The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Winston-Salem Chronicle's 1994 Man of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.

"It has been a fantastic year," said debate coach Bryan Brito. "Once again Bates debaters won the novice tournament, and we have trophied at virtually every tournament we have attended.

Athletic teams at Bates are on a brief hiatus for exams this week. Contests will resume on Jan. 3 with the women's basketball team heading to Williamstown, Mass., for the Williams Tournament. But it's been a tremendous first month of the winter sports season for the Bobcats, with several teams earning national recognition.

Bates College announced today, Friday, Dec. 10, a campaign to raise scholarship funds for local students who attend the liberal arts institution.

Both the men's and women's basketball teams have gotten off to impressive starts at Bates College, with both teams undefeated through the first three weeks of the season.

For the second consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted an all-day forensics tournament Saturday, Dec. 4, for approximately 260 Maine high school students.

Meeting today with students enrolled in "Wartime Dissent in Modern America" — a course taught by associate professor of history Hilmar Jensen — Boston civil rights attorney Howard Friedman discussed restrictions on civil liberties caused by the war on terror.

Directed by John Corrie, a member of the Bates College music faculty since 1982, the Bates College Choir and other student musicians offer two very different programs in December. Both are open to the public at no cost.

"The Heart of Mathematics," a session featuring work by students in the course "Great Ideas in Mathematics," aims to showcase the power of the imagination in interpreting some key concepts in the field.

Hillel Newman, the Israeli consul to New England in Boston, will offer a lecture titled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East: After Arafat," at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, in Chase Hall Lounge, Bates College, Campus Avenue.

An appearance at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, by New York University professor Joshua Aronson has been canceled.

The college has received an award for its adoption of a policy that strengthens tobacco control efforts on campus.

Katherine A. Stefko is the new director of archives and special collections at Bates College.

About a year ago, when professor of geology John Creasy was designing a first-year seminar exploring both the science of volcanoes and their affects on people, a field trip to Mount St. Helens seemed ideal.

Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, known internationally as composers and as music theorists expert in relationships between music and such disciplines as math and physics, will spend a weeklong residency at Bates College that includes two events open to the public at no cost.

The Bates College men's cross country team advanced to the 2004 NCAA Division III Championship with a fourth place finish at the New England regional on Saturday afternoon at Twin Brook Recreation Center.

Often viewed as playwright John Guare's most popular and important work, "The House of Blue Leaves" is the major fall theater production of the Bates College theater department. Directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz, "Blue Leaves" will be performed at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 5-6 and 12-13, and at 2 p.m. on Sundays, Nov. 7 and 14.

A shadow-puppet performance of an ancient Indonesian story and an orchestral concert featuring a setting of four poems by a noted Maine poet will distinguish Bates among local arts presenters this weekend.

Mark Plant, assistant director of the Policy Development and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund, comes to Bates College to offer a lecture on IMF policies regarding poverty at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

The annual Writers Harvest reading at Bates College will be given by Cleopatra Mathis, professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of five collections of poetry, at 8 p.m.Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

Hundreds of alumni, faculty, students and friends met over a harvest dinner in Merrill Gymnasium Oct. 30 to celebrate the alumni launch of The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values, a comprehensive fund-raising effort to raise at least $120 million by June 30, 2006.

The Bates College Museum of Art presents a symposium on Marsden Hartley, a Lewiston native and a pioneer in modern American art, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5-6.

The Bates College women's club ice hockey team has been selected to represent the United States at the Baltic Blast & Thanksgiving Day Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia.

"Have you voted today?" asked senior Katie Franich as she greeted classmates entering Chase Hall for lunch.

Bates College will hold a panel discussion about U.S. relations with the Middle East and South Asia at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

In next Tuesday's presidential election, Americans have a choice between "fear and hope," former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell told an audience of about 100 at Bates College at midday Thursday, Oct. 28.

This annual open house draws students and their parents from as far afield as Aroostook and York counties, typically attracting as many as 150 participants. The program includes campus tours, visits to classes, a meeting with coaches and workshops relating to the Bates application process.

The exhibition "Multicultural Center Retrospective: Eight Years of Diversity Programming" opens Thursday, Oct. 28, with a 6 p.m. reception whose guests include the author and attorney Derrick Bell, featured in a 7 p.m. talk commemorating the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Bates College presents Michael Miclon, a well-known Maine comedian and new vaudevillian, with a talk about the state's creative economy at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

The Bates College men's cross country team is ranked ninth nationally among NCAA Division III institutions, and the women's soccer team made its debut in the national polls on Tuesday, ranking 21st.

