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The Food For Thought advisory board appeals to bring the studentrun cafe back to PSU. pg. 6

Student Trustee Pamela CamposPalma speaks out about her resignation in a letter to the editor. pg. 9

We finally uncovered what the Rock was cooking all along at the Rebel Craft Rumble. Hint: It's a quirky wreath. pg. 16

Vikings soccer had a strong showing, helping PSU to a lead in the Dam Cup against rival Eastern Washington. pg.23

OregOn's great pOt debate Oregon voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to follow Colorado and Washington in legalizing marijuana use. Supporters and opponents of Measure 91 will square off in a televised debate that will include audience participation.

PSU and KATU-Channel 2 invite students, faculty and the public to attend what promises to be a spirited debate on a ballot measure that has captured national attention.

6:30pm Tuesday, OcTOber 21 Lincoln Hall Theater, room 175 Free and open to the public.

Please reserve a ticket by contacting the PSU Box Office at 503-725-3307 or pdx.edu/boxoffice.

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NEWS

sallie mae transFers Federal student loans to navient sam bakkila

Students and alumni who hold federal student loans previously serviced by Sallie Mae recently received a message informing them that Sallie Mae has become two distinct student loan companies: Sallie Mae and Navient.

Federal student loans are being transferred to Navient, while most private loans will remain with Sallie Mae. “Sallie Mae is now focused as a ‘save, plan, and pay for college’ company. But we’ll make private education loans,” said Rick Castellano, a spokesperson for Sallie Mae. “Navient is a loan servicing and management company,” said Nikki Lavoie, corporate communications director for Navient, in an email.

“Specifically, Navient provides customer service for student loan borrowers on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education and on federal and private education loans in its portfolio,” Lavoie added.

Sallie Mae and Navient's announcement, which was emailed to all impacted borrowers, stated: “We did this in order to maximize our focus, expertise and serve you better. It's an exciting time here at Navient as we embark on this new journey with you in mind."

“We announced the separation on April 20 of 2014. On Oct. 13, the separation is officially complete,” Castellano said. “That’s why I know a number of customers have been receiving communication about the change and what that means.”

Borrowers will keep their same login accounts, electronic payments will transfer to Navient, and the addresses and phone numbers will remain the same during the transition.

“The only changes [Sallie Mae] customers will have is

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a new loan number, and that will require them to make a change in their account and update their payment information with their new loan number,” Castellano said.

“If they’re in repayment, they can continue to send payments to the same address they have always used,” Lavoie said. “They just need to change the payee name to ‘Navient’.”

Heather Mattoli, assistant director of Financial Aid at Portland State, explained that many students don't understand federal loans are processed by private third-party servicers who handle the billing and collection of loans.

"There's this assumption that it's the Department of Education [servicing loans],” Mattoli said.

While Sallie Mae was formerly a federally sponsored entity, it's now a publicly traded corporation that has been fully privatized since 2004.

“For Sallie Mae, it’s a new day for us where, in the end, we are squarely focused on providing responsible private education loans, savings products and even insurance options,” Castellano said.

Sallie Mae and Navient both emphasized their strong track record of keeping student loan borrowers from defaulting.

“At Sallie Mae we recommend people take a 1, 2, 3 approach: scholarships and grants, student loans, [federal] loans, then private loans,” Castellano said. “If there’s a gap in financing, that’s where private education loans come in.”

“Americans with federal loans serviced by Navient are less likely to default, less likely to postpone payments through forbearance, and more likely to use incomebased repayment plans,” Na-

vient stated in a press release about the transition.

Mattoli said that when dealing with loans, it's important for students to regard information provided by their servicers with a healthy skepticism and to keep track of all documentation regarding their payments.

Mattoli also explained that if borrowers are having issues with one servicer in particular, they have an opportunity to change their servicer after they consolidate their loans.

“We’ve been communicating with students about the split. If they do have questions we encourage them to reach out to us,” Castellano said. “If a student is unclear on whether they are a Sallie Mae or a Navient customer, they should contact us.”

“Starting in November, many recent graduates will start repaying the money they borrowed for college,” Lavoie said. “That's because the sixmonth grace period on their student loans will end.”

For many borrowers, the standard repayment programs are not always the best option, Mattoli said. She encouraged all students to look into income-based repayment plans and loan forgiveness programs for people working in government or non-profit jobs.

“Any and all alumni should come in if they have questions about their loans, particularly to look at any repayment or penalty fees or interest rates that look suspect. I don't care if they graduated 25 years ago,” Mattoli said.

Mattoli also extended this invitation to faculty and staff, who often don't realize that the Financial Aid office can advise them about their loan repayment.

Additional reporting by Colleen Leary.

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MORE THAN 40 MILLION AMERICANS currently hold student debt.

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PSU Future Teacher Fair

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Room 296 Smith Student Union SESSION 1—GENERAL INFO. 4-5 pm Presentation at 4pm, plus information about our six teacher training programs.

SESSION 2—BILINGUAL EDUCATORS 5-6 pm Are you bilingual? Learn about the increasing demand for bilingual educators in Oregon’s classrooms.

Register: pdx.edu/education/FutureTeachers OR gseinfo@pdx.edu

NEWS

Pay it Forward pilot program recommended to 2015 oregon legislature JEssica Pollard

The Pay It Forward program was concieved as an alternative method to paying for college tuition. On Sept.

11, The Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission unanimously voted to recommend a Pay It Forward pilot program to the 2015 Oregon Legislature.

The program proposes an alternative to the rising cost of in-state tuition for students of Oregon's universities and community colleges.

Rather than paying tuition in full each year, students would forego all or some of their tuition costs in return for the payment of approximately two to four percent of their income for the next 20 years after graduation, depending on whether they attend a community college or university.

From course to courts The Pay It Forward program was introduced to Portland State through the capstone course Student Debt: Economics, Policy and Advocacy, led by professors Barbara Dudley and Mary C. King. The capstone focused on finding solutions to debt accumulated through higher education.

“We spent the first half of the capstone talking about different legislations and ideas we had about alleviating student debt. Our community partner the Working Families Party brought us the Pay It Forward proposal from the Economic Opportunity Institute up in Seattle,” said Kevin Rackham, a student who enrolled in the course as a sophomore.

With the help of EOI’s Executive Director John Burbank, the Oregon Center for Public Policy’s Jason Gettel and others, students in the capstone class adapted Pay It Forward to fit Oregon’s education system.

In December 2012, students presented Pay It Forward as a legislative concept to members of Oregon Legislature. The goal of the presentation was to find cosponsors for the bill. “[Oregon State Senator] Michael Dembrow and I put together a draft of a bill that mirrored what ideas the students had come up with,” Dudley said.

In spring of 2013, Oregon Legislature passed the program as House Bill 3472.

As requested by the bill, the Oregon HECC designed a pilot for Pay It Forward in early September with help from a workgroup.

“The workgroup was mostly a lot of discussion about different aspects of the program and trying to figure out how to make it most accessible to students,” Rackham said.

Rackham, along with several other students from the capstone, joined with economists, educators and others to form the workgroup which brought the Pay It Forward pilot to life.

“If things go very quickly and smoothly in Legislature, the pilot could get going in 2015. More likely, it will start in 2016,” Dudley said.

On Sept. 11, the HECC found the pilot program proposed by the workgroup to be a worthy initiative for the Legislature to undertake.

weighing the costs While praising Pay It Forward for several aspects, such as the income-based payments friendly to students, the HECC acknowledged other education funding aspects that hold priority, including the expansion of the Oregon Opportunity Grant.

The Portland-based independent economic consulting firm ECONorthwest was asked by the HECC to look over the proposed Pay It Forward model to ensure its mathematical accuracy. The review found that the approach is feasible, though significant losses are predicted.

The study found that, “with the assumptions in the model as delivered, the net present value of losses associated with the four-year pilot program over its first 50 years exceed $95 million and the losses associated with the community college program add another $24 million to that, for a total of over $119 million for a program that can only serve 1,000 new students each year.”

According to a recent press release from the HECC, the pilot would allow 1,000 voluntary students to try the new tuition-free concept. It’s anticipated that the number would annually increase until it reaches 4,000.

“We expect the pilot to be in high demand,” said Dudley, expressing hope that the number of participants will one day go well beyond 4,000.

Volunteering to be selected for Pay It Forward will be as easy as checking a box on a financial aid form, Dudley said.

Participation is open to students regardless of need.

“Opposition tends to come from two directions. One is more ‘where are we going to get the upfront funding for this?’ I say to view it as an investment. The other line of opposition comes from the left, who believes [Pay it Forward] should be publicly funded,” Dudley said.

Associated Students of PSU Student Body President Eric Noll discussed some of his reservations about the program. “I don’t believe [Pay It Forward] will be the ultimate solution; I believe it may be better than what we have now,” Noll said.

If universities were to receive their funding from a

small percentage of their graduates’ incomes, more focus would be placed on higher-earning degrees in the sciences than degrees involving nonprofit and social work, Noll said.

