As spring term arrives, class registration takes a toll on many students at the University of Oregon. Enrolling in required courses can be difficult as registration priority, class sizes, the number of sections offered and course scheduling all impact whether students can secure the schedule they need.
UO has roughly 20,000 undergraduate students. The College of Arts and Sciences, the largest on campus, enrolls more than 11,000 of them.
With thousands of students competing for courses each term,...

As the fall term winds down and students finish finals, a familiar pressure settles in. For many, the stress doesn’t end with the last exam or class. It simply shifts. Internships move to the center of students’ minds, becoming the next piece in a long line of academic and professional milestones on the board of Life. Career platforms like Handshake, Indeed, and LinkedIn become daily scrolls, each listing another opportunity, another deadline, another chance to move towards career goals. But the...

Do you remember the last time you read a folktale? No, not a Disney movie, but a story with lessons? Now think of kids in the new generation. Do you think they are learning folktales? We once used folktales to teach what it meant to live, to make mistakes, and to learn. In recent years, how many of those lessons have been rewritten into happy endings? In the past century, these traditional stories have been completely transformed by mass media companies such as Disney. What were once moral lectu...

You truly don’t understand a conflict or what a region is going through, until you’ve seen it with your own eyes, and heard the suffering told by the inhabitants. And even so, you still won’t fully understand unless you are living in it. When I traveled to Israel in September, I did not go as a reporter or an activist, but as a witness. An outsider. The goal was to understand what life looks like and the different perspectives in a place where history, loss, and resilience coexist every day. And I saw it all.

A new face has emerged that will make you stop, pay attention, and never forget.

Jesse Michael Roméro is one of those rare gems. From the first moment he appeared in his school theatre, to being on screen in his short film work, there was a quiet intensity about him, a kind of raw, fresh presence that signaled he was destined for something bigger.

As an amputee, I often wonder what causes people to look the other direction when seeing something or someone that looks "different". Not even because of their personality or values, but what goes on chemically.