With the new term just kicking off, the School of Social Work at Portland State is lining up the first in a series of monthly presentations for spring quarter. The first presentation is a lecture by Dr. Juan Sanchez, the president and CEO of Southwest Key Programs. On April 11, Sanchez, who has 25 years of juvenile justice reform experience, will present a lecture titled “Where’s the Justice in Juvenile Justice?”
Matt Hernandez is fascinated with the question of why people believe what they believe, especially when it comes to their religious beliefs. While reading a book called 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God, by Guy P. Harrison, Hernandez found that one of the most common responses people give for believing in their particular religion over another is that, “my religion makes more sense than others.”
Last week it was reported that the electronic system used to monitor and control light rail activity has a “blackout area” where MAX trains and the Portland Streetcar intersect at Portland State’s Urban Plaza. The problem, said Bruce Hansen, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, is that the control monitors are unable to track the trains in the area where the two rail systems intersect.
Ooligan Press, Portland State’s student-run publishing company, has recently unveiled a new project that gives students and readers a behind-the-scenes look at how books are made. The project, called Start to Finish, connects the creative product of the author with the collaborative work of the student publishing team, creating a real-world narrative about the publishing process.
Students and faculty members came together over coffee and lunch to take part in discussion and discovery in the Middle East Studies Center on Thursday. Attendees were presented with a lecture about women authors in Iran and their trajectory through history from Dick Davis, a professor of Persian and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University.
The area known as Portland’s Old Town Chinatown looked very different 100 years ago. It was once Portland’s Japantown. Founded in the 1890s, Nihonmachi, as it was then called, was a flourishing Japanese community that existed in the area between Northwest Broadway and the Willamette River.
How has the media covered the contentious issue of salmon-eating sea lions in the
Columbia River in the last six years? Students and nonstudents gathered at the Native American Student and Community Center on Tuesday to hear Dr. Cynthia-Lou Coleman discuss a two-part report that examined the framing of news coverage and public opinion surrounding the sea lion and salmon conflict on the Columbia River.
Portland State has just received a $1 million merit award from the Oregon University System. Every five years, the State Board of Higher Education sets aside money from the state’s budget specifically aimed for growing its universities. The money is used to provide incentives for schools to work on developing and improving particular areas.
Parking in downtown Portland isn’t always easy. If you’re a student at Portland State, you’ve probably experienced it firsthand. You’re already running behind, thanks to the 20 minutes you spent circling the block trying to find a spot. Now you’re late for class.
Opportunity comes to the Portland State University Honors Program in the form of a $1 million gift. The gift, from the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, is the third-largest donation to a scholarship endowment in the school’s history. The trust and the school have a long-running relationship, and this marks the trust’s largest donation to date.