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Come learn more about one of Oregon’s most dynamic civil rights activists, Beatrice Morrow Cannady. Author Kimberley Mangun will be presenting the biography A Force for Change, a detailed account of Cannady’s life and work. When: 1:30 p.m. Where: SMSU, room 338

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Stories often untold Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival brings attention to a marginalized population pAgE 5 Carts for one and all Eat Mobile parks food carts all in one place for a special event pAgE 6

Breaking free from western temperament Belinda Underwood explores “earth musicology” pAgE 7

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FARMERS MARKET IS BACK Market at PSU returns for 18th season Corie Charnley Vanguard staff

For the 2010 season, the Portland Farmers Market held on Saturdays at Portland State has grown in size after last year’s success. The market now includes another block, expanding its area to incorporate the blocks between Southwest Hall and Southwest Montgomery. The market opened on March 20, attracting a record-setting 12,000 visitors, according to Deborah Pleva. “We hope that trend continues throughout the season,” Pleva said. Though the PFM received 650 applications this season, only 250 vendors were selected to serve at the market’s six locations throughout Portland. “This is a record number of applications, second only to the 2009 season, which is recognized as one of the most successful years for the Portland Farmers Market,” Pleva said. According to a press release, the market’s extra space will allow the more than 120 vendors and 16,000 shoppers more space. However, although the market has doubled in size, it did not double in vendors.

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The farm in the city: Saturday Portland Farmers Market bigger than ever.

businesses, a leader of the local food movement, a source of education, a culinary focal point, a cultural destination complete with musical entertainment and a billboard for Portland’s sustainability movement,” Pleva said. “It creates community that

Voter registration, round two ASPSU registering voters before the primaries; last day is Tuesday Sara M. Kemple Vanguard staff

It’s time for more table tennis Table Tennis club kicks off spring schedule at local tournament PAGE 10

The PFM has 19 new vendors this year, nine of which have booths at PSU. The new vendors include 15 Miles Ranch and Sexton Farms. “We’re taking up twice the space,” said Jaret Foster, manager of PFM at PSU. “We’ve added around 20 vendor spots, but that doesn’t mean we’re adding twenty new vendors. What we’re trying to do is actually give more room to existing vendors.” “We do give a priority to organic growers,” Foster said. According to Pleva, PFM’s Market at PSU was established in 1992 by Craig Mosbaek, Ted Snider and Richard Hagan. It was originally held in a parking lot at Albers Mill in northwest Portland, but was moved to its current location in 1997. It is now the largest of Portland’s six markets, according to its website. Commenting on what makes the location so popular, Lisa Jacobs, owner and cheese maker of Jacobs Creamery, said, “I think the varieties and the location, and also the fact that it’s pretty sheltered in the summer. The quality of all of the products that are represented here is pretty high.” Jacobs Creamery, out of Doty, Wash., is the only businesses in the northwest to make specialty European dairy. Jacobs serves a variety of sheep and cow cheeses, as well as pudding, hand-churned butter and crème fraiche. In conjunction with the season’s opening, PFM also launched its EverGreen Campaign. According to its website, the campaign is a green initiative that promotes the “eco-virtues of local living.” By 2012, PFM hopes to redirect 90 percent of the waste from its market sites to recycling and compost streams. In addition, the market hosts a variety of events and musical guests throughout the year. “Portland Farmers Market… serves as an incubator for emerging

ASPSU is working toward getting as many people registered as possible by April 27, which is the deadline for new registrants in the state of Oregon for the primary election. Though ASPSU is not running as active and visible of a campaign as it did in the fall, it’s focusing on the educational and governmental aspects of this year’s gubernatorial election.

“We are focusing on education and Get Out the Vote so much because this primary includes two constitutional changes,” said Katie Markey, the interim Legislative Affairs director, who is in charge of all the voter registration for this school year. Oregon constitutional changes are up for consideration through Measures 68 and 69, which could directly affect the Oregon University System for the coming years. Measure 68 revises the Oregon Constitution and allows the state to issue bonds to match voterapproved school district bonds for capitol costs. Measure 69 amends the Oregon Constitution and continues and modernizes the

authority for lowest-cost borrowing for community colleges and public universities. “It is important to remember that ASPSU and our vote coalition partners are nonpartisan,” said Markey. Once all materials are finalized, ASPSU will have voter education guides available for students outlining what a “yes” or a “no” vote would mean for both ballot measures. Another thing that students should remember is that Oregon has a closed primary system. A closed primary system means one can only vote for candidates in the party with which they are registered. The ballot measures will be on every ballot, and those who

represents the best Portland has to offer.” PFM at PSU is open every Saturday until October, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information about PFM, its vendors and upcoming events, visit its website at www.portlandfarmersmarket.org.

are not registered with a political party but are still registered to vote will receive a ballot with just the ballot measures, and no option to vote for candidates. “Our Get Out the Vote campaign will focus mainly on visibility and collection,” Markey said. “We will have ballot boxes in our usual locations: the ASPSU office, library and info desk. In addition to these we will have two large ballot boxes in the Park Blocks where students can drop off their ballots,” Markey said. Ballots are delivered to the county elections office every night. If any student is interested in getting involved with the drive or any other ASPSU campaign, there are many volunteer opportunities. Students who are interested can contact Kate Markey at aspsulegislative@gmail.com or can stop by the ASPSU office, which is located in Smith Memorial Student Union near the information desk.

Vanguard 2 | Opinion April 23, 2010

Sarah J. Christensen Editor-in-Chief Virginia Vickery News Editor Theodora Karatzas Arts & Culture Editor Richard D. Oxley Opinion Editor

OPINION Editorial

IN THE BEGINNING… THE COURSE WAS CANCELLED

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It’s inevitable. At the beginning of each quarter, students rush from professor to professor and from course to course seeking to establish their quarter’s classes. Like puzzle pieces, they try to fit classes delicately into a complete picture of their scheduled lives. Also inevitable is having that one needed course, or that special class a student is genuinely interested in, fall away into a bleak list of cancelled courses. A list that is all too long. This spring term alone, over 340 traditional lecture-style courses were cancelled due to lack of enrollment, instructor availability or a variety of other reasons, according to the university’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning. It is clear that the manner in which Portland State handles its course cancellations needs a tune-up. Such a large number of cancellations means that over 13 percent of all classes available to students in the spring were never ultimately held. Surprisingly, this number is actually down from fall quarter’s 542 cancellations—nearly 20 percent of courses originally scheduled for that term. After finding out that a class has been cancelled at the beginning of a term, a student must once again bounce from course to course trying to complete their schedule to earn required credits—though now under the added pressure of having limited time to do so. This factor conflicts with PSU’s policy of full-tuition reimbursement for courses

dropped within the first week. Why should a student have to worry about this deadline while fixing their schedule after the university’s abrupt cancellation? This also places further strain and inconvenience on instructors, who now have to deal with waves of students all vying for the same limited seats in their classes. As students get farther along in their college experience, and as graduation becomes a foreseeable reality, planning out courses in which to enroll turns into a serious undertaking. Trying to ensure that all degree, major and university studies requirements are met is a difficult task. Too many students suffer the setback of cancelled courses. Keep in mind that unlike other universities, PSU also has a large number of non-traditional students, who are already tackling the demanding tasks of managing work, family and college. The university needs to instill the confidence that it will follow through with all planned courses for the year. Any classes that continually fail to draw high enough enrollment should be cut from the curriculum. The university should at least allow all classes to meet for the first day of instruction to ascertain that enough students have shown interest in the course. Ultimately, PSU needs to rethink its policies on course cancellation. Even under the most understandable of circumstances, PSU cancelled too many classes at the beginning of each term, resulting in avoidable inconveniences to its students.

