After a year’s hiatus, the annual Puddle Jump was restored to Bates at the end of the 2022 Winter Carnival on Feb. 11. Scroll through the collection of photos below put together by The Bates Student...
As part of the Period Project initiative, Bates will begin supplying free tampons to the campus community starting at the end of February. The initiative is made possible through a partnership with the...
The Bates Educators and Staff Organization (BESO) union vote has been put on hold by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) until they decide on Bates’ appeal to separate 85 faculty members from the...
This year, a group of sophomores formed the Bates Historical Society (BHS). As stated by club leaders, the BHS aims to explore and uncover the college’s history to foster an appreciation for Bates’...
With the fresh snowfall and the start of the Winter Carnival, students were greeted with running chair lifts, as well as free ski tickets and rentals. 150 Bates students got on buses running every 30 minutes...
On Jan. 28, Vice President of Campus Life Josh McIntosh updated the college on its recent COVID-19 testing results and announced that on Tuesday, Jan. 25, the positivity rate rose to 3.7% after 55 students...
With 27% of its U.S. acceptances identifying as students of color and 11% attending as international students, the Bates Class of ’25 is the most geographically and racially diverse class in the history...
Ilana Zeilinger, Assistant Features Editor
• January 26, 2022
The “What We Mean When We Say: Video Project Premiere and Discussion” started off by inviting workshop participants to view the first installment of the Bates Communications Office’s proposed video...
Sophie Mackin, Assistant Forum Editor
• January 26, 2022
The “Decolonization of Africa: Perspectives from the African Diaspora” panel discussion was organized and moderated by the Harward Center’s Assistant Director of Volunteer Programs and Community...
Skye Brown, Managing Features Editor
• January 26, 2022
On Sept. 30, 2021, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Planning Committee sent out a community-wide email, which stated that “each January, Bates College observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.” The email...
A total of 219 people gathered over Zoom for the “The Decolonization of the Sexual and Reprodutive Health of BIPOC Communities” workshop, which centered on the intersection of decolonizing and reproductive...
The Curricular Transformation panel heard from two academic units that are in the process of revising their curricula, instructional methods and requirements to interrogate issues of race, power and privilege.
The...
