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Portland State’s fall 2012 Chiron Studies course has been announced, and it’s appropriately idiosyncratic. The four courses chosen for fall are: Harajuku Cool, The World of Roman Polanski, Radical Home Economics and Resistance Literature: Literature of Social Change. They will be taught by Emily Connelly, Jared Rhea, Eric Robert Wilkinson and Genevieve Hudson, respectively. The courses were chosen according to the strength of their syllabi and the passion of their instructors.

Taylor Martinek, a tight end for the Portland State Vikings football team, has a knack for besting opponents.

This fall, riding the streetcar will be as easy as showing your student ID.

Portland State will soon become a sponsor of Portland Streetcar, signing a five-year contract that will include ridership benefits for all students, staff and faculty.

Portland State ends another year with the largest graduating class in university history.

Approximately 6,165 PSU students are receiving diplomas from the university in the 2011–12 academic year. Although official numbers will not be available until September, PSU estimates that 4,400 bachelor’s degrees, 1,700 master’s and 65 doctorates will be awarded by the end of this academic year.

There’s a seat at the virtual kitchen table waiting for you.

Last month, PSU’s College of Urban and Public Affairs teamed up with elected officials and community organizations to launch Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a public policy project that uses a simple online platform to involve a greater cross-section of Oregonians in the discussion of issues that matter to them. The project is based around the simple idea of coming to the table in the spirit of open discourse.

Portland State’s Department of Architecture will be seeing their creations come to life: portable and energy-efficient classrooms that will relieve overcrowding in classrooms all over the country.

This fall, students, faculty and staff at Portland State who commute to campus using TriMet will be feeling the pinch of higher prices.

Thanks to a $12 million deficit to be carried over into the 2012–13 fiscal year, a slew of cuts have been made to help balance next year’s budget. These include employee layoffs and service cuts, elimination of fare zones, a new flat rate system, reconfiguration and contraction of certain lines, reduced funding to the Portland Streetcar and elimination of free rail zones—all set to take place Sept. 1, 2012.

The search for a new head librarian is over. After a nationwide call for candidates by a committee composed of library and university-wide faculty, students and community members, Marilyn Moody was appointed as Portland State’s University Librarian. She will begin work on August 27.