A Catholic high school in New Jersey has implemented a new rule: No cursing. But only if you’re a young lady. Female students at Queen of Peace High School in Arlington, N.J. have been asked to take a vow to avoid the use of foul language while at school. Their male counterparts have been asked to refrain from using expletives as well—around young women in the halls and classrooms.
Nowadays, research isn’t something done only by doctors or career scientists. Students who want to get ahead in life, even undergraduates, should be getting out there and establishing themselves as competent researchers.
What with sexual assaults, threats of violence from a disgruntled student at midterms, suspicious package scares and a partial campus lockdown during finals week, Portland State hasn’t felt very safe lately. And what little information the university releases about these events comes through the emergency alert system first and then is uploaded to the PSU website.
More than a year has passed since the earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated Japan, killing almost 16,000 people and causing entire villages to disappear.
After years of hard work, you’ve done it. College is soon to be a thing of the past. Chances are, you want to rest or celebrate or throw yourself at any opportunity to help you pay off your massive debt. But before any of that, there’s one last hurdle to overcome.
Last year, Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was locked in a prison camp and not permitted to accept his prize. The People’s Republic of China instead had a ceremony of its own, wherein the government awarded one of its own with a new prize and most Chinese were left in the dark about who Liu Xiaobo even was.
Millar Library plays host to a familiar sight: a full computer lab, complete with the sounds of keyboards clicking, muffled pop songs coming out of someone’s headphones and the voices of people either pleading to all that’s holy that the printer surrenders their assignment or calmly informing the help desk that printer two is, of all things, printing off six copies of a kid-friendly version of the Old Testament.
There’s no getting around it: These days, everyone seems to have a plan to help at-risk teens.
Portland State’s Friendtorship program is one of the latest plans designed for this purpose. Now in its second year, the Friendtorship program seeks to fulfill one simple goal: get young people—specifically those who haven’t considered college as a part of their futures—interested in higher education.
Portland has become a hub for bicycle commuting. It only makes sense that its schools work toward making bike commutes safe and affordable, right?
Controversy is becoming a familiar thing for the Portland Police Bureau. A string of high-profile cases involving assault, solicitation, gross insensitivity and mental illness have turned the public eye on the bureau in ways that no one wants to see their law enforcement organization.
There’s a fine line between proving a point and going too far. For John Brennan, who stripped at a routine TSA screening to protest their lack of respect for people’s privacy, it was an easy line to cross. He is now awaiting trial for public indecency.