Daily Vanguard May 7, 2010

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 104

Event of the day The Oregon Supreme Court will be at PSU today and will be answering questions from the audience. For more info, read yesterday’s article on the Vanguard website.

When: 9 a.m.

Where: SMSU, room 327

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INSIDE OPINION Guest Opinion The best gifts for moms are free PAGE 3

ARTS Back to the Inferno Dante’s Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia DLC should have come on the disc pAgE 5

Hell yeah harissa Spice meets smoke in this flavor-packed paste pAgE 6

Looking for a few key supplements A stellar cast saves Iron Man 2 from its convoluted plot PAGE 7

NEWS Campus construction causes obstructions and disruptions Projects around campus create noise and travel issues for students pAgE 8

SPORTS

Vikings split doubleheader with No. 19 Ducks Portland State has final tune-up before big weekend against Seattle PAGE 10

CPSO uncovered 1.5 lbs of marijuana Vinh Tran Vanguard staff

Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office recently discovered 1.5 pounds of marijuana in a Resident Housing dorm, where they believe several drug transactions might have taken place.

The drugs were found in a room shared by two female students who live in Stephen E. Epler Hall. No arrest has been made since then because CPSO is still investigating the owner of the narcotic. The case is also under review by the district attorney, according to CPSO Chief Michael Soto.

On April 5, at around 5 p.m., the office of University Housing received information from a student about a non-student that had moved into one of the dorms in the building, according to the CPSO report.

University Housing said the reporting student became suspicious when she saw people outside dropping in and out of the dorm.

“She contacted RES Life to report a potential housing contract violation, and advised them about the suspicious activities,” Soto said. “RES Life and CPSO then knocked on the door and…found drug paraphernalia and, quote unquote, [a] bong. ”

DRUGS continued on page eight

$5,000 worth of marijuana found in dorm room

More than a dime: $5,000 worth of marijuana found in a student dorm room.

DACA disbanded Student group dissolved due to unmet eligibility requirements Joe Hannan Vanguard staff

After its long-standing classification as a student group, the former Disability Advocacy Cultural Association has moved out of its office in Smith Memorial Student Union due to lack of members.

The group, which promoted advocacy and provided support for students with disabilities, moved out on April 15 after the remaining group members were informed of its ineligibility to continue operating as a Student Fee Committee-funded group.

Photo courtesy of Portland State University

The small jar in the middle was initially found and a later search revealed the rest.

“To be a student group you must meet criteria set by SALP [Student Activities and Leadership Programs] and Campus Recreation,” said SALP Advisor Marie Schramke.

The criteria to operate as a SFC-funded group—which DACA did not fulfill—includes student interest, which correlates to having at least five students involved to start a group and maintain it. In addition, a group must maintain a record of tenure and activity and must have “three students who are committed to engaging in leadership,” Schramke said.

However, Schramke said that she would work with the group’s former members to help it meet the requirements to start back up again.

Waddah Sofan, the former Outreach Coordinator for DACA, said that he was hired into a leadership

PSU in 18th place at golf regionals Women’s golf completes day one of three at NCAA West Regional PAGE 10

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DACA is done: The student group lost its official recognition and moved out of its office in April.

position for the group, along with other members who had experience running a student group and dealing with matters regarding DACA. DACA leadership, including Sofan, hired themselves to the position rather than going through a SALP-controlled advisory board.

As a result, SALP director Aimee Shattuck decreed the nominations “bogus,” according to Sofan.

In order to hire legitimate leaders for DACA, a new election advisory board was created. Sofan said he believes this was a contributing factor to the group’s discontinuation.

“It took three months for SALP to get this committee together,” he said.

Once the three-month hiatus concluded, the SALP E-board elected new leaders for DACA. Sofan said that the new leaders had no previous experience in running a student group and lacked the knowledge to run a group like DACA. The lack of knowledge on the new leaders’ part caused infringement upon SALP student group policies, according to Sofan. The liaison between DACA and the Disabilities Resource Center was supposed to bring the two entities together in a mutual cooperation of resources and ideas. However, this never happened which contributed to the group’s disbandment, Sofan said.

According to Sofan, other student groups have the ability to choose their own leaders without a SALP election committee.

“I don’t like ambiguity…Some groups get this privilege while others don’t,” he said. “I hope someone will step up and help this group out.”

For more information regarding SALP’s policies, contact Schramke at 503-725-5745 or at schramke@ pdx.edu. SALP’s office is located in 119 SMSU.

University budget enters final stages Budget presented at forum, enrollment growth expected to boost revenue Corie Charnley Vanguard staff

On Wednesday, the University Budget Team presented the 2010–11 budget recommendations during a campus-wide forum.

Audience members were encouraged to ask questions and provide input before the budget goes to the university president for approval. A second forum was also held yesterday.

The forum was one of the last steps in developing the university’s budget for the next fiscal year. On Monday, the president received the preliminary budget proposals from the UBT, which is comprised of Provost and vice president for Academic Affairs Roy Koch, vice president of the Office of Finance and Administration Lindsay Desrochers, budget director Michael Fung from the Budget and Planning Office and Carol Mack, vice provost for Academic Administration and Planning in the Office of Academic Affairs.

Koch and Desrochers led the forum, which presented the UBT’s list of recommended investments and re-investments. According to Koch, the UBT created a set of principles, based on initial input from campus leadership,

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OPINION Editorial A higher standard of excellence

Letters

You’re doing it wrong Part 2 A bit of PSU history Last week, we outlined some problems with the ASPSU election, which has become a broken system in dire need of an overhaul. This week, we offer suggestions in the hope of improving ASPSU and its elections. But citing problems and complaining can only go so far—solutions should be offered and action needs to be taken.

The problem at the forefront of the election is the lack of new blood and, as a result, cronyism. Having someone other than the ASPSU president in charge of election management is one possible solution.

Better yet, why not have a capstone class for political science students which puts them in charge of managing the election? This would offer a unique educational opportunity while bringing neutrality to the system.

Each year our election suffers from an increasing lack of visibility. This year, with so few candidates in the running, some did not even bother to campaign, while others were barred from campaigning at all.

A policy should be established stating that there must be more than one candidate before an election can be held.

Students should never be barred from campaigning. This year, write-in candidates faced the extreme difficulty and unfair disadvantage of being prohibited from campaigning on campus. After a review of the Elections Board bylaws, a rule explicitly stating this prohibition could not be located. Furthermore, if such a rule exists, it is a clear violation of candidates’ First Amendment rights.

Clear election dates and application deadlines need to be set and consistently executed each year. This schedule should include the hiring of an E-Board chair before winter break.

This year, applications for

candidacy were due in the middle of spring break; such timing does not encourage participation. Applications should be due when school is in session, and not when everyone is on vacation and the school is closed.

While its intent was good this year, ASPSU’s small victories were completely overshadowed by office drama.

Members spent a lot of time and energy rallying students for state legislative measures and for a war against the Frohnmayer Report.

If ASPSU’s members can handle a massive voter registration drive and tour classes to inform about state measures, they certainly have the ability to pull off a far better election than what was provided this year.

If the ASPSU president has enough time to rally students to yell at President Wim Wiewel with a megaphone outside his office, he has enough time to organize a decent election.

ASPSU has a tendency to set lofty goals and it seems to forget about all the little things that could be done which students would appreciate more. The food bank, for example, was a good start.

Students would be perfectly happy to get e-mails about something that helps students, like simple food donations.

Blame cannot be placed entirely upon the shoulders of ASPSU; the student government can only do so much. Its efforts will all be completely meaningless if students don’t make the choice to become involved. An organization that really does need the attention and oversight of the student body deserves more than a cold shoulder from the very students for which it works.

Student elections are by no means beyond repair. We hope that next year’s representatives can find the dedication that will bring the elections up to a higher standard of excellence.

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

I was a student at PSU 40yrs ago on May 4, 1970 and found out late in the afternoon coming from a class that four students had been shot dead at Kent State University in Ohio by national guardsmen (inspiring the classic song by Neil Young, “Four Dead in Ohio”) which had been the result of anti-Vietnam war protests there.

The following week became the most dramatic and memorable in PSU history, as the university joined over 400 colleges in the U.S. that shut down in protest of the war and the Kent State shootings and barricaded the campus. On May 11 there was violence right in the Park Blocks in front of Smith Center, as hundreds of Portland Police, led by its two dozen-member riot squad, clubbed and beat PSU students and sent dozens to the hospital. The next day thousands from the PSU and Portland community marched on City Hall to protest the police attack on peaceful protesters.

There was a documentary film made of the events at PSU during the week of May 1970’s protests called “The Seventh Day”, which won second place in the New York Documentary Film Festival that year. It is available on campus and I recommend it as a fascinating piece of PSU history.

—Doug Weiskopf PSU Class of 1970 Worried about teacher As a student at Portland State, I felt I had to bring a matter to your attention. I am referring to Aleksandar Jokic, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy. I considered taking a class from Jokic as a way to satisfy my Junior Cluster requirement and researched him by reading some of his published material available through PSU. What I came across left me speechless. Though I am not a philosophy major, it is still no less appalling that PSU allows a professor with the kind of views that Jokic has to teach courses. Having experienced and seen first-hand the atrocities committed by the Serbian military during my life in Sarajevo, Bosnia, it is nothing less than a slap in the face to attend a supposedly liberal and progressive university here in the US that allows professors with Jokic’s views to actively promote the same sort of

disgusting rhetoric used by known war criminals and monsters such as Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic.

