Managing Forum Editor Miles Nabritt and Managing Arts and Leisure Editor Ellie Boyle return with Forum Focus to talk about the environment on campus and in society at large in 2021.
Don’t you just love academic institutions that tout an egalitarian student-first pedagogy, innovative spirit, and vibrant sense of community? Well, then, Bates might not be the right place for you.
Or...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• March 17, 2021
It was March 13 when our world turned upside down
Our campus fell silent in an eerie stir
With nothing left to allure
Soon no classes were in-person, neither were campus...
The United States is losing interest in the Middle East. This disenchantment with the region speaks to the growing sentiment in the foreign policy community that the region is, and always was, an overly...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• March 9, 2021
It has happened again. Now, we are witnesses to another male politician facing the repercussions of a career built off the suffering of other people. This time it is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• March 3, 2021
As we are all trying to do our best to continue communicating with each other while social distancing, the new app Clubhouse has gathered remarkable attraction from entrepreneurs and influencers around...
On Monday Feb. 8, I woke up really excited to be moving back to campus from the Hampton Inn. I had signed up for the 9:30 a.m. shuttle, because I couldn't wait. It was just going to be a five minute ride,...
Gabriel Coffey, Managing Forum Editor
• February 23, 2021
In a generation where American youths seem increasingly worried about preventing offensive language, one would assume accusing a country of genocide to be cause for ceasing relations. Yet, in the Biden-led...
On Monday morning, I was returning from being tested at Merrill when a man walked up to me and shoved a clipboard and pen in my face. He implored me to sign “in support of free and fair elections.”...
