Stories about "Society and culture"
Tales of wayward trustees and lost telegrams from Bates’ founding trustee meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:38 pm
When you're launching a new college, as Oren Cheney was doing on this day in 1855, you sweat the details, you don’t suffer fools, and you watch your money.
Student research reveals China’s uneasy embrace of video gaming, hip-hop music
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 1:42 pm
Can "positive energy and socialist values" co-exist with Western pop culture? A Mount David Summit session takes a look.
Students bring new analytical, visual skills to busting fake news
Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:50 pm
The bull is in their court as students in a new digital studies course learn to discern real facts from fake.
Jennifer Doudna, pioneer and leading public voice of CRISPR gene-editing research, to deliver 2019 Commencement Address, joined by honorands Travis Mills and Megan Smith
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:12 am
An internationally renowned biochemist, Doudna is a leading public voice in the emerging discussion of the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology.
In 1940, pilot Catherine Winne ’41 was the first Bates female student to take to the skies
Friday, March 22, 2019 11:17 am
In 1940, Winne learned to fly through a civilian pilot training program that was also about preparing for war.
Q&A: Director Tim Dugan on the racial tension and theatrical ethics of ‘We Are Proud to Present’
Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:20 pm
"If people say that the play feels improvised, that to us is a success," says Dugan, a Bates theater professor and director of We Are Proud to Present.
Look What We Found: Wes Chaney’s historical contracts
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:06 pm
“The history of Chinese emperors and generals has been written,” says Assistant Professor of History Wes Chaney. “I’m interested in telling the stories of everyday life.”
Recalling when Bates fought, yet benefited from, a racist debate organization
Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:33 pm
Fraught and frustrating efforts by Bates to get the national Delta Sigma Rho debate society to admit black members reveals a stark conflict between Bates’ ideals and the reality in which it operated.
Did you know: In 1922, Bates College founded the Maine high school basketball tournament
Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:03 pm
In 1922, Bates’ promotions-minded athletics director invited eight schoolboy teams to compete for the first statewide high school hoops title. And a tradition was born.
Q&A: Dale Chapman on neoclassical jazz in a neoliberal economy
Friday, February 15, 2019 9:24 am
The Jazz Bubble by music professor Chapman draws surprising parallels between conservative schools of jazz and political economy.