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(03/16/22 7:00pm)
I remember the day so vividly. It was one late night in July — I had my headphones in and wanted nothing more than to escape into a different world that had nothing to do with a global pandemic. While on the verge of a mental breakdown, I opened Spotify, intending to play my “sleep sad” playlist. Except this time I played something different that had appeared on my Spotify homepage: Folklore by Taylor Swift.
(03/14/22 2:49am)
I want to open this piece by being very clear about my stance regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is despicable, alarming, deeply saddening, and entirely immoral in every sense of the term. To invade a country of innocent people for entirely personal reasons (while donned in the cheap and tawdry garb of international interests) is disgusting regardless of the context. I despise what is happening and am incredibly heartbroken.
(03/25/22 12:56am)
Trigger warning: talk of mental illness, drug abuse, suicide
(03/14/22 5:00pm)
For almost five years, I have served in the role of Diversity and Inclusion Program (DIP) Coordinator at the University of Portland. My name is Yuri Hernández Osorio (she/ella) and I have the luxury of working in a field that brings me a lot of fulfillment from knowing that I get to impact the lives of minoritized students. I have been serving the UP Community, working alongside and for QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color)/historically excluded communities to make UP a inclusive and more equitable place.
(03/14/22 3:00am)
I spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not I wanted to put the money into buying a pair of my own roller skates. I had never roller skated before, but it was 2020 and I was bored out of my mind during the pandemic, just itching for anything to do. I spent way too much time on Tik Tok during the summer of 2020 while everyone was still quarantining. One day, a video posted by Ana Octo showed up on my page. In the video, she’s roller skating down a sunny street to the song “Jenny from the block” by Jennifer Lopez. She looked like she was having the most fun in the world and I was hooked. I spent so much time looking through her entire page, but roller skates were so expensive and I didn’t want to spend the money on my own pair.
(03/11/22 11:19pm)
The art of drag is an integral element of queer culture, and it’s something the Gender and Sexuality Partnership (GSP) club has been wanting to bring to UP for some time now.
(03/11/22 9:38pm)
Neon Trees, GROUPLOVE and RemK are coming to the Chiles Center on March 26 for the tenth annual Rock the Bluff and the first since 2019. It will be the first major event Campus Program Board (CPB) has hosted since Into the Jungle last fall after Dance of the Decades was canceled because of surging COVID-19 cases.
(03/11/22 3:11am)
Due to spring break travel, UP has decided to keep their mask requirement in place until at least March 20, nine days after the mask mandate is lifted in Oregon, according to an email to the UP community from the COVID-19 Steering Committee earlier today.
(03/09/22 11:00pm)
One fly fishing trip was all it took for Curtis Jones to be hooked immediately.
(03/09/22 6:23am)
Some students were unable to access certain websites, including Planned Parenthood, on the
(03/07/22 7:00pm)
It’s Dec. 1, 2017, and the year’s Spotify Wrapped has just been released.
(03/15/22 7:00pm)
Every day for the past few months, I wake up, unfold my phone and check my emails. Then, with a powerful clack, I shut it again.
(03/07/22 1:19am)
We've all had that moment: you're upset, struggling with your mental health, or just facing hardship. When you call a friend or family member for support, what do you get in response? Do they say, “Look on the bright side,” “It could be worse,” or my personal least favorite, “Stay positive”?
(03/02/22 7:58pm)
How are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? Please, UP community, complete the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) survey on UP’s Campus Climate — look for an email from Dr. Eduardo Contreras with your link (subject line: “Last call to help UP with Campus Climate Survey from February 23rd). You can only take this short, anonymous survey through your individual link from that email.The HEDS survey asks about your perceptions of diversity, equity and inclusion on UP’s campus and provides campus stakeholders with vital information about how we’re doing on these dimensions compared to other universities. Our university administration and various other bodies at UP may use information from this survey to develop a better understanding of the extent to which our campus climate supports diversity and equity, and to inform and improve support, policies and practices at UP related to diversity and equity, including those to prevent or respond to discrimination and harassment.UP needs input from across the University, but especially from students right now. Without a broad, representative sample, the results of the HEDS survey may not accurately reflect everyone’s experiences. As such, it is vitally important that you make your voice heard.
(03/07/22 1:10am)
The problem with the opinion piece, “We have come too far,” is not that it’s technically wrong, it’s that it is technically right – at least according to the Catholic church’s beliefs. If you go to the Catechism (this is like the big book of Catholic beliefs) it clearly lays out what the Church believes and provides evidence for those beliefs. It plainly lays out that being gay is part of who you are and cannot be changed, but that sex is reserved for procreation first and foremost and, therefore, any sexual acts that do not promote procreation are both wrong and against the natural order.
(03/02/22 2:11am)
A lot of the student body is angry and energized right now, as they should be. We woke up one morning to a hateful and unwelcome op-ed by a figure of authority within the Catholic Church. In words that have become all too familiar, we read reasons why the Church should reject those in the LGBTQ+ community. It is this exact kind of hate and unfamiliarity with the love of Jesus Christ that is leading the Church down the path of irrelevance.
(03/07/22 9:32pm)
"I didn’t know that Native people were still alive,” is a comment that many young Native Americans have been faced with many times throughout their lives.
(03/02/22 2:01am)
“Food is a basic, hedonistic pleasure, a sensual instinct we all share and revel in. It is a shame to spoil it.” — Yotama Ottolenghi. (Jerusalem, A Cookbook by Yotam Ottoleghi and Sami Tamimi)
(02/25/22 10:58pm)
‘The Moors,’ directed by Jenna Sulecki from a script by Jen Silverman, begins with an exclamation point — a bird slamming into a window — though it could just as easily be a question mark. The characters remark that this is not the first time a bird has been killed by their windows, but as the audience bears witness, the death feels like an omen.
(02/24/22 6:00pm)
Last week, The Beacon posted an opinion submission about the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and the Catholic Church. This opinion opened the floodgates of UP community voices speaking out against homophobia and transphobia within the Catholic Church. The opinions section has been livelier than it has been in a long time, garnering the perspectives of UP students, staff and faculty.