From Boston, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra continues the 2004-05 Bates College Concert Series with an 8 p.m. concert Saturday, Oct. 16.

Bates College announced the public phase of the most ambitious fund-raising effort in its history Oct. 9 – a $120 million campaign focused on endowment for greater student financial aid, academic programs and facilities improvements.

"It's often said that democracies are measured by the participation of their citizens," President Elaine Tuttle Hansen observed.

Bates senior Ryan Heffernan of Napa, Calif., exhibits "Portraits of the Harvest 2004," a series of black and white photographs of workers harvesting grapes in Mendoza, Argentina, and in his hometown, in Chase Hall Gallery, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Cristin McKnight, of Los Angeles, is the second Bates College graduate to receive a 2004-05 grant for postgraduate research from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Safa Abu-Rabia and Hannah Safran, two feminist peace activists working in Israel, offer a pair of lectures Monday, Oct. 11, in Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Amandla!, a Bates College organization addressing issues of people of black heritage, has launched a fund-raising drive to assist citizens of the Caribbean islands devastated by recent hurricanes and Sudanese refugees.

The Bates College Museum of Art installation "From Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium," by Chinese artist Wenda Gu, closes with a reception and a performance piece by Gu at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

In a milestone 20-year study of its well-known policy for optional SATs for admission, Bates College has found no differences in academic performance or graduation rates between submitters and non-submitters.

Presenting artists from Boston, Beijing, Venice and Normal, Ill., the 2004-05 Bates College Concert Series brings a world's worth of musical artistry to the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall this fall and winter. The series of four 8 p.m. concerts begins on Saturday, Oct. 2, with a concert of Chinese music by Chi Li, a virtuoso of the "erhu," a two-stringed fiddle renowned for its haunting voicelike sound.

Liz Wanless is one of 52 state finalists for the 2004 NCAA Woman of the Year award after earning the title for the State of Maine.

Representatives from Harvard Divinity School, Bangor Theological Seminary, Andover Newton Theological School and Yale Divinity School visit Bates to present a workshop on graduate studies in religion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue.

President George W. Bush's daughters, Jenna and Barbara, visited the Bates College campus today to extend a thank-you to Bates Republicans for continued efforts to re-elect their father.

Led by first-year student Brendan Jarboe of Acton, Mass., Bates College debaters swept the 2004 American Parliamentary Debate Association's Novice Championships, held Sept. 24 and 25 at Boston University.

The Bates College Program in Environmental Studies will show "Affluenza," the acclaimed 1997 documentary about the impact of rampant materialism in America, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Presented by the Bates College Multicultural Center, the consul general of Spain in Boston discusses relations between the United States and Spain in the context of immigration and terrorism at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Orientation for the Class of 2008, Aug. 30-Sept. 10, included a little something for everyone.

Peter Miguel Camejo, longtime antiwar and social justice activist and the vice presidential running mate of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, will address students of History 265, "Wartime Dissent in Modern America," at 2:40 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, in the Bates College Chapel.

For the third year, Bates College students are leading a program to match fellow students with volunteer opportunities in Lewiston, Auburn and nearby communities.

For the third year, Bates College students are leading a program to match fellow students with volunteer opportunities in Lewiston, Auburn and nearby communities.

Bates College has named as Dana Professors two members of the anthropology faculty and one member of the religion faculty.

To provide historical perspective on what happened more than three decades ago and what is going on now in the Middle East, a Bates College panel consisting of a Vietnam veteran, a Vietnamese student from Hanoi, a Republican Party student activist, and a former member of Congress and Reagan arms control official will debate the differences and similarities between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

"Everybody who acts is uncertain," author Paul Rogat Loeb told the Bates College community and its Class of 2008 during the Sept. 8 ceremony marking the start of the college's 150th academic year.

Kenneth J. Hermann Jr. and Nguyen Thi My Hoa, director and vice-director of the State University of New York at Brockport's Vietnam Program, discuss post-war Vietnam, its relations with the United States and the legacy of Agent Orange in a presentation titled "Vietnam: A Nation, Not a War," at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

Bates College names Dana Professors

Musicians performing at Bates College in September include Frank Glazer, a prominent Maine pianist and Bates artist in residence; Atsuko Hirai, a soprano and member of the Bates faculty; and the Verdehr Trio, internationally acclaimed for its development of the violin-clarinet-piano trio repertoire.

