Reason and Rhyme

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”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

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

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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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Sunday May 11, 2008 11:22 am	Reason and Rhyme Two Prizewinning alum poets praise Rober Farnsworth, recipient of the Kroepsch Aware for Teaching, for helping them navigate the writer’s world.
Sunday May 11, 2008 11:02 am	A Smashing Return Tennis coach Paul Gastonguay ’89 runs a program that wins matches and respect.
Friday May 9, 2008 2:47 pm	Law center co-founder: Journey toward justice is far from finished “Selfishness and greed have toppled many great empires in the past,” Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees told a Bates audience on May 8.
Friday May 9, 2008 1:52 pm	Commons dedication honors philanthropic response Donors who supported construction of the new dining Commons at Bates College, including many Trustees, were honored Friday at the official dedication of the campus’ newest and most-used building.
Thursday May 8, 2008 4:00 pm	With Justice for All in Our Multicultural Nation Morris Dees, founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke on civil rights and multi-culturalism. (Total time: 1:07:42)
Wednesday May 7, 2008 2:27 pm	Capping a strong year, Bates debaters shine at nationals The Brooks Quimby Debate Council recently sent six Bates College debaters to the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s national tournament at MIT, where teammates Brendan Jarboe ’08 of Acton, Mass., and Matt Marienthal ’10 of Chicago advanced to the tournament’s octofinals. As a result of their outstanding 5-1 MIT performance, the duo is currently ranked 11th best in the country.
Wednesday May 7, 2008 2:16 pm	Composition One-on-One Students teach students as writing becomes an explicit value of the Bates curriculum.
Wednesday May 7, 2008 12:29 pm	Brand Width John Hassan ’82, senior deputy editor at ESPN.com, looks like a genial bulldog, short and solid and earnest. When I…
Tuesday May 6, 2008 12:19 pm	It's a Microworld After All MicroVest’s Gil Crawford ’80 takes the lead as private investors surge into the microfinance world.
Tuesday May 6, 2008 11:34 am	Historically Black Spelman and Morehouse colleges offer something that Bates can’t — and that’s just the point.

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Two Prizewinning alum poets praise Rober Farnsworth, recipient of the Kroepsch Aware for Teaching, for helping them navigate the writer’s world.

A Smashing Return

Tennis coach Paul Gastonguay ’89 runs a program that wins matches and respect.

Law center co-founder: Journey toward justice is far from finished

“Selfishness and greed have toppled many great empires in the past,” Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees told a Bates audience on May 8.

Commons dedication honors philanthropic response

Donors who supported construction of the new dining Commons at Bates College, including many Trustees, were honored Friday at the official dedication of the campus’ newest and most-used building.

With Justice for All in Our Multicultural Nation

Morris Dees, founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke on civil rights and multi-culturalism. (Total time: 1:07:42)

Capping a strong year, Bates debaters shine at nationals

The Brooks Quimby Debate Council recently sent six Bates College debaters to the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s national tournament at MIT, where teammates Brendan Jarboe ’08 of Acton, Mass., and Matt Marienthal ’10 of Chicago advanced to the tournament’s octofinals. As a result of their outstanding 5-1 MIT performance, the duo is currently ranked 11th best in the country.