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The official @portlandstate student-run newspaper since 1946.
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Our new issue is out NOW! Find our newspapers around campus or online at the link in our bio. 🗞️ taken in Portland State University by @psuvanguard

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COME SEE THE GRAND OPENING NOW!

The new Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is holding their open house RIGHT NOW! Come check out festivities until 8 pm 🎨🖌️👩🏼‍🎨 by @psuvanguard

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Do’s:
- Keep your space clean: Your side of the room is your side to live in! This means it’s your responsibility to decorate and maintain it. Don’t let the mess pile up, be respectful to your new roommate and keep it clean. Make sure to throw out old food, clean the shared spaces and limit the clutter. If you’re having a tough time keeping your space tidy, there’s a few systems you can implement to help things run smoother. For example, you can try a nightly 5-minute declutter before bed; throw out trash, put clothes in the hamper and clear your desk. If that doesn’t work, try the 20/10 method: 20 minutes of cleaning, followed by a 10 minute break, repeating until the mess is managed. Every small bit helps to prevent a larger clean up. In communal spaces, like bathrooms and kitchen, make sure to split chores with your roommate. Manage the trash daily and regularly clean drains and floors in order to prevent pile ups, attracting bugs or creating a stench. Set clear cleanliness expectations with room or suite mates, and reach out to your RA if you need help.

Dont’s:
- Steal food from your roommate: Just don’t do it. They will hate you forever. It’s plain rude, and creates unnecessary anger. No PopTart is worth destroying your relationship with your roommate. Always make a plan with your roommate about shared food (preferably in your roommate contract) and politely ask before taking something. Never touch food that has a sticky note with the roommate’s name on it. If you’re hungry, go to Victor’s Dining Hall in Ondine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Or, check out the Smallwood Food Pantry in Smith Memorial Student Union for free snacks and groceries. If your roommate keeps stealing your food, it’s important that you talk to them and establish firm boundaries. If the stealing continues, report it to the RA.

Find the full list on our website or find our Orientation Guide in print around campus! 🗞️ 
Written by Olivia Hendry Young and Grace Peterson
Photo by Olivia Hendry Young taken in Portland State University by @psuvanguard

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, meaning primary school systems and universities have begun to prepare students for AI in educational and vocational settings. Educators face the specific challenge of managing student creativity, work ethic and skill development.

As AI evolves, job security is also a growing concern amongst college students. Art students in particular face occupational stress, as AI-produced art provides an efficient way for clients to cut costs at the expense of artist’s livelihoods. Additionally, some art students are skeptical of AI’s place in their fields, but may need to navigate certain tools or skills related to it.

Since Portland State University professors are able to determine AI policies for their classrooms, in conjunction with PSU’s official stance on AI, they can offer a range of perspectives on AI’s role in arts education for anxious students.

Assistant professor of Art Taravat Talepasand says that new technologies have always converged with art, and that understanding them is necessary in the workforce.

“Computers transformed graphic design, illustration, photography, animation and publishing. AI is another chapter in that history,” Talepasand said. “I think it’s important that students understand these [AI] tools because they’ll almost certainly encounter them professionally.”

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Written by Drew Dattilo
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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Recent college graduates have expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence (AI) at their graduation ceremonies. The University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and Middle Tennessee University have all experienced boos by their student body in disapproval of AI. Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, was booed at the University of Arizona during his speech on AI.

Amid growing discourse around AI, Portland State University has yet to issue a public statement to the campus community on its policies. Increasing ethical concerns around energy usage, evading creativity and blind integrity do not create a good image for PSU. If PSU wants to be an institution that praises academia, intellectualism and innovation, it must change its view and policies on AI, even if that means choosing a different route from its technological partners.

Companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft have spent millions of dollars advancing their artificial intelligence software. Oregon, in particular, has seen a surge in AI infrastructure. The construction of data centers has been booming in The Dalles and Hillsboro, the industrial heartbeat of the state. Digital Realty, a company that manages data centers and facilities, has built two structures in Hillsboro. They are currently planning to build a two-story data center in front of Liberty High School, marking their third structure in the state.

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Written by Daniela Hernandez
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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Saying our struggles out loud feels like admitting to something, presenting the weak and shameful parts of our minds. What people forget is that discomfort is part of what makes a confession sincere. As artificial intelligence (AI) has developed, its use cases have crept outside the ethical purview. A tool for automation has become a substitute for company. The technology may be good at many things, but being a confessor is not one of them. Yet people have begun to tell generative AI their darkest thoughts, as if it could absorb guilt, offer relief, or stand in for human accountability.

