Opinion
Friends-with-benefits relationships are becoming more and more common: Studies suggest that almost two-thirds of college students have entered into at least one of these relationships. However, little research has been done on these relationship dynamics in comparison to other kinds of sexual relationships, especially as FWB relationships impact participants’ sexual and reproductive health.
Thankfully so. Last year ended in one of the most tragic and uncertain ways in recent history. With the shootings at the Clackamas Town Center and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, holiday cheer was replaced with generous helpings of fear, doubt and wondering what our world was coming to.
After attending the public forum regarding the boost to PSU’s Campus Public Safety Office’s budget and the deputizing of CPSO officers in December, I came away with the understanding that there are two different opinions on the best way to improve student safety on campus.
Despite the abundance of water we are currently experiencing here in Portland, the sad truth is that the planet’s water is quickly disappearing. And, as we all know, water is essential to life on our planet.
In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School and the tragedy in our own Clackamas Town Center, many Americans are considering pushing anti-gun laws to prevent such atrocities from occurring again.
“How suitable is PSU’s Viking mascot, considering its student body?”
A few weeks ago I wrote about abstinence-only education, and mentioned that many websites teens and adults use to glean information about safe sex practices actually disseminate factually incorrect material. I said I would write more later. Now I am.
As finals week approaches, I imagine many of you feel the stresses placed upon us as students. In a Herculean effort to pull together all of our projects, papers and notes, many of us are studying into the wee morning hours.
This is the final part of a three-part series about how some of our most celebrated holidays and traditions have developed from strange and forgotten roots. We come to expect certain things without questioning where they came from or how they turned into what they are today. New Year’s Day holds a few of its own surprising origins.
As a young college student, one of my primary concerns is finding a job after graduation. It’d be even better if said job allowed me to utilized the English degree I’ll have in June 2014. I don’t worry so much about the competition between men and women in my chosen career field. That wasn’t always the
case, however.
The war against plastic bags in Portland just got a lot more serious. Not hard, since it was pretty pathetic to begin with. The original 2011 ban on plastic in “big-box stores and supermarkets…affected fewer than 200 businesses,” according to The Oregonian.