BATES - The Searcher

B at e s T h e

S e a r c h e r

Stories and detailed information about a community of passionately curious, happily intense, stubbornly modest people who can’t stop searching for what’s next.

B at e s C o l l e g e Lewiston, Maine

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Do we have all the answers? No. Have we seen everything? Definitely not.

We’re here to keep asking, keep searching, keep discovering enough to know there’s more to discover.

We don’t know what the future will bring. But if you come to Bates, you’ll help build it.

Facts:

100% of students complete a capstone or thesis

600 acres in Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area

2,000 students

70% of students study abroad

46 states

31 NESCAC Division III teams

$22 million in need-based financial aid given every year

65 countries

110 student clubs, open to all

33 majors

160 community partnerships through the Harward Center

20 students in the average class 10-to-1 student to faculty ratio 100% of faculty hold highest degree in their field

24,000 alumni

0 fraternities and sororities 5-week spring Short Term 109 acres on Lewiston campus

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The Hard Way R e a l -w o r l d s o l u t i o n s , c l e a n e r o c e a n s , t o u g h p r o t e i n s —a v i s i t t o t h e Au s t i n L a b What are you doing here?

Rachel: “In broad terms, we’re trying to understand how the world works, and how we can make it work better. We’re studying a protein from the primary bacteria that degrades oil in oceans. We’ll purify it, examine its structure, and generate a 3-D model of it. And then, if we can engineer systems that mimic it, we can do a better job of cleaning up oil spills.”

What’s it like to work in the lab?

Saba: “Lab work is an adventure. You don’t know what result you’ll get; you make mistakes, you analyze what went wrong, and then you find a new way. It takes a long time, and it can be tiring, but everything you do—right or wrong— teaches you something.”

Why is the work important?

Ian: “Nature has already found a way to clean the ocean; humans just haven’t figured out how to use it effectively.

That’s what we’re trying to do. It’s a real challenge—this is one of the most difficult proteins to work with—but that makes it exciting. If it were easy, it wouldn’t be so interesting, or so important.”

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Rachel Austin, professor of chemistry.

Saba Parvez, junior, Dhakuakhana, India,

chemistry. Ian Gilchrist, senior, Hummelstown, Penn., chemistry

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The Wide World E y e- o p e n i ng e x p e r i e nc e s, o n c a m p u s a n d a b roa d What made you decide to go to Spain?

“In high school I visited my older sister when she was studying abroad in Córdoba. I was fascinated by the town’s Mezquita—an ancient mosque that is now a cathedral—not to mention the amazing food and the unique Spanish accent spoken in southern Spain. So I chose Córdoba. But Bates also gave me a grant to travel to northern Spain, so I could compare the geography and the culture.”

What did you discover in Spain that surprised you?

“I was idealistic, even naïve, about living abroad. What I found were some of the same cultural and racial issues—tensions between immigrant communities and native Spaniards, and difficult conversations about race—that exist here at home. As a woman of Pakistani descent, I felt that my experience was shaped by my gender and my religious and racial identity.”

Can an experience on campus compare to an experience abroad?

“The most eye-opening academic experience of my life was a seminar called Understanding Disease. It made me question things I’d always thought were true, it made me think differently about medicine and health, and it was directly applicable to my life. It changed my world.”

Afroz Baig, senior, Petaluma, Calif., politics

and women and gender studies

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The Trailblazers L i v i ng i n t h e mom e n t w i t h t wo m e m b e r s of t h e secon d-ol de st ou t d o or s c l u b i n t h e n at i o n —t h e B at e s O u t i n g C l u b What’s been your biggest challenge at the BOC? Ellie: “The learning curve in the E Room—the Equipment Room—was incredibly steep. I had to learn so many things so quickly: how to size ski boots, tune skis, light a camp stove, meet our customers’ needs. It’s some of the hardest work I’ve done—but that’s how you get better.”

Matt: “We maintain part of the Appalachian Trail—many years ago, the BOC was responsible for scouting and blazing 40 miles of the trail in Maine—and I took charge of keeping up our trail work. If you love the outdoors, you can’t be passive.

You’ve got to get out and help.”

What’s been your best BOC experience?

