May 14: Gladstone Burgerville votes to unionize One month after a southeast Portland Burgerville voted to establish the Burgerville Worker’s Union—one of the only federally-recognized fast food unions in the…
Viking Sports Snapshot
Softball: Sunday, May 6 Portland State at Southern Utah Score: 17-7 (W) Viking Sophomore’s Marissa Bruno and Riley Casper outperformed themselves against SUU. Bruno had a career-high with four runs…
Kat Blaque’s keynote testimonial on self-actualization
Intellectuals are annoying. They’re convinced of their superiority, obsessed with academic form and constantly convincing you of their importance. Kat Blaque is not an intellectual. She knows who she is,…
Students share international cultures, experiences at annual celebration
Portland State held its Annual International Night in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom Thursday, May 17. International Night is PSU’s largest cultural night event, highlighting countries and their cultures…
Emotional labor’s presence in platonic relationships
When talking about emotional labor, articles frequently describe women’s romantic emotional labor in a relationship. This is a real and prevalent problem, and there is no denying that, but emotional…
‘Hunger’ for truth
Director Steve McQueen’s 2008 film Hunger takes a powerful and occasionally grotesque look at The Troubles, which involved a five-year series of Maze Prison protests where human rights atrocities were…
As Portland’s economic growth slows, Oregon struggles to address food insecurity
An April 2018 economic forecast report published by Portland State’s Northwest Economic Research Center shows for the first time in nine years, the overall rate of economic growth in the…
Events Calendar May 22-28
Tuesday, May 22 Music Live @ Lunch: Bamboozle PSU Park Blocks—Parkway North if raining Noon, Free, all ages The boozle buds sound like what would happen if Grateful Dead and…
Unconscious bias motivates racism
Even when you think you hold no discrimination, unconscious bias still exists. Personal backgrounds, privileges, experiences and history dictate actions, motives and decisions, whether implicit or explicit, conscious or unconscious….
Evicting the peace process
Since President Donald Trump announced he would move the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which he formally recognized as Israel’s capital last year, thousands of…
Kate Brown talks PSU issues with student voters
Oregon Governor Kate Brown, who is seeking re-election this year, met with members of the Associated Students of Portland State University and the Oregon Student Association on Tuesday, May 15…