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Students and staff reTHINK PSU

PSU musicians come together

Campaign looks to overhaul education experience Katie Quick Vanguard staff

Students, faculty and administration at Portland State now have the opportunity to think of the institution’s academics as a blank canvas.

It’s a chance to question the status quo.

A campus-wide initiative was recently launched, titled reTHINK PSU, bringing a challenge from the provost of Academic Affairs to bring pioneering change to PSU. “The idea of the challenge is to deliver education in different, more innovative ways. We’re encouraging each department on campus to think creatively,” said Sona Andrews, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

Schools often experience incremental change over time—meaning they’ll make one change and adjust to it before moving on to the next.

Incremental changes are more accessible, but they don’t necessarily allow for continuous improvement.

The aim of reTHINK is to allow departments to explore new options and focus on how to keep the innovation flowing.

See Rethink on page 3

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carl halvorson, applied vocal instructor, performs his choreographed vocal presentation at Tuesday’s rehersal. Halvorson is one of the nearly 30 faculty to be featured at Friday’s event.

Music Forward! concert first of its kind at PSU Kaela O’Brien Vanguard Staff

Tonight, you have the chance to hear from every music ensemble Portland State has to offer in the first ever Music Forward! concert event.

“This is like the smorgasbord of all PSU music departments,” said Sydney Carlson, a professor of music at PSU and director of the flute choir performing at the concert.

She will also be performing in the Museau Trio.

Music Forward! is the first concert of its kind at PSU, and will feature nearly 30 professors and 200 students.

At a time when more students are enrolling in the music program with fewer scholarship opportunities to go around, the department will put all funds raised by the concert toward scholarships for music students.

With more than 20 ensembles scheduled to perform, the audience will sample a wide variety of music—from Japanese taiko drums to classical pieces, from holiday tunes to opera.

Darrel Grant, a jazz pianist, composer and professor of music at PSU, chaired the committee that organized the event.

Carlson revealed that the flute choir is performing the holiday favorite “Deck the Halls,” Santa hats and all.

“It’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet of music!” Grant joked. The music will be performed continuously and in several locations throughout Lincoln Hall, rather than in just one spot.

The audience can also expect an array of solos, duets and larger ensembles. But the most unusual

aspect of the concert, as Carlson put it, is the sheer number of faculty and students performing.

“It’s exciting that students and faculty are creating something so artistic and collaborative,” PSU senior Andy Sharma said. Sharma will play the clarinet in a clarinetflute duet.

With so many participants involved in the concert, planning began in early summer. Grant and the eight other board members met frequently to plan and prepare all the pieces for the concert.

See MUSIC FORWARD on page 2

Waves of research Sediment sampling reveals tsunami evidence Erik Mutzke Vanguard staff

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Sarah Sterling (right), a PSU archaeologist, and Ian Hutchison, a professor at Simon Fraser University, examine possible tsunami deposits near the mouth of Salt Creek in Clallum County, Wash.

Eight years ago, Portland State archaeologist Sarah Sterling came across an unusual find in the ancient tribal village site of Tse-whit-zen, near Port Angeles, Wash.

The village appeared to have been abandoned every few hundred years, according to gaps in her radiocarbon sequencing.

The curious find led her to develop a hypothesis that caused a surge of research to follow it.

Her explanation: more than one tsunami, spaced hundreds of years apart.

Since then, the area has been the major focus for researchers from across various disciplines inter-

ested in the region’s earthquake and tsunami history.

In May 2012, Sterling went back to Salt Creek Marsh, 17 miles west of Port Angeles along the Strait of Juan de Fuca shoreline, to look for more evidence in the layers of sand tsunamis left behind.

“They show up very clearly in organic, rich marsh sediment,” Sterling said.

With her was geologist Ian Hutchinson of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. The research was made possible by a PSU Faculty Enhancement Grant.

“When it comes to finding evidence for tsunamis, you need a geologist,” Sterling explained.

The method for examining ancient tsunami evidence involves a process See tsunami on page 2

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Elizabeth Flick, a senior piano performance major, performs “E’tude Op. 8, No. 12” at Tuesday’s rehearsal.

Concert event will feature almost 200 students The best part for Grant, he said, was that everyone was more than enthusiastic about showcasing all the musical talent PSU had to offer.

Why put on such a large and collaborative show now?

“For the students,” Grant said, explaining that students’ hard work and dedication is admirable and absolutely deserves the spotlight.

“We have an inspirational story to tell about what PSU does,” he said.

Grant explained that because tuition is increasing, pay and scholarship opportunities are decreasing, and the department felt compelled to demonstrate support for students.

In fact, scholarships are so low that the need for funding is what truly fueled the creation of this event, explained Christine Meadows, PSU vocal area coordinator and a member of the event committee.

“For years the music department faculty has bemoaned the fact that there is not enough scholarship money for our students. Last spring, we decided to do something about it!” Meadows said.

All profits from the concert will fund student scholarships.

At the event, five scholarship recipients will perform solos.

“We want to show the public exactly what their scholarship money is funding,” Grant said.

Scholarship funding is in higher demand because of the increase in admissions experienced by both PSU as a whole and the music department in particular in recent years.

Since 2006, there has been a 29 percent increase in undergraduates attending Portland State, along with a 20 percent increase in students with music majors.

Grant attributes that uptick to student success. “Our best selling point is our graduates.”

PSU alums are featured in Grant’s 30 for the 30th blog, which can be found at putmusicforward.wordpress. com.

The audience must know, Grant said, “that we’re doing this because we are really committed to our students succeeding.”

Grant hopes that the Music Forward! concert will become an annual event.

The concert takes place Friday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in PSU’s Lincoln Hall, located at 1620 SW Park Ave. Tickets can be purchased for $25 through the PSU Box Office at the door or by calling 503-725-3307.

Tsunami from page 1 known as coring, which uses a cylinder to bore into the ground and bring up a sample of earth.

The sediment “core” is then examined and assessed—in this case, by Sterling and Hutchinson—for deposits left behind by tsunamis. The team examined target sand sheets for evidence of marine shell fragments. Through radiocarbon dating, these shell fragments provide the evidence for marine surges, indicating a tsunami.

Sterling was hoping to find a link between the abandonment dates at the village and the patterns found in the marsh sediment.

“We went with the goal to see if we could prove if ancient tsunamis previously recorded in the region correlated with

the measurable gaps in the radiocarbon sequence I found,” Sterling said.

After collecting their data, the team came up with two estimated dates of ancient tsunamis.

“Right now, we are finishing up the draft for publication, and it will hopefully pass to a journal in the not-too-distant future,” Sterling said.

Currently, Sterling is working with professor Virginia Butler on a National Science Foundation grant to study how large earthquakes and tsunamis affected resource availability and subsistence practices in Tse-whit-zen.

Portland State geologist professor Curt Peterson led a separate study at Neah Bay, on the tip of the Washington Olympic Peninsula.

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Port Angeles conducted by [Sterling], but the common link is in examining the possibility that native peoples were impacted by Cascadia earthquakes and associated tsunamis,” Peterson said.

His findings, will be published in the Journal of Coastal Research early next year, reporting the dates of four tsunamis in the area.

Peterson and his team have also completed a paper on major paleotsunami recurrence intervals in the Cascadia area that will be submitted to the science journal Natural Hazards at the end of this week.

The time between the tsunamis varies from a couple hundred years to 800 years, with the most recent tsunami date estimated to be 300 years ago.

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AT SALT Creek Marsh, radiocarbon dating shows when sand layers were deposited.

Portland activists reorganize Josh Kelety Vanguard Staff

It’s been more than a year since the Occupy camp in Portland was dismantled. Where are the “Occupiers” now?

Despite the movement’s retreat from public view, activists said they have been working hard to reorganize and say they have no intention of quitting.

Their new strategy has been to break into groups that have specific interests and goals, riding the momentum that Occupy created.

“There were movements that existed before that now have a tremendous amount of energy,” said McRae Freeman, a local involved in the Portland activist community.

From labor unions to projects like the People’s Budget, a community-made proposal that reimagines how the city of Portland should allocate its money, the groups are tackling various agendas.

Budget cuts to public services such as education and the postal service have surfaced as a main issue for many political activists.

Resistance to these austerity measures has become a rallying point.

Mike Losier, a member of the media team at the Portland Action Lab, said the cuts affect people at all levels—especially students.

“It’s important because the austerity measures affect the kind of world that [students] will be going into,” he said.

PAL, a direct result of Occupy, is a group that coordinates events and acts of civil disobedience with other

activists who oppose austerity measures.

Portland State is no stranger to the Occupy movement. Last year, protestors took to the campus during an Occupy PSU event, and ASPSU organized a student walkout.

Now, PSU has its own antiausterity group, known as the Student Action Coalition, which was inspired by antiausterity student protests in Quebec.

Protestors said the need to branch out and reorganize came from the movement’s complicated relationship with the media and the general public. They believe it was hard for some people to see Occupy as a legitimate movement because of its lack of a coherent message.

International studies sophomore Chiara Pasciuto said she took issue with the lack of leadership within the movement, something she believed posed an obstacle to accomplishing goals.

Liam Doherty Nicholson, an organizer and activist in an effort known as Community Supported Everything, said he thought it was a big rallying call to all activist groups.

“At first everybody came together and was like ‘yeah, we can do this together!’ Then [they] looked out to the rest of the world…like, are y’all ready for this revolution? And the rest of the world being like, ‘fuck yeah!’” he said.

As the movement gained momentum, however, the adamant stance within the movement to represent a broad variety of interests and bring everything to the table became the movement’s downfall.

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Portland State will be observing World Aids Day on Friday, Nov. 30. This worldwide event centers on bringing people together to raise awareness about HIV/ AIDS and to create solidarity in the face of the pandemic.

Students are invited to visit the Center for Student Health and Counseling from 1 to 5:30 p.m. for HIV tests.

This testing is free for PSU students with the Aetna plan and $26.41 for students with other insurance, billed to their student account.

While in the SHAC lobby, don’t forget to pick up a cookie and browse the resources and informational pamphlets available.

The Queer Resource Center is also hosting an event in honor of this day. Students are welcome to join the QRC staff in the Multicultural Center from 2:30 to 4 p.m. for an interactive timeline presentation.

The QRC hosts this event in order to identify the ways HIV/AIDS affects our communities and to offer resources and other information on the matter.

“ReTHINK PSU was really thought of out of the question: if you could really rethink your curriculum in an innovative way, what would it be?”

Andrews said.

The concepts are brief, and any ideas submitted must be about a program with more than just a single faculty member behind it. Anyone can comment or inspire ideas, and it’s an opportunity for people to share their proposals for change.

Students who are here today may not reap all of the benefits of this challenge, Andrews said. It won’t come all at once and it won’t affect everybody; some departments will be chosen to lead the changes first, she explained.

A website has been set up so that anyone with a PSU ODIN account can comment on individual proposals featured online.

“We’d like to change how faculty engages with students,

and to have closer interactions between students and faculty.

I personally think that this is the kind of work that faculty should be doing. It’s really important that the faculty have this opportunity to make these changes,” Andrews said.

This is a project that involves all of the academic leadership around campus.

“PSU is rethinking the curriculum. We will take what we already do and make it better.

What are the big ideas that will be relevant two, three, four years from now? You have to continue to invest. We should be looking at the next thing. PSU has always been an innovative institute, and I’m confident that we can do this,” explained Andrews.

