Tag: Campus Safety

With warmer weather in full swing, Portland State students and faculty will be seeing more Campus Public Safety Office officers out patrolling—but not in patrol cars as they might expect.

Imagine you’ve just finished a long day of classes. You’re tired, you want to get home so you can eat and get started on some reading, or maybe just veg out and watch some TV. Now imagine that when you approach the bike rack where your bike should be, your ride is nowhere to be found. You’re still tired, but now you’re pissed off and wondering, “Why me?” Tonight, two Portland State students, Zach Gough and Erin Charpentier, will hold a workshop to address bike theft and how students can inform themselves and others about the problem.

Portland State Campus Public Safety Office Detective Matt Horton is in charge of investigating all reports of sexual assault that occur on campus. Horton has almost 30 years of experience as a police officer, much of it doing investigative work.

The Clean Air Corridor, a pollution-free zone that runs between the Park Blocks and Southwest Broadway from Lincoln Hall to Shattuck Hall, has been met with steadily increasing compliance since its Jan. 1 implementation.

Two bills recently went in front of the Oregon House Higher Education Committee that have the ability to allow or prohibit the right to carry a concealed firearm on college campuses in Oregon.

Last week’s tragic events in Boston—the bombing at the Boston Marathon and the deadly shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer Sean Collier—left the country shaken and questioning a fundamental thing that sometimes gets taken for granted: safety.

One in five women will be raped at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For men, it’s one in 71.

Portland State, like all but a handful of public universities in the U.S., bans the possession of concealed handguns on university grounds. But, this week, some students will try to change that.

Two suspicious incidents have occurred in the Broadway Housing Building during the month of March. Because the incidents have some similarities, the PSU Campus Public Safety Office is urging students to take extra safety precautions.

Timothy Clayton Webster, 28, the suspect in Portland State’s offensive touching case that occurred Feb. 25, was arrested by police in Seattle on March 12 in an unrelated case. PSU’s Campus Public Safety Office updated the timely warning on March 15 to confirm that Webster was in custody.

On Monday, March 25, Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office received a report that an unknown man entered an occupied dormitory room in the Broadway Housing Building at approximately 5 a.m.