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Camas Festival: Hearing Indigenous Voices
LIFE & CULTURE
Camas Festival: Hearing Indigenous Voices
Katherine Perry, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

The focus of this year’s Camas festival was the purple Camas flower. This flower is an integral part of the Willamette Valley ecosystem, and has been an important food source for indigenous tribes of the area for hundreds of years. The event took...

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Students Critical of Administration's Handling of Budget Cuts
Students Critical of Administration’s Handling of Budget Cuts
Kenny McMillen, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

Linfield University’s May 14 town hall was meant to answer the many questions that students had regarding cuts which aim to eliminate Linfield’s $4.9 million budget deficit. However,...

Semester-long Success: Student Symposium
Semester-long Success: Student Symposium
Peyton Leifeste, Staff Writer • May 29, 2025

Linfield University is a place where students can explore a variety of different avenues. This sentiment was apparent at this year’s student symposium, with students from many different...

The Linfield Bookstore.
Bookstore Blues: Why Books Were Delayed
Kenny McMillen, Staff Writer • May 27, 2025

For many students, the spring semester is a time to work out the kinks from the fall and begin anew. Unfortunately, this was also true for the...

Nobel Prize Winner Randy Schekman Believes in Scientific Collaboration
Nobel Prize Winner Randy Schekman Believes in Scientific Collaboration
Katherine Perry, Staff Writer • May 20, 2025

Nobel prize winner Randy Schekman was invited to speak at Linfield to share his scientific career with students as part of Linfield’s Oregon...

Budget cut town hall leaves students wondering what's next
Budget cut town hall leaves students wondering what’s next
Kenny McMillen, Staff Writer • May 19, 2025

On May 14, members of the Linfield administration held an open town hall for students to ask questions about upcoming budget cuts. Those in attendance...

Lacrosse concludes a record-breaking season
Lacrosse concludes a record-breaking season
Peyton Leifeste, Staff Writer • May 29, 2025

Linfield women’s lacrosse 2025 season is one for the record books. With hard work, accountability and talent, they accomplished more than they have ever...

A small, but mighty encounter has been the captain of Linfield's Shannon Dunn's ship
A small, but mighty encounter has been the captain of Linfield’s Shannon Dunn’s ship
Amelia Solt, Sports Editor • May 19, 2025

If you frequent Linfield’s Health, Human Performance and Athletics (HHPA) building, you may be familiar with Shannon Dunn, who sits at the desk in the...

Douglas Bailey, a Linfield sophomore and NWC championship winner
Linfield men’s golf dominates the Northwest Conference Championships
Amelia Solt, Sports Editor • May 5, 2025

On April 20, the Linfield men’s golf team took their home course for the final tournament of the year, the Northwest Conference Championships. After...

Linfield softball pursuing another deep NCAA playoff run: this time bringing home the National Championship
Linfield softball pursuing another deep NCAA playoff run: this time bringing home the National Championship
Amelia Solt, Sport Editor • April 28, 2025

After coming off a legitimate run in the NCAA World Series last spring and finishing third, the Linfield softball team is hungry for a National Championship...

Coffee, tea or energy drink: What do we think?
Coffee, tea or energy drink: What do we think?
Faythe Lloyd, Staff Writer • March 26, 2025

I have never acquired a taste for coffee. Every time I have an energy drink I am pretty sure my heart will explode, even if I know it won’t. I have found that the best way...

Division III sports are the largest in the country, but is it worth the work?
Division III sports are the largest in the country, but is it worth the work?
Tori Schuller, Editor-in-Chief • March 11, 2025

Last October, the first half of my senior collegiate golf season ended. Four tournaments in five weeks stretched me thin, and the mountains of homework I have to catch up...

Leaf blowers are harming students, both academically and physically
Leaf blowers are harming students, both academically and physically
Kenny McMillen, Staff Writer • November 12, 2024

Linfield University has tons of trees. In fact, the university officially proclaims it has over 2,500 trees. With that, comes a need to handle the high amount of leaves in...

Halloween: Does anyone care?
Halloween: Does anyone care?
Katherine Perry, Staff Writer • October 22, 2024

Halloween is fast approaching, and there are countless ways to celebrate. It is a holiday perfect for community, fun and excitement. Keeping that in mind, let’s look at...

