FULL DISCLOSURE: Madeline Polkinghorn is the Managing News Editor of The Bates Student.
At the beginning of finals week, Madeline felt the dreaded symptoms of extreme fatigue, a bad cough, and nausea....
Non-Native (and predominantly white) Americans have a long history of appropriating Native culture. Despite hundreds of years of destruction of Native peoples and assimilation into white settler culture,...
The 2020
presidential election has been on people’s minds since the last election four
years ago. The Democratic hopefuls began as the most diverse group in history
in terms of race and gender, yet...
Kyle Larry, Managing Forum Editor
• January 22, 2020
This
past Monday, January 20, 2020, Bates College celebrated MLK Day through various
workshops and performances. This MLK Day was title “From the Ground Up: Inequity, Bias, Privilege,
Structure, and...
Built in 1965, Dana Chemistry Hall is one of the older buildings on the Bates College campus. Don’t let the aged exterior deceive you, though: the students and professors working inside Dana are producing...
On Friday, Nov. 15 the Bates African Club produced a roundtable discussion entitled “Africans in Academia”, which hosted Professors Patrick Otim and Abraham Asfaw as speakers. The professors discussed...
The next time you’re looking for a place to study and all the PGill lounges are full (and you’ve inevitably made uncomfortable eye contact with the person studying in each one), consider heading...
Left untreated mental illnesses can lead to the ending of sports careers and even the end of life. According to a 2015 NCAA study, 30% of athletes self-reported experiencing some form of mental illness....
We produced 32,741 pounds of food waste that was converted
into pig food in October. What a staggering number, right? Nonetheless, more
waste needs to be examined. There is also the consideration of materials...
The Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) program has frequently been clouded by student discontent. Despite being established as an interdisciplinary program in the 2015-16 school year, there has yet...
Betsy Sweet, Sen. Susan Collins's potential opponent in the 2020 election talked policy and personal beliefs at BatesJames MacDonald/ The Bates Student
On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Bates Democrats hosted...
The transition to Bates can be difficult for people coming from religious backgrounds. Often, the new found freedom can leave students reconsidering the role faith plays in their life.
In search...
