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NEWS

NONPROFIT WORKSHOP TURNS TRASH INTO TREASURE MILES SANGUINETTI

Laura Kutner—founder of nonprofit organization Trash for Peace—spoke at Portland State about starting a sustainable nonprofit and followed up with a workshop on turning common household trash into art and functional goods.

Kutner’s talk focused on both the history of her own nonprofit and general advice for prospective leaders of new organizations. The workshop took a nonlinear format and saw attendees come and go throughout the afternoon. Both the talk and the workshop took place in the Native American Student and Community Center on Nov. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Trash for Peace started as a way for her to teach Americans lessons—like the importance of reducing and reusing waste—that she learned while working in the Peace Corps in Guatemala, according to Kutner.

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Nov. 18

UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, THEFT II

THEFT

Parking Structure III

Officer Brian Rominger took a report from a student who stated that several hundred dollars of softball equipment had been stolen from her 2007 Acura MBS. The car’s windows were not broken and the student recalled locking her car door upon leaving.

THEFT II

Cramer Hall

McDonald’s near the Education and Business Administration Building

Officer Chris Fischer was dispatched to EDBA to take a stolen cellphone report. A student reported that his iPhone 6 was stolen from atop a table. The phone was tracked to the 6th Avenue Motel.

Nov. 19 HARASSMENT

Officer David Troppe took a report from a Portland State staff member regarding a computer stolen from Cramer Hall. The computer was last seen on Nov. 13 and had a reported value of $800.

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“The best way to teach that is through hands-on learning,” Kutner said.

One point that Kutner made during her talk was that a nonprofit organization is ultimately still a business.

According to her, nonprofits—like other businesses— do need to have a strategy for bringing in money.

“You are supposed to make money; you do have to support yourself and your team,” Kutner said. “But the purpose of that money that you’re making is to give back to the community.”

One of the high points of starting Trash for Peace was being surrounded by people who shared and believed in her mission and finding ways to collaborate and connect with them, Kutner added.

“I’m very, very grateful for the opportunity to be here,” Kutner said. “I loved being a student here throughout my whole life...being able to

Academic & Student Recreation Center

A student was yelling and being belligerent inside the restroom of ASRC and targeting Arab males. The student was warned about his behavior.

participate and contribute to places and institutions of learning is a real honor and very fun and exciting for me.”

Kevin Thomas is the cultural sustainability coordinator at PSU’s Student Sustainability Center. He has worked to host events throughout Social Sustainability Month and coordinated with Kutner to give her an opportunity to speak at the university.

Information from events like the trash workshop is later hosted online so people from universities across the country can learn from PSU, according to Thomas.

“We want to make sure that the quality of life on campus is as good as we can make it, and part of that is providing programming that addresses the social needs,” Thomas said. “And that’s what we do at Social Sustainability Month. And we are the only campus in the country that has a social sustainability month.”

There are three primary kinds of sustainability: environmental, economic and social sustainability, he added.

“Social [sustainability] is the least understood,” Thomas said. “Social is sometimes referred to as equity... we use social sustainability as the term here, and you don’t have real sustainability unless all three intersect.”

Kutner’s idea that new nonprofits may be best served by starting off by seeking small grants was a major takeaway from the event for Thomas, according to him.

“For people [who] want to do that, this will hopefully save them a lot of trial and error,” Thomas said.

Tahja Whitley was one of the PSU students who attended the workshop. The event provided a positive opportunity to relieve stress, according to her.

“I feel incredibly inspired,” Whitley said. “I’m graduat-

ing in December, and I’m an applied linguistics major, so my passion and my career is revitalizing my language, the Shawnee language...so to see somebody putting into motion something so important, using trash to make usable things and to get things done, is just personally inspiring because I’m going into needing to do that for myself.”

Ideas of social justice, equity and sustainability are inseparable, according to her.

“We’re not going to make it and we’re not going to grow and change and preserve our planet and our cultures if we don’t find more sustainable ways to be,” Whitley said.

The format of the trash workshop, where students could come and go as they pleased, was a good idea for students who might have busy schedules, she added.

“Generally, I wish there were more events like this,” Whitley said.

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CAR PROWL

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Officer Nichola Higbee found a Buick Century, which had been the subject of a car prowl, on the basement floor of PS1. A purple Ibanez six-string guitar in a black Road Runner soft shell case had been stolen.

Officer Troppe met with a faculty member who stated that his 2010 Volvo had been damaged while parked in PS1. The car had been parked for a period of four hours when the damage was sustained.

The vehicle’s rear and driver’s side panels had been damaged, as well as the bumper.

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Nov. 20 ARREST – PAROLE VIOLATION, DETAINER/ EXCLUSION Meetro Café, King Albert Hall

Officers Troppe and Matthew Masunari responded to the Meetro Café on the report of a non-student male bothering females and acting odd. The officers contacted the man and issued him an exclusion for his behavior. The man was detained after his parole officer was contacted and informed about the incident.