Jokic not only downplays and dismisses the atrocities committed by the Serbian military and paramilitary forces, in his article “A Solution for Kosovo,” he fully advocates for Serbian genocide to be rewarded by the West by allowing the Republika Srpska, a territory within Bosnia that the Serbs ethnically cleansed through genocide, to join Serbia as a way to compensate Serbia for losing the region of Kosovo. I’m not sure how much understanding you have on this topic, but this would be like arguing that Nazi Germany be allowed to keep all of the territory it seized in Europe during WWII as a way to compensate it for losing East Germany to the USSR!!

It is a well-known fact that Serbia’s ethnic cleansings and other war crimes have received condemnation from across the globe. There is wide consensus among nations that crimes committed by Serbian military and paramilitary forces are the worst atrocities committed in Europe since WWII. The International Court of Justice and the United States Congress have deemed Serbia’ s crimes in Bosnia as genocide as well. However, in many of his writings, particularly in the “Unbanality of Genocidalism,” Jokic flat out dismisses that Serbs committed genocide and attributes the “accusations” to supposedly biased western reporters on the ground “taking sides.” As a student who pays tuition to Portland State, it is upsetting beyond words that you can employ a professor with these types of views. Though I understand the need for academic freedom and varying viewpoints at the university, something tells me that a Holocaust-denying professor would not be granted such “freedom.” And that is what Jokic is.

He is denying Europe’ s Holocaust 2.0. The university that allows professors like Jokic to spew and promote the same propaganda that was used by Serbia’s war criminals and led to the extermination or displacement (as is the case for me) of thousands of Bosnians should be ashamed of itself. I know that I am now ashamed to be a part of it.

—Bakir Haveric

Guest Opinion The best gifts for moms are free Sarah Paeth

Daily Barometer staff

I wanted to get my mom something really special for Mother’s Day this year.

So I went through the usual standbys while perusing the aisles at Fred Meyer—bubble bath gel, a bouquet of flowers, cheesy Hallmark card—but nothing seemed worthy of bestowing upon my mother.

Little did I know the perfect gift for my mom was waiting for me at home.

My family had previously made plans for Mom’s Weekend, so instead of staying in Corvallis, I headed home to spend some quality time with my mom.

On Saturday, my mom asked me if I would want to go on a walk with her in the morning. I love to walk and talk with my mom, so I agreed without hesitation. After she had gotten a guaranteed “yes” out of me, my mom turned and said: “Good.

We’re walking 20 miles.”

I wanted to support my mom in training for her marathon, but walking a full 20 miles with her—and only her—gave me an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Walking 20 miles would take most of the day, and I wondered if we’d have enough conversation in us to keep us from getting bored.

Nevertheless, when the sun rose bright and early the next day, I laced up my sneakers and began the trek with my mom.

Our walk went by surprisingly quick. The worries that I’d originally had about not having enough to talk about were soon thrown by the wayside. If we were out of breath, it wasn’t because of the exercise, but because we were both chattering so much.

At mile two, we talked about her old college roommates. At mile six, we’d moved on to talking about breastfeeding in public. By mile 14, we’d decided who should win American Idol.

Our conversations varied from silly to serious, but above all, they were real.

For six hours, it was just my mom and I and whatever we felt

like saying. I couldn’t remember the last time my mom and I had spent such a concentrated amount of time together.

We finished up our walk just as it was beginning to rain, and celebrated by going out to dinner. We were getting ready to pay the bill when I remembered my Mother’s Day gift conundrum. Figuring it would be easier, I decided to just ask her what she wanted. My mom gestured to her worn-out shoes and smiled. “You already gave me my present.”

My Mother’s Day gift to my mom didn’t come wrapped in a package and she didn’t even get it on the real holiday, but those details don’t really matter. Twenty miles with my mom meant more to her than any bouquet of flowers ever could.

Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Before you zip off to the store think about what means the most to her. Sometimes the best gifts are from the heart. *This article originally appeared in the Daily Barometer. It has been edited for brevity.

NA T I ONA L with Richard D. Oxley

Geoffry Ludt was anticipating the change he had heard so much about when Obama was elected president in 2008. A registered Democrat at the time, he was ready for the government to turn from the ways of George W. Bush. But for Ludt, that change never came, and he found that government was never corrected.

So Ludt decided to do something about his disappointment. He founded the Oregon Tea Party.

“The president promised change, and a lot of people want change, but what he’s substantively delivered is an acceleration of the same,” Ludt said. “Many folks are disappointed.”

I thought the country couldn’t have gotten any more divisive after the last Bush administration. However, it seems these days, with the rise of grassroots organizations holding rallies and making headlines, the country couldn’t be more at odds between ideologies.

The Tea Party is one such community of like-minded individuals who have banded together to take on a political system they have lost patience with. On the other end of the spectrum, the Coffee Party has emerged in hopes of spurring civil political dialogue.

Beyond the sensationalism infotainment has focused upon is an entirely different rhetoric from these groups.

Talking with the Tea Party When George W. Bush started rolling out policies such as the infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program, many Americans, including Ludt, felt an uneasiness settling in.

A community formed on Twitter discussing the matter. This online convergence of unsettled citizens was the beginning of the Tea Party.

“Businesses should have been allowed to fail,” Ludt said. “Instead, what happened was that their bad behavior was encouraged through these bailouts…the public sector reached into the private sector and distorted the free market.”

Ludt was one such person who engaged the Twitter community.

After he saw that the government

was not changing, he formed the Oregon Tea Party. He achieved this, in part, with a website, somewhat formatted like a social network, where regional Tea Party groups could form and communicate.

Their online conversations don’t echo the fanaticism many have come to expect. Much of the dialogue seeks to sincerely discuss political issues—generally from a right-wing perspective.

Of the issues facing America today, the Tea Party is founded in combating the relationship between the public and private sectors. The bailouts and eventually the recent healthcare reform are viewed as more socialist moves.

“We can all agree having money flow from the government, to corporations, to lobbyists, to politicians is bad,” Ludt said.

Wake up and stand up After Tea Party protests began, filmmakers and activists Annabel Park and Eric Byler formed the Coffee Party with the “goal of expanding the influence of the people in America’s political arena,” according to its website, which asks people to “wake up and stand up.”

They want to get Americans involved in discussing issues that face the country without sparking angered tirades. There is certainly a sense of support for the democracy and the American government with a desire to work with government to solve America’s problems.

Members meet at their local coffee shops discussing current issues and solutions. Great emphasis is put on welcoming anyone regardless of political affiliation, and without getting into fights.

The Coffee Party loves to organize.

On its website members can find pre-written press releases, flyers for bulletin boards and starter kits for new groups with sample agendas.

There is even a radio blog hosted

by Park that goes over the issues members are talking about. The guests range from book authors, professors and diverse Coffee Party members. If the Coffee Party has any shortcomings, communication is clearly not one of them.

When it comes to the issues, there is a clear division between the parties with the Coffees giving the government the benefit of the doubt.

“TARP is a good question,” said founder Eric Byler. “My guess is that [the Coffee Party] shares the mainstream view it was a necessary evil.”

Left and right and everyone else While both movements invite all citizens to take part, they still boil down to left-wing, right-wing politics. It is quite evident that both the Coffee Party and the Tea Party share members, with some crossover between the groups.

One of Park’s radio shows even interviews a member, Shane Brooks of Waco, Texas, who “drinks both coffee and tea.”

“We have many chapters around the country that have Tea Party members and former Tea Party members,” Byler said. “We welcome them because we believe very strongly that a diversity of opinions and a diversity of backgrounds give rise to the strongest and wisest collective decisions.”

Not coming as any surprise, the Tea Party clearly stems from the right-wing conservative perspective.

Sarah Palin has tried to court the movement, while Glenn Beck is a regular personality among the group.

“Glenn Beck is a communicator,” Ludt said. “A lot of folks I know respect him.”

Such an influence as Beck’s might explain the draw the Tea Party does have with extreme political elements. It is difficult to deny that many who have attended Tea Party events around the nation have brought with them fanatical ideas and bigotry. Signs such as “Congress=slave owner, tax payer=niggar” or large pictures depicting Obama violently cutting the throat of Uncle Sam have marched in the movement.

Other expressions liken President Obama to primitive African tribesmen, socialists or even Hitler. Some Tea Partiers interviewed at rallies intermix deep religious convictions with the movement, with some even claiming Obama is the anti-Christ.

It is easy to see the Oregon Tea Party has put forth a civil front with little or no such extremist manifestations.

“I don’t know a racist Tea Party member, but I do know one local activist that tried to subvert

The Grammar Grouch

by Robert Seitzinger Commas Commas are a handy device for inserting pauses in your text. A Portland State Clown College Bozo, however, often overuses commas and makes a page look as though an upended peppershaker spilled all over the text.

Sometimes, a comma separates a transitional word from the sentence itself. You’ll notice the previous sentence did just that—the Grouch knows a “Bozo see, Bozo do” teaching style will be more effective than actual explanations.

The

Would you like tea or coffee with your politics?

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the movement by encouraging widespread infiltration of the events to assist the ‘racist’ narrative,” Ludt said, speaking about Jason Levin, who started a website called “Crash the Tea Party” that encouraged people to crash events. Levin himself planned to attend events dressed as Hitler.

Despite the initial motivations for the Tea Party, this fanatical perception has been dominant—and for good reason. The Tea Party intentionally doesn’t have any clear leadership or highly developed organization. This leaves it open for anyone to jump on board and bring with them whatever principles they wish to promote, for better or for worse.

