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Enrollment offi cers. pg. 6 Management and Student Affairs undergoes major restructuring. pg. 4

A reviewpg. campus. on9the reign of Kitzhaber, the things he did well and a look to the future. pg. 8

Get to know pients. pg. 16 Portland writer Jason Rizos, author of the dystopian Supercenter. pg. 15

Portland State Marathon. pg. 23 University’s Crew Club rows its way to success. Check it out on pg. 20

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EMSA UNDERGOES MAJOR RESTRUCTURING Serina Hersey

Enrollment Management and Student Affairs at Portland State has recently experienced major restructuring, redirecting three units to the Office of Academic Affairs, as well as establishing a separate graduate student recruitment and admissions unit.

Four years ago, all current functions of EMSA were part of the OAA. According to the PSU website, EMSA is meant to “provide essential services and programs to enhance student enrollment, retention, graduation, and learning outside the classroom.”

“President [Wim] Wiewel decided—because of the growth of the university and the focus on student success and recruitment, the retention of students, and all the campus life aspects that we really wanted to create in terms of supporting students and providing them with opportunities—that he would create a separate division,” Provost and Vice President of PSU’s Academic Affairs Sona Andrews said. “It made tremendous sense at the time.”

With these alignments in a separate division, they were able to grow, Andrews said.

“Over the last year, we recognized that there are some advantages for there to be a closer relationship between some of those functions in the academic side,” Andrews said.

OAA submitted a document known as the White Paper to EMSA in July 2014.

It outlined five recommendations: to establish a separate graduate recruitment and admissions unit from the undergraduate; to create a single online application for graduate students; to move academic units from EMSA to the OAA, to coordinate

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EMSA’s marketing strategies for recruitment with OAA’s enrollment management plans; and to “allocate undergraduate remissions and unrestricted scholarships to support the revenue requirements and student enrollment goals of the schools and colleges.”

This fall, Wiewel accepted the White Paper.

ACS TO OAA In November, the Registrar’s Office, Advising and Career Services, and the Learning Center were moved from EMSA to OAA. EMSA’s current alignments include Campus Recreation, Dean of Student Life, Diversity and Multicultural Student Services, Enrollment Management for undergraduate students, Housing and Residence Life, and Student Health and Counseling.

ACS helps advise undecided students and provides career advising for students and alumni. ACS assists students and alumni from all majors, programs, and degree levels with finding a well-fit career, internships, graduate and professional school options, and other career related questions on resumes, job search strategies and interviews.

Mary Ann Barham, the director of ACS, said the restructure makes logical sense.

“We were the only unit that wasn’t in Academic Affairs that has anything to do with advising,” Barham said.

“Advising resides with

the academic schools and colleges, and so [Andrews] thought it would make more sense to realign the academic and the career piece with Academic Affairs,” Associate Vice President of ACS, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, Daniel Fortmiller said.

“The transition was fine,” Barham said. “It didn't change the day-today work.”

Faculty and professional advisors are heavily engaged with advising.

“They need to all be working together,” Andrews

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said. “When they are in separate divisions, not that it is impossible, it would just be a little harder.”

“Advisers help you navigate. When a student is navigating a river, the adviser is there to help avoid the rocks and rapids, and sometimes throw you a lifeline,” she said. “Advisers need to be working much more closer with faculty so that they actually change the curriculum, therefore advisers do not have to navigate around a big boulder, and we get rid of it so it is no longer an obstacle to students. Now, advising will become much more than helping students navigate. It helps us change the way we teach and deliver the curriculum.”

Barham talked about collaborating with University Studies in the future.

“We’re talking about ways to create programming and different activities that will work more closely with [University Studies] around serving students who are choosing majors,” Barham said.

“Moving [ACS] to the academic side has huge

benefit to students because it is really the faculty who are able to help us work on what those career opportunities are for students. Andrews said. “Not that faculty could not work across a division.”

“It removes some of the obstacles we sometimes create with structure, so that the functions could really happen where they need to happen,” Andrews said.

The Learning Center at PSU has services such as academic and online tutoring, as well as college success classes that align with University Studies. Fortmiller said that the Learning Center needed an academic home, and therefore needed to be aligned with Academic Affairs.

The Registrar’s Office works with students, faculty, administrative staff and alumni to provide enrollment related services.

“Because this is all about having to establish a curriculum, it was believed… that if you were going to have multiple degree opportunities, it just made sense to move the Registrar’s Office to Academic Affairs,” Fortmiller said.

Changes to Graduate Admissions The next major change to EMSA, which is still in transition, is redirecting graduate student admissions and recruitment to the Office of Graduate Studies.

Before, both undergraduate and graduate admissions and recruitment fell under the same unit in Enrollment Management.

With PSU having nearly 6,000 graduate students, the highest number of graduate students in universities in Oregon, and still growing, there needed to be a bigger focus on graduate applicants, according to Margaret Everett, vice provost for International Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies.

“As our programs have grown and become more prestigious, it makes sense for there to be two units to deal with admissions,” Andrews said.

Fortmiller further commented, “The needs were very different in terms of processing and admitting people into a graduate program rather than undergraduate.”

Four staff from the current admissions unit will be moved to the Office of Graduate Studies in the summer.

Furthermore, Kelly Doherty has been hired as the new graduate admissions director. There will be no student fee or budget increase for this change. Instead, the funds will be allocated from EMSA to the Office of Graduate Studies. “[PSU] has grown in its graduate population over many years, so this is a logical step to create two admissions offices,” Everett said. “We have grown to the place where this is a better

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model for us, updating infrastructure to better serve that population and all of our graduate programs.”

“Our partners in University Admissions have been extremely helpful, working together and planning the transition,” Everett said. “I think they feel positively as well, because it will allow them to focus on the undergraduate admissions, which is the core mission for them.”

There will also be significant changes to the graduate application process.

Currently, prospective graduate students must fill out two applications: one for their program, and one university application. Most of these applications are also not online.

“This is not as efficient for students as we like, and also not as an understandable process as we like,” Everett said.

The graduate admissions are in the process of creating one single graduate application online.

Everett expressed that there will be less confusion and duplication for students. Students also will not be required to send two official transcripts, which will cut down the costs.

Applicants will only need to submit an unofficial transcript, and an official transcript once they are admitted.

The application fee will increase from $50 to $65 due to this change.

“We looked very carefully at peer institutions in the Pacific Northwest, and this is a very comparable fee to charge,” Everett

said. “We made this decision after a lot of discussion and careful consideration.

I think the convenience to students is well worth the modest increase.”

Everett said the application fee will be easy to waive

for students in need because there is only one application.

She added that the single online application will benefit academic programs as well.

“There will be a much better communication be-

tween the admissions office and academic program because we will all be using the same system and same application,” Everett said.

“My hope is that for the academic programs, it will be more convenient for them, because the online application will eliminate the manual tasks that they are currently having to do.”

aDDrESSING cONcErNS In Oct. 2014, Andrews sent an email to Fortmiller, asking him to forward it to all members of EMSA’s staff. In the email, Andrews addressed potential concerns from the staff about the changes between EMSA and OAA. “I imagine you are wondering how this came about?” Andrews said in the email. “Did the president and provost think that persons in EMSA were not doing a good job in delivering services? Are we downsizing? Is the provost trying to build an empire? Why now?”

Andrews discussed her motivations for sending this email to staff, noting that she wanted to address any concerns about the restructure and what that would mean for their departments and them as individuals.

“I recognized that people might be concerned about [restructuring ],”Andrews said. “The change is to make things better, and I wanted to meet with staff and faculty of those affected, as well as the entire staff, as soon as possible.”

She added that she wanted to reassure the staff she did not believe they were performing poorly, and that the restructure was meant for further improvement.

“I think as people find out that there is a reorganization, the immediate questions people have are: ‘Am I going to lose my job? What does that mean for the people I am going to be working with? Who am I going to be working with? Is this a way for the university to eliminate or reduce something?’

And the answer to all of those is no,” she continued.

“Because we’re moving things, some people might think, ‘are we going to downsize,’ or other people might be thinking, ‘is the provost office just trying to get everything under them, are we moving things because someone wants power,’” Andrews continued. “Oftentimes, what I do is I try to acknowledge and think of the questions people might have.”

The provost’s office planned to meet with individuals whose work was directly impacted

and then meet with the entire staff, according to Andrews. She said they created a detailed template so the provost’s office and EMSA’s staff could work together and exchange input, which would contribute to a smooth transition for students and staff members.

“I think our plan was very respectful toward people and what they are doing,” Andrews said.

Andrews and Fortmiller both expressed that the restructuring of EMSA would not harm students or faculty in any way, and instead would help academic aspects that used to be in EMSA run more efficiently.

“Students will probably not see any difference,” Fortmiller said. “The services are still there, and nobody lost employment.

If anything, what we hope is, because these things are more of an academic nature, those services will be better connected with the school’s colleges. We will be able to have more conversation with academic deans, and associate deans in terms of things like college success classes.”

“This [restructuring] allows them to focus better on the recruitment of undergraduate students, supporting students in co-curricular activities, things that happen outside of the classroom, the creation of support services for students, and residence life,” Andrews said.

Additional reporting by Lisa Dunn

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new elections packet pursues fairness in upcoming election Hayley boyd

During the senate meeting on Feb. 23, the Associated Students of Portland State University approved a new Elections Packet meant to ensure fairness during the upcoming student elections.

A cap on spending will be set for candidates. Candidates and slates will also have to submit expenditure reports.

The Elections Committee expressed hope that the amended guidelines would make for fairer elections and establish a gauge for candidates’ ability to be fiscally responsible within student government positions.

“We have set a budget limit for candidates of $1,000 for individuals and $1,500 for slates,” said Nathan Claus, chief justice of the J-Board.

“The logic behind this is to set a cap so there is an even playing field.”

Senator Melinda Joy raised a question about whether or not the document’s language was specific

enough regarding infractions and repercussions.

“I’m looking at this phrase, ‘may be grounds for disqualification,’ and how liberally it is used throughout the document…It seems as though the Elections Committee can ditch this entire manual and create their own goals, per se,” Joy said.

Supporters of the document stated that infractions would be judged on a case-bycase basis with reference to by-laws. “[It] is a phrase that will create action in that you can go to the Elections Committee and say ‘Hey, candidate so-and-so did this action,” Claus said. “It’s against the election by-laws. [You will] have to go in front of an Elections Committee to avoid the potential quagmire of, ‘Oh, well, you did this, so that’s an automatic disqualification.’”

Elections Committee officer Barbara Payne defended the

packet and the committee.

“Whatever you all see here is exactly how the Elections Committee is going to function [in the upcoming election], as well as the J-Board,” Payne said.

Others were concerned that vague language would result in a similar controversy as during the elections last spring. Last year student elections were delayed when several candidates were disqualified for violating PSU’s Acceptable Use Policy by using PSU email addresses to solicit votes. Others received minor infractions.

“I would love to see a little bit more detail about what it actually means to have an infraction,” said Devon Backstrom, former member of ASPSU and member of the public audience. “There is a huge amount of subjectivity of interpretation. You’re opening up a huge door for exactly the same things that happened last election.”

