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30 years ago: Gulf War, Angela Davis, and a memorable night

January 15, 2021

Bates folks recall when the iconic activist, intellectual, and scholar Angela Davis — this year's MLK Day speaker — addressed a huge gathering in the chapel on Jan. 16, 1991, the night the bombs began falling in Baghdad.

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April 16, 2021

Recalling 1941, when Bates touted ‘up-to-the-minute’ airline service

April 15, 2021

Bates in the News: April 16, 2021

April 15, 2021

Ask the College Experts: Evaluating what your experience will be like

April 12, 2021

Help! From global education to dining to Ladd Library

April 8, 2021

Recalling when a Ford sedan drove through flames on Bardwell Street

April 8, 2021

Ask the College Experts: Early decision vs. early action

"Despite working remotely this summer, I’ve been glad to still be able to engage with the community a bit in-person like this.”—Anthropology major and Bonner Leader Hannah McKenzie of Stevenson, Md., photographed on Lewiston’s Lisbon Street and in the Heritage Restaurant and its adjacent market place, where she regularly shops and purchases tea. This summer, McKenzie has divided her time between two local organizations providing support to refugees and immigrants: the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine and Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.The tea she purchases at the Heritage Restaurant, says Mckenzie “reminds me of one of the first cultural lessons I learned in Lewiston.” When Hamza Abdi, a community leader and an academic administrative assistant at Bates and she first started teaching an IRCM English class together her first semester at Bates, “Hamza would leave in the middle of each class to retrieve us each traditional Somali tea, flavored with spices like cinnamon and cardamom and sweetened in condensed milk. I loved this tea,” she says. “Only three months into teaching did I realize Hamza had been buying the tea from this restaurant downstairs, rather than making it in the office break room as I had assumed. I contested that I didn’t want him spending his money on me — after all, if I come to the Center twice weekly for four years, that’s a lot of money. Hamza laughed, well versed in the differences between our cultures. He explained that in Djiboutian culture, money is considered best used for gestures of sharing and showing others appreciation. Someone in his culture doesn’t ‘lose’ money, as people essentially take turns paying for their friends.”These days, Mckenzie regularly picks up tea at the Heritage Restaurant. “I really appreciate the culture of collectivity that surrounds it. These kind of cultural lessons are what have made my experience of Lewiston and my studies of anthropology at Bates so eye-opening a

April 8, 2021

Q&A: Hannah McKenzie ’21 and the ‘unfathomable beauty’ of a Watson Fellowship

Judith Ayugi

April 5, 2021

Help! From textbooks and course registration to the campus shuttle

Items from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library for Bates Magazine "Archives" section -- November 2015.Baseball mitt; belonged to Donald C. Webster '41. Box 6, Item 294.

April 1, 2021

From the Archives: Let’s play ball!

April 1, 2021

Ask the College Experts: The value and opportunity to do research

March 30, 2021

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Eric Dyer

March 29, 2021

Help! From community engagement and tutoring to residence life

March 25, 2021

Video: Decorating a big Bates cake and eating it too

March 25, 2021

Ask the College Experts: Tips on writing an effective recommendation letter

March 24, 2021

Campus Construction Update: March 25, 2021

Tim Kivus on Garcelon Field

March 22, 2021

Help! From the lab and finances, to the spirit and outdoors

Fein, Jason S.207-786-6341jfein@bates.eduPhysical Education/AthleticsDirector of AthleticsAlumni Gymnasium, Room 62(Theophil Syslo/Bates College)

March 18, 2021

Bates’ Jason Fein named athletics director of the year

Metro riders wear masks in Qingdao, China, in November 2020. (Photograph by Gauthier Delecroix)

March 18, 2021

Bates professor’s paper foretold growing risk of racism toward Asian Americans

March 18, 2021

Ask the College Experts: How to describe activities in pandemic

Hoi Ning Ngai

March 15, 2021

Help! From theater and computers to a purposeful life