The Tea Party may have begun with a specific intent, but an entirely different platform may be the result, one that panders to the extreme.

The Coffee Party has drifted in the opposite direction—left—whether intentionally or because the Tea Party has taken all the room on the right.

“We certainly are to the left of the arbitrary line that the Tea Party and its funders/publicists have drawn. But then again, so is about 90 percent of America,” Byler said.

Despite the well-meaning members of the Tea Party, if extremists take over the message, the Coffee Party may find its civil-centered camp growing.

Whichever way people choose to lean, one notion is clear—Americans are yearning for an overhaul in their government.

The most frustrating use of commas, is when you see one used as it was in this sentence.

That comma in no way needs to be there. While some of us listened in kindergarten writing classes and heard that commas are used to separate clauses, future Bozos were busy passing notes or playing with pogs and will randomly set commas between ideas, then wonder why they earned poor marks.

Life is a constant struggle for the Bozos.

Another use, and a use that you’ll notice if, since I assume you have already read them, you reread a Harry Potter novel is how regularly J.K. Rowling, who is certainly a respectable author, albeit with fault in regards to her comma enthusiasm, likes to use what I call hook-and-string sentences. The previous sentence is an example of trying to mash a lot of thoughts into a single sentence, using commas to punctuate the introduction of them all just to make one or two points. The commas serve as “hooks” to divert your attention, with the ending clause drawing a “string” through those hooks and bringing those thoughts come together to form the point.

I’m sure most Bozos stopped reading when that sentence overloaded them. For those who could actually follow along, do your best to only use several commas if your writing is well-organized enough to pull off hook-and-string usage. Otherwise, stop ruining your writing with unnecessary commas and separate yourself from the Bozos.

Vanguard 4 |4Opinion | News February January Month May Day, 23, 13, 7, 2009 2010

On this day in history 1789 In New York City, the first Inaugural Ball is held for President George Washington.

1824 Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony debuts in Vienna. It rocked!

1912 Established by Joseph Pulitzer, Colombia University approves a plan to award prizes in various categories.

I wonder what they called it.

1913 The House of Commons in England rejects a woman’s right to vote.

1914 The U.S. congress institutes Mother’s Day. 1915 The Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine, killing 1,198 people.

1940 Winston Churchill becomes the Prime Minister of Britain.

1942 In Lithuania, Nazis command that all pregnant Jewish women of the Kovno Ghetto are to be executed.

1945 Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender Germany to the Allies.

1946 The inauguration of William H. Hastie, the first black governor of the Virgin Islands.

Racially suspicious Arizona wants to make neighborhoods safe… from ethnicity Natalia Grozina Vanguard staff

Arizona governor Jan Brewer is the latest politician to pass through a pathetic substitution for immigration reform. On April 23, Brewer signed SB 1070 into Arizona State law.

The law, titled “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” is perhaps the most simple-minded piece of legislation attempting to solve a complex problem in recent memory.

The bill has been met with fierce opposition, and justly so. Despite some of the questionable provisions of this law, to be sure, it can join the ranks of Brewer’s history of ridiculous legislation including, but not limited to, allowing concealed guns inside of bars. Don’t forget that SB 1070 acts on the premise of safe neighborhoods.

The law allows police officers to question people about their immigration status and to request to see their papers only on “reasonable suspicion.” A mere requirement of reasonable suspicion may sound like a recipe for blatant racial profiling to your average sensible American, but thankfully, Brewer has cleared this up for the public. Brewer claims to have personally worked to incorporate new aspects of the bill, specifically language that would prohibit officers from using race or national origins alone when acting within this law.

It is unclear exactly what, then, would inform a reasonable suspicion, but we can all breathe a little more easily knowing that the likes of John McCain, the epitome of white, might well be requested to prove he is authorized to be in the U.S. (just kidding John, you look like you could be in a commercial for a life insurance policy, not an illegal immigrant). It is time to out

1966 The Mamas and the Papas get a number-one hit with “Monday Monday.”

1975 President Ford declares an end to the “Vietnam era.”

mismanagement of resources?

Shouldn’t our officers be investigating the illegal activities themselves? The answer should be yes.

Officers should be tackling actual crime—which is why previous legislation allowed for officers to request proof of authorization only if a suspected illegal immigrant was violating some other crime.

Furthermore, the law-abiding hardworking immigrants that are unauthorized are already fearful of the vengeful eyes of Narcos (drug-traffickers) and Coyotes (human-traffickers).

It is unlikely that SB 1070 will encourage good-willed illegal immigrants’ cooperation with law enforcement in bringing down suspected drug and human traffickers. It will only add the fear of deportation to a community that

has been alienated on both sides of the border.

It has been suggested that every legal immigrant in the state of Arizona should show up on Jan Brewer’s doorstep to prove they are authorized to be in the U.S., and why should we not be promoters of this idea?

After all, she has suggested to the rest of the country that mismanaging precious time and resources is a prized value in Arizona. Is Oregon next? The good people of that state should not let police officers have the blood on their hands when all they are trying to do is their job. Shouldn’t Brewer herself take on that position since it is of such vital importance to her?

Illustration by Kira Meyrick/Portland State Vanguard

Truth of the Matter Conflicting reports surround fatal bus accident Patrick Guild Vanguard staff

Letters to the editor are gladly accepted and should be no longer than 300 words in length. Submissions may be edited for brevity and vulgarity.

E-mail letters to opinion@ dailyvanguard.com.

the purple elephant in the room: Conservative folks. We all know this law is about Mexicans, particularly the illegal immigrants that make up about 10 percent of your labor force, working the jobs that you won’t. You can be honest—just embrace your subtle racism.

The most absurd element of the legislation, besides the unashamed racial profiling at work that borders on discrimination, is that it is detrimental to the cause it espouses to advance. The alleged interest of the bill is that it will help to curb illegal activities perpetrated by illegal immigrants, such as drug trafficking and human trafficking. But if police officers are busy questioning average Hispanic individuals—who make up roughly 29.1 percent of Arizona’s population—isn’t there a basic

No puns this time, no gimmicks.

The tragedy that ended with the death of two women just before midnight on April 24 is still too fresh and too horrifying as more details are released. Spokespersons and officials within TriMet are offering murky facts, but a picture of what happened that night is beginning to form, and TriMet is in trouble.

A group of five family members and friends left Harvey’s Comedy Club in northwest Portland around midnight and began to walk towards their car, just one block away. The streets were busy as dozens of other Harvey’s patrons poured out of the club.

At this same moment, TriMet No. 9 bus driver, Sandi L. Day, dropped off a passenger at the corner of Northwest Glisan and Broadway. She turned left to drive down Broadway and plowed into the group of five, killing Jenee Hammel and Daniellle Sale and seriously injuring Robert E. Gittings. The

three were pinned under the bus in full view of 30 or more eyewitnesses and the two injured, but alive, members of their party. The facts are still being evaluated, but here’s what we do know.

Day had a green light and the pedestrians had a walk signal. That’s the one fact that is certain. Every other detail has a conflicting report that raises more questions. TriMet initially denied that there was anyone on the bus. But witnesses and a security camera show a man exiting seconds before the accident.

One of TriMet’s spokespersons maintained that the bus was empty at the time of the accident and that she didn’t find out about the other rider until Thursday. But TriMet officials said they were aware of the mystery rider from Day’s initial report. The entire accident was also caught on tape by an onboard camera, but the footage still remains in police possession during the investigation.

The stop where the man exited isn’t on the No. 9 route. It serves Line 17. This raises a whole host of questions. Day was definitely driving an out-of-service bus. There are reports that she was ending her shift and going back to the garage before going home. But Becki Witt, another

TriMet spokeswoman, said that Day was coming off a break and was on her way to start a new trip. Which was it? Was Day working a double shift? If so, fatigue could be a factor and the recent budget and personnel cuts would have to be scrutinized.

Police also say that if the reports are true, Day made an illegal left turn. I went to the corner of Northwest Glisan and Broadway to check, but anyone can use Google maps and see what I’m talking about. The bus stop is on the far-right side of a two-lane, one-way street. It is also right at the corner of the intersection, obviously meant for a bus going straight across Broadway. Day had to have made an extremely sharp turn across two lanes of traffic to hit the victims.

Police say that it constitutes an illegal turn. Day could have been checking her left for any traffic in the lane she cut across, or down Broadway for any cars she would cut off. Whatever happened, she clearly wasn’t looking forward or she would have seen the five pedestrians. She must have also been going fairly fast as one of the victims was trapped under the rear wheel of the 17-ton bus.

Day’s union boss, Jonathan Hunt of the Amalgamated Transit Union 757, told The Oregonian

that Day still seems in shock and is offering conflicting reports on the details of the accident. Hunt himself offers a conflicting report regarding the safety of the bus model Day was driving, indicating that it was a new series of bus with untested blind spots. TriMet officials disagreed, stating that the bus was in operation since 2001.

TriMet claims that it has been involved in 29 fatal accidents involving a bus, not including the two deaths on April 24. The latest fatality occurred in February 2008 when a driver killed a 15 year-old biker on Southwest Farmington.

It’s not a perfect record, but TriMet is far from the worst. Last year, Transportation for America, a transit think tank, named Portland one of the top ten safest cities for pedestrians. The driver, Sandi Day, has been with TriMet since 2007 and had a spotless driving record and recently won a commendation.

It’s hard to say what really happened that night as conflicting reports are released. What is clear is that this was a terrible accident that both parties will be dealing with for the rest of their lives. My prayers go out to both the survivors and driver.

