June 12, 2020 Dear President Percy and the Portland State University Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of the English Department at Portland State, stand in solidarity…
Letter to the Editor: Psychology Department Disarm PSU Statement
June 11, 2020 Dear President Percy and the PSU Board of Trustees, We, the undersigned faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Portland State Psychology Department stand in…
Letter to the Editor: PSU School of Social Work Black Lives Matter call to action
June 4, 2020 Dear Students and Faculty As agents of change, researchers, educators, social workers, and people working with children, youth, and families, we stand in solidarity and uplift…
Letter to the Editor: SSW Faculty and Staff call to Disarm PSU
Dear President Percy and the Portland State University Board of Trustees, As members of the PSU School of Social Work, we were glad to see our University’s recent communication supporting…
Open Letter from the CLAS Chairs to President Percy
8 June 2020 On May 30, 2020, Lisa Weasel, Professor & Chair of the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, wrote a letter to you as an individual, that…
‘Conceptual Penises’ and other trolling
Dear Portland State students, What should we make of the recent rash of hoax articles that supposedly “[reveal] deep problems in social sciences” and show “something has gone wrong in…
Letter to the Editor
The testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford weighs heavily on me. Survivors are watching and listening to how our government, country, places of employment and universities are responding to Ford’s testimony…
Letter to the Editor
From Shauna Colleen Murphy, Feb. 21, 2016 We are a group of students at PSU who are disturbed by the content exhibited by the Portland State Vanguard. In the recent…
Letter to the Editor
From Camelia Verduzco, Feb. 21, 2016 My name is Camelia Verduzco, a current undergraduate Business Student at PSU. I am writing to express my recent upsetting and offensive experience while…
Birth control helps us reach our goals
Nov. 10 marks “Thanks, Birth Control Day,” dedicated to turning up the volume and turning down the controversy around birth control. It’s also a great time to celebrate what birth…
Letter to the editor: On waving Confederate flags on campus
I am a PSU student and as I was walking to class on July 6, I saw three older people walking through campus and down the Portland Park Blocks waving…