by Sophia Elfrink
HBO’s 5-part miniseries, Chernobyl, has captured viewers with its disturbingly solemn imagery, and a plot based on a real life catastrophe. Read More »
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The Hype of Homecoming?
by Anna Blake Patrick
In recent years, the only way to describe the hype around Homecoming has been… disheartening. Typically the words “Homecoming” and “disheartening” don’t — or shouldn’t — belong in the same sentence. However, the words “Homecoming” and “School Spirit” should. 2019 should not be yet another year that we let our school spirit fall to the wayside.
The 16-Year-Old Changing the Face of Youth and Environmental Activism
by Sophia Elfrink
In the wake of recent events surrounding the fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, national outcry has prompted a climate strike which will take place on Friday the 20th of September. Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old environmental activist, has been one of the leading organizers of the strike.
Three-Fifths: When the Other Party Rules
By Andrew Gewecke
Portland is a blue city. It is a vegan, hipster, weird city. It is a city filled with posters proclaiming that “water is life, science is real and diversity should be celebrated.” It is sometimes a fiercely indignant city. It knows what’s right, and it knows that what’s right is what’s liberal.
You, Trusting Yourself, Go Down The Rabbit Hole
By Spencer Williams
It’s January 25th, 2019, and Portland is in a state of emergency, an old disease’s onset being the catalyst. Costcos, Amazon locker pickup stations, schools, churches, dentist offices, public bathrooms, and the Portland International Airport have all been rendered unsafe (Stanley-Becker). The symptoms begin with a dry mouth, an itchy throat, a strangely orange tongue. Then, the skin breaks out with red spots like flattened pepperoni, and the pepperoni sprouts caviar, and the body bakes what must be a culinary disaster of a food metaphor.
The victims were counted and tallied and herded into hospitals by epidemiologists: confirmed, 21 pepperoni-caviar people, now patients in Portland (Stanley-Becker). Measles. A dead disease, beaten into hibernation by a vaccine that is 97% effective (CDC).
Was Portland unlucky enough to house the remaining 3%?
Adopting Out the Unadoptable: A Journey in Rehabilitation
by Zoe Strothkamp
The dog was visibly traumatized. From her muzzle—open and panting—to her tail—tucked deep between her legs—the signs of fear radiated from her body. Her unfocused eyes, ringed with white, stared like a deer into headlights. Something in this wide room would harm her, she knew. Her sense of impending doom and overwhelming terror, distracting her beyond all other thought, made her freeze, sit, cower in a corner of the room by the door. She noticeably shook, her muscles, ready for flight, contracting a hundred times a second as she waited to run. The reason for her fear? An unfamiliar room.
OES Students Host Pop-Up Shop Downtown for “Paradise Point”
This past weekend, OES junior Matthew Li (along with a number of friends) hosted a pop-up shop in a warehouse-turned-creative-space about two blocks from Pioneer Courthouse Square for his brand “Paradise Point.”
OES Men’s Lacrosse Alumni Game
By Max Fitzloff
Every year, current and former OES lacrosse players meet up for the always enjoyable Alumni Game.
The Upcoming OES Ping Pong Tournament Might Be The Most Electric Thing To Happen To This Place In Years
If you try to tell me that you haven’t been absolutely buzzing this week, you’re either lying or you don’t have a pulse, and frankly, in this case, I’m not sure which is worse.
Rabid and Paradise Point
by Max Fitzloff
Within the past two years, two clothing companies have been created by members of the junior class.
