Stories about "Maine and New England"
At Bates, ‘everyone’s been great’ to students sent by Katrina
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:39 am
The school year wasn't supposed to start this way. Instead of easing into her New Orleans apartment and her Tulane University course work, Maddy O'Brien of Winthrop, Maine, found herself spending school's first week as an evacuee 125 miles away in Lafayette, La. — one of the hundreds of thousands unsure of what Hurricane Katrina had done to their lives.
Bates offers free tuition to Maine students displaced by Katrina
Thursday, September 1, 2005 1:16 pm
Bates College has announced that any Maine undergraduates enrolled at colleges or universities in the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina will be welcome to take courses for credit without charge at Bates College this fall semester.
Lewiston, Auburn welcome first-years with downtown tour
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:36 am
For the third year, students starting their Bates College careers will discover their new community up close and personal through a walking tour of downtown Lewiston and Auburn led by community leaders.
Maine Art Museum Trail TV series visits Bates College Museum of Art
Friday, August 12, 2005 10:53 am
The Bates College Museum of Art is the subject of a half-hour profile in the television series The Maine Art Museum Trail, an original production of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. The program will be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, on the stations of MPBN.
Student elected to statewide Republican leadership
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:34 am
Nathaniel Walton '08, president of the Bates College Republicans, was elected state chairman of the Maine College Republicans on July 16.
Bates names sports information director
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 10:03 am
Jenny Allen has been named Bates College sports information director in the Office of Communications and Media Relations. She assumed her duties July 5.
Faculty, Maine landscape share center stage at Museum of Art
Saturday, June 11, 2005 8:40 am
Artwork by Bates College faculty and artwork exploring diverse visions of the Maine landscape constitute the summer exhibitions at the Bates College Museum of Art, located at 75 Russell St.
Bates photographer captures sense of place
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:45 pm
As Bates College celebrates its sesquicentennial year, senior Alexander Verhave of Wellesley, Mass., has mounted an exhibit of black and white photographs titled Bates College 2005. On display in Chase Hall Lounge through May 22, the 20 photographs include contemporary landscape and still life compositions of Bates College taken by Verhave, a geology major and photography editor of The Bates Student, the campus newspaper. The photographic series "portrays the places and sights that have defined my four years at Bates," says Verhave. The exhibit is supported by funding from the Office of the Vice President for External Affairs.
Text of Maine Gov. John Baldacci's "Bates College Day" proclamation
Monday, May 2, 2005 3:59 pm
Text of Maine Gov. John E. Baldacci's "Bates College Day" proclamation, May 2, 2005, honoring the College's 150th anniversary of its founding.
Text of the joint resolution passed by the Maine Legislature
Monday, May 2, 2005 3:56 pm
Text of the Joint Resolution voted by the Maine Legislature, April 28, 2005, honoring the 150th anniversary of the founding of Bates College.