Bates received 3.5 applications for every first-year student admitted to the Class of 2008, with 467 new first-year students expected when the fall semester starts Sept. 8. There were 4,250 applications from more than 100 countries and all 50 states. In all, 1,800 active degree-seeking students will be enrolled on campus or in Bates-sponsored off-campus programs in fall 2004.

A Bates College junior will represent Maine's 2nd Congressional District at the Republican National Convention in New York City starting Aug. 30.

Bates College continues to get high marks in the major college guides.

Organized and run by students, the Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program -- commonly known by its acronym, AESOP -- puts Bates first-years, guided by older peers, onto hiking trails and into kayaks.

Paul Rogat Loeb, author of a highly praised book exploring community involvement, opens the 150th academic year at Bates College with the Convocation address "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Hope in a Time of Fear" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, on the main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.

"Being at college, being away from home, you're set to feel you're on your own, you're adult now," says Matt Heffernan '05. But in Heffernan's case, it turns out, that feeling was premature. It wasn't until this summer, when Heffernan got an apartment and a job in downtown Lewiston, that he really cleared the launch pad.

The Bates Dance Festival presents its Different Voices concert at 8 p.m. Aug. 12 and 13 in Schaeffer Theatre, located on College Avenue, Bates College. The concert showcases artists from the United States, Vietnam, Mexico and Cape Verde.

The Rhode Island-based Everett Dance Theatre returns to Bates College to present the 2004 world premiere of "Home Movies." Incorporating dance, theater and video, "Home Movies" explores today’s American family, tackling such issues as mental illness, homelessness and immigration.

Tedd R. Goundie, recently appointed as Bates College dean of students by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, begins his duties Aug. 1.

New York dance maker Tere O’Connor, a leading postmodern choreographer, brings his company Tere O’Connor Dance to the Bates Dance Festival Bates for the 2004 Maine premiere of "Lawn," a work co-commissioned by the festival.

Bates College is one of nine Maine institutions that will benefit from a federal grant of nearly $18 million designed to expand biomedical research opportunities across the state.

Philadelphia’s Rennie Harris, one of hip-hop’s leading ambassadors worldwide, brings his company, Puremovement, back to the Bates Dance Festival for the 2004 Maine premiere of Facing Mekka, a work co-commissioned by the festival and conceived at Bates in 1998.

Elizabeth Wanless '04 finished 13th in the preliminary round of the women's shot put at the U.S. Olympic trials on Thursday, just one spot shy of qualifying for Friday's final round in Sacremento, Calif.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 22nd season of producing contemporary dance, presents hoi polloi in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 17, in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street. A discussion with the artists immediately follows the concert.

Elizabeth Wanless '04, a four-time All-America and two-time NCAA Division III champion in the shot put, will compete in the qualifying round of the Olympic trials July 15 in Sacramento, Calif.

At the request of college President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, students, staff and faculty at Bates College have created an environmental task force.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 22nd season of producing contemporary dance, presents hoi polloi in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 17, in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street.

An accordion band, a "world jazz" ensemble and an award-winning fiddler are among the attractions in 2004's expanded Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series.

Kathryn Graff Low, associate professor of psychology at Bates and a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1978, won the Bowdoin Alumni Council's 2004 Distinguished Educator Award.

Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, a professor of chemistry at Bates College is bringing four Lewiston High School students to the college to help investigate the biochemistry of a particular category of viruses.

Bates College hosts the annual meeting of the Liberal Arts Career NetWORK, a consortium of the career-services operations of 28 selective U.S. liberal arts colleges, from June 15 to June 19.

Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, a professor of chemistry at Bates College is bringing four Lewiston High School students to the college to help investigate the biochemistry of a particular category of viruses.

Weston L. Bonney '50 and Roger C. Schmutz '54 were honored at the 136th Reunion Alumni Awards Ceremony on June 12.

In a collaboration unusual for Maine's academic museums, the Bates College Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, will jointly present an exhibition by Wenda Gu, one of the most important artists to emerge from China in recent decades.

