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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

ASWU President Stevie Bergstrom ('26) speaks about the board meeting at the ASWU senate meeting on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Photo by Mac Childers. Disclaimer: The Collegian receives most of its funding from ASWU. Willamette’s board of trustees voted in favor of the Associated Students of Willamette University’s (ASWU) reserve management plan  at their meeting in late October, which removes ASWU’s funds from direct investment alongside the Willamette University endowment. The

ASWU senate meeting on Nov. 13, 2025 in the Montag Den. Photo by Keenan Yoshizawa. On Nov. 20, the Associated Students of Willamette University (ASWU) senate voted unanimously against club affiliation of a Willamette student chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). This decision came after weeks of debate amongst senators and following ongoing pushback against the chapter from the Willamette student body. In September, prospective president of the TPUSA chapter Lexi Thorsett (ʼ2