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The Willamette University Mill Stream. Photo by Iris McClure. This information was provided by ASWU Director of Communications Katelyn Beissel Rosales and compiled by Alma Snortum-Phelps, publication editor for The Collegian. Here are the candidates for the Spring 2026 ASWU Senate elections, organized by graduating class. Voting begins Friday, Jan. 23 at 8 a.m. and will end Monday, Jan. 26 at 5 p.m. Class of 2027 Ella McComas Hi Bearcats! My name is Ella McComas (she/her), an

Public art on display at the "Step Up Your Resistance Festival" at the St. Mark Lutheran Church in Salem, Oregon on Nov. 22, 2025. Photo by Sofie Szigeti. On Nov. 22, the “Step Up Your Resistance” festival hosted over 60 attendees for a day of workshop, music and art framed around local political issues and civic engagement. The event was held in the St. Mark Lutheran Church in Salem and was organized by One Million Rising , a subsidiary program of the “ No Kings ” organizati

Waller Hall, which contains the office of President Steve Thorsett, in October of 2024. Photo by Lucy Devlaeminck. On Dec. 11, students, staff and faculty of Willamette University received a set of emails from university President Steve Thorsett and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences Kelley Strawn outlining a proposed merger between Willamette University and Pacific University. The combined school, currently slated to be named “the University of the Northwest,” wo