“We’re trying to be very forward-thinking. This is about us figuring out a phenomenal PSU experience.”

Marilyn Moody, the head librarian at PSU, is also very involved in the process. She

Students race to 50,000 words for NaNoWriMO Mary Breaden Vanguard staff

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occupy’s encampment, located in the Plaza Blocks, was asked to dismantle in mid-November of the last year because of rising crime and police overtime costs.

“Occupy fell off of people’s radar because there was a misunderstanding in the press about what Occupy was and is,” Freeman said. “Nationally there is this narrative that Occupy doesn’t have any goals or demands.”

Nicholson said the media had trouble covering a leaderless operation and got a skewed perception of the movement because of information from outside sources.

“When [the media] are featuring protest culture, oftentimes they got most of their quotes from the police department, so first of all that’s a huge bias,” he said.

Shamus Cooke, who is involved in the People’s Budget Project, said that Occupy became associated with police confrontation because of poor media coverage.

But Occupiers aren’t discouraged. They see the movement more as the opening of a channel for discussion of issues, which contrasts with typical protests, such as labor strikes, that have very specific demands.

After a Nov. 3 march against austerity that was organized

by PAL, there have been indications of a more interested public.

Freeman claimed that after the protest an associate did a Google trend report on the word “austerity” and the number of searches had skyrocketed.

“Occupy was a tactic as much as a movement,” Cooke said. “But now people are looking for other ways to create change.”

is trying to work with departments to set up a system that will not only incorporate the library into more of the programs offered on campus but also help departments figure out and submit their proposals.

“I have two jobs: The first is helping to think about how the library can be more involved with everyone on campus; the second is being part of a team looking at proposals and making recommendations and suggestions.”

Moody then goes on to explain that MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses—could be one example of possible changes.

This would involve offering students the opportunity to do heavy, study-intensive learning outside of class, allowing a more hands-on learning process in class.

“It’s a chance for departments, colleges and groups of faculty interested in working together to come together for this challenge. I’m pretty excited about it,” Moody said.

Professor Ann Marie Fallon, director of the Univer-

sity Honors Program, was able to provide several examples of how reTHINK PSU may be able to change the program.

“There have been huge innovations in higher education, and PSU is looking to find a way to be a leader.

“What we can do is to continue to honor high-achieving students by changing out learning objectives and investigating MOOCs in combination with what we already have.”

This will happen through the use of online courses and innovative changes incorporated between programs.

This challenge is still in its infancy stage, but within a month there will be proposals posted online on the PSU website, where students and faculty can propose, edit and comment on the ideas put forth to advance our university. Those proposals that seem the most feasible will be the ones receiving the small monetary awards to make them happen.

Check out reTHINK PSU at pdx.edu/oaa/rethinkpsu.

NaNoWriMo: Say that three times fast.

For more than 10 years, November has been associated with this acronym, which aspiring writers find both daunting and validating— it’s National Novel Writing Month.

During this month, writers are challenged to write 50,000 words of an original novel before Nov. 30.

The total word count breaks down to approximately 1,667 words per day, or three pages of single-spaced typing without extensive dialogue.

For Portland State students like Jim “Pong” Kelsheimer, writing for NaNoWriMo in addition to regular schoolwork adds up to hours and hours of daily writing.

“I’m approaching it like a thesis class,” Kelsheimer said.

“I set very specific deadlines and word counts. I write between four and eight hours every day, but spread it out.”

Kelsheimer, who has a bachelor’s degree in German, is also taking 12 credits this term.

These classes, he said, have fed his action-adventure story, in which different thinkers of the 20th century such as Mao Zedong and Sigmund Freud appear in cameos that address or contribute to the story’s conflict.

Kelsheimer also said that participating in the novelwriting month has made him more aware of the time he spends on his other writing assignments.

Tessara Dudley, a sophomore double-majoring in Black Studies and communications, described this year’s NaNoWriMo work as being more difficult than what she experienced in previous years, when she had a functioning laptop that allowed her to escape the tedium of writing for hours in the same location.

She described using instant messaging on Skype for this year’s NaNoWriMo, both to gain inspiration for her novel through word prompts and word sprints and to make the experience a bit more fun.

“It’s great to have a community,” Dudley said. “I don’t

do writing groups much, but I connected with other NaNo writers in Portland this year… through meeting up or writing at each other’s houses.”

Dudley said she was a little nervous about being able to catch up with the word count over the holiday weekend because she had both an essay and a presentation to complete.

Dan DeWeese, a writer and an instructor in the PSU Department of English, is enthusiastic about the opportunity NaNoWriMo presents to aspiring authors.

“The idea of a National Novel Writing Month is a way of saying, ‘Hey, try that. Be obsessed with something for a month,’” he said.

DeWeese, whose most recent book, Disorder, was published in October, emphasized the importance of rewriting in novel writing. But he believes the guidelines NaNoWriMo provides are a great starting place.

“NaNoWriMo gives people a specific time period and a specific deadline in which to generate those pages,” he said.

“Even if you decide to spend a year—or 10 years—revising what you wrote, the first step is having the pages in the first place.”

Kelsheimer, who did not participate in any forums other than the NaNoWriMo Portland Facebook group, said that the word count graph on the NaNoWriMo website was a helpful way to gauge his progress.

At the end of the month, Kelsheimer said, “I will have a good-sized manuscript that I need to step away from for a while, [then] come back and take the time to make the manuscript something I would actually feel proud about showing people.”

After November, Dudley intends to polish her novel, an urban fantasy, and get into the habit of writing on a more regular basis, something she feels certain will continue after NaNoWriMo. “We were talking about making sure that this carries over into the rest of the year,” Dudley said. “I made good connections.”

Correction to “PSU connects with Indonesia” Because of a reporter’s error, the Nov. 20 story titled “PSU connects with Indonesia” incorrectly stated the title of Bernie Burrola and the name of the organization he is affiliated with. The correct title and name of the organization is U.S. Executive Director of the United States-Indonesia Joint Council on Higher Education Partnership.

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A place to be Lounge attracts students from many faith backgrounds Ravleen Kaur Vanguard staff

Students swept up in a blur of panic-inducing finals can find solace in a space unlike any other on campus—a place that allows one to simply be.

“There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground,” goes a quote by Rumi, the 13th-century poet and mystic, written in cursive on a chalkboard in Portland State’s Quiet Prayer and Meditation Lounge.

It’s a space open to all, regardless of religious or spiritual tradition—or lack thereof—for quiet meditation, reflection or prayer.

“This is really unique for a public institution,” said Rachel Samuelson, an advisor for Student Activities and Leadership Programs who runs the lounge. “Not many have an interfaith space like ours.”

“School can be stressful.

And students need time to be alone with themselves,” said Zimei Xu, a graduate student who interns with the lounge.

The room, with its earthygreen walls and violet drapes, is charged with a palpable silence. The faintest hint of musky incense permeates the air. Amidst the ambient lighting and colorful floor cushions, there is a unique aura—what some would term spiritual energy and others would call intense focus—that lingers in the room.

In shadowy corners, students sit in repose, drawn inward. One woman practices

yoga, enveloped in tranquility. Another leans her head against clasped hands, deep in thought. A young man studies the Bible in one of the lounge’s small private rooms. A group of Muslim students gathers on spacious prayer mats and face east, toward the direction of Mecca, the religion’s holiest site, as they pray.

For Muslims in particular, the lounge helps fulfill a central tenet of prayer.

“As a Muslim, I pray five times a day, so this is where I go,” said Qanani Kalil, a former volunteer for the lounge.

A survey conducted by volunteers found that the lounge’s spirit of inclusion attracts a range of students from both religious and secular backgrounds—Buddhists, Hindus and those without a particular faith tradition who seek the lounge for reflection, stressmanagement and meditation in a space without judgment.

One responder who suffers from an anxiety disorder retreats to the lounge when overwhelmed with school and life.

“That’s the beautiful thing about our space. Different philosophies and religions [cohabit] the space. If a Buddhist student ever mistakenly sat on a Muslim prayer mat and was asked to move, that sparked a dialogue,” Samuelson said.

The origins of the lounge began to take shape several years ago, when the Muslim Student Association—citing harassment of Muslims who prayed in the library or Park Blocks— sought out a space, Samuelson said. Although the group was granted a temporary space that was technically open to all, conflict arose.

“There was the outside per-

spective of this being just a Muslim hangout, though that wasn’t the intent,” she said.

Last year, following a call for multiple voices, the space in the basement of Smith Memorial Student Union was launched. A one-time reserve request to the Associated Students of Portland State University’s student fee committee to help beautify the space was answered with $3,000.

The lounge has gradually drawn a greater diversity of visitors every term, visitors who have found a space to nourish a variety of needs.

Still, in the past there have been complaints about noise and distractions, Samuelson said.

“It’s a do-no-harm situation,” Samuelson said. “Are we going to say no food, no sleeping? A student sipping coffee or slipping into a doze is one thing. Eating lunch or snoring is another.”

Samuelson and her team plan to continue to assess the lounge to figure out how to better serve students. A carpet labyrinth, more private spaces, and even a massage therapist have been floated as possible additions to the space.

Students have asked for more spaces for Christian worship, more reading material in the lounge’s library and a special area for women.

“We have a quarterly focus group and we are looking for insight and feedback,” Samuelson said. “Anyone is welcome.”

Xu stressed the importance of the space.

“PSU is a public school, with people from so many different religions and backgrounds,” Xu said. “The lounge lets them be who they are.”

Hamiel Ogaili prays in the Quiet Prayer and Meditation Lounge.

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A forensic sketch has been released of the man who sexually assaulted a female student on campus last Monday.

The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-30s who is about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He is also described as having shaggy, light brown hair, pronounced cheekbones, an unshaven face and rough hands. The victim, who did not know the suspect, recalled that he smelled like sawdust and was very twitchy, as if under the influence of an intoxicant.

The Portland Police Bureau is asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect.

If you have any information regarding this crime, call the PPB Sex Crime Unit at 503-823-0400.

Skilled hands, green work

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Landscapers are trained horticulturists

Local chapter of IHI bridges gap Kaela O’Brien Vanguard staff

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As hurricane-like rain pummeled the aluminum siding of the campus landscaping office—a single-wide trailer hidden behind the Stott Center—it was a struggle to hear Suzan Wilson’s soft voice.

“Sheesh,” said Wilson, Portland State’s lead campus gardener, as she gazed at the water outside the front door. “What can you do in that? You can’t even stand on the soil in that.”

It is rare for Wilson and her crew to stop working because of rain. She and her landscaping team aren’t really allowed to stop because of the weather.

Heavy slickers hanging on pegs inside the trailer office are well-worn testaments to how often they work outside in the wet and cold.

“You get used to it,” she said.

Wilson and her two fulltime coworkers, Susan Bruce and Erik Schubert, along with a handful of part-time student employees, care for the entire 52-acre campus.

“We maintain anything that’s outside,” Wilson said.

The work they do is largely inconspicuous, but they save student lives by raking slippery leaves and monitoring trees for falling branches. They clean up thousands of cigarette butts, and trim trees so sunlight can filter through the canopy and into the Park Blocks. They get rid of invasive pests.

Inside their trailer-office, which is decorated with posters of plant species, the gardeners eat homemade lunches around a kitchen table covered with potted plants.

