Television, radio, and print coverage of our April 3rd Board of Trustees rally with City Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Candace Avalos, and statewide labor leaders can be found at KOIN, KATU, and KGW. Additional KATU coverage can be found here.
OPB even did a story previewing the rally, which featured powerful stories of the impact of PSU budget cuts. PSU’s Vanguard‘s coverage featured the PSU-AAUP choir’s latest song. Beautiful RISO-printed signs featured in much of the coverage were even printed by a member.
Arts Watch coverage detailed the student impacts of the administration’s cuts:
“It was such a slap in the face,” said Donnelly. “We had been told just weeks before that the department head was working toward reinstating the dance minor. Then suddenly the class was canceled.”
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Another student, Fiona, described the class elimination as both academic and cultural. “I was absolutely gutted,” she said. “Students did not hear official word from the school that our class had been rescinded until a week before the start of term. Not only did this inconvenience students in our need to fill required credit hours for scholarship and degree-seeking purposes, but they removed the last of a program with a deep and rich history in the Portland dance scene … one that encouraged students to be in their bodies … and ultimately laid off an invaluable professor.”