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“Through ICSP, K–12 teachers and the community in general can request our students to help with education in different international cultural projects.”

This year alone the event attracted 200 volunteers, made up not only of students but of community members and nonstudents who come to the event to be a part of cultural mingling and to learn about other countries.

“This was a much smaller event 13 years ago when I first got started with International Student Services,” said Jill Townley, the assistant director of International Student Life, a group that helps the OIS to organize the event through faculty

After a heated debate over deadlines and procedural rules on Friday, Portland State’s student government elections almost didn’t happen this week as scheduled.

The delay was narrowly averted on Friday afternoon after more than five hours of discussion between members of the Associated Students of Portland State University’s senate and judicial review board, Student Activities and Leadership Programs and Vice President of Student Affairs Jackie Balzer.

The controversy began when the senate proposed several constitutional amendments for the ballot but the paperwork didn’t get to the judicial review board in time for a Thursday meeting or according to procedure, said judicial review board Chief Justice Aubrey Hoffman.

However, the JRB did approve the inclusion of former ASPSU Vice President Ethan Allen Smith’s new constitution on the ballot at their Thursday meeting. The constitution, which has been loudly opposed by the senate, would require each senate member to belong to the constituency they represent—for example,

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Several of PSU’s student culture groups set up booths durning the 37th annual International Night celebration on Friday. PSU hosts more than 2,000 international students each year.

International Night is PSU’s largest event for international students Erik Mutzke Vanguard Staff

International Night at Portland State—the night we celebrate the rich and vibrant international community at PSU—is a celebration that seems to get bigger every year.

This was the event’s 37th year.

The Friday event, titled “Around the World in One Night,” sold out of all 700 tickets almost a week in advance, a testament to its popularity and the cultural diversity at PSU. The event was free for students and $5 for nonstudents.

“This is the largest event at PSU

for international students. It is a chance for the many cultures of Portland State to come together in one night,” said Yingying Chai, coordinator of the Organization of International Students, the group largely responsible for organizing the event each year.

PSU hosts 2,100 international students from more than 90 different countries every year.

The celebration began Friday with a dinner on the first floor of the Smith Memorial Student Union that included 20 different dishes from 12 countries. The food

was catered by various Portland restaurants, including Tandoor Indian Kitchen, E’Njoni Cafe and Sawasdee Thai.

After sampling delicious ethnic cuisines, attendees made their way to the cultural exhibits on the second floor, where 46 booths occupied the student lounge and Multicultural Center. The International Cultural Service Program, a scholarship program for international students, helped facilitate the second floor exhibitions.

“Most of the students you see here tonight behind the many country booths are part of the ICSP program and earning part of their 90 hours of required community service for the year,” said Anna Gindlesperger, the international student life advisor.

Presidential debate highlights subtle differences Candidates present platforms, leadership goals Zach Bigalke Vanguard staff

Since announcing their candidacies last week, Harris Foster and James Au, the candidates for Portland State student body president, have run campaigns that appear devoid of the enmity of election seasons past.

Campaigning on platforms that at first glance appear nearly identical— both propose to expand community outreach and engagement within the PSU community along with student government collaboration with university administration and state legislature—Foster and Au took the opportunity to differentiate their campaigns on Thursday. It was their

only scheduled debate before voting began on Monday.

At the debate, a 90-minute session moderated by the PSU Debate Union, Foster and Au discussed their philosophies on student government and gave insights into how they might lead next year.

Foster, a junior French major, is running with sophomore vice presidential candidate Yesenia SilviaHernandez. He presented a platform that focuses on continuing his work as a senator with the Associated Students of Portland State University. His goals are to to modify the university’s See presidential debate on page 5

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Harris Foster, left, and james au answered questions at the ASPSU presidential candidate debate on Thursday. ASPSU elections began on Monday.

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Current ASPSU Vice President Marlon Holmes is running for the SFC next year.

Crime Blotter for April 11–12 Stephanie Tshappat Vanguard Staff

April 11 Theft Millar Library

Officer Brian Rominger took a theft report from a student at 10:02 a.m. who stated his Cricket Huawei Pillar cell phone was stolen when he momentarily stepped away from his desk.

The candidates for the Associated Students of Portland State University’s student fee committee gathered Friday to debate in front of a crowd of roughly 20 people.

Of the 10 candidates, eight will be elected to serve on the board responsible for allocating $14 million in student fees.

Though the event was called a debate, there were very few conflicting opinions among the group.

When asked if they planned to raise, lower or maintain student fees at their current level, the majority of candidates said that they would keep the fees the same, unless there is a group that is in dire need of funds. The candidates also emphasized the importance of communicating with the student body about what the fees will be used for, as well as what the students want the fees to be used for.

“If students don’t want to raise the fees, then we must render our accounts to them,” said candidate Elvin Ramirez, who is running on the HarrisYesenia slate.

Current SFC members Krystine McCants and Kismet

Kilbourn had a different take.

While they agreed with other candidates that raising fees should be a last resort, they weren’t willing to make promises about what they would do if elected.

“I think it’s a mistake to start out saying, ‘I’m going to raise fees, or lower them,’” said McCants, a graduate student in economics and public affairs.

Kilbourn, a sophomore in finance, agreed. “You can’t know until you see the budgets.”

However, both McCants and Kilbourn emphasized that the key to making sure the groups the SFC funds have enough money is to focus on making sure the money the SFC has is being used as effectively as possible.

“A better goal…is to focus on being as efficient as possible,” Kilbourn said.

Marlon Holmes, current ASPSU vice president, brought up the huge difference that even a small cut to fees can make. Last year, the SFC lowered the student fees by $4 per student, Holmes said, resulting in “over a quarter of a million dollars lost this year.”

Most candidates pointed to real-life experience managing their own finances as their qualifications for SFC membership. Soledad Hernandez,

a sophomore in health science, pointed to her experience as a first-generation, low-income student and said she would make full use of the SFC’s advisors.

“Don’t be afraid to ask questions when you don’t know something,” Soledad said.

Max Werner, running on the Au-Now slate, discussed his position as a member of the organization budget council, which required him to help decide how $600,000 in student fees would be distributed among student groups and events.

When asked which programs they would like to focus on, assuming that it’s financially possible, almost all of the candidates mentioned the cultural centers devoted to serving PSU’s diverse student population.

Zezo Hassan, a civil engineering major, likened PSU’s diversity to “walking through a giant map.”

Melinda Guillen, a sophomore in communications who previously wrote for the Vanguard, said, “There are so many diverse people here.

They need a place to feel at home and [to] allow them to promote their culture.”

Elections began on Monday, April 22, and will run through Friday, May 3.

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Performance included a traditional Chinese “Spring Chant” dance support. “In 1999 the event drew a couple hundred attendees.”

Since then, the event has grown dramatically in size and scope.

At 7:30 p.m., performances began in the SMSU ballroom.

A traditional Chinese dance called “Spring Chant” kicked off the night and set

the stage for the performances that ensued—each unique in their sounds, colors, dress and choreography.

“Aside from a little outside help, all 12 performances tonight are done by PSU students,” said Lola Aminova, a member of the ISO and the director of entertainment.

“I really tried to utilize the

talent and resources we have right here at PSU.” Also featured for the first time in the program’s history was an elaborate fashion show that included styles from all over the globe.

“We are not just here to entertain, but to send the message that these students are from a long way away,” Townley said. “They are here because they want to share their culture.”

Exclusion West side of Ondine Residence Hall

Sgt. Michael Anderson reported at 5:37 p.m. that he contacted nonstudent Robert Towers, who was smoking marijuana outside of Ondine. Towers lives in University Pointe and has a medical marijuana card. An exclusion was issued.

Theft Bike staple between Lincoln and Cramer halls

Officer Jon Buck took a theft report from a student who said his Novara “Buzz” bike, brown with mustard yellow stripes, was stolen from the bike staple between 3:35 and 7:55 p.m. His bike accessories and lock were also stolen.

April 12 Theft Academic and Student Rec Center, third floor

Sgt. Robert McLeary took a theft report from a student whose cell phone was stolen from a cubby by the basketball courts on the third floor.

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The indian student association performs an authentic Bollywood dance at PSU’s 37th annual International Night.

Ooligan Genocide Remembrance Day: toasts Alive an opportunity for reflection at the Center Hard questions and nuanced positions line complicated road to reconciliation Vincent Alexander Vanguard Staff

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Poet Carl adam shick read at the book release party for Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest.

On Wednesday, millions of Armenians around the world will observe Genocide Remembrance Day, which marks the 98th anniversary of what most consider the start of the Armenian Holocaust.

The killings, which lasted in various forms until 1923, took place as the Ottoman Empire fell under the weight of an outsized war effort and years of mismanagement.

While there is no official consensus, as many as 1.5 million Armenians may have been

killed along with other minorities in Anatolia who were believed to be allied with Russia or other powers opposing the Ottomans in World War I. Armenian people believe these killings were part of a calculated government policy to exterminate all Armenians.

The government of Turkey, the modern successor to the Ottoman Empire, disagrees.

To them, said Birol Yesilada, a professor of political science and chair of the Turkish studies program at Portland State, the “events” (as the Turkish government refers to the violence) were part of “a response to rebellion.”

For students of Armenian heritage like Tanya Eskandari, a freshman double-majoring in business management and political science, this stance is just part of a widespread

lack of recognition. Genocide Remembrance Day is an effort to combat that, she said.

“We have to remember it because it is something that is not remembered by others,” Eskandari said.

Another part of this lack of recognition is the American government’s refusal to officially use the term “genocide” for the massacres, Yesilada said. She added that though President Barack Obama said in 2007 that “America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides…I intend to be that president,” he has avoided the term since taking office.

While many ArmenianAmericans, especially older ones, have been embittered by the president’s reluctance

Poets gather to celebrate book launch, share words Turner Lobey Vanguard Staff

It was a night of excitement and jubilation as authors, creators and bibliophiles gathered at the Literary Arts center in Southwest Portland. The audience overflowed the cozy book-filled room on Friday, sharing drinks, discussions, laughter and poetry.

They gathered to celebrate Ooligan Press’ most recent release—Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems From the Pacific Northwest, the first in the press’ Pacific Poetry Project series.

Ooligan Press is an educational publishing company staffed by Portland State graduate students in the publishing program under the supervision of instructors and publishing professionals.

According to the book’s description, “Alive at the Center aims to capture the thriving poetic atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest. It concentrates on the three major cities that define it—Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, [British Columbia].

This anthology, compiled and edited by an outstanding poet from each city, is a cultural conversation among the unique urban communities whose perspectives share more than just a common landscape. Alive at the Center features distinctive, contemporary poets who speak to the individual spirits of these Pacific Northwest cities.”

The book is an anthology in three parts divided by location, said Jyoti Roy, a member of Ooligan Press.

“The anthology is three years in the making and spans three cities. It’s what makes up these cities,” Roy said. “Poetry

is…about a collective view of the world, and that is what we wanted to capture.”

The book was edited by poets from each city, who collected works that they felt best represented their communities and encapsulated the essence of their location. Susan Denning, the program director of Literary Arts, co-edited the Portland section and hosted the book launch.

