National Basketball Association general managers have long favored lanky combo forwards with skill sets that sometimes escape definition.Since his rookie year in the 2000-01 season, Darius Miles has been that sort of tease, the guy that can go off for 45 points one night and mail in a 4-14 shooting night the next.
In a messy house not far from campus, past piles of laundry and Playboys littering a living room, members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and their new recruits are playing poker and joking around.
Right now student government is in a good position. It’s a new year, and a completely new administration is in charge of advocating for student interests at Portland State. All they have to do is not screw it up.
Portland State faculty Gerald Sussman has contributed a chapter to the business book “Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy.”
Throughout October, Northwest Film Center will screen Eco-Sicko, a collection of films that obscurely and explicitly discuss environmental awareness.
Portland Mayor Tom Potter led Israeli Channel-10, a television crew from Tel Aviv, on a tour of sustainable facilities downtown and at Portland State. Potter led the crew around campus, pointing out planters, ecoroofs and other sustainability projects for use in a documentary on sustainable cities.
A move to streamline campus housing has been met with resistance by some students who say they are unhappy with the changes to housing policies, including when rent is due and how financial aid refunds are disbursed.
Idealism is never an end unto itself. The stories and characters in Albert Camus’ play The Rope prove that.
The first of three candidates vying for the position of vice provost of Student Affairs, Peg L. Blake, will be at Portland State for a forum open to students on Oct. 4 at 4 p.m., in Room 236 of Smith Memorial Student Union.
This album is filled with synth-goth, a sound meant to feel brooding and dark. Perhaps if Trent Reznor hadn’t already mastered this genre, Eat Me, Drink Me would be better.