The citizen-run Portland Parks Board has recently recommended a potential smoking ban for all Portland parks. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz plans to propose the ban to the city council sometime…
Midterm lethargy
I, like many Americans, watched my phone as voting results came in around 8 p.m. on Nov. 4. I did my best to try and express a legitimate interest and concern…
Black Thursday
The holiday season is fast approaching. For many this means spending much-needed time with family. For others it means taking part in religious traditions with themes such as hope, peace…
Planned Parenthood is not pro-life
A few weeks back, many Portland State students were surprised to see the campus littered with countless pink crosses. Many students seemed perplexed, others simply ignored the display and a…
Measure 90: A step in the right direction
The voting process here in Oregon has always been unique. As one of the only states which uses vote-by-mail as the standard, Oregon is open to trying new things in…
Measure 86: An investment for the future
The issue of funding higher education is on the forefront of most university students’ minds. Initiatives such as Pay It Forward and The Oregon Opportunity Initiative serve as beacons of…
Armed PSU Police? No thanks.
The current issue before the Board of Trustees regarding whether or not to arm our campus security makes me a bit nervous. It doesn’t take a skilled political analyst to…
Brunei: Hype and hypocrisy
When Russia first passed a law banning the spread of homosexual propaganda, people all across the western world were up in arms. All major news outlets were extremely critical if…
Chastity in the modern era
When most people took sex education classes in high school, the concept of abstinence arose as being the only absolute safeguard against STIs and pregnancy. I, like most hormonal teenagers…
The lost art of traditional dating
Dating is something that most college students will become familiar with one way or another. Whether such familiarity is achieved through firsthand experience or observational skills, the natural human desire…
Pope Francis: not an anarchist feminist Marxist
If everything you’ve heard about Pope Francis comes from a major news outlet or someone’s Facebook page, I’m going to ask that you rethink everything you think you know about him….