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Portland State University TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013 | vol. 67 no. 51
Election Korea Night gives culture season and style the spotlight hits PSU Two tickets will be on ballot in ASPSU presidential race Vincent Alexander Vanguard Staff
Election season for the Associated Students of Portland State University, the official student government body of PSU, kicked off last week with the passing of the deadline for candidate applications. The presidential election, which will take place from April 22 to May 3, looks to be a two-person race (barring write-in candidates) between the ticket of Harris Foster and Yesenia Silva Hernandez and the ticket of James Au and Jay Phung. Both tickets will also sponsor several candidates for the student fee committee and the ASPSU senate. Foster, a junior French major, and Hernandez, a sophomore majoring in public health, are running on a threepronged platform. They aim to amend the contract between Higher One and PSU, to implement a Good Samaritan Policy (which would allow students to call 911 for cases of drug or alcohol overdose without fear of reprisal) and, especially, to reach out to student groups and cultural centers. The slate of Au and Phung, both seniors in the School of Business Administration, shares this goal of community outreach. In addition, they also intend to promote public safety awareness on campus. See election on page 3
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Lets break it down: From left: Nanae Seta, Hirofumi Inayoshi, Takashi Mizushima, Emika Nakayama, Bona Kim, Dohoon Kim, Jungwho Kim, Tracy Saecho, Mike Shin and James Lee dance to a performance by Korea rock band Rewind for Korea Night’s grand finale. Allie Clark Vanguard staff
On Saturday, more than 600 people waited in a line that stretched from the ballroom on the third floor of Smith Memorial Student Union to the basement-level bowling alley, winding down four flights of stairs. What were they eagerly waiting for? Korea Night. The annual event is put on by Portland State’s Korean Student Association. “It’s our biggest event of the year,” said Jason Kim, a sophomore accounting major and KSA’s president-elect. “Korea Night is our main chance to fulfill our mission, which is to spread
all the good things Korean culture has to offer,” Kim said. Attendee Roxanne Nussbaumer, a senior studying applied linguistics, said the event provided “a good snapshot” of Korean culture. “For people who don’t know anything about Korea, this does a good job of giving them an idea.” The sold-out crowd started the night watching Korean pop music videos—including the latest video from “Gangam Style” singer Psy— while enjoying a dinner of steamed white rice with marinated beef or fried tofu, spicy fermented cabbage and fried potato and noodles mixed with zucchini and vegetables.
As the audience finished eating, a video of a street orchestra performing “Arirang,” a famous Korean folk song, played, signaling the beginning of the show. The first half of the night focused on traditional Korean culture. Professional artists performed a complex drum number and dance. In the past, Korea Night has featured the more well-known art of taekwondo, but this year organizers decided to feature the older but less famous soo bahk do style of martial arts. A group of martial artists displayed their prowess in a demonstration that included sparring and a series of spinning kicks that chopped
through wooden boards. Members of the KSA also performed a traditional mask dance. Historically, the dance was performed by lower-class people for the more privileged upper classes. Through the medium of dance, the lower class was able to protest their oppression and mock their oppressors without punishment. Saturday’s dance told the story of a woman torn between the affections of two men— one rich, one poor. A fashion show midway through the night marked the transition from traditional to modern Korean See korea Night on page 2
New bills in Legislature address debt, tuition Supporters hope passage could bring relief to Oregon students Coby Hutzler Vanguard Staff
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Portland state professors Barbara Dudley, pictured left with students Seri Soulatha and Nathan Hunt, and Mary King, pictured right, taught a senior capstone course last fall that produced HB 2838, the “pay it forward” bill. Soulatha is a senior film major, and Hunt is a senior political science major.
Three bills are making their way through the Oregon Legislature this session and have provoked an earnest discussion about the future of higher education in the state. House bills 2838, 3025 and 3472 are in various stages of negotiation and offer new ways of approaching the question of education funding in Oregon. Here is a breakdown of the three bills.
“Pay it forward” HB 2838 seeks to establish a pilot program in Oregon, which, if successful, would enable in-state students to enroll at participating academic institutions without paying tuition or fees—these costs would instead be paid by the state. According to the text of the bill, students would enter into binding contracts with the state or their institution to repay a certain percentage of their adjusted gross income for a specified number of years after leaving school, with payments going into a fund that would finance the education of subsequent generations of students. The fund would require See Bills on page 4