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A duck in a Willamette jersey about to score a goal on the soccer field while the crowd cheers behind them. Art by Wes Mowry-Silverman. Welcome back, Bearcat Fan! I am in another week of fast break-writing hell, because dear God we have so many sports competing. On the bright side, we found lots of success this last full weekend of February. Let’s get the news over with! Men’s basketball capped off their regular season by splitting the weekend series 1-1, trouncing the Linfie

Women watch the "Heated Rivalry" romance unfold. Art by Basil Allen. Over the past few months, “Heated Rivalry” fever has swept the nation. The HBO show focuses on the sexual, and later romantic, relationship between two professional hockey players, Ilya Rosanov and Shane Hollander. Unfortunately for everyone, the real heated rivalry was not playing out on the ice, it was happening online.  This conversation was inevitable, considering the show centered sex, queerness and wor

As someone who is from Salem, it took me a long time to see the beauty and wonder in what is here. The more I discover, the more desire I have to share my findings with those around me. I feel better about where I am and what I can do knowing what is here, tucked away in elusive locations around Salem. Out of the locations I found most interesting to a Gen Z demographic, only two of them need to be driven to. Everything else is within an approximately 20-minute walk from camp