![\"Moments](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261001_Neuroscientist_Peter_Strick_9624.webp\")
Peter Strick P\u201998, Thomas Detre Professor and Chair of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, gives a talk on using neurotropic viruses to map brain circuitry, the first iteration of the Bates Program in Neuroscience\u2019s new seminar series. A proud Bates parent of Benjamin Strick \u201998, Peter Strick will become president of the Society for Neuroscience, the field\u2019s largest academic organization, in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Back to Bates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moment\u2019s](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261002_Back2Bates_0556.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDuring a panel as part of Back to Bates weekend, which welcomes alumni and parents of current students to campus, Wyatt Teaford \u201927 of Peru, Vt., Angelina Amastal \u201927 of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mya Hicks \u201927 of Ann Arbor, Mich., share their experiences completing internships in law and government with support from Bates\u2019 Center for Purposeful Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHall of Fame induction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moment\u2019s](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261002_Back2Bates_1579.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFrom the podium at left, Bates Director of Athletics Stacey Bunting addresses the crowd gathered for the college\u2019s second annual Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHello, Heisman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moment\u2019s](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261003_Back2Bates_3184.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Heisman Trophy makes an appearance at Back to Bates weekend, offering students, parents, and alumni the opportunity to view up-close the coveted trophy. Jeff Price \u201987, the first CEO of the Heisman Trophy trust, brought the trophy to campus, where it was displayed in the Bobcat Fan Zone on Bardwell Field prior to a football game against Tufts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat greetings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moment\u2019s](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261003_Back2Bates_3319.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe college\u2019s new Bobcat mascot, unveiled earlier this semester, poses for a photo with a young Batesie during Back to Bates weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen house<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moments](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261012_Fall_Open_House_8336.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nExploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moments](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261012_Fall_Open_House_8590.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261015_Mascot_Fall_Color_0284.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261019_Quad_Color_837A2066-1.webp\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Three](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261023_Leaf_Jump-3014.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261026_Tennis_Mixer_GarryJenkins-4590.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Several](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261027_Vote-7859.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Six](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261028_Softball_079.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"On](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261029_Trick_Or_Treat-39.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Mock](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261030_Mock_Presidential_Debate-38.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/20261010_mtdavid_concert_CBP07.webp\")
Carly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Moments](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261102_Marsden_Hartley_178.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Audience](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/261030_Marsden_Hartley_Legacy_Project_Launch-12.webp\")
Brian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Fall](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/11\/DJI_20261014135312_0933.webp\")
Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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During a panel as part of Back to Bates weekend, which welcomes alumni and parents of current students to campus, Wyatt Teaford \u201927 of Peru, Vt., Angelina Amastal \u201927 of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mya Hicks \u201927 of Ann Arbor, Mich., share their experiences completing internships in law and government with support from Bates\u2019 Center for Purposeful Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Hall of Fame induction<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFrom the podium at left, Bates Director of Athletics Stacey Bunting addresses the crowd gathered for the college\u2019s second annual Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHello, Heisman<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Heisman Trophy makes an appearance at Back to Bates weekend, offering students, parents, and alumni the opportunity to view up-close the coveted trophy. Jeff Price \u201987, the first CEO of the Heisman Trophy trust, brought the trophy to campus, where it was displayed in the Bobcat Fan Zone on Bardwell Field prior to a football game against Tufts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat greetings<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe college\u2019s new Bobcat mascot, unveiled earlier this semester, poses for a photo with a young Batesie during Back to Bates weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen house<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nExploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From the podium at left, Bates Director of Athletics Stacey Bunting addresses the crowd gathered for the college\u2019s second annual Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hello, Heisman<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Heisman Trophy makes an appearance at Back to Bates weekend, offering students, parents, and alumni the opportunity to view up-close the coveted trophy. Jeff Price \u201987, the first CEO of the Heisman Trophy trust, brought the trophy to campus, where it was displayed in the Bobcat Fan Zone on Bardwell Field prior to a football game against Tufts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat greetings<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe college\u2019s new Bobcat mascot, unveiled earlier this semester, poses for a photo with a young Batesie during Back to Bates weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen house<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nExploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Heisman Trophy makes an appearance at Back to Bates weekend, offering students, parents, and alumni the opportunity to view up-close the coveted trophy. Jeff Price \u201987, the first CEO of the Heisman Trophy trust, brought the trophy to campus, where it was displayed in the Bobcat Fan Zone on Bardwell Field prior to a football game against Tufts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Bobcat greetings<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe college\u2019s new Bobcat mascot, unveiled earlier this semester, poses for a photo with a young Batesie during Back to Bates weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen house<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nExploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The college\u2019s new Bobcat mascot, unveiled earlier this semester, poses for a photo with a young Batesie during Back to Bates weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Open house<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nExploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tori Neason Wallace, Bates\u2019 vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid, addresses prospective students and their families during Bates Admission\u2019s Fall Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Exploring education<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This October at Bates will be hard to beat. It was a lively month for academics, with visiting speakers and Admission events for prospective students, and community, with alumni returning to campus and Lewiston-Auburn families gathering on Alumni Walk to celebrate Halloween \u2014 all framed by the impeccable, signature Maine fall foliage that each year illuminates our campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":174725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["mark-l-tizzoni","stephanie-kelley-romano","melinda-a-plastas"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"","_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":[1],"tags":[12447,12444,1208,12473,12474],"class_list":["post-174734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-academics","tag-athletics","tag-back-to-bates","tag-fall-foliage","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734","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=174734"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174890,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions\/174890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History Mark Tizzoni welcomes prospective students to a classroom in Hedge Hall during the Fall Open House\u2019s academic sessions, which featured lectures from seven different faculty members, aiming to give prospective students a brief glimpse into academic life at Bates. Tizzoni\u2019s session was called \u201cShort Introduction to Medieval Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Bobcat\u2019s fall spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This October at Bates will be hard to beat. It was a lively month for academics, with visiting speakers and Admission events for prospective students, and community, with alumni returning to campus and Lewiston-Auburn families gathering on Alumni Walk to celebrate Halloween \u2014 all framed by the impeccable, signature Maine fall foliage that each year illuminates our campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":174725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["mark-l-tizzoni","stephanie-kelley-romano","melinda-a-plastas"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"","_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":[1],"tags":[12447,12444,1208,12473,12474],"class_list":["post-174734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-academics","tag-athletics","tag-back-to-bates","tag-fall-foliage","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734","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=174734"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174890,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions\/174890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bates\u2019 new Bobcat mascot, recently released onto campus, is spotted enjoying the fall foliage on the Historic Quad, holding up a fallen sugar maple leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Quad walks and lacrosse fits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates women\u2019s lacrosse players Molly Henshon \u201930, left, of Longmeadow, Mass., and Natalie Lesch \u201930 of Evanston, Ill., take a stroll through the color-spattered Historic Quad in mid-October, just after Lewiston reached peak fall foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Cold Front takes the plunge<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Members of Cold Front, one of Bates\u2019 club ultimate frisbee teams, take advantage of the season by gathering on the Historic Quad to rake piles of leaves and dive into them. Sophomores Luca Bernardin of Amherst, Mass., Margaret Carlsmith of Arlington, Mass., and Ximi Xu from Shanghai, China, jump into the colder months, all wearing their trusty Bates sweatshirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Jenkins joins the tennis team<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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President Garry W. Jenkins, right, high-fives tennis player June Kim \u201930 of Plano, Texas, during a tennis mixer featuring the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tennis teams at Bates\u2019 Wallach Tennis Center. Jenkins joined the players for warm-ups and even a few matches, trying his hand against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bates Votes<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSoftball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This October at Bates will be hard to beat. It was a lively month for academics, with visiting speakers and Admission events for prospective students, and community, with alumni returning to campus and Lewiston-Auburn families gathering on Alumni Walk to celebrate Halloween \u2014 all framed by the impeccable, signature Maine fall foliage that each year illuminates our campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":174725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["mark-l-tizzoni","stephanie-kelley-romano","melinda-a-plastas"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"","_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":[1],"tags":[12447,12444,1208,12473,12474],"class_list":["post-174734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-academics","tag-athletics","tag-back-to-bates","tag-fall-foliage","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734","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=174734"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174890,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions\/174890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bates students, joined by President Garry W. Jenkins (third from left), pose for a photo on campus before heading to downtown Lewiston to early vote prior to the Nov. 3 election. Bates Votes, a student-led voting initiative housed in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, organized the outing and provided transportation for students from campus to Lewiston City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Softball grins<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTrick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bates softball players Bridget Schalk \u201930, Maddy Miller \u201928, Juleah Somers \u201930, Maya Lee \u201927, Riley Valent \u201930, and Sienna Pietrasiewicz \u201927 take a break during a pre-season practice on Lafayette Street Field, outfitted with fresh turf updated this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
Trick-or-Treat<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCarly Philpott \u201927 for Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nStudents gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDirector of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\nBrian Rimm \u201905\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAudience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTheophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. Looking to the horizon, exuberant reds, playful yellows, and calm greens dot the landscape for as far as the eye can see, giving way to sweeping mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photography by Theophil Syslo, Brian Rimm \u201905, and Carly Philpott \u201927, with text by Alexandra DeMarco and Ramona McNish \u201928.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bates President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee dress up as Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the fictional hockey couple from hit television series Heated Rivalry<\/em>, for Bates\u2019 annual Trick-or-Treat event on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlotte Bernhard \u201928 of Wellesley Hills, Mass., plays Michelle Foster \u2014 the fictional presidential candidate she created for Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley Romano\u2019s course \u201cPresidential Campaign Rhetoric.\u201d In the course, students assume the roles of candidates, campaign managers, and journalists to play out a mock election across campus. Here, Bernhard debates her opponent in front of the class in Pettigrew Hall. She would go on to win the election on Nov. 3, becoming Bates\u2019 mock president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students gather atop Mount David for this year\u2019s iteration of Bates Plays, an event organized by the student-led Bates Musicians\u2019 Union that invites student musicians to come together, often creating bands just for the event, to play musical covers from a particular artist\u2019s discography. This year featured the music of rock band Wilco, and the previous two years featured the music of indie folk band Big Thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director of Photography and Multimedia Production Brian Rimm \u201905, who joined the college in October, captures two luminaries of the Marsden Hartley scholarship world downstairs at the Bates College Museum of Art in front of a Hartley display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At left is Gail R. Scott, art historian and the director of the Marsden Harley Legacy Project, an online catalog of all known works by the Lewiston-born artist. The project went live earlier this year, and the college held an event on Oct. 30 to celebrate the accomplishment, which Scott worked on for several years before joining forces with Bates in 2019 to complete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At right is Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who curated a major retrospective of Hartley at the Whitney in 1980 that toured four other American cities and helped establish widespread interest in the artist. Haskell gave a keynote address at the Oct. 30 event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Audience members at the Olin Concert Hall listen intently to speakers at the Oct. 30 celebration of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project launch. Since 2019, Bates has been engaged with the project, an online catalogue of 1,600 works by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In mid-October, the Historic Quad is teeming with the best of the fall\u2019s foliage. 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\n\n\n\nVying for the presidency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Plays returns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWelcome, Brian!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCommunity engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrilliant colors, brilliant campus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n