Many did not think that the criticisms were appropriate.

“This [is] for approving a manual, not actually bylaws,” said Jonathen Gates, University Affairs director.

A vote was taken and the Elections Packet was approved. Another vote to approve a motion that ASPSU adopt the stance to seek outside verification of election results from university administration, was also passed.

ASPSU also conducted the second reading of The Divestment Resolution. On Feb. 9, ASPSU voted to approve the resolution to divest fossil fuels. The resolution was adopted on Feb. 23. Aurora Wigner, a biology major, was also unanimously elected as a new senator at the meeting.

An Election Information Session will be held March 6 in SMSU M114 from 1–2 p.m.

Campaigning for the 2015 Student Government Elections begins April 6.

ThE aSPSU 2015 ELEcTION PacKET features everything a prospective candidate needs to know, including registration and regulation information.

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ASPSU TO hOST TOwN hAll MEETING turner lobey

The Associated Students of Portland State University will convene on the evening of March 3 at 5 p.m. for a town hall meeting with the PSU community. The event will be held in Smith Memorial Student Union’s Parkway North and is open and free to the public.

Representatives from the Executive Cabinet, Student Fee Committee, Senate, and Judicial Review Board will be present to field questions and discuss current endeavors, answer questions from attendees, receive feedback and to take ideas for potential future projects.

Anticipated topics to be covered include cultural com-

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petency, next year’s potential tuition increase, PSU’s new payment plan, campus safety, and planned renovations for SMSU, according to Patrick Vroman, ASPSU Senator and organizer of the event. He emphasized that any topics are welcome.

“The goal is to seek any and all input on how we’re governing,” Vroman said in an email. “I envisioned it as being similar to the town halls US Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley host every year to field questions from constituents.”

Vroman said he hopes for these town hall meetings to

become recurring events. “I plan on helping to organize another one myself before the end of the school year, and I also believe next year’s

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ASPSU should dedicate itself to hosting a few town halls as well,” he added.

For those unable to attend or those who wish

to engage with ASPSU on social media, the hashtag #askASPSU has been created for Twitter, Facebook and other services.

More information about ASPSU and the town hall meeting can be found at aspsu.pdx.edu. Additional reporting by Colleen Leary

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SCIENCE IN ThE CITy:

IGERT hOSTS ECOSySTEM SERVICES lECTURE SERIES eliZabetH HendriCKSon

An interdisciplinary lecture series on the ecological and social implications of urbanization is currently taking place at Portland State.

Ecosystem Services Seminar is a lecture series offered as an ecological services seminar hosted by National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship for students in PSU’s School of the Environment. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Last week’s installment, “Public Attitudes about Urban Forest Ecosystem Services Management,” was given by Dr. Josh Baur, assistant professor of Health Science and Recreation from San Jose State University.

Baur presented statistics collected through a survey of Portland, Eugene, Springfield and Bend.

Specifically, Baur presented the public’s opinion on management of urban forests. Baur defined urban forests as a “mosaic of trees and other vegetation.” They are composed of the street trees, private lawns, parks, tree plantations and emergent forest landscapes around the city.

“The world is growing increasingly urban,” Baur said. “In this increasing amount of urbanization that we’re seeing in the United States and globally, one of the areas that natural resource managers and researchers have been looking at is how urban green spaces are playing a role in that urbanization and ecological and social well-being.”

Baur and his team asked people to share their perceptions of successful urban management in their cities.

“Our respondents indicated that more green spaces in their city and more natural habitats for human wildlife, those are the top two,” Baur said.

After the lecture, the audience participated in a question and answer session.

“Clearly leaving human beings out of ecological decisionmaking and natural resource decision-making is likely to lead to inadequate explanation of ecosystem processes in a world where the landscape is growing increasingly human dominated,” Baur said. “To act as though the social component has little to contribute to natural resource management is to avoid a rather large component of the puzzle.”

Dr. Darrell Brown, a professor of accounting at PSU and academic director for sustainability at IGERT said this topic was chosen to highlight

solutions for current environmental and social problems.

“Ecosystems services is a set of frameworks to help address problems that have both environmental and social content,” Brown said.

Dr. Max Nielsen-Pincus, organizer of the lecture series and assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Management, commented on his goals for the series.

“We wanted to open it up to the whole campus community so that we could expose undergrads to the ideas the program is focused on, expose master’s students to relevant research methods and topics, and to offer our doctoral students a chance to really engage with leading scholars in their fields,” Nielsen-Pincus said.

Another component of this lecture series is student involvement.

“[Students] extended the invitations, dealt with the budgeting, figured out the logistics, set up pre-and-post lecture meetings for other students to engage more interactively with the speakers, and they were in charge of introducing each speaker at the beginning of each lecture,” Nielsen-Pincus said.

“The people who are doing most of the work are IGERT students and PhD students who are already in the IGERT program, who are bringing in faculty members that they respect, who they want to hear information from and interact with, and that’s been the real benefit in my mind of this particular seminar series,” Brown said.

Organizers are working toward making the lecture series an annual event.

“We’re hoping that this is something that happens every

winter,” Brown said. “Or at least that’s the current plan for it.”

Nielsen-Pincus said he is considering a future lecture covering climate change adaptation. “At this point it’s just an idea,” he said.

“We always hope that the things students learn will be of some value in the future,” Brown said. “But there’s a bunch of students who are getting some pretty cool information about some important ideas through this lecture series, and hopefully they will use that for the remainder of their careers and make some changes in the world.”

Winter term lectures are held every Thursday from 4–5 p.m. in the Urban Center Building on campus. This week’s lecture will be given on March 5 by Dr. Li An from San Diego State University on Modeling Ecosystem Services and PES in China. mILL ENDS ParK on SW Naito Parkway is one of several urban green spaces in the Portland metro area.

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The legacy of Kitzhaber The things he did well and a look toward the future

That's What's the Matter

by Kevin Rackham

After a long month of speculation, investigations and possible cover-ups, Governor John Kitzhaber has finally resigned.

I was born in 1993, and Kitzhaber has been governor for the majority of my life. It was a weird end to a career that was otherwise successful and pretty respectable, and I have a lot of mixed feelings about both the resignation and about Kitzhaber.

To me, Kitzhaber will always be the governor who sat by and didn’t do much while tuition skyrocketed and public

school funding slipped away. I’m not a fan of a lot of the concessions that he made for companies like Nike and Intel, ostensibly to keep them in the state. It’s easy to pin a lot of the problems I have with corporate-friendly Democrats as a whole on Kitzhaber alone, but I’ll readily admit that almost any governor would likely have made the same deals, if not worse ones. Despite those reservations, I know Kitz did a lot of good things too.

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Kitzhaber earned himself the nickname Dr. No after vetoing nearly 200 bills between 1995 and 1999. Because of that veto-heavy period, a lot of people have credited him with helping Oregon avoid a lot of the economic and environmental problems that other states faced in the early 2000s and are still facing today. He kept the tradition of conservation alive, made inroads on a much stronger and more affordable healthcare system in Oregon, and as many people have pointed out, we could have had governors that were so much worse than him. If people are disappointed that Kitz was a governor who sometimes had troublesome stances and whose career ultimately ended in scandal, imagine how much worse we would have been with Bill Sizemore as governor.

Depending on how the upcoming months of investigation go, I think Kitz will be remembered as a man who stuck to his principles. One of his more recent vetoes, in 2013, was a bill which made it easier for Oregon high schools to keep their Native American mascots. His moratorium on the death penalty caused a lot of controversy, but he stuck to his guns. Even if Kitzhaber is found guilty of abusing his power, I think he still deserves to be remembered as a strong governor who did a lot of good things for Oregon.

However, he characterized the events leading up to his resignation as a “trial by media,” and I can’t agree with that assessment. Whether or not he’s guilty, the last few months have more than proved that it’s time for a new governor. I don’t think he underwent a trial by media as much as he did a vote of no confidence. He wasn’t exercising good judgment in his personal life no matter whether or not he’s actually guilty of a crime, and his reputation was shot.

That reputation would have had repercussions for getting the issues that he cared about passed. The Oregonian and KATU both conducted polls which showed that there weren’t a lot of Oregonians left who had faith in his ability to govern. Watching Kitzhaber’s investigation and subsequent trial would have become a huge distraction from the important things the legislature is working on this term. Ultimately, I think this resignation is a good thing and I wish he had just left it at three terms and let a younger Democrat run back in May. It’s time to move on from our former governor’s weird, increasingly sad personal life and focus on the positives. 2015 has the potential to be such a great year for Oregon. We’ve got bills for universal voter registration and statewide paid sick days. There’s a minimum wage bill from the 15Now coalition, and next month the legislature will have its first meeting on the Pay It Forward pilot program. I’m also excited for Kate Brown as governor, because I think her work on universal voter registration has been great and I know she has a real passion for electoral reform.

I hope that Kitzhaber comes out clean from the investigation, and that his messy personal life improves. But what I really hope is that Oregon can move forward and keep building on the legacy of progressive issues he’s left behind.

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an open letter to Kate brown Dear Kate Brown, I hope this letter finds you well and that you are settling into your new duties as Oregon’s 38th governor with the calm determination that has made you such a wonderful addition to Oregon’s political arena.

I have spent a considerable amount of concern on the predicament of your predecessor. I first learned the name John Kitzhaber not from the media but from my father, who worked with him decades ago in the emergency room. At the time, my dad viewed Kitzhaber with respect and admiration for both his political achievements and for his dedication to helping the society in which he lived. A recent conversation with my father revealed that he felt that Kitzhaber has suffered an irreparable fall from grace, and in the process has marred the name Oregon. In a way this was somewhat comforting to hear, as it revealed that even long-time Kitzhaber supporters have turned their backs on him. I had decided long ago that Kitzhaber should step down and remove himself from all manner of public service, and I’m glad to see that has finally happened.

However, this situation has left open the obvious question: What now?

Oregon is a progressive state, one that has historically been free from the political drama that has plagued so many other states in our country. We live our daily lives, the government does its job (usually), and most residents are happy with the status quo. With this in mind I am grateful that Oregon does not have an office of lieutenant governor, as superfluous politi-

cal positions are simply a waste of taxpayer money. As secretary of state you were in a somewhat unique position as you were aware, perhaps more so than most people, of the inherent health of our state. Now you bring that knowledge to the office of the governor, and that’s a very good thing.

I sat down to pen this letter, hoping to fill it with advice and recommendations. I had planned to beseech you to keep in place Oregon’s moratorium on the death penalty. I had planned to suggest that you do everything in your power to make higher education more affordable and accessible to Oregonians: I firmly believe that education is the only reliable insurance against poverty.

However, upon reflection I realize it would be foolish of me to do so. I was in grade school when you first entered public office. My humble credentials pale in comparison to yours. What do I know about politics? I know you to be a stalwart and valuable member of our state’s government, and nothing I can say is anything you haven’t heard before ad nauseam. I’m certainly not going to pontificate for the sake of pontificating.

