Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Spring has arrived, and the champagne cork of Short Term has popped. While we can’t share all that we’ve seen in one simple slideshow, we can offer you a taste from the first few weeks.
So here’s to another vintage Short Term and its full-bodied spirit of innovation, exploration, and inspiration.
During the recent Emerge Film Festival, Logan Griffiths ’18 of Rome, Ga., Ted Burns ’19 of Topsham, Maine, and Denise Hui Bon Hoa ’16 of Hong Kong interview Professor of Philosophy David Cummiskey in Schaeffer Theatre. They’re exploring Bates’ evolving relationship to the festival, of which Bates is a sponsor, for the Short Term course “Film Festivals and Digital Video Production,” taught by Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Jonathan Cavallero. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Bates mason Ron Cardiff repairs the granite entrance at Lane Hall. "Masonry lasts a long time but once it needs attention you've got to get on it. If you don’t, it only heads in one direction: south.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
“We’ve been rock climbing a lot and it was a rest day from climbing, so I decided I would come and slack line instead,” said rhetoric major Toby Myers ’16 of Sacramento, Calif., during early May’s fast-forgotten snowfall. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
The Bates women rowers, defending champs, head to California in late May for the NCAA Division III Rowing Championships. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)
“My introduction to business was through Aristotle,” says Thomas Moser, the former Bates rhetoric professor turned renowned furniture maker, explaining his love of the liberal arts to students in the practicum “Brand Culture Building" taught by brand strategist Peter Bysshe ’93. Moser is flanked by Lois Masson ’16 (left) of Petit-Lancy, Switzerland, and Clarke Shipley ’17 of Andover, Mass. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
