Alumni make May 15 a “great day”
Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.
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TuesdayMarch 4, 2008 |
Emmy-winner Kevin Jackson ’01 knows the right shift pointsWhen he shifted from NFL Films to NASCAR Images in 2006, producer Kevin Jackson ’01 went from being a greenhorn… |
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TuesdayMarch 4, 2008 |
Video: Roots musician Corey Harris '91 in residenceDuring his Bates residency, Corey Harris ’91 spoke to students in an introductory course on the Francophone world. |
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TuesdayMarch 4, 2008 |
Mays Men attend Morehouse College inaugurationA 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. |
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MondayMarch 3, 2008 |
Campus construction update: Dining Commons opensAbout 1,000 Bates people put the new dining Commons to the test over dinner on Monday, Feb. 25, Dining Services director Christine Schwartz estimated the following day. It was the first dinner served at the facility with the entire campus community back from winter break. (The Commons had served the first board plan meal Sunday night and offered a limited menu during break week.) Schwartz was pleased — and her staff, she said, loves their new workplace. |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
Of Climate, Clams, and ColleaguesArctic clams are sentinels of climate change, says biology professor Will Ambrose. But he didn’t find that out by himself |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
It's a Microworld After AllMicroVest’s Gil Crawford ’80 takes the lead as private investors surge into the microfinance world |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
The Wedding GiftFriends and family raise a barn, and some community spirit, at the farmhouse wedding of Kirsten Walter ’00 and Ben Ayers ’99 |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
Dinner TimeAbout 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. |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
Composition One-on-OneStudents teach students as writing becomes an explicit value of the Bates curriculum. |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
Historically BlackSpelman and Morehouse colleges offer something that Bates can’t — and that’s just the point |
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