Commencement 2025 Archives
June 2, 2023
Video: Ready for their 2023 Bates Commencement closeups
As bleary-eyed seniors slowly arrived on Commencement morning, we were there, inviting them to pose for slow-motion portraits. Slow no more!
June 2, 2023
Video: ‘Do you drink the water or the wave?’ asks Baccalaureate speaker Chris Schiff
It’s a line from a postmodern novel: “Which do you drink? The water or the wave?” We plan to drink the water. But then the waves come crashing, says Chris Schiff in his Baccalaureate address.
June 1, 2023
Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Bates Class of 2023 on Commencement day
“A great, unpretentious, family-style Commencement!” is how a livestream viewer from Santa Fe, N.M., described this year’s Bates graduation. Here’s how it went, hour by hour.