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One month after its grand opening, Electric Avenue is already drawing attention from all kinds of people, and its developers couldn’t be
more pleased.

On a Wednesday afternoon, Mary Wiese was on her way to catch a street car that takes her to a nearby grocery store, when something caught her eye: three Toyotas parked on Montgomery Avenue, each with a cord coming out its side. The accountant stopped for a minute to read the sign that explains Electric Avenue to visitors before she continued on her way.

At the 2011 Campus Technology Conference this July in Boston, Mass., Gary Brown and his colleagues discussed the future of the Learning Management Systems (LMS), exemplified by Blackboard and Desire To Learn (D2L).

According to Brown, the new director of Portland State’s Center for Online Learning, the LMS “is a transposition technology that makes is possible to create a course in virtual space, rendering it asynchronous and accessible from distributed sites. In short, a class can be conducted anytime and anywhere.”

Portland State sociology professor Amy Lubitow co-wrote an article this summer that brought the concept of “pinkwashing” to the
nation’s attention.

The business practice of using the color pink and pink ribbons to indicate solidarity with breast-cancer survivors and alignment with the search for a cure regardless of a company’s true status as a supporter or trafficker of cancer-promoting chemicals, has been a reality since the ‘90s.

Students from China to South Africa will congregate Aug. 15 through 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the School of Business, Shattuck Hall and Cramer Hall at PSU for an orientation meant to foster a Fulbright identity and heighten cross-cultural awareness.

Anthony Wolk didn’t plan to stay in the Northwest.

In 1965, Wolk accepted a teaching position at Portland State. He thought he’d stay for two or three years, he said. But something changed his mind.

“It’s the students—I like the students,” Wolk said. “That’s what held me all these years.”

Mark O. Hatfield passed this Sunday, leaving behind his legacy as an Oregon senator and the namesake of the School of Government at Portland State.

“The senator generously gave us the use of his name,” said Ron Tammen, director of the school. “He taught here and assisted many students over a long period of time while his health permitted.”

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Clackamas County branch has added Portland State undergraduate student Jeanette Bailey to a team of volunteer directors conducting the upcoming Family-to-Family (F2F) 12-week course.

Bailey is a psychology major at PSU who plans to pursue her master’s degree in either psychiatric nursing or
social work.

On Friday Aug. 5, the Middle East Studies Center (MESC) hosted an all-day lecture event for Oregon K–12 teachers.
The event, “People, Power and Protest,” focused on preparing educators to teach about history and politics in the Middle East.

The Student Veteran Association (SVA) will host its first annual veteran reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 22 in the Portland State Native American Center.

Every summer, swarms of children can be seen picnicking in the park blocks, riding the MAX and playing in fountains around downtown Portland. Thanks to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center (HGCDC) at Portland State, children of PSU faculty and students experience these summer activities while their parents are working or attending classes.