Portland State Vanguard. Vol. 72 Issue 25

VOLUME 72 • ISSUE 25 • APRIL 18, 2018

PORTLAND STATE VANGUARD NEWS: BOARD DELAYS TUITION HIKE P. 3

NEWS: FACULTY CLAIMS ALLGENDER RESTROOM CONSTRUCTION VIOLATED POLICY P.4

SPORTS: VIKING SNAPSHOT P. 7

INTERNATIONAL: OPINION: OUR VERSION RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF GUN CONTROL P. 19 IN GAZA P. 10

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20 4-20! Blaze it! But, not on campus PSU is required to comply with federal law. Accordingly, marijuana in all forms for recreational or medicinal uses is prohibited on campus, including dorm rooms and the Park Blocks.

Room 115 Renovation Smith Memorial Student Union Room 115 will undergo renovation and conversion until April 30. A new storefront will be installed outside of the existing roll up door. New sinks, casework and fire alarm horn/strobe will be added to the space, as well as cosmetic upgrades. The renovation will provide a new daycare space on campus.

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NEWS BOARD OF TRUSTEES DELAYS TUITION HIKE VOTE

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FACULTY CLAIMS ALL-GENDER RESTROOM CONSTRUCTION VIOLATED POLICY P. 4 VIKING VOICES: ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS ARE OUR RIGHT

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ASPSU DEBATES DRAW LOW TURNOUT, ATTENDANCE

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VIKING SPORTS SNAPSHOT

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ANTI-MUSLIM FLYERS REACH PORTLAND

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COMMUNITY PROTESTS POLICE SHOOTING OF PORTLAND MAN IN CRISIS P. 9 INTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ACCUSED OF EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST PALESTINIANS ALONG GAZA BORDER

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THIS WEEK AROUND THE WORLD

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AMID POSSIBLE RECONCILIATION WITH TALIBAN, CIVILIANS DIE IN GOVERNMENT-LED ATTACK

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STAFF EDIT ORI A L EDITORIAL-IN-CHIEF Evan Smiley MANAGING EDITOR Danielle Horn NEWS EDITORS Anna Williams Fiona Spring INTERNATIONAL EDITOR NOW HIRING ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Alanna Madden OPINION EDITOR Nada Sewidan ONLINE EDITOR A.M. LaVey

PHO T O & MULTIMEDI A COPY CHIEF Missy Hannen COPY EDITORS Molly MacGilbert Jesika Westbrook CONTRIBUTORS Sarah Alderson Reem Alkattan Anju Babu Rebecca Capurso Vinu Casper Lillie Elkins Andrew Gaines Shandi Hunt Jake Johnson Justin Thurer Marena Riggan Taylor Such

PHOTO EDITOR Brian McGloin MULTIMEDIA MANAGER Emma Josephson PHOTOGRAPHERS & VIDEOGRAPHERS Brett King Li Chun Wu CR E ATI V E DIR EC TION & DE SIGN CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sydney Bardole LEAD DESIGNERS Robby Day Chloe Kendall

23 Portland State Bookstore Last day for course materials refunds due to course drop/withdrawal. For the rest of the term, all sales are final for course materials regardless of purchase/rental date or enrollment status in the course.

Grease Interceptor Installations Campus maintenance will install new grease interceptor waste system in the SMSU first floor including Smith’s Place, basement and sub-basement.

The installation will last until April 30.

Much of the plumbing and other work will take place in the back-of-house areas during off-hours to minimize impact on cooking operations and noise. Expect noise and increased traffic in basement and first floor. The new grease interceptors will capture grease from cooking operations, preventing clogged pipes.

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ARTS & CULTURE DR. OCTAGON IS BACK

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PSU STUDENTS SHARE STORIES OF WOMANHOOD

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MEME OF THE WEEK

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FIND IT AT 5TH AVENUE: ‘BELLADONNA OF SADNESS’

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OPINION MILLENNIAL SCAPEGOATING

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WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY GUN CONTROL

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ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS MUSIC

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COMICS

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EVENTS CALENDAR

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CONTENT WARNING: THIS WEEK AROUND THE WORLD DEPICTS VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN, WHICH MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR SOME READERS.

ARTS AND CULTURE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES DELAYS TUITION HIKE VOTE, WANTS EFFICIENCY REPORT ANJU BABU The Portland State Board of Trustees met Thursday, April 12 to vote for a 4.98 percent student tuition hike. However, after students protested on the fifth floor of the Academic and Student Recreation Center and some Board members requested a financial efficiency report, the Board adjourned the vote until a later date.

Board Chairman Karl Rick Miller, Jr. began the meeting by calling on Associated Students of Portland State University President Brent Finkbeiner and Vice President Donald Thompson III for comments.

“A constant collaboration between ASPSU and the Board is important so as to galvanize the path for student voices to be heard,” Finkbeiner said while pointing to students holding posters that read “No tuition hike!”

He added, “Real listening is allowing somebody to change you.”

Thompson added that the university should be viewed as a source of community development rather than treated as a business.

After ASPSU’s comments, the meeting moved on to reports from chairs of various committees, including Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chair of the Tuition Review Advisory Committee Kevin Reynolds.

Reynolds detailed the tuition-setting process, budget projections and hike justification in his report. He reiterated that due to inflation and increases to Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System, the university faces a 3.4 percent budget shortfall next year if state support does not improve.

“The proposed hike is comparable to other public universities in the region,” Reynolds said. “We need to close the gap between PSU and those other universities.”

Last spring, the Board passed a nine percent tuition increase, but Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission rejected the hike along with even larger hikes from other state universities. After Oregon Governor Kate Brown secured $70 million for higher education at the last minute, the Board reduced the tuition increase to 5.45 percent.

A budget projection the Board presented last spring indicated the university might attempt another nine percent increase to tuition next spring after passing this year’s hike. On April 11, Reynolds said it would take close to $130 million from the state, distributed among all seven state universities, to keep tuition increases from nearing that amount.

“Our intention is never to hike the fee by nine percent next year,” Reynolds told the Board. “It will be dependent on whether we obtain the state grants or not.”

Reynolds said the cost is now optimized, and the best solution is to hike the fee now. With delay, he said, it becomes increasingly more difficult to make decisions.

Students did not receive the report well. “We have many unwanted things on campus, and we are ready to give [them] up,” a student said. “Beefing up campus security by bringing in more cops is one of them.”

Another student challenged Reynolds for comparing the hike with those at other universities, saying, “PSU prides [itself ] in being one of the Top 10 Innovative Universities [based on a 2017 U.S. News & World Report ranking]. Innovators do not hold themselves to industry standards.”

ASPSU Senate candidate Camilo Abreu Assad also voiced opposition. They said putting the financial pressure on stu-

STUDENTS PROTEST PROPOSED TUITION HIKE IN THE PARK BLOCKS. BRIAN MCGLOIN/PSU VANGUARD dents is not right because the university, not the student, benefits directly from state funds.

“We suggest a freeze on fee hikes for the next three years and a freeze on the salary hike of [the] top 25 percent of salary holders in the administration,” Finkbeiner concluded. “We are in crisis mode until the budget issues are mitigated. Leaders shouldn’t make decisions in such a way that those under them suffer and they don’t.”

He added that deficits could be reconciled using funds from the business community. He also said students are willing to join the conversation and help lobby for more state funds. “Tell the state enough is enough” Finkbeiner said. “They will not deny [us] as they do not want the public education system to fail.”

One student said that they felt the Board did not care about students. Women’s Resource Center Director and Board member Erica Bestpitch countered the student by saying the Board aims to care for the needs of students.

The Board went on to discuss grants for students as remediation for the tuition hike. Several Board members eventually retracted their support for the tuition increase.

“We have never seen PSU as a business. However, it is a financial institution,” said Board member Pete Nickerson.

“I appreciate the measured, rational and civil way of the ASPSU members for all the discussions. We hear you. We assure that we will give this a thought and rethink our decision to hike [tuition].”

Miller also suggested seeking independent counsel from outside sources to better analyze the situation. He also asked PSU President Rahmat Shoureshi to consult with his staff and come up with a more acceptable tuition fee. Miller then asked the administration for an efficiency study of the current budget and, with the consent of the Board, adjourned the vote until a later date.

Finkbeiner called on students to march toward the Park Blocks to protest, and ASPSU initiated its one-day strike.

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FACULTY UNION CLAIMS ALL-GENDER BATHROOM CONSTRUCTION VIOLATED POLICY

CLAIM SPARKS ACCUSATION OF TRANSPHOBIA

LILLIE ELKINS Portland State’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors sparked a public accusation of transphobia after the union published a blog post on March 9 claiming the PSU administration’s decision to implement all-gender restrooms without consulting union members violated policy.

The post accuses the university of violating its Policy on Policies, which states, “It is the policy of Portland State University that University Policies are to be developed, formatted, approved, issued and maintained in a consistent manner, with the engagement of appropriate University stakeholders, and be made widely available to the University community in order to enhance compliance and advancement of the University’s mission.”

“Bathrooms are related to conditions of employment,” the post continues, “and, by law, policies impacting conditions of employment are mandatory subjects of bargaining.”

