{"id":104084,"date":"2016-11-04T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=104084"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:17","slug":"bates-at-night-new-residence-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/bates-at-night-new-residence-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: The new residence halls"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\n\t
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Jacob Kauppila '19 of Chesterfield, Mo., plays table tennis with Joshua Quijano '19 of North Hills, Calif. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Students gather to study in the Treehouse on the fourth floor of Kalperis Hall. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Talia Binns '20 of Interlaken, N.J., poses for a portrait in her room in Chu Hall. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Students in a Chu Hall lounge gather to watch a movie. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Danielle Meng \u201920 of Beijing works in a Kalperis Hall study area. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Two months into the first school year for Kalperis and Chu halls, the new residences on Campus Avenue, and the verdict from students is in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really feels like a community,\u201d says Isabella Del Priore \u201919 of Cos Cob, Conn., whose friends on campus often come to her floor at\u00a0Kalperis Hall to study or relax.<\/p>\n

Across Franklin street in Chu Hall, a group of first-year students gathered watching TV in a second floor lounge, awaiting the start of the Duke vs. Kansas men\u2019s basketball game.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole floor knows each other,\u201d says Thomas Coyne \u201920 of Falmouth, Maine, thanks in part to large,\u00a0accessible common areas outside of students\u2019 rooms.<\/p>\n

His friend Jeff Spellman \u201920 of West Roxbury, Mass., quips, \u201cI don\u2019t even live here, and I spend all my time here.”<\/p>\n

Down the hall, Talia Binns ’20 of Interlaken, N.J., shares a room with Daniella Pascucci \u201920 of Needham, Mass. Both their mothers are interior designers, so Binns and Pascucci appreciate the modern design elements<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to live in this building for my first year,\u201d Binns says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A visit to Kalperis Hall and Chu Hall to check out what students think about the newest Bates digs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":104143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[44,1,223,11012],"tags":[11217,11339],"class_list":["post-104084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter","category-batesnews","category-slideshow","category-student-life","tag-bates-at-night","tag-the-bates-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104084"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104575,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104084\/revisions\/104575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}