“Every funding model we look at has its benefits and drawbacks. Unfortunately, we’re working in a zerosum game of funding from the state,” Noll said. “Pay It Forward has benefits when it comes to moving higher education from that zerosum game, to some degree.

However, there is still an operating cost. That is still money students have to pay back over the long term.”

Noll noted that incremental approaches to paying the

state back are not going to be enough.

“When Pay It Forward was thought of in the first place, it was a really creative and innovative idea. It shouldn’t die. We should continue to pursue really creative and innovative ideas with a level of impatience to the issue.

We can’t wait any longer,” Noll said.

Oregon ranks 47th in state spending per college student, giving students over $2,000 less than other states, according to the 2014 State Higher Education Finance report.

“The amount of money we’re asking for to fund Pay it Forward is kind of a drop in the bucket,” Rackham said.

KEVIN RACKHAM, co-creator of oregon's pay it Forward program, discusses its history and details.

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Food For thought appeals to reopen cassia Gammill

Food For Thought, a student-run cafe and community space, may reopen within the 2014–15 academic year, pending an approval process.

The projected opening date, if that approval is gained, is Jan. 5. If not, then the cafe is unlikely to reopen until the following academic year, if at all.

doors have been opened</ The space in the basement of Smith Memorial Student Union that formerly housed Food For Thought has been dark and empty since the closure of the cafe. Now, after communications between the FFT advisory board and the Student Fee Committee, rent for the space has been approved through December.

Currently, it is open as a community lounge and study space, open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. Anyone in the PSU community is welcome to share the high capacity room, though the cafe itself remains closed and no food or drink is being served.

work history Food For Thought’s chance to reopen is largely due to ongoing advocacy and efforts over the summer by an advisory board consisting mostly of students.

The members include Travis Gothard, a community member with experience in restaurant management; Adama Goudiaby, a senior PSU student majoring in management and leadership; Virginia Luka, a PSU graduate student and interim adviser

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in Student Activities and Leadership Programs; Haley White, a former FFT collective member and worker; and Tanya Murray, graduate student and food systems coordinator for the Sustainability Leadership Center.

Director of SALP Aimee Shattuck and Assistant Dean of Student Life and Director of Conduct and Community Standards Domanic Thomas have also given guidance to the team in the process of reopening.

Leading the process as cochairs of the FFT advisory board have been Hayden Leach, operations director of ASPSU, and Angela Hamilton, the coordinator of StudentOperated Services.

In order to reopen during this academic year, the advisory board must get approval from several stakeholders— SALP, Student Conduct, Student Fee Committee and the Smith Advisory Board.

Planning for reopening is divided into two phases, with the advisory board nearing completion of the first phase: the completion and approval of a business plan.

The second phase can begin once the plan receives approval. Leach and Hamilton will be addressing the Student Fee Committee in a second meeting planned for Friday at 8 a.m.

Over the summer, the advisory board formed working groups to address four areas of development deemed necessary for the studentoperated service to succeed and thrive. These recommendations established by the groups in these specific areas

inform the creation of the business plan.

A budget working group focused on analyzing the market and assessing the financial history of the cafe. A food group met to plan a general menu, pricing and sourcing.

Recommendations on personnel practices were made by a third group, who considered the organizational structure and learning outcomes of student workers. A fourth group turned to marketing, outreach and inclusion in an effort to promote the effective use of campus resources and form connections on campus.

After several meetings over the summer, these groups made their final recommendations to the board.

“At the end of August most of the work on the business plan had been completed and we disbanded the working groups. The rest is just wordsmithing,” Leach said. “Once the business plan is approved, Food For Thought will have the green light to reopen.

Then we can focus on hiring.”

looking back at the closure</ The cafe abruptly closed in March, and multiple groups, including SALP, Student Conduct and the Smith Advisory Board, placed sanctions against the student-operated service that collectively staffed and managed its operations.

The administrators who decided upon the cafe's ultimate closure cited an ongoing budget deficit, cash-handling and record keeping concerns.

Leona Kindermann, a senior anthropology major

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THE FORMER FOOD FOR THOUGHT CAFE serves a new role as a basement lounge and quiet study spot until the cafe's potential reopening.

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and former collective member of Food For Thought, described the experience as painful. Kindermann also saw the work that the cafe did through fulfillment of its mission statement and collective management structure as political, and wondered about connections between the closure and other recent changes on campus.

“I know Chiron Studies got shut down when it started being recognized as too political, and luckily, we organized and got that back. It did feel weird that the closure happened right in the heat of one of the most recent struggles we've had on campus with the faculty bar-

gaining,” Kindermann said.

“After the walkout, everyone came to FFT to talk about it. A lot of people were asking me if those things were connected, and I honestly couldn't say no, but I couldn't say yes, either.”

Whether or not there is any connection between the cafe as a hub for student organizing and its closure, Kindermann observed a pattern that she perceives as ongoing.

“The university is doing that, they're trying to squash out our voices, they're trying to depoliticize. I can't help seeing it everywhere, and I can't help make connections with the

proposed deputization [of campus safety] as well,” Kindermann said.

Angela Hamilton, director of Student-Operated Services and co-chair of the FFT advisory board, found budgetary issues, collective decision-making and high labor costs had likely negatively affected the cafe's financial situation.

For example, “The employee meal plan resulted in a lost revenue of $20,000,” Hamilton said.

preserving an institution</ Despite differences in opinion about what happened, why and how to pro-

NEWS

study looks at relationship between trees and nitrogen dioxide Elizabeth Hendrickson

The people of Portland have to thank trees for more than their flashy colors this fall. According to a recent research project at Portland State, trees may play a part in reducing nitrogen dioxide, also known as NO2, an air pollutant that leads to certain health conditions.

“In [our] research, we noticed there was a relationship between the reduction of nitrogen dioxide, which is a pollutant that is associated with high temperature exhaust, like car exhaust or truck exhaust, and where there was vegetation,” explained Dr. Linda George, a professor of environmental sciences at PSU, who is trained as an atmospheric chemist. “So wherever there seemed to be trees, there seemed to be less NO2.”

Participants in the project placed sensors at various sites across Portland to study the relationship between the presence of trees and their target air pollutant.

“This last study that we did, we made a lot more measurements than anyone else has done in other cities in the

country, and we think we were able to pick out the factor of trees,” George said.

Meenakshi Rao, a graduate research assistant at the School of the Environment at PSU, explained the process.

“We measured at 144 sites and built a model for that, then we applied the model to all of Portland. Once we had this model of air pollution all over Portland, we could start looking for things like, ‘is there a correlation of where there’s more trees, there’s less nitrogen dioxide?’” Rao said.

George said that the ultimate goal of this project is to relate the presence of trees to the health of the population.

“I’m more interested in human health, and what are the pollutants that we emit,” she said, “because what they do when they end up in the environment can affect people.”

Although there is more research needed before any conclusions can be drawn, the research team has discovered a correlation between population health and the presence of trees.

However, “it’s still a strong assumption that it is trees and

not something else that has that effect,” Rao said.

Dr. Vivek Shandas, an associate professor in urban studies and planning at PSU, is helping the research team examine what their data means for the city of Portland.

“What we’re trying to do in the project is draw a real clear link between trees and health,” Shandas said. “We’re trying [to] work with the Oregon Health Authority to look at the relationship between actual health, not just modeled health, in relation to trees.”

“We did think there would be an effect, but we didn’t know that it would be big enough to make a difference in health. So that was very exciting, that it is actually big enough,” Rao said.

One of the next steps of this project include comparing data of the Portland air to specific health conditions.

“We want to know if there’s differing rates of cancer in relation to trees. We want to see differing emergency room visits based on the number of trees in a neighborhood, we want to see asthma rates,” Shandas said.

In addition, the team hopes to make use of their findings by developing a website or app for the public.

“We’re trying to create some tools. This is funded by the U.S. Forest Service, and part of the project is to help communities identify places where they can plant trees,” Shandas said. “So we’re creating an online system that allows a neighborhood association, a group of students, as well as anybody who’s interested in the relationship between trees and health to know what are the places they can improve quality of health in the easiest way possible. And we’re not just doing it for Portland, we’re doing it for 12 other cities in the country.”

“I definitely think more every time I turn on my car engine, because in the Portland area, the biggest source of NO2 is cars,” Rao said. “I also feel it makes me appreciate Portland even more.

Because even though my research shows we still have a health impact of NO2, the air in Portland is very clean compared to a lot of areas.”

ceed, those who have been working toward a reopening share a priority in preserving and passing on aspects of Food For Thought's legacy and mission statement.

“In the positive, it will have a really good relationship with SALP and the institutional memory will be preserved,” Kindermann said, noting that she won't be able to be re-employed by FFT because of her impending spring graduation.

“Hopefully they'll preserve the right things.”

“If it were to run the same way it was running last year, and the same things were to happen, it would be a gamble.

But we would have a new structure, a new coordinator, new leads, and anyone who

worked there before would have to reapply,” Hamilton said. “There would hopefully be some institutional memory in terms of the values that carry through, but at the same time, it could be completely different. We're hoping it is, because if it isn't, then we've failed.”

Both Hamilton and Leach explain the cafe's newly articulated mission statement is similar, if not exactly the same.

