{"id":48354,"date":"2011-09-02T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48354"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:51:48","slug":"getting-ready-nine-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/getting-ready-nine-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, set, welcome: Nine behind-the-scenes stories about the new Bates year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first-year students and their trip leaders headed off on their preorientation AESOP trips on Monday, we did a campus walkabout to check on our colleagues&#8217;\u00a0 final preparations for the new academic year. All over campus we heard a similar theme: The more things stay the same, the more they change.<a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/class-1910-bill_2865.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/class-1910-bill_2865-400x266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"class-1910-bill_2865\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48232\">Sanford Freedman and his English courses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48226\">Suzy Nattress and the keys to Bates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48234\">James Reese and the dean&#8217;s office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48228\">Christine Schwartz and the menu from Dining Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48280\">Sarah Potter &#8217;77 and the business of books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48230\">Tom Hayward and the Bates library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48286\">Mara Tieken and Ther\u00ed Pickens and their new faculty appointments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48202\">Mark Harriman and trends in football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48284\">Jim Taylor and the Bobcat equipment room<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/aesop_2816.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/aesop_2816.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"aesop_2816\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first-year students and their trip leaders headed off on their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"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":[130,14,11012],"tags":[615,6683],"class_list":["post-48354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-student-life","tag-aesop","tag-orientation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86257,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354\/revisions\/86257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}