Opinion

After taking a class called “Communicating about Violence and Children” last term, eight students decided to practice what the class taught through an independent study course, “Communication in Action: Addressing the Violence in Children’s Lives.”

There will always be a public debate over the issue of firearms and other weapons in our society. One aspect that needs no debate is the standing state laws regarding these weapons.

Portland women have the right to bare their breasts in public and still be in compliance with the law. It seems like equality is alive and well in the Rose City, and it is one of the few cities where it is not illegal for women to go topless in public.

Ask almost anyone if they are a better-than-average driver, and they will say yes. Now ask them if other drivers being distracted by mobile phones are dangerous—again, they will say yes. They may then follow with some kind of excuse about their own phone use and how their own driving skills are, magically, unaffected.

First you lose your house and then your family, which includes the dogs. Then you get out of control and steal money from your church offering, and despite guilty feelings, you can’t stop yourself from “borrowing” money from anywhere and everywhere you can, with no means to pay it back. That is when you’ve really hit rock bottom and can’t get yourself out of this mess.

Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy your health. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have received the short-in-supply and high-in-demand vaccine for H1N1, or swine flu.

Marijuana has been making a number of headlines recently across our nation. With the Obama administration announcing that the federal government will hold off on prosecuting marijuana-related offenses in states allowing medical marijuana use, many users of the medicinal plant can take a smoke-filled sigh of relief.

When Taylor Johnson first read a fact sheet about hunger in Oregon, he began talking with state agencies and local groups that work to eradicate the problem. On Monday night, he got a chance to take action.

I transferred to this university two years ago and although I think this is a great place to study, during my first year here I found a newspaper on campus that frustrated me and is called the Vanguard. I have picked this newspaper up numerous times over the past couple of years. Whether I was waiting for time to pass so I could go into a classroom or just to read to see what my university was concerned about or, on a more general basis, what the students were talking about.