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A tough course and an even tougher field that featured several of the nation’s premier schools contributed to the Vikings’ 14th-place finish at the Peg Barnard California Collegiate Championship in Palo Alto, Calif., over the weekend.

One moment in Sacramento belonged solely to Mandy Hill, who crushed a grand slam Saturday to break a 4-4 tie in the Vikings’ 11-4 win in game two of Saturday’s doubleheader against Sacramento State.

Campus Public Safety Chief Michael Soto will hold the first of his “Meet the Chief Forums” today at 10 a.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 258.

Portland State is commonly seen as being environmentally friendly, whether it is because of the university’s many sustainable projects or the numerous environmentally conscious bikers that commute to campus. But when it comes to bottled water, the PSU Sustainability Office thinks university staff and students could be doing more to help reduce the number of plastic bottles littering the university–either by making a more conscious effort to recycle, or by just not drinking bottled water at all.

Remember when you were in high school and your days were filled with Grey Goose-fueled parties, shopping for designer clothing and movie-like romances. You don’t? That’s because you probably didn’t grow up in MTV reality land, where the most complicated times of anyone’s life can be boiled down into tightly edited and curiously resolved 30-minute chunks.

Haarp, like almost every other live album, has one major flaw–concerts usually suck to listen to unless you were there. Recorded in a massive show at Wembley Stadium last June, Muse manages to double the length of most of their already dangerously bloated and pretentious synth-hard rock without adding any new riffs or arrangements.

Todd Herman thinks storytelling is as essential to comics as artwork-and as an artist at Dark Horse comics, he should know. “…Frank Miller’s [Sin City] is a good example of this. I mean, the guy’s a really bad artist. He’s a really talented storyteller and his stuff is really good, but the guy just can’t draw.”

Dr. Jon Whitmore, one of three candidates vying to be PSU president, has withdrawn from the selection process. According to an Oregon University System press release sent today, Whitmore, who is currently President of Texas Tech University, has determined that being PSU president would not be a good fit for him after last week’s visit to campus.

Today is the deadline to file tax returns for employees who earned income during 2007. Failure to file will result in a late fee that is based on the employee’s 2007 earnings.

Obama knows how to get his boogie on. For proof, just watch clips of him on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (searchable on www.youtube.com) where he shakes his booty to the funky beat. Actually, it’s more like an unsure twelve-year-old rocking back and forth at a middle school dance.