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On Oct. 23rd, more than 900 people filed into Bend High auditorium in support of the idea that a woman’s intellect is more valuable than her appearance. A week later, women filed into costume...
Food reform starts at home
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
Listening to food author Ruth Reichl last week and reading Chef Julian Darwin’s comments in this week’s paper reaffirmed some of my core beliefs about food. Eating is a political act.
But like...
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Sustainability is fashionable
Michelle Greer
The Broadside
Fashion is a billion-dollar industry. It’s fluid, expressive and accessible. The fashion industry breaks into five categories, divided by affordability:= haute couture, luxury, affordable luxury, mainstream, and discount. It’s an industry that...
A whole lot of nothing
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
One-of-a-kind experimental composer John Cage composed 4’33 in 1952 for any instrument.
If you conduct an Internet search for it, you can watch it performed by a full orchestra. You’ll see the conductor...
Halloween is as frightening as you want it to be
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
Pope Gregory tried to squash it, but Halloween stuck around.
It became the strategy under Pope Gregory in the seventh century A.D. to place a Christian holiday over a pagan one in order...
We are all part of this community
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
Look at our campus.
There are thousands of moving parts, all working synergistically so that each day unfolds in to the next. We see that we are a complicated human machine interacting...
Bullying has no place on this campus
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
Bullying conjures images for some of the schoolyard where that one kid wouldn’t leave you alone, or the mean comments in middle school bathrooms. But bullying happens to grown ups in...
The Broadside student newspaper welcomes students to join the staff
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
The Broadside and I want to welcome back returning students, applaud new students and tip our collective hat to faculty, staff and administration for keeping the campus running, looking ahead and continuing...
An interesting year provides insights into the ways we can improve and the things...
Kirsteen Wolf
The Broadside
It has been quite an academic year.
As this is the last issue of The Broadside until fall 2011, it’s a good opportunity to consider the role COCC’s student government played on our...