He is all over the place. Now he has come to Forest Grove. Welcome Edward Cullen. At first, few people knew who Edward Cullen was. Then Stephanie Meyer's book "Twilight" hit the big screen. And now he has arrived at Pacific in a big way-the Boxer Book Club, originally the Alumni Book Club, chose "Twilight" for its current selection.
In the last issue of The Pacific Index, Tyler Atwood criticized the Boxer Book Club for reading Stephanie Meyer's vampire series "Twilight." Two points in this criticism really annoyed me. The first was that since the series was written for 14-year-old girls, older generations could not take something away from the book.
"Twilight," the first in a new young adult series, has been chosen as the current selection for the Boxer Book Club at Pacific University. I commend the decision and am gratified that Pacific, which hosts a MFA in Creative Writing program, is now looking at the young adult genre.
What's worse? Being de-friended or being ignored? If you understood this sentence, then you are most likely one of millions of Facebook users. Facebook has become a world phenomenon since its establishment five years ago. People welcomed the chance to stay in touch with people, "collect" friends, play games and so on, but there can also be a darker side and potential risks of this Internet age tool.
