It’s been a momentous few weeks for America, and for Americans. Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States after a contentious election. In Maine, voters re-elected incumbents Angus ...

Of all the employees on campus, there are some who are privy to many of our most closely guarded secrets, who know us by name and have borne witness to the bare musings of our souls. These are, of ...

Nineteen members of Bates College’s debate team, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council (BQDC), collectively resigned from the team on Friday, Feb. 16. At 9:55 a.m., the BQDC announced their resignation on ...

No Bates tradition is quite as iconic as Newman Day. It is a day of drinking, puddle jumping, and school spirit, as the student body comes together to celebrate Winter Carnival. The holiday is named ...

Brimming with paintings, photography, film, sculptures and music, the Bates Museum of Art’s latest exhibit Exploding Native Inevitable is a dazzling eruption of Indigenous art, agency and activism.

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 ...

Greta Shuster is a senior from Warwick, Rhode Island studying Environmental Studies and English. Greta loves to sail and is currently the fundraising chair for the club sailing team. In her free time, ...

Former Bates Head Football Coach Malik Hall filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, District of Maine against the college yesterday, claiming he faced “severe racial discrimination” during ...

On Monday, Nov. 3, Bates faculty unanimously passed legislation postponing the Race, Power, Privilege, and Colonialism (RPPC) curricular requirement. The RPPC curricular requirement requires students ...

“The whole situation started during the football season,” Seneca Moore ’27 said. “Obviously, it wasn’t a good season, so there wasn’t a lot of fun being had.” It was the night of Oct. 14 and some ...

A number of faculty and staff members at Bates have announced their departures from the college in the past year, prompting concern from students and questions about why the wave of exits occurred.

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