By: Jade Rayner News Editor After the extensive process of preliminary decisions and open hearings, the Incidental Fee Committee has reached their final budget decisions for the 2017-2018 school year. The final meeting took place on on Friday, March 3 and was approved...
By: Jade Rayner News Editor On Feb. 21, the proposal to make Monmouth a sanctuary city was brought to the City Council for a third time. Unlike the two previous city council meetings where the proposal for sanctuary status was met with less than two motions, and as a...
By: Jade Rayner News Editor A small, but lively group gathered at the Lord and Schryver Conservancy in Salem on Friday, March 3, to attend one of the final installments of the Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project. “Mind the Gaps: How Gender Shapes Our Lives” a...
By: Jade Rayner News Editor At Western, there are multiple all-gender restrooms that can be found across campus. However, finding gender neutral or all-gender restrooms becomes increasingly difficult when wandering beyond campus. In 2014, REFUGE Restrooms was created...
By: Jade Rayner News Editor The Associated Students of Western Oregon University held a senate meeting on Monday, March 6. The meeting went over various topics including, but not limited to, hiring senate secretary, parking meters and drone usage on-campus. A proposal...
By: Zoe Strickland Managing Editor After decades of searching for the possibility of life beyond Earth, scientists have found what they were looking for. On Feb. 22, NASA announced that a new solar system containing seven Earth-size planets was discovered. TRAPPIST-1...
By: Byron Kimball Freelancer On Feb. 23, Salem resident Timothy Gebhart held free viewings of the 2015 PBS documentary “Hard to Believe” for local residents. Directed by Ken Stone, the documentary concerns the practice of forced organ harvesting from Chinese...
By: Stephanie Blair Editor-in-Chief Domestic abuse and sexual assault survivors, advocates and loved ones of survivors gathered on the Oregon Capitol building’s steps on Feb. 22 to support the services and protections infor survivors of domestic and sexual violence....
By: Jade Rayner News Editor The Incidental Fee Committee held their preliminary budget decision meetings for the 2017-2018 school year on Friday, Feb. 10 and Friday, Feb. 17. As of now, the projected incidental fee cost for the 2017-2018 school year is $345 per term,...
By:Jade Rayner News Editor The movement to declare Monmouth, Oregon a sanctuary city is one that began roughly two months ago by a concerned member of the community and has gained a growing amount of support since then. There is no concrete definition for what it...
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