Sarah J. Christensen, Editor-in-Chief | Virginia Vickery, News Editor Theodora Karatzas, Arts & Culture Editor | Richard D. Oxley, Opinion Editor Robert Britt, Sports Editor | Marni Cohen, Photo Editor Bryan Morgan, Production Manager | Zach Chastaine, Online Editor Kristin Pugmire, Copy Chief

VikingVoice What are your general thoughts on the Park Blocks street preachers?

Tobi Lehman Junior, Computer Science

Brianna Kirshner Freshman, Biology

“Sometimes his presence makes me despise free speech a little bit…I want to support freedom of speech, but at the same time, put some sort of constraints on it, like a decibel level maybe. I’ve actually talked with him a little bit— assuming what he believes is true, his intention is actually a good one, but I don’t agree with him.”

“The ones specifically on the PSU park blocks I think often times don’t have the right attitude about evangelism. If you want to evangelize, that’s fine—personally I’ve done that before, but I don’t yell at people and it’s extremely inappropriate to shove it in people’s face and force those opinions on people.”

Dave Wissman Senior, Sociology

Milo Grant Freshman, Film

“They’re really annoying but that’s about it. Honestly I have headphones on when I go by them, so all I hear is angry yelling…I can hear him from inside when I’m trying to do homework. I don’t have the right to party all night drinking beer with my friends—the cops show up—so why does he have the right to disrupt classes and my study time?”

“If it’s public property then they have every right to be here…it doesn’t matter what they’re preaching and I totally respect their opinions and their right to believe it, but in terms of freedom of speech they do have a right to be here.”

Pearls of Wisdom PSU grad students propose gateway to Pearl District Patrick Guild Vanguard staff

Eight Portland State University graduate students spent their winter term developing a proposal for two large buildings that would serve as an iconic entrance to the Pearl District. While the recession has cancelled any large-scale construction, the plan does showcase the values of the next generation of architects in our city and developers’ visions for the future of Portland. It does, however, have a downside, with proposals for big-box chain stores to set up shop in the Pearl. Students Tom Heinicke, Mike Shall, Jon Winslow, Jared Hendricks, William Their, Atha Mansoory, Brad Johnson and Ben Gates have created plans for two large mixed-use buildings located on West Burnside and Northwest Davis. The buildings currently in the area, which house Everyday Music and Storables, would be razed. The students, who worked with members of the Oregon chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, created their proposal for local Harsch Investment Properties. The proposed buildings are a stone soup of sorts, containing a boutique hotel, workforce housing, office space, an art museum, and national chain stores like Best Buy, Apple, and Crate and Barrel. One of the buildings would be 23 stories high, creating an imposing boundary between Southwest Portland and the Pearl District. I want to stress the importance of this wonderful program for young architects. They not only get to show their class work and

get that “real world experience,” but in a real sense, this is their opportunity to get their names out to developers and designing firms. Their proposal, which occurred earlier this month, was delivered in front of key members of Harsch Investment Properties including President Jordan Schnitzer. With public feedback after coverage by the Daily Journal of Commerce and The Oregonian, the students will also deal with the importance of their work for actual Portland residents, rather than a closed room of professors. The largely glass buildings match the monolithic Indigo Twelve West mixed-use building across the street from the proposed site. Hopefully, the students’ workforce housing won’t mean traditional downtown prices. A studio apartment at the Indigo, for example, is about $1,200 for a mere 600 square feet. I’ll bet the view is insane. Sadly, if the proposed building were to go up, most of their residents’ views would be of the cold, reflective Indigo. The small 175-room hotel is great for tourists who come to Portland to shop. The Pearl has become a purpose-built retail location where 75 percent of shops are local, and that number is only growing. Large chain stores like Adidas, Puma and most recently, Eddie Bauer, have packed up and left, leaving more vacancies for local retailers. This is why I can’t understand the need for Best Buys and H&Ms in the area. For the Pearl District to truly become a gem, we need to invest in our unique local artists. Bloated leases and high prices have created the high-class mystique that developers envisioned for the Pearl. I call it a stigma. The recession hit Portland hard. It’s no longer fashionable to

flaunt your Anthropologie bags or be seen at P.F. Chang’s. Young Portlanders have quickly learned that substance is much cooler than price. GenCubed, a Portland firm that researches 18- to 30-year olds, told The Oregonian that “a lot of people don’t feel comfortable down there. I’ll hope we’ll see more of the eclectic things that Portland is known for crossed with its hoity-toity.” We put a high value on authenticity in Portland. The success of local retailers over chains in the Pearl is a testament to that. Perhaps this recession will bring leasing prices back down to earth so future developments won’t need to rely on the deceptive stability of large retailers. The true pearl in the students’ proposal is the contemporary art museum. Jordan Schnitzer,

son of Portland art booster and donor Arlene Schnitzer, has quite a collection of his own. The Harsch Investment Properties president owns more than 5,000 prints, including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Schnitzer has expressed that it is a public collection he wants to share with the Northwest. The PSU students were visionary in this regard. Even if the proposal was just an exercise, perhaps we’re one step closer to a permanent home for Schnitzer’s collection. The recession has changed the attitude of Portland residents. The way we spend our money puts a high premium on value over name brands. The same goes for housing. A great shift has occurred and developers and leasing firms will have to shift, too.

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What do you think? The Pearl District has come a long way. What was once home to Portland’s industrial and manufacturing trades has emerged as one of the most desired areas of the city.

Long-time residents might remember the Pearl as, lets just say, not as clean and hip as it is today.

Building on top of the Pearl’s image and commerce could prove to be a good idea. But should Portland allow huge chain stores into its beloved hip and chic district? After all, there are many non-local and non-unique stores and shops already throughout the Pearl. Could there be only so many local shops to go around?

Such big retailers can certainly draw crowds and money—a feature some might find very beneficial.

What do you think? Should there be a Best Buy in the trendy end of downtown? What would you think of a Crate and Barrel standing next to your favorite local ma and pa boutique?

Write us at opinion@ dailyvanguard.com, or to make it easier on you, use the Letter-to-the-Editor option on our website.

Illustration by Kira Meyrick/Portland State Vanguard

Civil War over EGGS? Paying for smart genes Amy Fylan

Vanguard staff

Our two beloved Pac-10 universities, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, are in constant competition with one another for state domination and bragging rights. If it’s not football then it’s basketball, baseball, choice of majors and so on. The list is endless, with new categories being added all the time. The latest and probably most controversial topic is the notion that OSU students are compensated more for egg donation at fertility clinics than U of O students. An article published on April 1 in the Portland Tribune reported on advertisements in both schools’ student-run newspapers—OSU’s Daily Barometer’s ad offered $5,000, while the ad in U of O’s Daily Emerald offered $4,000.

Gary Dulude, a marketing employee for OSU, was quoted in the article saying, “There must be a perception that there are smarter students here.” Perceive it however you want, but admission requirements to attend either school are exactly the same. However, some claim that egg compensation advertisements statewide show an even flat rate. “This reporter knows full well that compensation for egg donors at Oregon State University and University of Oregon is exactly the same and always has been the same,” said Jonathan Kipp, marketing director for Oregon Reproductive Medicine/Exceptional Donors. “The reporter and I talked at length about why the study had it wrong, in Oregon at least “The compensation for egg donors, recruited and approved by Oregon Reproductive Medicine’s Exceptional Donors Program…has always, and is always, exactly the same. That rate is currently $6,000.” The study Kipp is referring to is one recently done by Georgia

Tech professor Aaron Levine, whose findings seem to confirm that fertility-challenged couples were willing to pay more for egg donors that were smart. Recently published in the March/April issue of the Hasting Center Report, the study examined ads in student newspapers and found that the amount a clinic and/or broker was willing to pay was determined by the average SAT scores the school accepted. Some schools, especially Ivy League schools, reported to offer up to $50,000 as compensation. This is in violation of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s guidelines, which discourage any compensation amount over $10,000 and compensation based on personal characteristics, such as being smart. Obviously, as the study also points out, currently there is no checks and balances system to regulate this discouragement, and it is often ignored. High price tags seem to be intended to lure struggling college females as a way to offer

them more stability and make them neglect the fine print of complications that can occur as a result of the offer. The money offered covers about a four-month process which one must undergo before harvesting the eggs, which is a 20–30 minute minor operation. In today’s society it is understandable for a woman to want to exhaust every opportunity to be able to do what she was made to do— give life. But what about the hundreds of thousands of children already born into the world without parents to raise them? What about the horrific steps an egg donor has to partake in once she is selected? Choosing donors, egg or sperm for certain characteristics as a high IQ is no better than Hitler’s goal of fostering a superior race. Couples who can conceive naturally don’t get to pick their child’s characteristics, so why are couples that can’t conceive naturally doing so?

