The City of Lewiston has announced a parking ban from midnight Wednesday until 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20.

The City of Lewiston has announced a parking ban through 3 p.m. Tuesday, January 2.

Bates senior Mallika Raghavan has earned distinction as a semifinalist for The Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup, a national award recognizing the most outstanding role models among athletes.

The Downtown Education Collaborative (DEC), a local partnership of seven academic and community institutions, will open a new storefront education center at 219 Lisbon St. in January, 2008.

If the schedule holds, in about 10 weeks Dining Services will serve the first meals in the new Commons. "It's going to be a fabulous facility," Dining Services director Christine Schwartz told Campus Construction Update during a conversation about the transition from old to new.

Dr. Khassan Baiev, a Chechen physician, author and human rights activist, will speak at Bates College on International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.

Professor Margaret Maurer-Fazio inaugurates her tenure in the newly established Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics at Bates with a lecture at 4:30 p.m Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

The DC-Dabkeh Troupe, which presents traditional Middle Eastern folk dances, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, 75 Russell St.

Usually closed on Sundays, the Bates College Museum of Art will open its doors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 9 to provide visitors with one last chance to experience "Green Horizons," a landmark exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted a Maine high school forensics tournament at Bates College. Approximately 170 students and 70 judges from 23 schools took part in the all-day event on Saturday, Nov. 17. A scheduled tournament in the 2007-08 season of the Maine Forensics Association, the judged competition featured events in Speech, Debate and Student Congress.

Just a few months ago, new construction projects at Bates were transforming a swath of campus that extended from Mount David to Merrill Gym. Now, like a Hollywood crane shot where the camera swoops down from lofty to intimate, the focus of construction at Bates is closing in on the interior of the new dining Commons.

The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation of New York City has invited Bates to join a select group of institutions participating in a program that provides a year-long sabbatical for research and scholarly development to pretenure faculty in the humanities. The $100,000 Whiting Teaching Fellowship will be awarded to one Bates faculty member a year for the next four years.

The Bates College Concert Series presents Gamelan Galak Tika, a Boston-area ensemble performing the gamelan music of Bali, Indonesia, in performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The Bates College Choir, accompanied by a 21-piece orchestra and directed by John Corrie, presents Part One of Handel's popular oratorio "Messiah" in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College kicks off its "Civic Forum on Reimagining Maine in the 21st Century" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., with a panel titled "Poverty and the Two Maines."

Danny Buraczeski's classic "Swing Concerto" and a work by New York choreographer Peter Kyle are featured in the annual December production by the Bates College Modern Dance Company, in performances at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1; 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3.

A reporter's unrestricted access to all stages of the Bates admissions process results in a major feature in Down East magazine called "Who Gets In?"

Karen Adrienne, a printmaker and member of the art faculty at the University of Maine at Augusta, visits Bates College to give a talk titled "Impermanent Art and Sustainable Community" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Room 105 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

"I arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, on the first of July, equipped with my Nikon, rolls upon rolls of film and a handle on the Spanish language that was, for lack of a better word, lessthanbueno," writes Alexandra Strada '10, whose photographs are on display in Bates' Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Norman Finkelstein, controversial author of such books as "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History" (University of California Press, 2005) and "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" (Verso, 2000 and 2003), speaks at 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, in Chase Hall Lounge.

Frank Glazer, one of Maine's best-known pianists, joins the Bates College Orchestra for the performance of a concerto by J.S. Bach at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The new dining Commons should be open for business when students return from break on Feb. 25, project manager Paul Farnsworth reported. And it's hoped that construction work will be complete about a month prior to the opening.

Eighty-nine percent of Bates College students who worked with the college's Medical Studies Committee in applying to health care-related graduate programs for fall 2007 matriculation were accepted.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and professor of education at Harvard University, will give a presentation titled "Balm in Gilead: On Love, Justice and the Word, " at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

Bates College has been awarded a three-year, $450,000 grant for faculty development from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York, N.Y. The Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund will support Bates faculty in implementing the college's new General Education curriculum and in the infusion of diversity into the overall academic program, as well as with continuing support for scholarship and research.

"Driving a Prius is . . . a little bit of an adjustment." But once she's past the unfamiliarity of operating the hybrid, a Bates student finds new freedom through Bates' Zipcar program.

