The city of Portland has an eccentric coffee scene, being ranked the No. 4 coffee city in the United States. With coffee shops on seemingly every corner, the options for coffee feel infinite. In 2022, ...

On the north side of the Franz River Campus, in an area that was expected to house a competition-ready track complex complete with a Pilots-purple race track, is now a construction site covered in ...

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Austin Rapp is a freshman on the University of Portland men’s basketball team. Rapp has made his mark on the court this year, earning six WCC Freshman of the Week ...

Once again, the theater department is preparing Mago Hunt Theater for performance day, but this time, the stage is set to recreate a clinical drug trial using new technology: a revolving set of ...

Each spring, UP students elect student leaders to the Associated Students of the University of Portland (ASUP). Next year, however, the election process will look a bit different. Instead of voting ...

On Saturday Nov. 2, seven students and a recent alum were allegedly drugged at an off-campus party, according to the Director of Campus Safety & Emergency Management Michael McNerney. Campus Safety is ...

As political tensions rise ahead of the election, the University of Portland has taken steps to promote constructive dialogue on campus by appointing Anne Santiago as the new Dundon-Berchtold Faculty ...

I laughed it off because I wanted to write about something that felt more meaningful. Perhaps politics, the importance of voting or my thoughts on the upcoming election as a political science major.

I’ve been disabled throughout my entire time at UP, but it wasn’t until this semester that I became a full-time wheelchair user. Most students get around our small campus easily, a max 10-minute walk ...

A clip of Laurie Anderson’s "O Superman" went viral on TikTok in late 2023. The lyrics sparked emotional testimonies from users, often containing stories of their parents in reference to the “mom” ...

An old, tattered photo hangs on my corkboard — a snapshot from the past: me at eight years old, cozy in an oversized sweatshirt, beach hair framing a toothless grin. Nestled under scattered receipts ...

The Beacon recently assigned me to write a food review of Kann, a live-fire Haitian restaurant that has captured national attention, earning the title of Best New Restaurant of 2023 and securing a ...