1. $120 million campaign launched with regional events
Bates College is announcing the public phase of the most ambitious fund-raising effort in its history with regional alumni and parent events in October and November. The $120 million initiative is called: The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values. It focuses on building the endowment for greater student financial aid, academic programs and facilities improvements. www.bates.edu/campaign.xml

2. Second Bates graduate wins Fulbright this year
Cristin McKnight '02, of Los Angeles, is the second Bates College graduate to receive a 2004-05 grant for postgraduate research from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. McKnight, an art history major, arrived in India in August and will stay through May 2005, researching traditional "kalamkari" textiles in the country's south. www.bates.edu/x59924.xml

3. Tailgate party at Bowdoin November 6
The Maine Bates Club invites you to join alumni, parents, friends and students to cheer on the Bobcats when they play the Bowdoin Polar Bears Nov. 6. The tailgate party starts at 11:30 a.m. with the game following at 12:30 p.m. Stop by the large garnet tent until 3 p.m. for some hot chocolate, coffee or cider and buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win a nifty hooded Bates sweatshirt. Tickets will be drawn at the beginning of half time and you must be present to win! For a campus map of Bowdoin, click here. If you need further information or have any questions, please contact Alli Lambert at mlambert@bates.edu or call (207) 786-6239. Hope to see you there. Go Bobcats!

4. Got a few minutes to make a difference in a student's life?
The Office of Career Services has developed a prompted interview template to aid alumni and parents who wish to share their insights, recommendations and advice for students considering various career options. To date, the OCS has collected more than 200 interviews and has placed them in a searchable database: www.bath.bates.edu/ocs/interviews/

Please make a difference and help undergraduates get a career competitive edge by sharing your insights: www.abacus.bates.edu/career/oli/enter.html

5. 'Home for the Holidays' recipe contest
Bates College Dining Services is sponsoring its first annual holiday recipe contest. Do you have a recipe that is special to a Bates student, or one that you think students will enjoy? If you do, please share it with us! Once submitted, our managers and chef will choose winners in the following categories: entrees, vegetables, starches, soups, vegan/vegetarian and desserts. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 24. Winning recipes will be served at dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 8, and incorporated into the Commons daily menu. You can download a form or submit your recipe online at: www.bates.edu/dining-home-for-the-holidays.xml

6. 'Life in Two Genders' author at Maryland CBB readings
Join alumni from Bates, Colby and Bowdoin to hear the fascinating story of Jennifer Finney Boylan, author and professor of creative writing and American literature at Colby College. Boylan will offer readings and discussion and will sign copies of her recent memoir She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Boylan has published nine books, including The Planets (1991) and Getting In (1998). Readings and discussion will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 4 at 1120 Susquehanna Hall, University of Maryland-College Park, and at 7 p.m. the same day in Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, UM-Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore. The events are free and open to all. For more information contact: Leigh Graham '82 at (207) 786-8255 or lgraham@bates.edu.

7. Women's hockey team to represent United States in Estonia
The Bates women's hockey team has been invited to represent the United States in an international friendship tournament to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, over the Thanksgiving break. Women's hockey is a club sport that competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Women's Division and the East Coast Women's Hockey League. It finished last season ranked 14th in the country. The tournament includes teams from the United States, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Japan and Great Britain. The president of Estonia will drop the puck at their first game, on Nov. 27. The team's participation is a great honor as this will be the first American women's team to play in Estonia. The team would welcome donations to subsidize its travel costs. For more information about the team, its travels, and how you can help, please visit the women's hockey Web site at: www.bates.edu/~aleff/hockey/

8. Deadline looms for alumni applying to medical schools
Applying to medical school for fall '05? It's not too late to go through the Bates Medical Studies Committee. Registration deadline is Dec. 4. For information and other deadlines, check out the Medical Studies Committee timeline: www.bates.edu/career/grad/med/pmtime.html

Questions? Contact Sarah Jones at sjones@bates.edu.

9. 'Marcy Plavin: 35 Years of Bates Dance' on Bates Web site
The half-hour Maine Public Broadcasting version of the documentary video celebrating Marcy Plavin and the Bates dance program is available on the Bates Web site at: www.bates.edu/plavin.xml

10. Otis Fellowships support exploration of human impact on natural world
Last summer, Nicholas Martin '05 and Brian Wilmot '05 journeyed to some of the most remote and beautiful parts of the Earth in their Otis Fellowship quests to understand how people live in and steward these extraordinary environments. Martin explored the impact of the Ivanhoe mines in Mongolia on the traditional nomadic people of the area around the mines. Wilmot spent the summer in the Lake Baikal region of Russia exploring the ways individuals, governments, and NGOs balance environmental preservation and economic growth. The fellowships are open to all students except seniors. Applications should be made to the Dean of Faculty's office by Feb. 1 for 2005. For more information and application forms: www.bates.edu/Otis-Fellowships.xml

11. Slide show of a great Parents & Family Weekend
During Parents & Family Weekend at Bates, hundreds of visitors experienced Bates life as their students do, meeting faculty, staff, and coaches, attending classes and demonstrations and enjoying fall foliage at its best. For a slide show of highlights from the weekend, view the slide show at: www.bates.edu/PFW04.xml

12. This Month in Bates History: Cheney takes step toward new college
A series of baby steps, rather than a single "shazam!" moment, led to the founding of Bates College. One step was taken on Nov. 22, 1854, in Topsham, Maine. At a Free Will Baptist educational convention, Oren Cheney went public with his vision for a new Maine "literary institution." The need for such a school, "between an academy and a college," Cheney wrote in an appeal to church leaders, "haunts us sleeping and waking." In making his case, Cheney also defined, with remarkable prescience, the potential rivals of his new institution. Comparing the state's general financial support of a certain Congregationalist college (Bowdoin) and a Calvinist Baptist one (Colby, then known as Waterville College), Cheney noted that the Free Will Baptists, thus far, had gotten "a trifle." www.bates.edu/x60610.xml

13. Bates People in the News
Just days before the Red Sox broke their nine-decade World Series curse and beat the St. Louis Cardinals, sports historian Dick Johnson '78 chronicled the team's 1946 Series loss in The Boston Globe. Meanwhile, the Rev. Peter Gomes '65, Bates Trustee, was glowingly profiled in the New Bedford, Mass., Standard-Times. Finally, as Election Day loomed, Bates students, faculty and alums continued to add their voices to the debate in The New York Times and Portland Press Herald. www.bates.edu/bates-in-the-news.xml