ASLC cabinet: a year in review
Alex Jensen, Staff Writer and Graphic Designer
March 5, 2017
Beneficial, accomplished, fun and just getting started is what sums up the past year for the ASLC cabinet members. The nine members worked closely together to achieve their goals. Vice president Kenna Whatley, ’17, said that their end goals may not look as anticipated but are aligned with the overal...
Gomez-Horta: Linfield activist
Sara Levering, Staff Writer
March 4, 2017
Sara Gomez-Horta, ‘17, is a political science and English double major and a Laws, Rights, and Justice minor. At Linfield she serves on the Diversity Advisory Committee. She is also the president of Voto Latino, which is in its first year here at Linfield College. It is one of seven inaugural ...
A smile in Dillin
Grace Bruncke, Staff Writer and Advertising Coordinator
March 4, 2017
When you go to Dillin Hall for breakfast and pick up your omelet Patty is almost always there to say “have a good day!” She lights up Dillin by greeting students and checking in on how their day is going. But she is more than a server and cook at Dillin. Patty grew up in a small town in in Georg...
Going all four, featuring men’s and women’s basketball
Alex Jensen, Staff Writer and Graphic Designer
February 19, 2017
Athletes playing their sport for all fours years at the collegiate level is an impressive feat. Managing studies, work, life, and athletics is a difficult task, but these athletes pushed through it all. They towered over their obstacles with strength, will, and pure passion for the game. The Wildcat wo...
Long distance love
Camille Botello, Staff Writer and Online Coordinator
February 18, 2017
Many college students have had high school sweethearts, but haven’t kept them because of perhaps one of the most intimidating things about relationships: distance. According to the center for long distance relationship statistics, 14 million couples are currently in long distance relationships, and a...
America’s transition from the Obama to the Trump administration
Alex Jensen, Staff Writer and Graphic Designer
February 18, 2017
The most racially divisive America in the last fifty years is what Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts Jr. thinks that we are in. Pitts said after leaving what “people thought was a quote unquote post-racial America,” he is finding himself and questions that a lot of other people are re-evaluating the...
The man behind the designs
Alex Jensen, Staff Writer and Graphic Designer
February 17, 2017
Former Linfield student and Wildcat hall of fame inductee Christopher Miles knows all too well that the intense love for graphic design has no walls. Miles graduated from Linfield College in 2005 and is currently the owner and creator of CMDesign Graphics Company based in McMinnville. He recently...
Don’t forget about your non traditional peers
Camille Botello, Staff Writer and Online Coordinator
February 17, 2017
For those students who weren’t able or ready to attend college directly following high school, Linfield offers its Online and Continuing Education Program, and a safe place for non-traditional students. Linfield’s online program is predominantly for those who have full time jobs or family o...
Portlanders protest in downtown on Inauguration Day
Griffin Yerian, Photographer
January 21, 2017
On Jan. 20, Portlanders flooded the streets of downtown Portland, protesting the Presidential Inauguration of the nation's 45th president, Donald J. Trump.
Linfield gets blanketed in snow during Jan Term
Photos by John Christensen & Grace Bruncke, Photographers
January 21, 2017
Mother of 5 thriving as new Linfield student
Elizabeth Stoeger, Staff Writer
December 6, 2016
Mother of five and happily married for over 30 years, Melanie Johnson would be considered a “non-traditional” student here at Linfield. Johnson met her (now) husband at the end of her freshman year. She told him she was not going to fall in love with him… they were married a year later. ...
Professors write petition aimed at protecting student rights, academic freedom in wake of election
Elizabeth Stoeger, Staff Writer
December 6, 2016
In the wake of the presidential election, many students and faculty, especially those belonging to minority groups, expressed not only shock and astonishment at the result but genuine fear. Fear that their safety, both physical and intellectual, might be violated. English professor Reshmi Dutt...