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College basketball: Bates women’s coach Murphy retires

LEWISTON — One of the most most recognizeable faces of Bates College Athletics is turning in his whistle and clipboard in favor of retirement as this school years winds down. Jim Murphy, who has guided the women’s basketball team at Bates for 21 years, and who also coached the women’s soccer team for 16 seasons, […]

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Women’s lacrosse: Bobcats cage Camels in final home game

LEWISTON — Junior Moriah Greenstein scored four goals and senior Emma Getsinger added three more as the Bates women’s lacrosse team downed Connecticut College 15-8 Saturday in NESCAC action at Garcelon Field. Four players scored multiple goals for the Bobcats (6-7, 2-6 NESCAC). Lacey Hale led the Camels (2-8, 0-6) with two goals. The game […]

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Activist working against sex-trafficking speaks at Bates

LEWISTON — Eighteen years ago, journalist Ruchira Gupta uncovered the horrors of sex-trafficking in India. Girls as young as 9 were kidnapped, drugged and forced into prostitution. Some stayed because they were beaten and brutalized. Others stayed because they had nowhere else to go and no help if they got away. Gupta’s documentary, “The Selling […]

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College Swimming: Bates sending program-record 12 swimmers to NCAAs

The Bobcats’ men’s and women’s swimming and diving team rewrote the history books this year after doing much of the same last season. After sending a then-program record five swimmers to the NCAA Championships in 2014, Bates shattered that mark this year as 12 Bobcats will make the trip down to Shenandoah, Texas for the 2015 […]

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Men’s college lacrosse: Bates fends off Roger Williams, 13-8

LEWISTON — There was no place like home for the Bates College men’s lacrosse team Wednesday. With temperatures soaring past 50 degrees, it was a wonderful day for a home game. Garcelon Field was a gorgeous green, and mountains of snowbanks surrounded the field. The Bobcats wanted to savor every moment of their final outing […]

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Portland author speaks at the Language Arts Live series at Bates College

LEWISTON — Spooky coincidence? Certainly. Brock Clarke’s latest novel, after all, follows a Danish cartoonist forced into hiding after his drawing of Muhammad sparks outrage. The parallels to the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris are too striking to ignore. But it would be a mistake to think that ominous timing is the only thing driving Clarke’s […]

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College Men’s Basketball: Bates rallies past Wesleyan

LEWISTON — Down by nine points early in the second half Friday night, there was no need to panic or fret. The Bates College men’s basketball team didn’t let a flurry of Wesleyan 3’s and a nine-point lead fluster them in a  key NESCAC showdown at Alumni Gym. The Bobcats shrugged off the deficit and […]

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Bates College Arts Crawl, Sangai Asia Night to showcase student creativity for the fifth year

A smorgasbord of performing, visual and literary arts, the Bates Arts Crawl begins at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in locations around campus. The hotspots are the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., presenting music and the visual arts; and Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave., featuring various performing arts in Memorial Commons and literary readings […]