“Alive at the Center. What a great accomplishment,” Denning said. “It is no small feat.

“Looking through this collection—what a great community of poets we have,” she continued.

The Portland event was the last in a series of book launches held in each of the three cities the book features.

The release party featured readings by poets who appear in the local edition of the anthology, including Carl Adamshick, Emily Kendal Frey and Paulann Petersen.

Authors like Leah Stenson, who was one of the Portland editors for the anthology, shared poems featured in the collection and offered insight into the creative process.

“Working on this book has really given me an appreciation for the diversity and talent we have here [in Portland],” Stenson said.

Some of that talent includes John Sibley Williams, a former student of Ooligan Press whose work is included in the book.

“I was an Ooligan student, and it is a pleasure seeing it from the beginning to end. It is a wonderful achievement,” Williams said.

The book is out now and available at Powell’s Books, IndieBound and Amazon.com.

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April 1918: Turkish Armenian civilians lie massacred in the village of Subatan.

to follow through on his promise, most experts believe that Obama would be willing to rankle his NATO ally, Yesilada said.

“Even if he believes it, can he admit it?” she said.

Eskandari seems unfazed by the flip-flop. Obama, she said, is not the first world leader to try to distance himself from the issue. And, while the wording is important, what matters most to her is that all parties be able to move past the issue without forgetting what happened.

Pelin Basci, a Turkish language professor, agreed. Via email, Basci emphasized the reconciliation that has already taken place in Turkey.

“Whatever the politicians and authorities may or may not do, there is a lot of movement on the ground,” Basci said.

Yesilada and Eskandari agreed. In Turkey, where Yesilada has lived, there is “no ethnic tension” between ethnic Turks and Turkish-Armenians.

Eskandari, meanwhile, pointed to her numerous Turkish friends as evidence that the strained relations between the Turkish and Armenian states have not trickled down to their respective diasporas. She is also part of a growing number of Armenian youth who do not see the need for financial reparations.

“It’s [about] valuing human life. It’s not something to point blame, just something to acknowledge,” Eskandari said.

Memorial services will be held at Armenian Orthodox churches around the Portland area.

Events: Security a key concern CPSO chief discusses measures put in place after tragedies in Boston Stephanie Tshappat Vanguard staff

Last week’s tragic events in Boston—the bombing at the Boston Marathon and the deadly

shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer Sean Collier—left the country shaken and questioning a fundamental thing that sometimes gets taken for granted: safety.

Have recent events changed the way Portland State will plan for security at larger events that are hosted on campus?

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CPSO Officer Jon Buck patrols yesterday’s PSU Earth Day events.

“What you’re finding is that these bigger crimes are happening around urban institutions,” said Campus Public Safety Office Chief Phil Zerzan. “[PSU is] part of [a] larger community. Urban institutions are integrated with the things that happen around them and are affected by them.”

Security is an essential part of planning any event on campus, although most events at PSU are relatively minor, Zerzan said.

“We always have security planned for events [on campus],” he said. “Generally speaking, the events that we have don’t draw huge crowds.

If there was a larger event we would plan appropriately.”

Planning appropriately would include reaching out to additional local police organizations, such as Portland Police Bureau and local fire and emergency medical

services agencies, to cover the bases for possible emergency situations.

“With a larger event, depending on significance and size, we would plan [for security] with other agencies and partner with them,” Zerzan said.

Because of Zerzan’s lengthy career with the Oregon State Police and Oregon State University he has the knowledge necessary to coordinate that kind of security coverage.

“If needed, I’m familiar with that type of planning due to my experience…working for Oregon State Police and working at Oregon State University,” he said.

CPSO also has plans in place in case of various emergency situations that might occur on campus, such as an active shooter. More information on these plans is available on CPSO’s website at pdx.edu/cpso/emergencymanagement.

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Oregon students to rally in Salem PSU students invited to call for funding and tuition freezes this Thursday Matthew Ellis Vanguard Staff

A group of Portland State students will travel to Salem on Thursday, April 25, to join a larger rally against student debt on the steps of the Oregon Capitol.

The rally is organized by the Oregon Student Association, a statewide, student-run advocacy group with chapters at many of Oregon’s state universities that has fought for students regarding issues such as tuition equity and child care for student-parents.

Thursday’s rally, however, will focus on student debt and tuition hikes.

“The average PSU student will graduate with [more than] $28,000 in debt,” said Courtney Helstein, PSU’s campus organizer at the OSA. “Even without including interest, that is the highest in the state.”

PSU’s student government, which frequently works with

the OSA, is renting two buses to transport the students. The rally is open to any interested student, and buses will return by early evening the same day.

Although some students might feel that demonstrating outside the Capitol will have little effect on their debt and tuition costs, Helstein was quick to point to earlier successes the OSA has had representing students in Salem.

“I think that a lot of students feel that if they just show up for an hour it’s not going to help,” she said. “I would push against that, specifically with tuition equity, which we got passed this year because hundreds of students showed up at the Capitol.”

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber signed the tuition equity bill into law earlier this month, which grants in-state tuition for undocumented Oregon students who have grown up in Oregon and meet a series of residency and education requirements.

Similar bills had been floating around the state legislature for the past 10 years but never cleared the House. The OSA believes their efforts to bring student representation to Salem

helped the bill to pass.

In addition to the debt issue, Thursday’s rally will call for a tuition freeze and additional funding for Oregon student grants such as the Oregon Opportunity Grant, which helps many students pay their expenses beyond tuition, such as books.

But key on the agenda will be a call for $850 million for state university funding and $510 million for community college support to fully realize Kitzhaber’s 40-40-20 goal (to create an Oregon where 40 percent of adults have bachelor’s degrees, 40 percent have associate’s degrees or certificates and the remaining 20 percent have the equivalent of a high school diploma) by 2025.

Phoenix Singer, an Associated Students of Portland State University senator, doesn’t believe Kitzhaber’s plan is possible without additional funding.

“It is becoming an increasing burden, not only to preserve funding but to increase funding,” he said. “We absolutely cannot achieve this plan without more investments in higher education.”

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CAPITOL PROTEST: PSU and other Oregon students are heading to Salem to rally against student debt on Thursday.

Any student interested in making the trip can attend.

In conjunction with the OSA, ASPSU will bring a perspective to these issues that is unique to PSU, Oregon’s largest state university. According to Singer, many of the issues students will address on Thursday affect not only students but faculty and staff as well.

“PSU pays the majority of its operating costs. We just want to make sure the university is

paying its faculty and staff adequately,” he said.

Both Singer and Helstein reiterated that Thursday’s rally in Salem directly impacts every student at PSU, and both encouraged interested students to join the rally.

“A lot of students are going to need to drop out, take [fewer] courses or take [on] much, much more debt if we

can’t change any of this,” Singer said. “We are a large constituency, and they can’t ignore us.”

“This isn’t an end-all situation, for sure,” Helstein said.

“This is just a cumulation.”

Interested students should meet in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 117, at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday. To register, visit aspsu.pdx.edu.

Legislature considers establishment of university boards Flexibility, cost among concerns Coby Hutzler Vanguard Staff

New legislation in Salem could have a significant impact on the way universities are run in Oregon.

Senate Bill 270 and House Bill 2149 both address the establishment of institutional boards at the state’s public universities. If passed, this legislation would see a board of directors created at both Portland State and the University of Oregon, allowing many decisions to be made at a university level.

More of Oregon’s public universities would be able to follow suit later on if such governance was deemed appropriate.

The bills’ supporters say that implementation of these boards would allow the universities greater institutional flexibility and freedom in controlling elements of operations like salaries and benefits for faculty and staff, tuition rates for students and land purchases for future growth.

Supporters add that universities with institutional boards

would be better able to conduct fundraising by encouraging philanthropic donations and through the sale of university bonds.

The legislation comes amid a wider effort to reform higher education in the state, namely in pursuit of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s 40-40-20 plan. The plan, which went into effect in January of 2012, aims to see 40 percent of adult Oregonians with a bachelor’s degree, 40 percent with an associate’s degree or vocational certificate and the remaining 20 percent with a high school diploma by 2025.

In written testimony submitted to a May 2012 special committee on university governance at the Capitol, PSU President Wim Wiewel argued in favor of such a shift at PSU, saying that the university needs an institutional board with a mandate that allows for an explicit focus on the university’s needs, as well as the ability to act on them, while reflecting the interests of the region.

“This governance model,” Wiewel said, “offers PSU the best opportunity to succeed and help the state meet its 4040-20 goal.”

According to the text of the bills, the university boards

would consist of 11 to 15 members appointed by the governor from a pool of nominees selected by the university.

The governor’s selections would be forwarded to the senate for confirmation. Board members would serve fouryear terms.

“The state board of higher education supports institutional boards,” said Diane Saunders, the director of communications for the Oregon University System, adding that the current legislative process has been in motion for about a year and a half.

In 2009, OUS commissioned a white paper from David Frohnmayer, president emeritus of U of O. Titled “The Coming Crisis in College Completion,” the report outlines “serious dangers in Oregon’s struggle to provide adequate higher education opportunities for [Oregon’s citizens].”

According to Saunders, a review that followed the paper’s publication examined numerous potential approaches to repairing the higher education situation in the state, and OUS is supportive of the current legislative process and reform efforts.

“We have to look at other ways of doing business,” she said.

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The Oregon legislature is considering two bills that would give universities more authority and decision-making power.

The legislation does not see support from all corners, however.

Those who oppose the bills as they’re written say they preclude students and staff from involvement in the administrative process by barring them from appointment to the institutional boards.

Those unconvinced by the present effort have also said that institutional boards in general could end up bloating costs for students—effectively reducing Oregonians’ access to higher education.

Patricia Schechter, a history professor at PSU and an executive council member of the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said that while there are many possibilities to consider with regard to university governance a silver bullet is unlikely.

“There’s no consensus for best practices,” Schechter

said, adding that neither PSUAAUP nor the AAUP’s coalition partners endorse the bill as written.

“We could be open to endorsing if we saw a board composition package that was exciting and inclusive,” she said. This would mean voting rights for faculty, staff and students.

PSU’s student government, in coalition with the Oregon Students Association, is also opposed, according to David Coburn, the Associated Students of Portland State University’s director of legislative affairs.

Coburn is particularly concerned that students aren’t guaranteed representation on the board.

“Students are actually a really essential part of any university process,” he said.

A key part of the conversation, he added, has revolved around making sure that the actions of ASPSU and its partners

benefit PSU while remaining mindful of their effects on the state of Oregon. “I really don’t believe that the bills that have been proposed do those sorts of things,” he said.

Thursday marked the legislative deadline for bills to advance beyond their original committees or risk dying this session. As of this writing, SB 270 has seen a number of amendments that have addressed technicalities within the bill. The new version, SB 270-A, has been unanimously approved by the Senate Committee on Education and Workforce Development. According to a press release, the legislation “now moves to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, where it will receive further work related to the state budget.” SB 270-A’s partner bill in the house, HB 2149, is in the House Committee on Rules, where it may see further work.

