Ella Beiser

i wish i could see everything I google translated this past year -- I think it would be both motivating and demoralizing

Barnard College expels three students who protested for Palestine These are the first official expulsions for protests on Columbia’s campus since 1936, according to Columbia University Apartheid Divest

Barnard College expels three students who protested for Palestine in unprecedented move, Nayanika Guha reports. These are the first official expulsions for protests on Columbia’s campus since 1936, according to Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
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since starting to learn Spanish a few years ago my spelling in english has become very strange... examples include: psychologia, metaphoros, filosophía... the list goes on

Bates Celebrates 50th ‘Puddle Jump’ With Original Founders It was March 17, 1975, and Chris Callahan ‘78 had an idea. “I remember looking out the window. We were living in South Smith [Hall], facing the Puddle, and there was a lot of ice,” Callahan recalled. ...

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Bates Reverts to Trump-Era Title IX Policies After Federal Ruling On January 24, students received an email from Associate Vice President for Title IX Gwen Lexow informing them that the college’s Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy (EO P...

Important information and thorough reporting by Lena LaPierre thebatesstudent.com/27336/news/b... @batescollege.bsky.social @batesstudent.bsky.social

Proposed Discipline Procedures would Remove Live Hearing Faculty will vote to adopt or reject a proposal to change the student discipline process this March. The proposal would get rid of live disciplinary hearings and replace them with a civil rights inves...

Rather full-circle to be reporting on this after writing my political science thesis on fairness in discipline hearings. Look out for more reporting in the coming weeks: thebatesstudent.com/27350/news/p... @batescollege.bsky.social @batesstudent.bsky.social

Bringing Language to Life: New SPELL Program Offers Peer-led Language and Culture Classes During the first two weeks of Short Term, Bates students, faculty and staff will be able to attend one-time language and culture classes taught by other students. The program, titled Short-term Peer-l...

A joy to write this article, excited to see this project come to fruition @batescollege.bsky.social @batesstudent.bsky.social thebatesstudent.com/27316/news/b...

This Wednesday, I was honored to receive the Barlow Thesis Research Grant, which will fund my travel to Santiago, Cl, where I'll conduct research on the iconic Pedro Lemebel and the Yeguas del Apocalipsis. Thank you to the Hispanic Studies department + @batescollege.bsky.social for this opportunity!

Photo essay: Men’s club hockey

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Your New Year’s Resolution Should Include Visiting Purposeful Work: Why and How in Three Tips Upon walking into Chase Hall, you are immediately immersed in a maze. If you take my own preferred entrance (directly across from Carnegie and around the corner from The Den), you find yourself right ...

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Hundreds of South + West Side properties are for sale amid a legal fight against the city's "worst landowner."

Suzie B. Wilson owed more than $15M for rat-related code violations + now faces legal trouble after a report by Illinois Answers Project + Block Club.
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Some Chicagoans Are Afraid To Go To The South And West Sides. In 'Don't Go' Book, Authors Examine Why In “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It,” Englewood artist Tonika Lewis Johnson and professor Maria Krysan explore how telling someone not to go to a neighborhood can harm a communi...

THIS: "Don’t say you love Chicago and you talk about it this way. Don’t say you’re Chicagoan and you haven’t visited half of the city. You can’t love a city without understanding it. That’s what we want people to get from this book.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/22/s...

City Contractor ‘Failed’ Clients as Migrant Shelter Complaints Mounted, Staffers Say Chicago is phasing out Favorite Healthcare Staffing after paying the agency $342 million to oversee its shelter system. Records show that Favorite had a poor track record of resolving complaints.

Our friends at The Investigative Project on Race & Equity and Borderless Magazine spent months investigating complaints at migrant shelters operated by Favorites, a City contractor that raked in hundreds of millions but rarely resolved serious grievances. southsideweekly.com/chicago-city...