Graduate employees of Portland State announced plans to form a union early this month. GEU, along with student allies and PSU union representatives, made their announcement on February 1 by…
Taking the lead
Recent reporting about water quality on campus and concerning analyses finding lead in some water sources can be pinned down to an ongoing debate about the particulars: how much lead…
Black Lives Matter founders challenge communities to stand up for change
As Black Lives Matters founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi prepared to speak on Tuesday evening, chants of “Disarm PSU” erupted in the audience. Tometi and Garza spoke at the…
Despite tragedy, community prevails
The twelfth of the month held a special significance for Fred Bryant. Each month on that day, Bryant held vigil at the Northeast Portland site where his son Keaton Otis…
Smith 2020
Jumbled days of being lost in the catacombs of Smith Memorial Student Union may be numbered. Members of Smith Advisory Board, with help from the Student Fee Committee and the…
$750,000 awarded for sexual assault prevention
Portland State has been awarded a $750,000 grant to create a model for sexual assault prevention on college campuses. The grant is funded by the Department of Justice’s Sex Offender…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79
Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice of the United States Supreme Court, died overnight on Friday of natural causes. CNN reports that Justice Scalia passed in his sleep while on a…
Vikings pull away in second-half in against MSU
The Vikings and the Bobcats clashed in their second Big Sky match-up on Thursday. Both teams had just come off recent losses and sought to avoid a losing streak. It…
Graduate students march toward union formation
PSU graduate students are exercising their right to unionize: no longer will graduate employees be sequestered by mountains of term papers or remote research laboratories. A group of graduate students…
Student government tensions exposed amid OSA scrap.
Tensions mounted at a recent meeting of the Associated Students of Portland State Senate as proponents and skeptics jostled over a recent recommendation to defund a statewide organizing group. The…
Proposed payroll tax seeks tuition relief for PSU students
You can’t spend the same dollar twice. Portland State President Wim Wiewel pondered this conundrum while discussing a proposed tuition tax he hopes will reduce the cost of attendance for…