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When I stepped onto the University of Portland’s campus as a first-year student three years ago, things were much different from how they are now.
After the stress of first-year move-in day come the questions: Should you have dinner at Pilot House or Commons? Will your friends from orientation stay with you forever? How much purple pride is too much for a Friday-night soccer game?
Despite overcast skies and an unexpected power outage in the North Quad, Portland Pride shone brighter than ever on the Class of 2028's move-in day.
Drew Gonrowski, associate director of peer assistance learning at the Shepard Academic Resource Center, departed from the university yesterday on June 12, 2024. Gonrowski is the second UP employee to leave the university in the last three weeks following the departure of Associate Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students Tamara Herdener.
After three years as the Associate Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students, Tamara Herdener is set to depart from the University of Portland on June 28, 2024.
I am from Los Angeles, the traffic capital of America. All I’ve ever known about traveling through a city was bumper-to-bumper traffic and smoggy skies. Once I got to college, my eyes were opened to the potential of a walkable city. Though on a very small scale, a college campus is designed in a way a walkable city could be, where residents live nearby, with the ability to bike, walk, etc. to and from school (work), home and to friends’ houses.
In the summer of 2021, a task force of library assistants formed to address accessibility issues at the library. The task force, officially the Library Accessibility Committee, actively works towards making library spaces, services and resources more available for students, faculty and staff with disabilities.
For the last three years, I have been a volunteer student-manager for the University of Portland men’s soccer team. I love football (soccer) and it has always been my dream to play at the highest level. I hope that one day, I will achieve my goal of playing football for the Pilots. But for now, just being a part of the staff has given me so much joy and experience.
The 2024-2025 tuition will be increasing by 4.4% — from $54,400 to $56,800 for full-time undergraduate students. This increase is greater than last year’s, which was a 3.4% increase.
Hours spent on figuring out the perfect outfit to wear. Looking for something cute, but not too cute to where it looks like I tried too hard. Do I show up a little early? Or should I walk in right on the dot? My anxiety-ridden self knows that first impressions make or break an interaction.
There’s a strange phenomenon happening in our classrooms. Artificial intelligence (AI) statements have made their way into our syllabi. And yet, conversations about AI in the classroom often go something like this: “Here’s this technology everyone is talking about. Don’t use it, or at least try not to. And if you do, cite it.”
I’ve spent nearly all of my time at UP observing things from the sidelines. I’ve watched soccer games from the press box, stood to the side with a notebook in hand during a protest, attended events and stood, back to the wall, press badge swinging around my neck.
Walking into Provost David Mengel’s Waldschmidt office, one is soon greeted by a suit of armor called “Sir Robin.” According to Mengel, Sir Robin is named after a Monty Python character and was gifted to him by his wife after she discovered him in a junk shop.
Glitches with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) have impacted both prospective and current college students across the country, with FAFSA filings down nearly 50% nationwide.
On Feb. 26, the Office of Institutional Research (IR) appeared in front of the Associated Students of the University of Portland (ASUP) to distribute results from the Campus Climate survey — the first of what would be many meetings between IR and campus community members.
A clip of Laurie Anderson’s "O Superman" went viral on TikTok in late 2023. The lyrics sparked emotional testimonies from users, often containing stories of their parents in reference to the “mom” character in the song. As popular as "O Superman" became, finding an audience with the new generation, the context of the song was overlooked, and thus, so was the underlying message.
As a senior with graduation lurking around the corner, I have found myself reflecting on my college experience. Largely, I have been thinking about my real experience vis-à-vis my freshman expectations. Oh, yes, I had a very specific experience in mind. My academic years would allow me to grow and explore with hundreds of days spent in self-discovery.
From a young age I understood I wasn’t like other kids my age. From speaking French at home and trips to Canada during every long break from school, to comments from strangers about my accent, I understood that I was from two countries. I understood that being French-Canadian meant that my first and last name would be both mispronounced and misspelled by most people I would meet — something that still rings true to me to this day.
When I was a kid I would watch while my parents danced. At every birthday party, wedding or quinceañera, my parents would get up to dance, leaving my sibling and I at the table. I would look at them having fun dancing with the rest of the adults, recalling distant times before my sibling or I was born.