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Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Walking into Western’s Health and Wellness center on Oct. 23, students were instantly greeted by a wall of positivity-related sticky notes, and invited to “take one, leave one” to encourage kindness and gratitude. This was the...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor   Editor’s note: Content warning —   “The most painful thing you can do to a kid is separate them from the adult who cares for them,” said Willamette University Law Professor Warren Binford regarding the current United...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor There is a general consensus among college students and that consensus is this: textbooks are extremely expensive. Luckily, Western’s student government, ASWOU, developed the ASWOU book exchange. Operating all year under the ‘My...

Caity Healy | Managing Editor Homecoming — it’s common to see U.S. schools celebrating it, but the history behind the festivities isn’t usually made explicitly clear. As it turns out, the etymology of the term is about as literal as it gets.  According to Vice,...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Western students may have noticed the increase in construction and development currently changing the landscape in Monmouth’s neighboring city of Independence. Some of the renovations include apartment complexes, a new youth center...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor How does one form community when they are on a foreign campus miles away from home? The conversation partners program at Western seeks to provide a solution by connecting international and domestic students together.  Currently, the...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Through the new MyWOU mobile app, Western’s students now have a way to carry campus with them wherever they go. As of now, approximately 1,200 students have downloaded the app, with 990 of them using the app through iOS and the rest...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Under the Trump administration, the Food and Nutrition Service department — a subset of the U.S Department of Agriculture — proposed a revision of the categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on July...

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Many changes have been made to Western’s campus, including a new parking system that has left Western’s students with mixed opinions. The director of Campus Public Safety, Rebecca Chiles, released an email on Sept. 17 which...