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Officer Troppe responded to a fire alarm at Urban Center Building. The building had been evacuated and Portland Fire was already on scene. It was relayed that most likely water flow had leaked into a pull station, causing the activation. PFB also recommended having a Pizzicato vent cleaned.

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Officer Higbee responded to a report of a stolen vehicle. A student found her 1993 brown Honda Accord had been stolen from the roof of PS2 after parking it there the previous evening.

Portland Police Bureau came to collect a report.

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Officers Denae Murphy and James Dewey were patrolling the interior of ASRC and located a student camping in the building. The area smelled like alcohol and an empty malt liquor can was found on the floor near his belongings. The student had been

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The Portland State Vikings trundled into the NCAA playoffs after a 34–31 win against Eastern Washington on Saturday.

PSU began the rout in the opening play with a recovery at the 11 by Trent Wiley after a fumble by Eastern Washington. David Jones brought it in, opening the scoreboard at 6–0

within the first minute. The Eagles turned it around after a scrappy first quarter, pulling ahead of the Viks by the end of the first half at 17–13.

But that was the end of the Eagles’ lead. The Vikings pulled ahead at the beginning of the third and kept up the charge for the distance. Eastern Washing-

ton kept up an admirable fight to the end, but proved unable to push past the Viks’ defense to break the 34–31 final.

The Vikings’ narrow victory puts the team in the university history books with the highest seasonal record as a Division I team, at 9–2.

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poll ranks Portland State fifth, and Head Coach Bruce Barnum has been recognized as a National Coach of the Year finalist for his leadership during the team’s 2015 ascent.

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OPINION

MCDONALD’S ALL-DAY BREAKFAST Another Renaissance for Western civilization?

Musings from the Sub-basement

by Kevin Hadsell

This week I would like to turn to a topic that promises to have a lasting impact on our cultural landscape and may indeed mark a turning point for Western civilization as a whole.

This topic is the recent decision by McDonald’s to serve all-day breakfast. While it may seem to be an ordinary—even banal— issue at first glance (i.e., “So I can eat an Egg McMuffin an hour and a half later in the day. So what?”), it may end up challenging our very ideas about time, space and the nature of reality itself.

Fast food breakfast has been undergoing a renaissance lately, not unlike the Renaissance that revitalized Western culture in 16th-century Florence. This may yet prove to be an even greater cultural achievement. One can trace the origins of the Fast Food Breakfast Renaissance (FFBR, for those of you who like snappy acronyms) to roughly 2003 with the advent of the McGriddle. The concept was simple enough: a standard (read: sausage, egg and cheese) breakfast sandwich that used two bun-shaped Hotcakes for the bread.

While seemingly ordinary in itself, the social function of the McGriddle was to shatter our conceptual categories of “breakfast foods” and how they can be used. Hotcakes now were no longer confined to a styrofoam plate and plastic utensils—they could be repurposed and re-contextualized as a sandwich.

Who among us have not, after a certain quantity of booze, considered using pancakes as a sandwich bread? The McGriddle showed us not only that this can be done, but done while sober, and on an assembly line, no less. It offered a glimpse into what was possible.

The next great advance in fast food breakfast occurred on March 27, 2014. Taco Bell, long a bastion of stoner food throughout the continental United States, began a systematic postmodern deconstruction of the very idea of “breakfast food” itself. The key feature of the Taco Bell breakfast menu is that it managed to operate outside of any established traditions of either breakfast food or Mexican (or, perhaps more accurately, “Mexican-ish”) food.

By combining the substance of the former with the shape and physical structure of the latter, Taco Bell breakfast managed to be both and neither simultaneously. How does one categorize a waffle taco? A biscuit taco? Is it breakfast? Mexican?

One can argue that Taco Bell has long been deconstructing the very concept of food itself (Is that meat? Cheese? What, exactly, is a “Crunchwrap Supreme,” and how did it acquire its unearthly shape? And does it really matter at 2 a.m. after a night of drinking?). In short, the Taco Bell breakfast menu challenged our conceptual categories of what a “meal” actually is. And yet, it was available only during normal “breakfast hours,” which implied a certain temporal essence to the meal we call “breakfast.”

Until now.

The Fast Food Breakfast Renaissance continues. McDonald’s has, since Oct. 6 of this year, implemented all-day

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breakfast into its menu after years of resistance. The significance of this cannot be overstated. It will probably become a national holiday in the coming years, resulting in throngs of school children released into the streets. It will likely be rated in importance somewhere in between Bastille Day and Independence Day, and will be a day of celebration for all people.

Perhaps the greatest significance, however, is the way that it alters our own perception of time. Indeed, it seems to prove Einstein’s theory of relativity: Time is relative. Breakfast is lunch. It’s all good.

Consider, for a moment, the implications of this: If breakfast can be served for lunch, then the breakfast/lunch dichotomy either no longer exists or has been rendered irrelevant. And with no clear distinction between breakfast and non-break-

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fast items, it begs a series of questions. Why not get a quarter pounder with cheese with a side of hash browns? Why not order an Egg McMuffin with a Shamrock Shake and a large fry?

