Bates in the News
Below is a sampling of news stories about Bates and Bates alumni.
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ThursdaySeptember 10, 2009 |
New Straits Times about the liberal arts quotes Yang Jerng Hwa '05In the New Straits Times of Malasia, a Sept. 1, 2009, story about liberal arts colleges quotes Yang Jerng Hwa… |
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WednesdaySeptember 2, 2009 |
The New York Daily News highlights Brooklyn high school students on path for collegeThe New York Daily News talks to recent graduates of the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (with whom… |
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FridayAugust 28, 2009 |
David Scobey tells Inside Higher Ed readers that colleges should launch community news organizationsAn Inside Higher Ed essay by Bates cultural historian David Scobey suggests how colleges might respond to the decline of… |
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ThursdayAugust 27, 2009 |
New England Cable News talks to politics professor John Baughman about Kennedy's last Maine visitNew England Cable News focuses on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s last visit to Maine, in February 2008, to campaign for Barack Obama. At about the 45-second mark, reporter Marnie MacLean talks to John Baughman, associate professor of politics, who recalls Kennedy’s speech in the Bates Chapel. |
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WednesdayAugust 26, 2009 |
The Boston Globe and others interview Tom Whalen '86 about Ted Kennedy's legacyIn covering the death and legacy of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, many news outlets, including ABC News and The Boston Globe, turned to Boston University social scientist Tom Whalen ’86, an expert on Massachusetts politics and presidential leadership whose books include Kennedy Versus Lodge, about the 1952 Senate race in Massachusetts in which John F. Kennedy defeated Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Regarding the Kennedy political dynasty, Whalen tells ABC News that “frankly, we might be moving into a new era in American politics where people have grown tired of the dynasties.” |
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TuesdayAugust 25, 2009 |
New Hampshire Public Radio interviews Chris Danforth '01, co-creater of a way to measure worldwide happiness in real timeNew Hampshire Public Radio interviews Chris Danforth ’01, an applied mathematician at the University of Vermont, and colleague Peter Dodds, who have created a way to measure worldwide happiness in real time, as expressed in blogs and Twitter. |
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TuesdayAugust 25, 2009 |
The Bangor Daily News reports on Bates hoops luminaries in New England Basketball Hall of FameThe Bangor Daily News reports that two Bates basketball luminaries, former player Julie Roche Simplicio ’91 and former men’s head coach George Wigton are to be inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. |
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TuesdayAugust 25, 2009 |
Teens: Mix studies with fun, and plan aheadFirst-year Bates student Pamela Ross ’13 of Fairfield, Conn., offers advice for high-school readers of the Connecticut Post. “For students applying to college,” she writes, “the process comes with many tasks that must be completed in a few short months. Along with schoolwork and extracurricular obligations, students fill out applications, write essays, visit schools and do admissions interviews. To tackle all these activities, you must dive into the process headfirst and avoid wasting time.” |
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SaturdayAugust 15, 2009 |
Public service is still a close second to family for Richard Sullivan '81The Springfield Republican profiles Rick Sullivan ’81, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, an agency with 1,200 employees and a $100 million operating budget. |
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MondayAugust 10, 2009 |
Up in the bid leaguesLas Vegas Business Press profiles Elliot Moskow ’10, chairman, CEO and founder of the auction site Pricefalls.com. He tells reporter Valerie Miller why he chose to site the firm, founded in 2008 at Bates, in Las Vegas: partly for family reasons (his father, a physician, lives and works there) and partly for business reasons. |