In response to the March 5 Vanguard article, “Fixed-term jobs for tenure spots,” I feel I must add some clarity to the events as reported and a refocus to the heart of the issue here which affects all faculty in this university. I should note that I have taught on this program almost from its inception and I have loved the kind of interaction with my students that the pedagogy promotes.
Most of what we think of as “theater” is a rather cerebral exercise. Characters with long lines of dialogue and struggles spend a couple of hours conversing and interacting with each other. Quite frankly, this is not appealing to most people, so theater has become a sort niche-audience art form.
Students can speak with members of the ASPSU executive staff today at an open forum that will allow students to communicate directly with student government leaders about issues they feel are important.
Despite an initial strong showing at a scheduled OUS board meeting protest Friday about faculty pay, few members of Portland State’s full-time faculty union were left by the time the board let union representatives speak–hours later than was planned.
If you slowed down the Beastie Boys, added a bit of Little Brother (sans humor), and set it all to a simple, robotic beat, you’d get Sweep the Leg by Hangar 18. Having performed with some of the more solid hip-hop artists out there, like Mos Def and Aesop Rock, you might expect something of the same caliber. Don’t hold your breath.
With money, women and a wide array of high-tech gadgetry, characters like James Bond are the popular standard for what an assassin should be. But manga author Takao Saito isn’t really concerned about the popular perception of assassins. He’s too busy writing stories for the ass-kicking Golgo 13.
For some in Portland, karaoke is a way of life. They love the thrill of stumbling up to the front of a bar, clumsily taking a mic in their hand and warbling through whatever horrible ’80s pop song is hip at that moment–all for an attentive audience of drunks waiting for their turn to make fools of themselves. Sound like hell? Well, it’s not–it’s actually kind of fun.
Something was missing from the travel, tourist and inside-info books on the greater Portland area, something … delicious. Enter the Portland Happy Hour Guidebook. What do we like to do after a long day of work? What’s one of the famous Portland hobbies that doesn’t depend on the weather? We like to drink! And eat for cheap! Why couldn’t someone write a guidebook about that?