Madame Web Review: An Unfortunate Time at the Movies
Madame Web Review: An Unfortunate Time at the Movies
Julian Ortiz, Staff Writer • February 27, 2024

“Madame Web” directed by S.J. Clarkson and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless is unfortunately a disaster. From its clunky dialogue, unclear character motivations...

Art by Annemarie Mullet
Words of inspiration from Linfield’s new nursing professors
Charlotte Abramson and Isabel Berger October 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of everyday life─from school, to grocery shopping, to politics. However, despite the staggering loss of jobs around the...

Art by Annemarie Mullet
A look at Linfield’s newest Wine Studies professor
Sierra Bodle, Staff Writer • October 27, 2020

You may be familiar with the wine studies instructor Toni Ketrenos, but did you know that she has a house bunny? She also has a black lab mix named Pearl, a 22-year-old orange...

The Renshaw Computer lab is normally busy with people finishing projects or rushing in for a quick print before their class begins. With all classes online, students have no need to  print anymore and the lab remains empty even though access is permitted for students on campus, given they comply with social distancing measures.
[PHOTOS] Finals approaching, but popular study spots remain empty
Lexi Kerr and Dustin Lau May 5, 2020

Studying for finals looks a lot different for students enrolled spring 2020 classes. Students will take finals online to finish the semester, seeking study spots around their...

Community Plate, a popular hangout restaurant, hangs a sign on the door saying they are temporarily closed but hopes to have food available for takeout soon. Wednesday, April 8, 2020.
[PHOTOS] How the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected McMinnville, from Linfield College to 3rd Street
Dustin Lau, Photographer • April 19, 2020

 

Camas Festival: Hearing Indigenous Voices
Camas Festival: Hearing Indigenous Voices
Katherine Perry, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

The focus of this year’s Camas festival was the purple Camas flower. This flower is an integral part of the Willamette Valley ecosystem, and has been an important food source...

A review of “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”
A review of “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”
Faythe Lloyd, Staff Writer • May 13, 2025

This year’s spring musical, “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” opened April 24 to a packed crowd. The show is based on the first book of the “Percy...

AI- A cheating tool or a learning tool?
AI- A cheating tool or a learning tool?
Katherine Perry, Staff Writer • May 13, 2025

Since ChatGPT came on the scene, generative AI has been a subject of controversy. Students across all grades have used generative AI to write essays. In response, teachers...

Life as an International Student at Linfield
Life as an International Student at Linfield
Zobia Memon, Guest Writer • May 13, 2025

I am Zobia Memon, an international student from Pakistan. I was born and raised in the small city of Larkana, Sindh. My journey to education began with a roundtable discussion...

Built to Burn continues to blaze in its seventeenth year
Built to Burn continues to blaze in its seventeenth year
Kenny McMillen, Staff Writer • May 13, 2025

As the sun set on the beautiful evening of April 18, a castle-like structure sat in the field beside the Miller Fine Arts Center, donned with flags, shields and a dragon....

Susty Cats: Paper towels and other single-use campus items
Susty Cats: Paper towels and other single-use campus items
Anna Frazier, Editor-in-chief • April 4, 2023

There are plenty of adages out there that attempt to help us regular mortals combat the environmental behemoth known as climate change. Eat less meat. Recycle your cans. Reduce...

The cast takes a bow at Eco Tales.
Eco Tales at Ford Theatre showcases student-written stories combining theatre and environmental awareness
Mariah Johnston, Staff Writer • March 15, 2023

Linfield University’s Theatre Department hosted Eco Tales: Student-Adapted Fairy Tales this past week in the Ford Theatre. This play takes a unique twist on fairy tales,...

Susty Cats: Food waste 
Susty Cats: Food waste 
Anna Frazier, Editor in Chief • March 15, 2023

There are plenty of sayings out there that attempt to help us regular mortals combat the environmental behemoth known as climate change. Eat less meat. Recycle your cans....

Jo Henderson, right, spoke at Linfield's Graf auditorium last week.
A World Without Soil: A tale of disappointments and hope
Riley Omonaka, News Editor • March 14, 2023

Linfield University sits at the epicenter of Oregon wine country. Much of the local economy is reliant on job creation and tourism brought in the wine-making industry. Vineyards...

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