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Conspiracy theory of the week The JFK assassination— second gunman Perhaps the most widely known conspiracy theory (or theories) is that of the JFK assassination—and perhaps none are taken more seriously. On November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Governor John Connally was also wounded in the attack. The official story is that a lone gunman by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy as he traveled in an open-top car waving to a cheering crowd along the street. Oswald was arrested within two hours of the assassination. The next morning, Oswald was shot and killed as he was being transferred to the county jail. But is that what really happened? The most suspicious element of the event is the plausibility of Oswald acting alone. Some have tested the capability of a shooter to fire a rifle, such as Oswald’s 6.5 Italian Mannlicher-Carcano, three times within the time frame of the assassination. The likelihood of this happening is debatable. It has also been put forth that Oswald’s position could not account for the resulting wounds. In order for one of the bullets to hit both JFK and Governor Connally, as the official story states, it would have to pass through Kennedy’s neck and shoulder, then change course entirely to strike Connally in the wrist and rib cage. It is highly unlikely that a bullet could behave this way. This has been known as the “Magic Bullet” theory. Witnesses that day also offered conflicting stories. Some said the shots came from Oswald’s positioned, but 35 witnesses said that they thought the shots originated from the other side of the president, from the rear, and five stated they observed shots from both directions. All this added together provides a foundation for suspicion of the official story. If more than one shooter had been present that day, it would account for the mysterious conflicts in the evidence.

Funeral protesters: Show respect Thomas Kyle-Milward Daily Emerald staff

Guest Opinion

What is a funeral? A funeral is a gathering of friends and family, an event designed to capture and celebrate the life of the deceased, and allow a community to grieve together. It’s a time of bonding, of setting aside differences, of release. Yet recently, a lot of publicity is being given to groups of protesters who show up to wave signs and chant at the funerals of U.S. veterans. Classy. At the military funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder back in 2006, protesters from fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., stood outside waving signs that read “Thank God for IEDs,” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” Apparently, they feel that wars and terrorist actions around the world are God’s way of punishing us for the “sins” of homosexuality, rampant crime and STDs. The church’s founder, Fred Phelps, has been leading these pickets since 1991. This time, however, someone decided to fight back. Snyder’s father, Albert, decided that even though it would cause his family additional hardship, he would sue Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church for emotional distress and invasion of privacy. He was awarded $11 million, which was later reduced to $5 million. Phelps argued that he and his following were

perfectly within the rights of the First Amendment. The verdict was reversed, and Snyder was ordered to pay $16,510 to cover Westboro Baptist’s lawyer’s fees. He refused, and has taken his case all the way to the Supreme Court, where it will be heard this coming fall. Death is always a tragic event. The first time I ever saw my father cry was when he got that early phone call from his brother, telling him that my grandfather had passed on. After the initial shock, paramount on everyone’s mind was the issue of raising airfare, allowing my father to return to England for the funeral. There was never any thought of not going. Expenses be damned. My grandmother and uncles needed the support, and Dad needed some closure. So, of course, the funds were raised and my father spent a week in the U.K. Having witnessed firsthand what a family goes through when a loved one dies, it boggles my mind that anyone could use the anguished farewell ceremony of a complete stranger as a platform for political or social gain. It’s a soulless act of selfishness, completely throwing to the wind any sense of human decency in the face of another’s suffering and proffering a big middle finger to the universally accepted

social norms regarding death. Not only that, military funerals are considered even more sacred than those of regular citizens. There’s a reason they are conducted with such pomp and ceremony. Military service is a gift to one’s country: the essence of citizenship. You aren’t just protecting yourself or your neighbor; you’re protecting a way of life, without regard for personal safety or hardship. Payment for such a sacrifice is impossible. How can you place

sad truth is that his sacrifice is ironically being spat upon by equally obsessive zealots grown in his own backyard. The Supreme Court needs to find in favor of Albert Snyder and come to its senses over this particular case of First Amendment rights. For too long that particular excuse has been used to explain away terrible acts committed by people who’ll do anything to promote their personal agendas. Finding the distinction between the ability to criticize the

Apparently, they feel that wars and terrorist actions around the world are God’s way of punishing us for the “sins” of homosexuality, rampant crime and STDs. a price tag on the freedom of being able to roll out of bed in the morning and go about your daily existence without fear? The least we can do, therefore, is provide our warriors with a decent burial and show our veterans some modicum of respect. Why should Snyder have to pay the bills of his harassers? He has done nothing except take offense at having the funeral of his beloved son interrupted by hooligans who welcomed the death as some sort of twisted message from God. He explains how he crept in through the back of the funeral parlor to avoid them, and how he tried to ignore their chants throughout the service. Is this what the father of one of America’s heroes has to go through? Is that just? Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder gave his life defending his homeland from fanatical, delusional religious extremists in the Middle East. The

government or speak your mind without fear of reprisal and allowing a cult to stage self-promoting spectacles at the funerals of America’s chosen few doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch for our politicians. After all, American soldiers have earned the right to rest in peace, and their families have lost enough without having to put up with the ravings of a spoiled and demented few.

*This article originally appeared in the Daily Emerald. It is reprinted here in its original form.

Tiger is not out of the woods Latest Nike ad has people angry Meaghan Daniels Vanguard staff

Sex and scandal are not the most recent things that Tiger Woods should be ashamed of. Both Woods and Nike have reached new lows with the latest Nike advertisement featuring the golf star’s late father’s voice. The ad is clearly geared towards trying to gain sympathy for the golf player after a series of sexual affairs emerged, destroying his five-year marriage with wife Elin Nordegren, with whom he has two children. Fifteen women have been allegedly connected with the Woods scandal. There have been several reports from several different sources that maintain Nordegren met with divorce lawyers before she boarded a plane to avoid seeing the closing rounds of the Masters golf tournament. Yes, Woods has a lot of pressure on him, and yes, no one can truly know what actually happened with all the rumors circulating. Woods made a mistake—several times over—but people make mistakes. However, one’s sympathies should go out to Tiger’s children and his soon to be ex-wife.

