STAFF OPINION: Keep your head up
As the end of the year approaches, I’m sure a lot of us have thought about how 2020 has been a year full of uncertainty and anxiety about the current state of things.
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As the end of the year approaches, I’m sure a lot of us have thought about how 2020 has been a year full of uncertainty and anxiety about the current state of things.
Dear members of the UP Community:
After many months of COVID-19 induced uncertainty surrounding the basketball season, the University of Portland women and men’s basketball teams recently started the 2020-21 season — the first time any Pilots team has suited up for play since March 10, when the women’s basketball team won the WCC tournament.
The University of Portland women’s basketball team lost to the #9 Oregon Ducks 85-52 in their first game in the Chiles Center since last February.
The Associated Students of the University of Portland (ASUP) are hosting a COVID-19 town hall on Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. Vice President for Student Affairs Fr. John Donato, Director of Residence Life Andrew Weingarten, Interim Vice President for Financial Affairs Eric Barger and others will be attending the meeting to address students’ questions concerning next semester’s partial reopening, according to ASUP President Sage Taylor.
Everyone is talking about mindfulness. It’s become a buzzword, written in magazines, posted on social media and used to sell products. Often it is suggested as a short-term, quick fix to a problem, like feeling anxiety or stress.
Maybe you’ve heard a roommate singing through your walls, or your neighbor playing tuba from an open window. Music halls and concert venues are closed currently due to COVID-19, but that hasn’t stopped the UP Music department from creating their usual tunes, wherever that may be.
A hot mess of chaos.
Molly Lowney 0:00
After last week’s thrilling episode, Chapter 12 of The Mandalorian, titled “The Siege”, was a fun side adventure for Mando and Baby Yoda on their quest to reunite Baby Yoda with his kind.
You’ve just taken your seat around the Thanksgiving table. While it has fewer relatives than in a non-pandemic year, there is still lively conversation amongst the attendees. Then you hear it.
As I walk down the street, I feel on edge, a feeling that I have come to know all too well. I remove my headphones to hear voices in the distance telling me to “go home”. I walk past the men in uniform as they continue their attempt to catch me off guard. The smiles on their faces look as if they had just heard the funniest joke in the world. Knowing there was nothing I could do, I took one last look at their silver badges reflecting in the moonlight and continued my walk of shame.
Fiona O’Brien 0:06
We might think of The Bluff as the home to college students and faculty, but this wasn’t always the case. The land that University of Portland sits on first belonged to Native American tribes, such as the Multnomah, Cowlitz and Clackamas. In acknowledgment and out of respect, it is our duty to give homage to this land and culture.
The house lights dim, and the crowd goes quiet as the stage lights illuminate a beautifully designed set. Except replace the sets with Zoom backgrounds and house lights with living room lamps.
Amy Coney Barrett 0:01
School can teach you many things, but it cannot teach you who you are. You yourself must do that. This is not to say that our professors and the university as a whole are unable to teach us worthwhile information, but rather that the education that we receive within the boundaries of our classes cannot be the primary force in our process of learning — and hopefully becoming — who we are.
Before the coronavirus shut down the U.S. in March, University of Portland's senior outfielder Travis Turney's days were spent going to class, doing homework, playing games and recovering from a hard day's work.
As the end of fall semester draws near and COVID-19 cases spike across Oregon and nationwide, students in the Portland area are being forced to decide between staying where they are or breaking quarantine by returning to their families for Thanksgiving.
Here we are, stuck in our homes yet again, staring at our screens as we merely cross days off the calendar, hoping our way of life may return to how it once was. The Chicago Tribune put it best in a tweet that was truly ahead of its time, reminding us that while we work quickly and diligently, “the slow trudge towards mortality continues unabated.” We cannot physically escape it; “the specter of death [...] remains a constant [on the horizon] —today, next week, forever.” It is this paradoxical permanence, this utter waste of the prime years of my life that I will never get back, that I loathe.