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PSU makes it on the President’s Honor Roll

Portland State was awarded “honor roll with distinction,” from the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a distinction that no other Oregon school received this year.

This year the honor roll recognized 528 schools around the country, including six in Oregon, for contributions to service in the community, according to a university statement. Only 127 of those schools received the “honor roll with distinction.” PSU was the only school in Oregon to receive the distinction honor.

The President’s Honor Roll was launched in 2006. This is the second year that PSU made the honor roll, the statement read. Schools are honored based on many factors, including scope of service projects and student participation in services.

For more information visit, www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.

-Stover E. Harger III

Voter registration rally on Waterfront Saturday

There will be a non-partisan voter registration rally this weekend at the Waterfront Park Amphitheater on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The rally is designed to encourage voter registration and participation among diverse Portland communities, according to a press release. Representatives from many diverse communities are scheduled to be at the rally, including speakers Gale Castillo, the Executive Director of Oregon’s Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, Hala Gores a local medical malpractice attorney, and Stephen Ying, the vice-president of the Oregon chapter of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.

–Stover E. Harger III