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Vanguard Arts & Culture | 5 May 7, 2010

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

Back to the Inferno

All photos courtesy of Electronic Arts

Dante’s Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia DLC should have come on the disc Steve Haske Vanguard staff

When it comes to Dante’s Inferno, EA developer Visceral Games can’t seem to catch a break. First its ridiculous, blood-soaked adaptation of Alighieri’s epic poem is released to fair-to-middlin’ reviews, only to be completely overshadowed a month later (and rightly so) by the colossus that was Sony’s God of War III. Yet Visceral kept right on putting out downloadable content for Inferno—giving Dante silly new costumes, adding additional levels and other mostly forgettable things that made gamers wonder (if they even cared) why they were even being forced to pay for this stuff instead of just, say, unlocking it by beating the game.

Now it’s come to a head, so to speak, with EA’s biggest batch of DLC yet—The Trials of St. Lucia.

Visceral makes sure we’re aware of who St. Lucia is before we get to play this new content that’s more or less starring her—she became the patron saint of the blind after refusing to marry a pagan suitor, which resulted in her untimely death and the eventual removal of her eyes.

She also had a bit part in the Inferno. It doesn’t really matter, though, because The Trials of St. Lucia isn’t story-based. It’s just a combat arena that throws wave after wave of enemies to you. To the developer’s credit, Lucia herself does have some different moves (like the ability to fly) and plays slightly differently than Dante.

There are 12 different levels where the bloodletting of enemies can take place. It adds two-player functionality (within the mode) so you and a friend can team up as Dante and Lucia and kick ass for the righteous, or something. The modes vary, so sometimes you may have to kill enemies quickly or while your health is being depleted.

EA even included some challenges from the team at Visceral themselves, although these can’t be played single-player.

But the main draw of the Trials is that you can create your own with an included level editor. All these features may sound like a good deal for $10, but, well, it’s easy for things to sound good on paper.

The thing is, the level editor is really, really basic. There are a lot of options to choose from in terms of difficulty, setting, characters to play as (single or two-player), numbers of enemy waves and parameters to beat each wave, but when you actually get down to creating the level, you’ll find your options are pretty limited.

There’s a range of enemies to choose from, as well as traps and restorative items to place, but you’ve got a strict budget of points to spend—the developers didn’t want you to put so much stuff in that it crashes the game—and the cheapest enemy cost isn’t really that cheap. You can throw up to five in a single designated space, but if you do so, don’t expect to have the budget for much more than a couple of straggler enemies on the side.

It would be one thing if you could program sub-waves in a single set (to spawn after defeating

some of the initial ones), giving the illusion that there are more enemies attacking you at once, but that’s not the case. As it stands, even the most potentially interesting challenges are severely limited by enemy numbers, and when you’re dealing exclusively with combat, that’s a major letdown.

Unless you’re a diehard fan of the game and want to nerd out by making your own combat challenges (which you can share online) I would suggest saving your $10. At least, though, you can play through challenges that other people have made.

But honestly, Visceral should just stick to Dead Space. They’re much better at it.

Dante’s Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia EA PSN, XBLA $9.99

St. Johns hosts art, beer and music this Saturday Bianca Blankenship Vanguard staff

We can only hope that the sun is on its way soon—never mind the hail and bitter cold that hit Portland over the past week. If the sun can peek its head through the clouds this weekend, then it will be more than worthwhile to venture outside for the St. Johns Bizarre and Parade on Saturday.

With the parade now in its 48th year, this event has come to also include a street fair, which features local arts and crafts vendors, live local music, food and a beer garden. Throw in some unusual activities like dodge ball and a corn hole toss, and it makes for a fun and creative event.

The stars of the St. Johns Bizarre this year are the local arts and crafts vendors. There will be over 70 of these vendors at the market showing a wide variety of

goods. Many businesses are fairly new, like Sunup Jewelry, which opened a booth at the Saturday Market just last year.

The bazaar hosts a wide selection of items, from art cards and paintings to practical items like beer cozies and bike trouser clips. Simply Sine creates intricate paper shadow-boxes that run for a reasonable price, while Kiva Studio assembles jewelry and art from salvaged materials. A number of unique ideas make up the bazaar.

Unlike the arts and crafts at most festivals, these aren’t all so high in cost. This year the Bizarre Bargain was created for the event, encouraging businesses to offer bargains only available during the bazaar. That suggests plenty of good deals, so even the low-budget art snob might find something they love.

The street fair isn’t just about arts and crafts, though. There’s also plenty of live local music to see for free and a beer garden to wade through. Portland indie rock band Explode Into Colors, known for its high-energy shows,

The Days The Nights, Water and Bodies, Diamond Liars, Asphalt Thieves Ash St. Saloon, 9:30 p.m., $5, 21+ Tarlton, Billy Goat Slow Skate Backspace, 8 p.m., $5, 21+ Best New Band Showcase: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Typhoon, Deelay Ceelay Berbati’s Pan, 9 p.m., free, 21+ Two Door Cinema Club, Hello Morning Doug Fir, 9 p.m., $10, 21+ Howie and the Hot Knives, Broken Bodies, 8 Foot Tender Duckett’s, 9 p.m., free, 21+ The Ponys, Disappears, Meth Teeth Hawthorne Theater, 7 p.m., $9, all ages

A Baz aar for the Bizar re headlines the stage at 4 p.m. The bands preceding Explode Into Colors supply a mostly mellow mixture of rock, country and bluegrass. Music will start at 10 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m.

Local horticulturalists have helped to design the beer garden, which will serve beers from Full Sail, Lompoc, Ninkasi and Silver Moon.

The theme for this year’s parade is “Through a Child’s Eyes.”

Those involved in the parade can interpret that however they’d like.

It’s a hokey, old-fashioned affair that’ll get everyone in touch with their sense of good ol’ Americana.

The St. Johns Parade Committee organizes the parade. The St. Johns Bizarre Supreme Council has been hosting the adjoining bazaar for four years now. The bazaar will run all day, with the parade kicking into gear at noon.

In addition to arts and crafts, some businesses will be at the bazaar for community outreach.

Port of Portland and Supportland are a few that will offer support

Big, fat list of shows: Friday’s live music lineup

both for businesses and individuals seeking career advice.

The Oregon Humane Society will also host a booth, undoubtedly accompanied by painfully adorable kittens and puppies.

St. Johns Parade and Bizarre N. Lombard St. and N. Burr Ave. Saturday Bizarre: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Parade: 12 p.m.

Free All ages

All photos courtesy of Posy Quarterman/Photoposy.com

The Greater Midwest, Pine Language The Knife Shop, 10 p.m., $5, 21+ The Besnard Lakes, Julie Doiron, Hollerado Mississippi Studios, 9 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door, 21+ Youthbitch, Beyond Veronica, Midnight Callers The Parlour, 7 p.m., $5, all ages Quiet Contries, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Jatun, We’re From Japan Rotture, 9 p.m., $7, 21+ Girlyman, Coyote Grace The Woods, 9 p.m., $15, 21+

Harissa Bloody Mary Vanguard 6 | Arts & Culture May 7, 2010

Ingredients 6 cups of R.W. Knudsen Family Very Veggie juice (or any other low-sodium tomato juice) 3 tablespoons of harissa paste 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes 3 grinds of black pepper 2 tablespoons of horseradish 4 ounces of gin or vodka The juice from one big lemon or two Meyer lemons Several shakes of Worchester 1 tablespoon of salt Celery sticks, green bean or asparagus for garnish Ice

What’s up with dairy goats?

Goat milk is used for drinking, cooking and baking. It is used to make cheese, butter, ice cream, yogurt, candy, soap and other body products.

Goat milk is whiter than whole cow milk.

Butter and cheese made from goat milk are white, but may be colored during processing. Due to its small fat globules and soft small curd, products made with goat milk are smooth and cream-like.

Goat milk is also naturally emulsified.

Chevre is the French word for goat.

Domestically, it is a generic term that applies to all goat cheeses, and more specifically to the mild fresh cheeses.

The three fatty acids which give goat products their distinctive flavor are capric, caprylic and caproic.

Goat milk tends to have a better buffering quality, which is good for the treatment of ulcers.

Goat milk can successfully replace cow milk in diets of those who are allergic to cow milk.

Dairy goats have fastidious eating habits and are particular about the cleanliness of their food. Their natural curiosity may lead them to investigate newly found items by sniffing and nibbling, but they quickly refuse anything that is dirty or distasteful.

Dairy goats will graze grass pastures, but prefer to browse brushlands and a varied selection of pasture plants, including non-noxious weeds. Dairy goats seldom thrive when tethered. They may be kept in a dry lot if fed adequate roughage and allowed shade and space for exercise. Dairy goats are curious and agile and require well-built fences for containment and protection from predators.

Potential for excellence Gracie and the Atom’s cookie-cutter characters don’t make the cut Natalie McClintock Vanguard staff

When it comes to new productions, there are three kinds of shows: those that rock on their first staging, those that are so-so and those that flop. Gracie and the Atom, the new musical at the Artists Repertory Theatre, is so-so. Luckily, there is some potential for greatness.

Gracie (Beth Sobo), the recently orphaned main character of the production, is shipped off to Catholic school after her fatally curious father was struck by lightning in an ill-fated science experiment. She finds there the choice between science and religion, one of which she loves from the get-go and the other which she is extremely skeptical about. Gracie also spends her time trying to locate her mother, who ran off very early in her life.