Nike should have never used Woods’ late father’s voice to gain sympathy for Tiger. Let’s face it, Nike’s real goal is to simply make money. The commercial is in black and white, with Woods’ late father’s voice blaring, evidently scolding him for his indiscretions, as Woods stands with the camera zooming in on his face. His look is solemn and, shockingly, almost emotionless. The ad does not evoke sadness or sympathy—only feelings of disrespect, distaste and shock. Woods’ father has nothing to do with Tiger’s multiple affairs or Nike’s need to sell stuff. His father should have been left out of it, and not used in a commercial. Nike crossed a line. As horrible as it is that Nike used Woods’ father as an advertisement, it is even more appalling that he agreed to do it in the first place. Not only did Nike cross the line with the ad, Woods crossed it with them. In fact, it is even more offensive that he did the ad in the first place. What kind of person agrees to do that? Then again, what kind of person cheats on his wife several times? In Woods’ attempt to regain his popularity and the public’s forgiveness, as well as his wife’s, he has dug himself an even greater hole that he is highly unlikely to get out of. Clearly, thinking before he acts is not one of Woods’ strongest

traits and unfortunately, it is his wife and kids that end up suffering. Woods will still end up making millions upon millions of dollars from Nike and other sponsors. From a business standpoint, it makes a little bit of sense why Nike chose to do it this way. “People adored Tiger, and one of the biggest reasons was because of his father and the type of relationship they had,” said Jeffery Boone, PSU Business Marketing major. “Families were able to make a connection, and that connection continued, until this enormous debacle came to light.” The sad part of the whole thing is that Nike is connecting

Tiger back to the family guy he was portrayed as, after he ruined his own family. It is awful that because he is too valuable to Nike, they had to approach it this way, to show that he is being punished for his actions—even though he is still golfing and making a ton of money, and Nike did not back out as his sponsor. The act of using his dead father’s voice to make even more money is completely and utterly ludicrous. It is a disrespectful act to his father and it is atrocious that he chose to participate in the ad in the first place.

Photo courtesy of www.cbs.com

So serious: A shot from Tiger’s latest Nike ad.

ARTS & CULTURE Stories often untold Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival brings attention to a marginalized population Scott Ostlund Vanguard staff

What started three years ago in a church basement has now spread out to the center of Portland and the Portland State University community. By pulling in community members, students and faculty, the Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival is focusing on telling stories often untold, and not limiting the avenues in which to do it. Through dance, writing, poetry and other creative outlets, the festival hopes to bring confidence— or at least a new perspective—to anyone who attends. “Our theme this year is all about storytelling…based on Eli Clare’s book The Marrow Telling…when we think of storytelling we think of how you tell the story, but there is a whole part of it…what does it take to tell your story,” said festival director Kathy Coleman. This year’s festival has been split up into performances as well as workshops. Zoomtopia in southeast Portland is this year’s location for the festival’s workshops, which were on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as many performances that

are meant to capture the minds and hearts of people who have something to say or something to gain from the experience. “In general we have the festival so we can create opportunities in Portland,” Coleman said. “So people can see disability art, disabled performers and our allies…because there isn’t a lot happening. I’ll come across people who’ve never heard of the fact that someone in a wheelchair can dance.” A focus of this year’s festival will be a series of dances and performances called Bone Translations. This performance is meant to show an individual’s story through creativity and new perspectives. With over 15 performers, Bone Translations will hold true to the diversity of people it represents and the trust and confidence they’ve portrayed in telling their stories. “A lot of it is based on Eli’s poetry, so that is inspiration for a lot of the work,” Coleman said. Coleman also explained that the performance hopes to align with the overall message of telling one’s story and shedding light on diverse perspectives. Eli Clare, the author of The Marrow Telling, has participated in the festival by leading workshops as well as giving a guest lecture in the Smith Memorial Student Union on the Portland State campus.

Arts Editor: Theodora Karatzas 503-725-5694 arts@dailyvanguard.com

Clare is originally from Southern Oregon, but now resides in Vermont. He will be giving a guest lecture, leading a workshop and performing some of his poetry. Coleman met Clare at a workshop that she was teaching at the University of Michigan. It was there that Clare decided to come to Portland for the festival, where participants have been eager for his contribution to the three-day affair. Bone Translations hopes to end the Disability Pride Festival with the opportunity to learn, the opportunity to grow and the

opportunity to understand. Each of these underlying themes has given the festival annual success and a new sense of pride and contrast between the Portland community and disabilities.

Bone Translations Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont St. 7 p.m. $10

Photo courtesy of Disability Art and Culture Project

Missing its “hello” and “goodbye” Telling the tired story of a couple in a midlife crisis, Hello Goodbye falls flat Sarah Esterman Vanguard staff

There’s usually a moment in the first 10 or 20 minutes of a film that signifies whether it’s going to be a terrible movie or a good one. Nothing monumental needs to happen in the film itself for this moment to come about. It’s something that I either do or don’t do: check the time. If by minute-15 in a film I find my eyes straying from the screen to look down at the digital face of my wristwatch to calculate the exact minute the credits will begin rolling, I know that the countdown is going to be miserable. When it comes to foreign films, my feelings of dread are exaggerated—I’ll have to keep my eyes on the screen for every single second of the film because of the necessity of reading subtitles. Such is the case with Graham Guit’s Hello Goodbye. The film follows Alain and Gisele Gaash, a French middleaged married Jewish couple (Gisele converted) in crisis after their son gets married. The problem: Their son was married in—gasp—a Christian church and his new wife is a Christian girl. Feeling lost and confused, Gisele decides that they need a change. She wants to get in

touch with her husband’s Jewish roots. She wants to go to Israel. Alain, on the other hand, couldn’t care less about his Jewish roots. He’s a gynecologist with a good practice and he likes to play tennis at the club. He doesn’t need to go anywhere, but to make his wife happy he decides to take her on a vacation to Israel. At first, he tries to buy her a car, but she drives it into a tree—which is supposed to get laughs, but it only makes Gisele seem more obnoxious than she already does. Gisele falls in love with “the land of milk and honey” and, much to the dismay of Alain’s family, she begs him to move there. So they make the move and it’s an absolute disaster. Among other woes, the job that was promised to Alain isn’t really available (“Do you know how many gynecologists there are in Israel? A lot.”), their container of furniture gets tossed into the ocean in transit, and they were screwed over on their apartment (i.e., it doesn’t exist). The significant problem with all of this is that there is absolutely nothing funny about it and because the attempted humor is only that—attempted—much of the scenes in the film just feel awkward. The viewer isn’t asked to have any emotion for the characters (except maybe when Gisele forces Alain to get circumcised at the age of 50). Part of this is the lack of plot development. We know by the opening scene that Alain is, technically, Jewish, but his family

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doesn’t really act like it. We don’t get any scenes that explain the relationship between mother, father and son, so the conflict with his marriage is difficult to understand. There are several moments in which Alain tells his wife that she must cut the cord with her son (because apparently they talk too much, though we only see her on the phone with him once in the film), but since we have no scenes with the two of them interacting, the joke falls flat. It’s the end of the film that is the most perplexing. After having a miserable time in Israel, when he wants to move back to France, Alain tells his wife (spoiler alert) that they should stay. He tells another person that Tel Aviv is “home.” The problem is that nothing in the film has

Tonight at the NW Film Center An Evening with Barbara Hammer “Over four decades, pioneering artist Barbara Hammer has fashioned a body of groundbreaking lesbian/ feminist experimental films, which deal with women’s issues such as gender roles and relationships, aging, health, and family. As she puts it, ‘To discover and uncover the invisible images—all my work is about revealing, showing, expressing, uncovering that which has not been seen before. I try to give voice and image to those who have been denied personal expression.’ Tonight Hammer, on tour with her first book Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, will present a selection of her short films including her most recent, A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2008), about her survival of ovarian cancer. She will also read short passages from her new book. Other films in the program include Menses (1974), Optic Nerve (1985), Still Point (1989), and Sanctus (1990).” 6:30 p.m.

Mighty Uke

expressed that. We’ve only seen him miserable, so why on earth would he want to stay? That question, along with many others brought up by loose ends in the film never gets answered, but, in the end, it doesn’t even matter. The lack of a strong plot line and understanding of how the characters relate to each other only serves to make it forgettable.

Hello Goodbye Directed by Graham Guit Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave. Sat, 8 p.m.

