If you follow independent music and concert news at all, you know that Twitter has blown up with a heated debate over the past week. In a since-deleted tweet, alternative singer-songwriter Mitski asked...

At the core of Bates culture is our commitment to sustainability. We’re one of seven schools nationwide to have gone carbon neutral, we’re ranked the fifth greenest college by the Princeton Review...

Often, the impetus for a comedic remark is discomfort. You suddenly feel tension and decide to break the ice. Discomfort may be caused by unfamiliarity, and if there’s one thing many young Americans...

I lost 23 pounds in the last year and I don’t know why. I have been poked and prodded by doctors, I have been to therapists, I have been on bulking meal plans. Nothing has worked. I am now underweight,...

On Dec. 16, Laura Sacks of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that union organizers should be permitted to vote on a wall-to-wall bargaining unit union including staff and nontenure and nontenure-track...

Russia has over 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine’s border. Ukraine has hundreds of bomb shelters. What has Ukraine done? They’ve converted these bomb shelters into bars and restaurants, which were...

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...