Portland State Vanguard

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VOLUME 71 • ISSUE 5 • JULY 26, 2016

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NEWS

MY POKEMON BRINGS ALL THE TRAINERS TO CAMPUS MILES SANGUINETTI

Pokemon Go may leave its player base glued to their screens, but the augmented reality mobile game has brought a horde of students out of their dorms to explore campus, talk with each other and—most importantly—catch Pokemon.

Developed by Niantic, Inc., the game was released in the U.S. on July 6 and has since attracted a massive following both on campus and beyond.

Jeffrey Warner, a social science major at Portland State, first heard about the game online a month or two ago.

“I actually have run into a couple new people that I ended up talking with, making friends with,” Warner said. “They lived in this building which was also convenient, but we ended up talking about Pokemon.”

The campus Pokemon gym, a location where players can leave Pokemon to battle one another, has brought a lot of people to PSU, he added.

“I don’t know if people really anticipated liking as much moving about to find [Pokemon], but I think that’s another feature that people ended up liking,” Warner said.

Some of his most eagerly anticipated features that have not yet been added to the game are trading and oneon-one battles between players, he added.

Some companies on campus have even caught on to the trend by offering discounts to Pokemon Go players, according to Warner.

The game has helped some students make new friends by virtue of being something of a conversation starter, according to Jacob Simeoni, a PSU student studying computer science and political science.

Lure modules, items in the game that attract Pokemon to a single spot, are one aspect of the game that help facilitate this, he explained.

“It’s not just a Pokemon lure, it’s a people lure, too,”

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Simeoni said. “People come and you get to make new friends while you do that.”

The game has helped to make PSU’s community more social, accepting and open to conversation, he added.

“In the ’90s, I loved Pokemon,” Simeoni said. “I would make all my decisions— if I wanted toast or soup, which one would take longer—so I could play more Pokemon.”

According to Simeoni, playing Pokemon games in high school made him realize that his appreciation for the franchise never went away. Pokemon Go’s popularity has helped rekindle nostalgia for the series in a lot of fans, he added.

Sebastian Birsa, owner of SimpleIT Professionals—an information technology company—was drawn to campus

by Pokemon Go on a visit to Portland from Las Vegas.

“So I’m going through the park and then there is a spot... where about 10 people are gathered and someone paid actual money to make Pokemon appear faster,” Birsa said.

The large number of landmarks around campus and large number of young people make campus an epicenter of sorts for Pokemon Go gameplay, he added.

“I don’t know about you, I grew up and I did a few things,” Birsa said. “I played with a yoyo, I played Magic: The Gathering, I played Pogs and I played the shit out of Pokemon Blue.”

The nostalgia associated with Pokemon games, combined with the easy accessibility of a mobile game have played a significant role in bringing about the game’s popularity, according to Birsa. Ingress, one of Niantic’s earlier mobile games, did not see as much success because it lacked an influential piece of intellectual property like Pokemon to help establish itself, he added.

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NEWS

ACCELERATED PROGRAM OFFERS LEG UP TO WOULD-BE LAWYERS This month, PSU announced its partnership with Willamette University College of Law to offer an accelerated program that would allow students to complete both an undergraduate and law degree in only six years, rather than the traditional seven.

Called a 3+3 program, the model is similar to others across the country—allowing participants to complete their bachelor’s degree with credits for their first year of law school.

“We’re just combining those lag times into that middle year, allowing students to double up on some of those credits,” said Patrick Riedling, director of communications for Willamette’s College of Law. “But you will definitely work harder in those two years that come between.”

Willamette University College of Law already offers two accelerated degree programs, one with University of Alaska at Anchorage and one with its own undergraduate institution.

Riedling said there are currently two law school students who were admitted from Willamette’s undergraduate accelerated program, and that feedback has been

good. However, he added, it’s not for everyone.

“This is really geared toward very forward thinking, academically aggressive students who are ready to take that next step,” said Riedling.

Lauren Cribb, a 3+3 program enrollee at Willamette, graduated high school while simultaneously completing an associate’s degree in 2012.

Cribb chose Willamette for higher education based on the 3+3 program offering, knowing that law school was her ultimate goal.

“I probably started telling my parents I was going to be a lawyer one day when I was 11 or 12,” Cribb said. “I watched all the TV shows, I read all the books.”

At age 22, set to graduate law school next year, Cribb is well on her way to achieving her childhood goal. In total, she will have spent only five years at Willamette’s undergraduate and law schools obtaining her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor law degree.

Now that she is done with her BA and fully immersed in law school, Cribb said her experience of coming from an

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accelerated program doesn’t differ greatly from that of someone who is referred to as “K through JD,” a term used to describe someone who goes nonstop from kindergarten to a JD without a gap year. Yet, she echoed Riedling’s sentiment that it’s not ideal for everybody.

“You lose some of your undergraduate experience, but if you know it’s what you want to do, it’s incredible to get into law school and make those connections even sooner,” Cribb said.

Tim Garrison, professor of history and pre-law coordinator at PSU, said the primary concern of students who come to him for advice is the high monetary cost of a JD. “I try to figure out what a lawyer does that is attractive to them,” Garrison said. “For example, is it standing up and talking in front of people?

There’s a lot of jobs where you can do that that don’t cost $200,000.”

Garrison noted that a key benefit of the 3+3 program is financial: By eliminating one year of student loans and entering the workforce sooner,

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students can decrease the expected debt of higher education.

But Garrison echoed Cribb’s thoughts that these savings come at a cost.

“In the 3+3 program, the year you’re giving up in undergrad is the year of experimentation,” Garrison said.

“You’re giving up all those other courses that you take just to find out what you like.”

What it comes down to, Garrison said, is maturity.

Essentially, students entering the program need to be 100 percent committed to law school from day one.

“You have to be really prepared to do this at the beginning,” Garrison said. “If you kind of messed around, experimented, took some electives…it’s going to be impossible to do it in six years.”

Garrison said existing PSU students could apply to the 3+3 program, but it would likely only benefit students who have prioritized PSU requirements over electives thus far in their undergraduate career. Primarily, the program is geared toward incoming students who, like Cribb, are set on becoming lawyers.

PSU is in the final stages of a similar 3+3 program partnership with Lewis and Clark. Both programs are imminent, and interested students can start on the 3+3 program track starting this fall.

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Offensive Graffiti Millar Library Officer Matthew Masunari responded to a complaint that there was racist graffiti on the northeast corner of the Millar Library. He found three stenciled graffiti images on site that were politically and racially motivated. A painting company was notified so that the graffiti could be cleaned up immediately.

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SPORTS PORTLAND STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER PREVIEW The PSU women’s soccer season is just around the corner as they prepare for their first exhibition game against the Oregon Ducks on August 12, 2016 in Eugene, Oregon. The Vikings are looking to bounce back from a 5–13 season.

The Vikings are bringing in eight signees: Mary Beth Barnum, Kasey Isobe, Liv Jillings, Tamera Mikamura, Shannon Peth, Jade Rafallo, Izzy Reinchner and Regan Russell.

Portland State women’s soccer program is looking to make an impact right away. Player losses from last season in-

MYLES BOYNS clude key members such as Cori Bianchini and Tamia Hasan. Some important returning Vikings will be Aurora Bodenhamer, Katie Forsee and Kristin Moyer.

Bodenhamer, led PSU last season in points and goals, and was named All-Big Sky Honorable Mention. Katie Forsee was also named AllBig Sky Honorable Mention last season. Kristin Moyer was named All-Big Sky Second Team in 2013.

The women’s soccer team is looking to set the tone by starting the season with a bang. They plan to make a statement at the kickoff of their season.

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When Fruit Flies Ondine Officer David Troppe responded to a report of people throwing fruit out of a dormitory window. When he arrived at the scene, the fruit throwers were identified as two juvenile females from a math camp who were curious about the splattering nature of fruit from great heights. They were warned to halt their experimentation because it was scaring pedestrians. The girls agreed and volunteered to clean up the mess.

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Suspicious Sleeper Blumel Hall Suspicious nonstudent Brandon Biggs was reported to be sleeping in the upper parking lot. Officers contacted him and warned him not to trespass in the parking structures or parking lots. According to a nondisclosed source, Biggs is associated with a fraudulent company that goes door to door claiming to collect money for military care packages.

Criminal Mischief II Associated Students of PSU Children’s Center Officer Troppe responded to another burglary in the child care center. A staff member stated that she found the freezer door open when she arrived to work that morning and that all of the food in it was either melted or spoiled. When she had left work on Friday, it was shut and secure. The locks are going to be changed on all exterior doors and Officer Troppe recommended the night shift conduct and pre- and post-midnight walkthrough of the building.

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HATE CRIMES IN POSTBREXIT BRITAIN

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Beginning in late June, British media started to note a troubling trend: Incidents of hate crime saw a sharp increase, following the June 23 Brexit vote to leave the European Union.

Reports from BBC News, the Guardian, the Independent, Sky News and the Local all shared similar headlines of rising hate crimes.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mark Hamilton of the National Police Chiefs’ Council attributed the recent increase in reported hate crimes to the Brexit vote.

The Guardian also reported a 42 percent increase in hate crimes during the two weeks surrounding the vote.

Similar headlines appeared in British and European media from the final week of June into early July. Examples include an article from BBC News titled “Polish family’s Plymouth home damaged in ‘race hate arson attack,’” the Local’s July 4 headline which read “Spaniards report xenophobic attacks after Brexit vote” and a story from Sky News called “Hate Crime In London Up 50 Percent Since Brexit Vote.”

Repercussions of Brexit have already been observed in the academic world.

President Michael Arthur of the University of Central London explained in a July 11 Guardian column that there have already been three instances of UCL principal researchers being removed from European teams.

Arthur attributed the dismissals to the fear that critical funding will be harder to win with team members from outside the EU. German Portland State student Christine Vigeant shared a common opinion held among Europeans following Brexit—a general consensus among Germans is that the UK has always had “one foot in” the European Union; she pointed to the UK’s decision to continue using the British Pound after joining the EU. “In conversations with my German friends I think there is a lot of resentment,” Vigeant said. “A lot of the leave campaign was on immigration. I think the Germans feel a bit resentful that we are taking a lot of refugees, and other countries are [saying], ‘eh.’”

Vigeant also stated that the younger generations voting more heavily for “remain” shows a cultural divide between generations. The younger voters have grown up as part of Europe; they see the value in standing with their neighbors to tackle larger issues more effectively and to enable more open trade and travel.

“These are the people who see themselves as Europeans,” Vigeant said.

Ultimately, the older generation who grew up without the same opportunities brought the stronger vote and invoked the decision to leave.

In the subreddit AskEurope on social news networking website Reddit, users mostly echoed Vigeant’s opinion of the vote to leave. French Redditor Lyanina shared two different perspectives on the future of the UK. “I do feel resentful, maybe even a little hurt, but I’d still travel there,” Lyanina wrote. “My mother, though, has been reading what the media has to say about the racist and xenophobic incidents since Brexit, and her view is: ‘If they’re going to insult their tourists, fine, I’ll spend my money elsewhere.’”

The current culture eluded in another comment has many of those interviewed feeling anxious.

“If I had to work outside of Denmark, the UK would probably be on the bottom of the [list], but it has always been like that, and it is more a question [of ] culture than politics,” said Danish Redditor TonyGaze.

Pressure is now on the new prime minister, Theresa May, to reach a solution through the referendum that represents the opinion of the entire UK and build positive relationships with EU nations.

According to the Telegraph, May plans to hold any work on the referendum until a united “UK approach” can be reached which includes support from Scotland.

But what do UK citizens have to say about these reports of UK-based hate crime and voter backlash following the vote to leave?

“I think 99.99 [percent] is the same and 0.01 [percent] gets a lot of publicity,” said Redditor tmstms. “However, even one incident of this kind is unacceptable, not least because it upsets all people of the ethnic or national group that suffers the incident.”

Many commenters echoed the sentiment shared by

tmstms. Others argued that these crimes are being perpetrated by few residents, but the media response is misconstruing the frequency of incidents.

In the United States, similar xenophobic and racist sentiments have called attention to civil rights issues as an increasing number of racially motivated crimes and incidents have occurred. These occurrences in the U.S. may show that people are more willing to display feelings that were previously hidden.

In the UK, the perception is that the increase in crime does not represent new ideas, but rather the approval of these ideas as popular opinion based on the vote to leave.

The biggest factor in determining whether or not the increasing trend in reported hate crimes and xenophobic sentiments perpetuates will be the response of the majority of citizens in the UK. If a culture of hate is allowed a foothold in a post-Brexit Britain, it will only continue to damage the country’s reputation among the European nations.

THERESA MAY, THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. COURTESY OF USER UKHOMEOFFICE THROUGH WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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The International Olympic Committee announced they are seeking legal advice on banning Russia from the 2016 Summer Olympics following the doping scandal. A possible ban has farreaching implications in the political world that are reminiscent of Cold War–era sports politics that dominated the early 1980s.

Turkey began the process to revoke the licenses of 21,000 teachers at private schools in the wake of the failed coup attempt then that place last week. Nine hundred police officers were suspended during this same wave of governmental purge.

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EDUCATION ABROAD VIDEO CONTEST WINNER SHARES TRAVELS Senior Emma Frantz, winner of the International Video Contest launched by Portland State Education Abroad, recently came back from studying abroad in Lyon, France for one year.

This is the first annual video contest from Education Abroad. Franz’ one minute video highlighted her travels and experiences, from meeting new friends to visiting the Eiffel Tower. The Vanguard sat down with Franz to hear more about her voyage abroad, attending Université Lumière Lyon 2 as well as her vision behind the short film.

WHY FRANCE? I took French in high school, but didn’t love it.

So when I went to college, I decided to take a break from French my freshman year. It was really hard for me and I struggled with it.

Then my sophomore year, I decided to retake it again. I fell in love with it because it was more review than what I learned in high school. It wasn’t a hassle. I’m on the track to be a dental hygienist,

so I’m getting a four year degree in health studies. I found my passion for French again out of nowhere, so my sophomore year I started to look into study abroad, I subscribed to the emails, and I went to all the fairs they sent to me. I asked everybody about France and found a program called IE3 Global, and I really liked them. I had been to France with my dad when I took a family trip there, and I fell in love with it. It was a dream of mine to go back and to be speaking French. I was originally just going to minor in French, but when I went to France I got so many credits that I’m going to double major now.

HOW WAS THE IE3 GLOBAL STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE LIKE? I was enrolled in language courses. I was in class approximately 20 hours a week with 10 classes, and each class was designed to help you learn French based on the your level. I had classes on grammar, writing, and conjugation, and it was all in French. Then they

threw in classes like history, cultural studies and theater class. It was all set up and you really didn’t have a choice. I got credit for that university that transferred here. I didn’t do direct enrollment, which means that I would have gone into health in French, but I decided to do my language studies instead.

WHAT WAS THE CULTURE LIKE THERE COMPARED TO THE U.S.?

The culture shock that I had was really interesting.

The French lived a lot simpler—they don’t have as big of houses and the rooms are a lot smaller. Meals are really important to them, so sitting down for lunch, dinner and sometimes even breakfast is about conversation and being with family more than stuffing your mouth on the go, that I, and a lot of Americans, have been guilty of. The biggest culture shock for me, was that in France they do what’s called un bisou, which is a kiss on either cheek. When I first got there, I was shaking people’s hands and that’s not really what people do.

WHAT WERE SOME OF YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES? I would say my favorite part was my host family. That’s what I miss the most. I was in Vieux Lyon, and it was the most beautiful place that I could have imagined. Tourists usually go see the Rose Tower, and my window faced the tower. I really lucked out in

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my location. I also miss walking everywhere and how much they use public transportation.

They have subways, buses and trams and people hardly drive.

It’s so fast and easy and the subway ran every three minutes. I paid $15 for the whole year to use city bikes that you can drop off in one place and pick up in another. I used that system to go everywhere.

WERE YOU ALWAYS INTO FILMMAKING AND EDITING? WHAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR FILM ?

No. My dad used to work in Hollywood and he used to be really into making videos and got a GoPro. He got back into construction work, so I asked him for his GoPro about a year or two ago. He gave it to me and when I went to Lyon I decided to start recording and journaling. Originally, it was just for me, to remember where I’ve been. It turned out that I traveled a lot and took it everywhere I went and recorded my experience. Then, I decided to put it together.

WHY WOULD YOU RECOMMEND STUDYING ABROAD? I feel like I grew so much.

Going to see another culture is the only way you can see your own [culture] in my opinion. It gives you that ability and feeling that you can do anything. Travelling to different countries is easier now. You really become independent when you travel because I didn’t know anyone where I was going.

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Two juvenile Canadian Pokemon Go players caused an international incident after crossing the CanadianAmerican border accidentally while playing the popular mobile game. Authorities returned both players to their mothers at a nearby border agency station.

A lone 18-year-old gunman opened fire near a Munich shopping center, killing nine. The spree concluded with the death of the shooter from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Investigations have discovered no connection between the shooter and any idealistic or terrorist organizations.

A week-long stand off in Yerevan, Armenia drew to a close as the final four hostages are released. The gunmen holding the Erebuni Police Station refused to lay down their arms and are demanding the resignation of the Armenian President, Serzh Sargsyan.

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SEXUAL ASSAULT ‘VASTLY UNDERREPORTED,’ ACCORDING TO U.S. SENATORS JON RABY & JESSICA POLLARD A recent letter from 30 U.S. senators, including Oregon’s Ron Wyden, stated that nearly 91 percent of colleges in the U.S. reported no incidents of interpersonal violence on campus to the Department of Education in 2014.

The letter was released on July 1, the anniversary of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The act was established to amend the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, or the Clery Act of 1990.

Part of VAWA requires universities that receive public funding to report instances of sexual violence to the Department of Education.

“These directly conflict with the DOJ and CDC data on sexual assault, and strongly suggest that schools are either not taking the reporting obligation seriously or are not creating an environment where students feel comfortable coming forward to report, and are vastly underreporting these crimes,” the senators stated in the letter.

These PSU statistics pale in comparison to the widespread statistic that one in five women on college campuses faces sexual violence, according to the Department of Justice.

“We are wanting our reporting to go up,” said Julie Caron, the Title IX coordinator and vice president of Global Diversity & Inclusion at PSU. “We will never have the same reporting percentage as Reed.”

Higher numbers, said Caron, indicate that more students are reporting the crimes they face, rather than an increase in crimes overall.

According to a study conducted in May 2015 by Association of American Universities involving 150,000 respondents at 27 universities, 11.7 percent of college students experienced “nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, threats of physical force or incapacitation since they enrolled at their university.” Of these, 20.1 percent were female and 10.8 percent experienced penetration.

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In Oregon, Portland State’s liberal arts neighbor Reed College has repeatedly made headlines for its high rate of reported sexual violence on campus.

Meanwhile, between 2010 and 2012—before the VAWA amendment was enacted— the Oregonian reported PSU to have a report rate of .32 per 1,000 students on campus, significantly smaller in proportion to Reed’s rate of 9.62 per 1,000 students, reported during the same time period.

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The figures that Wyden and 30 other senators address are those in the Clery Report.

The reason for such low report numbers is partly to do with the geographical component of Clery reporting.

“It is kind of confusing, in fact I don’t think the federal legislators understand the geographic boundries,” Caron said. “I am trying to be able to talk to Senator Wyden about it.”

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SILVIA CARDULLO/PSU VANGUARD cidents will be reflected in the Clery reports, but most of the incidents that the Women’s Resource Center and the Dean of Student Life handle, that are student-to-student, aren’t within our geographic area or within the definition of crimes Clery requires for us to report.” Caron said.

At PSU, crimes on the premise of the Vue Apartments, for example, are not considered on campus and aren’t reported to the Department of Education. Crimes that occur on the Park Blocks, which act as a thoroughfare on campus, are reported.

Sexual crimes that happen on campus but remain unre-

ported to the university—or go reported unofficially—are also not included in the Clery reports, which the university sends out every October.

And according to numbers released by the WRC earlier this month, many cases go unreported.

The WRC has services on campus for students who have been victims of interpersonal violence. Between July 2015 and June 2016, 184 students contacted the WRC about these services.

“We know we’re not catching everyone,” said Coordinator of Response for Domestic and Sexual Violence at PSU Adrienne Graf. “Some

statistics estimate that around 20 percent of women face some form of sexual violence while they’re in college, so we know that 184 certainly isn’t 20 percent of 30,000,” or the roughly 15,000 female students at PSU. Graf also acknowledged that sexual violence happens to all genders.

Graf’s position was added last year, partially in response to VAWA, and is federally required under Title IX, a title under the Department of Education that addresses sex discrimination. Before that, Graf held the interpersonal violence advocate position at the WRC.

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The WRC is unique in that interpersonal advocates assisting victims of sexual assault are confidential, whereas most bodies on campus—including staff and faculty, the Campus Public Safety Office and resident assistants—are “responsible employees” required to report information regarding interpersonal violence involving students.

When a sexual assault is reported by a responsible employee the institution must take steps to investigate and remedy the case, if possible.

Students who face interpersonal violence off campus are still eligible for guidance

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CPSO DEPUTIZATION EFFECT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORTING

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In the past when PSU students chose to report a sexual crime, they would be sent to the Portland Police Bureau, because CPSO did not have the authority to deal with such issues, nor did they have specific training to handle them.

The recent deputization of CPSO means that CPSO can now directly deal with the reporting of sexual assault following an on-campus incident.

“There [were] times when someone would want to make a report and we [would wait] three or four hours in the

center for a Portland police officer to come take it. If we want to look at that one piece, of ease of reporting, it does make that a lot easier,” Graf said, noting that some survivors may not be comfortable turning to CPSO. “We are committed to a survivor centered response,” said Chief of Campus Safety Phillip Zerzan. “The survivor decides what level of service is most appropriate for them. If that choice is prosecution of student conduct, a thoughtful, thorough and professional investigator can assist in that process.”

As of four years ago PSU also has a dedicated sexual assault detective, Matthew Horton, a former Portland Police Bureau officer whose work experience involves cases of sex crimes and domestic violence.

“We have a pretty great working relationship with him, and so when survivors want to access reporting, we want to make that as easy as

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possible for them,” Graf said.

When reports are made at the CPSO office, advocates from departments such as the WRC are included in the interview processes, but not all reported cases turn into prosecutions.

“From reporting to prosecution is actually a pretty complicated road, and I think there tends to be a lot of misunderstanding,” Graf said.

“What a lot of people don’t understand is that the district attorney is the one who decides to prosecute cases or not,” Graf continued. “So you can report a case to the police, it could be picked up by a detective. You’re interviewed by the detective and then that information, at that point, is reviewed by the district attorney, and [that office] chooses which cases to prosecute.”

According to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice, between the years of 1995 and 2013, 20 percent of sexual assault victimizations were reported to the police.

Amy Kayon similarly filled a newly created position at PSU last November partly in response to VAWA, relationship and sexual violence prevention coordinator. Her focus is on prevention of interpersonal violence, rather than response to crimes that have already occurred. “[Primary prevention] means you’re really trying to address social, systemic issues that drive people to become violent in the first place,” Kayon said. “It’s the long game, not the short game.”

Bystander intervention, which promotes awareness and fellowship while witnessing a risky situation, is the subject of one of the workshops Kayon runs through her program Illuminate.

“The more people we train on campus to do [bystander intervention], the less people will come onto campus to do that following behavior, because they know that at PSU on campus they’re going to

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and services from the WRC. Last January, the WRC designed a practicum course titled Students in Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Response. The course will return this fall and also certifies students as federally approved confidential advocates in PSU’s 24-hour peer response program.

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get called out,” Kayon said.

But Kayon pointed out that getting students involved is not always easy.

“You’re only going to get a subsection of students who are willing to engage in [workshops],” Kayon said.

“As if pizza is enough to give up four hours of your Saturday.”

Kayon is helping athletics coaches lead mini-lessons on prevention throughout the year. Prevention workshops are also offered at dorms.

Kayon is currently working on lessons for international students studying at PSU, who she says commonly attend her workshops.

“Prevention doesn’t have to be reactionary,” Kayon said.

“A lot of programs on campus don’t need to have a problem to realize it’s an investment in our culture at large.”

“And on college campuses, when you’re really looking at close reporting in a small area, sometimes student prevention work increases your

response and your reporting rates,” Kayon added. “It can almost look counterintuitive.

It’s because you’ve helped define what a problem is.”

CREATING A SAFE CAMPUS MODULE

PSU also has an online module, the sexual assault module, intended to provide students with information in case of “a problem relating to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other concerns regarding sexual misconduct,” according to the introduction page.

By spring term 2016, about 42 percent of students had completed it, according to Caron.

“Anecdotally I know it’s making people feel like they’re more resourced,” Graf said.

“There currently are not any registration holds for not completing it, and that’s something that we keep discussing,” Caron said.

If completion numbers on the module don’t improve soon, having a registration hold for failure to participate in the module may be further explored.

Students interested in contributing their thoughts on the topic of the module are encouraged to contact Julie Caron about focus group opportunities.

“We’re always welcome to feedback on it,” Caron said.

Whether universities are underreporting federally or students are choosing not to report their sexual violence cases, Clery report statistics out of PSU appear to be unrepresentative.

During spring term 2016, PSU released a randomparticipant campus climate survey, intended to “better understand the climate at Portland State University, the extent of dating/domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and misconduct among students, and the use of programs and services currently being offered,” according to the PSU website.

Numbers for the survey have not yet been released, but are expected to shed light on the effectiveness of PSU’s sexual violence response.

* Note: VAWA reporting was not in effect in 2012

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ARTS & CULTURE

POV DANCE CHALLENGES PERSPECTIVES ON MOVEMENT AND SPACE CATHERINE JOHNSON

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This week, POV Dance will open its newest, architecturally inspired performance “In My Own Space” at the Body Mechanics studio in Southeast Portland. Based on an athletic style of modern dance and drawing from contact improvisation, dancers will use and interact with and around the structural characteristics of the space—the ledges, doorways, walls and perhaps the audience members themselves—in order to offer audiences a new way of viewing the space.

“I hope it will give them a new perspective on movement, on the human body, on structure and human relationships,” said Mandy Cregan, one of the company’s founders and coartistic director.

Cregan and her dancers are accustomed to exploring nontraditional spaces through movement. Collaboration is inherent to their choreography and rehearsal process, which began in February. They think of what they do as architectural rather than conceptual; they pull the movement out of the space and are dependent on the elements available to them.

“The work we do transforms those spaces, hopefully drawing attention to the architecture itself and how its forms already dance in unexpected ways,” said Taylor Eggan, a dancer with the company since 2010. “In other words, we help make architecture an event in itself.”

In this case, the audience will move through the space as the dancers perform. They will start outside, walking down a side alley, entering through the backdoor and through various rooms until they exit through an open garage door onto the sidewalk at the front where they began.

The dancers are divided into two groups, and when one performance is halfway

over, another one begins with another audience.

This not only makes audience members part of the space, but requires them to constantly choose where to direct their attention.

“In this piece, in which two dances are always happening simultaneously, the sense that you are missing something is always a part of the experience,” Eggan said. “I think this is unique, and in this regard, the performance is a little microcosm of daily living— it offers a forum, however humble, for meditating on the beautiful incompleteness of experience.”

Rachael Lembo, another dancer with the company since 2010, is also excited about how the audience will be engaged and forced to navigate the space, objects and other people.

“I think it adds to the playfulness. I hope some people will wander by with their Salt & Straw cones totally unaware of what’s happening and be curious enough to stop and follow the dance,” Lembo said. “What’s always fun for me with this work is that it feels playful and beautiful. The audience often ends up very close to us, and I love being able to watch them as they’re watching us.”

This project posed some new challenges for Cregan and the company. Each of their past productions has relied on a different location being offered to them. This time they were unable to secure any of the spaces they wanted. So Cregan resorted to using the pilates studio she owns, Body Mechanics, thus bringing previously separate parts of her life together.

“I had to completely decompartmentalize myself to have this process happen,” Cregan said. “Having to have this space contain all of those

parts of me was a much larger challenge than I anticipated.

Normally being in a space that is not my own space I never really worry about dance. But being in this space I found, personally, it was hard.”

She worried about people coming into the space and how the dance would be perceived, bringing up her own fears of judgement, something she hadn’t felt before as a dancer.

The studio space also posed unique challenges, such as working around the pilates equipment.

“We tend to work with things that are more solid and stable,” Eggan said.

“But in the case of Body Mechanics, we also found ourselves dancing with objects that actually moved: The reformers shift under you and the cadillacs have a tendency to topple if you swing too hard on them. So in this case the architecture dances with us in ways both literal and figurative.”

Another challenge was the budget. When they didn’t receive the grant they’d hoped for, the company was forced to modify aspects of the performance, such as the music and lights. While in the past they’d worked with live musicians and hired theatrical lighting designers, they couldn’t afford to do that this time.

Cregan said this piece would not be what it is without those limitations and she has grown immensely because of the challenges.

“The place I’ve gotten to is this ultimate ownership of my space. This is me, full on, all of me, in my space,” said Cregan. “The challenge has been the reward. Having to own all of myself. That has been the reward.”

In that sense she has received the same gift she hopes to give the audience—a new perspective.

ARTS & CULTURE

PERSEVERANCE PAYS FOR ASPIRING STUDENT AUTHOR THOMAS SPOELHOF

Ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu famously said, “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” One Portland State English major is proving the axiom true with her tenacious pursuit of success as a writer.

Joan Brown left a career in law in 2013 to press her love of writing to its fullest potential. That’s when she began attending Portland State to hone her writing skills and started publishing short stories and articles.

Brown studies English and creative writing at the university and participates in the Urban Honors College, seeking out courses that address her specific goals as an author and enlighten her understanding of socioeconomics. As a result, Brown’s writing has flourished and opportunities have continued to multiply.

But Brown’s success as a writer hasn’t been a gift of good fortune; the author works diligently at her craft and holds herself to a high standard in the thematic quality of her writing. Brown dedicates the first half of her day to writing and cites determination as the crucial factor.

“Being adamant about writing time is extremely important,” Brown said.

“Most days I write four to seven hours. Unless there’s something that I have to do, I almost never leave my home before noon and preferably not until after two.”

Writing courses at PSU have also bolstered her skills, Brown said, as three of her stories originally drafted as course assignments have been published. She writes fiction based on social concerns, how we live in and create our cultures. Her goal is to create stories that infuse readers with

JOAN BROWN, THE AUTHOR OF SPITFIRE RED, A NOVELLA FEATURING A YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED WOMAN FACED WITH SEVERE LIFE CHALLENGES AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF DANGEROUS CHOICES DURING THE GREAT RECESSION OF THE 2000S. COURTESY OF JOAN BROWN an aspect of life they had not previously perceived.

“There are societal issues that before continuing my education I was aware of but did not understand, and now I am more and more gaining the knowledge to analyze and so write about those issues,” Brown said.

Since making the entrepreneurial leap into fulltime writing and scholarship, Brown has published a dozen short stories, a novella, and

a full-length novel across a variety of media. She writes special section articles for the Portland Tribune. Most recently, Brown landed a hit with “Forever an Other,” a fictional short story now cast in an anthology called Mosaics that includes several highprofile women authors. “‘Forever an Other’ is the published story I’m most proud of because it was in a very nice anthology next to authors who

have won prestigious writing awards, and because when I was writing it I was quite conscious of how I was structuring the plot yet still keeping true to my theme that my characters had to be the focus of, and heroes against, prejudices,” Brown said.

Brown got her start as an author many years ago while working for a company that published magazines. While selling advertising for the company, Brown also began

writing articles and soliciting various publications with her fiction work.

“That was over 30 years ago, and after uncountable rejections I finally got an acceptance letter,” Brown said. “Those seconds of stunning hope are still crystal clear in my memory. I wanted to get up on the rooftop and yell. Today I still feel that way.

Whenever I get an acceptance letter I want everyone to know. I want everyone to read my stories.”

In July 2015 Brown published Spitfire Red, a novella featuring a young, inexperienced woman faced with severe life challenges and the consequences of dangerous choices during the Great Recession of the 2000s. Now, the story will be reworked and picked up in Scars Publications in March 2017.

Still, Brown reiterates, success in the age of Amazon requires a certain toughness and perseverance. She also keeps friends close as a source of stamina.

“There are a lot of inspirational sayings and writings out there for writers, and I’ve read hundreds of them,” Brown said. “I remember what works for me, and forget the rest.

Believe in yourself and be a good friend. Writing, especially fiction, can be lonely.

Some days the only emails I get are spam and rejection notices, and it’s my friends who give me the encouragement to keep trying.”

Another important factor for success is balance. When she isn’t tapping away at the keyboard, Brown helps a local jazz musician with marketing and promotions, walks or bikes every day, and participates in a community garden.

Editor’s note: Joan Brown will begin as a contributor to the Vanguard news team in the coming term. The hiring process occurred independently of the assigning and publication of this article by the Arts & Culture section. After discussion and consideration, the editorial staff determined that the article falls into the scope of the section’s mission of spotlighting the arts work of PSU community members, and that it should not be pulled as Brown has not yet contributed to the newspaper.

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OPINION

BEGIN WITH THE SELF TH E BURN PERIPHERAL VIEWS Randee-Jo Barcinas-Manglona

What a time to be alive, right? With everything bad going on in the world right now, it’s no surprise that a lot of us have given up on society. Despite this extreme loss of hope, it might be a relief to know that there are actually some things happening in the world right now that deserve a round of applause.

Take the rise of female fitness enthusiasts, for instance. For the longest time, men have been dominating fitness society by leading perfect examples of active and healthy lifestyles. Now, more and more women are starting to work on their health, and the numbers are remarkable. Even a simple scroll through Instagram or Facebook will show you this.

The question is, when did this all start? It’s possible that celebrities who’ve started to embrace the fitness lifestyle (like Kim Kardashian) might have influenced this progression. It is also possible that the media has something to do with it. The real answer? It doesn’t matter.

If Kim Kardashian’s body motivates you to work out, let it! If the model on the front cover of the latest Vogue issue persuaded you to sign up for a gym membership, that’s great!

There is truly nothing wrong with wanting what’s best for yourself. As a fitness enthusiast myself, I took a long time to truly understand why I’ve got nothing to lose.

The first part of my journey consisted of running on the treadmill at the gym and signing up for Zumba classes because, according to society, that’s how women should exercise. However, if we keep putting that in our minds, we are missing out on a lot of great opportunities, such as bodyweight exercises.

After craving something new in my workout routine, I began weight training and ignoring everything society had to say about it. Did I turn into the Hulk? No. Was I ever unwelcome in the weight area at the gym? Yes. Though that didn’t stop me from taking advantage of the benefits body-weight exercises provide other than muscle building.

If you’re one of the women who is part of this fitness movement, keep it up! And if you ever get bored of the usual cardio, yoga or whatever your workout routine is, don’t be afraid to do body-weight exercises at home or hit up the weights area at your gym.

I definitely don’t have the perfect body, nor am I suddenly a health guru, but I can honestly say that I feel 10 times better since I started this fitness journey. My only regret is first doing it to have society’s idea of a perfect body.

I’ve had days in which I wanted to give up because the process was too long and too hard. There were times when going to the gym was the worst part of my day. Then I realized that it’s almost impossible to work on yourself if you’re not happy about doing it.

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Since then, I switched up wanting a perfect body to just wanting to be healthy. After all, it is impossible to have a real idea of what’s perfect in a world where each and every single person is different. Perhaps working on ourselves and our health is the first step to becoming better members of society.

How are we supposed to help the world we live in if we can’t help ourselves?

Then I realized that it’s almost impossible to work on yourself if you’re not happy about doing it.

We can keep complaining about how messed up humanity is, or we can start making differences and begin with ourselves.

Because we are all different, it is important to note that being physically healthy is not the only way we can become better people; it is simply one example. Some might prefer to work on their personalities. Others might prefer to change their habits.

What matters most is being capable of making a difference within ourselves, so we are then able to make a difference in society, whether big or small. And then maybe, just maybe, it won’t be such a bad time to be alive.

“Then I realized that it’s almost impossible to work on yourself if you’re not happy about doing it. “

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OPINION

POKEMON GO: WHAT’S GOING ON? MUSINGS FROM THE SUB-BASEMENT Kevin Hadsell In recent weeks, we have witnessed a phenomenon known as Pokemon Go, an augmented-reality game for iOS and Android devices. The game allows players to capture, train and pit Pokemon against each other in combat, using the actual physical environment as the playing field.

It should go without saying that, to someone not actually involved in the game, witnessing it unfold is a mildly surreal experience. While you go about your ordinary day-to-day life, your friends and neighbors, family and community members are running around in pursuit of virtual Pokemon that only they can see.

The game has become an obsession for people of a certain age demographic, which happens to be, roughly, ages five to 30.

It has an unsettling way of intruding into the physical world.

On a recent trip to the grocery store, my roommate—who, I suspect, only came along to catch rare Pokemon in the produce section—spent most of the time running between aisles with her phone trying to kidnap and enslave virtual beings that were invisible to everyone but her. She announced triumphantly near the entrance that she had successfully caught a Starmie.

I congratulated her on her good fortune. Before reaching the car she managed to get a hold of a Krabby and a Staryu. Apparently they live in this environment. Overall it was a successful trip.

The sudden appearance of Pokemon in our physical environment raises some unsettling questions. Have there always been Pokemon living among us and we simply did not have the technology to detect them until now? Or is this a recent infestation?

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PEOPLE PLAYING POKEMON GO IN PIONEER SQUARE. JAMON SIN/PSU VANGUARD

While scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed, I came across the following status update from a friend: “Look, the Squirtle was IN. THE. HOUSE. Who knows what sort of rabble he was rousing.” She seemed genuinely terrified.

Have Squirtles always inhabited her house? Or have they come to us via the game?

It also begs the question: What is the difference between a Pokemon, in this context, and an actual haunting? These questions were not answered in any of the Pokemon literature I came across, but it is well documented that these Pokemon cannot be seen or touched by humans, and yet they live in our communities and can interact with us through the right channels.

Ghosts behave in much the same way. Have the Pokemon always resided on a separate plane of existence? Have they recently arrived? How do we know?

To further explore the Pokemon/undead spirit connection,

consider this: Late last week a news story surfaced of Shayla Wiggins, a teenager in rural Wyoming who discovered a dead body in the river near her home while searching for Pokemon. “I was just trying to find a water Pokemon,” she explained to CNN. Somehow the game led her directly to a corpse, where she likely had to confront her own mortality instead of the water Pokemon she was searching for. Was she led there by the spirit of the dead man in the form of a Pokemon? Was this just a coincidence? How can we be sure? The article does not mention if she actually found a water Pokemon near the decaying corpse. Perhaps that was never the purpose of her being led there in the first place.

Thankfully, no corpses were discovered among the produce at New Seasons. However, I would caution our readers against looking for Pokemon in riverbeds, shallow graves, mausoleums or any other places that dead bodies tend to accumulate.

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TOTALLY LEGIT HOROSCOPES Leo (July 24–Aug. 22)

This is a very special time of year for you, I think (I’m not an astrologist). I don’t really know what I’m talking about, Leo, but neither do you. It’s time to take a step away from that cliff edge where you proudly look over your savannah kingdom, and let someone else take charge. Eat some cake, be an antelope, happy birthday.

Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22)

Yo, Virg—can I call you Virg? I’m going to. How’s that cattle ranch working out for you? Or are you already regretting the hundreds of cows you’ve purchased and the smell that comes with them? Maybe it’s not a cattle ranch, maybe it’s that jaguar (the actual animal) you bought and you’re seriously reconsidering your decisions.

Take a second, Virg, and think about why you did that in the first place? I’m sure you have a very good reason for it. Trust yourself, boo.

Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

You’re at an all-time high in your life and you don’t see yourself coming down. But that

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doesn’t mean you have to stomp on everyone else’s hopes and dreams just because yours are being met right now. Remember who was there for you when the going was tough, they’re gonna expect the same from you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

You recently got your palms read by another fortune teller, huh? Yeah, we’ve all been there at one point or another. Didn’t like what you heard? Well guess what, Scorps, not everything people tell you is true. Surprise! You won’t die if you walk under an open ladder.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Why are you reading this? You’re crushing it at life at the moment and I have nothing else to offer you, young grasshopper. Try again next week.

Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan, 19)

I consulted the magic eight ball and whatever you were wondering, without a doubt. You’re welcome.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18)

Gemini (May 21–June 20)

Did you find that kiddie pool I told you to swim in yet? No? Well there’s your task for the week.

Remember to fill it with champagne and live the classy life.

What’s new this week, Gem? Really…another pimple? Try using that facewash your mom’s been telling you to use, would ya? Not everything your mom says is wrong, I promise.

She was your age at one time or another, maybe 100 years ago, maybe 500 years ago. Either way, she’s been there too.

Aries (March 21–April 19)

Cancer (June 21–July 22)

Cool your jets there, Aquarius. Surriously.

Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20)

Guess what, Aries? The most exciting news is in the next fortune cookie you open. So, go order some Chinese food, put on your favorite flick and realize that it doesn’t take a fortune cookie to tell you that you’re an all-star.

Taurus (April 20–May 20)

You’re a delicate flower at the moment and people are gonna try to pick your petals. But ya know what you’re gonna tell them? “Nobody puts baby in a corner!” Yeah, that’s right. Don’t worry ’bout a thang, Taur, your Patrick Swayze is just around the corner. Just remember to be patient. You got this kiddo.

What did I tell you last week, Cancer? No, really, what the heck did I tell you? It’s not my job to remember, it’s yours, ya silly goose. Now listen to me! Stress is a very close friend to you right now, but I want you to take a long, deep breath and tell yourself these exact words: I. Am. Going. To. Be. OK. Love yourself, you’re pretty dang awesome and I know I’m not the only one who thinks so.

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