On June 21, in a 7-0 vote, the State Board of Higher Education elected to arm the University of Oregon’s campus police officers. The University of Oregon Police Department’s 11 sworn police officers were able to carry firearms in the line of duty immediately following the ruling.
The Portland State Campus Public Safety Office has made arrests in several criminal cases that occurred during spring quarter. One of the cases was a sexual assault that occurred on June 8 at 3:40 p.m. CPSO and the Portland Police Bureau responded to a report that a female student was followed from the transit mall into Neuberger Hall by an unknown suspect, who entered the elevator with the victim and then sexually assaulted her. The victim was able to strike the suspect, causing him to flee, and the victim was not physically injured.
On Friday, more than 40 students, staff and faculty members gathered in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 439, to celebrate the opening of the Quiet Study Lounge.
Portland State’s Walk of the Heroines park, located next to the Peter W. Stott Community Recreation Field, will soon undergo a major change—it will be made into a pedestrian-only zone free of bicycles and skateboards.
Over the course of spring quarter, multiple security issues came up at Portland State’s Broadway Residence Hall, the most severe of which was an unknown male subject (or subjects) breaking into the rooms of female students.
When Portland State student Cassie Arroyo graduates in June, her two daughters, Ava, 4, and Lily, 2, will be standing alongside her in their own caps and gowns at a special ceremony for student parents designed to be fun for kids of all ages.
On Saturday, April 27, at 8:10 p.m., the Campus Public Safety Office and the Portland Police Bureau responded to a report that a female student walking on the second floor of Neuberger Hall was grabbed from behind and restrained by an unknown male subject who removed her phone and fled toward Hall Street. The victim was uninjured.
With warmer weather in full swing, Portland State students and faculty will be seeing more Campus Public Safety Office officers out patrolling—but not in patrol cars as they might expect.
Portland State Campus Public Safety Office Detective Matt Horton is in charge of investigating all reports of sexual assault that occur on campus. Horton has almost 30 years of experience as a police officer, much of it doing investigative work.
Two bills recently went in front of the Oregon House Higher Education Committee that have the ability to allow or prohibit the right to carry a concealed firearm on college campuses in Oregon.
Last week’s tragic events in Boston—the bombing at the Boston Marathon and the deadly shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer Sean Collier—left the country shaken and questioning a fundamental thing that sometimes gets taken for granted: safety.