Tony Coleman, Canda 2009 “Far from a mere Hawaiian novelty item, the ukulele is a dynamic instrument with a rich history, and has profoundly influenced music around the world. At the dawn of the radio age, ukulele music owned the airwaves. Broadway produced ukulele musicals and Hollywood produced ukulele movie stars. Over the next thirty years, the uke was number one; but then, with the rise of the rock and roll guitar, it faded into nerdy obscurity. Until now. The ukulele is making a comeback. Clubs and ensembles are sprouting up around the world (Portland too), and a new generation is pulling their grandparents’ ukes out of the closet. Mighty Uke travels the world to discover why so many people are turning to the ukulele to express themselves and connect with the past, and each other.” 8:30 p.m. All screenings are in Whitsell Auditorium, 1218 SW Park Ave. Free with PSU student ID. —nwfilm.org

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Big, fat list of shows: Friday’s live music lineup Ah Holly Fam’ly, Blake Mackey, James Yeary, The Saxaphones The Artistery, 8 p.m., $6, all ages The Fenbi International, Otis Heat, Usana Ash St. Saloon, 9:30 p.m., $6, 21+ Serious Business, Groves, Boys Without Toys, The Peggy Olsons, Your Rival Backspace, 8:30 p.m., $3, all ages DLO, Lil’ Joe, Mikey Vegaz, Berner, Sleepy D Berbati’s Pan, 8:30 p.m., $10 advance $12 door, all ages Mad Professor, Nuborn Tribe Doug Fir, 9 p.m., $13 advance $15 door, 21+ The Godamn Gallows, The Sawyer Family, The Lordy Lords Kelly’s Olympian, 10 p.m., $5, 21+ Dirty Mittens, Beyonda, Dj Hanukkah Miracle Mississippi Studios, 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Runeii, The Pictures, Blood Beach, Deklun and Pace The Parlour, 7 p.m., $5, all ages

Carts for one and all Eat Mobile parks food carts all in one place for a special event Katherine Vetrano Vanguard staff

Food superstars are not limited to serious men in white floppy hats. Some of the most influential culinary masterminds in our fine city can be found in “pods” (the spaces where several food carts park together) in nearly every neighborhood in Portland. Blogger Brett Burnmeister, whose blog www.foodcartsportland.com covers nearly every mobile kitchen in Portland, believes we have an advantage that bigger cities don’t. “In cities like Los Angeles and New York City, their food carts are truly mobile,” Burnmeister said. “They have to move daily, if not more than once a day. Here in Portland, while the carts are required to stay mobile, they are allowed to park for indefinite periods of time in the different pods. This allows the pods to be and grow the way they have. If every cart had to move every day, I don’t know if we would have 100-plus available daily just in downtown.” This Saturday, these food palaces on wheels will be given even more attention than usual.

Willamette Week will celebrate its third annual Eat Mobile: Portland’s Food Cart Festival under the Morrison Bridge. Together, 30 of Portland’s finest carts will come together and offer a multitude of samples to the lucky eaters who bought tickets earlier this month. Due to the enormous popularity of food carts in Portland, tickets sold out faster than you can inhale a fried pie from Whiffie’s. Among the excellent carts present will be everyone from Addy’s Sandwich Bar (which offers concoctions like duck confit with cranberry relish and shaved cabbage) to Ziba’s Pitas, which are often paired with delicious ajvar relish. The event will offer old favorites and new ideas alike, and Burnmeister is pumped. “I’m coming for the extras,” Burnmeister said. “Each cart is to provide samples, but will also have items for sale that may or may not be on their normal menu. I understand The People’s Pig will be doing a whole pig that will be available for sandwiches for an additional cost.” The menus will not be the only stars of this tasty event. Another culinary event going on in town this week (which will be just as mouthwatering but a little steep for the student budget) is the International Association of Culinary Professionals Conference, which has brought some big names to our humble little city. Willamette Week has taken advantage of this opportunity and rallied up some of the biggest names to construct a panel for the Carty Awards, which will deem one cart the most delicious of them all. The panel consists of food celebrities galore, including Antoinette Bruno, CEO of the first-ever online food magazine www.StarChefs.com, as well as

food activist Kamal Mouzawak, who has spent much of his career encouraging inhabitants of Lebanon to find a common ground they can share: food. Mouzawak also created the first farmer’s market in Beirut, which has grown tremendously over the years to over 100 members. This week, when the streets will be stuffed with culinary excellence and everyone from meal-slinging cart-ologists to IACP geniuses, we should take a lesson from Mouzawak and remember that whether your

The Chop Tops, The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns, The Notches Plan B, 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Reporter, Strategy. E*Rock, Dj Bj, Copy Rotture, 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Awol-One, Rafael Vigilantics, Hives Inquiry Squad, Sleep, Abadawn Slabtown, 9 p.m., free, 21+ Prescription Pills, Archers, Kevin Twilight Bar and Cafe, 8 p.m., $3, 21+ Rebecca Gates, Sea of Bees, Shoeshine Blues The Woods, 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Organized Sports, Society Nurse, The Cysts, Lebanon Work/Sound, 9 p.m., $5, all ages

All photos by Marni Cohen/Portland State Vanguard

Eat Mobile: A festival celebrating food carts, a staple in Portland cuisine.

ticket cost eight or 120 dollars (or you didn’t score one at all), we all can agree on one thing: Portland knows how to fill the belly right.

Eat Mobile: Portland’s Food Cart Festival Under the Morrison Bridge Southeast 3rd and Belmont St. Sat, 5:30–9:30 p.m. Sold out

Galactic strategy Infinite Space is a JRPG’s take on Star Trek Steve Haske

Images courtesty Nintendo

Vanguard staff

Space is not an uncommon setting for a video game, although few games really capture the spirit of adventure and exploration such environs arguably demand. Sure, there’s Bioware’s stellar Mass Effect series, which, for better or worse (mostly better), is about as close to being in Star Trek’s Starfleet as a game has come without a license. But what about a sci-fi game that focuses a good deal of its attentions simply on shipbuilding? If this sounds like a niche, you’re right. But it’s exactly what Infinite Space is about, aside from the associated sci-fi anime trappings and all they entail. Space combat is, more often than not, the bread and butter of Infinite Space. As a young captain, your gradual task is to build up your fleet of ships while questing for mysterious artifacts across the universe. This requires buying blueprints from various space

stations and tricking out your ships with new rooms that boost your stats. It’s a pretty interesting concept for a JRPG—and one that a lot of niche sci-fi fans will probably be able to get into. You can (and will) spend a lot of time simply tweaking, adjusting and adding to your fleet, making it as efficient or unstoppable as any given situation calls for. That being said, Infinite Space isn’t really a title you can approach lightly. Not only is the game massive (especially for a DS game) but also the level of patience you will need in order to enjoy navigating the stars, customizing your fleet of ships and battling with them is pretty high. Of course, you’ve got to engage a lot of enemies in order to get the scratch for the ships and upgrades you want. The battling element of the game is fairly tactical, with you commanding multiple units (one at a

time) to perform various basic actions. Gamers who are familiar with Konami’s underrated alternatehistory strategy RPG Ring of Red will feel right at home with this. Basically, your given vessel can move forward, backward, dodge, fire a volley of shots at the enemy or, if you charge up enough, a devastating barrage. It may sound simple, but depending on the enemy’s actions (such as whether or not they plan to dodge or retreat), battle tactics can actually become quite in-depth. Of course, as you grow your fleet, various additional special abilities also become available through the recruitment of new personnel for your crew, which adds another level of depth to the action. The interface aesthetic is pretty cool, as well, giving you a view of the action from the bridge as well as in space. Battle animations can drag on

(despite being visually entertaining), but thankfully tapping the touch screen can skip them. You’ll probably want to make use of this handy feature, given how much time you’ll be spending in skirmishes. Ultimately, Infinite Space may prove too technical for everyone except the most hardcore sci-fi JRPG fan—unlike games like Xenosaga or Star Ocean, the narrative takes a backseat to the game’s various stats (though the story does pick up eventually). But if you’re game for that (and consulting the game’s massive help compendium), this might be a niche entry you’ll enjoy.