Matt: “It’s impossible to pick one. A few highlights would be a sunrise paddle on Lake Auburn, a late-fall hike up Katahdin, and a backcountry ski trip this winter. But more important than the trips that go perfectly are the ones that don’t. We did a hike in the White Mountains in New Hampshire when the weather totally disintegrated, and we hiked out and went exploring in North Conway instead. Maybe not a hard-core outdoorsy move, but definitely a good day.”

Ellie: “The Clambake. We hold it twice a year at Popham Beach, and the whole school is invited. I helped with the cooking, I tried eating a clam, and though I’m not a huge lobster fan, I mastered the art of melting butter in soda cans on a grill.

Everyone is living in the moment. That’s what we’re all about.”

Ben Latham, senior, East Hampton, N.Y., environmental

studies. Ellie Van Gemeren, sophomore, Canton, Conn., psychology major, education minor, E Room Director.

Matt Baker-White, sophomore, Williamstown, Mass.,

sociology and studio art, Hikes and Trips Director.

Mike Sagan, junior, Lexington, Mass., economics

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The Search Engine

An essay in 14 parts, addressing things people often want to know about Bates, plus a theme, almost an anthem, about openness.

I. Academics We have 33 majors. Some are surprising (neuroscience, rhetoric), many are interdisciplinary (American cultural studies, environmental studies), most are also offered as minors. All are designed to throw you headlong into the skills, practices, certainties, and mysteries of at least one field; they’re also designed to lead to great things, including but not limited to graduate or professional school, enlightened leadership, and making your own way in the world.

You can also design your own major. You can also take our Dual Degree Engineering Program: three years at Bates, plus two years at a top engineering school (Case Western, Columbia, Dartmouth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Washington University in St. Louis).

Additional minors:

Plus: We require students to take two General Education Concentrations (GECs), a group of four courses that add up to a sustained exploration of one theme. They’re like mini-minors.

Some recent GECs:

Education German and Russian Studies Greek Latin

Chinese Society and Culture Considering Africa Film and Media Studies German in Vienna North Atlantic Studies

The Search Engine Teacher Education

Physics of the Large and Small

Producing Culture: Arts and Audience Russian in St. Petersburg Shakespearean Acting

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The Arctic: Politics, Economics, Peoples Environmental Geochemistry Vikings

Archaeology and Material Culture Bridging El Atlantico

Asian Studies

A GEC like North Atlantic Studies includes these courses:

Wabanaki History in Maine

East Asian Studies

Philosophy

Economics

Physics

African American Studies

English

Politics

American Cultural Studies

Environmental Studies

Psychology

Anthropology

French

Religion

Art and Visual Culture

Geology

Rhetoric

Biological Chemistry

German

Russian

Biology

History

Sociology

Chemistry

Japanese

Spanish

Chinese

Mathematics

Theater

Classical and Medieval Studies

Music

Dance

Neuroscience

Women and Gender Studies

The full list of majors:

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II. The Faculty Our student to faculty ratio is 10-to-1; there are 20 students in the average class; and every student works individually with a faculty mentor on their senior thesis—so not only will your professors know your name, they’ll also know where you’re coming from, where you want to go, and how you might get there.

Meals or coffee might be involved. Richly detailed letters of recommendation will almost certainly be involved. These are bright, accomplished, high-profile people whose priority is you.

III. The First-Year Seminar One of the first courses you’ll take, and a model for the work you’ll do in the next four years: You, a professor, and a handful of your peers get together and dig into a specialized topic.

Recent examples: Addictions, Obsessions, Manias Anatomy of a Few Small Machines DiY and Mash-up Culture Latin American Time Machine Love and Friendship in the Classical World Physics in the Twentieth Century Searching for the Good Life War and Poetry

V. Short Term Our academic calendar is divided into two traditional semesters and one Short Term in late April and May. In Short Term, students take only one course, on a compressed schedule; they can also take internships or conduct fieldwork; a number of Short Term courses are conducted off campus. The result is a focused investigation of a single topic. A few recent Short Term courses: Animal Cognition Asian and Islamic Ethical Systems Building a Studio Practice Conspiracy Rhetoric Digital Signals Environment and Culture in Russia Field Studies in Religion: Cult and Community Geology of the Maine Coast by Sea Kayak Monsters: Imagining the Other Place, Word, Sound: New Orleans Practical Genomics and Bioinformatics Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and

Every senior completes a thesis: an original, high-level scholarly or creative project conducted with the assistance of a faculty mentor.