When what you’re confiding in can be discarded as soon as you open a new instance, the gravity of confession turns from a daunting landmark into an empty feeling of relief. Nothing is carried forward to hold the speaker accountable, to preserve the weight of what was admitted, or to let the confession become more than a momentary release. Telling a person something hard comes with a mental cost. The weight of their knowing is persistent, pushing you towards action. Confession to a chatbot creates nothing. The weight may lift, but nothing else happens. The relief of disclosure becomes the whole event, rather than the start of growth and recovery.

That’s one of the problems with the rising tide of what I’m calling Artificial Confession: sharing your struggles with an AI instead of a human. Someone who doesn’t want to carry the weight of telling a friend can achieve catharsis without it; what’s more, the response they get from AI is agreeable. Chatbots are sycophantic, meaning they’re optimized for responses that score well, which often means agreement. It will validate rather than challenge, confirm rather than ask, resulting in a listener who is never troubled by what you say.

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Written by Jude Callaway
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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People are so against Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the stupidest reasons. People talk about the environment as if they don’t use plastic coffee cups and drive their fossil-fuel cars. At the end of the day, it’s important to note that people pick and choose what to care about, and they shouldn’t care about this. At its core, I think people are against AI because they’re scared of falling behind.

In today’s fast-paced world, AI is such an amazing tool; I don’t understand why people are so against it. I started using it at work to write my emails — it saved me a lot of time and let me focus on my actual tasks. And, honestly? It’s an email; it’s not important. Instead of agonizing over formatting, spelling and tone, I just type a bullet point list of things into ChatGPT, and it seamlessly creates the email for me.

Once I used it for emails, I started using it for other unimportant work tasks. Chat plays a significant role in shaping my workday. It does all my unimportant tasks, like client interface and data tracking. It makes my presentations, scripts and notes. I’m basically getting paid to do the Wordle and doomscroll at my desk; it’s amazing.

I started using Chat outside of work, too, and it’s been such a life-changing experience. Chat writes me recipes and then creates a shopping list that I assign to my Instacart shopper. It tells me the weather and how to best dress for it. I let Chat make most of my shopping decisions, as it could delve deeper into market prices and other things. I’ve become so much more efficient and organized; Chat is basically like a full-time secretary for my work and personal life.

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This satire piece is written by Grace Peterson
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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Our Orientation Guide is out now! Find it distributed in our newsstands across campus and downtown Portland. 🗞️ taken in Portland State University by @psuvanguard

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BREAKING NEWS: The statewide SEIU labor strike has been called off. taken in Portland State University by @psuvanguard

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Since the explosion of artificial intelligence in 2022, there have been increasing worries about the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs. Generative AI in particular has rapidly entered workplaces across a wide range of industries, raising concerns about the displacement of human workers, as well as the diminishment of the quality, originality and integrity of the work being produced.

Generative AI, which creates new text, images, audio or code, is not the only type of artificial intelligence entering the workforce. Predictive AI, used in healthcare, finance and marketing, uses data and machine learning to identify patterns and predict what might happen in the future. In sports medicine, this could mean tracking athletes’ data and projecting potential injuries, training plans or sleep patterns.

Strength and conditioning coaches and athletic trainers both work with athletes to improve performance and prevent injuries, whether via specialized exercise programs or clinical response. To do this, they need to analyze a lot of data: sleep patterns, weight fluctuations, water intake, speed and more. Predictive AI can be used to track this data, while Generative AI can be used to develop specific training plans.

This begs the question: artificial intelligence may be able to process the data, but can it understand the athlete? Additionally, are sports professionals’ jobs at risk?

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Written by Hayden Neumann
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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BREAKING NEWS: SEIU 503, representing as many as 600 of PSU’s classified staff, has officially voted to strike. by @psuvanguard

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Within the polarized discourse of artificial intelligence (AI), students find themselves in a strange vacuum. Professional creative industries are increasing pro-AI pressures while universities are procrastinating by deferring judgment to instructors. As a result, students are taking agency over AI in their education and forced to confront their personal values — is it worth protecting an education at the cost of a career? What are the moral and ethical implications of AI use? At the end of the day, what are we choosing to value? Students are addressing these questions, but it’s imperative that everyone does the same.

Professionals in creative industries are adapting quickly, incorporating AI in their workflows to boost efficiency and keep pace with new expectations. A 2026 University of Bristol review of AI in the creative industriesdocumented a “trend toward unified AI frameworks that integrate multiple creative tasks, replacing task-specific solutions.” Tracing AI’s integration across creation, information analysis, enhancement, post-production and compression, the researchers described its shift from a “support tool to [a] core creative technology.”

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Written by Haley Hsu
Art by @_haleyhsu_ by @psuvanguard

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