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Oregon Historical Society in jeopardy Local levy would give the OHS financial breathing room Erick Bengel Vanguard Staff

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he Oregon Historical Society is in financial jeopardy and its fate will be decided by ballot on Nov. 2, when Multnomah County voters will consider a local levy to fund the society for the next five years.

The levy—titled Measure 26-118—would impose a 5-cent tax on county property with a value assessed at $1,000 or more, providing $150,000 for each of the five years that the levy is in effect. The average taxpayer would pay $10 per year and, in return, would have free admission to the Oregon Historical Museum and Research Library.

The OHS has relied on both private and state funding since its inception in 1898. Although the bulk of this funding has been private—which remains true in both comparative and absolute terms—the OHS has, to varying degrees of dependency, always counted on state funds in order to operate.

Within the last decade, however, the state has largely withdrawn these essential funds.

More recently, the Oregon legislature, in an increasingly budget-strapped fiscal climate, has all but severed the umbilical cord that is the OHS’s public funding.

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OHS needs funding: Due to the lack of state funding, the OHS might close its doors forever.

In recent years, and especially since 2003, the OHS has been fading in increments. It is now more expensive than ever to house and maintain its collection of artifacts and other materials while making it available to the public.

According to Kristin Teigen, a Portland State graduate and

campaign associate for the OHS, the society has “cut its staff and services fairly dramatically and rather unfortunately.”

“The library used to be open 32 hours a week; it had 15 librarians, [and] there used to be professional historians on staff to serve the public and to conduct additional research,” she said.

The library now has a “bare bones” staff and is open only 12 hours a week, and the organization has had its funding cut by a third, according to Teigen.

After seven years of financial depletion, and without enough reserves to sustain itself at its

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OUS campuses visit Oregon high schools Tour familiarizes students with Oregon universities, encourages them to apply Alison Barnwell Vanguard staff

Last Monday, the Oregon University System kicked off its annual high school visitation tour with a stop at Lakeview Senior High School.

Representatives from seven OUS campuses set up booths in the cafeteria, and after the audience of juniors and seniors watched the presentation, they

were free to speak with admissions counselors.

The mission of the tour is to put the calling card of all of the Oregon universities into the hands of Oregon students.

No other state in the nation offers a university visitation system that hits almost every high school in the state, said Kelly Talbert, senior assistant director of admissions and recruitement at the Uni-

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versity of Oregon. The fiveweek tour devotes a week to each region it visits, from Central Oregon to the Oregon Coast.

Formerly, the program was paid for by the OUS Chancellor’s Office, but in 2004, major cuts in state funding eliminated its Academic Affairs division. As a result, the universities stepped up, and each campus shoulders an equal portion of the pro-

gram’s $7,500 cost.

Before attending the event, Senior Katie Stosoeth already knew she wanted to attend Oregon State and then enroll in a program at Oregon Health and Science University, but she came away from the two-hour event with fresh information.

“It was nice to have the costs and everything laid out in front of you,” she said. She

Potential PSU student deported Hector Lopez deported weeks before bill went before Congress Corie Charnley Vanguard staff

As the Senate voted down the DREAM Act last Tuesday—an act which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented youth—a room full of M.E.Ch.A members and elected officials, as well as University President Wim Wiewel, gathered to listen to Hector Lopez, a college student who was deported to Mexico last month.

Lopez moved to the U.S. illegally with his family when he was just one-and-a-half months old. He grew up in Milwaukie, Ore. and graduated from Rex Putnam High School in Portland, where he served as student body president. Lopez was also a Little League coach and a nominee for the national Alexander Hamilton Leadership Award, and logged 600 community service hours.

After finishing high school, Lopez spent two years at Clackamas Community College. He has also taken classes at Portland State and planned to transfer to the university to earn a bachelor’s in marketing, according to a press release.

“He was by any measure a stellar student and a classic candidate for the DREAM Act,” said Anne Galisky, co-founder of Graham Street Productions and the director of Papers, a documentary film about undocumented youth.

The DREAM Act is intended to provide undocumented immigrants a path to legal residency if they attend college for two years or serve two years in the military. Those who would be eligible must have arrived in the country before the age of 16 and have lived in the U.S. for five years. In addition, eligible people must have graduated from a U.S. high school or have obtained a GED, and have good moral character.

Lopez was present via speakerphone from Mexico City during the press conference.

“I feel as though I’ve been stripped of my life just because I spent the first month and half of it from another country,” he said. “I would say it is almost inhumane to send someone to a place where they’ve never been, have nowhere to stay and no way to earn an income.”

On Aug. 23, Lopez said he left his house at around 7:45 a.m. to go to the gym. However, he was unaware that there was a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer following him. About four blocks from his house, he was pulled over and told there was a warrant for his arrest.

According to Lopez’s lawyer, Siovhan Sheridan-Ayala, Lopez’s family was ordered deported when he was nine. However, they never received a notice for a hearing. As a result, Lopez was oblivious to the fact that there had been a warrant out against him for 11 years.

The conference coincided with the Senate’s decision on whether to pass the DREAM Act, which was an amendment to a larger defense authorization bill that included the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The bill failed in a 56-43 vote.

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also met with an OSU admissions counselor. “I got her business card, so now I have her email [address].”

Some students were unimpressed by Monday’s kickoff presentation, mandatory for upper-classmen at Lakeview.

Senior Mark Smith, who is interested in firefighting, said the event “wasn’t boring, just not exciting.”

“I hear there’s a good program at Eastern Oregon,” he said. However, when he passed EOU’s booth, he didn’t get much time to speak to its representatives.

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Parsam Javedani: Javedani chose PSU because of its diverse atmosphere and programs.

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he Viking Food Court’s new compost station—the product of a collaboration between Aramark Dining Services, PSU Recycles! and the Smith Center—opened on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Portland State President Wim Wiewel.

Although PSU does compost, the composting station is the first on campus that allows students to take part in the process, said Honoré Depewe, the education and outreach specialist for PSU Recycles! and a student sustainability ambassador.

“People started using it right after the ribbon-cutting,” he said.

Composting is the breaking down of organic material that can later be used as a product, such as fertilizer or animal bedding. According to Depewe, the greenhouse gases—or methane—released from organic waste is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Having organic waste disposed

of in a compost facility, rather than in a landfill, eliminates such dangerous emissions. “[The compost station] will reduce the carbon footprint of the university,” Depewe said.

According to Lisa Potter, director of dining services, the costs affiliated with the station were paid for by Aramark.

In addition, Aramark is responsible for managing the station. However, starting next week, volunteers from the Sustainability Leadership Center will help inform students on how to use the station.

“As for Aramark and PSU, we both have the same initiative for supporting sustainability on campus,” Potter said.

According to Potter, she and Christel Eichner of PSU Recycles! worked on the project for about a year before it was realized.

As of now, Portland has no commercial compost facility; all of the waste collected

by Trashco is taken to Cedar Grove Composting, located just south of Seattle, Wash.

According to Depewe, the facility there has the capability

of achieving temperatures high enough to break down items such as food, bones and even pizza boxes.

The new station at PSU followed the example of a similar operation at Evergreen State College. However, managing a compost station in an urban university poses a different challenge, according to Depewe. Not only is PSU a larger school than Evergreen, its barriers are much more “permeable.”

Depewe pointed out that someone could easily buy a coffee off-campus, and then walk into the Viking Food Court and throw it away in the compost station, resulting in contamination. When the waste is transported to Cedar Grove, each truckload must be examined; if over 5 percent of it is contaminated, the entire load has to be taken to a landfill.

Though there is no current compost facility in Portland, the City Council approved a curbside food composting pilot project last March, according to The Oregonian. ■

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iSTAR engineering lab receives $1 million award Oregon BEST invests in seismic research at Portland State Ryan Deming Vanguard Staff

The Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center [Oregon BEST] is awarding $1 million to four Oregon university labs, including Portland State’s infraStructure Testing and Applied Research [iSTAR] laboratory, which will continue to increase its seismic research and testing capabilities. The award was effective as of July 2010 and will be disbursed in phases over the course of the next year.

The iSTAR lab tests new materials and building systems to understand their performance and safety characteristics prior to adoption into buildings, said Peter Dusicka, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He and researchers at iSTAR use seismic research to make a variety of structures and building materials resistant to natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.

“We have had knowledge for the last 30 years that there will be a large subduction quake from the coast in the next few hundred years,” said Franz Rad, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Whether it will be 150 or 700 years from now we don’t really know, but we do know that the probability of this earthquake happening increases every year.”

As the probability of a large coastal subduction earthquake increases every year, so does the importance of the seismic research and testing done at the iSTAR laboratory.

While many universities are able to generate computer models of how earthquakes and tsunamis will affect structures, PSU is the only university in the Northwest that is capable of physically testing these scenarios, according to Rad. “PSU has the only functioning shake table in the Northwest,” Rad said. “The shake table gives us the opportunity to investigate how buildings, towers, walls and retaining walls will react when the big earthquake hits.”

The research and tests done with instruments such as the shake table are extremely vital to the stability and overall safety of cities and the people living in them. Unfortunately, it is a lengthy process from the time this research is completed to when it is actually put into city code, Rad said.

For the past three years the iSTAR lab has been researching how to create stronger connections between structural reinforcing bars in buildings. After the research and papers are completed in the next couple of years, it will take an additional five or six years for research findings to be put into building code.

Implementation of these codes will follow in the next couple years after they have been approved.

“It takes about a decade for our research to be fully implemented,” Rad said.