The thesis is meant to make a meaningful contribution to the storehouse of human knowledge; it also often serves as the first step toward a job or graduate study. A few recent theses:

Properties

Disputing Development: The Politics of

About 70% of our students study abroad.

We offer access to programs in more than 80 countries, many of which are off the standard track (Cameroon, Chile, Cuba, India, Nepal). Our faculty also develop and lead rigorous, cross-disciplinary Fall Semester Abroad trips. Five recent examples:

Progress on Kilimanjaro Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Rubidium Vapor Embodying Music: What Feeling Can Tell Us About Musical Expression Experiences with Patient-Centered Education During Pregnancy and Childbirth Galactic Dark Matter and the Cosmic Microwave Background A Heideggerian Theory of Reference Literature, Vision and Reality: German Colonialism in Ober Ost, 1915–1918 Quack to Hero: The Character of the Doctor in the 19th Century Translational Regulation of rpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi

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VII. Research and Opportunity

Community-based Research in Biology

Experimental Neuro/Physiology

IV. The Senior Thesis

So, for example, the FSA on health care in China was codirected by an economics professor and a biology professor; it included immersive language courses, practical training in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine, a rural health field trip, a week of independent travel, and coursework in the economics of China’s health care system and the biology of world health.

Visualizing Environmental Justice Using GIS

VI. Study Abroad

French Identity: Migration, Mutation, Exploration (Nantes) German Literature, Art, and Film in the 20th Century (Berlin) Health Care in China (Kumming) Person and Place in Japan (Kanazawa) Russian Political Economy (St. Petersburg)

We do not live in a bubble. Research, fieldwork, internships, civic engagement—we do them all, they’re academically demanding, and they bring us into the world. A few examples: Our Ladd Internship Program matches Bates students with selected employers and provides a stipend—i.e., money—to support them. The Mt. David Summit, our annual campus-wide student research festival, features poster sessions, panel discussions, and performances.

And our Harward Center for Community Partnerships develops or supports an astounding number of initiatives that combine rigorous intellectual work and hands-on civic engagement (an internship program at major museums for Art and Visual Culture students; a politics seminar on immigration that includes firsthand research at the California/Mexico border; a community-based senior thesis about converting wood waste into fuel). It also oversees the College’s Bonner Leader Program (scholarships for students who serve and lead), and gives grants to faculty, staff, and students who think of innovative ways to work with communities across the street and around the world.

VIII. Campus Life

student-run coffeehouse, open till 2 a.m. most evenings, and featuring live music and eccentric interior design.

Seven of the many things to love about it:

1. The Activities Fair. Students from more than 100 clubs and organizations dress up in club-themed outfits and try, in a friendly, Batesian way, to outwork each other to get your attention.

2. Frye Street. A tree-lined residential street where the houses are mostly Bates student houses, some of which have themes (Local Living, Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World, The Library), and one of which is the Ronj, our

3. Multifaith. A deliberately unclassifiable student community. It’s about creativity, it’s about service, it’s about spirit, in all possible ways.

4. Village Club nights at the Silo. Chai, cookies, slam poets, singer-songwriters, comedians.

Every Thursday.

Entering Student Orientation Program, an optional pre-orientation involving small groups of students spending a few days and nights at the rivers and mountains and beaches of Maine.

6. WRBC. Our genuinely alternative, seriously active community-based radio station.

7. Harvest Dinner. One of many campus-wide traditions. This one celebrates the fall harvest at local farms—by eating meals made from harvest produce and dancing to live music.

5. The Bates Outing Club. One of the largest and most distinguished outing clubs in the country; every student is automatically a member. The club also runs AESOP, the Annual

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A theme, almost an anthem, about openness.

Consider:

And:

Or:

We were founded by abolitionists, people who were fiercely principled, daringly countercultural, and deeply committed to equality.

We’ve never had fraternities or sororities.

We were the first college in New England to be coeducational from our founding (in 1855).

