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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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PSU raids Clackamas
Clackamas students
gravitate towards
PSU because of
lower tuition and
local campus
By Joshua Baird
Thé Clackamas Print
Illustration by Kayla Berge Clackamas Print
staurants raise more
In $4 million for
'/AIDS awareness
icipating
aurants
ate up to 30
¡ent of their
omers bill to
awareness
develop psycho-social sup­
port networks with other cli­
ents, staff and volunteers,”
explained Lindsay Ross, pro­
gram manager for the HIV
Day Center, in an e-mail.
The event raises about $4
million every year in 53 cit­
ies nationwide and even in
some parts of Canada. Nearly
’y Neil Lundin
3,000 restaurants participate
and an estimated 250,000
¡Clackamas Print
people dine out on this night.
¡re were you this April Portland has been a host to
erhaps if you were the event for two years.
ig breakfast, lunch or
Red Star Tavern is one
at one of Portland’s of the two restaurants in
¡estaurants, you could Portland that participated.
een supporting those Lenny Cooper, a manager,
t afflicted with HIV/ said that their restaurant
raised about $1,000 from
Ing Out for Life is lunch to dinner and had
m i de event where about 160 guests attend and
bating
restaurants believes about half of them
up to 30 percent of were there for DOFL spe­
Customer’s bill to the cifically. This was the first
rship Project and the year that Red Star Tavern
'ay Center.
participated in the event and
donated 20 percent.
The restaurants are found
to participate through volun­
teering on their own or are
contacted to see if they would
like to participate. For their
support, they receive some
advertising and a few extra
The HIV Day
customers for the event.
enter is a drop-
“We solicit participation
from restaurants each fall.
i day center for
This past fall we sent out
^-income folks
200 plus invitations to local
restaurants, and we follow up
mng with HIV/
each letter with phone calls
IDS where they
and visits. Restaurants are
more than welcome to con­
an access basic
tact us as well,” said Ross.
needs such as
Detour Café was another
ra and clothing, participant in the event and
raised around $150 for the
fundraiser and was told of the
Lindsay Ross
event through a customer.
Program Manager for
DOFL doesn’t just sit back
HIV Day Center
and have restaurants do all
the work, though; they send
out ambassadors to every
restaurant to talk with the
Partnership Project guests about the event and
fs case management to who it supports and why it is
living with HIV/AIDS important.
tins educational and
DOFL was the brain child
ess programs about of Julie Drizin in Philadelphia
lips.
Statistically, 20 years ago and was rec­
nine and a half min- ognized this year with the
heone contracts HIV Friends for Life Award by
[United States and only Action AIDS along with Ted
five are aware of their Allen, who is a co-spokes-
pn.
person for the event.
e HIV Day Center
You can find out more
top-in day center for about Dining Out for Life
Pome folks living and the participating restau­
pV/AIDS where they rants on their website www.
pess basic needs such diningoutforlife.com,
or
>(1 and clothing, but
follow them on Twitter @
pe the opportunity to DineOut4Life.
Doctrina Ur bi Serviat, or
“let knowledge serve the city,”
is the motto for the most obvi­
ous choice of a transfer school
for a number of Clackamas
Community College students,
Portland State University. The
49 acre PSU campus is locat­
ed in the heart of downtown
Portland, just a bus ride *away
from home for most.
For
some,
selecting
Portland State is more than
just convenience; it is the cost
as well.
“Because it’s a good school
with good programs, and I want
to take the Native American
studies,” said James Altman, a
student at Portland State who
is undecided between law and
history as a major. Altman also
works on campus doing secu­
rity work in order to receive a
discount on tuition.
For a resident student
transferring to PSU from CCC
as an undergraduate, you can
expect to pay $6,764. Or as a
non-resident student, you will
be paying nearly twice that
amount at $12,675, though it
is unclear if PSU, like CCC,
will be increasing tuition in
the near future.
Brandon Gullion, a PSU
student double majoring in
business accounting and music
performance said, “I knew
PSU had an excellent music
program as well as a great
business program, which was
my second choice if I ended up
not wanting to do music. After
visiting the campus shortly
after I started my application
process, I instantly loved it.”
Being that PSU is in
Portland, one of the important
things to keep in mind is their
encouragement of environ-
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wou
mental awareness. According
to The Princeton Review,
Portland State is included on
their list of 286 green col­
leges nationwide.
“The campus is very clean
and well kept and whenever
there is an issue, the staff
gets on it immediately,” said
Gullion.
The university boasts, over
121,000 alumni, and accord­
ing to www.PDX.edu approx­
imately 65 percent
live in the Portland
metro area to this
day.
Illustrations by
Brian Steele and
Kayla Berge
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