Stories from March 2008
Emmy-winner Kevin Jackson ’01 knows the right shift points
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 12:00 pm
When he shifted from NFL Films to NASCAR Images in 2006, producer…
Video: Roots musician Corey Harris ’91 in residence
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 12:00 pm
During his Bates residency, Corey Harris '91 spoke to students in an introductory course on the Francophone world.
Mays Men attend Morehouse College inauguration
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 11:06 am
A group of male students, faculty and staff of African and Latino descent known as the "Mays Men" has emerged at Bates College. Founded in fall 2007 by Czerny Brasuell, director of the college's Multicultural Center, the group seeks to emulate the values that defined the phrase "Morehouse Men" during the Morehouse College presidency (1940-67) of Benjamin Elijah Mays '20, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.
Campus Construction Update: Dining Commons opens
Monday, March 3, 2008 9:30 am
About 1,000 Bates people put the new dining Commons to the test over dinner on Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, Dining Services director Christine Schwartz estimated the following day.
Of Climate, Clams, and Colleagues
Saturday, March 1, 2008 4:39 pm
Arctic clams are sentinels of climate change, says biology professor Will Ambrose. But he didn’t find that out by himself
It's a Microworld After All
Saturday, March 1, 2008 3:26 pm
MicroVest’s Gil Crawford ’80 takes the lead as private investors surge into the microfinance world
The Wedding Gift
Saturday, March 1, 2008 3:11 pm
Friends and family raise a barn, and some community spirit, at the farmhouse wedding of Kirsten Walter '00 and Ben Ayers '99
Dinner Time
Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:53 pm
About 1,000 diners gave the College’s new Commons its first major test on the evening of Feb. 25 during the first dinner served to the entire campus community in the new space.
Composition One-on-One
Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:16 pm
Students teach students as writing becomes an explicit value of the Bates curriculum.
Historically Black
Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:13 pm
Spelman and Morehouse colleges offer something that Bates can't — and that's just the point