The all-girls school is chock-full of stereotypical high school characters and run by the classically overbearing Sister Francis (Mary Baird). Sister Lidwina, played

by Emily Beleele, is refreshingly original as a nun who is in love with physics, and her clever yet easily understandable science-y wisecracks are the highlight of the night.

This play is clearly not one for those who are greatly offended by atheism—Christianity is the butt of many jokes throughout the night, and most of the show covers the battle between religion and science for the main character, with the former clearly losing ground. Sister Francis, as possibly the most religious character, is strict and demanding and clearly a cookie-cutter villain; her change of heart (and the culmination of some of the play’s conflict) seems out of place and almost too simple.

The writer of the show is the Portland artist Christine McKinley, who is better known locally for her membership in the band Dirty Martini. She wrote most of the show’s songs before the script was conceived, which is always a problem when it comes to musicals. The songs seemed somewhat forced into the script, giving the audience the impression that they are watching a musical version of an overflowing shopping bag; the songs are, however, very well written and well performed, and the viewer may leave humming one of the tunes.

Potential is not something every show has, but this one has it in spades. The music is fantastic, the characters are well cast, and the story is quite good. It can’t be said that the show doesn’t have heart, or that it doesn’t hit a soft spot in the audience’s heart. But with so many big-ticket issues floating around, it’s hard to give the characters as much attention as they deserve, thus making them feel a bit like cardboard cutouts. Though it is easy to get attached to Gracie and Sister Lidwina, the other characters are so bland that they are hard to relate to.

With fabulous music and a great cast, Gracie and the Atom is on its way to becoming a hit show, but it seems to have overlooked character development along the way. A little elbow grease and some time spent on making the stereotypes into something more would give the show everything it needs to make it to the top.

Gracie and the Atom Artist Repertory Theater 1515 SW Morrison St Wed–Sat, 7:30 p.m.

Sun, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Closes May 30 $20 for students, $25–$47 general

Goat milk has a more easily digestible fat and protein content than cow milk. The increased digestibility of protein is of importance to infant diets (both human and animal), as well as to invalid and convalescent diets. Furthermore, glycerol ethers are much higher in goat than in cow milk, which appears to be important for the nutrition of the nursing newborn.

Method Add ice to pitcher, filling up about

Photo courtesy of Sky Stew Art

HELL YEAH

HARISSA Spice meets smoke in this flavor-packed paste Katherine Vetrano Vanguard staff

Sometimes red pepper flakes or a shake of Tapatio just won’t cut it. When the meal you’re cooking is lacking that extra somethin’ somethin’, consider reaching for harissa paste.

Found in North African cuisine in regions like Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, this paste most often consists of chilies, garlic, caraway and coriander. The brick-colored condiment has been used traditionally to top couscous and to slather over chicken, goat, lamb and other meats. Harissa varies from brand to brand, ranging from mild spiciness to “ouch my tongue” heat. Each tube runs from around $3–$6, which is a fine investment considering its extremely long shelf life.

Harissa doesn’t just offer kick, but it also adds a nice level of smokiness that can really deepen the flavor profile of classic tomato-based dishes. Some cooks choose to make their own homemade harissa by soaking chilies and then blending them with toasted spices in a coffee or spice grinder.

If your schedule isn’t roomy enough for a homemade condiment adventure, fear not.

For the time-crunched home cook, harissa is just as far as your best well-stocked grocery store. Both Whole Foods and New Seasons offer harissa in tube form, which will last in your fridge for months.

Try making the following harissa-laced recipes for your next brunch to explore this new ingredient and to update old favorites.

halfway. Fill with gin or vodka. Add tomato juice and stir with large spoon. Stir in harissa, tasting along the way to fit your heat preferences.

Add peppers, horseradish, lemon juice, Worchester and salt. Pour into ice-filled glasses and garnish with celery, asparagus or green bean.

Serves four.

Soft Scrambled Eggs With Harissa and Goat Cheese Ingredients 5 medium to large eggs 2 tablespoons half-and-half or cream 2 tablespoons of butter 2 tablespoons of olive oil 3 tablespoons of Harissa 1 tablespoon of goat cheese crumbles or feta salt pepper

Method Whisk eggs in a bowl with salt and pepper. Add cream or half-and-half and whisk more until there is an even yellow color.

Add butter to a medium skillet, preferably nonstick. Add butter, and when it is hot add the eggs to the pan.

Cook, stirring often and scraping the eggs from the outer edges of the pan into the center with a spatula.

As eggs begin to form lumps and are soft, remove from heat. Add goat cheese and stir, letting the cheese melt slightly.

In a separate bowl, add olive oil and harissa. Whisk until no lumps remain. Drizzle the mixture over the finished eggs and enjoy. Serves two.

Photo courtesy of Mararie

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All photos courtesy of Owen Carey/Artist Repertory Theatre

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Vanguard Arts & Culture | 7 May 7, 2010

Looking for a few key supplements A stellar cast saves Iron Man 2 from its convoluted plot Sarah Esterman Vanguard staff

Images courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Oh hi ScarJo: Let’s hope that since she’s been so busy promoting Iron Man 2, ol’ Scarlet hasn’t had time to get back into the studio and butcher anymore Tom Waits songs.

There is not much to like about Marvel’s made-up billionaire inventor Tony Stark. He is a rude and obnoxious womanizer, and has yet to realize that the universe does not revolve around him.

After traveling to the Regal Cinemas at Bridgeport in Tualatin to see Iron Man 2—an adventure that took more time for transportation than the movie was long—Stark was not really the ideal protagonist for me to spend two hours of my time with.

That said—fatal personality flaws aside—besides his one-liners and brilliant wit, there is one thing that redeems Stark in my mind and most likely everyone else’s: The gorgeousness that is Robert Downey, Jr. With wisecracks pulled off just so and the attitude of a proud playboy, Downey portrays the haughty billionaire to perfection.

The plot, however, is cause for some confusion. Stark’s heart is failing rapidly and his condition has been intensified by the use of the Iron Man suit. He is faced with the task of finding a way to save his own life, while trying to keep his suit out of the hands of the U.S. Senate.

Meanwhile, for reasons that remain fuzzy, a Russian man named Ivan Vanko wants Stark dead. And that’s not all. Justin Hammer, out to destroy the Stark legacy, is thrown into the mix, which has disastrous consequences (i.e., he empowers Vanko to have access to technology that he otherwise wouldn’t have had).

There is a lot going on story-wise in this film, and that’s exactly the problem. With so many pieces to the puzzle—even more than I mentioned—the film ends up being on the jumpy side. The transitions aren’t as smooth as they should be, and the viewer isn’t quite sure what pieces of information to latch onto.

A lot of the film appears to have been written to incorporate as much action as possible, and that is definitely part of the problem.

It seems that screenwriter Justin

This weekend at the NW Film Center Theroux asked, on more than one occasion, why show people having a disagreement when you can show people beating the tar out of each other and destroying everything around them in the process?

Ultimately, the fantastic cast saves the film. Downey somehow manages to make Tony Stark a likeable protagonist (if we didn’t like him, why would we root for him?). Gwyneth Paltrow joins him to reprise her role as Pepper Potts, Stark’s endlessly patient love interest and devoted employee.

Don Cheadle gets more time to shine as Rhodey, his long-time friend-turned-sidekick. Sam Rockwell, who is able to pull off the desperate wannabe-Stark nerd, plays Justin Hammer. Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson even make appearances—and are as wonderful as they usually are, with Johansson playing a sexy secret spy and Jackson a one-eyed mystery man—as they help Stark discover how to find the cure to his condition.

But it is Mickey Rourke’s appearance in the film that has been most talked about as of late. Starring as Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash, Rourke successfully downplays the rage of the villain who is avenging the perceived injustice against his deceased father.

Watching Rourke’s stellar performance as the Russian physicist, it is easy to forget that his is the least developed character as far as the story line goes. He is smart, pulls off more than a few one-liners, and is deliciously evil in the way that all villains ought to be—though, admittedly Stark, aka Iron Man, is able to defeat him much too easily.

When it comes down to it, though, the crew of magnificent actors doesn’t quite make up for the choppy plot.

Because of this, Iron Man 2 is less of a powerful sequel and more of an acceptable second chapter.

Iron Man 2 Directed by Jon Favreau Now playing

Ward No. 6 Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia 2009 “A bold, modern updating of Chekhov’s story, Ward No.6 is based on an actual incident, in which the director of a mental ward winds up becoming a patient on that very ward. The gradual estrangement of Dr. Andrey Ragin was used by Chekhov as a metaphor for a man’s disappointment with the promises of science; in Karen Shakhnazarov’s version (based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexandr Borodyansky), that disappointment might be read as an increasing loss of faith in the nation’s future. Shot in a real asylum in a vibrant, documentary-like style, the film was made in record time (only four weeks), and has gone on to be a major box office and critical hit in Russia and was this year’s Russian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.”

Saturday, 7 p.m. and Sunday, 5 p.m.

The Art of Collaboration: Harry Dawson and Bill Viola “Portland filmmaker Harry Dawson has been making his own works for four decades and working as a cinematographer for others for almost as long. One of his most intriguing collaborations as a director of photography has been with internationally celebrated video artist Bill Viola, whose Quintete of the Atonished (2000), currently on view in the Portland Art Museum exhibition Disquieted, marries new technology image making with old master iconography.

Today, Dawson will discuss his innovative, complex work with Viola, a two-decade association that in addition to this piece, has yielded works ranging from a 3 1/2-hour, 35”x70”, silent film ‘backdrop’ for the Paris Opera’s production of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ (2005), to Going Forth

by Day (2002), which references fresco painting to create a powerful five-part projection-based installation that examines cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.”

