PSU Magazine Summer 1989

PSU Food Services has switched to paper products and reusable cups. A switch to paper cups Portland State's Food Service voluntari– ly suspended the use of styrofoam con– tainers this spring. Coffee is now served in paper cups, and hamburgers are wrapped in foiled paper. The University made the move away from styrofoam nine months before a Portland city ordinance goes into effect which bans the foam containers, and it is likely that the new ordinance would not have affected PSU because of its non– profit status. The decision to change to paper prod– ucts came as a result of concern for the environment and a sense that PSU is also part of the surrounding community, said Lee Fan, operations manager. PSU Food Service is probably one of downtown's biggest concessionaires, serving about 5,000 students, faculty and staff each day. According to Fan, the transition is not an easy one. ?aper products do not have good heat retention and paper cups cost two to three times as much as styrofoam cups. Food Service is encouraging customers to bring their own coffee cups and is selling reusable PSU travel mugs in cooperation with the Smith Memorial Center book store. PSU 2 MBA program offered in the USSR An agreement authorizing the start of the first Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree ever offered in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was signed in April by interim President Roger Edg– ington and Pyotr M . Konevskih, rector of the Khabarovsk Institute of National Economy (KINE). The PSU School of Business Ad– ministration will design and coordinate delivery of the program to KINE which is located in Khabarovsk , Portland's sister ci– ty in the Soviet Far East. As part of the recent reforms instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, regional governments throughout the Soviet Union are working to upgrade the perfor– mance of their industries, especially in the areas of foreign trade and consumer goods, according to Earl Molander, PSU coordinator for the new program and chair of the Department of Management. The Soviet MBA program will make extensive use of videotaped materials from Portland State's recently inaugurated Statewide MBA Program. PSU School of Business Administration faculty will be on- site in Khabarovsk, monitoring the delivery of the taped courses and providing additional instruction. The School of Business also will be training KINE facul – ty in all disciplines of business. Enrollment limits set The University is adopting a new registration policy designed to reduce the number of students attending classes next fall. The policy was developed , according to interim President Roger Edgington, in response to the need to limit enrollment at PSU owing to financial limitations. The new policy accompanies a reduc– tion in the number of classes to be offered next year and new minimum grade- point averages (GPA) set by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. Beginning in the fall , nonadmitted undergraduate students will not be per– mitted priority enrollment status (for exam– ple, they will not be allowed to pre– register). Nonadmitted undergraduate students are those who have not completed formal admission to a university degree or certificate program. This will affect ap– proximately 1,200 individuals. Students transferring to PSU from other OSSHE institutions will not be given priority enrollment. This will affect ap– proximately TIO students. These two steps will reduce enrollment by approximately 1,500 students at PSU, a reduction which is regarded as the bare minimum necessary for even the most op– timistic budget that the University can ex– pect for the coming biennium. State campuses have been encouraged to adopt policies of selective admissions by the Oregon State Board of Higher Educa– tion , and the board approved increased GPA admission requirements at four in– stitutions. PSU has been authorized to in– crease high school GPA requirements from 2 .5 to 2.75 for residents and non- residents, and increase college GPA for transfer ad– mission from 2 .0 to 2.25. For art and business Two areas of the University that appear to have little in common - business ad– ministration and art - were brought together in an unusual and beneficial tran– saction thi s spring. Donald F. Hastings, president of Lin– coln Electric Co. came to PSU May 5 to lecture on his successfu l Cleveland , Ohio, firm fo r the PSU Business School " Busi ness Update '89." Lincoln is the world's leading manufacturer of arc welders and electric motors. Always looki ng for a donation for the program , business school fac ulty soon realized that an arc welder would not benefit the average business student , but what about the art department? Michihi ro Kosuge, who teaches creative and advanced sculpture classes at PSU, en– couraged the process and today has a Lin– coln portable wire- feed welder as proof positive that business can indeed help the arts.