Let’s not deny the power of the purse of the SFC. This year, its application has been far less benign than it has been since the years of Tracy Earll. It is more than the fulcrum of campus vibrance. The ultimate end to this coercive tactic is greater representation for those that have larger bodies to consider while voting and participating on the OSA board.
PSU alum responds This is a response to Brian O’Connell’s letter to the editor in the Vanguard dated Oct. 2, 2007. It has taken me months to calm down and to make an effort to understand why Mr. O’Connell would write such a rude, mean-spirited, racially charged letter in the Vanguard directed toward Dr.
Student group leaders should consider themselves lucky to get paid at all [“SFC makes poor decision” editorial, Nov. 2]. While their classmates struggle with demanding bosses, jobs that are not flexible, and no one caring at all that you have midterms this week, student groupies apparently are beholden only to their social group.
In 2005, President Bush signed into law an energy bill from the Energy Policy Act to extend daylight savings time by four weeks, starting this year. The new schedule kicked in on March 11, and will extend past October into the first weekend of November.
Written by a Portlander and set right here at home, Heartsick is a thriller mystery worth picking up. The dogged detective figure gets a little twist in Cain’s novel–he’s the former victim of the very serial killer he brought to justice. Heartsick takes place after the capture of Gretchen Lowell, a rare female serial killer, but now a new killer is on the loose.
I take umbrage with Richard Oxley’s article about the supposed “non-gay” agenda [“The non-gay agenda,” Oct. 5]. Is it so far-fetched that those of us who don’t want to be spoon-fed and brainwashed with supposed “diversity” while we attempt to preserve a more moral way of life?
While the Democrats and the Republicans posture over supporting the war, changing the mission, reducing troop numbers, setting timetables and generally puffing smoke at us, the people, The Oregonian reports the Pentagon “may” recommend a troop increase.
You people need to wake up! My boy Jesse brought you the scoop of the year but your editor-in-chief doesn’t get it… check out Tonantzin Oceguera’s statements in the last article.
We seem to have aroused a lot of vitriol with Tuesday’s piece (“American Wash-up”) about American Idol, particularly with our writer’s comments on Clay Aiken. Our readers have made their outrage known.
“Hey, what’s a seven-letter word for a type of soup native to Switzerland? The second letter has to be ‘p’ because I’m pretty sure that 23-across is peppermint, but I could be wrong…”
Rudy Soto won the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU) election by 89 votes over Patrick Beisell. Now the Elections Board must do the right thing and uphold Soto’s victory, or risk silencing the 1,000 students who voted for him.