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OUTGOING ASPSU PRESIDENT NOLL AND VICE PRESIDENT MCMILLAN REFLECT ON THE LAST YEAR IN ASPSU
NEWS You still can’t smoke the green on campus—Dean of Student Life releases statement outlining campus marijuana prohibition pg. 5
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OPINION
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Orange Is the New Black’s new actress Ruby Rose teaches a lesson in kindness pg. 6
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NEWS
THREE MORE YEARS OF WIM-TER BOT APPROVES NEW CONTRACT, WIEWEL SIGNS
LISA DUNN
After almost a year of deliberation and discussion, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously on June 11 to update President Wim Wiewel’s contract. Wiewel signed the contract after the meeting adjourned Though Wiewel asked not to receive a pay raise, the threeyear contract stipulates a base salary of $260,700, paid by the state, and a supplemental salary of $141,000, paid by the PSU Foundation. He will also receive $138,300 in deferred compensation per year, which will go into the Oregon Public Universities Supplemental Retirement Plan. The contract will also grant him a sabbatical year at the end of his three years it will provide him with 100 percent pay and moving costs, so long as he returns as a faculty member at the end
of his sabbatical. If Wiewel leaves before he completes the full three years, his sabbatical pay will be pro-rated in accordance with how much of the contract he completes. If Wiewel returns as a faculty member, he will also receive his $260,700 presidential salary, converted to a nine-month salary, which will be roughly $213,000. Scott Gallagher, the Director of Communications at University Communications, said in an email that the highest paid professor at PSU is Daniel Maier in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. He made $208,584 on a nine-month contract. According to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, the average salary for a full-time professor here
is $104,673. Board member Erica Bestpitch showed concern over the lack of parity with faculty salaries. “I value his academic contribution,” she said, “and understand that you would want to honor the fact that he’s been a president... At the same time the lack of parity is so striking to me.” At the meeting, Chairman of the Board Pete Nickerson said he came up with the terms of the contract by comparing them to Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) periodicals and comparator institutions in the state. Nickerson negotiated with Wiewel last year and brought Wiewel’s requests to the BOT executive committee on May 27. The committee voted unanimously to present the contract, with Wiewel’s asks for sabbatical
PRESIDENT WIM WIEWEL (LEFT) responds to Student Media questions during a recent press conference. ANH DUC DO/VANGUARD ARCHIVES/PSU VANGUARD
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WIM WIEWEL speaks at a recent Cultural Competency celebration in the Smith Memorial Student Union .
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and faculty salary, to the BOT. Bestpitch asked Nickerson if Wiewel had been evaluated before the committee accepted his requested terms. “From my perspective...doing a 360 [degree] evaluation prior to voting on implementing a contract would be the best course of action,” she said. Nickerson said an evaluation had not been done. “In the case of the president, we benchmarked against AGB and our peers in Oregon,” he said. “And while the terms are slightly different, they are not materially different than what the president at University of Oregon [receives]…or Ed Ray at Oregon State University has in his contract.” Nickerson said that Ray receives a salary of $540,000 and Wiewel receives a salary of roughly $400,000. That number, however, does not include his deferred compensation. Board member Maude Hines, a faculty member at PSU, raised concerns about Wiewel’s requested sabbatical terms, his post-presidency faculty pay and
cent of faculty members’ pay to Public Employees Retirement System or other retirement accounts. Wiewel’s deferred compensation is roughly 34 percent of his overall pay. Student trustee Maria Carolina Gonzalez-Prats moved to raise Wiewel’s salary. She would rather, she said, he receive a raise “during the time that he’s in office versus when he’s returning as a faculty member.” The motion was rejected. Board members discussed, changing the terms of sabbatical and his post-presidency faculty compensation. “We can pass the resolution,” Nickerson said of the proposed amendments. “That doesn’t mean he’ll sign the contract.” Nickerson said he was doubtful Wiewel would accept the amendments. “I believe he would resign,” he said. The amendments were voted down,andWiewel’s contract was approved unanimously. Wiewel signed the contract after the meeting and it went into effectonJuly1.The contract expires in 2018.
the adequacy of comparing PSU to UO and OSU, who both get more state funding per student. Hines said, “I’m going to go on record as an advocate for high salaries for presidents... I think it’s a tough job and I would never want to do it.” Though supportive of high presidential salaries, Hines said that she had questions about the logistics of what Wiewel was asking for. “My questions have to do with the return to the faculty [salary] and with the sabbatical,” Hines said. “I will very likely be someone who is going to propose an amendment about the sabbatical being in accordance with the rest of the faculty...the terms of fiduciary responsibility, the reputation of the university, and the relationship of the president with the rest of [PSU] and the [BOT].” The PSU-AAUP contract stipulates that faculty members may take sabbatical after six years of continuous full-time service for PSU. The PSU-AAUP contract also stipulates that PSU contribute 6 per-
NEWS
YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT YOU CAN’T SMOKE HERE WEED LEGAL IN OREGON BUT NOT AT PSU COLLEEN LEARY
In light of the recent implementation of Oregon’s legal recreational marijuana measure, Portland State’s Dean of Student Life Michelle Toppe and Associate Vice President of Human Resources Shana Sechrist released a statement July 1 reminding students, faculty and campus visitors that marijuana legalization does not change PSU’s campus restrictions. “[E]ssentially nothing will change,” Toppe and Sechrist wrote in their emailed statement. “The use and possession of marijuana will continue to be prohibited on campus, at University-sponsored events, in University housing and in the University workplace.” Marijuana in all forms—including edibles, extracts and concentrates—are prohibited by PSU.
CRIME BLOTTER JUNE 29 CRASH
Shattuck Hall Parking Lot
A student crashed his truck into a parked facilities cart at about 10:30 a.m. Although the truck sustained cosmetic damage, the cart was intact.
JUNE 30 ATTEMPTED BURGLARY
Branford Price Millar Library
Video surveillance captured a male breaking into the library at about 4 a.m. Officers David Baker and Danae Murphy did not find any signs of theft upon their check at 4:25 a.m.
PSU’s marijuana prohibition applies to medical marijuana as well. Students or employees who are medical marijuana cardholders do not and will not receive any special exceptions to marijuana policies.
Toppe and Sechrist’s statement explained that students who violate policies regarding the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession and use of marijuana on campus or at university-sponsored events
will incur consequences under the Student Code of Conduct and the University Housing Code of Conduct. PSU employees will be subject to continued employment policies prohibiting marijuana
June 29 and 7:30 a.m. on June 30. The person caught on camera outside FAB 60–08 looks similar to the footage from the Millar Library attempted burglary, according to Officer Gary Smeltzer. The investigation remains open.
THEFT
Fourth Avenue Building
Two document cameras were stolen from rooms 170 and 171 sometime between June 17 and June 30. Damage was also done to a projector bracket and podium door. The case was determined to be unrelated to the other recent office burglaries “due to differing methods,” according to Officer Smeltzer.
Act as policies that stand as determinants of PSU’s marijuana polices. “Failure to comply with federal laws and regulations regarding marijuana would jeopardize PSU’s continued receipt of federal funds, including students’ eligibility to receive certain types of federal financial aid,” they said. Toppe encouraged students seeking more information to contact the Office of the Dean of Student Life, and employees to contact the Human Resources office. Last week, PSU’s Office of University Communications released responses to frequently asked questions regarding marijuana on campus. This includes links to full university policies. The FAQ can be found at pdx.edu/news/ FAQ-marijuana-on-campus
Weeks of June 29–July 6
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JULY 1 BIKE THEFT
Helen Gordon Child Development Center
A black and green auto-shifting bike was stolen at around 5:30 p.m.
STUDENT CONDUCT
Parkway Residence Hall
A resident assistant and Officer Nichola Higbee responded to a report of marijuana odor at around 10:15 p.m. The student resident admitted to smoking it outside. Officer Higbee and the R.A. asked the student to take any other marijuana off campus.
BURGLARY
JULY 2
Offices were “lightly ransacked” and door handles were broken in rooms 55, 40 and 90 between 10:30 p.m. on
DISCONCERTING BEHAVIOR
Fourth Avenue Building
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use. Visitors to PSU who violate university drug policies will be subject to exclusion from campus and university events. Recreational marijuana use and production continues to be unlawful on a federal level, despite state government approval. According to the statement, PSU’s withstanding prohibition of marijuana is an effort to protect financial aid and federal funding. “As a recipient of federal funds, PSU is subject to federal laws that require that PSU maintain and enforce policies prohibiting the use of drugs that are illegal under federal law,” the statement continued. Toppe and Sechrist cited the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act and Drug-Free Workplace
Peter W. Stott Center
A male who has already been excluded from Portland State
approached a female student in the women’s locker room. He talked to her while she was in a stall. He apologized and said he thought she was someone else when he saw her leave. The woman was able to get away from him and call Campus Safety. She reported that he “had not done anything wrong,” but that she “felt anxious.” The man was “courteous and polite,” but “declined to provide personal details” when Officer Peter Ward spoke to him. He eventually gave his name; an inquiry revealed his previous exclusion.
BIKE TIRE THEFT
Montgomery Residence Hall
A student reported to Officer Chris Fischer that her front bike tire was stolen.
THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
University Place Hotel
Two mountain bikes were stolen off a vehicle parked in the lot adjacent to the Lincoln Street Max Station between 7:50 p.m. on July 2 and 8:30 a.m. on July 3, according to Officer Ward. One bike was missing the front wheel and seat; the other had a silver frame.
JULY 5 UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, CRIMINAL MISCHIEF II Parking Structure I
Officers Brian Rominger and James Dewey responded to a vehicle break-in at around 2:38 p.m. They found a 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan on the fourth floor with a broken front passenger window, a 2008 Nissan Frontier on the third floor with a broken rear window, and on the fifth floor
a 1999 Chevy S10 pickup’s grill and front bumper were damaged.
JULY 6 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF HEROIN Urban Plaza
Officers Murphy and David Baker stopped a male nonstudent they suspected to have narcotics after observing the individual making arminjection motions. The suspect left and threw something away. The officers retrieved a cooker from the trash can, found a syringe on the ground and handcuffed the man. He was arrested on a felony warrant. A search revealed he was carrying what appeared to be heroin and a large sum of cash.
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OPINION
LEARN NOT TO JUDGE ACTRESS RUBY ROSE TEACHES US A LESSON IN KINDNESS
Vices and Virtues
And while many of us like to think bullying is something that happens in high school and stays in high school, that isn’t the case. In fact, we should be trying to resolve the fact that bullying happens at all, rather than just expecting it to occur. In this day and age, with the technology we have, bullying happens with the click of a button. Whether it’s commenting on someone’s profile picture and telling them they’re ugly, or hacking into someone’s account, bullying happens to everyone. Our ages don’t save us.
I’ve repeated this idea in past pieces I’ve written, but I’ll say it again: We are all human and we are all beautiful. To throw your hatred on someone because they don’t fit your idea of what they should look like is an insult—not just to the individual, but to everyone. No one should be forced to fit inside this box of gender-normative fashion with stereotypical hair and looks. We live in a creative world—we shouldn’t subject ourselves to fitting into one small box. What we should be is kind to one another.
by Carli Gibson
Ruby Rose is taking over—she debuted on this most recent season of Orange Is the New Black as Stella. Really, if you haven’t watched this season, you’re missing out. She was flawless, and the episodes are just getting better and better. But I’m not here to review this season of the show. I want to talk more about Ruby Rose. In a recent interview, Rose discussed how growing up with long blond hair and girlish looks meant she was always told how pretty she was. Then she turned 15 and decided to break free of that feminine norm by cutting off her hair. She started getting bullied by boys who claimed they would never hit a girl, but also told her she wasn’t a girl. Although Rose has grown to embrace her gender fluidity, the bullying she—and anyone else who has dared break a norm— has gone through should be addressed. We live in an increasingly progressive world, and while many embrace it, there are also those afraid of change. Or at least I like to think the reason they lash out and say such harsh things is because they’re afraid, because then I can be comforted by the fact that one day they can overcome their fears and learn from their mistakes. It doesn’t seem so bad if they’re simply scared, because that means we can explain it. Like explaining to a child that there’s no monster in the closet, we can help them see how their fear is all in their head. That being said, doesn’t it seem foolish that, no matter how many important events are going on in the world today, we still put so much focus on what individuals look like? We put so much importance on each other’s outward appearances that we often forget to remember we are all human beings, we all have our personalities and we all have feelings.
