News If you're stuck this Earth Day Eve without a plan, let us help. Here's a sampling of how you can mark the 40th annual Earth Day this April 22. Portland State University is hosting what it's calling its largest Earth Day yet. Students will be planting gardens, watching eco-documentaries, learning to cook in cob ovens and mixing green cleaning products. On Thursday, PSU will have an Earth ...   More

News Nike's activities in Honduras were condemned as “monstrous” this week by two factory workers from that Central American country who alleged abuses by the sportswear company. Speaking Tuesday night at Portland State University, the two Honduran workers told an audience of about 100 people that Nike's subcontractors violated Honduran law by withholding severance payments totaling $2.2 ...   More

News A group of under-recognized and unique newspapermen is at Portland State University this week. Carrying Macbooks at their 54th annual gathering, members of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists are spending time in work sessions here in Portland discussing new business models for a struggling profession — and then roaming downtown Portland with a pub crawl. For people whose ...   More

News You may have just spent the past weekend in a non-stop pool of sweat. But Oregon just got a little bit cooler, at least when it comes to higher education in the eyes of the Sierra Club. The state is now host to five of the coolest schools in the country, according to a recent survey by the Sierra Club's magazine, which ranks colleges' and universities' "cool factor" based on how green their ...   More

News The controversy in New York City over a proposed mosque and community center near ground zero in New York City has drawn comment from President Obama, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and many other politicians. This Saturday, Aug. 28 Portlanders will get their chance at a panel and discussion on the topic at Portland State University. Everybody is invited to ...   More

News Portland State University's Queer Resource Center is asking any and all LGBTQ students, alumni, faculty and staff members if they would be OK adding their names to a list that will be displayed on a poster in the PSU food court next week. The center's "Outlist" coincides with National Coming Out Day on Monday, Oct. 11, with the idea that a large public list of LGBTQ people will show everybody ...   More

News Police say they're closing the case on a crime that shocked residents from Portland to the Oregon Coast. Reports of the gunshot deaths of Richard Hunter and Astrid Schlaps in their Manzanita home last month left some friends of the couple doubting the official explanation that the killings were a murder-suicide by Hunter. Cops in the small Tillamook County town said they were keeping the case ...   More

News This year's National Coming Out Day at Portland State University's Queer Resource Center has extra significance this year. That's because Rutgers Univerity freshman Tyler Clementi committed suicide last month by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate broadcast footage of his sexual encounter with another man on the internet. Across the country here at Portland State, the ...   More

News Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig told Portland voters today they have an opportunity in the Nov. 2 election to continue making a difference in election reform. Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, came to Portland State University this rainy Thursday afternoon at the invitation of supporters of city initiative 26-108. Lessig talked about the benefits of publicly ...   More