB Chair from January 2017 BCB does provide line-by-line notes through January 2018 and helped on items it opts not to fund. But, Senior captain Jake Shapiro ‘18 helped the Bobcats cap off game two against Bowdoin with a win. implement many changes during the feedback is generally opaque. A THEOPHIL SYSLO/BATES COLLEGE my tenure, but there is still a great common justification is: “Funding need for better structure and trans- for particular event cut due to the DiVencenzo ’18 singled to left field. first game, DiVencenzo saved the parency. need for greater discretionary cuts MAX PETRIE Next up was Kyle Carter ’20, who Bobcats from a potential bases clear- Clubs are required to renew an- to all budgets.” This ambiguous line ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR also singled. After another single ing hit by Polar Bear Colby Joncas. nually with BCB to continue as an is a catch-all that fails to give the by Dan Trulli ’19 and a sacrifice DiVencenzo made an outstanding active club for the following aca- transparent and student-centered The Bates baseball team played bunt by Jack Arend ’20, Bates had diving catch to end the inning and demic year. “We like to meet with feedback BCB should provide. a three-game series against Bowdoin runners on second and third with helped the Bobcats get back into each club to discuss their budget for Another missed opportunity to Friday, March 30 and Saturday, one out. Zach Avila ’20 delivered, the game. Although this play was the upcoming year so we can better improve the club funding process March 31 opening up their NES- grounding out but bringing in Cart- not enough to help Bates earn the understand what they want to do is under the control of Bates Col- CAC play for the spring. They lost er to tie the game. Unfortunately, win, it was definitely a highlight as a club,” said Willy Anderson ’19 lege Student Government (BCSG), on Friday by a score of 3-1, and then Bowdoin scored a run in the top of of the game. DiVencenzo, Arend, BCB Chair of Allocations. Alloca- which reviews and votes on all ex- dropped the first game on Saturday the eighth to take back the lead, and and Trulli all tallied doubles in the tions are a chance for clubs to show penditures made by BCB. BCB 4-3 in extra innings. In this game, the Bobcats could not answer in the off the work they have done all year is a sub-committee of BCSG, but they were down 3-1 heading into bottom of the inning. See BASEBALL, long. Making the structure of this BCSG oversight is essentially a rub- the seventh inning, when Connor During the sixth inning of the PAGE 7 process more transparent and more ber stamp. Remarkably, BCSG has formal would benefit all concerned. not denied nor formally reviewed The Office of Campus Life dic- a single decision made by BCB in tates the amount of money BCB the last three academic years. This has available to distribute annually system of supposed checks and bal- Bates Community Discusses to student clubs. However, Cam- ances is clearly not functioning as pus Life does not have this infor- intended because there is never a mation prepared in time for spring substantive review of BCB decisions club budget allocations. When BCB by the BCSG assembly. One reason Stigma Surrounding Opioid Crisis makes initial allocation decisions, for this may be that BCSG has no as it did from March 24 to 28 this criteria for evaluation or approval year, BCB works from a loose target of BCB requests. The process only TRICIA CRIMMINS puts the requests up for a major- NEWS STAFF WRITER of how much money it will have the following school year. Flying some- ity vote by the general assembly. A what blind, BCB make preliminary concrete set of funding parameters Initially used to treat headaches, allocations hoping the figures will be and guidelines for the BCSG as- menstrual cramps, and coughs in the within range of the final budget to sembly members would provide late 1800’s, opioids are at the center be announced in September. Clubs needed framework for club funding of an epidemic that directly or in- do not receive any notification of approval. directly involves all Americans. The funding prior to the second week of national opioid crisis is racialized, school in September, at which point See BCB stigmatized, and all-encompassing, budgets are given directly to club PAGE 3 and the reaction of the Bates com- leadership and never published to munity has a multitude of conse- Forum meets to discuss how to better address the Opioid Crisis in Bates the campus community. quences and implications. and Lewiston/Auburn. JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT Livie Gilbert ’19 and Jon Shee- han ’19 hosted a forum on the sub- Many of the stigmas discussed are not. Inside Arts: ject on Wednesday, March 28. The during the forum focused on how, Attendees of the forum also forum, titled “The Opioid Crisis: and who, opioid users are stereo- spoke about the assumption of nor- How Stigma is Shaping Our Com- typically perceived to be. Put simply, mality when addressing opioid us- munity’s Response,” functioned it is widely believed that drugs are age. Some health professionals and as a way to educate members of “bad,” and that doing drugs makes members of the Bates community An Interview the Bates community and involve one a “bad” and “stupid” person. At- immediately assume that students them in dialogue surrounding the tendees of the forum discussed the are not misusing opioids. However, epidemic. Many attendees expressed converse as well, that “good” and the crisis could be better addressed interest in learning more about the “smart” people cannot be addicted by assuming that everyone either with a Bates opioid crisis and its implications, to drugs. could or could not be. Assuming the while others identified themselves as Both stigmas have lasting and latter acknowledges that we are all personally affected by the crisis. detrimental consequences concern- equally susceptible to drug and sub- Sheehan explained that the goal ing the way we react to drug use in stance misuse. Forum attendees ex- Alumnae: of the forum was not to “come up our community. When we believe pressed that being cognizant of that with hardline policy ideas” or “a that “smart” people cannot be ad- reality incentivizes members of our solution,” but stressed the impor- dicted to drugs, we bypass the op- community to pay attention to the tance of an open conversation about portunity to monitor each other’s behaviors of those around us. Abigail the topic. Gilbert and Sheehan ex- harmful drug use. The discussion in Unfortunately, stigma runs pressed the harrowing reality that the forum revolved around the idea rampant in discussions surround- the opioid crisis is relevant to every- that, just because someone doesn’t ing sobriety and rehabilitation from one. We are a part of the crisis, both seem like the type of person that as Americans and as inhabitants of would misuse drugs, does not mean Abbott ’17 See OPIOIDS, PAGE 4 Lewiston. they will not or, more immediately, gramming that we do here at the HANNAH PALACIOS museum. I help him with all the STAFF WRITER outreach to local K-12 schools, for example at Auburn Middle School we go in and do week-long print- Sure, it’s posted on the face of making workshops, and we’ll also Mariam Jalabi Reminds Us “We every Bates brochure; job outcomes offer workshops throughout the after graduation from Bates College school year here at Bates. That’s are near perfect. A staggering 99.5% one part of my job, and then I also of the class of 2017 reported being work on reaching out to Bates stu- Are Part of a Global Village” settled. But do we actually see this dents. I am trying to figure out ways affect back on campus? In my expe- to get students more involved with is the UN Representative of the Syr- cloth. It’s actually a language that rience, yes. I sat down with Abigail and more aware of the Museum. HALLEY POSNER ian Opposition Coalition, living you use to represent yourself to the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Abbott ’17, an Education Fellow at We have done things like holding and doing her activist work in New outside world. And the way women the Bates Museum to discuss just a paint night or printmaking work- York. dress is a way they speak to the world that. shops, in hopes that it will sort of As this year’s speaker from the Fashion and political activism or how society addresses them. It’s University of Maine Law School’s ‘spread the word’ about what we of- seem to be at opposite ends of the a code that we all use. I wanted to The Bates Student (BS)First, fer here and how the Museum works Justice for Women lecture series, spectrum. “It seems like such a big create something that was practical, Mariam Jalabi came up to our neck could you tell me a little about your for Bates students. I also manage shift but really I approached fashion that was comfortable, and that was position and how you came to land the Museum’s Instagram account, of the woods to talk about her life from a very political perspective,” very fashionable for women who in fashion turned activism. Born in it? and we will have professors bring in Jalabi remarks. “I got into fashion wanted to dress in a modest way.” Abby Abbott (AA): As an Ed- their classes to look at works from in Damascus and growing up in because I believed that I could dress She saw fashion, not merely the Golan Heights, Jalabi was sur- ucation Fellow at the Museum, I our permanent collection. There are women in a more liberated and a work with Anthony Shostak who is many different facets to this position rounded by her family of activists more democratic way. Clothing is See JALABI, throughout her life. Currently, she PAGE 4 the Education Curator, and I help not just clothing; it’s not a piece of him with all the educational pro- See ABBOTT, PAGE 6 Forum 2 The Bates Student April 4, 2018 Question on the Quad BatesRates

Temperatures have hit upwards of 40 What is your favorite place to study on degrees. campus? Get ready to see wall-to-wall hammocks on Alumni.

“The Ronj.” Trump states “No more DACA deal.” –Sukanya Shulka ’20

What is wrong with our president?

April break is around the corner.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can

Villanova won March Madness “PGill Atrium.” –Ben Stratton ’21 Whose bracket came out on top?

