Award: Silver

Institution: Portland State University Foundation

Title of Entry: 1970: The Year That Shaped PSU

About this Entry: This feature was written by Suzanne Pardington Effros for Portland State Magazine and served as the cover story for the alumni magazine's Spring 2020 issue. Effros structures the action of the story around May 11, 1970—the day when police moved against Portland State students who had shut down the university for a week in protest of the war in Vietnam and killings at Kent State, sending 27 to the hospital. The feature goes beyond previous articles about this event to put it in context as the most visible incident in a year filled with student-led changes that are still felt fifty years later in the University's academic structure, student supports, and physical layout.