• Baseball and Softball Stay Hungry

    Baseball and Softball Stay Hungry

    With less than three weeks to go in the spring semester, the softball and baseball teams are rounding third base and heading for home plate ending their fall and spring seasons. Arms are sore and bats are dented as the end of the month of April is fast approaching and the baseball and softball teams… Read more

  • Transcending the Perfunctory: Portlanders Philosophize Together

    Evelyn Waugh Physics Major   After entering Portland Public Library, climbing the towering staircase, and finding the ‘Portland Room,’ one is immersed in an atmosphere of scholasticism. A large table sits at the front of the room, framed on one side by large, inviting windows, on the other by lofty shelves housing an impressive assortment… Read more

  • Tech Talk: GIMP Your Image Manipulation Program

    Nicholas Small   GIMP is an image manipulation program. If you are unfamiliar with the term “image manipulation” you might know it better as “Photoshop”. Photoshop was one of the first and for a long time the best by far software for image manipulation. Therefore when people think of editing photos with a more professional… Read more

  • Tech Talk: Good Passwords and How to Create Them

    Dierdre Lee IT Major   Most people aren’t very good at choosing passwords. The two most popular passwords (according to SplashData) are “password” and “123456”.  Other popular choices include names of family members or pets, sports teams, and swear words. Frequently people will use one password for multiple sites, making them all vulnerable to compromise.… Read more

  • The Future of Virtual Reality

    Christopher Tran IT Major   The definition of “Mixed Reality” is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. Microsoft is currently developing on a device called HoloLens. It is a device that gives the user the ability to… Read more

  • Look Both Ways

    Christian Guthrie CNMS Major   Over the past few years, there has been a shift in the culture in the Portland area. It is a new, more chaotic method of how the fair citizens traverse the streets of the city. Crosswalks have become decorations. Pedestrians have been walking freely across traffic with no inkling that… Read more