End of the year concerts and recitals SARAH MCCARTHY/THE BATES STUDENT Racism Is Embedded in See all your artistic friends present their hard work! Southern Food Culture North Korea Agrees color) cultures. White southerners that it claims are isolated to the past. AYESHA SHARMA not only possess this financial power Its downtown area celebrates its MANAGING FORUM EDITOR to enact appropriation, but also have colonial and racist past quite openly. the social power too. White culture The city has it all: streets called King, to Talk Most white folks who speak rules the most (economically) highly Queen, and George, horse carriage to take his place. According to to me about Charleston, South valued areas of the city, and so this tours, and cobblestone roads. And HALLEY POSNER Politico “…of the 163 Senate- Carolina tell me they’ve “heard EDITOR-IN-CHIEF generally disempowers communities to top it all off, Charleston hosts an confirmed positions for the State so much about it!” “I’ve heard it’s of color in accordance with the appropriated food culture. It does The time is finally upon us. Department and the U.S. Agency really cosmopolitan, and the food standard logics of white supremacy. so after already making open efforts North Korea has agreed to have for International Development, 65 is great, right?” they ask me. I’m According to an article to displace Gullah people while diplomatic talks with both South positions don’t yet have a nominee, not sure how to respond to that, entitled “How Gullah Cuisine Has still attempting to utilize Gullah Korea and the United States. Kim while many nominees have yet to in all honesty. I usually pause with Transformed Charleston Dining” culture for the benefit of generating Jong Un will meet separately with be confirmed…” In other words, hesitation, searching for a way to in Eater, “the rise of the Charleston a cosmopolitan Gullah culture from both South Korea’s Moon Jae in and many of the top tier jobs in the explain the racism that’s inextricable restaurant scene in the last 20 years which white southerners garner the Donald Trump of the United States. State Department are empty or from its culture and atmosphere. has coincided with a gentrification majority of the profit. The town While the South Korea meeting have new leadership. We are, a Then I just laugh nervously and that’s brought with it higher of Mount Pleasant is undergoing date is set, April 27, the United country operating without seasoned say “um...it’s an interesting place.” residential and commercial rents, massive development, and one States’ formal time has yet to be diplomats. Three: there is still no But what I really want to say is and changed the demographics of the consequences of this is the determined. ambassador to South Korea. How this: Charleston racism is similar to of the city from being over 60 displacement of Gullah people who It should be remembered can the United States make informed liberal racism–it’s built into the very percent [B]lack in the ‘80s to being live there and the businesses they that North Korea has engaged in decisions about Korean culture and structure of its institutions, and it’s only roughly 30 percent black” run. Gullah people have historically diplomatic talks, notably the Six politics without a specialist? steeped in respectability politics. as of 2014. In Charleston, white constructed sweetgrass baskets and Party Talks held six times on and off Lastly and most importantly: What’s respectability politics? appropriation of Gullah food and other grass-made objects. They have between 2003 and 2009 in Beijing. heads of state, Kim Jong Un and I speak about the phrase in quite a culture has profited white businesses previously sold them in Mount In this case, the negotiations took President Trump, are meeting in the few of my articles. In the context and accelerated gentrification. It Pleasant, but are now increasingly the form of six countries – the preliminary rounds of negations. of this conversation, it’s the quiet has quite directly benefited white unable. United States, North Korea, South Having this high-level meeting is nature of southern racism. It’s folks and not only disadvantaged This displacement and Korea, Japan, China, Russia – all also a huge concession to the North funneled through white southern but oppressed and exploited Black structural oppression of Gullah taking to each other; “multilateral Koreans. Negotiations of this expectations of civility–that is, Gullah people. Gullah and Geechee people in many parts of the city negotiations” in political jargon. caliber normally are started by low chivalry, charm, and politeness. people are the descendents of West cannot be ignored while white- While the focus of these talks was to level diplomats because they have These expectations for civility are African slaves who, according to owned restaurants are profiting off dismantle the North Korean nuclear the ability to change their minds a tool that the white south ends historian Joseph Opala in an article of Gullah Geechee heritage that, program, no changes in favor of without having massive blowback up using to police and invalidate published by the Freeman Institute, according to Afroculinaria, was denuclearization or halting of the on their political carriers. southerners of color. But, more “worked on the rice plantations in nourished by the “skills, knowledge project occurred. The talks ended This is not the case with heads than this, southern respectability South Carolina and Georgia.” and blood” of Gullah ancestors. when North Korea tested a Taepo of state. Hypothetically, when the politics permit white southerners Charleston isn’t necessarily Dong-2 three-stage rocket, billed president comes in with an ask and to appropriate the POC (people of intent on repairing the injustices as part of a civilian space program, then changes his mind, that receives after repeated warnings from the much more attend than if that same The Bates Student About Us United States, South Korea, and situation happened with some low- Japan and condemnation from the ranking diplomat. Bringing in the The Bates Student is published EDITOR-IN-CHIEF UN Security Council. president is like starting a baseball SPORTS weekly by the students of Bates game with a relief pitcher, it’s taking Halley Posner Managing Editor: Sarah Rothman College when college is in session. From then, North Korea, under Assistant Editor: Max Petrie Kim Jong Un’s leadership since 2011, the rules of the game and turning The Bates Student reserves the right them on their head. GENERAL MANAGER not to print any article and to edit for has ramped up their nuclear missile Jeanne Hua PHOTO clarity and length. testing programs and refrained from Another recent change is that Arts & News: James MacDonald engaging in negations. However, Kim Jong Un visited China last NEWS Sports: Olivia Gilbert & Sarah du Staff editorials represent the major- this changed when, on March 8, week. Let me say that again; the Managing Editor: Christina Perrone Pont ity of, but not necessarily all, the President Trump accepted Kim most reclusive leader in the world Assistant Editors: Matt Morris views of the editorial board. Views left his stronghold for the first time LAYOUT Jong Un’s invitation to return to expressed in Letters to the Editor, the negotiating table. Although the since assuming control to go and Layout Editor: Kate Bouchard Columns, and Features in the Forum FORUM date is not yet officially set, these meet with President Xi Jinping. This Managing Editor: Ayesha Sharma Layout Editor: Justice Geddes section are the opinions of the writ- talks between North Korea and the meeting could be seen as a trial run Assistant Editor: Sarah McCarthy ers and may or may not reflect the for future talks with South Korea COPY opinions of the staff. Letters to the United States will, at this point, take and the United States. According ARTS AND LEISURE Copy Editor: Jacob LeMoine Editor must be received by 5 p.m. on place in May. Managing Editor: Tory Dobbin Copy Editor: Sophie Mortman Sunday for Wednesday’s publication. While diplomacy and negations to CNN, discussion points ranged Assistant Editor: Ariel Abonizio Letters should be under 500 words. are always a good sign, New York from Kim’s commitment to Webmaster: Imad Rajwani Please email them to the Editor- Times reporter Mark Lander notes denuclearization with some caveats, Business and Advertising Man- Delivery Manager: Kwamae Delva in-Chief, Halley Posner (hposner@ that this meeting is a “breathtaking and to Xi’s acceptance of Kim’s ager: Hyewon Shin bates.edu). gamble.” invitation to visit Pyongyang. But what was this meeting Copies of The Student are available at locations around campus. These negotiations are vastly Subscriptions may be purchased for $30 for one semester and $40 for the year. different than any others. One: no really about? Was this an effort sitting president of the United States to strengthen bilateral relations Connect with The Student has ever met with a North Korean between China and North Korea? leader. Two: The State Department Is there an agenda that we just don’t The Bates Student www.batesstudent.com Email us! is still sparsely staffed and know about? What role will China 5300 Bates College Follow @BatesStudent Content: [email protected] concerningly unstable. Remember, play in the upcoming negotiations? Lewiston, ME 04240 “Like” The Bates Student @ Business: [email protected] Rex Tillerson was ousted on March This next month will definitely 13 and Mike Pompeo, former be a time to watch closely. head of the CIA, was nominated The Bates Student April 4 2018 Forum 3 BCB Reflecting on Social Media CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Another concerning area surrounds new clubs petitioning. If a new club applies for approval and is denied by BCB, there and Virtual Communication is an opportunity for appeal. Unfortunately, the appeal must be scandal, many people have been contact or the silent surprise that your life: who you choose to follow, made to the same group of BCB SARAH MCCARTHY evaluating the virtual identities comes from receiving a thoughtful who you allow to follow you, and the students who declined the initial ASSISTANT FORUM EDITOR they have been curating and the letter in the mail. I am guilty myself pictures you choose to “represent” application. A new grievance body implications of these identities. For of sending a text when a call is your lived experiences. But, social should be formed, separate from When you walk into Commons, me, I have been contemplating how warranted. While we move towards media, like the smartphone, has BCB, to give students a fair appeals how often do you see a table of people and why I use my phone for about a greater reliance on virtual contact, the power to bring people together. process for new club applications. sitting together, yet each person in month, since I started participating we should be reflexive about why Sending people memes and being Not only does BCB lack their own world? In class, how often in #nosocialsunday, a movement to we are choosing to use particular invited into a meaningful experience transparency in funding decisions, do you see people with their heads curb social media use on Sundays in methods of communication. If we in someone’s life via their photos it also currently suffers from lack stooped down attempting to slyly the hopes of being more present and are mindful and conscious about can promote bonds and strengthen of organizational unity in decision be on their phones or even rattling engaged in the “real world.” our use of such devices, it may feel connections amongst people. making. Internal power struggles away at their computer keyboards Cell phones, and smartphones less like of a sacrifice when sending While this may sound like among BCB co-chairs have impeded even though the professor hasn’t to be more precise, have created a a text as opposed to getting a cup of a confused millennial rant, my board members’ ability to work made a noteworthy comment in ten world of new possibilities and added coffee and catching up. suggestion is mindfulness. It seems well together, provide a cohesive minutes? a tremendous amount of security Social media is a whole separate simple but, when you think things forum for club funding applications Recently, I have heard many and ease to those privileged enough beast. It is used consciously as well through and are aware and present and decisions, and make unbiased people talking about how they want to interact with them. The ability to as unconsciously. How often do you with yourself, the things you engage funding decisions for the campus to limit their social media usage or call and video call people half way open an app—say, Instagram—and with become more meaningful. community. have turned their phone settings to across the country or even the world realize you had literally just closed When you are mindful, and make The path forward should grayscale to make it less appealing, has facilitated long-distance business it? Yet, how long do you take on deliberate choices, it does not feel involve refocusing BCB efforts on but when do we really ever think as well as personal relationships. the app before you post a picture? like you are sacrificing something providing funding and support to all about what the device that is While ease and convenience are Maybe you have a special editing app else to be in the present moment. student clubs through transparent, everpresent in our pockets or hands things most people seek in products or send it to your friends for advice? I’m not saying delete your accounts rational BCB processes. Explicit is capable of and what it means for and vacations and in general, it is To what end are you consciously and throw your phone into the rules should be created, published our lives. With news like the recent hard to not feel that we are sacrificing shaping your image? Social media, Puddle, but what I am saying is be and consistently enforced to develop Facebook and Cambridge Analytica other things such as face-to-face in my opinion, is all about curating an active and conscious user. an environment where club leaders can trust BCB to make reasoned decisions about funding for club activities. A full publication of club budget allocations and additional funding requests (including denied requested and budget cuts) would help ensure accountability for both “Just Arm The Teachers” BCSG and BCB as they allocate club funding. together with assault rifle- expensive firearm and advanced images of warzone bases rather than NICK MORGOSHIA wielding thugs. At the same time, training, the cost could go well educational institutions, and arming STAFF WRITER I must confess the proposal to arm beyond $1 billion. At a time when teachers would only make matters educators gives off the same stench thousands of public school teachers worse. According to The Atlantic, We have all heard someone of extremism; so much so that one work two jobs to make ends meet, school police in several Colorado say it. At a time when our nation might struggle to decide which pay for classroom supplies out of and California districts regularly continues to ruminate on the aspects of it are most odious. their own pocket, and still struggle wear AR-15 rifles and have even debilitating legacy of the Parkland First and foremost, investing to surmount the achievement gap stocked up on grenade launchers shooting – and the memories from in the concept of “teachers with between low-income and financially and armored personnel carrier. Even Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and guns” would reorient schools from secure students, I cannot help but the unabashedly bizzare suggestion countless other tragedies have their primary purpose: education. ask: would not the same money be of Newsmax host Wayne Roote to returned to haunt the American If the federal government mandated better spent on improving learning equip schools with armed drones psyche yet again – the president, that every school employ teachers methods and outcomes? does not seem too detached from congressmen, and NRA-apologists proficient at using firearms, the As Parkland senior Ryan Deitsch reality anymore. hold their heads high and say schools would inevitably start to aptly put it, “We need to arm our Perhaps, instead of rehashing confidently, as if it is a cure for all prioritize gun-adept candidates in teachers… but with pencils, pens, ideological arguments, we should learn societal ills, “Just arm the teachers!” their hiring procedures, overlooking paper, and the money they need.” draw upon empirical evidence. Look Police are often slow to arrive, the their qualification as educators. It is no secret that public high no further than America’s police logic has it, and allowing educators And, from a purely fiscal standpoint, schools, especially in low-income forces: militarized to a point where to act as first responders could save that would make sense: when public areas awash in poverty and crime, are shooting of unarmed civilians – a lives. Hence green light to guns in school funding is extremely scarce, hotbeds of violence. While teachers disproportionate number of them school classrooms, cafeterias, and why not open doors to teachers who designated to carry firearms would minority individuals from low- gyms? Not so fast. are already experienced gun users – supposedly have to pass background income neighborhoods – surprises Worryingly yet unsurprisingly, even if they are not the cream of the and mental health checks, flooding no more. Applying the same failed question tragedies like Parkland stoke human crop education professionals – to schools with guns only increases the practice to schools, institutions impulses – prodding the most well- save on training? likelihood they would fall into the tasked with providing inclusive and intentioned among us to opt for According to The Washington wrong hands – those of students, nurturing environments, advances radical solutions. As a conservative, I Post, arming 718,000 teachers non-teaching staff members, and the calamitous reasoning that the am appalled at the deluge of hostility could cost upwards of $251 million outside intruders. only way to keep citizens out of towards the Second Amendment: (and that is only if we assume the Last but not least, there is an harm’s way is an ever-militarized the nonsensical lumping of law- cheapest instruction and discounted issue of state-chartered militarization state. abiding citizens, whose right to bear Glock). If we instead take into of our schools. Many of America’s arms the Constitution vouchsafes, account the full-price, more public schools already conjure up grow Loving Yourself Even When You’re Loving Someone Else with both intimidating and awkward. STD without knowing it. It only cut the condom, and place it over KATE FARRELL Sexual Education talks tell us that takes once to get pregnant or pass the vulva for safer oral sex. The CONTRIBUTING WRITER condoms are a clear safeguard from an STD. Additionally, even after talking We’ve all been there. You started STIs and pregnancy. Yet, even with “It doesn’t feel as good.” With a with your partner, there is the fear out the night bursting out all of the this knowledge, only 54 percent condom, you might last even longer, that they will still not want to use lyrics to the classic Kelly Clarkson of college students report using and that’ll make up for it. a condom. In these situations, the throwbacks and braved the frigid condoms, and that number only “I guess you don’t really love woman can use a female condom, walk to a party. Then, you’ve spotted decreases when combined with the me.” I’m not going to ‘prove’ my instead. Bates your Commons Crush—and things use of alcohol and drugs. love by risking my health. Do you “Why do we need to use a have gone from fun and flirty on Further, one in two sexually really love me? Do you want me female condom?” “Won’t that the dance floor to hot and heavy in active people have STIs before to feel safe? Condoms can help me be unconformable for you?” The the dorm room. Or, maybe, you are they are 25 years old; one in four relax and enjoy myself more; why do female condom is bigger than spending the night with your long- college students have an STI; and you not want that? a male condom, but it is not term partner. You trust, love, and 80 percent of these people do not Often, when we think about uncomfortable. Female condoms Student care for each other—why would you experience noticeable symptoms. condoms, we are thinking only male are able to offer convenience and need condoms? You’re not seeing Using and talking about partners. But, condoms can be used control. They are small, discreet anyone else. condoms is not only about for both male and females, in both and portable. Female condoms Whether it is a short or sexual health, but it is also about heterosexual and queer relationships. let you take charge of your health. long term relationship, the same implementing communication skills Another example of when condoms Therefore, even if your partner does responses persist: about your wants, needs, values, and are not used is during oral sex. not want to wear a condom, you can “I don’t like condoms” standards; skills which are important “Who even knows what a dental still protect yourself. “Don’t you trust me?” both inside and outside of the dam is?” I do. And I know that Condoms are about more than “It doesn’t feel as good.” bedroom. they are a way to transmit sexually just sexual health: they are about “I guess you don’t really love So, if your partner does not transmitted diseases, orally. It is a consent, security, comfort, and me.” want to use condoms, find out why thin, flexible square piece of latex communication. And, if after a clear, And, regardless of how many and talk it out: that helps prevent the spread of direct conversation your partner times Salt N Pepa can say “Let’s “I don’t like condoms.” Why STIs or other germs during oral sex. is still refusing, maybe it is time to Talk About Sex,” conversations not? They are easy to use. They are also take some advice from Queen B and about sex and condoms can be “Don’t you trust me?” Trust FDA-approved for safer sex. If you tell them: Boy, bye. isn’t the point. People can have an are unable to find a dam, you can 5

