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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.
Portland State hosted its first Walk of the Heroines lecture last week, to commemorate efforts made on campus to create community spaces as a way to promote sustainability.
With a burgeoning grassroots campaign that garnered almost 170 Facebook likes in three days, a last-minute write-in candidate emerged in the few days before voting closed on Friday in the Associated Students of Portland State University presidential race.
A large group of civil and environmental engineering students from Portland State headed down to Corvallis, equipment in tow, to compete in the 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Northwest Division Conference on Saturday.
The clouds have parted and the sun has returned after its long, dreary absence. With the return of light and warmth comes the desire to create, and the Portland State Community Garden is ripe for the sowing.
Portland State students have one more day to vote in the Associated Students of Portland State University elections. The most contentious item on the ballot this year is a proposed new constitution.
Portland is a green city. It’s known to many for its recycling efforts, sustainability and love of composting. Portland State is no exception. Since its creation in 2010, the Princeton Review has been working in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit sustainability organization, to produce an annual guide to green colleges.
Portland State’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions has teamed up with Celilo Group Media’s Chinook Book to provide the PSU community with access to a free mobile app.
Portland State English professor and novelist Leni Zumas was staring at a blinking cursor in an open Microsoft Word window. She was supposed to be writing an essay on punctuation, but she couldn’t find any words to punctuate. It was a familiar feeling: the dreaded specter of writer’s block hovering over her shoulder with a deadline approaching and pages to fill.
Each year, many students are faced with mental health challenges. Whether it’s a recurring bout of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or a first-time response to a new stressor, an episode can make it very difficult to cope with the stress of both school and life.
On Sunday, Portland State students, faculty and community members waited in line in front of the Smith Memorial Student Union ballroom to experience Cambodian culture at the Cambodian Culture Show put on by PSU’s Cambodian Student Association.