VOLUME 76 • ISSUE 26 • NOVEMBER 2, 2021
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PSU HOSTS CROSS COUNTRY
ARTS & CULTURE Fizzing up the competition P. 4
SCIENCE & TECH Into the metaverse P. 6-7
NEWS ‘Tis the season for giving P. 10
CONTENTS
COVER BY SHANNON STEED, COVER PHOTO BY ALBERTO ALONSO PUJAZON BOGANI
ARTS & CULTURE THE NATIONAL HARD SELTZER MARKET IS BOOMING
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THE BEAUTY OF THE ORDINARY SCIENCE & TECH TAKEAWAYS FROM ETH PORTLAND AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
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ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Béla Kurzenhauser
MANAGING EDITOR Karisa Yuasa
ONLINE EDITOR Lily Hennings
PHOTO EDITOR Sofie Brandt
COPY CHIEF Mackenzie Streissguth
NEWS EDITOR Victoria Calderon
MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Olivia Lee
SPORTS EDITOR Eric Shelby
CONTRIBUTORS Albe!o Alonso Pujazon Bogani Allison Kirkpatrick Milo Loza Tanner Todd
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Ryan McConnell
SPORTS VICTORY FOR VIKINGS
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NEWS WILLAMETTE WEEK’S ANNUAL GIVE GUIDE IS HERE
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101.9 KINK TO HOST ANNUAL SAFEWAY TRUCKLOAD OF COATS
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THE NATIONAL HARD SELTZER MARKET IS BOOMING WILL OREGON’S CRAFT BOOZE INDUSTRY JOIN IN? TANNER TODD When Adam Milne released his debut batch of craft hard seltzer, he didn’t completely know what to expect. The Portland-based brewer and owner of Old Town Brewing had been working with his team more or less in secret as they tried their hand at seltzer brewing, frequently with equipment normally used to make beer. For Milne and his team at Old Town Brewery, the beverage line, called Upper Left Seltzers, was a first, as the brewery had never produced a craft seltzer before. The final result was a light, fizzy seltzer that came in two offbeat flavors: key lime pie and cotton candy. “We didn’t know how the public would view our product,” Milne said. “We were kind of in a bubble. We were trying to keep it under wraps to make sure it’d make a big splash, so really, we tasted it, our friends tasted it. Would it be a flop? We didn’t know.” The moment of truth arrived a few weeks later, when the drink was exhibited at Portland’s Seltzerland festival, where it earned itself second place in the audience favorite category. Upper Left Seltzer is now sold in several local grocery chains and Winco stores along the West Coast. The question is, will stories like Milne’s become a regular occurrence?
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It’s no secret that hard seltzer has enjoyed a surge in popularity over the last few years. National brands like White Claw and Smirnoff have been aggressively marketing their product towards a younger market niche—with surprising success. In a 2019 study of college students’ alcohol preferences, hard seltzer ranked second place, before beer. And, since 2019, overall sales growth for seltzers has exploded, with a 70% increase in 2020, and a total sales revenue of $4.3 billion. While growth is starting to slow in 2021, sales still increased by 31%, a sign that the hard seltzer market can hold onto its current gains. These figures show an emerging beverage category that’s hit stores across the country—and Portland is no exception. According to Celeste Varner, assistant manager of beer and wine at Portland grocery chain Zupan’s, hard seltzers made up less than 1% of total department sales, until 2019. “Over the course of 2019, and definitely fully into 2020, and we’re seeing now in 2021, they’re like 10% of our department sales,” Varner said. Currently, most of the seltzer lines dominating the market are produced by national or global brands like White Claw or Smirnoff. As craft brewers like Milne started looking at the market niche,
ideas started brewing. “A lot of these seltzers that people buy are national brands,” Milne said. “We’re thinking that there’s room for somebody who’s more of a craft seltzer company, but at this point it’s a pretty small market share that Oregon seltzer companies have.” Many of the current hard seltzer offerings that have made it onto the market are from established beer brewers, such as Milne’s Old Town Brewing or Pacific Seltzer, which is produced by Ninkasi Brewery. Whether or not more craft breweries will jump into the market remains to be seen. One of the deciding factors will be whether the drink can be tweaked and reinvented enough to stand out in a crowded market. “It just doesn’t have the same diversity of styles as you can do with beers,” Varner said. Still, she concedes that local craft brewers have found ways to create innovative offerings within the format. “I’ve seen that more in some of the craft people,” Varner said. “They just don’t want to make another version of White Claw, they want to make something unique and amazing.” Milne is optimistic. “We think with just any beverage, people will prefer something that’s made on a smaller scale, that’s fresh, that’s local,” he said.
If Milne is right, and more craft breweries decide to cash in on locally produced seltzer, what kinds of barriers to entering the market can they expect? As it turns out, surprisingly few. Much of the equipment used to brew beer is also used to brew seltzer. With a few one-time capital upgrades for additional equipment, a beer brewery could transition to producing seltzers instead. “A lot of the process is similar,” Varner said, “I see a lot of craft brewers talk about [how] they’ll brew a batch of hard seltzers almost just for fun, just for themselves. And I think that’s how some of these [craft seltzers] got started.” In Varner’s opinion, if hard seltzer is to stick around as a market niche, brewers will have to retain this innovative spark in order to keep producing original variations. Whether or not the demand for seltzers will encourage craft brewers to join the market remains to be seen, but the shared equipment requirements between beer and seltzer make a transition into seltzer an accessible option for many brewers. Only time will tell if the local seltzer lineup will expand in Portland, or even the rest of the country, but until then, watch the grocery shelves—something new might be brewing.
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PORTLAND ART MUSEUM’S PRIVATE LIVES EXPLORES THE MYSTERIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE TANNER TODD At first glance, the French lithograph print was deceptively simple: a pink-on-pink room with a massive chandelier dominating the foreground, framed by a wall of floral wallpaper behind it. The scene was illustrated in blurry, vertical streaks, forcing the viewer to try to make out people and objects through an ambiguous haze. Every element appears designed to keep viewers guessing, to keep them wondering: “What exactly is going on here?” It’s the kind of scene a person could look at for years and still find something new. Dr. Mary Weaver Chapin is that person. “I’ve worked on these for years,” Chapin explained, gesturing towards the print on the gallery wall. “It was only recently that I noticed this figure kind of hiding, right in the foreground, all this time.” She pointed to a spot on the lithograph, and the shape of a woman in a blue checkered dress emerged from the patterns and lines of the print, like a pattern in a psychologist’s inkblot. A resident curator at the Portland Art Museum, Chapin is a specialist in prints and drawings, and one of the curators who organized the exhibit of which the print is just a small part. The mysterious lithograph in question is only one of scores of works on display at the Portland Art Museum’s current special exhibition on the Nabis—a group of innovative painters who lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1889–1900, shows the work of the Nabis’ four core members—Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton—as they explored subjects and scenes within the intimate family home. With an unusually large selection of pieces, the exhibit’s space takes up multiple galleries, showing a collection of artwork from the four artists, all of them connected to subjects within the realm of private family life. Grouped by theme, each section attempts to portray the different ways in which members of the Nabis approached the same subjects. “We wanted to see how the different artists would respond to the same sort of setting,” Chapin
explained of the show’s structure. Presented together, the paintings represent the culmination of four unique artistic perspectives, all intensely focused on the same environment: the realm of private lives. It’s difficult to understand the Nabis’ fixation with family and home spaces without first understanding their approach to art in general. The group—which took their name from the Hebrew word for prophet—saw themselves as the bearers of an entirely original type of creative work. “They wanted to be these prophetic voices of a new type of art,” Chapin said. “They didn’t want to be just like the Realists, who were giving you every photographic detail; they didn’t want to be like the impressionists, who showed you every flickering moment of life.” Chapin pointed to an oil painting’s narrowly cropped frame—Bonnard’s sister thoughtfully finishing a meal titled "The Checkered Blouse." “This is like the mind’s eye,” she said. “This is what the heart sees...it has to be true to the artist’s feeling and the shape of the painting.” Bonnard’s sister is rendered with vividly stylized strokes that emphasize pattern and emotion, without any visible regard for photorealism or perceptual accuracy. Her checkered blouse—the painting’s namesake—is ill-fitted to the figure wearing it, appearing as almost a sheet of expressive paint strokes rather than a dress. The only feature rendered in truly clear detail is the subtle play of emotion on the subject’s face as she closely examines the last bites of her meal. What that emotion is, however, is left to the viewer to decide. The added subjectivity of being painted from memory seems to further distill the artist’s emotionally charged experience of the scene, and further stresses the Nabis’ focus on subjective feeling over accurate portrayals. Their stylized treatment of meaningful emotions in the space of quiet, oftentimes private moments, ultimately earned them the title of Intimists, which Nabis member Pierre Bonnard accepted as a valid descriptor of the movement, so long as it referred to artists who had a “taste for daily spectacles” and an “ability to
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MAURICE DENIS' "WASHING THE BABY." COURTESY OF PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
draw emotion from the most modest acts of life.” Bonnard and his peers would find an endless supply of these modest acts of life in the confines and protected spaces of the family home. Visitors to the exhibit will see paintings and prints of family members, pets, close friends and loved ones, each depicted in domestic interiors. Many of the paintings at Private Lives are of people, whether alone or in small groups, but Chapin was careful to point out that these are not typical portraits. “He’s just capturing this one moment, and imbuing it with this sort of feeling and importance for the ordinary moment of life,” she said, pointing to another painting of Vulliard's sister sewing by a window. “She’s deeply enmeshed in her surroundings, so it's almost a portrait of her by proxy.” Despite the detail paid to the sister’s environment, her actual facial features are undefined and hazy. Without context, she couldn’t just be Vollard’s sister—she could be almost anybody. “I think that it was so it would have a wider meaning,” Chapin explained. “It’s not just a picture of [Vulliard’s sister]...but it becomes that much more universal that way.” Another enduring fixation of the Nabis were pets, often their own. The exhibit is filled with prints and paintings of Vallotton’s many cats, and
intimate scenes of Bonnard’s sister’s dog. A partial explanation for this can be found in the rise of a genuine pet culture in Europe at the time, with animals taking places in people’s families the way they are today. Chapin explained that one of the group's members loved babies and dogs because they were an ode to the group’s uncompromising obsession with focusing on the beauty of the present moment. “In some ways they are the best conveyors of feeling,” Chapin said. Each portrayal of pets and children sees them totally engrossed in their surroundings and environment, engaged in whatever scene is unfolding before them. After years of researching the pieces in the exhibit—along with months of planning and organizing—Chapin is optimistic that this feature of the Nabis’ work will stand out to visitors. “I hope they’ll come away with an ability to look at their surroundings with new eyes,” Chapin explained. “Sometimes we rush through our days, [but] here we can experience what one critic called the ‘tragedy and mystery of daily life.’” Visitors who would like to come and experience the work of the Nabis for themselves can view their art on display at Portland Art Museum’s Private Lives exhibit, showing from now until Jan. 23.
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TAKEAWAYS FROM ETH PORTLAND AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET ANASTASIA PARGETT
RYAN MCCONNELL Portland kicked off its conference Oct. 28, 2021, showcasing the latest projects and startups within the blockchain communities and the development of what is known as web 3.0. Blockchain technology and web 3.0 are still widely unknown, with many events and news within the community shared exclusively in hard-to-find digital spaces. Much of the technology that’s being developed is intended for future adoption—and much of the new framework being developed has years to go before it reaches everyday consumers. Whatever the future has in store for us, these companies are preparing for it and showcasing their findings at conferences like ETH. The internet, as we all currently use it, is what’s described as web 2.0. In order to pull up a web page, a computer sends the data of that web page to your computer for you to browse, read, watch or play something. This computer is known as the server because it serves information to your personal computer or mobile device, known as the client. When developers discuss web 3.0, they’re referencing the different framework for the internet that’s being constructed from the ground up. This framework decentralizes the traditional server—meaning there’s not one single computer that hands over a web page—creating an entire network of computers that give their own pieces of a page that is then reconstructed when it is sent to the user’s device. Web 3.0 is also being constructed alongside concepts of the metaverse. Inside a typical website, text and images can be saved and displayed. These images are the same across all instances of the website. The metaverse adds an extra layer of depth to
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the internet, where web pages can become 3D spaces for users to interact in, and support digital assets like images that are exclusive to the user that owns it. But why is this version of the internet being developed, and what does it mean for people who casually use the internet? Well, for right now, not much. Web 3.0’s main goal is to build and normalize what are called “trust-less” and “permission-less” networks. This is simply a way for a website to be run without a governing body or third party. The idea is that each person who joins the network gets a vote. If millions of people join the network, every single person now has an equal vote on what could happen inside the webpage. This would allow users to truly have a say inside the digital spaces they frequent in the future. The major concern is whether
or not the collective can get there in the first place, especially when companies like Facebook—and parent company rebranded as Meta Platforms, Inc.—have no intention of loosening their grip on power. This brings us to what is happening right now within the web 3.0 community. Interacting with these new kinds of networks requires special communication that simply hasn’t been d e ve l o p e d yet. Much of it resembles the internet in the ‘90s, where all kinds of different individuals and companies were developing ways for computers to communicate with each other. Web 3.0 is so early in its infancy, individuals and companies alike are racing against the clock to develop these standards for computers to use in the upcoming era. ETH Portland showcased a wide variety of protocols and tools being developed. While
THE METAVERSE ADDS AN EXTRA LAYER OF DEPTH TO THE INTERNET, WHERE WEB PAGES CAN BECOME 3D SPACES FOR USERS TO INTERACT IN
seeing the avant-garde technology being produced is exciting, there are some notable limitations for what can be done and what is planned as things are now. Some are dedicated to the true idealism behind blockchain and decentralized technology, while others seek to hinder the capabilities of internet users before they fully understand it. For instance, look at Althea—one of the companies that showcased their products and current development. Althea is the first of its kind as a decentralized internet service provider, working with rural communities to give them fast internet at an affordable cost. Users of Althea pay for the electronic power, where the money maintains the network itself acting as an internet service provider. Imagine a scenario where Comcast isn’t the one who gets to delegate how internet service is provided and how much it costs, but everyone who uses Comcast is. It’s a major breakthrough for marginalized communities within the U.S., where highspeed internet could be accessible anywhere for prices far below the average cost of cable internet—at the time of the conference, payments were roughly $16. The more users that join this network, the cheaper the bill becomes. However, a major limitation is that this framework is still largely exclusive to developed countries. When asked about plans for globalized outreach—especially in places like South America where the internet is neither affordable nor accessible to the majority of the population—Althea struggles to find a way to make it low-cost in those areas. It’s a service with a lot of potential, but, ultimately, mirrors the pangs of a globalized economy. Accessibility and affordability is still heavily
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dependent on where you are born. Mintgate was another company that showed an innovative project, building a digital platform that lets content creators have more autonomy and accessibility to share their digital works, such as NFTs. Their fundamental design was built for users who are not famous nor inherently well-known in any crypto or blockchain community. While many companies build with intention to enable access, there was notable concern with at least one company's model that sought to restrict access. Marketed as a “decentralized access control infrastructure designed to bring more utility to the web,” Lit Protocol allows individuals or companies to restrict access in different ways between the regular internet and web 3.0. An example was a Twitter post with a link, which prevented anyone from seeing and clicking the link unless they—quite literally—had enough cryptocurrency in their wallet. This protocol uses their own blockchain technology to make
these kinds of restrictions largely unhackable or unalterable. When asked if he found it inherently problematic that this technology could incentivize companies to make more exclusionary practices, co-founder David Sneider gave a telling response. “Well, restricted access, in some ways, is simply part of the market economy,” Sneider said. Using AMC as an example, he explained that the tool allows for systems like a VIP ticket, where people can purchase a product and get exclusive access to content when the product is acquired. However, he failed to address the fact that everyone has access to the same menu of products, in his example. A tool like Lit Protocol allows anyone to restrict access to whomever they see fit—not just to the product, but the very menu of products itself. “We’re at the low end of the system, so we have no say in
what users do,” Sneider said. “We just provide the tools, letting users do with them as they see fit.” Mark Zuckerberg had a very similar mindset when Facebook made its launch 10 years ago. It begs the question: If a tool has so much potential for misuse, why build it in the first place?
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VICTORY FOR VIKINGS WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY FINISH 3RD IN 5K, MEN’S FINISH 6TH IN 8K, NOW BOTH PREPARE FOR REGIONALS DARIEN CHASE CATCHING BALL AT ENDZONE FOR TOUCHDOWN. ERIC SHELBY/PSU VANGUARD
ERIC SHELBY
CROSS COUNTRY
Last Friday was the cross country championship with the Big Sky hosted by Portland State for the first time since 2008. Teams all across the Conference like Northern Arizona and Weber State came to Hillsboro. Early showers led to almost no clouds just in time for both races. The first race started at 11 a.m. with the women’s 5k. Katie Camarena finished fourth in the 5k with a time of 16:35.3, casually breaking yet another school record this year. According to Camarena, she felt confident after the first kilometer, unworried about getting tripped up due to being in the front. “[In] the last [kilometer], I was fourth or fifth, and everyone was trying to make an aggressive move,” Camarena said. “It was a little bit faster than I was thinking, but it felt good.” It was raining a couple hours on the course before Camarena’s race, making it more challenging. “It was very muddy and I was sliding around a bit,” Camarena said. But the atmosphere on Friday was so exciting that “just having someone at every point of the race cheering” helped Camarena stay steady at the front pack. “It was just nice to have the whole team and everyone’s friends and fans out here,” she said. Regionals take place on Nov. 12 in Sacramento— and with Camarena’s top-four finish in conference, she’s looking to go big or go home. “Definitely excited for that,” Camarena said. “[I’m] trying to be top-25 to get All-Regional and then have a chance to go to nationals. And I think the team will be in a better position too.”
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Camarena praised the team’s abilities, remarking that the relative youth of some runners was impressive considering their performance. Hunter Storm was the second Vik to finish the 5k with a time of 17:15.9, followed by Liza Sajn with a 17:18.0. Portland State finished in third as a team in the 5k with 95 points. Previously, the team’s record was placing fifth. Northern Arizona finished first with a low 37 points and Weber State came in second with 51 points. The men’s 8k finished sixth overall with 146 points. Jordan Macintosh was the first Vik to finish the 8k with a time of 24:12.3. Macintosh said he was trying to run smooth for the first kilometer, attempting to stay with the front pack: “Not being too out of control, but staying within myself and running fast but smooth.” Training for everyone on the team had been going well, according to Macintosh, however one of the top three runners did not compete, though they will be back for regionals. “That will help the team a lot,” Macintosh said. 24:26.9 was Josh Snyder’s time, the second Viking to reach the end of the 8k. Dom Morganti was the third Viking with a time of 24:45.9. Northern Arizona came in first again with 30 points. Southern Utah came in second with 53 points, and Montana State had 80. The Viks now prepare for the NCAA West Regional Nov. 12 in Sacramento.
VOLLEYBALL
First things first, the Viks are currently tied for first place in the Big Sky Conference with only
four games left in the regular season. The Weber State Wildcats currently have the tiebreaker, having a 183-179 point edge over the Vikings, out of the two matches played with them. Best case scenario, the Viks will have to win their last four in hopes of Weber State falling to at least RUNNER KATIE CAMARENA ALBERTO ALONSO PUJAZON BOGANI/PSU VANGUARD one school before the season ends. The Viks quickly swept Idaho State 3-0 (25-22, 25-18 and 25-19) and regained focus for the larger match. Last week, when speaking with Portland State Vanguard, libero Ellie Snook said the team was capable of beating every team in the conference. However, the Viks had a struggle with the Cats in the first set on Saturday, unable to win in a long 34-32 loss to start the game. Snook felt the sole loss of the game came from the first set. “I think we controlled it the whole first half, and we came out really strong
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VIKS CHEERING AFTER WIN OVER WEBER STATE AND TIE FOR FIRST PLACE. ERIC SHELBY/PSU VANGUARD
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with our energy and they started fighting back and we kinda let go a little,” Snook said. “It was just like little mental errors,” said teammate Makalya Lewis. “Like little things back and forth that we knew we weren’t supposed to do but we still controlled it. So we knew what we were doing, but it was the little things that we didn’t put 100% effort in.” After the first set loss, everything changed and the Vikings continued to win. “We’re always competing with them and we controlled [the game] the whole time,” Lewis said. “It was really in our hands to control the pace of the game.” Lewis, Parker Webb, and Zoe McBride all had a day: 16 kills by Webb, 15 by Lewis and 10 by McBride. All three had at least one ace to help secure the win. Snook led the game with 28 digs while Lewis had 21. Teniyah Leuluai had 22 assists and Ally Wada had 19. “We’re gonna dominate whoever is across the net and that’s our mentality every single time,” Lewis said. “So whenever we start getting on that momentum, when we just have fun and be loud, it makes it a lot easier. That second set in the huddle we were thinking: Let’s go back to having fun, that’s what we need to do to win this.” The Viks went out to dominate after that first set and won the next three. Portland State made the fourth set look easy, quickly quieting the Wildcats 25-11 with a 13-0 run in the middle. After a much-deserved celebration in the locker room, the Viks play Sacramento State in a rematch—this time at the Viking Pavilion. The match is Thursday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. Weber State, in their final games, will play Idaho State, Northern Colorado, Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. The Viks play Sacramento State, Southern Utah, Montana State and, finally, Montana. Three of those four games will be at home.
FOOTBALL
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The Viks had a convincing 42-21 win over Cal Poly on Saturday. Running back—and Big Sky offensive player of the week—Malik Walker was a menace on the field with 14 carries, 116 yards and two touchdowns. Jalynne McGee gave the Viks their second touchdown in just the first quarter, giving the Viks the 14-0 lead. Cal Poly made it a close game after the half, tying 14-14 after a two-point conversion. Scoring 21 in the fourth quarter solidified the win and boosted confidence for the next game. Davis Alexander went
22 for 36 and 198 yards—and went in for a touchdown. McGee had 17 carries for 63 yards and had a touchdown. Beau Kelly stayed consistent with eight receptions for 101 yards. While the offense had a season-high 42 points, the defense stayed strong. Parker McKenna had 10 tackles and a sack, with VJ Malo right behind him with eight tackles—and five tackles for loss. Freshman Tyreese Shakir had five tackles and got himself an interception. Portland State is now 4-4 this season and 3-2 in conference play. This is the first time they have been at .500—and look to go above .500 when they play Weber State next week, currently holding the same record after a win over #5 Eastern Washington. After Weber State, the Viks go to #22 Sacramento State and try to disrupt the Hornets. The last game of the season will be at home against the rival Eastern Eagles in the Dam Cup on Nov. 20. Eastern Washington currently leads the close series 21-20-1.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Basketball is back in the park blocks, and the Vikings had their first game back with fans in the bleachers since 2019. The Viks played an exhibition game against National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school, Multnomah University, and won with a statement 95-75. Freshman Esmeralda Morales dropped an impressive 30 points on the Lions in her first ever game as a Viking. She also led the team in 12 assists. Freshmen Alaya Fitzgerald and Rhema Ogele both scored 13 points in their first ever start. Jada Lewis had 11 rebounds and led the team with four steals. Redshirt senior Savannah Dhaliwal had her long-awaited return to the court after missing the 2020 season due to an injury. She came in second in rebounds with 10, followed by Ogele in third with eight. This new team is young, but the chemistry in this exhibition game made it look like they’ve been together for a while. The Viks start their regular season on Nov. 9 at the Viking Pavilion versus Warner Pacific. Portland State is expected to finish eight in the Big Sky based on the women’s basketball media poll and expected to be ninth in the coaches’ poll. Idaho State, the reigning champs, is expected to win the Big Sky in both polls. With new members and new coaches, the Viks plan to prove the coaches’ poll wrong and take on the rest of the Big Sky.
