Eligible students can get their incomes verified by TriMet on campus in the Portland State Transportation and Parking Office in order to receive low-income fare from Jan. 7–11. TriMet officials…
An Arkestral Orchestration
Born Herman Poole Blount, Sun Ra, in all of his prolific and inspired thinking, was a man who explicated both mythicism and reality in every essence of his existence. The…
PSU’s CO-OP Pilot Launches This Term
Students who applied last fall and were accepted into Portland State’s CO-OP pilot program will be beginning their first term of paid cooperative education this January. The pilot program is…
Redefining ‘Refugee’
While climate change continues to damage parts of the world, those displaced as a consequence do not meet the legal requirements to qualify for refugee status. In response to a…
China-Canada: Huawei detention fallout
China detained two Canadians on Dec. 10 in what appears to be retaliation for the detention of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant. Canada has…
Behind the Holiday Season
Sales during the holiday season were the highest in six years as reported by Reuters, with a rise of 5.1 percent amounting over $850 billion. According to Marketplace, 90 percent…
Salazar awake from coma, refutes Amtrak’s suicide story
Portland State student Aaron Salazar was found seven months ago unconscious next to train tracks in Truckee, Calif. with unexplained, life-threatening injuries. Amtrak insists Salazar threw himself out of the…
Hill to Hall: Jan. 2–7
Jan. 2: Oregon’s only women’s prison grants tampons to inmates Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, Oregon’s only women’s prison, now gives tampons to inmates who request them. Previously, only sanitary pads…
This Week Around the World: Dec. 30–Jan. 6
Dec. 30–Jan. 4 Bangladesh: Almost 100 million Bangladeshis voted in the country’s parliamentary elections despite widespread voter suppression conducted during the campaign. Al Jazeera reported the previous ruling party—the Awami…
Events Calendar Jan. 8–14
Tuesday Jan. 8 Art “Manga Hokusai Manga” Portland Japanese Garden 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Entry fee included with garden admission The Portland Japanese Garden is fortunate enough to be the only…
Tsunami in the Sunda Strait
Indonesia is a large archipelago in the Ring of Fire with 127 active volcanoes, so it is not uncommon for the island nation to have frequent earthquakes and tsunamis. Since…