Drugs and alcohol go hand in hand with university life. It’s become a joke—party your brains out, get up and go to class, rinse and repeat. Toss in a tailgate party and an all-nighter at the library and you’ve got the ingredients for the average college experience.
Last summer, as a transfer student, I walked into my sophomore inquiry class wondering what pop culture had to do with my major. The University Studies program in general was a bit baffling to me and, suffice it to say, my goal was to complete my required classes as quickly as possible so I could move on to what I was really interested in.
President Barack Obama recently declared he is putting a stop to the deportation of children of illegal immigrants. The president said in his announcement that he would be lifting “the shadow of deportation” that hangs over the heads of young people who “study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, are friends with our kids, pledge allegiance to our flag…who are, for all intents and purposes, Americans.”
Allan Stewart is 97 years old and is graduating with a master’s degree in clinical science. This June, the silver-haired Australian will enter the Guinness World Records as the oldest graduate ever.
Will the Internet render teachers irrelevant? This is a question that some people suggest is not entirely outlandish. With online tutorials like those of Khan Academy receiving rave reviews, some teachers wonder if the only sound we’ll hear in traditional classrooms in the not-so-distant future is the chirp of crickets.
In a landmark decision, Oregon schools have been instructed to do away with Native American-themed mascots and nicknames. In possibly the strictest rule in the nation, schools will have to comply with the ban or lose state funding. The Oregon State Board of Education passed the policy last Thursday in a 5-1 vote.
A couple of weeks back, I commented on the criticism aimed at the Revolutionary Marxist class PSU offers through the Chiron Studies program. On the conservative website The Blaze, author Erica Ritz suggested that a “controversial” course like this should not be covered by taxpayer dollars. She added that classes like this are the reason our country’s university system is under fire.
As Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith took center stage on Tuesday night, the name Cameron Whitten was not on the lips of many, if any. But as our voting process proceeded with a business-as-usual result, it’s too bad that his name was so easy to miss on the ballot.
It’s not every day that we see a practical application of what we learn in the classroom toward our day-to-day lives.
Rarely do we sit in our statistics classes and daydream about all the ways we can change the world through data collection—or maybe it’s just me.
At the age of 15, Dumisani Rebombo raped a young girl. Branded a sissy in his South African village because he didn’t herd cattle or have a girlfriend, he was taunted by his friends and ultimately “forced” to prove his masculinity. And the way to establish his manhood was to desecrate womanhood.
Portland Community College administrators are eating humble pie—and they’re asking their teachers to pay for it.
Since 2009, PCC has made about $700,000 in overpayments to 228 English professors due to a financial computing error, according to The Oregonian. Apparently, over the last three years, instructors were accidentally paid an extra hour per week. The college recently discovered the error and is now asking for the money back.