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As we welcome a new year of weekly content-creation with Portland State Vanguard’s first issue of the summer, I want to start by saying I am so excited and humbled to be your new editor in chief (EIC). In this new role, I want to share my vision for Vanguard for this year and the years to come.
Navigating the challenges brought by COVID-19 and the subsequent return to normal has been a difficult and transformative time for many of us—including us here at Vanguard. Under the leadership of our former EIC, Tanner Todd, we rebuilt and established a strong foundation, ensuring the content we created was actionable and important to our audience. I aim to build on this trajectory, further enhancing the content to ensure its relevance and—above all—to support the voices of students and the Portland State community.
My mission is to improve the quality of our content, focusing on amplifying marginalized voices, covering crucial campus news and providing a platform for students, faculty and community members who have felt unheard or ignored. I am dedicated to delivering impactful content and fostering meaningful connections with our readers.
Together, I hope we will work towards fostering an inclusive and diverse space that truly reflects the perspectives and experiences of our entire campus community. Let us embark on this journey together, creating an even stronger Vanguard which reflects and resonates with each and every one of you.
Your new EIC,
Kat LeonThe Portland State Food Pantry temporarily reopened for the summer at the former Green Zebra location on 1704 SW Broadway. The pantry will continue to provide free groceries to PSU students Tuesday–Thursday from 12–4 p.m. until they move into their remodeled space in the Smith Memorial Student Union basement.
“We anticipate being back in our remodeled space once fall term begins and hope to conduct that move during the break,” according to the pantry’s website
Trenna Wilson, the pantry’s general manager, said this remodel—which will significantly expand their current space—will benefit the pantry’s patrons and staff.
“It isn’t just about having more space,” Wilson said. “It’s especially about the precise way that the new space is configured. We would be able to cut the physicality [of pantry jobs] by about half. This means that—with the same number of people—we’ll be able to offer a larger amount of food to students.”
Wilson explained how—due to the physical demands of food pantry jobs—the pantry staff has been experiencing high turnover rates, staff burnout and injuries on the job. With an expanded space, Wilson said they will be able to streamline their operations and avoid unnecessary physical labor and safety issues.
For every 600 pounds of food the pantry provides to PSU students, the pantry staff lift roughly 7,000 pounds. The previous pantry space was so inefficient and cramped that it created unnecessary labor to navigate the large amount of food donations they received. Wilson expects the remodel will both reduce the physicality of pantry jobs and allow them to provide even more food to patrons.
“We’ll still see an increase in output from the pantry without us going to the student fee committee to ask for more money for labor,” Wilson said. “What that means for our team is that the job will be more safe, and we’d probably see less turnover and definitely fewer injuries.”
The student managers of the pantry have been campaigning since early June to remain
open throughout the summer term, despite their current space being under construction. According to Wilson and the pantry website, pantry staff were informed on June 2 that the pantry would potentially shut down over the summer, causing the staff to be laid off and pantry patrons to go without food.
“We appreciate your kindness and understanding to our staff during the summer,” stated the pantry website. “The prospect of students not having food, and our households losing our incomes, was a significant trauma to our team, and it’s taking us some time to recover both individually and as an organization.”
Wilson described this period of uncertainty for the pantry as highly traumatizing for both herself and her staff considering how many PSU students are experiencing food insecurity.
According to the 2020–2021 Food Pantry Fast Facts sheet, the pantry provided 4,505 students with groceries during the COVID-19 campus closures. Wilson said the need for a working, efficient pantry is dire in the current economic climate.
According to a 2020 report by the PSU Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC), 47% of PSU students and 16.5% of PSU staff experienced food insecurity the month before the survey.
The HRAC’s report explained how “41.8% of students reported cutting the size of their meals because they did not have enough money for food. On average, this occurred on almost 10 of the past 30 days. Almost 9% of students indicated that they did not eat for a whole day because there was not enough money for food. On average, this occurred on approximately 6 of the past 30 days.”
The pantry has continued providing muchneeded food to PSU students over the summer thanks to the dedication of pantry staff and student support. Due to the intense stress the pantry staff experienced during their period of uncertainty in the early summer, Wilson urges pantry patrons to recognize that the organization is still recovering.
“We’ve got you. We’re here for you,” Wilson said. “But we need support, too.”
The ongoing mental health crisis is affecting students at universities nationwide, and Portland State is no exception. Mental illness seriously impacts the lives of countless students, and the college they attend is usually the first line of support.
It’s time for PSU to recognize how serving students’ mental and emotional health is partly their responsibility and take a more proactive approach to addressing mental health needs among the student body.
It’s fair to call the state of students’ mental health a crisis. According to the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, United States college students reported recordhigh rates of mental illness during the 2021–2022 academic year, where 44% of surveyed students reported symptoms of depression, 37%
reported significant anxiety and 15% reported grappling with serious thoughts of suicide.
What’s driving these skyrocketing rates of mental illness among students? Per a 2022 literature review in Frontiers in Public Health, some risk factors which college students face include high workloads, unfamiliarity in a new environment, difficulty making friends, loneliness, self-isolation and stress about their degree choice and future career.
That’s a lot, but it still only represents a few student-specific stressors. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in five adults in the U.S.—including students—struggle with some form of mental illness with risk factors ranging from trauma to chronic illness to social isolation.
This isn’t to say universities should be responsible for providing comprehensive mental healthcare. However, universities have a duty to support students and—at the very least—not worsen the problem.
A limited number of mental health services on campus are provided through PSU’s Center for Student Health & Counseling, which offers counseling services for individuals and groups However, the more important thing for universities like PSU to focus on is improving their academic response.
For example, take academic workloads—a significant source of stress among students. There’s no university-wide policy at PSU on late work or assignment extensions, and such decisions are left up to the discretion of individual instructors. A student struggling in a course due to mental illness may request extensions or workload accommodations from their professor, and whether or not they succeed is almost entirely up to which professor they happen to get.
I say almost because there is one guaranteed method for getting one’s accommodations respected: the Disability Resource Center (DRC). Students can register with the DRC and request
academic accommodations. Once those accommodations are approved, they can submit service requests for each class—accommodations which professors are required to accept.
But there are a few problems with this. First, it ignores students who—for whatever reason— do not have an official diagnosis. Mental illness doesn’t care whether or not someone has a diagnosis, but unfortunately mental healthcare services do. One easy step PSU could take to improve students’ lives is simply respecting their accommodation requests—regardless of official status.
Second, it’s still up to each individual professor to determine how they comply with an accommodation request. Some may be enthusiastic to help, while others might drag their feet and do the bare minimum to comply.
Third—and perhaps most important—students shouldn’t have to disclose their mental health status to the university just to have a chance at relief. Students are human beings, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect for their mental and emotional health.
If a student doesn’t have an official diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder, it doesn’t make the anxiety and burnout they feel over an extreme workload any less real or distressing.
So what should PSU do instead? There are a few policy changes the university could make right now which would improve the situation, the most impactful of which would be to revamp the accommodation process. If a student needs accommodations for a course, they should be able to get it full stop.
Professors should recognize students as complex human beings facing various life challenges and be ready to support them in achieving success in their courses. Students shouldn’t have to go through a complicated process of getting a diagnosis and filling out an official request to get an academic accommodation.
Long-term, professors should be trained to recognize when students are having trouble in their classes and to assist them if needed.
Teachers aren’t therapists, but they are the first line of support for many students. If a student comes to their instructor asking for support, they shouldn’t be completely blindsided.
One part of that is adopting trauma-informed approaches to teaching. Professors are responsible for creating a safe and welcoming environment for their students, which truthfully isn’t very complicated. Instructors just need to show up with a commitment to cultivating safety and empathy in the classroom, respecting the lived experiences of their students and providing a helpful and compassionate ear for students experiencing difficulties.
Practically speaking, professors should work with students to ensure everyone gets a satisfactory education. Students with disabilities, chronic illnesses and mental illness deserve the same educational opportunities as everyone else, and barriers like strict attendance policies and immovable deadlines simply ignore the genuine difficulties these students face. If professors aren’t willing to provide all their students with the same education, then the university should require them to.
The National Education Association (NEA) provides a sample letter for students, faculty and staff to petition their university administration to expand mental health services. The letter includes a list of requests, including “[hiring] culturally competent mental health professionals,” “[providing] culturally competent training to faculty and staff” and “[implementing] policies that create a more inclusive campus environment.”
I encourage any PSU students, faculty and other community members concerned about mental health on campus to write to the university administration—either using the NEA sample letter or your own words. The process may be gradual, but the first step to effecting change is demonstrating to those in power that there’s a problem and that we care enough to do something about it.
Those who migrate to the United States from Mexico are often assumed to belong to a single homogeneous ethnicity with a single homogeneous language, but in reality, there are more than 60 recognized Indigenous groups in Mexico—each with their own distinctive history, culture and language.
According to Mexico’s 2020 census, 7.3 million people self-identified as speakers of an Indigenous language. The five most spoken Indigenous languages in Mexico—Nahuatl, Maya, Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Mixtec—represent roughly 4 million people, the size of Oregon’s entire population. Significant percentages of these speakers are monolingual— meaning they do not speak Spanish.
Nevertheless, Indigenous languages and identities continue to be systematically neglected.
“They say that French, Spanish and English are languages, but that our language is a dialect,” said Dorotea Lopez, a Mixteca/Ñuu Savi culture keeper from Oaxaca, Mexico. “And it’s very, very hard for us because it’s also a language.”
Lopez is a co-founder of TierrAgua—or Ñu’un Nducha in Mixtec. This volunteer-based organization functions to create awareness and provide social support for Mesoamerican Indigenous communities in Oregon. On August 6, TierrAgua will be hosting the annual Guelaguetza celebration in Hillsboro.
La Guelaguetza is a Mesoamerican Indigenous cultural event which originated in Oaxaca. The name roughly translates to generosity or reciprocal giving in the Zapotec language.
The Zapotecs and Mixtecos are two of many Indigenous peoples with a significant presence in Oaxaca and surrounding states. The name Guelaguetza represents a foundational ideology of political and social structure within Indigenous communities such as these.
This year’s Hillsboro celebration will feature a variety of Mesoamerican Indigenous dancers, musicians, artisans and cuisine. The celebration aims to educate the public and foster community amongst Mesoamerican Indigenous people in the PNW.
“Part of the Guelaguetza is that awareness that we still have our languages,” Lopez said. “We want for children, who are growing up in this country, that they can also learn their mother language—learn their roots. So that’s why during our Guelaguetza it’s not only about the performances—to get to know different regions, the culture, the languages—it’s also for little children to learn their roots.”
Adán Merecias, co-founder of TierrAgua, is also Mixteco/Ñuu Savi. “It’s creating visibility for the Mesoamerican Indigenous community—that’s been the main purpose,” said Merecias about la Guelaguetza. “Oftentimes, we get clumped together with the Latino, Latinx, Latina community, but the reality is that the challenges, difficulties and barriers are very different.”
“We have members in our communities that Spanish is not their primary language,” Merecias said. “There also comes the issue of discrimination and racism that exists within Latinx communities that often is not discussed. Our community faces that in our own land in Mexico, and then obviously we get it here again—not only from the larger community but also within the own Latino community.”
La Guelaguetza is a demonstration of resilience, vitality and representation for people like the Mixtecos who are not rendered visible in broader society.
This is certainly true within the U.S. where there is generally a lack of awareness for the diverse cultures native to Mesoamerica. However, even within Oaxaca’s own Guelaguetza event, there exists a framework of injustice positioned against the very people whom the event is supposed to uplift.
Merecias explained how the state of Oaxaca has shifted the focus away from Indigenous communities and instead has molded the event into a tourist attraction for the benefit of the state. “It’s so commercialized that, you know, we are there as just a centerpiece of performers, but we’re not present in the audience— we’re not present in the decision-making process,” Merecias said.
