{"id":21390,"date":"1998-10-02T13:47:02","date_gmt":"1998-10-02T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21390"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:34:00","slug":"homecoming-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/10\/02\/homecoming-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"1998 Homecoming Weekend Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College will celebrate <em>Back to Bates <\/em>homecoming Friday, Oct.16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, with many on-campus events for students, alumni and Bates employees. The following events are open to the public free of charge:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->FRIDAY, Oct. 16<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: <em>Notations of Color: Oil Sketching in Maine<\/em>, 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Bates College Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li>Lecture: <em>Whiteness is a Race<\/em>, Professor of English Lewis Turlish delivers the week&#8217;s talk on <em>Whiteness in American Literature<\/em>, 4:15 p.m. in Room 113 of Carnegie Science.<\/li>\n<li>Maine Gubernatorial Debate: Maine&#8217;s five gubernatorial candidates tackle statewide issues in a live, televised debate. No admittance without free tickets from the Bates Office of Special Projects. 9 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.<\/li>\n<li>Play: Neil Simon&#8217;s <em>Chapter Two<\/em>, 8 p.m. in Gannett Theater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SATURDAY, Oct. 17<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: <em>Notations of Color: Oil Sketching in Maine<\/em>, 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Bates College Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li>Field hockey: Bates vs. New England College, 1 p.m. at Russell Street Field.<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s soccer: Bates vs. Springfield College, 1 p.m. at Leahey Field.<\/li>\n<li>Water polo: tournament play, 1 p.m. Tarbell Pool, Merrill Gymnasium.<\/li>\n<li>Football: Bates vs. Wesleyan, 1:30 p.m. at Garcelon Field.<\/li>\n<li>Play: Neil Simon&#8217;s <em>Chapter Two<\/em>, 2 p.m. in Gannett Theater.<\/li>\n<li>Concert: Bates&#8217; a capella groups, the Deansmen and the Merimanders, at 7 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.<\/li>\n<li>Back to Bates Fireworks Show, 8:15 p.m. at Garcelon Field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SUNDAY, Oct. 18<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: <em>Notations of Color: Oil Sketching in Maine<\/em>, 1 &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Bates College Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li>Play: Neil Simon&#8217;s <em>Chapter Two<\/em>, 2 p.m. in Gannett Theater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College will celebrate &#8220;Back to Bates&#8221; homecoming Friday, Oct.16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, with many on-campus events for students, alumni and Bates employees.<\/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":[7,39,14],"tags":[1208,7447],"class_list":["post-21390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-event-highlights","category-faculty-staff","tag-back-to-bates","tag-reunion-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390","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=21390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions\/92501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}