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Audio Slide Show: ‘Creative and Physical’ — Travis Jones’ pursuit of aerial arts and athletics

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:56 +0000

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Travis Jones ’13, a double major in art and visual culture, and theater, with a minor in dance and a concentration in mathematics, is a standout in competitive diving with passions for architecture and aerial arts. Here he explains how and why he takes on the exploration of things that he loves. Produced by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Video: Rabble and royalty, medieval Londoners visit the 2013 Mount David Summit

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:01:53 +0000

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Convened by Associate Professor of English Sylvia Federico, students in English 395Y, a junior-senior seminar called “Medieval London,” assumed the identities of various medieval Londoners, roaming the 2013 Mount David Summit for an hour of education and impersonation. Produced by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

Video: Nathaniel Boone ’52 describes Congressional Gold Medal

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:25:36 +0000

Nate Boone ’52 and other Montford Point Marines were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 for the achievement of integrating the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1940s.

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Audio Slide Show: ‘Blessed and Dancing’ — Victoria Lowe’s goal of arts and education

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:14:44 +0000

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Victoria Lowe ’12, a double major in dance and American cultural studies, discusses her Short Term experience with “Tour, Teach, Perform” and her goal of advancing arts education in the schools.

Video: ‘Bird’s Eye Bates’ — see the campus in a high way

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:25:53 +0000

See the Bates campus and its environs in a delightful, new way, from up on high by a multicopter.

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Video: ‘Nothing in the World That You Cannot Do’ — MLK Day’s Sankofa performance

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:23:16 +0000

Alex Bolden ’15 of Cleveland, Ohio, prepares a group of Bates artists for the annual student Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The college’s 2013 MLK Day observance, with the theme “Debt and Inequality: The Relevance of King’s Forgotten Economic Message,” is Sunday, Jan. 20, and Monday, Jan. 21.

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Slide Show: Homecoming 2012

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:11:39 +0000

Following the service for the naming of the Peter J. Gomes Chapel and the inauguration of Bates’ eighth president, Clayton Spencer, Homecoming 2012 featured a wide range of activities and opportunities for good friends to get together, including:

a panel on “The Intersecting Identities of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes: Navigating Race, Religion, Sexuality and Politics”

a 31-6 Bates football victory over Colby

Campus-wide concert featuring Universal Republic recording artist Dev

an alumni photo gallery and reception

an alumni recognition reception

Schaeffer Theatre’s Bates Performance in Action

Video: Inauguration moments

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:25:40 +0000

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Photographer and videographer Phyllis Graber Jensen offers behind-the-scenes video moments rich in symbolism, splendor and humanity.

It’s all here, from the robing of the academic procession and the fellowship of Bates’ four presidents together, to the Spencer family gathering for a group photograph.

Slide Show: Parents and Family Weekend 2012

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:17:49 +0000

Parents and Family Weekend 2012 featured a wide range of activities and opportunities that allowed parents and families to experience Bates through the eyes of their students.

The myriad events of the program included many activities that make up a typical Bates weekend, including athletic contests and performances. The weekend also featured special events, such as a faculty symposium on “Teaching and Scholarship in a Liberal Arts Environment,” a student research symposium, and opportunities to honor and remember the life of Troy Pappas ’16, a wide receiver for the football team.

For a look at this memorable weekend, watch the slide show on the Bates Flickr site, or view the images in the embedded slide show above. Photographs by Mike Bradley, Phyllis Graber Jensen and Simone Schriger ’14. For more about the football game, view a slide show on the Bates Athletics site.

Slide Show: Summer Scholars dive into college life

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:15:24 +0000

The innovative Bates Summer Scholars program is aimed at academically superior incoming students whose backgrounds may not have prepared them for aspects of college life that may be old hat to families with college histories.

The scholars live on campus and take one math and one science course, each the equivalent of an academic-year course — but compressed into six weeks. Mastering the course work and labs involves evening and weekend study, and intense, one-on-one collaboration among the scholars and with faculty.

The program teaches time-management skills and study practices, and introduces students to laboratory environments and to such insider information as course registration tactics.

And the program instills confidence that the Summer Scholars carry into the start of the academic year. “I felt comfortable enough to ask questions,” says Akinyele Akinruntan, a 2009 Summer Scholar from Memphis, Tenn.