A dark romantic comedy about the nature of time and the human condition, Gillette Elvgren's play "Five Cups of Coffee" will be performed at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 1-3, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 4. Performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

The project isn't inspiring like Alumni Walk, magnificent like the new dining Commons or heartwarming like the new student housing. But a new parking lot behind Merrill Gymnasium that should open around Thanksgiving will come in handy, easing the squeeze that Bates motorists have felt the past six months.

President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced four appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Alison R. Bernstein of New York, N.Y., H. Scott Bierman of Northfield, Minn., Scott D. Freeman of Newton, Mass., and Kathleen M. Whelan of Boston, Mass.

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships has launched Youth+Adults+Dialogue=Action or YADA, an intergenerational dialogue project that will bring together more than 100 community members to discuss how to make Lewiston/Auburn a better place for youth.

Bates College presents "The Birthday Party," the first full-length play by the renowned Harold Pinter, in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St.

Professor Lee Rybeck Lynd '79, a pioneer in the sustainable production of ethanol fuels from abundant, inexpensive and renewable plant materials, gives two public presentations at Bates College in October.

As the culmination of a three-day Tolkien Film Festival at Bates College from Monday, Oct. 22, through Wednesday, Oct. 24, leading Tolkien scholar Thomas Shippey delivers a lecture titled "Filming the Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Parents & Famiy Weekend 2007, held Sept. 14-16, offered a range of activities as well as a chance for students to re-connect with families and friends.

Oct. 8 was a red-letter day at 280 College St., as the outdoor gas grill at the new student residence was fired up for the first time. Residence coordinators Jenn Linton '08 and Matt Lopez '08 hosted an inaugural cookout that had been delayed a couple weeks while shipping damage to the grill was fixed.

Featuring Maine's best-known pianist and visiting performers of international renown, the piano rules Bates College's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., for nine days in October.

Inon Barnatan, an exciting young pianist described by a London Evening Standard critic as "refined, searching and unfailingly communicative," opens the 2007-08 Bates College Concert Series with a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Gogol Bordello, a band that feeds a growing cult following with a frenetic mix of Gypsy, punk and world musics, performs at Bates College at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building.

The 2007–08 Bates College Lecture Series opens with a discussion of Africa in the modern world by sociologist Tukufu Zuberi at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Bates' Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

An afternoon thunderstorm on Sept. 27 occasioned an Alumni Walk first: emergency vehicles entering in response to a campus alarm. Although there was no fire, lightning caused a power surge in the fire detection system, frying a computer chip and setting off an alarm in Hathorn Hall. Two Lewiston Fire Department units responded to the call sent out by the system, according to Greg LaCroix, lead electrician for Physical Plant.

Bates College announced today that it is participating with more than 600 independent U.S. colleges and universities in offering detailed information to explore schools online at www.ucan-network.org.

The English department opens its 2007-08 Visiting Writers Series with a reading by poet Gabriel Fried, Bates Class of 1996, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.

A new work by choreographer Peter Kyle, formerly of the Mark Morris Dance Group, will be featured in performances by the Bates College Modern Dance Company at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, and noon Sunday, Sept. 30, in the college's Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

Agnes Denes, a renowned environmental artist who brought a wheat field to the Manhattan cityscape, offers the annual Otis Lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named Corey Harris, a musician and 1991 Bates College graduate, as one of 24 new MacArthur Fellows for 2007.

Bates College has partnered with Teamline to make live play-by-play of 2007 season home football games available to listeners from anywhere.

Paul Farnsworth, manager of the new dining Commons and Alumni Walk projects, reported that 140,000 flower bulbs were shipped our way from California on Sept. 11.

Orientation for the Class of 2011, held Aug. 27–Sept. 6, included something for everyone.

Nineteen colleges and universities, including Bates, commit not to mention U.S. News or similar rankings in new publications, "since such lists mislead the public into thinking that the complexities of American higher education can be reduced to one number."

Students received the rare opportunity to compare 21st-century college life with the Versailles experiences of the French queen Marie Antoinette as Bates College opened its 153rd academic year on Sept. 5.

Bates College and Zipcar, the world's largest car-sharing service, have announced a partnership to make Zipcars available on campus to faculty, staff and students as an environmentally friendly alternative to the costs and hassles of keeping a car on campus.

This fall Bates College introduces the Bates Bikes, a fleet of 10 cruiser bicycles that belong to the newly created Bates Bike Co-op.

