Author: Admin

After a week of confusion over election results for the SFC liaison race, Petter Dahlgren was validated by the ASPSU Elections Board Friday as the actual winner of a SFC seat after the board said Yazmin Estevez won five days earlier. The Elections Board counted the number of individual votes cast for each candidate, and found that students elected Dahlgren, not Estevez, to the Student Fee Committee. The Vanguard reported that the SFC voting system was flawed a day after the board announced the winners, causing the board to reconsider the SFC liaison results.

Hunter S. Thompson once said “I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” The same words could easily have come from the mouth of Tennessee Williams, one of the most respected modern playwrights and author of A Streetcar Named Desire, which is now playing at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre.

One of the producers says in the production notes that he considers this movie as “something of a throwback to an earlier era of filmmaking.” He must be referring to the 1980s, because this feels like the kind of slick, mindless thriller Adrian Lyne used to make–for better and for worse. For a while, it has the guilty-pleasure allure of a 9 1/2 Weeks or a Fatal Attraction, and it certainly resembles the British director’s aesthetic with its good-looking characters, urban setting and cool, steely grays and blues.

With two candidates who want the same job and three courses of action, what’s an Elections Board to do? The only thing that makes sense: Follow the constitution, count the votes like you should have and verify that Petter Dahlgren was democratically elected to the Student Fee Committee.

I’m a new student at PSU, and I appreciate the diversity of opinions and beliefs on our campus. Over the past few months, I’ve heard some fairly offensive messages expressed on the Park Blocks, and usually I can hold my tongue and laugh them off.

Four teams are bunched near the top of the Pacific Coast Softball Conference, and with one last weekend of conference play to go, each team is still chasing the ultimate carrot: a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament. With no conference tournament and only six member schools, winning the regular season is the only way to advance to postseason play.

After waiting out a hard downpour that drenched Howe Field an hour before the first pitch, Portland State managed to hang tough with the Ducks until two booming home runs helped Oregon to a six-run second inning that allowed the home team to claim an 8-4 win.

After earning a tough series split with powerhouse Loyola Marymount over the weekend, the Vikings find themselves staring down some difficult math: They are in fourth place in the conference, and with four games to go are all but eliminated from contending for the championship.

The Vikings travel to Eugene to wrap up their four-game series against the Ducks. Oregon has won two of three, including a two-game sweep at Erv Lind Stadium on April 16. Portland State won 4-0 at Howe Field March 5.

Throughout Elizabeth Hess’ new book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, it’s hard not to adore the title character. The in-depth piece of non-fiction chronicles the life of Nim, a chimpanzee born in 1973 in an Oklahoma research facility who became the subject of a controversial experiment in language acquisition established by Columbia professor Herbert Terrace.