When things get stressful at school, my friends and I figure that taking a break and getting a sugary treat is just what we need.
Here are three places on and around campus where you can indulge your sweet tooth.
For two years, Portland State’s Center for Japanese Studies has presented a speaker series focusing on Americans who have set up profitable businesses in Japan.
The next talk, to be held Thursday, will be the opposite: “Japanese Success Stories in Doing Business in Oregon: The Case of Ajinomoto,” featuring Haruo Kurata, senior vice president of Ajinomoto Frozen Foods USA. Ajinomoto sells Asian frozen foods in the U.S., such as fried rice and pot stickers.
Five musicians and three Portland State students will travel to Portland’s Russian sister-city, Khabarovsk, Dec. 11 for the first-ever jazz cultural exchange trip, called The Jazz Bridge Project.
The Portland State department of theater and film will launch its 2011–12 season Thursday with the play Sight Unseen, directed by master’s candidate Kristin Heller.
The play, written by Donald Margulies, follows expressionist artist Jonathon Waxman at the peak of his career. He travels to London for a national gallery opening after losing his father just as he is about to become a father himself. Feeling that something is missing in his life, he visits a former lover, Patricia, his first muse in college.
Japanese journalist and author Mika Tsutsumi will deliver a lecture, titled “Why my book Poverty Superpower America sold 500,000 copies in Japan,” Thursday, Oct. 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 327.
A book about poverty in the United States is nothing new, and Portlanders see examples of poverty every day. So why is Tsutsumi’s book so popular in Japan?
Cristian Mungui’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days follows two college roommates, Otilia and Gabita, in their search for an illegal abortion in communist Romania. The movie is dark, strikingly realistic and presents a shocking view of what many desperate young women in this situation endured at that time in history.
Is there a “clash of civilizations” in the world?
This term was introduced in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to convey the idea that the West and the Muslim Middle East are natural enemies doomed to a constant state of conflict.