“Affordable, sustainable, organic—those components are still going to be a part of the cafe,” Leach said.

many aspects of its past incarnations, certain elements of its structure and operations have had to be changed in order to be approved.

One of those elements is the model of collective management and decision making that FFT had been utilizing.

“That whole collective model will not work within this model here, because time has been cut out of this as a way of saving costs,” Leach said.

Hamilton added, “I think a good word is that it has to be much more efficient than it ever was. Our community partner on the board worked for Burgerville, and we got a lot of good industry advice from him.”

Yet she admits efficiency and labor weren't issues isolated within the operations of FFT. “I don't want to paint [FFT] as being terrible before.

There are plenty of jobs students have where you don't have to work very much, but it's not going to be able to happen that way anymore," Hamilton said.

Upon reopening, the cafe will also be operating with a minimal staff and menu.

Elyse Cogburn, sustainability affairs director for ASPSU who has worked closely with the advisory board, said that it is a strategic decision to ensure longevity.

“We're trying to create a good, solid foundation. That doesn't mean we can't ex-

Facing change While the cafe will still bear the same name and include

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pand and grow, but that's why it's so bare and ‘meatless’ right now,” Cogburn said.

It is unclear whether the cafe will remain a vegetarian, meat-free space, as it had been in the past. Policy might be altered if it were to be decided that an environment that allowed meat would be more inclusive to students.

Kindermann was critical of such a choice, citing the mission of the cafe and environmental concerns as reasons for her position.

“There are huge problems with the meat industry, and the food industry in general in this country. And from a sustainability standpoint, eating meat is not sustainable,” Kindermann said.

Inclusivity is important to Kindermann as well, and she emphasized the student-oriented nature of the community that existed there, though recognized it could be seen as a niche environment.

Overall, Kindermann said that “it was welcoming to me.

And I’m glad going forward there is a strong focus on inclusivity and accessibility.”

Other goals going forward include elements of a fiveyear plan that considers how FFT can address campus food insecurity through partnerships and offering donations. If the cafe does reopen, students can expect a launch party and other promotions nearer to January.

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OPINION

Introverts are in good company

Fame-inism The Front Row

Introverts, Unite

by Missy Lacock

You’ve probably read the lists trending online, but here’s one more.

Signs you’re an introvert:

1. You cancel plans. A lot.

2. Your friend: “Wanna hang out?” You, anxious: “Um, no.”

3. People urge you to get out of the house. And pushy people are the reason you don’t want to get out of the house.

4. You’ve been called “too intense.”

5. When you do want to connect with others, you swing by, look around and think, “OK. Enough of that.” You know, like a cat.

Here’s the thing. Introverts have a bad rap. Being introverted doesn’t have anything to do with being shy, unaffectionate wallflowers, or being unable to stand up for ourselves. Being introverted has everything to do with where we find our energy: being alone, rather than interacting with others.

It’s biology. Our amygdala, a part of the brain that manages stimuli, just doesn’t function the same as Honey Boo Boo’s. People exhaust us. Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, “To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.”

Believe it or not, studies suggest more than half of us are introverts and prefer recharging by ourselves, thank you very much. But face it: Since you’re coloring the Os in this newspaper instead of chatting with your classmates, chances are even higher that you’re an introvert.

The first weeks of school involve lots of new people and— sob—small talk, which means you’ll need help more than ever. I’ll be here for you this term, even if it’s just to remind you that you’re in good company.

I’ll explore challenges in student life like networking, roommates, parties, dating and group projects (Hell. Seriously. Hell.). Let’s unite—separately, in our own homes, like the meme says.

But first, let’s take something off the table: No extrovert shaming. Nope. We love extroverts. They’re the entertainers, the ones with clever exchanges and the ones who have something to give when we just need naps. They’re movers and shakers like Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher.

They also have one major advantage over us: They thrive in social settings, which happen to be pretty much every setting. Interacting in school, business and relationships is pretty unavoidable.

But remember, introverts can also be wildly successful: Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling, Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama all made their marks, and if they can do it, we can too.

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by Breana Harris By now pretty much everyone has either listened to or heard about Emma Watson’s speech on gender equality at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Watson is in fact a U.N. goodwill ambassador, and her speech was meant to launch the HeForShe campaign. The campaign aims to educate men and boys on gender inequality and the challenges women face around the world.

Watson, who recently graduated from Brown University, was eloquent on the subject of feminism. She was also self-deprecating, calling herself the Harry Potter girl and doubting her own qualifications. She received overwhelmingly positive feedback, including a letter from 15-year-old Hertfordshire, UK boy Ed Holtom which was printed in The Sunday Telegraph. Which read, “Feminism is not about manhating or female supremacy. It is, by definition, the opposite.”

While Watson is on the positive end of the spectrum, especially considering the fact that she’s actually doing something that produces results, it seems that lately the media loves collecting female celebrities’ opinions on feminism. Especially the younger ones. Katy Perry, Shailene Woodley, Lady Gaga and more have been criticized for insisting they are not feminists (usually because they “love men,” as if the two are mutually exclusive).

Meghan Trainor—whose catchy hit song “All About that Bass” is geared toward celebrating larger women because “boys like a little more booty to hold at night”—is another celebrity who insists she isn’t a feminist. When faced with the criticism that her song actually tells young women to base their opinion of their own body on whether it’s pleasing to men, 20-year-old Trainor seems to not understand at all. “I never had a problem getting boys,” she said to Sean Michaels of The Guardian, who reminds us that her next single, “Title,” instructs a boy to treat her like a trophy and show her off.

The constant barrage of celebrity interviews about feminism has drawn a lot of ire. Amanda Hess of Slate just wrote an article called, “Celebrity Feminist Identification has Reached Peak Meaninglessness,” which kind of says it all. The argument is that even artists who identify as feminists, such as Beyoncé, are subscribing to a commercialized, pre-packaged version. Both embracing and rejecting feminism can be seen as marketing ploys.

But then there’s Watson, who is clearly not out for selfpromotion. And there’s Holtom, a young fan who was inspired by what she had to say. Doesn’t Trainor have fans like this? Aren’t there arguably teenage girls and boys learning that feminism is a dirty word and that their self-confidence should come from whether they can “get” boys?

Whether celebrity views on feminism matter is irrelevant, because the media will still ask what it wants to ask. The point is that it doesn’t seem to matter if Beyoncé uses feminism as a marketing tool or if Emma Watson left out intersectionality (or whatever the elite social justice hipsters are complaining about). The point is that they have a direct influence on young people who might not understand what feminism is at all, and who could be genuinely inspired and influenced in a positive way.

Student trustee on her departure from the board

OPINION

COURTESY OF CORINNA SCOTT/PSU ARCHIVES

letter to the editor student trustee Pamela Campos-palma

My first few weeks at Portland State were challenging. I was still trying to find the way from my Chican@/Latin@ class to my P.E. soccer class at Stott Field, a good six blocks in under 10 minutes at lunchtime. I took these two classes because one I was very familiar with (soccer), and the other would teach me more about myself. I was also transitioning from active duty Air Force and had recently taken guardianship of my then 10-year-old sister so my mother could accept an overseas elderly care job.

Despite my challenges, I became fascinated with opportunities I never knew existed during my first months at PSU. True to my nature I immersed myself at PSU, became very involved, informed and passionate about the campus and school. Years later, I face different challenges as the student trustee on the PSU governing Board of Trustees.

Being the inaugural student trustee to me has been about service, bridging positive impacts and setting a rock-solid precedent that serves the campus community for the long-term. My role on the board is to lend an important student perspective that can best highlight and

inform the board’s collective decisions. In this capacity I have not only been heard, but repeatedly had the board chair, fellow trustees and President Wim Wiewel make it a point to ask for my opinions and my experience. In that aspect my time on the board has been extremely fruitful and full of mutual respect.

Though the student trustee is not a student representative in the same way as our student government, the Associated Students of PSU, my board role has been filled with dedicated students and campus members reaching out as well. I have seen how this position is monumental to helping bridge some of our institutional gaps, and further improve and elevate PSU. While I am proud of my service, the student trustee position is one that is vulnerable, and requires strong solidarity from both the student government and administration together.

Still, the board is relatively new and I have witnessed nothing but countless dedicated folks, students, administrators, staff and faculty alike, working tireless hours to make PSU the best it can possibly be.

My departure from the board was not foreseen and is one of the most arduous decisions I’ve ever made. As a graduating full-time senior, continuing service member, working professional and trustee, my graduate school plans were difficult to accommodate this past spring. Within the same week of sorting it out, I received military orders from my Air Force unit. In a short span of time I had to quickly navigate big life happenings and thankfully received full support from the board, the president’s office and staff, and my peers.

Throughout this entire process my biggest aspiration is to be thorough, intentional, and to set our PSU community up for success. I have had conversations with our PSU student government leadership since June about my departure and they are working hard in their large undertaking in recommending a student trustee to the governor’s office. Throughout all this I have continued my service and dedication and will remain active on the board for several more months as we face some important conversations.

Thank you for your fortified and continued support, it’s an incredible honor to serve such a vibrant and dynamic community.

