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Vol. 115, Issue 23
April 10, 2014
THE BEACON
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Student brings mini golf to
Christie for Weekend On The
Bluff
upbeacon.com/minigolf
Meet next year's new Pilots
Sports, p. 16
Is your unpaid
internship illegal?
Living, p. 6
Students donate points for homeless
Two students start meal points and food donation program for the homeless population of Portland
Sophomore Kate Miranda collects donations in Bauccio Commons to hand out to Portland’s homeless population on Sunday, April 13. She
and junior Joe Tomassi started this program, where students can donate their leftover meal points and food purchased with their points at the
end of the year, last year. Story on page 3.
Food donations:
April 9-11 from 11
a.m.to 1 p.m. in
Bauccio Commons
Donate food/
points: April 9-10,
donate food on
April 11.
Packaging food
into sack lunches
in Kenna Hall
basement: Sunday,
April 13 at 8:30 a.m.
Head downtown to
pass out lunches:
10:30 a.m.
For more
information on
how to volunteer,
email tomassi15@
up.edu or
miranda16@
up.edu.
NUCLing their way into recognition
McKena Miyashiro
Staff Writer
miyashirl 7@up.edu
Though some students may
take an adventure to downtown
Portland or grab a cup of coffee at
Cathedral Coffee to step outside
the UP bubble, it’s not often that
UP students are able to share their
ideas or showcase their work in
the greater Pacific Northwest
community. For the past 11
years, however, the Northwest
Undergraduate Conference on
Literature (NUCL) has broke
this bubble right on campus by
inviting all undergraduates in the
Pacific Northwest to share and
discuss their writing.
On Saturday, April 5, UP
hosted the 1 1th annual Northwest
Undergraduate Conference on
Literature (NUCL) in Franz
Hall. NUCL gives students an
opportunity to present their own
papers or creative works to a panel
of their peers for discussion.
Sophomore Hope Dorman,
an English major, worked
as a respondent last year to
help moderate discussion on
scholarly papers or creative
works submitted to NUCL. This
year, Dorman submitted her
own essay to NUCL and was
Kristen Garcia | THE BEACON
Senior Jonathan Cruz (left) and sophomore Hope Dorman (right) presented their work at the annual Northwest Undergraduate Conference
on Literature (NUCL). The University hosted the 11th annual NUCL last Saturday, and students from around the northwest traveled to UP to
share their work - scholarly essays and original short stories, creative essays and poems.
selected to present her paper at
the conference.
“While it’s great to share
within your own English
department, nothing’s greater
than discussing your work with a
stranger that is also educated in
the same field as you,” Dorman
said.
Dorman’s essay discussed
women’s oppression in the
context of the book “Season
of Migration to the North” by
Tayeb Salih. This work takes
place in Sudan in the 1960s and
touches upon different elements
of oppression within Islamic
culture.
“I’m a super-feminist and this
issue was very apparent in the
novel, so it was cool to analyze
and pick out all the pieces of
something that’s really important
to me,” Dorman said.
Senior Jonathan Cruz, an
education and English major,
chose to submit a short story
about his home back in Hawaii.
Cruz’s essay discussed his
personal experiences about what
home really means to him and the
economic limits of Hawaii that
people outside of the island don’t
often realize.
“I wanted to be published
and I think that NUCL is a great
way for undergraduates to be
published. It’s difficult as an
undergrad to be recognized for
work, and NUCL is a great way to
realize that our works are greater
than ourselves and that our works
actually matter to other people,”
Cruz said.
Aside from presenting papers
and listening to papers written
See NUCL. page 2