Author: Robert Seitzinger

Five Portland State faculty and staff members discussed suicide facts and prevention tips on May 15, as part of a panel about suicide among college students and the legal implications that suicide has for a university.

Portland City Commissioner Erik Sten has a plan to increase the amount of affordable housing in Portland by implementing a statewide real estate tax and by putting a fee on documents used in real estate deals.

Portland State mechanical engineering associate professor Gerald Recktenwald received a $150,000 grant on April 1 from the National Science Foundation for the development of a new PSU thermal and liquid energy program.

PC gaming has come to own a fair share of the market in the video game industry. The last 10 years have ushered in leaps and bounds of progress for network gaming as more and more gamers are getting addicted to the clicking of a mouse, the furious sweeping of fingers and the utter disregard for their bulging love handles.

The Portland Development Commission (PDC) will provide $3.5 million in funding to the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) in an effort to expand the budding bioscience industry located in the South Waterfront district.

The School of Business Administration could be increasing the cost of tuition for its graduate students by as much as 9 percent next year, in response to the low budget figures proposed by Oregon’s Ways and Means co-chairs.

Prepare yourself for another adventure through Liberty City. Details about Grand Theft Auto IV are finally being revealed after more than two years worth of development by a team of over 100 designers, illustrators and scriptwriters.

Former governor of Oregon Barbara Roberts is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the expected 2,000 graduating students and their friends and family attending this year’s spring commencement ceremony.

Ryan Gosling was believable as a loving country bumpkin in The Notebook and as a football jock in Remember the Titans. Hell, he was even plausible as a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson.

The Oregon University System is speculating that tuition may rise by 18 percent over the next two years if the proposed budget for higher education from the Ways and Means Committee is passed.

We all know there are some major issues cropping up in the news lately. The Democrats got the House and Senate back, Bush wants to send more troops to Iraq, stem cell research has a bill passing in Congress and James Brown died. However, amid all of these stories, there have been more and more celebrities getting busted for driving under the influence.