Oregon State head basketball coach Craig Robinson’s first trip to the South Park Blocks won’t be to coach against the Vikings. Instead, Robinson will be stumping for his brother-in-law, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, at a debate viewing party tonight in Montgomery Hall. He said he has done about 50 appearances for the campaign so far.
An arson attempt at St. Helens Court was foiled early Monday morning, according to The Oregonian and local television outlets.
Recently, Portland State’s profile for sustainability projects on campus has been the subject of much discussion across campus. This week, the Vanguard is taking a closer look at what sustainability has meant to PSU in the past, present and future. Even among expert faculty, sustainability at Portland State is often a nebulous topic.
Metal ain’t what it used to be. The headbanger’s odyssey might have started with Black Sabbath, but the years between Ozzy’s first yowling wail and the present date have seen the genre grow in leaps and bounds. And if you’re making a case study of the future of the musical bloodsport, you’d do well to examine Baroness and Genghis Tron.
Students and spectators lined the walls and doorway of the crowded Parkway North room in Smith Memorial Student Union to watch the student body’s presentation of the national vice-presidential debate broadcast. The event, held Thursday night in the Parkway North room of SMSU, was designed to increase voter registration on campus, said Virginia Vickery, university affairs director for the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU). Vickery called the event a great success.
Ten thousand. It’s a number larger than the populations of Seaside, Astoria, Baker City, Newport, Lincoln City, North Bend, Madras, Hood River and more than 20 other Oregon cities. It’s also how much Portland State’s enrollment has grown since 2000.
Leaning back in his office chair following a soggy, drizzly morning practice Thursday, head coach Jerry Glanville spoke with confidence and certainty when he claimed that his 1-3 team was excelling in many facets of the game.
For whatever reason, Nintendo’s lil’ pink creampuff has never enjoyed the same popularity as Mario and Co. But when it comes to games with cute, fluffy heroes eating equally as cute enemies and stealing their abilities, Kirby’s got the market cornered. Still, Kirby’s adventures have often been overshadowed by bigger Nintendo franchises. So, it’s probably a safe bet that the DS’ Kirby Super Star Ultra, a remake of the SNES’ Kirby Super Star, might be unfamiliar territory for some. For the uninitiated, Super Star Ultra is a broken-up platformer starring Kirby in various bite-sized adventures.
Why would a narwhal (think a porpoise crossed with a unicorn) want to fight another narwhal when they could just dance together? Zac Stanley, lead vocals and guitar for Portland band Narwhal vs. Narwhal, describes his band as “spastic happy pop that anyone with huge energy can jump around to.”
The Orpheus tale is a classic. Orpheus’s bride, Eurydice, dies on their wedding day and takes up residency in the underworld. In her absence, Orpheus, chief among musicians and poets, creates the saddest music in the world. His songs of woe so disrupt man and Gods alike that Orpheus is encouraged to enter the underworld and retrieve his bride. In the underworld, Eurydice is offered to him with one provision: as he leads her from the underworld, Orpheus cannot look back. Of course, he turns and Eurydice dies permanently.
Days before Portland State President Wim Wiewel announced “the biggest news in Portland State history,” rumors about what that news could be flew around the South Park Blocks at warp speed. While it turned out that all the fuss was over a $25 million grant for sustainability, for a week there was enough supposition and palace intrigue to make your head spin. Everyone from low-level staffers, coaches and students had their own take on what Wiewel could possibly have up his sleeve.