On Friday, Aug. 31, construction crews rushed to get much of Alumni Walk ready for traffic as students returned in force. The short-term objective is to open the walk from College Street as far east as Pettengill Hall. The entire walk won't be finished for weeks, and even in the section soon to open, landscaping chores, the placement of benches and lights, and similar work will continue.

With its first occupants scheduled to move in later in the day, the new Bates student housing was introduced to the community with speeches and tours during the morning of Aug. 17.

Museum L-A, an institution presenting the story of work and community in Lewiston-Auburn, opens the exhibition Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in the Bates Mill Complex.

Popular Maine singer-songwriter Anni Clark performs in the 2007 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, by the college's Lake Andrews.

The papers of a Bates College professor who spent decades studying pollution in the Androscoggin River -- pollution that prompted the federal Clean Water Act of 1972 -- are newly accessible to researchers.

Students at Bates College this summer explored crime-scene chemistry and cultural diversity in mathematics through a program designed to make math and science more inviting to groups underrepresented in those fields. Eleven members of the class of 2011 from as near as Portland and as far away as California got an early start on their Bates careers through the inaugural Hughes Summer Scholars Program.

Celebrating the Bates Dance Festival's commitment to producing innovative outdoor events, PearsonWidrig DanceTheater returns to Maine this summer to create another magical site-specific performance installation, this time on and around Lake Andrews on the Bates College campus.

Showcasing the innovative use of new technologies, Bridgman Packer Dance and BoánDanz Action present the Maine premieres of new work incorporating live dance and music with state-of-the-art video. The festival presents Bridgman Packer Dance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, and BoánDanz Action at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St., Bates College.

Popular Maine singer-songwriter Anni Clark performs in the 2007 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, by the college's Lake Andrews.

Showcasing the innovative use of new technologies, Bridgman Packer Dance and BoánDanz Action present the Maine premieres of new work incorporating live dance and music with state-of-the-art video. The festival presents Bridgman Packer Dance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, and BoánDanz Action at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St., Bates College.

Showcasing the internationalism of contemporary dance, visiting choreographers from the United States, Africa and Latin America bring compelling styles and perspectives to the Bates Dance Festival stage with the annual "Different Voices" concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, in Schaeffer Theatre.

Maine's own Downeast Brass performs in the 2007 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 26, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college's Lake Andrews.

This summer, Lewiston has received national recognition by becoming one of 10 municipalities designated an "All-America City" in an annual competition sponsored by the National Civic League.

In September, Bates College will implement and begin testing a new emergency notification system that will send information and instructions simultaneously to the entire campus community through e-mail, cell phones and telephone landlines.

Bates College hosts the seventh biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), an international conference on memory and cognition, Wednesday, July 25, through Saturday, July 28.

A highlight of the 2007 Bates Dance Festival is the 25th Anniversary Gala Concert.

As Bates College prepares to begin its first academic year with a new set of core educational requirements, a foundation in Falmouth has awarded the college more than $250,000 to support the requirements' focus on writing skills.

Michele Choiniere, a Vermont-based francophone singer-songwriter, performs in the 2007 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college's Lake Andrews.

Upcoming road closures will add a certain frisson of adventure to life at Bates. On Friday, July 20, College Street will be closed at Mountain Avenue for the construction of a raised pedestrian crossing, or traffic table, to link Alumni Walk with the new student housing. Signage will help direct motorists to alternate routes.

A Bates Dance Festival favorite, David Dorfman Dance returns to Maine with underground, a compelling and provocative exploration of political activism. The festival presents David Dorfman Dance at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St., Bates College.

Kicking off the Bates Dance Festival's 25th anniversary season, Victor Quijada's Montreal-based Rubberbandance Group (RBDG) performs an evening of new works at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St., Bates College.

In March, two Bates musical ensembles joined two community ensembles in a first-of-its-kind performance of Johannes Brahms' masterful "A German Requiem." At 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, the stations of MPBN Radio will broadcast the concert on the "MaineStage" program.

Celebrating 25 years of offering contemporary dance training, commissioning and performance, the Bates Dance Festival announces its 25th anniversary performance season, July 7 through Aug. 11, 2007, on the campus of Bates College.

Eight Bates College faculty and staff members have been awarded grants by the Harward Center For Community Partnerships to support community-based educational work.

Richard C. Williamson, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of French and a charismatic catalyst of Bates community, died while en route to Louisville, Ky., with his wife, Deborah, to compete in bicycling events at the National Senior Games.

