Some hail ethanol as the methadone needed to wean Western countries off fossil fuels. Others deplore it as environmental sabotage. 

The effects of Brazil’s growing sugarcane industry have prompted scientists to ask the question: are biofuels sustainable?

In an increasingly multilateral world, Brazil will soon rise as Latin America’s first superpower, said visiting professor Leslie Armijo ’78 in a lecture titled “Brazil as an Emerging World Power?” last Friday.

Throughout the lecture at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Armijo, a political science professor at Portland State University, examined the international repercussions of Brazil’s current political and economic strengths.

According to Armijo, Brazil’s current rise in the international panorama should be analyzed by studying its developments not only as international actor, but also as a middle and regional power.

Hosting the Olympics is no easy feat. It requires the infrastructure to stage one of the world’s greatest events, and the ability to host, protect, and entertain the masses of athletes and fans that descend upon the city in the days preceding the Opening Ceremonies.

Sunday afternoon, several Brazilian-influenced ensembles regaled Barnes Hall with the sounds of the Brazilian night in the Music Department’s Noite Brasileira. The audience, out perilously close to Superbowl kickoff, filled the whole of Barnes Hall, and by general consensus, I’d say they got their money’s worth (more than, actually, since the concert cost a wallet-breaking zero dollars).