Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 9-20-2017 The aB tes Student - volume 148 number 1 - September 20, 2017 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: https://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 148 number 1 - September 20, 2017" (2017). This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Bates Student THE VOICE OF BATES COLLEGE SINCE 1873 WEDNESDAY September 20, 2017 Vol. 148, Issue. 1 Lewiston, Maine FORUM ARTS & LEISURE SPORTS Chirayu Baral ’19 discusses Hannah Palacios ’21 highlights Sarah Rothmann ’19 the implications of Gauri Marsden Hartley’s work in the speaks candidly with Lankesh’s death on India Bates College Museum of Art. Jason Fein about his view poltics. for Bates Athletics. See Page 5 See Page 7 See Page 12 What You Need to Know About Inside Forum: Lewiston Police and Bates Initial Impressions what to do, but after a few seconds THERESA WILMOTT-MCMAHON of flailing about, I began to look CONTRIBUTING WRITER around and see old friends recon- Campus Security necting and new friendships form- I was walking across campus, ing. I saw people connecting and for a second, it didn’t seem so foreign HALLEY POSNER AND newly picked-up key in hand, trying CHRIS HASSAN to find my dorm, when it hit me: anymore. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND this essentially foreign place is my Sleeping outside in thirty-five MANAGING NEWS EDITOR home now. I knew nobody, and yet, degree weather on the other hand, I was surrounded by my new fam- was completely foreign. I was just ily. This is how I saw Bates, but each starting to feel comfortable when I For years, Bates College has al- student had a different first experi- was pulled off the Bates campus and lowed students in their senior year to ence as they arrived on campus so thrust into the wild, which I think live off-campus, renting houses from naturally, everyone’s impressions are would make almost everyone un- local landlords. Most of these houses different. comfortable. I guess that’s the point are situated very close to campus on Students can expect to see swifter punishments for off-campus parties. Over the next week of orienta- though, to take us out of our comfort streets like: College Street, White JAMES MACDONALD/THE BATES STUDENT tion, I would be bombarded with zone, and force us to adapt. Since Street, Elm Street, Davis Street, and into effect within a month, the ban trash issues, and some concerned for massive amounts of information returning from AESOP, I realized Mountain Avenue. Unfortunately, will forbid parking from the hours their safety at different times.” These that told me all about strategies to that the whole experience is not all relations between these off campus of 11 p.m. - 6 a.m. on virtually all strong worries were the final straw succeed in the classroom and what that different from starting college. residents and their neighbors, life- streets connected to Bates College that made the community say some- to do in a crisis, but nothing about It was hard and scary, but as each long residents of Lewiston, have not (Central Ave., Davis St., Vale St., thing had to change. the people that make up this tight- adventure was tackled, I became always been companionable. Bardwell St., etc). According to an The Lewiston Police Depart- knit community that everyone talks closer and closer to my group, just On August 24, Dean Carl article published in The Sun Journal ment (LPD) is giving the apprehen- about. And yet, when I asked multi- as I have with my fellow classmates. Steidel and Mr. Paul Menice, Senior on September 5, 2017 written by sions of residents, and in conjunc- ple first-year students for their initial According to Ben Goldberg ’21, Associate Dean of Students and In- Andrew Rice, the ban may be a tac- tion with the Bates administration, impression of Bates, they all imme- “AESOP was a fantastic opportunity terim Director of Security and Cam- tic to stop students from blocking much consideration. Officer Charlie diately spoke of the people. Amelia for a break from all the stress that pus Safety, respectively, sent a letter driveways and intersections, as well Weaver works for the community Keleher ’21, a student from New came with orientation, and served to the student body outlining these as to minimize the amount of stu- resource team of LPD, primarily fo- Mexico said, “super friendly and in- to give me a bit of a better look into concerns and prospects, including dents hanging around off-campus; cusing on outreach and education in teresting people. A little overwhelm- the type of people who would be my a call for “active leadership and en- thus preventing parties from grow- regards to police work and response. ing but mostly seemed like people classmates.” The trip put things in gagement on the part of students ing out of control. This summer he was asked by the were fun, yet could be serious.” The perspective regarding my new living living off campus” to ameliorate dis- In an interview, Dean Steidel Chief of Police, Brian O’Malley, to fact that she was able to see past the situation. Trust me, after climbing ruptive behavior. said “over the past couple months take the lead on outreach to the off academic prestige, the sports teams, up the steep, rocky face of a moun- On Tuesday, September 5, the and really towards the end of the last campus students at Bates. According and the beautiful campus and just tain, the walk up the million stairs City Council voted 5-1 to insti- academic year, the concerns from to Weaver, “what we have done is see the people when she looked to the third floor of Hathorn Hall tute an overnight winter parking our neighbors in the surrounding try to open up the communication around for the first time says a lot doesn’t seem as daunting. Rachel ban on residential neighborhoods community have increased. Many about the people she was looking at, Deptula ’21 said, “I was kind of in- surrounding Bates campus. Going concerns related to noise, parking, See POLICE, PAGE 2 but even more about her. It appears timidated by the few upperclassmen to me that Bates is made up of peo- that were on campus when we got ple just like this; that see others for here but AESOP definitely helped who they really are and embrace the with that. It affirmed my impression differences that exist between them. of Bates being a welcoming place, The first time I saw the true while also showing me that everyone Bates, was when I walked into here is pretty down-to-earth and just Inside Arts: Commons the first day after orien- able to be themselves, which is super tation ended. Now, I thought it was comforting.” So yes, starting college crowded when only the first-years is still scary, but the physical chal- were there, but all of a sudden, there lenges of starting college seem lesser Art Walk Brings L/A were four times as many people and after returning from AESOP and, it was completely overwhelming, to more importantly, the emotional say the least. I felt like a little kid and social anxieties that come along that had been thrown in a pool and with being the new kids on campus Community Together told to swim. At first I didn’t know don’t appear as impossible to tackle. ANAH WITT CONTRIBUTING WRITER Music floats on the warm sum- mer wind at the monthly Lewiston- Inside Sports: Auburn Art Walk. Tin Panic Steel Band, dressed in festive Hawaiian shirts and leis, plays percussive ren- Walter Washington ’19 ditions of a wide range of music, from big band jazz to Michael Jack- son’s “Billie Jean.” Young children on the Importance of dance and run through a crowd of people who have gathered to listen to the music. Autumn leaves fall Being a Well-Rounded gently to the ground, promising cooler weather, as the festival goers soak in the last moments of summer. Student-Athlete Nearby, a man recreates the fes- tive scene on canvas. Kenneth Har- have in order to advocate for every- vey, a watercolor artist, has been MAXWELL PETRIE one’s desires,” he says. The ability to putting his art on display at the Art ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR hear from various groups of students Walk for people to see for four years. frequently gives him a chance to see Not only has Harvey shared his art Walter Washington ’19 wears how a majority of students at Bates with the community in this aspect, many hats. On top of a full slate are feeling about things, instead of but the accomplished painter has of classes and being Student Body being limited to a much smaller had his art displayed in the Central President, he sings in an a cappella pool. Maine Medical Center’s rotating art group, works a job, and is a mem- More specifically, he feels that exhibit. Bates students perform during Art Walk L/A. COURTESY OF ANAH ber of the football team. With this he can speak effectively with people See ARTWALK, PAGE 5 WITT/THE BATES STUDENT much on his plate, managing time on the athletics side better than effectively becomes very important.