{"id":91585,"date":"2015-03-20T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=91585"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:01:00","slug":"slideshow-this-month-at-bates-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/20\/slideshow-this-month-at-bates-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: This Month at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"

March is a long month at Bates, 31 days and no break until mid-April, but there are treats. The maple sap is flowing, men’s hoops made it to the Sweet Sixteen and today’s the first day of spring. Which means that we’re really sweet on Bates!<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Students watching a livestream in Commons react as Ahmed Abdel Khalek \u201816 of Cairo, Egypt, scores the winning point in the men's individual collegiate squash championship on March 1. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Becky Culp '15 of Norwalk, Conn., and Jessica Nichols '15 of Lincoln, Mass., grill s'mores outside of Commons during \"Bates Games,\" friendly team competitions and activities. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Alex-Dauge Roth, recipient of the 2015 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, teaches his students how to interview and learn \"with\" the survivors of the genocide in Rwanda, not just \"about\" them. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cWe have a strong group of girls and very supportive coaches. It\u2019s simply a great feeling to grind it out on the court,\" says economics major and varsity tennis player Libby Voccola \u201917 of Falmouth, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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The annual \"Inside Africa Fashion Show \" is a student showcase of contemporary and traditional clothing from around Africa and includes performances of dance, music and spoken-word poetry reflecting African culture. (Max Huang '18 for Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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March is a long month at Bates, 31 days and no break until mid-April, but there are treats: The maple sap is flowing, men’s hoops made it to the Sweet Sixteen and, well, we’re just sweet on Bates anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":91618,"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":[223,11012],"tags":[10580,10433,11075,10834],"class_list":["post-91585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slideshow","category-student-life","tag-narrative-multimedia-2","tag-slideshow-2","tag-this-month-at-bates","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91585","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=91585"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91830,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91585\/revisions\/91830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}