McDonald’s has done more than give us breakfast items on the lunch menu. It has given us a reason to question the ideological paradigms we are conditioned to accept. It has given us license to ask, why not?

Ultimately, the lesson that the Fast Food Breakfast Renaissance teaches humankind may be this: We are the existential masters of our own fates. We are no longer dependent on a social structure confining meals to a certain time frame.

So order a Big Mac. Order seven Big Macs. With eggs. Because the universe is in chaos and we can pretty much do whatever. This is both the beauty and the terror of being alive at this time in our history.

OPINION

DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS Beware the dangers of self-diagnosis

The Bigger Picture

by Brenden Leary

I started writing this article while I was ill on my (death) bed, desperately attempting to drink as much water with lemon, orange juice and tea with honey as I could. While the sequel to Osmosis Jones was filming inside my body, I was carrying out my routine web-surf to assure I was not overreacting. It’s the same pattern of symptoms I usually get with the flu: high fever, cold chills, sore throat, eternal headache, etc. Yet why am I always convinced that what I’ve caught now is something different than before?

It’s due to the double-edged sword of self-diagnosis, otherwise known as cyberchondria. If you’re prone to the flu, then I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. With the plethora of information we have constantly available online, it’s easy for Americans to scrounge for details on their current condition. It may save you that extra $20 you have to pay the clinic after the doctor tells you to go back home and stock up on more Tylenol, or it may save you from the extra hundreds of dollars you’d be paying after the ambulance takes you straight to the emergency room.

In a world where we can buy almost any type of good or service with just a click and a credit card, it’s understandable to resort to the Internet for answers. However, it may be as easy to mistakenly diagnose yourself as it is to find the symptoms related to the diagnosis. In 2013, of the 81 percent of U.S. adults who use the Internet, 59 percent say they have looked online for health information in the past year and 35 percent tend to regard their own symptoms with more urgency. That’s over half of us resorting to answers from the Internet rather than doctors, who are trained professionals.

A flaw to cyberchondria is depending on the Internet for answers. The Internet is full of answers, but it’s also full of false information. Medical websites are now providing symptom-checkers, which are a more accurate system that takes analyses and evaluates symptoms with more personalized, direct questions. A recent experiment from Harvard Medical School has shown that the 23 symptom checkers they tested “provided correct triage advice in 58 percent of

cases,” with the checkers performing better in serious cases, by recommending emergency care 80 percent of the time.

These are websites such as Mayo Clinic, WebMD and Steps2Care. They reported these checkers as acting somewhat overly cautious, and encouraged users to seek care for cases where staying at home might have been more ideal.

This leads me to the red flag of browsing online at all for medical answers. Don’t let online research you’ve done be the deciding factor on what to do. Doctors slave away through medical school for a reason, and it would be better to listen to someone who’s spent a majority of their lives understanding the human body over the dreaded Yahoo Answers column.

The most important thing is that you know when to seek further medical attention. Simply ignoring your well-being will only further envelop you in a series of sicknesses. When it comes to self-diagnosing, your only prognosis should be to consult your doctor.

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ATHLETICS

SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS,

ON THE UPSWING

Second of a two-part series chronicling PSU’s new spirit of athletics

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IN THE WAKE OF THE PORTLAND STATE VIKINGS WIN AGAINST EASTERN WASHINGTON ON SATURDAY, THE FORWARD MOMENTUM OF THE UNIVERSITY’S ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO SHINE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH BRUCE BARNUM chas been named a finalist for the National Coach of the Year PHOTOS BY DEVIN COURTRIGHT/PSU VANGUARD

Last week the Vanguard reported on what PSU President Wim Wiewel has described as the new spirit of athletics at the university.

This term, Wiewel’s description has rung true for the Vikings football team, coming in last Saturday with a 9–2 overall for the regular season and 6–2 in the Big Sky conference.

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On Nov. 23, head football coach Bruce Barnum—who is in his first season as head coach at PSU—was named a finalist for National Coach of the Year.

The recognition of Barnum came in close conjunction with the NCAA’s playoffs announcement of the Vikings first-round bye and a Dec. 5 home game in round two.

The success of the football team this season reflects the work of several players within the PSU Athletics Department, including Director of Athletics Mark Rountree, who’s been in the position since January 2015. “[Rountree] has done a great job of creating a real can-do attitude here within the program,” said Associate Athletics Director for Media and Communications Mike Lund. “[T]he energy that he’s brought into our program has been a positive for all of our sports.”

“He’s done a great job of engaging with the campus community, people all across campus, the administration, our boosters,” Lund continued. “I think he’s kind of injected some new life into our program. That coincides with the success of our football program, it really has us as a department on the upswing.”

Lund said the success of the football program benefits the entire athletics department and extends into the PSU community.

“When you win, people naturally get interested,” Lund said. “This year we’ve been winning in football.

