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Food For Thought back in business

‘Don’t take no for an answer’ Lara Logan shares journalism stories from the front lines

Employees face new challenges after flooding Matthew Ellis Vanguard Staff

Food For Thought Cafe reopened for business Monday morning after flooding caused by sewage overflow forced the cafe to lock its doors in mid-September.

The morning of Sept. 19, employees opening the cafe were met with black water permeating the interior of the space and damage to expensive food preparation equipment.

Because of the nature of the leak, as well as fears of potential asbestos contamination, the university locked the cafe’s doors and began a rigorous cleaning process.

The cafe was initially set to reopen Friday after cleaning crews had sanitized and rehabilitated the space, but the pipe that caused the original flood burst another leak, forcing the university to shut the space down for another round of contamination testing.

After the second leak, the pipe itself was replaced, and after the last set of environmental tests, the cafe was deemed safe to reopen.

In the weeks since the closure, some employees set up a temporary shop on the second floor of Smith Memorial Student Union.

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journalist lara logan spoke on Friday at the Simon Benson House and Lincoln Hall as part of PSU’s Portland State of Mind event. She shared stories of war, revolution and the demands of being a female journalist.

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For Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs anchor for CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent, survival has always been about her confidence in herself, her drive to know more and her passion to report the truth—whether we’re ready to hear it or not.

“I have always known who I am, what I do. No one has ever done it for me,” Logan said.

Logan came to Portland State on Friday as the keynote speaker marking the beginning of the annual Portland State of Mind weekend.

She spoke with 30–40 alumni at the Simon Benson House and later gave a speech at a packed Lincoln Hall.

Logan is an award-winning journalist who has reported from war zones all over the world. In February 2011, after being arrested and released while reporting on the Egyptian revolution, Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten

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by a mob of 200 to 300 men in Tahrir Square.

While the experience was extremely traumatic, Logan never felt the need for justice or revenge, saying she “made a very conscious choice not to be a victim.”

Logan shared advice with aspiring journalists and gave her opinion on the Afghanistan war after years of reporting from the front.

Logan advised showing up at news stations with a pile of work and demanding to be hired. At her

Daylong event spotlights on-campus connections Erik Mutzke Vanguard Staff

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indigenous rights advocate Gyasi Ross, a member of the Blackfeet and Squamish tribes, talks to the crowd at PSU’s first indigenous Solidarity Day.

It was a day for the indigenous people of this nation to celebrate their solidarity and culture—and it happened on Columbus Day. On Monday, Oct. 8, Portland State’s Native American Student and Community Center hosted its first Indigenous Solidarity Day event.

The event, recognized in many places across the country amongst first nations people and meant to deny Columbus the title of “discoverer,” has now formally reached PSU.

first five or six jobs, she convinced employers that they needed her and often offered to work for very little to nothing.

“You don’t just land a job,” she said.

She also had a message for hopeful journalists trying to cover interesting and relevant stories.

“My best advice is don’t take no for an answer. Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Get off your ass and do it.”

See lara logan on page 3 “At University of Oregon, the Indigenous Solidarity Day was hugely popular, and there was a lot of talk amongst the students and staff here at PSU about holding one,” Rachel Cushman, NASCC specialist and former University of Oregon student, said. “I wanted to continue this across the state.”

PSU’s event brought students, faculty and the community together for introductions, tours, games, a potluck and a guest speaker.

While the day followed suit with the larger movement beyond campus, the basic goal for the NASCC was to create a community meetand-greet and orient the six indigenous student groups at PSU: the United Indian Students in Higher Education, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Chinook Wawa Social Club, Healing See indigenous rights on page 2

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Tower power KPSU hopes to increase signal strength, reach Andrew Lawrence Vanguard Staff

As a streaming radio station on the web, KPSU gets around 10,000 unique visitors per month—not too shabby for a college radio station. But one would be forgiven for not listening to them at 98.1 on the FM dial, as the station’s reach is somewhat limited.

“It’s about, maybe, three blocks by three blocks,” Jay Turk, KPSU’s station manager, said.

“Two hundred meters is what we have right now,” Luke Carlson, KPSU’s programming director, added.

“On a really good day you can catch it for about a quarter of a mile on 405.”

Despite being Oregon’s largest university by enrollment, Portland State lacks, and has lacked for years, radio representation proportional to its size.

From 1994 to 2010, KPSU leased an AM signal for part of the day from Benson Polytechnic High School, but clashes over FCC interpretations and programming issues ended this arrangement.

“Right now there is no radio station in Portland that speaks for and to students,” Turk said.

But thanks to the Local Community Radio Act of 2010, signed into law by President Barack Obama early last year, KPSU and indeed almost any noncommercial entity will soon be able to apply for a Low Power FM broadcasting license, which would increase KPSU’s signal strength 50 times, from two watts to 100.

Turk estimates that this could allow the station to be heard within a square area bordered by Lombard Street to the north, Southeast 82nd Avenue to the east, the Sellwood neighborhood to the south and the West Hills to the west.

Part of the reason a larger presence for KPSU is a big deal is the relative dominance of huge media conglomerates in the FM spectrum in Portland.

According to pdxradio. com, 13 of the city’s 22 FM stations are owned by out-ofstate entities, of which Clear Channel (Texas) and Entercom (Pennsylvania) own five each, including such major players as “Wild” 107.5, 99.5

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“The Wolf” and 94.7 “Alternative Portland.”

“Everything is homogenized,” Carlson said. “Most radio stations that broadcast here in Portland are broadcast through Clear Channel. You can hear the same thing—literally the same song—played after the other same song:

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“These giant conglomerates are producing media at such a fantastic rate, so ubiquitously, that the small media groups are unable to compete.

It’s not a level playing field,” Turk said.

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no difference between Los Angeles, Chicago or, you know, Bozeman.”

While these stations may have a local person to jump on the air for a minute or two to say what the tracks are, Turk said that person may not even be in Portland.

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MAry Mckevitt and Catherine Peterson, Food for Thought Cafe employees, take orders from Keegan Meyer and Ali Smith, both PSU students.

Thought’s coffee vendor, lent the cafe his mobile coffee cart and his pour-over equipment.

Wicker is also helping the cafe find replacement machinery, as their expensive espresso machine and other baking tools had to be thrown out.

Student employees are excited to be back in operation, but said bringing the cafe back to full order will be no small task.

Because multiple weeks of operation were lost, employees will have to prepare enough food to meet the demands of the cafe’s typical business week.

This, in addition to equipment they have yet to replace, made preparing for Monday’s reopening seem like a “chaotic doozy of a time” to Travis West, Food For Thought

employee and Portland State senior.

While the cafe’s employees are more than happy to get their lives back to normal, they can’t help but worry that the accident has caused casualties beyond ruined espresso machines.

Food For Thought employees lost not only their workspace, but many also lost their main source of income.

And because of the extent of the damage, they have lost up to four weeks of wages— wages which appear to not be covered under unemployment insurance.

Cafe employee Elizabeth Bommarito pointed to ORS 657.030, an Oregon statute that specifically exempts student employees from a legal obligation to state unemployment benefits.

While some employees were able to pick up a few shifts at their temporary location on the second floor of Smith, the rest of Food For Thought’s 20-plus employees saw nothing but a locked door leading into the cafe.

Still, many were quick to thank all those who helped get the cafe back to working order.

“We’ve been well supported by those who are in charge of fixing the infrastructure,” West said. “They worked hard on the space even though they had a lot of other projects needing attention.”

With the accident behind him now, West is ready to get back to business.

“The whole thing has been really frustrating and annoying,” he said. “But it is just another episode in what has been a 10-year adventure called Food For Thought.”

Islanders Club and the Indigenous Arts and Crafts Group.

“The mission of the NASCC is to create intercultural alliances and dialogue in the community. We wanted to help our student groups get the ball rolling for the academic year,” Cushman said.

Shinny, a game indigenous to the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, took place at Blumel Field just after noon.

The sometimes-brutal, highly physical game has been played for thousands of years.

Each player uses a thick stick about 4 feet long to throw a projectile made of two balls tied together by a foot-long rope. The goals are in the form of large posts at each end of the field. Visualize the game of lacrosse—but with a weaponlike object thrown through the air—and you have PacificNorthwest Shinny. The game is still played competitively in leagues and colleges around the area.

“Today we are playing this game because it’s a way of promoting active lifestyles in a cultural context,” Katie Gargen, a PSU student and representative of United Indians in Higher Education, said.

“We are celebrating Northwest Indian Heritage.”

Toward the end of the day, the NASCC filled with the smell of fresh salmon from the Columbia River, a local indigenous staple food. The meal was free for everyone who attended. While the

potluck began, various native student groups on campus set up and spoke about their initiatives and purpose.

Healing Feathers, a recipient of the Native American Rehab Association’s No More Fallen Feathers grant, is a PSU student group that hires abused students via federal work-study and promotes suicide awareness and prevention.

“The group has between eight and 12 native student volunteers each year, along with the many trained student coordinators,” Dean Azule, coordinator of Native American Student Services, said. “The students are the ones who plan and host the events.” Promoting wellness in the native community is a theme not only of Healing Feathers, but of all the native student groups.

The night ended with a talk by prominent indigenous rites advocate and lawyer Gyasi Ross. Hailing from the Blackfeet and Squamish tribes and a graduate of Columbia Law School, Ross spoke passionately about the importance of native culture, with an eye on the future.

“Culture is not just to be treated like an empty word,” he said. “Culture is about expression and survival codes that are meant to improve the lives of our people—survival codes that will carry the next generation into the future.”

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Balancing the gender scales Lecture raises inequality issues in politics Mary Breaden Vanguard Staff

Inequalities between men and women can be determined through a variety of measures; in the U.S., however, perhaps nowhere is this inequality more apparent than in politics.

According to census data, women earn about threequarters of what men earn and are more likely than men to occupy low-level jobs.

Dr. Kim M. Williams, academic director of the Center for Women, Politics and Policy,

While 90 percent of Republicans are white, more African Americans, Hispanics, young people and unmarried women tended to vote for Obama in 2008. spoke to a crowd of 40 in Lincoln Hall on Saturday as part of the Portland State of Mind lecture series.

Williams first discussed the gender inequality that has long been a part of United States politics. Since 1789, only 2 percent of Congress officials have been women.

In Oregon, women make up 50.5 percent of the population, but only 28 percent of members of the Oregon legislature are women. The number of women in Oregon’s legislature has decreased since 2002, when 33 percent of legislators in the state were women.

At 29 percent, the percentage of businesses owned by women also demonstrates this political disparity.

Williams broke down the 2012 election cycle to show the Republican Party’s reliance on white male voters.

While President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 seemed to signify the U.S.’s movement toward racial equality, Williams said, “Americans don’t want to accept nuance.”

