Ann Coulter is rude, no surprises there
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Whether you’re a Spider-Man fan or not, that ubiquitous phrase pretty much applies to nearly everything in our lives.
Pruning the ‘Silicon Forest’
Growing Oregon’s burgeoning tech industry
There’s a behemoth coming to Oregon. In October, Apple broke ground on its biggest data center yet on 160 acres of land in Prineville. The data center will be home to two 338,000-square-foot buildings and will host the lion’s share of iCloud. Are new data centers what we need, though?
Why protest?
There are many ways to make a difference
On Feb. 15, 2003, millions of people around the world came out to demonstrate against the United States’ imminent invasion of Iraq.
Treat or trick?
Finding the femme in sexy Halloween costumes
Halloween might be old news by now, but it’s just far enough away that as you browse through the night’s photos taking stock of who partied most, whose costume didn’t make it through the night and who got the most “candy,” one detail’s bound to pop up: Who had the sexiest costume?
Was Sandy handy?
Despite the destruction, the hurricane has some positive aspects
The dollar amount of the economic impact of Hurricane Sandy is increasing daily, as some areas are still without power and people are picking up the pieces of their demolished homes.
Homeless in Portland
With many causes, homelessness remains a problem in Portland
The problem of homelessness has been nagging at my mind for the past few weeks. During election cycles we often hear how great our country is, that it’s the “shining city upon a hill.”
The four-year guarantee
A proposed program can help you graduate sooner, but what’s left out?
Portland State recently held four open-feedback sessions for faculty, staff and students to determine the viability of implementing a four-year degree guarantee program.
Sex ed and the Internet: part I
Putting an end to sexual misinformation
The following the first of a two-part series about comprehensive sex education, hook-up culture, benevolent sexism and some of the corners of the Internet where these intersect.
Malala Yousafzai’s powerful message
Why it should be the ‘Century of the Girl Child’
In October, the world celebrated the Day of the Girl Child. Celebrations of girls and young women and their incomparable contributions to global progress echoed everywhere.
Let freedom ring
Peaceful activists resist grand jury, further solidarity
Resisting a grand jury may not seem like the best way to get out of legal trouble, but that’s exactly what Leah-Lynn Plante and others have been doing these past few months.
The pressure of matrimonial bliss
Expecting love and marriage to go hand-in-hand is to expect far too much
In a new textbook, Exploring Marriages and Families, Portland State professor Karen Seccombe comes to the conclusion that marriage provides a robust set of economic, health and psychological benefits for gay and straight couples alike.