Media Coverage

Top chef Wylie Dufresne '92 was featured in a Darien Times article about the delivery of Du's Donuts to the Corbin District in Darien, Conn. "During tough times like the COVID-19 pandemic, people long for comfort food that is like a 'hug,'” Dufresne said. The idea to have Du's Donut's delivered to Darien came from Dufresne's friend David Genovese '89, who knew that Du's Donuts was struggling because it was forced to close temporarily during the early days of the pandemic. “God bless David for sending this to us, because it wasn’t an avenue I’d even considered,” Dufresne said of the new type of partnership with the Corbin District.

Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was quoted in a July 14 story in Vox titled "6 key Senate and House races to watch on Tuesday." With Maine being one of the races to watch, Maisel was commenting on the candidacy of Maine Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, the frontrunner in the race to unseat Senator Susan Collins. Maisel said that Gideon is "the candidate of everybody except for a small group of Bernie Sanders supporters.”

Colby's July 13 announcement that Jacqueline Terrassa will be the new Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art attracted broad media coverage. Among the outlets covering the story include: Art & Education ARTFIX daily artnet News Associated Press Mainebiz Portland Press Herald San Francisco Chronicle US News & World Report Washington Times  

Nikki-Guninder Singh, the Crawford Family Professor of Religion, was included in an India Times story about the Sikh community in the United States supporting development in the Indian region of Punjab. Singh was one of 100 eminent Sikh leaders from across the country who participated in a virtual meeting with India's Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Singh Sandhu about developing Punjab. The article noted that Singh "pointed out that there was ignorance about Guru Nanak in the country, asserting that it should be the top priority of the Sikh community."    

Head Football Coach Jack Cosgrove commented on the possibility of a football season this fall in a Morning Sentinel article titled "Some college football programs in state exploring a spring season." Cosgrove, starting his third season at Colby, said he's pessimistic about having a fall season. "I eat the positive pie all the time, but it doesn’t look good,” said Cosgrove. “Throughout the NESCAC, there’s a lot of apprehension to returning to classrooms and fields this fall.”

News that the arts collaborative on Main Street in Waterville will undergo renovations starting this week was covered by the Morning Sentinel. Despite the pandemic, President Greene feels it's important to move forward with this project. "Continuing the efforts on Main Street at a time when many other places are pulling back investments in their community is really important,” Greene told the Sentinel. “We need to be with Waterville in tough times and in good times, and putting this building forward at this most difficult moment is to me another opportunity to signal, in the strongest possible way, that our commitment to investing in Waterville and bettering the lives of the people here is going to continue.” WABI-TV also covered the opening in this report.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African American Studies and Sociology, has written an essay published by Religion News Service challenging the NFL's plan to play the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before its first game in September. Playing the song, often called the "Black national anthem," would be sacrilege, Gilkes writes. "NFL stadiums are white-owned spaces where cultural battles over the U.S. national anthem have already exposed our culture’s racial hatred, predatory power and institutional domination. 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is too sacred to be trotted out for public consumption at any such popular bread and circus event controlled by white 'owners.'" 

A poll conducted by Professor of Government Dan Shea in February was recently referenced in a July 6 Salon article and on July 7 in a Breitbart article. 

Colby's plan for reopening campus in late August was covered by Mainebiz in a July 2 article titled "Bates, Colby roll out fall semester plans; 85,000 COVID-19 tests planned." While Bates and Colby are implementing several similar strategies in regards to move-in dates, dining, and academics, Mainebiz noted that "Colby’s approach is especially rigorous" in regards to testing. "Students will be tested prior to arrival with self-administered kits provided by Colby, and all members of the college community will be tested three times during the opening weeks of the semester. After that, tests will be conducted twice a week," Mainebiz wrote, referring to a letter from President Greene.

Susie Hoeller '73, an international business attorney, and Ben Theryel '20 cowrote an article titled "It’s Time to Legally Define Essential Workers" for the Global Food Safety Resource website. "Today, there is no U.S. statutory definition of occupations which are deemed to be 'essential.' During the pandemic, this lack of statutory definition has led to a confusing situation in which 50 state governors have issued divergent (and sometimes controversial) definitions of essential work," the authors wrote. With the food supply chain at risk moving forward, the authors argue that "the definition of essential workers needs to be codified and new protections for those workers need to be enacted to protect workers and supply chains."