By: Jade Rayner News Editor As spring term nears the halfway point, many students have begun to receive their financial aid packages for the 2017-2018 school year. However, it isn’t too late for those who still need to fill out their Free Application for Federal...
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Know your candidates
By: Jade Rayner News Editor ASWOU is beginning the process of electing new candidates, and with that, they are offering numerous chances for students to get to know who they will be voting for. Students will need to vote using OrgSync. Voting will open May 1, and...
National March for Science takes Corvallis
By: Justin Oehler Staff Writer On April 22, scientists, science enthusiasts and self-proclaimed nerds gathered all over the world to raise awareness of the attack on science. Though this was early spring with rain clouds in the sky, more people turned out than the...
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One day for one Earth
By: Jade Rayner News Editor The 47th annual Earth Day will be observed on April 22, 2017. Earth Day was founded in 1970 by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson; the idea to dedicate a day to focus on the environment was triggered by a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara,...
Respect the pack
By: Jade Rayner News Editor In the month of April 2017, two crimes involving racism occurred on campus and off, both towards Western students. One incident, revealed in an all-campus email from President Rex Fuller, “involved a student being subjected to racist...
Buckle up and keep your eyes ahead
By: Zoe Strickland Managing Editor April is the fourth annual Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Distracted driving in Oregon has been declared an “epidemic” by the Oregon Department of Transportation. Distracted driving involves driving while your attention is...
Civil rights for all
By: Zoe Strickland Managing Editor On April 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit made the decision that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation is in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “We conclude today that discrimination on the...
Students could pay the price for low enrollment
By: Jade Rayner News Editor In an email sent to Western faculty and staff on April 4, President Rex Fuller laid out upcoming changes and work going into the 2017-2019 biennial budget. According to the message, Oregon’s seven public universities sent the Higher...
Merkley takes a 15 hour stand
By: Jade Rayner News Editor On the evening of April 4, 2017, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley took the Senate floor, and proceeded to hold it for the next 15 hours in protest of Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil M. Gorsuch. The New York Times described it as, “It was the...






