The Bates SWDENV THE GIGGLES OF BATES COLLEGE SINCE SOMEONE CLEVER DECIDED TO MAKE A JOKE PAPER Housing office unveils new plan Skye Event Center and to handle housing shortage The Blue Goose: A re¬ view of Lewiston’s teem¬ ing social hot-spots modes of transit. “Someone gave ADAM BAUM us a tip to reserve a spot in a Papa STAFF WRITER John’s delivery car,” explains par¬ You may have heard of Tao ty guest Reese Witherspoon. “It night club in Las Vegas or The worked out great, we even got a 40/40 Club in New York, but few slices of pizza out of it.” what about Skye Event Center, While Club Skye has gained located in the heart of Lewis¬ a lot of attention for the recent ton’s exclusive Promenade Mall birthday event, the city’s most Shopping Center? Recently es¬ trusted drinking establishment, tablished, Club Skye follows The Blue Goose, has made some the likes of Vybz, Karma, and changes to try and keep up. Rondevu (accurate spelling ap¬ Widely esteemed among the parently off-trend) as the pre¬ Bates student community and miere location for Batesies and local social circuit for its laissez- Lewiston locals. Skye has burst faire rules and regulations, Lew¬ onto the Lewiston scene as the iston’s finest drinking establish¬ trendy spot for Bates students to ment “The Blue Goose” now nurse a (heavy handed) Long Is¬ requires each patron to perform Students indulge in a quick nap between classes in the Chase Hall Lounge, one of the low-chem op¬ land Ice Tea and dance until the a personalized talent act in order tions for students being placed in one of the new couch dorms. Given the size of the couches in this early hours of the morning (or to gain entrance. Goose regulars couch dorm region, they have been allocated as doubles. SELF TIMER/COURTESY PHOTO until lam, when the lights get were shocked when the bar start¬ In order to give every en¬ of my friends! I was hoping for turned on). ed requiring two forms of iden¬ SEYMOUR BUTTS tering student and returning the French and Francophone One might survey Skye’s tification, even scanning ID’s to STAFF WRITER student on summer housing, a Studies lounge because it is clos¬ sprawling set-up and think, ensure legitimacy. But the bar The class of 2017 was the comfortable place to sleep the er to Commons but Hedge is a “This place must be perfect for has taken its entrance policy to largest in Bates College history, housing office is going to assign pretty cool building, I guess,” all of the Bat/Bar Mitzvah’s host¬ a new level by demanding that resulting in a high number of couches in academic buildings said a rising sophomore who was ed among the Lewiston/Auburn the many customers who wish to senior students getting placed in like Pettengill Hall, Roger Wil¬ formerly on the summer housing population!” What might not enter must perform some kind of overflow housing options. The liams Hall, Hedge Hall and the list. come to mind is that it’s actu¬ personal talent. admission process for the Class George and Helen Ladd Library. As far as storage for students ally an opportune setting for a A member of the newly- of 2018 was as competitive, if “We see it as kind of like a huge in couch dorms, the Housing celebrity birthday celebration. formed Bates Circus Arts Club not more, and promises a hous¬ slumber party every night,” said Office has found a variety of ar¬ This past weekend, Skye Event had no problem gaining en¬ ing challenge for the college The Spudent’s source in the eas on campus where students Center hosted a star studded trance, as she came prepared seeing as proposed new dorms housing office. will be granted areas for their bash for Lewiston’s own Patrick with the tools necessary to per¬ are years away from being con¬ Just like first-year centers in clothes and other belongings. Dempsey. Thankfully, reporters form an act of baton twirling. structed. dorms, the housing office has For students living in Pettengill from The Spudent were on hand Other performed talents have In order to meet the housing divided the “couch dorm” areas Hall, for example, the fabled to cover the season’s most talked included specialized skills such needs of the growing body the into regions and hopes to as¬ “bomb shelter” hallway connect¬ about event. as shot-gunning a beer in under Student Housing and Residence sign students to .couches near ing Pettengill to Lane Hall has “It doesn’t come as a two seconds, answering useless Life office has gotten creative by other people who share similar been cleared out and re-designed