Seventeen Lewiston High School students were honored for their work on 13 projects in the high school's fifth annual Science Fair

Bates is one of a growing number of colleges and universities nationwide that benefit both the environment and local non-profit organizations by selling useful possessions

Faculty in the Bates College departments of geology and of physics and astronomy invite Lewiston-Auburn residents to a viewing of the highly anticipated "Transit of Venus," a rare solar system event

Colleagues, relatives, friends and former students of Richard W. Sampson, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Bates College who passed away in April, will gather to celebrate his memory

Michael P. Roberts, a recent Bates College graduate from Longmeadow, Mass., has received an award to support postgraduate research in Mongolia from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Liz Wanless won the women's shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a meet record throw to claim her second national shot put championship on Saturday afternoon at Millikin University.

Alumni, alumni parents and friends of Bates College have raised more than $600,000 for the creation of dance studios and a cardiovascular fitness center in the college's Merrill Gymnasium. Capping fund-raising efforts for the new facilities, the college's Board of Trustees on May 29 endorsed alumni requests to name the new facilities in honor of two highly esteemed members of the Bates community.

"The Memory of Salt," a play written by Lisa Maurizio, associate professor of classical and medieval studies at Bates College, will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 21 and 22, in the college's Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

In a collaboration unusual for Maine's academic museums, the Bates College Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, will jointly present an exhibition by Wenda Gu

A beloved former dean of admissions was one of four eminent speakers to offer advice and counsel to 450 graduating Bates College seniors today during the college's 138th commencement ceremony.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, announces its 22nd season, July 17 through Aug. 14, 2004.

Musicians from Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Maine will bring fresh perspectives to traditional sounds during the third annual WRBC Roots Music Festival

Liz Wanless was named the U.S. Track Coaches Association Female Regional Athlete of the Year, and Al Fereshetian was selected as the USTCA Men's Regional Coach of the Year for New England on Wednesday night.

Eight Bates College student-athletes will head to Decatur, Ill., to compete at the 2004 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships later this week.

"The Memory of Salt," a play written by Lisa Maurizio, associate professor of classical and medieval studies at Bates College, will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 21 and 22, in the college's Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Visiting muralist Marta Ayala has collaborated with students in Assistant Professor of Spanish Felicia Fahey's Short Term unit, "Muralismo: movimientos en práctica," to produce a mural on the second floor of historic Hathorn Hall.

Bates hosted the 2004 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championships at the Wallach Tennis Center last week. Middlebury defeated NESCAC rival Williams 4-3 in a thrilling come-from-behind match to win the team title on Friday, while UC Santa Cruz's Matt Seeberger and Mary Washington's Dan Uyar and Paul Bristow won individual titles. Bates sophomore Will Boe-Wiegaard fell in the first round of the singles championship.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it has awarded Bates College a grant, Bates' fifth from HHMI, for $1.2 million to support science education.

Bates students registering for Short Term might jot down the location of their class in a notebook or Palm Pilot, but they soon realize that a classroom is often just the starting point for a five-week adventure.

Syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, will give a lecture titled "The Light That Failed" about the 50-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. the Board of Education at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, in the Bates College Chapel.

The shadow-puppet story for the performances, Pruiksma explains, comes from the "Mahabharata," an ancient Hindu epic of India brought to Java by Indian colonists hundreds of years ago

As a follow-up to a well-attended discussion last month about the United States and Iraq, Bates College presents a panel discussion about the United States and the Middle East at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, at the corner of Campus Avenue and Franklin Street.

Rolf-Dieter F. Schnelle, consul general to New England for the Federal Republic of Germany, speaks on the topic "The New Europe -- Old and New United: A Challenge to the Europeans and the United States"

Astronomer R. Bruce Partridge visits Bates College to give a lecture titled "Photographing the Big Bang" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

New music by a Bates faculty member and an afternoon of music for violin and piano highlight the performance offerings at Bates College on the second weekend of May.

As part of the gathering, a trio of Bates debaters will square off against three members of the Oxford team, on the topic "Can Islam and democracy co-exist?"

Gloria Varney, owner of a farm in Turner known for its organic meats and dairy products, visits Bates College to discuss Maine's dairy industry

On May 1, a hot and sunny Saturday, a bunch of Batesies and other volunteers gathered for National Rebuilding Day, an annual community undertaking to rehabilitate housing for the disadvantaged. The day is sponsored by Rebuilding Together, a national organization with 250 regional affiliates dedicated to refurbishing homes for low-income people, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children.

