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Portland State’s Engineering Building is now home to the world’s tallest barometer. The barometer, made of recycled glass tubing and protected by metal trusses, hugs the building’s staircase and rises out of the basement to the second floor, where it measures the atmospheric pressure in the glass atrium of the building.
The second annual Peace through Women Symposium was held in the Smith Memorial Student Union ballroom on Saturday. The event, which drew 150 attendees, featured presentations from Oregon women leaders such as former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts and Jennifer Gallardo, an Oregon midwife who helped found a birthing center in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
Pleasant conversations abounded between smartly dressed young women seated around white-clothed tables last week in the Smith Memorial Student Union.
The next women leaders of Portland State were getting their start in politics on a rainy Wednesday afternoon on campus.
The newly inducted College of the Arts was feted on Wednesday in the Shattuck Hall Annex. The event announced a $2.3 million donation made by local philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer. The funds will facilitate the construction of a three-story glass tower in Lincoln Hall, intended to boost attention for Portland State’s new COTA.
For the first time, in December, Portland State sent a group of 20 students to Cuba. The group returned with insights on sustainability, education and political participation to share.
Hip-hop is a subculture and music genre that has grown immensely over the last few decades and that contains many cultural influences.
The main focus of “Latinos and Hip-Hop,” a workshop put on by Portland State’s La Casa Latina and MC Jose Gutierrez in Smith Memorial Student Union on Wednesday, was the extensive history of Latinos in hip-hop and their relationship and connection with it.
Earlier this month, Portlanders convened in the Smith Memorial Student Union to hear Dr. Yolanda Whyte present a talk on the health risks of water fluoridation. Opponents and proponents alike gathered to begin warming up for the heated debate that will play out over the next three months.
Because of declining enrollment, a flat student fee and the creation of new fee-funded services and programs such as a Veterans Resource Center, the Student Fee Committee chose to decrease funding nearly across the board. Student leaders, such as publications editors and managers, will see dramatic pay cuts during the 2013-14 academic year.
“I’ve always wanted to be a kind of modern Renaissance man,” he said. Speaking under condition of anonymity, “Tom” is a full-time student in his late 20s who has attended Portland State for two years, lives off campus and mostly keeps to himself. He is a musician, a graphic designer and an editor for a professional firm.
Change is in the air for students who receive subsidies for their child care costs from Portland State. Key stakeholders at the Helen Gordon Child Development Center, the Associated Students of Portland State University Children’s Center, the Resource Center for Students with Children and the ASPSU student fee committee have been in talks to redesign the distribution of students’ incidental fees to prioritize giving direct aid to student parents who need help paying for child care—on and off campus.
Smoke detectors on campus are extremely sensitive, especially in the Smith Memorial Student Union building. A couple of weeks ago, a dirty smoke detector triggered the fire alarm, and everyone had to evacuate SMSU.