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Eastern Oregon Apollo

by Thomas Hojem
January 30th, 2006 at 21:32:53

Last week as I sat reading in my room, one of my roommates sat upstairs having a sort of epiphany. He thumped down the stairs and threw open my door without knocking. I thought something horrible had happened because of the fury with which he came into my room and because of the traces [...]

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Eastern Culture

by Thomas Hojem
January 16th, 2006 at 14:13:47

The magazine True West has named the Rainbow, in Pendleton, as Oregon’s best saloon. Now, as with most people not familiar with the ways of the wild west, I am not exactly sure what a saloon is. I know it’s a kind of bar. I assume it might be hard to hear [...]

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The War in the East

by Thomas Hojem
January 2nd, 2006 at 17:55:10

The reaction to the war in Iraq on the University of Oregon campus is exactly how one would expect it to be; the only full-fledged, flag flyin’ support for the war and our Commander-in-Chief comes from the College Republican crowd and their conservative brethren. The average University of Oregon student, if there can be [...]

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