News 4 The Bates Student April 4, 2018 Club Former Ambassador Burns Takes Spotlight: Trump to Task From there, Burns spoke of the has needed its allies in the past, with the rest of the world,” said MATT MORRIS need for America to be confident in and criticized Trump for not doing Burns. Active ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR itself on the global stage and spoke enough to support its allies or focus Towards the end of the speech, optimistically of the future, includ- on diplomacy in general. Burns gave Burns also criticized Trump on his ing the current generation of stu- the example of President Trump’s handling of domestic issues, like Minds Students, staff, and the rest of dents. decision to withdraw from the Paris the violence surrounding a white the Bates community had a chance “Our generation will very quick- Climate Accord. supremacist rally in Charlottesville, to hear a lecture from a former Unit- ly be handing the baton to you, to be “Right now, we have a situa- Virginia last summer. Burns felt MADELINE POLKINGHORN ed States Ambassador and current the teachers in our schools. To run tion where the largest economy in that Trump did not do enough to STAFF WRITER Harvard Kennedy School of Gov- on school committees and city coun- the world, the second-biggest car- disavow the “racist, American neo- ernment professor, Nicholas Burns, cils; to be our CIA; to run our busi- bon emitter in the world, is saying Nazis,” involved in the protests. on Thursday night in the Olin Arts If you have been spending any nesses; to run Bates college. I think that we’re out of the game…We said According to his Harvard staff Center. Burns was an ambassador time recently with Bates students, there’s a lot we can be hopeful for,” we’re not going to work with the rest page, Burns also served as the Un- to Greece and the North American you have likely heard the echoes of Burns told the audience. of the world,” said Burns. dersecretary of State for Political Af- Treaty Organization (NATO), an the dreaded March anxieties and Burns spent the bulk of speech Burns was also critical of fairs, the third highest position in alliance that includes the United blues. Winter appears interminable, laying out the ways in which he be- Trump’s flippant attitude toward the the State Department, for three years States and most of Western Europe. the stress from finals is undeniable, lieves President Donald Trump has North American Free Trade Agree- under President George Bush. Following an introduction by and the end of school year is in sight, deviated from previous presidents ment (NAFTA), a trade agreement both President Clayton Spencer and but not quite close enough to touch. on foreign policy issues, which he between the United States, Mexico, politics professor Jason Scheideman, But beyond these shared experi- organized into four categories: alli- and Canada. Burns views NAFTA as Burns began his speech on a light- ences of boredom and stress, college ances, trade, immigration, and the a net positive for the United States hearted note, telling the story of how campuses face an unprecedented worldwide promotion of democracy. economy. In particular, Burns sin- he had been waitlisted by Bates as a epidemic of mental illness, and stu- Overall, across each of these issues, gled out Trump’s criticism of Mexico high school senior and jokingly let- dent suicide has become a legitimate Burns was highly critical of President in speeches as being bad for the al- ting President Spencer, an old friend and pervasive threat. Bates club Ac- Trump and presented his foreign liance. from their work on Capitol Hill and tive Minds is determined to counter policy as a push towards isolation- “He [Trump] somehow makes at Harvard University, know that he these deeply troubling and tragic re- ism that hadn’t been seen since be- Mexico out to be an enemy of the was “still waiting.” alities. fore World War II. United States, when Mexico is a vir- “We [Clayton and I] have I spoke with the club’s future Burns called on his experience tuous friend of the United States... known each other, I won’t say how co-president, Ted Burns ’19, to get as a former NATO ambassador to he is disavowing what made us great many decades,” Burns joked. a better grasp of the group’s mission. explain the way the United States economically: seventy years of trade