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current contract with Higher One and to push for a Good Samaritan policy that would allow students to call 911 in cases of alcohol or drug overdose without the threat of prosecution.

Au, who is running with fellow senior business major Jay Phung, said he hopes to focus on advocating student causes rather than supporting any specific measures of personal interest.

One point on which the candidates had divergent ideas was the managing of ASPSU staff in a way that prevents the divisiveness that marked the last election campaign. Both agreed that roles within student government should be made clearer but differed in how they would address the situation.

“I plan to reinstate at least one training a month, so that people can have the resources that they need,” Foster said, adding that the training would be mandatory. Au said he preferred to focus on clarifying job descriptions and individualized training tailored to specific learning styles.

The candidates hope to engage the campus community in different ways. Foster said

that advertising the existence of ASPSU and the work it does for the campus community is the paramount goal, adding that he often talks to students on campus who are unaware of ASPSU. Au hopes to spread awareness by increasing the government’s community engagement and by using ASPSU resources for food and entertainment in order to incentivize students to come together at larger events in the Park Blocks and other venues.

During the debate, Au was asked about his role in the organization budget council, whose misallocation of funds during the first two terms of the 2012–13 academic year led to budgetary shortfalls during spring term, and how he would prevent this as president.

“We set policies that limit spending and set caps,” Au said. “This money is finite, so we need to set limits and make sure that people spend as smart as possible.”

The two candidates will make one final appearance at a meetand-greet session on Wednesday from noon to 3 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294, before the voting period closes on May 3.

a student representing the freshman class would have to be a freshman. The constitution would also slash compensation for the majority of ASPSU positions.

The senate’s proposed amendments On Friday morning, Hoffman sent out an email announcing that since the JRB hadn’t had time to review the senate’s amendments, the amendments would not appear on the ballot.

“To date, the senate’s constitutional amendment referendums have not been approved by the judicial board. Therefore, the referendum from the [s]enate must not be placed on this year’s ballot,” Hoffman said in the email.

Shortly thereafter, SALP Associate Director Katie Jundt asked Hoffman to either call an emergency meeting in order to approve the amendments or delay the election, citing the difficulty of modifying the website that hosts elections.

Hoffman stood by her ruling.

It was at this point, according to Hoffman, that Jundt said SALP had the authority to force a delay in the election and that that authority was backed by the PSU administration.

Hoffman disagreed, and the two, along with JRB Vice Chair Emily Kunkel, met with Balzer to discuss the matter.

Balzer’s answers to the problem were somewhat inconsistent. At one point in the meeting Balzer said, “You’ve come to me and asked, ‘Does SALP have the authority to do that [delay the election]?’ And I’m saying yes. And I’m not going to overturn that decision.”

However, later in the discussion, Balzer explained that she was trying to be helpful, not tell the JRB what to do. “It’s not with authority that we say you need to take a few days,” she said.

By this time members of the senate had joined the meeting, and Balzer encouraged all the student leaders in attendance to work together to resolve the issue.

What followed was a fourhour meeting between senate

and JRB members. The pivotal discussion point of the meeting was whether the senate had followed the correct procedure when providing the JRB with their amendments.

The amendments were sent to the JRB by email 18 minutes before the board’s meeting. Senate Chair Sean Green and ASPSU University Affairs Director Tom Worth pointed out that they were told they needed to have their documents to the JRB by the meeting’s start time. But Hoffman and Kunkel maintained that expecting the JRB to read the amendments in the 18 minutes before the meeting was unreasonable.

After several hours of passionate yet civil discussion, the senate and the JRB realized that the debate had become counterproductive and began discussing possible resolutions.

“There’s going to be no resolution from talking about the process,” Hoffman said.

A delay or an emergency meeting?

The simplest option would have been an emergency meeting, but Hoffman was unable to get in touch with enough board members to hold a vote.

From there, the discussion

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turned to delaying the elections. Several options were reviewed, such as delaying the entire ballot. However, meeting attendees worried about the effect that would have on the candidates running for president, vice president, the senate and the student fee committee.

“Are we doing these candidates a disservice by holding the ballot hostage?”

Hoffman asked.

Because of these concerns, the group discussed holding a regular election for candidates first and then holding a special election for the senate’s amendments and Smith’s proposed constitution once the JRB could meet.

That idea was nixed because it wouldn’t be possible to modify the program used for hosting the elections in time.

Eventually, the group decided that the JRB would attempt to hold an emergency meeting as soon as possible, and that the election would start after that meeting.

At about 4:45 p.m. on Friday, the JRB was able to gather enough members to review the amendments and vote. The amendments were approved and will appear on the ballot in the elections, which started at the regularly scheduled time of 12:01 a.m. on Monday.

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Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats release focused sophomore album

Altered State: This cover sure looks pretty, especially when you’re tripping balls and listening to Uncle Acid.

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Following a band’s catalog from day one is a challenging but mostly rewarding task. Of course, undertaking the task usually requires that you actually like the band. In the case of Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, the experience is as enriching as any.

It’s always nice to see an enjoyable band progress through its career, watching as the band starts out without an identity and then matures over time.

Much like raising a child, you get to observe the fledgling act find itself instead of just emulating its peers. This experience can best be described as musical adolescence. Despite the awkwardness of the process, it is only with time and real life experience that a self can be established. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats certainly fall under this category.

I reviewed Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats’ first album, Blood Lust, in October of 2011 and, back then, I basically equated them to Black Sabbath and chalked the effort up to good but textbook Sabbath worship.

Now, in the spring of 2013, Blood Lust is still good but just as blatantly Sabbath as ever. Since then, Uncle Acid has had the better part of two years to find itself and break away from the riffs that spawned it.

Did Uncle Acid and his lovable Deadbeats accomplish this feat? Was the gestation period long enough?

The answer is mostly yes. The Sabbath influence is still prevalent, but the production and vocal stylings have changed rather dramatically.

Now, on their follow-up, Mind Control, instead of Sabbath (which the band still amply apes)

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Uncle Acid sounds more like a smoke-soaked Beatles with George Harrison at the helm. Admittedly, I’m not the biggest Beatles fan, but Magical Mystery Tour-era Fab Four with impossibly heavy riffs is a mash-up I can certainly endorse.

No tracks exemplify this new direction better than tracks one (“Mt. Abraxas”) and seven (“Follow the Leader”). Funnily enough, these tracks encapsulate the best and the absolute worst of the aforementioned Beatles era—“Mt. Abraxas” is absurdly well written and executed, while “Follow the Leader” is a plodding mess, complete with wanky sitar splashed across an equally boring accompaniment.

“Mt. Abraxas” is as good an introduction as I’ve heard to any record: It’s a tight, aurally pleasing slab of rock music that pushes you back into your chair and commands you to shut up and pay attention. The riffs on “Mt. Abraxas” and 90 percent of the record are

Head games Dark Horse releases cerebral mystery Mind MGMT Tristan Cooper Vanguard staff

From the Masons to the Knights Templar, conspiracy theories about secret societies and shadow governments have existed for hundreds of years. The idea that a powerful cabal of unknowns is manipulating the world at large is at once fascinating and terrifying, alluring and oppressive.

Popular culture has capitalized on this paranoia with blockbuster movies like Men in Black.

In the same vein—though on an entirely different appendage—comes Mind MGMT, a new graphic novel from Portland’s Dark Horse comics.

Cartoonist Matt Kindt takes on story and art duties, lending a singular voice to a labyrinthine plot that starts out simply enough.

The high concept: A formerly best-selling true crime writer named Meru seeks to regain her glory by getting to the root of the famous Amnesia Flight 815, during which 120 passengers and crew simultaneously lost their memories.

It sounds more than a little bit like the TV show Lost, and, sure enough, co-creator and showrunner Damon Lindelof wrote the introduction.

That’s about where the similarities end.

Though Mind MGMT preserves the spirit of the serial mystery by drip-feeding answers while piling on more questions, the focus quickly shifts from the missing memories to the titular secret organization.

As Meru discovers, Mind MGMT once acted as a kind of syndicate for those with psychic abilities. One of them was behind the memory wipe on Amnesia Flight 815, but Mind MGMT agents come in all sorts of extrasensory flavors: Some write mind-controlling advertisements for print and television, some are adept at prediction to the point of clairvoyance and some can even stave off death by controlling the cells in their body.

Meru believes that she can uncover the truth by finding former Mind MGMT agent Henry Lyme (a nod to the enigmatic underworld figure Harry Lime, famously played by Orson Welles in the classic film version of The Third Man).

It’s not much of a spoiler to say that she does eventually track him down, but the real surprises come when Meru discovers her own connections to Mind MGMT. Though conspiracy plots can sometimes flounder when the stories write themselves into a corner, Kindt tells the story with confidence: We get the feeling that he knows exactly where this is going.

When the bizarre and violent opening is revisited chapters later, everything clicks into place and a spontaneous free-for-all massacre somehow makes sense.

as fuzzed-out as guitar gets, often sounding like fuzzed-out fuzz.

In spots, Mind Control honestly made me think my speakers were broken—I actually checked all my connections when “Mt. Abraxas” raged forth, until Uncle Acid’s vocals sliced through the mix and everything suddenly made sense.

The production of the record is another exhibit in my evidence that record companies are finally “getting it” and mastering metal albums correctly (even if Mind Control isn’t all that much of a metal record).

Once again, the rest of the riffs on the album wash out the vocals, just the way it should be.

The riffs are the main focus, and on a stonerrock record like this they're the perfect focus, if you ask me.

Some of the riffs on Mind Control are so thick that you’ll wonder if some new recording technique has been invented in order to capture

Kindt is dedicated to fleshing out this world with rules and interesting characters. The many side stories (some only available in single-issue format, and not in this hardcover) expand the mythos and serve to give the main story surer footing.

Even the presentation is committed to the Mind MGMT conceit. Almost every single illustrated page has been drawn on a Mind MGMT field report form, complete with blue lines and instructions to keep all pertinent information “inside this box.”

On the left side of most of these “forms” is a unique blurb from the Mind MGMT field guide.

Some describe methods and means of the organization (“If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money”), while others seem to give clear hints to the subtext of the immediate story (“As a rule of thumb, if you cannot psychically determine whether a situation is a trap…it IS a trap”).

Though these extra kernels of info are not vital to the story, they are an awful lot of fun to keep up with. Readers who pay attention to them throughout the book will notice an exceptionally interesting wrinkle toward the end.

The art painted on these field guide forms will likely be divisive: Kindt uses watercolor over rough, sketchy ink, which can get abstract or even crude at times.

Some will fawn over the dreamlike representation of a world where everything is vague and nothing is for certain, and others will say that their kid could do that. Many will vacillate between both sides.

Mind MGMT spends a lot of time filling out its world and crafting a mythology for the titular organization, to the point that the characterization sometimes suffers.

them. Rarely have riffs sounded this raw and jagged, so nasally and gated yet so sludgy and saturated.

Kongh’s Sole Creation is a record I recently said this about, yet the two records differ in their tightness: Kongh’s record sounds polished whereas Uncle Acid embraces the garage-rock aesthetic and instead recalls a time studio glitz didn’t dictate the quality of music.

At the risk of sounding like someone’s mother, Mind Control simply rocks. And while Uncle Acid makes ample use of their rock aptitude, some tracks manage to drop the ball without warning.

“Poison Apple,” the album’s single (if you can call it that), is far too structured and verse-chorus-verse-y to sound like a real Uncle Acid track.

Its predictability is jarring when compared to modern rock anthems like “Mt. Abraxas” and the stellar fourth track, “Desert Ceremony.”

“Desert Ceremony” is a sprawling, ambitious track for any band, let alone one with as focused a sound a Uncle Acid. It’s very post-rock—think This Will Destroy You or Maserati, with generous blues riffing and breathtaking guitar harmonies.

Usually it’s a good sign when metal records have riffs that sound like Mega Man songs. This track and the follow-up “Evil Love” capture this technique wonderfully.

Much like “Follow the Leader,” other tracks stumble a bit. “Death Valley Blues” is kind of boring, and it’s depressing that the two tracks that remain after “Follow the Leader” never really build up a head of steam like the rest of the record.

The last two songs, “Valley of the Dolls” and “Devil’s Work,” almost sound like one dirge that falls flat when compared to the stellar first half of the album.

Overall, watching Uncle Acid transform from Black Sabbath Jr. to its own entity is heartwarming because, while both records are great, Mind Control sounds more like a coming-of-age story than Blood Lust does.

Like a proud father, I encourage you to check out what my boy’s been up to.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

Mind Control Rise Above Records Out now

Art, antiques and Algerians Second weekend of French Film Festival hits campus Breana Harris Vanguard staff

History is a treasure trove of stories more amazing than any fiction writer could invent. Two of the three films featured in this weekend’s French Film Festival—in its second weekend at PSU’s 5th Avenue Cinema—deal with historical events I’d never heard of and made me think about how films portray history in general.

What are the rules? What can you change to make it more interesting? Is a story worth telling simply to raise awareness, or does there have to be some innate cinematic quality? Why are some events worth remembering?

Martin Provost’s 2008 film Seraphine is the true story of an unlikely artist, Seraphine Louis, who worked as a housekeeper in early 20th-century France. She was uneducated and poor, living and working in the country, but her nature paintings, done on wood with paints made from materials like soil and pig’s blood, are considered extraordinary.

Discovered by German art critic Wilhelm Uhde, her art was sold and displayed through the 1920s, until Uhde was adversely affected by the Great Depression and Seraphine suffered a mental breakdown.

Seraphine is played by Yolande Moreau, who won the 2009 Cesar (essentially the French Oscar) for Best Actress, and Uhde is played by actor Ulrich Tukur.

The film actually swept at the Cesars, winning Best Film along with awards for cinematography, writing, music, production design and costumes. It’s interesting to think about why a story like this resonates with the French, but its themes of the value and nature of art are a good place to begin.

Seraphine will be presented by PSU French professor Annabelle Dolidon.

“This movie should appeal to many who like cinema, of course, but also art in general, biographical narratives and Europe at the wake of World War I,” Dolidon said in an email. “It tells the life of an ordinary person nobody would

have noticed, or would have believed to be a great artist.

“She was not beautiful; she was uneducated and poor; perhaps a bit simpleminded,” Dolidon continued. “And yet, she had an amazing connection with nature. Her paintings are unique and reflect movement and a magical realm. This movie poses the question: Who can make art? Who and what is an artist?

Who can judge art?”

The film itself is quite academic in its presentation of these important and fascinating questions. It’s certainly not the most thrilling of tales, and yet I agree that the story is important—and Moreau’s incredible performance alone is enough to recommend it. Those with a strong interest in the art world will really be drawn to this slice of art history.

Free Men, a 2011 film by Ismael Ferroukhi, tells an even more compelling historical tale: that of Algerian immigrants in Nazi-occupied Paris who save the lives of French Jews using the Mosque of Paris as their base of operations.

It stars Tahar Rahim, famous for his lead role in The Prophet, as an Algerian immigrantturned-freedom-fighter named Younes.

Younes’ friendship with a homosexual Jewish nightclub singer named Salim Halali (Mahmud Shalaby) inspires him to begin saving Jews, both by helping them escape the city and providing them with papers so they can identify themselves as Muslims.

The events of the story are real (though many of the characters and situations are composites), and Free Men is a very entertaining and interesting movie simply because so few people are aware of the events it covers.

Free Men is presented by PSU associate history professor Victoria Belco, who outlined the true and the fictional aspects of the film.

“Free Men…is the true story of the [m]osque’s rector, who had to convince German and Vichy officials of his community’s loyalty to Germany while he secretly protected both Muslim resisters and Jews,” Belco said in an email. “It is also the fictional story of a young Algerian immigrant who makes the transition from peddling black market goods to agreeing to spy on the [m]osque to becoming a committed resistance fighter.”

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trois french films: Summer Hours, top, Seraphine, left, and Free Men, right, are all playing this weekend as part of 5th Avenue Cinema’s French Film Festival.

Free Men is also sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of Portland; the organization will serve hors d’oeuvres an hour before the screening this Saturday.

The final film of the festival, Summer Hours, a 2008 piece by Olivier Assayas, is a different perspective on history—the personal history of one family. It stars Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jeremie Renier as three adult siblings who must give up their mother’s heirlooms after her death.

Summer Hours deals with the meaning of memory, the safety of objects and the role of money and commodity in the modern world.

The untold stories of one family or of an entire country can be equally compelling in cinema, and nobody mines the riches of history quite like the French.

Whether these films can entertain as well as they can teach is another question, but you’ll walk away from all of them with a lot to think about, and that’s probably the best thing you can hope for in film.

5th Avenue Cinema presents The French Film Festival Seraphine Friday, April 26, 7 p.m.

Free Men Saturday, April 27, 7 p.m. (hors d’oeuvres 6 p.m.)

Summer Hours Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m.

510 SW Hall St. Free admission

Crisp radicchio salad A crunchy lunch for on the go Kat Audick Vanguard staff

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Meru and Henry Lyme are both interesting characters struggling with their own inner demons, but everyone else in the story is essentially a paper-thin plot device. Kindt gets away with this for the initial story arc, but any further adventures would do well to have a few more fleshed-out characters.

The first of presumably several volumes, Mind MGMT has a nice hook but really impresses with its follow-through.

Hopefully Kindt can keep up this momentum and deliver a satisfying conclusion to make a complete story—fingers crossed that there won’t be any Lost-esque frozen donkey wheels.

College students don’t get nearly enough vegetables in their diets. When we’re cruising for quick-fix lunches we often fall for carb-heavy meals that make nap-time sound irresistible during class. Pre-make this crisp and vitaminrich salad to give yourself an energy boost.

Radicchio is an oft-overlooked vegetable: Despite disguising itself as red cabbage, radicchio has a very unique and biting flavor that adds a real kick to this dish. Each cup provides you with a healthy serving of vitamins C and K and antioxidants.

In this dish, radicchio’s somewhat bitter flavor is perfectly balanced with the tang of creamy lemon dressing and fresh chopped parsley.

Be sure to finely mince your parsley leaves: Large pieces of curly leaf parsley will overwhelm this salad mix.

If you find that the natural flavor of the radicchio leaves is a touch too bitter for your liking, take the edge off by quickly sauteing them in butter with some minced onion. You can also try tossing this recipe with some whole-wheat penne pasta to make it a full dinner entree.

Ingredients Salad head radicchio, chopped Fuji apple, seeded and chopped cup fresh curly parsley, minced 1/2 cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 carrot, peeled and chopped 2 stalks green onion, chopped Dressing 1/3 cup lemon juice (about 1 1/2 lemons worth) 3 tsp lemon zest 1 clove garlic, minced 1 shallot, minced 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp ground pepper 1/3 cup olive oil 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt Karl kuchs/VANGUARD STAFf

Instructions In a small bowl, whisk lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, shallot, salt and pepper until combined. Quickly whisk in olive oil until

well-distributed. Whisk Greek yogurt into the mixture until dressing is thick and smooth.

Transfer dressing into a small sealable container and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.

Chop radicchio, apple, parsley, carrot and green

onion and toss in a bowl. Add chickpeas and toss again.

Top each salad serving with a drizzle of chilled dressing and garnish with additional parsley leaves.

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La Rondine offers class, culture

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in character: Two star-crossed lovers, pictured left, Magda (played by Anna Viemeister) and Ruggerio (Zachary Borichevsky) belt out their tunes. The couple dines out, pictured right, with Lisette (Hannah Consenz) and Prunier (Alan Smith).

University’s Opera Program presents a Puccini classic RaChelle Schmidt Vanguard Staff

Paris in the late 1940s: The beautiful and the brilliant gather for a party at the home of a fashionably elegant albeit “kept” woman. As the story unfolds, the audience is swept away to the cafes, salons and other locales of the postwar Parisian smart set.

This is Puccini’s La Rondine, the romantic, heartbreaking musical featuring stunning vocals and lush orchestration that’s opening on campus this Friday.

Directed by well-known Portland theater director Jon Kretzu and conducted by PSU Orchestra Director Ken Seldon, the opera tells the tragic love story of Magda, a courtesan who falls in love with Ruggerio, a young artist.

La Rondine was written before World War I and is set in late 19th century Paris. Kretzu feels that the music of this piece lends itself well to the period after World War II as well.

The music boasts a cinematic style reminiscent of the romantic melodramas of the ’40s and ’50s.

Although much of the opera is light and stylized, Kretzu pointed out that there is ultimately a very emotional element to the show that audiences are sure to be moved by.

Kretzu likens this production to the films of Douglas Sirk, who directed the classics Obsession and Imitation of Life and whose films depict “elegant women suffer[ing] beautifully,” Kretuzu said.

Puccini, who is perhaps best known for his classic operas La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, originally composed La Rondine in 1916. However, the opera’s opening was delayed because of the outbreak of World War I. Thus when it finally did open—in Montreal in 1917—it didn’t really get the attention it deserved, and went on to have a rather sporadic production history with long passages of time between productions.

As a result, La Rondine has become one of the lesser-known Puccini operas.

“There have been big chunks of time in which it wasn’t performed,” said Christine Meadows, PSU’s opera director. “We really felt that this would be something that people would like to see, because this may be their only chance to see it.”

This production is made up primarily of PSU Opera Program students with the notable exception of tenor Zachary Borichevsky, who is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

Borichevsky, who also holds degrees from George Washington University and the Yale School of Music, has an impressive international professional singing career.

Most recently, Borichevsky acted at the Santa Fe Festival as Matteo in Tim Albery’s production of Arabella, which was conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

The PSU production’s director appreciates the opportunity to work with a renowned international artist.

“It’s amazing to work with such a great talent, who is clearly at the beginning of a wonderful career,” Kretzu said.

The music will be provided by the PSU student orchestra, which is conducted by Ken Seldon. For orchestra students such as cellist Hannah Heath, Puccini’s arrangement offers a challenging yet rewarding experience.

Puccini’s orchestration includes many tempo changes that can take some time to master, but Heath pointed out that the work results in lush, beautiful melodies.

PSU has been presenting award-winning opera productions for more than 50 years and is the only university in Oregon that produces a full opera with orchestra accompaniment each year.

One of the goals of the program is to provide students with the opportunity to perform in operas from around the world. The program gives both undergraduate and graduate students the chance to explore all aspects of the preparation for and performance of an opera.

For students like Heath, the biggest reward comes when the talents of the orchestra mingle with the sublime vocals to create “one beautiful voice.”

PSU’s Student Opera and Symphony Orchestra present La Rondine Friday, April 26; Tuesday, April 30; Friday, May 3; and Saturday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m.

Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Adults $26, seniors $24, PSU students/faculty/staff $15 Tickets available at PSU Box Office or 503-725-3307

Social sustainability soiree PSU professors release new anthology Tamara Alazri Vanguard Staff

For students at Portland State and across the country, social sustainability is an increasingly important part of maintaining a dynamic campus environment—especially at a campus as urban and integrated with its surrounding city as PSU. As people concerned about social sustainability, we should ask how we can improve the quality of life not only for ourselves but for others as well.

Finding ways to integrate sustainability into the social sphere is an integral part of Social Sustainability: A Multilevel Approach to Social Inclusion, a scholarly anthology recently published by Routledge Press featuring work from numerous PSU students and faculty and edited by three PSU professors: Veronica Dujon, Eileen Brennan and Jesse Dillard.

The book’s publication was made possible with help from the Miller Foundation Award, which granted PSU $25 million in 2008 to raise public awareness of urban development and social sustainability.

This Friday, a launch party at PSU’s Native American Student and Community Center will celebrate Social Sustainability’s release.

“We’re really looking forward to the event because it will give us a chance to thank all those who have supported us along the way,” said Eileen Brennan, director of PSU’s School of Social Work, who edited, produced and wrote parts of the book.

Dujon has been a sociology professor at PSU for nearly two decades and hopes this book will serve as a sort of educational guide for those who are unfamiliar with social sustainability.

“This was an ambitious project from the start, in which we attempted to define social sustainability on a multidimensional level,” Dujon said. “It’s a path-breaking book that was written to fill a gap that is often overlooked in the United States. Not a lot has been done on these issues.”

The publication process has taken two years, but the authors began compiling work and documents for the book back in 2009. It’s being published as the second installment in the Understanding Sustainability series, the first book of which was also co-edited by Dillard and Dujon.

Contributors to the book come from universities across the United States and the world.

This outstanding group of scholars is what makes the book so unique.

“This is really an international book with an amazing group of writers located all over the U.S.” Brennan said. “Most come from scholarly backgrounds. We have writers from Columbia University, Cal State and Florida University.”

The anthology covers myriad topics.

“We have chapters that discuss child development programs in Zimbabwe, to the oil Tarzan extraction in Canada,” Brennan said. “One chapter discusses assistant professor of anthropology at PSU Jeremy Spoon, who utilized his knowledge

of anthropology to travel to the Himalayas, where he worked on rebuilding their infrastructure.”

Spoon also created a number of tourism guides for foreigners for the anthology.

The Portland State Institute for Sustainable Solutions offers a number of resources for students who wish to become more involved in social sustainability. The Social Sustainability Colloquium is a networking group on campus that has been around for seven years.

“Portland State is known as the center or ‘hub’ of social sustainability,” Brennan said.

“These issues we’ve covered in the book are really a European thing, but we hope to make it more known, particularly in the U.S.” Others involved in the compilation of Social Sustainability include economist Marion King, who helped orchestrate the entire book although she did not contribute to the writing.

Dujon described her as an influential and intellectual leader in social sustainability. Marion Sharp is another prominent leader who contrbuted to the book.

Social Sustainability covers various topics such as child development, mental health and our health care system. The book’s multidimensional approach was achieved by using contributors in areas such as sociology, business administration, public administration, psychology, anthropology and social work, according to the project’s website.

“This book moves the idea of social sustainability through encompassing the process of social inclusion,” Dujon said. “In other words, you don’t exclude people from their decisions on the basis of race, geology and gender.”

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PSU’s School of Social Work and the Institute for Sustainable Solutions present A book launch for Social Sustainability: A Multilevel Approach to Social Inclusion Friday, April 26, 4 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center Free and open to the public

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Bigger, bigger Real Inception? and bigger New technology reveals the secrets of dreams

PSU wants to increase its visibility through expansion

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A Critical Glance Adam E. Bushen

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ortland State, Oregon’s largest university, hopes to expand its student base as well as its physical presence in downtown Southwest Portland. PSU President Wim Wiewel told Oregon Public Broadcasting that one of the things that drives him crazy is when people say they know PSU is at the southern end of downtown but don’t know precisely where it is.

Wiewel wants to make PSU more visible. One way to do this is by increasing enrollment, which will lead to university expansion. Part of this desire is to help the state achieve its 40-40-20 plan, which set a goal of having 40 percent of adult Oregonians earn a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree while 40 percent earn an associate’s degree and the remaining 20 percent earn a high school diploma.

The aim is to meet these numbers by 2025.

According to Wiewel, in order for Oregon to reach its long-term college graduation goals by 2025 PSU’s enrollment will need to expand to roughly 40,000 students. At the current rate of 700 new students per year, PSU is close to the 1,000 new students per year needed to help reach these long-term goals.

But there are some serious pros and cons to expanding the university by nearly a third.

New buildings would have to be constructed or purchased—an expensive undertaking. This would include the

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construction of more student housing and classrooms, and perhaps more buildings to hold the greater number of administrators needed to serve such a large student body.

Don’t forget about parking structures, either, especially if there are to be more student housing buildings.

There would be a necessary influx of professors and different types of staff, and the library and current computer labs’ ability to serve 40,000 students would be stretched.

The ability to get around campus quickly will be undermined as the campus will undoubtedly grow eastward, which is too bad because I like how the Park Blocks serve as the campus’ central location.

One great aspect of an urban university is how compact it is—you can easily get from class to class in a short amount of time. This would change as the campus grew bigger and bigger.

Wiewel addressed the issue of increasing student housing.

Most of PSU’s students live off campus. By constructing more student housing buildings and drawing students to fill them, the physical presence of more students on campus would increase the university’s visibility. With more PSU students walking and shopping downtown, it would be obvious that a university is nearby.

However, a caveat to having more new structures, especially student housing buildings, is that they would

blend in with the other towers around the university, rendering them indistinguishable from the non-PSU towers and office buildings.

While PSU’s presence would grow in the area, only those familiar with the campus would be able to tell.

Yet a larger student body, along with the required physical expansion of the university, would help increase PSU’s reputation and appeal. Its reputation would be enhanced by the new student housing and the freshly built structures in general. Prospective students would be drawn by the new, attractive buildings.

Also, a larger number of students would lead to a larger pool of talent. These types of students become alumni that give PSU a good name. New facilities would draw educators, hopefully gifted ones who already have good reputations and who could help increase their department’s visibility.

Apart from growing the student body and expanding the campus, PSU has already begun working on improving its visibility. Renovations to Lincoln Hall, the Stott Center and the proposed new location for the School of Business Administration will add sparkle to the university’s image. Lincoln Hall and the Stott Center will have glass facades, allowing those passing by to get a glimpse of the action.

And both will be gems in PSU’s crown.

Growth is good, and while PSU looks to gain visibility most of campus may become unrecognizable to its current students and alumni. This is a good problem to have.

One Step Off Emily Lakehomer

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reams fascinate us.

You could even say we’re obsessed with them. There are films, television shows and books devoted to traversing and unraveling dreamlands and their mysterious qualities.

Since the advent of modern technology and psychology, decoding dreams has been something of a quiet priority.

From what I understand, the only way we can remember our dreams is to wake up in the middle of them, when our brains are still trying to create the subconscious images that our waking minds aren’t quite capable of producing.

However, all that could soon change. Scientists in Japan may have found the secret to unlocking the world of dreams for the waking. According to the South China Morning Post, researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto have begun using magnetic resonance imaging scans to study which parts of the brain are active during sleep.

The study, published in Science, explained that test subjects were only allowed to sleep for a short period of time. After falling asleep, the subject would be woken up and asked to describe the images they’d seen. Each test subject did this 200 times.

These “brain maps” were then compared to scans produced by the MRI, effectively “decoding” the dreams.

“We have concluded that we successfully decoded some kinds of dreams with a distinctively high success rate,” Yukiyasu Kamitani, head of the research team, told the South China Morning Post. He added that this is a “key step [toward] reading dreams more precisely.”

The process is much simpler than you’d think. After the test subjects are woken up, they are asked to describe the images they dreamed about. The images are then sorted categorically. Then, as the MRI machine scans their brains, the subjects look at images of these same things. Via a computer algorithm, the imagebased scan is matched up to the MRI scan, which then allows scientists to match brain activity and figure out what the subjects dreamed about.

Apparently, this process also gives researchers an idea of what participants are dreaming about 60 percent of the time.

Interestingly, researchers found that “the same parts of the brain are used to process visual patterns, whether the person is awake or asleep,” according to the South China Morning Post.

This could explain the visceral nature of many of our dreams.

If you’re a Tumblr user, chances are you saw a certain video making its way around the Internet in the last week.

The video showed the brain activity of a small zebrafish over the course of about two minutes. It’s very similar to the results that Kamitani and the rest of the team found in their study’s human participants.

While human brain activity is more complex—at least we hope it is—the same idea applies. The brain activity seen onscreen allows scientists to gain some understanding of what the fish is looking at.

Fascinating, yes, but not everyone shares the same opinion. In a segment on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, said that

“in psychology and neuroscience, there’s been 100 years of argument about whether dreams are important or unimportant.”

It’s not uncommon to hear scientists and researchers state that dreams aren’t important and that what we dream about is usually just remnants of things we think about during our waking hours. Conversely, some claim that dreams are prophetic.

Gallant makes a good point, and you might agree that dreams are flighty and not necessarily the best way to map out brain activity. But this study’s process isn’t the final solution to decoding dreams.

Another counterpoint is that MRI scans aren’t the most reliable source for showing brain activity. An article on dream decoding published on the Extreme Tech website explains that MRI scans “do not directly access neural activity,” rather, they show “a signal derived from blood flow [that] changes only peripherally [when] linked to activity, and on a much slower timescale than actual neural spiking.”

While Kamitani and the other scientists working on this project have a long way to go, how cool is it that there is finally a little bit of science behind our dreams? It might not be accurate as of yet, but it’s a first step in understanding how the mind works at rest.

Gallant may have downplayed the importance of dreams in his statements, but isn’t understanding the brain more important than his personal biases? If we’re able to map brain activity and various functions through studying dreams, think of what it could contribute to neuroscience as a whole.

We’re a long way away from Inception, but who knows— maybe 50 years down the road we’ll be holding dream tours or conducting secret government operations within dreamscapes.

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De-boning KFC

Not just boys being boys

The fast food colonel is making changes to cater to entitled millennials

Rutger’s coach fired for abusing players, and rightly so

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Ms. Fudge’s Sweet Nothings Stephanie Fudge-Bernard

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he millennials have done it again with our brazen self-entitlement and lazy attitudes. KFC is now officially pushing Original Recipe Boneless chicken, a new product line of white and—wait for it—dark meat chunks.

In an effort to address the issue of an aging customer base and to reach a very picky younger generation, the fast food company is aiming to reach an audience that wants easier, more convenient and more portable food options.

Some of KFC’s loyal customer base are bound to get their panties in a bunch at the company’s new focus, but the test markets have shown incredible promise. KFC’s U.S. president, John Cywinski, went so far as to say the company has “never seen such a positive reaction to a test product,” according to ABC News.

It’s taken three years for the company to develop what they consider the brand’s boldest move since its founding more than 60 years ago, and what may ultimately replace the greasy, carcass-filled buckets of thighs, legs and succulent breasts of our childhood.

As a nurtured millennial who grew up on chicken nuggets and was the first to become ecstatic when popcorn chicken showed up, I must shamefully admit that I’m conflicted between utter excitement and disgust at such a product.

On the one hand, you can eat this chicken with literally just that: one hand. That means you have a whole hand free to text the class teammate who keeps harassing you, check your D2L to see if your disorganized instructor decided to add any last-minute coursework, or Facebook your mom to tell her no, you won’t be coming over for

dinner, because you’re eating delicious, deep-fried chicken chunks.

KFC is essentially creating a product that caters to customers who just don’t have the energy to use both hands for a meal. People don’t have the energy to grip a chicken breast by its grease and spend a precious 10 minutes of their day on a real, quality dining experience.

Bones imply that there once was life­— that a real, living creature once needed bones to move around and support all that tender muscle you’re biting into.

The colonel’s company is promoting its rebranding in a giant marketing campaign titled “I ate the bones!” One commercial in particular zooms in on a tray of leftover crumbs as a customer suddenly realizes there aren’t any bones left over. The man hysterically proclaims, “I ate the bones!” evidently indicating that the new product line is so tasty customers won’t even miss the bones.

Unfortunately for our fast-paced generation, such trends indicate a preference for convenience over quality. Well, quality in fast food, anyway. America’s Test Kitchen explained that when bones are cooked in conjunction with meat, they release amino acids, moisture, salt and

nucleotides that give the meat more flavor than otherwise.

Customers are sacrificing flavor for blander, easier-to-eat food.

Perhaps for some it’s not only a matter of convenience but also an underlying disgust for bones themselves.

Bones imply that there once was life, that a real, living creature once needed bones to move around and support all that tender muscle you’re biting into.

With so many dietary and lifestyle movements centered around eating less meat, or being vegetarian or completely vegan, it’s unsurprising that our generation is developing an “ick factor” when it comes to eating dead animals.

Such a shift is possibly more alarming than customers tweeting during meals.

The more fun shapes we turn our food into, and the fewer bones we see, the more disconnected we become as consumers from the animals that feed us.

As an omnivore, I don’t find it horrendous that I like the taste of savory, fatty chicken juices melting in my mouth.

What is horrendous is being oblivious to what you’re eating and over-indulging to the point of cruelty.

Since the U.S. eats about 8 billion chickens a year (according to Purdue University’s Food Animal Education Network)—or more than 25 chickens per person (calculated from the census data of approximately 315 million people)—there are a lot of dead animals to mark our eating habits. Distancing ourselves from those deaths isn’t a good thing.

Ultimately, this new product campaign brings to light some very concerning habits of millennials that go beyond what older generations might label as lazy. Are we terrible people?

No more so than our predecessors, but we certainly do bring our own evils to the table.

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Everywhere and Here Eva-Jeanette Rawlins

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few weeks ago, Mike Rice, the men’s basketball coach for Rutgers University, was fired after ESPN broadcast a video in which he was seen physically and verbally abusing his players.

Days later, the school’s athletic director, Tim Pernetti, announced his resignation after it was discovered that he’d seen the video last year and, instead of firing Rice, chose to suspend, fine and “rehabilitate” him, according to a National Public Radio report.

Watching the video, it’s hard to believe he wasn’t fired on the spot. Then again, considering the godlike status sports figures enjoy in this country, it isn’t so surprising.

Rice looks like a maniac in the video, repeatedly hitting, shoving and kicking players while shouting homophobic slurs. It was only after ESPN aired it that pressure began to mount on school officials to fire Rice, indicating that they would probably have kept Rice on as long as they had W’s in their column.

Rutger’s president, Robert Barchi, said he didn’t ask to see the video when Pernetti brought it to his attention last year, a decision he now regrets.

However, I’d venture a guess that the regret has more to do with the inconvenient press he’s now forced to deal with.

This begs the question of whether the behavior was

permitted because it was a men’s team. Was this just boys being boys? I have to believe that if Barchi had been told a coach was physically abusing women players, he wouldn’t have waited a second before looking at the tape.

Women being shoved, kicked and hit is unthinkable—and rightly so. The perpetrator would be hauled into court the very next day. Why is it different with male athletes?

People knew this was going on and did nothing about it, and it doesn’t sound like the students themselves complained. In fact, former player Mike Coburn told the New Jersey Star-Ledger, “Yes, he went overboard. But you can’t get a good feeling for what went down by seeing highlights on ESPN. No one was scared of Coach Rice. We didn’t fear him. We just understood him.”

That’s the problem.

Rice’s players “understood” that this kind of treatment was OK and made them great athletes. Other commentators have said as much, like Roxanne Jones, a CNN columnist who suggested that that’s what big-time sports is all about, so get over it. After all, she says, “the essence of sports will always lie in the Neanderthal within us all.”

She describes how her son joined a basketball team at the age of 10 and faced his own bully of a coach who frequently racially stereotyped

and berated the children—yes, children. Jones said the advice she got from professional players was not to worry: “They had all experienced…a Mike Rice…[and] argued that it was important for a young man to learn not to let a bully coach like that break you.”

Would we say that to our young women, take all the abuse you’re given and don’t let it break you? No. But it’s OK for an adult, an authority figure, to bully young boys and men. We still see it as a rite of passage for boys to be roughed up in order to learn how to be men. Violence is an acceptable counterpart to a boy’s coming of age—that way, we churn out “real” men, not wimps, right?

Don’t get me wrong. Sports should be painful, grueling, agonizing—they should push you past what you think you’re physically and mentally capable of. They should not, however, reduce your humanity and dignity and teach you that taking abuse defines your manhood. If boys are taught this early that violence is OK, that it actually makes you the man you should be, then I’m afraid for them and for their future spouses.

We are a country obsessed with violence. The sports field is just one more battlefield to conquer, and it’s our boys who suffer. It’s time we dropped our double standards and let go of archaic ideas of boys being boys and acknowledge once and for all that bullying is never acceptable, no matter how many W’s it gives you.

Just look at how well it turned out for Rice.

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VANGUARD • TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 • Opinion

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Erick Bengel EDITOR@PSUVANGUARD.COM 503-725-5691

Letter to the Editor

Thursday, April 25

April 15, 2013

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Canary in the coal mine Do funding cuts for political science research spell doom for other social sciences?

Art of the Possible Joseph Kendzierski

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en. Tom Coburn, M.D., R-Okla., doesn’t believe that political science is worthy. He made that pretty clear when he offered an amendment to H.R. 933, the spending bill that allows the federal government to continue to operate for the rest of the fiscal year.

The amendment? It effectively prohibits the use of National Science Foundation grant money for any political science research project that doesn’t promote the “national security or economic interests of the United States.”

Sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Mark Begich, R-Alaska, the amendment was accepted by the bill’s floor manager, which means that funding for research that examines democracy and public policy is now nonexistent.

This research is vital to our society because it helps us to discover who we are and what we stand for. It also helps to ensure that the public is informed of the latest trends in our political society—trends like how the American electoral system operates and how presidential power is exercised.

Instead of relying on unbiased academic research, Coburn believes we can get all the information we need to understand these complex subjects from our news outlets. The same news outlets that have been the subject of so much debate because of the perception of biased reporting.

But the difference between an academic research project and an opinion poll conducted by a news agency is that the academic project is able to reveal deeper levels of beliefs and more nuanced opinions about our society than just a quick yes or no answer to a question that’s very limited in scope.

I can understand the desire to limit what the federal government spends its money on; after all, our national debt is an unbelievable $16 trillion.

But is spending on political science research demanding such a large portion of the federal budget that it will make a difference in the larger scheme of things?

The answer is an unequivocal no.

Total NSF spending on political science research is approximately $10 million.

Now, our political education will rely upon potentially biased research conducted on behalf of private organizations, many of whom have their own agendas. This scenario is worrisome at the very least.

What’s also worrisome is what this means for all of the other social sciences. If academic research is to be subject to the political whims of those in power, what is there to keep the other sciences from being put on the chopping block?

Will sociologists be required to prove that their research

has national security interests before they can secure funding? How about psychology or the other social sciences?

The implications of cutting precious funding for the social sciences are far-reaching. If we don’t devote at least some of our time and energy to discovering who we are and how we relate to each other, we won’t be able to move forward and solve our most pressing issues.

If the physical sciences are the only ones that receive funding, our research institutions will devote themselves to building the next greatest gadget or bauble and not to answering the questions that are so pervasive and compelling in our society.

We cannot allow this to happen. Instead of cutting funding for academic research, we should focus on cutting the programs that really harm our society, programs such as chemical and biological weapons research, which might even be in conflict with international law.

Or maybe we should stop allowing no-bid contracts for vital government services. It stands to reason that by allowing competition for these contracts the market will ensure that the government gets the best bang for its buck.

Thomas Jefferson is famous for insisting that the only way to safeguard our liberty is to ensure that the people are well educated and informed about modern issues. If we eliminate funding for the experts who answer these questions we will fail in our great democratic experiment, and fail we must not.

Dear President Wiewel, My name is Lisa Meersman and I received a Bachelor’s in Community Development from Portland State this last December. When I started at PSU as a freshman in 2008, I founded Take Back the Tap at Portland State with four other students. I continued to coordinate the campaign until December of 2012, when I graduated.

Over the years, we, the students of Take Back the Tap, have worked hard to create meaningful change on the PSU campus and we have gained significant support from the PSU community. I am pleased by the successes of the campaign, the local and national attention we have gathered around the importance of choosing tap water over bottled water and the efforts the campus has made to reduce bottled water consumption.

However, as a Portland State alum, a citizen of Portland and a member of the global community, I was embarrassed to attend last week’s “An Evening with Tim Wise” and see Dasani bottled water placed on the podium. In a city that sources its water from a watershed with some of the highest quality of

surface water in the U.S., it makes no sense to promote bottled water. Selling bottled water is a multibillion dollar industry that perpetuates environmental degradation, social and environmental injustice and resource privatization. As a university that values sustainability, it makes more sense to show the community that we are proud to serve Portland tap water, not only because of its quality, but also because it aligns with our vision to be internationally recognized for our sustainability efforts.

