While we embrace the outdoors and our months-long visitor (that would be winter), we’re just as prepared to move indoors for the fullness of campus life, where warmth resides, both the literal kind and the kind that nourishes the soul.

Senior women’s basketball players Alexa Goldman of Swampscott, Mass., Allie Coppola of Tarrytown, N.Y., and Bernadette Connors of Windham, N.H., pose with their parents on Senior Day in Alumni Gym before the team’s victory over Trinity. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Assistant Professor of German Raluca Cernahoschi confers with students about her new course, "Jewish Lives in Eastern Europe: History, Memory, Story." From left, Cernahoschi, Elizabeth Prins ’17 of Bernardville, N.J., Jack Ryan ’19 of La Mesa, Calif., and Emily Freedland ’18 of Marblehead, Mass. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Students navigate a sea of snow on Feb. 14. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Chris Hedges signs books after his talk "The Moral Imperative of Revolt" in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

In a packed room in Commons in early February, Pierce Atwood attorney Anthony Derosby '80 explains the implications of President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)