Silencing the right

Recently The Portland Spectator, PSU’s conservative magazine, printed a request in large font on the magazine’s back cover: “Stop Killing Trees.” The request was a response to numerous stacks of the magazine disappearing from newsstands or ending up in trash cans seemingly at the hands of disgruntled students angry at the message the magazine promotes.

PSU, we have liftoff

Close to 200 miles above the earth, astronauts are experimenting with an idea that a Portland State professor developed over three years ago.

D’oh!

Bart Simpson’s little yellow penis–this is the one fresh thing The Simpsons Movie contributes to the television legacy of the long-standing show.

Hot Rod

Rising from internet filmmakers to Saturday Night Live writers and actors, The Lonely Island comedy crew have hit pay dirt with their off-beat brand of goofy-dumb humor.

Corrections

A photo caption in a July 11 article [“Securing the future”] incorrectly identified the photographer of a picture of former PSU President Daniel Bernstine. Aileen Cava was the photographer.

At 54, well-loved PSU professor dies

Timothy Baker, a well-loved faculty member in Portland, died on July 5 from a failed liver. Baker, who was 54, spent the most recent years before his death as a professor of public administration at Portland State and a professor in the health sciences program at the Linfield College Portland Campus.

Viking Game Room back on track after financial woes

After falling short of projected revenues in its first six months of business, the newly renovated Viking Game Room finished the school year with revenues totaling $93,000–$17,000 short of the funds needed to break even with operating costs.

News briefs

In an effort to curtail identity theft, the 2005 Legislature directed the Oregon Department of Transportation to use facial recognition software before issuing driver’s licenses.

Letters

Allocating funds for office equipment, supplies and attire is a normal course of action for every new student government. Our misfortune was that we could not inherit much and needed to start anew.