Infinite Space Sega Nintendo DS $34.99

Earth day Vanguard Arts & Culture | 7 April 23, 2010

Out now and soon: New music releases Today

All photos by Marni Cohen/Portland State Vanguard

The Portland State Park Blocks were invaded today with tents, recycling bins and music as Earth Week came to its climax with a roster of bands and festivities for one and all. A highlight of the afternoon was a performance from local rockers Morning Teleportation. The band, which generally draws a lively crowd, rocked the park blocks with skilled guitar riffs and some vintage Rhodes. Their music is a lively mix of traditional rock and wonderfully punchy vocals set to some very aggressive guitar. The group’s quirky off-beat personalities shine through in their

Booka Shade: More! (Get Physical) (German release)

performance and they always manage to travel with a trail of oddly-dressed, enthusiastic fans.

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Morning Teleportation is currently in the process of finishing up work on a new album, rumored to be set for release sometime late this year. In the meantime, they will be touring heavily and are slated to appear at the Sasquatch Music Festival on May 29. Catch them in the Vanguard’s local music guide, which hits stands May 14.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: “Round and Round” b/w “Mistaken Wedding” (4AD) The Dead Weather: “Die by the Drop” (Third Man/Warner Bros.) (UK release)

Belinda Underwood explores “earth musicology” Leah Bodenhamer Vanguard staff

Belinda Underwood’s voice crawls up and down your nerves, leaving goose bumps on the skin and inspiration on the mind. She has been internationally recognized for her jazzy skills, not only for her vocals, which is a relatively new skill for her, but also for her ukulele and upright-bass musicianship. She traveled with the UC Berkeley Wednesday Band, attended the Jazzschool there and has recorded and released songs with Nancy King, Phil Baker and Martin Zarzar of Pink Martini. What makes Underwood stand out most significantly from her contemporaries, though, is her desire to reach out beyond her western training and into the depths of eastern musicology. “It all started with a belly dance camp I attended in California,” Underwood said. “It was a Middle Eastern music and dance camp and I found myself most enthralled by the live music. There were musicians from Lebanon and Turkey and Greece, and I was floored because I thought they were all playing out of tune, but I realized they were doing it intentionally...when I started hearing the music as in tune, without judgment, it blew my mind!” She is an advocate for “natural scales,” which are the scales found in nature, the scales human ears naturally prefer. Because the western style of music, especially classical music, is based around the piano, the scales we are familiar with were standardized in order to make the piano work function. In nature, each note of the scale is not perfectly spaced out, but rather varies in the distance between each tone. Many of us have been raised in the western world, and so these natural tones may initially sound imperfect or unsettling. When Underwood’s ears adjusted to the change, when she deconstructed years of classical training, she realized just how broad the possibilities of music truly are. “I realized the whole musical scale is a spectrum—like when you see a rainbow, you never really see definitive colors so much as you see a blend of colors,” Underwood said. “I was taught that there were only 12 tones, but there are really notes between those notes, called quarter tones, and they create a whole new array of musical tensions.” This discovery has made all the difference for her. Though

she remains true to her jazz and blues roots, she is definitely trying to “Americanize and modernize” this Middle Eastern influence. She explains how these new tensions create whole new moods that we all can feel and relate to when stimulated, but are otherwise untouched and unidentifiable because of our limited exposure to non-western music. For the past five years, Belinda has been traveling to and from Cairo, Egypt to meet and play with music professor Dr. Alfred Gamil at the Arab Music Institute, “eating, sleeping and breathing music.” She lovingly describes the musicianship in Cairo, how musicians from all over the world come together to play ethnic music deep into the night, respecting and joking with each other through improvisation, “very much like a bunch of old jazz musicians.” She and her sister Melissa recently finished a tour as Beliss, playing folksy originals full of sisterly love as well as covers by artists like Bjork, Nick Drake, Malvina Reynolds and Calexico. Underwood is now working on her very own self-released album. Professional producers did all her previous releases, such as her debut album Underwood Uncurling in 2005 and Greenspace in 2008, in professional studios. She is proud to announce that this soon-to-be released album will be recorded in her own home, with all of the tracks recorded and produced herself, along with all the album artwork. If that’s not filling up her time enough, she also helps run her family business, Underwood Pickups, with was started by her father over 30 years ago, and has her own independent record label called Cosmik Music Records. Her mission is to support artists working to bring about positive changes to the world. To say the least, Underwood is one hell of a woman. Tonight she will be playing with local accordion player, Justin Franzino, with whom she has recorded various tracks from classic French music to oldies and originals.

Belinda Underwood Camelia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave Tonight, 9 p.m. Free, all ages

Breaking free from western temperament

The Fall: Your Future Our Clutter (Domino) (UK release) Frog Eyes: Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Dead Oceans) (UK release) The Futureheads: The Chaos (Nul/Dovecote) (UK release) Gogol Bordello: Trans-Continental Hustle (American) (UK release) The Golden Filter: Voluspa (Brille) David Holmes: The Dogs Are Parading (Best Of) (Universal) Small Black: Small Black (Jagjaguwar) (reissue) (UK release) Team Ghost: You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me (Sonic Cathedral) Various Artists: Kitsune Maison 9: The Petit Bateau Edition or The Cotton Issue (Kitsune)

Photo courtesy of Dkgoodman/Flickr

Belinda Underwood: Delving into a myriad of genres to weave a musical cloth that’s all her own.

—pitchfork.com

Vanguard 88||News News February Month AprilDay, 23, 12, 2009 2010

News Editor: Virginia Vickery 503-725-5690 news@dailyvanguard.com

Pancake breakfast fundraiser On Sunday, April 25, students from Portland State will be serving a pancake and sausage breakfast at the Lloyd Center Applebee’s. The group of 14 students involved with the event were selected to participate in “Global Aging and Health: Enhancing Communities in Nicaragua,” a program of PSU and the Jessie F. Richardson Foundation. As part of the program, the students will travel to Boaco, Nicaragua, in the summer, an area that has been devastated by drought and global economic conditions, according to a press release. During their visit, the students will give roughly 1,800 hours of volunteer service, working on projects designed to treat health conditions, create shelters from the weather and help increase food supply for elders without family. According to the press release, the program has sent students to the area for the past six years. The pancake breakfast, which is part of a series of fundraising events, will help pay for costs including airfare, vaccinations, housing, food, supplies and in-country transportation. Tickets are $9 for adults and $7 for children age seven and under. For those interested in purchasing tickets, contact Melissa Cannon at mcan.pdx.edu. Raffle tickets will also be sold during the event. The grand prize is a weekend at the Oregon Coast with free lodging and dinner. Other prizes include gift certificates to businesses such as Noah’s Bagels and Scappoose Bay Kayaking, as well as donated items including coffee and artwork. The breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. —pdx.edu/events/

NEWS Are cycle tracks on track? Examination planned of experimental bike lanes through PSU Tamara K. Kennedy Vanguard staff

An evaluation of the experimental bike lane that runs through Portland State’s campus is planned for this fall. Officials also hope to step up education efforts. The cycle tracks on SW Broadway that run through PSU are part of a project that also includes buffered bike lanes on SW Oak and SW Stark. The project will be evaluated in a report to be presented to the Portland City Council in the fall. Thus far, some concerns have been raised. The lanes are different from others because they are placed inside of a row of parking, next to the sidewalk. People are generally unaware of the ways in which bike lanes may and may not be used. “Education for cyclists is needed,” said Robert Burchfield, Portland city traffic engineer.

All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Share the road: Cycle tracks are currently utilized by more than just bikes.

