Angel Lovemore [email protected] May 13th, 2026
Dear Conduct:
The accusation that I refused to comply with requests by university officials is false. This is because the staff at the Millar Price Library gave me a library card, visitor pass, and allowed me to check out books. They gave explicit permission for me to use the library. If given a visitor pass by university officials, how could visiting the library be non-compliant? Obeying a visitor’s pass is obviously compliant. I was complying with the explicit permission given by the university officials. Additionally, Jordan Banks of Student Conduct did not inform me that I was banned from the Miller price library, nor did he give me a map of the buildings that I was banned from. These facts support that I was given incomplete and contradictory information by Conduct and the Millar Price Library staff. Therefore, either I was in compliance with university officials, or compliance was impossible as the information given was contradictory and incomplete. In either case, it’s false that I refused to comply with university officials.
In American tradition, libraries are open to the public. They are open to the public specifically to oppose censorship from tyrannical leaders. For PSU to exclude undesirables from the library is to reenact the nightmare of tyranny that haunted America’s Founding Fathers. The library is a symbol of equality of opportunity and meritocracy, where anyone has an equal chance to learn if they choose to exert the effort to study. The library is a place for everyone, regardless of status, such as status as a student or non-student. The library has always been a symbol for peace and wisdom. Additionally, another anti-american injustice is the very pretense for my campus exclusion: the crime of protest, a 1st amendment protection. This is a betrayal considering that Portland State University is publicly funded by taxpayers of Oregon. Banning taxpayers from a public library for merely protesting censorship in another building is grave injustice and a flagrant betrayal to American values. It is the epitome of tyranny and censorship. It is the silencing of Americans from reading and expressing themselves.
Is campus exclusion social death? To die is to cease activity in a given space and time. Life is defined in terms of space, too. No matter where you are, there you are. You occupy a space. You live at home, at work, or occupy a vehicle. In all cases, you exist in a place, a city, a state, a nation, the earth. Therefore, exclusion from a space is a form of death, a cessation of your physical activity. In fact, the academic term is structural violence, also legal discrimination.
Conduct is engaged in systemic violence and discrimination. The evolutionary selection pressures at PSU are such that bullies remain at PSU, while professors (i.e., Professor Peter Boghossian and Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh) and student protesters (i.e., Makayla “Topaz” Arnold and David Mosqueirae) are excluded. Professors and researchers are effectively killed from the PSU environment as a direct result of anti-intellectualism and censorship. Conduct is making PSU an environment hostile to the American mind and soul, where the free speech advocates are killed, and the tyrants, bullies, and silencers thrive.
My hope is that Conduct cultivates intellectualism and free speech. Therefore, I advise Student Conduct to overturn their previous decisions and cease further disciplinary actions toward me. Also, I hope they change their anti-American, tyrannical attitude such that future patriotic Americans, protestors, students, and professors are spared from Conduct’s discrimination and structural violence. While I’m not naive to this low likelihood, I still hope that Conduct will see the error in disciplining professors, student protestors, and library-goers. I hope Conduct will stop bludgeoning students like myself: founders of clubs, members of the honors college, writers of undergraduate research, and staunch advocates of the deeply American value of free speech. If Conduct continues to aggressively target these students, PSU’s regional and national reputation is frankly appalling and treasonous to Oregonians and Americans alike.
Sincerely,
Angel Lovemore