Portland State Vanguard

VOLUME 69 | ISSUE 3

July 8, 2014

majoring in money

For college students, valuing passion over employment opportunities shouldn't be considered naive

NEWS

OPINION

ARTS & CULTURE

SPORTS

That’s rubbish! Garbology author Edward Humes gears up to talk trash at PSU. pg. 4

The new Glass-Steagall Act proves that politics don’t necessarily have to be as-usual. pg. 7

Always Sometimes Monsters, the video game that brings a fresh, much needed perspective to the medium. pg 10

The Tour de France is underway. Are we ready to move past the Armstrong hangover and care about cycling again? pg. 14

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CORRECTION In the cover story that ran in the June 24 issue, titled “ASPS-Who? Meet your new student government,” the name of a senator was misspelled. His name is Luis Perez, not Luiz.

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NEWS

Asbestos removed from SMSU subbasement Jay Pengelly

During a routine carpet removal in a hallway of the subbasement of Smith Memorial Student Union last month, workers discovered the tiles and adhesive underneath contained the carcinogen asbestos. As a precautionary measure, the subbasement was cordoned off and evacuated. Iris Environmental, a consulting and engineering firm which focuses on management of environmental liabilities and other issues, was brought in to safely remove the tiles and glue.

“All old buildings in Portland deal with asbestos,” said

CRIME BLOTTER JUNE 30 Millar Library Encounter

A woman stated that at approximately 2:10 p.m. on June 25 she encountered Thomas Jonas on the second floor of the PSU Millar Library. During the encounter, Jonas asked to massage her feet three or four times. After telling him no, Jonas left the location while mumbling to himself. She recognized Jonas after viewing a photo on KATU.com. She stated that no crime occurred, but she wanted CPSO to be aware of the encounter.

Domestic Violence Harassment

University Place Hotel Officer Brian Rominger and Officer Jon Buck responded to University Place Hotel on the report

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Scott Gallagher, director of communications at Portland State. “Anytime we renovate a building 30–40 years old, there’s typically asbestos, whether in insulating, flooring, ceiling tiles. But it’s not dangerous until you disturb it.”

Asbestos is classified as a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals. When maintenance work disturbs materials possessing asbestos—like the tiles and glue in the SMSU subbasement—the risk of dangerous airborne particles is present. If asbestos particles are inhaled, they can cause serious lung problems, including mesothelioma and asbestosis.

The tiles found possessing asbestos were part of the original construction of SMSU, built between 1957 and 1963. Gallagher stated that similar tiles are still in several buildings throughout campus, including other areas of SMSU. During the glass tower remodel of Lincoln Hall, asbestos removal was figured into the $30 million budget.

Once Iris Environmental removed all the unsafe tiles and residue, they performed aggressive air testing to make sure there were no traces of asbestos in the hallway. The SMSU subbasement was reopened for regular activity following this testing.

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of a possible domestic violence victim located inside the lobby of the hotel. A female nonstudent had a visible abrasion to her right leg and reported being kicked, pushed to the floor and having her hair pulled by her boyfriend, also a nonstudent. The boyfriend was contacted and interviewed.

Officer Buck concluded that he had probable cause to arrest the man for Domestic Violence Harassment. Officer Buck arrested, transported and lodged the man at the Multnomah County Detention Center on the charge of Domestic Violence Harassment.

JULY 2 Felony Warrant for Possession of Firearm Science Building One

Officer Chris Fischer was flagged down about a male acting “weird” on the steps of Science Building One. Nonstudent Max Perry was found with several bags scattered around the south steps of the building’s entryway. Perry stated that he had stopped there to gather his belongings. He also stated that he was not allowed at PSU, but did not have an exclusion.

Perry produced his ID, which resulted in a Felony Warrant for Possession of a Firearm.

Officer Fischer radioed Portland Police Bureau asking for a cover car. Perry was semi compliant and stated he had a hatchet in one of his bags.

Perry began to walk and then run away prior to PPB arrival.

A PPB sergeant asked for a K9 to assist, as Perry was an armed career criminal and his warrant was a felony. K9

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tracked Perry west, but he was not located. It appears as though Perry ran to Stott Field and then climbed the ODOT fence just west of Stott, prior to running across the 405 and continuing west.

JULY 6 Unlawful Possession: Cocaine

Parking Structure Two At 5:12 p.m., Officer Denae Murphy and Officer David Baker contacted and arrested nonstudents Joshua Staples and Amber Shaver for offensive littering on the northwest corner of Parking Structure Two. During a search incident to arrest, Officer Baker found a bindle of suspected crack cocaine on Staples. Officer Murphy located a crack pipe with suspected crack residue on

Shaver. Staples was in possession of $656.28 in crumpled cash and has a Portland Police Data System history of selling narcotics. Shaver was listed as the subject of a report for selling narcotics.

Staples was lodged at Multnomah County Detention Center for Offensive Littering and Unlawful Possession of Cocaine. Shaver was lodged for Offensive Littering, Attempted Unlawful Possession of Cocaine and Supplying Contraband.

They were both issued PSU exclusions.

Exclusion and Trespass Arrest

Urban Center Officer Shawn McKenzie and Officer Fischer observed a male later found to be Tom Morgan attempting to get into the Urban Center by pulling on the

doors. While speaking with Morgan, employees flagged officers down, stating that Morgan is constantly trying to gain entry into the Urban Center by ghosting in behind people. Morgan was provided with an exclusion and escorted to the street corner of Southwest Sixth Avenue and Mill Street. A short time later, officers were dispatched to the Urban Center as Morgan was attempting to gain entry into the building again and causing severe distress to an employee with OCD. Morgan was arrested for trespassing and transported to the Multnomah County Detention Center.

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NEWS

PSU to host ‘Garbology’ author Edward Humes in panel discussion Colleen Leary

On July 10, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Edward Humes will participate in an informational discussion as part of Metro and Portland State’s Let’s Talk Trash series.

