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There is a problem at Portland State that can affect as many as 435 female students in an academic year. The problem is domestic and sexual violence, and every student can help stop it from happening.

Smoking cigarettes, as it stands right now, is legal. No one will deny that smoking is bad for anyone who engages in it on a regular basis, but the freedom to do so exists nonetheless. This freedom, however, is being constantly infringed upon by the state.

An urban growth boundary (UGB) is a system that ensures the steady and supervised growth of urban and suburban sprawl. The line is drawn to effectively separate urban growth from rural development, which is less dense. In Portland, it allows the city to maintain farmland and the beautiful wilderness that is a point of pride for many Oregonians.

This weekend, the Vikings face Sacramento State at home in their third of five consecutive games against Big Sky opponents.

Party in the Park this year was pretty great and the turnout was inspiring. Many students charged through the booths, amassing sticker after sticker in order to grab themselves some free food. Though aside from the usual proof of visiting student groups, students this year also had to visit four corporate sponsors in order to earn their grub.

Portland State is debuting a new social networking site, similar to Facebook, aimed at reducing paper and confusion. The hope is that the site will boost student involvement on campus.

It went right through his hands.

The ball sailed right through cornerback Tracy Ford’s grasping hands, and the pass that everyone, opposing head coach and quarterback included, thought was an interception, finished its fated route into the end zone and became the winning touchdown for the Weber State Wildcats.

This will be the third year of Head Coach Jerry Glanville’s regime at PSU, and he will be looking to improve on last year’s 4-7 mark. There will be some tough games this year as the Vikings look to move up the ranks of the Big Sky Conference. Two preseason conference polls had the Vikings coming in sixth. This game-by-game preview should give an idea of what the season has in store.

Rent downtown can be steep, and by the time you add up the additional ticky-tacky expenses, it can become too steep a financial slope for some of us to climb. A reasonable place to look next is the suburbs, where the rent situation is much better, but the looming problem of transportation gets bigger.

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Nothing heralds fall’s arrival like the beginning of football season. Once all but the best boys of summer have been chased back into the locker room, the men that play the rough, tough and always-dynamic game of football don their cleats and step out onto the field.