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…
Ted Wheeler’s escalation is a betrayal of Portland values
Double talk. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has claimed to be empathetic toward Black lives and the call for justice against police violence, but at the same time, he is urging…
The financial inviability of esports: many watch, few profit
Competitive gaming as an industry, or rather, a sport, has leaped onto the scene in the last decade. Games like Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Dota 2 dominated the…
HYH: the fun in the sun edition
It’s summertime in Portland and that can only mean one thing: the flaming sky orb will throw its fury down upon us. Hooray! Don’t be fooled by the pleasant cool…
Why America hates math
“It makes me feel really stupid, I have a very hard time comprehending it.” “It makes me feel bad. I feel less intelligent.” “I just get frustrated.” When I…
The grand reopening edition
At some point during this crisis I sort of forgot things were generally closed around the state; malls, theaters, that sort of thing made sense, but I also forgot even…
Tom Nook is not your friend: debt, peonage and tarantulas
It was kind of a lucky break for Nintendo to release Animal Crossing: New Horizons when it did. With COVID-19 raging and the world succumbing to a decided lack of…