After splitting their four-game series with St. Mary’s, the Vikings find themselves in the same position they were entering play last weekend: in second place in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference, facing another crucial four-game set just over the horizon that could decide the conference title.
Junior first baseman Jana Rae Slayton leads the Vikings with a .368 batting average and has four home runs and 28 RBIs. She went 6-12 with a homer and five RBIs in a four-game series against St. Mary’s last weekend. Slayton is from Mt. Vernon, Wash.
Not only did the Vanguard miss the opportunity to endorse the best student body presidential candidate for Portland State University, it also has chosen to ignore and invalidate the work that I have contributed over the past three years for my fellow students serving as a student leader on this campus. The criticisms are hurtful and shameful and are simply inaccurate.
The lives of working-class people aren’t usually lyrical fodder for rappers. The lives of depressed people aren’t generally represented, either.
In connection with the Consulate-General of Japan in Portland, the Portland State Center for Japanese Studies will present a traditional Kabuki song and dance by Mark Oshima tonight in Lincoln Hall.
Did you know that less than 10 percent–1,909 of 24,000–of PSU students voted in student elections last year?
Student government elections have arrived, this year without raising much of a ruckus. The work that student leaders do is increasingly important, as is the fair and democratic process used to elect them.
For six tense innings Wednesday afternoon, it appeared as if Portland State’s tenuous 1-0 lead over the Oregon Ducks would hold. Freshman pitcher Nicole Latham was cruising, locating her pitches well and using her biting screwball to render Oregon batters helpless. Then the floodgates opened for the Ducks in the top of the seventh inning, when they finally figured out Latham (8-8, 4.83 ERA) and piled on seven runs (five earned) to take a 7-1 lead, strolling to victory in the second game of the midweek doubleheader.