Humes, author of Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, will be joined by Metro’s Senior Waste Planner Tom Chaimov, and Director of PSU’s Community Environmental Services Eric Crum. Moderating the discussion will be Tony Hair, waste management coordinator for the PSU Campus Sustainability Office.

“Portland is an intimidating place to go to talk about anything green,” Humes said.

“I’m looking forward to it.”

Humes is an investigative journalist and author of 13 nonfiction books. His writing career has spanned from crime, real-life murder mysteries, education, the military, neonatal intensive care and most recently, issues of environmentalism, sustainability, the economy and

culture of waste. Through journalism and extensive research, Humes has become familiar with America’s trash.

“I believe the environment to be the most important story of our age—for ourselves and for our children,” Humes said.

At the panel discussion, Humes will discuss the nature of Portland’s and other cities’ waste economies and trash management systems.

“I’ll talk about Portland and how even a ‘green city’ has certain challenges that not everyone might be aware of,” Humes said.

He cites in Garbology that the average American produces 102 tons of garbage in a lifetime. This evens out to 7.1 pounds of trash produced per person, per day in the United States. Portland’s daily trash average is even higher than this, at 7.14 pounds per Portland resident.

“Most of us don’t know what the receivers of our trash really look like,” Humes

Chancellor Melody Rose LEAVING OUS CHANCELLOR MELODY ROSE will be leaving OUS in mid-August to become the president of Marylhurst University.

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said, “so I’ll give a portrait of the modern landfill.

“We’ve gotten really good at monitoring the supply chain, but the removal chain is really opaque,” Humes added. “Our old sneakers and printer cartridges end up going all kinds of crazy places before they find [a] final resting place. So I’ll talk about the wayward path our trash takes.”

Humes also plans to discuss some of the encouraging developments he’s encountered in his research. “There are a lot of trends going on that you don’t even think about as relating to waste that are, in fact, having a big and positive impact,” Humes said.

Humes explained that Craigslist is one of the greatest waste eliminators in America.

“It’s a virtuous way of buying local, keeping money in the community and it’s cutting down transportation—waste transportation and energy transportation,” Humes said.

“The whole reuse economy is one of the most encourag-

ing developments, and along with it, the sharing economy,” Humes added. “Both of those have huge dividends for reducing our wasteful lifestyle.

Things that previously ended up in the landfill are now finding new lives.”

Another trend that Humes pointed out is how young people are less interested in buying or driving cars.

“All those measures [buying a car, driving a car and having a license] are down for the current crop of the driving-age population in America,” Humes said. “I think if we look at those choices we’re already making and push a little more forward in that direction, we’re going to have [a] much less wasteful America in one generation without breaking a sweat.”

Metro and PSU’s Let’s Talk Trash series featuring Humes and Portland experts will be held this Thursday, July 10 from 7–9 p.m. in PSU’s Hoffman Hall.

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upon the university’s mission and vision in order to maintain and create pathways to higher education.”

Before her time at OUS, Rose held numerous positions at Portland State. She was vice provost for Academic Programs and Instruction, chair of the Division of Political Science and oversaw the University Studies and Honors programs. Rose was also the founder and first director of the Center for Women, Politics and Policy.

In her time as chancellor of OUS, Rose directed the process of decentralization for the state’s public universities, which officially began on July 1, 2014. In the new system, PSU, the University of Oregon and Oregon State University will be governed by their own boards of trustees. On July 1, 2015 Oregon’s

Starting this summer and culminating in the next, the Oregon University System is undergoing radical changes in how they govern the public universities in the state. One of the most dramatic changes to OUS will be the departure of Melody Rose, who has served as the interim chancellor since March 2013. Rose is leaving OUS to become the president of Marylhurst University.

“I look forward to joining Marylhurst University, and to work closely with students, faculty and staff in service to this community,” Rose said. “Marylhurst’s history of serving underserved students speaks to me as a firstgeneration college graduate, and I am delighted to build

EDWARD HUMES, author of ‘Garbology’, will analyze Portland’s waste economy at a panel discussion on July 10.

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smaller public universities will go through the same change.

“It’s complex; the unraveling of this 85-year-old system,” said Di Saunders, former OUS director of communications and current associate vice president for communications and public affairs for the Oregon Institute of Technology. “Now we are four legal entities, next July there will seven legal entities.”

Saunders believes that Rose effectively led her staff though the decentralization.

“She has been an excellent leader who guided us through this transition process. It’s always difficult when an organization is changing its role, then downsizing, then going away,” Saunders said. “She helped people internally stay focused on the work at hand, the important role they were playing, keep their spirits up. She’s

a very transparent leader, she shared information.”

As well as directing the decentralization process, Rose publicly fought to lower the cost of a college education for Oregonians.

“She pounded the drum,” Saunders said. “She’s politically connected. All the legislative activity that needed to be complete, she was on all of that. She was very instrumental in getting the tuition freeze for students, she went all over the state talking to editorial boards, in the hallways in Salem talking about affordability issues, saying we really need to make a dent in college costs for students.”

Rose will begin her presidency at Marylhurst University in mid-August. OUS has not named an official successor to Rose at this time.

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OPINION

For the love of pages The Page Master

by Shezad Khan Imagine walking into a library. It’s a wonderful library. Your favorite library.

Maybe it’s the same library you’ve been going to since you were a child. Walking through the doors, you’re greeted by a friendly librarian who has been working there for many years. A beautiful aroma hits you. The soft pages and the worn bindings of books fill the air with an incredible warmth.

You sit down with a novel.

As your fingers trace the edges of each page, you get lost in time, spending hours engrossed in beautiful writing. Each turn of the page, each chapter title you flip through, you feel accomplishment in getting closer to the end, inching toward a resolution and closing in on everything coming together.

Finally, you reach the end. The back cover rests lightly on your fingertips.

Closing the book, you take a deep breath.

You know what can’t give you that experience? An e-reader.

I think the best way for me to say it is that I’m not a fan of ereaders. Sure, I understand the convenience. You want to fit a trillion books (I’m estimating) into an electronic device. You want to be able to download your books like you download everything else these days. I

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get it, I understand it, but I do not agree with it.

I do have to admit that, since I am an English major, my relationship with books— real books—is pretty heavy and solidified. There are only a few things that exist in the world that are more fascinating than literature.

Let’s go over real books for a second. To start with, they’re portable. Surprising, right? Yes, you can take a book with you pretty much everywhere you go. You can take it on a bus, on a train and even on your summer flight to vacationland! Whether you’re reading something small like Salinger’s Franny and Zooey or something a little larger like all three Lord of the Rings books in a single volume, your book can go with you.

Another plus is that you can’t break, crack or scratch the screen of a real book because, well, they don’t have screens, which also means no finger smudges! Your real book can’t run out of batteries either. No charging, no wires. It’s always ready when you are.

While perusing Amazon, I found that e-readers can range from around $25 to almost $1,000. I can’t be the only one who thinks that’s insane. A certain older e-reader, the Boox 60 Ebook, has been marked up

to a staggering $999.99. I have never spent that much money on a book. I don’t think all the books I’ve bought even add up to that amount.

Granted, most people probably aren’t going to be buying the questionable Boox 60.

No, it seems that the Nook and the Kindle have become the popular ones for a lot of people, including a lot of college students. Maybe e-reader developers started with good intentions—getting more people to read, making literature more accessible, etc.

But the whole e-reader business has just become another profit generator.

The Nook HD+, listed at about $200, advertises that you can watch movies and TV shows, and download several apps. The Kindle Fire is presented with Facebook and Twitter widgets on the picture of its screen. So, with these e-readers, while you’re playing Angry Birds (in space!) or using Netflix to binge-watch How I Met Your Mother or Frasier, depending on what you’re into, there’s something you’re not doing: reading a book.

These e-readers have gained a reputation for glamour and flashiness because their developers probably realized that they would make a lot more money turning them into tablet hybrids so people could download all their favorite apps and keep on shoveling out their money. It would make a lot more sense, to me at least, if people just bought a tablet and downloaded an ereader app. It’s just another fad for consumers to buy into at this point.

This is not to say that I don’t like people who use e-readers.

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Again, I get why they’re buying the devices. I understand their need to play Candy Crush (kidding). But there’s something sacred about an actual book. There is something about having physical ink on a physical page between your hands. There is something beautiful about having a shelf

filled with books—books of every size, of every color and in all sorts of conditions. A book collection can represent so much. This tends to fade away with e-readers.

They don’t represent the sacredness of books, and they aren’t appealing. They have no history.

We have to appreciate the beauty of print. Books are amazing things. They are irreplaceable. They are timeless, and if I want to be just slightly dramatic, they are magical.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, as they say, but I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way about books.

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OPINION

Guest editorial: Franchesca Naimi

The new Glass-Steagall legislation Facing an unexpectedly tough challenge to hold onto his seat, Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley has called on help from his good friend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Merkley and Warren appeared together at a fundraiser in Portland in late May of this year for the ongoing Merkley reelection campaign, charging “grassroots” supporters $100 per ticket. Warren later made a scheduled appearance at Powell’s Books to promote her new book, A Fighting Chance.

Warren told the crowd she needed Merkley reelected to help her take on the big banks. But Warren, sponsor of the 21st Century GlassSteagall Act (S.1282), did not mention this legislation until prompted by me during the canned question period.

Warren lit up, “Somebody is doing their homework!” she said. “Thank you for paying attention.”

Sensing the incredible support she had in the room, Warren then spoke freely of something she understands very well. She unleashed a strong 6–7 minute steamroller on Glass-Steagall, which provoked a standing ovation by the 200 people present.

Her signature 21st-century Glass-Steagall is widely supported by the population, including 26 members of the Oregon State Legislature, which filed Senate Joint Memorial 11, which “urges Congress to support efforts to reinstate separation of commercial and investment banking functions in effect under the Banking Act of 1933.”

Glass-Steagall, that is, the Banking Act of 1933, was a New Deal-era law enacted to remove the shackles of Wall Street speculation from the U.S. economy and launch a program of reconstruction of the U.S. productive economy.

Chief sponsors were Sen. Carter Glass and Rep. Henry Steagall. Warren said of the gradual elimination of GlassSteagall, beginning in the late 1980s and ending in its repeal in 1999, that “this is what created ‘too big to fail,’” and “anything goes in banking,” and that those banking conglomerates were now “38 percent bigger than when the government bailed them out unconditionally in 2008.” They have, in addition, committed serious financial crimes without punishment.

She described her 21stCentury Glass-Steagall Act, co-sponsored by Senators John McCain (of all people), Maria Cantwell and Angus King, thus, “First, it will break the biggest banks up, and it is really only the biggest Wall Street banks that will be affected by this; and second, it will make the large, insured deposit-bank-

ing units use their resources on economic lending, otherwise, no support.”

Ridiculing Obama’s and Geithner’s “bailouts with no conditions,” Warren recalled that she had taught bankruptcy law. When new money is put into a firm in bankruptcy, “the stockholders get wiped out; the bondholders take a haircut; the top management is removed and may be prosecuted.

Warren said the big Wall Street financial firms don’t like the Glass-Steagall legislation. She concluded, “What kind of a country do we want to work for? What kind of a future do we want to have?

Do we want to work for Wall Street banks, to make them even bigger? Or do we want to work for our children and grandchildren to have a fighting chance?”

During her initial presentation, Warren had criticized

President Obama for choosing the side of the banks since the 2008 crisis. During her Glass-Steagall speech, she heaped scorn on Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim a week earlier that now, at last, banks (foreign ones, at least) were not too big to jail. “I’ll believe it when I see one go to jail,” Warren said. “These banks have broken the tax laws; they have broken the drug laws; they have broken the money-laundering laws; they have broken the securities laws; and I have not yet seen anyone arrested.”