shock to me that Lewiston would trivia questions, and slack-lining taking advantage of every part of interests as them. “When I was into a series of individual storage be home to such an illustrious between nearby buildings on Sa- campus. “We tried to think of a first-year I loved living on a areas for students. night club,” commented Kath¬ battus. places that students could sleep hall with a bunch of other first- Even President Spencer has erine Heigl, Dempsey’s former If you’ve heard the rumor and actually realized there are year kids that I got along with generously volunteered her base¬ Grey’s Anatomy colleague and A- that there isn’t a lot happening a ton of places on campus that really well so I am glad that the ment to store the belongings of List star. “Patrick would sing the in the twin cities, you’ve heard students sleep all the time other housing office is taking this into students who will be living in praises of his home city— often wrong. Sky’s the limit at Lew¬ than their dorm rooms,” said a consideration with the couch couch dorms. “I realize this is referring to it as ‘LA.’” iston’s hottest event center, and representative from the housing dorms,” said a rising junior. not a standard college housing Due to Skye’s lack of there is now a lot more than office. “I kind of wish I could have experience, but I think couch provided transportation for club- questionable exchanges and Many first year students who lived in one of the new couch dorms will help add to the com¬ goers, Dempsey’s party guests sketchy drive-by’s happening at are overwhelmed with the new dorms,” said a graduating senior, munity at Bates,” the president were forced to find alternative the door of The Blue Goose. increased work load use their “It sounds like the most epic op¬ said. dorm rooms exclusively for sleep¬ portunity for pillow talk ever!” With a growing student body ing and storing their belongings Returning students can rest and a campus limited in size be¬ anyways so the office added a assured that they will not end cause of the residential Lewiston new question on the housing up living in a couch dorm region community surrounding Bates, questionnaire asking students overwhelmed with first-years, the couch dorm plan for next how much time they realistically however. The housing office has year will serve as a pilot program. expect to spend in their room. reserved all the study lounges for If it works as well as the housing The new housing options are de¬ returning students who are stuck office hopes it will, the college signed for these types of students on summer housing. “I was just administration sees couch dorms who do not spend a lot of time in notified that I get the Environ¬ as a feasible way to make the their rooms. mental Studies lounge with two most of our campus space. Commons mugs to be re¬ placed by Mason jars and protein supplements jars, for they are “both practical going feud between President I. P. FREELY and stylish.” Spencer and BEAM. “Have you STAFF WRITER The Spudent was sent an ever seen Clayton drinking from It’s every coffee drinkers anonymous tip via Yahoo mes¬ a mug? Well I have not...clearly worst nightmare. The mugs will senger that Christine Schwartz that woman runs on Dunkin’,” no longer be a part of the New of Dining has been secretly plan¬ adds another BEAM activist. Commons Dining experience. ning to replace the mugs with There are economic repercus¬ In an announce email about glass Mason jars for years now. sions to this switch as well, for the Iron Chef Competition this The tip claims that Schwartz saw several students will be out of a past week, Cheryl Lacey, Direc¬ keeping Sushi Night in the bud¬ job. The mug collector position tor of Dining, mentioned in a get as more crucial to the overall is no longer relevant, as students P.S. that the mugs will slowly mission of the dining experience are encouraged to wash their be phased out of Commons this at Bates own jars at water pumps located short term. Instead, Mason jars When BEAM caught wind around campus. “I am sure go¬ will be provided near the vegan of the impending shift, there was ing to miss driving around cam¬ bar. Her message did not go un¬ an uproar in upstairs commons. pus and emptying the mug bins. noticed, as the buzz in the fire¬ A protest has been planned in It’s the only time I could really place lounge was all about the order to restore the College’s sus¬ think about my thesis,” says a se¬ surprising lack of mugs in recent tainable dining reputation.