While 90 percent of Republicans are white, more African Americans, Hispanics, young people and unmarried women tended to vote for Obama in 2008.

This racial disparity is “increasingly an issue for the GOP,” Williams said, but he also explained that no one could predict who would win the upcoming election.

One attendee, Cheryl Myers, a member of the North Clackamas School Board, spoke up during the talk.

“Women run [for office] when they are asked,” Myers said, adding that women are more hesitant to interrupt their established

careers with a run for political office, even if they are considering it.

Men need less encouragement to run for office, Williams said, while women more commonly wait for their children to grow up before they consider running.

True enough: When an audience member asked Williams if she herself would ever consider running for office, she joked, “No, never,” but then said that she had young children and that she enjoyed her work as an academic.

In an earlier interview, Williams mentioned her hope that women at Portland State step up in all capacities.

“Women occupy the lower, most tenuous positions while men usually hold positions at the top of the academy.”

Dr. Kim M. Williams Academic director of the Center for Women, Politics and Policy

“We would like to see more women tenure,” Williams said.

As an instructor at Harvard Kennedy School until recently, Williams was a part of a group of women academics who spoke out against Larry Summers, at that time the president of Harvard, when he made a statement about women being innately less likely to succeed in the sciences.

“Women occupy the lower, most tenuous positions,” Williams said of academia, while men usually hold positions “at the top of the academy.

“I would like to see women at Portland State join together for a common cause,” she said.

The Center for Women, Politics and Policy hopes to do just that by connecting women to policy makers and “movers and shakers” across Oregon.

Williams explained that, as an instructor, she tries to push her students to think beyond their preconceptions about gender.

“I’m about building a broader scope for women,” Williams said. “Education is my answer.”

This year is the centennial anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in Oregon; a landmark of progress that women should celebrate, Williams said, while being mindful of the need for further gains.

“We’re moving in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.”

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“We need to be honest about the war we are in,” Logan said Logan’s passion and determination was illustrated during the Sept. 11 attacks, when Logan knew she had to get to Afghanistan as soon as possible. But the Russian embassy told her she would have to wait three months for her visa to be approved.

Instead, she took a young male embassy employee out for coffee, exchanged a fake phone number, got the visa and flew out that night.

“You have to do it yourself.

You can’t wait for anyone to do it for you,” Logan said.

Logan’s visit to Portland came just over than a week after an Oct. 2 speech in Chicago at the Better Government Association annual luncheon.

There, Logan spoke out on the war in Afghanistan, saying that after speaking with representatives from all sides of the conflict, the reality of the war does not match Washington’s portrayal of the war.

Contrary to what the American military has been reporting, the Taliban and al-Qaida are not weakened but, rather, are making a comeback, she said.

While Logan claims she’s tried to bring an honest face to the longest war in American history, Logan’s critics have said that she crossed a journalistic line by including too much of her own opinion.

But at PSU, Logan set the record straight. The critics completely missed the point, she said.

“I wasn’t advocating for anything. I wasn’t calling for ramped up war. What I was saying is, we need to acknowledge the war that we are in. We need to be honest about the war we are in and what we are doing about it.”

While Washington has depicted the Taliban as an insurgent group trying to overthrow a legitimate government, the reality is far different, she explained.

“They were the government. They are fighting to restore themselves to power,” Logan said.

Logan also believes that the war lacks focus.

“If you are in a war, you need to be in a war. If not, you need to go home. You can’t half-ass it.”

While reporting in Afghanistan, Logan interviewed many different types of people, from the “common man” to the president of Afghanistan to a Taliban commander who specializes in suicide bombing.

Logan said she always focuses on creating the most honest and balanced story possible. The amount of time and detail 60 Minutes takes to make sure that it is providing factual and important information can be daunting, Logan explained.

“We are trying to do reporting on Afghanistan that means something. We are trying to do reporting on Afghanistan that gives

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journalist lara logan spent time before her Friday talk with student journalists from the Vanguard. the people the sense of the significance of this on their future,” she said.

Asked if she ever regrets statements she’s made, Logan said no.

“I stand by everything that I say. I don’t regret anything. I don’t want to be the story, and I think my actions have demonstrated that time and time again.”

Housing the homeless Event challenges students, architects to design new solutions Action Center” and Katie Quick Vanguard staff

It’s 7 p.m. on a Tuesday, and people are slowly milling in, one by one, through the doors of the downtown Mercy Corps Action Center.

There’s a buzz in the air as people chat—this is clearly a community of people here to get involved.

Designers and architects gathered with students and community members for the kick-off of Design Week Portland on Tuesday, Oct. 9 to discuss how art, design and architecture can be used to enact change among the homeless community.

“We are the city that is doing something—and we are the best at it—but it’s only the tip of the iceberg,” Sergio Palleroni, an associate professor of architecture at PSU who led the evening’s conversation, began.

People in the room began to settle into chairs in front of the giant screen facing the crowd, with a slide show that displayed “Mercy Corps

“Design Week Portland.” About 100 people attended.

The discussion switched to the PSU Department of Architecture’s Distinguished Visiting Professor of CrossCultural Architecture, Teddy Cruz, described by Palleroni,

“Many are on the street because they don’t fit anywhere.

Some are abandoned, some it’s economics— some find the first family they’ve ever had. The idea of belonging is more important.”

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who works with him, as a “legendary nutcase of activism.”

“What we need to do is to invest in creative energies artistically, politically and economically,” Cruz said over a loudspeaker via cellphone.

“We need to think of design… advancing and challenging the housing policies and economics.”

Cruz then shared one of his favorite personal analogies, inspired by General David Howell Petreaus, current director of the CIA, which describes the ability of a soldier to transcend the “G.I. Joe image” and connect with people in a war zone.

“If a soldier can transform, why can’t architects, as well?”

“Design with a purpose is hard,” Palleroni said. “You can’t stand at a distance, but must participate with the world.”

The discussion then moved to the audience, who were invited to share their stories about local and regional use of architecture as a means of enacting change among the homeless community.

A group of architecture students from the University of Oregon stood up to explain their school project in Eugene, which is finding ways to shelter the homeless, followed by a few other community members who shared their experiences with running into trouble when trying to incorporate and integrate design and social activism.

But why does this matter?

Oregon’s homeless population has increased dramatically within the past decade, and is estimated to continue if measures aren’t taken to change the situation.

“Many are on the street because they don’t fit anywhere.

Some are abandoned, some it’s economics—some find the first family they’ve ever had,” Palleroni said. “The idea of belonging is more important.”

Palleroni explained how many homeless youth in Portland are homeless by choice, not because they were forced to the streets.

“Homelessness is a complex issue,” he said.

Peter Schoonmaker, chair of the Collaborative Design Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, closed the discussion. Some 80 percent of architecture students are interested in public interest design.

Schoonmaker challenged the students with a question: How can the designs be useful, applicable and helpful?

We may not have all of the answers now, but integrating and adapting the different disciplines will provide us with the best options to help to diminish the homelessness in Portland, Schoonmaker said.

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Coverage area would expand to 50 times current area Currently, the LCRA is undergoing an appeals process, but by early winter the details should be worked out, with an application window for licenses opening in the spring.

The station has been working with PSU’s Office of General Counsel in order to be ready when the window opens, as it might only be open for a week or even less.

“Luckily we have the support of the university,” Turk said, noting that last spring the student fee committee granted the station $20,000, now in “designated reserve.”

“Which means that it’s not just ‘Here’s 20K, go blow it!’” Turk explained. “They granted us $20,000 in order to pursue this signal and obtain it.”

The stronger signal would be an entirely new signal (i.e., not 98.1), though the frequencies and number of stations that will become available has yet to be determined by the FCC. This uncertainty regarding how many new stations will be available and what other groups will be applying for

them is not lost on Turk.

“There will be competition for this,” he said. “But I really cannot fathom how somebody could make a better argument than us.”

Since PSU is frequently referred to as a “commuter campus,” an increased signal strength could give KPSU the opportunity to reach many more students, either in their homes or while on their way to and from school.

“Very few of the students live on campus,” Carlson said. “So the best way to reach them, in many respects, is to give them the opportunity to just turn us on.”

Those same students, though, will be both the station’s biggest asset and biggest obstacle in the near future as the station goes through the application process.

“What’s going to trip us up, if anything, is going to be not having the support of the community, not having the support of the student body,” Turk said, adding that, for the station to be successful, it needs to do a good job of explaining why it’s

important and showing people how they can help.

“Contrary to popular belief, we do more than just play music on the air,” Carlson said. “We provide a valuable resource to local groups such as the WRC [Women’s Resource Center] and QRC [Queer Resource Center]: Basically, anybody who wants to contact us.”

The station doesn’t just give a voice to on-campus groups; Turk noted that KPSU works closely with nonprofits in the area, such as the Cafe at Sisters of the Road.

“We offer an avenue for these groups, both on and off campus, to get the word out about about their events and doings, through PSAs [public service announcements] that we offer for free,” Turk said.

The station is always looking for disc jockeys, especially for talk and foreign language shows.

“We have so much diversity at this university, students from all over the world,” Turk said. “We have a lot of great, diverse programs, but the diversity of the station as of yet does not reflect the diversity of the university. I don’t know that it ever could, because it is so diverse, but it’s something that we strive for: We’d like to do better.”

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Extended broadcast range if KPSU is granted a LPFM Low Power FM license. The range would span roughly between Lombard Street in the north, 82nd Avenue in the east, the Sellwood neighborhood in the south and the West Hills in the west.

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Portland State architecture students will soon be able to compete fairly for jobs and graduate school opportunities after graduation.

The five-year-long accreditation process of PSU’s Department of Architecture will soon end.

Although PSU will not receive the official verdict until February 2013, Clive Knights, chair of the Department of Architecture, believes that the visits “went very well indeed.”

In order for a student to eventually become a licensed architect, he must first receive a degree from a school with an architecture department that has been accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board.

The student must then complete graduate school, participate in a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed architect and pass a nine-part architecture exam known as the Architecture Registration Exam.

PSU students will benefit from accreditation in several

ways, Knights said. Both Knights and PSU President Wim Wiewel agree that the program’s application process will become more competitive.

“Without [accreditation], a program can’t attract students,” Wiewel said.

“Once professional accreditation is attained, PSU students will find themselves on par, nationally, with other full professional programs across the country,” architecture professor Rudy Barton said. He also noted that accreditation will allow PSU students looking to continue their architecture studies to stay in the state rather than seek accredited graduate programs elsewhere.

Knights also believes that accreditation will lead to more opportunities for PSU architecture students than if they were graduating from a nonaccredited program.

Another benefit is that there is a common standard for all NAAB-accredited schools.

These schools share similar curricula and internship opportunities, providing a more standardized education.

The accreditation itself is a long and complicated process that spans four to six years over three visits.

