Carsten Oyer

Managing Editor

Carsten Oyer is a managing editor at The State Press. He has previously served as a politics reporter and a politics editor, and this is his fourth semester at The State Press. He is a junior studying journalism and political science at Arizona State University. Oyer has also worked for Cronkite News and interned at PolitiFact.

Dining hall workers union sues ASU, alleging First Amendment violations

By Carsten Oyer

Filing a lawsuit in federal court, the UNITE HERE Local 11 union argued the University had unconstitutionally ...

August 14, 2026

Traces of the New Deal

By Carsten Oyer

Four buildings on ASU's Tempe campus uphold the legacy of a period when government got things done.

May 2, 2026

Opinion: Student government is important. Here's what Sun Devils need to know

By Carsten Oyer

Accountability for student government, which controls both student-initiated fees and policy advocacy, ...

April 20, 2026

ASU wants to remove a 124-year-old historic property to make way for ASU Health

By Carsten Oyer

The Louis Emerson House, which sits on a parcel the University said it needs for the ASU Health headquarters, ...

April 13, 2026

ASU denies opposing political events, leading to frustration, lawsuit threat

By Carsten Oyer

National Ground Game organizers made a social media post about the University's denial of the UnF--- ...

March 25, 2026

Meet the tickets for the USG Downtown executive election

By MJ Martinez and Carsten Oyer

Student candidates debated their differing approaches to improving the student experience at the Downtown ...

March 24, 2026

Demonstrators against war in Iran met by counter-protesters on ASU's Hayden Lawn

By Carsten Oyer

Counter-protesters said the protest was not aligned with Iranian students' perspectives on the war.

March 2, 2026

Aramark, AI, DEI at center of conversations during ASU Arizona Board of Regents meeting

By Sam Luba and Carsten Oyer

Crow countered arguments from the public against the University's handling of DEI controversies and ...

February 21, 2026

Hundreds in Tempe protest ICE despite ASU's closure of Alumni Lawn at Old Main

By Grace Lawrence , Mia Sweador , Carsten Oyer and Andi Ruiz

Students and community members marched against ICE activity in solidarity with Minnesotans. 

January 30, 2026

Arizona Board of Regents grant invests in research with defense, commercial uses

By Kate Gore and Carsten Oyer

Researchers received funding to develop technologies with dual-use opportunities, including drone charging ...

January 7, 2026

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