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OPINION

stripped in eugene PIRATES COVE STRIP CLUB is a landmark and mainstay on Northeast sandy boulevard.

The Cuddlefish

by Adam Lamascus This summer I went to a bachelor party. I’d never been to one, and I was unsure of what to expect.

What ended up happening was that a group of nine guys (three of whom were gay) went to Eugene and took a tour of four strip clubs that were within a few blocks of each other. I’d never been to a strip club before either.

The experience was something of a bizarre one for me, though the level of bizarreness changed depending on which club we went to. I was somewhat apprehensive, as a friend of mine is a former stripper, and she said that a lot more illegal sex, drug deals and even rapes happen in the private rooms of certain clubs than the public realizes.

Furthermore, while I know that sex workers suffer unfair stigmatization in society, and that many strippers enjoy their work, I also know that many don’t, and it’s often (perhaps almost always) hugely objectifying for the women involved.

Anyway, it was my friend’s bachelor party, and so I pushed down all of my nervousness and other concerns and went to these places.

Now, I’ve been told that Portland has more strip clubs per capita than any other city in the U.S., but I feel like Eugene must have the most club density.

The first club we went to was the nicest overall. The strippers were actually very friendly and talked with us quite a bit about all sorts of non-stripping-related things. Being that I’d never been to a club before, and neither had a couple of the other guys, one of the strippers gave us a sort of briefing on what to expect.

Two things shocked me the most: Firstly, she said that it was $20 for a roughly three-minute lap dance. Secondly, she said that strippers really only make money on tips, as the wages are effectively nonexistent.

Seeing as I am an impoverished grad student, I generally tried to sit by the three gay men in the group, hoping that the strippers might pass me by. It mostly seemed to work. I also spent a decent amount of time outside in the smoking area, where a few members of the group spent most of their time talking to the strippers who were on their breaks. That was actually a lot of fun, and I enjoyed talking to these women.

They were all very sassy individuals, which surprised me, but I suppose it probably shouldn’t have. It seems like you’d need to be sassy to choose to do that job. One of the guys in the group mentioned that he was gay, and a stripper replied, “No shit, sweetie,” which drew laughter from everybody there.

Most of the women were very slender with small busts, which also surprised me. I assumed there would be a lot more women with large, fake breasts. Additionally, their pole-dancing skills were incredibly impressive.

The athleticism and coordination they displayed while twirling around upside down, seven or eight feet off the ground, and

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often not using their hands to control their speed and rotation was actually fascinating. I still don’t understand how they can spin like that and not get friction burns.

The second strip club we visited was ridiculously sketchy, and we were there for about 10 minutes. As we walked in, the stripper dancing was so drunk that she nearly fell off the pole and stage. The place was full of skeezy old men.

We considered leaving then, but one stripper approached the bachelor, so somebody handed him $20 and he went off for a dance. When he returned, he said he wanted to go. Allegedly, they passed the Champagne Room, and he asked what happens there. The stripper replied, “I’m not allowed to say, but as much as you’re willing to pay for.” We agreed this place was not somewhere we wanted to be and left quickly.

The third place had by far the nicest building, the comfiest seating and the best music, but the strippers never smiled and always seemed to treat the clients like they were obnoxious irritations getting in the way of something important. Also the non-stripper staff was ridiculously suspicious and treated everybody like they were thieves. The DJ didn’t help either, be-

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cause even though he picked good music, he kept yelling really stupid things over the PA system.

The fourth club was just depressing. There was one stripper, a dingy old building (ironically next door to the police station), two old guys and nothing else. Needless to say, we departed shortly after arriving.

Before the night ended, we actually returned to the club we started at, and all the strippers cheered when we came in. The one on the stage shouted, “I told you guys leaving was a bad idea!” We all laughed and apologized for not listening to her.

The experience as a whole was jarring. Most of the women were very talented, and most of them were friendly and fun to talk to, but it was really hard for me to relax in those places.

I wasn’t especially attracted to the women involved, as they were all the same body type, and were not the type I find the most attractive. Also, the skeezy old men that seemed to make up most of the clientele made me constantly think of the various things my ex-stripper friend told me.

I know many men and women whom I respect and who enjoy patronizing strip clubs, and that’s fine by me. I have come to the conclusion, though, that they aren’t quite for me.

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OPINION

No Journalism option hinders job prospects

The Illuminator

by Mike Bivins

A degree in journalism never crossed my mind when I was starting my college education at Portland State. Communication studies seemed to be the way to go so I dove in headfirst, and I have enjoyed myself thus far. But last year when I was taking Comm 200, the professor announced that the Vanguard was hiring writers.

While writing for the newspaper I toyed around with the idea of switching majors. I figured if I planned on getting serious with my writing that this might be an advantageous decision. Unfortunately, it was not to be. For as I scanned the list of degrees and majors listed on the PSU website, there was not a journalism major to be found.

This was quite perplexing. How is it that a university with several different student media publications is lacking the one degree most applicable to this work? Without formal journalism classes, how can PSU expect its student publications to be high quality?

Personally, the experience of writing for a paper without any formal training has been somewhat difficult. I remember when I was brought on board I was given an abbreviated Associated Press Stylebook and a pep talk, and I was sent out to learn by trial and error while churning out my pieces.

While I have been able to rise above this paradoxical situation—a situation in which I am expected to present polished work yet have been given no direct instruction on how to get there—I am not sure that others would be able to succeed given these conditions.

A potential result of not having formal journalism classes, and having to rely on my best judgment, is a fly-by-night operation of sorts. The lack of journalism classes has a strong potential to hinder the ability of student media to rise to its fullest potential.

Of course, there are non-credit classes that aspiring student journalists can take at PSU to bolster their journalism skills.

What about those who wish to make a career out of journalism, yet do not have the time to take these supplementary classes?

They are deprived of a learning opportunity, as well as an opportunity to get college credit for doing something they love.

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The aspiring journalist is also deprived of professors with vital connections to an ever-shrinking number of newspapers.

Not only am I (and other aspiring journalists) deprived of journalism professors with connections to our beloved media, we are also deprived of references from those in the field we seek to enter. While having references from professors in the fields of communication and English will no doubt be beneficial, and definitely not looked down upon by the person at the newspaper responsible for making the hiring decisions, that person will certainly wonder why someone applying for a journalist position has a resume devoid of any references from journalism professors.

Fortunately, all is not lost and there are ways around this.

PSU allows students to take classes jointly with Portland Community College, and PCC does happen to offer entry-level journalism classes. While co-enrolling at PCC will mitigate some

of these journalistic disadvantages that must be overcome, it is unfortunate that one would be forced to go back to a community college to acquire skills and references. There’s also a new journalism certification program at PSU which is capped at 10 students per year and open to only those in higher-up positions in student media, so it benefits extremely few.

PSU should really look into adding a journalism program.

Not for me, no. My ship has set sail and communication studies is my path. And you should see the looks I get when I tell people that I write for multiple papers and that I have cobbled together journalism skills through a combination of trial and error, the Associated Press Stylebook and the chapters within it pertaining to media law and a healthy dose of winging it.

While winging it is fun, it is probably not the way to go (if one can help it) when trying to start a career.

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COVER

A seat at the table

PSU Board of Trustees seeks new student representative

Summer Stewart

Pamela Campos-Palma, the first student trustee on Portland State’s new Board of Trustees, submitted her resignation from the Board on June 26.

Campos-Palma’s resignation came in just days before the Board of Trustees became effective on July 1.

The new Board of Trustees, confirmed by Oregon State Senate in November 2013, governs PSU as an independent public body. The board has jurisdiction to set tuition with input from Oregon legislative bodies, appoint the PSU president and other employees, establish a police department and issue bonds. This board replaces the governance previously carried out by the State Board of Higher Education, as a part of the Oregon University System.

The board is comprised of 14 voting members, including one student trustee. PSU President Wim Wiewel also resides on the board as a non-voting member.

The student trustee, appointed for a two-year term, is the bridge between students and officials that approve policies for the campus at large.

"I felt incredibly valued and heard by the other members of the Board of Trustees," Campos-Palma said. “My voice was heard and I knew I was doing my job.”

Associate English professor and board member Maude Hines spoke fondly of working with Campos-Palma. “She’s been really conscientious, and really put a lot of time and energy into it. She considered ideas carefully and was not afraid to speak up, and I think those attributes are important,” Hines said.

Although Campos-Palma’s resignation was swift, she said that it was the right decision for her career. She enrolled at New York University as a graduate student this fall, though she

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will be an active member on the Board of Trustees until a successor is appointed.

“I have volunteered to continue as the student trustee until the [Associated Students of PSU] and [the] Board of Trustees can find a successor,” Campos-Palma said.

Her resignation opens a vacancy for a new student trustee during a vulnerable time, as important legislation is up for voting this fall.

“Students need to understand important issues, such as the sworn police officers,” Campos-Palma said.

She said she wants students to get involved and understand why legislation is brought to the table as well. Campos-Palma intends to fulfill her role as student trustee by opening lines of communication with students.