The first visit by NAAB, in February 2008, is referred to as the candidacy visit, and determines whether a school meets baseline qualifications.

The second visit, the continuation visit, took place in February 2010 and tracked PSU’s progress.

The last visit took place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2012.

Each visit takes much preparation, but the final visit was crucial, Knights explained.

Professors in the architecture department are guided to ensure that they are staying on course for the accreditation while meeting PSU’s standards.

Knights was required to draft a 75,000 word report that serves as the program’s self evaluation and discusses the department’s resources, facilities, students, staff, opportunities and more.

One of the most tedious and time-consuming aspects of the process is archiving

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KPSU’s current broadcast range, about a three block radius.

student work. NAAB visitors were shown examples of projects that represent the work of architecture students.

Knights and his fellow faculty were asked to produce student work on both ends of the achievement spectrum, ensuring that the sample “is as illustrative of students’ criteria” as possible, Knights said.

The visit ends with the accreditors sharing their impressions with the public.

Students received special recognition for “quality—not just of their work, but of their community and their sense of mission,” Knights said.

“The faculty feels great and validated. We took great pain over the last year, especially the summer, to provide the visiting team with the clearest insight into our program, and it worked seamlessly,” Barton said.

Wiewel believes that accreditation “firmly establishes PSU’s architecture program as what will become one of the nation’s leading urban architecture programs.”

When the Portland State Bookstore outsourced its operations to Nebraska Book Company this summer—as reported in the Vanguard—both parties touted an expanded textbook scholarship program as one of the deal’s biggest benefits for students.

However, the Vanguard has only now learned that the program didn’t start immediately. The scholarship program will kick off in fall 2013 with $20,000 in funding from NBC and an additional undetermined amount supplied by the nonprofit bookstore itself.

For many years, the bookstore ran a textbook scholarship program that students applied to through PSU Foundation.

B that program ended in 2008 when the financial crisis hit, according to bookstore manager Ken Brown.

In the meantime, students can ease the burden by renting any textbook in the store at costs lower than the purchase price.

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Crime Blotter Bike theft: Oct. 5 University Pointe

Officer Denae Murphy received a report from a student whose bike had been stolen from the Westside MAX stop in front of University Pointe. A cable lock had secured the bike.

Heroin possession: Oct. 5 PSU Distance Learning Center

Holli Pinkston was found in the second floor women’s bathroom of the Portland State Distance Learning Center with residue amounts of heroin, needles and cooking materials in her possession. Officer Murphy, who found Pinkston, seized the illicit substances and gave her an exclusion from campus notice.

Public indecency: Oct. 6 PSU School of Business Administration

Around 9:59 a.m., Officer Gary Smeltzer received a report from a student of a white male masturbating on the third floor of the School of Business Administration, near the computer lab. When the complainant called CPSO, the male immediately fled the premises.

Firearm theft: Oct. 7 Parking Structure 1

Officer Jared Schuurmans was flagged down around 11:49 p.m. by a student who said his car had been broken into. His car was parked in Parking Structure 1 when two pistols, an assault rifle and 1800 rounds of ammunition were removed from the vehicle. Officer Schuurmans referred the situation to the Portland Police Bureau.

Disturbance: Oct. 7 University Place Hotel and Conference Center

Officer Robert McCleary responded to a report of possible car prowlers at the University Place Hotel.

Upon arrival, Officer McCleary found two intoxicated males in the hotel parking lot. One of the men, a guest at the hotel, was asked to return to his room, and the other man was asked to leave the premises.

Both complied.

Laser pointer: Oct. 8 Broadway Housing Building

At 12:41 a.m., Officer Gregory Marks saw the occupants of Broadway dorm room 651 shining a laser pointer into the parking lot adjacent to the tennis courts. Officer Marks tried to contact the occupants by knocking on the door, but no one responded.

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The portland streetcar now has two lines, the North/South Line and the Central Loop Line.

Streetcar delivers eastside mobility New line connects downtown commuters Josh Kelety Vanguard Staff

Portland State students living on the city’s east side now have another way to get to campus: the Portland Streetcar.

Once limited to the west side, the streetcar now trundles along Portland’s inner east side, stopping at newly built shelters and sharing the road with traffic.

The streetcar is free for PSU students who show their student ID card.

“We’ve already seen a huge uptick in the number of PSU students riding,” Julie Gustafson, spokesperson for Portland Streetcar Inc., said.

This recently completed project aims not only to provide inner city public transportation to and from the east side but also to develop an area of Portland that has long been seen as lacking investment and development.

Additionally, once completed, the Caruthers Bridge will include a line for the streetcar, completing the project officially known as the Portland Streetcar Loop Project.

New lines opened Sept. 22 after three years of construction.

The project adds a total of 3.3 miles of new track running north and south along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Grand Avenue, from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to Lloyd Center and then across the Broadway Bridge to connect with downtown routes.

In September 2015, the full loop will be completed with the Caruthers pedestrian bridge, where the MAX, buses, bikers, walkers and streetcar will cross the river. Cars will be barred from the bridge.

“This has been in the talks for a very long time,” Gustafson said.

While the project is primarily intended to improve public transit, another motivation for the new line is to spur development on the east side. Developers noticed the growth in the Pearl District after the trolley went in on 10th and 11th avenues, Gustafson said.

“Not that people are looking for the east side to be the Pearl, but there are a lot of vacant lots.

We have a lot of visionaries in the city who are saying that they won’t develop more than three blocks away from a rail stop,” she said.

The streetcar company is confident that PSU students living in Portland’s east side will use the new lines to get to campus.

“I’ve personally witnessed PSU students who live in Northeast now taking the streetcar,” Gustafson said.

“Sometimes they’ll take it south and just walk across the bridge and sometimes they’ll take it around, through the Pearl District.”

Though the streetcar, like TriMet, has faced funding cuts, PSU collaborated with the company to create a sponsorship program wherein PSU students ride the streetcar for free.

PSU senior and civil engineering major Zach Mulligan said he doesn’t usually take the streetcar but, upon learning that the ride is free for students, reconsidered. “That would be an awesome option.

I would definitely ride it a lot more,” he said.

Funding for the new lines comes from a number of sources—mostly federal funds. Out of the roughly $150 million project cost, $75 million came through direct federal grants. “We are the first modern streetcar company in the country and the only to receive the federal small starts grant, which is not stimulus funds as is often reported,” Gustafson said.

Apart from this federal grant, the rest of the money came from the Portland

Development Commission, a local improvement organization, and various city funds, with state lottery funds paying for the new streetcars.

Since the lines opened, there has been some debate about schedule efficiency.

The minutes of the Portland Streetcar’s Citizens’ Advisory Committee’s Oct. 3 meeting outlined initial problems regarding the new line’s compatibility with other schedules. The CAC is a panel of Portland residents who offer input on streetcar development.

At the meeting, Rick Gustafson, executive director of Portland Streetcar Inc., described how riders looking to go from downtown to the east side have to transfer to another streetcar in Northwest Portland before going across the Broadway Bridge.

But the eastbound streetcars don’t always arrive in a timely fashion.

“This is a three to four month fix and not something that will be done on a regular basis,” he said in response to a suggestion that streetcars coordinate to make transfers smoother for riders.

Along with inconsistencies, some students don’t see the benefit in having to go all the way up to Northwest and then back down if they are just trying to get to campus.

“I do not use the streetcar because generally I bike or ride the bus straight to places I need to be,” Lucas Cooper, a junior math major said.

Krys Roth, a graduate student in the PSU book publishing program, shared a similar view. “I’m in inner Southeast and I don’t travel north a whole lot,” she said.

The new lines make OMSI more accessible, particularly to students. Paul Carlson, senior vice president of OMSI, is very happy with the new routes. “We anticipate that more students in general will be coming to OMSI and certainly hope that this will be the case.”

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A way with wayward words Tin House author Leni Zumas part of emerging master’s program Louie Opatz Vanguard Staff

“Reading The Listeners is like being gently electrocuted,” local author Alexis M. Smith said as she introduced the author of the novel, Portland State professor Leni Zumas. Zumas’ novel is “a story of humanely sloppy punk-rock love,”

“Acoustics, cadence, rhythm, repetition, the texture and weight and mouth-feel of syllables—I think about these things constantly when I write.

Language is a material substance, not simply a vehicle for representation.

It comes from the body as breath, is shaped by our mouths, can make us physically ill: And even when we encounter it on the page, it’s never quite silent.”

Leni Zumas PSU professor

Smith told a crowd of about 50 last week at the Angry Pigeon Gallery in the Pearl District.

Zumas was reading her work as part of the first installment of Late Night Library’s “In and Out of Town” reading series, each installment of which features readings from two emerging writers—one from Portland and one from out of town.

The standing-room-only crowd listened to Zumas read a short story titled “The White Serjeant.” The story was part of a forthcoming collection “that had something to do with ’80s hair metal bands,” Zumas said.

The story was inspired by “a W.A.S.P. song I kinda liked,” Zumas told the crowd as she proceeded to read a story loosely connected to W.A.S.P.’s raunchy debut single, “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast).”

“The White Serjeant” centers on a bow-tied, mild-mannered immigration secretary named Smithson. Smithson sits on “the baleful knoll of the early ’40s”; he is a reader of “aged books,” mostly antiquated technical books, who, “despite the secretarial trappings,” can “recognize a metaphor.”

Zumas’ language pops with such descriptive language, especially when spoken aloud. The author pays special attention to the auditory delights of the written word.

“Acoustics, cadence, rhythm, repetition, the texture and weight and mouth-feel of syllables—I think about these things constantly when I write,” Zumas said in an email. “Language is a material substance, not simply a vehicle for representation. It comes from the body as breath, is shaped by our mouths, can make us physically ill: And even when we encounter it on the page, it’s never quite silent.”

The painstaking care that Zumas takes in choosing her often-unexpected words was part of what made her stand out during the hiring process at PSU. “I read her work and heard her read it aloud, especially, and I was impressed with the sharpness of her writing, the syntax, the constant surprises of her prose,” Michael McGregor, director of the creative writing master’s program, said. (McGregor has held the position since this summer, and was not director when Zumas was hired.)

With its ’80s hair-metal requirement, “The White Serjeant” typifies much of Zumas’ writing, which often works within “constraints

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Leni Zumas reads from her work at The Angry Pigeon Gallery on Friday, Oct. 5th. Her writing often vibrates with descriptive language and unexpected words. and limitations,” as she said at the Angry Pigeon reading.

“Ever since [graduate school], I’ve been interested in the generative qualities of limitation,” Zumas said. “Often, we aim to write freely, without any rules, but what happens when we give ourselves restrictions?

“In a poem, for instance, that ‘must’ contain zero adjectives, might we choose more compelling nouns and verbs? Or if we compose a story that ‘cannot’ have a human narrator, how might our powers of observation be stretched? What new angles and strategies arise from a limit?”

Zumas pushed these limits in her first book, a collection of short stories titled Farewell Navigator.

“The Listeners emerged from my curiosity about how it would feel to be the survivor of such a tragedy: What sort of guilt, sadness, doubt and just plain strangeness did my father have to deal with afterwards? I changed the details of the family itself, but the same event is at the core of the book, this senseless and reverberating loss.”

Leni Zumas PSU professor

“One of the stories in Farewell Navigator... grew out of a self-imposed rule that every sentence had to (a) begin with either ‘He’ or ‘I,’ and (b) take up no more than a single line,” Zumas said. “The story [“Waste No Time If This Method Fails”] got its energy and oddness from this arbitrary rule, proving right, I think, the writers of the OuLiPo movement, who contended that chance and randomness can be vital ingredients in artistic production.”

Zumas also brings her experiments in constraints and limitations to the PSU classroom.

“She’s taught a class for us on defamiliariza-

tion,” McGregor said. The class is about creating “situations on the page that take away the familiar. She finds language in what might be ordinary situations, makes it strange and makes us look at it anew.”

After the publication of Farewell Navigator, Zumas began work on her debut novel, The Listeners, which was published by Portland press Tin House in May. “The novel got its start from a real-life event in my family,” Zumas said. “When my father was little, he and his brother were sleeping side by side on a bed by a window, and there was a robbery next door. In the exchange of gunfire, his brother was killed by a stray bullet.

“The Listeners emerged from my curiosity about how it would feel to be the survivor of such a tragedy: What sort of guilt, sadness, doubt and just plain strangeness did my father have to deal with afterwards?” Zumas said. “I changed the details of the family itself, but the same event is at the core of the book, this senseless and reverberating loss.”

Zumas, an East Coast native, had her world shift west suddenly—and unexpectedly— last year.

“Having The Listeners accepted by Tin House and getting the job at PSU happened almost simultaneously in the spring of 2011,” Zumas said. “Within, literally, a week or two of one other. I can’t even remember which came first.

It was pure coincidence, and luck, and joy.”

The author has found a vibrant, burgeoning literary scene in Portland.

“It’s an excellent city for writers, not least because we have these long stretches of grim weather that give us permission to stay inside,” Zumas said. “More important than dampness, though, is the fact that so many readers live here: Tons of people go to readings, whether at Powell’s and Literary Arts or at edgier series like Bad Blood, If Not for Kidnap and Loggernaut.”

Late Night Library, the local literary nonprofit that hosted Zumas’ recent reading, is an emerging player in the city’s book scene. The reading at the Angry Pigeon is the first live event in what the organization hopes will be a lengthy series.

“‘In and Out of Town’ is shaping up to be every other month,” said Candace Opper, Late Night Library’s managing editor and a graduate of the PSU master’s program in nonfiction (a program I am also enrolled in). Zumas was on Opper’s thesis committee, a choice Opper made after she read The Listeners.

Late Night Library is branching out to live events, though its main method for spreading the literary word has been the podcast.

“We pick a debut book and we recruit two established writers to talk about the debut book,” Opper said. “Other writers are talking about the book. They’re not only promoting the debut author, they’re self-promoting at the same time.”

Late Night Library’s next podcast features poets Camille Rankine and John Murillo discussing Marcus Jackson’s debut poetry collection, Neighborhood Register.

Since Portland State switched from a Master of Arts in Writing to a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2009, the program has bolstered its profile by hiring established and emerging writers like Charles D’Ambrosio, John Beer and Zumas.

“All three [professors] have created increased diversity in what we offer,” McGregor said.

Zumas agrees that PSU’s Master of Fine Arts program is on the rise.

“I think the MFA at Portland State is poised to become one of the top writing programs in the country,” Zumas said. “My fellow faculty members are brilliant writers and teachers. Our partnership with Tin House enables us to invite a nationally renowned writer-in-residence to teach a workshop every spring. Our reading series has brought in a stellar array of writers.”

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing reading series continues with upcoming readings by fiction writer Whitney Otto and poet Emily Kendal Frey on Oct.23, fiction writer Jon Raymond and poet Catherine Wagner on Nov. 2 and nonfiction writer Sara Mirk and poet Carl Adamshick on Nov. 13.

For more information about times and locations of the readings, visit the PSU Creative Writing website at pdx.edu/mfa-creativewriting.

Arts & Culture • Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 • VANGUARD

Music has arrived Portland State welcomes Viking Sound to bring some noise Mike Diallo Vanguard staff

The Viking faithful fill courts and fields with roaring crowds and electrifying energy, swept up in a spirited storm of school pride. And yet something has been missing. Enter the Viking Sound, Portland State’s new pep band.

The Viking Sound premiered last Saturday with a mission to inject another level of liveliness into our athletic bouts and give students another way to celebrate the college experience.

“We’ve been wanting [Viking Sound] for a long time,” Kenny Dow, director of marketing for Viking athletics, said. “It was a collaborative effort.”

Dow noted that there was an obvious demand from the athletic and music departments, but also from the Alumni Association, the Associated Students of Portland State University’s student fee committee, the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships and the President’s Office. All these parties saw a distinct need for the opportunities a pep band would create across campus.

“It’s a new avenue of support and tradition at PSU,” Dow said of Viking Sound’s impact on the community.

Student benefit was a huge factor in the pep band’s conception, and Edward Higgins, associate professor of conducting/wind studies and director of bands, shares Dow’s sentiments on the

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the viking sound performs at homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 6. value of a pep band. “[Viking Sound] provides cross-collaboration between music and athletics,” Higgins said, “and it gives opportunities to students across the campus.”

Prospective members of the group don’t need to be music majors to audition, and the band willingly takes suggestions from the cheer squad— and others—to cultivate an atmosphere of camaraderie in content and performances.

“It’s more about providing excitement than other bands at PSU,” Higgins said.

The band provides a multitude of new challenges and opportunities for the musicians

involved. Its songbook of modern and upbeat tunes is meant to complement the spirited crowds at games. This requires musicians to have a detailed understanding of the songs, so that they can focus on the energy coming from their audience.

The music must be loud to mirror the tenacity of Viking athletes, yet played well enough that it can be enjoyed by a variety of students and community members. The task seems challenging for any musician.

Luckily, the band’s director, Michael Suskin, has the experience to lead Viking Sound through its inaugural year. Having participated

Appropriation on display PSU exhibit tackles cultural borrowing through art Jeoffry Ray Vanguard staff

Appropriation, or the taking of something without right or license, is a common theme and tool in contemporary art and throughout modern pop culture. Sports teams fit their logos with imagery depicting cultural stereotypes, even as conceptual artists pilfer commercial brands for use in their own works. In some cases, these forms of appropriation can be provocative or invigorating to an icon or image. But when exactly is appropriation inappropriate?

Local art curator J.P. Huckins found himself asking that question. “It started with seeing art around town that was being made by young people,” Huckins said. “I was seeing this ‘hipster’ art that was sort of Native-inspired. To me it seemed a little outside of their realm and experience. It sometimes seemed like a cultural appropriation for monetary gain.”

This idea of cultural appropriation became the inspiration for Huckins’ most recent curatorial project, Inappropriate Appropriation.

A group show featuring the work of local artists Sam Guerrero, Rochelle Kulei, Crystal Baxley, Paul Clay and Kesheena Jean Doctor. Appropriation is a mixed media art event examining several aspects of appropriation, cultural and otherwise. The exhibition is currently showing at Portland State’s Littman and White Galleries, located in the Smith Memorial Student Union, and will run through the month of October.

Many of the works are informed by American pop culture’s appropriation of Native American imagery, or distorted perceptions thereof. A se-

Hubcap hall: Rochelle Kulei’s painted hubcaps are on prominent display in Smith.

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ries of hubcaps by Kulei, a recent Portland State Master of Fine Arts graduate, dominates the Littman Gallery’s northern wall. Each hubcap bears a painting of an iconic profile reminiscent of a different sports team’s logo.

Kitty-corner to the hubcaps, a square of beige is painted at eye level, offsetting the satin white of the gallery walls. This conceptual work, by PSU Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate Baxley, echoes the rest of her series, located in the nearby White Gallery. The swatches of color she presents are related only by the names on their labels: “Indian Tears,” “Indian White,” “Indian Hills” and “Indian Necklace.”

“I’ve had this small collection of paint swatches with names that make me uncomfortable lying around for a while,” Baxley said in an email.

“I think the feeling that made me pick up these swatches and keep them around is the same kind of feeling that J.P. had in mind when he put this show together. Their names certainly don’t strike me as appropriate, so for me this show serves as a constructive outlet for exploring, or at least exposing, my discomfort with arbitrary appropriation of indigenous culture covering the walls of homes across America.”

But other works examine alternative ideas of appropriation. Two works by Portland State Master of Fine Arts graduate Guerrero take a look at Hollywood action films and their effect on the human subconscious. Each video work displays a tightly looped clip, replaying for the viewer one of several moments immortalized in film.

“Both works take into consideration the appropriation of our personal headspace by pop culture and the influence it has on how we ultimately begin to understand the world,” Guerrero said in an email. “My memory of these films is very different than what I recognized in a viewing, then again, later in life. Yet I cannot deny their influence. By isolating them I hope to conjure something similar in the memory of the viewer and unpack some of the implications such imagery has on our subconscious.”

Tucked behind a black curtain dividing the eastern end of the Littman from the rest of the gallery, Clay’s video installation explores human tragedy and ecstasy alike, with a mix of news segments and clips from a nightclub all set to a musical sequence performed by the artist in a mix of Spanish and English.

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in pep bands since he was 15 years old, Suskin provided his insight at the inception. Higgins initially approached Suskin based on his performance experience and his work directing high school pep bands.

“It was a natural progression for me to become the director,” Suskin said.

Suskin’s dedication to Viking Sound began before the band’s existence was even assured.

His investment in the group paid off, and he’s already been impressed by the skill and readiness of the participating students.

“Initially, I was worried that a pep band didn’t exist because maybe no one wanted to be in a pep band,” Suskin said.

But the response of well-equipped and knowledgeable musicians quickly lifted any doubt.

“They would get the sheet music and be able to play it after two tries. It’s one of the fastestlearning bands I’ve seen,” Suskin said.

The anticipation translates to preparedness in the bandstands and another reason for students to come out and join Viking Sound. Because the band needed to be put together so quickly, it currently consists mainly of music majors, though Suskin believes other students with music backgrounds will audition in the future.

Suskin’s prediction makes sense based on the promise he and Higgins have seen in the Viking Sound’s present membership: Students who are willing to practice, arrange and even write for a band they know has the potential for unique and enjoyable performances.

With its excellent morale, high demand and members who are excited to prepare and perform, Viking Sound seems destined to be a staple in PSU’s school spirit, and the band seems to be in line with what the forming parties had envisioned.

