Portland State Magazine Fall 2017

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2017 FRESHMAN Marisol Flores first heard about PSU’s Four Years Free program when she saw a friend’s post on social media. Flores, then a student at Clackamas High School, went to her school’s college counseling center the next day to look up the program. “I wanted to make sure it wasn’t some rumor,” she says. The program was indeed real. Starting with undergraduates who enter PSU this year, Four Years Free will cover standard tuition and mandatory fees for Oregon residents who meet academic and financial aid requirements, including a minimum 3.4 high school GPA. Flores is the first in her family to attend college, and she plans to major in business. Starting Four Years Free Park Blocks CAMPUS RAP-IN , a student radio show that aired Sunday nights during the 1969-70 academic year, is now available to the public through the PSU Library Archives. The half-hour programs are a mix of commentary on collegiate, city and national news, ranging from satire to serious discussions of the Vietnam War, political protest and freedom of expression. Anti-war protests at PSU gathered momentum during that year, culminating in May with a campuswide strike that ended in violence on the Park Blocks. Perhaps coincidentally, the Rap-In, which increasingly declared an anti-war position, did not return to the airwaves after the strike. Check out the recordings at pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/campusrapin/ . Turn on, tune in, but don’t drop out