One thing I do hope for is a future for Oregon that includes a continuation and expansion of the health care initiatives that have been put in place in recent years. I firmly believe that all citizens have a right to health care, and I am grateful that Oregon is one of the nation’s leaders in making such a thing possible. The health of our population is a vital component to the success of our society as a whole, and I hope you will be leading that charge.

The campus Oracle

by Nathan Anderson

KaTE BrOWN meets with members of the Oregon National Guard ahead of a 2013 deployment to Afghanistan.

COURTESY Of THE OREGON NATIONAL GUARD THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS

Above all, I want to give you my congratulations for working hard and earning the respect of the majority of the citizens of Oregon. My kudos to you for your work on cutting government waste and getting Oregonians to vote. The fact that you once taught here at Portland State is, I feel, one of the greatest additions to your resumé. You are one of the very few politicians whom I genuinely wish I could sit down and have a beer with, and learn more about.

So, Kate Brown, tonight I raise my spirits to you, the State of Oregon, and above all, to the wonderful future that awaits.

ATTACK Of ThE ClIPbOARD DON'T LET YOURSELf GET CAUGHT BY THE ACTIVISTS ON CAMPUS

The Pagemaster

by Shezad Khan

Imagine you’re walking through campus. You’ve got your headphones in, you’re keeping to yourself, eyes set forward, just trying to get to your next class. And while you’re in that haze of being wrapped up in your own thoughts, you see something that throws you off a little. It’s the big, fake smile, that friendly wave and the fixed eyes. You’ve just crossed paths with a clipboard activist.

You know who I’m talking about. They range from asking you to sign a piece of paper to show your support for some cause you didn’t even know existed, to asking for your personal info so you can make monthly payments to some organization they just told you about. Being in college for almost five years, I thought I worked out the perfect system to avoid these people. Over-theear headphones have been a great help. Keeping your eyes open

as soon as you leave a building to scout them out is never a bad idea, and it helps to route an alternative path to your next class.

Sometimes, though, you don’t pay attention and you walk right into them. If you’re like me, it’s hard to just walk by someone who’s talking to you without acknowledging them. So on the rare occasion that I do get caught, I usually throw them two excuses to not carry on a conversation: I either tell them that I need to get to class, or that I’m on my way to catch the bus. Neither of these are lies, of course, so I don’t feel too bad using them as excuses.

Unfortunately for me, I got caught in their web just the other day. I told the girl that I was on my way to catch the bus, but I knew that I had a few minutes to spare. In a weird, irrational way of thinking, I figured that I’ve been winning the game of avoiding these activists for so long that I was probably overdue for an actual encounter. After talking to this girl who was representing an organization that helped take care of children in developing countries, I found myself incredibly annoyed at the way they solicited their company.

I myself was born in a “third-world-country,” so I know what extreme poverty looks like, and I appreciated the apparent goal of the “totally nonprofit” organization she worked for.

But that didn’t make their approach any more understandable. I noticed that the typical clipboard had been replaced by a tablet. And the minute I saw the screen, I saw a registration page ready and loaded to receive information. At the end of her spiel, she asked if I was ready to make a donation of $28.

Of course I said no. When she asked me why, I told her I had no idea what the reliability of her organization was, I had no idea where my money would actually be going, and I had no idea who the people that would receive my personal information were.

It was at that point that she began to spew out supposed “facts” about her company—how trustworthy they are, where the money went, their approval rating based on some nonprofit organization rater, etc. After I asked her to just give me the website for her organization, and that I would look into it later—which was a lie—she told me that over 50,000 people had signed up with them and that no one had signed up through their website.

At this point, I was annoyed and part of me wanted to tell her why I wasn’t interested, but I thought it would be better to just walk away, especially after her coworker stepped in to shoot more “facts” at me. Honestly, though, I’m a college student. It doesn’t make sense to me to give my credit card information to a random stranger so that they can type it into their iPad. It doesn’t make sense for me to be making monthly donations when I’m already in tens of thousands of dollars in debt from student loans.

Maybe they’re doing the same thing, just working the job to get paid. I made sure to tell them that they were good salespeople, but that still doesn’t really affect how I feel about their process.

Maybe I should have offered them a trade, I give them my information to make monthly donations to their cause, and they give me their information so they can make monthly donations to pay off my college debt. I kind of doubt that that would have worked, though.

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Portland: we close around 11 JEOffRY RAY/PSU VANGUARD

If you’re a night owl and you have to share your living space with someone else, then you might be acquainted with Portland’s complete lack of late-night study options. If you live on campus with a roommate and you have different sleep and love schedules, or if they have distracting habits, such as painstakingly cutting their toenails into the toilet (oh no that one landed in the sink!), it might be hard to study, even with the aid of headphones.

Unfortunately, Porrtland State doesn’t offer any late-night spots to study, and with Portland’s reputation for eccentricity, I feel like good late-night study venues on campus might be a good investment. If you have reliable transportation and need to get out of wherever you are and get some solid study time in, there are a few options in the greater Portland area that are worth entertaining—but they are all, shall we say, less than optimal.

Portland’s only 24-hour coffee shop, Southeast Grind, might seem like the answer to your late-night, cram-before-exam prayers. It’s got fabric chairs and couches, small tables, a pretty solid cup of coffee, and a food menu that exists as more than an abstract idea.

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Simply complicated

by David Wooldridge

It sounds like a paradise founded upon the backs of the Olympians! But, alas, those couches have been smashed down by hundreds, if not thousands, of Southeast Portlander posteriors and the soft scent emanating from the cloth might remind you of this fact the next time you park it to clock an eight-hour Tolstoy binge. Furthermore, even if you’ve had the foresight to bring a blanket or a towel to put on the chair, then you still have the late-night regulars giving you strange and uncomfortably persistent glances as they passive-aggressively wrestle with their tribal bead art. It’s that kind of vibe—with two-ish electricity plugs in the whole place.

If that doesn’t sound right for you, or you live more toward Southwest Portland, then you might make the choice to try one of the two Ava Rosteria cafe locations in Beaverton. Here you will be welcomed by the taste of acceptably concocted coffee, expensive pastries, food items, and many tables and chairs.

Buy one cup and you have your ticket to an all-night study session, except on Friday and Saturday nights, when they have very loud live music performed by suburban dad types whom one can easily imagine love to volunteer as a chaperone for middle school dances. Other than that, find a table and bring a cushion so your legs don’t fall asleep on the “after more than an hour this is going to be uncomfortable” furniture.

If you are desperate than you can go to a bar. There you will likely buy a drink (thinking that you can still work after a single beer), have your drink, and then come to the conclusion that the assignment would be so easy to do that actually spending the time to do it would be a waste of your talents. Then, after a night spent explaining to everyone in the bar that you are trying to do your homework, you will likely have a cab called for you by some bartender who’s been trying to keep you away from the conservative nut-job who obviously feels that our nation's economic policy should be debated much louder and in more venues than was previouly considered acceptable.

When push comes to shove, a park bench works for studying too. The only problem is that you might have to compete with someone who is actually experiencing homelessness.

That’s embarrassing for everyone involved. No one feels good about it. You eye the bench, laptop in hand, they look at you, looking however they do, and then you go somewhere else.

You just do. And you feel guilty for having stuff when they don’t, so you give them money. Rent money for your almost relatively-clean conscience.

By this time you might have exhausted your patience.

That’s understandable. It’s easy enough in Portland to see a dancer perform on a stage without clothes on after midnight, because there is basically a different strip club on every block.

There are a million bars and a thousand breweries with amazing beers that will serve you until the law says they can’t.

There are multiple grocery stores in the Portland area that opened at one time and have never closed their doors since— you can shop at 3:27 a.m. if you really need to. But if you want to do anything besides grocery shopping or getting genitals waved in your face while working on a good buzz, then Portland provides very few opportunities for you to do much that is constructive if you’re not at home, working frantically in that part of the living space where you can huddle close to the wall and not disturb anyone.

Oh, and during finals week the library is open 24 hours, but everyone knows it and shows up by themselves with just enough stuff to take up an entire four-to-six person table, so that works out nicely for you if you are one of those people.

OPINION

Reimagining the social science degree Against the Current

by Sebastian Richardson In recent years, majoring in the social sciences has become like the talkative and neurotic boyfriend or girlfriend you’re ashamed to introduce to your parents.

I’m sure every person who decides to major in English, history, philosophy or psychology has experienced that stare from both friends and family that roughly translates to, “What are you going to do with a degree in that?”

Call it a cultural shift or simply people over-fetishizing STEM degrees, but it’s clear that the social sciences do not receive their due credit. A few years back the current Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, proposed freezing tuition rates for those majoring in “strategic” fields while letting tuition increase for those majoring in the social sciences. He even mocked anthropology majors and said he would want to invest money in degrees that will create jobs.

But that’s not all.

Last year congressional Republicans proposed a bill that would cut spending for research in the social sciences by more than 40 percent, which would shift $160 million from the social sciences to other fields focused on biology and engineering.

While my heart breaks at these attacks on the humanities, I can’t help but feel they get to a root of a larger problem. People no longer see the social sciences as a viable path to a successful career and the humanities are treated as a hobby or an interest which doesn’t yield real employment opportunities.

This sentiment is not only shared by elected officials and parents disgruntled at the idea of sending a kid to college to study art, but students as well. According to the American Historical Association, in 2011, while degrees in other fields continued to rise, the number of people earning degrees in history dropped to the lowest in has been in 10 years. At the University of Maryland, the amount of English majors dropped nearly 40 percent over the course of three years.

Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System shows that between 1996 and 2009 the amount of English majors increased but steadily began dropping off after 2009. At George Mason University the English major has dropped nearly 50 percent in the past 20 years.

Between 2004 and 2011, the social sciences as a whole grew only 0.2 percent, making up 10.2 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in comparison to the life science fields which grew from 10.6 percent to 14.6 percent in the same time frame.

It seems that in this current economic climate students are squeamish about majoring in a field that they might be genuinely interested in, fearing that it won’t play out well following graduation. If this is the case, what can the social sciences do in order to make their fields more attractive to prospective students?

Let’s face it: While I’m sure everyone is thrilled at the abstract idea of “getting an education,” most people attend

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a university in order to secure a well-paying job following graduation. Social science professors should recognize this fact and gear their lesson plans in ways that encompass the subject while fostering transferable skills that you can advertise when searching for a job. And social science professors should not treat every single student as if they are preparing them for academia.

Only a minuscule amount of people who major in the social sciences will go on to have a successful future in academia, let alone find a job after finishing school.

While I myself love an academic approach to the social sciences, the modern university has to adjust to the fact that this is not the prevailing reality. I’ll be honest, the university campus is no longer a place where the best and the brightest go to expand their knowledge on multiple subjects while contributing to a field of their choice. While this may be true for some, the university campus is now saturated by the average and the mediocre hoping to get a leg up and have a career.

However, you don’t need to be intelligent to enjoy history, literature or philosophy. The challenge is being able to take these topics and turn them into exercises and lessons that will be useful in different career fields.

