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Portland State’s part-time faculty union said it is satisfied with the recent salary negotiations with the university, after an agreement was reached with PSU officials Feb. 22. The agreement would give faculty a 5 percent tentative salary increase for the 2007-2008 academic year and another 5 percent increase the following year. Brooke Jacobson, president of the PSU part-time faculty union, said the settlement was a good one, although it wasn’t what faculty originally wanted. “It’s certainly not what we had hoped to get. We had hoped to move closer to a livable wage,” Jacobson said. “Anyway, we feel that it is a good settlement.”

Portland State students with an eye for performance can now show off their talents, from singing to juggling, at a brand new weekly open mic night series, premiering Thursday in Food For Thought Cafe.

Less than a week after former head soccer coach Tim Bennett’s resignation was announced, Vikings assistant coach Laura Schott was promoted to the head coaching post.

Hippies have always ruled Portland State. Sure, we’re not as crazy as those tree-dwellers down in Berkeley, but we Portlanders do want to make sure that our trees are kept in one piece. The university decided in 1989 to add on to the Branford P. Millar Library, to create the toilet-seat-shaped building we know today.

PSU’s part-time faculty union reached an agreement with the university Friday regarding professor pay, after nine months of salary negotiations and almost a month of mediation.

In 1988, Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie wrote a novel called The Satanic Verses. It was based on certain verses Mohammed wrote into the Quran glorifying three goddesses from Mecca, which the prophet later took out, saying the devil had tempted him to put them in to please the people of Mecca. Rushdie’s novel took the perspective that those verses had actually been given by an angel to Islam’s founder, who then took them out.

How would you try to fit in to a management position at a big-time record label after obsessing over rock music in your teens, then slacking off work all the way through your 20s? Maybe you’d panic and buy $1,500 worth of picture frames and other trinkets to decorate your office, to make it look like you had a life. Meet Dan Kennedy in his new memoir, Rock On: An Office Power Ballad.

Big, stupid rock music is king. And ASG (…the Amplification of Self-Gratification) aims to make good on the promise of simple riffs and heavy guitars. But they fail. Sure, there’s some pretty standard stoner-rock action on their Volcom debut Win Us Over–there are even some OK riffs–but the singing ruins everything.

Chango Malo – This is a band you’ll really want to like. Flashes of musical brilliance are strewn throughout The Whiskey Years, and there is a solid cross-section of ear-friendly catchiness and clean outbursts of emotional energy. The better parts of the album sound like hints of Lagwagon mixed with early-era Red Hot Chili Peppers, but the band seems intent on being stylish instead of substantial in their lyrics and vocal presentation.

With film festivals popping up all the time in Portland, the Portland International Film Festival still stands out as the biggest and best–the Grand Poobah of them all. This year’s Portland International Film Festival, or PIFF for those in the know, wraps up this weekend. If you didn’t get a chance to catch a screening, don’t worry. There are still plenty of films to see in its last few days, including encore screenings of some of the festival’s standouts.

LOS ANGELES–A Superior Court commissioner denied a request Tuesday by Britney Spears’ divorce attorney to issue a gag order in the pop star’s child-custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline.