All but a few students from Professor Donald Tyree’s Native American studies class shuffled out of a second-floor classroom in Lincoln Hall as quickly as they could after a fire alarm sounded on Jan. 9. The students left were faced with a problem: a fellow student, Heather Brooks, who uses a wheelchair, had no way of getting herself down the stairs.
Education topped the list of concerns that citizens and experts had about the Portland-Vancouver area in a group of surveys published in a new Portland State-based fact book. Used as a fact book to study issues and trends in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region, the 2007 edition of the Portland State Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies’ (IMS) biennial Metropolitan Briefing Book was released on Jan.