{"id":48551,"date":"2011-09-08T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48551"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:47:07","slug":"48551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/08\/48551\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal story looks at five first-year students from Lewiston-Auburn high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sun Journal<\/em> reporter Bonnie Washuk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/city\/story\/1082418\">talks to the five students from Lewiston and Auburn<\/a> high schools who are members of the Class of 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/web-dsc8453.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/web-dsc8453.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"web-dsc8453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think I could find a better balance anywhere else of  everything: diversity, athletics, academics, fun, seriousness,\u201d said Allaina Murphy &#8217;15 of Poland Spring, who graduated from St. Dominic High School in Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Washuk explains that generous financial aid has made it possible for them  to attend the college. Director of Admission Leigh Weisenburger tells Washuk that Bates is making a point of tending to its relationships with area high schools, including \u201cmaking sure guidance counselors know where we are, what Bates is all  about. Having those lines of communication open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the five local freshmen are two Somali  students, the first members of the local immigrant community to matriculate at Bates. That&#8217;s a point of pride, Lewiston mayor Larry Gilbert tells the <em>Sun Journal<\/em>. Their matriculation is &#8220;a first, and a plus.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/city\/story\/1082418\"><em>View story from the Sun Journal, Sept. 6, 2011.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Journal reporter Bonnie Washuk talks to the five students from Lewiston&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":[31,11009],"tags":[10043,11051,127,10872,10830],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-class-of-2015","tag-financial-aid","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","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=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86220,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions\/86220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}