Opinion
On the whole, science education in the United States is sorely lacking. Between state mandates about what can and cannot be taught, disinterested teachers and a gender divide that has not been rectified despite more than 40 years of work getting women into the sciences, some would go so far as to say that science education has stagnated.
Long before I knew better, I fell in love with hip-hop.
This relationship has had its share of dysfunction. Many years have been spent reconciling some of our differences in various venues, classrooms, seminars and other institutions. It is in my womanhood, though, that the bond has never been stronger.
Student loans. Two words that are sure to send a shiver up the spine of anyone enrolled in a university.
Most college students can attest to the allure of a soft, warm bed.
Sleep is hard to come by, and with social obligations and 8 a.m. classes, getting a good 7–8 hours in every night seems nearly impossible. But a new study out of the University of Notre Dame is giving students more reason than ever to abandon the all-nighter altogether.
In a recent City Hall forum, the three leading Portland mayoral candidates—Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith—all promised a more open government. Each, in their own way, committed to improving transparency within their prospective administrations.
With spring term upon us, summer abroad programs are being pushed like travel is going out of style.
Easter approaches. Wicker baskets wait to be lined with plastic grass. Soon they will be filled with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps.
The tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin last month has brought a lot of scrutiny to stand your ground laws in the U.S. But while the facts of this specific incident remain shrouded in uncertainty, the escalating need to repeal these laws becomes ever clearer.
“President Obama once said he wants everyone in America to go to college,” presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said at a Tea Party rally in Troy, Mich. “What a snob!” The former Pennsylvania senator was enthusiastically applauded.
The populist rhetoric of conservative America has reached a stunning level of vitriol in recent years. Glenn Beck has mercifully drifted into irrelevancy. But others—Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter—continue to comment on the hideous state of modern America.
There’s no getting around it: Portland State loves to profess its love for sustainability. It’s too bad that the school isn’t doing anything to help 90 percent of its students learn all that much about it.
The human rights scandal now known as Abu Ghraib received immense media coverage back in 2006 when images of torture being perpetrated by American military personnel leaked into the public sphere.