Here’s how I spent my summer vacation: I took my first online course at Portland State. The class was Nonverbal Communication—online. That was irony number one. “I’m taking Nonverbal Communication,”…
Haste makes waste (in love)
Toga! Toga! Toga! Even if you haven’t seen Animal House, odds are that you are aware of the image of college it presents; the sex and alcohol-fueled existence that would…
ARTPOP for the masses
“Everybody asks me—they say, ‘What does ARTPOP even mean?’ What I tell them is, when we come together, me and my beautiful fans, we belong don’t we?” Lady Gaga said…
The slum pope
For a long time the Roman Catholic Church has seemed, to me, quite austere and removed from daily realities; its age-old traditions and white-clothed specter of a pope have often felt more symbolic than tangible.
Fan fiction and nepotism
A couple days ago, I happened to read a review of the film Lovelace on the Vanity Fair website. I’m looking forward to seeing it, and I was hoping the critics liked it. The review wasn’t negative, but it filled me with righteous anger.
Letter to the Editor
I am writing this letter in response to [the] July 31 Vanguard article “PSU’s Diversity Action Plan proving difficult to define.” It’s important to understand both the background and goals of this campus-wide initiative.
Gender-swapping
What is gender? For some gender is just a way of identifying whatever they’ve got going on between their legs, but the stereotypes associated with gender and sexuality have a substantial impact on our lives.
The $44 million plan
As the dust still settles on the beautiful (and expensive) Academic and Student Rec Center, Portland State already has its eye on an ambitious remodel of the Peter W. Stott Center—and it’s not going to be cheap.
Interdimensional man of mystery
Still one of the most popular mysteries in recent memory, the infamous (and unidentified) D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 and subsequently disappeared, has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.
Block Talk
“Where do you hang out on or near campus?”
Food for thought
If you were to ask someone on the street where their food comes from, their answer would likely be the name of a supermarket. But that’s not really the truth. Before our food makes its way to the grocery store, it is grown at a farm and then processed somewhere else entirely.