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The Bistro
Written by Sarah Samala, Class of 2028 Wide windows littered with posters of campus events, a hand-drawn chalkboard menu, and a variety of donated couches and painted chairs; students, faculty and the Salem community are all-too familiar with Willamette University’s resident coffee shop, the Bistro. Located across from the Willamette University Bookstore in the Putnam
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Homecoming Contests
Written by Savanah Anderson, Class of 2028 To most, Homecoming is a celebration for alumni consisting of a football game, a dance, and maybe the wearing of mums, as is the case for a majority of universities and high schools. The Willamette students of decades past, however, had a different idea. A lot of different
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Kimball School of Theology
Written by Lilly Thies, Class of 2026 Many students are aware that Methodist missionaries founded the Salem landmarks of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1841, and Willamette University in 1842. But fewer know that where the modern building Ford Hall stands now, for thirty-five years, there was once the Kimball School of Theology, a pioneering