Sunday, 2 p.m.

All screenings are in Whitsell Auditorium, 1218 SW Park Ave. Free with PSU student ID. —nwfilm.org All photos courtesy of Paramount Pictures

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

Students honored with Hispanic Chamber scholarships

NEWS Campus construction causes obstructions and disruptions

Four Portland State students and one high school senior, who will enroll at PSU in the fall, have recently been awarded scholarships by the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber and local businesses.

The Hispanic Chamber, which represents the Latino business community in Oregon, awarded over $109,000 in scholarships at the Oregon Convention Center this week, according to a press release.

–pdx.edu/news

policy when it comes to drug use on campus, including the use of medical marijuana, Clark said.

The policy applies to Resident Housing as well.

“The university position, which is upheld by the court, is that since we’re an educational institution, even if you have a medical marijuana card, you cannot use it anywhere on campus, including housing,” Clark said.

Since the incident occurred, the roommate was found to have violated the contract and was asked to leave on April 12, according to Cory Ray, the director of Residence Life.

“This amount is more than what we usually find, which is less than an ounce,” Ray said.

According to Soto, his officers usually find less than an ounce of marijuana in most cases. A large number of which involve non-students who come to the university to use the facility.

“Their drug of preference is heroin,” Soto said. “We received a call from someone and we came in the bathroom and found a guy with a needle stuck in his vein.”

Soto said his officers receive regular calls from University Housing—about two to three times a week—about the smell of burnt marijuana coming from the dorms. In looking at the statistics, however, the trend for Resident Housing drug-related violations has decreased over the years.

In 2007, 83 out of 93 total drug law violations on campus came from Resident Housing. In 2008, that

number was 50 out of 58 total drug law violations.

Natalee Webb, interim assistant of the Dean of Students, said her office was made aware of the incident from CPSO. Webb said her office usually sends a letter to the students requesting a meeting, which helps her determine whether they have violated a university policy that may be grounds for expulsion from the school or require sanctions.

Webb declined to disclose whether the roommate who is associated with the non-student violated the school policy that may affect her status as a student at PSU. According to Webb, each case she deals with is different and a lot depends upon her conversation with the student; there isn’t an automatic process for academic sanctions.

“The student will get the opportunity to read the information presented against them and they can share their side of the story with me,” she said.

Currently, CPSO is still investigating the case to determine the owner of the drugs. The district attorney is also reviewing the case, Soto said.

Clark said the amount of drugs involved in this case is quite substantial, and that the outcome of the case will depend on the offense level and whether or not the female student has had any involvement in dealing drugs. Clark’s office may not be able to represent the student in court.

Two potential charges include possession and distribution of a controlled substance, Soto said.

Catrice Stanley Vanguard staff

Over 40 students received scholarships.

The universities and colleges the students attend matched the scholarship money that was donated by business and civic groups.

According to the press release, PSU’s winners are: -Natalie Caceres, who received $1,000 each from KUNP-TV Univision and Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield -Karina Espana, who received $3,500 from Latino Leadership -Julieta Georgeades, who received $1,500 from the Hispanic Chamber and $1,000 from Portland Latino Gay Pride -Maria Leija Briones, who received $1,000 from Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, $1,000 from Kranovich & Lucero, $500 from COAT Flagging and $500 from the Hispanic Chamber -Eric Isiodoria, a senior at Woodburn High School, received $1,000 from State Farm Insurance and $500 from the Hispanic Chamber The Hispanic Chamber has provided a “vital forum for the Hispanic business community to share ideas, concerns and successes,” according to its website.

For more information, visit www. hmccoregon.com.

Students that try to make their way from one end of the Park Blocks to the other will undoubtedly notice the numerous construction projects, blocked off by fences draped in green tarps. These blockages, which are often moved around, create travel inconveniences for many students.

Tarp-covered fences recently went up around Science Building 2 on Montgomery Street, where work is being done to revamp and expand the labs and create a new hazardous waste handling facility, according to Mark Fujii, project manager of Facilities and Planning.

Students have had mixed reactions to the noise and inconveniences that come hand-in-hand with remodeling.

Nate Albrecht, 26, a postbaccalaureate student, spends quite a bit of time in Science Building 2 for his pre-med degree.

It has not only been hard to get to class because of the outdoor construction, but also a nuisance to get around once inside, according to Albrecht.

“With chemistry lab, it’s a pain.

We have to go to the third floor to get ice and there are always people around,” Albrecht said.

He also commented on the noise factor, stating that it has been very hard to concentrate in many of his classes.

“It’s actually super annoying,” Albrecht said.

Other construction projects include the continued work on Lincoln Hall, as well as work on the Millar Library and the work on the water heating and cooling systems extending from the library across the South Park Blocks to Shattuck Hall.

A posting on the library’s blog states that construction noise and vibrations are expected to increase in the library in the coming months.

“Getting into and around the library will also become more challenging with the area between Stott and Millar being inaccessible,” it states.

For junior Jared Jones, 22, having to find new routes to class is not a problem. In fact, he kind of enjoys it.

“Sure, I have to walk a few blocks out of the way, but overall it’s not too bad,” Jones said. “I can use the exercise. It makes it fun.”

The only real problem Jones has encountered with the construction is the noise during class time.

“It can be really loud during class…but it needs to happen, so I don’t mind,” Jones said.

Projects around campus create noise and travel issues for students

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Fighting fences: Students regularly have to find new ways around construction.

DRUGS |

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Marijuana busts common, but drug violations are down Soto said the non-student, who was the boyfriend of one of the roommates occupying the dorm room, gave up the paraphernalia to CPSO to be destroyed. There was an insignificant amount of drugs in the paraphernalia, and therefore they were only written up for a violation.

Officers did a quick search of the apartment and no other drugs were found in the room at the time.

On April 7, RES Life contacted CPSO again with new information that the non-student was selling marijuana out of the dorm and was in possession of a large quantity of drugs—an amount they believed to be close to two pounds.

CPSO and RES Life returned to the dorm, where the officers smelled burnt marijuana from the outside, as well as on the male who answered the door, Soto said.

“We asked him if he had any drugs,” Soto said. “He said yes and showed us a jar, which is less than an ounce…Officers then asked the other roommate if they could search the room, at which point she started opening drawers and we found the rest of the marijuana.”

CPSO found three large freezer bags, two large glass jars, two small freezer bags and one canister, all of

which contained marijuana. CPSO described the contents as “clean, dry, leafy substances with the bud separated.” CPSO also found two digital scales.

Overall, 1.5 pounds of marijuana were discovered. The street value for that amount totals $5,000, according to the Portland Police Drug and Vice division.

The non-student was written up and asked not to return to the university. Since CPSO only uncovered the small jar, which was first handed over to them, they cannot legally arrest the man assuming the rest of the drugs belong to him, Soto said.

“Since no one claimed ownership of the drugs, we cannot arrest them,” he said.

The law states that less than an ounce of marijuana, which is the amount the man turned over to CPSO, is only a violation, not a crime, Soto said.

According to Lynn Clark, an attorney working at Student Legal Services, the general philosophy in marijuana law is that the larger the quantity of drugs found in someone’s possession, the more likely that person is a dealer.

The university has a zero-tolerance

Portland State professor awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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

Tom Bissell plans to use fellowship to finish sixth book

Patrolling the police Tomorrow, the Rose City Copwatch will host “Your Rights and the Police” and “How to Copwatch,” an informational session about one’s rights when interacting with the police and how to legally observe the police when they are interacting with others.

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Tom Bissell, an assistant professor of English and liberal arts at Portland State, has been awarded a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in creative arts for general nonfiction, which he plans to use to finish his current book.

Bissell said he has published five books and multiple articles and is currently working on his sixth book.

In addition, he is a contributing editor to two publications and a frequent reviewer for the New York Times Review.

There were approximately 3,000 candidates for the 86th annual Guggenheim competition, but only 180 fellowships were awarded. After applications are submitted, a meticulous selection process follows. First, applications are divided into groups within their fields, examined by hundreds of advisors, who are fellows, and finally submitted with a critique and rank to the board of trustees, which then makes the final decision, according to its website.

Although Bissell said he felt he had as good of a chance of receiving the fellowship as anyone else, he was nevertheless stunned to get the Guggenheim.

“I know so many people for whom the prize has been a creative life-saver and never imagined I would be among them,” he said.

Bissell was encouraged to write by friends of his father, Philip Caputo and Jim Harrison, according to a profile published in Poets & Writers 40. Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning

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author and journalist, and Jim Harisson is a poet and fiction writer whose works include “Legends of the Fall,” the novella that inspired the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn.

Bissell plans to use the Guggenheim Fellowship prize to take time off and finish a nonfiction travel book about early Christianity that he has been working on for five years, he said. His proposed title for the book is “The Tombs of the Twelve Apostles.”

Bissell said he has already spent five years researching for the book, and has traveled to 10 countries in Europe and the Middle East, including Israel, Italy, Turkey, Germany and France. He still plans to travel to India to conduct research about St. Thomas and to Kyrgyzstan to research St. Matthew.

Commenting on his financial difficulties, Bissell said, “It has not been cheap.”

Bissell also won the 2006 Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which partially subsidizes two young writers of promise for a year’s residence at the American Academy in Rome, according to its website.

Currently, Bissell is in Los Angeles, Calif. working on an audio version of his book “Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.”