In addition to university policy, the post accuses PSU administration of violating state law. “ORS 243.678 requires that when policies are contemplated, the University informs PSUAAUP of the intent to adopt policy and provide the Association with an opportunity to bargain,” the post stated. “In this instance the University failed to provide notice, which is a violation of statute.”

The post sparked an allegation that a transphobic member of PSU-AAUP inspired the union’s complaint. PSU student and Queer Resource Center volunteer Patricia Komoda stated, “Possibly, an organization member investigated the policy due to being uncomfortable with the presence of all-gender bathrooms.” See page five for Komoda’s full response.

PSU’s Capital Advisory Committee approved the AllGender Restroom Policy in August 2015, and the Student

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Building Fee Committee approved funding to convert all remaining single-occupancy restrooms into all-gender restrooms in spring 2016.

Although the construction of all-gender restrooms has been taking place for years, PSU-AAUP has just now publicized its discontent with the university’s implementation of the policy.

Komoda continued, “[The] policy and its effects were widely advertised and most likely caught the attention of PSU-AAUP members. The delay in PSU-AAUP’s awareness could potentially stem from broad acceptance of the policy by the majority of PSU-AAUP members.”

The blog post also stated PSU-AAUP submitted a Demand to Bargain on February 15 “over the decision and/or effects of the decision to implement [the all-gender restroom] policy.”

In addressing the allegations, PSU-AAUP President José Padín said, “the Demand to Bargain is so important...because the right to be consulted when working conditions are about to be affected is a basic right. A union that gets lazy and does not exercise this right, effectively is giving away [its] voice.”

Padín said the blog post was created to inform PSU-AAUP members of what had taken place and to publicly hold PSU accountable.

When questioned about potential transphobia within the union, Padín said out of 1,100 PSU-AAUP members, it is feasible that someone harbors discomfort toward the transgender community, but the decision to publish the blog post did not stem from transphobia.

“I do know the attitudes among the Executive Council of the PSU-AAUP, because I work intimately with these colleagues,” Padín added “So I speak with certainty about them: the members of the Executive Council, who are the ones that make policy, are passionately committed to defending the rights of our LGBTQ+ colleagues and students.”

PSU Queer Resource Center Director Craig Leets said allgender bathrooms create a safer and more effective learning environment for students who prefer non-gender specific accommodations. “What we know is that transgender people are often harassed in bathrooms because non-trans people police their presence there,” Leets said. “So there are some folks who don’t want to go into a bathroom because they are afraid of being harassed.”

Padín added PSU-AAUP has no issue with the construction of the all-gender bathrooms, but rather with the university’s failure to follow policy. If PSU does not follow proper procedures, Padín added, this actually slows the construction of things like all-gender facilities because construction must stop in order for all parties to review policy. It is not immediately clear whether construction of the bathrooms has been completed, but they were slated to be finished by the beginning of 2018.

PSU released a statement Thursday, April 12 in response to the blog post and allegations of policy error stating, “Portland State University is committed to providing gender-neutral bathrooms and a safe learning and working environment for all members of our community. As such, our construction and renovation standards and practices for creating all-gender restrooms are reflective of that commitment. There was broad consultation with the PSU community—including representatives of the faculty—when this construction standard was developed.

We are happy to answer any questions the PSU community may have about our responsibility to provide these facilities and a safe environment.”

A follow-up from the university stated, “PSU will be discussing this matter with the AAUP directly and has nothing further to add at this time.”

VIKING VOICE

ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS ARE OUR RIGHT Submitted by Patricia Komoda, PSU student and Queer Resource Center volunteer A recent newsletter by the Portland State University American Association of University Professors suggests that its current actions against the All-Gender Bathroom Policy is rooted in, and in practice, continues to be transphobic.

On March 9, the PSU-AAUP, a union that represents over 1,200 instructional faculty and academic professionals at PSU, published an article in their newsletter titled, “University Violation of State Statute and its Own Policy on Policies Slows Implementation of All-Gender Bathroom Policy” which stated, “PSU-AAUP recently learned that during the 2015–16 academic year, administrators, without any faculty or other stakeholder input, promulgated an All-Gender Bathroom Policy.”

PSU-AAUP listed two issues: The university failed to give PSUAAUP an opportunity to bargain, and therefore violated university policy to create and approve new policies with stakeholders.

SOME BACKGROUND

The all-gender bathroom policy was approved by the Capital Advisory Committee on August 11, 2015. The Student Building

Fee Committee in the spring of 2016 approved the funding of converting the remaining single-occupancy restrooms into all-gender ones. The policy and its effects were widely advertised and most likely caught the attention of PSUAAUP members. The delay in PSU-AAUP’s awareness could potentially stem from broad acceptance of the policy by the majority of PSU-AAUP members.

So I wonder, why did the PSU-AAUP raise the issue now?

It’s possible an organization member investigated the policy due to being uncomfortable with the presence of allgender bathrooms and decided to bring it to the attention to the PSU-AAUP to seek action against the policy, cloaking transphobia in procedural error. This theory lends credence to the fact that it was not until the school of social work implemented the policy this year that the all-gender policy came into question.

This is not to say that it is inappropriate for the PSU-AAUP to ensure their ability to intervene and negotiate in future policy decisions. Furthermore, the PSU-AAUP may argue

that the first paragraph of their article acknowledged that they inherently approved of the policy’s implementation in stating, “PSU-AAUP is disappointed by University’s actions that have slowed the implementation of the All-Gender Bathroom Policy.” The PSU-AAUP could be argued to have submitted this Demand to Bargain merely as a reminder to PSU to follow lawful procedure, not out of any ill will toward the policy’s values.

But, I question the meaning of their intentions. I question the internal processes that led to this Demand to Bargain, starting from the first investigation to the present day.

Despite the sympathetic language of the newsletter, pursuing a Demand to Bargain ultimately undermines our university’s values of access, inclusion and equity for transgender students and faculty.

Due to the current political climate, the delay in the PSUAAUP to address the All-Gender Bathroom Policy and the effect that the potential delay or removal of this policy will have on the queer and transgender community of PSU compel me to regard this Demand to Bargain as transphobic.

JENNY VU

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ASPSU DEBATES DRAW LOW TURNOUT, ATTENDANCE UNCONTESTED CANDIDATES DISCUSS TUITION AND COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS SHANDI HUNT On Tuesday, April 10 and Wednesday, April 11, Associated Students of Portland State University held two preelection debates in which candidates discussed their platforms and answered questions from students and media.

All ASPSU candidates are running uncontested this year.

Tuesday’s debate was intended to feature six candidates for the Student Fee Committee, the seven-member board responsible for allocating money to programs and services funded by the Student Incidental Fee. When only one of the six candidates appeared—accounting and finance major Isatou Jallow—SFC chair debates were rescheduled for Wednesday. However, Jallow was still given the opportunity to answer questions.

Coordinator of Student Government and Advisor for Greek Life Candace Avalos said more candidates had RSVP’d to a calendar invite to the debate, but some texted her during the debate and said they were in class. Avalos said she offered in advance to write candidates letters so they could be excused from class for the debates.

Jallow touched on topics including houselessness, food security and diversity in the workplace. She said she believed her experience working with the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization qualified her for an SFC seat.

Wednesday’s debate featured ASPSU presidential candidate Luis Balderas Villagrana, SFC candidates Jose Rojas-Fallas and Donald E. Thompson III, and ASPSU senate candidates Julieta Castro, Isaac Harper, Emily Korte, Antonio Levia, Fatima Preciado, Gregory Retz, Patrick T. Meadors, Roosevelt Sowka and Camilo Abreu Assad. Vice presidential candidate Lelani Lealiiee; SFC candidates Violet Gibson, Tristin Crum and Stephen MacDonald; and senate candidates Yasmeen B. Ayoub, Hakan Kutgun and Nathaniel Torry-Schrag did not attend.

TUITION

Tuition was a recurring topic of discussion during the two-hour debate. Meadors expressed their opposition to potential upcoming tuition hikes. “I believe the university should be accessible, and that includes it being affordable, and when the solution is to have tuition raises be the answer to that, that doesn’t make sense to me,” they said.

“We have students here who are hungry,” Levia added.

“They can’t afford food, they can’t afford housing, and they are broke. It shouldn’t be this hard for someone to attend school and to try and get a higher education.”

Harper cited examples from ASPSU’s public tuition forum on April 5, in which students expressed frustration at PSU’s rising tuition. “Students [said] they had attended [PSU] for four to five years,” Harper said, “and due to these tuition hikes, they’d be forced to face the possibility of dropping out and losing all of the progress they had taken to achieve their degrees.”

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TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNICATION

On the topic of transparency, Portland State Vanguard asked SFC candidate and current ASPSU Vice President Thompson how students can feel certain he will handle student fees appropriately, even if a fee-funded area espouses ideological beliefs he does not agree with.

In January 2018, Thompson may have misrepresented his justification in tearing down a volunteer recruitment banner hung by PSU Pro-Life prior to its controversial Genocide Awareness Project event.

In response, Thompson continued to claim he was given misinformation about the incident and that he was fined for spreading it. “Moving into the future,” Thompson said, “when you take a position [on a controversial topic], it’s important that you have it recorded.”

