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Breaking stereotypes: A fangirl speaks up
by: Kattie Gardner - printed on 04-24-2002
Growing up, the naive little girl that I was, I used to think that comics were nothing more than a bunch of boys running around in tights, shooting at each other with rays coming out of their fingers. The thought of picking up a comic book and actually reading it seemed silly and childish. I pictured comic readers as being nerdy little fan-boys who lived in their parents? basement and spent hours debating the finer points of D&D.
No More America! I am in Spain!
by: Annmarie Phelan - printed on 02-28-2001
This is it. Submerged in another language, another culture. I cannot speak or understand all that well, but somehow I am able to live in this country. It is my home for four months. My home. Spanish family, Spanish classes, Spanish food. No more America. No American handshake. “Dos besos” instead — a kiss on each cheek — is how I greet people. No standard American house. Most everyone lives in apartments, and the houses you do see do not share the same outward aesthetic beauty to which we are accustomed.
The birth of a monkey
by: Eduardo Mono Vergara - printed on 04-25-2001
It was probably one of those Saturday afternoons, when Ryan and I used to try to solve the problems of the world with not much success. It was under the Chilean rain, navigating down south, were everything started. We wanted to integrate college students from all over the world and have a place for them to discuss issues that affect their lives. The idea did not sound that hard, but we were still in college and it was a project that was maybe going to take a few years.
Irish Famine Concert brings awareness of hunger to U of P
by: Paige Thomas - printed on 09-11-2002
Many may wonder what exactly contra dancing is. It is a form of English country dancing in which each dancer has a partner and moves to the music with the assistance of a caller who announces the steps.
Epidemic and endemic diseases
by: Dr. Guillerme Rosenthal - printed on 04-10-2002
Translated by Jefferson Azevedo.
Dr. Rosebthal is on the board of directors for Doctors Association in Brazil. He also writes articles for different newspapers in Brazil.
In the early 1970's, Brazil was plagued by a ferocious epidemic of meningitis. The military dictatorship thought that, by imposing severe censorship in order to undermine the tragedy, it could render the outbreak non-existent.
Nagasaki to Portland: the Hanford nuclear reservation connection
by: Isaac Vanderburg - printed on 03-28-2001
When I was young, I would make parachutes by connecting the four ends of a bandanna to a fishing weight using four pieces of red yarn. Somehow the unfolding corners and the perfect billow and the gravity of it all produced a phantasmagoria of wonder, so much so that I would bunch the whole thing together and dart it back into mid-air, just to see if it all happened again.
Today I imagine that if I had looked up as a boy and saw the parachute that Katsuji Yoshida saw, with its impeccable aerodynamics and noble descent, I would have been excited just as he was.