The 2006-07 Bates College Concert Series resumes at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, as pianist Gayle Martin Henry and oboist Gerard Reuter perform transcriptions from opera in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The Bates College debate team ranks 15th internationally, according to an unofficial tally of more than 400 teams competing in the World Universities Debating Championships.

It took equal parts good, bad and ugly for this image from the Bates-Colby football game on Oct. 28 into Sports Illustrated's special issue, "Football America" (Dec. 4, 2006).

Bates College has recently appointed two faculty members to four-year term professorships, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen announced

The Bates College Jazz Band, directed by Maine pianist Thomas Snow, will be joined by two smaller combos in concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

December at Bates begins with a burst of creative energy as performances by the college's choir, Modern Dance Company and jazz band, as well as by pianist Frank Glazer, take place from the first through the sixth days of the month.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted a Maine high school forensics tournament.

Ninety percent of Bates College seniors and alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions for fall 2006 matriculation were accepted.

Roderick Nordell, a retired editor for the Christian Science Monitor, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at 161 Wood St., as part of "Spiritual Sojourners," a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College.

With a program of works by faculty and guest choreographers, the Bates College Modern Dance Company performs at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2; 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, in the college's Schaeffer Theater, 305 College St. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for children, seniors and full-time students. For more information, please call 207-786-6161.

Dorothy F. Glass, a leading American scholar in the field of medieval Italian sculpture, offers a talk at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in Room 104 of Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Titled "Borgo San Donnino: The Pilgrim’s Church," Glass's talk is open to the public at no cost.

The Bates College Choir performs operatic choruses by some of the genre's greatest composers in 8 p.m. concerts on Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concerts are free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For reservations or more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Bates College Orchestra, directed by Hiroya Miura, performs a program of music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission to the concert is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs presents a two-day social justice institute designed to introduce students to individuals and organizations working on a variety of social justice issues, such as human rights, reparations and economic equity, on Saturday, Nov. 11, and Sunday, Nov. 12, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Jennifer J. Quinn, executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, presents two lectures at Bates on Friday, Nov. 10. At 4 p.m., she gives a talk titled "Synchronicity: Alternating Sums, Determinants, Continued Fractions and More." At 7:30 p.m., in the college's annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture, her subject is "Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers." Sponsored by the mathematics department, both talks are open to the public at no cost and take place in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road. For more information, please call the college concierge at 207-786-6255.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Bates College for its leading role in the use of electricity from renewable sources, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced.

The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs presents a one-day environmental symposium titled "Earth: Saviors and Sustainers" on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Actor, comedian and TV host Bob Saget performs at Bates College at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue. Comedian Alexandra McHale, known for her VH1 commentaries about television, opens for Saget. The doors open at 7 p.m. Admission is $18, with tickets available at Bull Moose locations and online at www.batestickets.com. The show is sponsored by the Chase Hall Committee. Please note that this performance is intended for mature audiences only.

Lee Silver, a molecular biologist and author known for his trenchant analysis of issues at the intersection of biotechnology, law, ethics and religion, visits Bates College to offer a lecture based on his new book at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

A retrospective of prints by Charlie Hewitt, a Maine artist of national stature, opens with a reception at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. "Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print . . . The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006" offers a comprehensive look at Hewitt's printmaking, the field for which this dynamic artist is best-known.

The major autumn production of the Bates College theater department is Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth, a groundbreaking comedy about the resilience of the human spirit in troubled times. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3, 4, 10 and 11, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5 and 12, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

A jazz trombonist playing with a Mongolian band, famed jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and two distinctive classical concerts are featured in the 2006-07 Bates College Concert Series. The series starts with trombonist Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band on Nov. 2. Concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., and are open to the public. Admission fees vary by concert. For more information, please visit http://abacus.bates.edu/concerts/. For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

Jennifer J. Quinn, executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, presents two lectures at Bates on Friday, Nov. 10. At 4 p.m., she gives a talk titled "Synchronicity: Alternating Sums, Determinants, Continued Fractions and More." At 7:30 p.m., in the college's annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture, her subject is "Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers." Both talks are open to the public at no cost and take place in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road. For more information, please call the college concierge at 207-786-6255.

