The Oregon Transportation Commission voted in favor to offer an “X” on driver’s licenses and state ID cards in order to signify a non-binary gender option instead of the traditional…
Pride by PDX
Marching with my ancestors Alex-Jon Earl Pride events for Two-Spirit Indigenous Portlanders have always been a struggle with invisibility. Even with last year’s turn as grand marshals, it is hard…
Counter-protesters question police tactics at Trump rally
Portland’s pro-Trump, anti-fascist, and anti-hate rallies on Sunday, June 4 were not quite what the city was expecting. A few hundred Trump supporters gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown…
Rallies to collide in downtown Portland
Three competing rallies will converge simultaneously in downtown Portland on Sunday, June 4, 2017. Mayor Ted Wheeler has criticized the most controversial of the three, a pro-Trump “free speech”…
Calling all Viking Voices
Are you a part of the Portland State community who wants your voice represented in the Vanguard? Viking Voices is here for you. VV is an open platform, rolling submission…
PSUnited against hate
The third victim in the May 26 stabbing incident at the Hollywood Transit Center has been identified as Portland State music student Micah David-Cole Fletcher, age 21. Fletcher’s injuries are…
Third stabbing victim in MAX hate crime identified as PSU student, expected to recover
The third victim in yesterday’s stabbing incident at the Hollywood Transit Center has been identified as Portland State music student Micah David-Cole Fletcher, age 21. Fletcher’s injuries are not life…
Trumpcare: Are we any better off with this new plan?
The House of Representatives passed Trumpcare, or the American Health Care Act, on May 4. While the bill still has to make it through the Senate before going into effect,…
Board unanimously approves next PSU president
Dr. Rahmat A. Shoureshi, the last of three final candidates to replace current Portland State President Wim Wiewel, was unanimously approved in a special Board of Trustees meeting at 10:17…
Next PSU President unanimously approved by Board of Trustees
Just after 10 a.m. this morning, the Portland State Board of Trustees unanimously approved Dr. Rahmat Shoureshi as PSU’s next and ninth president. Shoureshi is currently New York Institute of…
Spotlight on South Asia flips the script of social justice
On April 28, Kanak Dixit, a prominent journalist, political activist, writer, and publisher from Nepal, began his talk entitled, “Democracy, Civil Society, & Human Rights in South Asia,” by encouraging the…