I had one history professor who did this in his 300 level history classes. Rather than having us write long research papers about various historical topics, he gave us a weekly two page

paper assignment about a fairly complex historical prompt and told us to write a concise, well worded argument without any fluff.

“This is a skill,” he told us on the first day of class. “No one reads the 15 page memo.”

Being able to take an objectively interesting topic such as the Punic Wars or ancient Egyptian religion and turn it into a life skill, rather than an academic research paper that drains you and makes you hate the topic, should be the goal of the modern university.

Now I’m not saying research isn’t a good skill, but research for the sake of research is not a transferable skill unless you are an academic. If the professors took this direction, and saw their classes not merely as academic training but also vocational training, I believe you’d see a lot of people coming back to the social sciences.

People who are good at selling themselves will have no problem doing this, but for those who aren’t, the social sciences should be there to help them while allowing them to explore topics they are interested in.

For those who are not entirely sure what to do following graduation go talk to career services and get some advice. The university, while it may only see you as a pair of dollar signs most of them time, does offer help for those who are struggling to find their path.

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ADJUNCT INSTRUCTORS SEEK STABILITY liSa dunn and Colleen leary

The first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day took place last week on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The event aimed to raise awareness of unfair labor practices that adjunct instructors face at universities nationwide.

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Anna Gray, adjunct instructor in the School of Art and Design at Portland State, helped organize PSU’s NAWD event along with Davida Jordan, who teaches in the Intensive English Language Program.

Several terms are used to describe higher education instructors who are contracted on a short-term basis. At PSU, they are most often referred to as adjunct or fixed-term instructors.

They may also be described as non-tenure track faculty.

Nationally, and by AAUP, they are most often described as contingent employees.

According to the American Association of University Professors’ 2012–13 Economic Status Annual Report, 75 percent of the nation’s higher education teaching faculty is made up of contingent employees.

Gray talked about what it is like to be an adjunct instructor.

“It means flexibility, no official obligations for service work in your department,” she said. “It means maybe you get summers off, and it means a general sense of precarity making close to poverty wages with little to no job security. It means that you have to re-apply for your

job every year. It means you might not know if you are teaching until a few weeks before a term starts.”

Jacqueline Arante, AAUPPSU vice president for organizing and membership development, is the most senior adjunct instructor at PSU. “I’ve been here since 1981,” she said. “The first nine years [I] worked as a freeway flyer and a ‘road scholar.’ In one term, I taught two courses here, two courses at [Portland Community College] and two courses at University of Portland. And my office was in my trunk.”

Arante continued, “You can’t be essential and be an adjunct.”

David Rives, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Oregon, said that though the original purpose of using adjuncts was to allow industry professionals to provide their expertise to students, that is no longer the case.

“The primary reason is to save money,” he said. “That’s really what it is.”

“It keeps their doors open,” Arante said. “It’s money, absolutely money. They’ve got a huge group of people they don’t have any committment to. And the word they would use to describe it is ‘flexibility.’”

According to an October 2014 article published by the online newspaper Inside Higher Education, the idea of a national walkout was conceived by an adjunct instructor at San Jose State.

The instructor asked to remain unnamed due to job security concerns.

NAWD is not a centrallyorganized movement, and according to PBS, the movement gained momentum on social media.

Universities and colleges across the country participated in the event. According to AAUP’s website, 29 AAUP chapters participated in the day, including PSU and Oregon State. Participants “conducted tabling, held teach-ins, lobby days, film screenings, and other activities.”

PSU participated by setting up two “vent tents”—one at the PSU Urban Center and one on the Park Blocks.

NAWD, Rives said, aimed to raise awareness about working conditions for adjuncts, who make up the majority of teaching staff at universities and colleges across the country.

Gray clarified that PSU’s participation was not a protest.

“I consider this a consciousness and solidarity-

cOVEr building event and a prelude to building a strong contract campaign to support our bargaining efforts,” she said.

The contract for members of the Portland State University Faculty Association, the AFT-associated union for part-time teachers and research associates, expires on June 30, 2015. Contract negotiations, according to the AAUP website, are set to begin in May.

Adjuncts at PSU In 2011, the Vanguard reported that there were roughly 676 adjunct instructors at PSU. PSUFA and PSU reached an agreement over part-time faculty contracts in November 2013 according to a press release from Scott Gallagher, director of communications at University Communications.

In the press release, Gallagher reported that 887 employees, including adjuncts and research appointments, were covered by the PSUFA collective bargaining agreement.

According to Kathi Ketcheson, Director of PSU’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning, there were 695 fixed-term or adjunct instructors in Fall 2014, which is 45 percent of the instructional faculty at PSU. OIRP also reported that 31 percent of credit hours in fall term 2014 were taught by adjuncts. Ketcheson noted that many adjunct instructors only teach one class per term.

PSUFA representation includes “those employed less than half time (0.5 FTE) during the academic year, and those employed during summer terms who have been a member of the bargaining unit during the previous academic year,” according to the current collective bargaining agreement between PSUFA and PSU. PSU-AAUP represents faculty who are 0.5 FTE or more, including contingent or fixed-term faculty. At PSU, faculty are determined to be either full or part-time based on a metric called Full Time Equivalency or FTE. 1.0 FTE is 45 credit hours per academic year, and those who teach part-time teach 22 credits a year or less. This is a little less than two classes per term over three terms.

PSUFA members receive $858 per credit as of winter term 2015. If an adjunct were

to teach at .49 FTE, about 22 credits, at $858 per credit, adjuncts can make, at the most, $18,876.

“I was figuring out, in teaching two courses, how much I’m making per hour, and it comes out to $9.27 an hour,” Arante said. “That’s conservative, because that’s based on a 40-hour work week, and I spend more than 40 hours, because I’m teaching writing courses.”

The collective bargaining agreement also stipulates a $175,000 health insurance fund for PSUFA-represented employees each fiscal year.

According to the agreement, “This fund will be used to attain a plan, or for partial payment in attaining a health insurance plan.”

For 887 employees, however, that amounts to less than $200 per person. Rives said not everyone uses the stipend.

“Most adjunct [instructors] don’t have employer-provided health insurance,” Rives said.

“Though the stipend PSU offers does help,” he continued, “it doesn’t at all go toward the whole cost, anything near what an employer-sponsored plan would provide.”

“You can get some not very adequate healthcare if you wrack up enough hours,” Arante said. “But it’s not decent healthcare.”

The agreement states that part-time faculty are hired on a fixed-term basis in which they may be contracted for the year. This does not guarantee classes every term of their contract, and they only receive compensation for the credit hours taught.

PSU is additionally only required to offer employment or re-employment five weeks prior to the first class meeting of the course being offered.

In article six of the current agreement, it states that all PSUFA members have freedom in their classrooms when discussing their own subjects; they should exercise caution when teaching controversial material not directly relevant to their subject.

Additionally, the agreement states that members have freedom of expression outside of PSU. However, the contract states, “Members shall manifest appropriate restraint.”

Arante said that, due to the fixed-term contracts adjuncts have, they have no academic freedom. Both PSUFA and AAUP contracts for adjuncts are right-to-work contracts.

“They can simply not rehire you, and they don’t have to give a reason,” she said.

“So the various cases over the years—the grievances people have brought for nonrehire—we haven’t won one.”

Broader Impact “This is a nationwide thing,” Arante said.

The Oregon State University chapter of AAUP also participated in NAWD. According to the Corvallis Gazette-Times, roughly 68 percent of faculty at OSU are part-time.

OSU offers its adjuncts either a 9-month or a 12-month contract, according to the OSU faculty contract. Both contracts come with a $10,800 flat salary, regardless of whether the employee works 9 months or 12 months. For 9 months, that’s $1200 per month; for 12 months, that’s $900 per month to live on.

OSU, according to the Gazette-Times, hosted a teachin where over 90 people met in a room in the OSU student union and held a teach-in on NAWD. They discussed the plight of adjuncts.

Gray said that over-reliance on adjuncts affects students. “[That] isn’t to say that adjuncts are worse teachers,” she said. “I think some of the best instructors I know teach part-time; they certainly don’t provide an education of lower quality, but the fact is they do it at their own expense. Part-time faculty are rarely supported to provide the kind of education students are paying for. As they say, our working conditions are your learning conditions.”

“You’re always scrambling around to get work...psychologically for adjuncts [there is] just that lack of stability,” Rives said. “How are you going to pay your rent next month or make your car payment? Or what if you do have a medical emergency?” “[It’s] that constant dread of financial plight,” he said. “It’s really hard to keep out of your mind when you’re associating that with your employer.”

Vent tent and beyond The vent tents were set up from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Adjuncts, students and administrators spent time around the kiosks, interacting, sharing experiences and answer-

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ing questions. There were oversized notebooks on which adjuncts could write their grievances, and organizers handed out stickers.

“The ideal would be that adjunct [instructors] are treated like regular professors,” Rives said. “We’re not talking lifetime employment.

We’re just talking some sense

of stability...that you’re recognized when you do well and that you’re not always treated like a new employee every time it comes time for a new assignment.”

Rives commented on what PSUFA may strive for during the upcoming contract negotiations.

Rives said that the specific issues PSUFA wants to ad-

dress are: earning livable wages, securing employersponsored healthcare, and reliability in job assignments.

“My livelihood and the livelihoods of my friends and colleagues depend on it,” Gray said.

“I like teaching. I want to be able to afford to keep doing it.”

Additional reporting by Sasha Kramer.

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ooligan hosts discussion on evolving book market ruby KinG

Ooligan Press hosted the winter installment of its ongoing lecture series, Transmit Culture, on the evening of Feb. 19. Panelists were brought together to discuss “The Changing Landscape of Bookselling.”

Panelists included Michael Powell, owner of Powell’s Books; Gary Lothian, sales representative at Ingram Content Management, the largest book distributor in the United States; and Marcia R. Johnston, self-published author of Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs.

The panel was moderated by Kent Watson, executive director of PubWest and adjunct professor in the Portland State book publishing program.

Powell, who has been in the industry since the ’60s, said a great deal has changed in bookselling since that time.

“There was no technology,” Powell said. “Just books on shelves, pencils and paper. The books were ordered by writing a list on a piece of paper and putting it [in] the mail, and months later books would arrive. That was not dissimilar from 18th or 19th century practices.”

Powell said a great shift was seen in the book publishing world during the ’70s and ’80s, which he attributed to cultural change.

If readers went to pick up a novel in the ’60s, it was likely written by a white, male New Yorker like Philip Roth, John Updike or John Cheever.

It was very unusual to see big novels by women, people of color or immigrants.

“In the ’70s and ’80s, you began to see a shift over to a more diverse sea of publishers and writers,” Powell said.

The eventual dominance of Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon created an opportunity for new voices to find space on shelves.

As for today, e-books are what everyone is talking about.

“E-books have garnered about 25 percent of the trade book market,” Lothian said. “In terms of genre, that is predominately romance, mystery. They’re an existing part of our market that we’ve all had to come to terms with.”

Lothian said Ingram Content Management has fully invested in e-books. The company has begun to transition into selling textbooks, which are now being distributed digitally.

Johnston said it's a very empowering time to be an author.

“My book came out almost two years ago—I started my own publishing company to do it,” Johnston said. “I owned the writing, but had no idea what the steps would be to publish. I wouldn’t be here tonight if we were still in the old world of publishing.”

In the old world, the major publishing companies were operated in the North-Atlantic area. If a major book was

marcIa r. JOhNSTON, self-published writer through Amazon and author of "Word Up!: How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs" speaks at the "Changing Landscape of Bookselling" panel.

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published, it was going to be published by a powerhouse in New York or Boston.

Currently, there are about six major publishing houses—and even a few upand-coming houses in the Pacific Northwest—that have embraced new technology in the publishing world.

“It has changed enormously," Powell said. “And the speed of that change, and the capacity for facilitating that change, will rise and only

get quicker as technology gets smarter.”

Johnston said publishing has reached a point where an author can decide to put a book out, even a minimal run of 100 copies, for friends and family. It’s an act previously unthinkable under the old model, but a reality today.

“You have the satisfaction that you wrote that book,” Johnston said. “That may be all you want, and you can do it today.”

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'UMBRAL' PAINTS A GLEEfULY DARk, AMBIGUOUS WORLD andy anady

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It’s been a long time since I’ve opened up a book to find a map in the front—and a fictional map, instead of some sketch of the migration of the Saxons across the British Isles.

But Umbral, by Anthony Johnston and Christopher Mitten, really commits to the dark fantasy genre, replete with demonic eyes peering out from the corner of every page and, instead of a writer and an artist, the book claims to have been manifested by a scribe, an illuminator, painters and a flourisher.

The book is visually fantastic, with sometimes vaguely Seussian architecture, people who are no more than shapes and ink smears, and blood that falls like it’s under water.

The whole thing is a mix of dystopia and fantasy, where all the underworld is full of looming piles of what could be disposed electronics. The world where the protagonist Rascal lives is

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an island and a port town called Strakhelm.

It’s also where their king and queen live, which is a bad idea. Don’t put your monarch near a port, and especially not an ocean. That is to say, the king and queen and their son don’t survive the first issue.

The prince even dies twice like some kind of overachiever.

They were all killed by Umbral and, for a quick grammar lesson, Umbral is the singular and plural word for giant shark-toothed, bubbling shadows with fire for eyes. It’s also the name of the realm in which the Umbral live.

All the Umbral, each and every Umbral, live in Umbral. They really like shadows in this series. In fact, the first issue is titled “The Day Dawned Twice” and the entire story starts when the moon’s shadow falls on Strakhelm during an eclipse.

It’s a little bit of a compli-

cated read, and it’s a struggle to tell all of the Santa characters (old white guys that are more beard than face) apart, especially since one keeps developing a mohawk and eye mask when he appears in the Umbral, but only sometimes.

It’s not clear why yet.

It doesn’t help that the whole plot jumps back and forth, sometimes five hundred years and other times 20 minutes.

The whole mythos is important too; false histories and different cultural ideologies cross and clash to inform reasonably straightforward but mysterious politics that motivate characters and define alliances.

That complexity is always the best part of fantasy stories. And the fog. There’s always mystical fog, and it’s always great.

In this universe, magic is illegal, as well as religion. One wizard king really just ruins it for the rest of us, though

maybe a wizard president would be better. Immortality doesn’t matter so much if you only have a four-year term.

It’s all a very typical fantasy story—unfortunately without dragons—though the Umbral are similar in appearance and generally delight in eating people. They’re also after the mythical Oculus that Rascal steals, so they hoard shiny, powerful objects like dragons.

Rascal is an orphan thief, which is pretty typical to the genre. Plus it means that she’s really good at keeping her hands on the one item that all of these centuries-old magicians and monstrous demons are trying to take. Apparently a good thief really knows how to employ anti-theft techniques.

Umbral is already 12 issues in, but they were all just collected into two volumes. It’s cheaper to buy this way, so it’s a perfect time to pick up a copy and read them for yourself.

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Portland author profile:

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Jason Rizos Doesn't hate wal-mart Jon Raby

Jason Rizos invited me up to his house in North Portland where he writes and lives with his wife and two dogs—whippets, like small greyhounds— to talk about publishing his book Supercenter.

Rizos walked me through the process of writing and getting published, and the challenges that lie therein.

He even walked me through his beer brewing process.

Supercenter is a dystopian look at the future set in a bigbox superstore where G.E. Westinghouse (named by his sponsor) lives, works, buys and competes in the Siege Arena, a virtual battle arena where youth are trained for military service.

The story tackles serious societal issues. They are shown observationally, rather than attacked head-on, displaying a dystopian future that could become our current society if we don’t find something new to idolize besides consumerism and entertainment.

Rizos stressed the need for authors to write what they feel in the moment, what is important to them, and to avoid writing based purely on what others will want,or what

the writer thinks is most likely to sell. He said this was a self-perscribed death to your prose.

Length was another focus that Rizos suggested not worrying about. With the varieties of publishers and ease of digital publishing, there are now fewer rules to writing what you want. He also noted that people have shorter attention spans these days.

Editing is one area where many struggle. Rizos stressed practice and to focus on each word and piece of grammar.

Like a metronome, he said.

Rizos suggested sitting down and editing, only editing, not getting sidetracked with elaborating further on the story. The key is being able to detach yourself from the meanings you have already put on the words, to read it with fresh eyes.

Rizos published Supercenter through Montag Press, a print-on-demand publisher out of Oakland, California.

They focus on weird, futuristic, sci-fi and fantasy books.

Their slogan even feels dystopian: “Books Worth Burning.”

Montag offered Rizos an advance on sales and did a

final edit on the book. Rizos urged that other authors should accept no less. With the ability to self-publish, and author services that do layout or other tasks, writers have to make their publisher work for them.

He said the beauty of print-on-demand publishing is that it allows the company to have lower overhead and take more risks on more authors and give a larger share of profits to the authors, as well.

While Montag did do some of the marketing for Supercenter, Rizos took it upon himself to do more. He used various forms of social media, including Reddit, where he introduced his book to subreddits that focus on subject matter closely related to what he writes about.

He created a satire newspaper from the Supercenter world. He has a blog, a YouTube channel, and has a video series called “Elements of Science Fiction,” where he critiques sci-fi movies through various lenses of literary criticism and devices.

Over-consumption is an obvious social critique in Su-

p e r center. In Rizos’ real life, he also reflects various forms of the anticonsumerism movement, one being that he brews most of the beer he drinks. Rizos said he can brew for around 10 percent of the cost of buying store bought microbrews.

As for beer, Rizos tends to move away from the ever popular IPA and usually makes more European-style beers. Now he is making 40 gallons of German-style Vienna lager at a cost of about $120. It will take four months to brew because it ferments at a lower temperature and is not the type of beer you would normally find in Portland.

Supercenter is a literary critique of the many concerns related to the Walmartization of our society, at a time when scholarly articles and theory are beginning to focus on this idea. The effects of Walmartization include one-stop shopping, house brands and globalization.

They are the effects of increasingly large corporations competing at a global level.

In the book, the store is called Buy-All, but its resemblance to Wal-Mart is undeniable.

“[I was] trying to articulate my experience of being overwhelmed by consumerism, growing up as a kid in a really suburban area, and just going into a Wal-Mart,” Rizos said.

Wal-Mart preys on peoples’ poverty, on people buying food and products that are not in their best interests because they can’t afford not to, according to Rizos.

I asked him if he hated Wal-Mart.

“I never say that I hate it,” he said, “but what’s to like?”

Ari Shaffir LOVES OUR WEIRD-ASS CITY Colleen Leary

Ari Shaffir is a stand-up comedian who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles. His latest special, Paid Regular, and his current storytelling series, This is Not Happening, have aired on Comedy Central. Shaffir will be performing at Portland’s Helium Comedy Club March 5–7.

Colleen Leary: When was the last time you were in Portland?

Ari Shaffir: It’s been two years since I’ve been in Portland. It sucks. I don’t know why I didn’t go there at all last year. I was thinking of doing my special there if I couldn’t do it at the Comedy Store.

CL: Where would you have taped it?

AS: I think I would have found a pot [dispensary] to do it at. But I like Helium a lot.

CL: I saw that you canceled your last appearance at Helium.

AS: That’s right. I really regretted not going to Portland. I was supposed to go a big UFC fight and it just turned into a regular 2,000-seater one. And I was like, “I canceled Portland for this?” I thought it was going to be the biggest one in history. That’s actually my biggest regret, I think, of 2014.

CL: Canceling Portland?

AS: Yeah, I’m not even joking. I don’t like canceling gigs.

Portland is a cool city.

CL: What do you like to do when you come here?

AS: That last time I was there I went for Bridgetown [Comedy Festival]. That was a lot of fun, that was a bunch of comics. So we went to strip clubs and then arcades. I like to get food and walk around.

It’s a weird city.

There’s no zoning laws in Portland. So there’s strip clubs next to churches. I figured out the same thing applies to the people as well. So you see a guy with jeans and a top hat or suit pants and a t-shirt. What are you guys wearing? How are you all different like this top to bottom?

CL: That’s true. I live across the street from a middle school and a sex shop called the Fat Cobra.

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AS: Wow. See, this place is weird.

See the extended interview with Shaffir at psuvanguard.com.

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ThE fIRST ART Of ThE GENTlEMAN PSIAS, EAST ASIA COMMITTEE TO HOST GUQIN TALk, PERfORMANCE lauren moore

Portland State’s Institute for Asian Studies, in affiliation with First Saturday PDX East Asia program committee, will host “An Introduction to the Guqin, Its Culture and Music” on March 7 at 9:30 a.m.

The event is free to students and the public, and will be held at the Academic and Student Rec Center auditorium.

Guqin, traditionally referred to as qin, is a seven-string zither played by the literati, or scholarly class, of traditional China.

It was considered a gentleman’s instrument and was played for private parties in the scholar’s garden.

“In the Song dynasty an idea emerged called the Four Arts of the Gentleman, so-called qin qi shu hua, which in translation means: the guqin, the game of Go, calligraphy and painting,” said Jim Binkley a retired computer science professor and guqin player.

“These were meant to be the most important arts of leisure that a scholar might pursue.”

Binkley said the guqin has been featured in numerous paintings and literature, and to some extent symbolizes the good life of the Daoist recluse and the life of the scholar.

“The qin, while being played, is said to reflect the character, voice and spirit of the scholar,” said Dennis Lee, chair of First Saturday PDX East Asia program committee.

The event represents the second installment of “The Qin: Abiding with Antiquity,” which was originally presented at PSU in December of 2012.

“The program was designed to introduce an ancient stringed instrument of China with a history of 5,000 years and a pedigree of two millennia, associated with the Chinese philosopher

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Confucius,” Lee said.

Unfortunately, Binkley, who was slated to play the instrument, suffered an unanticipated injury to his shoulder before the original presentation.

“The musical portion of the program had to be abbreviated, but the music which was played was beautiful and appreciated by everyone,” Lee said.

