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Mount David Summit 3 Clubs & Acrivities 72
Life at Bates 16 Faculty &. Staff. 106
Arts 32 Underclass 120
Sports 42 Seniors 132
Mount Summit
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student Academic Achievement
Mount David Summit is an annual campus-wide celebration ofstudent academic achievement which highlights
undergraduate research; student creative work in art, dance, theater, music and film/video; projects conducted in the
context ofacademic courses; and service-learning. The Summit, sponsored by the Dean ofthe Faculty and the Mellon
LearningAssociates Program inthe Humanities, with generous funding from agrant from the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, is a way in which the college spodights the rich intellectual life ofits student body.
This event is not only informativebut it is also festive, beingwell known foralways attracting a largenumberof
students, faculty, staff, andparents. It provides a wonderful opportunity for younger students to test their presentation
skills in a supportive environment, and it gives more advanced students the chance to present their individual research
toawideaudience. Broadlymultidisciplinary,the SummitalsoshowsthedepthandexpanseofscholarshipamongBates
students.
Named for the "mountain", which is a Bates landmark, the summit comprises two afternoon sessions ofposter
presentations in the Perry Atrium, concurrent panels, and evening presentations offilm and dance around the campus.
On Friday, March 24, 2006, during the fifth annual Mount David Summit, in Pettengill Hall, some 200 Bates
College students publiclypresentedtheiracademic and creative efforts, throughposterpresentations, panel discussions
and readings, a photography exhibit, film projects and much more.
TheprojectspresentedatthiseventcoveredtopicsasdiverseasenvironmentalpollutioninAcadiaNational Park,
theeffectsofgenderoncollegeaspirationsandtheevolutionofthedancemusic calledreggaeton. Filmprojects included
three narrative-fiction pieces and four works produced in a course using video and musical technology to explore
collaboration in dance andmusic. Several presentations focused on research or service-learning projects undertaken in
Lewiston and Auburn, including collaborations with the Lewiston-Aubum Museum, oral histories of the Franco-
American community, curriculum development and assessment in local schools and literacy initiatives.
During the early afternoon sessions, in the three-story, glass-walled Perry Atrium, students presented posters
explainingtheirresearch into myriadsubjects in the sciences andhumanities. Meanwhile, otherstudentsdiscussed their
projects in panels organized by theme and moderated by faculty. "Memory and the Holocaust," "Measures ofthe Mind
and Body in Psychology and Science" and "Themes in Arthurian Literature" are a few ofthe panel themes.
Theannual Off-Campus Study PhotographyExhibition, locatedin Pettengill Hall, featuredsomestriking images
ofdistant locations captured by students studying while being offcampus.
In the evening, students performed dances and showed films made for the course "Atelier," which used new
technologiestopromotecollaborationinmusicanddance. Laterduringtheevening,fourseniorsprojectedonscreentheir
fictional films entitled "Counter Clockwise," "Estranho, Estranho" and "Sad Robot."
Thefollowingpageswillcoverdescriptionsofsomeoftheprojectswhichstudentspresentedthroughoutthe2006
Mount David Summit. We hope you will enjoy!
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2006 Featured Projects
Sarah Abbott '06, Rachael Levitz '06, and Gabriel Belsky '06
Samantha Piro '05 Todd Kahan, Psychology
Lee Abrahamsen, Biology Is Negative Priming Dependent on Prime-Trial
Equine Pastern Dermatitis: A Look into the Varied Interference?
Causes ofThis Common Infection People are slower to respond to stimuli that were
Equine pastern dermatitis is acommonly occurring skin previously ignored relative to stimuli that were not
infection among horses. Also known as scratches, the previously ignored. In these negative priming
exact cause of this disease is unknown; however, one experiments participants respond to two items: the
theory statesthatitisaprogressivediseasethatinvolves prime and probe. On the prime participants respond to
the presence ofbacteria, fungus, and mites. This study target information, under the guidance ofa cue such as
looked at the possible causes ofscratches by collecting color, while distracting information is present. In the
lesion samples from eleven draft horses in Maine. subsequent display, the probe, participants respond to a
Bacterial and fungal plates were grown, and outer skin target in the same fashion. People show increased
and hair samples were collected and examined for latency of response when the target on the probe trial
mites. The Kirby-Bauer antibiotic sensitivity test was matches the distractor from the prime, relative to
initiatedto testforantibioticresistance among common situations where the target on the probe trial bears no
We
treatments for scratches. found a wide variety of relationtotheprime-trialdistractor.Thisstudyevaluates
predominantlyGram-positivebacteria,whichweremost whether negative priming is dependent upon prime
sensitive to penicillin and chlorhexidine. We found no conflict, and prime-probe response alternation.
mites orpredominant fungus in any sample. Ourresults Participants are 30 undergraduate students from a
suggest that bacteria play a role in chronic scratches. northern New England liberal arts college, between 18
and22yearsofage.Implicationsfortheoriesofselective
Jeffrey Addis '06 attention are discussed.
John Strong, Religion
Thai Sangha HIV/AIDS Projects: Approaching the Lindley Brainard '06
Pandemic in a Buddhist Context Heather Lindkvist, Anthropology
I have investigated Thai Buddhist clergy members' Allopathic andAlternative Medicine ata Crossroads:
responsestothepandemicby 1)reshapingorrevitalizing The Impact ofEdgar Cayce on Contemporary
their roles in secular society; and 2) formulating a Holistic Medicine
religiousframework,incorporatingtraditionaldoctrines Duringatimeinwhichconceptsofholistichealingwere
with biomedical understandings of transmission and non-existentintheUnitedStatesandallopathicmedicine
contraction, with the aim ofending the suffering from was beginning to dominate the medical field, Edgar
AIDS. Distinctfromending AIDS, endingthe suffering Cayce, a clairvoyant diagnostician, was prescribing
from AIDS is rooted in eliminating ignorance which holistic treatments. Because of this, contemporary
entails following Buddhist moral commandments practitioners often creditCayceasthe "fatherofholistic
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suchasnotvisitingbrothels as well asconsidering the health" in the United States. Cayce's treatments of
concept of nirvana. patients often employed both known and unknown
methods of healing, including traditional western
Christine Arsnow '08 medicine, osteopathy, homeopathy, hydrotherapy,
Sylvia Federico, English natural remedies, and different chemical interventions.
AnAuthor's Responsibility: T. H. White's Messageto In line with modem holistic approaches to healing, his
World WarII Era Youth recommended treatments encompassed the whole
T. H. White's The OnceandFutureKingiswritten toan person, goingbeyondphysical symptoms toaddress the
audience ofBritish children in the midst ofWorld War mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
II. As apopularchildren's author. Whitebelieves that it This presentation examines Edgar Cayce's work as a
ishisresponsibilitytousehispowertoguideadisoriented medicaldiagnostician,hisinfluenceinthecontemporary
generation towards peace and unity. He uses examples holistic health movement, and how he opened the door
throughout the novel to convey the temptation of evil, to the current holistic health movement during a time
the danger of indifference, and the hopeful prospect of when allopathic methods dominated the field of
peace after the war. medicine.
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