Author: Robert Seitzinger

So there I was, alone in my room eating a grilled cheese with peanut butter while making a PhotoShop of Aretha Franklin’s breasts on Ali Larter’s body (as in, Varsity Blues Ali Larter, not Heroes Larter), when I heard terrified cries from the hall.

Administrators held two open-campus forums this week about a reoccurring budget shortfall of $2.5 million to $3 million each year. Administrators may have to cut $5 million or more from the 2007-08 school year’s budget.

You woke up this morning knowing that today is like a holiday, even if the calendar doesn’t say so. Friday the 13th is meant to be a day of horrors, though it usually just boils down to a lot of bad jokes and lame attempts to scare one another.

A new course is being offered this term that instructors hope will prepare students to fill leadership roles at Portland State.

It’s 1995 all over again. The glory days of middle or high school are still intact and a slow April day is passing by as you play Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the 10th time, waiting eagerly for May to come.

Portland State staff and faculty were elated to hear that U.S. News and World Report ranked the PSU electrical engineering program ninth in the nation out of 169 schools. Last week, they were disappointed to find out that ranking was incorrect.

Ah…breathe in that fresh April air. The spring season is upon us and with it comes a cavalcade of scents produced by blooming flowers, freshly mown grass and trees with new leaves.

If ever you’ve watched cable television, then you’ve helped boost those so-called “ratings” that critics and studios are always crowing about. Many people think it’s just a bullshit system of creating hype for the shows that spend the prettiest penny, though there is an actual method to the madness.

Housing officials have lowered rent increases for next year to 2 percent from the originally proposed 3 percent.

Dr. Deborah Tolman, a professor of environmental sciences at Portland State, is compiling what she calls an annotated bibliography–a resource guide for homeowners in the Pacific Northwest who are interested in sustainability.

Portland State is helping head Focus the Nation, a program dedicated to raising awareness of global warming and informing the public of ways to prevent major climate change. PSU is among the more than 1,000 colleges and universities participating in Focus the Nation.