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O regon's higher education power structure has been trying to prevent Portland State University from becoming a success from the very day the campus opened. Some PSU oldtimers say ·the mere fact that PSU is located in the city suggests someone did not want it to succeed. The problems PSU needs to overcome will be no different in the 1990s. The high-tech industries have located in the suburbs and they want their graduates learning in the suburbs. The Oregon Electronics In– dustries even went so far as to submit a proposal to the Governor's Commission on Higher Education in Portland suggesting University of Oregon and Ore– gon State University administer PSU. As students and faculty at Portland State contend with higher numbers in classrooms and slower– moving lines, other state universities have been unwilling to support growth for the urban school. As the Governor's Commission works to decide the fate of the university, students, faculty, administrators, and classified workers have begun to pull together to make PStJ a true university for the city of the 1990s and beyond. This yearbook is the first issue since 1978. It at– tempts to show PSU for what it is and the relation– ship PSU has to the city of Portland, Oregon, in 1989 and 1990. -Tom Boyd, Editor. 2 Life in the city PSU's here to stay