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Students may be getting more information from artificial intelligence like ChatGPT than textbooks recently. Photo by Sofie Szigeti. When ChatGPT-3.5 was released in November of 2022, it was immediately clear that education would change forever. It sparked dramatic headlines speculating the effect of the program on higher education, such as “The College Essay Is Dead”  from The Atlantic , and opened a world of untapped possibilities for cheating, plagiarism and rampant misinfo

Rally-goers gather along Center Street and Summer Street for the “No Kings” Rally on Oct. 18, 2025. Photo by Keenan Yoshizawa. Thousands gathered on Oct. 18 at the Oregon State Capitol State Park with signs, and some with inflatable costumes, to join the “No Kings” rally and march through downtown Salem. Across the capitol mall, a smaller crowd of approximately 150 people gathered in a rally to promote a petition to recall Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. This “No Kings” event in

The Rocky Horror lips on a theater screen. Art by Adrian Axtell. A screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) is unlike nearly any other cinematic experience. Audience members yell vulgarities and responses at the movie, actors in costume may sync their movements to the onscreen action, and showings often happen every weekend in some theaters, including the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, without fail.  This October, Salem alone has hosted three different screeni