He recently received comments and complaints from motorists, cyclists and wheelchair users pertaining to issues of cyclists not being courteous or aware while using the lanes. The law allows scooters and mobility devices full use of the bike lane according to Burchfield. He does not have a perfect solution for the LIFT program— in which TriMet provides an accessible van, designed to provide door-to-door transportation for those with mobility issues—or for other vehicles that must load on the passenger side of the street. There will be instances in which a ramp will extend into the bike lane, Burchfield said. “Perhaps the bike lanes would be better called ‘shared access lanes’ so everyone understands the possible uses,” said Polly Livingston, director of the PSU Disability Recourse Center. Livingston commends Portland’s forward thinking in establishing bike lanes but agrees that cyclists

need to be educated on lane usage. She asks for understanding and patience from cyclists— especially when transit, LIFT services or shuttles are unloading wheelchairs—rather than banging on the vehicles, which happens all too often, according to Livingston. She suggests the possibility of moving the bike lane to the opposite side of the street because vehicles must unload from the passenger side. Livingston also suggests that a color such as red be painted along the loading space. Burchfield is documenting all comments and suggestions to be included in the report to the Portland City Council. According to Burchfield, the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, with the help of assistant professor Chistopher Monsere, will conduct the research for the report. Burchfield listed the following three items on the agenda for evaluation:

1. Survey of cyclists’ perceptions of use of the cycle track 2. Survey of perceptions of users who are not cyclists, such as students and others who walk or park on SW Broadway near the bike lane 3. Visually monitored traffic performance, such as parking behavior and changes in performance, with regards to the decrease from three car lanes to two “We (professor Christopher Monsere and myself) did work with the city before [the cycle track] was installed to film several locations along the street, so that we could have some ‘before’ data to analyze,” said Dr. Jennifer Dill, director of OTREC.

Cyclist lane general comment line 503-823-SAFE [7233]

Behind the Acronym: AIESEC AIESEC helps students intern abroad, network at home Stacy Austin Vanguard staff

The AIESEC Oregon chapter is a small student organization at Portland State that has a large global impact. The organization gives its members an opportunity to travel abroad by interning at various international companies and non-profits, according Schuyler Asman, advisor for Student Activities and Leadership Programs. The organization, which began in 1948 as an exchange program, initially stood for “Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciale,” but is now referred to by its acronym, said AIESEC Local Committee President Brian Ball. “It’s pronounced ‘eye-sek,’” he said. “AIESEC is a group focused on professional networking and professional skills development,” Asman said. “The local chapter works with its members to help connect them to various external organizations in the area.” In addition, the local chapter also hosts interns from other countries and helps connect them to local businesses, according to Asman. “AIESEC hopes to provide Portland State students the opportunity to develop a global network and

connect with both local and international businesses,” he said. With over 45,000 members, AIESEC has chapters in over 107 countries and territories, and is “the world’s largest student-run organization,” according to its website. As of the end of winter term, the Oregon chapter had eight active members, Ball said. “We don’t have room for inactive members, which is why we keep it small,” he said. “[Active members] work together on a variety of projects.” Duties the AIESEC Oregon chapter members perform include planning events, designing new shirts to sell and working with students and local companies to find internships. There is a $75 application fee to “get into the system” and find a possible internship abroad, in addition to administration fees that are determined by the kind of position the member is looking for, Ball said. “Some [positions] are paid, and some aren’t…Some even cover the flight,” he said. Internships may include management training, technical training, or education and developmental positions. Ball initially learned about AIESEC through an advertisement. “I saw a flyer that said ‘Eat Chinese takeout or eat in Beijing’ and I said ‘Hmm...’” he said. Ball attended an information session, and then began regularly attending meetings. However, his real involvement and interest occurred while at an AIESEC conference in Dayton, Ohio.

“It was a weeklong conference during winter break,” Ball said. “Then I was like, I get why this organization exists.” Since then, Ball has been to at least 15 states with the Oregon chapter, as well as four countries: the Philippines, Japan, Korea and Canada. He said he has built a huge invaluable network of friends and business professional relationships during his time with AIESEC. “I have probably worked with at least 20 different companies,” Ball said. The Oregon chapter continues to work with local alumni, including co-founder of Portland Roasting Company, Todd Plummer.

In addition, the chapter is working with Wall St. Training to offer an intense two-day seminar in “Financial Modeling and Corporate Valuation” for PSU, which will take place on May 15–16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost of attendance for PSU students is $150 for the entire weekend. “[WST] usually charges $600–1,000 per day for the exact same content,” Ball said. More information about the seminar can be found at www.wallst-training.com/portland. The AIESEC Oregon chapter holds meetings every Monday at 4:30 p.m. in varying locations. For more information, visit www.aiesec. groups.pdx.edu or contact aiesec. oregon@gmail.com.

AIESEC: The group is small, but all of its members are active.

Liana Shewey/Portland State Vanguard

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Vanguard 10 | Sports April 23, 2010

Sports Editor: Robert Britt 503-725-4538 sports@dailyvanguard.com

Trubachik earns Athlete of the Week After his brilliant performance in the decathlon at the Mt. SAC Relays last Wednesday and Thursday, senior Nick Trubachik was named the Big Sky’s Athlete of the Week. The Estacada, Ore., native scored 7,240 points in the event and owns the 19th-best score in the nation this season. The senior improved his season-best mark in the javelin in Asuza, Calif., when he threw 200-9 and improved his time in the 110-meter hurdles with a 15.00. Overall, Trubachik finished eighth in the premier event and broke his own school record by two points. The recognition is the first of Trubachik’s illustrious career at Portland State. He was the Big Sky’s indoor heptathlon champion in 2009–10 and was the outdoor decathlon champion in 2008. —Matt Scheerer, Portland State Athletics

SPORTS Women’s golf wins Big Sky Conference Championship Down to the wire, Portland State wins its fifth title Tanya Shiffer Vanguard staff

The Portland State Vikings edged their way through three rounds of golf this week and climbed to the top of the conference to claim the 2010 Big Sky Women’s Golf Championship. This is Portland State’s fifth golf championship in eight years, and second for third-year coach Kathleen Takaishi. The Vikings won the title three straight seasons in 2003–05 and again in 2008. The win grants Portland State an automatic entry into the NCAA West Regional on May 5–8. In the first two rounds of the championship held at the 72-par Ocotillo Golf Course in Chandler, Ariz., both Northern Arizona and Portland State battled back and forth with NAU shooting one less stroke than PSU on Monday. The tides turned on Tuesday, and Portland State shot one under NAU to tie the score at 591 going into the final day of play. On Wednesday, the two teams played head-to-head and the Vikings took an early five-stroke lead. At the start of the back nine Northern Arizona narrowed the PSU lead down to two strokes, and with three holes remaining NAU took a two-shot lead over the Vikings. Coming down to the final golfers on the final three holes, Northern Arizona went eight-over par on the final triplet and finished with 313 combined strokes on the day and 904 over all three rounds. Portland State shot two-over on the final holes and finished with 309 on the day and 900 overall to take the lead and eventual win. Sacramento State shot two-under on the last three holes to sneak past NAU for a second-place finish, with 304 strokes in the final round and 902 overall. Weather affected play on Wednesday, with 20 mph wind with

It’s time for more table tennis Photo courtesy of PSU Athletics

Table Tennis club kicks off spring schedule at local tournament Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

