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Images of war, displacement and peace from Eritrea and Ethiopia featured in exhibit
Sunday, September 1, 2002 9:47 am
An exhibition of drawings and paintings encompassing themes of war and peace by artist and activist Betty LaDuke opens at the Bates College Chapel on Monday, Sept. 23. The exhibit runs through Nov. 15 and is open to the public free of charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.
Young Maine activists open Spiritual Journey series
Sunday, September 1, 2002 9:39 am
Members of the Greene-based Maine Center for Justice, Ecology and Democracy (JED) present "In Solidarity with the No Longer and the Not Yet: Stories of Collective Resistance, Struggle and Creation" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend this discussion free of charge. The JED talk opens a series of lectures, "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03," sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.
Former U.S. Surgeon General Elders to deliver Bates convocation address
Friday, August 30, 2002 4:21 pm
Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders will officially open the 148th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "Leadership and Responsibility in the 21st Century: What Will Your Role Be?" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, on the college's main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.
Class of 2006 arrives at Bates College
Friday, August 30, 2002 4:21 pm
On August's last Wednesday, a handwritten cloth banner hangs above the entrance to a big brick 1960s-era residence hall at Bates College. In bold purple, green and orange on the white cloth, veteran Bates students offer a welcome greeting to their first-year counterparts: "We're psyched you're here."
Class of 2006 at a glance
Friday, August 30, 2002 4:16 pm
There were 3.6 applications for every first-year student admitted to the Class of 2006, with 419 new first-year students expected when fall semester starts Sept. 4. Bates received more than 4,000 applications for the third year in a row. In all, 1,742 active degree-seeking students will be enrolled on campus or in Bates-sponsored off-campus programs in fall 2002.
$50,000 Tanaka Foundation grant bolsters Bates' scholarships, Asian studies
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:25 pm
Bates College has added some new resources to its international scholarships and Asian studies programs, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Tanaka Memorial Foundation of Japan.
Concert series offers insiders' picks in jazz, classical
Monday, August 19, 2002 4:12 pm
Beginning with a performance by Jon Nakamatsu, the only American gold medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition since 1981, the 2002-2003 Bates College Concert Series is a connoisseur's choice of jazz and classical players. Nakamatsu's concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, opens a series that includes jazz trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, jazz guitarist Pat Martino and such classical artists as Maine pianists Frank Glazer and Yuri Funahashi, violinist Curtis Macomber and the renowned Brentano String Quartet.
Bates students named community research fellows
Monday, July 29, 2002 8:11 am
Bates College and its community-development partner LA Excels have announced three summer community research fellowships. The fellowships are the second phase of a two-year, $80,000 award from The Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education and the Council of Independent Colleges that gives students interdisciplinary opportunities to research issues important to the Lewiston-Auburn community.
Elaine Tuttle Hansen assumes Bates presidency
Wednesday, July 3, 2002 8:30 am
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, former provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, assumed office July 1 as the college's seventh president since its founding in 1855.
Four college Trustees named
Friday, June 21, 2002 8:52 am
Gretchen Shorter Davis of Portland, Maine, and Henry J. Keigwin of South Dartmouth, Mass., have been elected to the college’s Board of Overseers by the alumni of Bates College; Michael W. Bonney of Sudbury, Mass., and David L. Foster of New York City have been appointed by college trustees to serve on the Board of Overseers, Bates College President Donald W. Harward announced.