They point. They pause. It snows. It melts. They listen. They learn. It’s the usual but it’s all brand new. Enjoy as we review a month of Bates adventures deep in the heart of winter.

Madeline Moberg ’19 of St. Paul, Minn., is joined by her family for Senior Night before Bates' dual meet against Bowdoin in January, where Moberg won the 50-yard backstroke. (Theophil Syslo/Bates College)

Sandglass Theater performers Keila Ching ’19, Shoshana Bass, and Alan White animate a puppet during a Gannett Theater dress rehearsal of Babylon, Journeys of Refugees. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Flannery Black-Ingersoll '19, a double major in studio art and mathematics from Concord, N.H., listens as Calvin Reedy '17, a visual artist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., responds to her mixed media and figure painting work in progress. In February, Reedy gave a Bates Museum of Art gallery talk, “On Art and Justice,” and visited studio art majors. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) 

Jeff Spellman ’20 of Boston, Mass., had 15 points, eight rebounds, and a game-high seven assists against Williams in January at Alumni Gymnasium. (Theophil Syslo/Bates College)

AK Wright ’17, a doctoral student in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota, leads a workshop discussion on MLK Day at Bates arguing that the problems of America’s racially biased criminal-justice system — one that particularly harms black transgender individuals — can only be solved through its abolishment. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)