Oregonians voted in November 2014 to legalize recreational marijuana, and the time has come for the Grim Reefer to slink out of the shadows and into the light. Recreational weed in…
Time for a tune-up
The stress of finals week has taken its toll on the student body at Portland State. Now with summer in the air, it’s time to start thinking about physical tune-ups….
Closing the pipeline
Divestment is a word floating around many institutions as a potential strategy for combating fossil fuel production and the resulting environmental impacts. The City of Portland and Multnomah County have…
ASPSU President and Vice President respond to Implementation Plan
Following the Portland State Board of Trustees’ June 11 vote to approve the University Public Safety Department Management and Implementation Plan, Associated Students of PSU President Dana Ghazi and Vice…
PSU Board of Trustees approves armed officers Implementation Plan
After two years of dialogue, planning, debate and protest, the Board of Trustees voted to approve the University Public Safety Department Management and Implementation Plan, which will guide the introduction…
Hold the vote
Recently elected and appointed members of Associated Students of Portland State University released a press release this week requesting that the PSU Board of Trustees postpone a vote scheduled for…
ASPSU appoints new positions at first meeting
The Associated Students of Portland State University held its first senate meeting with its newly elected leadership on June 1 to introduce members, appoint new positions and announce future events….
Portland Stress University
College students often experience high levels of stress which, for many students, can be new and overwhelming. Stress is especially high during final exams. Portland State’s finals week begins on…
Divestment activists rally amid Sustainability Celebration
Demonstrators opposed to the Portland State University Foundation’s investments in fossil fuel received a reception they did not expect last Thursday when they crashed the PSU Sustainability Celebration in silent…
You are not a loan
“$1.2 trillion is not working,” said Daniel Hong, an organizer with Strike Debt Portland. People gathered on the Park Blocks behind Smith Memorial Student Union for a student Debtor’s Assembly…
Nobel Prize laureate speaks on campus
“I would never call myself a chemist,” said Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 recipient Eric Betzig. Betzig was this year’s speaker at the annual Mark Gurevitch Memorial Lecture Series, hosted…