A recent study conducted by Dr. Andrew Fountain, a Portland State geology professor, shows that global climate change has affected local glaciers. According to the study, Mount Adams, located 31 miles from Mount St. Helens in the Southeast Washington Cascade Range, is experiencing severe changes due to the warming of the planet.
On Thursday, Jan. 12, Portland State hosted a public-safety forum. The event, which was open to the public, provided a venue for discussion of campus public safety between staff, faculty and students. The forum resulted in several troubling questions raised by the university community.
Sitting on the university panel was Jessica Amo, assistant director of the Women’s Resource Center; Dr. Marcy Hunt-Morse, director of Counseling and Psychological Services; Phillip Zerzan, director of Campus Public Safety Office; and Charles Lopez, executive director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Michele Toppe, dean of student life, mediated the discussion.
This month PSU will give students the opportunity to connect with Getaround, new car-sharing company. Getaround offers students a more sustainable way to get to and from class while giving students a way to make some cash in the process.
A peer-to-peer car sharing company, Getaround focuses on short-term rentals at hourly rates. Unlike Zipcar and other competitors, Getaround does not maintain a proprietary fleet of rental cars. Instead, users rent out their personal cars to one another.
PSU is currently undergoing security and safety improvements following two recent sexual assaults that occurred on campus.
On Dec. 20, 2011, the Campus Public Safety Office responded to a call from someone who heard screaming coming from the downstairs restroom of the Academic and Student Recreation Center.
The Occupy Portland movement continues to promote its message, even after facing police intervention and eviction. The group, which was evicted from their Lownsdale and Chapman Squares encampment last month, now plans to occupy a new space somewhere in Portland beginning next week.
According to media releases from Occupy Portland, the general assembly approved plans to move to a new occupation space. The location is to be decided after their town hall meeting at the First Unitarian Church on 1011 SW 13th Ave. and is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 3.
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Nov. 3 marked the re-instatement of TriMet’s Night Stop program.
The program allows riders to be dropped off at “a safe location along the route other than a designated bus stop to get them closer to their destination,” according to a press release from TriMet.
The program, which has been in place for decades, is called a night stop during the dark winter months. During lighter months, undesignated stops requested by riders are called courtesy stops.
This month, a report titled “The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile,” was released in partnership by Portland State and the Coalition of Communities of Color.
The report is the result of a three-year project to investigate the state of Native American welfare as a whole, and it presents a dark portrait of the state of the Native American Community in Multnomah County. This is especially true when it comes to the issue of Native American child welfare.
The month of November is nationally recognized as Native American Heritage Month. Across the nation, events highlighting the cultural diversity of Native American citizens are being held, and Portland State is no exception. Beginning at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, in room 110 of the Native American Student and Community Center, PSU will host a free public event called “Reclaiming Our Waterways as Highways,” during which students will celebrate the canoe culture within Native American society. Chinook, Hawaiian and Maori canoe rituals will be discussed.
Canoe culture has slowly been reclaiming its presence in Native American society. The practice, along with a variety of other Native American rituals and celebrations, was forbidden by the Canadian and American governments and remained illegal until the ban was lifted in 1951.
Between classes, you may find yourself hungry from time to time. Luckily, there are a variety of different food outlets on campus. For those of you in a rush between classes, food carts make for the perfect quick snack. Here are some highlights from the Portland State-based food cart pod on the corner of Hall Street and Fourth Avenue:
Yesterday marked the beginning of the fifth annual Portland State Sustainable Business Conference. The three-day event will bring together business leaders from all over the country to discuss the future of sustainability within American companies.
The event, which continues until tomorrow, focuses on how business can adjust to an ever-changing ecological and economic environment.
“The goal of the conference is to bring together sustainable business practitioners and educators from around the world and to generate meaningful dialogue—the kind of dialogue that inspires positive action,” said event organizer Alison Dennis, executive director for the Center for Global Leadership in Sustainability at PSU.