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Keenan Yoshizawa (’27) recently spent a semester abroad at the University of Galway in Ireland last spring. While there, the program took excursions around the island from North to South and East to West. This is a small collection of Yoshizawa's photos from the many sites around the Emerald Isle.The canals of Galway. Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2026.The Cliffs
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Generative AI is rapidly changing our society in ways we can’t fully understand. Young and old people alike are becoming increasingly dependent on an unreliable and ethically questionable technology. Its sycophantic nature combined with its lack of empathy or critical thinking often enables or encourages dangerous behavior, especially in younger people with
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Across Willamette’s campus, a culture of civic engagement—actions that individuals or groups take to address the concerns and well-being of their communities—drives students to step up, get involved and apply their skills to improve the public life of the greater Salem community. Especially now, that drive is taking a page out of Dolly Parton’s book. Parton’
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Starting this semester, two new interdisciplinary minors are introduced at the Salem campus, combining engineering and ethics surrounding artificial intelligence. These minors include engineering AI, with the described curriculum including Python, data science, machine learning and neural networks, and understanding AI, taught through courses in math, philos
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Willamette University football ended a 12 game losing streak against Pacific University on their Sept. 12 away game, defeating the Boxers 6-3 at Hanson Stadium. This marks Willamette's first victory over Pacific since 2013. Pacific's football program was discontinued for a period before being restored in 2010, and the Boxers subsequently dominated the recent
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Note: Alexander Berry is a senator on ASWUWillamette University announced a change to the school’s printing policies ahead of the fall semester, implementing a paid printing policy for Willamette College, School of Computing & Information Sciences, School of Law and Atkinson Graduate School of Management students. To combat the initial adjustment, students a
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Bistro collaboration with Bon Appetit includes promise to relieve future deficitsThis year, the Bistro implemented a number of changes, including a collaboration with Bon Appetit, menu updates and accepting flex dollars.The Bistro’s acceptance of Flex Dollars as a form of payment is part of a larger collaboration with Bon Appetit, who now serves in an “advis
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Fire quickly contained, dinner service resumed as normalAround 20 minutes after Goudy opened for lunch on Tuesday, a small kitchen fire caused patrons and staff to evacuate from the building. The Salem fire department was quickly on scene, bringing two fire trucks to Winter Street to assess the building. Officials determined that the fire was quickly put out
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This summer, two horror movies directed by Gen Z creatives who both got their start on YouTube were released. Many people thoroughly enjoyed both of these movies, based on their impressive box office and critical success. The success of these two movies and the fact that they are some of the first movies produced by our generation makes them fascinating to c
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This spring, Willamette University’s independent student publication nearly doubled the number of ONPA awards it received compared to last year.This year, Willamette University’s independent student newspaper, The Collegian, received a record-breaking 10 awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association (ONPA) for the newspaper’s work in 2025, surpassi
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