By: JUDSON PECK

By: GARDINER NARDINI

The BCSG Budget Committee convened last weekend in Pettengill Hall to decide the student club budgets for the 2010-2011 academic year. Committee members listened for two days as representatives from over 60 campus organizations showed up to advocate their...

By: RACHEL HASTINGS

Bay Buchanan delivered an enthused presentation entitled “Illegal Immigration and Its Tragic Consequences” to a cozy audience last night in Chase Hall Lounge.  The talk was sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, and Buchanan was intr...

By: GARDINER NARDINI

A new student residence will open next year and extend the College campus further down Frye Street, confirmed an Announce e-mail from Housing Coordinator and Residence Life Assistant Carrie Murphy last Friday. The recently-acquired house, which sits at 10...

By: PALO PEIRCE

The recent resale of tickets for last  month's Snoop Dogg concert left the College “concerned,” according to Dean of Student Activities Keith Tannenbaum. One ticket for the show was posted on Craigslist for a price of $150, resulting in a...

By: PALO PEIRCE

L.L. Bean will unveil its new collection, entitled “L.L. Bean Signature,” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10th at Willy Beans Bistro and Café in Lewiston.  The spring 2010 line has yet to be revealed to those outside of the L.L. Bean...

By: RACHEL HASTINGS

Brendan Julian ’10 delivered a presentation entitled “Preserving Tradition: The Philosophy, Politics, and Performance of Capoeira Angola in Rural Bahia, Brazil” at last Thursday’s Anthro Lunch. Julian received a grant from the Hami...

By: PALO PEIRCE

On Feb. 23rd the Bates College Republicans, led by club president Alix Melamed ’10, brought Maine gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage to the “Fish Bowl” in Commons to speak with the College community. LePage is seeking the Republican nom...

By: DANIELA REICHELSTEIN

With Bowdoin College’s recent decision to adopt a gender-neutral housing policy, the push by student activists to eliminate gender as a determinant in campus housing continues in colleges throughout the U.S., yet remains a non-issue at Bates. Follow...

By: GARDINER NARDINI

Wilson Louis, mayor of the Cité Soleil province in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, came to Bates the Thursday before Winter Break to discuss relief and reconstruction in Haiti. Louis does not speak English, but the language barrier was no obs...

By: PALO PEIRCE

The Bates Student Philanthropy Club, led by co-presidents Elise Edmonson ’10 and Walter Garcia ’11, hosted a dinner event last Wednesday that featured “Keeping Bates Competitive,” a presentation by Bates Assistant Vice-President fo...

By: RACHEL HASTINGS

Last Saturday’s Snoop Dogg concert, which drew a crowd of 2,000 students and visitors, did not cause any “major incidents,” according to Director of Security and Campus Safety Tom Carey. One attendee, who was not a member of the student ...

By: GARDINER NARDINI

Developments in modern psychology have given way to a profound and subtle understanding of human behavior, said Harvard University Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji last week to an overcrowded Keck Classroom. Banaji, deliveri...

By: GARDINER NARDINI

Editor's note: All names in the following article have been changed at the request of those interviewed for purposes of anonymity. The semester was coming to an end, and “John”, a sophomore, was faced with a seemingly insurmountable task: fini...

By: ZOE ROSENTHAL

On Feb. 8th, as part of their weekly meeting the Bates College Student Government (BCSG) debated the approval of the co-sponsorship fund request made by the Chase Hall Committee (CHC) for the upcoming Snoop Dogg concert. CHC Co-Presidents Evan Hancock &rs...

By: PALO PEIRCE

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates held its annual community celebration on Friday February 5th at the Lewiston Public Library's Marsden Hartley Cultural Center. The event was well attended by both the local Lewiston community and Bate...

By: REGINA TAVANI

The Chase Hall Committee (CHC) and Dean of Student Activities Keith Tannenbaum denied rumors that Tannenbaum appropriated funds from the Student Activities Office budget in order to finance the Feb. 27th Snoop Dogg concert sponsored by the CHC. The Studen...

By: RACHEL HASTINGS

A hip-hop choreographer, two noted researchers, a television journalist, and a best-selling novelist will speak and be presented with honorary degrees at this year’s Commencement, which will take place May 30. Rennie Harris, a native of Philadelphia...

By: PAMELA ROSS

The Environmental Health and Safety department is already making preparations for a fire safety day, which is slated for October 2010.  The event will be funded by the $11,850 fire safety grant Bates is set to receive from the Federal Emergency Manag...

By: PALO PEIRCE

  To ensure the safety of Bates students, Thomas Carey, Resident Director of Security and member of the Bates class of 1973, draws on past experience from his previous job as Chief of Domestic Terrorism at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). C...