Bissell has lived in Michigan, Uzbekistan, New York, Saigon, Rome, Las Vegas and Estonia, according to the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s website.

As of now, he lives in Portland, Ore.

“Rose City Copwatch works to eliminate or radically change police institutions,” according to its website.

“A primary function of the criminal justice system is to maintain the status quo; we work to promote change that will disrupt this power.”

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Tom Bissell

“[RCC] wants to shift public consciousness and demonstrate the possibility of social change,” according to its website.

Works by Tom Bissell Published books: -Chasing the Sea: Lost among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2003) -Speak, Commentary (2003) with Jeff Alexander -God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories (2005) -The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (2007) -Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010) Contributing editor to: -Harpers -Virginia Quarterly Review

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Money to be allocated to mandatory academic advising that were reasonable for making determinations on how to allocate the university’s resources. According to a memo sent out by the UBT, the principles are: -Continuing support for enrollment growth -Addressing compensation issues and other salary adjustments -Supporting student success with a particular focus on improving retention and the overall student experience -Enhancing the infrastructure, including the faculty required to expand institutional resources -Supporting efforts to increase externally funded research -Rebuilding support services capacities The UBT’s proposed investments were also based on several assumptions in the budget plan, according to Desrochers. The UBT estimated a 3 percent overall enrollment growth, no further state funding reductions for the rest of the 2009–11 biennium, tuition rate

increases of 8 percent for resident undergraduates, 2 percent for non-resident undergraduates and 1 percent for resident and non-resident graduate students.

In addition, the passage of tax measures 66 and 67, during Oregon’s special election last fall, had a great influence on the budget process, according to Desrochers.

“The fact that those measures were passed does not mean it’s a free-spending zone,” she said. “It simply means that we could make more investments as a result of the enrollment growth, and because of the fact that we didn’t have to take more cuts, we could make strategic investments.”

Among one of the UBT’s priorities is restoring faculty and staff salaries to 2009 levels. Restoration of salaries made up a large portion— $2,400,000—of the allocation money going into the budget’s teaching component.

In addition, the UBT proposed to allocate $1 million to support

the Mandatory Undergraduate Advising initiative, which will be implemented this fall. “[Mandatory advising] has been something we’ve been talking about here at Portland State since I can remember,” Koch said. “The issue has always been how are we going to support it.”

According to Koch, the initial allocation is the first down payment in an ongoing investment to help support the program. The money will also support some of the technological advances that will help create unified advising records, ensuring that advisors and faculty will have access to the same information over time.

Another significant proposal made by the UBT was a $1.5 million allocation that will go into expanding the university’s tuition remission program.

“This is a first step in helping with retention and completionrelated issues for students who are financially challenged,” Koch said.

In addition, the UBT recommended adding two financial aid counselors to help students with financial needs, in addition to enhancing retention.

After presenting the budget allocations, Koch and Desrochers

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handed the floor over to the audience to provide input and to ask questions.

One question asked was regarding prioritizing cuts, specifically if any must be made over the next year. “[The UBT is] cautiously budgeting the dollars,” Desrochers said. “Our assumption about the 3 percent enrollment growth is more modest than what people think will actually occur, so that will provide some buffer.”

Another issue raised was whether or not financial aid would compensate the university’s rising tuition. In response, Desrochers said that annually implemented remissions will not keep up with tuition growth.

“We’re on the path to establishing an investment approach going forth for several years, to at least match what [Oregon State University] and [University of Oregon] are putting into their fee remissions,” she said.

According to the 2010–11 budget development schedule, the university president will finalize the budget plan and inform the community on the budget status during the week of May 10–15.

For more information about Portland State’s budget process, visit www.pdx.edu/budget/2010-2011academic-budget-process.

In order to achieve its mission, the RCC seeks to transfer state power into the hands of the community.

In addition, the RCC engages in copwatching patrols to observe police stops, searches and arrests. The patrols “demonstrate the community’s right and ability to hold police directly accountable for their actions, and to collect documentation that may be useful in getting justice later on,” according to its website.

The event will take place in 236 Smith Memorial Student Union from 2–5 p.m.

For more information about the RCC, visit www.rosecitycopwatch wordpress.com.

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

Brandon Roy named to AllNBA Third Team Becomes third Trail Blazer to earn multiple All-NBA Team honors

Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy was named to the 2009–10 All-NBA Third Team, the NBA announced today.

Roy, named to the All-NBA Second Team in 2008–09, becomes the third Trail Blazer in franchise history to earn multiple All-NBA Team honors, joining Clyde Drexler (four) and Bill Walton (two).

He is the only Trail Blazer to be named to both the All-Rookie Team and All-NBA Team during his career.

“We’re honored that the sportswriters and broadcasters who cover our league have again recognized Brandon as one of the best players in the game,” Trail Blazers General Manager Kevin Pritchard said.

“Our success this season was largely a result of Brandon’s leadership and determination. For him to step back on the court only eight days after knee surgery is a true reflection of just the kind of player and person he is and how badly he wants to win.”

Roy, 25, averaged a team-best 21.5 points to go with 4.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 37.2 minutes in 65 games (all starts) during the 2009–10 season.

He was one of just four NBA players to average at least 21.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists (Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade).

The fourth-year guard scored 23 points or more in 15 straight games from Dec. 1 to Jan. 2, the longest stretch of 23-point outings in franchise history.

The three-time NBA All-Star helped the Trail Blazers overcome 311 games missed to injury—the most among playoff teams—leading the Trail Blazers to a second consecutive 50-win season and the sixth seed in the Western Conference Playoffs.

—Portland Trail Blazers Communications Department

SPORTS Vikings split doubleheader with No. 19 Ducks PSU in 18th place at golf regionals

Portland State has final tune-up before big weekend against Seattle

Women’s golf completes day one of three at NCAA West Regional

James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

The Portland State softball team split a pair of games with Oregon in Eugene on Wednesday, defeating the Ducks 4-1 in the second game of the night after a 5-4 loss in the first ended the Vikings’ eight-game winning streak.

Going into the final weekend of the regular season, the Vikings can carry the momentum of defeating a ranked opponent for the first time since Feb. 2008 into this weekend’s battle with Seattle University for first place in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference’s Mountain Division.

“We’re in a good place,” said head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk. “We’re playing well, we’re pitching well. With that comes confidence, and with confidence it doesn’t matter who you play. We think we’re ready.”

The Vikings had a chance to sweep No. 19 Oregon (32-14, 7-8 Pac-10) but a slew of errors and six walks by the pitchers in Game One prevented Portland State (25-25, 14-2 PCSC) from leaving Eugene with an upset.

Oregon starter Sam Skillingstad was chased quickly in the first game of the series, lasting only 2.1 innings against a Viking offense that has seen its productivity increase in recent weeks. After senior catcher Brandi Scoggins moved into scoring

Junior shortstop Arielle Wiser

position with a double, senior second baseman Becca Diede began the scoring with a line-drive shot that cleared the fence for a two-run home run, Diede’s third of the season.

After scoring only one run in the bottom of the second, Oregon would expose what would plague the Viking pitchers in Game One, as a walk and an error brought around the first of the Ducks’ five runs.

Second baseman Kaylan Howard led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on an errant throw by junior shortstop Arielle Wiser. A sac-bunt then advanced Howard to third and Allie Burger quickly drove a 0-1 pitch to center field for an RBI triple.

The Vikings scored two more off of starter Skillingstad before she was pulled in favor of Mikayla Endicott.

After getting four hits in 2.1 innings off Skillingstad, the Portland State lineup would be stymied as Endicott proceeded to strike out nine in her 4.1 innings of work, scattering four hits and allowing just one walk.

The Ducks then slowly chipped away at the Viking lead before tying the game in the fourth and plating the eventual winning run in the fifth.

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All photos courtesy of PSU Athletics

Swinging for first: Going into the final weekend of regular-season play, the Vikings are sitting

in first place in the PCSC Mountain Division. With four games coming up against Seattle at Erv Lind Stadium over the weekend, PSU needs just two wins to secure the pennant.

The Vikings got their revenge in Game Two, as sophomore pitcher Kendra Suhr made her second PSU start of the season, shutting out the Ducks over four innings.

In a reversal of fortune the Vikings capitalized on three Duck errors, the last of which in the seventh inning all but put away the game for freshman Anna Bertrand, who collected her second save of the season.

Despite pitching a complete game and striking out 14 Vikings, Oregon pitcher Jessica Moore took the loss for the Ducks and Suhr picked up her first win of the season for PSU. Suhr, who last started against the Beavers on April 21, has been markedly better than her 7.00 ERA suggests and may be a wildcard entering this weekend’s series against Seattle. Taking away two outings in which she gave up 12 earned runs in only three innings, Suhr has otherwise tallied sixteen innings to the tune of 3.06 ERA, nine of which innings against Pac-10 opponents.

Using Suhr on Wednesday was part of Echo-Hawk’s plan to not only use each of her pitchers in the doubleheader against Oregon, but to stretch them out for the possibility of using all four again against Seattle this weekend.

“We’re going to do whatever it takes to win and if that means we have to keep the hitters off balance by mixing it up [with the rotation] that’s what we’re going to do,” Echo-Hawk said.

The Vikings have played Seattle once already this season in a nonconference match-up at the Husky Softball Classic in Seattle. In that

game Portland State let a victory slip away as a five-run sixth inning sunk the Vikings in what would be Seattle’s second win of the season.

Both Seattle and Portland State have improved markedly since their matchup on March 14, Seattle running off a 14-12-1 record while Portland State has gone 18-11.

