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The Voice of Bates College Since 1873

The Bates Student

The Voice of Bates College Since 1873

The Bates Student

The Big O-Gap

Anonymous January 26, 2022

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...

Do You Have GPA Anxiety?

Willa Wang, Managing Forum Editor January 26, 2022

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 College Experience Is Almost Over, but COVID-19 Is Sticking Around

Sophie Mackin, Assistant Forum Editor January 18, 2022

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...

Balancing Mental and Public Health

Alexi Knight, Assistant Arts & Leisure Editor January 18, 2022

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...

Putting Athletics Over the Arts

Sadie Basila, Managing Forum Editor January 18, 2022

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...

Professor Keith Taylor—Administration Made the Wrong Call

Alexi Knight, Assistant Arts & Leisure Editor December 8, 2021

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....

My Kidneys Hate Me, But My Professors Don’t: The Value of Flexible Professors

Sadie Basila, Managing Forum Editor December 8, 2021

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...

Why Does FYS Matter?

Why Does FYS Matter?

Willa Wang, Managing Forum Editor December 1, 2021

In the first class of my first year seminar, we read a chapter from "Teaching Critical Thinking" written by bell hooks. The chapter says that most students enter college classrooms “dreading thinking”,...

An Ode to Taylor Swift

Sophie Mackin, Assistant Forum Editor November 17, 2021

Taylor Swift is someone who needs no introduction. A household name, she is one of the most successful and well-known artists of our time. My generation has grown up with her, experiencing each and every...

TikTok, Doom Scrolling, and Digital Self Harm—Protect Yourself

Sadie Basila, Managing Forum Editor November 10, 2021

Everyone knows that most social media sites track your activity and use your data to target content toward you. In some ways this can be helpful, like when Youtube recommends videos they know you’ll...

My Mentor Was Arrested for Treason

Maggie Nespole, Contributing Writer November 10, 2021

Yes, you read the title correctly. My mentor is currently sitting in jail, awaiting her trial date. She’s accused of being a co-conspirator on espionage related charges. Allegedly, she and her husband...

CRT, Stem and Fox News

Alexi Knight, Assistant Arts & Leisure Editor November 3, 2021

A few weeks ago, someone sent me a clip of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld poking fun at the proposals made to amend education regarding race, white supremacy and colonialism here at Bates. Conservative media...

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