Over the past several weeks, I have seen allegations in the press and on social media that Bates is surveilling students’ pro-union tweets and articles as well as privately pressuring them to change...

I head to the gym on a chilly weekday evening. Inside, everything is where it should be. Most of the machines are full. People don’t make eye contact, look away if you catch their glance and reach for...

The silence has gone on long enough. We can’t avoid it any longer. We have to talk about the parking situation here at Bates. “Not the parking situation!” you plead. But yes, it’s time to discuss...

I can’t believe it’s already February. For me, January felt like such a blur — getting adjusted to new classes, dealing with the freezing temperatures and, most of all, trying to follow Bates’...

 “Ghosting” is not abuse. But if you spent five minutes watching dating videos on TikTok or reading dating takes on Twitter, you might think it was a crime on par with human trafficking.  I personally...

No, I’m not talking about the ozone layer. I’m talking about the more important Big-O, that elusive orgasm that is damn near impossible to achieve.  I could write a dissertation on hookup culture...

On the night of Dec. 23, I was a little bit nervous with excitement. I tried to let myself do some other things to get rid of my anxiety. What was I anxious about? My grade point average (GPA). Would I...

My final semester at Bates has officially begun, and the more I remind myself of that, the more surreal it feels. Just as life at Bates was starting to feel settled and close to normal again, the omicron...

If you were on campus at any point last school year, you know how tough it was to make the best of the pandemic-related public health guidelines. It wasn’t easy to sit through Zoom classes, suffer through...

When I decided to go to Bates, one thing that really drew me in was the complete and utter lack of school spirit. I personally hate school spirit. I love that we don’t care!  A lack of school spirit...

Over the summer, I got an email from the registrar saying a course I had signed up for, the Anthropocene with Professor Raj Saha, had been cancelled. To be honest, I had planned on dropping the course....

Obviously, we owe a lot to modern medicine. Still, sometimes, the way our medical system works makes me want to swallow knives.  A few years ago, I started being plagued by chronic infections affecting...