“Our own Indigenous communities are excluded,” he said. The event has become commodified and inaccessible. This is a process which TierrAgua is very intentional about avoiding. Instead, TierrAgua’s Guelaguetza welcomes all who are interested in learning about, supporting and celebrating Oaxacan and Mesoamerican Indigenous peoples.
“We don’t expect everybody to be familiar with our communities,” said Merecias, “but that’s the day that you get to connect with us.”
As global temperatures increase, many populations across the United States face various social vulnerabilities, expressing a lack of community resilience. According to new statistics reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, one in four people in the U.S. are vulnerable to rising heat.
Here in Oregon, there have been several extreme weather instances and trends only show stronger weather anomalies to come. What is Portland doing to take steps in creating sustained resilience?
Community organizations serving Portland’s diverse communities participated in a series of exercises to prepare for emergencies.
The emphasis of this exercise was extreme heat. Over 35 community-based organizations and Community Organizations Active in Disasters implemented their extreme heat plans on Thursday, May 25.
The tabletop exercise was the result of several months of planning and design by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM), and is part of a recurring series of community outreach and resilience events to build community preparedness and response capabilities during snow, ice, extreme summer heat and wildfire seasons.
Regina Ingabire, the community resilience outreach manager at PBEM, works to “raise awareness about natural disasters and other emergencies that could happen in our area,” she said. That especially includes informing marginalized groups in our community, for whom she believes access to information and knowledge is crucial.
Ingabire hopes bringing a large group of community leaders to-
gether and fostering understanding and learning will lead to better service for the vulnerable members of the Portland community.
Community leaders collaborating range from executive directors of well-recognized organizations to respected community members who can effectively distribute resources to vulnerable populations.
“They know the most vulnerable people in their neighborhoods that we don’t know, and having this information passed to them ahead of time—with that specialty—they’ll share the information with the most vulnerable people in their neighborhoods,” Ingabire says. “That is a win. It’s a winning point for all of us, because we hope that we will save lives during extreme heating events.”
Attendee Taylor Silvey, a community health manager with Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO), was at the event to support the emergency management efforts and to be able to serve their populations better.
Silvey works with vulnerable populations. “For refugees and immigrants, we have legal services,” she said. “We also provide domestic violence and sexual assault services for Slavic communities.” They also provide services for those with HIV, local youth and those facing food insecurity.
Silvey works in their HIV day center, where one-third of the individuals they support are houseless. According to CNBC, “around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths annually, and advocates estimate about half of those people are homeless.”
This day-to-day care provided by Silvey’s organization is consistent, but more is needed with inconsistent weather. Weatherspecific supplies—including specialized tents and sleeping bags,
sunscreen, tarps and other heat-related items—are offered as temperatures increase, and the day center acts as a cooling center.
Silvey highlights the value of trust built with clients when it comes to checking in and having clients promote their own needs within a space, as well as information and access provided to communities ahead of time—such as how to locate a cooling shelter to prepare for these hardships.
While cooling shelters have increased both in need and popularity, the ability to access them when they often change access can become difficult for vulnerable populations.
Denis Theriault, Multnomah County’s deputy communications director, spoke about the urgency required in providing current information about cooling centers to people—especially vulnerable populations—on a daily basis.
“We are starting to send outreach teams out with printed maps, and we will update those day to day,” Theriault said.
When a location changes, the city provides the information to its graphic designer, who creates the updated maps and sends them to organizational partners such as EMO. These partners can then provide updated, accessible, life-saving information to their vulnerable populations.
As weather conditions become increasingly unpredictable, organizations within Oregon are dedicating themselves to providing underserved communities with opportunities and access to essential care.
Community empowerment—as these organizational partners discovered through their collaboration—can play a crucial role in mitigating the impact of extreme weather.
At the heart of the Portland State dance team lies a sense of community that propels student athletes forward in their journey through life. Bound by their shared passion for dance, they have found a way to create a supportive space to hone their skills and nurture their creativity.
