Student government elections are just around the corner, but students seem largely unaware that they’re coming up. The Associated Students of Portland State University exist as a representative body of the entire student population at Portland State.
The QRC’s Queer Awareness Week hopes to bring some similarities to light, emphasizing the common need to feel accepted, understood and celebrated. Portland State boasts a diverse culture on campus, but sometimes groups find themselves differentiating between one another all too often.
Former ASPSU presidential candidate Ron Lee sent out a press release Wednesday morning officially announcing his decision to suspend his campaign for president and instead run for a member position on the Student Fee Committee.
Award-winning editor, author, columnist and political analyst Dr. Fareed Zakaria entered the hallowed halls of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to an eager crowd that filled nearly every seat.
Shandra L. Terry delivered her original monologue to an energetic crowd in the Multicultural Center Thursday evening. She conveyed the passion and spirit of Rosa Parks, the woman who “was just tired of being pushed around.”
Diversity takes many forms: ability and disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, age, life experience, religion, sexual orientation. Those are just a few. The need to divide and classify society seems a part of human nature. Likewise, it seems part of institutional nature to quantify the more visible of those differences.
The Walk of Heroines, a project first envisioned ten years ago to honor women, has accumulated a long list of potential additions, a lot more money to raise and quite a few blank spaces.
Ebony Smith, the director of multicultural affairs for ASPSU, led the first phase of the Diversity Symposium on Wednesday. The symposium focused on integrating diversity awareness into various aspects of student and academic life at Portland State.
As Portland State’s enrollment has ballooned to more than 27,000 students, the university is struggling to find adequate housing for students and is sending many students off campus for boarding.
At a campus community budget meeting concerning the administration’s plan to cope with the economic crisis Wednesday, Jan. 21, President Wim Wiewel announced a minimum tuition increase of 3.6 percent for fall term 2009.
Hundreds of Oregonians gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday to protest the three-week long Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory.