Issues
Good News For The Fading Year
Oregon Adds Jobs!
October saw an increase of 2,100 jobs in our Beaver State, lowering our unemployment rate from 6.2% to 6.0%.
Job gains were concentrated in the construction, manufacturing, professional services, leisure & hospitality industries.
Stupidest College Courses – Issue 104
How I’m Learning Not to Work!
Dear Mom & Dad,
Wow! Is Cornell a great place, or what? It’s beyond awesome!
This semester I’m taking AMST 3731 – “The Refusal of Work.”
This cool prof is teaching us about fighting “routines of production” with sexual strikes & other stuff. He lectured today on “the right to laziness, malingering, shirking, doggin’ it” and “other attempts to remain human within modernity’s regime of coerced labor.” It’s about problems caused by private property.
So it looks like when I graduate I won’t have to work like you two do! I can’t wait!
Oh – some good news – my tuition & fees won’t go up next year. They’ll be just $64,164!
Your Son, Jason
Good News for the Passing Year
More Ice in Antarctica!
Stupid College Courses – Issue 103
Dear Mom & Dad,
You won’t believe what I’m taking this fall. It’s a whole course on Miley Cyrus. It’s “The sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender & Media.” How awesome is that?
We’re learning about “gender stratification,” “bisexuality, queerness and the female body” and other cool stuff.
I know Skidmore College costs $62,042 a year, but where else could I learn about “intersecionality theory” and “feminist critique of media”?
Love, Hannah
Good News For The Not So New Year – Issue 102
Portland now has 3rd-lowest office vacancy rate in nation, report finds
Stupid College Courses – Issue 102
Dear Mom & Dad,
I just love Pitzer College. Everybody here is concerned about global warming, diversity, multiculturalism and most important of all, sustainability.
Last semester I took “Tattoos, Piercing, and Body Adornment” from the Dept. of Asian American Studies. It’s about “body modification practices” in Asia, the Pacific and America. We also learned about colonialism and cultural appropriation. It was way past cool.
To celebrate finishing our final exam my friends and I popped a few brewskies and then went to this awesome Samoan tattoo parlor. Boy, are you going to be surprised when you see me!
By the way, I got an email from Finance office saying next year’s tuition is due June 30. In case you’ve forgotten, it’s $63,880.
Love, your son
Good News For The Not So New Year – Issue 101
Oregon’s getting healthier, but still has some work to do
Stupidest College Courses
Dear Mom & Dad,
Thanks for sending me to Oberlin College. It’s like an awesome place.
I just signed up for the like awesomest class. It’s like called “How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity.”
I’m like gonna learn about beauty pageants from the 1920s (weren’t you like kids back then?) to now. And I’m gonna learn about race, gender, class, sexuality and cool stuff like critical theory.
Then like when I graduate I can win all kinds of beauty pageants and like pay you back the $66,174 you’re spending every year to like send me here. Isn’t that just like awesome?
Good News For The Not So New Year
Consumer Spending Up .4 Percent in August!
Thanks to a jump in purchases of durable goods (e.g. cars) U.S. consumer spending jumped nearly one half percent.
You Gotta Read This – Issue 100
Unions Back Initiative to Raise Business Taxes – So What’s New?