Gabriel Coffey, Managing Forum Editor
• September 9, 2020
The Democratic and the Republican parties are equally polarized. Each party has stalwarts in their respective corners of a seemingly righteous and ruthless boxing ring. Some of these members are more entrenched...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• September 9, 2020
It is not enough to say that you support social change. With the Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the March for Our Lives movements in full swing, it is important to acknowledge the power that social change...
It's a hoot to be on campus at Bates College. It seems every day from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed, rumors, fear, anxiety, and paranoia characterize these days of absent classes and idle...
In response to One Person One Vote: The Case Against Ranked Choice Voting:
To add a few remarks on ranked choice voting from someone who has looked at the mathematics behind various voting systems:...
As 2020 is an election year, there will be no shortage of candidates, issues, celebratory folks, nor broken hearts this November. One issue that still divides Mainers today will appear on the November...
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s strongman president, recently won a rigged election in his twenty-sixth year on the job. He celebrated this “people’s mandate” by beating his citizens in the streets...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• August 28, 2020
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire...
*updated as of Aug. 14, 2021
I remember one of my biggest concerns the summer before I left for college was whether or not I was going to be able to maintain my health. I had always been really good...
The Bates Student staff has compiled a list of their favorite things about Bates.
*updated as of Aug. 14, 2021
Amelia Keleher'21 - Managing News Editor Emeritus
I’m struck by how generous...
As highlighted in a recent communication by Vice President for Campus Life Joshua McIntosh, the recent reopening of college campuses across the country has been, in many cases, an abject failure. Institutions...
*updated as of Aug. 14, 2021
It’s Okay to Feel Stuck
I felt really stuck socially my first year, especially second semester. It felt like everyone around me had found their best friends for life...
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