1. Bates to raise scholarship funds for local students
A campaign to raise scholarship funds for students from Lewiston, Auburn and surrounding communities in Androscoggin County who are accepted to Bates was announced in December by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen. Longtime Auburn resident and Bates parent Barbara Trafton will lead the fund-raising effort for the new Garcelon Society. www.bates.edu/x62014.xml

2. Sesquicentennial Web site highlights 150th
A new Web site has been added that celebrates Bates' 150th anniversary with links to historical photos — including a monthly slide show of images from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library — audio archives and features that may prompt you to recall your own thrilling days of yesteryear. www.bates.edu/150-years.xml

3. E-clectic humanities ezine returns
For a glimpse at the vitality of the humanities at Bates, check out the latest issue of E-clectic at abacus.bates.edu/eclectic/vol3iss1

This issue of the College's electronic (maga)zine of the humanities, funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enrich academic work in the humanities, features a wide range of creative work, including fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, original music, and classroom discussion. Faculty and staff have joined with students for the first time in this issue. Put aside time to savor this multimedia feast.

4. Third annual alumni hockey game Jan. 15
Bates hockey alumni from the '60s, '70s and '80s have rounded up three lines and more for two well-matched teams to skate their way to victory — everyone's victory — each January since 2003, and they will play again January 15, 2005. Help celebrate professor and former coach Dick Williamson's retirement and 30th Bates anniversary at this third reunion game with his players. www.bates.edu/alumni-hockey.xml

5. Join Alpine and Nordic ski teams for Winter Carnival Weekend
The Bates Carnival will be at Sunday River in Newry (Alpine Skiing) and Black Mountain in Rumford (Nordic Skiing) on Jan. 21-22. Please come cheer on the teams! Keep your eye out for Bates alumni tents at the Saturday races. You are most welcome to join the Bates ski teams at a reception 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22 at Sunday River.

Carnival schedules can be found at the teams' Web pages:
   Alpine: www.bates.edu/alpine.xml
   Nordic: www.bates.edu/nordic.xml

For more information on the carnival and to RSVP for the reception, please visit www.bates.edu/alumni-events.xml

6. Debate team takes on Oxford, Cambridge, the Worlds
In November, Bates traveled to inter-varsity debate tournaments at Oxford and Cambridge universities, where a Bates team took second place out of 100 teams competing at Oxford. In late December, Bates sent two teams to Malaysia for the 2005 World Universities Debating Championships. One team finished in the top-quarter among 312 teams from all over the world. www.bates.edu/x62228.xml

For World Debating Championships results: www.mmuworlds2005.com

7. King Day events highlight labor, justice and dignity
Civil and human rights activist John Mendez, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Winston-Salem Chronicle's 1994 Man of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Mendez's address is part of the annual Bates celebration of King's life and work that includes performances, academic workshops and a debate with Bates, Morehouse and Spelman college participants.

Classes at the college are canceled Jan. 17 and special programming is scheduled with an emphasis this year on the theme "From Montgomery to Memphis: Martin Luther King's Legacy of Labor, Justice and Dignity." www.bates.edu/x62192.xml

8. This Month in Bates History: Outing Club turns 85
This time of year, the Weather Channel's apocalyptic forecasts of snow, sleet and wind chill can leave you numb. But in January 1920, Bates students embraced the winter season, founding the Outing Club "to make the out of doors more entertaining and attractive during the winter months," in the words of The Bates Student. Initial meetings in fall 1919 led to College recognition in January, including a faculty vote that women, too, be "entitled to the privileges of the club," thus making the coeducational Bates Outing Club the oldest of its kind in the nation. A story on the BOC's founding and its current activities, plus old and new photos, at www.bates.edu/x62221.xml

9. Bates People in the News
Bates people in the news helped make sense of the news as winter tightened its hold. In Waterville, Maine, Ruveni Freeman '94 learned that her immediate family in Sri Lanka survived the Dec. 26 tsunami — and she founded a relief project for the island nation. World media watched as the first English-language TV channel aimed at American Muslims premiered in November with a newscast anchored by Asad Mahmood Butt '01. Meanwhile, Bates history lecturer Chris Beam discussed opposition to the Iraq war with United Press International. Finally, founding director of the Institute for International Sport Dan Doyle '72 offered The Christian Science Monitor his analysis of mounting violence in athletics. www.bates.edu/bates-in-the-news.xml