Among the last gatherings of the Bates MLK Day Observance, Maddie Lee '24 and Ruby Forde '24 hosted a workshop titled "What even is ethnic food?"
After introducing themselves and their connection to...
Bates agreed to pay an unspecified amount to the three children of former head football coach Malik Hall as a settlement of Hall’s claims that they suffered adverse health effects from living in the...
Lena LaPierre, Executive Managing Editor
• January 16, 2024
The sleepy world of Maine politics seldom makes national headlines. Over the holiday break, however, events in Augusta became the unlikely center of a contentious, unfolding national debate on democratic...
A man exposed himself to a student outside of Olin Arts Center near Lake Andrews at around 6:59 p.m. today according to an email from Campus Safety.
The email was sent by Campus Safety Shift Supervisor...
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.”...
