Venture magazine is currently recruiting Mt. Hood students interested in being a part of the creative team for this year’s edition. 2022 Venture Cover Venture is an annual magazine produced by students, for students. Winter Term is dedicated to producing content for the magazine, and Spring Term is dedicated to production and publication of our work. Any student interested in getting involved is welcome to join – no experience is necessary. We are currently looking for wr

Top row, from left: a message left by a student wanting coffee before the Riverview Cafe opened next to the library; a sign left sitting on the old Bookstore coffee shop counter; empty coolers sitting where the Bookstore coffee shop was. Bottom row, from left: the vacant Vista Dining room; a recent photo of the shelves in Barney’s Pantry; St. Helen’s Room sits empty. Photos by Martell Meacham So, you’ve survived a month into the academic year at Mt. Hood Community College. Co

Web Photo As many colleges and universities, local and otherwise, move toward mandatory COVID vaccination for students attending in-person classes, MHCC will not remain impartial regarding the conversation – especially as the pressure of an uncertain Fall Term grows closer and closer. Because Mount Hood’s participation in the debate is inescapable, a confident perspective would only serve to ensure a smoother transition into whatever format the future may hold for the college

Already not exactly a stress-free group, college students in Multnomah County continue along an education path long revered for its social aspect entirely digitally instead – the result of a pandemic unparalleled in this century, and within an online infrastructure essentially nonexistent barely more than a year ago. Web Photo. With well over half a million COVID casualties in the United States to date, it is safe to say a great number of MHCC students have now lived through

In yet another expression of a nation divided entirely between two worlds, thousands of Americans died of COVID-19 infection on Jan. 6, 2021, while thousands others stormed a building they would have considered untouchably sacred under any other president’s administration. Many garbed in a bright red, white-lettered attire (with a healthy amount of Gadsden flag flair, of course), those rioters, somehow believing they were defending the American republic while forcefully inter

Web Photo. On Sept. 19, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, noted Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died after battling pancreatic cancer. She was the second woman to have been successfully nominated for the Supreme Court, following Sandra Day O’Connor, and was the first Jewish female Supreme Court justice. Ginsburg was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, serving a total of 27 years on the nation’s highest court. This week, Americans have mourned Ginsburg, coast-to-c

In this crazy time we are in, colleges, students and faculty can fall victim to lack of transparency. And Mt. Hood Community College, in the past year, has been stuck in some controversy regarding funding plans around various programs, with “lack of transparency” being a common complaint. At the moment, the institution is having some trouble over the Associated Student Government (ASG) election process. ASG is a big part in being the medium between the students and the colleg

Web Graphic The U.S. House and Senate have been in talks to pass another economic stimulus package to deal with COVID-19, and it includes another round of $1,200 payments to those that are eligible. “Eligible” is a key term because the same process from the last round of stimulus checks will most likely be used again. College students, who are one of the populations most vulnerable to the current economic meltdown, may not get any checks this time, either. The House is also l

Ever since COVID-19 has hit the country, a lot of us have imposed social isolation on ourselves, for fear of catching and spreading the virus. And since Oregon Gov. Kate Brown put heavy restrictions on non-essential, public socializing, we’re essentially confined to our homes. A stay-at-home order is completely new to most of us, unless we often work from home. Still, it’s interesting to be left to our devices – that is, unless we don’t have one. Sure, a lot of people now at

Kobe Bryant left his mark on the game of basketball, a mark that reaches around the globe and into every country. To say that he was a basketball player, or even an Olympic athlete, is selling him short. He was a superhero for a whole generation that wanted to be as great as he was. In his long and triumphant career, Kobe stayed with just one team: the Los Angeles Lakers. His dedication to the franchise and his winning mentality is a rare trait that most players try to imita

Mt. Hood Community College’s “academic revitalization” is off to a rough start. The initial plan by the college’s administration was to stick to a tight schedule and put the matter of – specifically, deciding to phase out seven current programs on campus, to start the process – to a final vote by the MHCC District Board of Education on Dec. 18. Despite the vigorous public (and school faculty) backlash evident at the board meeting on Nov. 20, Mt. Hood President Lisa Skari sai

President Trump has seriously mishandled the situation in northern Syria. Even though the ISIS caliphate has been considered defeated and the ISIS leader, Abu Bakhar Al-Baghdadi, is now dead, the power vacuum in Syria is getting worse by the day. The biggest event to happen so far is that Trump gave the president of Turkey permission to occupy the northern part of Syria, by withdrawing U.S. troops that have been patrolling the northern border of Syria for a few years. Million

If you’ve been keeping up with current events over the past few weeks, you’ll no doubt have heard of the continuing Hong Kong protests and the fight their citizens are having with authoirties. In short, Hong Kong has been apart of China but has its own democracy outside of the communist system of China. That system is slowly changing to China having full control of Hong Kong. Future NBA games have been banned from networks in China, after the general manager for the Houston R

Web photo Vaping (or e-cigarettes) is the modern alternative to smoking cigarettes, but recently there has been a series of mysterious illnesses and deaths that have led to it fast becoming a major public health concern. The Trump administration has even hinted at planning to ban e-cigs in response, but that only brings in the dilemma that e-cigs are being banned before conventional tobacco cigarettes – the ones responsible for over 480,000 deaths per year (per the U.S. Cent

In an era of bogus “life hacks” online, allow us at the Advocate to give you some college information that will actually be helpful in your life here at MHCC. Most students know where to find the essential resources available to get their college career on the right track. However, we realize many students don’t know about the many other facilities and services available to them beyond the strictly academic side of college life. For example, Mt. Hood students, as well as co

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a landmark case – Roe v. Wade. It ruled that the 14th Amendment’s “due process clause” to the U.S. Constitution provides a right to privacy that protects a pregnant woman’s freedom to choose whether or not to have an abortion. It’s now 2019, and all three branches of the federal government (except the House of Representatives) are Republican-controlled and/or conservative in terms of ideology. And the debate on abortion has stepped ever

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 7 out of 10 deaths in the U.S. are caused by chronic disease. Roughly half of the country’s population has been diagnosed with chronic illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, AIDS and more – all conditions that have been classified by medical experts as preventable. Preventative care can be achieved in many ways: Routine checkups, screenings, physicals, standard immunizations, and maintai