Halfway through conference play, the men’s basketball team (13-8, 6-2 Big Sky) finds itself leading the Big Sky Conference in the standings department. From the outside, the team finally seems to be clicking after a sluggish start and is poised to make another run at a conference title.
The Lumberjacks are led by senior forward Laura Dinkins, the reigning Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year. Dinkins is averaging 14 points and eight rebounds per game. Junior center Ashley Ingle is third in the conference in rebounding, pulling down nine boards per game to go with her 12.7 points-per-game average.
Portland State junior point guard Jeremiah Dominguez is fresh off his first Big Sky Player of the Week selection, after scoring 45 second half points in two games last weekend, and should look for an encore performance against the Lumberjacks.
I am concerned about the misinformation regarding part-time faculty pay that was reported in the Vanguard [“Part-time Faculty File for Mediation,” Jan. 30]. Margi McCue is misquoted as saying, “the average part-time staff member makes about $34,000 in a 9-month school year.”
It’s the biggest idea in the entire proposal: Make PSU one of the two focal points of a science center that would be the core of scientific research in Oregon. It’s an easy resolution to the longstanding idea to combine OHSU and PSU into a single private university.
Is the threat of a strike not enough? For most students, it’s difficult to perceive what a faculty strike would mean. For administrators, the idea of it must be frightening: will they have to teach in faculty members’ stead?
His first migraine hit almost three years ago. At the time, Nick Walden Poublon didn’t understand what caused it. He was a 24-year-old college student with an active lifestyle and a clean bill of health. The migraines became more frequent and intense. Walden Poublon was thrust into a life of endless doctor’s appointments and mounting physical pain. His arms and legs would ache, the pain radiating through his body.
Portland State’s safety committee, formed after the events at Virginia Tech, is holding a public forum tomorrow to get opinions on whether PSU Public Safety should become a full-fledged police department, let officers carry firearms and increase officer training.
The SFC zero funded Smith Memorial Student Union’s budget Jan. 31, the committee said, after Auxiliary Services failed to notify the SMSU advisory board of a possible $50 room rental fee for SFC departments.
LOS ANGELES–An agreement to end the 3-month-old Hollywood writers’ strike could be ready in time to avoid disrupting the Oscars, but studios and the union are still haggling over the precise language, two people familiar with the talks said.
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.