Bates College SCARAB The Bates Student Archives and Special Collections 3-21-2018 The Bates Student - volume 148 number 16 - March 21, 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 March 21, 2018 Vol. 148, Issue. 16 Lewiston, Maine FORUM ARTS & LEISURE SPORTS Mansib Arko Sukiyabashi Jiro dazzles Vanessa Paolella ’21 ’21 talks in Jiro Dreams of Sushi chats with the about recent according to Bria Riggs women’s water polo attacks of free ’18. team. thinkers in Bangladesh. See Page 3 See Page 6 See Page 8 Bates Students Demand Gun Inside Sports: Five Time All-American Control During Walkout Triple Jumper, Sally Ceesay ’18, Opens Up About NCAA Experience Students rally outside of Commons during a winter storm for The Walkout for Gun Control. JAMES MACDONALD/ THE BATES STUDENT Hosted by Bates Student Action Most of the students that gave TRICIA CRIMMINS and Bates Student Government, the speeches highlighted the frequency STAFF WRITER event gave Bates students an oppor- of mass shootings in the United tunity to rally together and share States. According to statistics pro- On Wednesday, March 14, the their thoughts on the school shoot- vided by Everytown for Gun Safety, snow fell quietly onto Alumni Walk, ing epidemic. Students held signs eighteen school shootings have al- quickly melting as it hit the pave- that stated “enough is enough,” ready taken place during this year ment, or adhering together, creating “Black Lives Matter,” and “our alone. frozen mounds. Amidst the storm, movement is intersectional.” “The point is to not constantly precisely at 10:00 a.m., members of As people arrived, Maddy Smith talk about the shootings after they the Bates community headed toward Sally Ceesay ’18 jumps 40 feet, 3.5 inches at the Maine State Open Meet in ’20 shared some opening remarks. happen, but to prevent the next Commons to gather for the Bates Gorham, Maine, breaking her own record. “This is not the first time that people one from occurring,” stated student College Walkout for Gun Control. THEOPHIL SYSLO/BATES COLLEGE have rallied around gun violence in body president Walter Washington The Walkout lasted seventeen min- this country,” explained Smith, “this doing the same routine I’ve been utes, “to represent one minute for is an issue that Black Lives Matter MAX PETRIE doing, and I’ve been doing well at each student that was killed at the has been fighting for so long.” See WALKOUT, PAGE 4 ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR any normal meet, then everything Parkland shooting.” should fall in place if I’m doing While March drags on for everything exactly the same. most students in the cold of Maine, With this preparation heading Inside Forum: Sally Ceesay ’18 has had a very into her attempts, she then focuses different experience; she traveled on one thing: “My freshman year to Birmingham, AL to compete in I had this coach. He told me the 2018 NCAA Division III Track before every jump I have to tell Are You a Racist? – Part Two & Field Championships earlier in myself that I am the sh*t and believe the month. She says, “Generally it and take every jump like it was my is on the same level when seeking a matter of whether people of color for nationals, the meets are pretty last one. I still do that to this day. I KYLE LARRY out opportunities. So, if a person of can be racist towards each other, but far away. My first one was in North run through it in my mind.” After CONTRIBUTING WRITER color were to receive a prestigious rather, why they show hatred to- Carolina, so it was really nice to this, she gets on the runway and position and blatantly discriminated wards one another. This is where the get back down south to warmer clears her head. She says, “I try to In my previous article, “Are You against another person of color, then master’s complex comes into play. weather. I love going away for clear my mind so I’m not thinking a Racist?” I explored the definition that person would be considered Now, let’s explore a hypothetical nationals, because it’s right in the about anything. of racism. I highlighted the differ- racist, because they are aware of the situation with a Mexican man. If the middle of March, and everyone Clearly this method of ence between prejudice and racism, power structure meant to subjugate man, who lives in a predominantly hates this month. I always see it as preparation has paid off, as Ceesay with prejudice being strictly hatred, both of them as people of color. 