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<\/a><\/p>\n$11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA gift of $11.5 million from current and past members of the Bates College Board of Trustees will empower the college to strengthen core academic programs and “position Bates to embrace transformational change,” says Bates President Clayton Spencer.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nBates a Fulbright \u2018top producer\u2019 again. What’s the secret of our success?<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cWhen you have talented teacher-scholars mentoring very bright, internationally oriented students, you get great results in the fellowship arena,\u201d says Matt Auer, dean of the faculty and vice president for acacemic affairs.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-04-at-3.07.44-PM-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018What Does the Bobcat Say\u2019 parody video \u2018might be the best one\u2019 out there<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nYou can do a parody of a viral video, \u201cbut you damn well better do a fantastic job,\u201d says one social media expert. So, did Bates succeed?<\/p>\n
\n![\"Blackburn\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/Blackburn-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nBates debate soars into top five in U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cBates debate is this wonderful balance between being really open and friendly \u2014 a community of friends \u2014 while having a competitive edge,\u201d says Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif., the 10th-ranked varsity\u00a0speaker in the country.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/web_120928_Tedd_Goundie_0097-e1383925167907-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDean of Students Tedd Goundie to step down at end of 2013\u201314 academic year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nGoundie, with a decade of service at Bates, has been praised by President Clayton Spencer for “impeccable integrity in all that he undertakes.”<\/p>\n
\n![](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/web_131023_Gene_Clough_FYS_0068-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Dempsey](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/web_131012_Dempsey_Challenge_0498-e1383925414443-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/web_130829_AESOP_Baxter_Bushwackers_290-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-08-at-10.59.42-AM1-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nBates in the News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Harvard media note President Clayton Spencer’s return to Cambridge for the anniversary of a Harvard summer academy she helped start. Public radio’s Marketplace<\/em> heads Down East to visit Raye’s Mustard, the 110-year-old family business of Kevin Ray ’83. Rosamond Toomey ’33 gets attention from the Hartford Courant<\/em> for turning 103. And the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em> looks at tennis player Tim Berg ’14, a cancer survivor back home in Florida competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month’s items: $11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":69064,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","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=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/99345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nBates a Fulbright \u2018top producer\u2019 again. What’s the secret of our success?<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cWhen you have talented teacher-scholars mentoring very bright, internationally oriented students, you get great results in the fellowship arena,\u201d says Matt Auer, dean of the faculty and vice president for acacemic affairs.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018What Does the Bobcat Say\u2019 parody video \u2018might be the best one\u2019 out there<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nYou can do a parody of a viral video, \u201cbut you damn well better do a fantastic job,\u201d says one social media expert. So, did Bates succeed?<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates debate soars into top five in U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cBates debate is this wonderful balance between being really open and friendly \u2014 a community of friends \u2014 while having a competitive edge,\u201d says Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif., the 10th-ranked varsity\u00a0speaker in the country.<\/p>\n
\n <\/a><\/p>\nDean of Students Tedd Goundie to step down at end of 2013\u201314 academic year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nGoundie, with a decade of service at Bates, has been praised by President Clayton Spencer for “impeccable integrity in all that he undertakes.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates in the News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Harvard media note President Clayton Spencer’s return to Cambridge for the anniversary of a Harvard summer academy she helped start. Public radio’s Marketplace<\/em> heads Down East to visit Raye’s Mustard, the 110-year-old family business of Kevin Ray ’83. Rosamond Toomey ’33 gets attention from the Hartford Courant<\/em> for turning 103. And the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em> looks at tennis player Tim Berg ’14, a cancer survivor back home in Florida competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month’s items: $11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":69064,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","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=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/99345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018What Does the Bobcat Say\u2019 parody video \u2018might be the best one\u2019 out there<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nYou can do a parody of a viral video, \u201cbut you damn well better do a fantastic job,\u201d says one social media expert. So, did Bates succeed?<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates debate soars into top five in U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cBates debate is this wonderful balance between being really open and friendly \u2014 a community of friends \u2014 while having a competitive edge,\u201d says Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif., the 10th-ranked varsity\u00a0speaker in the country.<\/p>\n
\n <\/a><\/p>\nDean of Students Tedd Goundie to step down at end of 2013\u201314 academic year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nGoundie, with a decade of service at Bates, has been praised by President Clayton Spencer for “impeccable integrity in all that he undertakes.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates in the News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Harvard media note President Clayton Spencer’s return to Cambridge for the anniversary of a Harvard summer academy she helped start. Public radio’s Marketplace<\/em> heads Down East to visit Raye’s Mustard, the 110-year-old family business of Kevin Ray ’83. Rosamond Toomey ’33 gets attention from the Hartford Courant<\/em> for turning 103. And the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em> looks at tennis player Tim Berg ’14, a cancer survivor back home in Florida competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month’s items: $11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":69064,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","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=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/99345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nBates debate soars into top five in U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\u201cBates debate is this wonderful balance between being really open and friendly \u2014 a community of friends \u2014 while having a competitive edge,\u201d says Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif., the 10th-ranked varsity\u00a0speaker in the country.<\/p>\n
\n <\/a><\/p>\nDean of Students Tedd Goundie to step down at end of 2013\u201314 academic year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nGoundie, with a decade of service at Bates, has been praised by President Clayton Spencer for “impeccable integrity in all that he undertakes.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates in the News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Harvard media note President Clayton Spencer’s return to Cambridge for the anniversary of a Harvard summer academy she helped start. Public radio’s Marketplace<\/em> heads Down East to visit Raye’s Mustard, the 110-year-old family business of Kevin Ray ’83. Rosamond Toomey ’33 gets attention from the Hartford Courant<\/em> for turning 103. And the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em> looks at tennis player Tim Berg ’14, a cancer survivor back home in Florida competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month’s items: $11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":69064,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","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=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/99345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nDean of Students Tedd Goundie to step down at end of 2013\u201314 academic year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nGoundie, with a decade of service at Bates, has been praised by President Clayton Spencer for “impeccable integrity in all that he undertakes.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nBates in the News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Harvard media note President Clayton Spencer’s return to Cambridge for the anniversary of a Harvard summer academy she helped start. Public radio’s Marketplace<\/em> heads Down East to visit Raye’s Mustard, the 110-year-old family business of Kevin Ray ’83. Rosamond Toomey ’33 gets attention from the Hartford Courant<\/em> for turning 103. And the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em> looks at tennis player Tim Berg ’14, a cancer survivor back home in Florida competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month’s items: $11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change’ at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":69064,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","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=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/99345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nSlide Show: This Month at Bates College<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA selection of images from the month of October at Bates.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nStudents take charge as inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge goes to Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nLed by Hillary Throckmorton ’15 of Bangor, Maine, Bates wins a CBB Challenge during the two-day Dempsey Challenge cancer fundraiser in Lewiston.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nVideo: Katahdin is the goal, camaraderie the result<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nEvery pre-orientation outdoor trip has those defining moments when, for six first-year students who\u2019ve never met one another, \u201cit clicks, and everyone feels comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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