Stories about "Society and culture"
Video: Winter Carnival torch lighting returned today with Maine Gov. Janet Mills
Friday, February 8, 2019 12:26 pm
Earlier today, a 20th-century Bates Outing Club tradition was reignited when newly…
Hour by hour in Pettengill Hall — 4:12 a.m. to 8:39 p.m. — for a whirlwind day of Bates academics
Friday, February 8, 2019 10:02 am
For this day in the life of Bates academics, we roamed all around Pettengill Hall following professors, students, custodians, classes, and, yes, two pugs.
NESCAC Chill Poll for Jan. 31, 2019: The Polar Vortex edition
Friday, February 1, 2019 12:10 pm
Bates and NESCAC dodged the worst of the polar vortex cold (this time), but we're simpatico with our neighbors to the west.
Q&A: Cavallero on ‘Grapes of Wrath’ as Maine celebrates director Ford
Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:00 pm
As Maine celebrates native son John Ford, one of the great film directors, a Bates screen studies professor discusses one of Ford's best films.
Video: Behind the scenes for the Morehouse–Bates debate on MLK Day
Friday, January 25, 2019 12:21 pm
Each year, Morehouse and Bates debaters team up on MLK Day to honor Benjamin Mays, whose enduring influence is felt by Bates, Morehouse, and the nation.
Picture story: 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:54 am
Faculty, local residents, staff, and students gather for a Bates observance with the theme “Lifting Every Voice: Intersectionality and Activism.”
From the Archives: Old hockey puck and horse-drawn mail delivery
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:42 am
Mail delivery by horse-drawn carriage, and the hockey puck from a 1927 game that was “fast and furious and marked by many swinging sticks.”
11 quotes that capture MLK Day 2019 at Bates
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:28 am
There's plenty to say during and about MLK Day at Bates, a celebration rich in revelations, recollections, and reminders.
We heard these six social justice terms on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates
Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:34 am
Learn about these six terms: respectability politics, activism, intersectionality, decolonial feminism, allyship, and black formalism.
Bates joins national Schuler Initiative to support stronger engagement with millennial alumni
Friday, January 18, 2019 12:00 pm
The five-college partnership will explore and address an emerging trend in higher education philanthropy — declining rates of giving among younger alumni.