The Bates Student (BS): What is Active Minds? Ted Burns (TB): Active Minds is a student-led group on campus Bates Observes Trans Visibility Day that focuses on raising awareness for and erasing the stigma around men- reflected, “There’s just a disconnect tal illness, but it’s also about being CHRISTINA PERRONE and I think that it’s harmful, because conscious of mental health in gen- MANAGING NEWS EDITOR it takes away any type of personal eral. face or connection to it: so you start BS: Why did you join Active On Thursday, March 23, Bates celebrated Trans Identity Day by thinking of it as this far-off concept. Minds? You don’t get the sense that it actual- TB: I joined Active Minds, be- hosting a space to discuss and learn about experiences of people in the ly affects people. You’re like, ‘This is cause of my own experiences with some awful disease and we talk about mental illness, but also just on a trans community and some issues they face in regards to representation it in health class once.’” They added, whim when I was wandering around “You only hear about it in the con- the Club Fair in September. At the and identity. Before discussion, ev- eryone agreed to being recorded and text of people suffering, really you first meeting, I didn’t know anyone, don’t get to hear, in your health class but the environment was so fun and featured in this article. After talk, students were asked to hang posters around campus After watching a video, students or your isolated communities about positive that I haven’t missed a meet- people who are living with this and CHRISTINA PERRONE/THE BATES STUDENT ing to this day! Everyone in the club and faculty joined in a round table doing work with it and being suc- very normalized, and to be some- we don’t talk a lot about, and a lot is awesome. discussion, answering questions re- cessful.” one of color, and to witness some of of the blame for their subjugation BS: What kind of things do you garding the video and its content. Dylan Carson ’18, a SPARQ things that go on in the black com- goes onto them rather than society guys do in Active Minds? The first question asked to partici- Peer Mentor highlighted how people munity, it’s very disheartening and as a whole.” TB: We meet once a week for 30 pants was, “What is your experience have recently turned to normalizing trying to address it with your peers Near the end, people discussed minutes to chat and check in with with HIV/AIDS been and what so- HIV/AIDS: “I feel like the last few who might think it’s a joke or it’s not how to keep the balance between each other in a very relaxed setting, cial or cultural elements have had an years have had this shift from all that big of a deal.” discussing issues that severely impact but we also use that time to plan impact on this experience from your this attention for how it was treat- For Danny Carmona ’18, a trans women while also not erasing events on campus. Some examples of life?” able or how people can live for years SPARQ Peer Mentor, one issue they other identities. According to Lexi events we’ve done were the Self-Care For Raye Chappell ’18, HIV/ and stay healthy and have sexual ac- face at Bates is the expectation placed Mucci, the Assistant Director of Fair and the Share Your Story events. AIDS was very real growing up, “We tivity and lead regular lives with it, on people who identify as trans to the Office of Intercultural Educa- Both had great receptions and were talked about it a lot just because a so it also decreases the urgency of it advocate for all trans individuals: “A tion, many outside things influence really rewarding to be a part of. lot of people had it. But there’s a when people are still getting infected lot of times that [expectation to be a the erasure of the trans community, BS: Do you have any personal lot of stigma attached, especially by it and not everyone may necessar- representative for an entire identity] “The binary notions of what trans- connections to mental health? to some notable figures–like Magic ily have access to PrEP or adequate further puts on a burden onto those ness needs to look like and the rep- TB: I’ve been taking medication Johnson, Eazy-E...I think we know healthcare to stay healthy.” people who hold these identities be- resentation across the media of what for anxiety since 2015, and mental it’s serious, but we think it’s always One goal of the group conversa- cause it’s like, not only do they have the problems are within the trans illness runs in my family. Needless someone else, we don’t think that it’s tion was to dismantle typical narra- to deal with figuring out themselves, community, who is deemed as trans to say, it has had a huge impact on our problem. We need to talk about tives that we hear regarding the trans but they also have to appease other enough, and what that looks like— I who I am is a person. I also feel very this too...It’s a community and pub- community and trans individuals. people and deal with the notions think all of that plays into the era- strongly about getting rid of the lic health topic: it’s not something to For Angela Eustache ’20, “Some- of people thinking that their iden- sure of the trans community and stigma surrounding mental illness. be pushed to the side, you know you thing that I struggle with, that I see tities aren’t valid because you have the hyper visibility of the struggles It should be regarded no differently wouldn’t joke about cancer.” happening in the black community, to dress a certain way, or like you and who those struggles impact, and than the flu or a broken bone; it is For many, past discussions about are the hate crimes against people have to uphold someone else’s stan- those are the only people included in an affliction that requires treatment. HIV/AIDS never left the Health who identify as gay or LGBTQ. It’s dards— which is something I think this community.” BS: Why should Bates students Classroom. Cameron Huftalen ’19 join Active Minds? TB: Bates students should join this club, because it has really cool OPIOIDS people in it, and it’s very low-key. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Even if you have no experience with mental illness, you should join, be- opioids as well. The forum also dis- offer more resources for a longer order is a mental illness and should Hari’s idea that “the opposite of cause you can help others who do cussed debunking the myths that amount of time to those dependent be treated as such. Detrimentally, addiction isn’t sobriety; it’s connec- in very achievable ways. My favorite opioid users don’t want get better on opioid use. most hospitals will not provide safe tion.” Forum attendees expressed reason to be a part of Active Minds and that medication-assisted treat- The forum discussion also spaces for those dependent on opi- that creating environments and safe is the fact that I’ve gotten to know ment does not correctly address the stressed a change in the language we oids during recovery. However, in- spaces in which those dependent on great people that I never would’ve problem. Beliefs such as these lead use to describe drug use and the opi- dividuals can check themselves in to opioids can connect with support been able to meet otherwise. our community further and fur- oid crisis. Using terms such as “sub- most hospitals by claiming that they networks is one of many preventa- BS: What are your future plans ther away from providing the help stance use” and “substance misuse,” are a potential danger to themselves tive solutions. Dialogue surrounding for Active Minds? and resources individuals misusing instead of “substance abuse” elimi- due to mental illnesses. The obvious this topic is paramount, because sub- TB: I’ll be co-president of the opioids need to recover. Forum at- nates the blame placed on individu- disconnect present was identified by stance abuse can be caused by social club next year with Sara Dardis ’20, tendees discussed the expansion of als who are dependent on opioids. many during the discussion. isolation. It’s important to watch out and I’m really excited about the op- Medicare as a policy-based solution Additionally, the forum discus- The forum closed with a brief for friends and pay attention to the portunities! We’re already talking to the crisis, as it could potentially sion clarified that substance use dis- conversation surrounding Johann drug use of those around us. about teaming up with Filmboard to start a discussion about depictions of mental illness in media, organiz- ing panels with professors, as well JALABI as continuing to do all the excellent CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 things we already do. BS: What has been your most as the clothes on your back, but as eye of the beholder. Beauty is some- their representative to the United peace process. Women have been meaningful experience with the a conscious representation of your- thing that we create.” Nations, Jalabi readily agreed un- entrenched in protests from the club? self to the outside world. In Islamic For Jalabi, changing society was der one condition. “I will do it if very beginning. Women engage in TB: My most meaningful expe- culture, there are certain norms in not limited to the fashion industry. we worked as part of my job to in- peaceful protests all over Syria and rience with Active Minds was when which women who want to dress Once the Syrian conflict broke out clude more women and marginal- throughout the conflict. Specifically, I shared my experience with anxi- conservatively are encouraged to in 2011, Jalabi knew she needed to ized group in the effort to represent the Brides of Damascus were a group ety at the Share Your Story event. It comply. But Jalabi started her own be involved and active while still Syria and work with the UN,” Jalabi of women protesters in November was incredibly moving to share such consultancy and worked with clients running her fashion business. As remembers. 2012 who wore wedding dresses in an personal story to a room full of in places like Turkey and Saudi Ara- she became involved in the move- Fast forward six years, Syria is the Medhat Basha market holding people who wanted to listen, and bia to help women transcend those ment and became a regular face at all still embroiled in this conflict and red banners calling for a peaceful end the possibility that hearing my story norms. the meetings she could, she started Jalabi is still engaged in this work. At to the conflict. might’ve helped someone made it Jalabi remarks, “And it was to notice that “…women were not her lecture later that evening, “The Jalabi argues that the crisis in that much more special. It was in- something that was my passion – to represented at the level that I wanted Struggle for Human Rights: From Syria echoes loudly throughout the spirational to hear others’ stories as help women represent themselves in them to be represented at.” So she Syria to Maine” she emphasized the world. “We live in a global village,” well. a better way to the world. I was also kept going to the meetings, creating seemingly never ending nature of the she argues. Events on one side of the interested in women’s entrepreneur- contacts, and speaking up to pro- conflict and the necessity of includ- globe reverberate past what we can ship programs that had helped them mote the narrative that she wanted ing all people in finding a solution. see and have longer effects than we create their own lines, their own to be heard. “You can’t create a solution for will know. Engaging in social action work, and their own embroideries In November of 2012, when the Syria without including the whole work right here in Maine can have and their own ideas of what beauty Syrian Opposition Coalition came population,” Jalabi states in refer- positive effects the reach out farther was. Because beauty is really in the together and asked if she would be ence to women’s inclusion in the than our borders. Arts & Leisure The Bates Student April 4, 2018 5 The Spring Dance Concert Puts Forth an Incredible Program movement. Following them, “Jezeb- ARIEL ABONIZIO el Dagger,” choreographed by Sam- ASSISTANT ARTS & LEISURE uel Hersh ’18 put forth something EDITOR that was more familiar to me. The performance used downstage light It was Friday 7:30 p.m. after to project the performers’ shadows a long week and I could not wait against a white screen, which cre- to see the performers lineup at the ated a powerful effect. The classy 2018 Spring Dance Concert. I have costume design and the simulacra attended most if not all of the large effect of the shadows immersed me dance concerts at Bates since I ar- immediately in this piece. rived in 2016. The broad range of “Connection Beneath, Colored performances and styles never ceases the Same Within,” choreographed to surprise me. I often see the dance by Mickai Mercer ’19 presented a concerts as the frontline of celebra- dance piece about skin and its con- tions of student achievement, along notations. Following the juxtaposi- with the Mount David Summit and tion characteristic of postmodern the Arts Crawl. The 2018 Spring dance, Mercer overlapped move- Dance Concert is a great example. ment and voice to put forth con- In this concert, dance didn’t strike cerns about skin, this entity that me as an end-point as much as it is lives somewhere between the realm of biology and social life. “As It Is,” Christopher Castaneda ’20, Alexandria Onuoha ’20, Drew Murdock ’21, and Maya Church ’20 dancing on a method for student research. All of by Sara Hollenberg ’19 followed up the piece “Connection Beneath, Colored the Same Within.” JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT the pieces were well grounded in the history of dance and movement as with a performance that seemed at well as on contemporary discussions first deceptively simple, but then on culture and identity. One can see revealed technical complexity. The student achievement particularly in use of retrograde and the clarity of the senior theses choreographed by movement stuck with me. Another Sofia Elbadawi ’18 and Jorge Piccole great performance followed: “Be- ’18. These artists have come a long tween Dinner and a Show,” cho- way