Louisiana's popular 'Sunpie' Barnes to discuss music of the African Diaspora

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

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Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

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A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

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The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Wednesday October 15, 2003 9:22 am	Louisiana's popular 'Sunpie' Barnes to discuss music of the African Diaspora An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes comes to Bates College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.
Tuesday October 14, 2003 9:52 am	Spanish professor to discuss Puerto Rican experimental art Dolores Aponte Ramos, professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, will present a lecture titled “Performing Transgression: Race and Gender in Experimental Art in Puerto Rico” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the event free of charge.
Monday October 13, 2003 10:14 am	Japanese scholar compares ghosts from East and West Ghosts from Japan and England will share the podium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, when an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto contrasts traditional Japanese ghosts with the spirits in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Monday October 13, 2003 10:03 am	Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister’s Journey The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr of the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y., presents “Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister’s Journey” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room G65 of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited free of charge.
Sunday October 12, 2003 2:30 pm	Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland discusses veterans' issues Max Cleland, a Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, discusses veterans’ issues and the impact the Bush administration has had on American military veterans in a speech at 5:30 p.m. today in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College, Campus Avenue.
Wednesday October 8, 2003 10:39 am	Nationally acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers to speak at Bates Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled “Life in an Expanding Universe” for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.
Wednesday October 8, 2003 10:27 am	Rent-A-Husband founder to speak at Bates The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.
Tuesday October 7, 2003 11:06 am	Bates to host NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament Bates College has been selected as the host for the 2004 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis championships, pending ratification by the NCAA Management Council at a meeting on Oct. 20th. The team tournament will begin on Wednesday, May 12th, and the individual tournament will run from Saturday May 15th through Monday, May 17th at the Wallach Tennis Center.
Tuesday October 7, 2003 10:57 am	Irish poet Christopher Matthews to read at Bates Irish poet Christopher Matthews, author of A New Life (Trapdoor Press, 2000) and the just-published Eyelevel: Fifty Histories (CavanKerry Press Ltd.), reads from his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Tuesday October 7, 2003 10:51 am	Speaker to discuss post-revolutionary Cuba at Bates Andrés Gomez, a founder of the “Antonio Maceo Brigade,” the Miami-based organization of Cubans living in the United States who favor normalized relations with Cuba, presents “David and Goliath: Cuba’s Struggle Today,” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the talk free of charge.

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Wednesday

October 15, 2003
9:22 am

An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes comes to Bates College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Tuesday

October 14, 2003
9:52 am

Spanish professor to discuss Puerto Rican experimental art

Dolores Aponte Ramos, professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, will present a lecture titled “Performing Transgression: Race and Gender in Experimental Art in Puerto Rico” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the event free of charge.

Monday

October 13, 2003
10:14 am

Japanese scholar compares ghosts from East and West

Ghosts from Japan and England will share the podium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, when an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto contrasts traditional Japanese ghosts with the spirits in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Monday

October 13, 2003
10:03 am

Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister’s Journey

The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr of the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y., presents “Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister’s Journey” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room G65 of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited free of charge.

Sunday

October 12, 2003
2:30 pm

Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland discusses veterans' issues

Max Cleland, a Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, discusses veterans’ issues and the impact the Bush administration has had on American military veterans in a speech at 5:30 p.m. today in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College, Campus Avenue.

Wednesday

October 8, 2003
10:39 am

Nationally acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers to speak at Bates

Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled “Life in an Expanding Universe” for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Wednesday

October 8, 2003
10:27 am

Rent-A-Husband founder to speak at Bates

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

Tuesday

October 7, 2003
11:06 am

Bates to host NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament

Bates College has been selected as the host for the 2004 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis championships, pending ratification by the NCAA Management Council at a meeting on Oct. 20th. The team tournament will begin on Wednesday, May 12th, and the individual tournament will run from Saturday May 15th through Monday, May 17th at the Wallach Tennis Center.

Tuesday

October 7, 2003
10:57 am

Irish poet Christopher Matthews to read at Bates

Irish poet Christopher Matthews, author of A New Life (Trapdoor Press, 2000) and the just-published Eyelevel: Fifty Histories (CavanKerry Press Ltd.), reads from his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Tuesday

October 7, 2003
10:51 am

Speaker to discuss post-revolutionary Cuba at Bates

Andrés Gomez, a founder of the “Antonio Maceo Brigade,” the Miami-based organization of Cubans living in the United States who favor normalized relations with Cuba, presents “David and Goliath: Cuba’s Struggle Today,” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the talk free of charge.