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The city of Portland has an eccentric coffee scene, being ranked the No. 4 coffee city in the United States. With coffee shops on seemingly every corner, the options for coffee feel infinite. In 2022, ...
A Portland Fire Truck on Willamette Boulevard while smoke is coming from the brush behind it. At approximately 2:16 p.m., Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) responded to a fire near Willamette and Menlo.
On any weekday, a student might walk into a professor’s office to improve their grade or ask for exam help. But instead of walking into bare offices, students often enter rooms with sand-sculptures, ...
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Austin Rapp is a freshman on the University of Portland men’s basketball team. Rapp has made his mark on the court this year, earning six WCC Freshman of the Week ...
I’ve been disabled throughout my entire time at UP, but it wasn’t until this semester that I became a full-time wheelchair user. Most students get around our small campus easily, a max 10-minute walk ...
A clip of Laurie Anderson’s "O Superman" went viral on TikTok in late 2023. The lyrics sparked emotional testimonies from users, often containing stories of their parents in reference to the “mom” ...
Franz Hall and Mago Hunt were vandalized with the words “Palestine” and “Free Palestine” at around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23. The incident was reported by custodial staff who were inside the ...
The Beacon recently assigned me to write a food review of Kann, a live-fire Haitian restaurant that has captured national attention, earning the title of Best New Restaurant of 2023 and securing a ...
Following the 2021 Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) was forced into making a significant change within their policies: College athletes ...
On Wednesday, April 17, the Gender and Women’s Sexuality Studies (GWSS) department, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies department, hosted a Reproductive Justice Talk that featured three keynote ...
Seven WCC awards for freshman of the week. Ranked second among all other first years in the WCC conference for scoring. The only women’s basketball player in the WCC to be ranked in the top 15 for ...
As students are captured in a whirlwind of commitments as the year winds down, the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) wants you to do one thing: Remember our youthful days — maybe it’s the memories ...