And football isn’t the be-all, end-all in an athletic program, but it is the most visible sport—the sport that gets the most attention. So when you’re having some success there, everybody benefits from that.”

Barnum echoed Lund’s comments on the success of the football team benefiting the overall athletics department, and added that the student athletes play the most significant role in the positive results of university athletics, both on and off the field.

“Our student athletes—that’s the bottom line,” Barnum said.

“That’s the biggest piece. We have good student athletes here. And I say good—they’re good people.” “[T]hat’s what you see on game day,” he continued.

“The type of people they are, they represent the community. They represent [PSU].

And that shows to the people you see showing up and watching us.”

Lund said successful athletics departments increase visibility for universities across the country, using Duke University as an example for how athletics programs can promote the overall success of a university. “[I]f Duke didn’t have this great basketball program year in and year out, people out here on the West Coast might never have heard of Duke,” Lund said. “It’s probably a great academic institution—I’m sure that it is. But why would we know anything about Duke if it weren’t for their basketball program and the national visibility it creates?”

“Take the Oregon Ducks— you ask anybody across the

SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS. “We need to keep doing our job,” Rountree said. “Our job is to make sure we work hard every day on behalf of our alumni, our students and our student athletes. I guarantee you we’re not going to let up. We’re going to keep getting after it.”

He continued by commenting on the role of athletics at PSU as an urban university, and how athletics can integrate into the city of Portland. “[It is] much more exciting than I ever thought it was going to be—being on an urban campus and having the energy of the city and having the opportunities that the city can provide you being in [large] city,” Rountree said.

“There’s just so much this university brings to the city, and I think athletics can be such a huge part of that.”

The Vikings will play Dec. 5 at Providence Park in the second round of the NCAA FCS Championship.

FANS RALLY THE VIKINGS during a Nov. match against Southern Utah.

United States about the Unversity of Oregon, and the first thing they’re going to say is something about their football program,” he said. “They’re not going to talk about the history department, they’re not going to talk about the education department. There’s nothing wrong with those, it’s just that’s how people relate to universities from the outside.”

He continued by noting that PSU administrators appear to have noticed and prioritized the success of the athletics department as a way to increase visibility of the university. He said athletics help promote aspects that extend beyond athletics, though it is possible for universities to emphasize athletics too much.

“I think [the PSU administrators] see the value in having a successful athletic program,” Lund said. “Certainly, people always have the conversation that athletics can be too prominent in universities in the United States—too much emphasis placed on athletics. I certainly can make an argument for that. I wouldn’t deny that.”

“I think probably at the level we’re at, we have a pretty good balance between academics and athletics,” he continued. “But I think the thing about the administration is, they have really seen the value in athletics when you have success because, as a program,

the athletics program probably gets more media attention than the rest of the school combined in a year—more than you find in any other department. So it creates visibility. Good or bad, it creates visibility for a university.”

Though the PSU administration and community members have championed Rountree, Barnum and the athletics department for inputting positive changes, Lund said this football season’s success still came as a surprise to many.

“I don’t think anybody expected us to have this kind of a year,” Lund said. “Usually when you have this coaching transition, more often than not you can kind of expect that you might have some struggles, just all the turnover that happens from one year to the next. People weren’t really expecting us to have a very good year.”

“Especially not a winning season. We were picked pretty low in the pre-season polls,” Lund continued. “The fact that we’ve been as successful as we have has been a huge surprise to a lot of folks—probably to just about everybody except the guys over here. So, it’s really kind of revitalized our program, the interest in our program, what we’re doing. It’s been great.”

Rountree said he plans to continue the momentum from the football season into overall athletics at the university.

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ARTS & CULTURE

COMPASSION AND EDUCATION ARE THE FRAMEWORK FOR VEGFEST CATHERINE JOHNSON

On Nov. 14 and 15, Northwest Veg organized the 11th annual vegan food and lifestyle festival, VegFest, at the Portland Convention Center.

What was originally a small affair at the Friends Meeting Hall, with 300 people the first year, is now a weekend-long event with thousands of people. Jill Schatz, the Northwest Veg membership coordinator, attributes this growth to an overall increase in awareness of the health, ethical and environmental issues associated with plant-based foods.

“More people are interested in plant-based foods,” Schatz

said. “So while probably there aren’t more necessarily vegetarians and vegans, more people are doing things like Meatless Monday or eating lower on the food chain overall. It’s a lot healthier and better for the environment.”

The festival was certainly a celebration of vegan foods, with dozens of companies distributing free samples from baked sweets and raw energy bars to savory meat and cheese alternatives.

“If you think about how many products are on the market now that weren’t even a year ago, and then you go

back five years and 10 years, the market is just flooded now with all sorts of convenience foods for people who don’t like to cook,” Schatz said.

However, not everyone is impressed by the array of new products on the market. In a festival celebrating plantbased foods, some said there was a surprising lack of whole plants. Megan Denton, a local farmer and member of the Portland Area Community Supported Agriculture, commented on the lack of farmers present and sees this as one way the event has changed over time.

