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PSU School of Extended Studies eliminates 16 positions
According to a statement provided by University Communications, the Portland State School of Extended Studies is eliminating 16 positions. According to Director of Communications Scott Gallagher, “This move is part of PSU’s ongoing strategic effort to increase efficiencies and reduce expenditures campus-wide.”
The Vanguard supports Ethan Allen Smith for ASPSU president
The Vanguard is proud to endorse Ethan Allen Smith’s candidacy for ASPSU president. Ethan Allen Smith is running alongside vice presidential candidate Jeffrey Frankenhauser.
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Vincent Alexander Alexander will focus on student involvement in the administration as well as grassroots student organization of services that the “PSU bureaucracy is unable to adequately provide,” he said….
‘Jedi Masters, Karate Kids and Kung Fu Pandas’
The Portland Canter for Public Humanities presents a lecture by guest speaker Jane Iwamura titled “Jedi Masters, Karate Kids and Kung Fu Pandas: Reimagining American Religions for a New Generation.” The lecture will take place Thursday, May 4, at 7 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union.
PSU professor wins Oregon Book Award
Ken Ruoff, Portland State history professor and director of the PSU Center for Japanese Studies, received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction on Monday, April 23 at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
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Tsugaru shamisen group Abeya comes to PSU
On Thursday, April 12, the Center for Japanese Studies will present the shamisen group Abeya in the Lincoln Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“A shamisen is a type of Japanese guitar made from animal skin and wood. In this case, Abeya will be playing ‘tsugaru’-style shamisen, which is the most up-tempo, percussive style,” said professor Lawrence Kominz, the PSU faculty member helping to organize the event. “Just like flamenco guitar sounds different from blues guitar, ‘tsugaru’ shamisen is unique in this way.”
An Ethiopian story
Novelist Maaza Mengiste to speak at Mercy Corps Action Center
Mercy Corps Action Center welcomes novelist Maaza Mengiste for an evening of discussion and dialogue focusing on Ethiopia and the plight of refugees everywhere. Her lecture is titled “Through Metaphor and Memory: An Ethiopian Story.”
Editorial: Read no evil
A free and unrestrained press serves not only to cultivate a better-informed citizenry, but also to report on abuses of power and privilege that might otherwise go unknown and unpunished. It is for precisely this reason that politicians, businesses and other institutions of power employ public relations specialists who can promote the positive and obfuscate the negative.
Metal Messiah: Born Again Sage
Nick Wells writes, directs and stars in the locally made, DIY-style comedy Metal Messiah: Born Again Sage.