About 150 Bates faculty, staff, students, college Trustees and members of the local community attended and engaged in the presidential symposium "A College for 'Coming Time': Diversity and Changing Demographics in Higher Education," convened by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen.

Clean Sweep, Bates College's seventh annual "garage sale" of electronics, furnishings, bikes, toys and other goods donated by departing students, takes place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the college's Underhill Arena, 145 Russell St. Please note that some published reports listed the wrong date for the event. Saturday, June 16, is correct.

The seventh annual "Clean Sweep," the Bates College "garage sale" of appliances, furnishings, electronics and other goods donated by departing students, raised some $17,648 in proceeds that were divided among 18 local school and nonprofit organizations.

"If you want to solve all the problems that we're facing in this world, it's unlikely that the people and ideas that got us to where we are will be the ones that are going to get us to a different place," Segway inventor Dean Kamen told 464 graduates at Bates College' 141st Commencement.

With its centerpiece a giant painting that depicts Brooklyn after millennia of global warming, an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability opens on June 9 at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. "Green Horizons" will present prominent artists from Maine and the world in an adventurous attempt to provoke conversations around the questions: What is green? What is sustainable?

Akiko Doi, a Bates College senior from Kyoto City, Japan, recently won the Undergraduate Student Research Achievement Award Poster Competition in the enzymology category.

Kristine Goulding, a Bates senior from West Suffield, Conn., has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award for the 2007-08 academic year.

Bates presents the play "Big Night," a Depression-era satire by Dawn Powell, in performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 17-19, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for Bates faculty and staff, senior citizens and non-Bates students. For reservations call 207-786-6161 or visit the online box office at https://transact.bates.edu/boxoffice.

Twelve individuals and organizations, recipients of the first Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnership Awards, were recently recognized in a celebration at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

A symposium titled "A College for Coming Time: Diversity and the Changing Demographics of Higher Education" on May 10 takes its title from early writings of Bates founder Oren B. Cheney, who envisioned a new institution of learning to serve those who did not have easy access to higher education.

A plan by Bates College students to help support a home for street children in Rwanda won a $10,000 award from the 100 Projects for Peace program sponsored by noted philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis.

Not so long ago, shyness was usually seen as a random character trait, sadness the natural reaction to misfortune and alcoholism a sign of personal weakness. In recent decades those conditions, and many others, have been "medicalized" — associated with biological causes and redefined as medical diagnoses, not merely products of personality or fate.

I know you join me in expressing our sympathies for the friends and families of those whose lives were lost. Our primary concern must be with the victims, but at the same time such painful incidents may understandably cause us to reflect on our own safety.

Equal Time, a quartet that plays obscure covers, originals and free improvisations, opens the Bates College Jazz at the Olin Arts Center series at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

In back-to-back concerts, Bates College presents the classical artists G-Sharp Duo at 8 p.m. Friday, May 18, and a jazz performance by steel pan artist Shawn Thwaites at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 19. Both take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Each concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Calder Quartet, a string ensemble praised for its bold programs and technical excellence, will be joined by leading Maine pianist Frank Glazer for a concert spanning 140 years of music at 8 p.m. Friday, May 4, in Bates College's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Kevin McHugh of The College of New Jersey has been named director of athletics and chair of the Department of Physical Education at Bates College, effective July 1.

Between the mud, the plastic wrap and the concrete, the colors of construction work are predominantly drab. But the rare "colorful" colors, as major projects abuilding at Bates this year have shown, can be surprisingly bold.

In celebration of his four-year appointment as the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Bates College, historian Michael Jones delivers his inaugural lecture, "Famine, Metahistory, and Interdisciplinarity."

Four honorary degree recipients will speak at Bates College's 141st commencement, on May 27. The honorands are children's book author Eric Carle, singer-songwriter Corey Harris '91, inventor-entrepreneur Dean Kamen and actor and author Anna Deavere Smith.

An Italian actor expert in the influential stage genre called "commedia dell'arte" presents a workshop on the topic at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the Plavin Dance Studio, Merrill Gymnasium, Russell Street.

Hundreds of Bates people and members of the local community flooded Pettengill Hall as the College mounted its sixth annual Mount David Summit on March 30.

Khoa Pham, a Bates College senior from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has received one of 50 prestigious research fellowships awarded by the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program.

