Author: Madlima Leben
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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…
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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…
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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.…