In addition to providing university-led research, the iSTAR lab is also a source for industry and economic growth. Oregon BEST hopes that in helping to fund labs like iSTAR it will help the economy whole by providing research and testing tools for other companies and organizations that would otherwise not be able to afford them, said Greg Kleiner, media relations for Oregon BEST. For example, a startup solar company that needs to test the functionality of their new photovoltaic cells could come to a university lab instead of buying all the testing equipment themselves.

“The purpose of this funding is to expand the Oregon BEST network of lab facilities,” Kleiner said. “Our aim is to expand this lab network so green companies that otherwise would not have access to expensive research and testing equipment can attain the testing they need through a university like PSU.” This availability of testing and research will benefit both the job market and the economy, he said. In addition, by expanding the research capabilities of labs like iSTAR, Oregon BEST can also expand the job market for graduating students interested in engineering and sustainability.

According to Kleiner, funding for the investment comes directly from the Oregon State Legislature. “[Through the] economic development engine that the state legislature has established, Oregon BEST receives a couple million dollars every two years to invest in research facilities like the iSTAR lab,” Kleiner said. “The hope of Oregon BEST is that this award will act as a seed investment, attracting research dollars from state and national levels.

Revenue translates into new labs and new jobs.” ■

oyride, Portland State Professor Mia Birk’s new book, details her 20-year mission to make bicycling a part of daily life in Portland. Despite little funding, she helped it become the most popular cycling city in the U.S. The book will be released on Oct. 4.

“I fell in love with bicycling in 1990 while attending graduate school in Washington, D.C. Having grown up in suburban Dallas, Texas, I was used to driving everywhere,” Birk said.

While in college, she found it difficult to find parking, so she borrowed her brother’s 10-speed Schwinn. “Within a few weeks, I was in the best shape of my life, and a lifelong love affair had begun.”

Birk became the bicycle program manager for the city of Portland in 1993, where she helped Portland become a

more bicycle-friendly city, according to her website.

“Mia Birk’s contributions to the bike community cannot be underestimated. She was instrumental in taking a parochial river community that did not consider bicycles in

“Mia’s had a huge impact on the cycling community both locally and nationally. I think her book, which I’m enjoying tremendously, tells the Portland bicycle story very well,” said Jennifer Dill, a researcher at the Initiative for Bicycle and

“It makes me wildly happy to bike around Portland every day and see the fruits of my labor.” MIA BIRK the transportation plan to the number-one cycling city in the United States,” said Joe Kurmaskie, author of Mud, Sweat and Gears.

Joyride is intended as a guidebook for other cities to emulate what has been done in Portland, according to Kurmaskie. He pointed out that Portland residents now rely less on automobiles, as bicycling is perceived as a normal, everyday means of transportation.

SOCIETY FROM PAGE 1 current scale, the OHS has “nothing more to lose without losing its overall purpose.”

If the levy passes, it would provide a five-year halfway house of funding for the OHS. In the meantime, its board of directors would determine how to raise its supply of private funds while renewing a steady stream of state funds.

As such, the levy represents only a short-term solution to the OHS’s overarching financial woes.

“We don’t see this as a permanent revenue source,” Teigen said. “We’re still wanting to figure out ways of making sure the state can pick up its commitment to the OHS.” However, the levy’s five-year duration would give the OHS “breathing room” to find alternative resources to renew the contract with the state, Teigen said.

If voters defeat the levy, the OHS will find itself in a grave position, as the society might have to play triage with its diminishing funds.

It is conceivable that the OHS’s library would remain open at the expense of closing the museum, or vice versa.

One thing is certain: Portland State would not be unaffected by the levy’s defeat. The OHS has many close ties to PSU, some of which date back to when the university was still a college.

In particular, PSU’s Department of History features a public history program, a research fellows program, a capstone program, an internship program and other programs that routinely utilize the OHS’s archival materials. In addition, many students with advanced degrees go on to work for the OHS, and several faculty members not only conduct their research through the OHS but also publish that research in the society’s peer-reviewed quarterly journal.

Pedestrian Innovation. “I’ve recommended it to people in other cities who are in similar situations—trying to create a bicycle-friendly city from the beginning.”

According to Burk, the novel is comprised of an accessible series of stories. Its small chapters outline issues such as the challenges of retrofitting streets with bike lanes, building off-street paths, adopting and enforcing bicycle parking codes and encouraging people

Associate Professor Chet Orloff, the former OHS executive director, expects that the levy’s defeat would damage PSU’s history department, as well as other departments, including urban studies, geography, business, architecture, black studies and women’s studies.

Because of the extensive overlap between the two institutions, Orloff claims that few disciplines would remain uninjured by the OHS’s further reduction, not to mention its full-blown closure.

“The passage of the levy will immediately relieve anxiety among undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty who use the historical society, as well as the Portland State graduates who work in the community as historians,” said Professor Bill Lang, former member of the OHS editorial board and current executive editor of the Oregon Encyclopedia.

Although a large portion of Oregon’s electorate is dependably tax-averse, there does not appear to be any organized opposition to the levy. This might relate to the fact that the levy is directed at a beloved and highly visible public resource. Additionally, the levy will immediately cease in the event that the state renews its support for the OHS in the interim.

The OHS is unusual as a state historical society in that it is not a state agency but a private corporation organized as a nonprofit. Whereas almost every historical society west of the Mississippi River is public, the OHS’s model more closely resembles that of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.

Nevertheless, state historical societies are universally supported in some aspect by state funding, Teigen said.

“Right now, [the OHS] receives the lowest amount of support from its state,” she said. “If [the OHS] closes, we’ll be the only state in the union without a historical society.” ■

to incorporate bicycling into their daily lives.

In addition, it describes overcoming obstacles, business opposition and negative media coverage.

Birk is currently the principle and CEO at Alta Planning, a local cycling–focused design company. Birk also travels around the country giving keynote speeches about bicycling and living sustainably.

“From a professional standpoint, I am really lucky to have found the perfect career at a young age,” Birk said. “It makes me wildly happy to bike around Portland every day and see the fruits of my labor, to know that I’ve made and am making a positive difference, not just here but everywhere I go.”

Birk will be doing a signing and reading at PSU on Oct. 11 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Parsons Gallery of the Urban Center. For more information about upcoming book signing events and lectures visit www.miabirk.com. ■

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Joy riding: Bick helped Portland become one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the country.

dents at Grants Pass who qualified to attend a four-year uniOn the other hand, for versity, but now all students can Lakeview counselor Lonnie attend both events.

“A student who maybe Chavez, the presentation was valuable. “It gave me that doesn’t have Algebra II can face-to-face contact,” she still go [to the OUS presentasaid, explaining that she can tion], get the info—now they put students in touch with have an avenue for transferthe admissions counselors ability,” Hayes said.

In contrast with Grants Pass, she meets at the event. She also appreciates the service Jesuit High School in Portland that the OUS tour provides boasts a 98 percent graduation rate, and most of its seniors go to to rural areas.

The tour makes a point to four-year-institutions. However, include a diverse range of the OUS visitation program did private and public schools not visit the high school, even in its itinerary. Grants Pass though a percentage of its graduHigh School in Central ating students went to in-state Oregon graduated only public schools last year.

“Many of our students start off 60 percent of its senior class last year, the lowest rate of their college search with grand the schools on the tour. ideas of going east, but by the Holly Hayes, a counselor time spring rolls around, Oreat Grants Pass, said that the gon schools look more feasible,” night presentation geared said Peter Johnson, Jesuit High’s towards parents is a useful director of college advising.

Though each campus brings its reality check.

“It helps to have some- own materials and recruiting efbody else [stating the facts]. forts to the OUS tour, the comSome of the parents think, mon goal is to keep students in ‘My kid is going to a four- Oregon universities.

Bill Ryder, the assistant direcyear college,’ [and] we keep telling them, ‘Her GPA isn’t tor for New Student Programs high enough.’ Well, here it at Portland State, said, “We’re not necessarily trying to recruit is in print.” she said.

For students with low [students] to PSU…what matGPAs, Grants Pass brings ters is that students find the best in local community colleges fit.” Ryder has been a frequent to host a presentation at the participant in the high school same time as the OUS event. visititation tour since 1999.

Every two years, the coorThe OUS presentation used to be open to only those stu- dinating responsibilities are

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$1.85 million grant to help disadvantaged students TRIO Grant aims to increase academic support, graduation rate Joe Mantecon Vanguard Staff

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From left to right: Linda Liu, Coordinator of Counseling Services Renee Kim, Office Coordinator Charissa Ringo and Coordinator of Instruction Rosalyn Taylor.

In order to continue providing quality academic support services to disadvantaged students, Portland State has been awarded a $1.85 million five-year federal grant.

The TRIO Student Support Services Grant—funded un-

der the Higher Education Act of 1965—serves to eliminate the barriers imposed upon low-income, first generation and disabled students.

Because of the grant, some 265 students per year will be able to remain at, and presumably graduate from, Portland State through extensive support services provided by a team of academic advisers, according to the program’s website.

“Most students do come

to us for advising, but also for a sense of community,” said Linda Liu, the program director. “We have some students come in every day.”

Though the grant does not include direct financial aid for students, it manages to graduate about 40 students per year on the merit of comprehensive scholastic mentoring and advising.

The scope of this effort is not restricted to the PSU student body. TRIO also man-

ages outreach initiatives to students in local high schools through the Upward Bound program. Active since 1976, Upward Bound encourages prospective college students to prepare for their educational ventures through academic guidance and counseling. The program has been quite successful; over 80 percent of students involved in the program since 1998 are either still in college or have already graduated, according to a press release.

handed off to a different campus; this year, the Admissions Office at the University of Oregon is planning the tour.

The presentations at the various high schools don’t promote any school in particular.

