The Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at Portland State held a ceremony highlighting students from the 2018 winter term on Friday, May 11. About 120 IELP students who are inspirations…
Too sick for school: PSU student forcibly sedated and hospitalized claims retaliation, intimidation by university
Editor’s note: The student in this story uses singular they/them/theirs gender pronouns. At 12:05 p.m. on Friday, March 9, Portland State student Ullahushi Lovsness, 23, woke up to a loud…
PSU co-ops higher education
Since Portland State President Rahmat Shoureshi began his relationship with the university as a candidate in winter 2017, he has promoted the idea of a cooperative education system that would…
From dust to dust: Burning Man founder dies in San Francisco
Burning Man founder, former Portland State student and Oregon native Larry Harvey died at 70 on Saturday, April 28. Harvey suffered a serious stroke on April 4 in his San…
Love, lust and limits
The Queer Resource Center hosted a workshop called “Love, Lust and Limits” focused on consent, negotiation and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ+ relationships on Friday, April 27 as part of…
Jane Campion’s weekend double feature
Prolific director and screenwriter Jane Campion is getting the double feature treatment at the 5th Avenue Cinema this week. On the docket is her debut feature film Sweetie (1989) and…
Viking Snapshot April 8-29
Softball: Tuesday, April 17 Portland State at Oregon State Score: 0-8 (L) Haley Schimmel closed out game one with 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Schimmel also threw her first complete game….
PSU’s gorgeous strings
The trouble with unfretted stringed instruments—specifically the classical violin family—is they inherently sound bad. It takes years of practice to develop the skills necessary to produce a single pleasing tone…
Students share stories of womanhood
Three women sat on platforms of various heights, breathing for a few moments, building suspense in the silence until six words filled Portland State’s Studio Theater in Lincoln Hall: Let…
Faculty union claims all-gender restroom construction violated policy
Portland State’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors sparked a public accusation of transphobia after the union published a blog post on March 9 claiming the PSU administration’s…
Viking Sports Snapshot
Women’s Tennis: Sunday, April 8 PSU at Eastern Washington Score: 0-7 (L) Eszter Zador and Taylor Rees each won the first set of their matches. Women’s Golf: Monday, April 9…