On paper, Seattle hits slightly better than Portland State, posting a .736 on-base plus slugging percentage to Portland State’s .672 mark. Despite the difference in OPS, Portland State draws even with Seattle in most other offensive categories and thusly the series will likely come down to a battle of pitching staffs—an area where Portland State has a marked advantage.

Seattle comes into the series sporting a 4.69 ERA, striking out 115 batters to 69 walks in 283 2/3 innings.

Contrasted with Portland States 2.95 ERA, 296 strikeouts and 140 walks in 327 1/3 innings, the Vikings have a clear advantage with a rotation that boasts four pitchers that have shut down some of softballs elite at different points this season.

“We’re just approaching it the same as we’ve done all conference,” Echo-Hawk said. “We’re doing what we need to do and the girls are really focused and ready to go. It really doesn’t matter what they throw at us, I think we’re going to be prepared for it.”

The Vikings face Seattle at Erv Lind stadium, where Portland State has been perfect against conference opponents this season, with the only losses at home coming against No. 1 Washington, No. 19 Oregon and Oregon State.

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Portland State women’s golf had a wild day of bogeys and double-bogeys on Thursday, but finished the first day of the NCAA West Regional in Stanford, Calif., in 18th place at 25-over par. Virginia and Arizona are tied for first at 7-over.

The Vikings began the course on the back-nine, and were at the top of the leaderboard through their first six holes. By the turn to the front-nine, PSU dropped to a 10th-place tie with Stanford before falling to their current position at 25 over par, with 309 attempts.

Sophomore Tiffany Schoning finished the day with 5-over par (76), and junior Kalyn Dodge finished with 7-over (77). Senior Stephanie Johns and freshman Britney Yada both finished 7-over (78).

After the first three holes, all four players started strong and were either under or at par with Yada shooting bogey-free. After nine, Yada, Johns and Schoning fell to 2-over par, and Dodge fell to 6-over par.

Schoning, who sat at two-under par through her fifth hole, bogeyed the sixth and double-bogeyed the seventh. By the end of the day, she birdied three holes, bogeyed four and double-bogeyed two. Dodge was still at par through six, but finished her first nine holes with three consecutive double-bogies.

Yada completed the course with four bogeys and a triple-bogey on the par-4 sixth hole. Johns birdied twice, bogeyed seven and doublebogeyed once.

PSU is competing against 23 other schools at the 71-par Stanford Golf Course for the chance to advance to the NCAA Championship Tournament in Wilmington, N.C., on May 19–22. The Vikings earned their slot in the regionals by winning the Big Sky Conference Championship last month. Two other regionals, the Central in Indiana and the Eastern in North Carolina, are also underway, and the top eight teams and two individuals from each will proceed to the Championship.

Leading the PSU pack coming into this tournament, based on averages, was Johns (76.25) followed closely by Yada (76.37), Schoning (77.76), and Dodge (78.42).

The players have two more days of 18-hole play on Friday and Saturday.

Live scores of the regional are available at www.golfstat.com and updates are available on the tournament’s Twitter feed, @WestRegionals.

Photo courtesy of PSU Athletics

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5th Avenue French Film Festival 2010 7:30 p.m.

5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall This is the last weekend of the film festival, so get out and see some free movies before it’s over!

This Friday’s film is Un Secret, directed

by Claude Miller

Saturday NW Regional Middle East Seminar 8:30 a.m.

SMSU Ballroom Pre-registration for this event is closed, but on-site registration will be available as space allows

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Making Strides For Breast Cancer Walk 9:30 a.m.

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SPORTS EXTRA FOOTBALL’S SPRING SCRIMMAGE On Saturday, football fans get a taste of season to come in spring game Allison Whited Vanguard staff

Portland State football is set to begin a new era this fall under the guidance of new head coach Nigel Burton, and this weekend fans will have a chance to preview the coming season at the annual spring game on Saturday.

All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Changes in the offseason

Blast from the past

Burton has completely overhauled the Viking defense and offense, and this will be everyone’s first chance to get a glimpse of the newly installed 4-3 defense and pistol offense in action.

The most visible change will be on offense. Expect to see more power-running and a stronger offensive line. It will be most interesting to see how Burton has handled the secondary, which was a glaring weak spot for the team last year.

Former head coaches Mouse Davis and Don Read will be coaching both the alumni game and the scrimmage. Davis was head coach from 1975–80, following a stint as offensive coordinator in 1974.

Most recently, he was offensive coordinator under former head coach Jerry Glanville from 2007–08.

Read was head coach from 1968–71 and 1981–85.

Both Davis and Read have a place in Viking history. Davis was the man behind the run-and-shoot offense in the ’70s, which later evolved to the spread offense, which was the bread and butter of the Viking offense up until recently. Read led Portland State to its first Division II Western Football Conference Championship in 1984.

Due to scheduled construction at PGE Park in the fall, all football games, including the spring game, will be held at Hillsboro Stadium this season.

The scrimmage and all other associated events are free, but a $5 donation to the Hillsboro Schools Foundation is encouraged.

More than a game The spring game festivities begin at noon with a free youth football clinic. Youngsters will have a chance to directly interact with the team, run through drills and learn tips from the Viking coaches and players.

An alumni flag football game will begin at 1 p.m., with two former Portland State football coaches calling the plays.

The actual spring scrimmage is set to start at 2 p.m. with the Vikings’ Green and White teams facing each other for four 15-minute quarters.

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This weekend in Portland State sports Friday Women’s golf NCAA West Regionals Where: Stanford, Calif.

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Saturday Sailing Club NW Team Racing Championships Where: Eugene, Ore. When: TBA Women’s golf NCAA West Regionals Where: Stanford, Calif.

When: 8 a.m.

Campus Rec Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk Where: Rose Quarter Commons When: 9:30 a.m.

Intramurals 20.20.20 Mini-Triathlon Where: ASRC When: Noon Softball vs. Seattle (Doubleheader) Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: Noon Football Youth football clinic Where: Hillsboro Stadium When: Noon Football Alumni flag football game Where: Hillsboro Stadium When: 1 p.m.

Football Spring game Where: Hillsboro Stadium When: 2 p.m.

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A look at the past, present and future of the Timbers Robert Seitzinger Vanguard staff

For 40 years, Portland has been a one-trick pony for major-league sports with the Trail Blazers.

However, the Timbers will join Major League Soccer in 2011 and give the City of Roses two teams that compete on the highest national level of their respective sport.

The Timbers currently play in the United States Soccer Federation’s Division 2 Professional League, a temporary league for the 2010 season that comprises 12 squads from across the country. The D-2 Pro League is a compromise between the feuding United Soccer Leagues and the North American Soccer League that serves as the second tier of American soccer, just below MLS. The moniker “Soccer City USA” has applied to Portland since the 1970s, though it is a lesser-known nickname compared to “Rip City” in allusion to the Blazers. Despite this, plans are underway for a

$31 million renovation of PGE Park that will increase the number of seats to about 20,000, according to www.portlandmls2011.com, a website chronicling the renovation.

Skepticism arose about whether or not there is enough interest to justify the costs of bringing MLS to Portland following the announcement of the league’s expansion. However, the Timbers’ attendance suggests that there is: They drew a PGE Park record of 15,833 fans for a match in 2007 and have averaged between 7,000–9,000 fans per match since that season, according to a Timbers press release.

There is also the Timbers Army, a fan collective that sits in section 107—positioned behind the visitor’s goal in PGE Park—and sings traditional soccer chants for most of a match. There is no formal organization of this fan club, with the Army’s website (www.timbersarmy.com) declaring that it “embraces all comers and requires no membership, dues or loyalty oaths. Simply show up, stand up and sing your heart out.”

The current Timbers roster includes 27 players, among them

nine international contenders from Haiti, Japan, Sweden and several other countries. They made it to the USL semifinals last year before losing to Vancouver Whitecaps FC, the squad they defeated in the first round of the 2007 postseason.

Expect that rivalry to continue, as Vancouver is also headed for MLS in 2011 when they, along with Portland, bring the league’s number of teams to 18. Pairs of teams compete in annual rivalry cups, so expect the two newest teams to be matched up for a new cup in 2011.

So far during the 2010 season, the Timbers hold the D-2 Pro League’s best record at 3-0-1 and lead the league with 10 points. Midfielder Ryan Pore was named the Player of the Month for April, after scoring six goals and an assist over the opening four matches.

They fell 3-1 during an international exhibition match to Costa Rica’s Puntarenas FC last Saturday, though that match doesn’t count toward their league record for 2010. It was just the second international loss for the Timbers on their home pitch since 2005.

League play resumes on Thursday, May 13, at PGE Park against Crystal Palace Baltimore.

Tickets for home matches can be purchased through Ticketmaster, starting at $12. If you can’t make it to PGE Park, select games can be viewed on Fox Sports Net (Comcast Portland Channel 34), and all of their 2010 matches will be broadcast on 95.5 FM and streamed on www.portlandtimbers.com.

Upcoming Timbers matches Thu, May 13* 7 p.m., Crystal Palace Baltimore Sat, May 15* 7 p.m., AC St. Louis Wed, May 19 7 p.m., Montreal Impact Sat, May 22 4 p.m., at Crystal Palace Baltimore Sun, June 6* 6 p.m., Carolina RailHawks * Denotes game to be aired on FSN, Channel 34

Sailing Club NW Team Racing Championships Where: Eugene, Ore. When: TBA Softball vs. Seattle (Doubleheader) Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: Noon