Program aims to increase digital literacy

The Learner Web Partnership Project, which received a $3.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce last October, will be moving its digital literacy program from the development to implementation stage this week.

NEWS BRIEFS

PSU Twitter followers unite: To encourage campus involvement, Portland State is urging its Facebook and Twitter fans to attend its first ever “Tweetup” this afternoon in Parkway North.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ban bottled water at PSU: A body of students and faculty at Portland State University are fighting desperately to ban bottled water on the University’s campus as the practice of bottling and shipping water appears to be an extremely ecologically destructive and energy intensive process as well as harmful to community water supplies.

Sick and wrong

I don’t know about you, but I am sick of having to deal with people who come to school, well, sick!

NEWS BRIEFS March 11, 2011

Institute for Sustainable Solutions to host conservation forum

Portland State’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions was chosen as one of six sites in the United States to host a national forum on natural resource policy issues.

Corrections: March 11, 2011

On March 4, 2011 The Vanguard published an opinion piece “With great power comes too much influence.” The article contained a number of errors that the Vanguard would like to correct.

NEWS BRIEFS

PSU student receives HigherOne scholarship: HigherOne, a program that facilitates student loans, recently handed out 20 $2,500 scholarships across the country to help students pay for tuition.