Mary Lee Planer worked on the Pacific Index in 1972 Whether you pick up the newspaper or recycle it, you weren’t very different from the students at Pacific 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, The Pacific Index was four-page newspaper … Continued
Shining a light on the transgender experience in sports The In Your Face lecture series continues at Pacific University, with its next speaker, Sydney Bauer, presenting on Monday, October 3. Bauer is an accomplished journalist who reported at multiple Olympic … Continued
New Senate President Anticipates Greater Student Engagement What the Undergraduate Student Senate deals with may seem mundane. Budgets. Contracts. Policy. Yawn. But, then again, the Student Senate touches on nearly every aspect of student life—from who gets the … Continued
As a war rages on in their home country, Ukrainian students try to re-adjust. “Everyone should care about Ukraine, it’s a problem that affects the whole world,” says Anna Tymoshenko, one of two first-year Ukrainian students attending Pacific University. She … Continued
Pacific students got to meet and ask questions of one of the greatest figures in sports and social justice. On September 13, humanitarian Dr. Richard Lapchick presented “The Power of Business & Sports to Bring About Positive Social Change” at … Continued
LEADING WOMEN’S SPORTS ACTIVIST FIRST UP AT IN YOUR FACE LECTURE SERIES Pacific University is hosting a three-speaker series that will dive into the interconnectedness of politics, sports, and media. The Pacific Index sat down with Dr. Jules Boykoff, who … Continued
WILL THE RECENT FEDERAL LOAN RELIEF PLAN EASE CURRENT STUDENTS’ FINANCIAL BURDEN? A week before Pacific University undergraduate students returned to campus, many prepared to dig deeper into debt (or their families’ pocket-books), President Joe Biden made a surprise announcement: … Continued
PRESIDENT JENNY COYLE HAS BIG PLANS TO BUILD UP PACIFIC UNIVERSITY In some ways, Jenny Coyle is a new face on campus this year, joining the hundreds of new students and faculty. But then again, the university’s new president has … Continued
Pacific University has voted to transfer the Eugene Masters of Social Work program to its Forest Grove campus, despite protests from existing students and community members in Eugene. University spokesperson Jenni Luckett told the Index: “There is a higher demand … Continued
Collin Weires, a senior studying politics and philosophy at Pacific University, is working on the release of the 100th episode to his philosophy podcast Collin Demands Answers. Weires began his podcast in July 2020, just a few months after the … Continued
The Berglund Center’s Inspired Ideas Competition took place on April 23, 2022, in which teams of students presented innovative solutions to problems in their fields of study. Three of these student groups won fellowships with Berglund Center as well as … Continued
Pacific University’s Spring Choral Concert, entitled “The Gift to Sing” after a poem of the same by James Weldon Johnson, happened at the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 22. “We began the year with a concert and we … Continued