The long-haired Schubert, who has a bachelor’s degree in English and, like Wilson, is a certified horticulturalist, postulated that people may have the wrong idea about the group.

“There is a stigma attached to people who work outside,” he said.

His coworkers nodded in agreement.

“Just think of Bill Murray’s character in Caddyshack,” Schubert laughed. “But seriously, I don’t think everyone realizes how skilled this work is.”

The bumbling idiot gardener played by Murray in Caddyshack doesn’t much resemble Schubert and his coworkers.

The professional crew implements environmentally-sustainable strategies that students frequently talk about in environmental studies classrooms.

Wilson, for example, has done planting on campus to restore wildlife habitat.

“I love to plant things for birds and insects, and for people too, but mostly birds,” she laughed.

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Suzan wilson is PSU’s lead campus gardener. Wilson and her team work year-round, rain or shine.

With all the other things the department has to keep up with, though, there isn’t time to do this type of planting very often. There’s isn’t money for it, either.

Schubert explained that the landscaping department is understaffed by about 40 percent, and he believes it is underfunded as well. The crew, he said, has only gotten smaller as the university acreage has increased, stretching the three full-time employees thin.

“There isn’t a tree on campus that doesn’t need something,” said Wilson, explaining that lack of pruning causes improper growth. “But [with such a small crew] some things just won’t get done.”

This time of year, the landscapers’ time is consumed with removing fallen leaves from sidewalks. “It’s months and months of leaves now,” Wilson said.

One concern she shared about leaves was the number of cigarette butts she found among them, which puts composting completely out of the question because chemical compounds in the butts interfere with the composting process.

The fall season gives Schubert a break from the unruly irrigation system he fought with all summer.

“The sprinklers are 30 years old,” he said, frustrated. “They don’t turn the way they’re supposed to turn, so they don’t have very good coverage. They were installed when water conservation wasn’t on people’s minds.”

There are more sustainable irrigation systems out there, Schubert explained, systems that conserve much more water. So why is PSU using an outdated system that throws water onto the asphalt and wastes it? he wonders.

The office fills with frustration as the crew gives exam-

ples of what they wish they could do, but can’t with such a small staff and so little money.

Student landscaper and Environmental Studies senior Steven Teegardin points out the elephant in the room.

“The university undervalues this department,” he said.

“It is clearly one of the most understaffed, underfunded and low-paying departments on campus.”

The trailer gets quiet. Wilson and Bruce sigh, and then hug.

Frustration abounds.

Finally someone makes a joke and everyone’s laughing again.

“Well, I’m sure we are the most fun crew on campus,” Wilson said. “We like each other.”

Teegardin added that the landscaping department is a rich educational resource that the university doesn’t take advantage of. He thinks PSU students could learn native plant and wildlife habitation restoration from the university’s very own qualified horticulturalists. “[Making wildlife habitats] is one of the kinds of things we talk about in environmental classes all the time,” Teegardin said.

“I think [supporting] the landscaping department could be a way to bring examples from classrooms to fruition.

Look at Reed College. Their landscape guy [Zachariah Perry, the Reed College Canyon restoration project manager] takes students out all the time,” he said.

As soon as the rain stopped, the inside of the trailer came back to life as the crew began moving around and suiting up in heavy black slickers and rain hats.

Rake in hand, the smallframed Wilson headed out into the drizzle—ready to tackle the thousands of leaves she and her crew are used to raking up between buildings on campus.

What if doctors knew exactly how hospital administrators planned budgets? Would a medical student benefit from a free online class that explained how hospitals are managed?

Kelsey Priest, the president of Portland’s Institute of Health Improvement Open School, says yes.

“It is a great opportunity to gain knowledge in a field you wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to,” Priest said.

The local chapter of IHI, an interprofessional educational community, offers free online supplemental classes and annual conferences to the medical community.

It was founded in the 1950s

by Donald Berwick, a physician frustrated by the health care system, and now has more than 520 chapters in more than 57 countries.

Ultimately, the organization seeks to improve health care quality and patient safety.

Locally, the chapter includes both Portland State

and the Oregon Health and Science University. The joining of the two schools brings together the clinical and the administrative and management sides of medicine.

The IHI Open School approaches health care in a new way and provides students with resume benefits and a great learning experience, Priest said.

The chapter is made up of both students and faculty “sharing a common interest in health care improvement, and in improving the health of people and the population,” she explained.

The Portland chapter was created by Dr. Sherril Gelmon and initially only included PSU students.

The organization started off slowly, but in 2011 an upsurge in interest helped the program begin to flourish.

The organization hosted several local events this year, and a few leadership members of the Portland chapter of IHI Open School attended an IHI conference in Boston.

In 2012, Kim Lepin, a student at OHSU, contacted the IHI open school at PSU seeking to create a joint chapter.

In May, the Portland chapter

came to officially include both PSU and OHSU. The joint chapter has been incredibly rewarding, Lepin said.

“OHSU students [now] have access to a network of professionals and peers beyond OHSU,” she said.

Priest explained that the PSU/OHSU chapter seeks to connect health care leaders from all around Portland with medical students in the hopes of developing skills in the areas of quality and safety in health care.

The Portland chapter of IHI Open School now seeks to increase the number of its events, recruitment opportunities and quality-improvement projects.

Another goal is to reach more than 100 members and to include other medical institutes throughout the Portland area.

The organization also hopes to one day incorporate IHI Open School into the PSU curriculum, explained Priest, and it would like to hold the first West Coast IHI Open School regional conference.

The most important goal, however, is keeping the organization “sustainable through improved structure,” Priest said. The Portland chapter has

become an official organization on the OHSU campus, while at PSU the process is still underway.

One of the benefits of membership in the organization is that students may take free online classes in any field of medicine they choose.

Another important aspect for students is that completion of the open school basic certificate looks great on a resume, and demonstrates to employers the student’s knowledge of quality improvement and patient safety, Priest said.

Members of the organization who hold leadership positions receive the benefit of leadership development as well as a better chance of attending national conferences.

This year, the school has either organized or aided in the coordination of several events, such as the September screening of the documentary Escape Fire, which focuses on American health care.

Next term, expect more events than ever, Priest said.

There will be two separate events entitled “What is IHI?” The first will be held on Jan. 17 at OHSU in the BICC building, room 124, from 5 to 6 p.m. The PSU event’s date

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Kelsey Priest, president of Portland’s Institute of Health Improvement Open School, is focused on bringing more awareness to the program. and time is yet to be set.

Also scheduled this term are several presentations in which a student member of the Portland IHI chapter will pair up with a faculty member to lead a presentation on important health care topics.

Priest noted that the most challenging obstacle that the Portland chapter of the IHI Open School has faced has been simply getting the word out.

Also, since students are so busy, it can be difficult to find members able to fully commit. Other than these minor setbacks, however, Priest feels that the organization has only

growth ahead.

With health care such a prominent topic in the U.S. today, it is incredibly valuable for medical students to be exposed to opportunities and organizations, such as the IHI, with goals of quality improvement and patient safety, Priest said.

Any member of the community can join the organization.

For more information, check out the school’s website, sites.google.com/ site/ihiopenschoolpsuohsu chapter or send an email to ihipsuohsu@gmail.com.

Every week, the Vanguard interviews members of the Portland State community in the Park Blocks and asks them a timely question.

This week’s question:

“How are you going to spend your holiday break?”

Madeline Zanone, 18, a molecular biology freshman, is returning home to Southern California for the holidays. “I’m just going to hang out with my family, eat dinner and have Christmas in California. It’s going to be way hotter there, so it’ll be nicer,” she said. “I really like it here, but I’m excited to go home for the holidays.”

Kevin Gewozdz, 24, a senior arts and letters major, plans to stay in town to write poetry and piano music. However, his family from Ireland is spending the holidays with him. “My whole family is in town for the first time in four years, so I get to see all of my brothers and sisters, and my mom and dad,” he said.

Jennie Espelien, 25, a math junior, plans to travel to Washington, D.C. for Christmas and Vernonia, Ore., for New Year’s. She also plans to snowboard for the first time. “I’m going to take a trip to Washington, D.C., where I’m going to see my friend who just moved there and visit some family in Illinois,” she said. “I’m possibly going to Vernonia with my husband to ride four-wheelers in a 20-mile trek through the snow.”

Andrea Espinosa, 23, a social science major, plans to work through a temp agency for the break. “I’m going to be lazy, eat a lot of food and get another holiday job so I can make some money,” Espinosa said. “I’ll be staying in Portland all break because I don’t have money to travel.”

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Outstretched hands Street Yoga celebrates 10 years of providing yoga to people undergoing hardship Mike Diallo Vanguard Staff

Yoga seems to be everywhere in Portland, with dozens of gyms and institutes offering courses around town. Numerous Portland State students take classes from Campus Rec or for credit, believing that if they attain physical wellness through the sequences and controlled breathing of the practice, yoga can help them lead a more mindful and healthy life.

No one is more invested in this idea than Street Yoga, a group of yoga devotees who believe that yoga can be a source of positive change for communities undergoing hardship.

The organization has been putting on clinics around the city for a decade now, and this Saturday they will host the Street Yoga 10th Anniversary Benefit, an event that renews the members’ dedication to the program and showcases Street Yoga to potential supporters and volunteers.

Street Yoga caters its yoga programs to “youth and families and their caregivers struggling with homelessness, poverty, abuse, addiction, trauma and behavioral challenges,” according to its website. At the benefit, teachers and volunteers will share stories from their time working with Street Yoga.

The benefit will also feature a dinner, a silent auction of donated items and a chance to dance to the music of DJ Anjali, all in order to raise funds for 2013. The benefit has a few changes

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striking poses: Street Yoga is always looking to attract new volunteers to mentor underprivileged youths.

this year, after being pushed back to kick off the organization’s winter fundraising campaign, but Street Yoga Executive Director Alice Puckett says that there won’t be a change in the liveliness.

“There’s always lots of energy,” Puckett said, referring to previous fundraising campaigns that have been overwhelming successes: The last Street Yoga fundraiser surpassed its goal by $5,000.

Street Yoga is looking to increase this amount, and after a transitional period earlier in the year, the organization will finish up 2012 with an event that proves they haven’t lost a step in that transition. Puckett believes this season’s goal of $30,000 is reasonable and that Street

Yoga will experience the support she’s always seen from Portland.

While this is her first turn as executive director during a benefit, Puckett has been involved with Street Yoga for more than four years, beginning at teacher training in 2008. Her first site placement was at a juvenile detention facility for girls, an experience that still resonates with Puckett and exemplifies the success of the organization.

“I was unsure how the girls were feeling about the yoga,” Puckett said of her time at the juvenile detention center. “One day I came in with hand soap, provided by a donor, for anyone who wanted to lead a session. Every single girl raised [her] hand, and they all had the ability to lead.”

Anecdotes like these help Street Yoga attract volunteers who desire a teaching experience that is rewarding on a number of levels. The training for these instructors involves more than just learning yoga postures and sequences: Street Yoga instructors must be able to understand and explain the ways that yoga can benefit the at-risk youth and victims of unfortunate circumstance they will be teaching.

But even with the extra effort Street Yoga expects from their instructors, people continue to join the organization.

“It’s always humbling to see the volume of people coming out to volunteer,” said Chrissy Becker, Street Yoga’s volunteer coordinator.

Like Puckett, Becker is also a yoga instructor for the program, and she considers her challenging initial placement at David Douglas High School an important experience.

