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Ageless advocacy
In her second year at PSU, Hannah Fisher works to create change for her peers
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For the common college student, the first two years of higher education are the easiest part of earning a degree. The classes are new and exciting, adult responsibilities are relatively few and there isn't much drive to get involved with anything outside of parties and friends. Hannah Fisher is not a common college student.
Mayor leads tour of PSU
Portland Mayor Tom Potter led Israeli Channel-10, a television crew from Tel Aviv, on a tour of sustainable facilities downtown and at Portland State. Potter led the crew around campus, pointing out planters, ecoroofs and other sustainability projects for use in a documentary on sustainable cities.
Ex-faculty files suit with PSU
Nearly two years after leaving the university, Douglas Samuels files discrimination lawsuit
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Former Portland State Vice Provost of Student Affairs Douglas Samuels filed a lawsuit against PSU late last week, on claims that he was the target of racial discrimination.
Student affairs candidate at PSU Thursday
Vice provost of student affairs candidate Peg L. Blake was charged with DUI in 2005
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The first of three candidates vying for the position of vice provost of Student Affairs, Peg L. Blake, will be at Portland State for a forum open to students on Oct. 4 at 4 p.m., in Room 236 of Smith Memorial Student Union.
Plan for growth splits department
Auxiliary services divides roles among two top officials after PSU takes over housing
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Responsibilities in Portland State's auxiliary services department, which had in the past managed seven major functions such as food services, campus housing and transportation and parking, have been divided up on campus.
Students resist housing changes
Housing fees charged at start of term for student convenience, officials say
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A move to streamline campus housing has been met with resistance by some students who say they are unhappy with the changes to housing policies, including when rent is due and how financial aid refunds are disbursed.
$35 fee to pay for grad mentors
After a $200,000 cut last year, a new fee saves University Studies' graduate mentor program
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Underclassmen closely examining their fall term bill might notice a new $35 fee if they are enrolled in a sophomore inquiry class. Insufficient funding had put sophomore inquiry (SINQ) classes at risk of losing graduate mentors, the student teaching aides that help professors during main sessions and are responsible for teaching their own breakout sessions once a week.
Library hosting event on Picasso, 9/11
Historical significance of artist's "Guernica", Sept. 11 attacks to be examined
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Portland State's Millar Library will be showing facsimiles of initial sketches for Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" Oct. 5-10, exploring the historical significance and social relevance between the work's origins and the Sept. 11 attacks.
A comic alternative to college
Sometimes sassy and crude, Portland comics come to the scene with one creed: just do it
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They spend upwards of 30 or more hours per week writing and rehearsing for a show. They don't usually have agents. They do most of their own self-promotion. Half of them dropped out of college to pursue a career in making drunk people laugh.
New center helps open doors
A new facility provides an improved, quieter test-taking environment for students with disabilities
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A new testing center with larger rooms, magnified televisions and computers and greater accessibility will make testing easier and more manageable for students with disabilities who use the center, staff members say.
Local company gives Aerospace Society boost
Student group one step closer to launching rocket into space with donation of electronics
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An Oregon electronics manufacturer has agreed to make advanced circuit boards for rockets for the Portland State Aerospace Society, putting the student group one step closer to realizing its goal of launching a rocket into space.
Food for Thought could open Tuesday
With a tied-up budget now available, cafe may hold party to spread word of opening
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Student-run Food For Thought Cafe could reopen by next Tuesday, after the Student Fee Committee approved a new $32,592 budget releasing funds that had been frozen to the café's reserve since the beginning of the year.
With science, a visit to an old life
After 18 years, the smallest of minerals brings Georg Grathoff back to Germany
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When Portland State Geology Professor Georg Grathoff was awarded a one-year guest professorship at the University of Goettingen, Germany in 2006, he was given an opportunity to rediscover a place that he once called home.
NASA grant to fund genetic studies
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Dr. Niles Lehman has just been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant from NASA to study the biochemical and genetic issues involved with the origins of life on Earth.
PSU professor to aid Korean institute in study of climate trends
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As one of four professors across the nation working on a project to assess the impact of climate change, Portland State geology professor Heejun Chang will use part of $1.3 million to study global climate change on a regional level.
Groups can change budgets, with OK
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The Student Fee Committee has discretion to allow student groups to deviate from their initial yearly budgets, Portland State's Judicial Board ruled yesterday.
Study at PSU focuses on voice-recognition software
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Portland State computer science professors Warren Harrison and Bart Massey will continue working closely with local law enforcement groups in the hopes of developing and building portable radios that will allow police officers to communicate directly with the laptop computers now standard in police squad cars.
Commission to identify funding needs for OUS
Executive orders aim to make community colleges and universities affordable
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Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed two executive orders regarding funding for higher education Aug. 28.
An uphill battle
Visiting professor faced academic obstacles before finding success in science
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Portland State visiting research professor George Totten's knows a lot about metals.
News briefs
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Portland State faculty Gerald Sussman has contributed a chapter to the business book "Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy."
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Recognizing a transition for returning female students, the Women's Resource Center at Portland State is organizing a Returning Women Students program.
Crime Blotter
When on public property, keep it in your pants
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Campus safety officers found a man masturbating and choking himself in the dumpster yard after they found an illegally parked car near his location that was later reported stolen.
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Beginning Winter term 2008, the university will no longer publish printed copies of the "Schedule of Classes."
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A new federal bill increasing federal loan and grant programs by $20 billion was signed into law yesterday, affording federally indebted students at Portland State and across the nation new options for paying off their loans.
Federal bill would give protections to homosexual victims of violence
Bill would make safeguard in states that do not have laws protecting against hate crimes
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The Democratic-led Senate voted on Thursday to let federal law enforcement help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals, attaching the provision to a massive spending bill for the Iraq war and daring President Bush to veto the whole package.