“One of the biggest ways to seek accountability is to show up to our meetings,” Thompson added. “You can demand answers. ASPSU, and particularly the SFC, needs to be able to connect with the community, so I hope [as a result of ] any decision I’ve made that was contentious that people would take the opportunity to come to see us.”

Villagrana discussed the importance of collaboration between ASPSU and PSU administration. “There needs to be more conversation [between administration and ASPSU],” he said. “I want to have conversations from the beginning.”

“I believe with collaboration it’s not just with the adminis-

tration, it’s with student groups...all these organizations are here to help students and I think that’s what student government is,” he continued. “It’s about representing all.”

Candidates also addressed the issue of low student engagement with ASPSU, as only five percent of the student body voted in student body elections last year.

Villagrana discussed a number of strategies for opening communication between ASPSU and the student body. “I want to go from virtual to physical communication,” he said. “I want students to come to our office, and I want to make our office space accessible for all students to be able to come communicate with us. Just going out to the Park Blocks and saying we are on the first floor of Smith, come and talk to us.”

Assad, however, criticized this approach, saying the lack of student engagement with ASPSU does not come from a lack of transparency on the part of the student government, but from its inability to bring about real change.

“The real issue is that student government doesn’t have any power,” they said. “That’s the problem. That’s why students don’t show up. That’s why a small percentage of you all vote: because we can’t really affect those changes. We can make resolutions about it, we can enter into conversations with the people who have the power to do it, but at the end of the day, don’t actually have to listen to a resolution.”

“We are powerless,” they continued. “That changes as soon as we start to question that process.”

NEWS

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VIKING SNAPSHOT APRIL 8-14 TAYLOR SUCH

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Sunday, April 8 PSU at Eastern Washington Score: 0-7 (L) Eszter Zador and Taylor Rees each won the first set of their matches.

WOMEN’S GOLF

Monday, April 9 PSU at Montana State Score: 2nd out of 16 teams PSU finished the event with 878 shots and seven behind Grand Canyon University.

Tuesday, April 10 PSU at Montana State Score: 2 out of 16 teams Tara Finigan won the Bobcat Spring Invitational. Valerie Hernandez had her best round with a one over par 73 shots.

SOFTBALL

Saturday, April 14 PSU at Northern Colorado Score: 12-4 (W) The game had four multi-runs and three multi-hits. Riley Casper had four RBIs. Darian Lindsey made the first run on a RBI from Rachel Menlove.

MEN’S TENNIS

Friday, April 13 PSU at Montana State Score: 4-3 (W) Avery West had all three sets of his match go to 12 games or more, giving PSU the win. Sam Roberts, No. 4, and Gabe Souza, No. 6, broke the single season school record for wins.

Sunday, April 15 PSU at Montana State Score: 0-7 (L) Avery West and Tommy Edwards earned their 14th win of the season at number one doubles.

TRACK

Friday, April 13 PSU at Pelluer Invitational Angela Mumford placed eighth in the women’s discus.

Saturday, April 14 PSU at Pelluer Invitational Ta’mara Richey set a four-inch personal best in the long jump. Taylor Elliott tied for eighth all time in the women’s high jump, while Kristen O’Handley moved to third all time.

Jean-Luc Toku placed second in the men’s triple jump.

NEXT WEEK:

All day, Thursday, April 19 PSU at Mt. SAC Relays

SOFTBALL

All day, Friday, April 20 PSU at Bryan Clay Invitational

Noon, Tuesday, April 17 PSU at Oregon State 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 PSU at Oregon State 1 p.m. Saturday, April 21 PSU at Montana 3 p.m. Saturday, April 21 PSU at Montana

TRACK

All day, Wednesday, April 18 PSU at Bryan Clay Invitational All day, Thursday, April 19 PSU at Bryan Clay Invitational

All day, Friday, April 20 PSU at Mt. SAC Relays

WOMEN’S TENNIS 1 p.m. Friday, April 20 PSU at Nevada

WOMEN’S SOCCER 7 p.m. Friday, April 200 PSU at Portland

WOMEN’S GOLF

All day, Friday, April 20 PSU at Big Sky Conference All day, Saturday, April 20 PSU at Big Sky Conference

MEN’S TENNIS

2 p.m. Saturday, April 21 PSU vs Alumni

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL 1 p.m. Saturday, April 21 PSU vs Western Washington

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ANTI-MUSLIM FLYERS REACH PORTLAND MUSLIM LOCALS SAY THIS TYPE OF HARASSMENT HAPPENS OFTEN REEM ALKATTAN A flyer declaring April 3 “Punish a Muslim Day,” originating in the United Kingdom and circulated through social media, put Portland Public Schools and local police on alert at the earlier this month, according to KGW News.

No physical copies were found in any Portland public school, but PPS condemned the flyers in a statement, and the Portland Police Bureau have increased patrols near Islamic places of worship.

The flyers were “against our values as a district that has no place for discrimination or harassment against our students, families and employees,” the PPS statement read.

The flyer laid out a point system for abusing Muslims, ranging from verbally and physically assaulting individuals to burning or bombing mosques. According to Al Jazeera, counterterror police in the UK were investigating the flyers in March as a possible hate crime.

A Muslim family found out about the flyer through the Islamic Center of Portland and alerted Portland Public Schools. PPB is investigating the original source of the flyer, but it does not suspect a real threat toward the Muslim community in Portland.

A Portland State student who did not want their name published said in an email they feel safe and do not feel targeted based on their religion. However, they were recently targeted by strangers off campus. “One time, in downtown while I was walking to the bank,” the student wrote, “someone was running towards me, then he hit me really hard in my chest and started cursing Islam.”

Crime Blotter APRIL 9–15 Justin Thurer

Sanaa Saifan, a K-5 Arabic Defense Language Institute teacher at PPS who identifies as Muslim, said she has been living in Portland for 20 years and believes the community is very safe. However, she said she does feel unsafe when incidents that encourage hatred toward Muslims occur.

“The incident on the MAX last spring,” Saifan described, “this impacted every woman wearing hijab in Portland because it happened at home—too close to us.”

Saifan was referring to the May 2017 stabbing on a MAX light rail train in Portland, in which a white supremacist harassed two women of color—one wearing hijab—before stabbing three men who came to their defense, killing two.

“I really kept thinking [during] that time, ‘This could’ve been me,’” Saifan said. “My heart went to these two girls who were attacked and assaulted because of their faith, specifically the one wearing hijab.”

Saifan said the flyers did not disturb her, though she feels she will have to be extra cautious in public. Saifan’s main concern is her son.

“My son experienced a lot of negativity and racial discrimination in his school,” she said. “He has been called…a terrorist bomber [and people have asked him] ‘Are you going to be a pilot so you can bomb the White House?’”

Saifan has also been a target of discrimination herself. She said a woman once approached her in the mall and asked if she was raising her son to be a bomber.

“These things happen often,” she said, “but we have learned how to deal with them and respond positively by showing who we are and what [our beliefs are].”

April 9 Vehicle Break-in and Theft Parking Structure One Around 1 p.m., a student reported someone broke their car window and stole items. The alleged theft occurred between 4:00 p.m. the previous day and 12:30 p.m.

Theft Millar Library, Fourth Floor Around 5 p.m., a student reported their backpack had been stolen from a desk on the fourth floor of the library.

Exclusion Millar Library At 4:00 p.m., officers issued an exclusion to a non-student who shoved another non-student to the ground in front of the library.

April 11 Vehicle Break-in and Theft Parking Structure One, Second Floor A student reported their car had been broken into and robbed between 11:30 p.m. on April 10 and 10:30 a.m. on April 11.

April 13 Disturbance Millar Library Around 9 a.m., CPSO responded to a report of a service dog barking at children.

The dog owner initially told library staff it was a service dog but later retracted their statement and agreed to take the dog off the premises.

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ROBBY DAY

Apr. 14 Disturbance Broadway Computer Lab Around 2 a.m., CPSO took a report of two students arguing and were dispatched to the Broadway computer lab to investigate.

Apr. 15 Vehicle break-in Parking Structure Three At approximately 6:15 p.m., CPSO took a report from a student who stated their car had been broken into between 11:00 p.m. April 14 and 12:40 a.m.

April 15. No items were reported stolen.

Exclusion Cramer Hall At 9:50 p.m., CPSO issued an exclusion to a non-student who was found sleeping in room 483.

NEWS

COMMUNITY PROTESTS POLICE SHOOTING OF PORTLAND MAN IN CRISIS PARTICIPANTS SAY POLICE NEED BETTER DE-ESCALATION TACTICS

REBECCA CAPURSO Activist group Portland’s Resistance hosted a rally and resource drive Wednesday, April 11 outside Portland City Hall to protest the police shooting of 48-year-old John Elifritz, who family members say may have been having a mental health crisis when he was killed on April 7. Between 50 and 100 people attended the event.

Seven officers and one deputy opened fire on Elifritz in the Cityteam Portland homeless shelter in southeast Portland, where Elifritz entered with a knife and, according to some witnesses, was cutting himself in the neck.

Speakers and participants denounced the actions of the officers involved in the shooting, as well as what they called the Portland Police Bureau’s history of violence. “We live in a city where police are continuously shooting people,” said Gregory McKelvey, founder of Portland’s Resistance. “A lot of people come up with excuses. They say ‘crimes were committed, he had a knife’ or ‘he had some problematic affiliations in the past’ or something like that. None of that is a reason for somebody to be executed in the streets.”

Officers called PPB’s Behavioral Health Unit earlier in the day on April 7 after Elifritz called 911 and reported his family had been murdered. When officers responded, Elifritz held a knife to his throat before running from officers. PPB officers said they believe Elifritz later stole a Honda CR-V by force hours before he was shot and believe he may have also been armed with a gun.

The police finally intercepted Elifritz in the shelter around 8 p.m., where he had interrupted an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and was reportedly wielding a knife and cutting himself. After refusing to drop the knife and, according to witnesses, striking out at a police dog, the officers fired several rounds at Elifritz and killed him.

According to The Oregonian, some witnesses believe the killing was justified because onlookers reported fearing for their lives. Additionally, Willamette Week discovered Elifritz called himself a member of the white supremacist gang European Kindred in 2007. It is not clear whether or not Elifritz had been a member for the last 11 years.

Social media posts from his family and friends suggested that Elifritz, who has struggled with methamphetamine use in the past, had been suffering from a mental health crisis. “Regardless of his ideology, this man was in crisis,” McKelvey said in a Twitter post. “He needed help, not a bullet.”

JO ANN HARDESTY, A CANDIDATE FOR PORTLAND CITY COUNCIL, ADDRESSED HER CONCERNS FOR BOTH THE MILITARIZING OF POLICE AND SUPPORT FOR THE NEW PORTLAND POLICE CHIEF DANIELLE OUTLAW. BRIAN MCGLOIN/PSU VANGUARD Three PPB officers involved in the shooting have previously been criticized for excessive use of force. In 2010, Officer Andrew Polas was involved in the shooting of Keaton Otis during a traffic stop, and Officer Chad Phifer repeatedly fired a taser at a man with a mental illness named Samuel Michael Serrill. In 2014, Officer Bradley Nutting used a stun gun on bicyclist Matthew Klug six times in 15 seconds.

Speaker Jo Ann Hardesty, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Portland branch, who is currently running for Portland City Council, reminded the crowd that the Justice Department found Portland Police guilty of using excessive force against people with mental illness in 2012. Hardesty criticized PPB for not providing adequate mental health crisis intervention training and for not holding officers accountable for their actions.

“If you are too scared to de-escalate someone who is suffering from a mental health issue, look for a new profession,” Hardesty said. “We have to [hold rallies] too often because of a lack of accountability.”

Organizers read a list of names of unarmed people of color who were shot by police since President Donald Trump’s election in 2016. The reading lasted for almost three minutes. Portland’s Resistance also collected food and supplies to be distributed to organizations helping the houseless community.

This shooting follows Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposal for the city to hire anywhere from 14 to 93 more police officers. “That’s not the solution that our community needs,” McKelvey said. “We need more assistance...we need more mental health services, we need more addiction services. We need support, not bullets.”

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ISRAEL ACCUSED OF EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST PALESTINIANS ALONG GAZA BORDER MARENA RIGGAN Protests continue for the third week along the Gaza-Israel border as Palestinians participate in the Great March of Return, which began on this year’s Land Day. Land Day falls on March 30 as an annual commemoration of events in 1976 when six unarmed Arab citizens were killed protesting an Israeli decision to expropriate thousands of acres of Palestinian land.

The Great March of Return will span six weeks in a lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15. Nakba is an Arabic word for disaster or catastrophe and is used to describe the events of 1948 when Palestinians were displaced from their homes following the creation of the state of Israel.

Protesters are calling for the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora, a demographic amounting to roughly six million people living outside of historical Palestine.

The protests also call attention to the continued plight of Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Gaza Strip is a Palestinian territory located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Egypt. It’s often described as the world’s largest open-air prison, as the area is under siege and movement is extremely limited. Last year, the World Bank recorded unemployment at 44 percent overall, and more than 60 percent for youth.

Thousands of unarmed protesters marched to the border to participate in the demonstrations. Haaretz reported the number at 30,000 for the first day alone. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 16 protesters were killed and 1,416 were wounded by Israeli forces. Of those, over 700 were injured by live Israeli fire, 148 from rubbertipped bullets, 422 from tear gas inhalation and 88 from unspecified causes.

As of April 6, the total number of deaths had risen to 31, including journalist Yaser Murtaja, a cameraman for Ain Media who had recently secured a grant from the United States Agency for International Development. The International Federation of Journalists has denounced claims from senior Israeli officials that Murtaja had been acting as a member of Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas and not as a journalist.

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Two protesters underwent leg amputations after Israel refused their entry into the West Bank for medical treatment. They were shot in the legs as part of Israeli Defense Forces practice known as shoot to cripple.

Three children have also died due to resource shortages. United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Director Geert Cappelaer said in response, “These latest developments compound an already acute crisis in the Gaza Strip, where families have been coping with less than five hours of electricity per day for almost a year.” According to UNICEF, less than five percent of water is fit for human consumption, so the people of Gaza experience severe water shortages daily, leaving children at risk of waterborne illnesses.

Five medics were treated for tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces targeted their ambulances April 11, and another ten were treated on Friday, April 13 after a smoke grenade was fired at a medical tent.

By 4 p.m. on April 13, approximately 350 protesters had been injured, though Haaretz closed the day’s figures at 969, 233 of whom were wounded by live fire. Another 220 were injured the following day, adding to the more than 3,000 people who have been injured over the past two weeks. One Palestinian man, Islam Hirzallah, was shot dead by Israeli fire on Friday, and another four people were killed on Saturday after an Israeli missile targeted their rickshaw, raising the total number of deaths to 36 since March 30. No Israeli deaths have occurred.

On April 5, Israeli rights group B’Tselem released a campaign called “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” urging Israeli soldiers to refuse to fire on protesters, even if doing so would go against direct orders.

Outside the Gaza Strip, attacks targeting Palestinians have continued. On April 2, Muhammad Anbar was shot at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank and later died of his injuries. Israeli forces demolished a newly built school on April 9 in the town of Zanouta in the southern occupied West Bank, and residents of a Bedouin village in the Negev—a desert region in southern Israel—have been told to relocate after Israeli authorities announced a decision to advance a new settlement in their village.

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According to Al Jazeera, several guests of the ninth International Conference on the Holy City of Jerusalem were denied entry into the West Bank city of Ramallah. This included 13 members of an Indian delegation, a Sri Lankan mufti, a Bosnian Muslim scholar, the head of Australia’s Islamic Council and a Ghanaian legislator.

Attackers assumed to be Israeli settlers also broke into a mosque in Nablus early on Friday, April 13, setting fire to the building and vandalizing the outside with spray paint in what some are now considering a hate crime. One of the slogans read “Death to the Arabs” in Hebrew.

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AMID POSSIBLE RECONCILIATION WITH TALIBAN, CIVILIANS DIE IN GOVERNMENT-LED ATTACK MARENA RIGGAN In late February 2018, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani made an unprecedented offer to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political group without preconditions. With support from the United Nations, the change in tone aimed to create opportunities for peace talks in a country entrenched in war for the past 16 years.

The decision follows a series of attacks across Afghanistan, including a siege of Kabul’s InterContinental Hotel on Jan. 21 and a Jan. 28 suicide bombing that left more than 100 people dead. The Taliban claimed responsibility for both of these attacks. The Islamic State group, which competes ideologically and militarily with the Taliban in the region, also claimed responsibility for an attack on the British non-governmental organization Save the Children in Jalalabad on Jan. 24.

As reported by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, construction for a gas pipeline stretching from Turkmenistan to India also broke ground in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Feb. 23, raising fears of Taliban activity. The TurkmenistanAfghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, known as TAPI, would

carry around 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.

The Taliban offered to begin talks with the United States, but the U.S. has so far declined to engage directly with Kabul.

President Donald Trump’s stance remains decidedly against the proposal, stating in a televised address in 2017, “We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists.”

Portland State Professor Emeritus of Sociology Grant Farr spoke on this issue. Farr speaks Persian and some Pashto and has lived and taught in both Iran and Afghanistan at various times since his first introduction to the region with the Peace Corps in 1966. “[The proposal] almost has zero chance of succeeding, but it was mostly done as a showpiece from Ashraf Ghani to show that he was sincere,” he said. “No one really thinks [this is] going to go anyplace.”

Farr was quick to point out this isn’t the first time President Ghani has attempted peace deals with known militants. Just last year, he extended the invitation to the well-known Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Farr also spoke on the difficulties of combatting a group that lacks fundamental centralization. “The Taliban has been largely fractured, so there’s not really one group of people,” Farr said. “We have a misnomer with regards to what the Taliban is. The Taliban fighting in the north may be completely uncoordinated with the Taliban fighting in the south.”

On April 2, the Afghan government carried out an air strike in the Kunduz province on a religious school, or madrassa, suspected of having Taliban affiliations. At the time of the attack, students at the madrassa were celebrating their memorization of the Quran. The exact number of deaths is still uncertain, but as of April 4, Al Jazeera reports it could be between 70 and 100.

