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Do you think that having armed officers on campus will make the Community safer?
NO 100% VERY UNCOMFORTABLE 50%
Do you feel comfortable contacting PSU Security in case of an emergency?
A LITTLE COMFORTABLE 16.7%
NOT SURE 11.1%
A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE 22.2%
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For those interested in pursuing a master’s degree in the world of business, administration and finance, the School of Business has a plethora of scholarships available due to a vast amount of new funding received during the winter quarter.
The funds came from a combination of donors and Portland State alumni, according to Jenise GutierrezIngleston, recruitment marketing manager for the School of Business. Though the reason for donation varies from donor to donor, the motivating factor behind the donations remains consistent.
“A lot of it came from more donors and previous alumni that believe in students here and that want to add extra money for the program to get their program degrees,” Gutierrez-Ingleston said. “We’re just happy when they give it to us. They’re like, ‘it’s for tuition and here you go.’”
Several different admissions scholarships benefited from the funds. One of these is the Redefine & Transform Scholarship, which entails an award of $5,000. It operates on six subcategories, one of which students must submit a written statement on.
Subcategories include demonstrating vision in areas highlighting racial equality, advancing voices in LGBTQ+ communities, advancing voices and needs of women, demonstrating action toward positive community impact, promoting global perspectives and working with environmental sustainability practices.
Rosa Garcia Arreola is a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Finance dual-degree student who received the award in 2022. Her application to the scholarship oriented around the needs of LGBTQ+ communities with the Out in Business award. Her long-term goal is to become a chief financial officer using her graduate degree, according to an interview she
did with the School of Business upon receiving the award.
“In 2018, I was granted asylum in the United States because I was part of the LGBTQAI+ community and the risk I would be in if I was sent back to my country of origin,” Arreola said in the interview. “I plan on taking that opportunity to be here in the United States due to my background as a jump-off point into helping others who have been in similar situations as I have been.”
Applications are based on students’ admission documents, such as transcripts, partnered with a written statement of 250 words or less on one or more of the six category topics.
The deadline to apply for the scholarship for the 2023–2024 academic year is May 1. Those applicants interested in participating in a program during the summer term have until June 1 to apply.
The Redefine & Transform Scholarship is not the only scholarship program which benefited from the increased amount of funding. A variety of program-specific scholarships are available, including to those taking the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Exam, getting their master’s in real estate development or enrolling in the program for healthcare business administration
Rachel Shelton—admissions manager for the School of Business—said that with the addition of new funds, the school has swelled its goal in regards to supporting students enrolled in business programs.
“This year the target is to offer people scholarships that equate to 10% tuition,” Shelton said. “Our hope this year is that we give to the most qualified candidates.”
Many of the scholarship programs available are stackable, according to Shelton. Such scholarships include the Merit and Warm Welcome scholarships, which students applying for
their master’s as a PSU alumni are automatically considered for upon application.
These include the School of Business Insider Track Scholarship, a scholarship for PSU alumni with a GPA of 3.5 or higher; the Graduate Student Referral Scholarship, for those referred by a current student or alumni from any PSU graduate business master’s program; and scholarships from corporate, employer or industry partner based on time of application.
In total, graduate students who are PSU alumni are eligible for potentially up to $6,000 worth in scholarships when they apply, not including scholarships that require separate applications.
Gutierrez-Ingleston said that the school has been running a campaign to get the news about the increased amount of scholarships out to students. Despite best efforts, however, many of the funds are still sitting unused.
“Half the battle is just reaching out to students and letting them know that there are resources,” Gutierrez-Ingleston said. “We want to make students aware that funds are ready to have owners.”
Many other scholarships are available to students through the PSU Scholarship Universe. Although many closed for the year as of Feb. 29, scholarship and grant money is available by applying for the FAFSA, which is open until June 30. Shelton recommended that students start looking to apply as early as possible when the scholarship windows are open.
“We can award scholarships until they run out,” Shelton said. “The earlier they apply, the better.”
For questions about scholarships or awards, students can reach out to the School of Business graduate admissions office at sbgradadmissions@pdx.edu or PSU’s graduate school at gradschool@pdx.edu
ELIGIBLE STUDENTS CAN BENEFIT FROM FUNDING BY APPLYING FOR EXPANDED SCHOLARSHIPSZOË BUHRMASTER ROSA GARCIA ARREOLA, REDEFINE AND TRANSFORM SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, AND HER DAUGHTER. PHOTO COURTESY OF PSU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Through lofty graffiti-smudged windows at One Grand Gallery in NE Portland, a spectacle of rugs splatter the walls and floor. The textiles take shape in whimsically exaggerated anatomies and bursting stars of color: a splayed-out screamer suspended in motion, an NBA star clad in Trailblazer gear and a tattooed Portlander equipped with Liquid Death and Montucky Cold Snack.
The collection is vibrant, amusing, novel and playful. Moreover, each piece is packed with socially symbolic images—internet memes, pop culture icons and mass media associations. A common thread weaves through the work of this collection, lending to the critical social discourse for which the exhibition is named: How We Hegemony
This is Los Angeles-based textile artist Angela Anh Nguyen’s first solo exhibition and will be open to the public by appointment (@onegrandgallery on Instagram) until May 16.
