A Fierce Green Fire screens at PSU

The Portland State Institute for Sustainable Solutions partnered with Neighbors for Clean Air to host a screening of the film A Fierce Green Fire on May 15, which details the…

Rearguard/Spectrum merger discussed

A two-day forum was recently held by Portland State student media, and the topic on everyone’s mind was a proposed merger between two publications, The Rearguard and the Portland Spectrum…

Rose Garden blues

“The Rose Garden is our house.” These words are not eternal. From my memory, they were first shouted before Blazers games in the 2008-09 season, but they embodied the die-hard…

PSU OIT takes action against Heartbleed bug

A recently discovered security weakness called Heartbleed has caused quite a stir in the Internet world. It’s being described as one of the most significant breaches of online confidential information…

Winterhawks Conference Champs-Again

The Portland Winterhawks have won their fourth straight Western Conference Championship after defeating the Kelowna Rockets in five games. They are only the fourth hockey club in the Western Hockey…

Softball Back on Track, Sandlot Style

On a clear, spring Wednesday afternoon—perfect weather for bat and ball—the Portland State softball team was perfect, defeating the Seattle University Redhawks 1–0, 4–3 in a double header. It was…

All dogs go to linen

How long has man’s best friend been man’s best friend? Quite a long time, according to Dr. Salima Ikram, one of the world’s leading Egyptologists with focuses in ethnoarchaeology, archaeozoology…