A quartet including three members of the Colby College music faculty visits Bates College to perform music from France's famously creative "Belle Epoch" at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Bates College presents "Andidan Lawonn-la," a multilingual performance of music, dance and poetry by the Caribbean Theater Company Siyaj at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the college chapel, College Street. Performed mostly in French and French Creole (an English text will be provided), "Andidan Lawonn-la" is open to the public at no cost. It is sponsored by the departments of anthropology, music, and romance languages and literatures; the programs in African American studies and dance; the Francophone Club; and the Multicultural Center. For more information, please call 207-755-5938.

The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs presents a two-day film series titled "Political Films from the African Diaspora" on Wednesday, Oct. 25, and Thursday, Oct. 26, in Rooms 104 and 105 of the Olin Arts Center.

Liam D. Leduc Clarke, a 1998 Bates College graduate and senior associate in APCO Worldwide's corporate social responsibility and philanthropy practice, will give a lecture titled "Business and the Common Good: Corporate Responsibility in a Global Economy and Community" at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives

President Hansen will appear with representatives from Princeton, UCLA and Washington University in St. Louis in a live national broadcast of NBC's "Today Show."

Adam Cote of Sanford, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the Maine Army National Guard, visits Bates College to offer a firsthand account of his time in Iraq at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettingill Hall. Sponsored by the Bates Democrats, the event is open to the public at no cost.

Frank Glazer, Maine's best-known pianist, marks the 70th anniversary of his New York City debut with a performance of that 1936 program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, in Bates College's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Elizabeth Strout, author of the nationally acclaimed novels "Amy and Isabelle" and this year's "Abide with Me," visits Bates College to read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Bates and its optional-SAT admissions policy were featured on ABC "World News" and the video is now available on the Bates Web site.

Bates symbolically broke ground Oct. 7 during Parents & Family Weekend for a new dining Commons scheduled to open in January 2008.

Richard "Anguksuar" LaFortune, a Native American GLBT and "Two-Spirit" community organizer, presents a talk titled "A Thousand Years of Respect" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.

Richard "Anguksuar" LaFortune, a Native American GLBT and "Two-Spirit" community organizer, presents a talk titled "A Thousand Years of Respect" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.

"Sharing the misery of weeding with a bunch of other people can be fun," says Molly Ladd '09, an environmental studies major from Somerville, Maine. She's right: Fun is reigning among the half-dozen or so students working on the Wood Street Service Garden on a cool and brilliant day in early fall.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, and noon Sunday, Oct. 8, in the college's Schaeffer Theater, 305 College St. The performances are open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6161. In a program titled "Speechless," the company will present works by guest artists Jodi Melnick and Jennifer Archibald, both of New York.

Orientation for the Class of 2010, held Aug. 28-Sept. 8, included a little something for everyone.

Poet Mary Oliver, whose writing has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, visits Bates College to read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Made possible by the Philip J. Otis Endowment, the annual Otis Lecture is open to the public at no cost. A reception and book signing will be held in the Olin lobby after the reading. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

In the 2005-06 academic season, at least six Bates students and alumni have received prestigious graduate fellowships.

Four recent Ph.D. recipients present a variety of research at a Bates College symposium titled "Byzantine Studies: Back to the Future," to be held from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Food historian and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris, professor of special programs and associate professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, will give a talk titled "The Rise of Creole Cultures in the African Diaspora" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

Convocation is about the new, and novelty abounded at the 2006 Bates College convocation. In addition to marking the start of a new academic year and welcoming some 500 new students, this year's event marked the start of an important tradition.

In March, Dana Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki directed the Bates theater department production of 'Popcorn,' Ben Elton's scathing comedy about the relationship between media and social behavior. In this four-minute audio slideshow, Andrucki discusses the play and the relationship between the media and violence.

The Rev. William Blaine-Wallace, an Episcopal priest, has been named the multifaith chaplain at Bates College, announced Dean of Students Tedd R. Goundie.

Bates College begins its 152nd academic year with a convocation address by Robert Farnsworth, a member of the English faculty and a nationally known poet, at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, on the college's Historic Quadrangle. Farnsworth spent the summer as the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, a museum and arts center housed in poet Robert Frost's former homestead in Franconia, N.H. Farnsworth's convocation address is titled "Three Lower-Case Virtues."

August is peak season for college guides, and Bates continues to get high marks in them.

Thanks to a recent grant and a key donation of personal papers, one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of political documents outside the presidential library system has grown even larger.

