Women’s rights have come extraordinarily far in the last century. We get to wear pants, leave our kitchens and, if we’re okay with being ostracized for neglecting our children, even get careers in lower-level management!
Resource Center for Students with Children gets revamped
We’re a cynical lot. Students, that is. We take issue with as many people and things as we can—professors who don’t care anymore, close-minded classmates, the injustice of student loans and the politics of being a student in the first place. And that’s just on Monday morning. Then again, nothing good happens on Monday mornings.
Block Talk
“Where do you work and do you enjoy it?”
The problem with blaming Beyonce
In what many considered a lackluster second inauguration of President Barack Obama—with nary a glimpse of the magic that hung in the air four years ago—one bright spot was Beyonce Knowles’ rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Of course, it’s now widely speculated that she lip-synched the whole thing, but, really, who cares? We all know she could sing the alphabet and we’d be gobsmacked.
Armstrong still strong
The lean, fit man sits contritely and answers the questions put to him by a poised, buxom woman. We perceive that the man is contrite because of the slackness of his jaw and the limpness of his shoulders as he responds to the woman’s every penetrating query with halting words of self-effacement.
Motivating with money
As Americans we live in a wonderful world of high-stress work environments, tight deadlines and an inundation of social networking that keeps us relentlessly connected. Our bosses demand our time, our energy and our creative inspiration.
A gifted future
The Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust recently made a $1 million donation to Portland State’s University Honors Program. The program, which is the only urban honors program in the state, focuses on building upon PSU’s commitment to community engagement by providing an education to high-achieving students.
A game of Chicken
Despite being referred to as a “fiscal cliff,” the current debt crisis in Washington, D.C. is more akin to a game of Chicken: House Republicans stay strong with a solution based on hard cuts to spending, mainly to widely used entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, while Democrats flatly reject cuts in favor of a more balanced approach, without saying what such an approach might look like.
Bringing back the hope
Things are looking up, and now it’s time to move ahead. Or at least, that’s what you would have gathered from President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address.
Take back the night
Sexual assault is a major societal problem that impacts all genders and ages. It’s a focus of concern on most college campuses, and statistics about the preponderance of sexual assault on college campuses abound, including here in Portland and on the Portland State campus.
Oh the horror, the shame!
This is how it began: Two months after my high school graduation I was on my way to Iowa, my boyfriend’s car full to the gunwales with our absolute-must-have possessions and essential going-off-to-college stuff. It was 1997, I’d just turned 18, and I’d been counting down (14,658 minutes exactly) to my vitally important escape from the prosaic and stale homogeneity that was life in Reno, Nev.