{"id":148393,"date":"2022-08-26T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=148393"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:14:36","slug":"welcome-and-welcome-back-to-batesnews-for-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/26\/welcome-and-welcome-back-to-batesnews-for-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, and welcome back, to BatesNews for 2022\u201323"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the first edition of <em>BatesNews<\/em> for 2022\u201323, and a special welcome to parents, students, and families of the incoming Class of 2026, who are receiving <em>BatesNews<\/em> for the first time and who arrive on campus Wednesday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it is<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Produced by Bates Communications, <em>BatesNews<\/em> shares college stories and news with Bates alumni, parents, friends, and the campus community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When it is<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>BatesNews<\/em> is emailed every Friday except during college breaks and the month of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Burns relaxes in the Bates Communications Office greeting area at the end of the day on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. He's wearing the top half of the Bates Bobcat costume.\" class=\"wp-image-129732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/12\/191018_Bobcat_Head_0005.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>After <em>BatesNews<\/em> is published each week during the academic year, the editor gets a chance to relax. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bates community also receives a Tuesday companion email, <em>Sports Update, <\/em>with the latest results, honors, and stories from Bobcat sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bring a friend<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All Bates alumni, parents, and students receive BatesNews. If you have a friend or other family member who wants to receive these weekly Bates emails, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/subscribe-batesnews\/\">here&#8217;s how to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have questions? Feel free <a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\">to email the editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you&#8217;ll see<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to news and features about Bates people and college life, <em>BatesNews <\/em>offers these continuing series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/this-month-at-bates\/\">This Month at Bates<\/a>, the monthly slideshow of Bates photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/campus-construction-updates\/\">Campus Construction Update<\/a>, a witty and detailed chronicle of Bates facilities projects, now focusing on the emerging Bonney Science Center, by Doug Hubley.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/bates-in-the-news\/\">Bates in the News<\/a>, an aggregation of Bates- and alumni-focused stories in the media prepared by news writer Freddie Wright.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/multimedia\/\">Multimedia stories and presentations<\/a> by the Bates Communications team.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/tag\/lost-and-found\/\">Library Lost &amp; Found<\/a>, an occasional photographic dive into the Lost and Found collection at Ladd Library<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let&#8217;s get social<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also follow Bates College on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/batescollege\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BatesCollege\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapchat.com\/add\/batescollege\">Snapchat<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/batescollege\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aaron Morse of Athletics Communications produces the weekly sports podcast, the <em>Bates Bobcast<\/em>, featuring students and coaches. Find it on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and Stitcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports enthusiasts can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BatesSports\">@BatesSports<\/a> on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gobatesbobcats\/?hl=en\">@GoBatesBobcats<\/a> on Instagram, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BatesCollegeAthletics\/\" target=\"_blank\">@BatesCollegeAthletics<\/a> on Facebook. Other college programs and departments often have their own social media outlets, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special welcome to parents, students, and families of the incoming Class of 2026, who are receiving BatesNews for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":129732,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[9946,11012,11009],"tags":[12299],"class_list":["post-148393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclude-from-loops","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-class-of-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148393","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148410,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148393\/revisions\/148410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}