Portland, of late, has cultivated a reputation for being ground zero for quirk-obsessed, pickling, knitting, handlebar-mustaching hipsters of the world over. And sure, seeing a guy cruise down a bike…
‘Portland Review’ in flux
The Portland Review, Portland State’s 59-year-old student-run literary journal, lost its entire staff to turnover this summer. (Full disclosure: the author of this article was a volunteer reader for the…
Portland State community responds to Umpqua Community College shooting
This is an updated version of a story the Vanguard published online last week. Last Thursday, an individual shot and killed nine people and injured nine more at Umpqua Community…
Keep yer dates straight, newbie!
Academic calendars sure can be confusing, especially given that there’s no such thing as a national calendar for all public schools. As a newbie, it can be a challenge trying…
The Fresh buðlungr of Portland
Break out your beanies and scarves. You’ve just enrolled in the third most hipster school in the United States, according to College Magazine. That’s right. Portland State—home of 28,241 undergraduate…
PSU hosts summer blood drive
Portland State and the American Red Cross are teaming up again for the third of four annual campus blood drives this week. From Monday, July 27 to Thursday, July 30,…
Pooooooool party!
Who doesn’t love swimming at high noon during the dog days of summer? It’s hot and sunny, and there’s little solace found in the air conditioning-bereft rentals lining the streets…
A bloody good time with ‘The Bloody Chamber’
Once upon a time, there was no such thing as Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Fairy tales were grim fables full of blood, guts and sex. Not everybody got…
Get ‘er Dunn: The summer reading list you can finish
Ahhh, summer. Time for inappropriately short shorts and socially acceptable public drinking. A time, for most students, to take a little breather from the insanity of the school year. By…
15 soon
A ballot measure that would create the nation’s first statewide $15 minimum wage has just hit a milestone on its path to the November 2016 ballot. According to a June…
Three More Years of Wim-ter
After almost a year of deliberation and discussion, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously on June 11 to update President Wim Wiewel’s contract. Wiewel signed the contract after the meeting…