To my own dismay, I saw the saddest attempt at political conversion as I walked back to my dormitory last week. A few right-winged students had set up a small booth and were asking students who passed, such as myself, “Are you ready to impeach Obama?”
The Office of Information Technologies found that less hard drives than originally estimated were affected by an upgrade error that caused data loss, but the recovery effort continues three weeks later.
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger spoke to a crowd gathered in the South Park Blocks beside Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State last Friday to protest the shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer in late January.
The question of reforming Oregon’s tax kicker was recently turned down for consideration by the Oregon Legislature. Oregon lawmakers have wrongly and hastily turned down a reform that could help Oregon’s economy in the future.
A new look will be given to the policies regarding service animals in Portland State housing after a student recently reported having difficulty obtaining approval to keep a service animal.
There will always be a public debate over the issue of firearms and other weapons in our society. One aspect that needs no debate is the standing state laws regarding these weapons.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited Portland Tuesday to address the police shooting of an unarmed African-American man. His words prompted protests, rallies and marches—one of which will take place on Portland State’s campus tomorrow.
Dr. Stephen Reder, professor of applied linguistics, said he developed Learner Web after a research project called the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning showed that “adults who had learning goals…often didn’t have realistic plans.”
Times have changed since Dee Thompson, director of the Career Center, returned to school in 1981 to earn a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in counseling at Portland State.
Normally, a trinket tells very little. It lies nearly invisible as the masses trample over it or brush past its worthlessness. A trinket can be anything—an old shoe, a leaf or a family portrait found in a thrift store, and the only common thread being that it’s been discarded.
As broke college students, there isn’t a lot we won’t do for cash. From cleaning up after our peers at the EMU to standing for tedious hours at the mercy of a grocery scanning mecha-lord at Safeway (like me)—you name it, we’d probably do it.