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With Feb. 14 just around the corner, love is in the air. While Valentine's Day is typically used to celebrate one’s significant other, nothing screams love harder than the relationships you share with your best pals.
The Beacon tested out the pinkest mixed drinks we could find — cocktails and mocktails — so that everyone can enjoy a sweet treat.
The University of Portland has finalized a contract for Title IX services with Grand River Solutions, a California based group that provides universities with services dealing with matters such as Title IX, Clery Act, DEI matters, and ADA and 504 compliance.
Fr. James Martin didn’t choose to be a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ community during his priesthood. His advocacy grew out of a necessity to support the community after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.
I’ll admit, I'm a hater to my core. I love to critique, criticize and complain.
Andrew Gotshall is a photographer and videographer for The Beacon. He can be reached at gotshall24@up.edu.
Wars, the economy, minimum wage, healthcare policy. These issues require substantial debate to determine which ideas are best. But the most fundamental universal truth is that chocolate chip cookies are undeniably the most scrumptious, ambrosial delights amongst all desserts.
Beacon Video Producer Andrew Gotshall samples the array of food available at UPCPB's event "A Taste of PDX." For only, $8 students were promised an all you can eat streetcart style food event all under one roof.
When you think about math, you might envision gigantic equations with nasty numbers or a room of geniuses writing proofs and mathematical theories on whiteboards.
UP freshman Eleanor Sells was taking a well known route from her friend’s house back to her own in her hometown of San Jose, California. The drive, which should have taken no more than 15 minutes, left Sells driving through wind, rain and blown over objects during the most recent rainstorm to hit California this year.
When Ashleen Akkal sat down to discuss Islam in her theology class, she was not expecting the intricacies of the Islamic faith to be overshadowed by stereotypes and prejudiced attitudes. While Akkal is Sikh herself, the class discussion and portrayal of Islam echoed her past experiences of being profiled as a terrorist due to her South Asian background.
Despite Oregon’s goal to completely decarbonize by 2040, our Treasury continues to invest in fossil fuel companies that are wrecking our environment and destroying our future. It is critical that Salem listens to the voices of students, teachers and youth leaders and supports the Treasury Investment & Climate Protection Act (House Bill 2601) in 2023.
From the loss of $13.4 million to the gain of the new Diversity Center, the University of Portland has seen a lot of changes in the past year. What does 2023 hold for UP? Here are predictions from The Beacon staff:
The year is 1979. Moe O’Connor and her husband, Russ, have been living in the Pacific Northwest for just over a year, having moved there after Russ got a job working for Intel. She had grown up an athlete, having played tennis primarily and doing so in college at Bradley University. It wasn’t a unique thing to her. Back in Chicago, her hometown, it was just expected that women competed in sports back in the day, at least at her high school.
Provost Herbert Medina, who served as interim President from 2021-22, is back in the classroom teaching calculus. After resigning his Provost position in the middle of Winter break, he has resumed his passion for teaching this 2023 Spring semester.
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Known for its food carts and hole-in-the-wall restaurants, Portland, unlike any other city in the world, offers a unique blend of homemade flavors and boundary pushing fusion of cuisines. While food carts are a Rose City essential, there are so many places for students to try beyond that.
Everyday our bodies interact with the built environment around us. We go through life with extensions of our body that allow us to do the most mundane and most difficult tasks.
When I was younger, I remember briefly watching "Project Runway." I never thought about the blood, sweat and tears that come with perfecting a model’s look backstage. Little did I know I’d be working as a backstage dresser at the 2022 FashioNXT Runway Show for the designer Seth Aaron — winner of “Project Runway” season seven and “Project Runway” all stars season three.
One of the reasons I came to the University of Portland was because of its storied soccer history. Megan Rapinoe, the NCAA championship-winning teams and so much more. But I didn’t realize that I would come to appreciate another famous UP alum: Christine Sinclair.
