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Home Away From Home Home Away From Home

Monday, April 14, 2025 | Anja Tabor

Home Away From Home

Exchange students at Fort Lewis shared their experiences. The ups, downs, and learning curves that come with studying abroad.
Punks Rock! Punks Rock!

Thursday, February 13, 2025 | Jimena Lopez

Punks Rock!

First-year students launch into the community of punk rock. 

Martin Luther King Jr. March Martin Luther King Jr. March

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Junior Parrish

Martin Luther King Jr. March

Fort Lewis students and staff honor the civil rights leader

Student artists create aquatic life in the art courtyard Student artists create aquatic life in the art courtyard

Student artists create aquatic life in the art courtyard

By Charlotte Williams Indy Staff Writer

Aquatic creatures line the brick walls of the art courtyard as a result of a project for a communicative design class from Oct. 28 through Nov. 15

Aquatic creatures line the brick walls of the art courtyard as a result of a project for a communicative design class from Oct. 28 through Nov. 15.  Using wheat paste, students paste online illustrations they’ve created on printer paper onto the walls as a fast means of communication, Anthony Carton, digital media professor in charge of this project, said. Students within the...

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Campus events spread awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous women. Campus events spread awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Campus events spread awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

By Barbara Edwards Indy Staff Writer

The second annual Sing Our Rivers Red earring exhibit held on Nov. 1, and Violence Against Native Women symposium on Nov. 2, brought awareness to missing and murdered indigienous women.

  Both events were hosted by the Center of Southwest Studies, the Sexual Assault Services Organization and Fort Lewis College Title IX.    Sing Our Rivers Red earring exhibit The idea for the earring exhibit began in Canada, with five exhibits each with 1,000 to 2,000 earrings each representing a single indigenous woman who had gone missing or had been murdered on...

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Workshop offers discussion on Cultural Appropriation

By: Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

Indigenous students and allies at Fort Lewis College discussed cultural appropriation on Oct. 24 in Jones Hall room 160.

Indigenous students and allies at Fort Lewis College discussed cultural appropriation on Oct. 24 in Jones Hall room 160. The Latinx, an unofficial student run organization, organized the second annual workshop. The first workshop was hosted in El Centro de Muchos Colores, Shirena Trujillo, El Centro Coordinator said.   Trujillo said that she is very proud of the student body...

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What to watch this Halloween

By: Sierra Doan Indy Opinion Writer

As goblins and ghouls flock the streets Halloween night and temperatures drop, students and faculty find themselves cuddled up in their rooms watching t.v. and movies. Here is The Independent’s consolidated list of Halloween flicks to bring the Halloween mood about.

The Conjuring  Streaming on Netflix The Conjuring, is a 2013 horror film based on paranormal investigators Ed and Lorainne Warren, and their experiences with the Perron family in New England. The story follows a regular family who moves into a very creepy house in the middle of nowhere. After the hauntings begin they reach out to the Warren’s, and of course, the hauntings...

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