President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced three appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Susan S. Kozik of Matthews, N.C., Christopher J. Gorayeb of New York, N.Y., and James F. O'Brien Jr. of New York, N.Y.,

The annual "Different Voices" concert features a wide range of dance from around the globe as visiting artists from the United States, Mexico, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Africa bring new works to the Bates Dance Festival stage.

The 2006 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series concludes on Aug. 10 with a 6 p.m. performance by Maine-based singer-songwriter Carolyn Currie. The show takes place in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at Bates. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

From Celtic to pop to sounds from 'round the world, the 2006 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series offers acoustic music for every taste. Starting at 6 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 10, concerts take place in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at Bates College. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

From Celtic to pop to sounds from 'round the world, the 2006 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series offers acoustic music for every taste. Starting at 6 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 10, concerts take place in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at Bates College. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

From Celtic to pop to sounds from 'round the world, the 2006 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series offers acoustic music for every taste. Starting at 6 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 10, concerts take place in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at Bates College. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Acclaimed choreographers and performers nugent+matteson dance, Gabriel Masson, Michael Foley, Cathy Young, Rachel List and Jennifer Archibald perform in the Bates Dance Festival's annual Faculty Gala at 8 p.m. Saturday, August 5, in Schaeffer Theatre.

Joseph T. Willett '73 of Ridgewood, N.J., has been elected the new chair of the Bates College board of trustees, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and trustees have announced.

Jason Rafferty of Greenland, N.H., a 2005 magna cum laude graduate of Bates College, has received a prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Fellowship, one of the nation's largest graduate study awards.

In June, four Bates students and assistant professor of psychology Roxanne Prichard traveled to Salt Lake City for the 20th anniversary SLEEP meeting, sponsored by the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

Spoken word dynamo Marc Bamuthi Joseph presents his latest full-evening work, "Scourge," fusing hip-hop, spoken word, dance and live music.

Bates College today announced the successful completion of its largest fund-raising campaign, "The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values," which surpassed the $120 million goal set when it began in September 2000.

Described by The New York Times as "electrifying" and hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a local treasure," Robert Moses' Kin returns to the Bates Dance Festival to present Moses' eloquent and streetwise brand of contemporary dance.

On Tuesday, July 11, a lightning strike damaged several parts of the Bates College telephone system.

From Celtic to pop to sounds from 'round the world, the 2006 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series offers acoustic music for every taste. Starting at 6 p.m. every Thursday from July 13 through Aug. 10, concerts take place in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at Bates College. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The sixth annual Clean Sweep, the Bates College "garage sale" of furnishings, books, electronics and other goods donated by departing students, generated some $9,579 in proceeds that were divided among nine local nonprofit organizations and a school athletics program.

Tania Isaac Dance kicks off the 2006 Bates Dance Festival events series with an evening-length tale inspired by Caribbean village life.

Lena Sene '00 is among 14 White House Fellows appointed for 2006-07, the White House recently announced. The fellowship program is considered to be the most competitive and prestigious U.S. public leadership initiative.

The Bates College library staff will hold a mock disaster and recovery of library materials at 10:30 a.m. on June 23 in the outdoor lower arcade of the George and Helen Ladd Library.

Seven Bates College faculty and staff have been awarded Harward Center grants in the inaugural round of a new, annual funding program by the Harward Center For Community Partnerships.

This summer's major exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art presents 16 artists in a wide-ranging examination of a field enjoying an increasingly high profile in pop culture: cryptozoology, the study of unknown, rumored or hidden animals, such as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot. With humor and daring use of artistic media, "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale" offers a probing interrogation of a field that occupies a shadowy realm somewhere between myth, hucksterism and hard science.

Clean Sweep, Bates College's sixth annual "garage sale" of electronics, furnishings and other goods donated by departing students, takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at the college's Underhill Arena, 145 Russell St.

After 21 years with the Bates College Athletic Department, Athletic Director Suzanne Coffey has announced her resignation to become the athletic director of Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. "This was a difficult decision," Coffey said.

Weekend awards granted by the College's Alumni Association will recognize service to Bates and to the world, including honors to a former president of the American Medical Association and a retired U.S. diplomat who helped draw worldwide attention to acts of genocide in Sudan in 2004.

Professor Emeritus of English John A. Tagliabue, a member of the Bates faculty from 1953 to 1989 and author of six books of poetry, died May 31.