in their Bates career. In their reographed by Shae Gwydir ’20. unique styles and discussions of cul- I found this piece particularly hu- ture on their own terms, both Pic- morous and intriguing. The playful cole and Elbadawi’s choreography use of sharply performed pedestrian revealed the power of critical minds movement made of this piece one of using movement to create and com- my highlights of the night. municate complex ideas. Closing the broad range of per- The 2018 Spring Dance Con- formances on Program A, “What cert was divided in two programs, Are We Dancing To” will stay on my Program A and Program B. Pro- mind for some time. Choreographed gram A started with “El Oh Vi Ee,” by Piccole, this piece focused on the choreographed by Elbadawi in col- social world that comes along with laboration with dancers. The piece hip hop. The performance com- reflected much about social norms bined audio recordings with music. and personal feelings surrounding Seeing the dancers’ hip hop moves love today. The use of repetition was while listening to a person talk- particularly interesting and complex ing about authenticity escapes my during this piece in which even the power of description: it was power- saying of one letter could take on ful and intelligently arranged. Caleb many different meanings depend- Perlman ’19, one of Piccole’s danc- Dancers from the piece “El Oh Ve Ee” choreogrphed by Sofia Elbadawi’ 18 perform on stage. ing on body language, movement, ers, talked to me about the piece a JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT and intonation. It seems to me that bit and told me that it is “both per- Elbadawi perfectly balanced pedes- sonal and universal in its message,” trian movement in the piece, which which is a great way to put it. In this was simultaneously intriguing and brilliantly choreographed perfor- hilarious. mance, one is reminded that dance In sequence, “Shape the exist in a complex cultural and social Groove” choreographed by Dani- world that is worth consideration. elle Ward ’20 explored movement Having seen only Program A, I with a nice attunement to rhythm cannot wait to see Program B. Pro- over the song Ghostwriter by RJD2. gram B has four other intellectually “Tell Me Again,” choreographed by engaging pieces; with a total of 12 Libby Wellington ’20 also intrigued unique choreographers, the 2018 with three very talented dancers on Spring Dance Concert is an incred- stage. Helen Carr ’21, Shae Gwydir ible burst of creativity and research. ’20, and Dawrin Silfa ’21 conveyed a range of different moods with in- credible clarity. Together, “Shape the See DANCE, PAGE 6 Groove” and “Tell Me Again” inter- ested me as formal explorations of Dancers in pedestrian clothes rehearse for the 2018 Spring Dance Concert. JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT Gutterman’s Little Shop Delightfully Entertains Presented by the Bates College with Audrey II, or advising Audrey TRICIA CRIMMINS Robinson Players, the show is a joy to leave her no-good girlfriend, STAFF WRITER to watch and experience. The cast Scrivello. is energized and enthusiastic; they Gutterman refreshingly up- This semester, sophomore Julia genuinely convey their excitement dates to the show with her choice Gutterman triumphantly directed about Little Shop to the audience. to cast Rozells as Orin Scrivello, a Howard Ashman and Alan Men- The talent and work of musical di- traditionally male role. Gutterman’s ken’s rock musical, Little Shop of rector Sam Findlen-Goldman ’20 casting plays well in the show, and, Horrors. The show ran from Friday, and choreographers Shae Gwydyr more importantly, dispels the show’s March 30 to Sunday, April 1 in ’20 and Ellie Madwed ’20 are par- traditionally skewed gender dynam- Gannett Theatre. The show follows ticularly evident in the performanc- ics by placing a female actress in a Seymour, played by Justin Demers es of Curtis, Trombly, and Kraft as powerful, yet evil, role. Though ’18, a young man working at Mush- they guide the audience through Chiffon, Crystal, and Ronnette are nik’s Skid Row Florists. Mr. Mush- Seymour’s trials and tribulations take-no-BS types of characters, the nik, the owner of the flower shop, through top-notch harmonies and majority of the show’s female energy is played by Xavier Hayden ’19. sharp dance numbers. is usually centered around Audrey, Audrey, another employee of Mr. Demers and Carreras excel in who is unfortunately submissive and Mushnik’s, is played by Caroline their duets and solo numbers. Car- controlled by her abusive significant Carreras ’19. reras breaks the audience’s heart in other. Rozells shone in the spotlight On the stoop outside Mr. her solo, “Somewhere That’s Green,” she made for herself as a female Mushnik’s, Chiffon, Crystal, and as her gorgeous voice and vibrato Orin Scrivello. She was intimidating Ronnette, played by Sarah Curtis convey Audrey’s dream of raising a while undeniably feminine. ’18, Margaret Trombley ’18, and family. Demers’ Seymour is endear- From within his enormous Becca Kraft ’20 respectively, sit and ing and lovably goofy, and his vocal plant-like contraption of a costume, interact with passerby and the store’s range is incredible. The chemistry Chun also shone as Audrey II. His employees. between Carreras and Demers is quips were well-delivered, his tone In an effort to attract business, adorable, and the two sound mar- threatening and ominous, and his Seymour purchases a strange look- velous together. The fan-favorite mannerisms gave Audrey II her ap- ing Venus Fly Trap to display in “Suddenly Seymour,” delivers, the propriately quirky personality. He the window of the flower shop. As audience is hanging on each of Car- also bellowed fantastically disguised a show of his affection for Audrey, reras and Demers’ well-sung notes. as a homeless person in the show’s Seymour names the plant Audrey II. Demers and Hayden also make first full-cast number, “Skid Row.” As the show progresses, it becomes a phenomenal father and son pair, Gutterman’s Little Shop was a evident that Audrey II, played by El- after Mr. Mushnik adopts Seymour feel-good experience that was defi- liot Chun ’18, is animate as it asks in their song and dance number, nitely worth seeing. I was grinning Seymour to feed it human flesh. “Mushnik and Son.” Hayden’s per- from ear to ear as the cast sang the Audrey II’s first casualty is Au- formance as Mr. Mushnik is heart- show’s finale ultimo, “Don’t Feed drey’s sadistic and abusive girlfriend, warming, clever, and hilarious. It the Plants.” I was lucky to be able to dentist Orin Scrivello. In addition is so genuinely fun to watch him see the show this past weekend, and to her gender-bending performance prance across the stage, grumbling everyone involved with the produc- as Scrivello, Maddie Rozells ’20 about Seymour’s mistakes, celebrat- tion did an amazing job. plays various other ensemble roles. ing the shop’s newfound success The Robinson Players produced Little Shop of Horrors this past week- end. JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT The Bates Student April 4, 2018 6 Arts & Leisure Bleachers Bring Hillel Sedar Celebrates Down the House Jewish Life at Bates at State Theater more somber. “The pain of waiting TORY DOBBIN alone at the corner/ Trying to get MANAGING ARTS&LEISURE EDITOR myself back home/ I gotta get my- self back home soon” embedded in If you haven’t heard of the band “Everybody Lost Somebody” dem- Bleachers, you’re missing out. This onstrate that even the upbeat, pop-y group, led by ex-fun. front man Jack songs have dark roots. When trying Antonoff, recently came to Port- to hear what a crowd member was land’s State Theatre for a colossal yelling (“Do you want to get a drink concert experience. The band, on with me?”) Antonoff revealed that tour this year with their 2017 album he was on medication to manage his Gone Now, shared music, jokes, and depression and consequently could personal anecdotes under lights Fri- not get a drink or even smoke pot day, March 30 for a crowd of thou- with the person who yelled. He later sands. implied that the management of The band started with track two his illness has been tumultuous and off the album, “Good Morning.” challenging, but a source of lyrical The strong drums and piano gently inspiration. introduced the theme for the rest of The group closed off their set the concert: energy. As the group list with three high-profile songs, transitioned into more tracks from “You’re Still a Mystery,” “I Wanna Gone Now, they carried the energy Get Better” and “Don’t Take the level and excitement they started Money.” While the first and third with. Many of the songs the group songs listed recount experiences in performed highlighted their par- romantic relationships, “I Wanna Hillel gathers for the Bates Sedar. JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT ticular 80s pop/rock vibe; “Every- Get Better” harkens back to the all other nights?” with the main dif- of the plagues: blood, frogs, lice, body Lost Somebody,” “Let’s Get personal struggle Antonoff (and SOPHIE ROCKLAND ference being that on most nights beasts, cattle disease, boils, hail, lo- Married,” “I Miss Those Days,” and many of his friends) underwent in CONTRIBUTING WRITER we eat sitting up or reclining, but custs, darkness, and plague of the “Don’t Take the Money” all used their management of various men- on this night we recline to com- firstborn. As we continued along synths and harmonies reminiscent The first Seder of Passover at tal illnesses. As the title suggests, the memorate the freedom of the Jews. in the service, eating maror, charo- of a John Hughes film soundtrack. Bates, held on Friday, March 30 in narrator of the song tells the story The second question, “Why on this set, and matzah, everyone seemed While the majority of the per- Memorial Commons, was a great of someone dissatisfied with them- night do we only eat matzah?” deals to thoroughly enjoy each other’s formance emphasized the 2017 way to kick off the holiday. As selves; the resolution is “I put a bul- with the idea that the bread did not company as well as the story of album, several tracks from Strange someone who has been to a few Hil- let where I shoulda put a helmet,” have enough time to rise as the Jews Passover, told shortly but succinctly Desire were played; “Wild Heart,” lel events, I found this one to be or- a reference to a choice many people hastily left Egypt and this was also throughout the service. After some “Rollercoaster,” and “I Wanna Get ganized especially well. Twenty or so dealing with mental illness elect. the bread the enslaved produced. more prayers and Dayanuh, it was Better” are all some of my favorite round tables were filled with friends While much of the concert was The answer to the third question time to feast. Dinner was spectacu- works by this group and I was happy talking, laughing, and reading the all cheers and band banter, I picked “Why on this night do we eat ma- lar with all the favorites: charoset, to hear them performed. The group Haggadah (the text recited at the Se- up on the darker undercurrent re- ror?” is that it reminds us of the bit- matzah ball soup, kuegle, and honey also played “Carry On” made fa- dar) together. Co-presidents Brooke sultant from the inspiration of each terness of slavery in Egypt. Finally, glazed chicken, followed by flourless mous by fun. and “Alfie’s Song” re- Drabkin and Matthew Winter led song’s emotional lyrics. Bleachers the fourth question, “Why on this chocolate cake and macaroons for leased by Bleachers earlier this year. us through the service, beginning by were truly masterful in their per- night do we dip twice?” allows us dessert. One of the most surprising as- explaining the reason for the newly formance. They both demonstrated to understand that the salt water in Overall, the night was special pects of the performance was the introduced orange on the Seder their excellent musicianship while which we dip the herb into is bitter and the perfect way to begin the cel- saxophone player, Evan Smith of plate; it is a symbol of women’s also hinting at the inner struggles to represent the tears the Jews cried ebration of the holiday. Being away Portland, ME. He played a promi- rights as well as a symbol of gays and bandmates and audience members in Egypt and that dipping food is from home during the holidays can nent role both in the songs and in lesbians and others who are margin- alike share. If you are looking for considered a luxury and a sign of be difficult, and so the warmth and the stage presence of the group. His alized within the Jewish community. subtle yet gripping lyrics and a pop- freedom. Reciting these questions in happiness of the Sedar was comfort- riffs and melodies helped carry the In addition, each orange segment rock sound, look up the band on Hebrew after not reading them for ing for many. On Saturday night, band’s songs from Gone Now, as has a few seeds to be spit out, a ges- your music app of choice; I promise years was slightly difficult, but made there was a Sedar at the local syna- most of that album uses a saxophone ture that repudiates homophobia. you will not be disappointed. easier by the help from my peers; ev- gogue, which is a great way for the in the band. Next, we delved into the service, eryone was leaning on one another, Bates community to interact with While the band’s energy and lighting the candles, saying the kid- allowing all first years to participate local community members. Pass- sound were all upbeat, the lyrics and dush, and breaking the matzah. All in reciting the four questions. over is an important holiday for the personal anecdotes shared through- first-years in attendance were then We then delved into the ten Jewish community, as it symbolizes out the performance were much called upon to read the four ques- tions. The first question we ask is plagues, putting ten drops of wine their freedom from slavery in Egypt; “How is this night different from on our plates to represent each celebrating with a Bates Sedar was the perfect way for it to begin. ABBOTT DANCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

