Committee recommends more campus smoking regulations

Students recently attempting to purchase cigarettes at the student store might have been surprised by the lack of variety available. As the first of numerous planned changes to Portland State’s smoking policy, the student store no longer sells tobacco products, and as of Tuesday afternoon, only a couple packs of Nat Sherman cigarettes were left.

News briefs

Two Portland State professors received a $100,000 grant from the North Pacific Research Board to study the historic Pacific herring population distribution in Alaska.

Press Play – CD Reviews

If there is one motif that has been done to death in modern music, it’s the singer-songwriter idea. One dude, one guitar and far too much mopey sadness to do anybody any good. It’s safe to say that singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen.

News briefs

The Portland State School of Business Administration was ranked 22nd on the Beyond Grey Pinstripes Top 100 list for 2007-08, in recognition of the full-time Master’s of Business Administration at PSU.

Stabbing in Parking 3

An unknown assailant attacked a parking enforcement officer at Portland State on October 10, by stabbing the officer in the arm.

Editorial – OSPIRG: Not wanted

OSPIRG needs to take its hand out of the Portland State student fee cookie jar. Declaring that OSPIRG is not a student group is a good first step, but there are many more steps necessary to distance the organization from our student fees.

Letters

Well, OSPIRG is no longer a student group. Do we celebrate now or wait until the other universities follow suit? Maybe they have yet to find out how much of a sham they are. As if giving money makes that low gas mileage SUV acceptable again.

Gearing up

After losing in the second round of the Big Sky Conference tournament last year, the Portland State men’s basketball team hopes that returning talent and great depth will guide them on to a Big Sky championship.

Family man

Tremayne Kirkland doesn’t have to look far for the motivation necessary to keep dominating on the football field.

Editorial – Bravo SALP, sorta

A thank you is in order to Student Activities and Leadership Programs for catching one of the many faults of OSPIRG by declaring that they are no longer a student group.

News briefs

This Sunday, Pioneer Place will be hosting Portland’s annual AIDS walk to spread awareness and raise charity funds for the education and welfare of people who have been directly affected by AIDS or HIV.