{"id":82958,"date":"2014-12-09T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=82958"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:01:00","slug":"slideshow-this-month-at-bates-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/09\/slideshow-this-month-at-bates-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: This Month at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in the season of endings and beginnings. By December, students are buckling down to review what they already know, even as the campus pulls them toward new ideas, people and experiences.<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Phillip Dube \u201916 of Norton, Zimbabwe, and Anita Charles, a member of the education faculty, talk during the \u201cFirst Generation To College\u201d dinner hosted by the Office of Intercultural Education. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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At lunchtime in Commons on Dec. 2, 50-plus students mounted a Ferguson-inspired protest art demonstration \"to interrupt the flow of normal life so that we are prompted to truly question the society we live in,\" said organizer Annakay Wright \u201917 of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Chase Lis '17 of Boulder, Colo., studies for a physics exam in Ladd Library during finals week. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Faculty members Hilmar Jensen and Marcus Bruce '77 talk during the 25th gala anniversary celebration of the African American Studies and American Cultural Studies programs in the Museum of Art. Jensen is an associate professor of history, and Bruce is the Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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The Gospelaires sing during the annual Service of Lessons and Carols in the Gomes Chapel on Dec. 7. The service narrates the birth of Jesus through readings of Scripture and contemporary prose, with Bates vocal and instrumental groups participating. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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