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“It’s becoming more focused on vegan rather than actual vegetables,” Denton said.

“Vegans eat vegetables, so it’s important for them to support local farmers, which is why we’re here. So as a farmer it’s a bit disheartening, but this is still a nice platform to be a part of.”

In addition to PACSA, a coalition representing other farms and promoting community-supported agriculture, only one other farm was present. Denton said the presence of packaged vegan foods was understandable, but that an awareness of food systems

and keeping a balance is extremely important.

It seems to her that as vegan foods gain popularity, the event has become more mainstream and less local.

Schatz estimated about 65 percent of the vendors at the festival are local. Northwest Veg offered pricing options to make it easier for startup companies and restaurants to participate. Chad Miller, from Food Fight!, an all-vegan grocery store on Southeast Stark that’s participated in VegFest every year, said that veganism is growing and their presence at the festival is good for business.

“A lot of people will come afterwards,” Miller said. “We usually get a really big day at the store. We get to talk to a lot of people.”

It’s also great exposure for nonprofit organizations that are working directly for animal welfare, like Mercy for Animals, which fights cruelty toward farmed animals and works for policy changes.

“Mercy for Animals does a lot of the undercover videos that you see on the news,” said Lauren Mash, a volunteer for the organization. “So they’re really working to expose the realities behind factory farms, but also helping people to make compassionate food choices.”

The festival is also about more than food: It’s about education. Each day was packed with presentations, film screenings and lectures from speakers, experts and authors.

Matt Ruscigno, a registered dietitian and expert in the field of vegetarian nutrition who’s new to the VegFest circuit, is used to attending academic events, often speaking to audiences that are resistant to his message.

“I love speaking to people who aren’t on board with what I have to say,” Rusc-

gino said. “I wear two hats.

I’m an ethical vegan, but I’m also a nutrition professional, and I take those roles very seriously.”

His approach is heavily based on science and letting the research speak for itself.

“As health professionals, it’s our duty to know the research and be able to help people who want to eat better,” Ruscigno said. “I don’t force it. I don’t say everyone should be vegan.”

In addition to other medical professionals, chefs, athletes and business owners occupying the many stages, the festival also included some unexpected vendors, like fiction writers. Christopher Locke is the author of the young-adult series the Enlightenment Adventures, which is about a raccoon and his friends who risk their own lives to end animal suffering.

“I always love VegFest because the story is perfectly meant for people who care about animal issues,” Locke said. “These are like my people, if you will. They care deeply about what animals are going through.”

VegFest offers everything for the vegan or veg-curious, including books and magazines, beauty products, bamboo clothing, fitness advice, professional kitchenware and travel options. And while ethics, the environment and health might be the main reasons more people are gravitating toward plant-based foods, compassion was the buzzword of the weekend.

“People come in here and say, ‘Gee, you are so friendly, and this is such an easy place to meet people and get information. Everyone is happy and nice and helpful,’” Schatz said. “We’re a compassionate group. So we’re compassionate to people as well as to animals. Because we’re animals too.”

ARTS & CULTURE

EXPLORE THE UNDERWORLD IN PSU SCHOOL OF THEATER & FILM’S ‘EURYDICE’ CATHERINE JOHNSON

On Nov. 12 the Portland State School of Theater & Film opened Eurydice, awardwinning playwright Sarah Ruhl’s retelling of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus.

In Ruhl’s version, the story focuses on Eurydice (played by Becca Tyree) and frames the central conflict as her decision to follow her new husband, Orpheus (Cooper Blomberg), out of Hades, or stay with her father (a new character added

by Ruhl and played by Michael Thompson) in the underworld.

In the original tale, it is Orpheus who loses Eurydice forever by turning to look at her after he is explicitly cautioned not to. But in Ruhl’s imagination, it is Eurydice who prompts this action by calling out Orpheus’ name, knowing that in doing so she will no longer be able to join him again in life, thus making it her choice.

Director Karin Magaldi has wanted to do this play for several years.

“What it’s about really appeals to me because it’s dealing with love, and it’s dealing with loss and memory,” Magaldi said.

Magaldi explained how the play is a designer’s show, meaning that the script opens itself up to interpretation, giving the director and designers room to collaborate and bring their own vision to the stage.

This is most evident in scenic and lighting designer Daniel Meeker’s choice to fill the proscenium with scaffolding, which operates as the main set piece and provides additional levels for the actors to walk.

This set-up emphasizes the above and below of the heavens and the underworld, and the movement between.

Costume designer Alison Heryer kept with the sug-

gested mid-20th-century period costumes in the script, but was predominantly influenced by 1960s teen-pop culture. She used our notions of this decade to underscore the themes of memory and loss.

“This imagery is very nostalgic and reflects a sense safety and idealism that is often seen in media portrayals of relationships and marriage of the time,” Heryer said.

She also chose to dress the Nasty Interesting Man (Sam Jones), who lures Eurydice away from her wedding in an act that leads to her death, in 1970s garb, visually disrupting that stability.

While the set and costumes are well suited to the text, they are simple and understated. It’s the actors’ performances that dominate.

In addition to the myth’s characters, the play features The Stones: Big Stone (Paige Gregory), Little Stone (Netty McKenzie) and Loud Stone (Sena Rae Garbon). They occupy a mod sofa in their pajamas throughout the play, commenting on and interacting with the action in the underworld.

It’s largely from them that we begin to understand how memory erodes in each character’s death, one of the play’s dominant themes.

“I feel that this play really makes you think about memory and how, on one hand, time can make you forget, but on the other hand time can also help you remember,” said Little Stone Netty McKenzie.

Grappling with the meaning of the play was the first priority in Magaldi’s rehearsal process, which started with several days of dramaturgical work with the cast before they got on their feet.

“Rehearsal is always fabulous because you get to talk

about meaningful things that you don’t always talk about,” Magaldi said. “In rehearsal you get to just be human beings in a room talking about, in this case, love and death and what it means to be human. The real things.”

According to members of the cast, rehearsal was also a highly collaborative process, with Magaldi incorporating many of the actors’ suggestions whenever possible. Sam Jones said this made it an especially rewarding experience.

“I think it gave the production a sort of richness and attention to detail which could otherwise have been lost,” Jones said.

Despite being an ancient story, this production gives audiences plenty of new things to think about.

“I hope that people walk away from this play with a greater value for the ones they love,” McKenzie said.

“And a yearning to cherish the time they have with those they care about most.”

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Editor’s Pick Restaurant: Salvador Molly’s Aislinn Rennison Step inside the eclectic walls of Salvador Molly’s for some tasty treats!

The restaurant itself has an atmosphere that would expect you to believe they will charge you $3 for a side of ketchup. However, their menu (and happy hour) are extremely reasonable, especially considering the excellently witty waiters and fresh food. With trinkets from world-traveling themes outlining each of the walls, you’ll be interested to walk around the restaurant for a few minutes to take a look around while you wait for your food.

The first thing you need to do, though, is order the fish bowl.

Yep, that kind of fish bowl. But let me warn you! I am not a lightweight, and splitting one of those suckers with a friend is enough for me to call an Uber.

The word “bowl” is not used lightly. While you are perusing the wide variety of food options on their menu, you can crack and snack on peanuts at your table.

Their menu hits a few different parts of the world: Cuban, Hawaiian, Ethiopian, Mexican, Indian, Southern, African and Turkish food (and more). Since I went with a group of friends, I was able to try a little bit of each corner of the world. My recommendations (and it is very hard to choose) are the Tsunami

Surfer Tacos, Tamarind Mint Shrimp Curry or anything with their jerk BBQ chicken. Every ingredient is carefully chosen and super fresh; you can’t go wrong with anything you choose. Also, there are plenty of vegetarian and gluten-free options.

If you like things a little spicier and are up for challenge, try out their Great Balls of Fire. They are famous for these habanero cheese fritters! If you finish five of them with all of the sauce (which I’ve heard can be a bit painful), you get your picture on their Hall of Flame Wall.

Salvador Molly’s has moved its way up on my favorite restaurants in Portland list, and it will make it there for you, too.

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ETC EVENT LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK OF NOV. 25–29 WEDNESDAY NOV. 25 Pointing the Way Oregon Jewish Museum Fee: $6 The yad is a sacred pointer used in the Torah, and several different types of materials used to create them are presented: from wood to jewel and even paper, this religious guide can also be seen as a mystical art piece in its own right.

Winter at Pittock Mansion Fee: $11 Every holiday season the mansion on the hill gets kitted out for Christmas, and local bands perform in the music room throughout the duration. Enjoy winterinspired decorations, hot cocoa and transformation as overseen by 80 volunteers.

Ongoing until January!

THURSDAY NOV. 26

FRIDAY NOV. 27

SATURDAY NOV. 28

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SUNDAY NOV. 29

Turkey on the Waterfront 11:30 a.m. for lunch or 4 p.m. for dinner Fee: $66 adults, $20 children

Christmas Bazaar!

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Expo Center Fee: $7

British Arrow Awards 7 p.m.

Whitsell Auditorium Fee: $9

Lights at the Grotto 5 p.m.

8840 NE Skidmore Fee: $10

Make Thanksgiving super classy by enjoying this buffet on the Portland Spirit. A traditional holiday meal includes turkey and all the fixings, scenery along the Willamette River, champagne, live piano music and no clean-up.

An additional fee can get you access to the full service bar as well.

Take the yellow line from Portland State and avoid the parking charge. Enjoy this weekend and next weekend by shopping for all your holiday gifts through America’s Largest Christmas Bazaar. It is guaranteed to have the weird, the elegant and the unique; there’s no doubt you’ll find something for everyone here.

Free admission only on Friday, Dec. 4, with two cans of food.

