1. Groundbreaking soon for new residential village
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held in late May or early June for a 150-bed residential village at Bates, adjacent to Rand Hall. The complex will provide much-needed new housing for students and a stronger sense of residential community west of College Street. www.bates.edu/x114366.xml

2. Schedule for Commencement 2006
Parents of graduating seniors: Please note that there is a mandatory rehearsal for seniors at 3 p.m. Friday, May 26, on Andrews Road in front of Lane Hall. For the complete listing of Commencement events, go to: www.bates.edu/x63019.xml

3. College's help doesn't end with Commencement
With help from a group of staff and faculty advisers at Bates, biology major Kelton McMahon recently won a National Science Foundation fellowship to study at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. But what may be surprising about McMahon's good fortune is that he hasn't been a Bates student for a while. He graduated last year. Still, even well after graduation, he was eligible for grant-application assistance from the Bates Graduate Fellowships Committee. www.bates.edu/x114594.xml

4. The Campaign for Bates closes in on $120 million goal
It will be a race to the finish line for The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values, a comprehensive, six-year campaign announced in October 2004. The College has raised a remarkable $115.3 million, with a goal of $120 million and a fast-approaching deadline of June 30, 2006. www.bates.edu/x115042.xml

5. Rigor, creativity drive Bates' Short Term
Short Term has come a long way since it was established 40 years ago. It started out as an efficiency measure, enabling Bates to get more use from its facilities and students to complete the Bates education in three years instead of four, if they so desired. Short Term remains a distinctively Bates experience, but now for reasons having less to do with thrift and more with the College's hallmark academic strengths: specifically, intellectual rigor and dynamic creativity. www.bates.edu/x114661.xml

6. Humanities e-zine online now
E-clectic, the Web-based student journal of the humanities at Bates, has published its spring edition. It includes original fiction, non-fiction, plays, photos, art work, reflections and audio and video pieces. abacus.bates.edu/eclectic/vol4iss2/

7. Laconi '05 awarded Harvard fellowship
A year apart from academe proved no disadvantage for Christopher Laconi '05. Shortly before graduation, Laconi was accepted by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to pursue a master’s in public policy. Laconi deferred matriculation one year, then was pleased to discover that he has been awarded a merit-based Dean’s Fellowship at the Kennedy School – full tuition for two years and a $10,000 stipend for each year. www.bates.edu/x114560.xm

8. Did You Know?
Bates prints its three major Admissions Office marketing publications on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper that is manufactured entirely with wind energy. Using this product reduced atmospheric emissions by 29,490 pounds, and using windpower prevented the generation of another 3,868 pounds of carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Source: Mohawk Paper Co. Values were derived using the federal government's calculator at www.ofee.gov/recycled/calculat.htm

9. Photos at Bates' Day of Service projects
Almost 300 Batesies provided more than 16,700 hours of work on April 22 for the College's second annual National Day of Service.  For more information and photos, go to www.bates.edu/national-day-of-service-2006.xml

10. Bates People in the News
Bates alumni have gotten lots of ink this spring. The New York Sun dedicated a lengthy profile to John Strassburger '64, president of Ursinus College, while a New York Times summary of a Yale conference on democracy cited the contribution of University of Texas professor Jeffrey Tulis '72. In a photograph taken while she performed field research, Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas '05 (completely concealed in mosquito-proof clothing) turned up in a National Geographic article on Alaska's environment. Meanwhile, men's lacrosse coach Peter Lasagna was quoted in a column in the online edition of Sports Illustrated. www.bates.edu/bates-in-the-news.xml