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After serving as interim assistant director of Student Activities and Leadership Programs (SALP) for the 2007-08 academic year, Natalee Webb was not hired to permanently fill the position. Dominic Thomas will become the new assistant director, following a decision made by SALP Director Aimee Shattuck on June 24. Shattuck said she wanted to support all of her staff members in their career goals, and help them further their skills and experiences, even if that meant doing so elsewhere in the PSU community.

Michael Malinowski, a former student and campus accessibility advocate, died of a heart attack June 24 while giving a presentation on Web site accessibility. Malinowski served as the coordinator for the Disabilities Advocacy Cultural Association (DACA) during the 2006-07 academic year. Malinowski worked on several projects around campus, including what could become a Disabilities Studies minor for PSU, as well as a program that would construct a solar-powered wheelchair recharging station on campus.

Creature Creator reminds me a lot of those little keychain Tamagotchis that were all the rage back in fifth grade. Only now, instead of waiting for your digital critter to “hatch” or spending agonizing hours feeding it, you just get to create it and then watch it go. It’s like being on the god side of the digital beast universe. Which is, obviously, effing sweet.

Depending on who you are there is some good news and some bad news about Hancock. If you love superhero movies like The Incredible Hul��k–where the traditional comic book structure of hero defeats super villain, finds romance and battles inner turmoil remains untouched��–then you will most likely be disappointed by Hancock. But, if you’ve had your fill of traditional superhero films after Marvel’s one-two punch with the entertaining but still conventional Iron Man and the aforementioned, insipid Hulk, then the genre-twisting, Will Smith-vehicle Hancock should be a pleasant surprise for you in this year’s so-far unexceptional summer movie season.

As head coach Amy Hayes was busy leading her Portland State softball squad to a 31-27 record, she was also undertaking a side project: assembling a team of Northwest all-stars to coach in a game against the U.S. Olympic team that will play in Beijing in August. The teams will clash at historic Erv Lind Stadium at 7 p.m., July 8. The Portland Metro Softball Association is hosting the Olympic team as it barnstorms across the country in its Bound 4 Beijing pre-Olympics warm-up tour. The game is sold out, with more than 2,000 tickets sold.

“Impeach Bush! Impeach Bush!” command the posters, bumper stickers and protesters eagerly waving their signs around Portland. I smile at their valiant effort, but then a wistful thought snakes through my mind. Too little, too late.

President Bush signed a new GI Bill on Monday aimed at providing the full cost for college or job training for those who served after Sept. 11, 2001. The GI Bill will extend to activated reservists and National Guardsmen with benefits paid proportionally to the number of months in active duty.

To Ashlanders, Jen Moss is simply known as the “Naked Lady.”

It’s hard to approach Kerry Cohen’s Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity without expecting something at least halfway salacious, and Cohen happily delivers.