Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Summer wanes. Students return. Classes start. Games begin.
It’s the same every year, but it isn’t. That means you’ll love the ritual but won’t know exactly what to expect. See what we mean.
Rob Flynn '18 of Bedford, N.H., and AESOP trip co-leader Kai Payne '15 of Jamaica, N.Y., work on a Habitat for Humanity project in Sedgwick, Maine, in partnership with Hancock County Habitat for Humanity. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Julia Rosen '18 (No. 12) of Springfield, Ill., and teammates celebrate her goal during the soccer team’s season-opening victory over Saint Joseph's, 2-0, at Garcelon Field. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
"It's a little bit of gelato heaven," says Hannah Slattery '18 of Gilford, N.H., attending First Friday Treats, in which local food vendors, in this case Maine-based Gelato Fiasco, visit campus on the first Friday of each month. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Students don costume laurel wreaths to get into the spirit of a discussion of Homer's "Odyssey" with their first-year seminar professor, Lisa Maurizio, associate professor of classical and medieval studies. The seminar is "Classical Myths and Contemporary Art” in Pettengill Hall. (Sarah Crosby/Bates College)
Isabella Miller '18 of New York City and Alyssa Frost '18 of Niskayuna, N.Y., sit on Alumni Walk and review a text in French 201, taught by Professor of French and Francophone Studies Mary Rice-DeFosse. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
