I was wrong. And journalists really don’t like to admit that, but sometimes, we’re wrong. I was right twice this year, successfully predicting that the Viking football squad was overrated after being selected second in the Big Sky Pre-Season Poll and I perfectly forecasted a breakout season for Blazers forward Travis Outlaw.
Portland State students elected seven members to the Student Fee Committee last April, but after a wave of member departures in December only one elected member remains on staff. Committee Chair Amanda Newberg is the lone holdover from April’s election and the only member the student body elected. Rudy Soto, president of the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), appointed the rest of the committee’s members. From July to December, seven staff members of Newberg’s Student Fee Committee have departed for a variety of reasons, including academic ineligibility, personal reasons and work schedule conflicts. The turnover results in an SFC where all of the elected members, excluding the chair, were appointed without direct input from the student body.
Shortly after obtaining his master’s degree from Princeton, Jeff Merkley was appointed as a Presidential Management Fellow in 1982, marking his first experience in the political arena.
It seemed all of Portland stopped for about an hour or so, as former NFL head coach and national celebrity Jerry Glanville was announced as the Vikings new football coach on a cold, wet February afternoon.
Yeah, it’s been an eventful year for Portland State sports. There have been tons of resignations and departures, arrivals and hires, and shifts in personnel.
The season lasted 11 games, began in the scorching September heat nearly three months ago and ended in a bleak November drizzle. It was an emotional up-and-down ride and is officially over, after the Vikings wrapped up with a 31-21 victory over Northern Colorado Saturday.
Approximately 95 percent of the materials remaining after the demolition of the Portland Center for Advanced Technology building at Portland State were recycled from July to September, according to data from local contractor Nuprecon Inc.
The Stott Center felt significantly different during Saturday night’s conference title-winning volleyball match.
The Vikings will welcome Utah State to the Stott Center at 7:05 p.m. Friday night. The meeting will be the first between the two teams, as the Vikings are 30-48 all-time against squads in the Western Athletic Conference, the conference in which the Aggies reside.
Just like a great story, every football season has a beginning, middle and end. A below-average beginning and middle littered with defeats is already in print for the Vikings. All that’s remaining for Portland State is an ending, which will be composed against Northern Colorado Saturday.
Prices students must pay to purchase textbooks increase when professors fail to submit their course requests for textbooks to the Portland State Bookstore before specified deadlines, according to student body President Rudy Soto.