The madrassas is located in the Dasht-e Archi district, which is under Taliban control. Some Taliban members were among those killed in the air strike, though many were civilians and some were children. It’s unclear if the attack happened inside the madrassa itself.

APRIL 8 BRAZIL: FORMER PRESIDENT JAILED FOR 12 YEARS FOLLOWING CORRUPTION CONVICTION

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was imprisoned after seeking refuge with the São Bernardo do Campo workers union.

Lula da Silva was recently barred from applying for re-election after an appeals court upheld corruption charges against him. In his absence, Brazilian oligarchs, military and the extreme right are finding legitimacy.

ONGOING, ISRAEL-PALESTINE: GAZA PROTESTS CONTINUE

Protests along Gaza’s border with Israel continue for the third week. Thirty-six protesters were killed, and more than 3,000 have been injured. The protests will continue through May 15 to commemorate the Nakba, or the 1948 exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the Palestinian War.

APRIL 14 SYRIA: U.S., UK, FRANCE STRIKE SYRIA OVER CHEMICAL ATTACKS

American, French and British forces carried out airstrikes over alleged chemical attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toward civilians. The airstrikes struck a research center in Damascus, a chemical weapons facility and a command post near Homs.

APRIL 14 CHINA: PLANS TO SEEK COOPERATION WITH JAPAN AGAINST U.S. TARIFFS

Amid a potential U.S.–­­China trade war and threats of a $100 billion tariff on imported goods, China seeks cooperation with Japan. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Japan next month for a trilateral summit.

APRIL 14 SOUTH AFRICA: WINNIE MANDELA LAID TO REST

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the recently-deceased ex-wife of the late Nelson Mandela, was laid to rest in Soweto. Her funeral ceremony had 40,000 attendees Saturday morning. Mandela was known for her fighting spirit at a time when South Africa was still entrenched in apartheid.

APRIL 15 INDIA: SECOND RAPE-MURDER CASE COMES TO LIGHT

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Outrage ensues nationwide after the body of an 11-year-old girl was found by a passerby in Surat earlier this month. The autopsy revealed she was tortured, raped and kept confined for eight to 10 days before being murdered. The news comes in the wake of protests for an 8-year-old Kashmiri girl who was kidnapped and held in a Hindu temple before being gang raped and brutally murdered in January 2017. Four police officers and a member of the Uttar Pradesh state legislature have been arrested in connection to the Kashmiri rape.

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#SCREWEDBYPSU:SCHOOL O ANNA WILLIAMS Fine arts and graphic design students are tired of courses that did not always have full enrollment. being overlooked.

Currently, about 1,100 students are enrolled in A+D, 44 of whom After construction began on the $60 million overhaul are on the BFA degree path and close to 600 of whom are graphic to Portland State’s Neuberger Hall, students in the School design majors, according to data collected by Peters. Both programs of Art + Design whose classes were relocated into trailer are regarded as highly competitive in the PSU community. Smith pods across campus have said they feel #screwedbypsu, said he’s seen resumes from PSU design students that overshadow according to flyers that began popping up across campus those from schools such as the Rhode Island School of Design, a winter term 2018. prominent design school in the United States.

However, the sentiment among A+D students that they have been dismissed by the administration hasn’t only cropped up now that one of PSU’s largest academic buildings will be out of commission for two years. A+D has been fighting for more space, improved facilities and more overall attention for years.

“My students are cutting their legs and ripping their pants on the exact same tables I sat at when I went to school here,” said Adjunct Instructor of Graphic Design and class of 2013 alumnus Ethan Allen Smith.

In a recent opinion article, Bachelor of Fine Arts student and Portland State Vanguard contributor Jacob Johnson highlighted issues within the A+D department that threatened current students graduation dates and created obstacles for students to meet learning outcomes set by the Office of Academic Affairs.

Additionally, Johnson stated that while classes at Portland Community College cost less than PROTEST SIGN POSTED BY PSU A+D STUDENTS. EMMA JOSEPHSON/PSU VANGUARD half of those at PSU, the university does not have a kiln, pottery wheels or a dark room, and classrooms are so poorly ventilated that students are unable to work with oil paints.

After the piece was published, students distributed a zine further outlining their complaints and even more posters tagged with #screwedbypsu flooded the hallways and elevator of PSU’s tiny art building on SW 5th Avenue.

One poster reads, “If PSU really wants to be the best, maybe it’s time we invest in what has the potential to be the best Art & Design program in the country.”

“We end up with the short end of the stick every single time.”

BFA AND ARTS PRACTICES STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITH LIMITED SPACE, FEW RESOURCES Despite raising tuition by 5.45 percent for the 2017–2018 academic year in light of state and federal disinvestment in higher education and rising Public Employees Retirement System costs, PSU administration still had to make $9 million in budget cuts. Some of these cuts were distributed to faculty chairs, which meant many adjunct faculty were not hired on for the new school year, and classes deemed nonessential were cut.

According to A+D Office Coordinator Samantha Peters, the school cut some adjunct-taught courses that were not required for graduation, including comics courses that historically had full enrollment every term. A+D also cut extra sections of required

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-ETHAN ALLEN SMITH, ADJUNCT

INSTRUCTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN According to Senior A+D Instructor Tia Factor, the increase from 14 to 44 BFA students between the 2017–18 and 2018– 19 academic years combined with the Neuberger renovation upheaval means more students have had to fight for storage and workspace in small studio, class and critique rooms, some of which are inaccessible to students not taking particular majorrelated courses at certain points in the year.

“As BFA students, unless enrolled in a BFA class, students do not have access to the BFA studios, which could have compensated for the lacking classroom facilities and allowed oil painting,” said BFA Arts Practices student Karl Freitag in an email.

“I joined the BFA program hoping to work alongside other engaged and excited creative individuals in a shared space,” Freitag continued, “but have found myself cut off from the program altogether [this] past term because I had no access to the studios.”

Additionally, Freitag said he observed more students being placed on the waitlist for classes because trailer pods cannot handle the same classroom capacity as could rooms in Neuberger. According to Freitag, this has left some students afraid they might not graduate on time.

GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS FEEL INVISIBLE “The design program here at [PSU] is not only worldclass and extremely competitive,” Smith said, “and not only is it the largest program in the art school, which is the largest college in the University, but graduates from the design program are getting into positions at places like Nike and Adidas and Wieden+Kennedy.”

The small art building and art building annex on SW 5th Ave. just around the corner from the Chase Bank were meant to be temporary housing for A+D classes.

“I’m legitimately excited [PSU is] making updates to the campus,” Smith said. “And I love that [PSU is] giving some much-needed and much overdue attention to [Neuberger], even if that means a bunch of students are being filtered into trailers. The problem is, because of that dismissal, especially of the design students, that ‘oh, we can just work anywhere,’ we end up with the short end of the stick every single time.”

Smith said he thinks because the PSU community does not understand exactly what graphic designers do that design students do not get a dedicated space on campus to work or critique each other’s work.

For a program with such a competitive reputation, two windows that won’t properly close in a computer lab on the annex’s second floor, outdated projectors, exposed ductwork, stacks of old painter’s stools and power strips propped up on work tables and dangling from wall outlets belie that reputation.

When prominent industry professionals visit the campus, which Smith claimed occurs as often as on a monthly basis, they have to sit on painter’s stools or uncomfortable chairs, hope the projectors will work with their computers and can’t find parking nearby. “It makes us look really bad,” Smith said.

Smith added he believes the university does itself a disservice by overlooking design students.

Friends of Graphic Design—a student group founded in 2008 and powered partially by the school’s budget and mostly by donated time and resources from the local graphic design community—puts together networking events at which students can show their work to the community and meet local, out-of-state and international professionals.

Not only do these events draw students to the program, Smith said, but they attract money to the university.

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OF ART + DESIGN WANTS CHANGE “If there was a concerted effort by the administration to reach out to the people who are quite literally in charge,” Smith said, “at places like Nike, Adidas, Under Armour...

[PSU] would have an immediate response which translates... to money funneled back into the school, which the school desperately needs.”

ARTS STUDENTS WANT BETTER SOLUTION THAN TUITION HIKES During a March 14 budget town hall hosted by Associated Students of Portland State University and Vice President of Finance & Administration Kevin Reynolds, A+D students asked why tuition was slated to increase by another 5 percent this year while they have to deal with buildings in disrepair.

Meanwhile, students complained the business school gets to enjoy the brand new $64 million Karl Miller Center and community colleges offer better arts infrastructure than PSU does.

Some students, including arts practices major Carrie Gulbranson, claimed the art building experiences leaky ceilings and broken wall outlets on occasion. University Budget Director Andria Johnson commiserated with Gulbranson about crumbling buildings she encountered as a PSU business student between 2010 and 2013.

“We’re not in a sustainable funding model,” Johnson said, explaining that community colleges can obtain funding through bonds and property taxes, while PSU relies on diminishing state support and tuition increases.

Referring to Reynold’s presentation in which he explained the university will face a budget shortfall of $33 million next year, Johnson added, “You saw the numbers. That is not going to be solved by cutting at the fringes. We truly have to do something different.”

