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Like few other Oregon bands, funk, nu-jazz jam band Reeble Jar, has never released a studio album.

Aside from recognizing Portland State student writers, the Nina Mae Kellogg Student Award winners can receive between $50 and $1,000 to help them fund their education and continue their writing careers.

It’s a great sports season, although it seems to bring out the worst in fans when it comes to grammar. It goes beyond the Portland State Clown College Bozos: Apparently, they’ve discovered the Internet and are spreading their bad grammatical influence across worldwide networks.

Everyone wants to embrace their hometown bands, and in Portland we have a few to laud. Sometimes, though, our want for hometown pride may be stronger than the bands in which we place our hopes.

The scene is serene, a bit mystical, lightly coated in a misty haze from the dreamy morning rain. Where art is growth and growth is art, the farm is sprinkled with the softness and intimacy of communal reciprocity.

One might think that it takes a mighty powerful catalyst to get chemistry students to react with a football. The Free Radicals, the aptly named intramural flag football team that is comprised of chemistry students, is out to show otherwise.

We come to university not only to get a degree that will help us get a good job and lucrative career. We also come to university, at least a little I hope, for education itself. Online courses may be effectively lowering the bar when it comes to actual learning.

Indie pop quartet Nucular Aminals has created a buzz not only from its independent style, but its extensive 2010 tour, which has the group playing a large number of shows in Portland and the Northwest, as well as destinations like Kansas City, Mo.

The overwhelming passage of Measure 69 in Tuesday’s primary election once again gives Oregon universities the ability to access low-cost financing to purchase existing facilities, which can be less costly than building new facilities, as well as the ability to finance other facilities that would benefit higher education.

As Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The recent introduction of a bill to the U.S. Senate threatens the liberty of all American citizens.

“Maybe it has something to do with the romanticized traffic culture,” said Tom Filepp, the single composer behind Cars and Trains. “…what it means to be human.”