Shortly before the holidays, Ooligan Press Director Dennis Stovall announced that he would retire in December 2011, 10 years after he founded the graduate program in publishing.
Fighting for the right to publish
“Rethinking Paper & Ink” hits shelves on Earth Day
“Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution,” written and published by students in Portland State’s Ooligan Press graduate program in publishing, hits bookshelves and online retailers on April 22.
Top 5 gay bars
If you like your gays gay and your strippers caged, Boxxes is the place for you.
Ombuds to close after spring term
For nearly 11 years Sandy McDermott has worked at Portland State’s Ombudsman Office, offering students an informal, impartial and confidential resource for resolving their problems.
Italian Studies gets a boost from $7,500 grant
Portland State World Languages and Literature faculty member and Assistant Professor Silvia Boero was recently awarded a $7,500 grant from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).
Heart-shaped boxes
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel “Never Let Me Go” has recently enjoyed a revival after being adapted for the big screen in 2010 by director Mark Romanek.
Kyoto’s Kashu-juku bring full cast noh theater to PSU
For the first time in nearly two decades, full-cast professional noh theater will be performed on a Portland stage.
George Takei headlines campus civil rights event
George Takei, best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu on television’s “Star Trek,” will be at Portland State this Sunday to speak about civil rights and his own experiences of facing discrimination.
The message
“We have never stopped interfering drastically with ourselves by every technology we could latch onto,” Marshall McLuhan said in 1966.
Tough questions, uncertain answers at restructuring forum
Portland State and the Oregon University System held a campus-wide forum on Tuesday evening about the future of higher education in Oregon that featured PSU President Wim Wiewel, OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner, ASPSU President Katie Markey, Professor Maude Hines and Representative Chris Harker.
Strange Werther
Fans of opera and classic Hollywood melodrama could find themselves in a paradoxical situation this Valentine’s Day. Beginning Feb. 11,Opera Theater Oregon will be presenting a mixed media adaptation of Jules Massenet’s classic opera “Werther.”