Tonight, the University community will have a chance to stand up for everyone's right to be safe from sexual violence regardless of who they are. This Women's Center and Sexual Assault Support Services event, Take Back the Night, will unite people of a...

If you vote in Oregon, you'll soon receive a ballot that asks you to consider additional funding for education. Measure 20-182, on the May 17 ballot, seeks to raise $16.8 million for Eugene's school districts so they can limit the increase in instructi...

On April 8, 2011, the most important U.S. document in over 60 years exited the Pentagon. Titled 'A National Strategic Narrative,' written by Capt. Wayne Porter of the U.S. Navy and Col. Mark Mykleby of the U.S. Marine Corps, the report claims the U.S. ...

The Emerald's April 20 article, 'University class disrupted all term by ant infestation,' led to several University experiments revealing the ant colony in Lillis is actually a colony of superants. The colony was infected by radioactive waste from the ...

Editor's note: Benson Ntiwas is a University student and former co-director of the International Student Association. In the academic year 2009-10, I had the honor and privilege of being elected co-director of the International Student Association ...

It's Sexual Violence Prevention Week on campus, which you probably know if you've read the Emerald in the past week. Members of our community have addressed sexual violence and its impact on international students and students with disabilities in Lett...

It was Friday night at 12:01 a.m. as we loaded into the van, buckling ourselves in as we situated into our seats for the shift. University sophomore Sean Larson stationed himself as driver, while senior Rachel Graham positioned herself as copilot. I, o...

For the upcoming May 17 special election, there are two funding measures for Eugene's public schools. One is a citywide personal income tax that would potentially be assessed to Eugene residents who earn more than $22,000 per year in taxable income, an...

I did not attend the Noam Chomsky talk, but I read the report from Deborah Bloom about it (ODE, April 21). Chomsky was quoted as saying that before the Reagan administration, 'The lowest quintile did about as well as the highest quintile.' I thought ...

The New Partnership will not lower tuition. Universities across the country, from Washington to Florida, have experimented with similar governance structures and - with disastrous results. In Florida, a similar bill transformed the role of state universit...

As many know, internationally renowned linguist, political scientist and activist Noam Chomsky came to speak at the University two nights ago in 150 Columbia. Even two hours before he arrived, the line to get in was lengthy. I arrived at 5:20 p.m., ski...

Even after canceling my dinner invitation and forgetting his lecture notes, watching Noam Chomsky live is always mystical. Although always a humble speaker, his presence in the big classroom is huge, and he doesn't need charisma to make you feel the in...

Students from other countries continue to pass us by while we debate over reactionary solutions to the problems in America's education system. Instead of destroying collective bargaining rights or converting schools into test-based business models, we ...

Is sexual assault an international issue? In our community: and bull; An international student was raped by her sponsor/partner. and bull; An international student was raped by a trusted older member of her own community. and bull; An internatio...

The last time I ever saw Terry Elliott, he was a budding 16-year-old with the confidence of a star quarterback. Terry, myself and a group of about 16 other high school students were just finishing up a week-long journalism camp, and he emotionally reci...