Back to Bates

I went back to Bates College in Lewiston Maine. Yeah...I did. Shoot me. What was I thinking? Bill, of course, is back in the world doing all kinds of important stuff defending workers. College is worse that I remember it. I took 5 classes: one about poltical participation in America that I got a B+ in; one about environmental policy that was wicked good; one about environmental chemistry (really overachieved on that one, but now I'm stuck with it...3 words people...rocks for jocks); one about urban planning and parks (I think, it had some Olmsted and Jacobs and maybe a little Bobby Moses but I don't know what that class was about); and one about the Vietnam War. Next semester I'm taking: two comparative policy classes (one public policy, one environmental policy); the second half of the environemental chemistry class (I've heard our lab is taking care of a fish tank); thesis (yikes); and an independant study on labor history in America from the beginning of Roosevelt, through the founding of the CIO, up until just '49 and the communist purges and all that. My professors include: a green party activist, a Wobby, a marine, and a former Maine Yankee worker. So that's Bates, I'll post pictures if I ever take them.
In the meantime...enjoy the "FBI/Free the Alpacas/you might be a terrorist if"...letter they sent me right before I terminated my first attempt to graduate.