Afterward, many frustrated citizens turned around to thank me for bringing this up, and a few citizens approached me to voice their concerns and their disappointment with both senators’ failure to discuss the war dangers we are facing, as well as the reluctance of both Senators Merkley and Wyden to discuss

Glass-Steagall—the remedy to this criminal economic system.

By the end, 100 leaflets on Warren’s bill, bolstered by a quick little primer on real economy, were distributed, which included both Merkley’s and Wyden’s contact number on the bottom of the sheet.

This had a singular ability to excite Merkley’s base around this fight, but little did they realize that Merkley is nowhere to be found on Warren’s 21st Century Glass-Steagall act, even though he sits on the Senate Committee on Banking and identifies himself as Warren’s close ally.

This crucial experiment on the use of leadership in transforming a political process increasingly dominated by irrational fears has demonstrated to me the great potential we have for creating a future unshackled from the routine of current political industry.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), then chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee, March 2010.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore), April 2011.

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COVER

Majoring in money For college students, valuing passion over employment opportunities shouldn't be considered naive

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Every time I find myself waiting for the MAX trains at Southwest Sixth Avenue and Montgomery Street, I look across at the fancy School of Business Administration building and wonder what it must be like inside.

To an English major, it kind of seems like a whole different world.

I was surprised to learn how impressive Portland State’s School of Business is, and indeed, how large. According to the College Board’s Big Future website, business and marketing majors make up the largest chunk of PSU by far, with around 17 percent.

The entire School of Liberal Arts and Sciences is around half that size.

Not only that, the School of Business proudly announces on its website that U.S. News and World Report has ranked it among the best in the country, and that it is the largest and only urban business school in Oregon.

In January 2015, a $60 million expansion of PSU’s

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School of Business Administration building will begin. The 42,000 square feet added will make it possible for all business classes of various specialties to be housed under one roof.

They’ll be getting an auditorium, 25 industry-specific spaces and some more cool stuff that sounds great for them. If you’re wondering, $40 million of this project comes from state funding.

Interestingly enough, the project will push the Graduate School of Education out of the same building to be relocated elsewhere.

I am in no way bashing business majors. In fact, I am mostly jealous of them and think they’re awesome.

If you have a real passion for innovation or industry, and you’re good at it, then that’s amazing. I think marketing is fascinating and sometimes wish I had gotten into it. I am also impressed with people who are great at math and sciences and who enjoy them. I have no resentment

for students who were born with their heads and hearts on the side of more economically-friendly interests than mine.

But it is hard to deny that the widespread transformation of higher education in the U.S. from actual, you know, education into a multi-million dollar business is reflected in what students choose to study.

It’s an age-old cliché that the smartest way to pursue a college degree is to go into business, and that English, art, philosophy, film, theatre and other such majors will leave you suckling at your parents’ retirement fund at best and homeless at worst. Obviously, it’s a lot more complicated than this, but every cliché is rooted in truth.

The trend for the past few years has been to push STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—because these types of jobs are in demand. The Governor of Florida, Repub-

lican Rick Scott, famously bashed students who major in areas that are not deemed employable, and in January of this year he announced a $30 million STEM Workforce Training Program in his state. According to his official website, the program will grant scholarships to students majoring in STEM fields and “individuals seeking training in STEM and other high-skill/ high-wage occupations.”

The push toward STEM is logical when you consider that technological innovation has been responsible for most of our economic growth in the past few decades, and that the fastest-growing employment fields in this country require STEM education. And I’m all for opening the doors for women and minorities who have historically been shut out of these types of careers. But it’s hard to get high school students to succeed in math and science.

Part of it is our extremely flawed educational system,

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PSU’s Lincoln Performance Hall was reopened in 2010, after a two-year renovation totaling $30 million.

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but part of it is that little boys and girls don’t necessarily get inspired when you tell them they’re going to make six figures as petroleum engineers.

Of course, it is possible to feel passionate about lucrative majors, and also to just be really good at them. But the official endorsement of anointed money-making passions over the passion for literature and the arts may be one of the most depressing results of the Great Recession and the unsustainable nightmare that is college tuition in this country.

It’s too bad that looking at college as a means to live your dreams or pursue what you love is now considered incredibly naive. If you are going to incur a mountain of debt, you better do it for something that will ensure you can keep the lights on.

Even President Obama endorsed this way of thinking when he said in January that he was afraid that many young people don’t see

trades and manufacturing as viable career options. “I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree.”

In an email to online publication Inside Higher Ed, Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, responded, “In recent years, we’ve sunk into a ‘what’s in it for me’ approach to learning, making career earnings the litmus test both for college and for different majors.

The president speaks well in principle about our responsibilities to one another in a democratic society. But he seems to have forgotten that college can build our desire and capacity to make a better world, not just better technologies.”

It’s worth noting that Obama later penned a handwritten apology to an upset art history professor at the University of Texas at

Austin. He told her he was making a point about the job market, not the value of art history.

I think the president was probably sincere and wellmeaning in his intentions, but he perpetuates another myth about studying liberal arts that I consider a bizarre form of classism: Liberal arts are for the rich, because poor people are too worried about surviving. It ties into the dangerous economic times we live in, where following your dreams is a luxury reserved for children whose parents have enough money.

Well, there is some truth to it. Most of us probably know people whose parents mortgaged houses to send them to fancy institutions so they could get that degree in screenwriting or classical music, and maybe success in those fields feels a lot easier to someone who started with a leg up financially. As an extremely poor English major, I can attest to that.

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But—and I don’t know if I can speak for all liberal arts and arts majors—I never abandoned that childlike philosophy that college was a space where you chose to do what you love. I never thought about the age-old question, “What are you going to do with an English degree?” I just enjoy and excel at writing, literature, film and theatre, and trying to pour my life’s ambition into other areas would be inauthentic and full of unhappiness. Even if I had a yacht.

Moreover, the idea that your college major will have anything to do with your career is another myth. Linda Downs of the College Art Association posted on the group’s website: “It is worth remembering that many of the nation’s most important innovators, in fields including high technology, business, and even military service, have degrees in the humanities.”

Associate Professor Susan Kirtley of the PSU English

Department said something similar in an email. “I broke my finger many years ago, and the doctor who set the break was an English major. My father works on Navy vessels, and the latest captain he worked with was an English major. A friend of mine holds a highly lucrative position with Intel, and he was an English major. What matters, more than a major, is learning to learn and being passionate and excited about what you do. This may well sound Pollyana-ish, but I truly believe that enthusiasm and dedication is the most important thing in regards to a career.”

The expansion of the School of Business Administration building that goes ahead next year will be one of the next major projects following the $30 million renovation of Lincoln Hall.

While that project cost about half of what this one will, it did coincide with the transition of the School

of Fine and Performing Arts into becoming the official College of the Arts.

The Oregonian reports that PSU has seen a 40 percent increase in arts majors in the last four years. It’s good news for us that while these programs may be phased out or neglected at universities around the country, PSU is fair about supporting them.

So while it’s easy to get cynical about college majors, and while headlines may announce the death of liberal arts or give you a list of artistic majors that offer the least financial value as college degrees, don’t give up your dream. You probably can’t point to anyone who became homeless and destitute because they liked photography more than accounting.

Or as a wise creative writing professor once told me, “There probably aren’t going to be any jobs for anyone soon. Might as well do what you love.”

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ARTS & CULTURE

Walk a mile: A review of ‘Always Sometimes Monsters’ Jeremy King

Always Sometimes Monsters is best described as a 2D life simulator with RPG elements that focuses heavily on love, loss, hardship, friendship, betrayal and choice.

Your choice of protagonist and corresponding love interest is determined at the beginning of the game.

Rather than being forced to fill a predetermined character’s shoes, you are given the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of characters and subsequent lovers by interacting with guests at a party.

Romantic relationships aren’t shoehorned into a singular heterosexual or monoracial pairing, as is so often the case in games. Instead you can choose to be in a same-sex or interracial relationship. Characters in the world will treat you differently based upon your sexual preferences or skin color, but the bulk of the game retains a largely linear sequence of events with numerous diverging paths.

Regardless of your initial choice, the game begins the same way each time. At the outset, you’re a struggling writer seeking to secure a contract with a publisher, and things are looking up.

Fast-forward one year, however, and things have taken a turn for the worse.

Your significant other has left you, you’re 30 days late

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on your rent, and you have no real prospects. To top it all off, you receive a wedding invitation in the mail from your former lover and only have a month to scrape together enough money to travel across the country and attend the wedding.

Will you win back the love of your life? Do you even want to?

The player is given three blocks of time per day (morning, afternoon and night) during which they can choose to pursue different activities.

The most substantial, and necessary, element of gameplay involves attaining some measure of financial security.

You can do some freelance writing here and there, get a recommendation and sign up at an ad agency filled with high-strung business types, join a union and load boxes into trucks, and more.

Need some extra cash between actual work? Sign up at a temp agency and take a bus elsewhere to engage in manual labor. From planting seeds in a community garden to processing pork at a factory, the player is free to indulge in these opportunities at their discretion. Just be prepared to hand over the agency’s 50 percent take of the profit at the end of the day.

Choosing what to spend your limited funds on is a struggle throughout much of the game, and can easily lead to the player breaching his or

her own sensibilities in order to put together enough cash to make it through another couple of days.

There are other activities to pursue throughout the game, such as wasting time at an arcade, going to the theater, engaging in various mini-games and collecting figurines (which can be sold off for extra cash), and gambling. By and large, the bulk of your day will consist of finding ways to make money and successfully navigating interactions with other people. Just like real life!

On paper it doesn’t exactly sound appealing. But the overall strength of the game’s writing and grounded realism makes for an enticing, personal experience that’s hard to imitate. This is a game that thrives on the conflict between right and wrong. Throughout the roughly 10-hour narrative, players will have to grapple with very real decisions.

Will you take advantage of the kindness of others in the interest of your own well-being, or will you stick to your morals and risk homelessness and starvation? Will you stand by your closest friends when they abandon their ethics, even if they do so merely to survive? Will you act out of spite in the face of betrayal, or will you retain your dignity and persevere? Will you come to terms with your reality, or will you do everything in your power to change the

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Your dialogue choices define your character’s story and how their relationships develop in “Always Sometimes Monsters.”

SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF VAGABOND DOG

course of your life even if you risk losing everything?

Always Sometimes Monsters is by no means the first game that incorporates player choice, nor is it the first to explore these particular questions. Yet the manner in which the plot unfolds and the often unexpected opportunities the player is presented with make for an entirely unique, memorable and reflective experience that few other titles have managed to conjure up.

Despite its low budget, unapologetically retro presentation, Always Sometimes Monsters packs a visceral and emotional punch that puts it in a class of its own.

SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF VAGABOND DOG

‘ALWAYS SOMETIMES MONSTERS’ DEVELOPER: VAGABOND DOG Platform: PC Price: $9.99

ARTS & CULTURE DANGIT that’s

Vegetarian spread: A recipe for chickpea salad Ingredients 3 15-ounce cans of chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans) 1 carrot, finely chopped 1 celery stalk, finely chopped 1/4 cup finely chopped onion 2/3 cup mayonnaise 2 teaspoons mustard 4 tablespoons relish 1 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon dried dill or a few sprigs of fresh dill 1 tablespoon tamari Salt and pepper to taste Nutritional yeast to taste ROSIE YANOSKO/PSU VANGUARD

Rosie Yanosko

I’m always game for summery, picnic-type foods, and chickpea salad is definitely one of my go-to recipes. A good alternative to chicken or tuna, chickpea salad is made with crushed chickpeas, carrots, celery and onions.

Fresh dill and lemon give the salad a tart, peppery flavor. It’s tasty on crackers or sandwiches, but I like mine on toasted bread with cucumber and hot sauce.

Empty three cans of chickpeas into a strainer

over the sink. Give the beans a good rinse and shake out excess water.

Pour the chickpeas into a medium mixing bowl, grab a fork and put on your favorite TV show, ’cause this will take a minute.

Using your fork, smash the chickpeas! They don’t need to be smashed to smithereens, just make sure there aren’t any large-ish pieces left.

Once your peas are mashed, set aside the bowl and begin chopping your vegetables.

You’ll want them to be finely chopped to keep the salad from becoming too coarse.

When you’ve finished chopping, add the veggies to the chickpeas, then mix in all remaining ingredients and stir thoroughly. Chill in the fridge for a few hours before serving.

Quick note: Tamari, which is basically less salty soy sauce, is admittedly a weird ingredient and can be omitted if you don’t have any on hand. If you’re curious though, scoop a small amount of salad into a bowl and mix in a dash of tamari.

In my opinion, the flavor improves dramatically!

Recipe courtesy of Joey Huels.

All the little things

A guide to posh fashion details for summer and beyond Caroline McGowan

College is a great time to learn how to master the art of looking like a million bucks without actually having a million bucks (or any amount of money nearing that, really).

Today’s fashion world consists of fast trends and questionable quality, but even students strapped for cash can shine when putting together an outfit. Consider focusing on the little things that pay off in big ways: the details.

Dainty details Instead of big, statementmaking jewelry, try refining your look with small chains or baubles. But don’t throw on too much bling or you might overwhelm your look.

A highlight trend for this might be the midi ring, which is a ring that is

worn only partway down the finger.

Also, think about matching your hardware with your outfit. Does your silver belt buckle match your brushed gold earrings? Maybe not as well as a silver pair would!

This is not always the case, but it is a helpful rule of thumb to match jewelry, buckles and various affixed metals.

A touch of color Recently, sites like Pinterest have popularized funky nail trends. It is easier than ever to give your nails a zing of color, or decorate them with a quirky pattern! A fun way of turning a predictable match into a next-level detail is to match the pattern of your shirt with your nails, or swipe another color on the ends.

Don’t be afraid of funky colors, give patterns a try at

home. By using a small brush or a toothpick and a different color of polish, you can get creative with statementmaking nails.

Peekaboo posh Clouds have a silver lining, and your wardrobe can too!

Next time you are buying a jacket, look for one with a lining that doesn’t match the outside.

This can be a fun little secret that is only revealed when you remove your outerwear.

No luck with jackets this season? Purses and bags have fun inner details as well. Business on the outside, party on the inside!

Key accessories Utility doesn’t have to be boring. Take umbrellas, for example. Everyone uses one in Portland at some point, so

why not prepare for a rainy day by investing in an umbrella with a bright color or funky pattern that goes with your palette? This is a possible strategy for other utility items like weather-related gear or cases.

Head to toe Do you have a quirky personality? Find some funky fresh socks to sneak into your boots! Do you live in sandals? How about getting on the forefront of the anklet revival? Consider shoe shopping as a hunt for treasure.

If you need a basic pair of black shoes, you may be well served to give a second glance to, perhaps, a black pair with gold buckles. Pair them with some gold jewelry and you will have pulled together a look that says you know what you are doing!

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EVENT CALENDAR Tuesday, July 8

OMSI’s Roots of Wisdom – ‘The Lost Fish’ Documentary Screening Begins at 7 p.m.

OMSI, 945 S.E. Water Ave. Portland, OR 97214 As part of their newest exhibition, The Roots of Wisdom, OMSI is excited to premiere the new Freshwaters Illustrated documentary, The Lost Fish. The film attempts to raise public awareness about the need for conservation of Pacific Lamprey, its ecological importance, and the cultural significance that the fish and their mistreatment is having on many of the tribes in the area. As a powerful incentive to come see the film, OMSI has made this a free event if you RSVP on their website under events.

Wednesday, July 9 Portland Summer Movies in the Park: ‘Frozen’ Pre-movie entertainment starts at 6:30 p.m., movie begins at dusk Kenilworth Park, S.E. 34th Ave. & Holgate Blvd.

Portland, OR 97202 Portland is always excited to begin its annual summer movies in the park. While they show movies all week,

the recent hit Frozen is sure to attract a large crowd.

While the movie might be fun, beginning at 6:30 p.m. there is also pre-movie entertainment including live performances by local musicians and free popcorn. They recommend that you bring coats and blankets, as the nights can cool down. FREE

Pix Pâtisserie’s Movies as Dusk: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Starts as Dusk 2225 E. Burnside St. Portland, OR 97214 Throughout the summer, Pix shows an interesting range of French anime, indie films and classic comedies free to the public.

This event takes place every Wednesday, with this week featuring the 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta. While they bill this event as free, everyone is attendance is required to spend at least $5 on food or beverages—but hey, there is free popcorn!

Summer Arts on Main Street Noontime Showcase: Jazz Vocals 12 p.m.– 1 p.m.

Next to Antoinette Hatfield Hall, 1111 S.W. Broadway Ave. Portland, OR 97205

Every Wednesday during the summer, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts produces Summer Arts on Main Street, which features a wide range of performers from around 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. One of the most anticipated parts of the events are the Noontime Showcase, which features different musical performances all during the summer. This week, they will be featuring jazz vocalist Marti Mendenhall. The event is free, but they ask that you bring your own food, as none FREE will be provided.

Thursday, July 10 Let’s Talk Trash with ‘Garbology’ 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Hoffman Hall, 1833 S.W. 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97201

metro area for one night of serious trash talking. FREE

Friday, July 11 ‘80s Video Dance Attack!

Starts at 9 p.m., Lola’s Room, 1332 W. Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209 For the past nine years, this event has brought hundreds of Portlanders joy, and kept the fires of MTV’s golden era burning. Classic music videos will be projected on giant screens, and are played over a booming sound system. This massive dance and video party is sure to get you moving. Relive some of the best music and music videos that our history has to offer. This even is 21+ and costs $6 at the door.

