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The Voice of Bates College Since 1873

The Bates Student

Your March Reads: Books to Match the Season’s Moody Skies

Your March Reads: Books to Match the Season’s Moody Skies

Sofia Schaffer, Staff Writer March 17, 2025

March has finally arrived, blustery and cold, but with the promise of warmer weather in the air. All the rain and slush makes March the perfect time to curl up indoors with a book, especially since April...

Chekov’s “The Seagull” Swoops Onto the Stage In Schaeffer

Chekov’s “The Seagull” Swoops Onto the Stage In Schaeffer

Max Olson, Managing News Editor March 16, 2025

Just off to stage left, atop a varnished and well-crafted bookcase sat an eerily realistic stuffed seagull. Even as characters broke down and fell apart around it, I kept finding my eye drawn to its lifelike...

Another Year of Sex and Great Men: The 2025 Oscars

Another Year of Sex and Great Men: The 2025 Oscars

Amanda Edge, Managing A&L Editor March 12, 2025

In a recent red carpet interview, Sheryl Lee Ralph remarked “I have told people over and over again, the fastest way to an Oscar is either on a pole or have… I’m telling you, sex sells, baby. Sex...

A Picture of (Black) Success: Thoughts on the 2025 AOTY

A Picture of (Black) Success: Thoughts on the 2025 AOTY

Amanda Edge, Managing A&L Editor February 5, 2025

Eight studio albums, over 200 million records sold, 35 Grammy wins and 99 nominations, Beyonce is the most awarded and most nominated individual in history. She is the most versatile musician of our time....

Behind the Scenes of Incendiary, The Robinson Players’ Technical Team Learned to Set a Stage On Fire

Behind the Scenes of Incendiary, The Robinson Players’ Technical Team Learned to Set a Stage On Fire

Maple Buescher, Staff Writer February 3, 2025

When the Robinson Players’ “Incendiary” opens later this week, audiences will see ten of their peers take the stage to act out a story about love, deceit, trauma and, above all else, arson. But the...

Eloise Wyatt '26 poses in Agafay, Morocco while studying abroad in 2024.

From Mulled Wine to Toll House Pie: The Transformative Power of Study Abroad

Amanda Edge, Managing A&L Editor January 22, 2025

A month ago, many Bates juniors were watching the Eiffel tower sparkle, sipping mulled wine at a Christmas market, or riding camels in the Moroccan desert. Today, many are no longer strutting along the...

Justice For Joan Baez: A Review of “A Complete Unknown”

Justice For Joan Baez: A Review of “A Complete Unknown”

Kate Hayes, Assistant News Editor January 22, 2025

When it comes to the world of Bob Dylan, I am incredibly biased. Like other folksy young women on the internet, my interest in the Dylan and Joan Baez love affair borders on obsession. I think about them...

The Highs and Lows of Being in the Fall Dance Concert

The Highs and Lows of Being in the Fall Dance Concert

Olivia Svallin, Staff Writer December 11, 2024

The Fall Dance Concert was an emotional rollercoaster. As a first year, I had no idea what to expect going into last weekend. I had been a part of many showcases and dance competitions prior to college...

Wicked (2024) - Enchanting if Exhausting

Wicked (2024) – Enchanting if Exhausting

Ramona McNish, Contributing Writer December 11, 2024

For me, the odds were stacked against John Chu’s 2024 adaptation of Wicked. Nearing three hours, only depicting the first half of the story Mockingjay style, and following the adaptation of In The Heights...

The Auburn Novelty Shop is the Strangest Store I've Ever Been To

The Auburn Novelty Shop is the Strangest Store I’ve Ever Been To

Kate Hayes, Assistant News Editor December 11, 2024

The Auburn Novelty Shop is hard to miss: standing at five stories tall, this brick warehouse in the heart of Auburn is one of only two antique stores in L/A alongside the more well-known Orphan Annie’s....

An “Exchange of Energy”: Fall Dance Concert Brings Vibrancy and Joy to Schaeffer Theater

An “Exchange of Energy”: Fall Dance Concert Brings Vibrancy and Joy to Schaeffer Theater

Maple Buescher, Staff Writer November 17, 2024

If you ask Cate Pope ’25 to describe the dance she choreographed this fall, she’ll be able to sum it up in a few words. Adrift explores how matter “changes states of being.” Dancers embody a glacier...

Prints hanging on a clothesline in the printmaking studio in Olin Arts Center on Sunday, November 10th.

A Beginner Artist’s Translation Guide to Critique

Catalina Passino and Ella Hannaford November 13, 2024

There were no prerequisites to get into Printmaking this semester. I like to sign up for art classes with no prior experience and mess around with different mediums. Usually, this goes pretty well for...

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