The June departure of offensive coordinator Mouse Davis left head coach Jerry Glanville with large shoes to fill for just one man. Rather than hiring someone to replace Davis, Glanville decided almost two weeks ago to promote two of his coaches already on staff to jointly run the offense.
For the third time in four years, senior Tygue Howland’s football season is over before it has hardly begun. On Monday afternoon, Howland suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, ending his season.
As more and more companies are closing their doors, and layoffs are reaching unforeseen numbers, nonprofits and volunteer organizations have seen a drastic increase in applicants, particularly from recent graduates. The Portland State Career Center has noticed similar trends.
This school year has been a good one for many of the men’s and women’s sports teams that call Portland State home. It has been a season of firsts; a season of conference titles and new head coaches.
Literary nerds will spot the beatnik shout-out pretty quickly when they here the name The Subterranean Howl. The band’s core songwriter Simon Milliman is an avid reader and designed the name that way. Listeners can hear a host of other references as they take in the diverse sounds of the Portland-based band.
Like Siamese twins with an overactive adrenal gland, Armando Blanco and Ana Rodriguez of local punk outfit Magic Johnson have a tendency to tear shit up. By mixing Spanish and English lyrics into the blender with a chainsaw and some asylum bound wailing, the duo is coming up with some of the most original music in Portland.
It was an unusual sight in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom Tuesday evening, as the university hosted its first sustainable fashion show, “Passion for Fashion: Ecouture.”
After a year in which student government spent more time lobbying in Salem than interacting with students in the South Park Blocks, and its overly ambitious agenda led to incremental change—at best—we hope the incoming administration refocuses its energy on what is truly important: this campus.
With just four days before the next student government staff takes office on June 1, incoming ASPSU President Jonathan Sanford has yet to fill any executive staff positions. The transition process on campus is already ramping up, Sanford said.
Much has been said about Adrienne Hatkin, of the uber-eclectic local band Autopilot is for Lovers, and her remarkable voice. Her gypsy wail is enchanting to say the least, sounding like a band of vaudevillians jumped down her throat.
Will jazz ever make it into the dance clubs? If Alpaca! has anything to do with it then, yes. Named after an animal that is somewhat of a cross between a camel and a llama, Alpaca! holds true to this idea of a crossbreeding rings as it plays a refreshing mix of jazz-funk-electronica that makes jazz lovers dance and dance lovers at last become receptive to jazz.