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Campus Policing and the Call for Abolition
Despite administration’s promises, PSU campus police remain armed
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On December 11, 2014, Portland State University’s board of trustees voted to deputize and arm PSU’s Campus Public Safety Officers (CPSO). The decision was…
Royalty Notwithstanding
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia purported to have ordered U.S. based reporter Jamal Khashoggi murdered
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On Feb. 11, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued an executive summary entitled “Assessing the Saudi Government’s Role in the…
United We Stand?
Veterans Resource Center Email Thread Highlights Divisions in Local Veteran Communities Over the January 6 Capitol Riot
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After the events of the January 6 riot at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C, Americans were inundated with emails, tweets, and advertisements that…
Culture
Jazzed to be Back
Portland State Jazz Singer Anna Meyer Returns to the Stage
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Singer and Portland State University (PSU) Senior Anna Meyer recently sat in on a live, in person performance at Northeast Portland jazz bar and…
A “PIG” in Portland
A Reflection on Michael Sarnoski's "PIG" (2021)
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Released in theaters July 14 2021, Michael Sarnoski’s “PIG,” begs the question, what is worth caring about, and why? Starring Nicolas Cage on a…
The Opaque Places of Cinema
A Retrospective on the 66th Flaherty Film Seminar
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The Flaherty Film Seminar is an annual film seminar that features documentary, narrative, and experimental films from around the world. The seminar began in…
Opinion
The Predicament of Mayor Wheeler
Political Criticism in the Wake of Civil Rights Advocacy
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My parents are working class people. My father is an auto body mechanic just trying to make ends meet while my mother homeschooled her…
Notes from Behind the Bar
Someone got murdered outside of my work…
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…and we stayed open. Five gunshots. Two of which entered the man’s head. What’s strange is that the gravity of this event didn’t really…
The City of Portland Must Cut Ties with Israel. Portland State Should Do the Same.
byIn light of Israel’s recent siege on Gaza, members of Portland’s Palestinian community are calling on city officials to terminate a five year, $10…
Politics
The Predicament of Mayor Wheeler
Political Criticism in the Wake of Civil Rights Advocacy
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My parents are working class people. My father is an auto body mechanic just trying to make ends meet while my mother homeschooled her…
The City of Portland Must Cut Ties with Israel. Portland State Should Do the Same.
byIn light of Israel’s recent siege on Gaza, members of Portland’s Palestinian community are calling on city officials to terminate a five year, $10…
Goodbye Afghanistan
An epilogue of war
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General Smedley Butler was not the sort of swaggering American hero we like to make movies about. Born in 1881, he joined the Marine…