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The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is planning on constructing major changes to the intersection of highway 99W and highway 18 east of McMinnville. This would impact those who are trying to drive to places like Newberg or Portland.   The planned changes would affect driving on the highway and side roads, but the construction...
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The Linfield Review took home five awards from two different organizations for excellent journalistic work in the 2025 calendar year.   Incoming Editor-in-Chief law, rights and justice and journalism and media studies major Kenny McMillen took home first place for best series and first place for comprehensive coverage for his coverage of the Balanced Bu
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Three Wildcats were named as All-Americans for their spring sports endeavors across two different sports. Senior exercise science major catcher Ashlyn Aven and junior exercise science major outfielder Meara Sain were both named first-team All-Americans by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association for softball. In golf, junior accounting major Douglas Bailey
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It’s another year that the graduating seniors miss their graduation. While this may sound like it would be disappointing, these seniors couldn’t be happier, because this means that they made it to the World Series once again. 2026 marks the fourth year in a row of Linfield Softball’s College Softball World Series participation. Softball is...
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This past fall, local community members Richard Smith Savage and Darrin Burdyl opened a branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The co-chairs were connected by the DSA, Burdyl had been working with the Portland chapter and shared along with Savage an interest in bringing the DSA to McMinnville.    Created in the early...
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On May 8 Mark Blegen was officially inaugurated as the 21st president of Linfield University. Despite being in the job since last July, university presidents traditionally aren’t ceremonially inaugurated until the end of their first academic year.   The ceremony was flanked by musical acts. The instrumental ensemble, directed by Florian Conzetti, began
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Makerusa “Mak” Porotesano recently challenged students to rethink what sacred space means within higher education. Through his presentation, “Creating VĀSĀ: Reimagining the Creation of Sacred Spaces in Higher Education,” Porotesano explored how colleges and universities often fail to support Pacific Islander students beyond stereotypes and surface-level repr
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Now that the 2026 Linfield baseball season has concluded, seniors reflect on this season and their time in the program. From improvement, development and change, the team continues to build a foundation for future seasons.    This season, the team has gone farther than they have in recent years. The Wildcats went to the conference...
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On April 17th, Dr. Lina Kuhn gave a presentation on the concepts she found in Ana Amirpour’s “The Bad Batch,” notably desert aesthetics and biopower. She chose this specific movie because it explored the ideas in a method she had not seen before.   “Film as a medium is uniquely able to shed light on...
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Classrooms at Linfield come with an unspoken set of expectations. Professors understand students are balancing heavy workloads, potential jobs or sports and other personal responsibilities, but many faculty members say certain student habits stand out as major frustrations.    One of the most common concerns is student engagement during class. Prof
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