“It’s another college experience that keeps them involved,” Higgins said. “There’s a lot of excitement, and they know when they play they’re going to be seen by a lot of people.”

Though he acknowledged that themes of Native American and pop cultural appropriation were his initial inspiration for the show, Huckins explained that he wanted the artists to draw their own conclusions and create new conversations about appropriation.

“I didn’t want everyone to have a specific answer, or the same answer,” Huckins said. “I don’t think the show is just about cultural appropriation. It’s about sexual appropriation, or any other appropriation out there. They might not all be offensive, but they may be questionable in some way.”

As a former curator for the Littman Gallery, and one of the curatorial forces behind Recess Gallery in Southeast Portland, Huckins is no stranger to Portland’s experimental art scene.

He and his colleagues at Recess champion emerging mixed media and conceptual artists who often have limited options for exhibiting their work.

“We’re all interested in different specific things, but we all share an interest in promoting conceptual and experimental art, especially underrepresented artists,” Huckins said. “We try to show people that we’re excited about people that we feel need to be seen and heard. Recess is just an alternative space that aims to provide a platform not offered by the bigger galleries.”

The exhibition will run through Oct. 24, giving students several weeks to stop by and make their own judgments. Those who visit will find a collection of works designed, not to offer answers or to point fingers, but to ask questions. “In many cases, I’m largely a proponent of appropriation,” he said. “The bigger question is just where do we draw the line, or if there even is a line. And if there is, who makes the line?”

The Littman and White Galleries present Inappropriate Appropriation Monday, Oct. 8, to Wednesday, Oct. 24 Free and open to the public

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Diane Keaton for dessert Simon Benson Awards Dinner provides meat and potatoes, enlivened by bizarrerie Mike Allen Vanguard staff

I don’t make it to too many “A list” awards dinners, and I now have a modicum of sympathy for those wealthy and powerful people whose schedules are crammed with them. Were I Gov. Ted Kulongoski or Jordan Schnitzer, I’d hope my tastes would be a little more refined than Jim Beam white label.

As disappointed as I was to sit down to a preset appetizer of tepid, overcooked ratatouille garnished with wilted micro-greens (note to caterers: micro-greens went out of style 15 years ago), I imagine that people who can afford to eat at Noisette on a regular basis were truly dispirited. The speeches were weighty and important, but—like the airline-quality chicken breast with velouté and champignons—often lacked levity or spice.

Attendees included most of the popular politicians whose names dominate our discourse: Hales, Wyden, Blumenauer, Kulongoski and a host of those less common. The Harold Schnitzer family, and Irving Levin and Stephanie Fowler, founders of the Renaissance Foundation, were the honored philanthropists of the event. Their achievements and charitable work, including their generous donations to this university, are impressive, and their speeches constituted the meat and potatoes of the evening.

Diane Keaton’s irrepressible effervescence was the promised dessert.

The intermezzo, though, was the real star of the evening (metaphorically speaking, as the literal meal had no such palate-cleansing course).

Portland State alum Travis Knight, president and CEO of Portland’s own Laika Inc. (and son of the sneaker magnate), told rollicking tales about his time at PSU in the ’90s. Knight was awarded the first Alumni Achievement Award bestowed at the event.

Clearly gauged for laughs, his speech nonetheless swelled hearts with school spirit as he led listeners through the history of the “college that wouldn’t die,” from its inauspicious beginnings as the ill-fated Vanport site, which was destroyed by a flood along with the rest of Vanport in 1948.

Confident but self-deprecating, Knight joked that, since his parents met at PSU in the ’60s when his father was an assistant professor of accounting, “the spark of [his] life began there.”

The couches in Smith Memorial Student Union “hadn’t been cleaned since the Carter administration,” Knight said. “Women have gotten pregnant just sitting on them.”

Knight similarly decried the “umber patina of patchouli and hair grease” besmirching the desks of the Millar Library.

Some things, it appears, never change.

Knight graduated from PSU in 1998 and went on to work at Will Vinton Studios, creators of the popular California Raisins commercials of the ’90s. Phil Knight bought the struggling company in 2003 and promoted Travis to chief executive in 2009 following the studio’s release of the Oscar-nominated Coraline, a Tim Burton-esque stop-motion adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name. More recently, the studio released ParaNorman, the story of a tween social misfit who communicates with the dead.

In what was perhaps an appropriate amusebouche for an event honoring the creator of naif bazaar cinema, Hannah Consenz, a sophomore in PSU’s department of music, began the evening with a performance of “Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille” from Les Contes d’Hoffmann—one of the best-known works of 19th century GermanFrench opera composer Jacques Offenbach. The singer performs the part of a wind-up doll who sings a song of love, needing periodic rewinding as her gears run down.

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Above: Diners at the Simon Benson awards dinner await their food. LEFT: Keynote speaker Diane Keaton cracks a smile. RIGHT: 2012 honoree Jordan Schnitzer shakes PSU Wim Wiewel’s hand.

Consenz’s performance was haunting. Her slack expression and jittery movements were an uncanny imitation of an old-fashioned automaton, and her voice stuttered to the end as her character’s spring eked the gears through their final motions. In the full production, the doll makes a fool out of Hoffman, the main character, who at first doesn’t realize he loves a machine. Which perhaps provides a tangent to Keaton’s rambling performance.

Keaton was a darling of Woody Allen’s cerebral dramas of the ’70s and early ’80s—the intellectual’s Farrah Fawcett. She’s still sprightly and loquacious and full of the girlish charm that endeared her to audiences of that era. Her speech was putatively about “love,” a subject barely broad enough to contain her verbal meanderings.

Wearing a black bowler cap, the shadow of which concealed her eyes, Keaton showed home

movies of her teenaged children and her nowdeceased mother, the latter in the throes of Alzheimer’s disease. She began with a nod to PSU’s motto, “Let knowledge serve the city,” mentioned the college’s dedication to community service and then used that as a tenuous bridge to her topic.

From there she ranged far and wide because, really, what doesn’t love infect?

Of romantic love, Keaton said, “It’s true that some men did love me, for a while. Or so they said. Most of my really great romances were fictions played out on film.”

To demonstrate, she played a montage of scenes of her roles as the titular character in Annie Hall (1977), as Mary in Manhattan (1979), as Erica Barry in Something’s Gotta Give (2003) and as Kay Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). In all but the scene of her getting slapped by Al Pacino as Michael

Corleone, Keaton’s main cinematic draw is her ability to appear lovable, irresistibly endearing.

Keaton fixated on the slap, however, saying, “I know that a slap is not a kiss. But that slap, at least to me, was a reminder of the violence that love’s betrayal can produce. That moment was one of the most intense I’ve ever shared with a man on film.”

It’s unclear if she meant to sound shocking or controversial, but perhaps the point that she failed to make plain was the vulnerability that love entails: her mother’s vulnerability as she forgot her own home; her adopted children’s vulnerability to the whole world; and her own vulnerability played out on screen as a series of failed romances. Several diners left in the middle of Keaton’s talk.

Keaton’s still a peach, but calling her a dessert is a bit of a stretch.

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EDITOR: Meredith Meier OPINION@PSUVANGUARD.COM 503-725-5692

Sans the Salt Alyck Horton

The social dilemma How our virtual lives isolate us

W

e live in an era of constant integration: At any given moment we’re connected to millions of other people— tweeting, liking, clogging up servers with pictures of our meals and showing off to our friends how “white girl wasted” we got last night with lots of folks.

What is this doing to our culture? Are we so desperate for attention that we’ll stand in front of a bathroom mirror for an hour taking pictures of ourselves?

Sitting in the back row of a lecture hall, it’s hard not to notice what’s happening on the screens of the students sitting in front.

The entire hall is illuminated by the glow of MacBook and iPad LCDs, which, in theory, students are using to take notes.

But instead of witnessing the recording of information, you’ll notice 220 students logged onto Facebook,

chatting with their friends, building farms and completely ignoring the professor they pay to teach them.

Social network sites can be a useful tool for keeping in touch with long lost friends and family, to professionally network and to cyber-stalk the cute girl in your history class.

There’s a sense of security when we know what our loved ones are up to.

It’s when grandma in Chicago can see her grandson’s prom photos, or when you can decide if your best friend’s new boyfriend is a douche bag, or when you let your family know you’re doing well in your new apartment away from home that social network sites serve as useful tools.

As of this month, Facebook has approximately 1 billion active monthly users. The majority of them are between 18 and 34, and a little more than half are female. Users upload 250 million photos

A Women’s Right Shilpa Esther Trivedi

Choice and the election Voting for your reproductive rights is crucial this year

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usan B. Anthony once said, “No self-respecting woman should work or wish for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” I keep thinking about this as we approach Nov. 6.

Republicans have actively treated women poorly, nationally and locally.

In response to added protections for Native American, LGBT and immigrant

abuse victims, Republicans blocked reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, thereby suggesting that only some victims deserve support. They’ve approved a platform calling for a constitutional ban on abortion, without exception for rape or incest.

The list of legislation that actively harms women just goes on and on…

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students through one year at PSU. As people fabricate a sort of virtual life, they become more

every day. What’s that, like, 150 million party photos and animal snapshots?

Mediocre anecdotes, photo sharing, link sharing, quotes from famous people and countless other “going to the gym” or “having a beer tonight” posts earn, along with others, 2.7 billion “likes” per day.

The big one, though: Facebook accounts for nearly 25 percent of all Internet page views in the U.S. Let that sink in for a minute.

Of all the information, useful data, videos of stuff on Mars and other things that could better us and spread knowledge, people are spending large chunks of their lives, not gaining knowledge or being productive, but rather

talking about how drunk Liz got on Saturday.

Facebook generates about $1 billion per year in revenue,

and Twitter brings in about half of that.

Together, these companies, which produce no physical product, earn enough money per year to put 214,285

narcissistic and more prone to anxiety, depression and antisocial behavior, according to California State University, Dominguez Hills psychology professor Larry D. Rosen.

Additionally, many of their statements are ludicrous.

Did you know current Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin thinks doctors perform abortions on women who aren’t pregnant?

That Republican House candidate Charlie Fuqua thinks parents should be able to seek the death penalty for “rebellious” children?

That Rep. Jim Buchy (R-Ohio) said he’s never actually given much thought to the reasons why women may seek abortion?

I could continue listing a litany of statements for quite a while, but my point is that many of these politicians don’t seem to possess critical thinking skills, introspection, or any self-awareness concerning their own hypocrisies and privileges—all qualities crucial for any candidate seeking office.

What I’m actually more upset about is that many who support the war on women are in office or soon may end up in office—not because of supporters who blindly agree with their sentiments, but because of those undecided

voters who aren’t so sure beliefs concerning social issues matter in this election.

