Author: Staff Reporter

  • Kids These Days!

    Kids These Days!

    As a parent of two daughters, I find myself becoming exasperated when the girls don’t understand a reference. It’s usually something generational, something I know they’ve never experienced yet I find myself expecting them to understand simply because they’re my kids. I guess I expect them to automatically know everything I do.  Kids these days…

  • Student Fee Committee Unit Survey

    Student Fee Committee Unit Survey

    Representatives Share their Thoughts on the SFC Eastern Oregon University students have several ways of keeping up with the various funded clubs and units on campus, from social media to press releases and even newsletters. For more behind the scenes information, especially on funding and support, the Student Fee Committee maintains an online archive of…

  • Racism in America: A Sephardic Rabbi’s Perspective

      In the fight against terrorism abroad and illegal immigration within, a dangerous drawback can emerge: xenophobia among the citizens. Suspicion is cast on anyone that looks different from the rest of society, whether it be blacks, Hispanics or Semites. Rabbi Gabriel Lumbroso, a resident of Estacada, a semi-rural town located to the south east…

  • Gazing Long into the COVID-19 Abyss: Terrible Ideas to Pass Unprecedented Amounts of Time with Yourself

    The first mistake was giving me space to write. ‘We want a narrative of the pandemic from your location’ they said. Instead this, whatever this is, is what I wrote. Coping with an overabundance of isolated time can be its own form of psychological drain, safe to say. However, from my station here in my…