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The Voice of Bates College Since 1873

The Bates Student

The Voice of Bates College Since 1873

The Bates Student

Belarus’s Leader Beats His People As The World Watches 

Belarus’s Leader Beats His People As The World Watches 

Gabriel Coffey, Managing Forum Editor August 30, 2020

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...

Fall From Grace: Empowerment Overshadowed By Tragedy

Fall From Grace: Empowerment Overshadowed By Tragedy

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...

The Freshman Plague: A Greater Issue than the Freshman Fifteen

Elizabeth LaCroix, Managing News Editor August 23, 2020

*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...

Why We Love Bates

August 23, 2020

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...

We Have One Chance: Shared Responsibility on Campus

Madeline Polkinghorn, Managing Editor August 23, 2020

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...

Dear First-Years: An Upperclassmen Advice Column

August 22, 2020

*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...

Tuition: The Impact Of A Costly College Education

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?...

#WeWantToPlay: College Athletics’ Latest

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...

T-Minus 100: The Countdown To Election 2020

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...

Letter to the Editor: Tenuous Connection between TikTok and Uighurs

Letian Ge August 9, 2020

I am a Bates class of 2017 graduate, and as you might already figure from my name, I am a Chinese. I believe that this article reflects a dangerous trend of anti-sino racism hidden under the mask of national...

Good Trouble: Remembering The Life and Legacy of John Lewis

Miles Nabritt, Managing Forum Editor August 6, 2020

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” Proverb 3:18.  John Robert Lewis was a man who believed in speaking up for those who could not....

TikToking Lives Away: Malware, China and Genocide

TikToking Lives Away: Malware, China and Genocide

Roy Mathews August 4, 2020

Ever since the demise of the popular video sharing app Vine in December of 2016, many have craved the next big video sharing app. Enter TikTok, an app launched by ByteDance, a Beijing based internet technology...

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