{"id":18004,"date":"2005-09-07T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=18004"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:19:58","slug":"bates-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/09\/07\/bates-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates responds to Hurricane Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/09\/72katrina675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/09\/72katrina675.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Lavoie, John Malcolm and Karl Ault\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates College has joined the international outpouring of support for the Gulf Coast regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina (see links below).<\/p>\n<p>A combined effort by Bates student, staff and faculty, the Katrina Relief Initiative had raised more than $5,000 as of Sept. 13.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 14, it was announced that proceeds from a student and community art show during Parents and Family Weekend will go to the KRI.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 18 students from Maine who had intended to start the semester at Loyola, Tulane and the University of New Orleans have accepted Bates&#8217; offer of free tuition for the semester. Three come from the Lewiston-Auburn area, with others from as far south as Wells and as far northeast as Addison.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Related news:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/09\/27\/katrinas-effect\/\">Bates students offer presentation about Katrina&#8217;s effects on New Orleans and the nation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/09\/13\/katrina-2\/\">At Bates, &#8216;everyone&#8217;s been great&#8217; to students sent by Katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/09\/07\/fund-drive\/\">Fund drive under way as vigil is planned for\u00a0victims <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/past-presidents\/bates-college-presidents\/elaine-tuttle-hansen\/2005y\/president-hansen-on-bates-response-to-katrina\/\">President Hansen on Bates&#8217; response to Katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/09\/01\/free-tuition\/\">Bates offers free tuition to Maine students displaced by Katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College has joined the international outpouring of support for the Gulf Coast regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina (see links below).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14,220],"tags":[4301],"class_list":["post-18004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-service","tag-hurricane-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004","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=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions\/109521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}