Sadie Basila, Managing Forum Editor
• September 16, 2020
The Sept.1 issue of The Bates Student included a piece titled “One Person One Vote: The Case against Ranked Choice Voting.” The arguments included in this Forum piece rely on incorrect mathematics...
Have you ever been so hungry that you just turn into a jerk? Regardless of whether you’re an athlete who has just finished practice, a library marathoner who hasn’t seen the sky in a couple of hours,...
Skye Brown, Managing Features Editor
• September 16, 2020
“We value people who look different, we don’t value those who think different[ly].”
This is a direct quote from Professor Kristen Barnett who is an American Studies professor at Bates. The point...
Gabriel Coffey, Managing Forum Editor
• September 16, 2020
Calls to “defund the police” have echoed throughout the United States this summer. This is a great and worthy cause. Yet, what about doing the same to the military? What about cutting funding and reallocating...
The Class of 2024 has been handed a bad reputation, and it's not difficult to discern why. In any given year, the freshmen’s titular “fresh-ness” is the easy butt-end of any joke. Wandering around...
Liberal arts colleges like Bates market themselves as bubbles tucked away from the outside world of racism and bigotry. They highlight the small size of their student bodies and advertise to prospective...
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...
