Guess what. Paying 80k a year doesn’t just get you a dorm and Commons meals and classes. Along with the various advisors and clubs you have access to, lesser known resources are just waiting to be ...

Nicola is a senior from Needham, MA. She majors in Politics and minors in Mathematics. When she’s not in school Nicola enjoys long walks on the beach, saving stray dogs from loneliness and starvation, ...

You sit down in Ladd Library to study for your final. An hour in and you start to lose motivation. You open the New York Times Connections. You refresh your email. You refresh Lyceum and stare at all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grace is a junior from Bethesda, MD and a studio art major. At Bates, if not in class, she is drumming, with friends, doing whatever craft she’s fixated on, or reading. At home she primarily spends ...

On Nov. 7, student models were Bcc’d on an email that told them Bates will no longer utilize students for nude models after the Fall 2024 semester, effectively removing them from this position.

For me, the odds were stacked against John Chu’s 2024 adaptation of Wicked. Nearing three hours, only depicting the first half of the story Mockingjay style, and following the adaptation of In The ...

In the aftermath of a contentious election, Professor of Politics Stephen Engel reflects on the experience of supporting students and simultaneously navigating his own emotional responses to the ...

Brittany Longsdorf, Bates’ beloved Multifaith Chaplain, is leaving our community at the end of the calendar year to take on a new role as Associate Dean of Religious life at Princeton University. She ...

The Auburn Novelty Shop is hard to miss: standing at five stories tall, this brick warehouse in the heart of Auburn is one of only two antique stores in L/A alongside the more well-known Orphan ...

The Bates Student is a student-run forum for voices of, by and for the Bates College community. We accept Letters to the Editor from all readers, and op-eds from members of the Bates and Lewiston ...