It is hard to miss the vast display of diversity within the student body, filling Portland State’s halls and park blocks. PSU offers an abundant amount of scholarships to support…
PSU welcomes the year of the monkey
About 500 people gathered at Smith Memorial Student Union on Saturday, January 30, to celebrate the 2016 Chinese New Year. The event was organized by Portland State’s Chinese Students and…
Kabuki slashes onto PSU stage
The Center for Japanese studies and The School of Theater & Film have kicked off the winter term with a gong. With three lectures—including a film—and eight live productions of…
Consexual activity
A man from North Yorkshire is now required to give 24 hours notice to officials before engaging in any type of sexual contact with a woman. Last year, the man…
Guinness World Record’s oldest man dies at 112
It’s not often we hear of someone living to see 100 years—let alone a decade more. Yasutaro Koide, a Japanese man did that just that—passing away Jan. 19 at the…
Cannaparisons
With its hordes of bikers, cloudy grey skies, rain, overgrown trees, flowers falling on the tops of houses, street food and legal marijuana, Amsterdam could be considered the European version…
EMILY: The helpful drone
As Syrian refugees leave their country in hopes of finding a fresh start, many have taken to the Mediterranean Sea. The trouble is they don’t have the right equipment to…
Border control or lack thereof?
Five days after the Paris attacks, Brussels went into a citywide lockdown due to fear that one of the terrorist organizers was hiding within the city on Nov. 21. According…
Crossing the border into Germany
“It’s not a refugee crisis, but a politics crisis,” stated an education and history student at the University of Hamburg, “Refugees aren’t the problem. The war is.” During my time…
The forgotten drought in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s current drought is worse than any other it’s seen during the past 50 years. International aid is sparse because the country has been drying up slowly over time. In…
Dot: Smartwatch for the blind
The use of smartwatches has increased substantially in the recent years. Since its launch in April 2015 Apple smartwatch sales–alone–have skyrocketed to 457 percent increase last year. That is almost…