“I take my boyfriend’s clothes, and I put them on the bed, and I lay them flat and fold them in different ways and kind of collage them together,” Nguyen described her creative process. “So
that’s why it kind of looks like splatters because I literally just lay it on the floor, and it looks very flat, but I think it’s really fun.”
Self-taught in her craft and thoughtful in her delivery, Nguyen sources her yarn from domestic, independent farms. Being that the textile industry is saturated with rapid commercialized production, Nguyen’s personal and localized approach to tufting underscores the exhibition’s resistance to the capitalistic demands of art production.
“The keyword of the show is hegemony,” Nguyen explained. “Which is essentially power imbalances and the way that people follow a sort of status quo due to systems of power.”
Nguyen located her work at an intersection between Los Angeles arts and entertainment culture and various social theorists—she cited Antonio Gromsci, Walter Benjamin and Louis Pierre Althusser. Indeed, How We Hegemony is a collage of cultural snippets, interweaving to form a cohesive narrative about themes such as hyperconsumerism, capitalist exploitation and Hollywood’s propagation of neocolonialist ideology and structural violence.
And yet, for all that it is sociologically theoretical, politically intricate and intellectually rigorous, Nguyen is an artist concerned as much with her work’s accessibility as with its substantive inquiry.
“I want there to be accessibility in terms of observance and critical analysis within one’s own accord,” Nguyen said. “I feel like I don’t really need to explain it because when you look at it, you completely understand it.”
Two pieces that certainly live up to this sentiment, “BEAT! UP!” and “Agenda, AGENDA, AGENDA!!!!!” both feature a boxing bout encircled by a chaotic mishmash of words and images. “Both of these rugs work synonymously,” Nguyen said. “It’s two people beating each other up, like how we feel beat up by media framing and agenda setting.”
Details fringing the rugs include the twin towers, Zelenskyy, “Are there 61 Marvel movies?”, Michael Bay, “$7.25 an hour,” a Quora search bar reading “Why is Tesla’s quality so bad when it’s so expensive?” and a Negroni Sbagliato. With content traversing the utterly distressing to the chaotically comical, viewing How
We Hegemony is ultimately a practice of personal interpretation.
Another piece within the exhibition, “Counter culture among other things…” accessorizes two clasping figures, one with an eccentric goose purse and the other with a bright red mohawk. The two personages are sewn together by literary covers steeped in the consequences of modern institutionalized powers: Pierre Bourdieu’s The Algerians, Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom, bell hooks’ All about Love and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
From colonialism to capitalism to patriarchy, the ideological pillars which serve today’s hegemons are the heart of suffering across these titles.
Thus, despite the nonconformist appearance of Nguyen’s personages, they are inseparable from, literally sewn to, the blanket fabric of dominant conformity. This piece, Nguyen explained, is “a critique on counter-culture and how that sort of lives in the world of hegemony. I think that naturally there are like hegemonic norms that even people who involve themselves in counter-culture follow.”
Within her specialty, Nguyen displays a conscious
deconstruction of the hegemonic norms dictating today’s art world. “Hegemony in fine art is, you know, a piece should sit centered on the wall, and we should gaze at it and not touch it,” Nguyen said.
Contemporary fine art is quite literally out of reach for the vast majority of people. How We Hegemony gaps the distance between art and observer not only in terms of comprehension but in terms of physical space. Nguyen encourages onlookers to touch the work, to reimagine its orientation and to live with the rug as truly a rug.
“Something I wanted to highlight was the imperfection of the install,” Nguyen said. “In order to encourage agency with the client who either buys the work or the observer—the art consumer.” With rugs on the floor, on the walls, upside down and burrowed in corners, the exhibition urges viewers to reevaluate the constructs of art consumption, to reimagine the constructs of art itself.
Nguyen advocates for the freedom of authentic creative expression. How We Hegemony resists the politics of prestige
within fine art and defies a market-imposed aesthetic criterion exclusionary to the non-elite. “I don’t think we should be guided by capitalism in an art market,” Ngyuen said. “Like to have to make something a certain way in order to make money. I think that’s such bullshit. I think that’s just not what art is.”
Even if art cannot completely escape the pervasive reach of capitalist hegemony, as “Counter culture among other things…” would seem to suggest, it must not surrender in total complicity to the moral decay and class-based marginalization inherent to the current hegemonic order.
Heartening to this end is the deliberate production and humorous originality manifest in How We Hegemony. “I want to be taken seriously as an artist, on top of being funny,” Nguyen said. “We’ll see if that’s possible, but I’ve gotten support, and that’s all that matters. I’m happy to be showing here and creating stuff that people can laugh at and smile at.”
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 a campus-wide email sent on April 11, was carried out without the opportunity for input or public comment by the PSU community. In fact, CPSO Chief Willie Halliburton told Vanguard that CPSO officers had been patrolling campus with arms since Feb. 14, nearly two months before announcing the change.
Vanguard remains committed to providing an open and transparent forum for the PSU community on issues that affect their lives. To that end, we asked readers to share their thoughts on CPSO rearmament. Respondents were given the option to remain unnamed.