2) Latin community and has rarely, in- my vacation and quick break away. as earned All-American honors while racism is both hatred and People, especially in the Black com- teracted with Black people, and sees It was great.” She continues, talking five times, the fifth coming at having systematic power. Further- munity, could make the argument a Black man in his neighborhood, about being in a new place: “It was this NCAA’s. As a first-year, she more, I parsed the popular debate of that some people of color are white then he will have some suspicion, my first time in Alabama. I got to competed in the triple jump at the whether people of color can be racist passing. In being white passing, in- especially because his only reference see a lot of civil rights landmarks NCAA Indoor Championships, towards white people and vice versa. dividuals can easily gain systematic to Black people is from the informa- and stuff like that, so that was really finishing 16th with a jump of After much analysis, I concluded power and oppress people of color tion he receives through media. The cool.” 35 feet, 3.25 inches. A year later, that people of color cannot be rac- with darker skin. For the sake of media often portrays communities The bulk of her time, obviously, during the 2015-16 indoor season, ist towards white people, but white this article, I will be focusing spe- inhabited predominantly by people was spent preparing for competition. she earned her first All-American people, on the other hand, can be cifically on the first argument with of color in a negative light. So, the Ceesay competed in the triple jump, honors with a Bates record-breaking racist towards people of color. a lens pertaining to the relationship Mexican man would assume that placing second and breaking her own jump of 38 feet, 1.25 inches. With This, of course, raised even more between two cultures. the Black man is dangerous, even record by a half inch with her jump this jump, she became Bates’s first questions, including: “can people of Both of these arguments have though he is innocently walking of 40 feet, 4 inches. On preparation All-American triple jumper since color be racists towards each other?” merit and add layers of complexity through the community. This prob- for the meet, she says, “In the last 1985. She went on to earn four Now, at first glance, people can to the question: “can people of color lematic mindset tends to lead to ac- two years, I finally figured out what more All-American honors in the make the following assumptions that be racist towards each other?” How- tions, such as saying the N-word to works for me in terms of my mental event and has broken her record when it comes to racism between ever, there is something that both of assert dominance. preparedness. I do the same thing multiple times. two different ethnic groups: 1) in the arguments fail to acknowledge: that I’ve done all season, and I think regards to people of color, everyone the master’s complex. You see, when that helps me best, because it keeps See CEESAY, PAGE 8 is marginalized; therefore, everyone it comes to this question, it is not See RACIST, PAGE 2 my nerves down. I know that if I’m A Cappella Dazzles at St. Paddy’s Day Concert bers murmured about the splashes TORY DOBBIN of green replacing the typical black- MANAGING ARTS&LEISURE EDITOR and-white Deansmen tuxedos. The Deansmen opened with a tried-and-true classic “The Walk,” a While many members of the song narrated by a man as he breaks Bates community were celebrating up with his girlfriend. John Thayer St. Paddy’s Day at various events, ’18 lead the group through the sassy this past Saturday evening I found ballad. The group shifted gears to myself in the Peter Gomes Chapel the Fleet Foxes song “Mykonos” listening to some fantastic a cappella with Patrick Nelson ’18 taking the music. I was there to listen to Owl- solo. The group deftly navigated the men, a joint concert between the change in genre from their doo-wop Bates College Deansmen and Vas- beginning to the indie-pop hit. sar College Night Owls. When both groups came out of the practice area See A CAPELLA, PAGE 5 and took their seats, audience mem- Forum 2 The Bates Student March 21, 2018 Discussing Willful Surveying the Ignorance in an Era Conditions and Consequences of Mass Media of Democracy Content warning: police brutality, racism, transphobia, paternalism helps the United discriminatory violence AYESHA SHARMA States to build its image as a MANAGING FORUM EDITOR benevolent protector of its people, it social movements usually leads societal structures. Combatting simultaneously instills fear in United CARL DEAKINS to a type of misinformed and discrimination against trans-people United States veterans are States citizens as well.