{"id":2578,"date":"2021-02-22T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:51:27","slug":"update-on-dining-campus-life-and-more-feb-22-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/2021\/02\/22\/update-on-dining-campus-life-and-more-feb-22-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on dining, campus life, and more \u2013 Feb. 22, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello, Bates Families \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the start of the semester last week, students have received an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academic-year-2020-21\/2021\/02\/22\/feb-22-important-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update&nbsp;<\/a>regarding dining and additional outdoor furniture. Students are working hard to keep themselves and the campus community healthy, and we thank you for supporting them in these efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the semester gets underway, we share these updates on the student experience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maine state guidelines still limit indoor gatherings to 50 people, and our Dining team is working to offer more options within those constraints. Today is the debut of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dining\/\">Meet Me at the Mezz<\/a>, a first-come, first-served reservation option for in-person dining.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Campus Life has launched\u00a0First<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span>Year Fridays, a new weekly series to help first-year students build connections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With arrival quarantine over, students are able to access more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/campus\/student-spaces\/\">common spaces<\/a>\u00a0on campus to study or meet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your ongoing engagement with Bates. We continue to build our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/events\/\">virtual event calendar&nbsp;<\/a>and hope to see many of you online this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bates Parent Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Bates Families \u2013 Following the start of the semester last week,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-updates","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}