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VICTORIA CALDERON Many know WILLAMETTE WEEK as a weekly newspaper from here in Portland, established in 1974. It’s a well-established paper and website focusing on news and local politics— with a very Portland feel. Now that it’s November, Willamette Week ends the year with its annual Give Guide, stylized as G!G or Give!Guide. Give Guide, established in 2004, is an end-of-year guide stretching from Nov. 1–Dec. 31. With the Give Guide website, users can navigate through different groups and nonprofits hosted by Willamette Week. The organizations focus on a variety of topics from hunger to animals to creative expression and can be easily searched and sorted as such. Donations made to these organizations are the newspaper’s way to end on a hoorah. G!G has raised over $40 million since 2004 for hundreds of nonprofits and continues the tradition for the 17th year. As the G!G continues to grow, so does the technology surrounding it. This year,
donors are able to see which organizations are led by Black, Indigenous, people of color—over half of their leadership identifying as such—in addition to groups that are new to G!G or Oregon Cultural Trust (OCT) certified. All of the organizations are 501(c)3 tax deductible. Willamette Week focuses on wanting to reach young donors,by opening up the ability to donate in smaller amounts. This creates an opportunity for more to get involved as they grow financially and professionally. The initial donation amount is just $10. Additionally, donating on a Big Give Day enters the donor to win prizes, on top of the charitable contribution. In order to get into the G!G, a nonprofit must be registered 501(c)3, do meaningful work in the Portlandmetropolitan area, and be in Multnomah, Washington or Clackamas county. This year, 37% of the G!G members are brand-new. The Give Guide website is simple to navigate, allowing potential donors to select a non-profit, read its mission statement with more
information about its cause and business partners—and possible incentives. Some are providing bonuses and pairing up with local businesses. The Oregon Justice Resource Center is giving the first 50 people who donate $25 or more a free coupon to Salt & Straw for a cone. Pueblo Unido is doing random drawings at different tiers for gift cards. Others are connected within bigger prizes on Big Give Days. The Give Guide website has more information and is open through Dec. 31.
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FOR CHARITY AND GIVING VICTORIA CALDERON Colder temperatures due to La Niña conditions continue to drop. In response to these colder months, Safeway is gathering up for its 21st annual Truckload of Coats. This event supports people currently experiencing houselessness within Portland. Safeway teamed up with the Columbia Sportswear Company to sponsor the Transition Projects—a housing project designed to provide housing for those without it—and hosted by 101.9 KINK radio station. Having been around for 50 years, KINK is one of Portland’s only heritage radio stations, known for playing music requested by the fans, for the fans. Similarly, Transition Projects has served the community for half a century, meeting the needs for some of Portland’s most vulnerable populations that utilize the Project’s services at multiple levels on the journey out of houselessness. The Transition Projects assists nearly 500 people, via its resource center, and provides over 800 beds nightly for those who do not have anywhere else to go. “KINK is proud to continue the tradition of the Truckload of Coats event,” said Gene Sandbloom, 101.9 KINK operations director. “Your old winter coat will now be someone’s new coat keeping them warm this winter. The warmth of our listeners’ generosity will be felt for months to come.”
Aside from basic services and housing needs, Transition Projects provides daily services like showers, assistance with notarized documents, hygiene kits, identification and birth certificates, eviction prevention and move-in assistance. With the winter approaching and COVID-19 still among us, the work the Project does may continue to be difficult, especially considering the eviction moratorium ended in June of this year. A study from the Portland State University Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative and the Northwest Economic Research Center showed that 107,000 households were at-risk of housing instability in the tri-county area, as of 2017. This number may have increased since then. Director of Development for Transition Projects, Roma Peyser, said that she was proud the organization was now a 21-year partner of Truckload of Coats. Due to the COVID-19 safety guidelines, this year’s event will be following “no-contact” safety guidelines, but Peyser said that the annual event was more critical than ever. “As the weather gets colder, warm coats and clothing from the community are immediately distributed to our most vulnerable citizens who are experiencing homelessness,” Peyser said. “These donations make a huge difference.” The one-day event will be Friday, Nov. 5 from 7 a.m.–5 p.m. at two different locations: 2200 Salamo Road, West Linn,
OR 97068 and 13485 NW Cornell Road, Portland, OR 97229. The most needed items are cold-weather clothing, coats, raincoats, fleeces, pants, boots, gloves, underwear, tents and sleeping bags—all for adults. The event aims to collect gently-used items, and donors will receive a $5 Safeway gift card and a Columbia Sportswear Employee Store Shopping pass, while supplies last. There are so many ways to get involved with Transition Projects, even outside of the coat drive. Those unable to make the event and interested in supporting the organization can volunteer with things such as helping with meals or can make a donation through the Project’s Amazon wishlist. The next orientation for training volunteers will be Nov. 6 from 12–1:30 p.m.
SHANNON STEED
101.9 KINK TO HOST 21ST ANNUAL SAFEWAY TRUCKLOAD OF COATS
