In a moment of relative solitude, Marjane Satrapi, in simple drab colors, sits in a row of chairs at an airport in Paris. She wears a tired, worn expression as she lights up a cigarette, staring through the passersby. When she exhales, little puffs of smoke clouds plume playfully across the screen, creating a visual distraction for the audience. This could easily be the real Marjane Satrapi, but it’s not–this girl is animated.
A Student Fee Committee member says the committee’s chair, Amanda Newberg, told him to skip a meeting during which the committee made a decision to initially deny the Oregon Student Association access to more than $100,000 for next year.
Portland State faculty are holding lectures and public forums about literacy during February as part of Multnomah County’s “Everybody Reads” project.
For many members of the Portland State community, traveling to and from school on a bicycle is an everyday part of life. But it can be also be hazardous–especially in winter conditions. The Vanguard talked to local bike experts to get their tips on how students and staff can stay safe while making their daily commute.
Portland State sure knows how to flush. The university seems to buy a new type of toilet almost as often as it creates a new sustainability program.
The inside of his house, a 19th century Queen Anne, is littered with fragments of the past: a decades-old chest of drawers is restored and shining with polish; the house’s original brick chimney, built over 100 years ago, still rests on the roof; his walls are covered with picture after picture of a Portland that few remember, when the iconic images of the city-the Crystal Ballroom, Pioneer Courthouse–were just materializing. The house is now a law firm owned by Portland lawyer Randal Acker, and is the last of its kind standing on a block that was once a bustling neighborhood filled with buildings just like his. The house may not stand much longer. For nearly two years, TriMet officials have talked of tearing down the house or moving it to make way for the new light rail and Portland State’s newest housing venture. If TriMet gets its way, Acker’s house could be gone by 2009.
I am writing with concern with your coverage of the Student Fee Committee deliberations last Friday. While the story was “accurate” in the sense that it portrayed the decision that was made by the SFC, it erroneously omitted a great deal of our process that led to Friday’s decision concerning the ASPSU budget, specifically with the Oregon Student Association (OSA).
Road weary and badly in need of some rest, the Trail Blazers (25-17) instead get to deal with chilly winter weather and a pair of weekend home games against the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks.
Sitting a few feet from a table of whips, leather collars and multi-colored bondage ropes makes it hard to concentrate on the large woman in a tight red dress and leather heels giving a lecture at the front of the room.
The Portland State chapter of the American Association of University Professors met with national representatives of the organization yesterday to discuss possible strategies in the event of a faculty strike.
The Office of Veterans Services is holding a workshop for anyone interested in learning about posttraumatic stress disorder and how to help the students and veterans who cope with it.