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Bates College officials say they seek to reduce the number of potentially troublesome interactions between students and campus safety officers. Above: Hathorn Hall, the oldest building on the Lewiston campus.
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LEWISTON Hoping to reduce the number of potentially troublesome interactions between Bates students and campus safety officers, college officials said they plan to rely more heavily on other staffers to respond to minor incidents, such a noise or alcohol complaints.
“We have created new, live-in positions” for some dormitories, Carl Steidel, the college’s senior associate dean of students, wrote late Monday in an email to students.
After flared tensions, Bates seeks to reduce interactions between students and campus security
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Several hundred students gather at Bates to call for defunding campus security
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LEWISTON A group of Bates College students are planning a protest Friday calling for administrators “to defund and disarm campus safety” officers.
An Instagram post by the Bates Leftist Coalition on Thursday.
The Bates Leftist Coalition said the 1 p.m. walk-out and rally is meant to “reemphasize our ongoing commitment and persistence to the work of disarming, defunding and reimaging” the Campus Safety Department.
The move follows a decision by the college this week to take away the batons carried by its security officers, who are not otherwise armed.
That decision followed a petition by the leftist coalition and the Bates Restorative and Transformative Justice Coalition, signed by 18 groups and 546 people, that called for the removal of both batons and handcuffs from officers and to oppose equipping them with body cameras.
San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates jazz with pop-up studio, free art kits
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Artist Raul Rene Gonzalez kicked off a three-session Jazz in Action residency at the San Antonio Museum of Art on Sunday. He will be there the next two Saturdays painting while listening to jazz.Ronald Cortes /ContributorShow MoreShow Less
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Artist Raul Rene Gonzalez is painting and listening to jazz music for the next two Saturdays at the San Antonio Museum of Art as part of his Jazz in Action residency.Ronald Cortes /ContributorShow MoreShow Less
A small group of people waited patiently for artist Raul Rene Gonzalez to get to work on Sunday morning in a sunny corner of the San Antonio Museum of Art’s Great Hall.