The responses shared here do not reflect the opinions of Vanguard
"THE MAJORITY OF US STUDENTS OF COLOR WILL NEVER FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH ARMED CAMPUS POLICE GIVEN PORTLAND STATE’S HISTORY OF WRONGFUL USEOF FORCE."
IMAN AHMAD, STUDENT"I FEEL HAVING ARMED SECURITY WOULD MAKE THEM MORE INTIMIDATING TO THOSE WHO MAY CAUSE ISSUES ON CAMPUS THUS PREVENTING PROBLEMS. YET I ALSO FEEL IT GIVES MORE POSSIBILITY FOR POLICE VIOLENCE AND MORE DEATHS SO I AM ON THE FENCEABOUT IT."
"WE FOUGHT FOR YEARS TO DISARM PSU AND THOSE IN CHARGE HAVE REARMED THEM WITH A WAVE OF A PEN, WITHOUT ANY CONSULTATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. ARMED OFFICERS MAKE PSU UNSAFE FOR BIPOC AND THOSE WITH OTHER MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES. ARMED OFFICERS DO NOT MAKE CAMPUS SAFER, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. WE HAVE FOUGHT TO DISARM PSU BEFORE AND WE WILL DO SO AGAIN."
STUDENT
"PSU NEVER DISARMED AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED. PERCY REALLY WANTED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. THE 'INCREASE IN WEAPONS NEAR OR ON CAMPUS' WAS ACTUALLY 12 WEAPONS IN 2022 (ONE WAS A FUCKING HAMMER) AND 4 SO FAR THIS YEAR…"
STUDENT
"IF THE GOAL IS TO MAKE THE PSU COMMUNITY SAFER, THE SOLUTION IS NOT PUTTING GUNS INTO THE HANDS OF MORE PEOPLE."
STUDENT
"BEING A SAFETY OFFICER IN TODAY’S CLIMATE MUST BE TERRIFYING. SO MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ARMED, AND WE SEE MISUSE OF WEAPONS AND MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE NEWS ALMOST EVERY WEEK. IF CPSO ARE TO BE ARMED, THEY SHOULD ALSO WEAR BODY CAMERAS TO VIEW AND SCRUTINIZE THEIR ACTIONS. THEY ALSO NEED MORE MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING. ALL TOO OFTEN, A CRISIS ESCALATES DUE TO A LACK OF TRAINING IN DEALING WITH PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. WITH APPROPRIATE MEASURES AND TRAINING IN PLACE, I AM OKAY WITH ARMING CPSO."
STUDENT
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 survive during a time of crisis. However, these emergency allotments are ending , even as so many families still rely on them. These allotments should be made permanent for SNAP recipients, even after the acute crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Food insecurity is constant in this country, and we should be putting more money into helping those in need, not less.
Why are these allotments ending in the first place? “The 2023 federal spending bill ended funding for the emergency allotments,” reported Central Oregon Daily News , noting that “March 2023 will be the first month since April 2020 that most people on SNAP in Oregon will only receive their regular SNAP food benefits.”
“More than 41 million Americans receive food-buying benefits through SNAP,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture . The USDA admits that families “rely on [SNAP] benefits to put food on the table each month,” and that the
end of emergency allotments will “still be a substantial change for many households.” Oregon is one of many states that chose to maintain emergency funding until Congress phased out benefits nationwide.
One way to mitigate the impact of this change might be to reach out to other sources of food and other supplies that people who rely on SNAP may need. “Other Food Assistance is still available,” according to Multnomah County, such as aid for Women, Infants and Children. Yet, some people may not know of these other sources of assistance, so an alternative solution for this problem is for the government to encourage people in need of assistance to double-check their eligibility for certain programs.
There are other ways to get the most out of SNAP. “SNAP eligibility is like federal income tax in that applicants can deduct eligible expenses from their total income in order to figure out how much in SNAP benefits they’re eligible for,” reported Becky Sullivan of NPR . “Among the deductible expenses are certain medical costs, or the costs of child care or disabled adult care if you are working, looking for work or in school or training. You may also deduct legally owed child
WHITNEY MCPHIEsupport payments.” This would be a big help, because those who rely on SNAP need all the assistance they can get. “On average, participants will receive about $82 less this month in SNAP benefits, according to the Food Research & Action Center, an advocacy group that works to end hunger,” Sullivan wrote. “Some households will see reductions of $250 or more.”
The fact that people will receive less food and money just because certain benefits have ended is an outrage. This affects more than just those who needed the extra benefits because of the virus—this affects people who were hurting before the pandemic, like those with low incomes who have to take care of dependents. One New York mother, Jessenia Peralta, told Time, “I don’t know what I am going to do when these benefits end. When I go to the supermarket everything is so expensive… These emergency benefits need to continue so the kids don’t suffer.”
Yet, despite this, the government has cut the support that people like Peralta need to not go hungry. Food insecurity has not gone away simply because the pandemic has abated. This clearly needs to change, and the least we can do is make it known to our government officials that these cuts in benefits are doing more harm than good.
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