After countless volunteer hours spent making posters, visiting classrooms and standing in the Park Blocks with clipboards, ASPSU and their cadre of campus volunteers have registered over 4,000 people to vote this year. While the numbers are not yet final, ASPSU’s current unofficial total sits at 4,089 new voter registration cards collected over the past few months.
Casey Payseno has some money to give away to students. As the co-coordinator of the Student Organization Committee, Payseno worked with his committee members this summer to meet some new regulations set forth by the Student Fee Committee, which will allow the SOC to continue their work: funding student groups that might not otherwise receive funds.
The world could be facing some serious consequences from global warming unless something is done within the next six months, Lewis and Clark economics professor Eban Goodstein said during a Portland town hall meeting last Thursday evening. Though the town hall meeting took place on the same day as the vice-presidential debates, Goodstein found himself addressing a crowd of about 60 in the Multicultural Center of the Smith Memorial Student Union.
When Portland State President Wim Wiewel took the stage last Tuesday in the packed ballroom of the Smith Memorial Student Union for PSU’s convocational address, he called the university a place of “struggle and hope.” Speaking without notes and avoiding the podium, Wiewel began his address with highlights through PSU’s history. From the very beginning, Wiewel said, the university had to struggle to find space, faculty, students and funds–and has still managed to become a recognized university. “None of these things come easy,” Wiewel said. “We’re not the stepsister, we’re not the younger sibling, we’re not the also-ran.”