Social issues should always matter, and a vote for any Republican candidate this year is a vote against many important social issues and a vote against progress and modernity itself.

Caring for women involves allowing them to make crucial decisions about their own health care. It means trusting them to know their own

lack of understanding of women’s bodies.

Can you trust a political party that doesn’t trust you?

Choice is crucial in this election because if you don’t vote to support a woman’s right to choose, women may soon entirely lose this fundamental right.

We have a presidential candidate who’s vowed to get rid of health care services for women, and state and local candidates who have already

Social network sites are theatrical stages where people play a role, each with their own degree of truthfulness. We compete with each other; we must always look our best for our “profile pictures,” and we need to be “friends” with everyone we know and everyone we’ve ever met.

Caring for women involves allowing them to make crucial decisions about their own health care. It means trusting them to know their own situations and supporting them in whatever choices they make.

situations and supporting them in whatever choices they make.

The Republican Party has said that its members know better than women. That government has the right to interfere in individual medical decisions based on its own conception of morality, despite these candidates’ fundamental

begun to pass horrifying anti-women legislation—and plan to continue to do so.

Even if you are pro-life, I want to point out that National Catholic Reporter recently called Obama “much more pro-life than Romney.”

Obama’s health care plans will greatly reduce the need

Social network sites are theatrical stages where people play a role, each with their own degree of truthfulness.

We compete with each other; we must always look our best for our “profile pictures,” and we need to be “friends” with everyone we know and everyone we’ve ever met.

The combination of vanity and self-loathing perpetuated by this phenomenon has led to a population of micro-celebrities.

Social networking and celebrities have helped shape us into a culture of impatience, gluttony and self-indulgence.

As St. Augustine said, “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

for, and number of, abortions, whereas the millions of dollars in health care that Romney will withhold from poor women will increase unintended pregnancies.

Studies confirm that the Birth Control Mandate will lower abortion rates.

For those of you who see cost as the issue, unintended pregnancies resulting in birth cost U.S. taxpayers $11 billion per year. And that’s just for the pregnancy and first year of an infant’s life.

Preventative care is almost always the cheaper option.

Since unintended pregnancy is currently the leading reason women fall below the poverty line in this country, choice is an economic issue as well as a social one.

This election year marks the centennial of women’s right to vote in Oregon.

It’s more important than ever to remember just how perilous women’s position in this country is—and how much your vote matters in determining if women will lose their rights or continue to move toward progress and equality.

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Everywhere and Here Eva-Jeanette Rawlins

Jefferson Smith faces his spotty past Will it prove too messy?

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shame-faced politician in a well-tailored suit walks up to a podium with his wife and supporters dutifully lined up behind him— it doesn’t bode well. It’s usually a sign that an explanation or apology of sorts is imminent.

Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Richard Perry… the list is endless.

Jefferson Smith, candidate for Portland mayor, enacted this very scene a few weeks back—and yes, there was an explanation.

Smith hastily organized a press conference when reports surfaced of a 1993 assault case involving him and a 20-year-old student.

The police report states the woman accused Smith of assault at a party and only dropped the charges when he settled the matter out of court, according to The Oregonian. Smith claimed it was self-defense.

He left a lot of questions unanswered, making it highly doubtful we’ll ever know what really happened. This isn’t the first time, however, he’s taken the walk of shame.

Last November he apologized for punching an opponent in a basketball game, and this past summer he acknowledged garnering seven driver’s license suspensions.

A growing pile of embarrassing missteps is emerging, and I wonder what effect this will have on his campaign (if any).

When it comes to politicians’ sketchy pasts, it’s kind of par for the course—an inevitable part of campaigns these days—which is why it’s so surprising that candidates don’t just ’fess up from the very beginning.

Surely, Smith knew there was the potential for the assault case to be dredged up.

Why didn’t he just air his dirty laundry and admit he needed some help with the spin cycle?

People expect their politicians to be above that kind of behavior. Leadership in this country is synonymous with impeccable character and high moral standards. When those are called into question, we

rethink their qualifications— and in some cases, their careers are ruined as a result.

What about those politicians who, before the era of the Internet and media explosion, lived similarly imperfect lives and at the same time occupied positions of political power?

John F. Kennedy, for example, or Martin Luther King Jr., both of whom were rumored to have been unfaithful to their spouses. If they had lived today, would they have faced a different public response?

Well, just ask Herman Cain.

We live with the illusion that there’s something uniquely special about our politicians—that in order to have reached their heights, they must be pretty close to perfect. Perhaps we don’t explicitly believe this, but our shock at their every indiscretion is proof that we do.

The question is, should we? Should we expect higher standards from our elected officials, or accept them for the human beings that they are? Is there a difference between “private” and “public” conduct when you’re a public servant?

Obviously, there’s no simple answer. On one hand, character matters. It just does. Honesty isn’t divided into public and private. You either tell the truth or you don’t. Further, if I’m expected to adhere to traffic laws, so should my mayor.

On the other hand, some of the greatest people in history were severely flawed— Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso. It doesn’t mean they didn’t make amazing contributions to society.

But let’s get one thing straight. Apologies for “being caught” are a sham and no one wants to hear them.

If, instead of expecting perfection, we expect honesty and vulnerability—allowing our politicians to put all their imperfections on the table and own them from the very outset—then maybe the agonizing walk of shame could become a thing of the past.

As for Jefferson Smith: Buy a bike already!

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That’s What’s the Matter Kevin Rackham

Oregonians for higher education autonomy New PAC would end Oregon’s higher ed system as we know it

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n a world where Citizens United is so powerful, seeing super-political action committees run rough-shod over our political process is pretty common. It’s been rare to see it in Oregon, but we’re going to get to see them in action soon.

Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence was founded in March 2012, which marked the one-year anniversary of former University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere’s New Partnership proposal for UO to have an independent governing board outside of the Oregon University System.

The PAC’s prominent donors include Nike cofounder Phil Knight, UO’s biggest donor and a vocal supporter of making the school more independent from the state system.

They include Patrick Kilkenny, whom Knight lobbied successfully to have named UO’s athletic director, and who has given millions to the university.

They include Charles Lillis, who has given $14 million to UO’s business school and whose wife is a board member of the University of Oregon Foundation (a glorified booster club), and Andrew Berwick, another chair on the UO Foundation.

Tim Boyle, the founder of Columbia Sportswear, is another donor.

In short, OHEE has big money and big connections to UO. The PAC has stated that its

goal is to create more independence for Oregon universities. That’s OK to some extent, and Portland State President Wim Wiewel and Gov. John Kitzhaber have both expressed support for local governing boards—that’s not just a UO pursuit.

However, Lariviere’s plan included some bonding and funding measures that did severe damage to the other universities in Oregon, and judging from the membership of this PAC, their goals and the New Partnership seem to be in line.

UO helps fund the university system, and allowing them to privatize their funding could be bad news for smaller universities like Southern Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University.

Privatizing education is the wrong approach in general when it comes to higher ed.

Designing an education system that is truly publicly funded should be the state’s biggest priority when it comes to fixing our education crisis.

While UO has donors with deep pockets, at schools like PSU the lion’s share of the responsibility for funding ends up getting passed to students in the form of tuition hikes and student fee bumps. This is why the OUS is important. It’s crucial to prevent one university from capsizing the state’s entire system.

UO may not think the situation’s fair, but smaller

universities in the OUS do rely on the organization to stay funded.

It’s hard to fault Lariviere for giving his staff raises when professors make so little in this age. But the interests of UO are not the interests of the whole system, and I’m convinced those are the interests the OHEE is going to be representing to legislators.

Knight has too much involvement and too many investments in the school to be trusted to act for all of us.

I don’t want an independent or endowed university; I want a university that makes decisions for itself but is ultimately still very accountable to OUS. Public education should be

public. It’s obvious—when we compare ourselves to nations with higher-performing students, those nations almost always have a thriving public education system.

If OHEE wants educational excellence, it should be focusing its efforts on making the current system work, or finding a new one, rather than creating one where Nike is more or less the sponsor of a university.

Stay on the lookout for OHEE. One way or another, the next year is going to be a big one for educational reform, and we’re going to have to make a decision about what we want that to be.

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VANGUARD • Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 • Opinion

Online comments

Sans the Salt

The story doesn’t stop when the print hits the page. Don’t like something you read in the Vanguard? Want us to cover a story? Do you feel there’s more to be said? You have the opportunity to praise us or rip us apart here at the Vanguard. Post a comment online or write us a letter. Tell us what you think. Here are some online highlights from psuvanguard.com.

Alyck Horton

O campus police!

Have you your pistols?

Arming campus security would overcome a lack of protection

“Voter Fraud” Deb, Oct. 11 Good article. I like how it explains the issue and then tells me what I can do to make a difference.

“#ProjectLookUp” Andrew Grossman, Oct. 9 Honestly, I’m so proud to see #ProjectLookUp in the PSU Vanguard. I hope it serves all the PSU students well—it’s for all of you!

“Armed campus police?”

Gary, Oct. 9 Dollar’s comments are ironic considering she “won” the ASPSU presidency with between 2–3 percent of the student body that could have voted. She only received 741 votes. Talk about a small sample of PSU’s nearly 30,000 students. But I’m sure the ASPSU survey will be unbiased, designed by competant researchers and peer reviewed. The real question people need to be asking is, does PSU want a police force that it can control, or does PSU want to continue to rely on PPB and their history fraught with controversy?

Jonathan Givens, Oct. 8 As PSU alumni I cannot comment on how the campus has changed since I was there in ’05. However, I can tell you as a student with a CHL (Concealed Handgun License) I carried every day I went to campus. In all the days I was on campus I never pulled or brandished my firearm or drew it. I went to classes both in the day and evenings. There was more than one occasion I had female classmates ask me to walk them to their cars. Why? Because they knew me and knew I am a big supporter of the 2nd amendment. Of all the thousands of students on campus only three knew what I had with me. One was my brother and the other two classmates asked me to take them shooting so they could learn the right way to handle a gun. Just for the people that want to know I carried an H&K USP Compact in 9mm.

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ne of Portland State’s main selling points is that it’s an urban campus, in the middle of downtown Portland, to which thousands of people commute every day. We’re close to everything and able to use the city as a teaching aid, and campus is very convenient to get to, whether you’re coming from Troutdale or Forest Grove.

The problem is that we’re too accessible.

Take a walk through the South Park Blocks and you’ll be offered a slew of drugs, asked for money countless times and, if you’re lucky, even witness a homeless man urinating in the flower beds.

When these encounters happen on campus—unpleasant as they are—they’re harmless and can be taken care of by having campus security speak to the accused party.

What if these confrontations escalate?

Currently, campus security would pull up in their police-issue Crown Victoria and speak to the offender. If the officer’s in danger or the situation escalates into an emergency situation, the protocol is to call 911 and wait for Portland police to be dispatched, leaving several minutes during which officers must stall while potentially in danger.

