{"id":120370,"date":"2018-11-16T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=120370"},"modified":"2018-11-16T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:19:04","slug":"bates-in-the-news-nov-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/16\/bates-in-the-news-nov-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Nov. 16, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jared Golden \u201911 and Ben Cline \u201994<\/h3>\n

After ranked-choice tabulation in Maine, a second Bates alumnus heads to the 116th Congress \u2014 national media\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Jared Golden \u201911 greets his supporters at the Franco Center in Lewiston late Tuesday night. On his right is his wife Isobel Golden \u201911. (Russ Dillingham\/Sun Journal)<\/p><\/div>\n

News outlets across the country<\/a> reported Thursday’s breaking news that Jared Golden \u201911, D-Maine, had won his razor-close election in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in historic fashion.<\/p>\n

He becomes the second alumnus to win a House seat in 2018, joining Republican Ben Cline \u201994, elected last Tuesday<\/a> to represent Virginia\u2019s 6th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Golden’s election took more than a week to decide because neither he nor incumbent Bruce Poliquin got a majority, so the election was decided by Maine’s new ranked-choice voting format.<\/p>\n

The Portland Press Herald<\/em> reported that Golden<\/a>, “made history by winning the nation\u2019s first congressional election to use ranked-choice voting, enabling him to erase an initial deficit by securing the second- and third-choice votes of people who cast their ballots for two independents.”<\/p>\n

Golden is the first candidate to unseat an incumbent in the 2nd Congressional District in over 100 years. <\/span><\/p>\n

Golden, a native of nearby Leeds, served in the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to entering Bates, where he majored in history and politics. Since 2014 he has served in the Maine House of Representatives, representing part of Lewiston.<\/p>\n

The two Congressmen-elect become the eighth and ninth Bates alumni to serve in the House since the college was founded in 1855, and the second time\u00a0two Bates alums have served in Congress together. The first was between 1933 and 1935, when Carroll Beedy and Donald Partridge, both Republicans, represented Maine’s 1st and 2nd districts, respectively.<\/p>\n

Marshall Hatch Jr. \u201910 <\/span><\/h3>\n
Chicago reverend’s plan to build for the future \u2014 NBC Left Field <\/strong><\/h5>\n

NBC News <\/span>featured the Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr. \u201910<\/span>, a youth minister at New Mount Pilgrim Church in Chicago\u2019s West Garfield Park neighborhood. Hatch founded the Maafa Redemption Project, a residential program for young African American men.<\/span><\/p>\n