ASPSU’s controversial OSA proposal that would alter the internal structure of the student-interest lobbying group may get a closer look if the organization approves a committee to discuss its merits Friday.
Committee may examine Soto proposal
Faculty set sights on UNST writings requirements
A committee is working on a proposal to add new writing standards for students that would have university advisers help some incoming freshmen choose a course meant to help boost their writing aptitude.
Distant Worlds: A fantasy come true
It’s the first day of March, and I’m walking along a bland industrial strip of Chicago where the weather makes my bones feel cold, despite four layers of clothes. The prestigious Rosemont Theater is housed in this general vicinity, a bleak area where a potential mugging lurks around each corner, as does the risk of becoming a human icicle. What sort of sick, twisted obsession could bring a person to this wintry, god-awful landscape? Is it a search for drugs, prostitutes or illegal arms trade? Actually, it’s a search for music from a video game.
ASPSU trip canceled after allegations
A major annual student government conference trip for ASPSU was canceled by an administrator after she alleged that the student who booked the flight tickets was not authorized to do so.
Sixth Ave. to open for short stint
Expect to see more congestion and continued limited road access as the Southwest Harrison Street road closure, related to PSU’s Southwest Sixth Avenue construction, is delayed for a few more days.
Get going, get fast
Sony Computer Entertainment is at it again with their WipeOut franchise, taking the PlayStation Portable by storm with the newest installment, WipeOut Pulse. This title, similar to games past, is set in a far-off cyberpunk future and pits racing teams of hover crafts against one another on tracks woven into urban environments.
Bomb threat shakes campus
After a professor found a bomb threat note in a Neuberger Hall men’s bathroom around noon yesterday, Campus Public Safety and other administrators leapt into action, evacuating and searching the hall immediately. Nothing was found and the building was reopened at 5:30 p.m. The note read: “There will be a detonation in Neuberger Hall at 4:30 p.m.,” according to PSU spokesperson Julie Smith. By 12:15 p.m., the building was empty and at 12:40 p.m., caution tape had been put up to ward off students and staff trying to enter Neuberger Hall.
UPDATE: PSU receives bomb threat for Neuberger Hall
Portland State received a bomb threat at around noon today, Feb. 25. The threat, according to on-site PSU faculty and administrators, is local to Neuberger Hall, which was evacuated and searched immediately.
New emergency contact system coming next term
A new emergency contact system for alerting faculty and staff to campus security threats will be in place beginning spring term at Portland State, following an ad hoc committees research examining emergency preparedness by PSU
Music Department to move across Park Blocks
The Department of Music at Portland State is preparing to move out of its current home, the soon-to-be-renovated Lincoln Hall, after summer term 2008.
Die, demon, die!
A man donning a floor-skimming red overcoat, ice-white hair and a massive sword stalks through a dark, urban environment. He’s looking for demons to kill.