By: JAMIE CRAGNOLINE

E-mails. We are all a victim of them, and we all spend a fair amount of time complaining about them. If I spent less time complaining about the amount of e-mails we get, I'd probably be lot further along in my thesis. However, that would be no fun. The fa...

By: CONOR MESSINGER

In a recent study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) the lifetime rate of inhalant use for 12-year-olds in 2008 was 6.9 percent, ahead of 5.1 percent for prescription drugs and far surpassing the rate of marijuana us...

By: ZOE ROSENTHAL

I was about 12 years old when text messaging was first mass-marketed. and nbsp; I remember the first commercials for text-enabled phones very vividly. I was intrigued by the colorful gloved hands that swept across the screen, sure that these fingers were ...

By: LIZ MILLER

March is supposed to be one of the most miserable months of the year. and nbsp; Being a March 8th baby, I have experienced the tribulations of the month's attempted festivities. Growing up, I remember trying disastrously to have cheerful birthday parties ...

By: BLAISE LUCEY

...politics are not sports. This isn't a contest to see which team's policies get passed. It's not the Donkey States versus the Elephant States. It's the United States. If you're reading this, you're probably in Commons and you forgot to call a friend f...

By: ANNIE CRAVERO '13

To the Editor, I am personally appalled by opinions expressed by Ben Gaffney '10 in his Letter to the Editor, published in the March 9th issue of The Bates Student. First of all, Mollie Kervick '13 states explicitly in her letter that she 'know[s] many...

By: DOUG RAY

...our undying social conscience, need for extreme environmental sustainability and the Bates fashion sensibility...tend to highlight our need to be one with what Marx termed the Proletariat. First, before I really get started here, I want to make one th...

By: MARIAM ALAM

As both the Managing Editor of the Forum section and a regular reader of The Student, I have appreciated the amount of input our newspaper has received from students who are not mandated to write for Forum because of their positions as staff writers. Not ...

By: LIZ MILLER

It's easy to get lost in the 'Bates Bubble and rdquo; and shut yourself out from what's happening in the real world. and nbsp; Upon reading about the protests against education cuts in California, I felt ashamed that I had done nothing to help the cause. ...

It was 11 a.m. on a Monday, and I should've been eating chicken crispitos with my friends in Commons, dressed in a pair of fading designer jeans I bought at 75 percent off at Filene's Basement, a J. Crew sweater, and a pair of moccasins. Make-up? Perhaps ...

By: MARIAM ALAM

The past few weeks have found me inhabiting a cubicle on the third floor of Ladd Library, with a dripping coffee mug in hand and headphones plugged in, oblivious to anything but the screen in front of me. Thesis, you may guess. But under this guise of pro...

By: Ben Gaffney ’10

To the Editor: I am writing this letter in response to the opinions expressed by Molly Kervick '13 in her 'Letter to the Editor, and rdquo; and nbsp; published in the March 2nd issue of The Bates Student. Kervick is missing certain inalienable truths a...

By: BLAISE LUCEY

As it becomes less and less likely that snow will grace the Bates campus again this winter (although, with New England Marchs, you never want to say, well, the word 'never, and rdquo; which I actually didn't say, so I'm clear), I've started to become self...

By: JAMIE CRAGNOLINE

I dart across the Library Arcade toward the front doors, ascending the stairs quickly and quietly. I slip covertly through the double doors and do a quick side-to-side look as I plan my attack. After a split-second decision, I dart to the right, trying to...

By: MARIAM ALAM

With only a few months left of a life without any real responsibility, with friends at my fingertips, prepared meals whenever I am hungry and hours each day completely at my disposal, I have begun to reflect on the last few years of my life when my only d...

By: LIZ MILLER

I do not consider myself a very competitive person. I play women's rugby at Bates and have competed in many sports events throughout my years, but I never find myself loosing my mind to the competition. This is why I am surprised by the extreme passion th...

By: ZOE ROSENTHAL

Last week, Commons celebrated its second birthday. Appropriately, the dining staff marked this occasion with several tasty offerings as part of the weekly Wednesday night Adventures in Dining series. During the past tw...

By: ALICE THOMPSON

The 'Best Dressed and rdquo; column in the Feb. 9th issue of The Student has made it abundantly clear that Bates is in desperate need of a makeover. I mean this in purely ideological terms so, don't worry, you all look fine. However, the way we have com...

By: MOLLY KERVICK ’13

To the Editor: After reading the 'Best Dressed and rdquo; column in the Feb. 9th issue of The Bates Student, I was certain that I could not have read it correctly. Upon first read, the article came off as pretentious, materialistic, and blatantly ridicu...