Even our Brooks Quimby Debate Council —which sure sounds exclusive and which is, in fact, one of the top college debate clubs in the world—is open to anyone, regardless of experience.

The Puddle Jump. The Puddle Jump is part of our Winter Carnival; it’s hosted by the Bates Outing Club. It involves jumping into a frigid body of water (the pond-sized Lake Andrews, which we call the Puddle) at the center of campus, often wearing a costume.

We were one of the first colleges in America to admit students from all cultural backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion.

All of our student clubs are open to all students.

Or: The Bollywood Dance Club. Students who don’t know anything about Bollywood or dancing end up joining, and on Sangai Asia night (a popular evening of student performances), there they are, these people who were once clueless about Indian film and possibly arrhythmic, waving their arms in the air and following the steps in unison, in front of a crowd of cheering strangers. That’s what it means to be curious about the world. That’s what it means to be open.

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The Puddle Jump is a radically democratic event. Everyone who comes to the Puddle knows that jumping into it is a slightly unhinged thing to do; everyone is equally giddy, equally cold, equally uncertain of what will happen when they jump. But they jump.

We jump, and we are drenched and shockingly cold; and then we climb out and huddle together under blankets and drink hot cocoa.

There are no divisions, no cliques. There are just a bunch of cold, wet people drinking cocoa by a hole in a frozen pond. We are, all of us, Batesies.

IX. The Arts Scene Nine of the many ways you know we’re serious about creative work: 1. The Bates Museum of Art. Not as large as its title suggests, but just as ambitious.

2. The Bates Dance Festival. An international gathering of rising stars and veteran talent.

Cutting-edge performances and intensive classes. Every summer since 1983.

3. The Arts Crawl. Two hours of nonstop art on a winter night. Snow sculpture, fiddlers, poets in trees, step dancing, contact improv, exhibitions, presentations, and a giant photo booth. Brought to you by the Bates Arts Collaborative.

4. The annual number of performances at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. It’s about 150. Some of those are by our student ensembles (Bates Gamelan Orchestra, Bates College Orchestra, concert choir, fiddle band, jazz band, Steel Pan Orchestra).

9. The visitors. Every year we bring leading artists to campus for lectures, workshops, and performances. A few recent examples: choreographers Niles Ford and Monica Bill Barnes, musicians Avishai Cohen, Suzanne Vega, and Junior Brown, and artists Rachel Perry Welty and Kate Gilmore ’97.

5. Translations. Also known as the Bates International Poetry Festival. Poets from around the world come together for five days of readings, workshops, and unclassifiable events.

6. The Robinson Players. A student-run theater group with a distinguished history and a fearless approach to what’s next.

7. The monthly contradance. Sponsored by our student-run Freewill Folk Society.

8. Language Arts Live. Our reading series, featuring established and emerging talent.

Recent guests: Emily Barton, Christina Chiu ’91, Major Jackson, Dinaw Mengetsu.

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X. Athletics We field 31 intercollegiate teams, nearly all of which play in NESCAC, one of the most competitive conferences in the NCAA’s Division III. Our Alpine and Nordic ski teams compete in Division I, and our crew and squash teams compete in a nationwide league.

The teams: Alpine Skiing (W, M) Baseball Basketball (W, M) Cross Country (W, M) Field Hockey Football Golf (W, M) Indoor Track and Field (W, M) Lacrosse (W, M) 14

Nordic Skiing (W, M) Outdoor Track and Field (W, M) Rowing (W, M) Soccer (W, M) Softball Squash (W, M) Swimming and Diving (W, M) Tennis (W, M) Volleyball Also: About sixty percent of our students are involved in our intramural program. Garcelon Field, the spectacularly renovated home to our football and lacrosse teams, is close to the center of campus. Alumni Gymnasium, home to our basketball and volleyball teams, is often ranked as one of the toughest home courts in the NCAA. Our ski teams compete at nearby Sugarloaf and Sunday River. In the last decade, our track and field teams have produced doz-

ens of All Americans. The all-time home run leader in our baseball program (Noah Lynd ’11) was also a math tutor and a physics major who wrote a senior thesis deconstructing the physics of NCAA-mandated baseball bats.