The Dean of Faculty's Office has produced a new Web page that offers an annual overview of presentations and publications of Bates' amazing faculty.

More than 150 alumni of the Bates College Modern Dance Company came from as far away as Japan to take part in a May 1 dance performance marking the company's 35th anniversary and honoring company founder Marcy Plavin.

A team of three Bates College debaters defeated their Bowdoin College counterparts in a May 3 "President's Cup" debate held in Chase Hall.

New music by a Bates faculty member and an afternoon of music for violin and piano highlight the performance offerings at Bates College on the second weekend of May.

The fifth annual Lewiston High School Science Fair takes place from 3-6 p.m Thursday, May 6, in the high school gymnasium, 156 East Ave.

Astronomer R. Bruce Partridge visits Bates College to give a lecture titled "Photographing the Big Bang" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

The Bates College Museum of Art presents the "Black Factory," an installation by nationally acclaimed visual and performance artist William Pope.L, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents David Barlow, a member of the college's class of 1979 and the head of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in a discussion of his work at 7 p.m. Monday, April 26, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

As it does every year, Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to "Affirming Our Community," an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.

Two performers expert in the puppetry and music of Sunda, a mountainous western region of the Indonesian island of Java, offer a performance and a puppet-carving demonstration that are open to the public during their weeklong visit to Bates College.

Cynthia Freeman, a sophomore from Cameron, Ariz., has been named the seventh recipient of a 2004 Phillips Fellowship at Bates College.

A junior and a senior at Bates College were among 12 students at Maine institutions of higher education honored by the Maine Campus Compact for outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.

More than 4,000 barbeque meals -- a new record -- and 6,400 gladiolus and lily bulbs were distributed to all comers Thursday as Bates invited its Lewiston and Auburn neighbors to its annual Earth Day celebration.

In an effort to raise awareness about the escalating problem of homelessness faced in the Lewiston-Auburn community, the Bates College Hunger and Homelessness Committee and the Coalition of Many and One will co-sponsor three events May 3-8.

The Bates College Museum of Art presents "The Black Factory," an installation by nationally acclaimed visual and performance artist William Pope.L, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Also this month the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced that Pope.L is one of 185 recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Bates College presents a talk by Benjamin E. Robinson III, a member of the college's class of 1986 and the chief privacy executive for Bank of America Corporation, at 7 p.m. Monday, May 3, in the Muskie Room of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Bates College junior Heather Bracken of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been named to the American Collegiate Hockey Association's Women's Division Academic All-America team.

Every April, Bates College devotes a day to welcoming the students (and their parents) who have been accepted for admission to Bates. The annual Accepted Student Reception includes tours and panel discussions, a barbecue with live music for incoming students and a luncheon for their parents, and receptions and other programs designed to present Bates values, offerings and academic practices.

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents David Barlow, a member of the college's class of 1979 and the head of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in a discussion of his work at 7 p.m. Monday, April 26, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

More than 100 Bates College alumni will return to campus from all over the country to attend or take part in a performance marking the 35th anniversary of the college's Modern Dance Company

A paid summer internship and fellowship working with national policy experts, journalists and academics at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., has been awarded to Bates College junior Christopher Laconi of Falmouth, Maine.

The William Randolph Hearst Foundations have awarded Bates College a second grant of $100,000 to support scholarships that help make it possible for Maine students to attend Bates.

Greg Boardman, a fiddler and music teacher known for decades as a pillar of Maine's folk music community, celebrates the release of his new CD with a concert

Four honorary degree recipients will speak at the 138th commencement at Bates College May 31, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen announced today.

Twelve art majors cap their Bates College careers with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, opening with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 9. The exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell Ave., runs through May 30 and is open to the public at no charge.

Maine Gov. John E. Baldacci drove from state budget battles that continued into the early morning Friday to a breakfast presentation at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on "The Creative Economy and Maine's Future."

Twelve Bates College students have been awarded fellowships to support unusual off-campus research.

Six Bates College students have been named 2004 Phillips Student Fellows, recipients of an award that provides major funding for summer research projects involving meaningful immersion in different cultures

Bates rookie guard Zak Ray is one of 10 players in the nation to earn a spot on the 2003-04 DIII News Men's Basketball All-Freshman Team.