PSU President Rahmat Shoureshi has proposed a new funding model for PSU in the form of co-ops with local businesses and corporations. Shoureshi said in a March 16 press conference he hopes to roll out the program in the next couple years. The co-op intends to give students two years of paid work experience by graduation via internships with partner companies.

Shoureshi said he has been approached by many business leaders since he took former president Wim Wiewel’s place in August 2017, and plans to trial the co-op program with school of business administration students before expanding it to other programs.

However, Gulbranson and Smith don’t think the business school is the right place to start.

“We are talking about Portland,” Gulbranson said. “You need to know your customers and know where you are at.

Nobody comes to Portland to be a business major. People

come here to be musicians; people come here to be artists.”

Smith agreed and added that design students might actually be more business-savvy than business students.

“Such a fundamental part of our jobs once we get out of here is things like contract negotiations and scoping of work and budget approvals,” Smith said. “That becomes as fundamental to our identity as designers as our love of color an our desperate need to do research. We are all art students, and there’s a part of us that got into this because we’re artists, but we are the business side of it.”

Additionally, Smith said, part of his daily reality as a designer at One Hundred in downtown Portland involves overseeing contracts for millions of dollars. Many design alumni go on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Portland and around the world.

Shoureshi said he believes partnering with the business community does not negate PSU’s support for the arts.

“From my end, the relationship that we are building and

you, to my surprise, there are many board members that are really supportive of arts.”

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR ARTS STUDENTS TO FEEL HEARD?

When asked at the press conference how arts students can feel more successful at PSU while lacking resources, Shoureshi touted the recent international success of PSU’s Chamber Choir.

Smith said the response makes sense because performing arts bring more attention to arts practices and design, but A+D has tried for years to get the administration’s attention.

According to A+D Interim Director Lis Charman, the Campus Planning Office conducted a Space Programming Study in 2015 to analyze different options for a new art building on campus.

“This new building is seen as a physical complement to the new mission and vision statements that have been crafted by the School of Art + Design Committee of the Future,” the study details.

“If PSU really wants to be the best, The document, put together from surveys of A+D faculty maybe it’s time we invest in what has and students, proposes descriptions, photos and sizing for the potential to be the best Art & Design attractive and modern work, critique and lounge spaces.

Example photos come from the Pacific Northwest College program in the country.” of the Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft and other art -sign in Art Building schools across the country.

However, no specific proposal or blueprint went forward after 2015, Charman said.

Shoureshi added that he has only been president for seven months and hopes students can be more patient with his vision.

Additionally, Shoureshi said he plans to meet with every dean and program director and discuss their three to five year plans for their programs. “I am asking them [what] the growth areas within their [colleges are] that we should be investing [in] and making sure that is the case,” Shoureshi said.

Gulbranson said she chooses to be optimistic about Shoureshi’s plans for A+D students.

Gulbranson attends PSU with her daughter Mina and said she wants to invest in PSU for many generations. “It is not just our education,” Gulbranson said, “but our kids’ education too. So we are in it for the long term, and we are in it for real solutions.”

PROTEST SIGNS POSTED BY PSU A+D STUDENTS. EMMA JOSEPHSON/PSU VANGUARD Smith said he hopes the administration makes more of an effort to attend student shows and see for itself what design students are expanding with the business community...is really going to able to accomplish and what connections they are making help all students,” Shoureshi explained. “Through the effort with industry professionals. of one of our board members, [PSU is] going to have an event “I don’t know what the tipping point is,” Smith said. “If at the Wieden+Kennedy facility that is a fundraising for [the [Shoureshi] were to come to [the “Be Honest” student College of the Arts] and it is going to happen some time in design showcase in May],I believe by next year there would June. So, there are activities of that nature, and I have to tell be immediate changes.”

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DR. OCTAGON IS BACK

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ALANNA MADDEN Rapper. Orthopedic surgeon. Gynecologist. Resident of planet Jupiter. 1990s rap and hip-hop fans know who this is without introduction. Dr. Octagon returned back to Earth’s musical orbit on April 6 for the first time in 22 years with the officially recognized follow-up album, Moosebumps: An Exploration into Modern Day Horripilation.

For anyone who doesn’t know better, Dr. Octagon is one of many rap identities created by Keith Matthew Thornton, aka Kool Keith, Dr. Dooom or Keith Korg. Many fans have long believed Dr. Octagon was killed off by Dr. Dooom in the 1999 album First Come, First Serve, while others have known of less successful returns often dismissed by Kool Keith during interviews.

While Moosebumps maintains a consistent sound and style to the 1996 debut album, Dr. Octagonecologyst, the distinct value of Kool Keith’s lyrical prose comes forth in a way that’s often ahead of its time and capable of a figurative representation through the lens of science fiction.

For example, in the 1996 track “Earth People,” Dr. Octagon raps about his identity in outer space, where he has green, silver, and blue skin—but back on Earth, “Upside down

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through polygons fighting pentagons, Changing blue skin, my brown colors coming back.”

In addition to the reoccurring horrorcore themes involving Western medicine and politics, mutant bodies, gore and extraterrestrial lifeforms, there’s also the signature porno-esque song samples scattered throughout Moosebumps, especially in the beginning part of the track “Area 54.” Because Dr. Octagon is also known for sexualizing women in fictional subservient roles, it’s hard to say what’s more controversial: a violent, metaphorical reflection of our healthcare system, or the hyper-sexualizing of taboo power structures within the system itself ?

Dr. Octagon isn’t for everyone though, and even he will admit that. On April 7, Kool Keith made an appearance on the YouTube channel Sway’s Universe to discuss the new album, where he was joined by long-time producer Dan the Automator and his original album’s scratch master, DJ QBert. According to Dan, not everyone is supposed to get Dr. Octagon: “If you make music for everyone, who are you really making it for?”

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OF WOMANHOOD IN PLAY MOLLY MACGILBERT Three women sat on platforms of various heights, breathing for a few moments, building suspense in the silence until six words filled Portland State’s Studio Theater in Lincoln Hall: Let Me Tell You a Story. The play, which opened on Thursday, April 12, was part of John Fraire’s Performance as Education program, which engages students in theater arts as a means to learn and to teach their audiences in turn.

The three women who starred in Let Me Tell You a Story—Mallory Hawke, Lindsay Romo and Ibette SanchezMexicano—were all first-time performers; Romo and Sanchez-Mexicano are social work majors, and Hawke studies biology.

The concept for the play was born out of storytelling seeds planted by the three performers in their online applications for the PAE program. “[The application asked] ‘Why do you want to do this?’ and a battery of essay questions,” Hawke said. “The answers were taken apart piece by piece [by director Leslie Irene Gale], and our piecemeal responses were altered over a several-month process.”

In the resulting play, Hawke, Romo and SanchezMexicano wove a web of stories about their experiences of womanhood, building layers on one another’s stories with interjections of their individual, but overlapping, experiences. The women spoke of the movies from which they learned constructions of femaleness—Matilda, Mad Max, Disney princess movies—and their experiences of sexual harassment on buses and trains. The ensemble narrative touched on mental illness, parental expectations and avoiding the label bitch.

Romo and Sanchez-Mexicano emphasized the struggles of womanhood while growing up in Latinx households with strict cultural expectations of who women ought to be. “The experience…really allowed me to gain power back about some of the hardest experiences I have had as a Chicana,” Sanchez-Mexicano said.

“Screw writing strong women.

Write interesting women.” —LINDSAY ROMO Hawke reflected on her journey as a transgender woman, highlighting how many women take femaleness for granted, while even the everyday act of going to the restroom presents challenges for her. “When I hear a mother come in with children,” she said onstage before pulling up imaginary jeans, “I wait for them to leave.”

As they spoke, the performers walked around in circles and sat or stood on different platforms in various formations bathed in alternating hues of blue, green and purple light. The lighting and choreographed movements reflected the complex and mercurial colors of womanhood.

“Screw writing strong women,” said Romo, quoting a phrase she’d read online. “Write interesting women.” The performers listed all the adjectives a woman could be, including what they are told to be and what they are told not to be. Using the collection of feminist books on stage such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists,

MALLORY HAWKE, LINDSEY ROMO, AND IBETTE SANCHEZ-MEXICANO PERFORM ORIGINAL NARRATIVES AT LINCOLN HALL. the women defined feminism in its various forms and movements. From the first wave of feminism to the fourth, from intersectional feminism to cultural feminism to ecofeminism. “Sounds like there are about as many types of feminism as there are women in this world,” Sanchez-Mexicano said onstage.

“We all had to rely on [each] other in order to get where we needed to be for the final production,” Romo said. “Without each other and working so hard together, we would not have Let Me Tell You A Story.”

After the performance, audience members asked questions including what advice they would give to their younger selves.

“I would tell myself that men are trash, and that’s never gonna change,” Sanchez-Mexicano said.

Hawke advised her 23-year-old self to invest all her money in Bitcoin, and her 12-year-old self to “be honest with her parents about how she felt about herself and her body and the pain she was going through, because they love her.”

“I consider myself a 36-year expert in being a woman,” director Gale said, “and I learned so much from these ladies.”

The play’s sibling production, FUBAR We’re Still Here, will tell veterans’ stories in a free event at 7 p.m. on April 19, 20 and 21, and at 2 p.m. April 21 in Lincoln Hall’s Studio Theater.

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GET READY FOR PORTLAND’S SOUL’D OUT FESTIVAL ALANNA MADDEN Portland’s annual Soul’d Out Music Festival is back this week with dozens of legendary performers include Erykah Badu, De La Soul, Wyclef Jean, and R+R = Now, aka Robert Glasper’s jazz supergroup. If you’re not acquainted with Soul’d Out’s weeklong line-up, here’s a brief tracklist of songs I recommend you check out. And seriously, get yourself into a show! A full list of upcoming shows can be found online at souldoutfestival.com.

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Drawn – De La Soul feat. Little Dragon, And the Anonymous Nobody… (2016)

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Afro Blue (9th Wonder’s Blue Light Basement Remix) – Robert Glasper Experiment feat.

Erykah Badu & Phonte, Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP (2012)

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The List – Moonchild, Voyager (2017) Apple Tree – Erykah Badu, Baduizm (1997)

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Find You – Robert Glasper & KAYTRANADA, The Artscience Remixes (2018)

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Turnin’ Me Up – BJ The Chicago Kid, In My Mind (2016)

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D’Evils – SiR, November (2018)

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Me, Myself & I – De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

‘BELLADONNA OF SADNESS’ ANDREW GAINES Belladonna of Sadness, directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, is an erotic tale of violence and revenge set in medieval France and told through psychedelic animation. Based off the book Satanism and Witchcraft by French author Jules Michelet, Belladonna was released in 1973 as the final film in Animerama—a erotic-themed anime series produced by Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka.

The protagonist Jeanne (Aiko Nagayama)—purposely named for Jeanne d’Arc—is raped by the village lord (Masaya Yakahashi) on her wedding night. After this, the Devil (Tatsuya Nakadai) appears to her in phallic form offering her a path to empowerment and vengeance entwined with sexuality.

Satan grants her the knowledge and strength to fight back against the nobility and help her fellow villagers. As Jeanne grows more powerful, her husband Jean (Katsuyuki Ito) becomes emasculated and alcoholic, and Jeanne is villainized by the village lord and his religious affiliates.

The film’s paintings, inspired by Edgar Degas (French), Gustav Klimt (Austrian) and Wassily Kandinsky (Russian)

are mixed with animated scenes. The final painting “Liberty Leading the People,” by Eugene Delacroix depicts Marianne, the feminine symbol of the French Republic, and is analogous with medieval heroine Jeanne d’Arc, who led the French army and was burned at the stake for the then heresy of dressing in men’s clothes and exerting authority.

This heavy reliance on still paintings paired with overlaid narration and dialogue shares similarities with Rakugo, a traditional style of Japanese storytelling where actors’ movements are minimal and the sound of narration is central. Masahiko Sato’s score does a lot of heavy lifting to the animation’s place, switching between peaceful, folksy melodies and 70’s modern prog-rock.

The film was massively unpopular upon release and the production studio went bankrupt in the same year. Only recently has the film resurfaced. The new 4K restoration is gorgeous and well worth the watch.

Belladonna of Sadness is running from April 10–22 at 5th Avenue Cinema.

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OPINION

MILLENNIAL SCAPEGOATING WHEN HORSESHIT REPORTING CREATES STEREOTYPES ALANNA MADDEN “Two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is,” stated an article published by The Washington Post on April 12. The article is one of many that makes claims—usually derogatory in nature—regarding the character and value of Millennials, a term created to identify anyone born between 1980 and 1996. However, many sources disagree on this year range.

According to The Washington Post, 22 percent of Millennials haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are unsure “whether they’ve heard of it—twice the percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.”

The article cites a study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, where “1,350 American adults were interviewed via telephone and through an online non-probability sample.”

Sounds legit, right? Wrong.

As a Millennial journalist at Portland State, which doesn’t even have a journalism program, I’m cringing over how a news source would publish an article without links to original data or information conveying the population of study participants and yet have complete absence of contrary investigation.

The author and organization have published a story that works to communicate a concern for the welfare of Jewish people while simultaneously encouraging the same divisive practices used to stereotype and discriminate in the first place. This is what propaganda looks like.

While it may be easy to acknowledge how generational terms such as Baby Boomers or Gen X have become common vocabulary in the U.S., the complacency with allowing these terminology trends to continue are in

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line with the same traditions of derogatory stereotyping used to oppress, especially when the terminology is used to disparage an entire group of people—whether it’s because of one’s nationality, race, ethnicity or gender.

There is no logic or evidence to support the claim that Millennials are unaware of the Holocaust when a sample of 1,350 people, who aren’t entirely composed ofMillennials in the first place, are used to represent a generation consisting of millions of people.

The article is lacking accuracy and is presented with no concrete evidence or thought out surveying: How many people in this study are Millennials to begin with?

Have you ever been called? Nobody has ever polled me once—not ever.

I’m tired of being told what I know, how

I live and where I stand by those who are not in my generation. Millennials like me bear the ethical weight of the ol’ exploit and distribute practices used to implement colonialism, capitalism and the modern industrial society we live in today, which is precisely the reason we have Donald Trump as a U.S. President, and it’s the same reason the term fake news exists.

Fake news exists because we live in a fake democracy, and one would think with a news organization that upholds the slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” that it would be aware enough to filter out poorly edited reporting. When news organizers are on the front lines of societal communication, it’s their ultimate obligation to inform citizens to make the most responsible decisions possible. If democracy dies in darkness, are you turning on the light, or are you hiding the switch?

OPINION

WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY GUN CONTROL

LISA KOHN SARAH ALDERSON We live with the knowledge that a person can walk into a school or any public place with a military-grade weapon purchased legally and shoot a massive amount of people. According to The Washington Post, a shooting on a college or high school campus occurs once a week on average in the United States. We are now facing the 17th school shooting of the year and we have to ask, why is this still happening?

As Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler points out in his open letter to Portland students, there is a cycle. We hear about the mass shooting, we feel sadness and send prayers and then do nothing.

According to CNN, since the beginning of 2018, 17 shootings have occurred on school campuses. Two of those qualify as mass shootings and injured more than 15 people. On Jan. 23 in Benton, Ky., a teen shot and injured 16 people, killing two. On Valentine’s Day, a teen in Florida killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. According to Time, between 1982 and 2017, there have been 91 mass shooting events, with 722 deaths and 1,177 injuries, with the highest numbers of deaths and injuries occuring after 2000.

Guns used in previous school shootings were acquired legally by the shooter or a relative of the shooter. It has now been proven the answer isn’t more guns and better guns. The answer is no automatic rifle style weapons, semi-automatic or automatic weapons and bump stocks.

The Second Amendment states “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the

people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The idea behind this amendment was to allow people the right to defend themselves, their property and families against a tyrannical government. In many cases, it also meant a way for people to hunt for their family’s dinner.

Today, gun enthusiasts collect all manner of firearms meant to do much more that act as protection or hunt animals. Any person without a criminal or psychological blip on their records is able to buy a military-grade assault weapon that can and has been used multiple times to kill people, including children. The fact is, the Second Amendment was written with the musket rifles and handguns of the day in mind and not the semi-automatic military-grade weaponry—in addition to handguns and shotguns—we now have.

Gun activists, specifically the National Rifle Association, have largely stayed silent after mass shootings. However, with growing demand to ban assault weapons, the NRA has decided to now take their stand. After the Florida massacre, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA spoke out against democrats and school security.

CNN reported that LaPierre called democrats socialists and blamed the death toll in school shootings on school security.

He claims those who will suffer from stricter gun laws are the law-abiding citizens. However, the truth of the matter is democrats are saying no more semi-automatic rifles, no more bump stocks and more in-depth psychological testing for prospective gun buyers.

There are examples of strong gun control working to keep the population safe. In the UK, gun laws are locked down. It is almost impossible to gain a license to carry or own a gun, although over 100,000 people do own shotguns and handguns. According to BBC, gun control was started by two tragedies: “Michael Ryan’s massacre of 16 people in Hungerford in 1987...Nine years later, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 schoolchildren and their teacher when he opened fire at a school in Dunblane.” These tragedies led to the banning of both semi-automatic and handguns. Since then, shootings are significantly down.

After a mass shooting in Australia with an AR-15 in 1986 that killed 35 people and wounded 18 others, Australia decided to ban military-grade weapons across the board.

According to Fortune, there has not been one shooting since the ban was placed. As for freedom: Australians are still allowed to have guns but not military-grade assault weapons.

There is something to be learned from these shootings and the examples set by the UK and Australia. Gun control is not a matter of stifling our Second Amendment rights; it is about keeping us, our families and the next generation of children safe. We don’t need a ban on all guns. We simply need to ban the military style semi-automatic assault weapons. We need stronger background checks and more in-depth psychological screening for potential gun owners. It is not about tyranny or governmental control; it is about our own safety.

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OPINION

ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS STILL MUSIC

FIGHTING STIGMA AGAINST THE GENRE LISA KOHN

VINU CASPER “Well, that’s not real music,” my friend would say as he switched out of my deadmau5 playlist on Spotify to put on some classic rock. This seems to be the popular opinion.

