Author: Madlima Leben

  • Island Magic at EOU

    Island Magic at EOU

    The 35th Annual Island Magic Lu’au and Show was held on May 24, 2025, coordinated by The Navigators Club here at EOU. The Lu’au Dinner, at 5:00 p.m., included chicken kelaguen (lemon-onion chicken), kalua pork (slow-cooked pork with cabbage) and salmon, plus deserts like lukwor (sweet drink with coconut heart), pani popo (dinner rolls soaked…

  • Queer Poets Society: Finding Connection Through Poetry

    By Madlima Leben, Editorial Assistant “Don’t ask what love can make or do! Look at the colors of the world.” I read aloud from Rumi’s poem “All Rivers At Once,” perched on a blue bench as the fleeting, spring sun beat down on my face. I had never done anything like this before. No book…

  • EOU Custodians: Invisible Heroes with Invisible Challenges

    It’s 2011 in La Grande, Oregon: The era of the Lady Gaga Meat Dress, the plague of “Fifty Shades of Gray” and the end of the Oprah Winfrey show. Michael Alvarez has only been working as a custodian at Eastern Oregon University for about three weeks, and he finds himself tip-toeing through a pitch-black basement.…