Author: Admin

Eight fixed-term faculty members in University Studies will lose their jobs because of the addition of 25 new tenure-line faculty positions the administration plans to incorporate into departments around Portland State over the next three years.

Alan Drew’s debut novel, Gardens of Water, is the kind of book you wish would be assigned in your English class just so you could have other people to talk about it with. If you read it, know that you’ll have to lend it to a friend for the sake of the discussion left bubbling inside you. Or come find me. We can talk.

If you judge an album by its cover, Little Beirut’s High Dive would seem unpromising. With its crazy black-and-white photo of a towel-clad older woman with cigarette and martini, Little Beirut seem like one of those kitschy, hopelessly hip indie bands that sell themselves on the fact that they’re different from the rest, even if they’re the same.

In between doling out homework and grading your midterms, Portland State faculty are also part-time comedians. Well, maybe not. But in a makeshift greeting card created by PSU’s full-time faculty union, the American Association of University Professors, they made a joke regarding their on-going pay disputes with the university.

The trial of two former Portland State football players and three other people accused of bank fraud is slated to begin August 19, according to Amy Potter, the prosecuting assistant U.S. Attorney on the case.

Portland State students and some administrators met with Vicky Triponey yesterday, one of two possible candidates for PSU’s vice provost for student affairs position who are visiting campus this week. Triponey, who previously served as Pennsylvania State University’s vice president before going on sabbatical last Sept., said she wants to crate an open dialogue on campus–something she wants to continue as PSU vice provost.

Language cannot always express the strong feelings of life. This is one of the reasons why we developed art. Music, painting, sculpture, film, poetry, creative writing and theater all provide ways to express the deepest realities of human existence in which mere words cannot approach. Even the arts, however, have often been so formalized that only one way of expression is considered “right.”

Until now, it seemed that Myspace had no redeeming social value. But with the news that the morally ambiguous and uncomfortably corporate Web site will be sponsoring a free “secret” concert by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks tonight at the Satyricon, they may have redeemed themselves. Well, maybe not.

Two Portland State students recently received recognition from the National Intramural-Recreation Sports Association for their contributions to the university’s campus recreation program.

Southwest Sixth Avenue will not be open to vehicle traffic north of Southwest Harrison Street this weekend as planned, meaning that the intersection will remain closed to vehicles through March.