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A new off-road wheelchair known as “The Rig” is making the outdoors more accessible to students.
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A new off-road wheelchair known as “The Rig” is making the outdoors more accessible to students.
Women’s basketball defeated Oregon State 53-50 on Feb. 7 in the teams’ first matchup since the Pilots’ loss in the 2025 West Coast Conference (WCC) Championship.
This report covers incidents from Feb. 2-6 as recorded in the Department of Campus Safety’s Crime and Fire Log. Learn more about The Beacon’s weekly Police Blotter here.
Christie Hall will close for renovations during the 2026-27 academic year, according to a Feb. 6 email from Director of Residence Life Andrew Weingarten to residents of Christie and Villa Maria Halls.
On Nov. 6, 2025, hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had already been in St. Johns separating families, we finally received an alert from UP. In the email, Michael McNerney, the director of campus safety, stated, “Please note that we have no direct information that enforcement action is directed toward the University or our community.”
On Feb. 5, approximately 180 students, staff and faculty participated in the “March for Solidarity” to support community members impacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
Mattel’s toy invention in 2015, Hello Barbie, was a communicative technology that talked at the click of the button. Education, media and technology professor Eric Anctil says this innovation is a harbinger of current artificial intelligence and virtual assistants.
Men’s basketball handed the No. 6 Gonzaga Bulldogs a stunning first-conference loss of the season, and only their second loss overall, in a 87-80 victory on Feb. 4.
A “March for Solidarity” to show support for community members impacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will take place on Feb. 5. The event will begin in front of Clark Library at 4 p.m. before moving along a pre-planned route through campus.
In 2023, I wrote my first opinion piece as a photographer for The Beacon. That piece was an ode to my dad.
This flu season, students are contracting influenza at much higher rates than in previous years, according to Director of the Health and Counseling Center (HCC) Kaylin Soldat.
Last semester, The Beacon spoke with the co-authors of “Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis” to detail their uniquely collaborative writing process and preview the book.
From first-years deciding on a major to seniors applying to graduate school, the Career Education Center (CEC) is here to help students at any stage of the process.
Long after he coached his final game, Joe Etzel could still be found on the University of Portland baseball diamond, helping maintain the field he loved.
At a panel event titled “Q&A on U.S. Foreign Policy, Venezuela and International Law,” the speakers agreed that the United State’s military operation in Venezuela was less about regime change and more about domestic politics and access to the country’s oil deposits.
In a Feb. 1 email to the university community, President Robert Kelly reflected on recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Minneapolis.
This report covers incidents from Jan. 26-30 as recorded in the Department of Campus Safety’s Crime and Fire Log. Learn more about The Beacon’s weekly Police Blotter here.
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On Dec. 16, the Trump administration announced the expansion of its June 2025 travel ban, which fully or partially restricts travel to the United States from 39 countries.
Some professors have canceled class on Jan. 30 in response to a nationwide initiative protesting increasing violence by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).