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(09/30/22 9:00pm)
In UP athletics since Sept. 24 the men’s tennis team competed in the PNW invitational and the women’s tennis teams competed in the Gonzaga invitational. Women’s soccer took on Utah Valley and Men’s soccer took on Utah tech, both remaining undefeated. Volleyball took on Pacific University and Loyola Marymount.
(09/29/22 2:47am)
Best known for giving space to small business owners and artists to sell or display their work, Our Campus, Our Canvas (OCOC) is an event focused on uplifting marginalized communities at UP.
(09/29/22 10:00pm)
Students who are looking for work experience and a way to make money on campus will find that dozens of student jobs are available at the moment.
(09/28/22 2:00am)
Freshman Pilots came to campus this August with orientation events, activities and confetti blasts — nothing short of a celebration. But freshmen aren’t the only new students on campus; each year, transfer students are another cohort who experience what it’s like to become a Pilot.
(09/27/22 5:30pm)
It’s that time of the year again when the weather gets a little chillier and you feel a sudden urge to taste all things pumpkin spice. Fall is finally upon us, and it’s a great time to break out the baking trays and oven mitts.
(09/26/22 9:36pm)
UP President Robert Dwayne Kelly was inaugurated on Friday, Sept. 23 as the University’s first lay person and Black president. The day consisted of an Inauguration Mass, a ceremony and a dance.
(09/26/22 5:00pm)
An immaculate view over The Bluff. A maker space approximately three times as large as the current one. Open floor-plan study areas. These are just a few of the many features coming to the new Shiley-Marcos Center for Design and Innovation.
(09/23/22 6:27pm)
As the air starts to get chillier and the leaves start to turn orange, we are quickly reminded that summer is officially coming to an end. There is no better reminder of the changing seasons than the sun entering a new astrological sign.
(09/22/22 1:30am)
Trapped in a hotel elevator, a mother and daughter anxiously wait in distress for someone to discover the mechanical failure. But within moments, the sense of fear, confusion and disorientation were immediately relieved upon two hands emerging, forcing the elevator doors to open.
(09/22/22 2:00am)
Countless hours in front of a canvas, layering paint on paint, color on color. What was once a blank page soon filled with something unrecognizable. No one could’ve ever guessed what it looked like prior to me working on it. How could I take something plain and turn it beautiful? Turn it special. Something worth looking at.
(09/20/22 10:45pm)
I start to feel my muscles tense up as I look up straight ahead and I see the end of my path. There it was: a medium sized black hold with grooves lining the outside of it. A mix of adrenaline and fear of falling are fueling my racing thoughts.
(09/21/22 9:04pm)
This year’s freshman class is one of the most ethnically diverse classes UP has seen in recent years. 59% of the freshman class at UP identifies as a person-of-color.
(09/19/22 5:30pm)
From braving the cold in Greenland to analyzing religious rhetoric, UP students were involved in a variety of research projects this summer. If you think research in your discipline does not exist, this may convince you otherwise. Here’s a brief look into five UP students’ summer research.
(09/20/22 5:00pm)
Scott Leykam has been appointed chair of the NCAA Women’s DI Soccer Committee for the 2022-23 season. The DI soccer committee is in charge of team rankings, who gets to play in the NCAA tournament, as well as how to best judge the weight of a tie.
(09/19/22 8:30pm)
As our transition into “back-to-school mode” settles into a rhythm, something special also awaits us — the inauguration of our new president Robert Kelly. This will be a unique celebration that none of us should miss.
(09/16/22 8:00pm)
The small unassuming classroom in Buckley Center that was used as the Diversity Center in the past is getting an exciting expansion.
(09/14/22 1:00am)
Throughout her career, Cecilia González-Andrieu has dedicated her work to showcasing the importance of recognizing individuals’ beauty and goodness through social justice and theology. As one of the leading scholars in theological aesthetics, González-Andrieu believes that beauty is a human right–stressing the importance of art and beauty as mediums of self-expression during times of oppression.
(09/14/22 1:00am)
The University of Portland Artist-in-Residence Program (AIR) aims to create more diversity and representation in educational spaces and amplify student voices and experiences through social justice-related art.
(09/09/22 10:22pm)
The UP Women’s Soccer team has started their season off strong. With a win over the University of Seattle, the Pilots are now 5-0-2 meaning they are unbeaten in their last 7 games. This is the best start to the season since 2010, that season started 10-0. On top of that, they now have 6 shoutouts in their first 7 games.
(09/09/22 3:00am)
Back in January, the then-leaders of the Gender and Sexuality Partnership (GSP) published an op-ed here in The Beacon arguing that with regards to inclusion, equity and the experiences of LGBTQ+ students here at UP, we have come far, but not far enough. The op-ed prompted a reply from a UP alum, a brother in the Dominican order who argued that the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ+ community are incompatible—that, rather, we have come too far.