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2009 Commencement Speakers

Fareed Zakaria and Geena Davis to speak at Class of 2009 Graduation in May.

Graduating seniors and their families will hear from an Academy Award winning  actress, a college president and author, a MacArthur genius, a longterm Bates philanthropist, and a Newsweek columnist and CNN host. Actress Geena Davis and Mid-East policy expert Fareed Zakaria are the best known of the five speakers who will address the graduating class on Sunday, May 31. Full story

Lack of Museum Space Limits Senior Art Show

For years, senior art majors have devoted their theses to preparing bodies of work that are displayed at the College Museum of Art.   This year, however, the 14 graduating art majors fear that there may not be enough space for their work because another show is booked for the entire bottom floor of the museum, reducing the amount of space available to display student art. Full story

Panel Debates Ethics of Bottled Water

    As students, faculty and staff entered the Benjamin Mays Center to hear a panel featuring Take Back the Tap star Lucy Neely ’09 and President of Summit Spring Water N. Bryan Pullen, among others, they were offered a choice.     Lying on a table to the right of the stage were cookies flanked on one side by bottles of Summit Spring water and, on the other, a big container of iced tap water with paper cups. Full story

Correction:


In the April 7 article “2009 Commencement Speakers” by Conor Hurley it was incorrectly stated that Ralph T. Perry ’51 is a trustee of the College.

Retraction:

In the April 7 forum article “Alcohol Is the Ultimate Enemy” by Romina Istratii, two sentences were lifted, without citation, from the March 30 NY Times article “Time and the Bottle” by Tim Kreider. Also, in the March 24 forum article “Religious Leaders Miss the Point” by Istratii, three sentences were plagiarized from the March 18 NY Times editorial “The Pope on Condoms and AIDS.” The editorial is referenced by Istratii but not directly quoted, as it should have been.

All of Istratii’s articles have been removed from this website until a more thorough investigation can be done, and she is no longer on staff. We deeply regret that this occurred and are reviewing both our staff training and editing procedures to ensure that it does not happen again.

Sincerely,

The Editors

 

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Bail out the Press

So here we are. The last column. I’ve been dreaming about this Tuesday for a long time. But here I am, staring at the last issue of this newspaper I will ever edit, and I feel like I’m looking at something as endangered as the Galapagos’ Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his species (who, by the way, finally got it on last summer with two females of a similar species after over 30 years of sexual disinterest). Full story

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One-Year Anniversary of Local Cancer Center

Patrick Dempsey Helping People On- and Off-Screen

In 1997, when Mary Dempsey found out that her mother, Amanda, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she used all her resources from her work at the Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) to find her mother the best treatment and to keep her family well-informed. Full story

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He’s Got the Magic Stick

The Baseball team completed a busy five-game week with a 3-2 record. The team improved to 6-10 on the year and 3-3 in conference play after taking two of three games from NESCAC-rival Colby College. Bates planned to play their first home game of the season last Tuesday against Husson University but the game was moved to Husson at the last minute. Full story

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Ronj Offers Business-minded Students a Free Pass

Passed on from year to year, each set of managers brings their own uniqueness to the Ronj, or the Ronj at Ross House as it is officially named. Established in 1997, the Ronj caters to the Bates evening crowd, selling chai, coffee and an assortment of candy and chocolate.

Student Wins Stonyfield Grant for Local Boys and Girls Clubs

After reading about the yogurt lid-collecting competition “Double Play” on the back of her Stonyfield yogurt cup, Catherine Elliot ’12 galvanized students to collect over 4,600 lids and win Bates a $50,000 grant to fund a play space for the Lewiston/Auburn Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine.

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Student Dialogue at Bates Explodes

Opinion Section Is A True Student Forum

A friend once asked me why Bates would ever name its newspaper “The Bates Student.” Surely, he pointed out, there are more standard titles out there. If you ever wondered why, students this semester have put forth a strong argument. This semester, our newspaper’s title seems especially appropriate given the prominence of the student body’s voice in the forum section. 2 comments

Letter to the Editor: O’Brien’s Criticism of Stimulus Ignores the Public Sector

Dear Editor, Re: “American Recovery Act and Obama’s Budget Will Not Help Our Economy,” (March 31, by Brendan O’Brien). While it’s difficult to discern exactly what lessons Brendan O’Brien took away from the Bush administration’s failed economic policies, it seems like he believes there should be no government. 2 comments

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Want to Achieve An A? Try Achieving an O First

It’s approaching again.  Articles in The Bates Student are covering the story, a dean has e-mailed you or stopped you on the path to ask if you are “still breathing,” and Rose Schwab is sending out twice as many e-mails about Room to Love meditations.

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DJs of The Week

Margaret Czachorowski and Sarah Codraro

Margaret Czachorowski and Sarah Codraro are seniors who actively seek out quality music to share with their listeners; therefore they stand out as DJs of the Week.     Their show, “Triumph Noise,” airs Saturdays 2 to 4 p.m. The show’s name is a reference to the signal sound iTunes makes after a new CD has been uploaded.

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The End Is Now

    This is my last column. Since September of 2005, I have had an article in every issue of The Student. I have written recaps for every sport except basketball, spotlights on everyone from Brenton Pitt ’06 to Caroline Thomas ’09 and columns about absolutely nothing. 2 comments

Finally!

    After dressing the wounds of a 22-3 beating inflicted by the Tufts Jumbos on Tuesday, the men’s lacrosse team was hell-bent for their first conference victory of the season leading into Saturday’s match-up against the bottom-seeded Conn.

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