The students pleaded with Bates College to transform its Campus Safety Department.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Bates students seek ‘to defund and disarm’ campus security officers
A Friday rally aims to push college administrators to go further than this week’s decision to take away the batons carried by otherwise unarmed security personnel.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Schools & Education
Lewiston High School tutoring program wins statewide award
The partnership with Bates College was recognized this week by the Maine Campus Compact.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Photo: Bonney Science Center nears completion
A panoramic view of the new dorms and nearly completed Bonney Science Center at Bates College in Lewiston.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Schools & Education
Bates College fires a top campus safety officer for violating use-of-force policies
Lead Campus Safety Officer Dennis Skinner, who was fired for an incident in which he tackled a student, said he didn’t try to restrain that student until he pushed him.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, News
Noted Peaks Island photographer Arthur J. Fink dies at 74
He had an enduring connection to the Bates Dance Festival, where he served as resident photographer from 2005 through 2017.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Health
More cases, fewer vaccinations leave Androscoggin County as a COVID-19 hotspot in Maine
Androscoggin County posted its third-highest daily total of cases on Thursday, its worst showing since January.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Bates College lifts its lockdown after 12 days
With COVID-19 cases declining among its students, Bates Tuesday lifted a lockdown that it imposed April 1 to stop a serious outbreak.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Bates extends lockdown two more days to stop COVID-19 spread
Students will have been kept mostly in their rooms for at least 12 days. to fight against ‘relatively large outbreak.’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Schools & Education
Number of COVID-19 cases at Bates College keeps rising
Bates College has 77 COVID-19 cases among students and two-thirds of its isolation housing is full.