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…
Letter from the Editor
Last week, the Vanguard published a news piece covering a $750,000 grant awarded to a Portland State professor for the development of sexual assault prevention programs. This coverage coincided with…
Parliament’s Trump Vent
Garbage problems?
“The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year,” reported dosomething.org in their campaign focused on recycling programs in…
Slut shaming has got to stop
Thanks to Mean Girls, I was 10 years old the first time I heard the word slut. My parents were overwhelmingly protective when it came to PG-13 movies and tried…
Introducing the White Oscars
The Koreas are acting like children
What in the world is North Korea up to now? So much propaganda has been distributed that actual nuclear war is being threatened. On Jan. 6, North Korea claimed to…
Worldwide colony collapse
“Believe it or not, you have a bee to thank for every one in three bites of food you eat,” wrote Greenpeace. Honeybees are responsible for 80 percent of the…
No, mom and dad, I’m not obeying
I’ve heard it a thousand times by now, been reminded a billion times, and have heard it spoken in a disapproving tone more times than I can count: “Just listen…
Urban agriculture: The answer to farmland loss
It’s easy to see that Portland is changing. Never have I seen so many cranes and buildings under construction or so many cars jam packed onto the highway. Wait times…
Nestlé’s proposal in the Cascade Locks
Since moving to Portland five years ago, I’ve spent every summer hiking beautiful mountains, playing in the mud and rain, and swimming in the many natural lakes and rivers. It’s…