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…
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…
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…
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Portland State’s drug policy is woefully out of date.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…
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…
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…