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A Willamette football player running from a mummified University of Puget Sound player, hoping to avoid an eighth-straight winless conference season. Art by Dasha Allyn. From the beginning of their showdown in Tacoma, tensions between the Bearcats and the Puget Sound Loggers were high. For the ’Cats, the pressure coming into the matchup on Oct. 18 was enormous, as Willamette has been trying to avoid an eighth straight season without a conference win — their matchup against No

The consequences of playing too many tabletop roleplaying games. Art by Basil Allen. The most famous Tabletop Role-Playing Game (often referred to as TTRPGs), so ubiquitous to the genre it overshadows others in almost every conversation, is Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), with players nowadays usually diving into its 5th edition. However, the high fantasy D&D offers is just one of many kinds of narratives tabletop RPGs can tell, and with Halloween coming up soon, the time is neve

Six people in Halloween costumes. Art by Addie Martin. Creepy creativity, sinister styles and ominous originality go into Halloween costumes every year. For many students, costumes are planned months prior. Others throw them together last-minute. Either way, there’s always a bit of mayhem.  To get a better picture of the campus costume scene, I surveyed passersby in Jackson Plaza on Oct. 17 for their Hallows’ Eve attire plans. Some students, such as Emma Hird (’28), are leani