Talbert, emphasizes the camaraderie of the seven representatives who travel together in a van to the various presentation sites.

“It’s great to be able to…have that shared experience and share ideas as professionals,” Talbert said.

Though the focus of the program is the OUS, individual campuses benefit from the exposure that the tour provides them. Regional campuses, such as Western Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University, aren’t always familiar to students.

David Compton, WOU’s Assistant Director of Admissions, recognizes the value of reaching out to high schools. “The more contact you can have with students, the more applicants you get,” he said.

The tour will conclude at the end of October, after stopping at almost 70 different high schools across Oregon.

“It’s a lot of work,” says Diane Saunders, Director of Communications at the OUS. “It’s worth it, though; the best way to connect with students is to go to them, not have them come to you.” ■

Regarding future initiatives, Student Support Services will expand its staff of advisors, require new students to attend orientation, increase the priority of academic advising and make the declaration of a major program mandatory by the end of a student’s second year.

In keeping with other ethnically-based support services on campus—including the Native American Student Community Center—TRIO services for Latino students will see expansion this fall.

According to Liu, it is important that students apply while space is still available.

“Don’t wait too long to try to get help,” she said. ■

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Krystine McCants: The SFC chair streamlines the funding body by giving more responsibility to the OBC.

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SFC streamlines, reduces oversight New organizational structure improves accountability, budget control

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ach year, the Student Fee Committee is responsible for roughly $16 million collected through the Portland State student fee; of that, $747,000 is allocated to student clubs and organizations. Given the large sum of money handled, this year the funding body has passed on some of its responsibilities to the Organization Budget Council to streamline the budget process and improve accountability.

The SFC—the elected group responsible for setting and allocating the student fee—has always funded the OBC, which in turn funded new and small student clubs and organizations. The SFC was responsible for all other groups. However, now, the SFC will directly fund only the university’s student services, ASPSU and publications, the OBC and the Recreational Clubs Council, while the OBC funds all other groups.

The change is designed to create a better model of budget control for all entities funded by the student fee. Jim Gent, one of three co-coordinators for the OBC and the former cochair for the SFC, believes the change will minimize costs to students.

“What this change means for the SFC is that the time and capability to thoroughly investigate the greater part of a $12 million to $13 million budget is possible,” he said.

Previously, the SFC directly funded around 100 organizations, with each entity receiving a budget ranging from $5,000 to $3 million, according to Gent.

“The changes implemented by the SFC remove the direct interaction of student organizations with the SFC, allowing the SFC to investigate approximately 20 budgets and the manner in which they are spent, creating more fiscal responsibility,” he said.

In years past, when student groups outlined their budget proposals for the prospective year, many would frame their new budget requests around the club’s budget line from the previous year.

Student organizations were predicting, a full year in advance, what their budget for the following year was going to be.

“Under the old model…the entire budget would have been set at the very beginning of the previous fiscal year, often by inexperienced students who would not be using that same budget,” said SFC Chair Krystine McCants.

The overestimation for years compounded the issue of student groups not fulfilling their budget requests, and yet asking for more money for the next year. “[The change] also looked toward preventing a possible $500 [student] fee in the next 10 years,” McCants said. “At the rate the fee had been increasing, it may have been distinctly possible.”

Under the old system, all student groups had to submit proposals a year in advance to the SFC or OBC. However, the recently developed OBC guidelines state that every group will be allocated a modest base-operating budget.

Groups that have been transitioned to the OBC from the SFC will maintain their SFC allocation for this academic year. The other groups that have always been funded by the OBC will be given a base-operating budget of $500, but are eligible for up to $3,000.

Previously, these groups were only eligible for $2,000.

In addition to the baseline operating budget, student groups will be eligible to request additional funds for programs on an eventby-event basis. The groups will have to make their requests three to six weeks in advance and give the OBC a quote on how much their event will be.

“Student leaders of student groups will probably experience the biggest change,” McCants said. “They will now be funded by the OBC.” Though the OBC’s structure and funding model is different than that of the SFC, it will provide student leaders with greater programmatic flexibility, according to McCants.

“This is because they will be setting their own programming budget during in the year in which it will be used,” she said.

For students who do not participate in any fee-funded groups or organizations, “the differences may be slightly less tangible, but no less important,” McCants said.

McCants explained that because there will be greater accountability, large programs and departments will be more closely scrutinized.

“This means that every dollar collected from students will have to be justified,” she said.

In the past, groups also charged students to attend events, despite the fact that students paid for many of the events through the student body fee. Therefore, the new restructuring idea encourages the student groups not to charge students in these situations. ■

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Diagnosing maturity Progress in accurately detecting disorders MEaGHAN DANIELS VANGUARD STAFF

It used to be that marshmallows—yes, marshmallows—were one of the biggest methods used to predict maturity in early childhood. Recently, a new development has created a technique that will rival the marshmallow for the best predictor of maturity in children.

The marshmallow test was one of the best available in predicting maturity and was developed by Stanford University professor Walter Mischel. He would put one marshmallow in front of four-year-old children and tell them that they could eat the treat when he left, or, if they waited 15 minutes, he would give them two marshmallows. The experiment took place throughout the 1960s, and two out of three children ate the marshmallow before Mischel returned to the room.

When he revisited the children 14 years later, he found that the ones who had shown the most self-control had significantly higher SAT scores.

A new study published on Sept. 13 by Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has demonstrated a more accurate and scientific way of assessing maturity in early childhood.

According to www.ohsu.edu, MRI technology and mathematical analysis allow researchers to accurately predict a young person’s age by studying brain scans. It is the hope of researchers that with this technology, in the future, these analyses will help in diagnosing disorders such Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder.

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by researchers creates an opportunity to help predict developmental diagnoses.

Disorders such as ADHD and autism are hard to diagnose and with this kind of technology, it is very promising that these disorders, and others like them, will be more accurately diagnosed in the future—at least, that is the hope.

ADHD and autism spectrum disorders are currently frequently diagnosed; in fact, they are overly diagnosed today.

Most diagnoses of ADHD or autism are based on reports by the parents, which are completely subjective and not scientifically based. This research is an important new development in the world because it can lead to a more scientificallybased approach to diagnosing ADHD or autism.

Parents seem to jump to the far end of the scale if there is something “off” about their child. For example, if their child cannot sit still and pay attention in school, then they assume it is ADHD and will actively seek out someone to diagnose their kid with that particular disorder. They press the issue of their kid having ADHD even though they can sit in front of video games or a television for an entire day.

Just because someone cannot sit down and only focus on homework for three hours does not mean they have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD), it generally means they are a procrastinator like most people.

If someone has a short attention span, it does not necessarily mean that they have ADD or ADHD. And because someone cannot sit still and solidly pay attention in a four-hour lecture class does not mean they have ADHD or ADD; most of us cannot sit still that long.

This kind of research is helpful in aiding and accurately diagnosing ADHD and autism so that the people who have it, or will have it, can get the help that they need. It will also prevent overly diagnosing ADHD or autism spectrum disorder.

While this kind of research is clearly a big deal in the world of psychology, it is something that should make everyone stand up to take notice, because odds are most people know someone who has been diagnosed with something such as autism, Aspergers or ADHD.

Portland ranks well for the college student Ian Bellamy Vanguard staff

The numbers are in. Portland is officially awesome—especially for those attending Portland State.

Portland is ranked fifth on the College Destinations Index (CDI) under the category of mid-sized metros, according to the American Institute of Economic Research (AIER). AIER is an independent organization that publishes on economic topics. The CDI rankings are not representative of specific universities, but are more about the accessibility and quality of life that these cities provide to socially active people surviving on student loans and part-time jobs, such as myself, and most of you.

This may bring a bit of excitement and pride to an economic statistician reading this, but to the rest of the human race the implications are that your college fund is being well spent in the city of Portland.

The CDI placed Seattle fifth in the rankings of major metro areas, while Corvallis ranked seventh on best college towns. No top-10 love for Eugene (although it has its benefits), but

Corvallis, Portland and Seattle make up the only three areas ranked in the Pacific Northwest.

If you are “shopping” for colleges, this index shows where to find the best value. The CDI is formulated by 12 criteria, generally categorized as academic environment (holders of foreign passports, concentration of students), quality of life (average rent of two-bedroom apartment, arts and leisure) and professional opportunity (ratio of college-educated people in area, income per capita).

The results are hard to disagree with because their sources, such as the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are neutral. But to make a claim about the quality of a college destination based on those sources seems absurd. The stats about the citizens (the main differentiating factor between a college review and the CDI) act more as an attractor of professionalism and an idea of life for those that plan to stay after achieving their diploma.

For example, out-of-staters in Portland often celebrate no sales tax, tall trees and frequency of rain (not all do) and Portland brings up thoughts of artisans and downtown parks. Seattle, perhaps, brings thoughts of purchasing faux Gucci bags on Water Street, grunge music and Microsoft. I prefer Portland.

The city where a college resides is an important factor, but I hold that it is not as important

An accurate diagnosis early in life of ADHD or autism is huge. Technology and new developments that can get us to that point is so important. It can get people the assistance they need and will help prevent too many diagnoses of ADHD or autism. ■

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as the college itself. When people search for a college, they may look into how much money they will make after graduation. They might also look for student diversity and definitely their cost of living. But what does it matter how many college graduates occupy the rest of the city? Why would the CDI include the number of artists and others in the “creative class?”

It seems to be about bragging rights. I won’t deny that location and off-campus amenities are important, and that is what the CDI attempts to highlight. In its attempts to do so, it risks oversimplification. The CDI doesn’t even mention overall health or happiness.

It’s notable that for a mid-sized metro, Portland has the highest marks for city accessibility. That means a significant number of people commute by foot or bike. No surprise there.

We are only surpassed by major metros such as San Francisco, and a few smaller college towns that one could walk across.

About half of the 75 schools listed on the CDI are concentrated along the East Coast and the southern slant of California in traditionally more developed and wealthy areas. The rest are scattered across the country.

There are several things one simply cannot capture with statistics. When it comes down to it, the numbers are significant but they can’t quite represent the pristine nature of Forest Park or the nearby escapes such as Mt. Hood

and the Oregon Coast. Nor do they consider the sewage overflows in the Willamette River. If they could contribute surroundings and something other than leisure and money into the category Quality of Life, this index would have a better foundation in reality. In the meantime, despite the city’s downfalls, it’s not difficult to agree with the rankings—the index has done well in the end.

Portland is a thriving city, with an ever-blossoming music scene and plenty of places that

Portland boasts a very modern atmosphere—the city is just less than 160 years old. Portland also holds tight to sustainability and people often take the responsibility themselves. are easy to get to. I have never felt uneasy about walking downtown alone at night, which might be hard to say if I lived in Seattle. For the more studious, there are many used bookstores, and Portland has the advantage of beautiful aesthetics at almost every corner.

Although I am a fan of all things ancient, Portland boasts a very modern atmosphere— the city is just less than 160 years old. Portland also holds tight to sustainability and people often take the responsibility themselves. Here at PSU, we are right in the center of it. Things are sure to change if the city grows, but for now, it is a haven for students and a jewel in the crown of Oregon.

As for us students, we are all just looking for a quiet and secure place to study, right? ■

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Broken social scene How to make friends and influence yourself Joshua Hunt Vanguard staff

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Hey, isn’t that the Facebook movie?

People from Harvard are real jerks Richard D. Oxley Vanguard staff

The Social Network came out in theaters this weekend, backed by a substantial buzz for a film that is certain to have viewers intrigued and talking about their favorite online pastime.

Years before you spent hours posting the mundane and exciting events of your life, passive-aggressively debating politics or striving for the highest score in Robot Unicorn Attack, Mark Zuckerberg was busy being a bit of a misfit in college.

For example, while attending Harvard in 2003, a heartbroken and drunk Zuckerberg decided to create a highly offensive website rating his fellow female students according to attractiveness. Doing so involved hacking a number of protected university websites and writing computer code overnight. Of course, doing so entertained some while offending even more and made a minor stir in the news.

Shortly after the incident, Zuckerberg would throw himself into a much larger project,

something he called “The Facebook,” a social network that highly emphasized exclusivity— initially only available to Harvard students. He brought his best friend Eduardo Saverin on board to basically fund the project for a mere $1,800. After months of work, The Facebook went online and was an instant success.

But of course, as any good story goes, it wasn’t so simple. The Social Network tells not only the story of the popular Facebook, but also relates what happened on a personal level regarding various players, including two lawsuits over the site that Zuckerberg found himself in—one case involving fellow students claiming to have had the idea first, and another involving his best friend Saverin. Between these two cases lies the story of the most wellknown social network we all love to use.

Jesse Eisenberg, known for his roles in Zombieland or Adventureland (maybe they should have called this film Social Networkland) takes on the character of Zuckerberg and more than pulls it off. Eisenberg has suffered a bit of typecasting that has placed him in a variety of squirmy and nervous character roles—to many moviegoers, he is interchangeable with Michael Cera—until now. The Social Network should

cting under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, the CIA began a domestic intelligence-gathering operation code named CHAOS. The goal of the program was to collect information on subversive leftist groups, and to infiltrate and undermine them. Targets included student groups across the nation, anti-war protestors, Jewish organizations and the women’s liberation movement. This illegal gathering of intelligence on U.S. citizens culminated in the Watergate scandal, ending the careers of many high-ranking political officials, including the president of the United States.

One notorious incident involved the CIA purchase of a garbage collection company.

In order to gather intelligence on the Jewish group B’nai B’rith, the U.S. intelligence agency collected salvaged documents from their refuse. Domestic intelligence today is not such dirty work. Much of the information that President Nixon risked his office to gather would now be his for the asking. In fact, he would not even have to ask. Mark Zuckerberg would ask for him.

The Harvard dropout and co-founder of Facebook recently told the New Yorker that he “wants to make the world a more open place.”

The extent to which Zuckerberg has succeeded would have been difficult to fathom even a few years ago. Over the years, corporations and marketing firms have dedicated untold sums of money to the gathering, processing, and analyzing of precisely the information that anyone with a Facebook account gives the social networking giant.

This is the new model for advertising in a postmodern world. Social networking circumvents the element of trust that advertisers once had to cultivate to sell a product or build a brand. Instead of being sold on a product or idea, we tell the marketing firms what we are vulnerable to being sold on. It is a curious case of advertising to the advertisers how to advertise to us.

While many Americans are aware of identity theft, social networking has created an opposite trend of identity sharing. The effects of identity theft are devastating, direct and immediate. We know the ramifications of losing control over our identity in such a manner. Identity sharing is a much more complex issue. By telling a corporation how to effectively communicate with them, consumers are denied the awareness that was once implicit in advertising. There are, however, some effects of identity sharing that can be immediately harmful.

According to a study conducted at the University of Wisconsin, the Facebook profile that you show the world could impact your ability to gain employment. The study found that candidates whose profile showed an emphasis on family and professional orientation were much more likely to be interviewed. If hired, they were also likely to be offered a significantly higher starting salary.

Study participants whose Facebook profiles featured an emphasis on alcohol consumption were found to be unlikely to reach the interview stage.

Beyond giving away valuable demographic information and jeopardizing future employment with candid profile posts, Facebook users also accept the risk of having their words, images or information used in any context that the media giant wishes, and to whatever end. For example, users would have no legal recourse if the company decided to use their profile picture in an advertisement.

Users could find their words used to endorse a political candidate, whether or not it is one they actually support.

The real value of Facebook, however, is in the long view.

Analysts speculate that Facebook, a privately held company, is in the process of developing a business plan with the goal of going public.

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel recently told Reuters that he believes the company will make an initial public offering in 2012. With a huge online media presence, and access to priceless marketing data on its half a billion users, the expectations are huge. Initial Public Offering plans are being carefully managed, and a business plan patiently constructed. Facebook is gaining a market legitimacy that will likely strengthen the anticipated public offering.

Social networking platforms have become a two-way mirror. We look in an attempt to see ourselves, and to share what we see with our friends. There are others watching, however, and watching much more closely. For uncomplicated reasons, 500 million people across the world have engaged themselves in the most direct and comprehensive intelligence gathering undertaking in the history of the world. The reasons driving the forces behind social networking platforms are even less complicated. In Mark Zuckerberg’s “open world” consumers are all there for the taking.

More aptly, they are there for the giving. ■

serve to highlight Eisenberg’s acting in a much The real-life counterparts to the film’s more serious way and set him apart from his characters, such as Zuckerberg, have previous roles. denounced the film as being more fiction than The character of Zuckerberg, while a little an accurate account. The Social Network, nerdy as a computer programmer, is rather however, does achieve success as a film when all complex. Basically, he’s a bit of a prick who, while having great talent in programming, may suffer from a lack of business sense. Best friend Saverin is the opposite, knowing nothing of computers, but savvy in business—though perhaps he suffers from not thinking big enough.

It is slightly humorous to find Justin Timberlake, a product of the music industry hit machine, playing Sean Parker. Parker was the co-founder of Napster, the computer program that turned the music industry on its head IMAGE COURTESY COLUMBIA PICTURES and ultimately revealed Lars Meta cinema: Rich young jerks playing rich young jerks.

Ulrich to the world as a huge asshole.

The Social Network has a story that will is said and done. In addition to being one of captivate you. It takes on various angles on the most intriguing behind-the-scenes stories the founding of Facebook—the people who I’ve ever come across, every aspect of the movie contributed and who got screwed over—the is remarkably well done. When award season friendships created and the many enemies hits, don’t be surprised to find The Social forged.

Network nabbing a few nominations. At the If that is all the pre-viewing information very least, the film will leave you with the sense you can handle, then stop reading now. While that people who go to Harvard are spoiled this doesn’t ruin or give a single thing away, pretentious jerks. ■ I will say that the ending is rather abrupt— finishing the film suddenly after building an The Social Network intense momentum and perhaps leaving a few In theaters now questions lingering, such as how Facebook ultimately achieved its financial success.

Have sticks, will travel: Unlike air guitar, air drums have yet to be perfected.

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Pakistani political insider reads at Powell’s Fatima Bhutto comes to Portland to promote new memoir Andrea Vedder Vanguard staff

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n Monday, Oct. 4, Powell’s Books will host Fatima Bhutto, the stunningly beautiful poet and political columnist who to many is the heiress-presumptive to the Bhutto family’s dynastic control of Pakistani high government.

Bhutto, however, sees her role in Pakistani legislation a little differently.

“I do not believe in the politics of birthright,” she said in a 2008 interview with Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" “I’m a writer, and I’m political through my writings…I have no desire to sit in parliament, especially not this kind of parliament.”

Bhutto’s contemptuous view of Pakistan’s parliament stems from the country’s ongoing corruption scandals in which her family has been mired for decades. These stories form the basis of Songs of Blood and Sword, Bhutto’s recently released memoir.

Bhutto’s paternal grandfather, Zufilkar Ali Bhutto, was the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party, the president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and the prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was executed by the state in 1979. Ms. Bhutto’s paternal uncle, Shahnawaz Bhutto, was involved in orchestrating the opposition movement to Pakistan’s military regime; he was poisoned, presumably by his wife or a military official at the behest of Pakistani intelligence. Ms. Bhutto’s paternal aunt, Benazir Bhutto, was an immensely popular political figure and twiceelected prime minister of Pakistan; she was assassinated in 2007, only two weeks before Pakistan’s 2008 general elections.

Finally, there was Fatima’s father, Murtaza Bhutto, on whom Songs is focused.

Murtaza Bhutto was a young radical who spent over a decade of his adult life in selfimposed political exile, finally returning to challenge what he viewed as the corrupt, self-serving politics of his older sister Benazir, who was then serving as prime minister. The PPP was founded, after all, on the principles of socialism and justice; Benazir, presumably heavily influenced by her money-minded husband Asif Ali Zadari, was straying far from

the party platform her father designed in the 1960s. Murtaza ran for a parliament seat from his home in Damascus, Syria, won by an overwhelming majority, and returned to Pakistan only to be arrested on Benazir’s orders and imprisoned for eight months.

Two-and-a-half years later, while Benazir was still serving as prime minister, Murtaza was murdered by Pakistani police. His convoy was returning home after a long night of campaigning when the streetlights suddenly shut off and the first sniper shot was fired. After two more shots, Murtaza got out of his car and urged the police to hold their fire; instead, more than 80 governmentsanctioned snipers opened fire on the Bhutto convoy for nearly 10 minutes. When they were finished shooting from afar, select police delivered fatal shots to those who lay injured and bleeding to death in the street.

All the while, 12-year-old Fatima was lying on the floor in the Bhutto compound, using her body as a shield to protect her six-year-old brother.

One of Pakistan’s greatest political mysteries is whether Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zadari (Pakistan’s current president) are responsible for the murder of Murtaza Bhutto. Certainly, they obstructed the investigation into his death as much as possible. Songs provides one of the most in-depth treatments of Murtaza’s death available, and while it is not research-based, it is founded on family history.

Songs is Bhutto’s third book. Her previous publications are Whispers in the Desert, a collection of poems, and 8:50 a.m. October 8, 2005, a book recording accounts of the Kashmir earthquake that occurred at that precise time.

Currently, Bhutto writes columns for The Daily Beast (an American online news source) and New Statesman (a British print weekly), as well as a weekly column for Daily Jang, Pakistan’s largest Urdu-language daily newspaper.

Fatima Bhutto is 28 years old and lives in Karachi with her stepmother and brother.

The reading will be held in Powell’s Pearl Room. ■

The Love Loungers are on the rise, baby, watch out Leah Bodenhamer Vanguard staff

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o kick off this fall’s series of KSPU benefit shows, four versatile musical groups will be getting together tonight to help support one of the last freeform radio stations in the nation. At the beginning of summer, as many well know, KPSU’s city-wide frequency ceased to exist, leaving many unsuspecting radio listeners flabbergasted, confused, even a little offended.

Drifting down the stream of technological progressivism (littered with dramatic budget cuts), KPSU is now almost entirely an online station, and, in lieu of the new financial system, is struggling to meet revenue goals in order to stay afloat.

As such, The Ocean Floor, Yeah Great Fine, Firs of Prey and The Love Loungers will be hosting an evening of myriad musical madness at Backspace and a percentage of the proceeds will head over to the KPSU financial masterminds. The range of genres to be showcased tonight is much anticipated.

Aaron Bikis, promotions director at KPSU and the man in charge of booking shows, says, “It’s so diverse because we really want to reach out to as many people as we can, you know, so people can feel that community connection with their school, because this is such a commuter school.”

He and Jay Turk, the music director, are both very enthusiastic about how this year will unfold for their student-run station, the potential for growth and also for tonight’s event at Backspace. Bikis describes The Love Loungers as “spoken word funk rap,” Yeah Great Fine as “upbeat, dance, rock, utilizing complex syncopated beats,” Firs of Prey as “acoustic…something tropical about it with a little indie spin” and The Ocean Floor as “the very definition of indie in many ways; stuff you listen to when you’re soaking in a bathtub.”

Each act has its gems of magnificence, but headlining the show is a band whose rapid success seems almost too good to be true.

In March of 2010 (yes, six months ago), Ini Akpan decided he wanted a full band, rather than sample tracks, to back some of his DJ productions while he was hosting at Club 915.

Friends of friends of friends commenced one evening, live, completely unrehearsed—though equipped with skills ranging from jazz to experimental to hip hop—and played together with great success, much to the delight of their listeners.

All eight members liked where the group was headed, the energy they created together, and before they knew it, The Love Loungers was born, the great pioneers of Groove-Hop. “Groove-Hop,” drummer and Renaissance man Dino West says, “is a continuous crossstep of jazz, soul, funk, blues and hip hop.

It is described as playing the crates…we find the purest grooves of music from the past and we twist [them] with hip hop and jazz improvisation…we like to say, it’s not a movement—it’s a groovement.”

What makes this group so hot, besides its debonair presence, community building engagements and unique “musical goulash”

sound, is the group’s fiery stage performances.

Each show is different due to the group’s embracive attitude towards both jazz and hip hop improvisation, but also how much each member of the band gives him or herself to the audience and how much the audience delivers it right back—that game of energetic tug-ofwar has infinite power to change the essence of a show.

“They are wild,” said Turk, who witnessed the group’s live performance in the KPSU lounge Saturday night. “So full of energy.”

Today The Love Loungers are busier than they have ever been, playing three to four shows a week. When once the group had to call up the venues, almost begging for time slots, it is now frequently called up by various

The Love Loungers lounging.

venues and agencies eager to book them.

Their powerful energy and teasing playfulness on stage have, thus far, brought only more positivity their way. They will be releasing an EP soon and a full-length album, hopefully, by Valentine’s Day. “There is no reason,” said guitarist DeAngelo Raines, “why we shouldn’t be playing international in the future.”

“Yeah,” said West, “why wouldn’t you go see the Love Loungers?”

Great question indeed. With a name and sound so sexy, so enticing, so full of swag, why not? ■

The Love Loungers, Firs of Prey, Yeah Great Fine, The Ocean Floor Backspace 115 NW 5th Ave Tonight, 9 p.m.

All Ages, $5

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Homeless Harassment Portland’s homeless problem and how gender fits in Rebekah Hunt Vanguard staff

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Let the right me in How the American remake holds up to the original film Richard D. Oxley Vanguard staff

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ids—they grow up so fast these days. One moment they’re taking their first steps and the next moment they’re making fast friends with the neighborhood homicidal monster. Good times to cherish.

Gory, startling and morbid, Let Me In offers a depth and sensitivity not commonly found in horror films. In fact, the movie borders on a few genres, making it quite a unique gem for October’s Halloween zeal, yet it can stand on its own in any season.

Let Me In—the American remake of the Swedish Let the Right One In—tells the story of Owen, your average 12-yearold growing up in snowy 1983 New Mexico. And by average, I mean he’s a scrawny little guy who gets picked on daily at school, while at home his wino mom pays very little attention to him before passing out. With no friends, and basically no real family structure, Owen spends his time lonely in the frosty playground outside his apartments.

Understandably, Owen might be emerging into his teenage years as a bit of an oddball—and a twisted one at that.

Then, one evening, Owen notices his mysterious new nextdoor neighbors moving in—a little girl named Abby and her father. As it turns out, the girl is a bit of an oddball as well and the two strike up a friendship. But things aren’t always as they seem, as the mysterious neighbors hide dark secrets and murderous habits.

Chances are you already know the eerie angle here is vampirism—one look at the film’s trailer will tell you that. But before you write the whole thing off, bear in mind that it is a kind of vampirism that would make Twilight fans cry shortly before vomiting. This film will not bring about any angered blogs about who should be with whom, or cause middle-aged women to fantasize about 17-year-old washboard abs.

ABOVE: Owen scowls in disbelief as he vows to never let the neighbor girl borrow his good bedsheets ever again.

RIGHT: Two weirdos, one homicidal, share a tender moment near an iced-over chainlink fence and a bike rack. Thousands of Portlanders swoon.

Rather, Let Me In may surprise you with its layered characters, in-depth story and overall originality—a lot is going on in this film. However, it does suffer from the bane of modern movies— CGI, a constant disappointment. Unlike the Swedish original that uses good old-fashioned effects and stunts, Let Me In utilizes CGI as a substitute and therefore displays subpar visuals that always take me out of a film.

The film’s two child stars, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloe Moretz, give seasoned adult actors Elias Koteas and Richard Jenkins a run for their money. These two kids give me hope for the future in the craft of acting. The chemistry and delivery these two provide is impressive, and despite this movie working within the realm of horror, I would be surprised if award talk isn’t sparked from this.

Devoted film nerds will be revisiting Let Me In as the American remake of its 2008 Swedish counterpart, which in turn is the adaptation of the popular novel published in 2004 of the same name. Those familiar with the internationally popular original will find this new version a near frame-for-frame copy.

There are a few differences, of course, but none that strike as straying so far that they set the film apart.

The film is so close to the original that one might even wonder why a remake was needed in the first place. Why? Look, we’re Americans. If we wanted to read subtitles, we’d actually invest in things like reading or education.

One noticeable difference in Let Me In is the depiction of the vampire, who is far more monstrous and pronounced in the latest edition.

Despite bad CGI, the new version is worth a trip to the theatre. A complete film geek experience might include a viewing of the original that made the story so popular in the first place. However, as the films are damn near identical, the newest shall suffice nicely for the newcomer. ■

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Portland isn’t exactly the Big Bad Wolf as far as major cities are concerned. It barely outranks Oklahoma City for the number 30 spot on the list of U.S. cities by population. The city I moved from, a sprawling metropolitan wasteland of gauche excess and SUVs, comes in at number five. Psychologically, that’s quite a difference. Portland has always struck me as a more of a little mountaintop town than a bustling metropolis and, barring a few specific situations, I feel pretty safe and at ease on the streets in Portland.

As in any other major city, there are a few homeless people here. More than a few, in fact. In an article out this week, San Francisco Examiner writer Hugh Patterson calls the city’s homelessness situation a crisis. If it is a crisis in San Francisco, it is a disaster in Portland. In its 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that Oregon has the highest percentage of homeless people in the country. For a little mountaintop town, that’s quite an accomplishment, and it earns us very close quarters with our burgeoning homeless horde. Part of the vicious cycle of overpopulation in any species is aggression.

The problems facing homeless people are dire and manifold, and I will not pretend to understand them. What I do understand is that it is hard to sympathize with a guy who calls me an “ugly c**t” because I didn’t give him a quarter. When this individual accosted my friend and me over the desired quarter, we both refused. His verbal onslaught (all of which was obscene to the level of being unprintable) was directed solely at me. Why? The person I was with happens to be a large dude. A large dude who said nothing in my defense, however, because he didn’t need to. Unbeknownst to the offending urchin, I am

“The problems facing homeless people are dire and manifold, and I will not pretend to understand them. What I do understand is that it is hard to sympathize with a guy who calls me an “ugly c**t” because I didn’t give him a quarter.” the far more aggressive of the two of us, a veteran of the United Stated armed forces and far more versed in handling incursions upon my person by unwanted interlopers.

After I dealt the young man his verbal excoriation and sent him away tail-tucked, I discussed this matter with my friend.

We arrived at the conclusion that men don’t get harassed nearly as much because they just don’t appear to be an easy target.

Though I am anything but an easy target, I get attacked solely for the perceived weakness of being female. That’s right, ladies; another of the many gifts society bestows upon us, along with our X chromosome, is the fact that the vast majority of unprovoked aggressive behavior is directed at us.

Most of the women I know are not weak or passive by any means, but are also not tough-as-nails bitches with something to prove, like me. Most of us would love to help someone in need, and do at every opportunity (even me). However, the immediate and intense aggression of the homeless population (and men in general, but that is another article) toward females places us in the position of not having the choice to be compassionate because of clear and present physical danger to our lives.

I wanted this article to be more than another “Don’t let those boys push you around” piece, but it appears to me that it is necessary. Women are taught to be nice above all. Not to make a fuss. To smile. We are rarely taught that it is OK to have strong personal boundaries and to know what we are not comfortable with. We are rarely taught that it is OK to tell some jerk who thinks he can take advantage of us to fuck off.

Ladies, to pick up where your mommas failed you, I am telling you it’s OK. Tell strange men to back away. Refuse interactions that make you feel uneasy. That feeling is an instinct you need to learn to trust. My unyielding and confrontational interaction style may not work for everyone, but find something that works for you.

It would be wonderful to be able to be as kind and carefree as we want to, but the bottom line is that someone who is dangerous will take advantage of your desire not to be perceived as impolite. I would rather some stranger think I am a bitch than a victim, and I would rather that all of you feel entitled to be unfriendly than wind up in the morgue. Have hard boundaries and do not be afraid of what people will think of them. The safer you feel to protect yourself, the kinder you can be when you want to, and that benefits everyone. ■

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Hey bro, what’s that thing you’re shaking?

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Does the Shake Weight really work?

Rian Evans Vanguard staff

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f one is unfortunate enough to be awake during the wee hours of the morning, they will undoubtedly be pelted with countless TV ads for miracle diet and exercise products.

Ridiculous claims like “Get fit in only five minutes a day,” “Lose 10 pounds of fat in five days” or “Gain 10 pounds of muscle in a week” are not uncommon. Never has the old adage “Let the buyer beware” been more appropriate than when it comes to which diet and exercise products one buys.

Of course, loony fitness products are nothing new. In fact, even before the invention of the television people were getting scammed by ads in the back of comic books, magazines and so forth.

When looking back at old Charles Atlas ads and the like from the 1940s, I do have some sympathy for both the salesman and the consumer. After all, there wasn’t a whole lot of legitimate knowledge floating around about how to gain muscle or reduce body fat. Sure, there were some hucksters, but I’d say many of the salesmen back then were actually pioneers in the fitness industry that deserve a lot of credit for their accomplishments and contributions.

That was then, this is now. While some would argue that exercise is still more of an art than a science, there is no excuse for most of the junk we see on late night TV. Let’s take a look at the latest exercise sensation that is all too regrettably taking the nation by storm: the Shake Weight.

“Saturday Night Live” has already made all the obvious jokes about this contraption, so let’s get down to the more serious stuff. First off, hopefully no one believes that the models in the TV spots actually achieved their level of fitness with the use of the Shake Weight. No, these customers are clearly long-time bodybuilders and fitness models. They lift weights for several hours per week, follow meticulous diets and perhaps even have a little chemical assistance. If they weren’t pulling in a paycheck, they probably wouldn’t be caught dead holding the damn thing.

I wouldn’t be surprised if all their bodybuilding buddies razz them endlessly for appearing in the ads.

Secondly, how is this thing going to build muscle? I’m not going to say the Shake Weight will accomplish absolutely nothing (just close to nothing), but the most surefire way to gain muscle mass and strength—especially for a beginner—is through progressive loading. Without getting completely fitness geek-y, the principle of overload states that in order for a muscle to adapt (i.e., to grow in size and increase in strength), it must be subjected to greater stimulus than it is accustomed to. For the new or intermediate trainee, the most effective stimulus to manipulate is the amount of weight used. The trainee must progressively challenge themselves with heavier loads as they get bigger and stronger. With the Shake Weight, there’s hardly any load at all, nor can the load be increased. The range of motion is also nearly nonexistent.

Lastly, the claims of “toning” are bogus, because “tone” is really just an appreciable amount of muscular development combined with lower body fat levels. As previously stated, the Shake Weight isn’t effective at building muscle, so that means its “toning” capabilities are next to nil as well. It is possible that there could be some weight loss, but it is doubtful. The Shake Weight workout is only supposed to be six minutes long, but an average trainee is only going to burn about five calories per minute while weight training, so we’re looking at 30 calories burned during the workout itself. Even if the user’s metabolism was slightly elevated following the workout, thanks to excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), the overall calorie burn is still negligible.

My suggestion to you, dear reader, is to stay away from the Shake Weight and all other gadgets of its ilk. Instead, spend that money on a weight training guide or the dirt-cheap personal training services offered at the PSU Rec Center. You’ll build more muscle, lose more fat, and perhaps best of all, you won’t have to look like an idiot in the process. ■

Misanthropizza: Because when it comes to phtographic focus, it's pizza first, human beings second.

It’s pizza month educate yo’self!

Since October is National Pizza Month, now is a great time to taste the different pies floating around Portland. But first, let’s brush up on your pizza knowledge Kat Vetrano VANGUARD STAFF

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izza Napoletana: The pie is thin and crispy with a puffed end crust, or “lip,” and is traditionally simplistic in its fresh toppings. It’s usually made in a woodburning oven, so it often has a blistered, near-burnt appearance. In many restaurants, you’ll find these pies in the Margherita format—basil, tomatoes and mozzarella. Some pizzerias and restaurants consider the official Napoletana pie to be simply topped with aged cheese, anchovies and sauce.

Sicilian style pizza: This pizza’s definition depends on who you ask. The United States’ version is basically any squareshaped pizza, while Italians believe pizza from Sicily has its toppings baked into the crust, more like a focaccia.

Chicago style: The ultimate deep-dish pie has a buttery crust, a thick tomato sauce, and it’s topped with a whole lot of cheese. It should be noted that Chicago also has its own thin-crust pizza, which is crispy and flakey with an intensely flavorful sauce.

New York style: The New Yorker’s pizza slice is big, so they can be easily folded and eaten that way. The crust should be crisp and chewy, and many New Yorkers will go ahead and order a “regular slice” which is simply a slice with no toppings—just cheese and sauce.

Now that you have the education, here’s where to try your new favorite pie(s):

■ Food Cart Slice Give Pizza A Chance Between Southwest Fourth and Fifth on Stark Street 11 a.m.—3 p.m., Monday—Friday 503-333-4434

This pumpkin-colored cart serves up huge slices on a truly sensational crust made with whole-wheat flour (which is traditional in Italian pizza making). Owner John Eads gets his toppings from local sources, which might explain why the sausage (which is from Cascade Farms) on the sausage-andmushroom slice is so juicy and delicious. Eads also makes his own soda, so your slice can be washed down with some sarsaparilla to complete your afternoon.

If you follow food culture in Portland at all, it’s likely you’ve heard of Nostrana Chef Cathy Whims. And for good reason: Her pie is damn near perfection. She serves up pizzas that are whisper thin—so thin, in fact, that the servers give you scissors at the table to cut your own slices. The sauce is made with the very best San Marzano tomatoes, so the simple Margherita really exudes freshness. And the fact that you can get one of these fantastic pies for just $5 at their late night happy hour is almost too good to be true.

■ Cult Following Pie Apizza Scholls 4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

5 p.m.—9:30 p.m., Monday—Saturday 4 p.m.—8 p.m., Sunday 503-233-1286

Maybe you’ve seen Apizza Scholls before on your television, where Anthony Bourdain sat salivating over a giant pizza, pontificating what he believes true Portlanders are really like.

Or perhaps you’ve heard other people swoon over their pies, and talk about how if you get there too late, they could be simply be out of dough and then you’re out of luck (their special dough takes twenty-four hours to ferment). Whatever you’ve heard, this is a classic Portland institution that I believe surpasses their good name. Their pies are baked in extremely hot ovens—650 to 900 Fahrenheit—giving them an ultimate crisp. Although they’re a little out of most peoples' price ranges, the leftovers of their Apizza “Margo” Rita or Apizza Amore (with cured pork shoulder) pies will last you for days and are just too phenomenal to be considered “leftovers”— more like heaven. ■

■ Big Deal Chef Pie Nostrana 1401 SE Morrison St. Lunch 11:30 a.m.—2 p.m., Monday—Friday Dinner 5­—10 p.m., Sunday—Thursday; 5—11 p.m., Fri and Sat 503-234-2427

Hot Lips near PSU campus.

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Up next: Idaho State Bengals Portland State having faced two very difficult Pac-10 opponents, but the stats are eerily similar.

Scouting the Bengals

Busting loose: Junior running back Cory McCaffrey attempts to gain some ground against the Oregon defense.

Football opens up conference play in their first home game of the season ALLISON WHITED VANGUARD STAFF

Portland State football hosts Idaho State Saturday evening in the Vikings’ first of four games this season to be played on their temporary home turf at Hillsboro Stadium.

Saturday’s game marks a series of firsts. Not only will it be the first time in a decade that

Portland State will play a home game in Hillsboro, but it will also be the first game of Big Sky Conference play. In addition, it will be first-year head coach Nigel Burton’s premiere in front of a local crowd.

“We’re excited to have an opportunity to finally play in front of our own family, friends and fans,” Burton said in a media conference.

The Vikings are playing all home games this year in the 7,825-seat suburban stadium due to the current renovation of PGE Park, which seats nearly 20,000. They were similarly displaced when PGE Park was

revamped in 2000 and though the suburbs are not the Vikings’ true home, Burton said he is trying to create the feeling of “a home away from home” at the facility.

“Hillsboro Stadium provides a unique atmosphere for our fans and our team because it is a smaller facility,” Burton said.

Below are details of this week’s matchup.

Records entering the game

Portland State enters the match with a 1-2 overall record, with both losses courtesy of Pac-10 opponents.

The Vikings’ lone win came from a strong showing against UC Davis, who is the favorite to win their conference.

Idaho State, meanwhile, is 1-3 overall and 0-2 in conference play. The Bengals have allowed each of their four opponents to score in the thirty-point range.

Last year’s meeting

All photos by Adam Wickham/VANGUARD STAFF

Injury report Portland State senior quarterback Drew Hubel underwent surgery on his

right shoulder last week and will redshirt the 2010 season, according to team media reports.

The surgery on Hubel’s throwing arm is described as minor, and stems from a dislocated shoulder he suffered last year during the Nov. 7 game against visiting Montana State. Hubel also had surgery during the offseason to mend a knee he injured last October.

With 20 starts and 24 games played, Hubel has seen more game time than any other QB on the Viks’ roster but has not played this year. By redshirting this season, he will be eligible to return next year.

The final score was 41-34, Idaho State. In a tense game in Pocatello, the Bengals pulled out a last-minute win.

In the team’s final game of the season—and the last with head coach Jerry Glanville at the helm—the Vikings didn’t do themselves any favors. They committed four turnovers and allowed the Bengals to continue their winning drive with a 15-yard penalty after the Portland State defense had stopped Idaho State on third down.

Even stevens

Both teams seem to be on even footing at this point in the season. There are things to consider, such as Idaho State having played one more game than Portland State and

The Bengals have found themselves struggling throughout much of the past four years. In that time, they have racked up only six wins and have yet to win a road game.

This season seems to be starting off slow for them as well, with the offense and defenses both struggling in their conference matchups.

The ace up their sleeve is the performance of their special teams. Wide receiver Tavoy Moore has proven his skill in kick and punt returns. He has racked up a touchdown return with each, and his 25.2-yard punt return average ranks second in the nation. Punter David Harrington is also topping the charts. Harrington is listed first in the nation with a 46.9-yard average.

“The unique thing that Idaho State brings is an unbelievable return aspect and special teams play,” Burton said. “They do a really good job there. We’re going to have to limit their ability to change the game, special teams-wise.”

The Bengals defense also has play-making ability. The Bengals’ top tackler, YEAR linebacker A.J. Storms, had 50 tackles on the season. By comparison, YEAR Manoa Latu is the Vikings’ top tackler with 25 tackles. Idaho State’s YEAR defensive end, Sean Rutten, has racked up four solo sacks so far this season, whereas the entire Vikings squad has come up with two.

team. If the defense can shut down Idaho State’s ground attack, the game will be as good as won. When Idaho State played Northern Arizona last week, they were kept to just 37 yards rushing and lost the game. Both of the Bengals’

quarterbacks are freshmen, and with that mistakes seem inevitable.

Kickoff for Saturday’s game is set for 5:05 p.m. at Hillsboro Stadium. It can be followed live on www.b2tv.com or heard on 970 AM. ■

Leading receiver: Senior Ray Fry leads the Vikings in receptions, with his longest of the season being a 62-yard catch against Arizona State on Sept. 4.

Scouting the Vikings

The Vikings will need to contain the Idaho State’s special teams, something they should be up to doing.

Though they lost to Oregon 69-0 two weeks ago, they did a tremendous job of containing what was then the nation’s top-ranked punt return team. The Ducks came in with a 43.6-yard return average, but only got 9.7 yards on seven attempts.

Zach Brown, Portland State’s big-legged sophomore kicker, has had a great start to his second year. He’s made 21 of 25 field goals so far in his career, and seven of nine this season. The only ones he has missed have been from distances of 50 yards out or greater. If it becomes as close of a game as it was last year, he could be instrumental to a Vikings’ win.

Junior quarterback Connor Kavanaugh needs to keep playing the clean game he has been playing. With an efficiency rating of 52.2 percent, he’s not making too many mistakes and he’s getting the ball out. His scrambling ability, statistically, makes him the third-best rusher on the

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Hillsboro Stadium Saturday, 5:05 pm Coverage: Radio - KXFD AM-970 Live stats - goviks.com *First home game, first conference game

Statistical Comparison: Total offense Rushing yds Passing yds per game Passing yds allowed

PSU 277 378 151 237.3

ISU 251.2 382 155.8 201.2

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Connor Kavanaugh, 35 of 67 for 342 yds, 1 TD

Kyle Morris, 37 of 66 for 374 yds, 3 TDs

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Cory Mccaffrey, 38 carries for 156 yds, 1 TD

Corey White, 46 carries for 240 yds, 2 TDs

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Viks spike Spartans Portland State sweeps Trinity Western ROSEMARY HANSON VANGUARD STAFF

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The conference killer: Senior outside hitter Whitney Phillips goes for a kill in a home match against Oregon. She leads the Big Sky Conference with 282 kills and averages 5.13 per set.

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arsenal of outside hitters that are really good at attacking high hands and attacking the block,” Seemann said. “What I want to work on tomorrow before we go down there is our blockers— just staying disciplined, staying zone tight.”

Last season, Portland State took home its first win at Sac State after losing 15 consecutive games on the Hornets’ Colberg Court. This weekend’s match will mark the 50th time the two teams have faced each other.

Portland State currently leads its opponents in solo blocks, 26-20, but is behind in total blocks 134.5 –116.

Senior Phillips continues to lead the Viks in kills, both overall and in conference. Seemann said Phillips' focus for the Sac State game, and for future play, is on her errors.

“I certainly think she did a good job providing good clean offense,” Seemann said. “We’re trying to reduce her errors,” he added. “I don’t think the team put a lot of pressure on her but she definitely reduced her unforced errors.”

Portland State currently leads the Big Sky conference, and is outranking its conference opponents in five of the seven conference-only statistics: hitting percent, assists, kills, services and digs.

The Vikings' game will be at Sac State this Saturday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Game coverage can be found at www.goviks.com. ■

Cross country teams head to Salem

What’s next

Portland State

Portland State women’s volleyball earned a straight-set victory Wednesday in the exhibition match over Trinity Western at the Stott Center, 3-0. The game will not count towards Portland State’s overall season record, but they still played the Vikings’ winning way.

Now, Portland State (8-6, 4-0 Big Sky) will take its winning style on the road as the team faces off against Sacramento State in the Viks’ fifth conference match of the season. Sacramento State (7-12, 0-2 Big Sky) will face Eastern Washington on Friday, then PSU on Saturday. Sac State recently finished out a hard road trip with its first two conference losses.

In Tuesday’s exhibition, the first set opened with a kill by Trinity Western’s Kara JansenVanDoom and from there, the score stayed close. A service ace from Portland State senior outside hitter Whitney Phillips tied up the score, and following another tie at 10-all the Vikings pulled ahead to take the lead and win the first set, 25-21.

Set two featured a similar routine, with the Viks this time

gaining the opening point. After going back-and-forth with the Spartans, the score landed at a sixth tie at 13-all. The Vikings once again took the lead from there to ride the set to a 25-20 win.

The Spartans held a tough defense in the final set, which kept the score solid. It wasn’t until a final run—beginning with a block from PSU’s outside hitter Kaeli Patton at 20-19—that the Viks pushed to their game-winning set score of 25-22.

Set three saw the Viks earn their best attack percentage of the night, .194. Phillips showed the best attack percentage of the night, (.750), followed by middle blocker Cara Olden (.400).

YEAR setter Domi Kristinikova dominated the night in assists, posting 14 of the team’s 22 total. On digs, it was Diana Villalpando that led the Viks with 10 of the team’s total of 24.

Wednesday's match was the second in which the two teams have faced each other, and the Vikings took both— last season in a 3-1 victory. This match was only Trinity Western’s third game this season, all of which have been losses.

Head coach Michael Seemann said his Vikings will need to take the blocking to an even higher accuracy than what they showed against Trinity Western.

“Sac State has got a really nice

Portland State to compete in Charles Bowles Invitational at

Sacramento State ROBERT BRITT VANGUARD STAFF

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The Portland State men’s and women’s cross country teams return to the course Saturday when they travel to Salem for the Charles Bowles Invitational.

Hosted by Willamette University, Saturday’s race marks the halfway point in the cross country season and is the first in a string of three races in the state of Oregon that the Portland State squads are set to run in.

A 26-year-old former high school assistant basketball coach has been sentenced to six months in jail and three years probation for sexually abusing a player.

The Oregonian reports former Reynolds High coach Dorian Rudolph Gibson also will have to register as a sex offender, but can ask a court to end that designation in 10 years.

Gibson was suspended by the Reynolds School District on May 3. He pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual abuse in a plea agreement.

Prosecutor Don Rees says Gibson had sexual intercourse with a girl on the team on several occasions.

The victim, a 17-year-old, told a Multnomah County

judge that she was the seducer and Gibson should not be given jail time.

But Judge Angel Lopez said Gibson has to bear the responsibility for what he did.

NATIONAL Mich. teen takes down 448-pound black bear

BATTLE CREEK, Mich.

— A 17-year-old Michigan girl has begun her big game hunting career with a bang— or rather a whoosh—by killing a 448-pound black bear with a bow and arrow from 16 yards away.

High school senior Jessica Olmstead of Battle Creek shot the bear during a hunting trip last month in Oba, Ontario.

She told the Battle Creek Enquirer for a story published Tuesday that the bear was the first animal she killed with the new bow.

that a Portland State distance runner has done so.

Sophomore Julie Pedersen paced the women’s team by finishing 19th in the 6k with a time of just over 22 minutes.

The course for the Charles Bowles, which takes runners around McCulloch Stadium and Bush Park, then loop around neighboring woods before bringing them back to the stadium, will be 5k for the women and 8k for the men. At the same event last year, Lawrence led the men’s team with his then-best time of 25:14.82 to finish 31st out of 198. Former PSU runner Amelia Holcombe led the women with a 24th place finish. ■

Golf hosts first tourney

FROM THE SPORTS WIRES LOCAL Former coach sentenced in player abuse case

The Vikings will come into Salem well rested after having nearly two weeks to recoup from the Sundodger Invitational in Seattle, where both the men’s and women’s teams finished seventh. Hosted by the University of Washington on Sept. 18, the Sundodger was bright for several Vikings.

Senior John Lawrence broke the 25-minute mark in the 8-kilometer race for the first time in his career. His time of 24 minutes and 53.1 seconds earned him 22nd place in the race and was more than half a minute faster than his recorded time from last year. Lawrence’s under-25 minute finish in the 8k marks the first time in six years

Her father, Tim Olmstead, says he’s been teaching others to hunt for more than 30 years and that he’s never had a student pick up the fundamentals as quickly as his daughter.

He says his daughter eats what she hunts, including the bear.

INTERNATIONAL Contador blames bad meat for positive doping test

PINTO, Spain—Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador blamed contaminated steak Thursday for his positive doping test, vowing to clear his name and not let cycling’s latest drug scandal “destroy everything that I have done.”

The Spanish rider was provisionally suspended after a World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Germany found a “very small

concentration” of the banned substance clenbuterol in his urine sample on July 21 at the Tour, according to a statement from cycling governing body UCI. “It is a clear case of food contamination,” Contador told a news conference in his hometown near Madrid, during which he appeared several times to be close to tears. “I am sad and disappointed but hold my head high.”

“I think this is going to be resolved in a clear way,” he added.

“With the truth behind you, you can speak loud and clear, and I am confident justice will prevail.”

Contador said the beef was brought across the border from Spain to France during a rest day during the Tour at the request of the team’s cook.

The Associated Press

Women’s golf takes third at PSUsponsored Rose City Invitational ROBERT BRITT VANGUARD STAFF

Portland State’s women’s golf team took home thirdplace honors from the Rose City Collegiate Invitational on Tuesday at the Langdon Farms Golf Club in Aurora.

The two-day event, cohosted by Portland State and Oregon State, marked the first time Portland State has hosted a tournament in the history women’s golf program.

North Texas claimed first place after shooting the best round of the tournament in the final round—a 291—to win the event with 889 total strokes. Portland State

finished with 897 strokes (299-300-298), five strokes behind second-place Oregon State. The Vikings did best the four other Big Sky Conference teams playing in the tournament.

Junior Tiffany Schoning finished with a career-best 220 strokes (73-74-73) for a sixthplace finish in the individual standings. Also hitting a career best was senior Kalyn Dodge, who finished tied for seventh with a 222 (73-76-73).

Also competing for Portland State was Senior Alexia Brown (79-75-75=229), sophomore Britney Yada (76-75-83=234), and freshmen Loren Forney (77-81-77=235) and Katie Ortman (90-97-91=278).

The Vikings return to action next week in the Heather Farr/Colorado Memorial Tournament in Colorado. ■

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Today Free Breakfast for Bikers 9 am–11 am PSU Bike Hub

In a celebration of being able to ride your bike in the lingering warm weather, the Bike Hub is offering free breakfast for bikers! Enjoy free coffee, tea and pastries before class.

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Hillsboro Stadium Noon

Saturday CROSS COUNTRY

Charles Bowles Invitational Willamette University’s McCullough Stadium Salem, Ore. 9:30 a.m.

PRO-SOCCER

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Sneaking by the slide: Freshman forward Bre Taylor snakes the ball past a Western Oregon defender earlier in the season.

Looking for a win Viks look to end dry spell against Utah Valley and Seattle NILESH TENDOLKAR VANGUARD STAFF

The Portland State women’s soccer team finds itself in a position it is not accustomed to: In the midst of a losing streak. The Vikings have lost three games on the trot, with the last two coming against Gonzaga on Sunday and the University of Idaho on Tuesday.

However, the players from the Park Blocks will look to resume normal services at noon

on Friday when they host Utah Valley (3-7-0) at Hillsboro Stadium. The Vikings (4-6-0) then travel to Seattle University for a showdown with the Redhawks (7-4-0) at noon on Sunday.

This weekend features the last two non-conference games for the Vikings and perhaps the last chance for head coach Laura Schott to discover her best starting 11.

In Portland State’s contest on Tuesday, the Viks were blitzed in the first half by Idaho’s offense, which chalked up an early goal in the fifth minute of play. Two more Idaho goals in the 32nd and 35th minutes gave the Vandals a three-point lead. Assisted by senior Frankie Ross, Portland State junior Kala

Renard scored her third goal of the season just before the break to put the Vikings on the board, but down 3-1.

The Vikings continued their rally attempt as Ross scored a goal of her own in the 72nd minute to make the score 3-2 in favor of the Vandals. Ross and Renard, along with junior Melissa Trammel, are at the top of the team’s scoring charts with three goals each on the season.

Portland State’s number-one goalkeeper, senior Rachel Jarvis, started the game but was replaced in the second half by sophomore Lainey Hulsizer.

Scouting the Wolverines:

Portland State leads Utah Valley 2-1 in head-to-head matches and Utah Valley is coming off twin loses to Southern Utah and Seattle University from the past week. The last time these two teams met was last season when then-PSU student Dolly Enneking created Vikings history by scoring both the goals in the 2-0 win and becoming Portland State’s all-time leading goal scorer.

Portland Timbers at Vancouver Whitecaps (13-7-9, 48 pts.)

(10-5-14, 44 pts.)

4 p.m.

Listen on KXL AM-750, view online at www.portlandtimbers.com/live FOOTBALL

Scouting the Redhawks:

The current head-to-head series between Portland State and Seattle stands at 0-1-4 in favor of Seattle and the Redhawks are in red-hot form this season, coming off four straight victories. Since Sept. 19, Seattle has recorded wins over Utah Valley, Sacramento State, Idaho and Cleveland State. Last year's meeting between the two teams ended in a 1-1 draw.

Idaho State (1-3, 0-2 Big Sky)

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Portland State (1-2, 0-0 Big Sky)

Hillsboro Stadium 5:05 p.m.

Listen on KXFD AM-970, live stats at www.goviks.com *First home game, first conference game VOLLEYBALL

Scouting the Vikings:

The Viks were predicted to finish third in the Big Sky Conference in the preseason poll, and can’t afford to let their guard down with conference play approaching.

Portland State will have to beware of lower-ranked Seattle, which has a 2-1 record against Big Sky teams this season. The Vikings have scored 16 goals from their ten games so far, and conceded 15. Tho date, goalkeeping responsibilities have been shared between Jarvis and sophomore Lainey Hulsizer. ■

Portland State (8-6, 4-0 Big Sky)

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Sacramento State (7-10, 0-2 Big Sky)

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Portland Winterhawks (2-1)

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Seattle U (7-4-0)

Sacramento, Calif.

7 p.m.

HOCKEY

Seattle Thunderbirds (1-2) Rose Garden Arena 7 p.m.

Sunday SOCCER

Portland State (4-6-0) Seattle, Wash.

Noon HOCKEY

Lethbridge Hurricanes (2-0)

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Air time: Sophomore forward Brittany Allen attempts to get a header past Western Oregon's keeper in the Sept. 12 game at Hillsboro Stadium.

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Portland Winterhawks (2-1)

Rose Garden Arena 5 p.m. *All records accurate as of 5 p.m., Sept. 30