LAST SEMESTER, we decided to read about and reflect upon our University community -- a community that ideally fosters and appreciates contributions from all its members.
THE FREAKS came out three different nights this past weekend and they put on three student-written one-act plays.
BY SUNDAY afternoon, the pile of folded papers on my dining room table has usually grown pretty high.
EIGHTEEN hour bras and "No Nonsense" Pantyhose. Who knew that a quick glance at the lingerie department could sum up the identity of female leaders so well?
FOR OREGONIANS, much of what all of us cherish is at stake. Privacy. Fundamental rights. Sanctity of contracts.
HISTORY, I had always believed, was a study of facts. Questioning these facts was questioning what's already happened.
THE UNITED States has an odd reputation overseas. We are seen as progressive, yet puritan; advocates of freedom, yet strangely constrictive in our own laws.
THEY ARE patriotic Americans. I can appreciate that. They are fervent anti-Communists. I can appreciate that.
A JOB SEARCH is underway at the moment and its outcome will greatly affect the nature of performing arts at the University.
IMAGINE if the presidential election process lasted only one week. On Oct. 27, the candidates would announce their intention to run.
THE UNIVERSITY stands for public access to higher education. Its very founding was intended to give life to the notion that education should not be limited to one faith, one political persuasion or one walk of life.
SHE'S A media dream. Last fall, Cherie Blair, the wife of British prime minister Tony Blair, shocked the nation by announcing that, at age 45, she is pregnant.
IT'S A CRAZY time we're living in. Not only are we at the beginning of a whole new -- far too over-hyped -- millennium, we are also living in the midst of a technological revolution.
Everyone screws up sometimes. But that's not catastrophic; the important goal is not to avoid making mistakes, but rather to learn from them when they do happen.
THOSE WHO write gun control laws hope to respond to a range of problems, not just the existence of guns.
THE DANCERS filed onto the stage smoothly. The boys were dressed in warm-up pants and basketball shoes and the girls were dressed in coordinated pastel tank tops and black dance pants.
JUST WHEN you thought you'd had enough "exploratory committees," here comes another one: Virginia Sen.
RECENTLY-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin has been depicted in the Western media as an ex-KGB enigma that threatens to return Russia to the horrors of secretive dictatorship.
A CRASH course on the University could be taught with just a few words. Not a fancy seminar on the history of Mr. Jefferson's University, but rather the real deal -- a few catch phrases to sum things up around here.
ROLLING Stone once gave the world 17-year-old Britney Spears in Daisy Dukes with BABY written across the back.
