Anti-transgender provocateurs have recently visited campus, inciting deeper questions about the university’s response to such incidents—Portland State students deserve clarity from the university administration about how they plan to protect…
UHRL needs a better heat safety policy
This article was updated to include relevant information about OR Senate Bill 1536 Year after year, it seems that summer temperatures keep increasing. As global temperatures rise, isolated weather events…
Make ASPSU an actual government
What, exactly, does Portland State’s student government do? The Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU) is not the most visible presence in students’ lives. At times, it can…
Senate Bill 614 goes too far
We have all heard of police body cams and their varying range of effectiveness. But are they enough? Some in our state government say it’s not, and that police need…
Don’t criminalize houselessness
Are houseless people criminals simply for existing? The answer is no, they are not—yet, Portland’s city government is implementing a plan to make the answer to that question “yes” on…
Guns won’t make us safer
Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) has decided to resume armed campus patrols, a policy change which PSU President Stephen Percy presented in his bizarre public announcement as an…
Cutting SNAP emergency allotments is wrong
Countless United States citizens with low incomes receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and over the COVID-19 pandemic SNAP recipients received additional emergency allotments to help them…
PSU community responds to CPSO rearming
Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) is reinstating armed patrols, as Portland State Vanguard has reported. The policy change, which was publicly announced by PSU President Stephen Percy in…
Why won’t PSU accept food stamps?
A walk through the ground floor of the Smith Memorial Student Union can really work up an appetite: scents of sesame seed and toasted bread waft out from Bowery Bagels,…
PSU President Stephen Percy is a coward
Portland State President Stephen Percy and Campus Public Safety Office Chief Willie Halliburton are changing university policy to put guns back in the hands of campus police. They don’t want…
PSU’s drug policy makes no sense
Portland State’s drug policy is woefully out of date. The rules concerning drug use on campus are founded more on political convenience than science, and their reasoning is inconsistent…