Portland State University

I can't believe they want coffee. Granted, it is 9:30 a.m. when I pick up my friends Jim and Lenora at the Portland airport. But in the weeks I've anticipated their visit, I've had beer on my brain. FOR THE RECORD: Portland restaurant: An article in Sunday's Travel section on microbreweries in Portland, Ore., misspelled the name of the Indian restaurant Vindalho as Vindahlo. — Jim is a home brewer — or was, back in the dark ages before the microbrewery renaissance. Some of my fondest memories of our long friendship involve conversations over bottles cooled in the crawlspace of his New Mexico house.

I can't believe they want coffee. Granted, it is 9:30 a.m. when I pick up my friends Jim and Lenora at the Portland airport. But in the weeks I've anticipated their visit, I've had beer on my brain. FOR THE RECORD: Portland restaurant: An article in Sunday's Travel section on microbreweries in Portland, Ore., misspelled the name of the Indian restaurant Vindalho as Vindahlo. — Jim is a home brewer — or was, back in the dark ages before the microbrewery renaissance. Some of my fondest memories of our long friendship involve conversations over bottles cooled in the crawlspace of his New Mexico house.

Charles Dunn of Portland State stands only 5 feet 8, but he presents Cal State Northridge with a tall order. Can the Matadors stop the elusive junior running back, especially when he has so much to run for? History will not be on Northridge's side Saturday night, when the Matadors play Portland State in a Big Sky Conference game at Portland's Civic Stadium.

When Chazz Moore speaks, people not only listen, they usually are intrigued by what they hear. From wisecracks to inspirational ploys, Moore, an outspoken and quick-witted senior cornerback for Cal State Northridge, not only plays a good game but talks a good one, too. And he wouldn't have it any other way.

When Chazz Moore speaks, people not only listen, they usually are intrigued by what they hear. From wisecracks to inspirational ploys, Moore, an outspoken and quick-witted senior cornerback for Cal State Northridge, not only plays a good game but talks a good one, too. And he wouldn't have it any other way.

Kemper Nomland Jr., a Los Angeles architect who teamed with his father early in his career to design and build one of the homes in the landmark post-World War II Case Study House program, has died. he was 90. Nomland died Friday of natural causes at an assisted living home in Long Beach, said his daughter, Erika Nomland Cilengir. A Los Angeles native who was a conscientious objector during World War II, Nomland joined with his father to form Nomland & Nomland after the war. During their partnership, the Nomlands designed numerous projects; chief among them was Case Study House No. 10 in Pasadena.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Pity the lowly public toilet, a redolent reminder of the failure of the best minds in urban planning to address the most fundamental of daily necessities. Millions have been invested in the facilities for collective relief. Often, they have become targets for graffiti, trash-can fires, furtive needle activity, commercial lovemaking, emergency baths, laundries for the homeless, and repositories of castoff diapers. Go to any city in America and ask whether it has fixed the public toilet problem, and most any city in America will hold its nose.

Ernest (Pokey) Allen was named head football coach at Portland State University on Thursday, the Western Football Conference school announced. He replaces Don Read, who resigned in November to become coach at Montana. Allen, 40, was the defensive coordinator for the Portland Breakers of the United States Football League last season, and filled the same position for the Los Angeles Express in 1983 and 1984.

To the naked eye, the white puffs of cotton growing on shrubs, the yellow flowers on canola plants and the towering tassels on cornstalks look just like those on any other plants. But inside their cells, where their DNA contains instructions for how these crops should grow, there are a few genes that were put there not by Mother Nature but by scientists in a lab. Some of the genes are from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis that makes proteins lethal to flies, moths and other insects.

President Clinton hosts a one-day conference at Portland State University today on economic conditions on the West Coast and the future of trade relations with Asia, especially the Pacific Rim nations. The Oregon meeting is the second of four such regional sessions sponsored by the White House to discuss changes in the American economy and the resulting strains on workers and families.

Charles Dunn of Portland State stands only 5 feet 8, but he presents Cal State Northridge with a tall order. Can the Matadors stop the elusive junior running back, especially when he has so much to run for? History will not be on Northridge's side Saturday night, when the Matadors play Portland State in a Big Sky Conference game at Portland's Civic Stadium.

Donald Crone, associate professor of political science in international relations at Scripps College, has been named dean of the faculty, succeeding Steven S. Koblik, who resigned to become president of Reed College in Oregon. Crone will be the chief academic officer and second-ranking administrative officer of the college.

The University of Oregon will be forced to decide whether to leave the Pacific 10 Conference unless the state helps cover its athletic department deficit, the school's president says. University President Myles Brand said Thursday it would be better for Oregon to drop intercollegiate athletics than join a less prestigious conference. He said Oregon's membership in the Pac-10 is "the most important affiliation we have as an academic institution."