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Studying real estate in this economy may sound insane. But Portland State Center for Real Estate Director Dr. Gerard Mildner thinks that moment has passed.

“The United States is coming out of a major recession, and many people have left the real estate industry, creating a lot of openings,” Mildner said.

September marked the beginning of the first year of the center’s Master of Real Estate Development program. The program is geared toward working professionals and aims to give graduates the tools they need to succeed in today’s commercial real estate environment.

The MRED program focuses on three aspects of the commercial real estate industry: development, finance and sustainability.

While a career in residential real estate does not require any further education than a certificate or bachelor’s degree, a career in commercial real estate, which deals with larger buildings such as condos or offices, is difficult to achieve without the specialized education provided by the MRED program.

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The academic and student rec center features a rooftop garden, one of many sustainable features found on campus.

PSU a finalist for National Climate Leadership Award Ryan Voelker Vanguard Staff

Perhaps PSU’s motto should be amended to “Let knowledge and sustainability serve the city.”

PSU has been selected as a finalist for Second Nature’s prestigious National Climate Leadership Award, in the Doctorate Granting University category. Simply being recognized is a huge honor and further demonstrates PSU’s commitment to sustainability.

“PSU is a leader among leaders,” said Sarah Brylinsky, a program

associate with Second Nature.

Second Nature was founded in 1993 and is part of the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment. It is based in Boston, Mass.

According to Second Nature’s website, this award highlights campus innovation and climate leadership to transition society to a clean, just and sustainable future.

This year, Second Nature received the highest number of applications ever from universities across the country, despite being limited to nominations by invitation only.

“Although there is no monetary compensation, this is a very prestigious award for recognizing sustainability among higher institutions,” Brylinsky said.

Brylinsky explained that, to determine a victor, finalists will be evaluated by a panel at Second Nature. Winners will be announced in the spring.

In conjunction with this award, there will be a people’s choice component. Finalists will have the opportunity to create a short video to be featured on PlanetForward. org. The public can vote for their favorite videos during the month of April, which also happens to be Earth Month.

“These videos serve as a great form of publicity, further highlighting university achievements in sustainability,” Bylinsky said.

More information about the awards and Second Nature can be found at secondnature.org.

Money talks, so they say, but tomorrow, a prominent archaeologist will be at Portland State to talk about money.

Archeology professor John Papadopoulos will give a lecture titled “The Origins of Money: Coinage, Art and the Construction of Values in the Ancient Mediterranean” at the PSU School of Business tomorrow.

The lecture, which is hosted by the Archaeological Institute of America, delves into the history of currency and the shaping of culture in ancient Greece and the surrounding countries.

“With the recent recession, a lot of people are asking ‘what is money, anyway?’” said Portland branch AIA founder and PSU professor Karen Carr.

The Portland branch of the AIA has exceeded the 50-person requisite for AIA-hosted guest lectures, allowing students at PSU opportunities to attend similar events throughout the year.

According to Carr, the common belief is that currency was developed for soldiers who were constantly on the move, and for whom common aspects of wealth such as land and animals were impractical.

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Students raise farmworker awareness Solutions Generator project aims to tackle injustices Andrew Morse Vanguard staff

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abby Warren and rob duren record notes on the whiteboard as their group plans for Farmworker Awareness Week.

If money grew on trees, farmworkers would be rolling in dough.

Food is critical for human survival, and yet the farmworkers who bring it to our tables often struggle for survival themselves.

The invisibility of farmworkers and the conditions in which they labor and live is an issue at the heart of a recently funded Solutions Generator project.

Farmworkers have to face inadequate housing, low pay, lack

of educational opportunities and health care, and direct and indirect exposure to pesticides and herbicides. Labor camps are often situated right next to the fields, and wind carries harmful chemicals into their homes.

The Solutions Generator is a program run by Portland State’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions that provides money for students’ original projects related to sustainability.

This project is called “Bringing Farmworker Awareness to the Sustainable Food Table at PSU.” It’s in its second year and will culminate on campus during Farmworker Awareness Week, to be held April 13-20.

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Portland State’s Pathos Literary Magazine is currently seeking submissions from student artists for its upcoming winter edition.

Pathos lends itself to talented PSU artists as a means of publication for their work.

Students have the opportunity to submit writing and artwork for consideration for the next issue. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 8.

Pathos is a free magazine published three times a year, with fall, winter and spring editions.

The publication is run by PSU students for PSU students, and accepts poetry, prose, essay and visual art submissions. About 1,500 copies of each edition are printed and distributed for free around campus.

“It’s a good place to start,” said Reid Tyler, an

undergraduate English major at PSU. He had two poems accepted for publication in the fall edition of Pathos, called “Loss” and “Family.”

Pathos provided his firstever experience of being published.

“I’m glad that they’re supporting the arts by keeping students motivated. It’s tough for students to achieve publication,” Tyler said.

Pathos receives its entire budget from the Associated Students of Portland State University’s student fee committee. All PSU students help fund the magazine through their tuition incidental fees.

“The student fee committee has been really supportive of Pathos [because of ] the fact that it only accepts work from PSU students,” said Judson Randall, faculty advisor for Pathos. Randall is the advisor for all publications at PSU, including the Vanguard.

The winter edition of Pathos will be the second issue under new editor-in-chief Deena Anreise. She is a writer and a graduate student studying publishing at PSU. She has a tight-knit staff

Reid Tyler, a sophomore English major, flips through the fall 2012 issue of Pathos to find his Shakespeare-inspired poem.

consisting only of herself and two assistant editors, who are fellow graduate students.

“I took this job because I want to make [Pathos] stand out and not just be a regular magazine off the rack,” Anreise said.

Pathos has been around since 2006. With Anreise’s transition to editor-in-chief, some long-term readers are resistant and critical of changes at the publication.

“In previous issues they seemed to utilize space more efficiently,” said Samuel Nickilaus McLainJesperson, a PSU graduate student studying linguistics.

His piece “Glue Sniffer” and associated artwork were published in the fall edition.

He was also published in a 2009 issue of Pathos.

“Getting more people involved in the design process of the magazine would probably be beneficial,” he added.

In spite of McLainJesperson’s concern, he said he is proud to have had his work showcased in the publication and will always pick up the newest copy.

“There’s definitely a place for Pathos and I’m really glad it exists as free art for the people,” he said.

Anreise acknowledged that flaws are nearly impossible to avoid, especially with a new endeavor. She feels that she continues to improve as she gains experience.

“Since the fall edition was my first issue, I had to take some time to gain my footing,” Anreise said.

“People have to understand that I’m also a student, and I’m learning more about the craft [of publishing] as I go.”

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Deena Anreise, editor-in-chief of Pathos, will be looking at submissions for the literary magazine after the Feb. 8 deadline.

For the upcoming edition, Anreise plans to collaborate with her assistant editors a bit more. She is also considering bringing on volunteers to help with miscellaneous tasks.

Anreise’s main focus right now is motivating more of PSU’s many talented and diverse artists to submit their work for consideration. For the fall edition, there were only about 40 submissions.

One initiative for increasing submissions is a revamped marketing effort. She will be employing

radio and television spots via PSU as well as social media to help spread the word.

“This is your magazine,” Anreise said, addressing all PSU students. “I’m hoping to be overwhelmed by your submissions.”

PSU students who wish to submit a piece for consideration for the upcoming issue of Pathos can do so via email at submittopathos@gmail.com

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While this is accurate, Papadoupolos’ lecture intends to expand this concept into a larger conversation about the shaping of city-states and collective identity in the ancient Western world.

“One of the most critical developments in the course of Mediterranean history was the invention of coinage,” the lecture abstract states.

While the elite used forms of wealth such as land, the invention of coinage offered a means by which the masses could participate in business transactions.

These innovations in currency also had one distinct feature: emblems of these Mediterranean city-states placed on the coins they produced. This helped create what the abstract calls

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“systems of dominance” that affected the production of social orders that previously did not exist in the ancient world.

In the years following the recession, many people have finances on their minds. Students in particular are dealt a heavy blow, with student debt exceeding any other form of debt in the country.

The lecture will give PSU students the opportunity to reflect on how these “systems of dominance” have evolved into the current monetary system.

Few are as qualified as Papadopoulos to give such a lecture. According to the AIA website, Papadopoulos is a leading professor in both archaeology and classics at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of

California, Los Angeles.

After earning his doctoral degree from the University of Sydney, Papadopoulos spent time as a curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA. Papadoupolos also has firsthand excavation experience, giving his talks the extra edge of taking knowledge outside of the classroom.

His work includes the article “Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation,” along with nine books and more than 75 other articles.

The lecture will be given tomorrow, in room 190 of the Portland State School of Business Administration Auditorium, starting at 7:30 p.m.

“It’s about raising awareness of the intersection of the food we eat and the people who provide it,” said project leader Rob Duren, a graduate student in the sustainability program.

Duren and several of his project partners are members of PSU’s Food Action Collective, which Duren founded last year.

Also working on the project are members of Las Mujeres and the Sustainability Leadership Center.

Farmworker Awareness Week at PSU was started last year by students Betty Marin and Patricia Velasquez. At the time, Duren was in the process of organizing FAC and Angela Hamilton of ISS approached him about also joining the Solutions Generator project due to similar goals.

With its second year, the goal is to see the Solutions Generator project become institutionalized. The immediacy of the issues has not changed.

In Oregon, farmworkers are predominately Latino immigrants. According to the group, the average lifespan of a migrant farmworker is 47 years. “[The project is] a good pathway in connecting the three facets of sustainability—social, environmental and economic,” said Abby Warren, a senior community development major.

According to a summary on the ISS website, the project

“will highlight farmworker contributions to Oregon’s economy and food production sector, as well as the struggles and legislative gains to obtain better working conditions, wage, housing and other fundamental human rights.”

“We want to keep doing this until we actually effect change in policy,” Duren said.

The project was modeled on a national campaign called Student Action with Farmworkers. They organize an annual Farmworker Awareness Week, currently in its 14th year.

This year’s Farmworker Awareness Week at PSU will include several events: a panel with a keynote speaker; a screening of a documentary film called The Harvest, which follows the lives of child farmworkers as young as 12; a service learning day and a trip to a farm labor camp in conjunction with Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United).

PCUN, based in Woodburn, is Oregon’s only union dedicated to farmworkers. According to their website, PCUN is also Oregon’s largest Latino organization, with a membership of more than 5,000.

“We’re going to try to get the PCUN label here at PSU,” said Kelsey Hoffman, a senior anthropology major and cochair of FAC. Aramark and Food For Thought Cafe have been approached the FAC about

joining the Union Label Marketing Initiative. This program began in 2004 at Willamette University in Salem in order to establish “a purchasing preference for PCUN union label agricultural products, increasing revenues for growers and employment opportunities for workers under PCUN contract,” according to the PCUN website.

The service learning day will be in conjunction with CAPACES Leadership Institute. CAPACES is the heading for a collaboration of several local organizations including PCUN and the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, which runs Woodburn-area farmworker housing units.

CAPACES seeks to develop sustainable buildings that surpass LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification standards and provide youth with an opportunity to develop leadership skills.

Warren explained that farmworker empowerment was one of the guiding ideas of PSU’s Farmworker Awareness Week, and that working with CAPACES was a way of achieving solidarity.

Duren advised any students who might be interested in getting involved with the project to attend a FAC meeting, typically held on Mondays. Information can be found at facebook.com/ foodactioncollective.

“Real estate is one of those industries that can benefit from more professionals,” said Matthew Larrabee, a professor of real estate evaluation at PSU and the principal appraiser and president of Real Estate Services Group Inc. Most classes in the MRED program are taught by adjunct professors who also work in the real estate industry. The program, designed to be completed in two years on a full-time schedule and three years on a part-time schedule, offers classes only in the evenings.

Mildner said the process of establishing a new graduate program was long and difficult.

Because the center is a joint program between the School of Business Administration and the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, there were twice the amount of concerns, compromises and worries to be discussed by department committees, university committees and other staff, Mildner said.

The top priority in the process was budgeting. “We can’t stretch our resources [too far],” he said. Other concerns included facilities and student services.

But this last fall, after much fuss and debate, the first cohort of 15 students began the MRED program.

“They were fantastic. They were all smart, inquisitive and excited to succeed in this business,” said Julie Gibson, assistant director of the center. “We couldn’t be more pleased.

“The students we attracted are also reflective of the program and what we offer. We are attracting the right kind of students,” she added.

The center’s faculty has also been meeting with students of the program in order to check in and receive feedback. Of the 15 students, four have already met with faculty, and according to Gibson the overall responses have been very positive.

“Students find the access to the real estate industry the most valuable aspect of the program,” she said.

The focus of the MRED program is as much about what is being taught in the classroom as what is being gained outside.

MRED students have available to them a number of opportunities to experience real work in the commercial real estate industry and to build a valuable network.

One route to gaining insight, Gibson explained, is through an invite-only group of highly respected industry leaders. The advisory board will host five to six mentors a year and offers three lunchtime meetings to provide insight and advice on potential career paths.

“Real estate students can also be set up with a one-onone meeting with industry folks for career advice, planning, networking or to look over a resume,” Gibson said.

Gibson said she will also personally work with students to find internships in their field of choice. “We link them to the right people in the hiring management of the industry,” she said.

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Terms set for Pernsteiner OUS completes separation deal with chancellor on Monday Isaac Hotchkiss Vanguard staff

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George pernsteiner, OUS chancellor, leads an Oregon State Board of Higher Education meeting in March. Pernsteiner gave his notice of resignation on Friday.

The Oregon State Board of Higher Education completed its separation agreement with former Chancellor George Pernsteiner on Monday.

According to the agreement, Pernsteiner will receive $295,128, paid in monthly installments for a full year after his separation on March 31.

In the meantime, Pernsteiner continues to act as chancellor until March 1. After that he will work on a report on how to reconfigure the Oregon University System to integrate with Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed higher education overhauls.

It will be due to the board March 31.

These changes include creating a Department of Postsecondary Education, which will decrease OUS authority and funding.

Starting April 1, Pernsteiner will also begin exhausting all of his vacation pay and have 30 days to move out of his

official chancellor’s residence in Eugene.

Pernsteiner can still work for OUS or any of its institutions in the future.

“If he wanted to teach a class at PSU, he’s not prohibited from doing that,” said Diane Saunders, director of communications for OUS. It is still unclear how many of the governor’s changes to higher education will be adopted, Saunders said. The legislature opens on Feb. 4, where it could take months to pass bills.

The board will appoint an interim chancellor by March 1.

“They really want to see what the governor does with the recommended changes when the legislature opens,” Saunders said.

The OSBHE approved a 3 percent cost-of-living pay increase for Pernsteiner on Jan. 11, which was retroactive to July 2012. The docket from the approval meeting explained approval was delayed until that time at the chancellor’s request. The board was previously discussing salaries of university presidents and classified staff, who are the unionized staff at universities.

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New class: ‘New Atheism’ Gwen Shaw Vanguard staff

In a supposedly secular nation that still operates under an array of religious ideologies, atheism is always a hot topic.

Peter Boghossian, an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy, is bringing the discussion to the classroom with his new class, titled “New Atheism.”

The first of its kind, the class is a community partnership with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

Students in the “New Atheism” class critically examine Dawkins’ book A Devil’s Chaplain and write an article about it. Boghossian then selects the best pieces from the class and submits them to the foundation for potential publication on its website.

The class usually features a guest speaker each week, who discusses various topics related to the class, from intelligent design and creationism

to Christianity and what new atheism actually is.

Boghossian said the class will also feature Skype lectures with a few famous people from around the world.

Boghossian hopes to bring in a couple of Christian and Muslim apologists, or defenders of faith, to speak with the class.

“We study the works of notable Christian apologists and Muslim apologists, and then we engage those ideas against a framework of critical rationality,” he said.

Boghossian said that this is not the kind of class that students should just take on a whim. If they are interested in the subject, there is a course titled “Atheism,” which he suggests students take if they have an interest. “‘New Atheism’ is a very specialized course. It has prerequisites, and it assumes some familiarity with the content and subject matter,” Boghossian said. “Everyone in that class truly wants to be there.”

“Atheism” is also designed and taught by Boghossian. He describes it as an overview of subjects like intelligent design, creationism, cosmological arguments for the existence of a god and compatibility between faith and reason. Throughout the term, students examine a wide variety of subjects that fall within the rubric of atheism.

Boghossian teaches the two classes in different formats. “Atheism” is taught as a participatory lecture, where Boghossian lectures and students are encouraged to ask questions as he goes along.

“New Atheism” looks at context arguments, usually in the form of a video debate between a famous Christian apologist and a famous atheist. They use tools developed in the course to analyze the arguments and decide whether they’re coherent and make sense. The format is supplemented by guest speakers. “‘New Atheism’ is interesting because it’s a community

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:

“Where do you work and do you enjoy it?”

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Obie Williams, 26, a second-year graduate English student, works for PSU University Studies as a mentor for sophomore inquiry classes. He’s mentoring two classes right now, and said, “I get to work with students, and since I’m here to be a teacher, that’s a great part of it. Plus, part of the pay is tuition remission—that’s nice.”

Nick Dutra, 19, a business administration freshman, finds joy in a job where most people wouldn’t. For the past two years, Dutra has worked part-time pumping gas at Costco.

“Yes, I enjoy it,” Dutra said. “All my friends work at the gas station, too.”

Jamie Hubbard, 22, a senior speech and hearing sciences major, is currently unemployed. Hubbard said her previous jobs have been serving at restaurants. “Applebee’s is the last place I worked,” she said. “Most of the people I worked with I’m still pretty close to.”

Steven Carroll, 25, a computer science sophomore, is currently a member of the U.S. military. “I’m a National Guard infantryman,” Carroll said. Though it’s hard to define, he said he would consider it part-time: “I train drill weekends, and just lots of Army stuff.” Carroll said he has made a lot of friends and has had the opportunity to travel the world.

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Peter Boghossian is teaching a new class called “New Atheism.” The class features various guest speakers and opportunities for students to have their essays published on the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science website. partnership, and it [will hopefully] culminate in a paper that students will have an opportunity to publish,” Boghossian said.

In addition to the Dawkins foundation, the class is also hoping to develop community relationships with the James Randi Educational Foundation and Michael Shermer, a noted skeptic.

“All these organizations

work to promote reason and rationality,” Boghossian said.

Boghossian is hoping to turn the “Atheism” course into a MOOC, a massive open online course. This means that anyone, anywhere in the world would be able to take the course online.

Boghossian said that no one else is offering a MOOC in atheism.

“It would be a tremendous

opportunity to shine a spotlight on ourselves [and on PSU] as a leader in thinking, and extend our reach from ‘let knowledge serve the city’ to ‘let knowledge serve the global community,’” Boghossian said. “[We’d] expose people all over the world to ideas that literally they have never even heard of or been exposed to,” he added.

Adulthood means paying for the electricity in your home and the gas in your vehicle, but few people actually understand the economics behind it all.

Mike Katz, a professor in the Department of Economics

“What [the course] doesn’t do is romanticize the subject. It’s strictly hardheaded economics.”

Mike Katz Economics professor

at Portland State, is teaching a new course to educate students on just that.

The course, titled “Energy Economics,” covers all of the different resources that are consumed in energy production: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, hydroelectricity, wind and sun.

Katz said the class looks at infrastructure throughout the U.S. and the world, but concentrates specifically on the Pacific Northwest.

Within the discussion of resources, the course also touches on conservation, which in some circumstances is a substitute for energy consumption.

“What [the course] doesn’t do is romanticize the subject,”

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The Bonneville dam spans the Columbia River. The Bonneville Power Administration distributes electrical power generated at the dam.

Katz said. “It’s strictly hardheaded economics.”

A big piece of what the course covers is how to get the price of energy products correct.

“All these energy sources should be priced correctly, and we try to see where there are circumstances when it is not. That is to say, we look for where there are externalities,” Katz said.

For example, when a coalfired thermal power plant that produces electricity is fired up, it also produces smoke, particulate matter, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxides—and carbon

dioxide, which concerns many because it is a greenhouse gas.

“Unless those products are mitigated, or society is somehow or another compensated for those indignities, then the consumer is not being compelled to pay the true price,” Katz said.

Katz has been teaching economics at PSU part-time since 1961, taking a few years off to work detail for a presidential commission in Washington, D.C. and travel the world a year at a time with his wife.

Since 1992, Katz has taught every year without a break.

While teaching part-time, he also spent most of his

professional life working for the Bonneville Power Administration.

After retiring from Bonneville, Katz was appointed chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission by the governor of Oregon. The PUC regulates all of the private utilities in Oregon, both electricity and natural gas.

Katz teaches “Energy Economics” as both an upperdivision undergraduate class, Economics 410, and a graduate level class, Economics 510.

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ARTS & CULTURE Life in the margins Publisher Sam Norich lectures at PSU, Oregon Jewish Museum Tristan Cooper vanguard staff

In comics, that white space between panels is commonly referred to as the “gutter.” Within that centimeter of blank space between static scenes, worlds fall, love is won and sometimes a guy just walks across town.

What happens in the gutter is limited only to the imagination of the reader. Anything can happen between the lines, in the margins, and sequential art has a special way of bringing that aspect of life to the forefront.

“Comics are really a tool for people on the margins,” said Sam Norich, publisher and executive officer of The Forward, a prominent national Jewish newspaper.

Norich will be at the Oregon Jewish Museum on Feb. 3 to give a lecture entitled “Comics, Journalism and Society,” in conjunction with the Forward-sponsored exhibit “Graphic Details.”

Marginality features heavily in all three of the titular subjects Norich’s talk seeks to explore.

Tonight, Norich will speak on campus as part of the annual Gus and Libby Solomon lecture, which is held for free on campus every year.

The lecture is made possible by Alyce Flitcraft and Richard Solomon, a PSU alum.

“Being in a minority—and especially a minority that particularly in the past was the object of discrimination—it puts you on the sidelines of society, but it means you have a special vantage point,” said Bob Goldfarb, director of marketing and development at The Forward. “You’re not as caught up in things because you’re not allowed to be. By watching from the margins, you can see things sometimes more clearly than people who are in the mix, who are actively involved in the middle of it.”

In the early half of the 20th century, the comics medium was in its infancy. The Forward had been published in Yiddish since 1897; like many newspapers, it featured editorial cartoons to lampoon and comment on a wide array of social, political and cultural topics.

It was only in the 1930s that something resembling the comic books we see today took shape, and Jewish writers and artists were at the forefront of the funnies revolution.

“In some ways it was similar to the role that Jews played in Hollywood, in moving pictures,” Norich said. “They were blocked from legitimate theater, they were blocked also from legitimate publishing, but in a new medium like comics, Jews could really make their own history.”

Most of the superheroes in today’s popular films were the products of Jewish-American creators. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby alone were responsible for the creation of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and most of the Avengers featured in last year’s biggest film.

The marginality of the Jewish experience fueled the origins of these flawed and relatable crime fighters. Even the most perfect or recognizable hero has deep roots in Jewish culture.

“Superman was invented by two Jewish guys from Cleveland, and if you look at the story— it’s a story of a hero who is sent off by his parents from a world that is about to be destroyed, so that there should be some remnant of that world left alive,” Norich said. “In a lot of ways, it was something that evoked Jewish concerns over the late 1930s and 1940s, and in its popularculture way gave voice to the desperation for some kind of salvation, for some kind of saving in the face of the destruction [of] European Jewry and the impotence that American Jewry had to contend with.

“It’s very much been heavily influenced by the American Jewish experience,” Goldfarb said. “I should add, it’s largely been male-dominated.”

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In the margins within the margins of Jewish comics creators lies the female Jewish comics creator, often overlooked and under-celebrated when compared to her spandex-prone brethren.

It was because of this disparity that curator Michael Kaminer assembled the “Graphic Details” exhibit, which has been touring the U.S. and Canada since 2010. “[‘Graphic Details’] consists of what we described as ‘confessional comics’: firstperson stories by female graphic artists,” Goldfarb said.

The exhibit aims to create a yichis (“bloodline” in Hebrew) for the lineage of Jewish women in comics. Nearly 20 creators have selected the pieces on display, including Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Sarah Glidden and Miss Lasko-Gross.

Pieces on the show floor range from original art to full graphic novels. “Graphic Details” runs through Feb. 17 at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland’s Alphabet District.

National Council of Jewish Women Program Coordinator Sandra Preston looks forward to the lecture as a way for attendees to consider comics in a broader context than the norm. “[Norich] will be able to draw those connections for people and for students, to understand how comics—that you love from your childhood, that are seen as a fun, lighthearted media—actually have been a carrier for culture and a carrier for less-than-elitist, less-than-academic communications,” Preston said.

Though comics and graphic novels have been steadily gaining mainstream acceptance over the past few decades, a stigma might always linger around the medium. As an art form that has thrived in the margins, that might not be a bad thing.

“Marginality is a perspective that is valuable in understanding really conceivably anything— whether it’s culture, whether it’s controversial issues, whether it’s the way that individuals carry out their public trust as elected officials, whether it’s the way that artists create their work in many media,” Goldfarb said. “You see something special, looking from that marginal angle.”

Master of the ivories Famed pianist Julian Martin to teach on campus Tamara Alazri Vanguard Staff

He grew up in the isolated community of Choctaw County, Ala., but Julian Martin didn’t let his small-town Southern roots stop him from becoming one of the best-known pianists of our time. Since the age of 4, Martin has built an impressive musical career, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Martin will display his piano skills tomorrow in his first Portland Master Class Series at Portland State’s Lincoln Recital Hall.

Growing up, Martin was fortunate enough to work with Juilliard graduate Beverly Bourne, who was his first piano teacher. It didn’t take long for Martin to follow in her footsteps. he has taught piano at New York’s Juilliard School for more than a decade. He describes it as one of his most rewarding experiences.

“Every day brings a different challenge and always keeps me looking for new ways to define, diagnose and resolve issues both musical and technical,” Martin said. “In some ways, the first teacher is as important as some of the more ‘famous’ ones I’ve worked with in my later training.”

Martin has won many awards throughout his career—too many to list—and was recently awarded the Collaborative Prize at the Tchaikovsky International Competition (a classical musical competition held every four years in Moscow).

He is a member of the Gilmore Foundation

in Kalamazoo, Mich., and founder of the Gijon International Piano Festival in Spain.

He has presented master classes all over the world, including Argentina, Colombia, Great Britain, Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland and Venezuela, and he has worked with famous teachers like Leon Fleisher, Guido Agosti and Nadia Boulanger.

Martin’s master class is funded by the Oregon Community Foundation’s Nellie Tholen Fund, which works with individuals, families, businesses and organizations that support the community. Each year they award more than $60 million in grants and scholarships, according to their website.

Since 2010 the OCF has partnered with some of the world’s most prestigious musical talents. Last year, the foundation welcomed pianist, artist and teacher John Perry to present in their series.

Although the series is open to all faculty, students and community members, its focus is primarily geared toward piano teachers.

“The purpose of this series is to provide a professional development opportunity specifically to piano teachers,” said Jessica Currier, who’s coordinating the event for the foundation.

Currier thinks that Martin’s successful career makes him a perfect fit for the highly selective master class series.

“We only accept the best of the best, the elite.

Our committee has high standards when it comes to choosing our candidates,” Currier said. “Martin has established a remarkable reputation, and we feel lucky to have him present in our series this year.”

PSU students Kevin Rahardjo, Jeong Mi Yoon and Elizabeth Flick will also participate

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Prominent pianist AND Pedagogue Julian Martin is teaching a master class tomorrow, aimed at helping piano instructors. in the event, performing musical pieces by Wagner, Bach and Ferruccio Busoni.

Martin has likened his role in the series to that of a contestant on Iron Chef: He’ll spend up to 30 minutes with each student, acting as a sort of musical challenger.

“I’ll be presented with a number of secret ingredients, and I just hope my experience helps me produce a palatable and appetizing dish that’s worth repeating,” Martin said.

Martin cites French composer Gabriel Faure as a major influence on his work and playing style.

When asked about his personal playing style, Martin appeared slightly humbled and

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Forward Thinker: Sam Norich, publisher of the influential Jewish newspaper The Forward, will speak about comics’ role in society at the Oregon Jewish Museum.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation present “The Forward: a Jewish Newspaper in the Age of Facebook,” a lecture by Sam Norich Tonight, 7 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 296 Free and open to the public

The Oregon Jewish Museum presents “Comics, Journalism and Society,” a lecture

by Sam Norich Sunday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m.

Oregon Jewish Museum, 1953 NW Kearney St. $10 general admission, $8 members, $5 students The lecture includes a light brunch

politely answered: “One of my deepest beliefs is that no one is really capable of describing his or her own talents,” Martin said. “A playing style is a long process of listening, thinking and observing. There’s no possible way to condense it into one answer.”

Martin is certain his inspirations also stem from more than music. He describes how artists take inspiration and ideas from the everyday world.

“It’s about observing many different life forces—the bouncing of a ball, the breath of a singer and the lumbering gait of a charging giraffe,” Martin said. “The skills that can be imparted logically are those concerned with cultivating precise hearing and dissolving technical and physical obstacles.”

The Oregon Community Foundation continues to organize events like Martin’s appearance and provide services that benefit piano teachers and their teaching methods.

“For several years, we’ve been supporting the Oregon Music Teachers Association and Portland Piano International for their trainings and clinics for piano teachers,” said Michelle Boss Barba, program officer at the foundation.

Martin is a man of many talents who remains humble, laid-back and approachable.

Despite his myriad accolades, Martin continues to enjoy the simple acts of playing and teaching the piano.

“I see my life as a fabric of little personal triumphs,” Martin said. “It’s not about the final goal; it is about the process.”

The Oregon Community Foundation presents Master class with pianist Julian Martin Friday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m.

Lincoln Recital Hall, room 75 Free and open to the public

all photos Corinna Scott/VANGUARD STAFf

studio session: Portland painter William Park works in his local studio on pieces for his p:ear exhibit, “Jumping for Joy.” The collection is a collaboration between Park and the displaced youth p:ear serves.

Local artist teams with p:ear to help youth through art Melinda Guillén Vanguard Staff

The creation of art has always been used for more than just aesthetic appeal. For some people, art is a type of therapy. For others, art is a method for safely expressing themselves. And some create art to alleviate a physical ailment.

Local art nonprofit p:ear has found yet another use for the creation of art.

Next Thursday, p:ear will open its gallery doors to show local artists’ work, including that of well-known painter William Park. The show, titled “Jumping For Joy,” differs from most in that the featured artists are the displaced youth of Portland.

P:ear is an organization that “builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives,” according to its website.

P:ear’s space in Northwest Portland features an art gallery in which displaced youth are able to display the artwork they create at the site.

Local artists’ work is shown alongside that of the youth.

Most of the art supplies used by p:ear are donated by Utrecht, an art supply store. When

artwork is sold, 90 percent of the proceeds go directly to the youth while the organization keeps 10 percent.

Park, who has worked with p:ear before, enjoys the experience of not only displaying his artwork but also giving workshops to any youth interested in furthering their artistic endeavors.

“It was gratifying and I learned an awful lot,” Park said of his past work with p:ear. “It was a good experience for me. I’m glad to be involved with p:ear; they are a wonderful group of people and they do terrific work.”

Park’s work for “Jumping For Joy” involves oil, acrylic and etching ink on canvas. The pieces showcase people jumping and the joy that loving life can bring. Park explains that a little bit of his own personality can be found in each piece.

“The one that’s on the card piece is called Vicarious Pleasure; it is part of the ‘Jumping For Joy’ series,” Park said. “Most of them will have a title that will have ‘jumping for joy’ with a number, and every now and then one will be called… something else.

“There’s a character that came out in that painting of Vicarious Pleasure that I may use.

I’ve named her Elvira, and she seems to represent a part of me when I was a kid,” Park said. “She’s kind of goofy-looking and stands off to the side, kind of watches and wants to participate. She wears glasses like I do and did then.”

During his first few years of involvement, Park encountered the reason he became involved with the organization in the first place.

“Last time I was working with a few people, and Pippa [Arend, p:ear’s development direc-

tor] was in there in the room with us, and after she left I just made mention to the young man across the table from me and said ‘Pippa’s pretty cool, huh?’ And without skipping a beat, he said, ‘Pippa saved my life,’” Park said. “I just got chills when I heard [that] and realized that that’s what they do.

“They save lives, they help lives and they do incredible work for young people who are lost and are having problem[s],” Park said. “Even if they don’t save their lives they give them the opportunities to make their lives better. That’s what I really like about working with p:ear.”

Arend explained that this type of reaction is what p:ear strives for: Through creating pieces at a set venue, the youth involved are able to gain an opportunity to experience a sense of belonging, some for the very first time.

“One of the main things that people get [out of p:ear] is they learn that they can be a part of their community in a way that it is looked up to; this gallery becomes a place that is their own,” Arend said. “These children are homeless and don’t have a place of their own, so when they show their work in a gallery they can invite people to their place.

“The gallery is one of the bridges these kids have with their community,” Arend said. “Instead of asking for change outside of Nordstrom, they get to showcase their art. It’s fundamentally a place of pride.”

In interviews conducted by p:ear staff, a few of the youth reactions to having this venue were powerful. One youth said, “Art affects my life by giving me a positive focus and a respite from the fear and anxiety I feel when I’m outside.”

Another said, “When I create, I remember who I really am, because it is an expression of my deepest identity.”

Arend invites everyone to the “Jumping For Joy” exhibit not only for aesthetics but also to support and help raise awareness for p:ear’s greater cause.

“I hope they get a taste for art out of this art show. I hope that they come to see these youth differently,” she said. “I hope they see [these] youth as normal…that they can be just kids.”

p:ear presents “Jumping For Joy”: William Park and p:ear youth Exhibit: Feb. 7–March 22 Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 7, 6–9 p.m. p:ear gallery 338 NW Sixth Ave. Free and open to the public; donations accepted

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Fanno Creek rising Local indie upstarts play ‘Live @ Lunch’ Duncan Ros Vanguard Staff

Indie folk rockers Fanno Creek are one of the biggest up-and-coming acts in Portland. They have packed large venues and small houses with enthusiastic fans who not only dance but also know all the words. Other bands don’t seem to mind them, either.

“They’re my favorite band,” proclaimed Tiger House frontman Bill Scharmann, introducing them at a house show earlier in January.

Luckily for their student fans on campus, they will be performing Thursday, Feb. 7, as part of Portland State’s “Live @ Lunch” series.

The trio, consisting of guitarists Quinn Mulligan and Evan Hailstone and drummer Dane Brist, do not garner this kind of praise undeservingly; they have been working hard since their inception in 2009, recording three studio EPs and a live EP and gigging regularly, completing their first West Coast tour with Animal Eyes in September.

This wasn’t always the case for the two guitar slingers. In high school they were members of a blues-rock band called The Jack with Mulligan’s twin brother, and they would come to town and play regularly.

“It was really hard to make friends with the other bands,” Hailstone said. “But everyone tends to automatically hate you when you are under 21.”

The group’s foundation is rooted in a friendship between Mulligan and Hailstone that dates back to childhood—Fanno Creek is actually the name of a creek near the preschool they attended together.

“We’ve known each other for so long that all we have to do is look at each other when we play—we don’t even need to say anything,”

Hailstone said of performing with Mulligan.

The band formed in a college dorm when Mulligan decided to start singing and recording his own material and shared it with Hailstone and Brist, their dorm-mate. This evolved into the act that is now headlining some of the biggest venues in town.

For these 25-year-old Oregon natives, success lies in a sense of community that has developed in the Portland music scene, something that was severely missing in high school.

“We jumped in as Fanno Creek as all of these other bands were jumping in at the same time,” pea-coat-clad Mulligan said between cigarette puffs, “so we’ve all kind of developed together.”

Rather than feeling a sense of competition or a clique mentality with other bands, the Fanno boys feel more like part of an extended family.

“The Portland music scene is just that way.

You will go to a show and see members from four or five other bands,” Hailstone said. “It’s very supportive.”

Their new full-length album—currently a work in progress—will combine older, unreleased material with a few of the songs that appear on their Live from the Banana Stand album, composed of somewhere in the ballpark of 15 songs.

“There are going to be more layers and a lot more depth,” Hailstone said. “We’re really going to take our time with it.”

While Mulligan usually writes his songs in one cathartic release, Hailstone tends to write down his lyrics and workshop ideas over time, sometimes taking months to finish a tune to his satisfaction. The two songwriters work with drummer Brist, who also has skills as a professional graphic designer, which helps to give the group an upper hand in the visual component.

The band aspires to gain a national following, to tour the United States and Europe and to produce an album every six months. But it’s good to start small.

Fanno Creek MEMBERS Quinn Mulligan, left, and Evan Hailstone, right, model their new line of flannel-wear, The Yukon Cornelius Collection.

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“If I can afford my rent, to eat and drink some beers, I’m happy,” Mulligan said of being a working musician.

“If I can cover my student debt alone, I’m satisfied,” Hailstone said.

For PSU students looking to start bands, this is the advice Fanno Creek offers: Get out and play once or twice a week; be polite and stick around for the other bands that perform and introduce yourself; don’t second-guess your music; and have confidence in your work.

This hands-on approach has helped propel Fanno Creek from weekly open mics at the Alberta Street Pub and the Goodfoot into standing-room-only shows where everyone is singing along.

“To see people who know all the words and have a connection to the songs is really moving,” Hailstone said.

“It’s mind-blowing,” Mulligan added.

To listen to Fanno Creek, go to psuvanguard. com/arts.

PSU’s Professional Sound presents Fanno Creek Part of its “Live @ Lunch” series Thursday, Feb. 7, noon Park Blocks Free and open to the public

Turning a corner on the zigzag bridge Dr. Charles Lachman to lecture on campus Jessica Miller Vanguard Staff

Do you ever wonder why people get up so early on Saturday mornings, when they could be sleeping? While most spend their time hiking or visiting the local farmers markets, this Saturday some lucky and dedicated community members will jump out of bed, fuel up at the nearest coffee chain and come to Portland State’s First Saturday Lecture.

PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies will host “The Allure of Painted Poetry: East Asian Screens,” a lecture and presentation by Dr. Charles Lachman, former head curator of Asian art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum.

Lachman is currently the director of graduate studies and head of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, where he continues to study East Asian art and history.

Katherine Morrow, the program administrator for the institute, spoke highly of Lachman.

“He came very highly recommended by the Portland Art Museum as an expert in Korean art,” she said.

Lachman’s fascination with East Asia began in high school.

“In college, I ended up majoring in world religions, which allowed me to further explore these interests,” Lachmann said. “I was also interested in art from a fairly young age, and gradually these two interests came together as I began to focus my studies on Asian art, especially Chinese art and Buddhist art.”

Lachman suspects that he may have been

enticed by more than just the art, however.

“I also really love just about all Asian food, which I suspect also helped to influence my studies,” he said.

With his lecture, Lachman plans “to introduce the audience to the folding screen as a unique type of art object, so to speak, that conceptually is very different [from] most forms of painting,” he said.

The institute’s program began nearly 10 years ago as a collaboration between PSU and Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden. This lecture will be part of the Saturday series, a monthly lecture series covering various topics.

Last year, the institute’s lectures covered topics from the Chinese-American experience during World War II to Chinese plants that have influenced the gardening world. This year’s theme is

COURTESY OF Dr. Charles Lachman

Screenshot: This panoramic painted screen will be one of several discussed by Dr. Charles Lachman during his upcoming lecture at Portland State.

Dating back as far as the third century, paper screens used in Japan and China depicted scenes of war, peace and everyday life. In the Chinese tradition, they have long been serious, stationary pieces, usually serving as partitions.

The Japanese, however, have several terms and uses for their paper screens, demonstrating how varied different East Asian screens can be.

“I will also try to illustrate some of the ways in which the arts of China, Japan and Korea are very deeply interrelated yet nonetheless culturally unique,” Lachman said.

“Insights Along the Zig Zag Bridge.”

There is a misconception that some Asian cultures believe that ghosts can only move in straight lines: Some westerners believe this is why bridges typically zigzag in Chinese and Japanese gardens.

These bridges are attractive and create new and interesting views of a garden or waterway. They are beautiful for the sake of being beautiful. “[They] make one slow down to appreciate what is there at each and every turn,”

Morrow said of zigzag bridges. “The viewpoint when you turn will be different.”

Traditionally, the lecture series has focused on Chinese art and culture because it was developed

by Lan Su Chinese Garden volunteers who created their own professional development group.

Returning to the theme of the zigzag bridge, Morrow said that the lectures this year have “turned a corner…to look at Korean and Japanese art.”

The next few lectures will take on more of a Korean theme. There will even be a two-part concert series at the end of February that will feature Japanese, Chinese and Korean singers.

Another reason the institute selected Lachman as a speaker is the subject matter of his lecture: It is the perfect segue to the lecture’s forthcoming topics, including the Portland Art Museum’s unveiling of a mysterious Korean screen next month.

“We wanted a teaser to help draw people in,” Morrow said. “Most of the people who come to these lectures are interested in Chinese art, but this is a good way to expose them to something different.”

Lachman’s goal for the lecture is simply to change people’s perspectives.

“If people think about folding screens a little bit differently when they leave than they did when they came in, I will consider the talk a success,” Lachman said.

PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies presents “The Allure of Painted Poetry: East Asian Screens,” a lecture by Dr. Charles Lachman Saturday, Feb. 2, 9:30–11 a.m.

Urban Building, room 250 Free and open to the public

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Getting tested at home No, you turn off the lights

How’s this for an overreaction?

Sexism manifests in a variety of subtle ways

The advantages and disadvantages of home HIV testing kits

Lighting up PSU at night a waste of energy

Ms. Fudge’s Sweet Nothings Stephanie Fudge-Bernard

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Sexy survivors?

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ears ago I looked into purchasing home HIV tests at the request of a friend who wanted to test each new partner prior to engaging in sexual contact as an added precaution. That friend intended to use protection and normally required each new partner to get tested at a clinic but still saw some advantages to having a partner tested in this manner.

In that friend’s mind, when bringing a new partner home, the two could agree to get tested together and then wait just a few minutes for their mutual results, perhaps while enjoying a glass of wine or two.

As a strong proponent of frequent testing regardless of the number or nature of the relationship(s) a person might be in, I applauded the idea and was disappointed to find that it wasn’t possible to get the rapid, same-day test ordinarily done during a clinic visit for home use. So I was thrilled when home HIV tests started becoming more widely available in the past few years.

You can now go online and purchase a couple different types of these tests, including ones where you send in a cheek swab and wait for results.

The most recent arrival on the market has been heralded as a game-changer in the fight to get more people tested. The OraQuick In-Home HIV test can be purchased in most drug stores and involves a cheek swab and a 20-minute wait. If you do test positive, it includes numbers to call for support in navigating the next steps. It seems like

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a very easy way to make HIV testing more accessible to a wider range of people.

There are many reasons why it makes sense that these tests are available to use at home. It encourages those who might be too nervous to go to a doctor to get results in the privacy of their own home. It allows a space for those who might have had negative experiences in the past with testing or with doctors to get tested.

To give just one example of population this may serve: In April the National Center for Transgender Equality published a list of recommendations for improving transgender sexual and reproductive health care. It found that: “One in three transgender people, and 48 percent of transgender men, have delayed or avoided preventive health care such as pelvic exams or [sexually transmitted disease] screening out of fear of discrimination or disrespect.”

While this is unacceptable to me—and obviously health care professionals need to learn greater sensitivity in this area so that all people feel comfortable visiting a doctor—for many populations, including sexual and gender minorities as well as racial minorities who have historically suffered unfair discrimination and treatment from medical professionals, this kit provides another testing option.

The kit also allows for testing in rural areas around the world. It makes testing feasible for those who might not want a partner or parent who pays the insurance bill to

know they got tested. These kits can be paid for in cash and done anonymously. It isn’t all that surprising that Time Magazine named the OraQuick Home HIV Test one of the best inventions of 2012.

However, I’m a little concerned about what this test will actually accomplish.

First off, the kit is a little pricey, which doesn’t really make sense if the targeted market is people who might not have access to a doctor or testing clinic.

Many clinics conduct HIV tests free of charge.

Second, and perhaps most alarming to me personally, there is a pretty high rate of false results compared to the tests given in a clinic. People who take a test and get a false negative may then engage in activities that lead to the infection of others. Also, they won’t know to seek out medical treatment for themselves.

On the other hand, say you get tested with a partner and achieve a false positive. Even if you go to a clinic and get tested the next day, there is no way to prevent that partner from discussing this incident with others. Unfortunately there is still a huge social stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, so it could be detrimental for others to incorrectly think someone has tested positive.

Which leads me to my next point, the lack of privacy. Workers in a doctor’s office, student health center or clinic are subject to laws that protect a patient’s right to confidentiality. The guy at the drugstore who sells you the test, or the roommate, coworker, landlord or parent who happens to see the test in the trash can, is not.

For that matter, if a test does come back positive in a clinic, workers are able to ensure that

the person who tested positive gets an adequate medical response, including counseling, medical care and help in notifying partners. This includes ways to notify partners anonymously.

Depending on the setting, when testing for HIV medical professionals also will be able to screen for risky drug use, intimate partner violence and sexual assault, as well as the need for other STD testing. The fact that this only tests for HIV might reduce the number of people coming in and choosing a more complete range of STD testing.

Also often included in a clinic visit is a little bit of “safer sex” education. With a testing kit at home, medical professionals aren’t able to catch misconceptions or answer questions with regard to safe sex and/or needle drug use. Given the lack of comprehensive sex education, I see regular testing visits as another place where people may gain more information about these issues.

At the end of the day, I’m still excited about any product on the market that makes frequent testing feasible for more people. If you are mature and responsible enough to have sex, you should also be mature and responsible enough to regularly go into a clinic and get tested for a variety of STDs. However, the reality is that sometimes it is easier to say that than it is to do it.

For individual situations in which going into a clinic is prohibitive, a home kit might make sense. And even though I do think it’s better to go to a medical professional, the arrival of these kits on the market is a huge step toward ensuring more people continue to get tested regularly.

very time I leave my room, I see the little green sticker that PSU Housing placed on my light switch. It says, “Lights off before leaving—Campus Sustainability Office.” This sticker never ceases to annoy me, because it’s one of the most hypocritical things at Portland State.

Take a walk around campus on any given night and you’ll see what I mean. Our campus stays lit up like a Christmas tree 24/7.

We keep on most of the lights in the library and tons of lights in Smith, Neuberger and Cramer. Lincoln’s lobby is usually lit, and the science buildings and the Extended Studies building all have lights on.

The Academic and Student Rec Center and Urban Center do as well, as do less-central buildings like Hoffmann Hall, the Engineering Building and the administrative buildings.

The only 24-hour facilities on campus that aren’t residence halls are the campus security office in Shattuck Hall, ResLife in Montgomery Court Residence Hall and the Broadway building’s computer lab, so I’d love to know why PSU wastes hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars every night by keeping at least half the lights on in every building on campus.

Why does a school that lauds itself on sustainability and shiny new LEEDcertified buildings need to be lit up at all hours of the night? It’s certainly not for security reasons, because there’s little of value in buildings like Neuberger or Cramer, and unless there are groups of people in the depths of these locked buildings, no need to keep it lit for late workers.

This campus is dead after about 10 p.m. every night.

Judging from the state of most classrooms, the janitorial staff isn’t active nightly.

This is very much not a 24hour campus.

Is it for display, then? The buildings do look awfully nice and pristine at night, burning away all that expensive electricity. Does PSU leave

its lights on so that it makes a nice impression for the insomniacs and homeless people?

Speaking as an insomniac, I can guess that these are the only two types of people out at night. Or is it just laziness?

That seems like the most probable answer to me.

And I want to impress again how ridiculous it is to ask student residents to turn off their lights.

Most of the housing on campus uses inefficient incandescent bulbs, yes. But they’re such a low wattage that you need lamps if you want to be able to actually see anything in your room at night. It’s one bulb per living area, and often less than that (looking at you, Broadway).

Compare that to the multiple fluorescent bulbs used in the other buildings on campus. The power usage from housing has to be a fraction of the electricity used on campus. Does leaving a light on between classes have a big impact on the system as a whole? Of course not.

I don’t resent turning off lights, and it’s a habit I’ve always had because wasting electricity is bad, but why focus on the residents’ power usage? There are way bigger wastes happening every day and every night. I don’t believe that PSU actually cares about sustainability, but even if it’s simply a marketing strategy, wouldn’t it be more convincing to at least put up a stronger pretense?

Think of the money that could be saved by doing it. An old Vanguard article reported that PSU’s monthly power bill was $136,000. The same article talked about how a conservation campaign on campus saved the university more than $200,000. [“The price of saving energy,” July 19, 2006.] That campaign was focused on turning off lights and computers. It’s clearly an easy way to save.

So why not do it?

PSU needs to be more responsible about turning off the lights if it’s going to ask students to do so. It’s a terrible waste of money and resources to keep the campus lit up at night. It’s time to end this pointless, wasteful practice.

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ictoria’s Secret is one of those enterprises that generally needs to be looked at from a very critical perspective. The company is guilty of cultural appropriation, perpetuating negative body image and fetishization.

Having said that, it’s sometimes necessary to step away from the critical lens and acknowledge a company when it is on the cusp of doing something truly great.

Allana Maiden, a woman in her mid-20s residing in Richmond, Va., is the daughter of a breast cancer survivor. According to ABC News, she “doesn’t remember too much about her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis—and subsequent mastectomy.” What she does remember, though, is her mother’s struggle to “feel beautiful” and to find a bra that was functional as well as attractive.

Through Change.org, Maiden created a petition that, if successful, will push Victoria’s Secret to create a line of “survivor bras” for women who have gone through single or double mastectomies.

A survivor bra is a bra with a pocket that acts as a cradle for prosthetic breasts. These are meant for individuals who have not yet gone through or choose not to go through breast reconstruction surgeries.

Of course, this lingerie already exists. There are myriad online boutiques catering to survivors, including Nearly You, Woman’s Personal Health Resource and About the Girl.

Diane Mapes of Health Today also reported that Nordstrom provides certified mastectomy fitters, and most stores “carry anything from surgical camisoles to pre-pocketed bras to pocketed bathing suits.”

While all of those resources are great, they’re not as accessible as we would hope. A smaller town or rural area is unlikely to

have a Nordstrom and, let’s be honest, shopping for lingerie online is taking a gamble.

Maiden told Mapes that she chose Victoria’s Secret “because of the chain’s ubiquity and reputation.” Maiden is right about ubiquity; a smaller area, like central Oregon, is much more likely to have a Victoria’s Secret than it is a Nordstrom.

“They are everywhere,” she said. “When you think of bras, you think of Victoria’s Secret.”

Whether you like the company or not, you must acknowledge that Maiden is correct in essentially calling VS the lingerie powerhouse.

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer ailing women today. The American Cancer Society predicts that in 2013 around 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women, and around 64,640 cases of noninvasive cancer will be diagnosed. This is followed by the chilling statistic that almost 40,000 women will die from breast cancer.

As disheartening as these numbers are, the ACS also stated that female breast cancer incidence rates began decreasing in 2000. This was followed by a 7 percent drop between 2002 and 2003. The ACS attributed this drop to the declining use of hormone therapy following menopause.

On a happier note, the ACS also reports that there are more than 2.9 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. With all the medical advances that have come about in the last few years, the chances of surviving breast cancer are much higher as well.

While all that is good news, prevention is still key. Keep performing self-checks, and although the suggested age to begin yearly mammograms is 40, it might be better to start younger, though that’s up to each individual.

Back to Victoria’s Secret: The company has yet to officially get on board with Maiden’s petition, but online support is growing quickly. However, some are less than thrilled about the sexinfused stores getting behind such a cause.

Brandie Langer, a breast cancer survivor, told Mapes that, “[t]here’s no way I’m going to walk into a Victoria’s Secret where some perky 21-year-old is working, flash her my scarred chest and say ‘Help me find a bra,’” and continued that the whole idea of selling survivor bras would be “boiled down to sex, sex, sex.” Langer went on to say that the ads would include scantily clad girls donning survivor bras and that the company would never opt to include a real survivor, “because our breasts aren’t marketable any more.”

Maiden replied that she held those same concerns, but still put VS as her number one choice. At this time, Maiden said that she’s been in talks with the president of external communications at Victoria’s Secret, during which they’ve discussed projected lines of survivor lingerie and how they could forward the process. At this point there’s no definitive outcome, but here’s hoping for the best.

Despite negative connotations surrounding VS, this could be something really great.

The company definitely has both the power and the money to turn this into a beautiful and empowering campaign for women currently fighting breast cancer as well as those who have emerged victorious.

Having said that, it’s important that this not turn into an overly sexualized fetish fest, as Langer pointed out. It’s important to remember what this would truly represent and who it would be marketed to.

After the fight’s over, breast cancer survivors deserve to wear sexy underwear and feel comfortable more than anyone else—and, as much as I kind of hate to say it, no one does sexy and comfortable better than Victoria’s Secret.

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omen’s rights have come extraordinarily far in the last century. We get to wear pants, leave our kitchens and, if we’re okay with being ostracized for neglecting our children, even get careers in lower-level management!

Frivolities aside, many women still endure the subtleties of sexism on a daily basis from the pleasant men who unknowingly inflict their bigotry upon us.

Subtle sexism can take many forms that women don’t recognize, or choose to overlook. Pennsylvania State University and Phillips University conducted a study of sexist incidents that occurred in the workplaces of 120 participants.

One of the most common sexist remarks encountered in the research involved telling women that they were “overreacting” or “too easily offended.” Women frequently hear this reaction from their bosses, their friends and even their closest loved ones.

Frankly, that statement needs to go die in a fire.

Anyone trying to tell intelligent women that they are overreacting in any situation needs to consider how patronizing and bigoted they sound, regardless of whatever the complaint is. Attacking a person’s character instead of addressing a problem is too often an oppressive maneuver, not a legitimate one.

Another big blip on the sexist radar comes in the form of attitudes toward feminism.

For whatever reason, this benign term has turned into an outlet for derisive remarks and flippant abuse. Anyone who believes that women should have the same, equal rights as everyone else fundamentally believes in feminism, and mocking the movement is both obnoxious and distasteful at this point.

Yes, there are some extreme feminist advocates who are probably a little bit crazy, but they do not define or encompass all of the feminist movement. Justifying hateful jokes or insinuating that a woman is humorless for not thinking feminist bashing is hilarious isn’t OK. Women have a sense of humor—we just don’t think being glib about our equality is appropriate when only 4 percent of America’s 500 largest companies have female CEOs. That’s only 20 women

to 480 men, and it’s a number that is pitifully low.

There are also many smaller attitudes that are much harder to identify and potentially more hurtful to the half of our population that happens to have ovaries. Our society is rampant with stigmas about female appearance, and women who stray too far outside the lines can be ostracized and shamed.

I’ve witnessed male acquaintances and friends alike observing a woman with a shorter haircut and reacting with a strong sentiment that she would look so much better with longer hair.

If the woman happens to also be wearing genderneutral clothing, a slew of borderline homophobic comments come out, along with a general distaste at the woman’s “decision” to not look pretty.

Women aren’t trophies.

We don’t always have to be polished and, yes, it’s even possible we don’t care at all what you think of what we’re wearing. If we want the ease of short hair and the comfort of cargo shorts, we deserve the same reaction that a man would get in the same outfit.

This phenomena is not just confined to the heterosexual men who incorporate mild acts of sexism into their daily routines. Some homosexual

men frequently give just about any woman they meet unsolicited beauty advice, whether it be about the clothes she wears or how she does her makeup. On some level, this is communicating that a man, regardless of sexual preferences, has high expectations of how a woman should look and dress.

Even worse, there is a bizarre acceptance of gay men groping women because of the whole “it’s OK, I’m gay” argument. A famous example of this is when fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi grabbed actress Scarlett Johansson’s breasts on live television without Johansson’s approval.

How this isn’t assault, I’ll never know. There are plenty of people I’m not attracted to, but I don’t presume to have the authority to go grabbing their parts. Male ownership over the female body comes in many forms, and it’s unacceptable in all of them.

The most frustrating thing about sexism isn’t the jokes or the lower pay. It’s how so many good people don’t even know they’re doing it. It can be perpetrated by coworkers or loved ones, from little remarks to grand gestures of prejudice.

I refuse to believe that the majority of men are inherently misogynistic and cruel, yet we live in a nation where stereotypes and chauvinism taint so many interactions.

Perhaps we all need to step back and reflect on the little things we do.

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e’re a cynical lot.

Students, that is.

We take issue with as many people and things as we can—professors who don’t care anymore, close-minded classmates, the injustice of student loans and the politics of being a student in the first place. And that’s just on Monday morning.

Then again, nothing good happens on Monday mornings.

I’m sure we all have some protest-worthy issues to bring up with the Portland State administration, and we may not always feel like we get heard.

So when we do, it’s worth mentioning.

At the end of last year, there was an article in The Oregonian announcing that PSU had doubled the budget for the Resource Center for Students with Children.

Let me pause for a moment and say that full-time school and work without children is challenging enough, thus I bow to the 22 percent of PSU students who are balancing the responsibilities of being parents along with midterms and finals, a feat I’m not sure I could manage.

When I saw that the school had upped the center’s budget from $105,000 to $229,000, I realized that every now and then someone high up in the administrative clouds does in fact hear us—someone does see the importance of supporting a major part of our student body.

PSU student and parent Cassia Gammill, a member of a panel of students assembled to advocate for an expansion of the center, said, “It provides a welcoming place, a community for those who can easily feel isolated.” She described how, a few years back, she’d walk around the school carrying her baby in between her classes, because she didn’t know where else to go.

Thankfully, that’s not the case today. As a result of the added finances, there is now a spacious student lounge on the fourth floor of the Smith Memorial Student Union, complete with a play area where children can color and frolic to their hearts’ content and a computer station where parents can catch up on homework.

It’s also a perfect place for parents to meet and get to know one other, connecting over their shared experience at PSU. The center also boasts a clothing bank and library of books for children, offers individual consultations and support groups for families, and provides a loan program and other resources linking low-income students to subsidized child care facilities.

Gammill highlights the Kid’s Night Out program, where students can leave their children for a night of supervised fun and go and enjoy a few hours of child-free time. She said this was how she got to know other parents on campus. Students qualify for this free event by

completing activities such as joining a campus organization, attending a cultural event, achieving a 3.0 GPA or meeting with an academic advisor.

Though the center still wants to explore even more ways to support student parents—Coordinator Lisa Wittorf says she hopes that “this is just the beginning”—the fact that there has been such a positive response to a felt need in our student community is encouraging.

It has to be said that PSU has shown an incredible focus on the nontraditional members of its student body, and it makes all the sense in the world: 60 percent of us are 25 or older. Instead of taking this statistic for granted and assuming life at 18 is the same as at 30, the administration has been intentional about supporting its variety of students from start to finish.

Another example of this is the Last Mile program, which seeks out students who quit the university only a few credits shy of graduation and helps them restart and finish their education.

It’s initiatives like this and the resource center that persuade me to believe that sometimes students aren’t just numbers milling around the campus.

Our situations do matter. Yes, there will always be a financial calculation in it. There has to be.

That’s how our world works.

And there will undoubtedly be countless other issues about which to voice our discontent.

Yet there is something very assuring about an administration, warts and all, that supports students who, after all, are raising the next generation. We should all be invested in their success.

It matters.

James Krewson Jan. 25, 2013 If your campus bookstore only has new copies of a textbook because the order was placed late, then students should investigate what is available online. You should be able to find a used or rental copy by searching via the ISBN number on a price comparison website such as FindersCheapers.com.

Textbook price comparison websites use web services provided by the major online booksellers to search all available inventory in real time.

“Hey, hey, I’m a nonbeliever” Vol. 67 No. 31 Lu Jan. 26, 2013 Thanks for posting! I do believe non theists are the most oppressed minority in the US, and we need to pay attention to this!

“Harshing the ‘Mellow Mood’” Vol. 67, No. 24 Tom Robinson Jan. 23, 2013 What a completely stupid article. Not that I condone the illegal use of marijuana, but I think the proximity of this store to the university will have zero impact on the college. If anything, it will attract future alumni. Are you really that dense not to realize that pot smoking is nothing compared to the use of alcohol in the same school? How many students were killed this past decade due to alcohol? How many due to marijuana? These poor college kids (legal adults)… how can we keep them safe from themselves??

“Privilege check” Vol. 67 No. 31 Lu Jan. 26, 2013 Artistic oppression in the name of PCconsciousness!!

Sunday, Feb. 3

Chris Jan. 28, 2013 It’s based on her experiences and she had experiences mainly with white people. If you think the show is whitewashed then you must think her life was whitewashed which wouldn’t really be her fault.

“Why one student hates University Pointe” Vol. 66 No. 59 Private Jan. 27, 2013 This place is a joke! My friend got an MIP there and they served him with a 3 day notice the following day because he violated the lease. Really?

3 days to move in the middle of the quarter? The rent is outrageous compared to how small the place is. My friend lived in one of the 4 bedroom, 2 bath apartments where they each had their own bedroom. His bed (which was a full size) took up 90% of the room and the living room is like 5 feet wide by 10 feet long. Pretty sure I’ve seen homeless camps nicer than this place!

Michael1944 Jan. 27, 2013 As a current resident at university pointe i am honestly happy with this place. I had a roommate who argued the same that the place was too expensive but for the location it really isnt. you literally live on the psu campus and there is a shuttle a block away that takes you to pcc. also they made it so to max runs right in front of the building. so i can take to shuttle bus to pcc and use the max to go practically anywhere. its a great location and thats why its so expensive. also with utilities and internet covered for you its really not that bad of a deal if you go for the 4 bedroom 2 bath for only 600 a month. (given that your roomates arent assholes, but its portland and assholes are hard to come by here)

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Thursday, Jan. 31

2013 Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference 8 a.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway

Portland State will host a conference geared toward sharing information about how sustainability research and practice can benefit higher education programs in Oregon. This conference is open to students, staff and faculty in the area of sustainability. For more information and registration visit ohesc.org.

Veterans Game Night 5:30–7 p.m.

Women’s Resource Center 1802 SW 10th Ave.

Women veterans and allies are invited to the Women’s Resource Center for a game night complete with free snacks and plenty of fun aimed at building a solid community FREE on campus.

The Forward in the Age of Facebook: The Story of a Jewish Newspaper 7 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 296 1825 SW Broadway

Guest speaker Sam Norisch, publisher of The Forward, will be at Portland State to talk about the realities of running a newspaper in the Internet FREE age.

White Bird Dance Presents: Compagnie Marie Chouinard 8 p.m.

Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Ave.

In celebration of the centennial of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre de Printemps (The Rite of Spring), dance company Marie Chouinard brings the classic work back to the stage with stunning, provocative performance and costumes. For more information and to purchase tickets visit whitebird.org/compagnie-mariechouinard.

Friday, Feb. 1

Master Class with pianist Julian Martin 10 a.m.

Lincoln Hall, room 75 1620 SW Park Ave.

The Oregon Community Foundation, with the aim of making Oregon a better place to live, is sponsoring a class with renowned pianist and teacher Julian Martin in the Lincoln Recital Hall. The class is tailored to train piano teachers to better apply their skills in a teaching environment. For more information contact Jessica Currier at 541-728-0802 or by email at jessicacurrier26@gmail.com.

Fridays at Four: Erik Geschke 4 p.m.

Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Ave.

As part of the Department of Architecture’s Fridays at Four series, sculptor and PSU art professor Erik Geschke will be showing a selection of his new work in the FREE Shattuck Hall Annex.

Saturday, Feb. 2

Allure of Painted Poetry: East Asian Screens 9:30–11 a.m.

Urban Center, room 250 506 SW Mill St.

Dr. Charles Lachman will be at PSU in association with the Institute for Asian Studies to share his knowledge on the history and significance of the unique art form of the painted screen, with focuses on the areas of China, FREE Korea and Japan.

Portland Seafood and Wine Festival Noon–10 p.m.

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd.

Come to the Oregon Convention Center for the eighth annual Seafood and Wine Festival. Fresh seafood and wines from more than 50 Oregon wineries will be featured. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and kids under 16. Children under 5 enjoy free admission, and you automatically receive $2 off admission if you

Tuesday, Feb. 5

Portland 2013 Super Bowl Party

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3 p.m.

The Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark St.

Noon–1 p.m.

PSU Bike Hub 1818 SW Sixth Ave.

Gather at the Goodfoot to watch the 2013 Super Bowl on their 15-foot screen. Food and drinks will be served at happy hour pricing for the duration of the game. FREE 21+

The PSU Bike Hub offers the third class in a five-week series on understanding your bike and how to repair it. Classes are free for Bike Hub members and $25 for nonmembers.

For more information visit the PSU Bike Hub webpage at pdx.edu/bikehub/home.

Monday, Feb. 4

Join Dr. Jacqueline Peterson Loomis and the Center for Japanese Studies for a look into Portland’s past on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238.

to improve teaching and learning alike. Donations are accepted. RSVP FREE by calling 503-725-4697.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Information Session 3 p.m.

East Hall 632 SW Hall St.

The Middle East Studies Center and PSU professor of applied linguistics Dr. Keith Walters are offering a free information session on FLAS Fellowships for Middle East Studies as well as advice on how to make sure you FREE submit a strong application.

An Evening with Dr. Andy Hargreaves 6 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 355 1825 SW Broadway

Dr. Anthony Hargreaves will be at PSU to talk about his plans to transform the American education system, how they fit with Oregon’s state goals, and how to build social capital

What Happened to Portland’s Japantown?

5 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238 1825 SW Broadway

The PSU Center for Japanese Studies invites you to a free lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Peterson Loomis, a local scholar and public historian, on immigration, racism and various other topics as they relate historically to Portland’s Japanese-American community. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Nisei FREE narrators.

Wednesday, Feb. 6

Engineering and Technology Job Fair 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, third floor ballroom 1825 SW Broadway

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Come meet with representatives from more than 50 different companies to discuss job possibilities and internship opportunities at the Engineering and Technology Job Fair. For more information visit pdx.

FREE edu/careers.

Back to The Future 3 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 329 1825 SW Broadway

Back to The Future is a workshop directed toward creating an awareness of exactly how misdemeanors, felonies and other such indiscretions from your past can carry on to affect your future. Information will be provided about how to deal with situations involving a troubled past when applying for jobs that require background checks. Refreshments FREE will be provided.

Thursday, Feb. 7

Women Writers of Iran: Past and Present Noon–1 p.m.

East Hall, room 109 632 SW Hall St.

Bring your lunch and come to learn at this free lecture with Dick Davis, professor of Persian and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, who will be leading a discussion about the current and past FREE women writers of Iran.

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Vikings take on Big Sky leaders Portland State heads to Montana Rosemary Hanson Vanguard staff

The Portland State women’s basketball team opens up the second round of conference play this weekend against the University of Montana and Montana State University. The Vikings took a tough loss last Thursday when they fell in overtime to Southern Utah University. They now sit in ninth place in the Big Sky Conference; the top seven seeds are eligible for tournament play.

The Vikings, who are now 9-10 overall and 3-7 in conference, have seen new leaders emerge this season. Freshman guard Emily Easom had her first career start against Southern Utah and scored a career-high 12 points. Easom is joined by sophomore

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guard Allison Greene, who is steadily establishing herself as the team’s most dangerous offensive threat and who has registered double-digit scoring performances in each of her last three games.

Senior guard Courtney VanBrocklin rounds out the attack, and led the Vikings in scoring in their first set of games against Montana and Montana State earlier this month. On the defensive end, junior forward Angela Misa leads the team in rebounding and blocks, while Greene and junior forward Allie Brock have each stepped up their game on that end of the floor.

Montana is coming off a gritty victory against winless Weber State University on Saturday. The win—paired with a Montana State loss—moved the Lady Griz into a tie for first place with their in-state rivals. They are led offensively by senior guard Kenzie De Boer and senior forward Katie Baker. De Boer currently leads

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the team in points per game, and Baker was Montana’s top scorer in their last two contests. Baker is also a key post player, registering a team-high in rebounds against Idaho State University.

After the Lady Griz, the Vikings face the Montana State Bobcats, who are 14-5 overall and 8-2 in conference. Their eight-game conference winning streak came to an end last Saturday after a 63-55 loss to Idaho State. They will host Eastern Washington University tonight prior to facing Portland State.

The three teams come into the weekend with different motivations—the Montana schools hope to hold onto their top spots in the conference, while the Vikings will try to inch back into tournament eligibility. Tipoff for Thursday’s matchup is slated for 6 p.m., with the Saturday game set to begin at 1 p.m. Live stats will be available on goviks.com.

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the season’s biggest events.

And with McIlroy digging in at the top of the rankings and firmly establishing himself as the player to beat at any tournament he enters, opportunities like this will continue to dwindle. The Torrey Pines win was the 75th of Woods’ career, bringing him within seven of the all-time record held by Sam Snead. But the four major titles that separate Woods and Nicklaus is now a much greater distance to cross.

Woods, back up to number two on the strength of four titles in the last 10 months and quickly developing a healthy rivalry with 23-year-old McIlroy, is still among the handful of serious contenders on the PGA Tour. Wins like this one have become the clear exception, though, and it remains to be seen if he has enough left to make one final push for the top spot and grind his way past the final few barriers standing between him and Nicklaus. At this point in his career, it may prove to be a bit too much to ask. But if last weekend was any indication, the matter isn’t settled just yet.

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For all the 11th-hour scrambling for an investor-savior by the city of Sacramento, it is a near-inevitability that the Kings will soon be relocating to Seattle and reviving the SuperSonics franchise. Fans in California’s capital now know the pain that residents of the Emerald City understand all too well—no matter how much supporters might stand behind their local team, fan loyalty is nothing when profit is paramount.

The joy among the Sonics faithful will perhaps be tempered by the realization that they have been on the opposite side of this ledger before. Five years ago, the original Seattle franchise was wrested from the city when an ownership group led by Clay Bennett bought the team and relocated it to Oklahoma City. It appears that Seattle will be the beneficiaries this time, as the Maloof brothers shop around the Kings in hopes of recovering some of their reeling fortune.

Make no mistake, this move is all about the money. The Maloofs are set to gain $340 million from the sale of their team to the group of investors led by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer. With their real estate holdings and Las Vegas empire plummeting in value over the past few years, the Sacramento Kings have become little more than a safe-deposit box holding the brothers’ last valuable assets.

We as fans enjoy harboring the illusion that our favorite teams are staples of the communities in which they play. The reality, however, is that franchises have changed locations at will throughout the history of the NBA and other professional sports leagues, and Sacramento was no more capable of avoiding this reality than any other floundering franchise.

The Kings started out in Rochester, N.Y. in 1945, back when they were known as the Royals. They spent their first 12 years there before moving on to Cincinnati, where they survived for another 15 years before packing up again and heading to Kansas City. Now known as the Kings, the team split games between Kansas City and Omaha for its first three seasons after moving from Ohio, but settled into the Kemper Arena in Kansas City full-time in 1975. The marriage didn’t last long, however. As in their previous stops, attendance began to drop after the team’s honeymoon period. Unable to remain profitable in Kansas City, the moving vans appeared once more and

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Tiger woods won for the eighth time at Torrey Pines, a course he has played since his junior days.

Tiger Woods was in the news for more than a decade for laying waste to a field of hapless adversaries on the PGA Tour.

Four years ago, after crashing his car near his home in Florida in the early-morning hours after Thanksgiving, Woods hit the tabloids as the public focus suddenly shifted toward revelations about the deteriorating home life and infidelity of one of the world’s most bankable professional athletes.

The scandal, along with a series of injuries that have kept him off the course for extended periods of time since 2008, stalled the golfer’s progress toward Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record of 18 majors— once considered a foregone conclusion as Woods sprinted past the field during his prime. With sponsors cutting ties en masse and a new generation of challengers led

by Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy rising up around him in the interim, it has become

increasingly difficult for Woods, now 37, to make up the lost ground.

But none of that ever seems to matter at Torrey Pines.

The La Jolla, Calif. course has been the site of several memorable performances throughout Woods’ career; in all, the 10-time Player of the Year has won eight tournaments held at the venue, including six wins at the Buick Invitational along with his last major title, a dramatic playoff victory over Rocco Mediate at the U.S. Open in 2008.

After fog caused the cancellation of play on Saturday, the event now referred to as the Farmers Insurance Open wrapped up its final round on Monday, and Woods, who had built an eight-shot lead going into the last five holes, ran away with the title. It was the sort of dominant play that fans have come to expect from Woods at Torrey Pines, even as tournament victories have gotten more and more scarce.

Though Woods has proven in spurts that his legendary game has not completely abandoned him, consistent results have eluded him at

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After a loss to Eastern Washington University on Monday night, the Portland State men’s basketball team has now dropped 10 straight road games to start the season.

The Vikings never led in the game, but kept the score close until late in the second half.

Junior forward Aaron Moore led the Vikings with 20 points and 10 rebounds, his fourth double-double of the season.

Going into the game, the Eagles were in last place in the Big Sky Conference standings.

“We’re not doing as well as we wish we were doing,” head coach Tyler Geving said.

“We’ve had a couple opportunities to win some games, but we didn’t. The good thing is there are still 11 league games left, and that’s a lot of basketball left to be played.”

Of those 11 games, seven are at home, where the Vikings

have a 5-2 record. Although the season has not gone as well as Geving would have liked, Portland State will have a lot of opportunities to make a run in the second half of the season.

“We’ve dug ourselves a little bit of a hole,” Geving said. “Not to the point where we are panicking or anything, but we’ve got to dig ourselves out and start stringing some wins together.”

The Vikings’ remaining schedule includes a five-game homestand stretching from Feb. 14 to March 2, which could play a role in their postseason hopes.

If the team is going to get back

on track, however, it will have to start with consistency at both ends of the court.

“We go on spurts where we play well, and we go on spurts where we don’t play

well,” Geving said. “When we play well, it looks good, and when we don’t play well, it doesn’t look very good. We need to become more consistent in our approach to every

aspect of the game. We can do that.”

Their next opportunity comes tonight against the University of Montana. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:35 pm.

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The senior guard has been a reliable outside threat this season.

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sonics fans rally the troops against Oklahoma City during the NBA Finals last year. Basketball looks to be headed back to Seattle next season.

the organization traveled west to Sacramento for the 1985-86 season.

Even franchises with a history of success are not immune to the threat of relocation. It happened to the Minneapolis Lakers, who went to Los Angeles in 1960 despite winning five titles in 12 years. The Baltimore Colts took their four NFL championship banners to Indianapolis in 1984 after falling on hard times over the previous decade. Walter O’Malley transferred the Brooklyn Dodgers out to the Pacific coast in 1958 despite playing in four World Series in their previous six seasons.

And the Minnesota North Stars were shipped out to Dallas in 1993 just two years removed from a Stanley Cup appearance against Pittsburgh. Though a move may be made in the best long-term interests of a league, relocations reinforce the reality that no fan can ever feel completely secure about the future of their team.

So enjoy the revival of the SuperSonics, Seattle, but don’t let the excitement of the return dull your empathy for the city whose team is being moved. As history has shown time and time again, relocation is always just a splash of red ink away.

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After a back-to-back matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers last weekend, the Trail Blazers emerged with a 1-1 record. Both teams got the victory in front of their home crowd.

The Saturday clash at the Rose Garden Arena was a nail-biter, with the game coming down to the final seconds as former Blazer Jamal Crawford’s go-ahead sidestepping jumper bounced off the rim as the clock expired. Nicolas Batum was the hot hand for the Blazers, racking up his second triple-double in a week. After 12 lead changes, the Clippers held a nine-point lead with less then three minutes to play, until the Blazers offense pulled ahead with a critical 10-0 run to get the victory.

The Blazers had been ahead by as many as 14, but the lead was slowly eaten away with Clippers forward Blake Griffin seemingly dunking at will.

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guard Chris Paul because of a bruised right kneecap, shot nearly 50 percent as a team but were unable to translate it into a win. The all-star matchup of Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge was generally an offensive battle, though Griffin had the better night with a 24-point performance, doubling Aldridge’s output.

The Sunday rematch at the Staples Center was contested

primarily in the paint. The Clippers’ dynamic frontcourt dominated Portland down low, finishing with a 56-24 advantage in interior points.

LA had a six-point lead at the end of the first quarter, and the game only went downhill from there for the Rip City collective. With Chris Paul out of the lineup again, Griffin stepped up his role, contributing 23 points and nine assists

to go along with five boards.

Aldridge logged a doubledouble in the loss, scoring 21 points and pulling down 11 rebounds after a lackluster 5-14 shooting performance the night before. The Clippers succeeded in slowing down Batum, who was limited to just eight points, and shot 51.2 percent from the field to end a four-game skid.

With the halfway mark of

the regular season fast approaching, the Clippers are locked in a battle for the top spot in the NBA’s Western Conference with the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Blazers are currently fighting it out for the number-eight seed. They’ll take on the Utah Jazz in another back-to-back series this weekend.

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The Reddit.com Ask Me Anything feature has become one of this century’s favored methods of prying into the lives of celebrities, allowing the Internet population to ask sports figures, musicians and actors, well, anything they want. So, on Monday evening, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell decided it would be a fantastic idea to participate in one of these newfangled AMAs. He answered about 15 questions in an hour and then split. Here are the top five gems delivered over the course of that hour.

5. Mr. Goodell tries to make a joke and gets berated.

User jdi_nit asked how important journalist Rich Eisen is to the NFL network. Goodell responded by saying, “Thanks for your question, Mrs. Eisen!”

Was it witty? Sure, but the comments that followed did not seem to agree. Many proclaimed sarcastic admiration that Roger Goodell, who has the reputation of coming off as an overly scrupulous robot, had actually made a joke, going so far as to say that he had received a software upgrade to “humor.”

4. Mr. Goodell spites the entire state of Louisiana

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Bountygate, the term attributed to the New Orleans Saints organization for providing a slush fund to compensate defensive players who inflicted injuries on opponents, did not appear to be a topic Goodell cared to talk about. One user asked if Goodell believed that he mishandled the Bountygate investigation in any way, and the commissioner responded with: “We removed bounties from the game. Bounties won’t be part of football. That’s good for everyone involved.” Saints fans were none too pleased with this response, claiming that Goodell sidestepped the question because he was the one who botched the investigation and ruined the Saints’ chances for a decent season.

Somebody get this man some more security for the Super Bowl.

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3. Goodell asks fans if they would like to see more extensive touchdown celebrations, and proves that he truly doesn’t understand the NFL fan base.

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NBA Starting out as a simple question as to why the NFL (often dubbed the “No Fun League” by fans) so thoroughly detests players’ enjoyment of a touchdown, Goodell explained in too-great detail about how touchdown celebrations are judged. “This rule gets reconsidered by our competition committee every year,” he said, then asked, “Do we want more?”—as if the grizzled, old-guard NFL Competition Committee would ever consider allowing a 30-second Victor Cruz-led conga line with Eli Manning doing backflips across the end zone.

2. There’s actually a uniform inspector who goes around checking socks.

After Frank Gore was fined $10,500 for wearing his socks too low, user HeLiX_C wanted to know why, exactly, the NFL cares so much about the issue. Goodell copped out with a comment about professionalism, but did mention that a uniform inspector (usually a former player) is at every game to check that each player’s uniform meets regulations. Not only is this utterly ridiculous, but it brings to light the fact that there seriously exists a pool of retired players whose job it is to wander the field looking at sock length. Who wants to bet that Mark Sanchez is currently researching his next opportunity?

1. Reddit user Loate ‘rickrolls’ Goodell.

Also, Loate is Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe.

At first, it seems as though the question is thought-provoking and heartfelt, but then you notice a paraphrased lyric from Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” and realize that the commissioner just fell for a classic Internet bait-and-switch.

Naturally, Goodell’s response is one of his more detailed during the session, adding even more salt to the wound. Later in the comments, users gleefully reveal Loate’s true identity—proving, that, no, Roger Goodell isn’t even respected, even by the players .

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