Lee said First Saturday PDX is a group of individuals interested in promoting the understanding of the cultural heritage of China, including its history, arts and societal contributions.

Their presentations have been an ongoing monthly series exhibiting art, architecture, gardens and historical culture of China and East Asia, highlighting connections with the Pacific Northwest.

The presentations started in fall 2011, but the committee had been involved in the Portland community for over 10 years before that.

Katherine Morrow, pro-

gram administrator for the Institute of Asian Studies, said that the committee started in 2000 with a group of community members volunteering at the Portland Chinese Garden.

Their volunteer work gave them the opportunity to learn the fine arts of China, as well as its architecture. Eventually, the group began to look outward.

“Their events were getting large, so they were looking for a partner to continue to grow,” Morrow said.

It wasn’t long after that the group approached the university about opening their monthly talks to the general public and students alike.

Binkley said he hopes attendees gain some appreciation for the guqin in terms of its musical and cultural impact and significance, especially as seen in Chinese painting.

“We want the attendees to come away not just knowing about the history of this instrument, but firsthand opportunities to see it and hear it played,” Morrow said.

rETIrED cOmPUTEr ScIENcE PrOFESSOr JIm BINKLEY performs on the guqin, a Chinese instrument preferred by literati and Chinese elite.

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it’s knot tuft to see: ‘tangled’ is disney’s hair apparent

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You may not know it, but Disney’s 2010 feature Tangled was the studio’s 50th film in their animated classics series, and they aimed to do it big in typical Disney style.

Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, Tangled holds the distinction of being the most costly animated film ever produced, and the fourth most expensive film ever, topping in at $260 million over the course of six years.

The cost is apparent in the quality of the film, which incredibly blends CGI with traditional animation techniques that result in an animated feature that is lush and sophisticated.

No detail has been ignored, down to Rapunzel’s luminous locks and the frizz of her witch mother’s hair.

Glen Keane, the film’s original director, who stepped down after a heart attack in 2008, was adamant that the film capture the real complexities of the human form, that the characters have a real light behind their eyes that CGI alone struggled to capture.

Tangled aims to puts a modern twist on a classic fairytale.

Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) is a teenage girl forced to spend her existence in a tower, under the thumb of the domineering woman she believes is her mother.

Every year on her birthday the king and queen release floating lanterns into the sky in hopes of finding their beloved daughter stolen from her crib 18 years ago. Rapunzel’s greatest wish is to leave

the tower and see the lanterns for herself.

Dreaming of the adventures that await her, Rapunzel blackmails thieving rogue Flynn Rider (voiced by Zachary Levi) into escorting her to the event. Only then will she return his satchel of stolen goods.

The two must get themselves out of several sticky situations before things are resolved in the characteristic happy-ending fashion. Spoiler alert: She cuts her hair!

Tangled marks a shift of Disney’s depiction of masculinity and femininity. On the surface the film is a typical children’s fairy tale full of adventure, with a love story and witty side characters. Dig a little deeper and Rapunzel is a new kind of princess.

Despite living in a tower since infancy, she’s tough, independent and clever. She isn’t afraid of the world she’s been taught to fear, she revels in it.

Flynn Rider also seems standard—handsome with loads of confidence and oneliners. What becomes clear is that their stories are anything but old hat.

Flynn’s confidence is a façade and he works to accept

5th Avenue Cinema presents Tangled friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 7 at 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 8 at 3 p.m.

Admission: free for students

himself as he really is. Notably, Flynn isn’t the hero of the story and he knows it. Time and again it’s Rapunzel who saves the day.

Though Tangled employs the musical quality we have come to expect from Disney classics, the songs often take a backseat to the banter between characters and the awesome graphics. The catchiness just isn’t there, but maybe that’s because “Let It Go” is still running through my head.

Despite costing a pretty penny to produce, Tangled was still profitable for Disney, raking in over $591 million worldwide in box-office sales.

It also brought in a multitude of award nominations, including best original song at the Academy Awards for “I See the Light.”

For those of us who grew up on The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, Tangled will never be able to replace those films in our hearts. But for a new generation, Tangled has a lot to offer: It’s charming, visually spectacular, and doesn’t abide by the tropes commonly associated with the Disney princess film.

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Lyric Rosemarie Beck exhibit to span three locations Artist who transcended mediums through storytelling honored Amanda Keener

Although the room echoes with band practice and the applause from recitals ending, students are not just moving from class to class in the Broadway Lobby Gallery. They are also stopping to enjoy the exceptional paintings of “Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries by Rosemarie Beck.”

On Feb. 18 the gallery in Lincoln Hall opened its paintings portion of the multidisciplinary exhibition of Beck’s work. Curated by Portland State faculty members Patricia Schechter, professor of history, and Sue Taylor, professor of art history, the PSU portion of the exhibition will run until May 3.

In addition to Beck’s paintings on view at PSU, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is showcasing Beck’s embroideries, and Portland

Community College’s Rock Creek campus is showing her drawings, a culmination of her work that will come together on March 5 for a multidisciplinary symposium at PSU. Beck was a trained violinist, who described the tie between language and art as “the lyric.” “[Beck] referred to this bond as live flux, the lyric is a way to have something between everyday mundane, known and chaos, and bring it together,” Schechter said.

“Something amazing is possible in this life, art—the lyric is a way of bringing it to light.”

Beck began as an abstract expressionist during the style’s heyday in the 1950s, but transitioned to more traditional themes by the end of the decade.

“She became disillusioned,” Taylor said. “She wasn’t convinced that abstraction could

uphold the artistic message.

She exhausted what she could do in that movement.”

The transition from the popular art movement was a risky one for Beck.

“She was taking her career into her hands and she paid a price, remaining an outlier in the art world,” Schechter said.

But Beck found inspiration in literature and the imagery of classicism.

“She was a woman artist in a man’s world,” Taylor said.

“Her turn to figure painting was grounds for her introduction of nudes, mythology and also Shakespeare.”

These classical themes revealed images that she could relate to as a female artist and one who was going against the style of the period, as shown in her works inspired by Shakespeare’s plays, such as Antigone and The Tempest.

“I have a feeling that on some level, Beck’s painting of The Tempest may be about patriarchy,” Taylor said. “In the play, Prospero controls Ariel’s liberty and manipulates his daughter Miranda. These are the characters Beck chose to portray together.”

Although Beck turned to the classics for inspiration, she always considered herself to be an abstract painter.

“She believed that it is wrong to assume that the body is real,” Schechter said.

It's a philosophy that becomes clear upon viewing her work, which displays the movement of forms through vivid color and texture similar to fantastic reflections in a pool.

Schechter said Beck painted for 20 years until her body broke down under her. When she could no longer stand at the easel for long

periods of time, she turned to embroidery.

“Embroidery was a way for Beck to express herself in a lighter mode and a way for her to experiment with color and compositions,” said Judith Margles, the director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

“Nonetheless, we take great pleasure in seeing these magnificent works, particularly in the context of the era in which she worked and in juxtaposition with her other forms of art making,” Margles said.

Beck’s embroidery will be on exhibit at the museum until March 22.

“It seems she was naturally imbued with the art of storytelling,” Margles said.

The embroidered works are so similar to Beck’s paintings and the technique she used to make them, they can

only be described as threadstrokes.

Beck’s heritage plays a key role in the development of her work, as the daughter of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants to New York City.

“Judaism is based on storytelling,” Margles said. “You can look at one of the embroideries and see the story taking place.”

The exhibition is significant for Beck’s work and the importance of female artists.

“I hope it starts a conversation about who we remember and who we forget, why we love art, and why there are so few women painters remembered compared to male painters,” Schechter said.

Schechter said the works of women artists need to be more regularly collected in exhibitions. “[Beck] reminds us that they are less centered in museums, and they deserve another look.”

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March 3

Words, Words, Words

Threesome

When: Through March 8, dates and showtimes at pcs.org Where: Ellyn Bye Studio at the Armory If the title didn’t grab your attention, the plot sure will.

Playwright Yussef El Guindi brings us the tale of an Egyptian American couple who invite a third person into their bedroom and all three are changed by the experience.

Three words used in the Portland Mercury listing to describe this affair are: elaborate, intellectual and dense.

March 4

Relax Ye Parents

When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Vanport Room If you have kids and attend Portland State, you know the rigors of trying to juggle everything! Well, this event is being offered as a way for you to have some meaningful rest and you time, which should definitely help you be rested in preparation for finals!

Massages, yoga and healthy food will all be there.

FREE

Where: Elizabeth Leach Gallery Through March 28, this group show features regional artists fusing words and images into a sumptuous display and ballet of provocative thought. Known artists participating in this group show include Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman.

FREE

March 5

PSU Day at the Capitol 2015 When: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Salem, Capitol Bldg

This all-day event is about professing your love for PSU and the ways of addressing the topics closest to your heart, including tuition increases and student debt.

Registration is free, and both transportation and lunch will be taken care of. All questions can be answered by the PSU Alumni Association.

FREE

Dunn With Words

When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: SMSU room 238 Novelist and journalist Katherine Dunn will be visiting PSU and has a few book

and newspaper clippings under her belt. With titles like Geek Love and an anthology of essays called One Ring Circus, this is definitely a notmiss event with a reading by Katherine Dunn!

FREE

Queer in the Workplace; When: 6:30–8 p.m.

When: GSE, room 408

This discussion panel’s focus is on engagement with queer people in the arena of being a queer professional and what that means for both identity and advocacy. There will be discussion of how to develop a personal framework for manifestation and will have both a Q&A and small round table discussions for that personal touch. Several panelists specified to the teaching sector are confirmed for the discussion panel.

FREE

March 6

What Is Jewish Art?

When: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Cramer Hall 494 Free Professor Samantha Baskind, leading scholar in the field of Jewish Art History, will lead a discussion about what

constitutes Jewish Art. She is also visiting in relation to the featured Rosemarie Beck event and is sure to have a lot of insight.

FREE

India Changes Course

When: 12 p.m.

Where: ASRC Auditorium, room 001 Part of the Great Decisions Lecture Series, Dr. Priya Kapoor will discuss the dynamic of Indian and U.S. relations since the powerful elections of 2014. With a prime minister new to public office, this is sure to continue to be a relevant and tantilizing lecture.

FREE

Confucian Sacred Landscapes When: 9:30 a.m.

Where: ASRC Auditorium, room 001

Part of the monthly programs featuring presentations that highlight the cultures and art of China and East Asia connected with the Pacific Northwest, this particular First Saturday PDX: East Asia Program Committee will focus on the culture surrounding the Guqin, a seven-stringed zither. Professor Brinkley will host this lecture and will play some music that might be as old as the Song dynamsty! Paintings featuring the guqin will also be discussed.

FREE

March 7

Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Shuttle When: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: The Outdoor Program (ASRC) The round-trip shuttle leaves for the last of its winter term trips. Price includes day lift ticket, and lower prices are available for both members nad non-members that already have season passes.

Down and Dirty

When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Learning Gardens Laboratory 6801 SE 60th Ave. Starting with an optional tour of the four-acre learning laboratory and seguing into workshops about garden tool maintenance, sheet mulching, compost and more, you won’t want to miss this day event that asks you about the state of your garden work gloves.

