1. Slide show depicts Class of 2012 orientation
Orientation for the Class of 2012 helped ease first-year students into Bates life by offering something for everyone: settling into residence halls, sailing the Maine coast, visiting a wild and crazy student activities fair, and considering Bates classicist Margaret Imber's metaphorical Convocation talk equating love with a liberal arts education. In this slide show we share a few of these experiences. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-01a

See a video of Commencement addresses by Professor Imber and President Elaine Tuttle Hansen. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-01b

2. Three appointed to Bates Board of Trustees
President Hansen has announced three appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Steven A. Brown of Brookline, Mass., Sarah Risley Pearson of Evanston, Ill., and Jeremy M. Sclar, also of Brookline www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-02

3. Bates Trustees request nominations for honorary degree recipients
The Board of Trustees welcomes your nominations for Commencement honorary degree recipients. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-03

4. Bates, Lewiston Public Library series to mark Darwin anniversaries
During the 2008-09 academic year, Bates and the Lewiston Public Library are commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of naturalist Charles Darwin and the 150th publication anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species. "Darwin at 200" is a series of events illustrating the importance of Darwin's theory to our understanding of life on Earth and to human culture. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-04

5. Reunion workshop and leadership conference Oct. 25
Attention all alumni from the classes of 1939, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004: Your classmates are already working on plans for Reunion Weekend (June 12-14, 2009) and welcome your help. Join us during Homecoming Weekend for a Reunion Planning Workshop Oct. 25. We also invite all alumni to our Fall Leadership Conference, offering an insider's look at campus initiatives and seminars for volunteers. Register for the weekend and see workshop, conference, and weekend schedules: www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-05

6. Gift for local, organic, natural food prompts national media attention
The $2.5 million gift for Bates to buy more locally grown, natural and organic foods has prompted numerous news and feature stories, including ones by The Associated Press, the Portland Press Herald and The Chronicle of Higher Education. To capture the story of mutual benefit enjoyed by Bates and local food vendors, a video news team from WCSH-TV6, Portland's NBC affiliate, went first to Blackie's Farm Fresh Produce, a greengrocer in Auburn, and then to Bates to interview Director of Dining Services Christine Schwartz. See that report and others at: www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-06

7. Smithsonian photo exhibit on women athletes comes to Bates
For the month of October, the second floor of the New Dining Commons at Bates College will house a traveling exhibit of 15 photographs that celebrate the female athlete. The full exhibit, titled "Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?" is on tour at museums nationwide after opening at the Smithsonian. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-07

8. Documentary on Lewiston artist Marsden Hartley premieres at Bates
The first documentary film about influential artist Marsden Hartley had its world premiere at Bates College's Olin Arts Center with free public showings. Maine Gov. John Baldacci also honored the Lewiston native, designating Sept. 25 as Marsden Hartley Day. "Hartley is the most important of the Early American modernists," Mark Bessire, director of the college's Museum of Art, said in an interview with the Lewiston Sun Journal. The Bates museum is home to the world's largest collection of Hartley artifacts. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-08

9. Faculty report on scholarship and creativity now online
New Hampshire's Concord Monitor spoke with Jay Surdukowski '02 about his insights into the mind of accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic, whose poetry Surdukowski studied while working for an international criminal tribunal. The New York Times reported on an important career move for art curator Darsie Alexander '88. And the Times also covered an eye-opening new U.S. Army surgical manual, the first to be published while the wars that informed it are still under way, that the Army itself tried to censor. One of the three authors of "War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq" is Dr. Dave Lounsbury '72. www.bates.edu/go/news/2008-10-10