The Great Namaste

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ed Humes comes to PSU to discuses many of the themes that have appeared in his book Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash.

The book investigated the trail of how 102 tons of trash came into being. He wanted to know where it came from, what’s in it, and how much it cost to both make it and then how much they could sell it for. Join local trash experts from Portland State and the

Begins at 8:30 a.m.

Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 S.W. 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97204 Portland, once again, is attempting to break a world record. This Friday, Portlanders will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “longest yoga chain.” The current record belongs to 697 yogis in India. Lead organizer Tyler Tervooren is hoping for over 700 people to show up and participate.

To participate, tickets are $15. Come and be part of a world record!

Saturday, July 12 BachFest PDX—Duke Ellington & the Harlem Jazz Craze 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Newmark Theater, 1111 S.W. Broadway, Portland, OR 97205 To celebrate one of the greatest composers in history, the Oregon Bach Festival is performing a number of pieces created by jazz artist Duke Ellington. Narrator Jamie Bernstein emcees an evening of his music with conductor Michael Barrett and Portland’s Art Abrams Swing Machine. Ellington is cited for combining profound musical innovation with undeniable popular appeal. Tickets range from $15-54, and all ages are welcome.

Intel Family Fun Festival 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Hillsboro Stadium, 4450 N.W. 229th Ave. Hillsboro, OR 97124 In support of the Cure JM Foundation, the American Cancer Society and the Ronald McDonald House, Intel is hosting the Family Fun Festival at Hillsboro Stadium this Saturday. Fun

and exciting events include everything from a Pinewood Derby Race to robot races and demos to science, technology, engineering and math activities. There will also be music all throughout the day. Tickets are $5 each, however children under 5 are free. All proceeds are donated to charity.

Portland Story Theater Presents: Urban Tellers Begins at 8 p.m.

Hipbone Studio, 1847 E. Burnside St. #104 Portland, OR 97214 According to Portland Story Theater, their organization is dedicated to making the narrative arts an important part of Portland’s cultural identity. All speakers are from our local urban area, and often tell stories of success and failure. They do not use notes, they don’t lie and they don’t memorize a script.

This event usually lasts two hours (plus intermission) and is $15 with advanced purchase, and $20 at the door. This event is 21+.

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FEATURED EVENT FEATURED EVENT ‘The Book of Mormon’ Starts at 7:30 p.m. (lasts 2.5 hours) Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay Ave. Portland, OR 97201 Winning nine Tony Awards, The Book of Mormon returns to Portland at the Keller Auditorium on July 8, and runs until July 20. The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.”

The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” The Keller has also decided to offer a lost cost, “lottery” ticket giveaway. Here is how it works: Beginning 2.5 hours before each performance, you can print your name and the number of tickets (1 or 2) on a card. Two hours before curtain, names will be drawn for tickets priced at $25 each, based on availability. Be warned, this musical has some very adult themes. courtesy of André-Pierre du Plessis, through Creative Commons 2.0

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Virgo Aug. 23–Sept. 22

Leo Jul. 23–Aug. 22

Libra Sept. 23–Oct. 22

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and love is in the air. Get out there and strut your stuff, Cancer. Nothing can hold you down! This is your time to shine!

You have been distracted and your focus wavers.

Don’t be fooled by temporary pleasures. The real prize lies ahead. Work hard and reap the true reward.

Hey Libra! Have you been paying attention? People are taking notice of you and your actions. So don’t mess up! Go the extra mile!

Show them that you can work hard! Or just be lazy and enjoy the summer. But remember...someone is always watching.

I could tell you that the moon is in the third house or some crap like that, but you’d just use it as justification for why you should sit around on your ass all week. So I won’t.

Scorpio Oct. 23–Nov. 21

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by, well, everything these days? Maybe it’s time to reevaluate your priorities, dear Scorpio. Stop biting off more than you can chew and take some time to chill out. If you keep stretching yourself so thin, you will be well on your way to an emotional breakdown.

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SPORTS

Moving beyond Lance Claude Akins

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It’s been two years since the Union Cycliste Internationale banned Lance Armstrong for life from competitive cycling. It’s been five years since Lance Armstrong last competed in the Tour de France. 2005 was the last year that he won the tournament, the last of seven straight (and now revoked) victories.

And last year, in 2013, the Tour de France had the highest United States television ratings since Armstrong’s 2009 race.

It’s hard to imagine now what Lance Armstrong symbolized prior to the U.S. AntiDoping Agency presenting their findings in 2012, and what kind of cultural harm was inflicted then. Think of the exceptionality of the unscarred story: A kid from Plano, Texas, returning from testicular cancer (which he was diagnosed with in October 1996), who goes on to win the world’s most prestigious cycling race seven straight

times, and in the interval between his diagnosis and his first victory he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

A year before his first victory another sport was in its own false golden age. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were chasing Roger Maris’ home run record. They were unstoppable.

There were well-choreographed handshakes, pictures of McGwire with his arm around Sosa—who was finally bringing something grand to the perennially unlucky Cubs.

I remember a McGwire home run reaching the nosebleed section of a Padres game I attended. I brought a little bat home and mimed McGwire in my backyard.

McGwire finished that season with 70 home runs, breaking Roger Maris’ home run record by nine.

Three years later, Barry Bonds broke McGwire’s record with 73—and Lance still had four more Tour de France titles to win.

What is remembered most about these events, I would argue, is not the winning, the feeling of watching history or the patriotism—although that’s certainly there—but the hysteria that followed: the BALCO scandal, the perjury case, Bonds’ 30-day house arrest, Sosa’s corked bat, Roger Clemens looking absurdly bulky in a suit as he sweated before a grand jury, and Lance confessing to Oprah.

But now we have our distance.

