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“First, I would have to say that news has been slow at our school.”

-Rudy Soto on the Vanguard coverage of his OSA proposal at last Friday’s OSA board meeting in Corvallis.

In case you were wondering…

We all love free movies. And we especially love free movies that are actually good. So it makes sense that we love Portland State’s student-run movie theater, Fifth Avenue Cinema.

Paid for by student fees, the theater has a long history of showing art-house cinema, starting long before it became Oregon’s only college cinema.

According to Fifth Avenue Cinema’s Web site, the theater was originally part of the Moyer theater chain and has been one of Portland’s major art-house film exhibitors since at least the 1970s.

When the theater shut down in the 1990s, students formed the PSU Film Committee, took it over and have run it ever since–showing free movies in the classic 35mm format for students and faculty every weekend when school is in session.

Over time, the student group slowly added other programming to their slate, and besides the movies on their usual schedule, now host special events with local and national filmmakers.

Community members are welcomed as well, but not for free. Non-student adults pay $3 and children pay $2.

This week Fifth Avenue Cinema will be showing director Hal Hartley’s 1997 drama Henry Fool.

What the hell is that?

Maybe you’ve noticed the balconies located on the west side of Cramer Hall. And if you have, then you’ve definitely noticed the third balcony up–the one that looks like a tropical jungle.

How do I get up there and enjoy the lush vegetation you ask? Well, you can’t. That little bit of campus oasis is connected to Portland State’s president’s office and is exclusively for the use of Interim President Michael Reardon.

It seems fitting that one of the only luxurious amenities on campus belongs to our top official, but the Vanguard wonders why we never see our beloved president up there.

Yes, it’s freezing outside, but who cares? If we had our own secluded garden we would brave hypothermia and be out there constantly.

Here’s an idea President Reardon: Today is Mardi Gras, get some plastic beads, step out on your balcony and have some fun. You’re only in an interim position anyways.