Coffee and pastries provided.

FREE

March 8

Antiques As Far As the Eye Can See When: 10 a.m.

Where: Portland Expo Center Fee: $7

Quite literally 1,000 booths (I counted) will be open and displaying vintage, retro, decorative and just plain fun novelties, collectibles and marvelous gifts from the past.

Pick me up a green Coca-Cola glass while you’re there. I need a new one. Oh, who am I kidding? This one’s been on the calendar since January.

March 9

Lentil Renegades from the Future!

When: 10:15 a.m.

Where: Parsons Gallery, 2nd floor, Urban Center Building Author Lis Carlisle and Montana farmer David Oien talk about the story of open defiance that has launched a unique sustainable food movement. Come and get a preview of what Liz Carlisle’s new book will be like!

FREE

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PSU FREE OPEN TO PUBLIC 21 & OVER

FEATURED EVENT Lyric Truth: A Multidisciplinary Symposium When: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., March 5 Where: Lincoln Hall Free

Do you know about Rosemarie Beck? A New Yorker of Hungarian–Jewish descent, she was known for many artistic abilities: painting, needlework, music and writing. Some of her most powerful works based themselves around the life and struggle of Antigone.

Come to the symposium and hear keynote addresses, theory lectures and even the PSU String Quartet. The keynote lecture will be given by Samantha Baskind and promises to contextualize Beck’s work in the 20th century. Beck’s work has been called joyous, dense, colorful and massive. Definitely a moving experience for all! The string quartet and reception will round out the day at 6 p.m.

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Pisces feb .20–March 19

You might not want to hear the answer to the question you’re inevitably going to ask, but you have to get through the challenges presented to gain the rewards.

aries March 21–April 19

Gemini May 21–June 20

Your week is going to be like leftover pizza. It might seem like a good idea at the time but the crust isn’t going to do well in the microwave, and it’s not going to taste as good as it did the first time around.

Virgo Aug. 23–Sep. 22

Sagittarius Nov. 22–Dec. 21

It’s time for your day in court, Set an alarm on Thursday to Virgo! All that time prepar- make sure you don’t miss class. ing to argue about why Fifty After all, you’re paying even if Shades of Grey is such an aw- you’re not there, and you don’t ful thing is about to pay off. want to have to sit on the MAX next to someone smelly.

Libra Sep. 23–Oct.22

You know that jingle you al- capricorn Dec. 22–Jan. 19 ways have stuck in your head? Indulge this week, Cappie!

No one is here to rain on your cancer June 21–July 22 parade, Aries. It just feels Hold on tight to some- It’s because you miss your fa- There’s a jelly doughnut out that way. But if you can han- thing, Cancer! The winds vorite childhood cereal and there in the world with your dle all those dark clouds on of change are blowing and you want to recapture the name on it and a comic book the horizon, you’ll be better there’s a big gust coming magic, but the magic is dead just waiting to be read! for it. your way. That thing you and gone, Libra. worried about might come aquarius Jan. 20–feb. 18 to pass if you don't prepare Scorpio Oct. 23–Nov. 21 Take the blue pill. Or the red for the tornado.

Taurus April 20–May 20 In your couch cushions pill. It doesn’t really matter you have about two bucks since you’re the captain of Never put off today what you in change. Now, I won’t tell your own destiny, right, dear? can do tomorrow. Conversely, Leo July 23–August 22 there’s a marathon of Who’s There’s nothing quite like a you what to do with that the Boss on and you have to good round of karaoke and change, but I will tell you that decide who really is the boss. drinks with friends, is there, there are good causes that Good luck!

Leo? Well, savor it this week would love any change you because next week you’ll have could give.

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March Madness sweeps Portland Matt Rauch

It is that time of the year again, as NCAA basketball fans are gearing up for the madness of March. For those who are unfamiliar with this part of the year and the spectacle it brings, it is the pinnacle of the college basketball season and, actually, one of the most thrilling sporting events there is to watch.

After long and grueling seasons chock-full of both non-conference and conference games, college basketball teams from around the country battle it out in their own conference tournaments. The winners of each of the various 31 conference tournaments from around the country get an automatic invite to the Big Dance. A selection committee consisting of university athletic directors and conference commissioners then selects 37 more teams to compete.

With a total of 68 teams in the tournament, each is ranked, divided and selected

to play in one of the four regional tournaments located at various venues around the country. Each regional tournaments’ teams are ranked 1–16 (with two 16 seeds playing for their place in the tournament). Overall, there are basically four 1 seeds, four 2 seeds, four 3 seeds etc.

Once the teams are selected and the play-in games have been decided, the remaining 64 teams battle it out in a single-elimination, winner-take-all battle royale.

Starting on March 17, the tournament takes place over the next 20 days, ending with the Championship Game on April 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

This year, Portland will host second and third round games which are all but guaranteed to please anyone in attendance. However, there hasn’t been much buzz around it in the Portland area yet.

When David Figliulo, an undergrad student at PSU, was asked if he was going to any of the games, he said, “You know, I didn’t even know the tournament was being played in Portland. I might go, but I will probably just watch it from my living room.”

As is often the case with college students, their budgets really aren’t fit to attend major sporting events. These thoughts were echoed by Junior Derriel Ingraham who said, “I don’t plan on attending the games at Portland unless I can find a good deal on some tickets. Either way, I will have fun watching it on TV from home with friends.”

And with the production that goes into the telecasts, watching the game at home on TV does provide you with the best seat in the house.

What makes March Madness even more exciting is that prior to the tournament beginning, fans fill out a blank

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bracket from the opening rounds to the championship game with their predictions on who will win. Millions upon millions of fans—both familiar and unfamiliar with college basketball—fill these brackets out. Even P.O.T.U.S. takes his shot at predicting the winners.

There are a thousands of digital brackets people can fill out online. Some of these offer incredible amounts of money for anyone who can pick every game correct. The biggest example of this was Warren Buffett and Quicken

Loans’ Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge. They offered anyone who picked all games correctly a billion dollars. The result? No one made it out of the first round with a perfect bracket.

Billion or not, filling out a bracket online or with your closest friends makes every game more exciting than it already is. The Vanguard asked senior Enoch Aggrey whether or not he plans to fill out a bracket this year. Enoch responded, “Heck yeah. I do every year. Last year I ended up

winning against a bunch of my friends. It made the tournament way more fun to watch.”

All in all, there is a reason it is called March Madness.

From epic upsets to thrilling buzzer beaters, it truly is madness. The passion in which the players play, with the whole country invested in their performance, is unrivaled at the NCAA level.

When you add in a chance to win a billion dollars, there is no question as to why March marks the season of madness for sports fans of all stripes.

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Free food? no thanks Commentary by aleX moore

Portland State men’s basketball had its senior night last weekend. In the days leading up to the match against Sacramento State, PSU marketed the game in their typical fashion. Instagram pictures and tweets filled up their social media.

The @PSU_Vikings Instagram page posted eight pictures about the game, calling it sellout Saturday. They also made sure to mention that every student who attended would get free food. For those of you

who don’t know, PSU has been promoting free concessions for students at basketball games for the last two seasons.

The Vikings fell to Sacramento State 73-60 in front of a full-capacity Peter W. Stott Center on sellout Saturday.

PSU’s free concession deal has been a part of a long list of marketing promotions that have tried to attract more students to games. It’s no secret that one of the biggest (if not the biggest) problem for the PSU athletic program

is their lack of fan involvement. So to solve that issue, the marketing department addressed the largest reason for students not attending games: food.

Whether it’s Kobayshi eating two Domino’s pizzas or PSU students having the ability to eat as much as they want, the Vikings have made sure there will be no lack of food at any sporting event.

Kobyashi has come to PSU on two different occasions to support both the basketball

team and the football team.

He’s done halftime performances that included outeating PSU students.

Enough PSU students live the trope of the starving college student—you know, the all-you-can-eat Top Ramen diet—for the marketing department to make feeding students the number one priority of the athletic program. While food is a good way to fill the hole that PSU students can’t fill with winning, even free conces-

sions haven’t done the job of getting students out to games. The men’s basketball team has seen three games sell out in the last two seasons in the 1,500-seated Stott Center.

Don’t fall for the fact that senior night sold out as proof that any of these promotions are working. It sold out because it was senior night, and while students don’t act like they care about athletics all the time here, it is clear that for sellout Saturday, they did care. For

any other game, it didn’t matter how much free food was handed out. The 1,500-capacity Stott Center was not full.

Handing out free food is a slap to the face to the Vikings athletic program and any students that have any interest in attending a game. It’s telling everyone involved in this community that winning is not a priority of the school, but at least you can get a free dinner of Snickers and popcorn while you watch your school lose.

hUCKING IT wITh MEN’S UlTIMATE JaSon SuSim

The Portland State University Men’s Ultimate team participates in a sport that is quite different from many others. In Ultimate, a team must synchronize, be creative and complete several passes in order to score. But the main aspect that separates Ultimate from all other sports is the use of referees, or their lack thereof. The popularity of this sport has skyrocketed due to the fact that it emphasizes the spirit of the game, meaning that the

players are responsible for enforcing the rules, placing the responsibility on each player individually to prove their sportsmanship.

For over 30 years, the sport has taken off to competitive heights without the use of any referees. Although that platform has served the sport well, the American Ultimate Disk League and Major League Ultimate have moved away from the self-officiated aspect of the game into a refereed affair. Now, as a sport

recognized by the International Olympic Committee and played at the World Games, it shows how far the sport has come.

“It has really skyrocketed since I came here,” said team president Austin Kelly, who has been in the position for the past two years.

The PSU Ultimate club started six years ago as a co-ed team. Their numbers were low for budget, members and tournament participation outside of club. The state of the PSU club team

POrTLaND STaTE looks down field for a huck to further their lead against Boise, Idaho at OfUDG, a men's Ultimate tournament, fall Term, in Eugene, Oregon.

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was in a transitioning phase when Kelly was asked to take on a leadership role.

“The best part about being President is that you get to mold the team the way you want it,” Kelly said. “We aim to make the team progressively more competitive, a higher level of play for everyone involved, and having more committed players. It is my job to move the club in that direction.”

The progression of Ultimate can be seen through their funding, which has increased every year. When he first arrived, the funding was very low; now women’s and men’s Ultimate can afford coaches, traveling to and playing in tournaments.

Kelly started playing Ultimate during his sophomore year in high school, and his passion only grew since that day.

“I loved it from the get-go,” he said.

Kelly played on his high school team where they would go to a few tournaments and always play at state champs. During that time, he considered the team a spirited group that wanted to have a fun, physical activity, not necessarily a competitive league.

To stay match fit, the PSU club participates in round robins, scrimmages and their own practices. Each term the team expects to play in three tournaments, and in each tournament they expect to play in 6–8 games. The average length of a match is an hour and a half, with two hours maximum if it should go long.

These seven-on-seven bouts are played by 15 committed members of the PSU Men’s Ultimate Club.

