Portland State Vanguard Volume 77 Issue 23

PSU FOOD

OPINION

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MANAGING EDITOR

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NEWS EDITOR

Zoë Buhrmaster

NEWS CO-EDITOR

Philippa Massey

ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

Kat Leon

OPINION EDITOR

Nick Gatlin

PHOTO EDITOR

Alberto Alonso Pujazon Bogani

ONLINE EDITOR

Christopher Ward

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Nova Johnson

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

Tanner Todd

CONTRIBUTORS

Macie Harreld

Milo Loza

Ian McMeekan

Isabel Zerr

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Whitney McPhie

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Neo Clark

Hanna Oberlander

Kelsey Zuberbuehler

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Maria Dominguez

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Rae Fickle

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COMMITTEE UNVEILS PLAN FOR JASON WASHINGTON MEMORIAL

ALMOST FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS SLAYING BY PSU SECURITY, MEMORIAL AIMS TO KEEP MEMORY ALIVE

ZOË BUHRMASTER

Over two years in the making, a memorial commemorating Jason Erik Washington inches closer to being in the hands of an artist.

In 2018, Jason Washington was killed by armed university police officers while trying to break up a fight between two other men on campus. At 45, Jason Washington was a Navy veteran and longtime United States Postal Service worker. He was also Black. In late 2019, Washington’s family and Portland State reached an agreed settlement, part of which involved a promise by PSU to initiate and fund the Jason Washington Memorial Scholarship and Jason Washington Art Committee.

PSU President Stephen Percy formed the Jason Washington Art Committee in Jan. 2021, delayed after the incident due to the legal processes between the Washington family and PSU and a shuffling of university presidents. A conglomeration of PSU faculty and staff, along with Kayla Washington, the oldest daughter in the Washington family, and her attorney make up the committee.

The group’s work focuses on the planning of an art installation on campus by which to honor Jason Washington’s memory. Their goal is to bring about a higher level of engagement with the community through works imitating restorative justice.

“We weren’t artists,” said Patricia Schechter, committee chair and history professor. “We were definitely out of our wheelhouse so we spent a lot of time getting to know each other, getting to know our campus and then getting to know these artists that just have these brilliant portfolios and brilliant perspectives.”

The committee is currently in the process of finalizing the art proposals. In February, they’ll send out requests for qualifications to artists, inviting them to apply for creation of the final proposal.

They are also organizing a campus march this upcoming Feb. 21 in remembrance of Jason Washington. The march will run from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., beginning in front of the Smith Memorial Student Union building and ending in front of the Broadway dorms.

“In some ways we were all strangers on this committee,” Schechter said. “It was a very delicate and very emotional launch. I think everyone intuitively understood that this was not just a committee that was going to be checking boxes. This was a group of people that had to build trust, get to know each other and really embody the principle that this was about honoring Jason.”

COPPER PLAQUE MOCK-UP FROM JASON WASHINGTON’S MEMORIAL. COURTESY PSU FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT

"Jason Washington’s life tragically ended when 9 of 17 gunshotos fired by Portland State University campus police officers killed him AT THIS SPOT on June 29th, 2018."

JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART RETURNS TO PSU WITH A NEW COLLECTION

EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF WEAVING, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

In a global culture obsessed with rapid innovation, we find ourselves constantly propelled towards the utmost brink of the present, teetering into tomorrow. We tend to celebrate socially constructed figures of modernity without acknowledging the precursory practices that enabled them to exist.

A prime example of this asymmetry occurs in the relationship between computing and weaving. Motivated by the dynamic of this relationship is Weaving Data, the recently installed exhibition at Portland State’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA).

This exhibition showcases the work of nine ingenious creatives linked by one central theme. While the intersection of weaving and computing might seem like a narrow niche initially, the artists featured in this gallery have each produced wildly unique renderings. Moreover, they evoke commentary on issues varying from the urgency of environmental degradation and injustices suffered by immigrant laborers to the stringency of a stark gender binary.

Fundamentally, Weaving Data is a project motivated to elevate the neglected truths of a technological history that institutions of patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism have dominated.

This history begins with the Jacquard loom. This early nineteenth-century machine revolutionized the production of textiles by employing a series of punched cards to mechanize the highly laborious process of weaving design. These Jacquard punch cards would become the blueprint for the first mechanical computers, developed by English mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Baggage. Despite Baggage’s recognition as the father of the computer, it was his female counterpart who realized the potential for comp-

uter programming on the Jacquard binary cards.

“There’s this connection between punch cards storing data for weaving and also storing data for computers, but it all began with artisans,” said Brandon Truett, curator of academic programs at JSMA. “You wouldn’t really have computer technology without art. That’s what this show is inspired by.”

One piece showcased in JSMA, titled “Ada,” interacts with this history quite literally. Ahree Lee, an L.A. based multidisciplinary artist, paid homage to Ada Lovelace by quoting her in the coded pattern of the textile: “the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

Truett explained that “Ada” is part of a series in which Lee “tries to excavate the hidden history of women in the history of technology, and also in the practice of technology.”

Another series in the exhibition is the work of Jovencia de la Paz, who uses textiles to deconstruct traditional conceptions of binary identity—in terms of gender, computing and modernity. De la Paz’s installation was made by “hijacking,” the coding program that designs the textile’s aesthetic.

“You can tell the digital loom to produce a pattern,” Truett said, “but there’s also a way you can confuse it.” To this end, De la Paz granted the loom autonomy to determine the outcome of the material rather than a design enforced by the artist. “They allow the machine to do its own thing in a certain way, to produce these kinds of unexpected results,” Truett explained.

De la Paz incites fascinating speculation about the implications of a computer code freed from typical user constraints. “The ones and zeros of computers are so rigid, almost like the rigidity of the gender binary,” Truett said. “So by trying to disrupt the binary of the computer code, there’s a similar kind of experience of being a

queer person, not really fitting into the binary.”

Weaving Data is a collection of social commentary as diverse as the artists who composed it. Yet threaded throughout the entire exhibition is an underlying critique of how society equates modernity with superiority.

Visual artist Kayla Mattes hand-weaved color explosive tapestries to highlight the social isolation and chaotic disconnect born of the digital screen age.

Shelley Socolofsky, faculty of PSU’s School of Art and Design, utilized actual drone images of ecologically threatened regions. Socolofsky distorted these images into abstract forms, mirroring humanity’s escalating distortion of the natural earth.

April Bey, Bahamian visual artist and educator, crafted textile passages into the Afrofuturist world of Atlantica. Atlantica is a place imagined by Bey’s father, “who would try to use another planet to help describe the effects of colorism and racism on earth,” Truett explained. Bey’s textiles capture dazzling glimpses inside Atlantica, while her creation methods allude to the reach of global consumerism and cultural exchange. The pieces in this series contain commercially produced knockoff fabric of West African design, produced in China and exported back into Africa and beyond.

This range of subject matter demonstrates JSMA’s position as an accessible and equitable resource for all PSU students and the Portland community. “No matter what discipline or background you come from, you can find a point of entrance,” Truett said.

The exhibitions hosted by JSMA coordinate

with the PSU curriculum across various departments. It is a highly interdisciplinary institution, geared towards interests applicable to “not just art history students, but computer science and especially for this exhibition, engineering,” as Truett said. “Public health, English, sexuality and gender studies, you name it.”

Anyone who takes the time to experience it will undoubtedly find threads of their own history woven into the fabric of this exhibition. Located in FMH, Weaving Data is free and open to the public from Jan. 24 to April 29.

MACIE HARRELD

GAUTAMA BY FAIG AHMED (2017). HANDMADE WOOLEN CARPET, 112 X 149". COURTESY OF FAIG AHMED AND COLLECTION MAJUDIA

IRIS OR TEMPERANCE BY SARAH WERTZBERGER (2019). HANDWOVEN JACQUARD (TC2), COTTON AND POLYESTER YARN, 36 X 28". COURTESY OF SARAH WERTZBERGER AND HOLDING CONTEMPORARY

FIND IT AT 5TH: BLACK DYNAMITE

A SATIRE FILM THAT ADDRESSES SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH COMEDY AND REFLECTION

This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—Portland State students can catch a free showing of Black Dynamite in 35mm!

Scott Sanders directed the action comedy film in 2009, which starred Michael Jai White, a well-known actor and martial artist. The film’s cast includes notable actors such as Tommy Davidson, Arsenio Hall and Salli Richardson-Whitfield.

Black Dynamite tells the story of a former CIA agent seeking vengeance for his dead brother after he was killed by “the man.” Black Dynamite, played by White, takes a long journey to the White House, contending with pimps, gangsters and government officials.

Over-the-top violence, drug use and sexual content are featured heavily in this satire. The script is also noteworthy, with clever and witty dialogue that keeps the audience engaged and laughing. The film honors the blaxploitation films of the ‘70s with its bold colors and stylized camera angles while poking fun at the conventions of the genre.

Each term, the staff of 5th Avenue Cinema curates a selection of movies that students can watch for free every week. Black Dynamite was chosen for screening by Clara Johnson, one of the projectionists at 5th Avenue Cinema. Johnson is an Art Practice Major at PSU and has worked at 5th Avenue Cinema for almost an entire year.

“I chose the movie, honestly, because I heard it was very funny,” Johnson said. “I was looking at the reviews of movies I was thinking of picking, and all of the reviews for this movie—even on different platforms—were just quotes from the movie, people saying they were laughing out loud to these specific quotes.”

5th Avenue Cinema is known for screening movies that are foreign or experimental with comedic aspects, but they don’t often show action comedy movies. “I wanted it to be funny partially because it’s January/February, so it’s winter, and it’s

kind of depressing,” Johnson said. “I think that this is the time in our three terms that we should have something that is relatively funny—not all of them should be—but maybe one or two.”

Johnson wanted to choose a funny film but also a film with depth. “I thought it was funny, but I was also searching for, like, a satire that had multiple layers to it,” Johnson explained.

“I thought it was interesting because it’s both a satire and an homage to black exploitation films from the 1970s, so it’s like an art within itself of paying homage and appreciation to something, but also critiquing it or pointing out things that don’t make sense.” In addition, she said the respectful way the film plays with the blaxploitation genre is quite humorous. “I ended up liking how retrospective it was,” she said.

Johnson pointed out that Black Dynamite is a film created, directed and written by Black people for Black people. “This term, in particular, we wanted to do non-white-led movies and to highlight different voices,” she said. Johnson reported that this film fits with the other movies shown this term and will screen just in time for Black History Month.

Blaxploitation films date back to the 1970s, influenced by Spike Lee, John Singleton and Quentin Tarantino. Although Black Dynamite came out in 2009, it is easy to confuse it with the films released nearly half a century earlier. In her comment, Johnson said that this film is for people who love that genre. “The wardrobe is very ‘70s—the costume department is insane!” she said. “It’s sort of a blast from the past, but also keeping different elements modern for satirical purposes.” Johnson referred to a scene where the boom mic is visible in the shot, something that was done on purpose to make fun of the low-budget films of the blaxploitation era.

“I don’t necessarily think it’s a movie that takes itself seriously,” Johnson said. She added that Black Dynamite reminded her of

many different types of satires that she has seen. “The director Scott Sanders had said that the film felt very nostalgic.” Sanders has created a genre-bending movie that combines a history of satire and blaxploitation. Johnson said that Sanders “is a fan of the Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick and the level of deadpan satire that exists in their movies—where you really get the joke, but it’s also a relatively serious topic that they did not take very seriously if that makes sense.”

The film is entertaining and radiates nostalgia while also including a message and commentary on the society and culture of the time it was made. “I think it’s definitely a fun, interesting time capsule,” Johnson said. “It’s sort of tongue in cheek, where [Sanders is] reflecting on the movies of the genre, appreciating and respecting them, but also making their own version and satirizing it.”

The way the film deals with social issues is not only through humor but also through a deeper level of thought and reflection. “I think those types of movies can be very important,” Johnson said. “I think satires are really interesting to watch, so I think they are important to make.”

As one of the two projectionists for 5th Avenue, Johnson said, “It’s really amazing to see just how much film is still out there—like it’s not dead, even though sometimes it feels like it is!” Although film like 35mm has been used less and less as technology advances, 5th Avenue Cinema continues to play films each term that utilize the beautiful medium. “There’s still a community out there that will only come to movies if it’s in film and it’s fun to get to talk to them,” Johnson said. “It’s a fun community that I feel grateful to be a part of.”

Students can catch a showing of Black Dynamite in 35mm for free on campus at 5th Avenue Cinema this Friday or Saturday at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., or the Sunday screening at 3 p.m.

MILO LOZA

STILL FROM BLACK DYNAMITE. COURTESY OF 5TH AVENUE CINEMA

RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT FOOD INSECURITY

PSU HAS MANY RESOURCES TO HELP WITH FOOD INSECURITY— WHY DON’T STUDENTS KNOW ABOUT THEM?

NICK GATLIN

“If nearly half of the students at PSU experience food insecurity in a given month, why isn’t this treated as an emergency?” asks the Portland State Food Pantry website .

Every day, thousands of students and employees at PSU experience difficulty eating enough food—yet it appears the university is not facing this problem with the urgency it requires. With just a few simple steps—a coordinated marketing campaign, an education effort and higher responsiveness to organizational requests— the university could be doing much more to alleviate food insecurity among students and employees alike.

A Sept. 2020 report on “Housing and Food Insecurity at Portland State University,” issued by the PSU Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC), examined the results of a fall 2019 survey of 3,511 PSU students and 1,017 employees regarding basic needs insecurity. Their conclusions are disturbing, though unfortunately not surprising. Specifically concerning food insecurity, the researchers found that 47% of students and 16.5% of employees experienced food insecurity in the 30 days before the survey.

It’s worse when one looks at the specific response questions:

54.6% of surveyees agreed with the statement, “I couldn’t afford to buy balanced meals.”

41.8% said, “I cut the size of meals or skipped meals because there wasn’t enough money for food.”

36.4% said, “The food that I bought just didn’t last and I didn’t have enough money to get more.”

6.7% said, “I did not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food (3 or more times in the last 30 days).”

The researchers received responses from 3,374 students out of the total sample size for these questions— this means at least 226 students agreed with the final statement. How is this possible at a university with a $98 million endowment? How is it possible that 16.5% of PSU employees face food insecurity at the thirdlargest university in the state? How is it possible that one quarter of students with a PSU meal plan—something that freshmen are required to purchase as part of the First Year Experience program—report “it was not sufficient to meet their food needs”?

Even more baffling are the HRAC’s findings on student awareness about basic needs services—or rather, the lack thereof. 23.8% of students had used the PSU Food Pantry in the past, while 18.9% did not know that the food pantry existed—17% of students had attended the PSU Free Food Market, while 23.7% of students didn’t know there was a free food market at PSU.

The food pantry is essential to fighting food insecurity at PSU. According to their “Fast Facts” sheet for 2020–2021,

the pantry served 4,505 students during COVID-19 campus closures, handed out nearly 75,000 pounds of food and saw 1,400 visits to the pantry in the first week of fall 2021. However, even as the pantry continues to expand, they face a number of challenges—namely space, visibility and stigma.

PSU Food Pantry General Manager Trenna Wilson told Portland State Vanguard in August , “The largest difficulty is definitely space, since we have this perfect scenario where we have plenty of students who need our services and plenty of resources wanting to help. We could meet so much more of the need if we had a larger space.”

While negotiations are ongoing to permanently move the pantry to a larger and more accessible location, the pantry has requested to immediately trade places with the Zero 26 student lounge in the Smith Memorial Student Union basement. The Space Allocation Committee should act on this request as soon as possible—the need for greater access to food exists right now, and the faster such a change can happen, the better for everyone.

A lack of visibility is another factor that hinders students. “We are aware that the need on campus is very significant and we are serving about 5% of the study body, so obviously there is a massive opportunity to grow further,” Wilson said. It is simply unacceptable that nearly 20% of students don’t even know the food pantry exists—the university has the resources, the reach and the responsibility to inform every student about services available to them. That they have apparently not done so is bewildering.

According to OPB, the PSU Basic Needs Hub and new Basic Needs Navigator Lee Phillips will act in the future to direct students to relevant resources, including the pantry and the Free Food Market. Still, the perception that using the pantry will be difficult, will require personal paperwork or will otherwise be an embarrassing experience persists. “All [students] need is [a] PSU ID,” the pantry states on their website. “During summer term, we serve students who are enrolled in either summer or fall terms.” The university can—and should—boost that message to as many students as possible.

Food insecurity, like all basic needs insecurity, continues to exist at a startling and inexcusable rate at PSU. It’s hard not to feel a bit nauseous comparing the size of, say, the Smith underground bowling alley to the size of the food pantry’s current location. A university that can build the Karl Miller Center—with its five-story all-glass atrium, “craft brews, doughnuts and artisan sandwiches,” and rooftop garden/study area—can afford to put a lot more effort into promoting food security.

STOCKED SHELVES AT PSU FOOD PANTRY. ALBERTO ALONSO PUJAZON BOGANI/PSU VANGUARD

STOCKED SHELVES AT PSU FOOD PANTRY. ALBERTO ALONSO PUJAZON BOGANI/PSU VANGUARD

RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH

For years, residents of Portland have been driven out of their homes due to rising rent costs. No one should have to live on the streets, especially if it’s just because they’re short on money. When discussing this topic, it’s important to remember who sets, collects and enforces rent: landlords play a central role in the housing crisis, and they must take more responsibility in solving it—or they must be forced to.

According to the Multnomah County 2015 “point-in-time on one particular night in Multnomah County, “3,800 people slept on the streets, in shelter, and in temporary housing, and an estimated 12,000 people were doubled up, many in overcrowded and often unsafe conditions.” This horrifying situation is due in part to the fact that rent prices are climbing rapidly in Portland. In fact, “Portland rental rates rose more than anywhere in the country—39% in 2021 alone—putting renters in an impossible situation,” according portlandrentalhomes.com. “The average monthly rent for a studio apartment in Portland is $1,245, almost double what a minimum wage earner could afford, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”

One step toward fixing the problem in the short term is to have the city of Portland mandate that landlords allow renters to continue to live in their apartment for the next month or so if they can’t pay rent.

This would help give people on the brink of housing insecurity more time to gather the funds to pay.

For the most part, those who cannot pay their rent simply do not have the money to pay for housing as prices continue to skyrocket. “Today about half of the region’s renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent, which squeezes their budgets for food and other basic essentials,” according to Metro

Landlords could also open up their vacant units to houseless people. In fact, this has already been proposed by a coalition of Portland community organizations known as the 3,000 Challenge , “advocating for area landlords to be part of the solution to the homeless crisis and commit to making at least one of their vacant units available to currently homeless individuals and/or families,” as Housing Oregon reported

This is a big step in the right direction. It’s a waste to leave so many apartments empty when landlords could be doing some good. However, without someone pushing landlords to do this, they never will—that is why organizations pushing for projects like this need to band together, meet with city officials, work to make these plans a reality and put some pressure on the landlords.

Of course, not all landlords are supportive of this endeavor. “I’m not sure this one is as promising as it’s being presented,” said Ron

Garcia, Executive Director of the Rental Housing Alliance of Oregon, to KGW. “I’m real concerned that 180 flip from having lived in a van or a tent, going into a home without any other prep is an issue.”

Another concern he had is the potential of disrupting neighbors. “Homelessness is also rooted to behavioral problems, whether it’s drug use or mental health crises,” Garcia said. “So that’s not going to be solved by putting a roof over their head.”

Yet these claims have no proof to back them up—in fact, researchers from the University of California “looked at various contributing issues of homelessness, including mental illness and addiction, and the per capita rate of homelessness around the country,” reported the San Diego Union-Tribune . “By looking at the rate of homeless per 1,000 people, they found communities with the highest housing costs had some of the highest rates of homelessness, something that might be overlooked when looking at just the overall raw number of homeless people.” Homelessness is primarily a problem of housing insecurity, with rising housing prices pushing people on to the street—not mental illness or drug use.

Landlords could be doing much more to solve the housing crisis than they currently are. They’re the ones who take the rent—it’s about time they give a little too.

IAN MCMEEKAN

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