{"id":26,"date":"2014-01-21T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:30:14","slug":"prospective-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/prospective-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you for your interest in the BQDC. \u00a0If you&#8217;re a prospective student and would like to know more about our program, browse our website and\u00a0FAQ section in the drop-down menu, or feel free to reach out to us if you have questions, we&#8217;d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2026\/01\/LBHeadshot-200x300-1.webp\" alt=\"Lauren Buisker portrait.\" class=\"wp-image-686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2026\/01\/LBHeadshot-200x300-1.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2026\/01\/LBHeadshot-200x300-1-133x200.webp 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class='directory-result-name'>Lauren L. Buisker<\/p><p class='directory-result-academic-title'>Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies and Director of Debate<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class='directory-result-email'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='mailto:lbuisker@bates.edu'>lbuisker@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class='directory-result-departmentWithTitle'><span class='directory-result-department directory-result-line'>Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class='directory-result-phone directory-result-line' href='tel:207-786-6475'>207-786-6475<\/a><span class='directory-result-address directory-result-line'><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your interest in the BQDC. \u00a0If you&#8217;re a prospective&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}