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Students of Willamette play a game of pickup soccer with the ducks. Art by Alyssa Diggdon. Hello, Bearcat Fan! It’s that time of week again where I get to ramble about sports to my audience of five whole people — most of whom I’m fairly certain don’t know what a pass rush is. But oh well! The pen (my laptop) calls to me just as the ring called to Frodo or whatever. I don’t really remember the plot of “The Lord of the Rings.” This was a shockingly good weekend in Bearcat sport

Bearcats face off against the Lutes on Oct. 20, 2024. Photo by Keenan Yoshizawa. Willamette’s men’s soccer team has had a rough start to the season. As of Oct. 8, they held an overall record of 1 win, 5 losses, and 5 ties, which marks their worst first eleven matches points-wise since 2008 ; however, that record doesn’t tell the whole story. What the record doesn’t show is that men’s soccer gets an average of 10 shots per game and has scored 12 goals in 11 games played. “We a

All work courtesy of Alan Cohen (ʼ25), freelancer and former Collegian writer. Photos and some of Cohen’s writing were originally published on his Instagram account: @iamalancohen. Several hundred people marched and protested in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, October 4, 2025. They started marching from a nearby park at 12 p.m. and the protest continued throughout the evening. Protesters sang chants and held sig