8am–1pm  Welcome/Information Table: Front Foyer, Pettengill Hall
*Registration
     • Student Orientation Packet pickup (Room G63)
     • Banking services through TD Banknorth (Room G65)
     • Student employment (Room G65)
     • Voter registration (Room G54)
     • Entering Student Survey administration (Room G52)
     • Lobster bake sign-up (Room G50)
     • Student identification processing (Room G10)
     • Room and building key/electronic access (Room G10)
     • Parents’ Welcome Table (Perry Atrium)
       Bicycle Coop/Zip Car Info (        )

9am–5pm  Ladd Library
Information and Library Services
The Help Desk Services team can assist you with connecting your computer to
the Bates network and answering your computing questions. Library staff are on
hand to give parent/family tours of the library.

11am–12:30pm  Alumni Gym
Parent Orientation 

12:30–2pm  Library Quad
Parent and New Student Barbecue
with Deans of Students
(Rain site: New Commons)

1:00–1:45 p.m.  Chase Hall Lounge
New Transfer Student and Parent Meeting

2:30–3:45pm Gray Athletic Building
*C.L. Lindsay, “Campus Computing: From Free Speech to Facebook”
An important program for parents and students to attend together

4:30–5:30pm  Historic Quad
*President’s Welcome and Reception
Reception immediately following on Library Terrace
(Rain sites: Gray Athletic Building and Library Arcade)
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Family Farewells
All remaining events are for student participation only.
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6–7pm  New Commons Dining Room
Dinner with Junior Advisors

5:30–7:15 p.m.  New Commons, Rm. 211
Transfer Students Dinner and Orientation
With Associate Dean of Students James Reese

6:15–7:15pm  Keigwin Amphitheater
Sunset Performance by Bates A Cappella Groups

7:30–9pm  Gray Athletic Building
First Night Speaker

9-11pm
Ice Cream Social  and  First Year Center Meetings w/JAs.