As a follow-up to a well-attended discussion last month about the United States and Iraq, Bates College presents a panel discussion about the United States and the Middle East at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, at the corner of Campus Avenue and Franklin Street.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Richard W. Sampson, known for inspiring his students through both his passionate and creative teaching of mathematics and his active interest in their lives, died April 1. A campus event celebrating his life and work is scheduled for Reunion Weekend, Friday, June 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin Concert Hall.

Student members of a social justice club at Bates College will present a 60-minute information session about the hotly debated Dirigo Health Plan, proposed by Gov. John Baldacci, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue.

Chinese-born scholar and director Carma Hinton screens her new two-hour film about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, "Morning Sun," at 6 p.m. Monday, March 22, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street.

Gloria Varney, owner of a farm in Turner known for its organic meats and dairy products, visits Bates College to discuss Maine's dairy industry at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in Room G21, Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Twelve art majors, three of them from Maine, cap their Bates College careers with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, opening with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 9. The exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell Ave., runs through May 30 and is open to the public at no charge.

Saida Cooper, a Bates College senior from St. Albans, Maine, will perform the Jane Wagner-Lily Tomlin play "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 1-3, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 4, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road.

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Michael Jeresaty, a member of the Bates College class of 1985 and a founding vice president of Garnet Health Systems Corporation, in a discussion of his work at 7 p.m. Monday, March 29, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

H. Nigel Thomas, a poet and novelist known for his examinations of Caribbean culture, visits Bates College to read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue.

Featuring performances by students from Bates and Bowdoin colleges, as well as a special appearance by a Balinese gamelan orchestra from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bates presents World Music Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, April 3-4, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Eighty-six percent of Bates College seniors or alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions were accepted for matriculation in fall 2003.

Jim Carlton, a marine scientist at Williams College, will discuss the effects of exotic marine organisms on both the ecology of near-shore environments and the people who depend on those environments at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, in Carnegie Science Hall, Room 204, Bates College, Campus Avenue.

The Bates College Choir and the Bates Modern Dance Company offer separate performances Friday and Saturday, March 26-27. The public is welcome to attend at no charge.

Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA, visits Bates College to discuss the death penalty at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

David Pontbriand, a Portland resident and performer on the stringed instrument called the sitar, offers a concert drawn from the classical ragas of northern India in a Bates College concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 5, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

"Between the Lines," a 2001 award-winning documentary film by Yifat Kedar about Amira Hass, the only Israeli journalist living in the Occupied Territories, will be screened as part of the 2004 Maine Jewish Film Festival at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 14, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. A facilitated discussion with the filmmaker will follow the 58-minute screening (in Hebrew and Arabic, with English subtitles), and the public is invited to attend free of charge.

The Office of College Advancement will sponsor an April 1 debate by the Brooks Quimby Debate Society on the issue of campus political diversity. The question to be debated reads: "Do Liberal Arts Institutions Inappropriately Marginalize the Right?"

Four members of the Bates College faculty will lead a forum exploring the U.S. war with Iraq and relations between the two countries at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue. The event is open to the public at no charge.

Thanks to a challenge grant from an environmentalist inspired by Bates' efforts to retire air pollution permits, members of this year's "Environmental Economics" course have quadrupled the tonnage of sulfur dioxide that the college is keeping out of the atmosphere.

Featuring performances by students from Bates and Bowdoin colleges, as well as a special appearance by a Balinese gamelan orchestra from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bates presents World Music Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, April 3-4, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Family physician and author David Hilfiker will present the annual William Stringfellow Lecture in Justice and Peace at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Chase Hall Lounge.

Through poster presentations, panel discussions, exhibits and performances, more than 250 Bates College students will take part in the third annual Mount David Summit, starting at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 2, in Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Paula Schlax, an assistant professor of chemistry at Bates College, has received a National Science Foundation grant for nearly $272,000 to support her research into bacterial responses to environmental stress.

Chantal Berry Dalton '69, a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, is the inaugural speaker in the new Distinguished Alumni in Residence program at Bates College.

Bates College presents performances of Indonesian shadow puppetry and gamelan music at 8 p.m. Friday, March 19, and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 20, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Chinese-born scholar and director Carma Hinton screens her new two-hour film about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Morning Sun, at 6 p.m. Monday, March 22, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street.

