Review hires editor-in-chief for 2020-2021 academic year
Review Staff
May 20, 2020
Sophomore Alexandra Feller will take over the editor-in-chief position for the 2020-2021 academic year. Feller has previously worked as the features editor and a staff writer for the Linfield Review. This year’s editor-in-chief, senior Alex Jensen, said that Feller’s knowledge of the position will ...
Former senior Board member facing multiple allegations of sex abuse, other Linfield trustees facing accusations of similar misconduct
Camille Botello and Elin Johnson
May 18, 2020
New information suggests that David Jubb, a former Linfield trustee who is facing felony indictment for sexually abusing four students, is not the only Board member who has been accused of sexual misconduct. Jubb, a Linfield alumnus who had served on the board since 1994, reportedly sexually as...
Linfield students abused by the same perpetrator say the college’s reporting system failed them
Camille Botello, News Editor
May 11, 2020
Safety is supposedly a guarantee on a small college campus, but not for two Linfield students who say they were sexually assaulted, stalked and threatened by a peer. They are claiming the college hasn’t done enough to protect them. This is not the first allegation of sexual assault misconduct at...
Student says reporting assault to police first helped keep Linfield accountable
Elin Johnson, Life and Culture Editor
April 28, 2020
Another student has come forward about her experience with sexual assault on campus during her sophomore year. She's claiming that reporting through the McMinnville Police was more productive than if she had reported to the college alone. This incident is the third story this year from a current studen...
Refunds issued to students forced to vacate campus housing
Camille Botello, News Editor
April 15, 2020
Linfield College announced it would reimburse students who were forced to move off campus due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, these students should see the funds credited to their student accounts. The college announced it would discontinue in-person classes for the remainder of the spring se...
Commencement postponement leaves seniors with mixed reaction
Alex Jensen, Editor-in-chief
April 11, 2020
Over the last few weeks seniors have had to accept that they weren’t going to have the last semester they expected, nor would they experience the traditions that previous seniors had and future seniors count on. A new normal had to be made as students settled into classes online and new living ...
Linfield to postpone, not cancel graduation
Camille Botello, News Editor
April 9, 2020
Many Linfield students have been academically and socially displaced due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past few weeks. This left many seniors wondering what would happen with their long-anticipated commencement ceremony. The Linfield class of 2020 was set to graduate on Sunday, May 31...
ASLC Brief: President- and vice president-elect ratification and cabinet applications closed
Anna Frazier, Climate & Environment Editor
March 31, 2020
ASLC senate and cabinet have moved to an online format for the duration of the school’s closure to continue meeting and working for the student body. Senators ratified the president and vice president-elect, Sean Webster and Michayla Sponsol, respectively. Now, they will begin the transition to...
After continued sexual harassment, two students say administration should have done more to protect them against the same serial offender
Camille Botello, News Editor
March 31, 2020
Two Linfield students are claiming they received inadequate support from the administration after they were both repeatedly sexually harassed by another student. This is the second report of misconduct against the college by students this year. The Linfield Review doesn’t identify alleged survivors of sexual harassment unless they ...
Linfield extends online-classes to end of semester
Alex Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
March 19, 2020
Linfield President Miles K. Davis announced in an all-campus email yesterday that the college will switch to online-only learning through the end of the academic year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision followed Gov. Kate Brown’s initiative of prohibiting in-person university classes th...
As the coronavirus spreads Linfield takes precaution
Alex Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
March 14, 2020
On Thursday the Linfield administration alerted all students, staff and faculty that spring break will start a week early and classes will move online in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. As of now there are no confirmed cases in Yamhill County. The college is taking preventative measures ...
ASLC Brief: COVID-19 update and ASLC cabinet positions open
Anna Frazier, Climate & Environment Editor
March 11, 2020
The senate approved signing ASLC onto the Student Government Leaders’ Statement on Carbon Dividends, which was started by students at Yale. So far, several thousand college student associations have signed on in support. The Review will provide additional information in a future article. ASLC election...