I came across this job...I think I AA: Oooh that’s tough there are might have seen it when I was apply- so many! I have two favorites. One ing for different positions my senior that led me down the route of edu- year. I figured it would be a good fit cation was “Perspectives on Educa- for me, a good post-Bates job (even tion” with Mara (Prof. Mara Tiek- though I’m still here), something to en), she’s an incredible teacher, and I kind of transition from being a stu- learned a lot from her. The other one dent to learning about the arts and would be, I’m forgetting the exact learning about education and other name of it, but it is with Professor jobs within a museum, and it has David Cummiskey, Philosophy of been very helpful thinking of what Health I think. That one was incred- I want to do long-term. ible because you learned about how different cultures approach health BS: So when you came to Bates, care and it’s so different from every- what was your thinking for your ca- thing I was studying in art. reer path? BS: Okay two more favorites, AA: I did a lot of back and favorite work of art and favorite forth. When I first came to Bates thing in Commons? Dancers perform in “Jezebel Dagger.” JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT I knew that I loved art, and then I took a few education classes and AA: Oh my gosh, I have so I really loved that, so I was think- many. I feel like it always changes ing about ways to merge the two, for me. A consistent favorite is Ed- but then I was also a psych major, gar Degas, some of his pastels are and that also came into play. I was just incredible. The artist that I am starting to lean more towards doing working on an exhibition for right research about well-being and then now, Dahlov Ipcar, is amazing too. I realized that art was my passion She has these incredible paintings and I really enjoyed sharing that with geometric patterns and animals with other people, whether that was that she basically painted from her through teaching or producing my imagination. Commons...just every- own art. I wanted to be in a posi- thing. One of my favorite desserts is tion that allowed me to explore dif- the chocolate no bake cookies — so ferent opportunities in both fields. I good. I also love the nuggets that am still struggling with figuring out they do. Oh and I miss the omelet what path I want to go down, but bar, I wish I could have that back in you never know what opportunities my life! will arise so you just have to be open minded.

