College Headlines

Second chance at home improvement

Daily Vanguard, Portland State University, OR

21 hours ago by Nathan Hellman

The scene inside the high-ceilinged Northeast Portland warehouse looks like a hybrid between a rummage sale and Home Depot.

Scattered across the warehouse are windows, cabinets, bathtubs, toilets and a host of other salvaged items. Even home appliances and furnaces have a place on the lot.

A ray of sunlight shines in overhead through a skylight. The skylight, from the penguinarium at the Oregon Zoo, was donated like every other item in the warehouse.

These items make up The ReBuilding Center on North Mississippi Avenue, the largest nonprofit reuse center in North America. The center takes in and reuses items that would otherwise occupy landfills.

Presidential candidates make their way through Oregon

Western Oregon Journal, Western Oregon University, OR

1 day ago by Jeffrey Sawyer

With Oregon's primaries getting closer, presidential candidates and their supporters are making their way through Oregon more so than in recent years.

In the past, presidential candidates have mostly not bothered to campaign in Oregon during the primary season because Oregon's primaries are held so late in the year, usually after a candidate has been chosen.

Bio-curious? Experiment with biofuel

Daily Vanguard, Portland State University, OR

16 hours ago by Melinda Bardon

Converting to a car biodiesel may sound difficult to some, raising questions about the practicality of its effect on the environment, but it can actually be as easy as purchasing a diesel automobile and filling the tank with biodiesel.

Celebrity campaiging

Daily Vanguard, Portland State University, OR

10 hours ago by Matt Alpert

Two celebrities, Sean Astin and Dule Hill, spoke on campus yesterday afternoon to promote the democratic candidates for the upcoming presidential election.

Pacific becomes a brand name

Pacific Index, Pacific University, OR

13 hours ago by Sami Richards

Red and black will always be Pacific University.

It will also always be Azusa Pacific University, Seattle Pacific University and Whitworth University. In addition, nationally recognized institutions like Cornell and Stanford rely on variations of the color red to be remembered.

Adjunct faculty take a stand at board meeting

The Olympian, Olympic College, WA

2 days ago by Chris Carter

By Chris Carter

Associate Editor

Part-time faculty and their supporters gave the Olympic College Board of Trustees perhaps more than they bargained for during the April 22 board meeting on the Poulsbo campus.

Advocates for better working conditions and fairer treatment benefiting adjunct professors came out in force and spent more than an hour discussing the issues that many "part-timers" feel are not being addressed adequately, if at all.

Groundbreaking planned for Humanities Building

The Olympian, Olympic College, WA

2 days ago by Jonathan Bowers

By Jonathan Bowers

Contributing Writer

As the Olympic College Facilities Master Plan begins to unfold, the next step in the process will be the groundbreaking of the new Humanities Building on Thursday.

According to Dr. Barbara Martin, vice president of Administration, after the groundbreaking ceremony the construction of the new building should only take about 17 months with a projected completion of January 2010.

The building itself, designed by Yost Grube Hall Architecture, has a base construction cost of $20.5 million, and is 80,000 square feet. It will not only house 22 classrooms and a lecture hall, but will also centralize student services, having most of the student entry and advisory center on its first two floors, including records and registrations, admissions, financial aid, the SEAC, and much more.