The team’s sense of belonging and camaraderie is their foundation, especially during the tumultuous times brought on by COVID-19 and the ups and downs of getting to our new normal.
PSU’s dance team typically performs at various sporting events, including basketball games, football games and other universityrelated activities. They showcase their talents in between quarters, helping to energize and entertain the crowd while supporting the university’s athletic teams.
Moreover, when they aren’t riling up the crowds, you can find them supporting our community at the various events they do once a month during their season.
Collegiate dance and cheer teams serve distinct roles during sporting events, each contributing to the overall atmosphere and support for their respective athletic teams.
Dance teams primarily focus on artistic expression through choreographed routines, combining various dance styles to entertain the audience between quarters and gameplay breaks. Their performances center around dance techniques, synchronized movements and storytelling through dance.
On the other hand, cheer teams emphasize engaging the crowd and boosting team spirit through cheers, chants and stunts. They lead the audience in cheers, support the players on the field or court and create an energetic environment to motivate the team and the spectators.
While dance teams showcase their artistry and creativity through dance performances, cheer teams are instrumental in fostering team spirit and enhancing the overall game-day experience through their dynamic and interactive routines.
However, heading into the new season, the dance team will have to cover both roles because the organizers forced the Viking cheer team’s program to pause for the 2023–2024 season
Beyond the spotlight, PSU’s dance team has forged a closeknit community that extends beyond rehearsals. This dedicated
group of dancers prides itself on fostering a supportive and inclusive environment, allowing members to grow as performers and individuals.
Like many other college dance teams, the PSU dance team consists of talented and dedicated student-athletes passionate about dance and performance. To become a member of the team, individuals go through an audition process to demonstrate their dance skills, technique and showmanship.
Keeping on the community-oriented theme, PSU and the dance team extend their tryouts to community colleges in the area since those schools do not have dance teams.
“Just like anything else, diversity makes us stronger,” said PSU Dance Coach Rea Bigelow in response to what makes the team unique. “We come from different areas of the city and come from different experiences, and I think that makes us stronger by having different perspectives that allow us to build a special bond.”
“I aim for a holistic approach,” said Coach Bigelow when asked about her coaching style. “Yes, I am developing dancers and working to improve their skills, but I feel like there is a solid amount
of life coaching that is woven into my role.”
Through workshops, team-building exercises and mentoring programs, they inspire one another to achieve new heights of excellence. The bonds created with the team members stretch beyond just entertaining together.
Coach Bigelow holds pride in the dancers showing up for each other in ways like attending weddings and taking road trips together, which aids in the bonding aspect of team sports.
Balancing rigorous dance practice with academic pursuits is a challenge that each member embraces when they commit to being a part of the team.
Student athletes put a lot of time into perfecting their craft, and the dancers often have to juggle a lot speaking to the strength of their passion for dance. “In the peak of our season, we practice two times a week then perform at two games a week in addition to the community events we are proud to be a part of, so we work on a lot of time management and communication,” Coach Bigelow said.
For many members of the dance team, being a student athlete is a rewarding yet demanding experience. Behind the glamor of their performances, they face the daily challenge of time management, often sacrificing leisure time to perfect their routines.
The team memorizes 20–30 different routines and their corresponding dance tracks every season. This year a handful of dancers are getting the opportunity to join Coach Bigelow in Las Vegas for a mega dance conference called Pro Action—a two-day, dance-intensive meet-up and training camp for college and professional dancers.
While there, the dancers not only get the chance to learn numerous routines from those professional dancers—which they can then bring back home and teach to their teammates—but also have the chance to network with people who are dancers for professional teams. It provides them the opportunity to peek into the life of a pro-dancer and see if it is a career choice they want to pursue.
As the new season approaches, the dance team is determined to utilize their dedication to their craft, their love for dancing and their community spirit to excel on and off the dance floor for the upcoming 2023–2024 athletic season. They strive to be a powerful force that no one can overlook.
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