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Walking into the Beauchamp Recreation Center can be a little bit overwhelming. After scanning your ID you're immediately subjected to four different activities: the rock wall, the weight and machine room, the basketball courts and an open area welcome for stretching or more core workouts. However, this was all intentional.
Good afternoon and welcome to my final State of the Campus Address. When I started my role as President two years ago at the age of 19, little did I know what was in store for me.
When the senior class of nursing students began the program in 2019, they didn’t expect their time in nursing school to coincide with a world-wide pandemic. But, since then, the landscape of healthcare changed as we know it, and that still seems to be the case.
When you hear the words “food waste,” where does your mind take you? Do you reflect on your purchasing, eating, or disposal habits? Do you think about the millions of people suffering from food insecurity or even the additional greenhouse gas emissions added to the atmosphere?
Soccer, community and friendly rivalry will be on display at the Villa Maria Hall vs. Christy Hall annual Soccer Derby on Merlo Field on Sunday, April 16 at 2 p.m. The Beacon talked to their respective hall directors and a player in the upcoming game to bring you insight on the upcoming match.
I know what you’re thinking reading that headline — ‘Who is this a**hole telling people that they’re narcissitic for hating themselves?’ If you’re thinking that, I assume that you (reasonably) believe that narcissism is solely admiration and arrogance in yourself or your appearance.
Despite not being able to stream on the air, KDUP has made its presence known on campus. Whether it’s through their social media presence, their fall concert “Bash the Bluff”, open mic nights, or in this case, their annual concert Smash the Bluff (STB), the student-run organization is excited to share more of Portland’s iconic music culture.
I have been doing theater ever since I was in first grade. I still remember my three lines from my first play, “Charlotte’s Web,” and will recite them at the drop of a hat. When little me stepped onstage to face an audience full of parents and their cameras and was hit by the bright stage light, I knew that I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.
The Associated Students of the University of Portland (ASUP) has decided to pull $375,000 out of the quasi endowment fund to donate to the new Welcome and Engagement Center that is a part of the 2027 strategic plan. The donation will be given in increments: $125,000 a year for the next three years.
President Robert Kelly has appointed Kate Cuadrado as editor-in-chief of The Beacon for the 2023-24 academic year.
Ari Shapiro, rotating host of NPR’s “All Things Considered”, will be this year’s commencement speaker for the class of ‘23. Shapiro, along with U.S. Senator in Vermont 1975-2023, Patrick J. Leahy, will be two out of the seven to receive honorary doctorates.
The Mapuche Speaking Tour paid University of Portland a visit for a screening of a documentary by filmmaker Kelly Baur and a discussion on the Mapuche land reclamation and language revitalization movements on March 22. Mapuche activists Carolina Kürrüf Poblete and Silvia Calfuqueo Leifo were in attendance. The event was hosted by the Womxn of Color Club, the Social Justice minor program and the Ethnic Studies program.
Rhetoric is described as the art of speaking or writing effectively. It is used in our daily lives to not only convey what we are thinking but also how we get our way or at least our point across.
Attending a Catholic university like UP can be scary for students who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Oftentimes facing higher rates of discrimination from students and school policies, it is understandable why prospective queer students would want to attend a school with an inclusive and supportive community.
For many people, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is remembered as a time where everyday life was traded for a computer screen. Our definition of normal quickly changed as the pandemic developed, making us see the world in a completely different way than ever before.
Why did you decide to attend UP? Perhaps you took a campus tour and were sold by the tour guide’s vulnerability, helpfulness and ability to talk and walk backwards without falling over.
With the 95th Academy Awards, the motion picture awards season has come to a close. The films that were nominated for Oscars represented the best-of-the-best for visual storytelling in 2022. One film recognized for its sharply comedic writing was “Glass Onion,” which was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Even though it lost the award to “Women Talking,” “Glass Onion” is still a clever and entertaining whodunit mystery that is worth your time and attention.
When Rebecca Makkai was starting her third commercial novel in a remote artist residency in Wyoming, her husband told her it was following the same plot as the movie “Titanic.” Scrapping her previous ideas and looking for a new creative direction, Makkai was evoked by the passage of time that inspired prolific authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald that ultimately landed her in one place: 1980s Chicago in the midst of the AIDs epidemic.
Maybe you are a fan of the TV show Ru Paul’s Drag Race or a fan of Darcelle XV & Company in Downtown Portland. Either way the art of drag is coming to the UP community again.
In just these three months of 2023, there have been more anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills introduced (430 as of March 24, 2023), than were introduced in all of 2022 combined (315), and many of them are passing and going into effect.
