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...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• August 18, 2020
Tuition. The very thing that makes college possible has become the center of controversy since the COVID-19 pandemic. Tuition, in a nutshell, has always been an enigma to many. Why is tuition so expensive?...
Jackson Elkins, Managing Sports Editor
• August 18, 2020
A quick look on Twitter is all it takes to see a new hashtag: #WeWantToPlay. The hashtag itself takes the same name of the NFL’s recent #WeWantToPlay ‘movement,’ if it even warrants that descriptor.
Clemson...
Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor
• August 11, 2020
It’s that time of year. Well, almost. Amidst all of the enormous unrest that has happened over the past few months in the United States, there is one subject that remains constant: the 2020 Presidential...