Oregon State University and the University of Oregon use armed officers on campus, and

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according a survey conducted by the Justice Department, 86 percent of college campuses with more than 15,000 students arm their security staff.

There have been 19 weapons-related referrals or arrests in the last three years on the PSU campus—19 instances where campus security was in some way jeopardized by a weapon and unequipped to handle the situation without putting themselves in danger.

The problem is that we’re too accessible.

Take a walk through the South Park Blocks and you’ll be offered a slew of drugs, asked for money countless times and, if you’re lucky, even witness a homeless man urinating in the flower beds.

“What happens when campus security gets there to save the day? Would they be able to subdue the culprit without being armed? What if the assailant is armed?” business freshman Marissa Lemus asked. “I say it’s better to be safe than sorry.”

I don’t advocate everyone carrying guns. Under normal circumstances, people have no reason to carry or even own a firearm, as our environment has no inherent danger that

warrants the need to defend ourselves with artillery.

We as normal citizens aren’t responsible for physically protecting the campus—that responsibility belongs to campus security.

One fear: If campus security officers were supplied with guns, the campus would automatically fall under martial law.

Another fear: that campus security officers would emulate the Portland Police Bureau and adopt their notorious “shoot first, ask questions later” attitude, and that racial profiling and accidents would occur, doing more harm than good.

If we were in Corvallis or Eugene (which enjoy a more secluded setting) and arming campus security were in question, I’d fail to see why officers needed guns.

Campus security’s job on a typical college campus is primarily to deal with students, but in an urban location such as ours—where thousands of people who have no involvement with the school travel through campus—it’s a different job.

As unfortunate as it is, we need to take events like the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 as a wake-up call.

We not only need to equip our security with better physical equipment; we also need to make sure they’re the best trained and the most able to do the job.

ETC. • Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 • VANGUARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Erick Bengel EDITOR@PSUVANGUARD.COM 503-725-5691

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UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, Oct. 16

Emilie Wapnick Seminar 7 a.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 298 1825 SW Broadway

Emilie Wapnick, writer, coach, violinist, filmmaker, web designer and law school graduate (among other things) offers a seminar at PSU on the benefits of a cross-disciplinary education/life and practical ways to build a career around multiple interests. This event costs $10 to attend.

Graduate Programs Connect to the Community 6–8 p.m.

Bridgeport BrewPub 1313 NW Marshall St.

Students, faculty and alumni from PSU’s five graduate business programs invite you to come to Bridgeport BrewPub for an evening of networking, catching up and discovering what is new within the programs. Food will be provided and business casual attire is expected.

Email Libby Keating with questions at elizk@pdx.edu.

PSU Blood Drive 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, room 351 1825 SW Broadway

Portland State teams up with the American Red Cross to conduct a blood drive and help save lives. Volunteers will receive a free Qdoba burrito in thanks for their donation. Please make an appointment to donate by contacting Gwyn Ashcom at gwyn@pdx.edu.

Wednesday, Oct. 17

Healthcare MBA Information Session 5:30 p.m.

School of Business Administration, room 550 631 SW Harrison St.

The director of the healthcare master’s program at PSU will spend an evening discussing the details of the program. The program allows students to work with policy makers and professionals to make advancements in our healthcare system.

This degree is offered in partnership with Oregon Health and Science University and the top-ranked business school at Portland State.

Middle East Education Abroad and FLAS Information Session 1:30 p.m.

East Hall, room 109 632 SW Hall St.

The Middle East Studies Center, Education Abroad advisors and World Languages and Literatures faculty present an information session for those interested in studying abroad in the Middle East. This session will include information about studying in the Middle East as well as how to obtain scholarships in Middle East study and language programs.

Information will also be available regarding Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships. This session is open to all PSU students, faculty and staff.

Fright Town 7–11 p.m. (or 10 p.m. on weeknights) Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1401 N Wheeler Ave.

A $20 entrance fee grants you access to three of Portland’s largest and scariest haunted houses, all housed inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. For coupons and more information visit frighttown.com.

Friends of the Multnomah County Library 40th Birthday 6–8 p.m.

Eliot Center, First Unitarian Church 1226 SW Salmon St.

The Friends of the Multnomah County Library are throwing a large birthday bash to celebrate 40 years of volunteer effort to make the library what it is today. This event is free and all ages are welcome to attend.

Thursday, Oct. 18

Free Lecture: The Healthy Community Movement 4 p.m.

Cramer Hall, room 269 1721 SW Broadway

The International Studies Program offers you a lecture by Dr. Lawrence Frank, coauthor of Health and Community Design: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity, about neighborhood walkability and how it determines patterns of travel and relates to sustainability. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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words of witness: “Every time Heba heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country’s future, her mother is compelled to remind her, ‘I know you are a journalist, but you’re still a girl!’”

Lunch and Learn: Arab Israeli Conflict and Cooperation: The Question of Water 12 p.m.

East Hall, room 109 632 SW Hall St.

The Middle East Studies Center presents a talk dealing with conflict and cooperation between Israelis and Arabs in regards to water sources in the Middle East. Bring your lunch and come listen to a lecture from an expert in the field.

Friday, Oct. 19

Tears of Joy Theater presents Edgar Allan Poe’s “The TellTale Heart” 8 p.m.

Lincoln Studio Theatre 1620 SW Park Ave.

An intriguing blend of live acting and puppetry comes together as Tears of Joy Theater presents an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Tickets are available at the door; for pricing and more information visit tojt.org.

Indigenous Arts and Craft Group 4–6 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St.

Whether you are a part of PSU’s indigenous student community or simply interested in arts and crafts, you are welcome to join the Indigenous Arts and Craft group at the Native American Student and Community Center, every Friday from 4–6 p.m., and create. Most materials are provided.

Guns N Rollers vs. Seattle’s Throttle Rockets 8 p.m.

The Hangar at Oaks Amusement Park 7805 SE Oaks Park Way

Roller derby fans, or those who have always wanted to become fans, are invited to watch the Guns N Rollers take on the Seattle Throttle Rockets at Oaks Park. Tickets are $10–16 and all ages are welcome; children under the age of 6 admitted for free. For more information and to purchase tickets visit rosecityrollers.com

Saturday, Oct. 20

Daddies Log Jam 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Daddies Board Shop 7126 NE Sandy Blvd.

If you are looking for snow in October you will find it at the Daddies Log Jam! You will also find a log jib, some tasty barbecue, live bluegrass music, beer and a pumpkin-carving contest. Daddies Log Jam is free for all ages and everyone is welcome.

Washington County Artists Open Studio Tour 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

30+ locations

The Washington County Art Alliance presents work from more than 40 local artists working in varied mediums on a free tour of more than 30 different gallery locations. All ages are welcome to take the tour for free. For more information and directions visit washcoart.org/directions.

Sunday, Oct. 21

Run Like Hell! Portland 6:30 a.m.

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave.

Participants in Portland’s Run Like Hell! race are encouraged to dress in full costume as they attempt to beat each other to a finish line by running through Portland’s downtown area and along the waterfront. Register to run or enjoy watching those who do. For more information visit terrapinevents.com/run-like-hellportland_info.htm.

Tuesday, Oct. 23

Film Screening: Words of Witness 7 p.m.

Portland Art Museum, Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave.

“Defying cultural norms and family expectations, 22-year-old Heba Afify takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts. — Northwest Film Center website. For more information and to purchase tickets visit nwfc.spotlightboxoffice.com/ purchase/step4?ticketID=3039.

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VANGUARD •• Tuesday, TUESDAY,Oct. JANUARY 16, 2012 10, 2012 • SPORTS • ETC.

SPORTS

EDITOR: CORY MIMMS SPORTS@PSUVANGUARD.COM 503-725-4538

The long con, part III: the split Pacquiao partnership with Roach nearing end Marco España Vanguard Staff

Freddie Roach has been told that he is the third most famous man in the Philippines— the first is Manny Pacquiao, the second is the president— and, though it baffles him to think of it, he has no reason to dispute the claim.

The 52-year-old former boxer and founder of the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles has been Pacquiao’s trainer since 2001. He is by now well-accustomed to being mobbed on the streets of Manila or Baguio City, smothered on the sidewalk and at the barber shop by screaming, feverish fans who would recognize him at 100 yards on the foggiest day of the year. It’s rare for a trainer to become a superstar in his own right, but this is all part of the routine for the man credited with molding an ambitious but virtually anonymous brawler into the most successful champion of the past decade.

Under Roach’s tutelage, Pacquiao expanded his arsenal well beyond the scattered raw pieces he brought with him to Los Angeles.

After a respectable career in which he won 40 fights, Roach retired as a boxer at the age of 26. He had begun to show signs of early-onset Parkinson’s disease, and despite the pleas of his trainer Eddie Futch to give it up, fought several more times before finally quitting for good. When a broken ankle he suffered while running failed to heal properly and he started experiencing tremors in his leg, Roach visited a doctor and was informed of the reality of his symptoms.

The link between repeated head trauma in boxing and diseases like Parkinson’s and dementia is still a point of serious contention among medical experts and sports reform activists. Roach’s family has a history of Parkinson’s, but his father, who was also a boxer and was physically abusive toward his wife and sons, insisted that all three boys grow up to be boxers and started them on that mission as soon as they could walk.

As Roach puts it, his doctors can’t prove to him that boxing led to his Parkinson’s, but he can’t prove that it didn’t. The only thing we know for sure is that by the time Roach had the cast removed from his ankle and discovered that he could no longer plant his foot, he had already taken a lifetime of beatings.

A dark period followed the diagnosis, during which Roach was drinking heavily and struggling to come to grips with losing the only life he had ever known. One day, in 1986, he was at a gym, where he sat watching a sparring session between James Shuler, a rising young boxer who was training for a title fight, and his designated opponent for the afternoon, Virgil Hill. Roach noticed that, while Shuler had an entourage three rows deep shouting encouragement and propping up their man, there wasn’t a single person in Hill’s corner.

When the bell rang for the fighters to separate, Roach walked over to Hill and gave him some water, then offered a few quick instructions before the bell rang again. Hill tore Shuler to pieces in the next round, was promptly fired as a sparring partner, and Roach became a trainer.

Starting with Hill, Roach has trained more than two dozen fighters to world titles.

The grinding physicality of his profession and the demands that come with his status as the premier corner man in boxing ensures that he is constantly on the move and has helped dramatically to ease the symptoms of his disease and keep the slowly advancing tremors at bay. The sport is now quite literally keeping him alive.

Pacquiao was already six years into his career when he landed in Roach’s Vine Street headquarters. The southpaw started out as prizefighter when he was just 16 years old, when he’d put weights in his pockets to make the 105-pound minimum and make up for the discrepancy with boundless energy and a violent left hand. He had compiled a record of 32-2 and won titles at flyweight and junior featherweight, but he had never fought outside of the Philippines and was unknown to all but the most diligent veterans in the boxing community.

