Opinion
Are you one of the 40 percent? This is the amount of undergraduate students at PSU who started out at a community college.
Attending a community college sometimes seems to have a negative connotation, especially when compared with more “important” institutions of higher education like Portland State.
Your tax dollars pay for all sorts of things. Road construction, social security, medicare and plenty of other programs are paid for out of your paycheck every month. In return, taxpayers—and visitors, in some cases—are able to enjoy the benefit of these things for free.
Is it 2012 already? I thought it felt a little vitriolic in here.
It is indeed 2012, and the election for the presidency of the United States looms on the horizon. The stage is set. Little-hope and little change versus fed-up and cantankerous. Let the games begin.
We’ve all been there. With hectic to-do lists every day, sometimes bills get misplaced, or we don’t have vime to pick up more checks or we just plain forget when the cable bill is due.
When this happens, we have to shell out for the added “convenience” of paying quickly for being forgetful. Talk about a double-whammy.
Last week, the Obama administration approved a rule requiring employers to cover the cost of contraceptives in their employee health plans.
This is a huge step forward for both the Obama administration and preventive healthcare. Contraceptives, along with other forms of preventive services and medicine, will now be available to employees with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles.
Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced a strategy within the Pentagon to tackle the looming debt crisis by slashing billions from the American defense budget.
This has been met with the requisite cries of doom by policymakers, pundits and casual onlookers who balk at the idea of reducing our Armed Forces while one war continues, one just ended and the possibility of another looms on the horizon.
There are two types of students: those who prefer on-campus life, and those who pursue other housing options, such as apartments.
While living in university housing presents its own problems at times, apartment hunters can also face a lot of challenges during their search for a place to live.
The Student Fee Committee, an arm of ASPSU, is responsible for managing PSU’s student fees and setting the budgets for all fee-funded areas. These areas include ASPSU, student publications, and student organizations and resource centers. Recently, however, the SFC appears to be testing the limits of their role at PSU.
Title IX is being celebrated this month. As you may know, Title IX was instrumental in increasing the number of women in sports. Since its inception in 1972, the law has led to a drastic increase in female athletes in universities and consequently the world of professional sports.
The text of the law states that, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
The bystander effect happens every single day all over the world. A stranger is in trouble, and somehow the more people that surround them, the less likely they’ll receive any form of help.
It is a tragic psychological effect that takes hold, leaving perfectly capable people to stand idly by while a person in need is left defenseless. With recent assaults on the PSU campus as well as other attacks around Portland, it brings into question: Who will take a stand and help those in need?
On Jan. 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a small coalition of Oregon universities a $3.5 million grant for research on alternative transportation.
Portland State was one of the universities included, as were the University of Oregon and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The grant was administered by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC), which is based here at PSU.