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’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Portland State’s drug policy is woefully out of date.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…
Letter to the Editor:
Dear Vanguard, After the events that transpired last month at ASPSU, I received an immense amount of ostracization, and some of my closest friends were targeted on social media…
Release the footage
Like police departments in many cities, Portland Police have considered the use of body cameras. The road to body cams in Portland has been long, and there are still many…
Get students back in classrooms
Many of us can probably remember those first few months of 2020—the weeks leading up to the widespread closures of seemingly everything in our lives. I worked at a shoe…
Satire: OREGON SCORES TRIUMPH AS IDAHO LIFTS BOISE BLOCKADE
BOISE, Idaho (AP)—After an 11-month standoff between the Oregon and Idaho state governments, Idaho is backing down on its blockade of Boise to allow Oregon residents and agricultural products to…
Bring back the snow day
Last Wednesday, Portland braved a historic snowstorm with a 10.8 inch snowfall that broke the daily and monthly record, according to the Portland climate book published by the National Weather…
Assignment overload
University students are often forced to juggle multiple responsibilities at once: school, work, sleep and self-care, to name a few. With so many duties piling up on their schedules, it…
Portland Police haven’t changed
After their brutal mishandling of the 2020 protests held in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, the Portland Police Bureau has been under deservedly…
Ann Cudd for President
This is an opinion piece, not an editorial endorsement. The views expressed here do not represent the views of all of Portland State Vanguard. On May 16, 2022, Portland…
Education ought to be for everyone
College tuition rates have soared in recent decades—a staggering 175% increase for in-state tuition at public universities over the past 20 years, according to U.S. News & World Report. This…