“I want students to talk to me,” Campos-Palma said regarding student input and the decisions made by the Board of Trustees.

To open communication with students, CamposPalma has asked ASPSU to make her contact information (apamela@pdx.edu) available online as a method for keeping an open door between students and the inner walls of the Board of Trustees.

Campos-Palma said she can’t solve everything, but expressed a desire to help students understand the reality of governing a large university.

In regard to staying connected with students during this transition, Campos-Palma feels that ASPSU hasn't heard her attempts to communicate about finding a replacement.

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"I've been in hourless conversations with ASPSU and I don't believe ASPSU has heard me. I want to be involved," CamposPalma said.

ASPSU President Eric Noll said that Campos-Palma’s feelings of being unheard stem from the rigid relationship between the student trustee and former ASPSU President Harris Foster, who served from June 2013 to June 2014. Noll said that Foster was not receptive, nor supportive of the inaugural student trustee.

Noll said ASPSU has faced difficulties maintaining communication with Campos-Palma due to the time zone differences and other project commitments. Noll, Campos-Palma and other ASPSU members held a Skype call over the weekend to clear the air.

“We want to address concerns the best we can,” Noll said.

He said that he wants to make communication between the student body, ASPSU and the Board of Trustees transparent.

Noll intends to attend every Board of Trustees and special committee meeting henceforth to help close the gap in information relayed to the student body.

ASPSU is responsible for conducting a search for a qualified student to succeed Campos-Palma, and ASPSU has begun an application process to find candidates qualified to perform as the student trustee. An open application was emailed out on Sept.

24. Campos-Palma also informed many department heads of the opening to allow a diverse set of students to apply for the role.

When asked about what she thinks are important attributes of a student trustee, Hines said, “The ability to think holistically, interest in the long term future of the university. I think it’s important to understand what’s going on with students, but there’s not a single student opinion or agenda.”

“It's important not to overburden the student trustee with appeals to special interests on behalf of small groups of students,” Hines added.

Applications for the student trustee position close Oct. 16.

Eligible candidates will be interviewed Oct. 21, and three recommended candidates will be forwarded to Governor John Kitzhaber’s office by Nov. 1.

COVER PORTLAND STATE PRESIDENT WIM WIEWEL AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES tour the new collaborative life sciences building with faculty.

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University General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees David Reese said ASPSU is responsible for selecting the candidates, but the governor must appoint a new student trustee to the board from those recommendations.

Noll and ASPSU Vice President Rayleen McMillan are streamlining the interview process to ensure qualified candidates are recommended to the governor’s office. Noll said that, because the Board of Trustees is new, ASPSU has no precedent to follow about recommending candidates.

Reese expects a new student trustee to be appointed by early December.

“It is important to have a student voice [on the board],” Reese said. The upcoming board meeting on Dec. 11, when the board is expected to make a decision on hiring a sworn police force on campus, contributes to urgency in securing a student to fulfill the role.

Noll predicted that a new student trustee could have been appointed in September had they been able to get in touch with the governor’s office.

“We are frustrated with the governor’s office because this whole summer we haven’t been able to connect with anybody.

We could’ve had a new student trustee appointed as early as September, but here we are, rushing to fill a space before the big December meeting,” Noll said.

Campos-Palma said she has attempted to connect with ASPSU members to create a mentor program to help future student trustees acclimate to the role, but has not been satisfied with the level of communication from student government.

“To be honest, I’m disappointed in ASPSU,” Campos-Palma said. Campos-Palma felt that her insight would be useful.

Noll said the selection process will include Campos-Palma.

“We are absolutely receptive to [Campos-Palma] being a

“I represent the student body, and we need somebody to do the same.”

Pamela Campos-Palma, student trustee mentor,” Noll said. He explained that her experience is important to ASPSU, but the student government wants to complete the interview process first.

Campos-Palma and the Board of Trustees have designed a continuity plan to eliminate a gap in student representation.

They have created a student trustee handbook and CamposPalma has worked to make the transition smooth to avoid any issues caused by her early departure.

Campos-Palma’s time as student trustee was shorter than expected, but she said she plans to fill the role by being a strong,

multidimensional voice for PSU students until a replacement can be found.

"I'll be an intentional advocate in my role," Campos-Palma said.

Students applying for the student trustee position must return the application no later than 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Oct. 16 to be considered. The application requires a resume, cover letter, application and supplemental information. More information can be found at ASPSU in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 117.

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ARTS & CULTURE

'the winding stream' tells the story oF country music legends

documeNtarY to screeN at Northwest Film ceNter's reel music FestiVal

mElaniE coPE

Beth Harrington is a Grammy-nominated and award-winning director. Originally from Boston, Harrington now calls Portland her home.

Her award-winning musical documentary, The Winding Stream is one of the many films that will be showcased at the 32nd annual Reel Music Festival, which will run from Oct. 10 to Oct. 21.

The long-awaited film will be showing on the opening weekend of the festival. The film recounts the story of two families, Cash and Carter, made legendary by their contributions to the country music scene and intertwined by marriage.

The film starts at the very beginning, with a young A.P. Carter going from town to town selling fruit trees in Virginia to earn a living. We watch as he meets Sara and her cousin Maybelle and they form a musical group: The Carter Family. The band goes on to record songs and records for Ralph Peer, a producer with RCA Records.

And the stream continues to wind, following the three talented musicians. Sara leaves A.P. for Coy Bayes, a man she has fallen for (and he for her) while A.P. was out traveling and looking for new songs and inspiration.

Maybelle has daughters of her own: Helen, June and Anita. The four of them carry on the tradition of music well into the 20th century and beyond. And then, of course, June gives her hand in marriage to one Johnny Cash.

And the rest is history.

The score for the film is a collection of songs modified

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and sung by A.P., Sara and Maybelle, and performed by musicians such as John Prine, Murry Hammond, Grey Delisle and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, just to name a few.

reminiscences about their family,” Harrington said. “I needed to honor their trust by completing the film, no matter how long it took.”

i’ll be all smiles tonight

The Winding Stream is one of the highlights of the Reel Music Festival for Nick Bruno, the publicity and promotions manager at the Northwest Film Center. But The Winding Stream is just one film being screened for the Reel Music Festival.

“We make a point of mixing in old favorites, such as this year’s inclusion of a 30th anniversary screening of Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense.”

The festival will be an exploration of the active and energizing interplay between sound and image, as well as music and culture. It will feature a wide range of artists, editors, directors and their muses, as well as the music that they work together to create.

This will include collections of vintage performance clips, new documentaries and dramatic films, topped off by cutting edge music videos and animation. Many different genres of music are embraced at this annual event, including blues, jazz, rock, classical, avante-garde and opera.

The films will be screened at the Portland Art Museum, in the Whitsell Auditorium, providing almost a month of melody and motion picture for lovers of music to absorb and enjoy.

So, whether you come to see one film or several, a clas-

The Winding Stream has been a labor of love. But its creation has also hinged on trust, which first began after Harrington met Rosanne Cash, the daughter of famed country singer Johnny Cash, while working on her film Welcome to the Club.

In time, Rosanne Cash introduced Harrington to her father. Later she was invited to the Carter Family Fold, a venue founded by the Carter family that holds performances weekly. This was where the idea for The Winding Stream was born, on an evening full of old-time and bluegrass music in Poor Valley, at the foot of Clinch Mountain.

“The Carter family is like the Beatles, in that threads and fingers of their music are woven into everything that came after them,” as Rosanne Cash says in the film.

This family, whose overwhelming contribution to classical country music is undeniable, remains unknown to many. This was part of the inspiration that drove Harrington for 12 years.

In the making and completion of this film, she hopes that audiences will gain a finer appreciation for the culture.

“Rosanne Cash and members of the family entrusted me with information and

JUNE CARTER CASH AND JOHNNY CASH are featured in 'the winding stream', a documentary by family friend and portland-based filmmaker, beth harrington. the film is one of many featured in the Northwest Film center's reel music Festival.

reel music

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sic, or something brand new like The Winding Stream, you’re not the only one who is excited for what’s in store this year.

“What Reel Music does is pull together an incredibly concentrated dose of music and film. This year it’s 25 films in 13 days,” Bruno said.

“I’m always really excited to see what the festival brings to Portland.”

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ARTS & CULTURE

'sex criminals': what is it and why is everyone talking about it? andY anadY

COVER FOR IMAGE COMICS' 'SEX CRIMINALS' series, by chip Zdarsky and portland native matt Fraction.

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Portland writer Matt Fraction and Canadian artist Chip Zdarsky’s comic series Sex Criminals is a lot less creepy than it sounds, but just as amazing as you can expect. Suzie, the comic’s lead, comes to us as an adult to describe her foray into her own sexuality and how that leads to where she is now: robbing a bank with a brunette man through a sea of rainbows.

The first issue is a thorough introduction of who Suzie is as a person and how her life of crime began. You’re not surprised, it’s called Sex Criminals after all. While most of Suzie’s life plays out normally, the first time she masturbates time stops. Well, time stops and there’s rainbows everywhere.

Since Suzie is a wellrounded youngster with not only a spectacular American sexual education, but many trusted adults in her life, she freaks out. But there’s no one she can go to, first because time is stopped and everyone’s frozen, then later because no one wants to or can give her advice or any honest information.

She asks questions in her sex-ed class and promptly gets stonewalled. She asks the “dirty girls” in class, one who has HPV and who honestly tries to be helpful with anatomically improbable sexual positions illustrated on a bathroom stall. Her gynecologist, a man, tells her to orgasm with her husband and her mother calls her a whore.

So Suzie has no choice but to assume that it’s not normal to stop time when you orgasm, and while she develops a lot of guilt around it, she still goes to The Quiet, when time is frozen, to deal with her emotions. She screams and throws things, which she doesn’t have the privacy to do in any other place or time.

It’s a place where she can be alone and unguarded, and the first issue ends when she orgasms with a man, Jon, she meets at a party. And when time stops and Suzie doesn’t, Jon doesn’t either.

That is the most amazing thing about Sex Criminals.

Fraction takes this simple and outlandish concept of girl orgasms and time literally stops and uses it as a metaphor for growing up in a culture that turns sex taboo, especially clitorisrelated orgasms. Fraction is also keen on exploring the way in which healthy sexual/ romantic relationships, for those who are so inclined, inherently can’t be all sex or all emotion; that to relate to other people, it’s important that we don’t ignore either our bodies or our emotions.

Also, sex education is notoriously awful in America.

Fraction’s writing is similarly spectacular. Sex Criminals is frank without being heavy-handed. And for such a bizarre plot, the story is as organic and natural as sex.

Suzie and Jon are round characters who have just enough in common for them to meet and hook up, but not quite enough to justify talking for

fifty-five hours straight, except for the fact that they both have the same titular one weird trick. As far as they know, they’ve each found the single other person in all of time and space with whom they can connect sexually, and it turns into a bank robbery—which is a relationship red flag if ever there was one.

It’s not just Fraction’s writing, either. Zdarsky’s art not only complements the writing with bold lines and subtle visual cues, but it reinforces and adds layered meanings to everything written. The adult-Suzie narrating this story of sexual confusion and guilt in her younger self is sometimes wearing tight skirts or low-cut shirts, neither being sexual nor shying away from it, signaling to the audience that she’s okay and that despite the obstacles, in her way she grows up and grows into herself. Except in younger-Suzie’s most vulnerable moments, in which their outfits perfectly mirror each other.

In a story that looks deeply and seriously at what it means to be sexual and to be sexual with another person within the bounds of a society like ours, Zdarsky’s backgrounds lend just enough brevity and humor to keep the story reasonably lighthearted without detracting from the gravity, and instead adding to the story and giving a context to all the non-advice and misinformation Suzie receives from what I’m sure are very well-meaning people.

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ARTS & CULTURE

rebel craFt rumble hits hollywood theatre with glitter and guns craZY craFters compete For the title oF Northwest craFt master

rubY kinG

Are you a fan of DIY or hardcore Pinterest? What about art being made in a cutthroat environment? How about Project Runway? If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are that the Rebel Craft Rumble, an annual DIY fundraiser hosted by SCRAP, a local reuse store and donation center, should be the next thing you get pumped for.

The Rebel Craft Rumble will be hosted at the Hollywood Theatre on Oct. 15.

It will be the Rumble’s fifth time gracing Portland. In accordance with Hollywood Theatre’s policies, the event is limited to those aged 21 and older.

“Rebel Craft Rumble is basically an Iron Chef for crafting,” said Stephanie Stoller, the Portland director of SCRAP, “and is just a super fun, rowdy and hilarious event.”

The Rumble tasks competitors with constructing the most clever object that befits the prompt given. For example, teams might be tasked with whipping up a litter box that eliminates odor to best fit a pet cat their mother-in-law detests, all using materials as bizarre as birth control pill containers. The last standing team is crowned the Northwest Craft Master.

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Four teams of two competitors will go through two 10-minute rounds, followed by a final 12-minute round of creative madness.

Spectators also get to participate by being on their best behavior, as the event features a Craft Cop that penalizes audience members for things such as lack of enthusiasm. If you’ve ever dreamed of being confronted by a Tim Gunn-esque figure, the Craft Cop is all the more reason to give the Rumble a visit.

To be considered for this dramatic and outlandish crafting event, teams had to first apply and then be evaluated in a much smaller craft-off, and judged for their level of craftiness and stage presence.

Stoller said the materials that each team is supplied with will come directly from SCRAP. SCRAP is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire creative reuse and environmentally-sustainable behavior by providing educational programs and affordable materials to the community. Last year the organization was able to save 140 tons from going to waste.

The crafters putting their hands and wits to the test this year are Team Lara Craft and James Bondo, Team Honeycomb, Team Honeybird and Snake Face, and Team Amazeballs, who are all allowed one

secret weapon. A representative from Team Amazeballs said that if they win the competition, they would celebrate by hitting up a German bierstube and toasting while needle-felting the Virgin Mary.

All proceeds raised by the Rumble will directly benefit SCRAP’s programs.

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The Rumble will be judged by a number of local celebrities, one of them being Doug Kenck-Crispin of Kick Ass Oregon History, a weekly radio series. As a first-timer to the Rumble, Kenck-Crispin said he is preparing for the event by doing some practical thinking.

“I am planning on wearing a tie that can be easily dry cleaned, and will be cognizant of keeping my fingers and other somewhat easily removable appendages away from the crafting area,” Kenck-Crispin said.

Kenck-Crispin said he makes up for his lack of DIY craft experience by offer-

ing that he can make pretty decent five gallon batches of beer in his kitchen.

“That’s a craft, right?”

Tickets for the Rebel Craft Rumble are available for purchase at SCRAP, located on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., or at the Hollywood Theatre’s website.

SARA LEIGHTON AND JACOB ROBERTSON MAKE UP 'HONEYBIRD AND SNAKEFACE,' one of four teams brawling it out for scrap's rebel craft rumble.

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ARTS & CULTURE

transylmania: a review oF 'bram stoker’s dracula' miriam PErala

In 1897, Bram Stoker asked the world to believe in things that we cannot. Nearly 95 years later, Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic revamp of Stoker’s classic, Dracula, is still pushing the bounds of believability.

Perhaps the most excessively theatrical retelling todate, Bram Stoker’s Dracula manages to outdo even the legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in terms of cheeseout vampirism. And while it’s definitely a must-see for every horror movie buff, I think the last word anyone could ever apply to this film would be scary.

The screenplay, written

by James V. Hart, does away with the oppressive morality and traditionalism of Stoker’s original text, capitalizing instead on the very

temptation, sexuality and exploration that it had been condemning. The result: an unapologetically steamy romance, peppered with gore and vengeance.

It opens in the year 1462, with a Dracula that is more man than monster. A Carpathian prince wrongfully stripped of his bride, Elisabeta, renounces life and religion to avenge this great injury.

At large once more in the early 1900s, we watch his attempts to woo the spitting reincarnation of his lost love, Wilhelmina Murray (Winona Ryder), while simultaneously murdering everyone she ever knew.

Tasked with the portrayal of the eponymous count is Gary Oldman, whose commitment and ghoulish mannerisms (fortunately) were far better than his accent.

Whether guised as a bat, a

dapper gentleman, an elderly Rapunzelesque count or even a werewolf, Oldman consistently oozes ecstasy, devotion and longing.

His romantic rival, however, the righteous Jonathan Harker, here played by Keanu Reeves, seems to struggle to connect with anything.

Even as he lies in an undead ménage à quatre, with his nipples gushing blood like fruit punch fountains, Reeves chooses to trade the expected attitudes of arousal or terror for the subtlety of vague unease.

Yet, the sheer quantity of “is this really happening?” moments still manage to make up for its flaws in the performance quality department. From watching Dracula the werewolf casually fornicating with his true love’s best friend in the center of a labyrinth, to seeing

him literally turn tears into diamonds, you’ll be left seriously questioning how the film makes as much sense as it does.

Nevertheless, amongst the more than 200 Dracula-related films produced to-date, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not only considered one of the most visually stunning, but also the most financially successful. According to IMDB, it grossed just under $90 million in the U.S. alone, and nearly $300 million worldwide.

Even when compared to other modern renditions, such as Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D (2012), or Patrick Lussier’s Dracula 2000 (2000), this 90s gem is the most balanced, beautiful and faithful to Stoker’s original tale.

And whatever your film needs might be, this magical

marriage of Tarantino-grade violence with a beauty-lovesthe-beast plot leaves only the third dimension and a handsome snack horde to be desired. So whether it was

late-night-date-night, or a gore-fest-galore, this Coppola classic was one 5th Avenue Cinema indulgence too good to resist, and truly good to the last drop.

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EVENT CALENDAR Tuesday, Oct. 7

Wednesday, Oct. 8

Portland Center Stage Presents: The Typographer’s Dream

Lola’s Room Presents: Ethan Johns

Performance starts at 7 p.m.

