On the evening of Tuesday, July 9, at approximately 9:43 p.m., Campus Public Safety officers went in foot pursuit of Robert Jensen, a nonstudent and registered sex offender who was the suspect in a report to CPSO about a male masturbating in public on the second floor of the School of Education building.
On June 21, in a 7-0 vote, the State Board of Higher Education elected to arm the University of Oregon’s campus police officers. The University of Oregon Police Department’s 11 sworn police officers were able to carry firearms in the line of duty immediately following the ruling.
The Portland State Campus Public Safety Office has made arrests in several criminal cases that occurred during spring quarter. One of the cases was a sexual assault that occurred on June 8 at 3:40 p.m. CPSO and the Portland Police Bureau responded to a report that a female student was followed from the transit mall into Neuberger Hall by an unknown suspect, who entered the elevator with the victim and then sexually assaulted her. The victim was able to strike the suspect, causing him to flee, and the victim was not physically injured.
During the past few weeks, Portland State’s College Republicans student group has found itself at the center of a proverbial storm, freshly igniting time-tested debates about free speech at the university.
Portland State’s Walk of the Heroines park, located next to the Peter W. Stott Community Recreation Field, will soon undergo a major change—it will be made into a pedestrian-only zone free of bicycles and skateboards.
Over the course of spring quarter, multiple security issues came up at Portland State’s Broadway Residence Hall, the most severe of which was an unknown male subject (or subjects) breaking into the rooms of female students.
Portland State President Wim Wiewel has assembled a task force that will examine approaches to the question of public safety on campus. In an April 25 memorandum to the campus community, Wiewel outlined his vision for the task force’s work, which will be undertaken in the coming months.
It’s spring, and Portland State is seeing more canine companions on campus. While dog owners want their dogs to have a good time on campus, there are rules about where canines can go. The PSU Service Animal and Emotional Support Animal Policy states: “Pets are generally prohibited indoors on the PSU campus, except in University Housing.
The issues of gun control and public safety on campus have been spotlighted by Portland State’s student government this year, and now PSU students have made their opinions known.
Confronted with a spate of break-ins, Broadway Housing Building residents are experiencing a series of temporary security reforms meant to limit nonresidents’ ability to access residential floors.
On Saturday, April 27, at 8:10 p.m., the Campus Public Safety Office and the Portland Police Bureau responded to a report that a female student walking on the second floor of Neuberger Hall was grabbed from behind and restrained by an unknown male subject who removed her phone and fled toward Hall Street. The victim was uninjured.