By Guest Columnist, Jesse Turner Everyone deserves a sex life that is safe and healthy, as well as pleasurable and fun. Open and honest communication about each person’s needs, wants, and boundaries…
“Islamophobia needs to stop” – a reply
by Will T.G. Miller As an immigrant from the United States to sunny little Britain, I never went through the American education system. It must have changed a lot, though,…
Open letter to PSU regarding Israel BDS vote
by Eliana Rudee Students and faculty of Portland State University, [The Associated Students of PSU’s] resolution to join the BDS movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israeli companies has…
College versus the artist
For many creative people, choosing between an academic career and an artistic career can be a tough decision. For dancers, that decision can be especially hard. The universities that offer…
Summer term
Patricia A. Schechter Professor of history I don’t know anyone who is happy about summer term at Portland State. In 2013, the abrupt cancellations of some 90 classes, a number…
Roe rebooted
As a 23-year-old PSU student, I can’t remember a time that access to safe and legal abortion was not the law of the land. Our grandmothers, our mothers and our…
Letter to the editor: Student Trustee Pamela Campos-Palma
My first few weeks at Portland State were challenging. I was still trying to find the way from my Chican@/Latin@ class to my P.E. soccer class at Stott Field, a…
The ugly truth about being a T.A.
$530 a month. $130 a week. That’s how much a graduate teaching assistant makes. Well, of course, we get a $3,000 tuition break, too. And, yes, we get the benefit…
Pope Francis: not an anarchist feminist Marxist
If everything you’ve heard about Pope Francis comes from a major news outlet or someone’s Facebook page, I’m going to ask that you rethink everything you think you know about him….
Defunding athletics, prioritizing academics
If Portland State students actually want to have an athletics program at PSU, then we’d be willing to fund it through our student fees. So why hasn’t anyone advocated for…
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.