In November of 2011, you sent a letter to the campus community indicating the establishment of the “Sustainable Drinking Water Task Force,” an initiative designed to promote the use of tap water over bottled water. In this letter you said, “Plastic bottles are both a symbolic and significant contributor to campus waste. Many end up in the garbage rather than recycling.

Production and transportation of these bottles generate additional environmental costs. And the $2 spent on a 16-ounce bottle of water could buy more than 700 gallons— enough to fill 5,600 bottles— of Portland drinking water,

which is some of the world’s best.” You also stated that plans are “only as good as the actions that follow.”

Where are the actions that follow? Why are we still promoting bottled water by serving it on the podium of our internationally acclaimed guest speaker while he was discussing social justice? I am aware that you were not the one who personally chose to feature bottled water at the event, but the ultimate responsibility for leadership on this issue does fall to you. The problem lies in the disconnect between our values and our practices, and integrity is the most critical element of being a leader. Tim Wise’s message was inspiring: it starts with each of us to be the change for our world. We need the entire campus community to take responsibility for their actions.

Is PSU truly a leader in sustainability? If so, let’s be a role model for other institutions by putting into practice the values we so often talk about. To begin, we can make the simple commitment to proudly serve Portland tap water.

One Million Bones Noon–1 p.m.

Southwest Park Blocks

Come to the Park Blocks to experience a walkthrough of interactive and thought-provoking art as Oregon’s “One Million Bones” installation visits the Portland State campus.

This installation works in collaboration with the Conflict-Free City Initiative to bring awareness to genocides and atrocities going on around the world as well as where the minerals that go into our electronics come from. For more information on the project visit onemillionbones. org/the-project.

FREE

Dating Around the World 4–6 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228 1825 SW Broadway

PSU Cultural Centers, International Student and Scholar Services, and the Organization of International Students present a discussion about dating, including how it works and what it looks like, in different culFREE tures around the world. © stumptown comics, inc.

Stumptown Comics Fest offers an atmosphere that is not only inviting to veteran comics enthusiasts but educational for those looking to learn more about the comics industry. The event takes place Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Oregon Convention Center.

Thank you, Lisa Meersman

What’s your $0.02?

Tuesday, April 23

Senior Capstone Fair 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, rooms 327–329 1825 SW Broadway

The Senior Capstone Fair offers students a chance to look at capstone courses that will be offered during the upcoming summer and fall terms. For more information on the event and what will be showcased there, visit capstone.unst.pdx.edu.

FREE

NO! The Rape Documentary: A Film Showing and Discussion

Got something to say? Share your thoughts at psuvanguard.com

3–6 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228 1825 SW Broadway

Join the Women’s Resource Center’s Women of Color Action Team and the Multicultural Center’s Reflect and Connect Series to watch a film that takes a critical look at sexual violence in the African-American community. Following the film, three guest speakers will facilitate an open FREE discussion.

Engaging Asia: Venturing to China—One Oregonian’s Story 6–7:15 p.m.

Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St.

Portland native and successful business owner Pete Nickerson will be at the Native American Student and Community Center to share the story of his 35-year journey through Asia and how he came to be in the position that he is in today. This is the first lecture in a series about engaging Asia focusing on lessons and perspectives.

FREE

Wednesday, April 24

Race: the Power of an Illusion Noon–2 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228 1825 SW Broadway

The third and final part in a threepart series on the concept of race and whether it does or does not exist biologically, as well as what the cultural significance of the idea of race is to us and to others, will be held at the Smith Memorial Student Union.

FREE

Catherine Austin Fitts: Who Owns Our Finances?

7 p.m.

First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave.

Catherine Austin Fitts is a managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC, publisher of the Solari Report; she has served as assistant secretary of housing and federal housing commissioner in the first Bush administration, and has been managing director of Wall Street firm Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. She will be offering her expertise in a talk about our finances and who is FREE controlling them.

Wednesday Night Swing 7:30 p.m.

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St.

Every Wednesday night at the Bossanova Ballroom the Portland Lindy Society invites you to come and dance. Lessons for beginners will begin at 7:30 p.m. and open dance will start at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $7. 21+

KPSU’s 2013 Radio Revival Presents the Harvey Girls with Dirty Looks 8–10 p.m.

Meetro Cafe 1809 SW 11th Ave.

KPSU invites you to enjoy the music of the Harvey Girls at the Meetro Cafe. Melissa Rodenbeek and Hiram Lucke formed the Harvey Girls in August 2003 in Lawrence, Kan. The group—named after the waitresses who served travelers in the American

West from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railways—combine the melodies of bubblegum pop with experimentation in sound. They will be joined by Portland locals the Dirty Looks. This concert will serve to benefit the funding of an FM radio station for Portland State University.

FREE

Saturday, April 27

Stumptown Comics Fest 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd.

Stumptown Comics Fest celebrates 10 years of operation by bringing you the Northwest’s largest comicsfocused event. The event will span two days and boasts more than 25 special guests as well as a variety of exhibitors. Panels and workshops will be happening for the duration of the event with content to please all ages. Admission is $7 per day or $12 for the weekend with children 12 and under gaining entry for free.

Sunday, April 28

Climb One, Climb All: Bouldering Competition 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Academic and Student Rec Center 1800 SW Sixth Ave.

Register by 6 p.m. on April 26 to take part in Campus Rec’s Climb One, Climb All bouldering competition. The cost of entry is $5 for Rec Center members and $12 for nonmembers. This event is all-inclusive

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and open to all skill levels. For more information, email the Outdoor Program at odp@pdx.edu.

PSU Opera: Puccini’s La Rondine 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave.

You are invited to Lincoln Hall to enjoy Portland State’s rendition of Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine, an opera with an enchanting score and captivating story. Tickets range in price and can be purchased at the PSU Box Office: adults $26, seniors (60+) $24, groups $20, PSU students/ FREE faculty/staff $15.

Monday, April 29

Dr. Leith Morton, “Evading Censorship: Maekawa Samio’s Poetry on the Pacific War” 6 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238 1825 SW Broadway

The Portland State Center for Japanese Studies presents Dr. Leith Morton, a full professor of English at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in the Foreign Language Research and Teaching Center and the Department of Value and Decision Science. Morton will offer a talk on Maekawa Samio’s poetry, and how it broke barriers by speaking out against war while at the same time expressing patriotic sentiments to FREE ensure publication. = on PSU campus FREE = free of charge FREE = open to the public 21+ = 21 and over

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EDITOR: MARCO ESPAñA SPORTS@PSUVANGUARD.COM 503-725-4538

Volleyball gears up for spring

Closing in on Big Sky Conference championships coming up next month

Vikings to host the University of Washington in exhibition match at Stott Center Rosemary Hanson Vanguard Staff

Though the season is still a few months away, the Portland State volleyball team is already getting some match play in as they gear up to host the University of Washington Huskies in their second spring exhibition match on Saturday. After winning the Big Sky regular-season title last season, the Vikings have high expectations coming into 2013. The team will have plenty of experience to rely on this year, with six seniors suiting up for PSU this fall.

The Vikings won the regular season in dramatic fashion last year. Back-to-back losses in the second-to-last weekend paired with wins by the second-place Idaho State University Bengals put Idaho state ahead of the Vikings for first place. Going into the final weekend the Vikings needed a little help from Idaho State’s opponent, Eastern

Washington University. And they got it, as the Eagles— who ended their season just 5-15—upset the Bengals 3-1.

With the conference title on the line, PSU took on Idaho State at home. After an injury in the third set sent Vikings star outside hitter Jaklyn Wheeler to the bench, sophomore Cheyne Corrado stepped in to replace her. Corrado came through in a big way, helping the Vikings to a 3-1 victory and the Big Sky regular season championship.

Unfortunately for PSU, their celebration was cut short as they fell in the first round of the Big Sky tournament to the University of Northern Colorado.

The Vikings graduated two important players—outside hitter Megan Ellis and setter Dominika Kristinikova. Ellis was second behind Wheeler in kills during the 2012 season, and Kristinikova was a crucial serving force for the Vikings, registering 19 aces on the year.

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Garyn Schlatter, a starting setter for all of last season, and outside hitter Aubrey Mitchell will be key for PSU heading into the 2013 schedule, as will Kaeli Patton, who led the Vikings in service aces. Wheeler is still recovering from her injury and won’t be in action against Washington, but she expects to return to competitive play in June.

Defensively, the Vikings will have Kasimira Clark, 2012’s Libero of the Year, in the back row. She’ll be joined on defense by middle blockers Katie O’Brien and LeighAnn Haataja, both of whom contributed key blocks for the squad last season.

While Saturday’s meeting with Washington will not affect the standings, it will give the Vikings a good idea of where they stand going into 2013. The match is slated for April 27 at 1 p.m. in the Stott Center. Scores and stats can be found by visiting goviks.com.

The marathon Drew Lazzara Vanguard Staff

Coming together to recover from tragedy

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After a week like the one we just endured, I’m at a bit of a loss as to where sports fit in.

Tragedy has a way of leveling the playing field for a society—there’s a sports analogy for you, if you like.

It exposes our capacity for senseless violence, punctures our collective sense of security and shines a light on the overwhelming majority of good, loving people who are more than willing to cast

aside any and all differences in times of dire need.

And talking about it or writing about it—really, doing anything other than feeling it— seems cliched and insufficient.

There’s something sports-like about that, too. Listen to any coach or player being interviewed after a big game. “We played hard, executed, played for each other,” et cetera. Listen to everyone who talked about Boston after the horrible events of last Monday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, our hearts go out to the

In two weeks the track and field squad will head off to the Big Sky Championships, but they won’t have to travel very far. Portland State will host the conference meet for the first time May 8–11 in Forest Grove. With the outdoor season’s end in sight, the team is getting closer to their goal of being Big Sky champions. “[Winning it] would mean a lot,” assistant coach Seth Henson said. “Obviously it would to the coaching staff, because we know how hard we have worked and the adversity we have pushed through to be where we are at now. We are trying to do our part for Portland State athletics.”

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jaklyn wheeler leads the Vikings in their 2013 campaign. Expectations are high for the team coming off a season in which they took home the Big Sky regular season title.

people of Boston,” et cetera. It’s not that these words are rote or meaningless. It’s just that sometimes the way we feel inside has only a pale literal translation.

We use the best words we have, but they aren’t enough.

And yet, in the wake of tragedy, we yearn to release all those things we feel, all those things that boil beneath the surface when something awful happens to us, all those things we grope for when we struggle for the right words. I believe that some of the most seemingly frivolous things about our society, things like art and cinema and literature and even sports, are really manifestations of those things we feel but cannot say. They are the extended metaphor

for all the heartbreak, yes, but also for all the joy and wonder and collective spirit that we cannot put into words.

Maybe I’m way off base here.

Maybe this seems crass. Certainly a painting or a book or a stupid game is insignificant compared to human life. But it was a sporting event that brought all those millions of people to Boston that day in the first place. And it wasn’t that all of them love running or watching running or celebrating the winners of a long footrace. It was just that something—whatever it is in sports that makes us want to celebrate each other with each other. It was that something that the people who did this horrible thing were attacking and trying to destroy.

