Corey Harris '91 has two critically acclaimed blues CDs out on the top American blues label. He tours with the lengendary B.B. King. And, yes, his Bates experience played a role in his search for his musical -- and personal -- roots.

You've seen her name in Bates publications many times, but what do you really know about Helen Papaioanou '49? Also in this issue: a look at the recently-completed, record-breaking fund-raising campaign, and a profile of Bates football legend turned coaching legend Jim Murphy '69.

From the streets to the laboratories to the halls of government, this issue looks at how Bates alumni have responded to the challenges of the AIDS epidemic. Also in this issue: a fiftieth-anniversary look at the unbeaten 1946 Bobcat football squad.

This issue highlights the photographs of George W. French '08, which capture a rustic portrait of life long ago in "Maine - The Way Life Once Was." Also, we remember the life and career of the late Edmund Muskie '36, and see how Professor of History Steve Hochstadt turned an oversubscribed course on the Holocaust into an intensely personal experience.

From "A" student to welfare mother to math professor at Bates, this issue spotlights "Bonnie Shulman's Long, Strange Trip". Staff writer Phyllis Graber Jensen profiles this feminist scholar who challenges traditional ways of teaching and thinking. Also, see why crowded conditions have Bates' social-science faculty yearning for a new academic building, and read an interview with the chair of the President's Commission on the Status of Women at Bates.

Our issue about "The Wired Campus" includes a look at the far-reaching changes that have occurred at Bates with the advent of a campus-wide computer network that wires the College to the world. You'll also find a profile of Bates' soon-to-be-established interdisciplinary program in environmental studies, in addition to all our regular departments.