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Whether it be practicing with the Portland State Chamber Choir or learning how to encode for websites, marketing sophomore Andrew Grossman is finding ways to incorporate his passions with his life goals.
Each Wednesday, Portland State students and Centennial Learning Center students meet in the Art Building to do projects, eat lunch and hang out. PSU’s Design for Social Change class and CLC’s Art and Social Change come together to create the program titled Friendtorship, a play on words combining friend and mentor.
The transportation sector is responsible for approximately 33 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. That’s the largest share of any end-use economic sector, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
On Thursday, May 31, the Sustainability Leadership Center and the Food Action Collective will present a forum on food at Portland State titled “Setting the Table: A Food Forum on Equity, Sustainability, and the State of Food at PSU.” The forum will be held in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 296, from 4–7:30 p.m.
ASPSU elections board dismisses presidential candidate Diamond Zerework from 2012 election
On May 21, the ASPSU elections board moved to dismiss Diamond Zerework from the 2012 Associated Students of Portland State University elections on the basis that she committed four campaigning infractions. In a statement released by ASPSU and authored by Anthony Stine, current ASPSU communications director and senatorial candidate running under the “Tiffany Dollar and Marlon Holmes, Just Like You” slate, the four minor infractions include “claiming the endorsement of members of the faculty and resource centers at the presidential debate on 10 May… campaigning in the library within 25 feet of a computer lab…repeated submissions of baseless infraction petitions, and a member of her campaign being within zero feet of an official polling station.”
The Peter W. Stott Center, home of Portland State’s Athletics Department and the Vikings basketball and volleyball teams, is on the verge of getting a massive physical and aesthetic overhaul. And with the overhaul comes a new name: Viking Pavilion.
Over a period of three weeks, several suspicious packages were sent to various businesses in the downtown Portland area, including Portland State, The U.S. District Courthouse, the Port of Portland Building, the Hilton Hotel, Lloyd Center Mall and Oregon Health and Science University. All of the envelopes contained a white powder, alerting the attention of local police and fire departments as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“At least 40 percent of Portlanders live in situations that make it difficult to access fresh, affordable foods, and many more face barriers beyond physical access,” Portland State alumna Amelia Pape said. So how do people who live in these food deserts get access to healthy food options? The answer is My Street Grocery.
Imagine working an eight-hour shift and having various short periods of down time. People might think to get a coffee or check Facebook, but according to research conducted by Portland State psychology Professor Charlotte Fritz, these “microbreaks” are actually unproductive.
On a warm and breezy afternoon last Thursday, TriMet officials and operators met with the press and public to admire, observe and ride on a prototype bus for the agency’s new fleet coming this summer. Among all the cuts, downgrades and layoffs, 55 brand new buses will hopefully put a gleam on some of the more drastic changes TriMet faces this summer with the beginning of its next fiscal year—one in which TriMet’s budget falls short some $12 million.
“This is a very important day,” said Portland Mayor Sam Adams at the May 16 Portland City Council meeting, “not just for Portland State. It’s a very important day for the future health of the city.”