Portland Center Stage 128 N.W. 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 A stenographer, a geographer and a typographer want to share what they do for a living. In their presentations, variably energetic and dispassionate, focused and distracted, it becomes clear that these three may not be strangers—but what is their relationship? What seems to be a simple panel discussion becomes, as the San Francisco Chronicle writes, something “funny, provocative, psychologically revealing, intellectually stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable.”

From the author of The Receptionist and A Small Fire, The Typographer’s Dream is a “smart, hilarious and thoroughly unexpected treat.”

Student price with ID is $25 and all ages 6+ are welcome.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m.

Lola’s Room 1332 W. Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209 Lola’s Room is excited to welcome the multi-talented singer, songwriter, record producer, mixer and multiinstrumentalist Ethan Johns. While he owns his own record label, Three Crows Music, he has recently debuted his first solo album back in 2012. His music is a hybrid between an iconic urban indie feel, with old school country. He is the kind of guy who you could spend hours listening to, and then spend the rest of the night drinking beers with.

Tickets are $20 at the door, and all ages are welcome.

Crystal Ballroom Presents: The New Pornographers

Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m.

Crystal Ballroom 1332 W. Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209 Never thought you would hear Canadian pop in downtown Portland? Think again!

The New Pornographers formed in 1997 in Vancouver, B.C. Their sound was influenced by pop bands like The Cars and Cheap Trick, but they use much more sophisticated rhythms and chord changes. They have a mature sound, and by no means were designed to appeal to “the young crowd” and feel more like a throwback to the quality pop that came out of the ‘80s (without the ‘80s feel).

Tickets are $30 at the door, and all ages are welcome.

Thursday, Oct. 9

PSU School of Art and Design Scholarship Exhibition Open throughout the day until Oct. 31 MK & AB Lobby Galleries, Art Building, 2000 S.W. Fifth Ave. Portland, OR 97201 The Portland State school of Art + Design welcomes all students to view the work of their talented scholarship artists, enjoy food and drink, and meet the artists! This event features a showcase of work done by 2014–15 School of Art and Design scholarship-winning students. There is no cost to enter this event, and it is open to the public.

Friday, Oct. 10 Imago Theater Presents: ‘The Homecoming’ Performance Starts at 8 p.m.

Imago Theatre 17 S.E. Eighth Ave. Portland, OR 97214

director Jerry Mouawad is taking on the Nobel Laureate’s most iconic work, about a British man who brings his American wife to visit his working-class family in North London. It’s a menacing play with dark sexual undercurrents, and the cast includes a few actors from Imago’s previous Pinter productions, most notably Anne Sorce and Jeffrey Jason Gilpin. Tickets for students are $25, and it appears that all ages are welcome. FREE 21+

Braindump Orientation Workshop starts at 6 p.m.

PSU Engineering Building, room 102 1930 S.W. Fourth Ave. Portland, OR 97201

Saturday, Oct. 11 Milwaukie Oktoberfest Performance starts at 8 p.m.

Breakside Taproom & Brewery 5821 S.E. International Way Milwaukie, OR 97222

Milwaukie, we suppose, is also allowed to have fun. Breakside hosts its own private Oktoberfest tent with eight different German-influenced styles of its own beer on tap, from smoked Helles to Portmunder to, of course, its own version of an Oktoberfest beer. $15 gets you four 4-ounce tastes (or one pint) and a Breakside mug. German-style food available for purchase, and kids’ games (and kids’ root beer) aplenty. FREE

Do you love computers?

TheCAT provides IT services to the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. Braindump is our training program for volunteers. PSU students of all majors are invited to take advantage of free training that prepares them for a career in IT. This is a free event.

With recent productions of The Caretaker and The Lover, Imago Theatre has seized Harold Pinter as something of a totem playwright. Now

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FEATURED EVENT Campus Safety Forum

Forum runs from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 7 Smith Memorial Student Union, Ballroom Portland, OR 97201 President Wim Wiewel will convene the forum, and presenters will detail the recommendations. Members of the audience will be able to raise questions and make comments during a 45-minute comment period. Those who wish to speak are encouraged to sign up starting at 8:45 a.m. so they can be recognized during the comment period. The task force being discussed talks about how the Campus Public Safety Office will move forward on a number of issues that have been brought up due to a recently released report detailing the current status of campus safety. If you are invested in knowing how you are being protected on campus, don’t miss this forum.

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Something you were really looking forward to turned out to be rather disappointing, dear Aquarius, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let that color your view of the bigger picture. A few minor tweaks could go a long way in improving your satisfaction.

When one door closes another door opens, but what happens when you have to choose between multiple doors? Rather than allow yourself to feel overwhelmed by your options, try being grateful that you even have any.

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SPORTS

psu volleyball splits home matches JaY PEnGEllY

Big Sky volleyball teams have started to jockey for position as conference play has begun over the last two weeks. Portland State, who lost their first two conference matches on the road, hoped to get a pair of wins with home matches against Weber State and Idaho State.

PSU split the weeks’ matchups and are currently tied with Weber State for the fourth spot in the South Big Sky Division. The top four teams from the north and south divisions will play in the conference tournament in late November.

On Thursday, Weber State was in town for an evening matchup.

While Weber State outhit PSU .152–.147, the Vikings stepped up in this matchup and made key plays when it counted. The Vikings won the match in four sets and afterward head

coach Michael Seemann was pleased with the effort his team showed.

“They worked hard tonight,” Seemann said. “It wasn’t a very pretty match, but I felt like they persevered, they competed and they found a way to get it done.”

Part of the challenge this team has faced early is getting so many new players up to speed with the collegiate game. Several freshmen have been thrust into key roles from game one of the season.

While certain new players are posting good numbers and contributing, there’s a lack of cohesion, which is not resulting in wins.

Against Weber State, a new face, Emani Jackson, received her first playing time of the year. Roni LaPierre is also making a name for herself, both as a starter and coming off the bench.

She’s led the team in kills and racked up three double-doubles so far. Perhaps the most all around productive newcomer is setter Erin Clark.

She has already had five 40plus assist matches and her efforts against Weber State were essential.

“Erin did a good job of figuring out the puzzle offensively. She struggled in the beginning, I thought, but then started figuring out how to get hitters going,” said Seemann.

Later, Idaho State was in town for a weekend afternoon game. They were undefeated in Big Sky play, leading the south division. While PSU was leading during several sets against the conference powerhouse, they ultimately fell in three straight sets by scores of 25–22, 25–22 and 25–17. Many times the PSU team has been in position to win a set, but volleyball is a

game where momentum can shift dramatically from one play to the next.

“A lot of that is nerves and not willing to take swings when we could,” said Seeman.

Going forward, PSU volleyball must protect their home court advantage. The Lady Viks were 2–9 in preconference play, going winless away from the Peter W. Stott Center. Coach Seemann has an excellent home-winning percentage (.831) during his tenure. So far this year they are 1–2. Next week they’ll have the opportunity for a pair of home matchups against Idaho and Dam Cup

rival Eastern Washington.

All home games are free for PSU students with a student ID card and offer free soda, popcorn and hotdogs. Visit goviks.com for a full schedule of all PSU athletics.

The time for rewriting the PSU volleyball history books is getting closer. Defending Big Sky Libero of the Year Kashmira “Kasi” Clark just moved into sole possession of second place all-time in digs. She is at 1,604, only 138 behind the all-time record.

There are 12 games left before the conference tournament and Clark is averaging 4.2 digs per set.

Coach Seemann and his team certainly hope their season continues into the Big Sky tournament. The Vikings are the two-time defending conference regular season champions and last won the tournament in 2010. Seemann sees the start of conference play as the real beginning of competitive play.

“There’s more immediacy. We can call a lot of those pre-conference matches learning points through losses and wins.

Like every team, we are vying for a spot in the conference tournament.”

RONI LAPIERRE sneaks one past a weber state blocker.

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vikings hoopers get ready For new season

SCORES

UPCOMING

PSU Football

PSU Football

uc daVis psu

Top Performers: Nate Tago with 106 yards rushing on 26 carries.

14 psu Vs. North daKota 23 sat. oct. 11, 11:30 a.m. | KpoJ 620 am

PSU Volleyball

PSU Volleyball

idaho state psu

Top Performers: Leigh-Ann Haataja with 8 kills and a hitting percentage of .250.

3 psu Vs. idaho 0 thurs. oct. 9, 7:00 p.m. | stott center

PSU Golf

PSU Golf

rose city collegiate 4th place

New mexico state aggie invitational

Top Performers: A Ram Choi finished second overall with a score of 217 for three rounds.

mon.–wed. oct. 6–8 | las cruces, Nm

PSU Soccer

claudE akins

The Vikings men’s basketball team has been busy preparing for the upcoming season, which begins Nov. 8 against Linfield College.

They enter the season looking to improve upon a 2013 showing, which saw them playing in their first postseason game since they were the 13th seed in the 2009 NCAA tournament. San Diego ultimately ousted them from the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, defeating them 85–67, but it was an important step for a team that’s steadily becoming one of the better programs in the Big Sky. “It was just good for our program to be back in postseason play,” coach Tyler Geving recently said in an interview with College Hoops Daily. “When you are in a one-bid league, it is obviously a good stepping stone to make the postseason and build off of that going into the next year.”