Bates College is one of 11 institutions of higher education named by the National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative to receive funding for innovative community-based research projects.

Twenty-four Bates College students and two chaperones head to Biloxi, Miss., April 15-20 for an "Alternative Spring Break" as Hands on Gulf Coast volunteers in a hurricane-ravaged community.

Students of a Bates politics class promise an intense 90 minutes as they conduct "Hearings on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East," a mock Senate hearing at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 30, in Room G52, Pettengill Hall, during the Mount David Summit.

Seventeen studio art majors at Bates College show work from their yearlong thesis projects in the annual Senior Exhibition, which opens with a 7 p.m. reception on Thursday, April 5, in the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. The exhibition runs through May 26 in the museum's Bates Gallery. Admission is free. Regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

In a landmark musical event, Bates College and the Maine Music Society will muster some 260 musicians for an evening of music by Johannes Brahms, including his exquisite "Requiem," at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 27 Bartlett St.

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly addresses the topic "Feminism vs. Conservatism: The Great Debate" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. Sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please e-mail jbrowher@bates.edu.

Scholars and human-rights advocates will join survivors of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda to discuss its origins and outcomes on Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, at Bates College. Titled "Rwanda: From National Disintegration to National Reunification: The Legacy of the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda," the conference is open to all free of charge. Sponsors of the event include the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Performing two separate programs twice, the Bates College Modern Dance Company presents the results of an innovative collaboration with theatrical lighting designers at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 30-31; 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2.

Human rights activist William H. "Bill" Slavick will visit Bates College to give a lecture titled "Neighbors, Near and Far" and present the annual William Stringfellow Awards in Justice and Peace at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in the Benjamin Mays Center

Bates College's Harward Center for Community Partnerships will screen "There Ought to Be a Law," a new documentary film about a Lewiston woman who became a gun control activist after her teenager's suicide.

Journalist Bill Porter, aka "Red Pine," will make two presentations about the relationship of the environment to Chinese history and culture at Bates College on Thursday, March 22. Both events are free and open to the public. Journalist Bill Porter, aka "Red Pine," will make two presentations about the relationship of the environment to Chinese history and culture at Bates College on Thursday, March 22. Both events are free and open to the public.

Les Campbell, a leading expert on the development of democracy, visits Bates College to speak about the necessity and difficulty of building democracies in the Middle East at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Sponsored by the Bates Democrats, the event is open to the public at no charge. For more information, contact Conor Hurley at 781-254-0143 or churley2@bates.edu.

Amandla!, the African American student organization at Bates College, presents its fifth annual Unity Conference, "Generation C: Generation Consciousness," an exploration of politics, gender and culture, on Saturday, March 17. Members of the public interested in learning about creating a more meaningful sense of community are invited to attend.

Libertarian, entertainer and entrepreneur, Reginald Jones discusses the topic "Betrayal: Sold Out by the Civil Rights Movement" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave. Sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, the event is open to the public at no cost.

Sue Houchins, associate professor of African American, American cultural and women and gender studies at Bates College, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March. 15, at 161 Wood St., as part of "Spiritual Sojourners."

Bates College is one of eight colleges and universities in Maine, and more than 100 nationwide, to sign an agreement to become "carbon neutral" — that is, to reduce institutional emissions of carbon-based greenhouse gases such that they no longer increase the atmospheric total of such gases.

Bates College presents a concert of Indonesian music featuring student musicians and a singer who is one of the Pacific nation's leading classical recording artists at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The DC-Dabkeh Troupe, which performs traditional Middle Eastern folk dances, performs at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 10, in Bates College's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Le Thi Lien, a leading Vietnamese archaeologist, visits Bates College to discuss her involvement in a major archaeological site in Hanoi at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Sponsored by the art and visual culture department, the lecture is open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Roots, a hip hop sextet recently nominated for two Grammy Awards, perform at 8 p.m. Monday, March 26, in the Bates College's Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.

More than 300 Bates students will take part in the sixth Mount David Summit, the college's annual celebration of student academic achievement. The event opens with ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, in the Perry Atrium of Pettengill Hall, where many of the day's events will take place.

Paul Kuritz, professor of theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of "The Contrast," an American comedy of manners written in 1787 by Royall Tyler. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 9, 10, 16 and 17, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 11 and 18, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 2 Andrews Road.

