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Indigenous People's Day 2025 Indigenous People's Day 2025

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Written by Mya Simon, Photographed by M'iitra Pino

Indigenous People's Day 2025

October rain does little to keep FLC from celebrating Indigenous culture 

Safety First, Because Accidents Last Safety First, Because Accidents Last

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Nels Christensen

Safety First, Because Accidents Last

Fort Lewis police report safety statistics in recent years. 

Hotels: the new Dorms? Hotels: the new Dorms?

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Jimena Lopez

Hotels: the new Dorms?

Back to school! While some Fort Lewis students were making sure they had their backpacks ready to go, others were making sure they had somewhere...

Listen Up, FLC! Free Language Learning Assistance for Students

Story by Lio Diaz, Photo by Jonathan Helvoigt

Fort Lewis College offers a variety of academic resources to ensure student success. One resource is the FLC’s Language Lab, which offers free assistance to all students learning a foreign language.

The Language Lab, located in Noble Hall, is open to all students on campus whether or not they are enrolled in a language class.

Fort Lewis College offers a variety of academic resources to ensure student success. One resource is the FLC’s Language Lab, which offers free assistance to all students learning a foreign language. The Language Lab, located in Noble Hall, is open to all students on campus whether or not they are enrolled in a language class. Ellen Hartsfield, chair of the modern languages...

Internships: What You Need to Know

Story by Tyler Jimenez, Photo by Jonathan Helvoigt

Internships can provide students with invaluable experience in their respective fields, which proves especially useful in today’s economic and educational market.

“Internships are supposed to be, by definition, an extension of the classroom,” said Pat Dommer, the career services coordinator of the School of Business Administration at Fort Lewis College.

Internships can provide students with invaluable experience in their respective fields, which proves especially useful in today’s economic and educational market.   “Internships are supposed to be, by definition, an extension of the classroom,” said Pat Dommer, the career services coordinator of the School of Business Administration at Fort Lewis...

FLC Summer Innovative Months Cancelled this Year

Story by Lio Diaz, Photo by Jonathan Helvoigt

Fort Lewis College’s Summer Innovative Months Program has given students opportunities to experience different cultures around the world through five five-week programs led by FLC professors. This year the program has been cancelled.

Fort Lewis College’s Summer Innovative Months Program has given students opportunities to experience different cultures around the world through five five-week programs led by FLC professors. This year the program has been cancelled. Prior to this year’s cancellation, Summer Innovative Months Program took place around the world, including different areas of Europe, Central...

Health and Happiness: How to Balance the Basics in a Hectic World

Story by Livia Hooson, Photo by Andrea Araiza

Maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle may seem like a challenge while working long days and pulling all-nighters to succeed in school.Yet, the importance of sleep, diet, exercise and mental health are essential to succeed in life.









Maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle may seem like a challenge while working long days and pulling all-nighters to succeed in school.Yet, the importance of sleep, diet, exercise and mental health are essential to succeed in life. Our bodies need sleep first and foremost to thrive in an ever-stimulating world. Sleeping is seen as doing nothing in American culture, and...

Kiosk Use in Reed Library

Story by Christina Tsosie, Picture by Jonathan Helvoigt

If you have ever used any of the kiosks on the main floor of Reed Library, you may already be comfortable with not logging on to your personal Fort Lewis College user account.

“One of the reasons we have the computers set up this way is because we live in such a remote geographical area that we like to be open to the public,” Astrid Oliver, the library director, said.


If you have ever used any of the kiosks on the main floor of Reed Library, you may already be comfortable with not logging on to your personal Fort Lewis College user account. “One of the reasons we have the computers set up this way is because we live in such a remote geographical area that we like to be open to the public,” Astrid Oliver, the library director, said....

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