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Sage Kiernan-Sherrow  |  News Editor Following a record-breaking year in donations, the annual WOU Toy Drive is once again setting up collection boxes for the Christmas season.  The campus drive has been operating for the past seven years, and developed “organically”...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor According to the 2018 Marion-Polk Community Health Profile, depression ranks as the most common chronic condition experienced in our community, and approximately 1 in 10 adolescents reported having attempted suicide in the last...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Approximately 30% of 959 eligible voters participated in Oregon’s Special Election — an election not part of the regular schedule — which took place on Nov. 5, according to oregonvotes.gov. Overall, there were nine state-wide...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor “Punishment doesn’t work … we need to find an alternative way to rehabilitate offenders,” said criminal justice professor, Miyuki Arimoto, during her talk, “Transformative Justice: Diminishing Boundaries through the Healing Garden...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Lisa Lowell has always been a writer. As a local Oregonian born into a family of artists who “don’t do competition,” Lowell said that writing became her niche. However, as a high school student, Lowell admitted that she “wasn’t a...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor “The skills that I’ve learned in getting a degree in chemistry have really helped me know how to break down problems into smaller pieces,” said Valerie Rippey, representing the first speaker for Western’s FEM in STEM series on...

Compiled by Alyssa Loftis | Freelancer  &  Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor “Hate speech is not free speech,” assured Western Oregon University’s President Rex Fuller, during the Nov. 7 event titled “Free Speech on Campus: Controversial Speakers, University...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor For students unable to go home for the Thanksgiving holiday, or for those struggling with food insecurity in the community — the Monmouth-Independence Rotary Club is hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner at 1 p.m. in the Monmouth Senior...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor “Our dead are never dead until we have forgotten them,” said Western’s Multicultural Student Union Representative, Paola Sumoza, during the Dia de los Muertos celebration on Oct. 30. The MSU hosts a Dia de los Muertos celebration...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Taking place at the tail-end of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Take Back the Night was hosted by Abby’s House on Oct. 26. Take Back the Night originated in the ‘70s after a cumulation of incidents, most predominantly, the...