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CAPS Provides New Opportunities for Mental Health Care

Aneeza Ahmad and Aanika Patel • November 16, 2022

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) announced a new wave of mental health programs and resources in an email sent to students on Nov. 3 from Director of CAPS Wayne Assing. Assing also met with The Bates Student to discuss these changes. “We have exciting new opportunities at CAPS this...

Amid Lack of Gender Neutral Spaces, Bates Students Mobilize for Bathroom Equity

Fiona Cohen, Managing News Editor • November 15, 2022

On Oct. 24, Bates students met at the Multifaith Chaplaincy to discuss steps that could be taken to ensure that accessible and gender neutral bathrooms would be widely provided on campus. There is only one academic building on campus that doesn’t have a single-occupancy, gender neutral restroom: Pettengill...

Takeaways from the Daily Crime Log: September - October

Ella Beiser, Assistant Features Editor • November 15, 2022

September and October saw 27 incidents of theft and burglary, a sharp increase from the 12 during those months in 2021, but less than the 32 seen in 2019 – the most recent year unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This data was collected from Bates’ Daily Crime Log which documents all reported...