Sent on their way with armfuls of good advice -- including best-selling historian David McCullough's suggestion that "however little television you watch, watch less" -- 387 Bates College students made the transition from seniors to alumni in a 10 a.m. ceremony today.

Bates College senior Keelin Godsey is now a 15-time All-America performer in track and field, and he saved his best for last. On his final hammer throw at the NCAA Division III Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Friday, Godsey set a personal record at 206 feet and 5 inches, breaking his own national record.

Bates, which last fall contracted to buy all its electricity from renewable sources, has taken another step toward environmental sustainability with an arrangement to heat some student residences with cleaner-burning biofuel. In March, Bates started heating 12 residential houses with a blend of petroleum heating oil and biofuel made from vegetable oil. Biofuel is a cleaner alternative to pure heating oil and diesel vehicle fuel, and pure biofuel is a renewable, domestically produced resource.

The past retains its power to surprise today's students, as Alison Vander Zanden '06 learned during the winter. In a research project for the course "Sociology of Gender," Vander Zanden was the latest student to delve into the regulatory "Bates Blue Books" and advice booklets that prescribed the limits of student life at the college.

Two Bates students are among 30 students nationwide recognized for their activism by Young America's Foundation, a conservative outreach organization. Nate Walton '08 of Marblehead, Mass., and Melissa Simones '06 of Greene were honored in April as members of the foundation's Club 100.

The environmental legacy of the late U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie '36, who was dubbed "Mr. Clean" for spearheading clean water and air laws in the 1960s and 1970s, found its way into a Supreme Court ruling May 15.

Colin Woodard, an award-winning journalist for The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle for Higher Education, will give a talk titled "The Lobster Coast: The Past, Present and Future of Coastal Maine" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall.

The Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships, in coordination with the college's Student Volunteer Fellows, will hold a Community Partnerships Day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 12.

In 2005, the Class of 1975 marked its 30th Reunion by giving an ivy stone to the College designed by classmate Diane Kounkoulas Peterson. On May 4, 2006, Bates mason Wilfred Chouinard installed the stone.

Award-winning writer Alake Pilgrim, a member of the Bates College Class of 2003, returns to campus for a two-week residency in May that includes reading her short stories, screening a film about immigration and giving a talk about religious identity.

Three Bates College faculty members who share a passion for photography have mounted their images in an exhibit titled "After Image" in Chase Hall.

As Bates College gets its five-week spring Short Term into gear, the Bates Democrats sponsor three events examining the war in Iraq and American military policy. The events are open to the public at no charge. Titled "A Short Term of Thought on U.S. Foreign Policy," the series opens with filmmaker Walter Miale at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Nathaniel Walton '08, chair of the Maine College Republicans, has received the Richard M. and Helen DeVos Freedom Center Award for Student Leadership from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).

One of them classical, the other jazz, two concerts feature standout Maine pianists this weekend at Bates College. Frank Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980 and perhaps Maine's best-known pianist, plays a program including music by Arnold Schoenberg, with whom he studied, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Also in Olin, a quartet led by Portland pianist Tom Snow kicks off a series of jazz concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 29. Both concerts (and the additional concerts described below) are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

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. It 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.

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 ecological geochemistry 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.

Seven studio art majors at Bates are showing work from their yearlong thesis projects in the annual Senior Exhibition, which runs through May 28 in the Bates Gallery, Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St.

Virginia Republican Party Chairwoman Kate Obenshain Griffin gives a lecture on the topic "Failure of Feminism" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact Nate Walton, chairman of the Maine College Republicans, at 207-240-4549 or chairman@mainecr.org.

After mentoring a group of boys from Poland Regional High School and teaching them photography, Bates College junior Jacob Bluestone of Huntington, N.Y., has mounted their images in an exhibit titled In Our Hands, Through our Eyes in Chase Hall Gallery, 56 Campus Ave.

Four honorary degree recipients will speak at the 140th commencement at Bates on May 28. They are Shakespearean scholar and cultural critic Marjorie Garber, AIDS researcher David Ho, historian David McCullough and choreographer Mark Morris. The 10 a.m. commencement ceremony takes place on the historic quad in front of Coram Library.

Hundreds of Bates people and members of the local community flooded Pettengill Hall as the College mounted its fifth annual Mount David Summit on March 24. An eagerly anticipated presentation of student scholarship, service-learning and creative work, the summit unfurls a panorama of the rich life of the student mind at Bates.

