Max Olson, Managing News Editor
• January 20, 2025
This past October, during the monthly faculty meeting, professors attested to widespread and chronic burnout and overworking within the college. As later reported in the 2024 COACHE survey; faculty rated...
Despite a five-point loss to Bowdoin College, Bates' showed remarkable resilience and determination throughout the game. Each player truly gave it their all: no punches were pulled whatsoever. Bates'...
Carly Philpott, Executive Managing Editor
• January 14, 2025
After a few contentious years of back-and-forth, TikTok will likely be banned from operating in the U.S. on Jan. 19. Despite having 170 million users in America – or a little over 50% of the national...
A faculty-wide survey administered in early 2024 reveals that just 51% of faculty are satisfied with Bates as a place of work, down from 78% in 2018. The preliminary survey results were presented at the...
Each year, on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving Break, Dining, Conferences, and Campus Events (DCCE) hosts Harvest Dinner for the Bates community. The tradition is beloved by many for its incredible...
A post-election rally on Coram Library steps Nov. 12 called for solidarity, resistance and to take action against the dangers of Project 2025 following the election of Donald Trump. The event was organized...
Sydney Litney, Contributing Writer
• November 13, 2024
Bates Faces, the once beloved online yearbook and directory, has disappeared from Garnet Gateway, leaving many students befuddled. “Bates Faces was the invisible connection between us” Lucy Read ‘27...
Carly Philpott, Executive Managing Editor
• November 13, 2024
Hundreds voted at the Lewiston Armory on Nov. 5, but among them, a sea of familiar faces: Bates students casting their own ballots, many of them led there by the college organization Bates Votes.
Guided...
Nick Danko, Assistant Forum Editor
• November 13, 2024
The Funding and Activities Board at Bates denied a $3,700 funding request on Sept. 24 from the Deansmen, an a capella group, for the recording of their new album. This marked a startling end to a three-year...
A proposal to implement a Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) minor passed with 111 faculty voting yes and one voting no at the Nov. 4 faculty meeting.
The six-course minor will be added to the...
In a momentous week for the state and America, Mainers, including Batesies, cast their ballots for local, statewide, and federal offices, as well as Maine ballot initiatives. Some results were clear on...
