The 2019–20 academic year student government elections are coming, and on April 5, the Associated Students of Portland State University gave student voters the chance to meet the candidates on…
Budget forum reveals shortcomings in state funding
Students and financial advisors gathered to discuss the lack of state funding and how the new budget will affect potential tuition raises at the last of a series of four…
Resistance within ASPSU to support Smith Renovation
The proposed renovation of Smith Memorial Student Union presented to the Associated Students of Portland State University senate on April 1 was met with opposition. Director of Campus Planning and…
Rape Myths Through Time
Dana Macaulay, assistant dean of student life, led a roundtable conversation covering rape myths spanning the 1950s through the 2000s on April 3 at the Women’s Resource Center. The conversation…
Hill to Hall April 1–5
April 1: Bill to provide free menstrual products in public schools moves forward in committee A bill that would require at least half of all public middle and high schools…
Private Board of Trustees meeting excludes student media
Despite a previous statement by the Board of Trustees saying media would be allowed to attend the special executive meeting April 2, an identified representative of Vanguard was barred from…
PSU violates free speech according to individual rights organization
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education rated Portland State a “red light” institution for First Amendment violations five years in a row. FIRE has pointed out discrepancies in PSU’s…
University pays back $1 million to Department of Education
Four years after failing to return approximately $1 million of unearned financial aid money to the Department of Education, the federal government forced Portland State to pay it all back….
Bill aims to freeze tuition increases over next two years
Student representatives and Oregon lawmakers have put a bill before the legislature which would provide temporary relief for students facing rising higher education costs by freezing tuition increases at public…
Newest Board member brings tech experience, Saudi connections
Nearly nine months after Portland State Board of Trustees Chair Rick Miller’s sudden departure, PSU President Rahmat Shoureshi announced on March 25 Ben Berry will take Miller’s place as the…
Hill to Hall March 26-28
March 26: Betsy DeVos defends proposed cuts to Special Olympics program Betsy DeVos defended the White House’s 2020 budget proposal to the House Appropriations Committee. She defended the proposal to…