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RUBY ROSE began with the ‘Orange Is the New Black’ cast in 2015 as inmate Stella Carlin. COURTESY OF EVA RINALDI THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS VIA FLICKR
OPINION
OREGO OR OREGO-AWAY? OREGON'S NEW ROAD TAX SYSTEM LEAVES SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED Curmudgeon on Campus by Chelsea Lobey
Oregon is in the process of launching OReGO, a payper-mile fee for cars. This fee, which was brought about by Senate Bill 810 back in July 2013, is being implemented as a way to replace the gas tax and is hoping to be a more fair way for all users of the roads to share in the expense of the roads. According to the OReGO website, “It’s a fair and sustainable way to fund road maintenance, preservation and improvements for all Oregonians.” Gas taxes have been a dwindling source of revenue for the state, as more and more people purchase hybrids, electric cars and other extremely fuel efficient vehicles. I think the payper-mile program might be a great way to combat this, simply because the gas tax allows those who can afford electric and hybrid cars to get away without paying nearly as much in taxes as those who can’t afford them. I recently bought a car as old as I am, because it’s all I could afford, and it gets terrible gas mileage. Under the gas tax, I (a poor college student) would get penalized each time I fill up my tank for being unable to afford a fancy hybrid or electric car. That isn’t a fair or efficient way to deal with road maintenance, and we all know Portland’s roads could use an overhaul. It’s not that I think hybrid or electric cars are bad. I actually think they’re fantastic, and I hope they continue to be manufactured, for the sake of our planet. Also, 40–50 miles per gallon sounds a hell of a lot nicer than my roughly 18. But the gas tax is seriously benefitting those that can afford to fill up less often. I’m glad the state is doing something to fix it. But I don’t necessarily think the pay-per-mile program is the best solution either. In order to track the number of miles driven, the OReGO website seems to have a couple of options lined up. Their website is conspicuously vague on this, but it seems drivers will be required to put a Mileage Reporting Device in their car that tracks the number of miles driven. One option would track your location, “to determine whether you are driving inside or outside Oregon, and for the purposes of administrating their value-added services.” The other option would supposedly only track your miles driven and fuel consumed. I don’t know that I’m necessarily against putting a government-issued device in my car, but I would definitely avoid it if I could. I think most people are at least slightly wary of the idea. The Oregon Department of Transportation will use a private vendor to handle all the accounting and reporting of miles. The OReGO website states, “There’s a cost to collect a road usage charge, which goes down incrementally depending on the number of program participants. For example, if, in the future, account managers also handle regional accounts covering Washington and California in addition to the accounts
they manage for Oregon’s program, the overall collection cost would go down.” Okay, fine. But as of right now, Oregon is the only state to be implementing such a program. It’s going to cost a lot of money to switch over and maintain this new tax system, and the question has to be asked whether the program will generate enough money to be worth the cost. Another major problem I have with this tax is that it might be a much larger burden for those living farther away from city centers. For example, in Portland, some of the wealthiest citizenry lives near downtown, in inner southeast or the Pearl District. They likely don’t drive far to work, so even a permile tax system might affect them less than those who have to commute from Gresham or Hillsboro. The OReGo website says, “If income level is a barrier to purchasing more fuelefficient vehicles, OReGO volunteers driving older or less fuel-efficient vehicles will typically pay less in road user
charges than in fuel tax.” They don’t get any more specific on how a per-mile tax will be cheaper than a fuel tax, so I’m suspicious. The pay-per-mile system is still in its pilot program stages. Right now they’re testing it with 5,000 volunteers and hope to expand from there, although there are not any definite dates in place for if or when this program will become mandatory statewide. I’m all for a program that can generate enough money to finally pave the gravel roads and terrifyingly big potholes out past 82nd Avenue. You know, the ones that are only traversable with a four-wheel drive truck. Because seriously, the fact that we have unpaved roads within city limits seems pretty unacceptable to me. If this program can’t accomplish that, than I think we should keep thinking of better ways to share the road-use burden equally.
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COVER
‘SOMETHING INCREDIBLY FULFILLING THAT IOUTGOING WILLASPSUNEVER DO AGAIN’ PRESIDENT NOLL AND VICE PRESIDENT MCMILLAN COLLEEN LEARY
REFLECT UPON THE YEAR IN ASPSU
After an unprecedented double election this spring term, Dana Ghazi and Davíd Martinez of the Student Power Coalition slate have just begun their 2015–16 term as president and vice president of the Associated Students of Portland State University. Outgoing ASPSU President Eric Noll and Vice President Rayleen McMillan sat down with the Vanguard to reflect on the past year as student leaders. Noll and McMillan discussed two messy elections, rocky working relationships, compromises, sleepless nights, unsung groundwork, unexpected victories, and challenges and why they’ll never run for elected office again.
CONTROVERSIAL ELECTIONS Last year, Noll and McMillan ran for ASPSU office under the campaign slogan, “Take Back PSU!” They received the second highest number of student votes—201 less votes than their opponents Marcus Sis and Erica Fuller. Sis and Fuller were ultimately disqualified after a controversial decision by the group of people who served, at the time, as both the ASPSU Elections Committee and Judicial Review Board. Noll and McMillan took office without the other members of the slate elected alongside them, which led to a difficult transition at the beginning of the year. They struggled to find common ground and collaborate with members of the Senate and Student Fee Committee, who were less than thrilled to serve under the leadership of their competition.
TAKE BACK PSU! PLATFORM Noll and McMillan ran for office with a strategic plan that outlined three pillars, which were then broken down into more specific tasks to make a nine-point plan.
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The three main objectives were Authentic Involvement in Campus Governance; Visible Progress Toward a Safer Campus; and Meaningful Access to Quality Education.
AUTHENTIC INVOLVEMENT IN CAMPUS GOVERNANCE Under the Authentic Involvement in Campus Governance pillar, they discussed several accomplishments: building relationships with administrators and university decision-makers, shaping the Tuition & Fees Policy under the new Board of Trustees, the appointment of two student trustees to the BOT, and surviving a tumultuous start to their term. ERIC NOLL: I would call it a victory... even being able to get off the ground at the beginning of the year, given everything that happened. Walking in with a Senate and SFC that definitely weren’t from within our slate, those tensions there... RAYLEEN MCMILLAN: And then all of [those] who ended up resigning and ending up with only one remaining elected SFC member. EN: For those who did stick around, we were able to build good working relationships that ultimately made somewhat of a functional student government—as much as student government can function. RM: Yeah, it was refreshing to find the folks that—if I can speak candidly—it really shined through, the folks who were genuinely there to do the work, versus the folks who were there for whatever other reason. Half of our executive cabinet were from our opposing slate. Because we saw some excellent people on that slate that we wanted to work with, so it turned into a really positive experience.
VANGUARD: How long after you were elected did it take to get a cooperative feeling? EN: I think for us to get the ball rolling in the executive cabinet, it took about a month. Coming into fall term, it took a little while to wade through some other stuff. There were a couple tough confirmations in our Senate over fall term and then the debate over the eighth SFC seat again all term—that still created some rifts for the organization. RM: I want to be clear that Eric and I had absolutely no role in that debate. We were very intentional to stay out of that particular debate—the eighth SFC member. EN: Which isn’t a thing that will ever happen again, unless they add it back. There are seven [SFC] members. Constitutionally all of them will be elected. VG: Why is that such a controversial issue? EN: I don’t think it typically is, but what the constitution did is it allowed the Senate to nominate without process. Just anybody from Senate or the gallery or if someone happened to show up in the audience to be nominated—[they] could be nominated for that seat. Given the fallout from the election that carried in politics into that eighth seat, folks who were removed, folks who quit, a lot of the drama that happened within the SFC…that all played into the politics of that eighth seat again. As it did in June [2014] when Khalid [Alballaa] beat out Jonathen [Gates] for the seat and then when it came up in the fall with the threeway race…It carried the politics of the election with it, unfortunately. RM: Which we witnessed as outside observers—and if I can go ahead and say—we found quite comical and were very amused by.
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ERIC NOLL AND RAYLEEN MCMILLAN take office after the 2014 Spring Term ASPSU election. MILES SANGUINETTI/VANGUARD ARCHIVES
VISIBLE PROGRESS TOWARD A SAFER CAMPUS Under their Visible Progress Toward a Safer Campus pillar, Noll and McMillan discussed their involvement with the Board of Trustees’ process in the authorization of a sworn police force on campus. They also discussed successes in cultural competency policy, which they credited to former ASPSU directors Tia Gomez-Zeller and Galen Russell and their sub-committees. Noll also discussed the work of former ASPSU Senator Melinda Joy and other ASPSU members to create a dual-approach to sexual assault on campus. He mentioned the Title IX committee and the Oregon Student Association’s work in the legislature. EN: They made an incredible amount of progress... Noll said. [They] received an endorsement from the academic leadership team— which contains all the Deans of the college, held a cultural competency celebration, they have a draft policy, have done
a lot of great work to make it part of the conversation in the strategic plan for campus and have laid groundwork for continued work of that policy next year. The [OSA] worked on two bills that both passed this session. One was the Advocate Privilege bill that allows survivors to report anonymously to advocates on campus. The second is a campus protocol bill that puts additional requirements in place to develop partnerships with community resources to provide preventative education, to provide plain language lists of options that students have. VG: One of the big things that happened during your administration is the authorization of armed officers on campus. EN: While this was something we were looking at as having to engage with throughout the year, when we were running we weren’t expecting a decision was going to be made this year. We didn’t expect it to be nearly as intense as it was. While there was a process, it was fast. I think we had our first briefing…in August, and then came into the BOT
meeting in September. The BOT was ready to just go right there without a plan or anything. And we were shaking our heads vigorously in the audience, and [PSU President Wim Wiewel] said, “Slow down, let’s do a process over fall term and come back in December and look at it.” We gave it everything we had and that was the thing we spent the majority of our time on over fall term was being involved with that policy attending forums and meetings, talking with Kevin Reynolds, David Reese and Chief [Philip] Zerzan, the litany of folks who were involved in trying to find a way to walk the line in between the support and opposition, based on the survey results we were operating off of from 2013. RM: Two different sets of survey results. EN: And trying to maintain access to all of those groups so that we can make as informed a decision as possible. It was important for us to hear from both proponents and opponents of the policy— so that whatever recommendations we made, if we did
COVER make them, related to the language of the policy or the resolution so that it could be well-educated. Being our fourth and third year in student government that year, we’ve grown to understand campus politics a bit. RM: We know when something has inevitability and when something doesn’t. EN: We saw that even in our August meeting, and from there we really angled our strategy more about how do we affect the language and not how do we stop this…It was going to happen at some point, based on what we saw from our experience. We angled to make it as least abrasive as possible. RM: Eric and I faced substantial criticism from the opposition, we actually got a small amount from folks who support it—which exists in much greater numbers on this campus than people may realize…For every student that approached me personally and was like, “I’m scared, this makes me unsafe, the idea of sworn officers is not okay with me.”…There was at least one more student that would say, “This is going to make me feel safer on campus.” It was really hard work for us to put our own personal opinions aside on this. Because, quite frankly, we were both personally very uncomfortable with the idea of a sworn police force, but we very intentionally set those personal feelings aside and did our best to represent a very divided constituency. VG: Why do you think the BOT was so eager to come in and approve it in September? EN: They were presented with a problem, presented with a solution. They said, “We want to fix it.” And then over the proceeding months
heading up to December, we met with many of them and had very good conversations. We also have to recognize this board came into power July 1 of that year. They were all very new—many of whom, through no fault of their own, had never operated in the public sector before. So we’ve seen…many trustees learning how to operate in the public sector and the university world—many of whom are very eager, from what we’ve seen, are very eager to seek and receive input—respectful and levelheaded input. RM: I feel like some folks interpreted our movement through that issue as indifference, which could not have been further from the truth. We both lost a significant amount of sleep over it. We put hundreds of hours into it. And the result might not be the one that everybody wants, but we would have had a much harsher result much earlier on, had it not been for our engagement and for engagement of other activated students.
MEANINGFUL ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION Under the final pillar, Meaningful Access to Quality Education, Noll and McMillan ran with three tenets: reconnecting ASPSU with the student community, focusing on student spaces on campus, and working very heavily in the legislative session. EN: Starting with reconnecting ASPSU with PSU students: I would say that always tries to answer the milliondollar question of how to engage students on campus. We did very poorly this year…in terms of an overall connection and increasing the en-
RAYLEEN MCMILLAN AND ERIC NOLL speak for students at a Dec. 2014 Board of Trustee meeting. COURTESY OF PSU
gagement of the student body on campus, I don’t think we did very well at it. RM: I don’t think student governments ever do very well at it, though…I don’t think we did any worse than our colleagues at peer institutions and I don’t think we did any worse than past ASPSU administrations have done. My hat is off to the student government who cracks the code on how to get even thirty percent of the student body actively engaged in ongoing things. EN: One thing we were successful with this year, is we as a student government were able to develop a really good relationship with the new athletic director and the athletics department. RM: I think the cultural competency campaign really engaged students on an excellent level as well. VG: Is there anything that you wish would have happened during the last year that you could have put more energy into? EN: One of the things I would have liked to have done much better, given more time and given different circumstances, was [to] have better relationships and a better working plan for members of the senate, senator positions specifically. Our executive cabinet did great, the SFC did great with their advisors, but...there was a lot of turnover with the senators and I think we could have done better jobs of retaining them. RM: Something I’m really disappointed with is that…we removed the Smith Memorial Student Union 2020 resolution from the ballot…It was painful to cast that vote. EN: I, in 20/20 hindsight, see it as a little bit fortunate… because given the way that double election happened, that would have created an absolute mess. I think Smith [2020] was part of a meaningful access tenet. And I will also say, going back…closing off that piece of that [plan is] what we ran on, that’s not the platform we went into the year with, though. As we came into the year… we looked strategically at our platform the Students for a Better Tomorrow, Today’s
platform, and [Community Rising’s] platform, and we held as much of that together as possible. So what we ran on was very different than what we tasked out to committees. It was an active decision we made to compromise a little bit and to extend a few olive branches to say we are really here to do work. VG: This most recent election is the second I’ve been through at PSU and both of them have been pretty…interesting. Why has it been so messy? EN: There are only so many restrictions you can put on a student government elections…There are different rules than what you see in a state or federal election, but it’s just as messy. I think the only difference is that people are much less professional about how they do the messy in the student government elections. You still see attack ads, you still see people push to get away with as much as they can and gain a competitive advantage, and it’s a fight. If I never have to be involved with a student election again, I’ll be very happy with that, because it is not something I desire in any way. I think it’s not a professional system and there aren’t professional expectations and definitely not professional practice in how it’s approached…Winning the election isn’t the end, but people use means to get to that as if it is the true end. RM: I’m going to speak frankly. You referred to the last two election cycles, and I think they have been uglier than normal. There are particular…students here [who] have resorted to really ugly stuff in both elections—the same individuals who have resorted to really ugly stuff in both. Common denominators. And what I would say to those students…who think that aspiring to student government and aspiring to power in the small sense of the word in that way, I would say this is student government, not an episode of the West Wing. Calm down.
ADVICE TO INCOMING ASPSU LEADERS VG: What kind of advice or hopes do you have for this administration coming in—for
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Dana and Davíd? RM: Take time for deep breaths. EN: I left a letter for Dana on her desk when she came back...I described student government as a crucible. You’re going to come out differently on the other end and it’s going to hurt at times. But no matter how intense it gets, just remember that it’s just a collegiate student government. The decisions [and] the work that you do is extremely impactful, but if you mess up, it’s not the end of the world. So when everything’s flying at you at unbelievable speeds and when you get 60 emails a day, it’s OK. RM: Keep everything in perspective. It can feel like the most important work in the world, and sometimes the impact that you have makes it monumentally important work, but keep it in perspective. It’s collegiate student government.
MOVING ON VG: Where are you going now that your responsibilities are finished with ASPSU? EN: I’ll start in the new public policy master’s program in the fall. RM: It’s the first ever cohort [at PSU]. EN: It’ll be fun.
VG: And Rayleen? RM: I’ve been working as a government relations coordinator with PCC for a couple years now. But now that I have a bachelor’s degree, they’ve really legitimized and made the position really firm and super awesome. So I’m continuing that for at least a year, perhaps two, and then I’m going to go to grad school also. VG: Would you run for elected office again? RM: I never have had any intention to. EN: No. RM: I like policy. I like shaping policy. My job at PCC is my dream job right now. I love it. I love staffing the person who is the talking head at the podium. That’s the work I really shine in. And that’s where all the power in politics is anyway, and don’t let anyone tell you different. VG: Can you sum up your terms as president and as vice president in two sentences? EN: Something I’ll never forget. Something I never want to do again. RM: I would say for me [it was] something incredibly fulfilling that I will never do again. Additional reporting by Lisa Dunn
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ARTS & CULTURE
NOT YOUR NEUROTYPICAL EDEN Postal is a lesson in small-town class dynamics ANDY ANADY
POSTAL VOL. 1 by Matt Hawkins & Bryan Hill
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People make mistakes and respond poorly to situations. For instance, while I was waiting for the bus just before writing this review, a fire started in the road verge across the street from Safeway. Only one person screamed, and just two people tried stomping it out. Not only are individuals riddled with the potential for awful decisions, but groups are worse. This fact, when boiled down, is the whole premise of Bryan Hill and Matt Hawkins’ comic Postal. Postal takes place in a fictional town called Eden, where I can’t help but assume it’s as sweltering as it is in Portland. The population number is scratched out and almost every single person is a convicted criminal. Sheriff Shiffron tells a new citizen, “You don’t move here for a second chance. You move here for your last
chance.” It’s a town entirely insular and interdependent, clinging to a thin and trembling thread of trust. When I first read the premise I thought it would be some hypermasculine, needlessly gory comic with a shallow, fake-flashy premise, but it really wasn’t. The protagonist, Mark, is the mayor’s adult son, the town’s mail deliverer and handler, and a person with Asperger’s syndrome. The plot revolves around the murder of a young woman who is not from Eden, the history of the town and the Shiffron family who founded it. However, that isn’t all that makes Postal great; it’s how the characters are written. I’m going to preface this by saying I am a neurotypical person. So as someone privileged in that way, I’ll try to defend my opinions. Mark’s Asperger’s is displayed appropriately in this
comic. His illness doesn’t encompass the whole story, but it does color every aspect. Postal dives into how he’s treated by other people, how they view him, and how he approaches all of his problems and the obstacles to his desires. He loves a waitress, Maggie, and reads her body language very purposefully, considering her past advice on how to socialize to decide whether or not she’d welcome his attention. He’s multifaceted, self-aware, independent and very much the protagonist, not just some token. Unfortunately, his mother fits the typical mold of an impatient parent of a child with Asperger’s. She says all sorts of horrible things right to his face. She seems remorseless and the town tends to side with her, pitying her for having to take care of him, instead of having
sympathy for Mark, who has to put up with her. Postal even writes women respectably, as actual human characters (which is always the first thing I look for). However, the comic is riddled with racial prejudices. So far there are two obviously non-white characters: a rapey FBI agent and an American-Indian man named Big Injun, who is little more than a noble-savage trope. Conversely, the one real antagonist, a white guy, is revered and worshipped for his evil and power. Gag. The treatment of race in this volume is really unfortunate and is pulling me out of my high over how gender, neurodivergence and mental illness are treated. It’s worth reading, even though its racism must be criticized. The series is still running, and I don’t doubt Hill and Hawkins can do better.
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The orchestra plays sneak peeks of their upcoming season and closes the evening’s performance with Tchaikovsky’s beloved “1812 Overture,” accompanied by military cannons and a dazzling fireworks display over the Willamette River. Oregon Ballet Theatre joins the orchestra and performs an excerpt from their upcoming season. This is another perfect picnic opportunity and grand finale to a fun-filled summer.
THE POOR STUDENT’S GUIDE TO SUMMER ACTIVITES MORIAH NEWMAN
Summer vacation is usually a long-awaited retreat for college students, but once the break arrives, boredom can soon follow. Elaborate vacations and road trips may sound like a good idea, but after extensive planning and budgeting, it may simply stay an idea. How can many college students afford plane tickets and resort packages? For those of you with lots of time but limited cash, here are some fun, failproof summer activities that won’t break the bank.
Summer concerts and movies
Berry picking With the warmth of summer upon us, berry season
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is in full swing! Living in the Pacific Northwest means easy access to a variety of delicious berries and fruits, and berry picking is a great morning or early afternoon activity. Local U-Pick farms such as Bella Organic and Kruger Farms, both located on Sauvie Island, offer affordable rates for fresh blueberries, raspberries, marionberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches and other tasty summer delicacies. Once fresh berries have been obtained, the next best step is berry baking!
Every summer, Portland Parks & Recreation offers free concerts featuring lo-
cal musicians in neighborhood parks. Concerts are held every night of the week in a different Portland park, ranging in musical style. Pack a picnic dinner, bring blankets or low-seat camping chairs and be entertained by local Portland talent! Enjoying live music with a basket full of goodies is a perfect way to spend a summer evening. Portland Parks also offers free movie nights in the parks, with free popcorn! Classic films such as Grease, The Goonies and The NeverEnding Story will be shown at different local parks, as well as more recent films like Frozen, Despicable Me 2 and Maleficent. Most
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showings offer subtitles in Spanish and various other languages based on location.
Free days at museums Many museums in Portland not only offer free admission during certain hours but are also air-conditioned—a cheap way to stay cool on hot days with exposure to arts and culture! The Portland Art Museum offers free admission every fourth Friday of the month from 5 to 8 p.m. The Oregon Historical Society offers free admission to residents of Multnomah County.
The Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert Every summer, the Oregon Symphony steps outside the theater and into Tom McCall Waterfront Park for a full evening of music, dance and culture. The evening opens with members of the Portland Youth Philharmonic showcasing young talent, before highlighting the Oregon Symphony.
CHOO CHOO! ALL ABOARD THE ‘NIGHT TRAIN’
ARTS & CULTURE
LISA DUNN
It was about eight at night, early July. The sun was blazing, falling behind the hills of southwest Portland. Sweat ran down my forehead. The dog was panting. Night Train by Martin Amis sat on my desk, open to a random page. Written in the style of Raymond Chandler, it is a short detective novel. Quick. Cynical. Heartrending. Coming in at just under 150 pages, Night Train takes the gritty skepticism of the noir whodunnit and turns it on its head. What happens when an astrophysicist who has everything—looks, intelligence, money, love—is found in her bedroom with three bullets to
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the head? No sign of a struggle, no hint of homicide. But no sign of internal struggle either—no note, no signs of depression in her journal. So what happened? That is the question police detective Mike Hoolihan asks herself when her mentor’s daughter, Jennifer Rockwell, is found dead. Hoolihan is sent to figure out, in typical Chandler fashion, the what, the who and the how. Amis deviates from the typical detective script, though, and instead asks why. And he asks it in a funny way. Hoolihan has made a career out of figuring out “hot potato homicides” and putting perps behind bars. Tag ’em
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and bag ’em, boys. Easy. This one, though, is a mystery. Why would a woman who seemingly has everything end her life? It just doesn’t make sense. Hoolihan starts focusing on Jennifer’s long-time boyfriend, Trader, as a suspect. A jealous lover can usually solve a difficult case, but Hoolihan keeps hitting wall after wall. Trader and Jennifer, as far as she can figure, had no problems save maybe overactive sex drives. Then Hoolihan turns to a potential drug problem, but that creek dries up, and fast. The more Hoolihan searches for the who, the more she comes up with nothing. Unlike normal detective stories,
the who isn’t infuriatingly ambiguous—there are no suspicious people leaving town with suitcases full of money. The who is right there from the moment the police find Jennifer’s body in her bedroom. Three shots to the head. Suicide. So Hoolihan instead has to search for why the hell a brilliant astrophysicist, who by all accounts loves her life, would end it. The answers, it turns out, lies in the Big Bang. Night Train is asking: What is existence? Who created us, if anything? How were we created? Jennifer, as someone who has dedicated her life’s work to finding these things out, is
performing her own kind of whodunnit exploration as a scientist. As happens so often in noir, she goes to extreme lengths to find out the answers. Jennifer’s story is bigger than run-of-the-mill human jealousy or a pedestrian runin with organized crime. Her story balloons and reaches into the beginning of the universe. How did things begin? Why are we here? Amis transmutes the anthropocentric smallness of detective pulp into the vastness of the entire universe. This book overflows with wordplay. “It’s half after five and she’s half in the bag,” Hoolihan says to one of Jennifer’s neighbors. Where existential crises tend
to knock the wind out of a person, the playfulness of the language balances the serious nature of what Hoolihan is searching for and makes it easier to digest what Amis believes is the nature of the universe itself: absurdity and chaos. In usual Amis style, Night Train is equal parts playful and serious. Everything is just the right amount of absurd, including the stilted way people talk and think. You know that Night Train, though asking serious questions, doesn’t take itself so seriously, so you don’t need to either. Some find Amis’ wordplay gimmicky and distracting, as if good writing and good storytelling cannot coexist. But I think his fascination and experimentation with the English language are what make his writing successful. Most of the criticism of Night Train comes from the fact that it’s not your typical detective story. But it’s not supposed to be—it’s supposed to be a wholly different beast. It’s supposed to satirize how small the world is, how predictable. Though there is chaos in noir, there’s always an answer. And there’s always a villain you can pinpoint. Even if the villain escapes, there’s still satisfaction to knowing whodunnit. That’s comforting for some people. The reason Night Train doesn’t work for some people is because Amis takes away that comfort. He takes away the illusion of finality, of the idea that there are always hard and fast answers. Sometimes we just don’t know. If you’re looking for a runof-the-mill detective novel, this is not the book for you. This book isn’t about murder. This book isn’t about being a police officer in gritty urban America. This is a book about the infinite smallness of human lives.
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ETC
EVENT CALENDAR JOHN PINNEY
JULY 7
Twelfth Night
Unforgettable
7 p.m. The Old Church Fee: Willamette Writers membership Brian Doyle, winner of several awards including the international Hans Christian Andersen award, will speak to the Williamette Writers group and discuss what can make a story capture a moment in a way that won’t be forgotten. FREE
JULY 8
7:30 p.m. Art, Alder Stage Fee: $35 Adult, $20 Student Resident Artist Lisa Harrow will be inspired by and directing her interpretation of Twelfth Night as part of the fifth season of the Portland Shakespeare Project. Showing through August. Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. also available.
JULY 9 SUP Pilates Clinic
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2–3 p.m. Rec Center Pool Fee: $20 for the series; space is limited.
Contributing artists Peet, Siestreem, Towne and Flores use visual medium to discuss the power of culture and what cultural appropriation looks like. Voices and opinions of Portland residents are also included and you can share your voice at 503893‑2536. FREE
Over four Thursdays, starting today, stand up paddleboarding and pilates classes are offered for the ultimate core and stabilizing experience! No experience in swimming or Pilates is required. I will not be doing this because, well, I have the grace of an orange water buffalo. Please note that the pool is closed from 1:45–3:15 p.m. on these Thursdays for this clinic.
12–4 p.m. Littman Gallery
Summer Sings 9 p.m.
PCC-Cascade, MAHB 104 Fee: $10 or all 3 for $25 If you’re a person like me who enjoys singing in many venues and with people like yourself, this ongoing series is for you! Don’t worry about your level of talent, everyone from the community is invited to participate. A great way to beat the heat, even if that is your only motive to attend.
JULY 10 Freedom!
Rec Center Locker Rooms Okay, this isn’t a real event per se, but for those of you who have been having to travel over to the Sott Center during the expansion construction, you’ll be glad
to know that this is the last day you’ll have to deal with that foolishness. FREE
JULY 11
JULY 13
America’s Largest Old Stuff Show
8 a.m.–6 p.m. Expo Center (Outside and Inside) Halls D & E Fee: $30 for the weekend pass, $7 for general admission
Marc Maron 7 p.m. Aladdin Theater
I’m only putting this in for people that really love Marc Maron and are willing to do will call based on the slim chance you’ll get in. I don’t have a great sense of Marc Maron as a stand-up comedian because I’ve only ever seen him on @midnight and didn’t think he was super funny. And I always get distracted by Aziz Ansari when I’m on Netflix. But hey, if he’s your kind of comic, mazel tov for you. Treat. Yo. Self.
The PDX Project
7–10 p.m. One Grand Gallery Sigh. I’m not a native Portlander so I don’t understand a few things about this city. One, the hatred for Voodoo Doughnuts that I seem to encounter. Two, the extreme nature of the Greenpeace volunteers. Three, the PDX carpet. This is literally a collaborative artist event based around this carpet. Why?! FREE
I know it’s super stereotypical to be a gay that likes this kind of stuff, but just let me tell you what happened at the last one. I had to give up before I saw all the booths. They literally fill two halls (think Comic Con) with all kinds of stuff. Buttons, furniture, comics, creepy baby dolls, glassware, coins, patriotic flags, rocking chairs, etc. If you don’t find something you want then I would check your pulse. I found Power Rangers stuff last time (seriously, I found a MMPR trading card game) and this time I’m looking for Goosebumps books.
Mississippi Street Fair Mississippi Avenue
It seems like it’s free to get into this very established celebration of my favorite Portland avenue (everyone has one after you’ve been here a few years) and will feature bands on five different stages, local vendors, craft beer (because Portland) and all the food carts you could shake a stick at. I hope there’s alligator on a stick!
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harvest Share
This 35 mm print of my leastfavorite Indiana Jones movie (I refuse to count Crystal Skull and everyone knows Temple of Doom is my jam) is going to be shown on a 50-foot screen. Is there really any better way to watch the Nazis get their comeuppance?
It’s nice to know that Harvest Share still happens over summer. This first-come, first-served event is a way to help the student diet, so normally salt and sugar and fat- oriented, encounter some fresh fruit and veggies. Volunteer opportunities are available. Remember your reusable shopping bag! FREE
2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Hollywood Theater Fee: $8
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12 p.m. Park Blocks outside of Shattuck Hall
Love 101
7–9 p.m. Portland Community Music Center Fee: $10 So I couldn’t figure out on YouTube which bands were a tribute to Torchsong or if it’s this Torchsong that does covers of other stuff? I dunno. But this musical cabaret is a venture through the ages by Torchsong, led by Heidi Davis, and the cover art is very Grease 2 cute so there is that.
FREE
21+
PSU FREE OPEN TO PUBLIC 21 & OVER
FEATURED EVENT Sheryl Crow
Fee: $63 day of show
McMenamins Edgefield July 7 at 6:30 p.m. It seems kind of fitting that the Starbucks of Portland is hosting the Starbucks of country pop. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing though. Some of Sheryl Crow’s stuff is actually really good, if not all that memorable. I remember back in the ’90s when Crow was singing about exploring why what made you happy made you so sad. And then she wrote that song about living in a small-town bar. The last thing I remember her doing is that one about her COURTESY OF MARK RUNYON THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS VIA FLICKR
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ex where the ex was Kid Rock and I felt embarrassed that she couldn’t have found someone better to duet with. Because I can’t see myself missing Kid Rock if he was my ex. The point is, if you want some non-threatening but not really alt country pop and you can’t afford Taylor Swift or Miranda Lambert, the wise words of Sheryl Crow will probably get you there. Or you can just wait to see Shania Twain and Gavin DeGraw.
ETC
HOROSCOPES
Cancer
(June 21–July 22)
Try Pop-Tarts as a base for that cheesecake you’re making this week. The results will rock your world if you stick to your favorite Tart flavor.
JOHN PINNEY
Leo
(July 23–Aug. 22)
Do you ever think about that old Angelfire website you had back in junior high? Well, it might not be around anymore, but somebody has a screen shot of it somewhere.
Virgo
(Aug. 23–Sept. 22)
Sometimes Jesus really does need to take the wheel. Allow yourself to lose control this week and see what happens. ELISE FURLAN/PSU VANGUARD
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(Dec.22–Jan.19)
You’re more than a one-dimensional cartoon, Libra. Even you might surprise yourself at all the dimensions you possess.
Let’s calm down the ego, Capi. Yeah, you’re great at what you do, but there’s always more you can learn in the world.
Aquarius
Scorpio
(Jan. 20–Feb. 18)
(Oct. 23–Nov. 21)
I don’t know why you decided to go Paleo. I would just recommend steering clear of the savory cookies if you insist on following this fad.
Sagittarius
(Nov.22–Dec. 21)
You’re not ahead of the times if you believe in equality for all. You’re actually just being a decent human being.
CROSSWORD
Capricorn
(Sep. 23–Oct. 22)
Be the change you wish to see in the world and not the villain in a dystopian YAÂ novel.
Pisces
(Feb. 20–March 19)
Do you ever wonder why people take pills that have worse side effects than the thing they’re battling, Pisces? Me too.
Travel is an important part of life experience. Consider going to a new place and just losing yourself in a new culture.
Taurus
(April 20–May 20)
Yeah, that guy with the pamphlet is a cult leader. I’d recommend crossing the street and not interacting with him.
Gemini
(May 21–June 20)
I know we’re both tired of remakes and adaptations, Gemini. That’s why you have that original idea. Get creating!
Aries
(March 21–April 19)
From Mystic J, permanent resident of Room 1313, Hollywood Tower Hotel
ELISE FURLAN/PSU VANGUARD
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SPORTS
CARLI LLOYD LEADS U.S. TO WORLD CUP VICTORY PHUOC FRANCIS NGUYEN
For the third time, the United States team has won the Women’s World Cup. Since the first FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991, the United States has never failed to finish less than third place. The U.S. won the inaugural title with a 2–1 victory over Norway. It added another win in 1999 over China PR in a 5–4 penalty kick decision.
to even the score. When the game looked like it was going to go into extra time or even penalties, Bassett of England misplayed a ball while facing her own goal, sending Japan back into the finals 2–1 for the second straight World Cup.
The final match
The road to victory The road to the 2015 World Cup was a challenging one. On June 30, the United States and Germany, the number one and two ranked teams, faced off at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. The United States kept the same backline as previous matches, with Klingenberg, Sauerbrunn, Johnston and Krieger, and Hope Solo in goal. Rapinoe and Holiday were in midfield, along with Brian, Heath, and leading goal-scorer Carli Lloyd. Morgan served as the lone forward. Head Coach Jill Ellis’ lineup paid off, as the first half was dominated by the U.S., who had 55 percent possession and seven total shots with three on target. Germany was kept to a total of five shots with only one of the targets in their 45 percent possession. In the second half, Germany kicked off with the first chance. In the fifty-ninth minute, Johnston failed to deal with a bounce-through ball, fouling Alexandra Popp in the box to set up a penalty kick. Germany chose tournament leading goal-scorer Sasic to take the shot. Solo, recognized as the best goalkeeper in the world, guessed the wrong way on the kick, but Sasic pulled the shot wide of goal to keep the game in a goalless draw. Morgan drew a foul in the
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CARLI LLOYD and the U.S. Women’s National team plays against Ireland in May 2015, in San Jose, Calif. COURTESY OF NOAH SALZMAN THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS 4.0 VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
box on German defender Annike Krahn to set up Carli Lloyd with a penalty kick. Lloyd successfully converted past Angerer to put the U.S. up 1–0. Kelley O’Hara came on for Heath
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to deliver a goal that would seal the game. Lloyd dribbled into the box and found O’Hara from close range that finished the volley, making it 2–0 for the final score. To face the U.S. in the final
match, Japan went headto-head with England. Aya Miyama converted a penalty in the thirty-third minute to put Japan up 1–0. England answered back when Fara Williams sent a penalty kick
On July 5, 2015, the United States looked to become the first country to win three World Cups. Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium, which consisted of a predominately proUnited States crowd of 53,341, gave the Americans a huge boost heading into the game. The U.S. Women’s National Team kept their lineup intact. The team played progressively better in each game after the inclusion of midfielder Morgan Brian, which freed up Carli Lloyd to push forward in attack. The action got started in the third minute when Lloyd fired home a Rapinoe low-driven cross past Japanese goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori to take the lead 1–0. Two minutes later, Holiday’s free kick somehow found the feet of Lloyd, who scored again, doubling the lead. In the fourteenth minute, Heath delivered a ball near the box that sent Japan’s centerback Azusa Iwashimizu scrambling for the ball. The loose ball ended up sitting in the box for Holiday to volley it home to make it 3–0. The dream start would not end—in the sixteenth minute, Lloyd completed her hat trick with a chipped ball from midfield over a stumbling Kaihori. She managed to get a hand on it, but not enough to push it out of the net. The 4–0 lead became 4–1 when Japanese forward Yuki Ogimi finished past Solo, when she spun off Johnston to get a clean look on goal.
Japan faced a three-goal deficit going into the second half, but refused to give up. In the fifty-second minute ,a dangerously played free kick found the head of Johnston, who misplayed the ball into her own net to make it 4–2. In the fifty-fourth minute, a corner kick found the feet of Brian on the far post, who then delivered a low cross to Heath, making it 5–2 for the final score. Abby Wambach subbed in the seventy-ninth minute for Heath. Wambach, in her fourth World Cup, would win the elusive title for her first time. She will go into the history books as the leading international goal scorer for both men and women, with 183 goals in 248 appearances. Carli Lloyd tied for the Golden Boot, which is awarded to the tournament’s top goal scorer. Lloyed lost out in the tiebreaker to Germany’s Celia Sasic, but Lloyd did score the Silver Boot and the Golden Ball, the award given to the Women’s World Cup’s best player. The player is drawn up by the FIFA Committee and voted on by the representatives in the media. This year, Hope Solo won the Golden Glove, the award given to the best goalkeeper in the tournament. It has been 16 years of the world cup, and the United States is bringing home its third title. The team will look to bring home their fourth when 2019 comes around, with France serving as the host country. Jurg en Klinsman, head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team, will look to replicate the success of the women in 2018 at the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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THE DREAM TEAM IS GONE REMEMBERING OUR DEPARTING BLAZERS TURNER LOBEY
A damn good reason if I’ve ever heard one. Au revoir, mon ami.
Robin Lopez’s relentless war with the NBA’s mascots
LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE prepares a free throw in a 2013 game against the New Orleans Pelicans. COURTESY OF CAROL MUNRO THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS VIA FLICKR
Tempered by bouts of seasonal sports depression, Blazers fans often seem to be immune to bad news. This last week tested our resolve. In a trade season that shouldn’t have surprised anyone but still punched us right in the feels, the Blazers are saying goodbye to four of the five players who comprised the modern day Dream Team. Nicolas Batum made it halfway back to France by relocating to the Charlotte Hornets. Wesley Matthews signed a deal with the Dallas Mavericks. Robin Lopez bobbed his way to the East Coast and the New York Knicks. LaMarcus Aldridge ended the possibility of him becoming the greatest Trail Blazer of all time by leaving Portland to join the San Antonio
Spurs for four years and $80 million. The only remaining member of the Dream Team, Damian Lillard, literally carried the torch for Special Olympics Oregon on the day that news of Aldridge’s departure broke. It’s hard to not see the symbology in that. As the Blazers turn to the next chapter of its legacy— one we hope doesn’t consist of four more years of rebuilding—it’s time to reflect, one last time, on the things we will miss the most about the Dream Team that was. You might be gone, sweet princes, but here’s how we’ll remember you.
The time Nicolas Batum declared war on Spain with a punch to the dick
The shot heard around the world. Representing France in the 2012 London Olympics, Batum reeled back with all his might and swung at the dick of Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro. It may have been for France, but it made every Portlander proud. Take that, Rudy Fernandez. What caused such a display of force? Apparently, the punch came after repeated dramatic flops from some of the Spanish players after minor contacts with the French team. CBS Sports has done some six-degrees madness to pin it all on Fernandez. I’m okay with that. Best of all was Batum’s aftergame interview with Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarkowski. “I wanted to give him a good reason to flop,” he said.
Robin Lopez started another type of war when he duked it out with Hooper, the Detroit Pistons’ mascot. Since the first blows were thrown, basketball has been in subject to an all-out blood feud. Channeling the Judge from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Lopez spread his torrent of violence against the NBA’s most lovable and cuddly members across the nation. Sometimes a man is remembered for his shoes. Sometimes a man is remembered for hair that looks like a character from an animated program that entertains the masses with laughs that come cheap and at the expense of contemporary political figures and fleeting moments in popular culture. Sometimes that same man is, well, remembered for inflicting his blood-filled wrath on lesser men in suits of fur. The Man stepped out on the polished wood and surveyed the erupting and inaudible masses bleeding jeers of blissful and drunken fury from the platform that encircled the arena of blood, sweat and glory beneath his illustrated sneakers. Before him unfurled carpets the same crimson that came from those that had kneeled on the plains of some far-off land forgotten by men and God and all His good creations and had fell alongside their neighbors and come undone into pools of communal blood. He chuckled the chuckle of a man who knew the true name of Death as his opponent stepped through the parted waves that moved not unlike Moses’ hands. The fool stepped before him adorned in fur and crooked smile, eyes wide like one who has seen the face of God and not turned blind. The Man struck first.
Keep up the good fight, Rolo.
Just like Cupid, Matthews’ arrow lodged in our hearts More than any heel, I’ll remember Wes for his archery. He may love Iron Man, but I’ll always think of him as the Hawkeye to the Blazers’ Avengers. After hitting the three, Matthews reached back into his quiver of invisibility, snatched a mighty transparent arrow and sent it flying through the air with his see-through bow. From practice to game time, this shot spawned a movement— #arrowlife. Matthews may have been launching a celebratory signature move, but his arrow flew through the air and into the heart of every Blazers fan. I’d like to remember this over a torn Achilles heel. Thanks for everything, Wes. Queue Bon Jovi.
The greatest Blazer that could have been With nine years as a Blazer un-
der his belt, LaMarcus Aldridge could have been the best of us. He was quoted as saying that, with the right contract, he wanted to be the greatest Blazer of all time. Since news of his departure broke, think pieces have busy picking apart his career, trying to determine how committed he really was to Portland and where he ranks with Portland’s finest. Instead of that, I want to thank the man. Aldridge spent nearly a decade sweating and bleeding for the Blazers. He never won us any championships, but he proved himself to be somebody who cared about winning and making the Blazers a genuinely better team. He may not be the number one, but he’s been our number one for a long time. All that said, a man deserves the right to go his own way after nine years of commitment. Thanks for making the team great, LA. We’ll remember you for what you were, not what we wanted you to be—even though the two are pretty damn close.
Sports Schedule 7/7–7/13 Portland Sports
Mnt. Tabor Series Bike Race
Portland Thunder vs. Jacksonville Sharks
Portland Timbers at Philadelphia
2015 Twilight Half Marathon, 10k, 5K
Portland Thorns at Piscataway Township
Bike Polo at Alberta Park
SE 60th and Salmon Wed., July 8, All Day
PPL Park Sat., July 11, 4 p.m.
Yurcak Field Sat., July 11, 4 p.m.
Moda Center Sat., July 11, 7 p.m.
Vancouver Lake Park Sat., July 11, 6 p.m.
NE Killingsworth and 20th Sun., July 12, 2–8 p.m.
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