It’s also the thing we returned to a few days later, on Wednesday, when the Boston Bruins took the ice for the first time after the bombings. I don’t know the score of the game or who won or any of the truly incidental details. But I know that before the puck dropped an arena full of people loudly sang the national anthem, spontaneously joining together in one voice.

I don’t think which song it was matters any more than who won the game. All that matters is that with heavy hearts a grieved city stood up and sang together. Then they watched a game together. And they mourned the losses, hoped for healing and pledged allegiance to one another in the best words they had.

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The Vikings are still in the process of getting athletes qualified for the conference championships. Last weekend they sent athletes to two events—the Oregon Relays in Eugene and the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

Senior Geronne Black continued her tremendous run this year, recording a seasonbest time in the 100-meter event. The sprinter made it all the way to nationals during the indoor season, and is on pace to do it again outdoors in her final season as a Viking.

Black will play a huge role in the success of the women’s team at the conference championships next month, but PSU will need points in plenty of other events in order to have a shot at the title.

“Our women are on track to… win the conference championship,” Henson said. “In our technical events, the jumps and throws, we are waiting on a few things that we have been working on in practice to stabilize.

Once [they] do we are really going to have the numbers to go hit it on all cylinders.”

They seem to be on their way there, as freshman Sydney Johnson came through with a mark of 47.72 meters (156-07) in the discus throw, breaking the school record set back in 2006.

The men also had a solid outing for Portland State.

Sean MacKelvie threw the javelin for the Vikings for the first time since injuring his elbow last year before nationals.

Though MacKelvie’s throws did not qualify him for the conference meet, he was a welcome addition to the lineup. “[MacKelvie] threw competitively this weekend, and his elbow was good,” Henson said.

“To me, that is promising.”

While the women have garnered most of the accolades this year, the coaching staff is hoping that the men’s team will close out 2013 strong as well. Several members of the squad recorded top-10 results for the Vikings, including J.J. Rosenberg, who placed third in the 200-meter with a time of 22.20 seconds, and Rockwell Tufty and Tyson Stipic, who turned in top-five marks

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J.j. rosenburg took third place in the 200-meter event over the weekend, one of several strong finishes by the track and field squad. There are just two meets remaining before the Big Sky Championships. in the high jump and triple jump, respectively.

“I’m really hoping that the men can come together,” Henson said. “If those seniors can show up in the

conference meet and be in the final in their respective events, and then finish in the top five, the men can get their 30 or 40 points and be in that eighth or ninth spot.”

Next weekend, PSU will travel to California to compete in Berkeley, followed by their last meet of the outdoor regular season in Eugene at the Oregon Twilight Meet.

Football on the horizon for PSU Vikings get ready for new season in 2013

Alex Moore Vanguard Staff

Portland State football is already preparing for the 2013 schedule as spring practices have begun for next season.

The Vikings have announced that they will hold their annual spring game at

Evergreen High School in Vancouver on May 18. The season will start up again in September with a matchup against the University of California, Berkeley, on the road. PSU’s first Big Sky meeting comes against the University of California, Davis, two games later,

nigel burton and the Vikings are looking forward to a fresh start this year.

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followed by a nationally televised game at home against California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, on Sept. 26. The Mustangs are coming off a year in which they went 9-3 in the regular season, earned a playoff berth and beat the Vikings 37-25 in their matchup last season.

In addition to the Cal Poly game, PSU is scheduled to make two more appearances on national television this season, with matchups against the University of Montana on Oct. 5 and Eastern Washington University in the Dam Cup

season finale on Nov. 23. Eastern Washington had a strong campaign last season, finishing 11-3 and claiming a share of the conference title along with Cal Poly and Montana State University.

PSU is hoping to recover from last year’s disappointing season, in which the Vikings went 3-8 overall and 2-6 in Big Sky play. The season before that the Vikings had looked to be on the rise after winning seven of their 11 games, but they couldn’t carry that success into 2012. Defense was an issue for most of last year,

and the team has brought in new Defensive Coordinator Jaime Hill to help remedy the situation.

The lineup has remained largely intact, though, as the Vikings return 12 starters from 2012, including quarterback Kieran McDonagh.

McDonagh is coming off one of the most productive seasons by a freshman in school history and will try to improve upon that success in his sophomore year as he leads the Viking against a full slate of tough Big Sky competition.

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VANGUARD •TTUESDAY, uesday, Jan. APRIL 31, 23, 2013 2013 • SPORTS • SPORTS

Solid start for the Winterhawks Winterhawks race out to 2-0 lead in Western Conference Finals

Recent results Friday, April 19

Track & Field OREGON RELAYS Eugene, Ore. Mt. Sac relays Walnut, Calif.

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Top performers Sydney Johnson: third place in the discus throw, 47.72 meters (156-07) Sierra Brooks: third place in the 100-meter, 12.12 J.J. Rosenberg: third place in the 200-meter, 22.20 Tyson Stipic: third place in the triple jump, 13.21 m (43-04.25)

The Portland Winterhawks opened the WHL Western Conference Finals against the Kamloops Blazers with two physical contests at Veterans Memorial Coliseum over the weekend.

Picking up right where they left off in their sweep of Spokane in the previous round, the Winterhawks took control and won both games as Mac Carruth and Ty Rattie made their way through the record books and led the team to a 2-0 series advantage.

Game 1 The rivals opened the Western Conference finals on Friday with a tense, contentious matchup that featured 85 minutes in penalties. Continually goaded by Kamloops, the Winterhawks managed to fight off an early deficit to take a 4-1 win in a crucial Game 1.

Joe Kornelsen, who had just three goals during the regular season, opened the scoring two minutes into the contest. As the Winterhawks got sloppy on defense and a scrum broke out in front of Carruth’s goal, Kornelsen managed to tap the loose puck off the referee’s skate and into the net to give the Blazers a 1-0 lead.

By the close of the first period, however, Portland had reversed

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ty rattie and the Winterhawks got off to a quick start in the conference finals against Kamloops, winning both games in Portland to open the series. their fortunes to take a lead they would not relinquish. With 4:57 left in the period, Taylor Leier tipped Chase De Leo’s shot past Kamloops goalie Cole Cheveldave to tie the game. Less than two minutes later, the Blazers fell asleep on the power play, and Rattie streaked clear into the attacking zone on a shorthanded breakaway. Kamloops defenseman Joel Edmundson slashed Rattie, preventing the winger from getting off a shot, and the officials pointed for a penalty shot. Corralling the puck, Rattie sent his attempt over Cheveldave’s shoulder for his 12th goal of the postseason.

The goal tied Rattie with former NHL star Reg Leach for

second all-time in WHL playoff scoring.

After a scoreless middle frame, team captain Troy Rutkowski added a power-play tally early in the third period, and Brendan Leipsic completed the scoring six minutes from the final buzzer.

Game 2 Rattie was nearly suspended after incurring a game misconduct penalty at the end of Game 1. But he was allowed to dress for Game 2, and the winger notched three more playoff points in a 4-0 Portland win, moving him up to second alltime on the WHL playoff points

list behind former Kamloops Blazer and NHL journeyman Rob Brown. Carruth stopped 27 shots for his sixth career postseason shutout, extending his franchise record as Portland won their seventh straight postseason matchup.

Seth Jones, one of the top prospects in this year’s NHL draft, scored the first goal for Portland on a wraparound that beat Cheveldale 4 1/2 minutes before intermission. Rattie added his 13th goal of the playoffs near the end of the second period, taking a pass from Brendan Leipsic and firing high over Cheveldale for the insurance marker.

Just 45 seconds into the

third period, the Winterhawks added a third when Nicolas Petan completed a cycle on the power play that befuddled the Blazers defense. Leipsic scored a goal of his own—his seventh of the playoffs—midway through the third to complete the scoring.

The series now heads across the border for the next two games, as the Blazers host Portland tonight and tomorrow in Kamloops. “I don’t know if [Kamloops will] play a lot better or be any different— obviously that’s up to them,” said acting head coach Travis Green. “But with them being down two, we’ll probably see their best game.”

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Top performers Ty Rattie: 1 goal, 2 assists Brendan Leipsic: 1 goal, 1 assist

Saturday, April 20

Softball

@ Vikings Idaho State

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Top performers Crysta Conn: 2-for-4, HR, 2 RBI

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commodore Brie Busey, left, shows new member Heather Wilson the ropes on Wilson’s first day with the club on April 12.

PSU Sailing Find yourself out on the water Katie Hoyt Vanguard Staff

The Portland State sailing club is one of the best-kept secrets on campus, but one that all

PSU students and faculty can be a part of. Sailing offers a rush that few other campus clubs can match, and PSU has formed its own close-knit sailing community.

Team commodore Brie Busey is looking forward to getting people back out onto the water.

“This season we have six or seven members,” Busey said.

“Usually we have around 12, but winter can be a hard season to sail in…We are looking to build the team even more and have a great experience.”

The team spends weekends throughout the year traveling to regattas (races) all along the West Coast. Destinations include Seattle, Bellingham, San Francisco, Canada and the

Columbia River Gorge. There will be a regatta held right here in Portland April 27–28.

The sailing club’s members have formed a bond with one another as members of a team, but they also love spending time with friends from other colleges, even if those friends also happen to be the competition.

“It’s always fun getting to hang out with everyone from the district,” Busey said. “When we travel, whoever is host we usually stay at their place. We are all close—what happens on the water stays on the water.”

The club does not discriminate against people who have never sailed before. Heather Wilson, a first-time sailor, showed up to the Willamette Sailing Club the same day I was there and put on a life jacket and hopped into a boat with the team. She was shown the basics of how to sail and was eager to get started.

“Everyone supported me today,” Wilson said. “I am excited to see what the race is like.

I saw this was a great opportunity for me and thought, why not? I started today and will be sailing tomorrow.”

Students don’t have to wait for the beginning of a new term to sign up.

“We accept people at any time during the year,” team captain Alyssa Staples said.

“People who compete with us have to be full-time undergraduates, but everyone’s allowed to sail…faculty, postgraduates, anyone. “[We] want people to learn how to sail,” she continued.

“We want you to love it.”

The team typically sails in two-person boats for competitions. The cost to join is $150 per term, and the club covers all travel expenses.

Interested mariners can even come down and sail first before paying, just to make sure it’s right for them.

“Racing and traveling are some of my favorite parts about sailing,” Busey said.

“It’s also a challenge, and I learn new things all the time.

It’s an experience unlike any other—wind moving, water spraying everywhere, boat going fast…[it’s] a highadrenaline sport.”

Meetings and practices are held at the Willamette Sailing Club, at 6336 SW Beaver Ave., every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. If you would like to get involved in PSU Sailing, visit sailing.groups.pdx.edu or email sailing@pdx.edu.

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Top performers Mac Carruth: 27 saves, shutout Brendan Leipsic: 1 goal, 2 assists

Sunday, April 21

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Top performers Diego Valeri: 1 goal

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