This 80-minute program is full of surprises and honors the juried entries of commercials abroad. These short advertising films are a great look into a culture mindset other than our own.

Two showings also available on Sunday. You never know what you’ll see.

The Grotto is a classic Portland holiday tradition through December that is both family friendly and cost effective. From the different choral performances (over 150) to the petting zoo, this event has continued to grow and embrace the community for many years. Get your hot cocoa here through Dec. 30.

Lights at the Raceway Portland International Raceway Fee: $18 per car, $20 per eightperson van Enjoy almost two miles of stationary lights and lit, animation-strewn tracks, and kick off your holiday season from the warm comfort of yours or a friend’s car. This drive-through light show is sure to become a family classic. Ongoing through December!

Holiday Express 10 a.m.

Oaks Amusement Park Fee: $20 adult, $10 children

Zoolights Oregon Zoo Fee: $15 adults, $10 children

Holiday Pops 7:30 p.m.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Fee: Starts at $23

The holidays are a great time to embrace the iconic magic of the steam locomotive. This ride through the wilds of the inner city will make you yearn for a simpler time. The rides are round trip from Oaks Park Station and go all the way to Springwater Trail, departing about 10 times per day.

A beloved favorite (that can get a little pricey if you include the train ride and the need for fudge), Zoo Lights is a tempting evening get away, just off the red or blue MAX line. After dark, the zoo animals go to sleep, but luckily their neon cousins can take over for them for just a few hours. Bring a jacket and your sense of holiday wonder. Ongoing event through December!

Leo (July 23–Aug. 22)

Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Running just this weekend, imagine this as the local version of the Boston Pops that you see on TV every Fourth of July. This holiday-themed event is a masterclass in symphony.

Choral work courtesy of the Oregon Symphony and the Pacific Youth Choir.

FEATURED EVENT 31st Annual Tree Lighting Pioneer Courthouse Square Friday, Nov. 27, 5:30 p.m.

Do not under any circumstances arrive at 5:30 p.m. At 5:30, the entire square and a least one of the surrounding streets might already be at max capacity. The pine-tree masterpiece will be massive and beautiful—all 75 feet of it. If you arrive late, you’ll still be able to hear the music from a little ways away, even at Macy’s. The lighting itself happens well after dark, so get comfy with some warm blankets and enjoy the live music; one band playing will be Pink Martini. This is one of the must-experience Portland holiday traditions.

But be aware that this also reeks a bit of havoc on the local public transit since they’ve been traditionally guided around it or stopped completely.

JOHN PINNEY Horoscopes for the week of Nov. 22. From Mystic J, permanent resident of Room 1313, Hollywood Tower Hotel

. Aries (March 21–April 19)

You can only overachieve so much until the pressure gets to you. A vacation probably couldn’t hurt, though you’re not sure you’ve reached that point yet.

Taurus (April 20–May 20)

People love to follow you blindly into battle. Though

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you aren’t the brightest, you know how to inspire a team and believe in a true cause.

Gemini (May 21–June 20)

In spite of the fact that you want to push people away, they do seem to gravitate toward you when they’re in trouble.

Cancer (June 21–July 22)

Your point of view is different from those around you.

They can sense it in the way that you walk and talk and you intrigue them, Cancer.

There is so much more inside of you than what your friends see. Maybe even more inside of you than you see.

Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22)

Despite your popularity and outgoing attitude, you have a lot of insecurities and you always feel the need to outdo others. In the end, you may be a lot more alone than you think.

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You seem to hang out in the background of your own life, Libra. Though you may be dressing to gain attention or to express yourself, you don’t use your words enough.

Though you are not spiteful and try to be kind, others are jealous of your more traditional outside beauty and tendency to uphold the moral structure.

Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

People can’t seem to find the strength to take you seriously when you ask for it.

You’re not sure why and it’s really starting to get to you.

If you were genuinely yourself instead of having to emulate another person all the time, people might want to hang out with you more.

Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) You have dreams and ambitions, but no drive to see those plans through. Obstacles easily deter you from your true path.

Pisces (Feb. 20–March 19)

Though you were a trend setter once upon a time, a disaster left you without a social hand on which to hold and there’s no saying if it will get better.

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INTERNATIONAL

THE MYTH OF PRIVACY: EU LAUDS SNOWDEN ROBERT EVANS

While many Americans have no clue who Edward Snowden is or why he’s being pursued by the United States government, the European Union recently passed a nonbinding resolution to shield Snowden from prosecution.

The New York Times reported that the resolution recognized Snowden as an “international human rights defender” for revealing the extent of the U.S. government’s surveillance programs.

To get a Portland State student’s perspective on this issue, I interviewed Will Patterson, student system administrator and programmer at Academic Research Computing, who said, “Edward Snowden did the world a service and

doesn’t deserve to go to prison at all. He’s definitely a hero.”

Since the Internet has grown to dominate basically every aspect of modern life, government agencies and private corporations have designed new technologies to store and interpret massive amounts of data. Data can be many different types of information about a person, such as the type of music someone likes on Facebook or even what they buy with their credit card.

