As an aside for everyone coming to the comments first before reading the article, PSU in the title is Portland State University not Penn State University which

As an aside for everyone coming to the comments first before reading the article, PSU in the title is Portland State University not Penn State University which I immediately thought of when I saw PSU. Basically, Portland State University is retaliating against a professor who showed that the peer review and acceptance process for various journals was woefully broken.