Two Bates College seniors are among 50 students across the country to receive 2006 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, $25,000 grants that support a year of independent research abroad. The Bates recipients are Amanda Harrow of Hopkinton, Mass., and Andrew Stowe of Wallingford, Conn.

As part of an Islam and Middle East Awareness Week at Bates College, Forsan Hussein, an expert on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, will give a talk on the conflict and discuss alternatives for the peace process .

It's a rich long weekend of music and dance performance at Bates as the college's choir and its Modern Dance Company hold a total of six performances over four days.

The Brooks Quimby Debate Council is hosting a special public debate at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on the resolution: "This House believes that Bates College should institutionalize a hate speech code."

Hilary Putnam, philosopher emeritus at Harvard Univerity, visits Bates College to address the topic "The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Tom Ewell, recently retired executive director of the Maine Council of Churches and an activist in many peace and justice arenas, will give a lecture and present the annual William Stringfellow Awards in Justice and Peace.

Through poster presentations, panel discussions, a photography exhibit, film projects and more, some 200 Bates College students will publicly share their academic and creative efforts at the fifth annual Mount David Summit, starting at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 24, in Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Featuring the college gamelan orchestra and a Cambodian music and dance troupe, this year's World Music Weekend at Bates College takes place Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Titled "The Ramayana in Southeast Asia," the weekend explores adaptations of the ancient, seminal epic from India titled "Ramayana."

Pepperdine Law School dean and former U.S. independent counsel Kenneth Starr visits Bates College to speak on the topic "Meaning of Marriage: Constitution and Judiciary" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

The Bates College Orchestra performs music by Barber, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 18, in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Another Road Home, an award-winning documentary in English by Israeli filmmaker Danae Elon chronicling her search for the Palestinian man who cared for her as a child, will be screened as part of the 2006 Maine Jewish Film Festival at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in Room 105 of the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

Scholar-activist William Santiago-Valles, associate professor of Africana studies at Western Michigan University, will give a talk titled "The Importance of Marronage as a Concept in Diaspora Studies" at 4 p.m. Friday, March 17, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.

Kate Gilmore, a New York-based video and performance artist, visits Bates College to present a video lecture about her work at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Sponsored by the Bates Alums in the Arts Series, the presentation is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6158 or visit the Web site www.bates.edu/x81478.xml.

Bates College presents Ben Elton's play "Popcorn," a scathing comedy about the relationship between public media and personal responsibility, in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 10-11 and 17-18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 12 and 19, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater, directs this Bates theater department production. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for seniors and non-Bates students. For more information call 207-786-6161. "Popcorn" is intended for adult audiences only.

The Maine College Republicans will host the Leadership Institute's flagship program, the Youth Leadership School, at Bates from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, and Sunday, March 12. The school will be held in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Faith Smith, who teaches Caribbean literature and chairs the African and Afro-American studies department at Brandeis University, gives a lecture titled "Travel and/as Authentication in Caribbean Studies: How to Tell a True West Indian" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Charles Kimball, professor of comparative religion at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, will give a presentation titled "Hope for the Perilous Journey Ahead: Engaging the Volatile Mix of Religion and Politics in Christianity, Judaism and Islam" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Two Bates College students who traveled to New Orleans during February break to work on construction projects with Habitat for Humanity will discuss their experience at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

The Bates College women's basketball team's season seemed nearly assured of extending into the second round of the NCAA tournament, but then the Bobcats' March turned mad.

The success of Bates College's men's and women's basketball teams this season translated into awards announced by the New England Small College Athletic Conference on Wednesday. Three individuals from both teams earned honors, including Player of the Year Meg Coffin and Coach of the Year Joe Reilly.

Maine's best-known pianist, a classical guitarist offering an evening of South American music, and performers from the Portland Chamber Music Festival make this a can't-miss weekend for music lovers at Bates College.

The Bates College Office of the Chaplain and the college's Hunger and Homelessness Committee present "Hear Our Stories, Know Our Names," a drama performed by Maine homeless persons at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 2.

Amandla!, the African American student organization at Bates College, presents " Unity Conference 2006: Building a Black Community," on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4.

Bates has passed the $100-million milestone in its fund-raising campaign, announced Vice President for College Advancement Victoria M. Devlin.

A few observations from Justin Freeman '98, a member of the U.S. Olympic cross country ski team.

