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Last November, Sona Andrews, the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at PSU, announced the Provost’s Challenge, a subset of the ReTHINK PSU project. The challenge award recipients were announced as spring term was coming to an end and received a shared total of $3 million in grants to help the advancement of Portland State.
“Sexuality is a fundamental part of the human experience,” Forrester said, “but we don’t really talk about it, and I want to—and by all the RSVPs I’m getting, I think a lot of other people do too.” The “TEDsex” talk in Portland is set to feature three local “sex-perts” who will present in-depth 15-minute educational lectures. The session will end with community dialogue.
The book is called Extremely Successful Book and the author is recent Portland State graduate Matt “Danger” Stares. Stares’ book is an abstract comedy compilation of essays he wrote in class, including one linking space and politics. Stares also has a chapter composed of Craigslist advertisements, which was the book’s main selling point.
The Associated Students of Portland State University have been given the monumental task of selecting and recommending a student candidate to serve on PSU’s new Board of Trustees, which, according to the nominee application, will serve as a “policy and decision-making body.”
On the evening of Tuesday, July 9, at approximately 9:43 p.m., Campus Public Safety officers went in foot pursuit of Robert Jensen, a nonstudent and registered sex offender who was the suspect in a report to CPSO about a male masturbating in public on the second floor of the School of Education building.
Ethan Allen Smith walked with his graduating class during Portland State’s 2013 spring commencement ceremony in the Rose Garden Arena in June. He wore a robe, donned a cap and carried with him years of hard work that landed him a job using his graphic design degree. But he left the arena that evening without a diploma. Because of an advising error, Smith has to return to PSU in the fall to take two University Studies courses to fulfill the junior cluster portion of his degree as required by the university.
Who says a thirst for knowledge and a thirst for good beer are mutually exclusive? Portland State has chosen to legitimize the relationship between college and beer with a new Business of Craft Brewing online program, which was announced in March and begins this fall. A growing wait-list—and an impressive turnout at a business briefing at The Commons Brewery last week—shows that the program is already a big hit.
Last week, local nonprofit organization Ecotrust held the first of four summer concert events of 2013 at the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center. For the fourth year in a row, the organization will host a monthlong concert series, Sundown at Ecotrust, on Wednesday nights in July from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. to encourage ideas to better the economy, the environment and social equality.
The Oregon State Board of Higher Education held a board meeting Friday morning, making the decision to raise tuition rates for Portland State students by 3.5 percent for the upcoming 2013–14 academic year.
In addition to being “weird” and having a vibrant coffee scene, Portland has a reputation for being a city full of tree huggers. Local organizations like Friends of Trees, Hoyt Arboretum and Treecology Inc. decided to put that reputation to the ultimate test—the Guinness World Records.
As school let out for the summer, two Portland State students were getting some great news and some great prizes. Patricia Vazquez Gomez, an Art and Social Practice graduate student, and Jordan Hoagbin, a sophomore studying graphic design, were announced as the first- and second- place recipients, respectively, of the first-ever Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize.