Portland State Vanguard vol. 71 issue 27

PORTLAND STATE VANGUARD

VOLUME 71 • ISSUE 27 • APRIL 4, 2017

WHEN SURVIVORS BECOME HEROES Rape survivor Brenda Tracy to open Sexual Assault Awareness Month

PSU GOES TO SPACE P. 5

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CONTENTS

ROBBY DAY

COVER DESIGN BY AARON OSBORN, PHOTO COURTESY OF BRENDA TRACY LLC.

NEWS

ARTS & CULTURE

FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUSES IN QUESTION

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INTERNATIONAL P. 6

FEATURE

EDITORIAL

MANAGING EDITOR Tim Sullivan NEWS EDITOR AJ Earl ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Alanna Madden ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Matthew Andrews

EPA HIRES SWAMP MONSTER

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EVENTS APRIL 4–10

RAPE SURVIVOR BRENDA TRACY COMES TO PSU

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Colleen Leary

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OPINION

THIS WEEK AROUND THE WORLD

STAFF

2017 ALREADY A SUCCESS FOR FILM

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COPY CHIEF Thomas Spoelhof

MULTIMEDIA MANAGER Andy Ngo

COPY EDITORS John Falchetta Harlie Hendrickson

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN

ONLINE EDITOR Andrew D. Jankowski CONTRIBUTORS Ryan Morse Jake Johnson Eric Steffen Zachary Vendehey Anna Williams

PHOTO & MULTIMEDIA

OPINION EDITOR Evan Smiley

PHOTO EDITOR Silvia Cardullo

INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Chris May

PHOTOGRAPHERS Jake Johnson

REGGIE WATTS COMES TO REV HALL ON SAT.

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NEWS NEWS

FREE SPEECH OR HATE SPEECH? CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER SPEAKS AT PSU THOMAS SPOELHOF

When Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, brought his dialogue concerning free speech on college campuses to Portland State on March 18, the civil rights attorney focused on two central points.

Firstly, Cohn wants students to know that the right to free speech applies in full force on public university and college campuses.

Students at public institutions of higher education have fully vested First Amendment and other constitutional rights.

THE DRIVING ENGINE OF ADVANCEMENT

For his second point, Cohn focused on the importance of being able to speak your mind and hear others speak theirs.

“Free speech has been the driving engine that has led to virtually every advancement in civil rights—from women’s suffrage to desegregation—in our country’s history, every single one,” Cohn said. “The importance of free speech to a democratic society can’t be overstated. If you don’t vigorously defend freedom of speech on the college campus, we will condition future generations to accept that censorship is normal, routine, and that maybe it is even desirable.”

The group Cohn represents, FIRE, is a nonprofit watchdog organization based in Philadelphia that works on civil liberty issues such as free speech and due process on American college and university campuses.

TROUBLING TRENDS

Cohn spoke for a half-hour beginning at 7 p.m. inside PSU’s Native American Community Center and engaged the audience of 35 students, faculty and guests in questions and dialogue for an additional hour afterward. The event was hosted by secular humanist groups Freethinkers of PSU and Center for Inquiry, Portland.

In his speech, Cohn described what he sees as troubling trends in censorship on campuses nationwide and the potential dangers that could follow.

“People have a hard time imagining that if censorship becomes normalized, how it could be turned against them,” Cohn said. “They perceive they aren’t the ones who are in trouble.

Then it seems like a great idea, but you aren’t always going to be the one who is in charge.”

Censorship manifests, according to Cohn, in campaigns to have speakers disinvited from college campuses, the refusal to allow unfavorable voices to be heard, and “the mistaken belief that we have a right to not be offended

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and that the right must be enforced on college campuses.” The last few years have seen speakers like Condoleeza Rice, Madeleine Albright, ex-Muslim human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, IMF head Christine Lagarde, and comedian Bill Maher, among others, all subject to these campaigns with mixed degrees of success.

“I censored myself in class because I learned early on that if you write something the professor disagrees with, you get a bad grade. So you go along; you play the game.”

—2016 PSU graduate Khalid Alshaikh PSU philosophy professor Peter Boghossian introduced Cohn’s discussion with a statement regarding the zeitgeist of critical thought in society at large.

“People are brandishing free speech issues as some kind of far right, neo-conservative concept, which is just factually incorrect,” Boghossian said. “It’s absolutely, unequivocally untrue.”

Cohn attributed the phenomenon to issues lamented in FIRE President Greg Lukianoff’s 2015 Atlantic article, “The coddling of the American mind,” co-authored by NYU professor Jonathan Haidt.

“Lukianoff’s article offers two assertions,” Cohn said. “First, there is a movement taking place for making colleges safe places where students are shielded from words or ideas that could make some of them uncomfortable. The second is that this movement poses a real and significant danger to the scholarship and quality of education obtained at American universities.”

Cohn cited incidents of protest demanding trigger warnings before assigned readings of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

He spoke of seemingly innocuous computer usage policies and schools requiring applicants to surrender access to their social media accounts.

PLAYING THE GAME OF SELF-CENSORSHIP

Khalid Alshaikh, an attendee who earned his B.A. in political science from PSU in 2016, agreed with Cohn’s views on the challenges of censorship in higher education.

“It’s funny because university is supposed to be a melting pot of views,” Alshaikh said.

“I censored myself in class because I learned

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JOE COHN, FIRE’S LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY DIRECTOR, SPEAKS AT THE NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT CENTER. ANDY NGO/PSU VANGUARD early on that if you write something the professor disagrees with, you get a bad grade. So you go along; you play the game.”

PSU student Blake Horner asked, “How should students defend themselves from censorship by faculty in the classroom?”

In his response, Cohn cited an incident at a university this year in which a student blew the whistle on a professor’s long, off-topic political rant when the subject was not germain to the course. Cohn also explained such issues have to be handled on a case by case basis. For example, in the humanities, a wide range of interpretations make the course insightful.

On the other hand, when politics aren’t related to course material, students shouldn’t be graded differently because of their opinions.

Cohn closed with an appeal to student action.

“Now is a really important time to engage your administration critically about censorship and talk about ways that they can earn a green light from us [FIRE],” Cohn said.

“FIRE is always available to work with the universities, and we need students to stand up and say that’s the kind of university they want to go to.”

PSU is presently not rated in the FIRE database of college rankings.

Disclosure Notice: Vanguard Multimedia Editor, Andy Ngo, is a member of Freethinkers of PSU and helped organize the FIRE event.

Though Ngo did not participate in coverage of the event, we are disclosing this for the sake of transparency.

NEWS NEWS

PSAS TESTED, NASA APPROVED ALANNA MADDEN

Portland State Aerospace Society announced a major milestone on March 6 after receiving approval from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its CubeStat Launch Initiative titled, “The Oregon Satellite Project,” or “OreSat,” which is set to launch into orbit from the International Space Station between 2019 and 2020.

OreSat’s approval allows PSAS members the opportunity to design, build, and launch Oregon’s first small satellite ever while simultaneously breaking new ground for aeronautics, aerospace, and climate change research.

NASA revealed the selections for the eighth round of CSLI on Feb. 17, 2017 and OreSat was selected as one of seven first picks among 36 total satellites chosen from 19 states to participate.

Created in 2010, NASA’s CSLI provides an opportunity for nonprofit organizations, educational universities, institutions and NASA centers to launch their own CubeSat into space through existing launch dates intended for government payloads.

CubeSats belong to a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites and are intended to be used for scientific investigation

and educational progression within “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” or STEM departments throughout the United States.

PSAS submitted its proposal for OreSat to NASA in 2016 under the direction of PSU adjunct professor Andrew Greenberg, and PSAS Control Board members Marie House and Aaron Baker as primary student contacts. Fellow researchers from Oregon State University and University of Oregon also teamed up with PSAS to develop OreSat’s tertiary mission initiative.

“First and foremost, OreSat’s primary mission is to function as a vehicle for STEM outreach,” Greenberg said, echoing OreSat’s written proposal after a PSAS meeting on March 7, where many members were buzzing with excitement from the project’s recent success.

OreSat’s STEM outreach, “Satellite Networked Operational Ground Station,” involves the distribution of blueprints, kits, or full units of ground stations to K–12 Oregon schools. Each ground station costs less than $50 and provides students with an opportunity to develop STEM interests.

ASPSU SENATE UPDATE

As OreSat passes overhead, students can connect their ground station to the satellite in order to access satellite data and a quick snap shot, or “space selfie,” of the students themselves.

PSAS installed a “DxWiFi,” which will allow OreSat to break the world record for the furthest transmitted WiFi signal to date.

OreSat’s second mission also involves using a camera, the “Cirrus Flux Cam,” contributed

by Dr. Greg Bothum and Eryn Congi from UO Physics in order to research the global impact of cirrus clouds regarding climate change.

OreSat’s proposal to NASA explained how cirrus clouds are generally invisible but “are capable of absorbing infrared heat, a basic mechanism of global warming.”

PSAS expects the third mission, “Open Technology,” to break even more records by using three technologies on satellite for the first time: DxWiFi, Alta Devices Single-Junction CVD Solar Technology, and the OreSat Bus. All three technologies complement the precision and research expected for CubeSat functionality and classification.

CubeSats are easily assisted into space because they are designed to be cube-shaped,

compact, and lightweight, generally weighing less than three pounds with a volume of about one quart.

However, weight efficiency also occurs in the nanosatellite’s use of solar cells to convert solar energy into electricity. OreSat’s solar technology will provide an opportunity to test Gallium Arsenide solar cells, a chemical vapor deposition, for the first time in space.

The OreSat Bus is designed to replace standard CubeSat technology with an open source, modular card and backplane system, allowing CubeSats to scale between different unit sizes and house additional provisions for satellite functionality.

OreSat’s design, production and testing has been developed by PSAS student and faculty members who hail from a variety of departments including business, engineering, physics, architecture and biology. “Everyone should be able to work together,” said PSAS member, Risto Rushford.

OreSat is expected to be ready for launch in February 2019. For more information on PSAS membership or OreSat, please visit psas.pdx.edu.

PSU SENATE ABANDONS CONSTITUTION CHANGES, ELECTS NEW CHAIR

JAKE JOHNSON

The Associated Students of Portland State Senate meeting on March 20 went quite differently than previously anticipated.

Initially, the meeting agenda was scheduled to entertain a vote to change the ASPSU constitution. However, due to organizational conflicts of interest the original agenda was dropped. In addition to briefly discussing the constitution’s absence from the agenda, the meeting included such turns as the election of a new Senate chair, committee updates, and a brief report from the ASPSU’s Presidential Search Advisory Committee.

THE CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE CHANGED

Previous student administrations have considered revisions to the ASPSU constitution fairly consistently.

As relayed via public announcement, two possible changes under consideration by the current administration included giving the ASPSU president veto power and the reduction of Student Fee Committee votes in the Senate from seven to one.

One hour before the meeting began, Brent Finkbeiner, ASPSU chief of staff, informed students via email that “due to an unforeseen conflict with procedural bylaws, ASPSU will not be presenting or voting on any constitutional revisions to Senate tonight. We will discuss next steps, but there will be no formal vote to send any substantive amendments to the ballot this year.”

“There was a lack of clear communication about certain time frames and expectations,” said ASPSU President Liela Forbes.

“People who had access to certain knowledge [were] not communicating that, and that kind of created a situation where we weren’t able to do our job in a way that we were responsible for.”

Forbes went on to say the Senate would not pursue further changes to the constitution and that they regarded this situation as a lost opportunity.

During the meeting, Senator Kaitlin Hoback confirmed with ASPSU Advisor Candace Avalos that non-substantive changes can still be explored. However, the Senate did not define what “non-substantive” means, nor did the representatives discuss what non-substantive changes they were interested in making.

his time at PSU lobby days in Salem and talking to representatives as being good experiences to prepare him for an expanded role in the Senate.

“I have been with those constitutional changes since the beginning,” Claus said.

“I’m really sad to see what’s happened with the deadline because that’s obviously a miscommunication, and that’s definitely part of my motivation for wanting to be Senate chair is making sure the communication is there, because that’s a lot of work that just went to waste.”

After the nominees were heard by the Senate, voting members discussed the candidates in preparation for a vote.

In the end, Luis Balderas Villagrana received broad support and was elected as the new Senate chair.

ELECTION OF A NEW SENATE CHAIR

UPDATES FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

A new Senate chair was needed, and the Senate provided the opportunity for candidates to be nominated, discussed and elected.

Luis Balderas Villagrana was nominated by SFC member Andy Mayer, and Josephine Claus was self-nominated. Each was then given an opportunity to explain why they should be considered qualified for the position.

Villagrana emphasized wanting to be a Senate chair that would value and strive to expand communication. In addition to his brief time in ASPSU so far, Villagrana cited

The PSU Board of Trustees is responsible for evaluating and hiring the next university president to replace Wim Wiewel after his upcoming resignation, effective summer 2017.

As the next item of the meeting, ASPSU President Leila Forbes solicited feedback to include in the Senate’s report which would be submitted to the BOT the following day on March 21.

One member of the meeting noted that Dr. Rahmat A. Shoureshi exhibited pos-

itive interactions with students at the Native American Student and Community Center. “[Shoureshi] seemed to really understand the dynamics that are in place here [at PSU],” noted an ASPSU member regarding Shoureshi’s recent presentation at PSU. “And they want to work with the students to create a shared vision.”

No comments were made about other candidates Jack H. Knott or Jonathan GS Koppell. Forbes noted no more planned opportunities to meet presidential candidates and that the BOT would move forward with the next steps of its presidential search at either a special meeting in May or at an upcoming BOT meeting in April.

“Knowing that their April meeting is also a tuition increase meeting,” Forbes speculated, “I somehow don’t know that they’re gonna get to that business item.”

The BOT is scheduled to meet with students on April 7 and hold a budget meeting on April 11 that will include discussing tuition increases.

TUITION INCREASE?

Legislative Affairs Director Phoenix Singer discussed the $1.7 billion budget deficit that could lead to tuition increases if there aren’t a significant amount of voices raised in opposition.

A petition has been circulating for students opposed to tuition increases. This petition is reported to have gathered around 136 signatures so far.

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NEWS INTERNATIONAL NEWS

US/UK LAPTOP BAN CAUSES FRUSTRATION AND CREATIVITY

SHANNON KIDD

ERIC STEFFEN

The United States and the United Kingdom issued a ban on in-cabin electronics larger than cell phones from various countries in the Middle East on March 21.

The U.S. ban affects airports in Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The U.K. ban is slightly different, affecting airports in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey.

While the ban affects only direct flights from the designated airports in these countries, some have taken note that the ban affects exclusively Muslim-majority nations, including U.S. and U.K. North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Turkey.

The ban is not unprecedented, however. The ban on liquids over 3 ounces and the requirement to put shoes through Transportation Security Administration screening devices

arose from a 2006 plot to use explosive liquids on an airplane and the unsuccessful 2014 plot to use a shoe-bomb.

As reported by Vox, the fact that foreign countries have followed suit and that top Democrats in Congress have also endorsed the ban—one that usually only goes in place preemptively if there is credible intelligence for an attack—lends support to the idea a legitimate threat is in play.

The ban does not prohibit people from bringing electronic devices with them, it just relegates devices larger than a cellphone to the cargo hold of the plane. Tim Hawley, former head of the TSA, was quoted in Wired’s report as stating, “You really need a big bomb to knock a plane down underneath the floor.”

The cargo hold of an airplane is heavily reinforced and any bomb will be surrounded by

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a bunch of luggage and suitcases—rather than people—minimizing any casualties from a would-be bomb.

Some airlines affected by the ban have had some fun by using the ban as an advertising gimmick. Royal Jordanian tweeted multiple times regarding the ban, with one tweet including a poem that reads, “Every week a new ban / Travel to the U.S. since you can / We are now poets because of you son / No one can ruin our in-flight fun / We have good tips for everyone”.

The Jordanian airline then followed up with a list of 12 things to do on a 12-hour flight without a laptop or tablet. Some of the items listed include simple things such as reading or meditating, but as the list went on the airline began to have fun and included some tips such as, “Engage in primitive dialogue from the pre-internet era,” “Pretend tray table is

a keyboard,” and the last tip, “Think of reasons why you don’t have a laptop or tablet with you.”

Some other airlines have come up with methods to work around the laptop ban and allow their passengers access to their devices for as long as possible before handing them over to be checked.

State-owned Emirates Airlines will allow passengers to use their laptops past the security gates at Dubai International Airport. Just prior to boarding the flight, Emirates employees will take the banned devices and bring them to the cargo hold for the remainder of the flight.

While not entirely perfect, it does allow passengers extended use of their laptops.

Emirates CEO Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum even joked that “passengers can now justifiably give themselves a break from their devices.”

Government crackdowns on protests against its controversial unemployment tax on “social parasites” reached a head as hundreds of protesters were detained during Belarus’ unofficial holiday known as “Freedom Day.” Despite the temporary suspension of the tax and arrests of key social figures and politicians before the rallies, over 700 people marched in the streets in defiance of a government ban on the anti-government protest.

Carrie Lam became the next leader of Hong Kong after an election in which less than one percent of Hong Kong’s registered voters were able to participate. Amid calls for universal suffrage that would reduce Beijing’s influence, dissatisfied citizens took solace in a storm of obscene Cantonese puns that played on 777, the total number of votes Lam received.

Theresa May formally announced the beginning of Britain’s exit from the European Union, beginning a two-year countdown to finalize the terms of its withdrawal. Her invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon signaled the start of contentious negotiations between the U.K. and EU over customs, trade, and security arrangements.

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Widespread condemnation from human rights groups, foreign governments, and long-time party loyalists followed a move by Venezuela’s Supreme Court that left the opposition-controlled Congress with virtually no power or authority. Three days later, President Nicolas Maduro, whose ruling socialist party is under increasing pressure as economic woes have lead to food shortages and increased violence, announced the court had reversed its decision.

South Korea’s former president, Park Geun-hye, was arrested on corruption and bribery charges which emerged from a bizarre scandal that ended with her impeachment. While Park will not be sharing her cell with anyone while she awaits a verdict that could see her incarcerated for life, knowing that many of her former employees, her best friend and spiritual advisor, and the heir to the Samsung empire are all currently residing in the same facility may provide her some comfort.

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WHEN SURVIVORS BECOME HEROES Rape survivor Brenda Tracy to open Sexual Assault Awareness Month

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRENDA TRACY LLC

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Editor’s Note: This article discusses a survivor’s account of sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some readers. Portland State’s Women’s Resource Center provides support and information for members of PSU community affected by sexual assault and violence.

BY ANNA WILLIAMS for up-to-date information, she was shocked to find a 2011 article which criticized Riley for lifting a one-game suspension on a player charged with domestic violence.

“In the middle of the night,” Tracy said, “I was angry about this article, and I clicked on the reporter.”

Tracy shared with John Canzano, the reporter from the Oregonian/OregonLive, that Riley had also served her rapists a mere one-game suspension. Having a daughter on the OSU campus, Tracy said, “He should be ashamed of himself.”

Two minutes later, Tracy recounted, Canzano emailed her back: “I’m proud of you. Do you want to talk?”

Tracy began telling her story to Canzano before she knew he was an award-winning sports journalist. After his series of stories on Tracy ran, Canzano won the 2016 Jane Velez-Mitchell Journalism Award presented by the National Women’s Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation. “I never would have ever gone to him on my own,” Tracy said. “It totally happened serendipitously.”

When Canzano first reached out to Riley for comment, he expected the coach to deflect questions. Instead, Riley called Canzano and admitted he might have handled the situation differently if he had known the details of his players’ case.

Riley told the Vanguard, “I’ve been “I still feel the shame, I feel the doing this a long time, but I don’t ever embarrassment, I feel the disgust, want to stop learning how to do it betI cry every time I talk about those ter.” At the end of his 2014 phone call graphic details, because it’s still with Canzano, Riley suggested Tracy come speak to his team at Nebraska. very real and very painful for me.” Referencing Tracy’s June 2016 visit —BRENDA TRACY, RAPE SURVIVOR AND SEXUAL to the team and with Riley one-onone, Riley said, “It was one of the best ASSAULT AWARENESS ADVOCATE things I’ve ever done with the team.

And it was one of the best things I’ve ever done for me.”

While Tracy counts her coming forward Two of Tracy’s alleged rapists, Calvin Carlyle and Jason Dandridge, were OSU as “an act of desperation” while looking for football players under now-University of healing beyond her few therapy sessions, Nebraska football coach Mike Riley. When Canzano credits her for her courage.

“In the course of being a journalist, you enboth players were arrested then released, Riley suspended them from one game with- counter people who have had misfortune or have been victimized,” Canzano said. “I think out due process.

However, without pursuing the details of a lot of people would have blamed what haptheir arrest, he told the press, “These are pened to them and how they were victimized really good guys who made a bad choice.” on their circumstance, but instead here’s this person who went off and decided she was goTracy never forgot this phrase.

In 2014, after four therapy sessions in ing to be successful in spite of it.”

In Tracy’s visit to PSU, she plans to recount which Tracy began talking about the rape again, she decided her healing “needed to the grim details of her rape just like she has start somewhere.” Tracy thought she would in every other speech. For Tracy, this is still write Riley a letter. After Googling the coach not easy.

Brenda Tracy—rape survivor, public speaker, and political advocate—will speak at 5:30 p.m. on April 5 in Portland State’s Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom to kick off the university’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month speaker series. Tracy will also be presented with an award by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.

Tracy’s visit to PSU will be her latest of over 20 campus speeches and occurs less than three years after she first came forward with her rape survival story. After 16 years of being trapped in a self-described “prison of silence,” she quickly turned her nursing career into one of political advocacy and public speaking.

In June 1998, Tracy was gang-raped by four men for seven hours at a weekend house party near the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. Tracy was also force-fed alcohol, sodomized, and robbed before she left the apartment the next morning. Tracy initially called the police for advice, then agreed to a rape kit. However, after pressure from her best friend and boyfriend at the time, Tracy decided not to press charges. Authorities had enough evidence to convict the four suspects, but without Tracy’s input, none of the men served their estimated 16 years each of prison time.

SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH EVENTS APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH. PORTLAND STATE IS HOSTING A SERIES OF EVENTS ACKNOWLEDGING ISSUES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. AN EVENING WITH BRENDA TRACY

ZUMBATHON!

April 5 5:30–8 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom

April 20 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Academic Student and Recreation Center MAC Court

SURVIVOR SPEAKOUT

DENIM DAY

April 7 6–8 p.m.

Parson’s Gallery, 2nd floor Urban Center Building

April 26 9–3 p.m.

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April 13 Doors at 5 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom

“I think that the thing that has changed is that I’m just feeling more confident about it,” Tracy explained. “I still feel the shame, I feel the embarrassment, I feel the disgust, I cry every time I talk about those graphic details, because it’s still very real and very painful for me.”

What has Canzano and Riley calling her speeches “grabbing,” however, is that Tracy has little regard for her audiences’ comfort.

“It’s only when we’re uncomfortable that we’re mobilized to do something,” Tracy said.

Tracy will also talk about how PSU community members can get involved with sexual assault advocacy. Tracy works with sexual assault victim advocate and lawyer Jacqueline Swanson to affect change in Oregon law. One recent success, “Melissa’s Law,” increased Oregon’s statute of limitations from six years to twelve. Tracy’s oldest son, Darius Adams, has begun his own advocacy work with a change.org petition to keep violent athletes out of the NCAA.

Canzano hopes more than just those involved with the Women’s Resource Center and PSU athletes will show up to Tracy’s talk. “I’d like to see people read this and go, ‘We’re the biology department, but let’s have a night where we bring her in and just let her talk,’” Canzano said. “Because it shouldn’t just be limited to women and sports teams, and that’s what’s happening right now.”

Tracy’s visit is sponsored not just by the WRC and PSU Athletics, but by the PSU Office of Global Diversity and Inclusion, PSU Illuminate, the Oregonian, and the American Association of University Women.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum will also present Tracy with the 2017 Visionary Voice Award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Free-tothe-public tickets can be reserved on the WRC events page.

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NEWS ARTS NEWS& CULTURE

THE QUALITY ONSLAUGHT OF 2017 FILM REVIEW BY ZACHARY VANDEHEY

“GET OUT” DIRECTED BY JORDAN PEELE. UNIVERSAL PICTURES/2017 As amazing as 2016 was in the film industry, 2017 is already giving it a run for its money with epic titles and quality cinema being released nearly every week thus far. The past few weeks in particular have yielded several incomparable gems. If high-caliber films were how one procured nutrients, I would already be fat with artistic satisfaction and New Year’s resolution shame. From highly anticipated reboots to pinnacles of sardonic ingenuity, the waves of entertainment never seem to cease.

‘GET OUT’

At the end of February, we saw revered comedian Jordan Peele’s inaugural directing effort, Get Out, a twisting tale of deceit and racial discord. Like many other films in the mystery category, Get Out evokes a conventional predictability at first, then tosses you down a swiveling slide of stupefying surprise. This is one of those films that is so thought-provoking and intuitive that it is made to be watched twice in order to catch all the subtleties you missed the first time around, because there were loads of them. The film also carries itself with a certain self-awareness in its narrative and its humor; in specific scenes it’s hard to differentiate between smart, cultured satire and pure, well-developed thrill. Having seen many of the horror/thriller/mystery films released in the past couple years, I can confidently say that Get Out is refreshingly original while also playing on the

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traditional tropes that horror movies can’t seem to stray from. Be prepared to want to watch this film twice.

Continuing the roll of long-awaited films, the newest extension of the Wolverine saga, Logan, picked up where Deadpool left off regarding absolute merciless gore. The R-rated floodgates have truly opened up for superhero movies as of late, and they are abusing their new liberty in the most entertaining, bloodstained ways possible. Logan makes sure not to skimp on the carnage. With knives built into his fists it’s not far-fetched to say that Logan’s kills are certifiably brutal. The blood and guts aren’t what make Logan a fantastic film, though; it’s the profound relationships that create such an affecting story. With so many conflicting emotions and virtues being put to the test and sacrificed, the story is a winding roller coaster of emotional strife, with relationships you genuinely connect with and want to see through to the end. But be warned: Being so invested in these bonds increases the probability of ending up totally distraught when exiting the theater.

For avid criers like yours truly, deep sentiment for the characters made the film tough to watch, in the sense that it was literally difficult to see the screen clearly through the puddles of tears building up in my eyeballs.

with immaculate storytelling and inventive ways to keeps us guessing. It seems there is a collective incentive to produce fresh, intoxicating excitement with every film. However, not all the great films are original. Arguably the most keenly awaited release of 2017 so far opened in theaters mid-March. Beauty and the Beast has already taken the world by storm, bringing in over $690 million worldwide just in the first two weeks.

Prepare to take a swim down nostalgia creek, for this film superbly captures the essence of the 1991 original, down to the manly hairs on Gaston’s chin. Although the film is nearly identical to the cartoon, the realism adds a wondrous magic to the message of the story— and I don’t mean the Stockholm syndrome part. With modern effects, there is a whole lot to gawk at: the grandiose landscapes and castle, the ethereal interior designs, the debonair wardrobes, and so on. A whole lot of special effects went into the development of this film in order to recreate the magic of the classic, and recreate it they did. With the same lovable servants of the castle—whose banter keeps the narrative light and comical—and the same enchanting soundtrack that inescapably sends the Feels Train right down the track to Nostalgia Station, Beauty and the Beast succeeds in reigniting the beloved charm of the much-loved original.

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I saw each of these three movies in theaters and unquestionably enjoyed every minute of

each one. Sure, Beauty and the Beast has always been in my top three Disney princess movies, alongside Hercules and The Emperor’s New Groove (Those count as princess movies, right?), but that’s why I wholeheartedly adored the 2017 live-action remake: It was essentially the same cherished film, just with some modern tinges to the characters.

As for Logan, I am admittedly not the biggest superhero enthusiast, but I loved Deadpool and what it did with the genre; Logan expands on that freedom of grotesque realism, making the dangers and strife of a superhero’s life seem much more substantial. Also, if you’re like me and go to X-Men movies always wanting to see several different super powers put to use in battle, this movie will have you drooling with contentment. Regarding Get Out…well, judging by Jordan Peele’s justifiable praise and the Oscar rumors floating around, it isn’t hard to tell that this film is pushing the envelope on what makes a firstrate thriller.

A couple of these films will be out of firstrun theaters pretty soon (expect them at Laurelhurst in a couple months), but they are damn worth the watch if you can get out to see them. Or, you could take a chance on something. I just saw Saban’s Power Rangers the other day and was veritably flabbergasted by how awesome it was.

Go to the movies this weekend! Beat the rain and eat some popcorn in the dark! No matter what you see it’s going to be amazing…well, except maybe CHiPs.

ARTS & CULTURE

XIU XIU BRINGS ANXIETY TO THE MAIN STAGE REVIEW BY ANDREW D. JANKOWSKI On a breezy Wednesday evening at 8:25 cult-classic TV show’s soundtrack, and after p.m., I found myself waiting outside Holocene seeing expressions of anxiety and depression for an evening with Xiu Xiu, Force Publique move from the fringes to the center of mainand Mattress. I’d never heard of the latter two stream culture…can Xiu Xiu still be considbands, and prior to getting this assignment I ered outsider? Are they, instead, now some had never actually listened to Xiu Xiu: I was kind of authority? Both? Neither? Maybe only familiar with them from the MySpace something off the binary altogether?

The doors opened and I made my way to pages of friends with social anxiety and good taste. In line, a British woman asked me when what I know as Holocene’s back room, the the doors would open. Behind us a man of only section easily partitioned off from the color with a fashion sense only Willamette bar. Before I realized that this was the desWeek could love scoffed to his friend, “This is ignated all-ages space, I had a moment of existential terror when I saw I was easHolocene and she thinks they’ll be open.”

Look, I get it, I mentally responded. You’re ily the oldest person in this space. The boys around me were talking about Snapchat and cooler than us.

So far I’ve only listened to Xiu Xiu by hitting Instagram interactions, and the girls around shuffle on their Spotify discography. Short me weren’t talking much at all, silently staktracks of bird calls and early-aughts examples ing out prime space near the stage alongside mixed with offerings from their Twin Peaks larger boys. I never went to shows like these soundtrack cover album and the distinctly dif- as a kid—everyone seemed to be between the ferent styles of their latest release, FORGET. I ages of 17 and 20—but I imagined this is how heard experimental deconstructions of dance they would have been when I was their age: song forms, and I heard noise structures that swap MySpace for SnapChat, but leave in the seemingly defied classical classification and social awkwardness and youthful anticipation heightened my sensory awareness. I wasn’t we only recognize in retrospect.

Opening the show was Mattress, aka Rex sure what to expect as I shivered in the lateMarshall, a Portland-based “future-lounge” winter wind.

I thought of FORGET’s cover art, written in singer who reminds me of what a Sonic Arabic text with a color scheme tied to 2016’s Youth-inspired Richard Cheese trying out for twin colors of the year: serenity & rose quartz. a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas after-hours club Symbolism of 9/11 and the bisexual pride pal- would sound like. His Caucasian-influenced dance moves reminded me of straight men ette sprang to mind.

Xiu Xiu often adds elements into perfor- trying to vogue, and the shimmers off his mances they consider impossible to capture gold-sequin blazer filled the whole room like on a recorded album. Live Xiu Xiu and re- a disco ball made of anxiety. Nothing against corded Xiu Xiu are totally different beasts. Mattress, but I personally started getting Experimental music seems to be something to triggered during the performance and was reeither love or feel like an idiot for hating. After lieved when he was done. I do suggest checkspending a few days learning my own opinion, ing out Mattress if you don’t have an aversion to lounge singers; his music’s actually quite I felt ready for the show.

I thought of what I knew of the Xiu Xiu fans worth the listen.

After Mattress came Force Publique, a relain my social circles: some women but mostly men; some people of color but mostly white tively young duo that recently relocated from people; some queers but mostly heterosexu- Denver and have started to build a local followals; some extroverts but mostly introverts—all ing. Cassie Graves and James Wayne played of whom pride themselves on their taste and beneath a vaporwave-aesthetic digital art preinfluence, all of whom felt alone in their envi- sentation that complemented their audio style, which to me sounded like a blend of Björk, ronment at one point in life.

I thought of a question that arose during my Mazzy Star and Tricky. Someone else said research into FORGET and the band: After 15 “witch house,” and I have no idea if that’s true. years of releases, after covering David Lynch’s From what I understand, Force Publique are on

XIU XIU PERFORMING AT HOLOCENE ON MARCH 22. ANDREW JANKOWSKI/PSU VANGUARD the rise in Portland, and it was easy to understand why…and, well, if I made that up, Portland people really need to get into Force Publique.

Finally, Jamie Stewart and Shayna Dunkelman took the stage as Xiu Xiu and demonstrated to me how and why the band established its anti-curated following.

When Xiu Xiu is loud, they are violently loud. Stewart dances like the most skilled punk dancer I’ve ever seen, moving through the stage, practically moshing a cymbal without knocking it over. He screamed, he whipped out a red plastic-looking vocal modifier and shrieked, he played what sounded like glitch-aesthetic pop chords while Dunkelman danced around and assaulted her percussion set. It was thrilling.

When Xiu Xiu is quiet, they are violently quiet. At times, I found the ambient noise of the room grating when straining to hear Stewart mumble in between songs or softly sing and strum the slow numbers. I eventually realized that the noise from the 21+ section and all-ages overflow were elements incorporated into the full show—just like the bird call opening songs, Mattress’ shimmering jacket, and the peach-palette LED glow from the bathroom hallway.

Once I stopped straining to make sense of what I was seeing and hearing, I found my-

self dancing like the white people in the audience, who I noticed were dancing like the light machines above Xiu Xiu: swiveling, shoulder-heavy, glowing and largely to their own rhythm. I found myself watching the audience, most of whom were enraptured with Xiu Xiu. Some were singing along with Stewart; some eyes were locked on him. The ones who could hear Stewart’s remark about drinking pee onstage laughed from the gut.

I became fascinated with the audience, strangers united by a love of music evocative of anxiety and alienation. Are they aware of each other, of how different and how similar they are? What will this city—let alone this soundscape—be like in another 15 years, when Xiu Xiu turns 30? Will I see witch house at the VMAs? Does any of it even matter?

I made it back to my car and made it home.

I don’t have the answers to these questions. I have no authoritative ideas about the deeper meaning of FORGET, but I’ve found myself listening to Xiu Xiu a bit more (loving the older and newer stuff, hating the Nina Simone cover album) and keeping myself on the lookout for Force Publique’s next show. I’m finding connections that Xiu Xiu has to other artists I like, and possibly getting closer to understanding the “unity in alienation” paradox that is 2017.

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OPINION

THE EPA IS FILLING WITH SWAMPWATER (AND THAT AFFECTS US ALL) 404: Column not Found Ryan Morse The United States Senate confirmed Scott Pruit as the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 17, 2017. The decision was 52–46 in favor of Pruitt, and while I can’t necessarily say that it was surprising to me—there have long been agendas to cut or “abolish” the EPA—it was extremely disheartening all the same.

To quickly bring you up to speed on the new head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt is the former attorney general of Oklahoma. As a registered Republican, his political positions include being pro-life, antiAffordable Care Act, and against the federal court’s decision on marriage equality.

Notoriously, something else the newly appointed administrator of the EPA has been against is the EPA itself. No, really—Pruitt’s own bio on the Oklahoma government’s site describes him as “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.”

If that alone wasn’t enough to disqualify Pruitt as the EPA administrator, the baggage should have only finished the job. Pruitt has not only sued the EPA several times, he is also very close with oil and gas companies. In late February, the Oklahoma attorney general’s office released over 7,500 emails and records revealing Pruitt’s coziness with oil and gas companies and lobbyists—including the Koch brothers—and confirming his comfort with cutting environmental regulation.

Pruitt’s nomination and appointment isn’t the Trump administration’s first attack against the EPA, and there will without a doubt be more to come. In late January, after the inauguration, the Los Angeles Times reported the Trump administration ordered a media blackout at the EPA and suspended all new business activities, including the awarding of new contracts or grants. More recently, the White House sent budget proposals that would help bolster military spending by $54 billion. To reach that new goal, cuts to departments like the EPA will be made. It should be noted the EPA only took up .02 percent of the federal budget last year.

Needless to say, the EPA is under attack and in trouble right now. This matters. The EPA works to regulate and enforce environmental laws. Although they have been frequently painted by politicians as an embodiment of bureaucratic regulations slowing down business expansions, those regulations are there for a good reason: They protect our clean air and water and hold corporations and companies responsible for their waste. This isn’t just crucial to the environment and animals; it’s important for keeping our own drinking water and air— basic human rights becoming more valuable every single day—clean and healthy. The EPA is also responsible for funding environmental programs, nonprofits, and educational institutions nationwide.

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Thankfully in Oregon, we are lucky to at least have a few representatives who recognize the importance of the EPA—both Sens. Rob Wyden and Jeff Merkley voted against Pruitt’s appointment. But for my home state of Alaska, we haven’t been as fortunate.

Alaskan Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski voted in favor of Pruitt. When I contacted their offices to voice my concerns, I received emails from both—neither of which gave me much confidence that my concerns were being addressed. In a 2016 campaign ad, Murkowski praised Pruitt’s commitment to “returning the EPA back to its original mission of safeguarding our nation’s environment.”

A misleading claim considering the EPA’s current mission is to protect human health and the environment. Sullivan, meanwhile, commended the former Oklahoma attorney general in an email for how Pruitt defended his constituents and how he challenged “federal government overreaches,” citing the Trump administration’s new focus on “energy independence.” That is to say the administration’s new focus on coal and oil—the latter of which has ties and influence in both Alaskan and Oklahoman politics.

(I also want to point out that both emails sidestepped any of the concerns I voiced about Steve Bannon, but that’s somewhat tangential for this topic.)

This is extremely frustrating. Any cuts to the EPA ultimately pull millions of dollars currently directed towards drinking water and wastewater in Alaska, particularly in native villages. According to Alaska Dispatch News, “Programs that could be significantly scaled back or altogether cut manage things like ‘village safe water, wastewater infrastructure, rural sanitation, brownfields, air, water, pesticides, drinking water, remote maintenance workers,’ and coastal grants.” This is a serious problem.

And I haven’t even brought up climate change yet.

Scott Pruitt has long been a climate change skeptic and just recently made some statements where he questioned the influence of carbon dioxide on climate change, which goes against an incredibly large amount of scientific evidence in favor of the release of CO2 being a major factor.

The EPA is an important federal department that helps many different states in terms of funding and environmental protection. The protection of our environment—from the protection of water and air quality to dealing with climate change—should not be a partisan issue. It should not be a state issue. It’s a global issue, and we need to take responsibility as global citizens. The EPA is too important to be cut for any sort of corporate or military gain. We should protect the EPA as much as the EPA protects our environment.

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EVENT LISTINGS FOR APRIL 4–10

OFF CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 6

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FILM

WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 7 P.M. $6-9, ALL AGES Spike Lee’s period family portrait follows young Troy (Zelda Harris) and her family as she grows up in 1970s Brooklyn.

Featuring elements of magical realism, members of Lee’s own family and an amazing soundtrack.

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VANESSA CARLTON DOUG FIR LOUNGE APRIL 8 $25-27, 21+ 9 P.M. Joanne the Scammer’s favorite pianist/ songstress tours in support of her live albums, Earlier Things Live and Liberman Live. Look for me crying in the front row wearing a stolen $12,000 mink coat.

TUESDAY, APRIL 4 SCREAMO 6 P.M. SENSES FAIL, HAWTHORNE THEATER COUNTERPARTS, $16-19, ALL AGES MOVEMENT The girls I know who liked Senses Fail in high school are somewhat socially awkward yet great at networking, have enviable taste, and probably know how to beat me up.

CULTURE (ALSO SHOWING 4/5) SHEN YUN KELLER AUDITORIUM 7:30 P.M. $70-180, ALL AGES This showcase of ancient Chinese cultural song and dance performs in defiance of the official government of China, the Communist Party that attempted to erase traditional Chinese history and culture. Nothing feels more patriotic in 2017 than seeing government-condemned live theater.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 PUNK 8:45 P.M. HOMIES / NASALROD / THE KNOW BLESST CHEST $7-10, 21+ The last in a series of benefit shows for local legend Jonny Harbin’s (the Chemicals, Jonnycat Records) ongoing cancer treatment.

HIP HOP 7 P. M. DESIIGNER, ROB $TONE, CRYSTAL BALLROOM SKI MASK THE SLUMP $23, ALL AGES GOD, 16YROLD The “Panda” and “Timmy Turner” rapper/producer makes his Portland debut with a roster of support that makes me feel old. Here’s hoping the Crystal Ballroom doesn’t suffer structural damage like it did during Rae Sremmurd and Schoolboy Q.

FILM MOVING HISTORY: PORTLAND CONTEMPORARY DANCE PAST & PRESENT

6 P.M. WHITSELL AUDITORIUM $6-9, ALL AGES

Director Eric Nordstrom and members of the cast will be in attendance for a documentary about the origins and activity of prominent Portland modern dance entities, including Art Quake, Conduit, Performance Works NW, White Bird and the Portland Dance Theater.

TRIVIA 7 P.M. THE ANSWERS ARE NOT PUNCH BOWL SOCIAL WHAT THEY SEEM $5, 21+ Twin Peaks team trivia night. Costumes encouraged, registration required.

ART OPENING 5 P.M. AN EDUCATION: JEREMY P:EAR OKAI DAVIS FREE, ALL AGES The recent PSU White Gallery artist’s latest exhibition of new work on representation of black faces in institutional art spaces like galleries and museums. On display through May 31.

FILM

9:30 P.M. HOLLYWOOD THEATRE $9, ALL AGES Carla Rossi’s Queer Horror series presents a movie about a group of high school girls who band together for revenge against a brutal escaped killer tormenting them.

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE

FRIDAY, APRIL 7 ART/FASHION 6 P.M. OBSESSIVE RISING ROOM GALLERY COMPULSIVE: FREE, ALL AGES KATE LEDEBOER Stage producer, writer, stripper and costumer Kate Ledeboer presents a new collection of masks and headdresses inspired by drag queens, strippers and circus artists.

NIGHTLIFE KILLINGSWORTH LEZ DO IT DYNASTY 9 P.M. $5, 21+ DJs Chelsea Starr and Mr. Charming, with guest Rhienna, host one of Portland’s coolest lesbian parties.

NIGHTLIFE JADE CLUB CLUB DESTINY $5, 21+ 10 P.M. Queer rapper and dancer LE1F (NYC) plays a DJ set, with support from DJs Thumper, 187 Moochie, MDMH (Troubled Youth x Hold My Hand) and SPF666.

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ART OPENING 5 P.M. RESIDUE: DANIEL ORANJ STUDIO PEABODY FREE, ALL AGES An exhibition of gun powder drawings and a site-specific installation from local artist Daniel Peabody.

THEATER

ALADDIN THEATRE $25-80, MINORS 7 P.M. PERMITTED WITH 21+ Bob the Drag Queen (RuPaul’s Drag Race season 8 winner, High Maintenance) stars in Peaches Christ’s parody of Legally Blonde. Not sure if it’s a parody of the film or musical, but I imagine there will be at least one uncomfortable Portland Caucasian in the audience, and that alone should be worth the price of admission.

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MUSIC WONDER BALLROOM MITSKI, KADHJA BONET $15-17, ALL AGES 7:30 P.M. These lush-and-chill classicallytrained musicians are difficult to define exclusively by genre. Mitski has applied classical arrangements to traditional rock instruments, and Kadhja Bonet draws influence from classical, jazz, soul, folk and psychedelia while sounding like ambient R&B.

COMEDY REVOLUTION HALL REGGIE WATTS $35, ALL AGES 7 P.M. The musician, beatboxer and comedian tours in support of his latest Netflix special, Spatial.

DANCE 8 P.M. BELLYDANCE ALADDIN THEATRE EVOLUTION $30, ALL AGES The bellydance troupe presents Alice in Wonderland as Middle Eastern dance.

CABARET 9 AND 11 P.M. AL–STRAVAGANZA: A FUNHOUSE LOUNGE BURLESQUE TRIBUTE $15-100, 21+ TO WEIRD AL YANKOVIC Daria of 94.7 FM hosts the Inception of cabaret: a burlesque tribute to a parody artist. Presented by Sophie Maltease, the Infamous Nina Nightshade and Tight & Nerdy, featuring performers from San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.

NIGHTLIFE 1O P.M. JUMP JACK SOUND MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS MACHINE: PHUNKY $8, 21+ WAVY LINES Chanti Darling and Nasty Tasha host one of inner NE Portland’s coolest monthly parties, with this installment featuring live music from Lamar Leroy and Force Publique.

NIGHTLIFE SAUCE BOX GOTH SAUCE FREE, 21+ 1O P.M. DJ Dungeonmaster plays “post punk goth cold wave dark glam italo disco dance party” while anime is projected onto the ceiling.

SUNDAY , APRIL 9TH ROCK MUSIC MODA CENTER RADIOHEAD SOLD OUT, ALL AGES 7:30 P.M. The alt rock icons return to Portland for the first time in 21 years in support of their 2016 album, A Moon Shaped Pool.

MONDAY, APRIL 10 FILM

7 P.M. THE ARMORY THEATRE FREE, ALL AGES Pizza and drinks before a screening of the movie about Jack Black’s band and the infamous Pick of Destiny.

TENACIOUS D AND THE PICK OF DESTINY

SYMPHONY ARLENE SCHNITZER MOZART’S REQUIEM CONCERT HALL 7:30 P.M. $29-76, ALL AGES (ALSO PLAYING APRIL 8-9) The Oregon Symphony will also perform Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements.

FILM

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MONTY PYTHON’S THEATRE THE MEANING OF LIFE $5 DONATION, ALL AGES

7 P.M. Monty Python’s final film is presented by the Clinton Resistance Series, which proclaims “Things are really f*cked up right now.” This was the one with all the songs about sperm and penises. Worth it just for the classic Terry Gilliam short The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, APRIL 4 SPEAKING SMSU 294 WILLIAM MA FREE, ALL AGES 6:30 P.M. Ma, associate professor in Lewis & Clark College’s Art Department, presents Visualizing Qing Imperial Authority through Emperor Qianlong’s French-made Battle Prints.

WORKSHOP SMSU 296 OAK SAVANNA DESIGN FREE, ALL AGES 2-4 P.M. You know that area next to the science building that used to be a cute little park but has been mostly covered in construction crap for the last couple years? PSU’s Open Space Plan is gearing up to do something with the space in the next few months, and they want your feedback on how the space should be used.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 ART EXHIBITIONS BUSINESS HOURS FRESH! SCHOOL AUTZEN GALLERY, AB OF ART + DESIGN GALLERY FOUNDATIONS FREE, ALL AGES EXHIBITION Exhibition of artwork from students of the PSU School of Art + Design courses Intro to 2D Design, Intro to 3D Design, Drawing I, Digital Media Design, Idea + Form, and Making + Meaning.

SPEAKING SMSU BALLROOM BRENDA TRACY FREE, ALL AGES 5:30 P.M. Political advocate and sexual assault survivor Brenda Tracy opens a speaking series during Sexual Assault Awareness Month at PSU, and will be presented an award by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.

THURSDAY, APRIL 6 EMPLOYER ON CAMPUS PARK BLOCKS OUTSIDE PDX POP NOW LINCOLN HALL 11:30 A.M. FREE, ALL AGES The Portland music festival is looking for people to get involved with the forthcoming exhibition of curated local music.

ADVISING 4:30 P.M. DACA: KNOW YOUR SMSU 228 RIGHTS FREE, ALL AGES Student Legal Services, La Casa Latina Student Center and the Multicultural Student Center answer questions related to immigration, protest and PSU’s sanctuary campus status.

SPEAKING PARSONS GALLERY CARL ABBOTT, PH.D. URBAN CENTER PROFESSOR EMERITUS SECOND FLOOR 7 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Beyond Blade Runner: Imagining Community In Cities Of The Future explores the realities of living in science fiction cities, like the 2019 Los Angeles of Blade Runner.

FITNESS CAMPUS REC ROCK CLIMBING 101 CLIMBING CENTER 4-5 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Learn the basics of rock climbing with Rec Center staff. No experience required.

FRIDAY, APRIL 7 ART OPENING WHITE GALLERY ALL ARE WELCOME | (SMSU 289) JEAN NAGAI FREE, ALL AGES 6 P.M. Olympia artist Jean Nagai presents selected paintings & installation, responding to U.S. anti-immigration policy.

MONDAY , APRIL 10 DROP-IN ADVISING 11 A.M. EDUCATION ABROAD CRAMER HALL 169 101 FREE, ALL AGES The drop-in advising session for answering simple questions about studying abroad. Does not meet the advising session prereq for studying abroad.

FREE FOOD PARK BLOCKS OUTSIDE HARVEST SHARE SHATTUCK HALL 12 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Fresh fruits & veggies from local farmers. Line up early and bring your own bag.

ADVISING EDUCATION ABROAD EAST HALL 331 101 FREE, ALL AGES 2 P.M. The longer-form advising session to answering in-depth questions about studying abroad. Does meet the advising session prereq for studying abroad.

SATURDAY, APRIL 8 FILM (MULTIPLE SHOW 3RD ANNUAL ITALIAN DATES & TIMES) FILM FESTIVAL 5TH AVENUE CINEMA 6 & 8 P.M. $4-5, FREE W/ PSU ID The Portland State University Italian Department and the Associazione Culturale Italiana Portland present ten films by emerging and established Italian filmmakers. Presented with English subtitles.

SUNDAY, APRIL 9 NOT CHURCH HOFFMAN HALL SUNDAY ASSEMBLY PDX FREE, ALL AGES 11 A.M. From the press release: “Sunday Assembly is a global network of congregations started by two British comedians who envisioned an inclusive organization that welcomes all people ‘without all the God bits.’” Featuring a non-sermon from Domeka Parker and music from The Non Prophets.

CHAMBER MUSIC SUSAN GRAHAM 3 P.M.

LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL $30-52, HALF OFF W/ STUDENT ID America’s favorite mezzo soprano sings Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman’s Love and Life) in German.

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