Billed as the "ultimate showdown between two of the best debate teams in the country," the Brooks Quimby Debate Council debates the Yale University team on the issue, "Is terrorism, as a philosophical construct, a just form of warfare?"

A poetry reading by Jaki Shelton Green will be the first in a series of events sponsored by the Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs in observance of Black History Month.

Two Bates College juniors will join six students from the University of Maine system's Orono and Farmington campuses, and two Maine Campus Compact leaders, in New Orleans during the week of February break to work on construction projects with Habitat for Humanity.

Elizabeth Brady, a junior from Pembroke, Mass., directs the sixth annual Bates College production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" in performances at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10 and 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The production is sponsored by the Robinson Players, a student theater group at Bates. Admission is $3, with proceeds supporting both the Auburn-based Abused Women's Advocacy Project and V-Day, an international effort to end violence against women and girls. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Beginning a new chapter in Bates College's commitment to the Lewiston-Auburn community and to community-based education, the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center of Community Partnerships presented a grand opening and a welcome for its first director, David M. Scobey. The Jan. 25-27 celebration featured thee days of academic and cultural events.

Considered one of the world-class quartets of its generation, the St. Lawrence String Quartet visits Bates College for a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission to this Bates College Concert Series program is $8 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and non-Bates students with ID.

For the last few months the clock had, as the saying goes, shown the correct time only twice a day...The Class of 1931 Clock atop the Hathorn Hall porch is a small but eye-catching Bates landmark. Yet for the last few months the clock had, as the saying goes, shown the correct time only twice a day.

Nominated by students and alums who describe his classroom as a "town meeting" where the moderator respects all viewpoints, faculty member William Corlett has received the College's Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Helen Evans, who curated two popular and critically acclaimed exhibitions of Byzantine art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, visits Bates College to discuss the creation of those shows at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

During the next two weeks, student groups at Bates College offer presentations laying out the arguments for and against the discount giant Wal-Mart.

The historic Quad sported a rare dead-of-winter look today: bare ground with a hint of green. Click on the image for a larger version of this Jan. 20 panorama.

The Blazing Sun Steel Pan Orchestra, a Bates College student ensemble directed by Shawn Thwaites, performs in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Thwaites, new to the Bates music faculty this academic year, will play steel pan as well as direct the ensemble. Also featured is Greg Waters, a Bates sophomore who plays saxophone. The public is invited to attend the concert at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Bates College community observes the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. by canceling classes and scheduling special programming throughout the day. For 2006, the Martin Luther King Day Committee placed an emphasis on the theme "The Noble Road to Peace: Storming the Battlements of Injustice."

On successive evenings in February, Bates College presents two lectures by noted scholars from the law schools at Columbia and Yale universities. Alan Schwartz '61, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offers a talk titled "The Economic Rationality Assumption and Its Challengers" at 7:30 p.m Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Patricia Williams, columnist for The Nation and James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, gives a lecture titled "Reconstructing Civil Rights for an Uncertain Future" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Bates Chapel, College Street.

Marking a new chapter in Bates College's commitment to the Lewiston-Auburn community and to community-based education, the Donald W. and Ann. M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships presents a grand opening and welcome for its first director, David M. Scobey.

Sangai Asia, a student group at Bates College that promotes Asian and Asian American awareness, identity and fellowship, presents a cultural extravaganza titled "Asian Night Performance" at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

A structure made of Styrofoam packing materials and a system that renders museum-goers' images into sound are among the six artworks in "Activator," a group exhibition of installations at the Bates College Museum of Art. The show opens with a reception and artist gallery talks at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the museum, located in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. The exhibition runs through March 20.

Former All-America Bates cross country skier Justin Freeman '98 was named Tuesday to the 2006 U.S. Olympic ski team set to compete at Torino, Italy, Feb. 10-26.

Paul Kuritz, a professor of theater at Bates College, seeks volunteer actors and film crewmembers to join him and members of the Bates community in creating a screen adaptation of "A New Life," a short story by Mary Ward Brown.

Rory Stratton, a 2005 graduate of Bates College, is researching Islamic art and architectural history in Sri Lanka with the support of a Fulbright grant.

The quartet led by jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett performs in the Bates College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and non-Bates students with ID. For additional information about the series and the concert hall, please see the Web site http://abacus.bates.edu/concerts/. For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.