After claiming second place in each of the last two NCAA Track & Field Championships, Bates College senior Liz Wanless finally won the elusive national shot put championship, and she did it in style, beating the field by more than five feet and hitting the Olympic Trial "B" qualifying distance. Wanless was one of eight Bobcats to compete at NCAA Championships over the weekend.

An exhibition of photographs titled "Cultura y Naturaleza Guatemalteca" ("Culture and Nature in Guatemala") by photographer Challen Willemsen, a first-year Bates College student from Guatemala City, Guatemala, is on display through March 26 in the Chase Gallery, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue.

Bates College opens the three-day Traveling Film South Asia series with "The 18th Elephant-3 Monologues," a 2003 award-winning documentary from India, at 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, in Room 105 of the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street.

Wu Hung, professor in the College of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, offers a lecture on the Bates College Museum of Art exhibit "Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change"

Oxford, Harvard and Yale universities will be among 10 institutions visiting Bates March 11-13 for an international tournament hosted by the college's Brooks Quimby Debate Council.

The second annual 5-kilometer run/walk honoring the memory of Morgan McDuffee, a Bates College senior slain in 2002, takes place at Bates Saturday, March 6.

In the annual spring production by the Bates College theater department, Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz directs the World War II-era musical "Swingtime Canteen" in performances at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 11-13, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and 14.

Artist and activist Betty LaDuke will give two talks and lead a participatory workshop to accompany an exhibition of her paintings and sketches, "Latin American Transitions: The Art of Betty LaDuke," on display at the Bates College Chapel now through March 26.

David Weber, English faculty member and cross-country track coach at Phillips Exeter Academy, shares spiritual truths discovered during three decades of coaching and teaching when he gives a talk titled "Coaching the Heart: Coaching, Teaching, Writing and the Spiritual Path" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College

Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Judith Helfand screens her documentary "Blue Siding," a serio-comic expose of vinyl siding, at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the 96-minute screening, co-sponsored by Bates Hillel and the Environmental Coalition, free of charge.

Artist and activist Betty LaDuke will give two talks and lead a participatory workshop to accompany an exhibition of her paintings and sketches, "Latin American Transitions: The Art of Betty LaDuke," on display at the Bates College Chapel now through March 26.

In a departure from the Bates College Noonday Concert series' usual classical and jazz offerings, a progressive rock band featuring two prodigiously talented students from the Lisbon area performs at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

Author, filmmaker, writer and professor Melvin B. Donalson, a member of the Bates Class of 1973, will give a lecture titled "Black Masculinity in American Cinema" at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the talk free of charge.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Judith Magyar Isaacson of Auburn, author of the acclaimed "Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor" and a champion of women's rights at Bates College during the 1970s, is one of this year's two inductees into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Judith Magyar Isaacson of Auburn, author of the acclaimed "Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor" and a champion of women's rights at Bates College during the 1970s, is one of this year's two inductees into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame.

In two concerts over one weekend, Maine's best-known string quartet and one of the state's top jazz musicians offer concerts in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.

In the annual spring production by the Bates College theater department, Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz directs the World War II-era musical "Swingtime Canteen" in performances at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 11-13, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and 14.

- Carolyn Myles, a Bates College senior, directs the college's fourth annual production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. The public is invited and donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds going to V-Day, an international organization working to stop violence against women and girls.

The second annual 5-kilometer run/walk honoring the memory of Morgan McDuffee, a Bates College senior slain in 2002, takes place at Bates Saturday, March 6.

Friends and colleagues of the late Ellen Seeling pay tribute to this esteemed member of the Bates College theater faculty with an exhibit of her work that opens with a gathering at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, in the college's Ladd Library.

Friends and colleagues of the late Ellen Seeling pay tribute to this esteemed member of the Bates College theater faculty with an exhibit of her work that opens with a gathering at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, in the college's Ladd Library.

The Bates College men's and women's basketball teams both advanced to the semifinal round of the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships with wins over their quarterfinal opponents on Saturday.

Renowned journalist and political activist Andrew Sullivan will speak at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. His topic: "The Politics of Homosexuality."

The Maine College Republicans will host the Leadership Institute's flagship program, the Youth Leadership School, at Bates College from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, and Sunday, Feb. 29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

The Bates College men's and women's basketball teams both advanced to the semifinal round of the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships with wins over their quarterfinal opponents on Saturday.

