Dec. 11: Killed and imprisoned journalists named Person of the Year 2018 TIME has named a group of journalists targeted for their work as its person of the year for…
Hill to Hall, Nov. 6–10
Nov. 6: Midterm elections conclude in Oregon Gov. Kate Brown was re-elected to the governor’s office at the close of 2018 midterm elections in what the Associated Press called the…
Hoax articles raise questions of academic ethics, rigor
Over the course of 10 months between 2017 and 2018, three academics—including Portland State philosophy Prof. Peter Boghossian—submitted a series of hoax articles to various academic journals in an attempt…
Security consulting firm to hold listening forums on CPSO shooting
Following the June 29 fatal officer-involved shooting of Jason Washington, an independent security consulting firm was selected by Portland State President Rahmat Shoureshi to review campus safety policies and procedures….
Hill to Hall: Sept. 23–29
Sept. 23: Regulators cancel license of cannabis farm linked to explosion The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced its decision to cancel the recreational marijuana producer license of a central Oregon…
#DisarmPSU occupies campus public safety office
A group of protesters belonging to Portland State University Student Union’s #DisarmPSU campaign announced an occupation of PSU’s Campus Public Safety Office on Sept. 24 to protest the fatal shooting…
Protesters occupy Campus Public Safety office
Following a rally and march around Portland State campus on the afternoon of Sept. 24, a group of protesters associated with Portland State University Student Union announced an occupation of…
Hill to Hall Sept. 4–8
Sept. 4: Cities can’t prosecute people for sleeping on streets, federal court rules The 9th United States District Court of Appeals has ruled that cities cannot prosecute people sleeping on…
Hill to Hall, Aug. 21–27
Aug. 21: Senator calls for Wheeler’s resignation over Occupy ICE PDX Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Tuesday introduced a resolution in response to the Occupy ICE protests that broke out…
Portlanders rally in support of national prison strike
Prison inmates across the United States began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, Aug. 21, demanding improvements to living conditions, greater access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the abolition of penal…
Portland’s Resistance rallies against Trump’s Supreme Court pick
On July 9, President Donald Trump announced conservative federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his pick to replace Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Anthony…