Armstrong, Sosa, McGwire and even Bonds don’t need to be cast in a uniform light; their situations might be more various and nuanced than we wish to see. Roland Smith, who is the co-artistic director of the play Pedal Pusher, claimed in his Guardian article that Lance Armstrong is a villain and a victim—a victim of a drug-dominated culture.

There’s some truth in the line of reasoning that says

yes, Lance cheated, but that is not tantamount to a lack of talent. The fact is that Bonds and Sosa and McGwire were great players, with or without the steroids.

But being great wasn’t good enough. And if we look at the summer of ’98, and the now ridiculous sounding sevenstraight Tour de France titles, one has to admit that one of the main ingredients of the thrill of watching was the immensity of these feats. We didn’t want Bonds’ home runs to simply clear the fence, we wanted them to go into the water behind the right field of Pac-Bell Park.

We’re starting to equalize. Greatness seems good enough. Baseball can be enjoyed without a record chase, and it seems, so can that lengthy cycle race up and down the hills of France. I, for one, will tune in every now and then, and the shadow of Lance Armstrong will be much less than the oblong ones cast by those climbing bikes.

Viking scholar-athlete awards announced Matt Rauch

After each academic year, schools from around the Big Sky Conference select one male and one female to receive the Scholar-Athlete Award. Portland State’s 2014 Scholar-Athlete Award winners are senior Vikings volleyball setter Garyn Schlatter and Vikings football center Mitch Gaulke.

In order to be selected for this award, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average, be graduating during the year

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selected or have completed their last year of athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at their respective institutions and be a letter winner as well.

GoViks.com reports that Schlatter, a senior setter on the Vikings volleyball team from Canby, Oregon, was the Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player in 2013, a four-time All-Big Sky Conference and four-time academic All-Big Sky Conference honor

selection. The Oregon native will be receiving her degree in physical activity & exercise and community health.

Gaulke, a senior center on the Vikings football team from West Linn, was a threetime honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference performer and earned Academic All-Conference four times. He will be receiving his degree in accounting from the School of Business Administration.

Accomplishing both athletic and academic accolades

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such as these is no easy feat.

Division 1 athletes spend countless hours training to be the best they can be on the field. As a result, simply finding time to study can prove extremely difficult, let alone maintaining a GPA good enough to receive an accolade such as this. So please give these two amazing student-athletes a round of applause for representing PSU in receiving the Big Sky Conference’s 2014 ScholarAthlete Awards.

Mitch Gaulke snapping the ball for the Viks against Cal Poly.

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SPORTS King Felix has been his usual exceptional self this season. If the offense’s productivity keeps pace, the Mariners could be headed to the postseason.

SCORES

UPCOMING

PSU TRACK AND FIELD

MLS

USATF Junior Outdoor Championships

PORTLAND @ SEATTLE

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AFL

WED. July 9, 7:30 p.m. | KXTG 750 AM

Top Performers: CeCeila Jackson placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles.

PORTLAND LOS ANGELES

Top Performers: Rauwshan McKenzie scored an own-goal to save the draw… for Los Angeles.

2 PORTLAND VS. LOS ANGELES 2 Sat. July 12, 7:30 p.m.| Moda Center

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Here come the Mariners Photo courtesy of Jay Cox through Creative Commons

PORTLAND CLEVELAND

Top Performers: Jamar Howard with 8 catches for 161 yards and a TD.

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Top Performers: Nate Robertson 3/5, 2 R, 2 RBI.

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Six years ago, Seattle’s professional sports teams were lacking in the win column. The Seahawks only won four games, the SuperSonics were nowhere to be found and the Mariners lost 101 games.

Where does Seattle find themselves now? The Seahawks brought the city a Super Bowl championship trophy. The Sonics are still lost, but hope has arisen in the last year or two of a team finding its way to Seattle.

Lastly, the Mariners had 18 hits the other day.

I know what you’re thinking, 18 hits sounds like exactly 18 more hits than the Mariners usually have. But this is no joke. Seattle’s jokefilled baseball team is on pace to win 90 games this season.

They are also in first place in the wild-card playoff hunt.

Seattle sports fans have been absolutely treated this year, and the Mariners success is the cherry on top. Even Portlanders—among us a strong contingency of Mariners fans—get to enjoy some good baseball, which has come in the form of scoring of late, from a team that wasn’t expected to be offensively efficient.

Now the question for Mariners fans is whether or not this team has it in them to make the playoffs. They would make the postseason if the season ended today, but there is a lot of baseball left to be played. The Mariners could find themselves facing an upcoming slouch or streak that destroys or further secures their current position.

The hitting from the Mariners has been a pleasant surprise of late, but one thing that has been consistent

the past few years has been pitcher Felix Hernandez.

King Felix, as he is known to Mariners fans, is not only putting together an excellent season, he’s also putting together a dominant statisticfilled career. At Hernandez’s age, only five other pitchers have had more strikeouts than him. Having an ace like King Felix will be huge for the Mariners down the stretch, especially in a close wild-card race. He will also play a role in the playoffs, where the Mariners could face a one-game playoff if they advance via the wild-card spot.

Currently the Mariners are four games in the loss column behind the wild-card leading Angels. They are also three games in the loss column ahead of the Blue Jays, who sit in third place in the wildcard standings.

The Mariners’ record is representative of their overall body of work, but what’s been most impressive has been their 42-27 record since April 23. No one in Major League Baseball has been better than the team from Seattle over that span.

Seattle is just coming off a series with the White Sox, where they traveled to Chicago to play three games.

They are now home for a long stand, which includes games against the Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics.

Oakland is first in the American League West, where the Mariners are third, trailing the Athletics by five games.

If they can make up some ground against the A’s, the Mariners may not even need the wild-card berth to punch another playoff ticket for the city of Seattle.

Former Duck QB/publicity stunt still on the Thunder roster despite no aptitude for the arena game. Enough’s enough Darron.

Vanguard | JULY 8, 2014 | psuvanguard.com

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