New England was battered by rain and wind on Dec. 18, causing widespread power outages and flooding and, at Bates, downed trees, stymied travel plans and emergency alerts sent to students.
The Harward Center hosted the Lewiston Teach-In to Prevent Gun Violence on Dec. 5 to bring together policy experts and community members after Maine's worst mass shooting as some residents hoped to turn grief into action.
Nick Danko, Managing News Editor
• December 14, 2023
How does a curling enthusiast contribute to the healing of a community after a traumatic event? David Florig, author of "The Stones of Ailsa Craig," remembers driving his car on a late November day wondering...
Willa Wang, Managing Forum Editor
• December 14, 2023
On Dec. 1 at 7:30 pm, over 250 attendees from the Colby-Bowdoin-Bates league (CBB), Lewiston High School and local communities in Lewiston gathered in Memorial Commons in Chase Hall to witness the first...
In the wake of the Lewiston shooting, there has been a surge of student participation in community engagement in forms as diverse as coordinating gift drives for healthcare workers to organizing a 5k to fundraise for victims.
Pulling his gray pickup truck into the parking lot of Just-In-Time Recreation, Dan Beazley offers smiles to curious onlookers at the curb. He unloads a tall wooden cross from his truck bed and wheels it...
Zoe Schaedle, Managing Sports Editor
• November 15, 2023
On Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023, from approximately 5:30-7:00 p.m., Alumni Walk bustled with Buzz Lightyears, Spidermen, princesses and witches. What had been a ghost town only a few days prior, due to the mass...
Nick Danko, Managing News Editor
• November 15, 2023
Among this year’s First Year Seminar (FYS) courses that greeted incoming First Years at Bates, there stood a new option: “Purpose, Work, and College: A Holistic Introduction to Purposeful Work.”...
On Oct. 25, 2023, a shooter took the lives of 18 Lewiston residents. It’s been three weeks since this tragedy occurred, and many members of the community have already stepped up to help in multitudes...
Lena LaPierre, Executive Managing Editor
• November 15, 2023
On Nov. 3, President Biden’s visit to Lewiston commanded the attention of the Bates campus. With the community and the nation glued to the President’s televised remarks, however, an important voice...
Thursday at around 4:00 a.m., I woke up shivering and disoriented. The stacks of Ladd Library were strikingly dark. And cold. I had joked with a friend of mine last week about pulling 24 hours in Ladd,...
Lena LaPierre, Executive Managing Editor
• November 8, 2023
A dramatic Nov. 7 election ended with no mayoral candidate winning 50% of the vote and three incumbents being ousted from City Council. On the state level, an initiative to democratize Maine's power grid failed and voters passed the nation's second right-to-repair law. Read the complete results here.
