International Women’s Festival in the Pacific Northwest

The scent of lavender wafted from one of the many vendor tables lining the hallway of Gaiser Hall as people milled around, chatted and helped themselves to a lunch of seitan sandwiches, quinoa and salad. The ring of a Tibetan singing bowl radiated through the room, calling for everyone to gather back to their seats…

Jobless Future

Reading the book, “Rise of the Robots”, by Martin Ford can give a whole new perspective of what the future will bring forth. Written with lots of research and informational resources, in my opinion the author hatefully tells the reader that the creation of automation will be the last nail in the coffin of this…

Three Controversial Speakers hold Open Forum at PSU

Written by: Jr Bundy and Andrew Gebe Friday, at Portland State University Dave Rubin hosted a seminar discussing free speech and political correctness on college campuses. Philosophy professors Christina Hoff Sommers and Peter Boghossian joined Rubin on stage for the discussion in front of nearly 400 audience members. The event was $15 to attend but…

What’s in a Game: 45 Years of Video Games

Video games have come a long way in the 45 years they’ve been published and marketed to consumers across the world on more platforms than most people would even believe actually existed. With each new generation, technical advancements have propelled this “hobby” so far into the mainstream that game development budgets within the triple-A industry…

LeBron vs Jordan

Well it's time I cover the last great debate in sports. Okay I'm kidding there are thousands of great debates but this one is personal for me. I'll tell you right now, I'm a Cavs fan. When LeBron James was drafted to the Cavaliers in 2003, my Uncle looked at me and told me "this…

A One-year Culture

Everything started three years ago as I was only a regular student in Libya not giving much thoughts to my future. Around that time, I was newly introduced to the concept ‘Exchange Student’. It wasn’t long before I became one. It is certainly a unique experience with its ups and downs, but also a culture…

The “Eyes” Have It A review of “The Eyes of the Dragon” http://stephenking.com/library/novel/eyes_of_the_dragon_the_characters.html The theme behind Stephen King’s fantasy novel “The Eyes of the Dragon” is not a new one: a good king (Roland) who is tolerated by his subjects in the kingdom of Delain; an evil sorcerer (Flagg) with an agenda of his own;…

Book Review: 13 Reasons Why

Have you ever read a book so good your life feels changed? You feel as if you're a new person, you hold a new outlook on everything. Maybe the book itself wasn't great, but the way it made you feel and the underlying lessons were definitely something that stuck with you. The book that gave…

What’s Wrong With Being a Selfish and Terrible Person Objectivism

  I’d like to begin this by giving Ayn Rand a huge shout out for creating probably the worst philosophy known to mankind, also known as objectivism. If you’re not familiar, it’s basically the belief that every single person should work for their own personal good, and put themselves and their happiness above all else…

We Need to Design Businesses That Meet the Needs of Single Mothers

It’s early morning and single mother Sophia wakes up and begins getting ready for her day. Her two young children are still sleeping, so she sits for a ten-minute meditation before doing anything else. Sophia learned to do this at work during group breaks and she liked it so much she fit it into her…

Let’s Call It What it is, Patriarchy!

I mean really-what can be more important than taking care mothers and children? Apparently in the United States there is a debate about the level of shame single mothers such feel, especially for utilizing state aid. Somewhere along the way the U.S. became the 33th best place to be a mom, while Norway leads the way in…

The Crime of Declawing Cats

 https://naturalandwonderful.wordpress.com/ Declawing cats has been a debated topic for a long time now. It is common to declaw cats and a relatively common procedure here in the United States of America. Federally legal, and only in some county's it's actually illegal to do. It is actually illegal to declaw cats in more countries than you think. This…