The dining room is quiet and plain, and people at the bar are hunched over focusing on the task at hand, a bubbling pot of soup, lifting bright green vegetables and thin noodles from a fragrant liquid and then dipping into small bowls of green onion-flecked sauce.
Portland State’s School of Fine and Performing Arts will be offering a dance minor in the fall, bringing back elements of a program that was eliminated in 1996 due to budget cuts.
Portland State President Dan Bernstine returned to campus Wednesday after a Monday interview at West Virginia University for the school’s top post.
Great food always makes a road trip more bearable. Knowing the location of a secret gem, especially in those little out-of-the way spots, can make a destination worth the journey. Sometimes, an incredible meal can be a destination of its own. How far would you go for some tasty eats? Here are a few (relatively) unknown spots worth pulling off the highway for.
Portland State has made over $400,000 in the first 20 months of its contract with food service provider Sodexho. The contract with Sodexho will end on June 30. Portland State decided on March 2 to end its food service contract with Sodexho because of overpriced food and service mistakes.
Sushi can be intimidating and beautiful. At the same time, it can be a quick and even affordable way to eat healthy. In Portland, we are lucky enough to have a variety of sushi options to choose from representing most every piece of the spectrum. It wasn’t too long ago that there were only a few places in Portland to find decent Japanese food, let alone sushi.
Portland State Professor Joshua Binus has surrounded himself with ballot measure paraphernalia dating back to 1962. A pair of fuzzy bear suits from a 1984 Citizens Utility Board initiative and numerous graphic banners and bumper stickers are among the highlights of the collection.
Soda pop has become a guilty pleasure for kids and adults. It is chock full of caffeine, high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors. Today’s brands only vaguely resemble the egg creams and simple treats of the old-school soda fountain, when soda was an actual ingredient, and a guy behind the counter of a drug store mixed each drink by hand.
Oregon legislators will consider a bill later this month that is intended to lower textbook prices for college students. Sponsored by Sen. Bill Morrisette (D-Springfield) and Sen. Vicki Walker (D-Eugene), Senate Bill 365 would require that textbook publishers disclose their wholesale prices to the public and allow students to buy books separate from other components such as CD-ROMs or workbooks.
An Oregon legislator is introducing a bill that would protect free speech and a free press for students writing for high school and college newspapers. The bill would more fully extend First Amendment freedom of speech protection in Oregon to high school and college students.
A group of legislators and university administrators toured two buildings on campus Wednesday, inspecting a flooded basement, cracking, asbestos-laden roofs and visiting foul-smelling chemistry labs. Six members of the Subcommittee on Education of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means are considering Senate Bill 5516, which would give Oregon’s universities $172 million to renovate and improve facilities during the 2007-09 biennium.