David Douglas, the largest high school in the state of Oregon, has long tried to shed the title of poorest high school in the Portland metropolitan area. Becker had a unique experience there as a substitute instructor.

“There were a variety of challenges,” Becker said. But “most of [the challenges] were really great experiences in the end—opportunities to move through something together. Whenever we had a challenging day, the group was closer when we left.”

Street Yoga presents its 10th Anniversary Benefit Saturday, Dec. 1, 6-9 p.m.

Art Design Portland (ADX) 417 SE 11th Ave. $55 general admission Tickets at streetyoga.org, group discounts available All proceeds go to Street Yoga programs

Head start on art Da Vinci Arts Middle School showcases local and student artists in Arts Fair 2012 Tess Anderson Vanguard staff

For the eighth consecutive year, da Vinci Arts Middle School will be showcasing both local and budding artists in a winter art fair. The fair will feature an assortment of art for sale, including paintings, jewelry, stoneware, ceramics, sculptures, photographs and metal works. There will also be live music, hands-on activities and food available.

Da Vinci was founded about 17 years ago by parents and is now a middle school for 460 students in grades 6–8 who focus their learning on the arts.

The school features an array of arts programs, including darkroom photography, dance, theater, textiles, film and painting. Students from the district apply to the school and are accepted through a lottery system that doesn’t factor in individual creativity.

Da Vinci “[belongs] to the community,” said Connie Cheifetz, the chief organizer of the fair.

“This city needs to know what’s going on for kids, what can happen for kids, and that this is Portland’s school.”

Organizers say that the community is becoming more aware of the school and its events, as the art fair attendance has grown every year.

“The fact that it still exists, is thriving artistically and academically, and gets so much support from its community is exciting to be a part of,” said Buff Neretin, chair of Arts Fair 2012.

The art fair showcases about 70 artists, 40 of which are students. This year, about one-third

of the artists are being showcased for the first time. Artists submit an image of their work in the spring, a panel of judges decides who will display in the fair over the summer and the lineup is finalized once school is back in session.

The fair is hosted to help fund the school. The title “starving artist” didn’t just spring up out of nowhere: Art supplies are expensive.

Seventy percent of money from this event goes to the work’s artist, with the remaining 30 percent going to the school to help buy communal supplies. Cheifetz thinks that a fair is more efficient than an auction because it “gives the community an opportunity to get involved.”

The fair gives the community an opportunity to speak with local artists, both up-and-coming and established. There have also been many additions to the fair along the lines of do-it-yourself art, including handbags, jewelry, crafts, etc.

Students who paint or draw and put up their work for all the public to see are particularly brave, as there’s no guarantee that the audience will understand, relate to or “get” their piece.

Cheifetz’s favorite part of the fair is “getting to see middle school kids get to make something they’re proud of…then be empowered by someone wanting to buy it,” she said.

Students sometimes even buy each other pieces.

“These aren’t pity purchases,” Cheifetz said.

“These are genuine desires to own these pieces.”

One of the reasons the fair works well is “there’s a good relationship between the administration and the school,” Neretin said.

There’s also huge commitment by the artists.

“It takes a lot of thought and elbow grease to get ready for a show of this magnitude, and all seem to treat this opportunity with great respect,” Neretia said.

It’s a convenient and cost-efficient way to shop around for unique gifts, with the holiday season right around the corner, and admission is free.

It’s also a great way to immerse oneself in the

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Hipster mona lisa: Local artist Hadley Hutton’s piece PDX Mona will be auctioned off at this weekend’s art fair.

Rising from the ashes ’90s indie Smoke Signals plays at 5th Avenue Cinema Breana Harris Vanguard Staff

The first realization I came to when watching Chris Eyre’s 1998 film Smoke Signals, playing this weekend at PSU’s 5th Avenue Cinema, was that I don’t know the first thing about what life is like for modern Native Americans. I assume that many of us without family or other connections to the culture have no idea.

Eyre’s film, the story of two young men of the Coeur d’Alene tribe who journey to Arizona after one of them loses his father, is not meant to educate viewers on reservation life. But it’s still a slice of life, and the strength of the story and charm of the characters make you want to know even more about their culture.

While Smoke Signals isn’t specifically about Native American issues, there are plenty of lighthearted and clever lines referencing their cultural and geographical isolation. The local disc jockey announces over the radio that it’s “8 a.m. Indian Time,” and that “it’s a good day to be indigenous.”

Smoke Signals begins with a house fire that inextricably links the two main protagonists, Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) and Thomas Builds-theFire (Evan Adams). Thomas is saved from the fire in which both his parents die because Victor’s dad, Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), catches him when he is tossed out of a window.

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Native American Actors Evan Adams (left) and Adam Beach (right) star in the 1998 Miramax film Smoke Signals, which is playing on campus this weekend.

Soon we cut to the two of them as young men. Victor is a brooding, handsome basketball player and Thomas is a bespectacled, idealistic nerd. The differences between the two of them go much further than the superficial and become the backbone of the film.

Thomas, who has never had parents, idealizes Arnold Joseph, who has since left the reservation and his family and moved to Arizona. Victor, who put up with years of abusive and drunken behavior from his dad, knows he is far from a hero.

When Arnold Joseph dies, Victor heads to Phoenix to settle his affairs, and Thomas tags along to help him pay for the journey. They hitchhike and then take the bus while Thomas continues to irritate Victor with his romantic view of life and penchant for telling elaborate stories in the Native American tradition.

When they reach Phoenix, they meet Arnold Joseph’s friend Suzy Song (Irene Bedard), who has her own perspective on the life of Victor’s father. Arnold Joseph is seen frequently in flashbacks from all three characters, which leads to stories within stories—not all of them entirely true.

The theme of storytelling is quite powerful in Smoke Signals. The film is a wonderful exploration of how someone, especially a father, is remembered after they die. It’s easy to compartmentalize a person’s life and characterize them in a certain way, but if you’ve ever lost somebody, you know that one of the things you come to realize is how different everyone’s experience of a single person can be.

Arnold Joseph was one person to Thomas, another person to Victor and yet another

person to Suzy—and none of them were right or wrong about him. Smoke Signals strives to convey that, and does it wisely, in a way that isn’t sentimental or pretentious.

While the ultimate revelation feels a little predictable, it works with the central idea: We’re all good people and bad people at the same time.

Sherman Alexie’s fantastic script, based on his own short story, deserves a lot of credit for the strength of the film. He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for it, and the charming Adams won for best debut performance. The film also won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Smoke Signals comes from a fabulous era in the 1990s when Miramax distributed many smart, funny and engaging independent films like this one. I really miss that time, but it’s nice to know there are films like this still around to be discovered by a new generation.

Although this film is about Native Americans and the cultural identity of the main characters is a strong theme, it’s a universal story that you could imagine happening in any culture, even any time period. That strikes a particular balance that you don’t always see, and it’s a big reason why Smoke Signals burns bright.

5th Avenue Cinema presents Smoke Signals Friday, Nov. 30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 and 9:30pm Sunday, Dec. 2, 3 p.m.

510 SW Hall st.

Free for PSU students, faculty, staff, alumni with ID; $2 all other students and seniors, $3 general admission

Hearty tomato bisque A delicious dinner to bring home for the holidays kat audick Vanguard Staff

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culture that is the Portland art scene. In fact, local artist Hadley Hutton will be raffling tickets for an opportunity to win PDX Mona, an interpretation of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with a nose ring, painted nails, hipster glasses, dyed hair, and a purse with a bird on it.

This isn’t the average middle school art show. These are students with genuine talent and drive who want nothing more than to show off their hard work for the public.

Da Vinci Arts Middle School presents Arts Fair 2012 2508 NE Everett St. Saturday, Dec. 1, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Free and open to the public

This scrumptious soup tastes like it came from a classy restaurant even though it’s really concocted from a can. If you’re looking for cheap eats that will still impress your guests, look no further: This savory tomato bisque has a gorgeous color and a taste that is rich and flavorful.

When working with hot soup and a blender, you have to be particularly careful. Place your blender in the center of your kitchen sink when pouring to get better leverage. This will also help you to worry less about splashing and focus more on not burning your hands.

Always remove the detachable plastic center of your blender lid and cover with a damp cloth to release steam. Removing this piece will also make it easier for you to pour in half-and-half without making a mess.

This bisque is perfect to make in advance for a party: the longer the flavors get to meld together, the better. If making a day in advance, allow soup to cool to room temperature, then pour into plastic snap-lid containers and refrigerate overnight.

When you are ready to reheat your bisque, return soup to a pot over medium heat and allow to warm up slowly. Add in small amounts of water, cream or tomato juice if your soup is a little thicker then when you first made it. Lastly, it is always nice to add a few fresh, chopped basil leaves before serving to really let the flavor shine.

Instructions In a large pot, saute celery, garlic, onion and bell pepper with butter over medium heat for 6 minutes until onion is translucent and other

I mentioned the bisque...

Warm your belly this winter with this easy-to-make, hearty winter soup, and don’t skimp on the cheese.

vegetables are tender. Add canned diced tomatoes with juice and tomato paste to pot, increase heat to high and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 40 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, salt, pepper, oregano and paprika.

Carefully pour 1/3 to 1/2 (depending on blender size) of soup into a blender and blend on low.

While blending, slowly pour in half-and-half.

Return blended soup to remaining unblended soup in pot and heat over medium-low heat.

Garnish with parmesan and basil leaves and serve immediately.

Ingredients 5 celery stalks, thinly chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 yellow onion, diced 1 red bell pepper, deseeded and chopped 4 tbsp unsalted butter 3/4 cup fresh basil leaves, chopped 3 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes, undrained 1 tbsp tomato paste 3 tsp sugar 2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1/4 tsp dried oregano 1/4 tsp ground paprika 1 1/2 cups half-and-half 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese, for garnish Additional basil leaves, for garnish Karl kuchs/VANGUARD STAFf

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PSU exhibit Unsigned displays pen test boards as art Thompson’s exhibit is just one of several that show at Food For Thought throughout the year. The cafe shows all sorts of works, most often featuring students at Portland State. Though sometimes the gallery wall will feature themes, often the shows are defined by the hanging artists.

“We did have a show that was about feminism before I started with the gallery,” Reich said. “But usually, it’s just three or four artists showing their own work. We’ve had painting, photography and printmaking; it just depends on who is showing.”

Thompson’s show also has an interactive element in the form of a guest book. Hanging along with the artwork, a sketchbook invites patrons to make their own additions to the exhibition. Thompson explained that she felt it best fit the spirit of anonymous contributions to the hanging work.

“Most art shows have a guest book, but I’m hoping people will take what they see and add a couple of lines to our book,” Thompson said.

Though the cafe staff hasn’t nailed down a hard date for closure of the exhibit, they promised to keep Thompson’s work up through early winter term so visitors and patrons have an opportunity to see the show upon returning from winter break.

PSU adjunct professor and Portlandbased designer Adam R. Garcia worked with Thompson on the piece for a university design class that focused on “design as a participatory, engaging experience in culture,” Garcia said in an email. “[Thompson’s] project is taking unrecognized, ‘throw away’ collaborative creations by a multitude of strangers, and re-contextualizing them as something to pay attention to,” Garcia said. “It’s the idea of it being an intentional artistic collaboration as well as the idea that it’s the product of an artistic medium (pens and markers) that is relevant. It makes you think twice, as well as try to find threads and connections inside the words, lines and doodles of each canvas.”

Thompson has other show ideas in mind but, for now, her primary interest is adding to her collection of illustration boards. In addition to the exhibit, she is building an online archive, which she hopes to continue updating as she picks up new works.

“I have other show ideas percolating, but I do want to keep collecting these,” Thompson said. “And I plan to keep the online archive going, even after the show is done.”

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Elizabeth Thompson contemplates her future as a curator.

Jeoffry Ray Vanguard staff

Each work of found art in graphic design senior Elizabeth Thompson’s recently opened art show, “Unsigned,” is a medley of contributions by anonymous users consisting of scribbles, doodles, sketches and vaporous bits of text. The show features a series of collected illustration boards salvaged from Blick Art Materials in the Pearl District.

Generally used by art store patrons for testing pens, the boards each feature a variety of lines and colors. Ranging in length from inches to several feet, the hanged works are the result of Thompson’s collecting, archiving and reprinting the salvaged originals.

The exhibition began last week and runs at Food For Thought Cafe, located in the basement of the Smith Memorial Student Union, through the beginning of winter term.

The show was put together with the help of cafe employee Chelsea Reich. Reich, who shares with the rest of the co-op staff in the duties of running the space, also described herself as the liaison for the cafe gallery.

Despite the problems caused by the recent flood in the cafe, Reich and Thompson (who is the Vanguard’s production manager) worked together to get the show up, and are still in the process of discussing de-installation dates for the exhibit.

Each of the works has its own theme and style, derived from a scattered collection of multiple styles in collaboration. Thompson pointed to a vibrant work loaded with an array of colors, titled Hello, as her favorite.

At only a few inches across, it is among the smaller compositions in the series, particularly when compared to the large-scale centerpiece, Test, which featured the scribbles and hash-marks commonly attributed to illustration boards.

“I was initially going to print Hello as the largest, but I wanted the largest piece to be a work that was immediately recognizable for what it is,” Thompson said.

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1. Untitled #2, 2012, pen on illustration board 2. Tonga, 2012, pen on illustration board 3. What can you make? What can you? 2012, pen on illustration board

4. Hello, 2012, pen on illustration board 5. Eyes, 2012, pen on illustration board 6. Awesome, 2012, pen and pencil on illustration board

Food For Thought Cafe presents Unsigned Smith Memorial Student Union basement On view through January Online archive at unsigned-project.tumblr.com

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Plastic bag ban expands in Portland

Feminist forefront Honored older gal works on getting tradeswomen recognized

Let’s look to Rwanda for some tips on surviving the inconvenience Everywhere and Here Eva-Jeanette Rawlins Miles Sanguinetti/VANGUARD STAFf

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Is technology frying our children’s brains?

The Emphatic Observer Rabia Newton

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ccording to the results of two recent observational studies, technology impacts the way young people learn: Their attention spans are shorter, and the average quality of student work has dropped significantly in comparison to other, far-less-digital generations.

Conducted by the Pew Research Center and Common Sense Media, the studies asked public and private K–12 teachers about the ramifications of digital technologies on the way children process information in an academic environment.

Approximately 90 percent of teachers polled claimed that entertainment media— TV, cell phones, computers, video games—aided in the creation of “an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.”

Educators say they’ve not only noticed a marked decrease in students’ ability to sustain focus, but also a burgeoning tendency to give up quickly when answers are not immediately obvious—a phenomenon some have termed “the Wikipedia problem.”

Of course, the findings are by no means conclusive. Both studies were of an observational design, which automatically limits their applicability, and the studies’ researchers caution that the issue warrants further investigation.

As a society steeped in media and electronics, however, we might want to start paying a bit more attention to the potential havoc we’re wreaking on the minds of the next generation.

After all, it’s been estimated that kids aged 8–18 spend nearly twice as much time in

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front of a screen as they spend in a classroom, so the potential consequences of digital overexposure deserve serious consideration.

Could technology literally be frying our children’s brains?

Many teachers fear this might be the case, especially in light of growing evidence that early and sustained exposure to electronic input may affect adolescent behavior in later life.

This kind of digital technology’s not going to disappear anytime soon, though.

Not to mention, parents will parent as they see fit, which just might entail plopping the little tyke down in front of the TV or handing her a video game controller. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles.

Short of government-issued mandates controlling underage computer usage (something I would personally like to avoid) I can’t see a clear-cut way out of our current technological conundrum.

Honestly, have you ever tried to take away a teenager’s cell phone? Obviously not. It’d be pretty difficult to read this piece if you’d had your eyes clawed out by a hormone-fueled rage monster.

(On an unrelated note, can you tell that I don’t like teenagers?)

Anyway, getting back to the point: We live in an age of unprecedented access to information. Kids are bombarded 24/7 by virtually every kind of input imaginable. By the age of 6 or 7, most have learned to wade through the results of an average Google search—a task that would have flabbergasted even the savviest adults only 50 years ago.

Children live in a world of YouTube and Facebook and Wikipedia. Whatever they want to know or learn sits waiting for them, a mere keystroke or mouse-click away.

It’s no wonder they don’t want to listen to someone three times their age drone on about the War of 1812.

American culture has undergone a digital upgrade, but our educational system seems to be living in the good ol’ days, hoping kids will wake up one morning and realize that their civics textbook is actually more interesting than the latest Justin Bieber video.

Well, I’ve got news for you, fellow teachers, parents and school administrators.

It’s not.

And trying to convince our children otherwise will require a lot of effort and creativity. We might even need to make friends with the technological enemy.

I recently stumbled across one high school teacher’s World War II lesson plan, which just happened to take the form of an extended Facebook conversation between the Allies and the Axis.

(Can you guess where I found this wonderful example of radical curriculum development? Because it wasn’t in a textbook. Google it. Maybe you’ll find the answer.)

Apparently the teacher provided students with the Facebook example as a supplementary reading to illustrate some of the larger concepts they’d been discussing in class. A fantastic idea, if I do say so myself.

The moral of this story isn’t clear-cut. If technology is messing with our kids’ heads in a quantitatively harmful way, then I’m all for extreme measures. But until that point, we have a responsibility to educate the next generation in the manner to which they’ve become accustomed: digitally.

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he war against plastic bags in Portland just got a lot more serious.

Not hard, since it was pretty pathetic to begin with. The original 2011 ban on plastic in “big-box stores and supermarkets…affected fewer than 200 businesses,” according to The Oregonian.

The Portland City Council recently decided to menacingly lower the guillotine and take a slice out of plastic beyond the walls of ol’ Freddies and Safeway. Approximately 5,000 restaurants, retailers, food carts and farmers markets will now feel the wrath of a paper-only decree.

“I believe Portlanders will rise to the challenge,” Portland Commissioner Dan Saltzman told The Oregonian.

I must have missed the rest of his speech. The one that began with, “We stand on the brink, on the precipice of a world outside our realm of possibility. We face dark and uncertain times—an age where plastic bags will disappear forever, and it will only be through our collective courage—indeed, sheer bravery—that we will rise to meet this unthinkable challenge. Onward!”

What challenge? Give me a break. For all of Portland’s so-called progressiveness, I’m shocked that we’re not further along in this arena.

Even concrete hell California is ahead of us, with dozens of its cities already employing plastic bag bans, some even charging customers for paper bags, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Mayor Sam Adams suggested a 5-cent bag fee, but dropped the matter when he saw how little support he’d get. Quibbling about 5 cents is a joke. Don’t move to Switzerland by any means. There you’ll pay 30 cents per bag and still get the stink-eye for not bringing your own.

The funny thing is that this new so-called ban still has a plethora of exceptions. The Oregonian reports that “business owners will still be able to provide plastic bags for bulk items, produce, meats, dry cleaning and prescription drugs” and more exceptions may come later for other “goopy items,” whatever those might be. Oh, and “durable plastic bags” that are “at least 4 thousandths of an inch thick” are still OK. Perhaps a visit to the East African country of Rwanda would provide some perspective. Travelers arrive either by land or air, but before they can even enter the country their luggage is searched for plastic bags. Since 2008, there has been a countrywide ban on plastic, which means even the trash bags are made of paper. Yes, it’s true.

I visited the country in 2009 and was floored by the cleanliness of the streets, even in the bustling capital city of Kigali, where you’d expect to see at least some debris. On a bus ride through the countryside, a foreigner tossed a banana peel out the window and within seconds several passengers had climbed all over the poor chap. The message? Don’t mess with our environment.

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority website states, “The strong political will coupled with community participation in environmental management has put Rwanda on a steady path to sustainable development.”

The country’s success in protecting its environment comes from the government and citizens working together to make it happen. What a concept.

Then there’s the KGW story about a business owner in Southwest Portland, Dan Dolan, who likes plastic bags and hopes they stay.

His philosophy? “Government mandates are always questionable, when you try to impose something. The market is [a] pretty efficient mechanism of deciding what bag is the right bag,” he said.

It’s comforting to know that the “market” always cares for the environment and will ultimately make the right decision. God forbid the government tries to mandate anything like that.

It should just trust us to do the right thing. Wise, wise words.

I agree more with the Rwandan philosophy of life— personal and institutional responsibility. That philosophy has led to Rwanda becoming the most environmentally sustainable country in Africa and potentially further afield.

The REMA website politely asks visitors to “our land of a thousand hills” to carry “environmentally friendly material bags” because “this good habit can extend even globally as one goes back home. The environment bears no boundaries.”

Let’s see if Portlanders can, indeed, rise to the challenge.

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One Step Off Emily Lakehomer

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s a young college student, one of my primary concerns is finding a job after graduation. It’d be even better if said job allowed me to utilized the English degree I’ll have in June 2014. I don’t worry so much about the competition between men and women in my chosen career field. That wasn’t always the case, however.

An article recently published by The Oregonian profiled a local woman who deserves to be called a local legend. Betty Kendall worked as an auto mechanic during the 1970s. She graduated from Portland Community College with an associate’s degree in auto mechanics.

Nowadays a female mechanic doesn’t seem like such a shocker, but back then it was a very rare occurrence. In fact, trade jobs were usually maledominated, but during the recession of the 1980s women began populating the trade workforce. Kendall, a certified master mechanic, now works with other tradeswomen at Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. to help them “access careers in nontraditional bluecollar work,” according to The Oregonian.

In documenting the thousands of Oregon women who’ve been a part of our state’s blue-collar history, Kendall and others at Oregon Tradeswomen mark an important advancement in our workforce. Kendall said that, despite her education and certification, finding employment wasn’t easy. “Many people didn’t understand why a woman would ever want to be a mechanic,” she said.

Kendall faced being called a “starry eyed idealist” and dealt with people who said she should “go back to being a housewife,” The Oregonian reported.

Kendall’s been working with the Tradeswomen Archives project, which aims to share the stories of women who’ve made careers doing bluecollar work. The physical archives are located at California State University, Dominguez Hills, but are also available online. The project’s website provides a comprehensive visual history of women working in the blue-collar trade as well as in other nontraditional occupations.

The glass ceiling still needs to be shattered.

The website states: “Jobs in the U.S. and around the world tend to be stratified by race, gender and nationality, not so much because of ability, but because of historical and cultural practices. The efforts made by courageous women and supportive men to cross over barriers and take up nontraditional careers are valuable histories that deserve documentation of many sorts.”

Within the last 100 years, different jobs have become

more readily available for women. Not to say that we no longer need to fight for equality in the workplace—we most certainly do. The glass ceiling still needs to be shattered.

While women have an easier time finding a place in the workforce, there are still huge pay differences between men and women, and it’s becoming increasingly harder to balance career and family.

And just because the election is over doesn’t mean that the war on women is over.

Fox News recently published an article critiquing feminism and the advancement of women in the workplace and in education.

The article, aptly titled “The war on men,” (ha!) said that “[w]omen aren’t women anymore,” and claimed that “women pushed men off their pedestal (women had their own pedestal, but feminists convinced them otherwise) and climbed up to take what they were taught to believe was rightfully theirs.”

There are so many negative things one can say about those two quotes alone. Suffice to say the fight is—obviously— far from over.

Yes, we have come so, so far in the fight for equality, and that’s great, really. There’s no simple solution to wage differences, apart from equal pay for equal work. It’s still unclear as to why that solution isn’t being used across the workforce.

Jobs are scarce for everyone right now, and they will continue to be until the economy turns around. Nobody knows how long that will take, so the best thing we can do is remain hopeful and treat each other with respect.

If we keep working to further equality, we’ll be as successful as Kendall was in breaking free of the norms and gaining respect as well as employment.

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Peculiar holidays: part 3 Finding the New Year in old ways Ms. Fudge’s Sweet Nothings Stephanie Fudge-Bernard

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his is the final part of a three-part series about how some of our most celebrated holidays and traditions have developed from strange and forgotten roots. We come to expect certain things without questioning where they came from or how they turned into what they are today. New Year’s Day holds a few of its own surprising origins. * * * Calendars have changed quite a bit over the past few thousand years, and so has the date of the New Year.

Around the eighth century B.C. Romulus, Rome’s founder, created the original Roman calendar, which was based on the lunar cycle.

Early Romans had 10 months to the year, based on the average 29.5 days of a new moon. The months were either 29 days long and considered “hollow” or 30 days and considered “full.” This calendar also worked backward to our current system. The Nones, the Ides and the Kalends were set points on the calendar that Romans counted backward from, not toward.

Julius Caesar altered the Roman calendar in 46 B.C. by adding 67 days to it, including the month of January, named after the god of beginnings.

The seasons had aligned so poorly with their supposed dates on the calendar that Caesar also abandoned the lunar cycle entirely to focus instead on the more reliable solar cycle.

Probably an even bigger factor in the choice to alter the calendar was that the Roman calendar was frequently abused for political gain. It

created its own discrepancies that required additional months to be added whenever they were needed, usually during the winter.

Months were inserted in the calendar to make the year align with the seasons, much like how we add a day to February every four years. Since it wasn’t regulated, politicians and religious individuals exploited the calendar by filling out time to best elongate their terms in office.

Many different cultures have celebrated New Year’s, usually based on noticeable events. Egyptians once started their year based on the Nile’s inevitable annual flood; the Chinese based theirs on the second new moon following a winter solstice; and the Romans used the spring equinox to decide when their year started.

Throughout the medieval period, much of Europe celebrated New Year’s on religious holidays like Christmas.

It wasn’t until Pope Gregory XIII created his Gregorian calendar in 1582 that Jan. 1 was cemented as New Year’s Day. Since then, many traditions have grown around this time of year. One of the most memorable American celebrations to bring in the new year is the ball drop in New York’s Times Square. The tradition goes back to 1904 when The New York Times moved to what was then called Longacre Square.

The paper’s owner convinced the community to rename it Times Square and threw a festive party with a giant fireworks display to end the year.

In 1907, the city banned fireworks. Not to be deterred, an electrician created a 700-pound ball made of wood

and iron. The ancestor of our current ball drop, it lit up with 100 lights and dropped down a flagpole to celebrate New Year’s. Today, the ball’s grown a bit, weighing closer to 12,000 pounds.

The creation of New Year’s “resolutions,” embraced by today’s culture, is an older tradition—it’s been around for millennia. Unavoidably created and rarely fulfilled, New Year’s resolutions don’t seem to be going anywhere despite the yearly despondence of failed dieters.

As many as 4,000 years ago, ancient Babylonians made promises at the beginning of the new year in an attempt to please the gods and start the year off right. While the Babylonians resolved to pay back debts and return borrowed equipment, Americans tend to be more concerned with losing weight, kicking smoking habits and learning to do new things to fill an otherwise boring and unsatisfying life.

“Auld Lang Syne,” which you’ll often hear coming from the speakers as New Year’s Eve draws to a close, is a relatively newer tradition. The song, based on the Scottish folk poem transcribed and rewritten by Robert Burns in the 18th century, roughly means “days gone by.” In 1929, Guy Lombardo popularized it, and somehow it still draws a moment of reflection from many revelers.

New Year’s Day, like many of our customs, finds its roots in ancient and transformed traditions that most of us have no knowledge of. Some are based in old religious customs, some are simply cultural phenomena that have stuck around.

As you celebrate the end of 2012 and build hope for 2013, think about how you can create your own traditions instead of following ones aged and obscure.

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Rose City Rollers vs. Rat City

Sex ed and the Internet: part 2

5:45 p.m.

Memorial Coliseum 1401 N Wheeler Ave.

The Rose City Rollers take on the Rat City girls from Seattle in four 30-minute bouts of roller derby.

Admission is $10–24 and all ages are welcome.

1flesh.org’s ‘new heights of awesome’ ignorance

Sunday, Dec. 2

Portland Jingle Bell Run/Walk

A Woman’s Right Shilpa Esther Trivedi SURAJ NAIR/VANGUARD STAFf

Ah, finals!

Tips to help with finals week

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few weeks ago I wrote about abstinenceonly education, and mentioned that many websites teens and adults use to glean information about safe sex practices actually disseminate factually incorrect material. I said I would write more later.

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Art of the Observer Joseph Kendzierski

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s finals week approaches, I imagine many of you feel the stresses placed upon us as students. In a Herculean effort to pull together all of our projects, papers and notes, many of us are studying into the wee morning hours.

I’d like to share some tips I’ve learned throughout my college experience that have helped me to stay on track.

One: organizing your notes If you’re like me, you take notes by hand. Even if you don’t, organizing your notes can really help. The first thing to do is to take all of your class notes and type them out. This will help you remember each lecture in greater detail.

There’s nothing scarier than looking at an assignment for a 10-page paper that’s due in a week and having nothing done yet.

As you do this, try to organize your lecture notes into an outline. The theory behind this is that it’ll provide repetition and make you analyze each specific note and how it fits with the overall lecture.

After the notes are organized in an outline, review

the textbooks and notes taken while reading. Look to see where they fit into the lecture notes and add them where appropriate.

Finally, create a brain map for the notes. To do this, take the topic of a particular lecture/ text and—without looking at any note—write down whatever you can remember about each point. After this is done, consult your notes to see what you missed and what needs to be expanded upon.

Two: writing papers I admit I used to be a bad student, hurriedly writing 10-page papers the night before they were due, leaving no time for editing. In fact, I used to prefer this method because I thought it gave my papers more meaning and feeling.

However, I’ve converted to a better way of writing. I cannot stress enough the importance of using an outline. Granted, they can seem like a waste of time because they aren’t seen by anyone but you, but they’re invaluable because they keep your paper focused—not to mention they serve as a really great place to keep quotations you want to use.

The size of some papers can be really daunting; there’s nothing scarier than looking at an assignment for a 10-page paper that’s due in a week and having nothing done yet.

At this point, it can be really helpful to break the paper down into sections, which makes the task far less intimidating.

Writing a two- to three-page paper is far less challenging: All you’ve got to do is to put the sections together.

Also, make sure you leave enough time to have someone else edit your paper. However skilled a writer you are, you of-

ten miss your own grammatical mistakes. Others won’t.

The Portland State Writing Center (in Cramer Hall) offers various writing services on an appointment basis. Use them.

If for some reason you can’t make it to the center, corner a friend and get them to look over your paper.

Make sure you leave enough time to have someone else edit your paper. However skilled a writer you are, you often miss your own grammatical mistakes. Others won’t.

Three: managing stress It’s really hard to find enough time to do all of your assignments, write your papers, study, go to class and have a life, but avoid the temptation to stay up all night in an effort to get everything done.

Your body needs its rest.

If you want to remember everything, the best thing you can do is make sure you get enough sleep; there’s no substitute for a well-rested mind.

Also, make sure you eat properly. The body needs nutrition in order for those brain cells to retain what they learned. While I’m no nutritionist, I do know that I find it harder to concentrate if I’m hungry or if I’ve been eating more fast food than usual.

I hope these tips help you do well on your final exams, and I hope to see you on campus for winter term!

A website called 1flesh.org, which calls itself “the revolt against contraception in marriage,” is one such site whose creators engage in questionable behavior that fosters the potential for great harm.

Natural family planning methods are valid if used properly, but they don’t prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

The site’s creators describe themselves as: “A bunch of college students rebelling against the current sexual culture, seeking to elevate it to new heights of awesome by opposing the use of contraception and promoting natural methods of family planning.”

Natural family planning methods are valid if used properly, but they don’t prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Advocating against other preventative methods with invalid reasoning and incorrect information has serious and frightening repercussions.

The website incorrectly links hormonal birth control to prostate cancer and links contraception to HIV rates.

The store is under construction but soon it’ll sell swag.

The site is full of flashy graphics that say things like, “How condoms ruin sex.”

Under the philosophy section, the site incorrectly namedrops Aristotle to argue that “the natural end of sex is both unity and procreation—love and new life.”

The writers use a deeply flawed analogy to argue this point, comparing those who choose to use condoms to those who struggle with bulimia, an eating disorder.

They write: “We reject bulimia as disordered because it seeks to have only half of eating’s natural end—the pleasure of eating. It rejects the other half—being nourished.

When the act of eating is not allowed to achieve its natural end, the act is detrimental to the organism. The bulimic suffers, psychologically and physically.”

According to the authors, this is akin to using a condom and not allowing sex to end in procreation, since that goes against the natural end of sex.

Not only is this a misunderstanding of eating disorders in general and insensitive to those who have them, it also suggests that safe sex, or sex that doesn’t result in conception, is somehow a disease.

The site also claims: “Condoms ruin sex by changing its very nature, by putting a physical barrier between husband and wife, preventing the natural ‘bonding’ quality of sex in part created by the absorption of semen by the woman.

“We here at 1flesh hold onto that antiquated bit of folly, that the pick-up culture is degrading to men and women, and sex was meant to be forever, a promise of love as much as a good time.

Condoms take away one of the primary biological features of sex that make it forever, as well as reducing its health benefits and degrading the amount of pleasure involved.”

The main creator of the site is a teenage blogger and college student who also rails against marriage equality on his other blog, Bad Catholic, and is proud to attend a nonsecular college that recently cut all student health care in response to the birth control mandate.

The following gem, an explanation that being against gays in general has nothing to do with hate, is from one of his blog posts: “For we know that the gay lifestyle leads to a higher risk of HIV, depression, substance abuse, and a generally lower life expectancy. To oppose the normalization of a lifestyle that leads to this degradation of the human person—specifically the same-sex attracted person—is no hate at all, but a love. Not a

love most people want, but a desire for the good of the beloved nonetheless.”

It’s important to note that his writings against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community are an extension of his eager interference in how others live.

He also claims that LGBTQ

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How do you like them apples? Join the Environmental Club in a celebration of one of the season’s signature drinks today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. between Smith and Neuberger.

Friday, Nov. 30

Masks Release Party and Signing 7–10 p.m.

Things From Another World 2916 NE Broadway

The writers use a deeply flawed analogy to argue this point, comparing those who choose to use condoms to those who struggle with bulimia, an eating disorder.

citizens don’t actually want the right to marry (in much more offensive language, also throwing in the incorrect tidbit that the Roman Catholic Church invented words like “love” and “marriage,” and therefore should have a monopoly on their definitions).

The 1flesh writers also believe sex should occur only within the confines of marriage, and that marriage should be undertaken prior to determining sexual compatibility.

Bloggers like this present a huge problem for women who don’t want to be preached at or talked down to by misinformed men.

Unfortunately, the Bad Catholic isn’t alone in his ignorance.

There are many other sites like this, and the language on most of them is upsetting because it’s not medically sound and reeks of benevolent sexism.

It’s this emerging dependence on benevolent sexism from so-called men’s rights groups and anti-abortion (“pro-life”) organizations that worries me the most, because it specifically targets impressionable teenagers who may have been educated under abstinence-only education.

Benevolent sexism teaches these teens that restrictive gender roles ought to be strictly enforced and upholds harmful myths about female purity and a woman’s role within a sexual relationship.

Comic writer Chris Roberson brings you Masks, a tale where classic comic heroes come together. Come purchase a limited-edition copy and enjoy free food and beer (for those who are 21+ with valid ID). This event is open to all ages. FREE

Cider Press 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Cobb Oven Between Smith and Neuberger

The Environmental Club invites you to bring you own receptacle and help them press 800 pounds of apples FREE into fresh cider.

Heritage Month: Indigenous Arts Fair 2–4 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St.

Celebrate Native Heritage Month with a fair showcasing a variety of art from various native artists. There will be art for sale as well as instruction on how to create similar art FREE yourself.

Heritage Month: Harvest Dinner and Talent Show 6–9 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St.

A dinner and talent show will be held at the PSU Native Center to celebrate Native Heritage Month.

Performances will range from traditional to contemporary, from dance to poetry readings and songs. Food FREE will be provided.

Student Leaders for Service are holding an information session about their alternative spring break program, where students are invited to take a trip and get involved with offering assistance to various comFREE munities in need.

Saturday, Dec. 1

Krampus Nacht Ball 9 p.m.

Mt. Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Mt. Tabor Theater presents a night of debauchery and drinks, where you are encouraged to dress up as a creature of the night and mingle with others. Vendors, a costume contest and many other surprises are in store at this winter event.

Tickets are $10–15. For ticket sales and more information visit krampusnachtpdx.com. 21+

America’s Largest Christmas Bazaar 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Portland Expo Center 2060 N Marine Dr.

With more than 1,000 booths full of holiday decorations, foods and gifts, America’s Largest Christmas Bazaar is the perfect event to kick off your holiday shopping season. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for children 12–17 years of age. Children under 12 years gain entrance free of charge.

Wreath Making Workshop 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Learning Gardens Laboratory (Greenhouse 5) 6801 SE 60th Ave.

Music Forward! A Holiday Concert

Learn how to construct your own holiday wreath while lending support to PSU’s Learning Gardens Laboratory. Required donation to cover material costs is $6 but suggested donations are $10–35.

7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Hall, room 175 1620 SW Park Ave.

Qin: Abiding with Antiquity

Portland State presents a holiday concert featuring some of PSU’s talented musical faculty and awardwinning students. All proceeds for the concert benefit music scholarships for students at the university.

Tickets are $25.

Alternative Spring Break Info Session 2–3 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 108 1825 SW Broadway

9:30–11 a.m.

Urban Center, room 250 507 SW Mill St.

The Institute for Asian Studies and the First Saturday East Asian Program series offer an introduction to the qin, an ancient seven-stringed instrument of Chinese origin.

FREE

Put on your favorite holiday attire and join in the fight against arthritis at the Portland Jingle Bell Run/Walk.

Registration fee is $25 for adults and $10 for kids, and all proceeds benefit the Arthritis Foundation. Jingle bells and a long-sleeved T-shirt are provided with entry fee. For more information, or to register a team, email Kim Lowry at klowry@arthritis.org.

Portland Holiday Ale Festival 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW Sixth Ave.

The Holiday Ale Festival returns to Pioneer Square for the 17th year with more than four dozen winter ales.

General admission is $30. For more information visit holidayale.com. 21+

Tuesday, Dec. 4

December Digital Marketing Breakfast 7:15–9 a.m.

School of Business Administration 615 SW Harrison St.

Panelists discuss the topic of coming social trends in 2013 and how to prepare for them in the marketing world while guests enjoy breakfast. Register for this event at meetup.com/PSUpdc/ FREE events/91233582.

“Let’s Talk” Drop-In Counseling 2–3 p.m.

Women’s Resource Center 1802 SW 10th Ave.

Come to the Women’s Resource Center for a free consultation from a Student Health and Counseling counselor about any questions you may have or stresses you may be FREE dealing with.

Wednesday, Dec. 5

KPSU and College Music Series: Menahan Street Band 2:30 p.m.

The Bing Lounge 1210 SW Sixth Ave.

The Menahan Street Band, a collection of musicians with various backgrounds, presents a free concert at the Bing Lounge with a soulful sound. Free beer will be provided for those who are 21+ and all ages are welcome to attend. RSVP by emailing becca@binglounge.com. FREE

Thursday, Dec. 6

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dance to high-energy music and enjoy live performance art for only $10 at the door (or $7 for museum members). Purchase tickets early at portlandartmuseum.org/ bacchanal. 21+

Friday, Dec. 7

Yule Grog: Santa Sleighs Stumptown!

9 p.m.

Kelly’s Olympian 426 SW Washington St.

You are invited to enjoy Portland’s Christmas pirate-themed pub crawl. Enjoy songs, games and a pirate/Christmas crossover costume contest. FREE 21+

Indigenous Beadwork and Regalia Group 4–6 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St.

The Native American Student and Community Center hosts a weekly beadwork and regalia group, where guests are encouraged to come and learn how to make their own indigenous-inspired beadwork and learn how traditional regalia for native dancing is crafted. Materials are provided for FREE projects.

Bacchanal Ballroom 5:30–8:30 p.m.

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave.

The Grand Ballroom at the Portland Art Museum is transformed into a dance club inspired by the “Body Beautiful” exhibit. Come

= on PSU campus FREE = free of charge = open to the public 21+ = 21 and over

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Lost causes NFL season ends sooner for some Gino Cerruti Vanguard staff

As fall draws to a close and winter term looms, those students interested in football can take solace in the fact that their holiday vacation will end on a positive note—the commencement of NFL playoff action. With only five more weeks left in the regular season, there is still quite a bit of room left for some upsets and unpredictable divisional showdowns.

Except for the Kansas City Chiefs, anyway. Even if the 1-10 Chiefs win every one of their remaining games, it is still mathematically impossible for them to reach the postseason. In a clear sign that the team has raised the white flag, the Chiefs replaced quarterback Matt Cassel with Brady Quinn, who currently sports a QB rating of 17.1. (If you’re

unfamiliar with this stat, it basically means that Quinn is playing with the aptitude of a high school second-string quarterback.) On a positive note, Chiefs fans should look forward to their team securing a nice spot in the 2013 NFL draft. Until then, all they can do is start counting down the days until baseball season begins again, when the focus will shift back to the Royals.

Over in the NFC, Arizona Cardinals fans are currently experiencing a whole different level of pain—a deflation of optimism. After the first four weeks of regular season football, the only teams besides the Cardinals with a 4-0 record were the Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons. As of today, the Cardinals are 4-7, while the Falcons and Texans have each only dropped one game out of their first 11.

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Left Behind: The Kansas City Chiefs are among a handful of teams in the NFL whose seasons are effectively over.

Many blame quarterback Kevin Kolb’s replacement during the losing streak: John Skelton, who in six games threw twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.

When the Cardinals had enough of Skelton’s miserable performance and replaced him with rookie Ryan Lindley

up and running: Portland State will participate in its first competition of the indoor season this weekend.

Track and field returns Alex Moore Vanguard staff

The cross country campaign has come and gone, and the Portland State track and field program is now in full sprint toward the indoor season. The Vikings will be competing in the Jacksons Open today and tomorrow in Boise, Idaho.

This will be the only indoor meet for Portland State in 2012. After the competition, the team takes its winter break before resuming on Jan. 12 at the University of Washington Indoor Preview. The Vikings don’t intend to let the vacation affect their performance in the new year.

in last Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Rams, Lindley managed to throw four interceptions, two of which were returned by the Rams for touchdowns. With Kolb out of the picture (and no timetable set for his return), the fate of the Cardinals looks grimmer by the day.

Of course, I could just as easily bash the Carolina Panthers (three wins) and Jacksonville Jaguars (two wins), but no one expected much progress from either team. On the other hand, the New Orleans Saints, a team that has reached the playoffs in three straight seasons, started the

year with four straight losses.

As an offensive-minded team, complete with one of the best quarterbacks playing today and a slew of fantastic running backs, wide receivers and tight ends, the Saints never had to worry too much about their defense—until now.

By allowing an average of 156.5 rushing yards each game—the worst average in the NFL—the Saints’ offense has been unable to counteract their abysmal defense as it has in the past. New Orleans has managed to regain some stamina since the rough start and currently sits at 5-6 on the year, but with upcoming road games against the Falcons and New York Giants on the schedule, the Saints better hope that their namesakes shine some divine light on their troubles.

It’s a tumultuous time to be part of a professional football franchise. Projections are rendered meaningless from week to week, and it seems as though every other team is playing without its starting quarterback. There is no telling what the rest of the year will bring, of course, and there’s still plenty of football left to play. But for some teams, this season is already over.

There’s always next year.

Maya Seaman Vanguard Staff

While “dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh” may be the seasonal tagline, not many of us own horses that we can hitch up for a leisurely jaunt to the grocery store.

Fortunately, what we do have are dogs—dogs that love to run, love to be outdoors and love to learn new skills. And the Cascade Sled Dog Club aims to harness that energy.

The CSDC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the sport of dog sledding and to promoting the health, welfare and safety of sled dogs in the Pacific Northwest. If the snow is right, they hold two annual races at the Frog Lake SnoPark on Mt. Hood.

Along with racing, the group offers clinics where dog owners learn the basics of becoming a musher—the human member and director of a sled-dog team. According to Dan Silvertree, a CSDC board member, sled training can improve the bond between owner and dog.

“It offers a way to deepen your relationship with your dogs in ways that would be difficult to match with just walks and trips to the dog park,” he said.

But for those of you who aren’t snow-savvy, it may come as a surprise that dog sledding isn’t just for the frigid Alaskan outback. It isn’t even solely a winter sport; to train dogs to pull a sled, most teams start learning on a dirt trail. The CSDC holds new-

Mush puppies Dog sledding in the Pacific Northwest

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The Mt. hood diet: The fall and winter months offer plenty of opportunities for man and beast to test their mettle in the great outdoors. member clinics in a park in Estacada during the balmy weather of fall.

Dogs learn to pull a wheeled cart or a bicycle over solid ground before they ever see the snow. Called “scootering”

and “bikejoring,” these activities help owners learn to mush while training their dogs to pull. The dogs are harnessed as if to a sled, but instead pull their owner on a kick scooter or an off-road bike. Scootering

and bikejoring have become almost as popular as traditional sled-dog racing and have their own category in races held across the country.

And while we typically think of Siberian huskies as

the only breed of sled dog, Silvertree suggests breeds like pit bulls and labs make great sled pullers, and that learning to pull will satisfy a breed’s instinctual need to run or to work.

“Most pet dogs don’t get nearly enough exercise, and lack of exercise can manifest itself in unwanted behaviors like chewing, barking, etc.,” Silvertree said. “Even modest amounts of recreational-level training create plenty of both physical and mental stimulation for the dogs.”

The training involves teaching the dogs to respond to verbal cues while ignoring distractions like squirrels, people and other dogs. They have to become comfortable in the harness and get used to staying ahead of the sled without veering off course. All the training techniques use positive reinforcement in order to strengthen trust between owner and dog during the process.

Once the snow falls, people are welcome to continue training with the CSDC at the Frog Lake Sno-Park, which is where the fun really begins.

“Most dogs cannot hide their excitement and enthusiasm and are barking and leaping in the air in anticipation,” Silvertree said. “But once you release the snub line, which holds the sled to a hopefully immovable object, a silence falls over the team as they hit their stride and head down the trail. The only sounds are the patter of their paws in the snow and the hiss of the runners. Some call it the ‘loudest quietest sport.’”

For more information on sled-dog training in the Pacific Northwest, or how to become involved, visit the Cascade Sled Dog Club at cascadesled dogclub.com.

Men’s basketball drops third straight in Stillwater COURTESY OF Larry Lawson/Goviks

Vikings start their season at the Jacksons Open

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“Our expectation is for our athletes to execute the things they have been working on since August and September,” assistant coach Seth Henson said. “Every track program in the country has that month off, and it’s a scary thing for all us coaches. But we have a lot of experience on our team, and a lot of the kids are going to be here a majority of the time training.”

This year’s track and field squad has several seniors and returning athletes on the roster. They’ve dealt with the month off before, so it isn’t something Henson is worrying too much about.

“Our kids are dedicated to their sport and what they do,” he said. “It’s their expectation that we’ll be here to train them, and it’s our expectation that they’ll be here to be trained. It’s not

mandatory, so it’s nice to see those kids hang around.”

Last season, the Vikings had one of their best indoor seasons in years, with the women finishing in third place in the conference championships. Head coach Ronnye Harrison set the top three as a goal last season, but the Vikings hope to better that success this season.

“We feel like, as a coaching staff, third is last place for us,” Henson said. “We’re expecting to finish above that.”

The Jacksons Open is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. today, with events continuing into tomorrow. When the team comes back from the holiday break, they’ll head to Seattle for the UW Indoor Preview, kicking off five straight weeks of competition leading up to the Big Sky Championships in Bozeman, Mont.

Balanced attack

by Oklahoma State too much for Vikings Zach Bigalke Vanguard staff

The Portland State men’s basketball team continues to struggle away from the Stott Center this year. Road losses over the past week against the University of Portland and Oklahoma State University dropped the Vikings to 1-3 early in the 2012–13 season.

On Wednesday, Portland State headed north to the Chiles Center to square off against the Pilots in a crosstown showdown. Forward Renado Parker and guards Dre Winston Jr. and Michael Harthun all scored in double figures, but the Vikings as a team shot under 36 percent from the field and were just 2-for-15 behind the threepoint line.

The Vikings were undone by a Pilot offense fueled

by Tanner Riley’s perfect

8-for-8 effort off the bench, and an improved defensive effort in the second half by Portland State couldn’t stave off the 81-60 defeat.

After the eight-mile midweek road trip across the Willamette, the Vikings flew nearly 1,900 miles to face the 20th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater. In front of 8,219 fans at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Sunday, Portland State fell behind early and never caught up to the hosts, falling 81-58.

The Vikings shot 39.6 percent as a team from the field, better than the 34.5 percent average that Oklahoma State has been allowing opponents this season. Against one of the best defensive teams in the nation, however, Portland State was simply outmatched.

Winston Jr., Portland State’s leading scorer this season, was stymied by the Cowboy defense and held completely off the stat sheet in a 0-for-5 performance.

Harthun and Parker scored 12 points each to lead the

Vikings, and Gary Winston added 11 off the bench.

The Vikings also had few answers defensively against Oklahoma State. Cowboy guard Markel Brown finished with 23 points along with five assists and five rebounds to lead his team’s offense. Forward Le’Bryan Nash added 20 points as the Pokes pulled out to an early 31-12 lead and coasted from there.

“They are as good as advertised, and we saw it close-up,” said head coach Tyler Geving.

“Their length is such an issue, you are at a mismatch from the get-go. When they have that size advantage on the wing, they are tough to beat.”

Portland State wraps up its four-game road swing this Saturday at Loyola Marymount University. The trip to Los Angeles offers the last opportunity in 2012 to break a five-game road losing streak dating back to last season. The Vikings return to the Stott Center on Dec. 12, when they host Oregon State University.

Learning curve: Portland State is off to a rocky start on the road.

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VANGUARD • Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 • SPORTS

Muddy days at Portland Meadows Home stretch of the racing season underway

Jacksons Open, Boise, Idaho Jacksons Indoor Complex 10 a.m.

WHL

vs.

Winterhawks vs. Seattle Rose Garden 7 p.m.

Vanguard staff

Saturday, Dec. 1

Men’s Basketball

@ Vikings @ Loyola Marymount University Albert Gersten Pavilion 5 p.m.

NBA COURTESY OF portland meadows

Sanguinetti’s horse dropped into third between Maximatic and Summer Cowboy, and then slipped even farther back as Cantchaco pushed through the pack. At the half-mile mark, Captainnotsosober’s lead had stretched to two-anda-half lengths.

Just as the fans holding Captainnotsosober’s winning tickets began to smile, Calypsonoted burst forward, eating the distance between fourth and third, between third and second. As they rounded the final turn, Calypsonoted closed the gap.

She pulled even with the favorite over the final stretch, and the two horses left the rest of the field behind, battling over less than a finger’s width for

Team defense and depth of talent fuel success Vanguard staff

The Portland State women’s basketball team came out of their non-conference weekend with a loss to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a win over Butler University. The team is now 4-1 this season and is embracing its new identity as a strong defensive team.

“This year’s team has really bought into the idea of playing tough defense,” head coach Sherri Murrell said. “We’ve really forced teams to not run their offense and created some turnovers, and that turned into points.”

In the opening game of the weekend against Chattanooga, the Vikings suffered their first loss of the season, 68-59.

Junior guard Kate Lanz, junior forward Angela Misa and sophomore guard Allison

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desperate times: Horse racing is struggling to stay afloat in Oregon. Portland Meadows and other tracks throughout the country are currently trying to figure out a way to compete in an overcrowded sports calendar.

first place. Just yards from the finish, in a half dozen powerful strides, Calypsonoted gained the lead and won the race in just under 1:42, while Sanguinetti proved her nerves were steady as the rain that day.

The crowd at the championship was larger than average, and there are still a few days of live racing left before the season closes on Dec. 9.

But the 2013 schedule remains uncertain. Earlier this month, the track’s general manager, Will Alempijevic, said he was unsure how many more years Portland Meadows would be open. If their current ad campaign is unsuccessful and the track continues to lose money, there may be some tough decisions coming.

Though interest in the sport is definitely shrinking, Alempijevic is optimistic.

“Horse racing is still very popular, both locally and nationally,” he said. “People still do follow horse racing and care passionately about it, just as they do other sports.”

Whether or not the track manages to right the ship in time for live racing next year, one thing is for certain: After the final post on Dec. 9, Portland Meadows won’t feel the thunder of hooves for another seven months.

Not to worry, though—this doesn’t mean fans won’t be able to watch (and gamble on) the ponies this winter.

There are still plenty of opportunities to follow the

action in the interim, with races from dozens of other tracks simulcast at Portland Meadows and off-track locations in Portland, plus a host of online options that offer in-depth stats on horses, jockeys and trainers at the click of a mouse. Fans can watch replays of any race during any day from tracks all over the nation as well as in Australia, Japan and the U.K. The live racing season may be coming to a close next month, and Portland Meadows will face a tough road back to viability, but despite the hard times the sport is alive and well on the global stage. And that’s not likely to end anytime soon.

Women’s basketball finding its way Rosemary Hanson

Friday, Nov. 30

Track and Field

Cory Mimms

Oregon Championship Day closed at Portland Meadows on Nov. 18, a grey and waterlogged afternoon. Conditions on the dirt track were sloppy— a fact learned the hard way by jockey Anne Sanguinetti. During race four, a one-mile race for 3-year-old fillies, her horse took a wrong step and threw her to the ground.

Patrons watching through binoculars and television sets let out a gasp as Sanguinetti bounced off the horse near the four-and-one-half furlong marker and splashed into the mud. The rider walked away uninjured, but the crowd murmured its doubts about her following races. Would she ride in the rest of her heats?

And, if so, would her performance be affected by the fall?

The biggest race of the day was race seven—the Don Jackson Futurity, a one-mile race with a $25,000 guaranteed pot that pitted 10 horses against each other. Sanguinetti did indeed appear on time for her appointment, wearing green-and-black silks atop Calypsonoted, the lone female horse among nine males—and neither horse nor rider expressed any trepidation.

Calypsonoted broke from the gates and immediately moved in tight on the hooves of Captainnotsosober, the horse with the best odds of winning. Rounding the first turn,

Upcoming Games

Greene all scored in double figures, while Misa also pulled down 14 rebounds. Despite a solid offensive effort by the team—the Vikings outshot Chattanooga 42 percent to 34.9 percent—and an early lead, the Lady Mocs went ahead by 13 in the second half and Portland State was unable to close the gap.

The next game, against Butler, was a completely different story. Misa had a careerhigh 21 rebounds against the Bulldogs, nearly beating the school record of 23 rebounds set by Linda McLellan in 1980.

The Oregon State University transfer has been a big part of the Vikings’ success this season. “[Misa] is a great player,” Murrell said. “Each game, she embraces her role, and the more comfortable she gets, the better she gets.”

Butler’s lead was as high as 11 in the first half, but with Misa dominating on the defensive end, the Vikings were able to make up the deficit early in the second, ultimately pulling ahead and winning the game 71-58.

“We came in as a team and we told each other we needed to play together, play smart and get back on defense,” Misa said.

Saturday’s game featured strong performances by Greene and Allie Brock, but the reserves came up big for the Vikings as well, as Lanz and sophomore forward Mikaela Rivard came off the bench with double-digit scoring efforts.

“We’re deep—that really helped us in our win against Butler,” Murrell said.

With the Vikings off to a great start in their 2012 campaign, they’ll be back at home on Sunday for a matchup with the University of Portland at 2 p.m. in the Stott Center.

Trail Blazers @ Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 4:30 p.m.

WHL

@ Winterhawks @ Everett Comcast Arena 7:05 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2

Women’s Basketball

vs.

Vikings vs. University of Portland Peter Stott Center 2 p.m.

NFL

@ Seahawks @ Chicago Soldier Field 1 p.m.

Forecast: High of 56 degrees, mostly cloudy

Monday, Dec. 3

NBA

vs.

Trail Blazers @ Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 4

WHL

vs.

Winterhawks vs. Everett Veterans Memorial Coliseum 7 p.m.

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big sky: The Vikings are at the top of the standings in the early session