BS: Ok now a couple fun ques- tions, what was your favorite class that you took as a student here?

Drew Murdock ’21 performs. JAMES MACDONALD/ Dancers perform in the 2018 Spring Dance Concert. THE BATES STUDENT JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT The Bates Student April 4, 2018 Sports 7 Women’s Softball Sports A Tough Week for Women’s Results Softball from Bobcats. On Friday, March 30 and SOJUNG KIM Saturday, March 31, the team lost STAFF WRITER all three games to Trinity College. Week of The Bates women’s softball team On Friday, the Bobcats fell 9-1. has had an unbelievable start to the Through three innings, the Bantams season so far. With nine wins total, had an 8-0 lead. In the first inning, Trinity got things going when Erica March captain Victoria Fitzgerald ’18 com- ments about what she thinks has Merullo started with a base hit be- contributed to the team’s success. fore swiping second. The Bobcats “Our trust in each other, our- threatened for a comeback in the 26 selves, and the process has been a second inning after a walk by Mary main contributor to our success,” Collette ’21, single from Paige Ahl- she says. “In Florida we had some holm ’18, and bases loaded by Kirst- games where we had to work really en Pelletier ’20. Unfortunately, the hard under high pressure situations Bobcats were left off the scoreboard to pull off wins, because we had a for the time being. strong confidence and trust in each The Bantams scored twice more Tuesday, March 27 other, ourselves, and the process.” from Jenna Thomas’ double to deep Even with great success, there left center that scored Nicole Town- are times where a team will fall. This er. Later, Thomas scored on a passed was unfortunately the case during ball. In the third inning, Trinity Friday and Saturday’s games for the took advantage of three errors made by the Bobcats, putting them in an Baseball vs. UMass-Dart- 8-0 lead. mouth: W, 4-3 After a scoreless fourth inning, the Bobcats came back in the fifth Bates softball player practices cahtching skills to prep for the when Andrea Russo ’19 led the in- weekend. SARAH DU PONT/THE BATES STUDENT Baseball at Endicott: L, 12-4 ning off with a walk and scored on a sacrifice fly by Collette. Pelletier fourth inning. Then, Trinity’s Mi- was definitely a learning experience kept the Bantams from scoring in chelle Treglia gave Trinity its lead for the team. “We didn’t come out Men’s Lacrosse: W, 15-10 the home half, but the Bantams of the game with her second and on Friday as strong as we could and came through the following inning. third RBI of the afternoon, winning got a bit of a wakeup call with that On Saturday, the Bobcats 4-3. Bates’ Caroline Bass ’21 was game. However, I was impressed played two games against Trinity. In 5-for-7 with three runs scored and with how we bounced back on Sat- the first game, the Bobcats fell 6-5. two steals, and both Julia Panepinto urday by putting together two great In the first inning, Bates took a 2-0 ’20 and Russo had three hits in the games that just didn’t go our way,” lead on a two-single run with two twinbill. she says. “On Saturday, the team outs by Collette. Soon, the Bantams Having lost all three games this was extremely resilient; we battled in Thursday, went ahead 4-2 with run-scoring weekend, Fitzgerald mentions that both games. Both games were really singles by Treglia and Courtney Er- it was a hard moment for the Bob- heartbreakers that could have gone March 29 ickson. The Bobcats then took the cats. “I would say that some of the either way. In our next series, the 5-4 lead but Trinity was able to tie hardest moments came from the team is ready to come out strong in the score when Thomas blasted her games we played this weekend,” she the first game and to build on that says. “However, there were some with the next games.” first career bomb. Although it was a Women’s Lacrosse at Saint close game, the Bantams ended the great learning moments from those With one of the best team dy- game 6-5 when Bantam’s Maeghan games. Coach Barnes actually re- namics Fitzgerald has ever seen at Joseph’s (Maine): W, 17-3 Race punched the game winning ferred to those games as two ‘learn- her time at Bates, the support and hit. ers.’ The team saw how competitive culture within the team will not Bates softball player throws to team- In the second game, the Bobcats the NESCAC is, and how impor- only help win their best game, but mate during practice. fell 4-3. Bates led the game 3-0 after tant it is that we do not let up at all hopefully also clinch a spot in the SARAH DU PONT/ three innings. Trinity’s Race singled during our games.” NESCAC playoffs. THE BATES STUDENT and scored an unearned run in the Fitzgerald then remarks that this Friday, March 30 From Practical to BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Baseball at Bowdoin: L, 3-1

Softball at Trinity (Conn.): L, Weird: Supersi- In the second game of the In addition to this difficult base- double header, the ’Cats were able ball schedule, there is the academic 9-1 to avoid the sweep by winning 5-3. calendar to battle with as well. Sha- Justin Foley ’19 earned the win, piro stresses the necessity of staying tions in Sports pitching five innings and allowing focused as finals come around, the only four hits and one run. Notable semester ends, and short term be- hitting performances came from gins. race, my mantra might be ‘courage,’ Trulli and Jon Lindgren ’20, who “These couple of weeks can be VANESSA PAOLELLA which I would repeat over and over were each responsible for two RBIs, tough for a lot of guys as they fin- STAFF WRITER before racing.” accounting for four of the Bobcats’ ish up their classes,” he says. “At this If you talk to any athlete at While many of these current five runs. Senior captain Jake Shap- point, we want to make sure that Bates, you’ll find that each has habits may seem practical and useful iro ’18 was also critical to the team’s everyone gets their work done and Saturday, their own unique pre-competition for settling nerves, she explains they success in this game. He came in is ready for finals, while also making March 31 routine. While many of these ac- have not always been this way. during the seventh inning, striking sure we’re ready for our series next tions are practical and are done out “One of my earliest traditions out three batters and earning his sec- weekend against Colby.” Clearly, of necessity, others may seem odd was that I had to wear a pair of ond save of the season. Foley came this is a hard balance at this time of and nonsensical. People in all walks bright-green, leopard-print spandex back from his loss in game one and the school year. of life hold personal superstitions. under my uniform, and I did that earned the win in this game against Ultimately, the team needs to Women’s Rowing at Sim- However, athletes may be the most every single [race]. I was on a relay, the Polar Bears. Foley’s record is now maintain focus in order to finish the fanatical of them all. and my coach said ‘you can’t wear 2-2. season strong. To this point, Shapiro mons with Radcliffe, MIT, For most athletes, these super- those, because you don’t match,’ and As March ends and April be- says, “In order to be successful the stitions seem to develop out of small I basically panicked. [I said to my- gins, the team heads into the bulk of rest of the year, it’s going to be im- Georgetown Lightweights: habits: what they eat, the music they self] ‘How am I going to run with- their schedule, playing a number of portant that everyone does their job listen to, and the way they prepare out these bright green leopard print series against NESCAC teams. They and stays focused. Especially with W, 8-2 their gear before a game. Then, what spandex…’ That was my first time will play Colby, Williams, Hamil- the distractions during short term, diverging from my superstitions.” once was an unmentionable routine ton, Trinity, and Tufts prior to the keeping everyone focused is going Men’s Rowing at Harvard begins to take on a new significance, Similarly, Brianna Karboski ’21, NESCAC championships. to be important.” something that may even border on a member of both the cross country With all of these important The team will play this Wednes- Lightweights, Trinity, Boston spiritual. and ice hockey teams, says that she games ahead, Shapiro says, “Obvi- day at home against Plymouth State, Even as athletes recognize the feels compelled to re-tape her hock- ously this is a big month for us, so we and then at home against Colby on College: W, 5-4 futility of these actions, they often ey stick before every game, whether try to approach every game with the Friday. continue to follow these customs it needs it or not. same intensity.” until they are either forcibly broken, “Before a hockey game, I always Baseball vs. Bowdoin: L, 4-3 or when there is a significant change re-do the tape on my hockey stick, because I think that I play better in the athlete’s life, such as the tran- Baseball vs. Bowdoin: W, 5-3 sition from high school to collegiate and handle the puck better with sports. Yet, it would be erroneous to fresh tape. The tape job has to be believe that personal superstitions perfect. If it’s not, then I get super Women’s Lacrosse vs. Ham- remain unchanged over the years. anxious.” Three-time All-American Kath- For her, this simple superstition ilton: L, 14-10 erine Cook ’18, a member of both has continued for years: “I got seri- the cross country and track teams, ous about re-taping my hockey stick says that her pre-race routine and probably about three hockey seasons Men’s Lacrosse at Hamilton: superstitions are always changing, ago. I would practice handling a ball though some have remained the with my hockey stick, and I just W, 19-9 same. liked doing it with new tape rather Before a race, Cook notes that than old tape.” Softball at Trinity: L, 6-5 she always has to have at least one No matter how strange or im- READ.THINK.SHARE coffee, drink water with several dis- practical these habits may be, each solved electrolyte tablets, and eat a holds a special significance to the Softball at Trinity: L, 4-3 banana an hour before her race “ev- person who practices them: champi- The Bates Student ery single time.” Additionally, she onships won, personal accomplish- makes sure to add a downward-dog ments, and mental preparedness, to Women’s Tennis at Tufts: L, stretch to the usual warm up routine name a few. There may be little to and wish everyone at the start line no science backing the validity of 8-1 good luck. these actions; however, what matters “Sometimes, I think of some most is that people believe in them kind of mantra before running. De- and, in turn, themselves. This sense pending on what I think my big- of comfort can be invaluable to any- gest struggle at the moment is, if one. I’m feeling extra nervous about the Sports The Bates Student 8 April 4, 2018 Men’s and Women’s Rowing Rowing Teams Are Ready to Dominate the NESCAC and NCAA This Spring