In the fall term, Men’s Ultimate had a successful tournament at the Beaver Brawl in Corvallis that saw them go undefeated. They were undefeated in a local round robin at Lewis and Clark, where, in addition to the hosts, PSU also got to play Reed and the University of Portland. They played in Chino, California, in a field that consisted of Californian teams with OSU and UO as the only schools from Oregon joining PSU. At Eugene’s Oregon Fall Ultimate Disc Games, PSU went 5-1 to finish off a strong fall season.

This term they already participated in the Colluvium tournament held in Corvallis, with a five-on-five indoor tournament soon

to come, and in less than a month they are going to participate in the Pacific Lutheran University BBQ in Tacoma, Washington.

The rest of the year will see Men’s Ultimate enter in their second year of sectionals with the hopes of qualifying for regionals. PSU is a Division-1 school, which creates an increasingly difficult path to regionals.

“I think we have a good, eligible team this year,” Kelly said. “There are five or six spots for regionals. As long as we beat one of the lower level teams we should be able to go.”

If you are interested in joining the PSU Men’s Ultimate club, Kelly has a message for you: “It is an extremely fun sport that has a very active community and social life that comes with it. Outside of practice, we are always doing team events.”

There are two coaches that will be able to get new members up to speed. One has been coaching with the club since its inception while the other is a professional ultimate player who is in his third year with the club.

To join Kelly and the Men’s Ultimate club, come to practices on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from 5–6:30 p.m.

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CAMPUS REC: AS DISTINCT AS PORTlAND JaSon SuSim

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“It’s a lot like running,” said Crew Club President Emma PPrichard when describing the physical challenges of rowing. Having developed an endurance mentality from running distance in high school, she uses that same mentality today, and for the past three years, in crew.

Here at Portland State we do not have a rowing team that is under the athletic department umbrella, hence the Crew Club designation. This means no athletic scholarships are awarded to these dedicated athletes. And when I say dedicated, I mean it. They are practicing year-round, six days a week, at 5:30. That’s 5:30 in the morning, folks.

Though men’s and women’s crew clubs are split in regattas (competitions), they all practice together. Having been a part of Crew Club for the past three years, Prichard raved about how the team is like a close-knit family, free of drama and full of fun.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend one of their practices on Friday morning, and, let me tell you, setting an alarm for a time before the sun has even risen is not a fun thing to do. I met up with Prichard and she walked me across the Hawthorne Bridge to where their boat house resides.

I was welcomed by 12 friendly faces all up and alert, ready for the morning’s adventures. Everyone was asking questions about the day’s practice, who would be grouped with whom, who would dock first and specifics on what racing shells they would be using—a racing shell being the name of the boats that the rowers use in their regattas.

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I launched with the crew coach in a metal, motorized fishing boat. We zoomed around the four racing shells that were out on the water that morning, two singles and two quads. She told me that it was a good morning for rowing because it was warm (though I was freezing), and because the water is always smoothest in the mornings.

She used a megaphone to direct and correct her rowers to perfection. After a warmup, the rowers did placement tests, meaning they were stationary in the water practicing their oar placement.

They then began their training which included one minute of rowing at an 18pace, two minutes at a 20pace, and three minutes at a 22-pace. They completed three of these six-minute trials. I didn’t realize how much work they all put into it–they made it look so easy– but when we all circled back to the dock, all of the rowers were huffing and puffing with flushed faces and sweatstrewn hair.

They train on the water and on rowing machines as well as overall strength training through lifting weights. All of their work is for events that will take less time than it took Prichard and I to walk from campus to the boat house.

The team is currently training for their spring regattas, which is when the bulk of their season takes place.

The races that they will compete in in the spring are 2,000 meters long, the Olympic distance. Up to eight crews can compete, but Prichard said that there are usually six.

All the boats line up at the dock in 20-meter-wide lanes. “[It] looks like a track

but with giant boats,” Prichard said as she described the starting line at a regatta. The 2,000-meter takes roughly eight minutes of very intense rowing. “It’s kind of like the 800 meter in track” Prichard said.

Being the club president, Prichard has more responsibility than most. She helps coordinate all of the regattas and boat transport, acts as the team captain, and is in charge of recruitment when the team needs more members. All this on top of teaching yoga at the rec as well as being the rec club student coordinator.

Upon moving here from Colorado Springs, Prichard had no idea what crew was, and I’m sure many of you are in the same boat. She told me, “I remember seeing [rowing] on the Olympics in 2012 and I remember thinking, ‘Oh, that’s cool. Maybe I’ll do that when I go to school.’” But it wasn’t until she moved in her freshman year on the honors floor that she found that half of her floor was on crew and got her into it.

She told me how her friends would come home with blisters on their hands, and she said, “I remember thinking, ‘I’m never going to do Crew.’”

If you’re interested in learning how to row, there are classes you can attend.

Courses are on Mondays and Wednesdays for four weeks at the boat house (1515 SE Water). Throughout the course, new rowers will take on the Willamette through downtown Portland. The next classes begin on April 6, with more starting on May 11. For more information or to sign up, contact Leslie at walkertexasleslie@gmail. com.

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Opened only five years ago, Portland State’s Campus Recreation Center was created with the objective to “inspire, empower, and educate.”

The Rec Center services over 1,800 students per day, allowing for a balance of academics and fitness here at PSU. Campus Rec partners with several other campus organizations, including Student Activities, Women’s Resource Center, Veterans Resource Center, Queer Resource Center, the Multicultural Centers, the School of Community Health and the Honors College.

Campus Rec is present at every orientation and major school event with the intention of providing information for those who seek it. The outreach efforts of Campus Rec have ensured its involvement with almost every entity of campus life.

Campus Rec Director Alex Accetta, who was quite instrumental in the creation of the Rec Center, explained his vision of what the center represents. “We want it to be sort of like a safe haven for students from the rest of campus; a place where they can come and take the time they need to get re-centered,” Accetta said.

With over 500 faculty, staff, and alumni members, Campus Rec draws more than just student membership. Accetta believes fitness

to be an important part of academic success for the entire PSU community. “Whether you’re a student going to school and your main focus is to study or whether you’re a professor teaching, you’re still sort of feeling the pressure of that as your job, right? And we’re still human, so as humans we need to move our bodies…if the university doesn’t provide that opportunity for people to do both, then everybody sort of gets stressed out.”

In addition to stress relief, Campus Rec employs around 200 PSU students and has nearly 25 percent of its operating budget going back to students through employment compensation. With 500 students participating in rec clubs and intramurals, those who aren’t a part of athletics are given a chance to compete in their chosen sport. These aspects promote a productive and healthy engagement in the PSU community.

Campus Rec strives to be as innovative as the city itself. This spirit of innovation can be seen in programs like Trans Affirming workouts, Goalball, Sit Volleyball and Wheelchair Basketball. Collaboration with the art department is also underway, as the center looks to couple fitness with visual and performing arts. Under the guidance of board member and Art

and Social Practice professor Harrell Fletcher, the rec center will begin its process of artistic implementation in the spring. Accetta feels that Campus Rec should represent the progressive and diverse culture found here in Portland, saying, “We definitely try to mirror the city we’re a part of, without a doubt.”

Before the creation of the Rec Center, students were limited to spending their time at the Millar Library, Smith Memorial Student Union, or Peter W. Stott Center. While there were opportunities for students to take their fitness and recreation into their own hands, the campus was lacking a proper fitness facility. Accetta takes pride in what has blossomed from his initial vision of a campus recreation center. He believes it has helped campus life become what it is today.

“I’m very biased, clearly, but I think this has been successful in changing the culture of campus,” said Accetta.

Five years after its inception, the Rec Center remains one of the most prominent campus entities and strives to uphold its mission statement “To create an environment where quality recreation and wellness programs inspire, empower and educate individuals to be positive contributors to the Portland State and global community.”

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Heckles and Rants

body shaming: how we’re fighting the wrong war Commentary by JaCQueline C. bryan

Beauty standards in our culture are constantly evolving. In the ’40s and ’50s it was considered most beautiful for a woman to be voluptuous and curvy, while today people chase the dream of being as thin as a runway model. Both body types are fine as long as they are truly taking care of themselves, but I see everywhere a constant war between fat and skinny and which one is better or worse.

I recently saw a post in which a woman, who was clearly very overweight and unhealthy, was pictured in a bathing suit on the beach. I had no problem with that. What I had a problem with was that whoever created the post had the gall to stick a picture of a runway model right next to her.

A model that was unhealthy in a completely different way,

with ribs sticking out and her face as gaunt as a skeleton.

Under the pictures, the text read: “When did this (referencing the emaciated model) become sexier than this (referencing to the chunky woman in the bathing suit)?” Under the post were hundreds of comments applauding the woman in the bathing suit for being brave and confident enough to present herself as a curvy woman to the world.

While I think being confident and loving your body is a wonderful thing and I found that aspect of the post endearing, I also walked away truly perplexed because people were overlooking a much bigger issue: being unhealthy.

I’ve always been thin and petite; it’s in my DNA and genetics, it’s part of who I

am and probably always will be. It’s just the way I am and that’s OK. And I know what you are probably thinking, because I’ve gotten it a million times before: ‘Oh, poor, poor you” (to be read with the utmost sarcasm).

Let me get this straight, I’m not complaining at all and I’m not showing off either, but I am happy with the body I have and won’t ever apologize for it. That being said, I still work hard to keep myself healthy. I exercise and eat organic foods as much as possible and I make sure to show my body as much love as I can, because once upon a time, I wasn’t so healthy.

Once upon a time, even though I’ve always been thin, my body was being mistreated by the food I ate and the exercise I chose not to do. And even now that I have switched gears and actually take care of myself, people still feel the need to make remarks about my petite body, saying things like, “Looks like you need to eat some cheeseburgers,” or “I feel like if I gave you a hug, I’d break you in half.” While most of the time they are simply joking, this is a form of body shaming, making me feel bad for being thin when it’s simply the way my body is.

What I’m getting at is that while body shaming is just wrong—since we should never make fun of someone for any reason—we also have to deescalate this war between fat and skinny. So much energy is being focused on making people feel bad for having a certain body type.

One side is constantly poking fun at obesity, making it a joke that people are overweight, shaming them into thinking they are unworthy of feeling beautiful. On the other side, just as detrimental but not as widely recognized, we shame the thin, the skinny, the petite, as if having more meat on your bones is more acceptable, as if it is more beautiful. Everyone has their own personal standards of beauty, but to shame

someone for not matching it is never OK. More importantly, we as a society should be focusing on the idea of encouraging health above all else. Your body is literally a temple in which lies everything that keeps you alive.

Feeding it bad food, depriving it of vital exercise and hiding it behind insecurities and self-hate break it down, slowly but surely.

This is where disease is bred, where issues arise over time due to carelessness. These are all things that can be avoided and cared for if the right measures are taken. By being healthy, your body will adjust to a weight and structure that suits itself best, whether it be curvy and voluptuous, thin and small, or anywhere in between. Let’s put away our shame weapons and end this hateful war— listen to your body, work with it, and keep it healthy.

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