October is a moment of transition. Oscar Wilde said it: “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
At Bates, the change comes to us with climate, classes, and the company we keep, and we relish the new experiences and seasoned rituals awaiting us at every turn. Please check out a sampling.
President Clayton Spencer and football coach Malik Hall, new to Bates in 2018, laugh together while at a campus bonfire on the eve of the Bobcats' first game of the season. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Junior Victoria McGee scored the eventual game-winning goal in the Bates field hockey team's 5-2 win over Wesleyan on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Novelist Chinelo Okparanta reads from her work in the Muskie Archives, sponsored by Literary Arts Live. (Grace List ’19 for Bates College)
From left, Ariana Dalia ’22, Amaari Williams ’22, and David Akinyemi ’21 head toward the Library Quad after lunch at Commons. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Outside Commons, students in Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics Jacob Longaker’s course, ”Social Movements in Latin America,” stage a protest over immigration issues. The course explores the struggle by poor and marginalized groups for theoretical and literal space, by examining activism among rural landless people, urban squatters, LGBT people, and women. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