Patterson informed me that “companies have started using software called Silverpush that uses your phone’s microphone and speakers to send ultrasonic signals to other computers that have that software installed.”

“So, if you’re watching a commercial that plays that signal, it could see that smartphone X is close to tablet Y, and it could also tell which ads you watch on TV and even how long you watch them,” Patterson said. “The Silverpush development kit is included in many smartphone and desktop apps and its presence is usually kept secret.”

He added that “there have been movies that glorify this type of privacy-violating software, like Batman: The Dark Knight, which showed this kind of technology being used for ‘good,’ but now it’s being used to spy on normal citizens.

There are definitely better uses for this kind of technology.”

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Many apps, specifically Facebook and Messenger, track your location whenever you use the app. Aran Khanna, a Harvard student studying computer science, invented a program which allows you to map your friends’ locations when they use Facebook Messenger. If a friend sends you a dozen messages throughout the day, you could have a very good idea of what they were doing. While this is creepy, it’s completely legal since using the service requires an acceptance of the app’s terms of service.

While private corporations can skirt legal liabilities through terms of service waivers, government agen-

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cies are required to abide by legal parameters detailed in acts of congress, court rulings and executive decisions. As reported by the Washington Times, the U.S. Congress is debating the passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which encourages corporations to share massive amounts of customer data with U.S. government agencies, specifically the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Administration. Although the bill purports to increase cybersecurity—something already being addressed by over a dozen private entities— it effectively limits the legal resources of average U.S. citizens to protect their digital privacy.

While Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent of the U.S. surveillance program, Americans must use this knowledge to enact change and demand greater transparency from their government and from private corporations who peddle information many people assume to be private.

“Who knows how long this kind of stuff has been going on?” Patterson said. “It’s only going to get worse unless we do a complete 180 from the path we’re on now.”

As a rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that everything you post or look at on the Internet is being collected and stored on some type of corporate or government server. Yes, even Snapchat.

INTERNATIONAL

THE RESULTS ARE IN FIRST MYANMAR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION IN HALF A CENTURY JON RABY

In Myanmar’s first free election in nearly 50 years, the National League for Democracy has won the majority vote.

Aung San Suu Kyi heads the NLD, which is the main opposition to the current government. However, she is banned from being president by the country’s constitution, which was drafted in 2008 by the ruling military, according to Reuters.

Myanmar has a sad and violent past. The current semicivilian, military-backed government, the Union Solidarity Development Party, took power in 2011. since then, Myanmar had been ruled by a military dictatorship for nearly 50 years. Today their slow emergence out of the darkness of total military rule is still set back by a constitution which, BBC reported, requires that the military hold 25 percent of the parliamentary seats and specifically bars Suu Kyi from being the president.

Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace laureate and pro-democracy leader. She was put in detention—most of it under house arrest—for nearly 15 years by the military government, according to a biography released

by Burma Campaign UK. Suu Kyi’s popularity with the people of Myanmar is evident; a BBC News article gives an estimate of about 90 percent of the vote going to the NLD. According to the New York Times, 298 seats of 491 were contested in Myanmar’s parliamentary house; of those, the NLD took 256, and the USDP took only 21 seats. Suu Kyi has said that if NLD wins, then someone else will be president and she will take a role “above” the president, but they have yet to name that person.

“If we win, and the NLD forms a government, I will be above the president. It’s a very simple message,” Suu Kyi told reporters.

Around 30 million of Myanmar’s 51 million citizens were registered to vote, and about 150 election observers from the European Union were on-site to oversee the results process, according to a Reuters report.

The military has conceded the election to Suu Kyi, according to a New York Times article, but this leaves out how peaceably the transition will go. In a letter released by the NLD on Wednesday, Nov. 11, Suu Kyi has asked to meet with the commander and chief of the military, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

Suu Kyi wrote, “It is crucial for the dignity of the nation that the people’s will, which was shown in the election of Nov. 8, be truly implemented in a peaceful and stable manner.”

Another factor in how peaceable the governmental shift will go is in the treatment of various minority groups in the country, such as the Rohingya Muslims population in northern Myanmar. The country is by majority Buddhist.

“Of the countries in Southeast Asia, except for Indonesia, Burma is the most ethnically diverse,” said Dr. Sharon Carstens, an anthropology professor at Portland State with a focus on Southeast Asia. Burma is Myanmar’s former name, though it is still widely used.

“Ethnic Burmans are the majority population, but there are very large ethnic minority groups that have had power, and you’ve had ethnic strife since the British left,” Carstens said.

Prior to the elections, Reuters reported on a radical sect of Buddhist monks who supported the USDP, in conjunction with some religious laws that the USDP pushed through in 2013.

Though there are various challenges in front of Myanmar, the voice of the people is being heard in the form of democracy.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI, leader of the newly majority-elected National League for Democracy party in Myanmar, will hold considerable power in the government despite being barred from presidency by the nation’s constitution.

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