SARAH ROTHMANN MANAGING SPORTS EDITOR

One point capped off an incred- ible 2016-17 season for the women’s rowing team. The Bobcats became national champions as their second varsity eight narrowly defeated the Williams Ephs by one crucial point on Mercer Lake in West Winsor, NJ at the NCAA Championships last May. The men’s team also had a remarkable 2016-17 season, as they placed a program-best second in the men’s varsity eight and first in the second varsity eight at the New Eng- land Rowing Championships on Quinsigamond Lake in Worcester, MA during the same month. Both teams look back at these impressive achievements fondly but are excited Members from the men’s rowing team compete finished third at the Head of the Charles in October 2017. for a fresh slate this spring. CONOR CAHILL /COURTESY PHOTO “We have a large team this year new speed and face some good com- work indoors,” says Schueter. “The the men competed against Har- and it is very exciting to see such with a strong freshman class, so petition!” amount of bulk work we have been vard, Trinity, and Boston College powerful underclassmen making we’re looking to continue to have The women not only dedicate doing inside only makes us relish the and came home with a 5-4 win. The their strides in our program, and good depth on our team,” says se- their time to hard work in their erg moments we get on the water that success that the men and women’s who are willing to keep pushing the nior captain Olivia Stockly ’18 on room, but also test their swim rac- much more, and we always strive to teams saw this weekend foreshadows envelope and limits of our success- behalf of the entire team. “Every ing talents. “Although we spend make the most of our time outside an exciting spring of regattas. es,” says Schueter. year presents a new challenge, so the majority of the time in the erg of the erg room,” says Schueter. “Even though most of our com- Overall, on both the men’s and we’re not necessarily looking at last room, every so often we dabble in Saturday, March 31 saw uplift- petition has been on the water for women’s sides, depth has been add- year, but rather trying to find our our swimming abilities with relays ing feats, as both teams used their some time, we’re just excited to get ed to their rosters with strong show- full potential this year.” and laps,” adds Stockly. “Mostly, intensive practices to their advan- out and see what we can do without ings from all class years. The Bob- “As a team we are really striv- we are splashing and making lots of tage and reigned victorious at their water time,” says Stockly and the cats look forward to keeping up the ing to solidify ourselves as a domi- noise and thinking about how easily respective competitions on the women’s team. “At this point, we’re momentum from this weekend and nate force, not only within the NE- the Bates swim team would put us Charles River Basin. The women hoping for warm weather to melt jumping into April and May ready SCAC, but also within the rowing to shame!” competed against Simmons, Rad- the river!” to earn huge strides and historic ac- community in general,” says men’s The men have also made the cliffe, MIT, and Georgetown and “Also, the indoor work has complishments. senior captain Kyle Schueter ’18. most of their practices. “We have returned to Bates with an impressive shown just how strong our team is “We are going into this spring sea- been putting in some serious hard 4-1 win. Although a closer result, overall compared to previous years, son as deep and as strong, across the board, as the team has ever been. Earning a spot in the de facto D1 national championships, IRA’s, is something that all of us have our eyes set on. It would be a NESCAC first and Bates first to get an invita- tion to such an elite event.” Unfortunately, the beginning of the season has proven to be rather difficult for both teams. Relentless March blizzards have kept the Bob- cats off the water during practices and races, delaying the start of com- petitions. Given the slow start, the teams are antsy to get on the water and face new rivals. “We’ll be racing against some teams we’ve never seen before, which is an exciting new challenge,” agrees Stockly and the women’s team. “At this point, we’re just ready to get on Broomball the water, competition or practice! Members from the women’s rowing team compete against MIT, Georgetown, Radcliffe, and Simmons to kick off the season. Coming off the high momentum of CONOR CAHILL /COURTESY PHOTO the fall, we’re all very excited to find

Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Lax Dominates Endicott College

Bobcats never relented. Jones put a points and Jones at a close second HANNAH PALACIOS pair on the board with eleven min- with 47 points. Bates responded to STAFF WRITER utes left. The Gulls fought for two Hamilton’s only tally of the game more at nine minutes left, but Kelle- with two more shots by Mullally It was an outstanding week for her responded a minute later off of and Chlastawa at 3:42, just shy of Bates’ men’s lacrosse team. Coming Chlastawa. Endicott didn’t score for the last minute of the game. off a tough loss versus Williams, the the rest of the game. Jack Scribner The Continentals pulled out Bobcats headed into a non-confer- ’21 put another one up with five one more with just 26 seconds to ence matchup versus the Endicott minutes left, and Chlastawa threw go in the first quarter. The second College Gulls with redemption on in one more for good measure. The quarter was completely dominated their mind. Bobcats took the win with a final by the Bobcats, with Jones scoring The Gulls came out strong, put- score of 15-10. back-to-back goals in the twelfth ting four goals up, before senior cap- “After last Saturday’s loss, the minute. tain Clarke Jones ’18 netted a goal team knew that we weren’t going Add to that one more by Kn- with two minutes left in the first to be given anything, especially in apton, Scribner’s first of the game quarter off an assist from Brendan a conference like the NESCAC,” and another for Chlastawa, and the Mullally ’20. Endicott responded a says Peyton Weatherbie ‘21. “That score was 10-2 at halftime. Ham- minute later, putting the Gulls up is why Tuesday’s game was impor- ilton came back in the game after 5-1 at the end of the first. The Bob- tant for us. It was important for us the break, putting up four goals cats would not go down without a to get back to our fundamentals and and leaving Bates scoreless up un- fight, scoring in the second at 14:07 get back in the win column. Now til nearly the fifth minute. Jones by way of senior captain Burke that out of conference play is over, and Chlastawa teamed up for one, Smith ’18, and again a minute later we know that every game is a play- which Hamilton quickly retaliated. by Matt Chlastawa ’20. off game, and we are excited to take The duo quickly put up two more Halfway through the second, advantage of every chance we get to to close out the third, first by Jones Bates had tied it up, thanks to goals show other teams in our conference unassisted, then a buzzer beater by by Matt Kelleher ’19 and Jones. It what we can do.” Chlastawa fed by Jones. was scoreless for another four min- That proved to be sound ad- Bates extended their lead in utes. Then, Chlastawa found Jones vice, as the Bobcats dominated in the fourth to seal the deal, out- for a nice goal to put Bates ahead by an away game versus the Hamilton scoring Hamilton 6-2, with goals one. Less than thirty seconds later, College Continentals. Bates came from Dahnique Brown-Jones ’19, Peyton Weatherbie ’21 scored his exploding out of the gate, winning a pair by Mullally, one more from first career goal off an assist by Sean the face off and scoring the first goal Chlastawa/Jones, one from Andrew Clark ’20, bringing Bates up 7-5. of the match within the first minute Small ’19, and the first career goal Endicott responded quickly by Curtis Knapton ’20. Bates scored by James Gruver ’21. with one more. However, another two more before a response from “It was a really fun and exciting from Mullally sealed the second the Continentals, an unassisted goal game. Getting another NESCAC quarter up, with Bates sitting at from Jones, and then one more from win means a lot to everybody on the eight to Endicott’s six after being Chlastawa assisted by Parker Strong team and is something we will abso- down by four at the end of the last ’18. lutely build off of. I think we all are quarter. The Bobcats never trailed Jones and Chlastawa are cur- excited to keep proving what we are again for the remainder of the game. rently tied at the top of the confer- capable of this season and are work- The teams traded goals all the ence with 33 goals, with Chlastawa ing hard to keep moving forward,” Curtis Knapton ‘20 drives toward the goal. way through the third, but the topping the NESCAC with 59 says Drew Collins ’20. SARAH DU PONT/THE BATES STUDENT