President Garry W. Jenkins<\/h3>\n\n\n\nWhat\u2019s the role of college presidents in fostering civic engagement for democracy? \u2014 Forbes<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nForbes<\/em> quoted Bates President Garry W. Jenkins in a news story about the more-than 60 college and university presidents<\/a> who \u201care uniting to foster democracy and civic engagement\u201d by joining College Presidents for Civic Preparedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe ability to manage disagreement while seeking common ground and pursuing productive solutions is critically important in a democracy. Today, unfortunately, our society is in urgent need of developing such essential skills,\u201d Jenkins told Forbes<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/05\/200504_Garry_Jenkins_inauguration-328-copy.webp\")
President Garry W. Jenkins is among more-than 60 college and university presidents who \u201care uniting to foster democracy and civic engagement\u201d by joining College Presidents for Civic Preparedness. (Rene Roy for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear to me that both our nation\u2019s K\u201312 schools and higher education must develop, promote, and nurture the democratic skills and values of tolerance, pluralism, negotiation, and respect for different views.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Commencement <\/h3>\n\n\n\nBates College\u2019s newest graduates recall struggles, triumphs \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s coverage of Commencement included interviews with a number of seniors<\/a>, including Mfon Diduff, a biological chemistry major from Brooklyn, N.Y., who said she feels privileged to have been able to do groundbreaking research during her four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/original.webp\")
Bates graduates move their tassels from right to left as their degrees are conferred at Commencement on May 26, 2024. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nReporter Kendra Caruso noted that Diduff offered advice to incoming first-year Bates students. \u201cEveryone is unique,\u201d the graduate said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s definition of success is not linear. I most strongly believe that whatever you find successful is a success. Do not measure your success to anyone else or to any other standard of society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBatesCon<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPhotos: BatesCon offers competition and comradery on campus \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSun Journal<\/em> photographer Russ Dillingham stopped by the first BatesCon<\/a>, held May 18 and sponsored by the Bates Discordians club. The event was a free-to-enter convention celebrating everything related to board and video games, art, food trucks, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was the first year for the free, public event that featured interactive activities throughout the day, speakers, panels and advice from professionals in the gaming industry,\u201d wrote Dillingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJessica Anthony \u201996<\/h3>\n\n\n\nA novella packing all the imagery and storytelling power of a novel \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-14-at-11.04.34-AM-609x900.webp\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPraise is pouring in for The Most<\/em>, the new novel by Lecturer in English Jessica Anthony \u201996: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Kirkus<\/em>: A starred review<\/a> for creating \u201ca sharply focused portrait of seemingly average lives in midcentury America [that] reveals the complexities of those lives in the course of one balmy day.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n- Publishers Weekly<\/em>: A coveted starred review<\/a>, which called the book \u201csensational.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n- The Boston Globe<\/em>: Inclusion on its list of \u201c75 books we\u2019re most excited to read this summer<\/a>,\u201d describing the novel as a \u201cpsychologically acute read…with a vivid sense of time and place.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n- Lit Hub<\/em>: Inclusion on its list of 18 must-reads for the summer<\/a>. \u201cThe whole thing has the extraordinarily pleasurable texture of gossip, wrapped up in the slightly eerie texture of a [John] Cheever story,\u201d said reviewer Emily Temple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n- Vogue<\/em>: Placement of the novel\u2019s cover in \u201cThe Get,\u201d the magazine\u2019s two-page feature, directing readers to enjoy summer weekends by \u201cloosening up, logging off, and diving in with breezy separates and accessories.\u201d The novel was in close proximity to a $328 summer frock and a pair of $1,750 shorts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJeffrey Oishi<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe Sun\u2019s magnetic field might only be skin deep \u2014 Space Weekly<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSpace Weekly<\/em> reported<\/a> how solar physicists once thought the magnetic dynamo was deep inside the Sun. That view may change thanks to work by researchers including Bates Associate Professor of Physics Jeffrey Oishi<\/a> and colleagues at MIT, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and the University of California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMara Tieken<\/h3>\n\n\n\n70 years after Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>, many schools remain segregated \u2014 ABC News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nABC News<\/em> quoted Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken in a story about how U.S. public schools across the country remain segregated<\/a> seven decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPart of the reason is the rise of what were once called \u201csegregation academies\u201d: white-only private schools in the South. While federal court decisions over time now require such schools to be open to non-white students, they have remained overwhelmingly white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The segregation academies \u201cwere basically a place to educate white children and keep the school system white, and so what they did over time was they ended up draining enrollment from the [public] schools,\u201d said Tieken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCarrie Diaz Eaton<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCan mathematicians help to solve social-justice problems? \u2014 Nature<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAn article published in Nature<\/em><\/a> turns to Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Carrie Diaz Eaton to help explain how scholars in mathematics and related disciplines are using their expertise to tackle major social issues, such as social inequality and the need for gender equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\nDiaz Eaton is executive director of the Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS), based at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTyler Austin Harper<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe big AI risk not enough people are seeing \u2014 The Atlantic<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn his most recent piece for The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, where he is a contributing writer, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Harper warns: Beware technology \u2014 in this case, artificial intelligence \u2014 that makes us less human. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn his essay, Harper quotes the CEO of the dating app Bumble, who offered hopeful predictions of AI\u2019s assistance to the dating scene in remarks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco last month. What\u2019s troubling about such predictions, Harper writes, is \u201cthe assumption that AI will soon understand proper human behavior in ways that human beings do not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNew [artificial intelligence] products coming to market are gate-crashing spheres of activity that were previously the sole province of human beings,\u201d he writes. \u201cResponding to these often disturbing developments requires a principled way of disentangling uses of AI that are legitimately beneficial and prosocial from those that threaten to atrophy our life skills and independence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Alumni:<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBernard Lown, L.H.D. \u201985<\/h3>\n\n\n\nDollar coin honoring Bernard Lown to be issued \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/24grg_b.webp\")
Bernard Lown, L.H.D. \u201985, is honored on a dollar coin issued by the U.S. Mint as part of the American Innovation series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMultiple news outlets in Maine noted the U.S. Mint\u2019s release of a new dollar coin honoring Dr. Bernard Lown<\/a>, inventor of the direct-current defibrillator, a Nobel Peace Prize honoree, and the 1983 Bates Commencement speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe family of Bernard Lown arrived in Lewiston around 1934, and he attended Lewiston High School and the University of Maine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe coin, which bears Lown\u2019s image along with a defibrillator, is part of the American Innovation series that began in 2019 with the intention of releasing four dollar coins annually until a design from every state is circulating,\u201d the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> reported. \u201cMaine chose Lown for its coin two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn 2008, the southern-most bridge across the Androscoggin was named the \u201cBernard Lown Peace Bridge.\u201d Besides being a cardiologist, Lown received the 1985 Nobel Prize as co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nArthur Elmer Hatch, Class of 1889<\/h3>\n\n\n\nA blind graduate at Bates College in 1889 is a forgotten pioneer \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSleuthing by the Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Steve Collins yielded a story about Arthur Elmer Hatch, who graduated from Bates in 1889 as the nation\u2019s second blind college graduate<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/enlarge_s-l1600-900x865.webp\")
The photograph of Arthur Hatch appears in A Handbook of Prophec<\/em>y, which he authored while a lecturer on prophecy at Aurora (Ill.) College., now Aurora University. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCollins noted that The Boston Globe<\/em> profiled Hatch at the time of his graduation, describing Hatch\u2019s \u201cplucky struggle for an education in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles.\u201d Hatch went on to become a preacher and professor interested in biblical prophecy, publishing A Handbook of Prophecy<\/em> in 1913.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSawin Millett \u201959<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSome influential Maine lawmakers are about to give up their seats. What\u2019s next for them? \u2014 <\/strong>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA Portland Press Herald<\/em> story about important leadership transitions in the Maine Legislature<\/a> included Sawin Millet of Waterford, who was first elected to the Legislature in 1968 and will be giving up his seat this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/165130601_793173581319741_6836248541174197878_n.webp\")
Maine Rep. Sawin Millett talks to reporters in 2021 during discussions about passage of a new state budget. (Sawin Millett)
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nReporter Rachel Ohm noted that \u201cRep. Sawin Millett, R-Waterford, a State House institution who was first elected in 1968…got a standing ovation on his last day in the House chamber on Friday.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides his service as a nine-term lawmaker, Millett has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Worked with eight governors as a lawmaker and in the executive branch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Served as commissioner of education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Served as legislative director and later commissioner of finance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Worked on policy issues and served as associate commissioner for mental health<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Served as commissioner of the Department of Administration and Financial Affairs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Served as a town manager of Paris<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Worked as a staff member for Senate Republicans<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Directed the state office for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Moderated the annual town meeting in Waterford and served as selectman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a treat to work with people with diverse backgrounds, work across the party lines to get things done and be accountable in all my appointed roles for major functions and programs,\u201d he told Ohm. \u201cI enjoyed being accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Millet, who has run a family beef and dairy farm in Waterford for decades, said he\u2019s not leaving state service: He\u2019s running for election to the Oxford County board of commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nChuck Radis \u201975<\/h3>\n\n\n\nLetter: Seeds of racial acceptance were planted in Lewiston long ago \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA letter to the editor of the Portland Press Herald<\/em> by Chuck Radis \u201975<\/a> adds to the recent history of immigration to Lewiston. He notes that \u201cJohn Jenkins [\u201974], Maine\u2019s first Black state senator and Lewiston mayor…played a significant role in fostering acceptance\u201d of immigrants from African nations that began in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n\n\n\nRadis also points to the major Many and One rally at Bates in 2003, \u201cattended by over 4,000 people including U.S. senators and the governor…[that] further exemplified this commitment.\u201d Radis is the author of the biography John Jenkins: The Mayor of Maine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMatt Bazirgan \u201900<\/h3>\n\n\n\nFormer Bates player Matt Bazirgan promoted in Bills\u2019 scouting department \u2014 The Associated Press<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a story about key personnel moves by the NFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills, The Associated Press reported that Matt Bazirgan \u201900 has been promoted to director of college scouting<\/a>. \u201cBazirgan completed his second season with the team in which he previously held the title of senior personnel executive,\u201d the AP noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBazirgan, who played quarterback for the Bobcats, is still prominent in the football record book, including the longest pass from scrimmage, 84 yards, to Jason Coulie ’00 vs. Hamilton in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBen Ayers \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\u2018Two people were sliding to their deaths. And it was silent\u2019 \u2014 Outside Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Forbes<\/em> quoted Bates President Garry W. Jenkins in a news story about the more-than 60 college and university presidents<\/a> who \u201care uniting to foster democracy and civic engagement\u201d by joining College Presidents for Civic Preparedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe ability to manage disagreement while seeking common ground and pursuing productive solutions is critically important in a democracy. Today, unfortunately, our society is in urgent need of developing such essential skills,\u201d Jenkins told Forbes<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s clear to me that both our nation\u2019s K\u201312 schools and higher education must develop, promote, and nurture the democratic skills and values of tolerance, pluralism, negotiation, and respect for different views.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s coverage of Commencement included interviews with a number of seniors<\/a>, including Mfon Diduff, a biological chemistry major from Brooklyn, N.Y., who said she feels privileged to have been able to do groundbreaking research during her four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporter Kendra Caruso noted that Diduff offered advice to incoming first-year Bates students. \u201cEveryone is unique,\u201d the graduate said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s definition of success is not linear. I most strongly believe that whatever you find successful is a success. Do not measure your success to anyone else or to any other standard of society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sun Journal<\/em> photographer Russ Dillingham stopped by the first BatesCon<\/a>, held May 18 and sponsored by the Bates Discordians club. The event was a free-to-enter convention celebrating everything related to board and video games, art, food trucks, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was the first year for the free, public event that featured interactive activities throughout the day, speakers, panels and advice from professionals in the gaming industry,\u201d wrote Dillingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Praise is pouring in for The Most<\/em>, the new novel by Lecturer in English Jessica Anthony \u201996: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Space Weekly<\/em> reported<\/a> how solar physicists once thought the magnetic dynamo was deep inside the Sun. That view may change thanks to work by researchers including Bates Associate Professor of Physics Jeffrey Oishi<\/a> and colleagues at MIT, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and the University of California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ABC News<\/em> quoted Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken in a story about how U.S. public schools across the country remain segregated<\/a> seven decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part of the reason is the rise of what were once called \u201csegregation academies\u201d: white-only private schools in the South. While federal court decisions over time now require such schools to be open to non-white students, they have remained overwhelmingly white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The segregation academies \u201cwere basically a place to educate white children and keep the school system white, and so what they did over time was they ended up draining enrollment from the [public] schools,\u201d said Tieken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An article published in Nature<\/em><\/a> turns to Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Carrie Diaz Eaton to help explain how scholars in mathematics and related disciplines are using their expertise to tackle major social issues, such as social inequality and the need for gender equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Diaz Eaton is executive director of the Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS), based at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his most recent piece for The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, where he is a contributing writer, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Harper warns: Beware technology \u2014 in this case, artificial intelligence \u2014 that makes us less human. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In his essay, Harper quotes the CEO of the dating app Bumble, who offered hopeful predictions of AI\u2019s assistance to the dating scene in remarks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco last month. What\u2019s troubling about such predictions, Harper writes, is \u201cthe assumption that AI will soon understand proper human behavior in ways that human beings do not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNew [artificial intelligence] products coming to market are gate-crashing spheres of activity that were previously the sole province of human beings,\u201d he writes. \u201cResponding to these often disturbing developments requires a principled way of disentangling uses of AI that are legitimately beneficial and prosocial from those that threaten to atrophy our life skills and independence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multiple news outlets in Maine noted the U.S. Mint\u2019s release of a new dollar coin honoring Dr. Bernard Lown<\/a>, inventor of the direct-current defibrillator, a Nobel Peace Prize honoree, and the 1983 Bates Commencement speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family of Bernard Lown arrived in Lewiston around 1934, and he attended Lewiston High School and the University of Maine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe coin, which bears Lown\u2019s image along with a defibrillator, is part of the American Innovation series that began in 2019 with the intention of releasing four dollar coins annually until a design from every state is circulating,\u201d the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> reported. \u201cMaine chose Lown for its coin two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2008, the southern-most bridge across the Androscoggin was named the \u201cBernard Lown Peace Bridge.\u201d Besides being a cardiologist, Lown received the 1985 Nobel Prize as co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sleuthing by the Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Steve Collins yielded a story about Arthur Elmer Hatch, who graduated from Bates in 1889 as the nation\u2019s second blind college graduate<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Collins noted that The Boston Globe<\/em> profiled Hatch at the time of his graduation, describing Hatch\u2019s \u201cplucky struggle for an education in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles.\u201d Hatch went on to become a preacher and professor interested in biblical prophecy, publishing A Handbook of Prophecy<\/em> in 1913.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Portland Press Herald<\/em> story about important leadership transitions in the Maine Legislature<\/a> included Sawin Millet of Waterford, who was first elected to the Legislature in 1968 and will be giving up his seat this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporter Rachel Ohm noted that \u201cRep. Sawin Millett, R-Waterford, a State House institution who was first elected in 1968…got a standing ovation on his last day in the House chamber on Friday.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides his service as a nine-term lawmaker, Millett has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a treat to work with people with diverse backgrounds, work across the party lines to get things done and be accountable in all my appointed roles for major functions and programs,\u201d he told Ohm. \u201cI enjoyed being accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Millet, who has run a family beef and dairy farm in Waterford for decades, said he\u2019s not leaving state service: He\u2019s running for election to the Oxford County board of commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A letter to the editor of the Portland Press Herald<\/em> by Chuck Radis \u201975<\/a> adds to the recent history of immigration to Lewiston. He notes that \u201cJohn Jenkins [\u201974], Maine\u2019s first Black state senator and Lewiston mayor…played a significant role in fostering acceptance\u201d of immigrants from African nations that began in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Radis also points to the major Many and One rally at Bates in 2003, \u201cattended by over 4,000 people including U.S. senators and the governor…[that] further exemplified this commitment.\u201d Radis is the author of the biography John Jenkins: The Mayor of Maine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a story about key personnel moves by the NFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills, The Associated Press reported that Matt Bazirgan \u201900 has been promoted to director of college scouting<\/a>. \u201cBazirgan completed his second season with the team in which he previously held the title of senior personnel executive,\u201d the AP noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bazirgan, who played quarterback for the Bobcats, is still prominent in the football record book, including the longest pass from scrimmage, 84 yards, to Jason Coulie ’00 vs. Hamilton in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Commencement <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bates College\u2019s newest graduates recall struggles, triumphs \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBatesCon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Photos: BatesCon offers competition and comradery on campus \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJessica Anthony \u201996<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A novella packing all the imagery and storytelling power of a novel \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nJeffrey Oishi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Sun\u2019s magnetic field might only be skin deep \u2014 Space Weekly<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMara Tieken<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>, many schools remain segregated \u2014 ABC News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCarrie Diaz Eaton<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Can mathematicians help to solve social-justice problems? \u2014 Nature<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTyler Austin Harper<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The big AI risk not enough people are seeing \u2014 The Atlantic<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Alumni:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Bernard Lown, L.H.D. \u201985<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dollar coin honoring Bernard Lown to be issued \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nArthur Elmer Hatch, Class of 1889<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A blind graduate at Bates College in 1889 is a forgotten pioneer \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSawin Millett \u201959<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some influential Maine lawmakers are about to give up their seats. What\u2019s next for them? \u2014 <\/strong>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nChuck Radis \u201975<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Letter: Seeds of racial acceptance were planted in Lewiston long ago \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMatt Bazirgan \u201900<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Former Bates player Matt Bazirgan promoted in Bills\u2019 scouting department \u2014 The Associated Press<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBen Ayers \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Two people were sliding to their deaths. And it was silent\u2019 \u2014 Outside Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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