Jay Burns
As the editorial director for the Bates Communications Office, Jay guides Bates Magazine and BatesNews.
Stories by Jay Burns
10 favorite videos showing feisty bobcats vs. all comers
Thursday, March 10, 2022 12:39 pm
From a pool of 8,273 applications — the largest in Bates history…
George L. Wigton, legendary and influential Bates coach of ‘impeccable integrity and perspective,’ dies at age 93
Friday, March 4, 2022 11:12 am
Wigton, a legendary and influential Bates head coach of “impeccable integrity and perspective” across four varsity sports, died March 1, 2022, at age 93.
Roger Williams meets Roger Williams in Bates’ NCAA debut
Thursday, March 3, 2022 5:42 pm
Double dribble? Bates’ opponent in the first round of the NCAA Division III…
Frank Keaney, Class of 1911, the chemist and coach who reinvented the sport of basketball
Thursday, March 3, 2022 11:10 am
When Frank Keaney graduated from Bates in 1911, varsity basketball didn't exist. So how did he become one of the great college hoops coaches of all time — and inventing the fast break along the way?
‘Part of the new guard’: Bates grad Sam Francis ’17 puts analytics into Super Bowl spotlight
Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:43 pm
At age 26, Francis is the data analyst for the Bengals, who face the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. He'll be among the coaches feed real-time advice to head coach Zac Taylor on what the team could, or should, or might, do in any given situation.
Stella James Sims was Bates’ first female Black graduate, but there’s so much more to her story
Thursday, February 3, 2022 1:16 pm
A look at the life of Stella James Sims, Bates Class of 1897, who, as a science teacher helped to strengthen the reputation of a historically Black college in West Virginia.
NESCAC Snow Poll: 24 inches is a Jumbo-sized blizzard
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 1:13 pm
What NESCAC campus got the most snow on Jan. 29? Where does "blizzard" come from? Answers to those questions, and more.
From a Distance: What can you see above the Bates campus in 1928?
Monday, January 31, 2022 5:28 pm
Click or tap the garnet buttons to learn what we saw as we virtually soared above the campus in April 1928.
Sitting with Desmond Tutu on Bates Commencement day
Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:54 am
Trish Morse '60 recalls Commencement 2000, sitting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Coram Terrace, watching the academic procession arrive, and talking — a conversation she recalls often, particularly after learning of his death in December.
NESCAC Chill Poll for Jan. 22: 19 below zero is really cold, but was the cold real?
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:38 pm
As dawn broke on Jan. 22, the summit of Mount Washington, famed for its intense winter weather, was warmer than six campuses in the 'CAC.