All of which is to say: Athletics isn’t a separate culture here. It’s part of the campus, it’s part of the landscape, it’s part of our vision of a balanced life. Some of the smartest people here are also some of the most athletic; and vice versa.

And keep in mind: Our mascot is the bobcat, which in real life is known for its adorably dappled fur and its ability to attack with astonishing speed and alarming strength.

You underestimate the bobcat at your peril, in other words.

XI. Admission and Financial Aid We’re interested in people who work hard, take intellectual risks, believe that education isn’t confined to a classroom, and get deeply involved in some kind of community. To us, the work you do every day, morning to night, matters more than a few Saturday mornings of testing—which explains why we were one of the first colleges to make the SAT (and then other standardized tests) optional for admission.

We give about $22 million in financial aid to our students every year. Nearly half of our students receive financial aid; the average annual aid package is about $33,000. Our entire financial aid budget supports students with demonstrated financial need.

XII. Where, Exactly, XIII. And Then We’re Located What Happens?

We’re in Lewiston, Maine. Lewiston is a small city (pop. 36,000) on the banks of the Androscoggin River; there’s a waterfall visible from the bridge that connects Lewiston and its twin city, Auburn.

People in Maine call the two cities L-A. They’re nothing like Los Angeles.

What are they like? They’re working, residential towns surrounded by spectacular natural beauty. A lot of families here have French Canadian roots; there’s also a sizeable Somali community; on Lisbon Street you can get a three-dollar plate of curry goat or a 20-dollar steak au poivre. There’s a farmer’s market, a good batch of independent restaurants and stores, a modest mall, an inventive professional theater company, an underground music scene.

You would, in other words, join an actual community of people who are actively engaged in building a meaningful, interesting life for themselves. You could make a difference here.

L-A is also 45 minutes from Portland, which has some of the best food in the country and a big arts and music scene; and about as far from Popham Beach, home of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, our 600-acre ecological research station.

Maine is independent-minded and community-oriented. The state has elected two independent governors; its two U.S. senators are famously uninterested in toeing the party line—and they’re both women, which not many states can say. There are a lot of collaborative projects, community initiatives, entrepreneurial start-ups. One local example: The Bates Mill Complex, former home to the Bates Manufacturing Company, was totally renovated and now houses a great seafood restaurant, a microbrewery, offices, and a city museum.

Parts of Maine are wild and untouched. Parts are famous and majestic (e.g., Acadia National Park). In general, this is a place with which people fall heedlessly in love.

So here’s where we are: in the center of something real and genuine and hardworking and unconventional and bootstrapping and neighborly. It’s a good place to be.

Three of an infinite number of possibilities: 1. Get a prestigious fellowship (Fulbright, Goldwater, Udall, Watson) to do research in medicinal chemistry, or agro-energy in rural communities in Brazil, or performance arts in South Africa and Indonesia—as some of our recent graduates have done.

2. Build on an internship or research project or senior thesis or community-based project.

This is how many of our graduates get their first jobs or second promotions, at places such as: Alaskan Tour Guide Company Analysis Group Barclays Capital Deutsche Securities, Tokyo Goldman Sachs IBM IDEXX IMG Artists Institute of Biotechnology, Vietnam Massachusetts General Hospital Peace Corps RBC Capital Markets Teach for America

XIV. The Food It’s great!

We make it ourselves, following recipes from many lands, using food from many local farms.

We’ve actually won awards for it.

Maybe even better is the place where the food is made and served and eaten: Commons.

Technically it’s New Commons, since it’s been at Bates in some form for a long while but was recently rebuilt to be smarter and more sustainable.

The main room of Commons is open and airy and welcoming. There’s a wall of windows; everything seems visible. The general idea is to wander from table to table, meeting thrilling people from around the world and, very often, staying and talking for a long, long time.

In all of these ways (local, global, sustainable, social, smart, open, and thrilling), Commons is a lot like Bates.

Take a seat.

3. Become an expert and possibly a trailblazer.

In other words, go to graduate or professional school, as most of our graduates do. Some recent graduate schools: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Glasgow University Harvard University University of California Vanderbilt University Yale University We have a good list of famous alumni (congresspeople, a secretary of state, CEOs, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, a pioneering bioengineer, an internationally revered preacher and theologian), but the important thing is what you can say about pretty much all of our 24,000 living alumni: They want to do good, meaningful, often groundbreaking work, and they have the skills and the courage and the spirit to do it.