When his turn came up, Pacquiao stepped through the ropes to work the mitts with Roach, who was immediately taken aback by the power behind the punches being thrown at him in bursts of four or five at a time. After one round together, the partnership was official.

Under Roach’s tutelage, Pacquiao expanded his arsenal well beyond the scattered raw pieces he brought with him to Los Angeles, showcasing more versatility with each successive bout and becoming substantially more dangerous as a result. He has now collected titles in a total of eight divisions, a patently absurd record not likely to be

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Manny pacquiao holds titles in eight divisions, but his time in the ring with Floyd Mayweather becomes less likely every day. eclipsed within the lifetime of anyone who witnessed it.

The campaign includes wins over nearly every notable contender and champion within range—except, of course, for Floyd Mayweather.

But as the two fighters move closer to the ends of their careers and continue to allow every manner of petty conflict to prevent the matchup from progressing beyond the preliminary stages, it is becoming clear that this will be the only milestone to remain out of reach for the great brawler and his guru.

Last month, Pacquiao made what will likely be his final appeal to get the fight made. After agreeing to each of Mayweather’s demands for comprehensive drugtesting—and settling his defamation lawsuit against Mayweather for claiming that he had used steroids in his rise through the divisions—Pacquiao announced that he would accept a 45-55 revenue split for the bout.

Mayweather had previously offered him a flat payout of $40 million, a ridiculously insulting proposition for a fight that would likely generate three times that amount.

Since neither fighter has any reason to accept less than half of the proceeds and no rational claim to more, Pacquiao’s offer was a symbolic concession more than anything and a last-ditch attempt at compromise.

The offer was rejected, and it could prove to be the end of the story. Pacquiao’s reach has now expanded far beyond the ropes; after running unsuccessfully in the Philippines for a seat in congress back in 2007, he ran again in 2010 and won. Naturally, he’s already planning to move up in weight, gearing up for a run at the governorship, and from

there, the presidency. Roach has said for the past few years that he thought the time was fast approaching for his star

pupil to retire from the ring.

The two have done all they can together, and he doesn’t want to see Pacquiao hang around

too long. The trainer may soon get his wish.

To read “The long con” parts I and II, visit psuvangaurd.com.

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Students enjoy a yoga class at the Academic and Student Rec Center. Multiple classes are offered each week, encompassing gentle yoga, Hatha yoga, Power Vinyasa yoga and Vinyasa-Yin yoga.

Namaste!

Yoga: getting healthy with inner peace

Crystal Gardner Vanguard Staff

Yoga is an activity that can center your entire day. Whether you are interested in an intense strength session or a long, relaxing session, the Academic and Student Rec

Center has you covered. Many different styles of yoga are offered there, from a variety of certified instructors who are passionate about yoga and its contribution to a person’s well-being.

One of the yoga options on campus is gentle yoga, a beginner’s class that eases into yoga at a slower pace. Hatha yoga is also offered. Hatha is a more

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Vikings’ undefeated streak ends PSU splits weekend Rosemary Hanson Vanguard staff

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Vikings Volleyball focused on serving this weekend. They won one of two games.

The Portland State women’s volleyball team had their perfect season halted by a sweep last week, but came back to win their second match for a split weekend. The Idaho State Bengals took the visiting Vikings in three to move to a tie for first place in conference standings. The Vikings turned their game around on Saturday and dominated in a sweep of the Weber State Wildcats.

“ISU is a very hard place to play at. It was hard to stick together and play as a team,” junior outside hitter Aubrey Mitchell said of the opening

match. “They earned it. They were very prepared for us.”

The Bengals, 15-4 overall and 9-1 in conference, have found success similar to the Vikings, who are 13-8 overall and also 9-1 in conference, and they were able to outhit PSU in set scores. In the opening set the opponents remained close to a 12-all tie. After a pair of Bengal kills, the home team kept the lead until a kill by Mitchell put the Vikings up 22-21. In the end the home team went on a four-kill run to win 25-22.

Head coach Michael Seemann said that although the Vikings were able to keep a competitive scoring pattern

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early on, they were unable to settle in during the second and third set. “[The Bengals] were playing fearless, and they set off their crowd quite a bit. They had great distribution offensively,” Seemann said.

After the first set loss the Vikings were unable to make the needed comeback. After an 11-10 early Viking lead, the Bengals took the lead in set two, and through set three the visiting Vikings were never able to regain it.

Friday’s match was led offensively for the Vikings by Mitchell and Jaklyn Wheeler with 10 kills each.

Not to be discouraged by Friday’s loss, the Vikings headed to Ogden, Utah, to take on Weber State, a young team that is still finding its rhythm.

The Vikings took control of the match, recording a season-best 14 service aces as a team, and held the Wildcats to .011 hitting percentage—an opponent season low for Big Sky play. After opening with a one-all tie in the first set, the Vikings never gave up the lead.

Mitchell said the team took what they learned about

sticking together as a team from Idaho State and carried that concept into Weber State.

“We came very prepared.

We switched our gears and really focused on the things we needed to do. Our serving and passing was on point and our hitters were right there behind,” Mitchell said.

The dominant serving was led by junior outside hitter Kaeli Patton, who slammed six aces for both a career best and season-best for an individual. With Patton behind the line, Mitchell led the team with eight kills and— most notably—no kill errors.

Seemann said he emphasized serving. “We talked about it every match, but doing it in another person’s gym is a tall order. It’s a much more challenging thing. The weight of your miss serves is much heavier when you have a crowd that’s thanking you when you do.”

The Vikings take their serving talents back to the Stott Center next weekend, where they will take on Dam Cup rival Eastern Washington on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Sacramento State on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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The optimism of October

Recent RESULTS Friday, Oct. 12

Football team gears up for heart of conference schedule

VOLLEYBALL vs.

Vikings 0 Idaho State 3

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The Vikings football team took the field for homecoming on Oct. 6 having lost four straight games. Portland State was in danger of entering the bye week without any momentum to carry into the remainder of the season. After a 77-10 rout of Idaho State at Jeld-Wen Field 10 days ago, the Vikings have renewed hope entering the heart of conference play.

“It’s a lot better than losing and feeling bad for two weeks,” head coach Nigel Burton said.

Against the Bengals, PSU’s offense exploded for nine touchdowns after averaging 25 points a game during their losing streak. Quarterback Kieran McDonagh accounted for six touchdowns (two passing, four rushing), and D.J. Adams led the team with 148 yards on the ground.

The defense also showed major improvement, holding Idaho State under five yards a play. PSU also forced four turnovers, returning an interception and a fumble recovery for touchdowns.

“I think guys bought into doing their jobs,” Burton said.

“It’s very clear to them, when they play to their potential, how good they can be.”

Top performers Aubrey Mitchell: 10 kills Jakyln Wheeler: 10 kills

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Kieran McDonagh led the Vikings against Idaho State on Oct. 6. They play Cal Poly this weekend after a two–week break.

Moving forward The Vikings had a weekend off to recuperate, but they have continued to work hard throughout the twoweek break, as they hope to carry the momentum from the homecoming win into the second half of their schedule.

PSU travels to San Luis Obispo this weekend to take on California Polytechnic, a team ranked 12th in the

Howie leads weekend

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Amanda Howie scored in the 83rd minute in the game against Weber State this weekend. It was the only goal of the game.

Football Championship Subdivision coaches poll and undefeated through its first six games. The Vikings have spent the majority of their bye week preparing for the Mustangs’ triple-option offense, a ground-based system that has averaged more than 300 rushing yards a game this season.

Burton noted that preparing to play Cal Poly isn’t as difficult as preparing for other games. “We do some option

The Vikings beat Weber State after losing to Idaho State early last weekend Alex Moore Vanguard Staff

Senior Amanda Howie scored two late goals last weekend, one in each of the Vikings’ two games. Against Idaho State, Howie’s goal cut a twogoal deficit to one, though the Vikings lost. Against Weber State, Howie won the game for Portland State on “senior day.”

The Vikings and the Weber State Wildcats were tied at zero for more than 80 minutes. PSU had multiple opportunities to score in both halves, though they failed to capitalize. The players and even the crowd at Hillsboro Stadium began to grow frustrated, until Howie blasted a shot into the back of the net in the 83rd minute.

“It was amazing,” Howie said. “I got excited. Our team did really good at holding the ball at the end, playing smart.

We kept it for the win.”

The women bounced back after a loss on Friday against Idaho State. The Vikings fell behind by two goals and never managed to catch up.

Howie was able to score in the second half on an assist

things within our offense,” he said, “so it’s not like speaking a totally foreign language, but it’s like knowing Spanish and having to learn Portuguese.”

The game against Cal Poly is the first of three games against FCS-ranked opponents to finish the regular season. After games against the University of California, Davis and Northern Colorado, the Vikings face fifth-ranked Montana State in Bozeman on Nov.

from senior Amanda Dutra, but it wasn’t enough as Portland State fell 2-1.

Even with Friday’s loss on the Vikings’ victory on Saturday was enough to push them into first place in the Big Sky Conference. Montana is a close second, only two points behind PSU. The women still have one conference game left on the schedule, against Sacramento State.

“We’re going to win, mark my words, and then hopefully everything falls into place and we win the Big Sky,” Howie said.

Apart from an important victory, Sunday was a big day for the Viking seniors for other reasons. All the seniors lined up with their families before the game for senior day, as PSU celebrated the soccer careers of this year’s class. Howie was among them, and scoring a goal made today all that more special for her.

“A lot of emotions,” Howie said. “It means a lot, and I put it in there for the other seniors, too. We’ve all worked really hard these past four or five years. Our whole team has worked really hard. We deserve this.”

Head coach Laura Schott has also grown close with this year’s seniors, and appreciates the effort and hard work they have put into the program.

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10. The following weekend, first-ranked Eastern Washington comes to Jeld-Wen Field to face the Vikings for The Dam Cup in the regular season finale.

“We’ve played a lot of young guys who I think have to make young-guy mistakes. They’re learning from those mistakes so they’re not repeating them,” Burton said. “If we do that, I think it will be a good finish.”

“They already have two conference championships under the belt,” Schott said.

“They have been a transformative class. If I started to talk about them individually we’d hit on a lot of records broken and a lot of MVPs. I’d have to go on for awhile. This class has been really important to our school and to our program.”

The Vikings play their last conference game of the season Oct. 19 against Sacramento State. PSU will then go on to play California State University, Bakersfield before the Big Sky tournament.

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Top performers Mac Carruth: 26 saves

Saturday, Oct. 13

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Vikings 3 Weber State 0 Top performers Aubrey Mitchell: 8 kills Kaeli Patton: 6 service aces

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