Opinion
The media outcry that a homeless, high-risk convicted sex offender had relocated to downtown Portland caused a community response that drove the man out of town. Shunning a person after he’s completed his sentence may constitute a type of punishment that exists beyond the justice system, and one that prevents him from reintegrating into society.
“How do you feel about your job prospects after graduation?”
About a year ago, the Coalition of Communities of Color released a report referencing Portland State under the heading “The Latino Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile.” The following month there was a follow-up report on the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the same county. Both reports were, as their titles suggested, “unsettling.”
Searching for a job as a college student can sometimes feel more gruesome than taking a bath with sandpaper instead of soap. Interviewers seem to always have their own idiosyncrasies, from how a resume should be formatted to what shoes you should wear to an interview.
When you’re in high school and all your friends are talking about what they’re going to do with their lives, college majors are usually a key topic. What you study at the college level generally has a pretty significant role in dictating your career options, right? Right.
Since the moment Barack Obama assumed the office of president of the United States in 2009, our nation’s leading proponents of objective political analysis have heralded the imminent arrival of a dystopian nightmare: a future of socialized medicine, a job-killing eco-fascist bureaucracy and—worse!—sprawling, strangling webs of high-speed interurban railways.
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.
More people tune in for the NFL’s season-opening games than for the World Series. And it doesn’t take a bachelor’s degree to explain why that is. Compared to most things on TV, baseball is colorless and static.
Years ago I looked into purchasing home HIV tests at the request of a friend who wanted to test each new partner prior to engaging in sexual contact as an added precaution. That friend intended to use protection and normally required each new partner to get tested at a clinic but still saw some advantages to having a partner tested in this manner.
Every time I leave my room, I see the little green sticker that PSU Housing placed on my light switch. It says, “Lights off before leaving—Campus Sustainability Office.” This sticker never ceases to annoy me, because it’s one of the most hypocritical things at Portland State.
Victoria’s Secret is one of those enterprises that generally needs to be looked at from a very critical perspective. The company is guilty of cultural appropriation, perpetuating negative body image and fetishization.