Doris Pilkington, author of "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" (University of Queensland Press, 1997), will give a talk coupled with the screening of the acclaimed 2002 film "The Rabbit-Proof Fence" at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in the Benjamin Mays Center, corner Bardwell and Russell streets, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the film and lecture, sponsored by the Bates

Betsy Hochadel was selected as the New England Small College Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week by the conference on Monday afternoon, and the men's and women's basketball teams are preparing for the first round of the NESCAC Championship to be played on Saturday.

Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University, discusses "The Day the Music Died: The Conspiracy Against Rock 'n' Roll in the Late 1950s" at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, along with the daughter of Sen. John Kerry, will speak at the Bates College Chapel, College Street, at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in support of Sen. Kerry's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University, will discuss "The Day the Music Died: The Conspiracy Against Rock 'n Roll in the Late 1950s" at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Department of History and the American studies program, free of charge.

Joined by renowned jazz pianist Tim Ray, Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen comes to Bates College for a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The talk by Brunswick poet and teacher Gary Lawless, "Poetry as a Path of Pilgrimage," scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College, Campus Avenue, has been canceled.

Valerie Smith, director of Princeton University's program in African American studies and a member of the Bates College Class of 1975, gives a lecture titled "Memory and the United States Civil Rights Movement" at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

In a big weekend for music, the Bates College music department offers a concert by the college orchestra and one by pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros.

The acclaimed Indian romantic film "Monsoon Wedding," whose screening at Bates College was postponed last week, has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in Room 105, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen comes to Bates College to offer a solo performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

A discrepancy in the published times for the Jan. 16 opening lecture and reception for a Bates College Museum of Art exhibition has resulted in a schedule adjustment that may affect the plans of your art reviewers and readers.

Georgetown photographer Will Richard, a frequent traveler to the Arctic and leader of an environmental studies seminar at Bates College in 2002, returns to the college to present a slide lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, in the Smedley Lounge, Environmental Studies House, 111 Bardwell St.

Thanks to the New York-based Andrew Mellon Foundation, a Spanish poet and three Maine experts in the performing arts will join author Carolyn Chute and others in a learning associates program at Bates College.

Lissa Schneckenburger, a rising young folk musician and former Litchfield resident, performs at Bates College at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

In observance of the Lunar New Year, Bates College and the student organization Sangai Asia have added a fireworks display to Asia Week, the college's major celebration this month of the diverse cultures of Asia and particularly China.

In conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Georges E. Fouron, professor of education at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, will give a talk titled "The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Revolutionary Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Beyond" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

Judith Plaskow, author of the landmark text "Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective" (HarperCollins, 1991) and professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, will give a presentation titled "Asking the Right Questions: The Development of Jewish Women's Studies" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 (snow date: Thursday, Feb., 12), in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, at Bates College.

Even as new images from Mars are captivating viewers all around planet Earth, the author of a new book about extraterrestrial life comes to Bates College to discuss the subject from cultural, historical and scientific perspectives.

Thanks to the college's first-ever grant from the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program, an expert in traditional Indonesian forms of music and shadow puppetry will spend most of 2004 in residence at Bates College.

Internationally recognized for her pioneering work on how advertising represents alcohol, tobacco and the image of women, author Jean Kilbourne offers a slide presentation titled "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The new Bates Squash Center will be unveiled at an opening ceremony on Jan. 30 featuring the women's and men's squash matches vs. Dartmouth College.

Members of the Bates College New World Coalition, an activist group concerned with social, political and economic justice, will screen a 40-minute video of their experiences in protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center.

A professor of statistics from the University of California, Davis, will discuss the surprising degree that scientific testing corroborates the existence of certain psychic abilities, in a talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

The Bates community is invited to the Frye Street Union lounge 8:45 Tuesday to watch President George W. Bush deliver his State of the Union Address and follow it with an informal discussion led by Professor of History Steve Hochstadt.

A senior art major's thesis project has transformed Pettengill Hall's Perry Atrium, covering most of its three-story glass wall with translucent paintings that flood this popular space with the glowing colors of stained glass.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio congressman and Democratic White House contender, stopped at Bates College during his Lewiston visit, Jan. 14.

Rolf-Dieter F. Schnelle, consul general to New England for the Federal Republic of Germany, speaks on the topic "The New Europe -- Old and New United: A Challenge to the Europeans and the United States" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College.