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Giant green viruses descend on dorms. Art by Addie Martin. As Willamette University is in the midst of its flu season, health officials at the Bishop Wellness Center explained how they keep track of diseases and encouraged students to utilize Bishop Wellness in preparations for the upcoming semester breaks. Last year’s pertussis (whooping cough) outbreak remains a point of reference for campus health officials as they navigate this flu season.   Willamette has several establi

Bistro cookies, now priced at $2, on Oct. 6, 2025. Photo by Mac Childers. The Bistro, Willamette’s student-run coffee shop, is known beyond its drinks for its affordable cookies. But as the economy faces inflation and other factors that have caused costs to rise, the Bistro has raised the price of its chocolate chip cookies from $1 to $1.50 and now, as of fall semester, to $2.  In a conversation with The Collegian’s Aubrey Lee, Emma Stephens (’26), the general manager of the

Two diners self-serve food from Goudy as a worker refreshes toppings on Oct. 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Krepel. To start the fall semester, Bon Appétit, the food service which operates Willamette’s dining hall and food vending, cut some student worker positions and hours. Goudy no longer has student servers dishing up food and is instead entirely self-serve. Now, some students, spearheaded by the  recently ASWU-affiliated  Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), are v