The Portland State Table Tennis club will field a seven-member squad for the Bill Mason Memorial table tennis tournament to be held at the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District on Saturday. In its third year, the Bill Mason Memorial will feature 75 players in total and starts with a preliminary round, with groups of five players (determined by USA Table Tennis ratings) playing against each other. Results from the first round will

gusts of up to 30 mph contributing to the highest scores for most of the nine teams competing, but Northern Arizona freshman Stephanie Kim seemed to have no problem working with the wind. Kim finished in first place and tied the championship record with a score of 216 (69–70–77). All five Vikings competing at the championship finished among the top 20. Portland State freshman Britney Yada entered Wednesday’s round in third place on the leaderboards and kept her position with a final score of 222 (71–76–75) to tie with Sacramento State senior Brooke Green. Senior Stephanie Johns and sophomore Tiffany Schoning tied for sixth place with scores of 226. Juniors Alexia Brown and Kalyn Dodge finished in a three-way tie for 17th place with sophomore Chelsea Shivers of Northern Colorado, with scores of 231. Johns, who didn’t play much of the spring season after an injury kept her out of competition, was excited with the team’s finish. “It’s awesome,” Johns said in a statement released by the league. “I don’t really know how else to describe it. After being out the whole year, it’s really cool to be here and for us to perform and win.” Takaishi gave credit for the win to her entire squad, and not just the five Vikings that competed in the championship. “We’ve had probably three or four lineups throughout the year, so it’s nice to know that everyone on the team contributed to the win. We had players fill in when we had injuries and other issues, and they are just as much a part of this as these five girls,’ Takaishi said. Northern Arizona was picked as the favorite to win the championship in a pre-season poll, and Portland State was predicted to finish fourth. The Viking golf team is the fourth women’s sports team at PSU to win a Big Sky Conference Championship—the most ever in an academic year. The regional site for the women’s golf NCAA postseason will be selected on Monday.

then decide the alignment of a second round of five-player groups. Winners from the first round will then play in four round-robin style matches determined by rankings. The top two players from each round robin will compete in a single-elimination bracket to determine the first-through eighth-place finishers. Rookie team member and graduate student Kunal Patil said he has been training for the Bill Mason Memorial for some time. “I am concentrating on keeping fit and avoiding any injury,” Patil said. “During the practice sessions, I am currently working on my game plan and strategy. The goal is to be fit physically and mentally, with a game-plan ready at hand in order to win in this tournament.” After a disappointing show in the two legs of the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association’s regional tournament earlier this year, where the Portland State club finished last among the five competing colleges, veteran team member Suha Ardhavan believes the team can fight back. “Even though this is a new team, luckily we have some average and strong players. Usually a decent college team has four players in their

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First on the fairways: The Vikings claimed their fifth golf championship in the past eight years.

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3rd place (tie) Portland State 295-296-309 +36, 900

Britney Yada Freshman 71-76-75 +6, 222

6th place (tie)

Stephanie Johns Senior 75-73-78 +10, 226

Tiffany Schoning Sophomore 75-74-77 +10, 226

17th place (tie)

Alexia Brown Junior 74-77-80 +15, 231

Kalyn Dodge Junior 79-73-79 +15, 231

team and an average rating of around 1500—our average is about 1200,” Ardhavan said. “In this tournament, I am expecting some of our players to get to the 1400–1500 level.” When asked if the team would have any tricks up its sleeve, team captain and club president Shubham Chopra said, ”We have been working on our forehand top-spin, so I guess that would be the best part of our game.”

On the other hand, team member Huizi Lian chooses to stay humble and downplay her chances. “I don’t think I will have a great chance to win, but I will definitely do my best,” she said. “The most important thing is to enjoy the game and have fun.” Portland State’s table tennis club practices every Wednesday and Friday from 7–11 p.m. at the Academic and Student Rec Center.

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Bringing back the spin: The Table Tennis club returns to action at the Bill Mason Memorial.

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SPORTS EXTRA

BEAVERS PULL OUT THE BROOMS Oregon State sweeps Vikings in season series James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

Despite taking a 1-0 lead into the top of the seventh inning on Wednesday, the Portland State softball team was unable to close out the game and fell to Oregon State 2-1 in a non-conference game at Erv Lind Stadium. The Vikings, now with a 16-24 overall record this season, fell to the Beavers for the third time this year as a two-RBI single by Oregon State outfielder Ashley Sanchez in the top of the seventh sunk yet another sterling outing by a PSU starting pitcher.

Sophomore pitcher Kendra Suhr started for Portland State on Wednesday—her third start as a Viking, and first this season. Her lack of starts wasn’t obvious, however, as Suhr dominated through five innings of scoreless softball, allowing only one walk and two hits, while setting the tone early by retiring the side in order in the first. “She does a good job of keeping the ball low and getting her ground balls,” said head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk. “She’s been looking really good in practice and we needed to give her some innings so that she’s ready to go when we need her in conference.” Suhr and OSU pitcher Paige Hall traded zeroes for five innings, and neither team allowed a runner past second until the sixth inning. By then, Suhr had exited and senior Tori Rogers had come in as relief for Portland State. The Vikings finally broke through in the bottom of the sixth, as the Beavers blinked first and allowed sophomore leadoff batter Alyssa Roblez to reach first after being hit by a pitch. Hall retired junior pinch hitter Susan Winningham and junior right fielder Brandi Campos before senior second baseman Becca Diede walked to the plate with two out and the runner still on first.

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With one of Portland State’s best hitters and team leader in doubles this season at the plate, Diede quickly turned on a 1-0 pitch from Hall, and knocked a double into deep left-center field that rolled all the way to the wall. “She’s in a zone, she’s feeling good about herself. With hitting, a lot of it is just being confident in herself and she’s on it and knows that no matter what she’s going to have a good bat. She’s in the zone, I hope she stays there,” Echo-Hawk said. The lead would be short lived, however, as the Beavers were quick to jump on Rogers’ offerings and Oregon State tallied two singles before a sacrifice bunt brought the first out of the inning. With Oregon State runners at second and third, outfielder Ashley Sanchez worked Rogers to a full-count before scorching a line drive off the glove of freshman third baseman Carly McEachran. Both runners came around to give the Beavers a 2-1 lead entering the bottom of the seventh inning. Hall returned to the circle for the Beavers to finish the seventh and

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Daily Vanguard: Why did you come to Portland State? Nichole Latham: When I came on my visit I really liked the area and it was different. I’m from southern California, so it was a lot different and not as dry.

DV: Which is your favorite place to eat around campus? NL: Oh gosh…Chipotle. Photo courtesy of PSU Athletics

This weekend in Portland State sports Saturday Sailing club NW Women’s Championships Where: Bellingham, Wash. When: 9 a.m. Disc Golf club Disc Golf for Development Fundraiser Where: Milo McIver State Park When: 10 a.m. Cycling club Conference championship (Road race) Where: Pullman, Wash. When: 10 a.m. Cycling club Conference championship (Team time trial) Where: Moscow, Idaho When: 10 a.m. Softball vs. Idaho State (Doubleheader) Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: Noon Tae Kwon Do club 37th Annual NW Tae Kwon Do Championship Where: Mt. Hood Community College When: TBA

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DV: What is your favorite thing to do around Portland? NL: The Saturday Market is always

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DV: You have a 0.58 earned run average so far in conference in 24 innings. How have you prepared yourself to be as good as you have been so far? NL: I think it was just going in there

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quickly retired the Vikings in order to preserve the come-from-behind victory. Despite losing the close game in the final innings, Echo-Hawk feels that the team remains confident and ready to face conference opponent Idaho State on Saturday. “We played a good game, regardless of whether we won or lost. It was a good game and we can’t just rest on one inning, because they scored their runs in one inning,” Echo-Hawk said. “We all feel pretty positive, we have good energy and we played good and had good pitching… good pitching from someone who hasn’t had a lot of innings.” With Portland State returning to conference action this weekend, Echo-Hawk feels that the team must continue to ride what has been a consistent effort all season long. “[We need to] continue to get better, continue to compete regardless of who we’re playing. That’s something that’s been consistent all year. I think that they’re pretty focused and understand that we control our destiny, and they’re making sure we stay focused and on track,” she said.

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and having confidence in myself and our team, knowing that we’re just going to get it done and just having that drive.

DV: What do you think the rest of the season is going to look like for you, and what are you looking forward to? NL: I’m definitely looking forward to winning our division or the conference and playing the Coastal Division, because they have the teams we battled out with last year. And it will be nice to beat them again, too.

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Dragon boat club St. Martins Dragon Boat Festival Where: Olympia, Wash. When: TBA