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Bates' Delpeche twins sign pro basketball contracts; UMF's Cabaniss earns NCAA scholarship
Bates College’s Marcus Delpeche dunks over to Bowdoin defenders. LEWISTON — Marcus and Malcom Delpeche will board a plane next week with the destination being the next step of their basketball twins. The twins from Wilmington, Delaware, who graduated from Bates College in June, have both signed contract to play professionally in Germany with the […]
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Faithful work by the Prince of Peace orison ministry
God can be found in the darkest of places. Such is the belief of the four men in the Prince of Peace Parish prison ministry, who, once a week, travel to Androscoggin County Jail in an attempt to encourage faith among those who may need it most: inmates. “We open up a different perspective, or […]
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About these essays
These pieces were written in a Bates Religious Studies course this past spring called “Religion, Violence and Nonviolence” that explored relationships among religious beliefs, violence and nonviolence in a variety of traditions and contexts, both local and global. As part of the course, students interviewed local community members involved in religiously based peace-building and social-justice […]
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Local religious communities work toward solidarity
Religious communities across the Lewiston-Auburn area have been working closely with social justice groups toward the overall goal of bettering their communities. Many of the secular organizations to which local religious communities contribute share similar values to those preached from the pulpit each week: notably nonviolence and solidarity with the oppressed. One does not have […]
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'Students behaving heinously': Police address issues at Bates College
LEWISTON — Cathy Harkins is tired of plucking red plastic cups out from under her lilac tree day after day. Richard LaCouture has grown weary of the all-night parties, the students hanging around his yard and the cars blocking his driveway. The loud parties, the parking issues, the public urination: Nearly four dozen people packed […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Assume responsibility
The conflict between owner-occupants and renting students on White Street and others near Bates College (Sun Journal, June 28) is of keen interest to me because I rent our single-family house to students. I am acutely aware of my tenants’ neighbors, many of whom I know personally and call friends. Each year I interview students […]
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Bates neighbors push city to control off-campus parties
LEWISTON — A group of neighbors living on White Street, near Bates College, walked their neighborhood last week feeling more well-rested than in the days prior. They noticed the sound of birds chirping and the wind blowing through the trees. For the neighbors, the weeks following graduation at Bates College are a welcome relief from […]
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Lewiston workshop to address off-campus housing issues
LEWISTON — With a six-month moratorium on lodging houses set to expire this summer, the city is discussing more long-term ways to address a reported rise in loud and dangerous party activity at off-campus Bates College housing. In February, the city stopped issuing new permits or licenses for lodging houses — described as dwellings with […]
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Be there for your child, says Bates College lecturer and mom
There’s a reason kids bully. A reason teens can feel like something is the absolute end of the world. A reason parents don’t quite get it. Su Langdon is a lecturer in Bates College’s psychology department and a mom to an eighth-grader and just-graduated 12th-grader. She’s studied it and lived it. “The whole teenage world […]