Of course, the biggest improvement the Vikings have made during Geving’s tenure is their leap from a program on academic probation in Geving’s first two years (2009–10) to one of the top national programs according to the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate, a metric that quantitatively measures the academic performance of an entire team. Portland State’s men’s basketball ranks in the top 10 percent of the nation.

But this summer, in the absence of pertinent studying, the Vikings traveled to the

SPORTS

Bahamas as part of their preseason preparation.

The Vikings finished their Caribbean tour a solid 2–1, beating the Real Deal Shock, a professional Bahamian team, 100–48; beating the PJ Stringers 69–54; and losing their final game to the Providence Storm in a narrow 75–73 loss. Last year’s leading scorer, DaShaun Wiggins, scored 21 points in the loss.

Local sophomore transfer Bryce White—one of six new players signed over the offseason—scored 11 points in the final Bahamian game. Of these six signees, two of the more intriguing prospects are Calaen Robinson and Iziahiah Sweeney. Robinson transferred from the James Harden alma mater, Arizona State, where he averaged 1.6 points and 1.1 assists in a limiting 6.2 minutes per game.

Upon his arrival to collegiate play, he was ranked as high as the 19th-best point guard in the country by ESPN. Because of his transfer status, he will redshirt this year before appearing on the floor as a Viking in 2015–16.

Sweeney also comes to the Park Blocks with a highly regarded reputation; he was ranked the 44th-best shooting guard in the country by ESPN, 33rd overall on the West Coast, and 19th overall in California.

Portland native Collin Spickerman, who attended Jesuit High school, will be leaving Clark College, which

PSU Soccer

moNtaNa psu

FANS WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 2015 to see calaen robinson in a Vikings uniform.

Top Performers: Mackenzie Bean with 3 shots on goal.

1 psu Vs. idaho state 0 Fri. oct. 10, 3:00 p.m.

PSU Cross Country

PSU Softball

Viking XC Classic

men women

2Nd place 2Nd place

Top Performers: Camelia Mayfield finished third in the three-mile race with a time of 17:02.05.

MLS

portland saN Jose

Top Performers: Rodney Wallace scored both Timbers goals.

psu Vs. corbaN uNiVersitY Fri. oct. 10, 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. | gordon Faber recreation complex hillsboro, or

MLS

2 portlaNd Vs. saN Jose 1 wed. oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. | root sports

COURTESy Of PSU ATHLETICS

he led to a 27–2 record last season while being named the 2013–14 NWAACC West Region Most Valuable Player, to complement a frontcourt that will be without the now-alum Kyle Richardson, last year’s best rebounding big.

When looking ahead at the upcoming season, when asked to gauge his goals and

expectations, Geving was candid and level headed, “I would be disappointed if we do not finish in the top half of the league. We have enough talent on paper that we need to play up to that level, but all 12 teams in our league have the same goal: getting to the NCAA tourney.

You need to stay healthy and have a little luck.”

YARD FIELD GOAL BY SOPHOMORE KICKER JONATHAN GONZALES FOR PSU’S FIRST POINTS AGAINST UC DAVIS.

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Portland thunder hire new head coach andrEw GlEason

Coming off a nail biting 48–52 loss to the Arizona Rattlers in the first round of the Arena Football League playoffs Aug. 3, the Portland Thunder closed the book on their inaugural season with a 5–13 record.

With a first round exit for the Thunder, the front office decided to take the team in a different direc-

tion, moving on from head coach Matthew Sauk to another AFL Hall of Famer, Mike Hohensee.

Coach Hohensee currently stands third in all-time coaching wins, posting a regular season career record of 153–147.

He has led teams to 13 playoff appearances with a 12–12 postseason record, including an ArenaBowl title with the Chi-

cago Rush in 2006. He threw the first ever AFL touchdown in 1987, and has been making an impact ever since.

Hohensee transitioned into a coaching role in 1990 coming off of the 1987 replacement season with the NFL’s Chicago Bears and two seasons with the Pittsburgh Gladiators. He’s now on his way to Portland and his 29th

year in the league, which has included stops at other franchises that were seeking to establish new traditions.

“I’ve helped start up a few organizations and I think my experience will help start up this organization as well.

I’m going to bring a wealth of arena experience, maturity; I’m a coach who has been there done that in about ev-

MIKE HOHENSEE new head coach of the portland thunder.

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ery situation that can arise,” Hohensee said.

Before his professional career was underway, Hohensee was an All-American quarterback at Mt. San Antonio Junior College before transferring to the University of Minnesota where he was named the Golden Gophers' MVP and the university’s Athlete of the Year, and later inducted into Minnesota’s "M" Club Hall of Fame. His professional career lead him to Chicago where he played a few games for the Chicago Bears during the NFL strike in 1987. From there, his talents took him to the Canadian Football League as well as the AFL where he was the quarterback for the AFL’s Pittsburgh Gladiators during the AFL’s first two seasons in 1987 and 1988.

“Ownership” was the word Hohensee used to explain what drew him to the Thunder organization. “I love his (Thunder owner Terry Emmert) commitment to the players, and he understands you have to treat the players the right way. He understands the wins and losses are going to come, but who we are in the community and how people see us is huge.

We’ve got to create an image of professionalism, an image of fun and the image of a winner. I know Terry Emmert loves his players and he brought me in here.

He said he wanted to build this team with young players and develop this talent, and that’s what we’re going to do. He wants us to be competitive; he wants us to fill this roster with good football players and good human beings; he wants to bring in young talent and guys who want to be here for the right reasons and develop these guys into winners,” Hohensee said.

Portland will have a four man coaching staff this season under coach Hohensee.

The Hall of Famer has decided to bring along defensive coordinator Ernesto Purnsley from the Iowa Barnstormers who has 17 years of AFL experience. “He’s an outstanding football coach, great personnel guy and he also loves what he does. He’s one of those guys that, if the organization fell in love with me, then I know they’re going to fall in love with this guy.

The players will love him and he’s done a great job for a long time,” Hohensee said.

Discussing season expectations, Hohensee said he’s looking for everyone to be accountable. “I don’t think this coaching change was made because of wins and losses. They wanted stability, they wanted somebody to come in here and do things the right way and coach with integrity and character. I take a great deal of pride in what I do. I’m hoping to enhance what they’ve already started. I think I bring a sense of community everywhere I’ve been. I have...kind of spearheaded talking with kids at school or talking with kids at their youth programs, and talking about parents and how important it is to be a good son, and a good friend and a good student.

I understand what my role is as a head coach. It’s not just about winning football games, it’s about the community falling in love with our product and that’s very important to me.”

With such a strong AFL veteran leading the charge, the Portland Thunder are looking to capitalize with key offseason roster moves and put themselves in a position to build on their inaugural season success.

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vikings soccer Finds the net three times in win alEX moorE

Friday, the Portland State Vikings women’s soccer team put on one of their best offensive performances of the season, beating the Eastern Washington University Eagles 3–1.

Goals came from three different players, starting with a penalty kick from sophomore Abby Bergquist. The penalty kick opportunity was created through an Eastern Washington handball in the box in the 10th minute.

The second goal came just 10 minutes later, as Ariana

Cooley cleaned up a shot that deflected off the post and put the ball into the back of the net to double the Vikings’ lead. EWU was not quite done yet, as they got one of the two goals back in the 27th minute.

PSU went into halftime break up 2–1, but it did not come easily. EWU’s first goal gave them momentum, as they outshot PSU for the remaining 20 minutes of the half.

The Vikings did not give up their lead, however, and quickly regained their twogoal lead in the second half,

after junior Cori Bianchini scored in the 50th minute. The goal was assisted

by Bergquist, who found Bianchini in the box. The junior did not have the best angle for a goal, but still managed to find the back of the net. That shot was the first of the second half for the Vikings, and that 3–1 score line would stay for the rest of the 90 minutes.

All points are important at this time of the season, with PSU competing to get themselves in the Big Sky tourna-

ment, which could ultimately lead to a berth in the NCAA tournament, which is a major goal of the team and head coach Laura Schott.

The three-point victory jumped the Vikings up in the standings within striking distance of the current Big Sky leaders, which includes a number of teams the Vikings have coming up on their schedule. PSU has not necessarily found their groove in the Big Sky yet, but finding themselves at the middle of the table

with a majority of their conference schedule left puts them in a good position to get some points back from the leaders.

PSU has found their groove against EWU, who they’ve now beaten five times in a row. Going back even further, the Vikings haven’t lost to the Eagles in seven games. Games against EWU hold a special place for all Vikings sports because of the Dam Cup rivalry, in which PSU has now taken an early lead.

Vikings soccer will go on the road Friday for one game against Idaho State before returning home two days later to play Weber State. After that, PSU will finish out their road schedule with a twogame road trip against Northern Colorado and North Dakota. PSU will then return home for their final two games of the season; Oct. 26 against Idaho and Halloween against Sacramento State.

If the Vikings qualify, the Big Sky tournament starts Nov. 6.

PLAYERS SCRAMBLE for a loose ball in sunday's game against montana.

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