A work by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, is featured as musicians from the Portland Chamber Music Festival return to Bates for a concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

"What I see happening here at Bates is definitely going in the right direction," said U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, during a "green tour" of Bates Feb. 20.

The last two concerts in the 2006-07 Bates College Concert Series take place at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, with the Marcus Roberts Trio, and 8 p.m. Friday, March 9, with an all-Schubert program of vocal and pianoforte music. Both will be held in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur, an analysis written by Bates College sociologist Francesco Duina, has been named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by the editors of Choice magazine, published by the Association of College & Research Libraries. At 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, Duina is scheduled to present the book in a store appearance at Books Etc., 38 Exchange St., Portland.

In a landmark event for the Androscoggin Valley cultural community, Bates College and the Maine Music Society will muster an ensemble of some 260 musicians for a performance of music by Johannes Brahms, including his monumental "Requiem," at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 27 Bartlett St.

Felice Frankel, a leading expert in the use of imagery to express scientific data and concepts, offers a lecture titled "More Than Pretty Pictures: The Power of the Science Image" at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 2, in the Keck Classroom (G52) in Pettengill Hall, Bates College, Andrews Road. The event is part of a celebration that marks the opening of Bates' Imaging and Computing Center, an innovative facility that serves as a "one-stop shop" for the high-tech rendering of visual information.

This year's edition of the Bates College world music series features Wu Man, the renowned virtuoso on the Chinese stringed "pipa," and members of the premiere ensemble performing ancient Japanese court music.

Bates College Professor Jane Costlow, a specialist in Russian literature and culture who travels frequently to Russia, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, at 161 Wood St., as part of "Spiritual Sojourners," a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College.

The Maine College Republicans will host the Youth Leadership School, the flagship program of the Leadership Institute, at Bates College from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 17-18. The school will be held in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, at 70 Campus Ave.

Due to inclement weather, Bates College offices are closed Wednesday, Feb. 14. Only personnel designated in advance by the director of the department as "essential" should report for work. Dining services will be available. Classes will be held unless specifically canceled by the instructor. Students should check e-mail and WebCT to determine if individual classes have been canceled by the instructor.

Neil Lazarus, an international lecturer on the Middle East, Israeli advocacy and effective communication training, offers a seminar titled "Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

In January, for the first time, Bates College joined more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States in RecycleMania, a 10-week recycling and waste minimization competition.

In celebration of her appointment as Whitehouse Professor of Sociology at Bates College, Emily Kane leads a panel discussion on "Disrupting Privilege: Inequality, Community and Social Change" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Chase Hall Lounge.

Nominated by students and alumni who extolled his scholarship, his challenge to his students and his encouragement, Professor of Psychology John Kelsey has received the College's Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The Bates College community observes the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. by canceling classes and scheduling special programming throughout the day. For 2007, the Martin Luther King Day Committee placed an emphasis on the theme "Between Chaos and Community."

Sangai Asia, a student group at Bates College that promotes Asian and Asian American awareness, identity and fellowship, presents its second annual Annual Asian Performance Night at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2rd, in the college's Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

Palestinian activists Mohammad Khatib and Feryal Abu Haikal speak about the nonviolent struggle of Palestinians at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, will give a talk titled "King's Dream, American Realities: Paradoxical Trends in the African-American Condition" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

The Brooks Quimby Debate Council will host the 2007 North American Debating Championships at Bates College, Jan. 26-28. Known as "NorAms," the competition is the top debating championship in North America, held on an alternating basis between the United States and Canada since 1991

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Bates College for its new Community Engagement Classification, created to recognize colleges and universities that have institutionalized community engagement in their endeavors.

Karen Leigh King, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School, will give a presentation titled "The Shaping of Christianity: Gospel Discoveries from the Egyptian Desert" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

The 2006-07 Bates College Concert Series resumes on Jan. 13 with an 8 p.m. program of operatic music by pianist Gayle Martin Henry and oboist Gerhard Reuter. For more information, please visit http://abacus.bates.edu/concerts/. For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges have received a $280,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a model program for the collaborative development of library collections. The plan is to share collection resources in all formats, electronic and print, reduce unnecessary duplication and redundant purchases, and make a broader universe of materials available at each campus.

Civil rights activist and historian Cleveland Sellers is the keynote speaker for the 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Classes at the college are canceled and special programming is scheduled throughout the day with an emphasis on the theme "Between Chaos and Community."

Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since 1985, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., as part of "Spiritual Sojourners," a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College.