Fire on the mountain, thanks to Outing Club sky lantern launch

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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Wednesday February 27, 2013 12:03 pm	Fire on the mountain, thanks to Outing Club sky lantern launch Years ago, Bates students would climb Mount David to light massive bonfires to celebrate sports triumphs or to drive away the winter blahs.
Friday January 11, 2013 3:00 pm	Multimedia: Bates Outing Club decamps from 84-year-old digs Student and alums team up to move the Bates Outing Club headquarters from Alumni Gym to Chase Hall.
Thursday August 23, 2012 3:00 pm	AESOP is, and was, a great jumping-off point For Monica Rodriguez ’12, AESOP in 2008 shaped her understanding of Bates and herself.
Thursday February 2, 2012 10:47 am	Inaugural Winter Throwdown leaves competitors curled, stumped, but happy In a parade of patterned Spandex, competitors in the first Intercollegiate Winter Throwdown came brandishing team mascots, notably the University of Maine at Farmington’s superb white-bearded gnome.
Friday January 20, 2012 6:27 pm	Video: 2012 Puddle Jump Here are a few scenes from the 2012 edition of the annual Puddle Jump during Winter Carnival. Run by the…
Wednesday September 7, 2011 5:42 pm	Video: AESOP trip scenes from Grafton Notch Video of a 2011 AESOP trip to Grafton Notch, produced by Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif.
Tuesday September 6, 2011 3:04 pm	Facing wind and rain, AESOP leaders held fast and thought faster Bates’ student-run Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program expeditions are plenty stimulating all by themselves, but this year an uninvited guest called Tropical Storm Irene upped the ante on the excitement.
Monday August 29, 2011 12:41 pm	Irene's gone and AESOP's on: a Monday update With the wind and rain from Tropical Storm Irene long gone from Maine and New Hampshire, the college’s Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program trips will depart from campus as scheduled on Tuesday, Aug. 30.
Friday August 26, 2011 9:43 am	AESOP and Irene: 2 p.m. update to AESOP's response to the hurricane As the scheduled departure date nears for Bates’ 2011 AESOP trips, we are closely following weather advisories regarding Hurricane Irene, and will change plans if necessary to assure the safety of all students involved. Given the predicted pace of the storm, we currently anticipate that the trips will be able to leave campus on Tuesday, Aug. 30, as scheduled.
Friday May 20, 2011 11:33 am	Video: Looking back, Molly Newton '11 reflects on 'Why Bates?' Through Commencement, we’ll offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Molly Newton ’11 of Northampton,…

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Years ago, Bates students would climb Mount David to light massive bonfires to celebrate sports triumphs or to drive away the winter blahs.

Multimedia: Bates Outing Club decamps from 84-year-old digs

Student and alums team up to move the Bates Outing Club headquarters from Alumni Gym to Chase Hall.

AESOP is, and was, a great jumping-off point

For Monica Rodriguez ’12, AESOP in 2008 shaped her understanding of Bates and herself.

Inaugural Winter Throwdown leaves competitors curled, stumped, but happy

In a parade of patterned Spandex, competitors in the first Intercollegiate Winter Throwdown came brandishing team mascots, notably the University of Maine at Farmington’s superb white-bearded gnome.

Video: 2012 Puddle Jump

Here are a few scenes from the 2012 edition of the annual Puddle Jump during Winter Carnival. Run by the…

Video: AESOP trip scenes from Grafton Notch

Video of a 2011 AESOP trip to Grafton Notch, produced by Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif.

Facing wind and rain, AESOP leaders held fast and thought faster

Bates’ student-run Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program expeditions are plenty stimulating all by themselves, but this year an uninvited guest called Tropical Storm Irene upped the ante on the excitement.

Monday

August 29, 2011
12:41 pm

Irene's gone and AESOP's on: a Monday update

With the wind and rain from Tropical Storm Irene long gone from Maine and New Hampshire, the college’s Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program trips will depart from campus as scheduled on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Friday

August 26, 2011
9:43 am

AESOP and Irene: 2 p.m. update to AESOP's response to the hurricane

As the scheduled departure date nears for Bates’ 2011 AESOP trips, we are closely following weather advisories regarding Hurricane Irene, and will change plans if necessary to assure the safety of all students involved. Given the predicted pace of the storm, we currently anticipate that the trips will be able to leave campus on Tuesday, Aug. 30, as scheduled.

Friday

May 20, 2011
11:33 am

Video: Looking back, Molly Newton '11 reflects on 'Why Bates?'

Through Commencement, we’ll offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Molly Newton ’11 of Northampton,…