Troika Press

There is a fear that sits, dark and insidious, within our time here in college. We meet it when we do poorer than expected on an assignment, declare our major or intended career, or when we recognize just how little time we have left here. It is a fear that rises when we realize, despite [...]

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I and some of my favorite rhetoric majors – Elle, Paul, Kendel, Carrie and Tiara – (who in no way coerced this shout-out) recently attended a rhetoric conference in Coeur d’Alene, ID.  Fully half of the trip was spent in a van, which is an interesting exposition and cultural study in and of itself. At [...]

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Last year I went to Cirque du Soleil as a part of a University program. I watched the acrobats risk their lives as they cavorted around on tightropes and the aptly named “Wheel of Death.” I, and the rest of the audience, couldn’t help but cringe at some of the more incredible feats and seemingly [...]

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Despite the very human tendency to assert otherwise, each and every one of us has, at some point in our time as college students, been wrong. It’s easy to forget and easier to gloss over, but we’ve all erred and will continue to do so. The question, then, is how you will deal with those [...]

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NOTE:  This post was originally published in the Willamette Collegian’s April Fool’s Edition. Walk into any bookstore, the non-conformist’s urbane choice of Powells included, and your senses will likely be assaulted by the veritable superabundance of books.  I speak not just about teenage paranormal romance fiction, although that is frightening in and of itself.  One [...]

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One of the most surprisingly consequences of our modern age is the paralysis of choice. If you want to buy toothpaste, there are more types of plaque-busting bright-bleaching formulas than you can shake a stick at. Coupled with the choices of toothbrushes, the possibilities for clean pearly whites are nearly endless. It seems that we [...]

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