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The Progressives T h e c h a n g i n g ( a n d w i n n i n g ) fac e o f s q ua s h What reputation does Bates squash have?

Coach Cosquer: “I think we’ve got a swagger. We’re hardworking, determined, and passionate about winning, on and off the court.”

Cheri-Ann: “It’s a team where every player counts. No matter how hard a training session or a match is, we fight through it, we encourage each other. Coach believes in us, he supports us, and he expects nothing less than the best from us.

And that’s what we give.”

What reputation does squash have?

Coach Cosquer: “It depends on your point of reference. Internationally, squash is huge. In America, the scope and complexion of squash are changing. You’re seeing a bigger international presence; you’re seeing urban squash programs— programs like StreetSquash, in New York City, which I directed before I came to coach here. I’m proud that Bates is part of that progressive and positive change.”

What’s the biggest challenge of being a student-athlete?

Cheri-Ann: “Time management. My theory is to finish my studies first, then reward myself with squash. That way I can be focused for both activities. When you’re focused, you win.”

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Pat Cosquer ’97, coach, men’s and women’s

squash. Cheri-Ann Parris, sophomore, St. Philip, Barbados, biology, squash

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The Transformer

M a k i n g a r t— a n d m a k i n g c h a n g e — at 1 4 , 0 0 0 f e e t Why is art important to you?

“I think of myself as an activist for the social good. A photograph can inform and transform your thinking; it can change the way you see the world—and that changes the way you act in it.”

Can you give an example?

“I did an independent research project in a remote community at 14,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes. I lived with the Q’eros, an indigenous people, and took pictures of what I saw. I also gave cameras to five families, to allow them to document their own lives. My goal was to make art—but also to promote cross-cultural interaction and mutual understanding. And then we started the school.”

How did that happen?

“At dinner the night before I left, I asked the elders how I could thank them for their hospitality. They suggested that I buy them soccer shoes. I said I could do better. They said what they really needed was a school. After a year of fundraising—including selling my photography online—and working with local officials, anthropologists, and community members, we opened a school in temporary quarters. I was awarded a Davis Project for Peace grant to construct the official school building this summer.”

That sounds so practical.

“My education has been very practical; I’ve got powerful tools that I can use in a hundred ways. But Bates teaches you that tools without a purpose aren’t worth much. The Bates ethos is about discovering a purpose.”

Hannah Rae Porst, senior, Madison, Wisc.,

studio art and Spanish

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The Right Kind of Challenge L e av i n g h o m e , g o i n g d e e p — a n d g e t t i n g r e a d y f o r w h at ’ s n e x t How has Bates surprised you?

“Bates was my big adventure. I’d always lived in Atlanta, and I felt I needed to experience a different part of the country.

So just the idea of coming here was surprising. Then Bates offered me the most complete financial aid package—a critical part of my decision-making process. Now that I’m here, I’m amazed by the opportunities I’ve found.”

Are the classes easier or harder than you’d expected?

“They’re just challenging, in the right way. I took a Short Term class about the Civil Rights Movement, and it fundamentally changed me. I rarely left that class feeling satisfied with a position I’d held before I came in. I haven’t reached concrete conclusions about a lot of the issues we discussed. But now I know how necessary it is to consider the implications of holding one belief over another. That experience will stay with me for the rest of my life.”

What are some of the opportunities you’ve taken?

“I went on a Fall Semester Abroad trip to Vienna. I hadn’t planned on doing it, but it felt like a chance to give myself another kind of challenge. And I was part of a group of Batesies who went to Atlanta recently to meet with alumni and visit Benjamin Mays High School—Mays was a Bates alumnus and a mentor to Martin Luther King. It felt like a meeting of two worlds: the home that made me who I am and the place that’s shaping who I’ll become.”

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Ben Hughes, junior, Atlanta, Ga.,

philosophy

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Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts. Bates educates the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With ardor and devotion—Amore ac Studio—we engage the transformative power of our differences, cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action. Preparing leaders sustained by a love of learning and a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world, Bates is a college for coming times.

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