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April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and this year’s national theme is “It’s time to talk about it!” Portland State’s Women’s Resource Center, along with the support of other Portland organizations, will host a variety of events throughout the month that focus on different aspects of sexual violence with a particular emphasis of giving a voice to sexual assault survivors.
With the 2012–13 student elections campaigning nearly underway, the Portland State student government elections board prepares to meet possible challenges that may come with an overload of infraction accusations, mostly from opponents. As seen in past elections, investigating the multitude of allegations made by competing candidates could distract from more pressing infractions.
Last week, the student union 2020 feasibility study held open house meetings to discuss the study’s final results, unveiling two different building design concepts for a new student union. The concepts are the fruit of nearly a year’s collaborative efforts between Portland State and architecture firms Perkins + Will and DOWA Architects.
When she was invited to testify before Congress on the issue of contraception, Sandra Fluke couldn’t have predicted the nation’s most prominent right-wing commentator would attack her character and set off a storm of media attention.
Tucked away in a closet-like space on Smith Memorial Student Union’s third floor is a unique charity operation known as the food pantry. Organized and facilitated by the Associated Students of Portland State University, the pantry is stocked with items ranging from foodstuffs to clothing to hygiene products, all from donations.
At Portland State, students can find opportunities for involvement in projects that will impact campus life or important policies at the university or community level. But one group of graduate students in the Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning program are taking that involvement one step further, formulating a project whose outcomes could potentially determine the economic future of an entire city.
On March 27, attorney Don Shelley Willner of Trout Lake, Wash., passed away at the age of 85. Although his name may not be immediately familiar to students and staff at Portland State, Willner was a major force in getting Portland State College recognized as a university in the 1960s.
On Thursday, Portland State professor Ronald Tammen, director of the Hatfield School of Government, will be presenting a lecture titled “The Chinese Century?” The event, sponsored by the Retired Associates of Portland State University, is at 1 p.m. in the Smith Memorial Student Union’s Cascade Room 236.
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In order to fund increasing program and payroll costs, the Children’s Center and Helen Gordon Child Development Center have decided to raise hourly and monthly rates. The programs are subsidized by the university, but needs for additional funding have caused the rate increase, according to information provided by Ellen Justice, director of the CDC.
Portland State’s search committee for a new provost announced on March 28 that after much deliberation between four candidates it had selected Sona Karentz Andrews to replace outgoing Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Roy Koch. The selection of Koch’s replacement was a methodical endeavor consisting of a nationwide fielding of candidates and public forum interviews before the selection committee made its final decision.