Electronic is a such a wide genre of music, encompassing EDM, house, techno, dubstep, glitch hop, drum and bass, ambient, moombahton, chillstep, future retro, grime and complextro and that barely scratches the surface.

Electronic music is as deep as it is wide with niches vibing to every frequency on the spectrum. With a mass appeal like that, why is this scene getting so much hate?

Here are the most common arguments you’ll hear: It’s just pressing play on a computer; it’s not like it takes any skill, like playing a real instrument.

Performing electronic music for a crowd can be as complicated as the performer wants it to be. Like deadmau5 said, it might boil down to simply hitting the spacebar on the keyboard, but it could also be as complicated as DJ Craze getting in the zone, precisely turntabling his way to

exact cue points to create his lightning-paced beat.

This choose-your-own-difficulty aspect of electronic music puts it into a unique position. Paris Hilton pulled off a DJ gig, and Shawn Wasabi mashed together 153 of his favorite songs into something the world had never seen before. It can be easy to mistake an electronic performance as skilless, but not only does it require expertise to perform, the real skill comes with the production of the music itself.

Another argument people will bring up is that electronic music isn’t music; it’s just the same pattern repeating over and over without vocals. Sorry to break it to you, but that’s what all music is: patterns and repetition. In fact, there are studies that show repetition is the reason why music is appealing. If you ask anyone who plays an instrument, they’ll say patterns are what make up a good song.

Some also argue that music production is simple but being a bedroom producer is a huge part of the electronic music culture. This scene is evolving, and the internet is

the new underground. Kids taking their music ideas, turning them into something tangible and posting them online for the world to hear are all part of the culture. The world found fresh sounds like Chet Faker, Ruxell and Portland’s own Echos because of it.

Also, just because something is accessible does not mean it lacks creativity. It takes talent to create a rhythm and build music, and this goes for everything from creating your own track from scratch to flipping a sample and remixing an old favorite.

I get that electronic music may not be for everyone, but it’s still considered an influential aspect of the music industry. Most of the music people listen to, whether it’s the Top 40 pop, rock or rap, is most likely electronically produced. In the digital world we live in today, it’s rare for any music not to be electronically recorded, processed, mixed and mastered, so quite frankly, a large part of music is electronic.

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Events April 17–24

MUSIC

ART

FILM & THEATER

COMMUNITY

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

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DIGITAL SOCIAL JUSTICE: EDITING WIKIPEDIA WITH YOUR STUDENTS OFFICE OF ACADEMIC INNOVATION SMSU M209 8:30 A.M. FREE, ALL AGES Wikipedia is open source; anyone can access the platform to ensure the integrity of its entries. This seminar seeks to help participants identify bias in Wikipedia editing and publishing and help instructors find ways to incorporate Wikipedia editing with their students in the classroom.

SOUTH SUDAN: HOW EDUCATION CAN CHANGE A GENERATION MULTICULTURAL CENTER SMSU 228 NOON, FREE, ALL AGES Valentino Deng advocates for universal education and sustainable development. He grew up in Southern Sudan and was separated from his family during the second Sudanese Civil War. Deng received his education in a Kenyan refugee camp where he began a career in public service. Since moving to Atlanta in 2001, Deng has traveled the world speaking about his experience and collaborated with Dave Eggers to tell his life story in the novel What is the What. Deng’s lecture is part of PSU’s University Studies’ Race and Social Justice Dialogues, which are incredible.

VIDEO GAME NIGHT HOTLIPS PIZZA PSU 6 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES HOTLIPS does not serve banana peels, but you can serve your fellow students some in epic Mario Kart battles while eating pizza and drinking $4 pints.

Party. Pizza party.

SAVING THE EARTH, BITE BY BITE SMSU 327 6 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES It’s Earth Week! Celebrate your Mother with a panel discussion that explores the potential to change the fate of our world for the better through deliberate choices about what we eat.

This event is sponsored by the Portland State Veg Education Group. They really missed an opportunity by not calling themselves the PSU Vegucation Group.

NO MORE KILLER COPS! ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL 6:30 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office is attempting to recruit citizens to lobby our government for more police officers. The community is getting together to show Wheeler that his priorities are not what the community wants.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

PSUGD OPEN HOUSE ART BUILDING 4 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Explore the inner workings of Portland State’s high-ranking graphic design program. There will be risograph demos, portfolio displays, presentations and snacks!

“FABRIC & FORM” RECEPTION MK GALLERY (ART BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR) 5 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Art Practices have incorporated more material studies courses seeking to explore textiles as a means for creative making. Students utilize skilled craftsmanship and thematic elements to create works that elevate beyond articles of clothing.

ANALOG TYPE IN A DIGITAL WORLD WITH BRIAR LEVIT ART BUILDING 6 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES PSU Graphic Design Assistant Professor Briar Levit is raising the bar for students. In this presentation, Levit shows what life was like before Adobe took all the fun out of type. Dry transfer type, IBM Selectric and other archaeological finds from the pre-digital past will make this experience a historical look at the labor of love our design predecessors had to endure and what makes doing it old-school almost fun.

EL PASAPORTE PROJECT: A SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN WORKSHOP PORTLAND MERCADO 7 P.M. $10, ALL AGES El Pasaporte Project seeks to show how human-centered design can have a positive impact on Portland’s local immigrant and POC communities.

The project was created to increase visibility of immigrant and POC-owned businesses. Their first installation features an incentive-based passport and is focused on Portland Mercado’s Latino and POC-owned businesses— presumably similar to the McMenamins passport or a punch card. Sweet.

ERYKAH BADU ARLENE SCHNITZER 8 P.M. $55–125, ALL AGES A massive influence on artists from all genres, Badu is a musical pioneer and Portland is beyond lucky to have an opportunity to witness her concert.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 19

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

HANG IN THERE: CAT CAFÉ NEMO DESIGN 7 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Come hang out with some kitties, cats and living room lions to take a break during Design Week. If you think you are falling in love with a design concept, explore it. If you fall in love with a human, ask them out. If you fall in love with a cat, you can adopt it!

HIGH EXPECTATIONS SMSU 228 NOON, FREE, ALL AGES Free brownies! If you have the munchies or just want a free snack while cruising around campus, here it is. This presentation will contain some great information about cannabis laws as they not only relate to the real world, but also PSU’s policies about the devil’s lettuce.

FUBAR: WE ARE STILL HERE LINCOLN HALL STUDIO THEATER 115 7 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES PSU alumni and U.S. Navy veteran Nathaniel Patterson M.S. are directing three student veterans sharing their stories. Christina Ebersohl is a student and U.S. Army veteran who’s composed original music for the performance. FUBAR is an acronym for “fucked up beyond all recognition.”

EXTREME MAKING CLEANERS AT THE ACE HOTEL 4 P.M. $10, ALL AGES Sometimes individual craft can become a part of groundbreaking production.

Artists, architects, furniture fabricators and brand strategists have come together to show inspiring case studies and learn about their processes. The event does have a picture of a skateboarder in a bowl: fairly extreme.

LIVE @ LUNCH PRESENTS KORY QUINN PSU PARK BLOCKS (PARKWAY NORTH IF RAINING) NOON, FREE, ALL AGES Quinn has definitely listened to Bob Dylan before. The singer-songwriter decries the problems of corrupt politicians, excessive reliance on fossil fuels and fear. The songs rely on acoustic guitar and are fairly upbeat despite the heavy subject matter.

NOON CONCERT: STRING AREA LINCOLN RECITAL HALL 75 NOON, FREE, ALL AGESS The PSU String Area is having its spring recital. If you’ve got too much stuff to do or are in Thailand, fear not, they’ll be streaming the event live to reach as broad an audience as possible!

R+R = NOW ROSELAND THEATER 8 P.M. • $28.50–45, 21+ Robert Glasper’s supergroup solo show for the Soul’d Out Festival. If you missed them opening for Erykah Badu, you can catch them at the Roseland’s more intimate space. Glasper brings Terrace Martin, Christian Scott, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin and Justin Tyson to show off their jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop chops.

NIGHT AT THE THORNS PROVIDENCE PARK 7:30 P.M. $10 FOR CAMPUS REC MEMBERS, ALL AGES Come cheer on the Thorns for PSU’s second annual Night at the Thorns event as we take on the Washington Spirit. Come root for the best women’s team in the country!

ALBERT HERRING LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL 175 7:30 P.M. $15 STUDENT/YOUTH, $27 SENIORS, $30 GENERAL, ALL AGES A comedy about losing innocence, social stratification, Victorian morality and coming of age, this opera just about has it all!

ONTOLOGICALLY ORIENTED OBJECTS WITH PARSONS & CHARLESWORTH SHATTUCK HALL 3 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Mass produced objects turned into mysterious objects. Teams of students from the PSU School of Architecture are given the same object but are tasked to turn it into something new and often bizarre.

EXPLORING THE CREATIVE PROCESS ANX GALLERY 6:30 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES Local legends OMFGCO and others are coming out to chat about their processes to help you see where your digital work can operate in the physical realm.

REBIRTH BRASS BAND REVOLUTION HALLL 9 P.M. $25–30, 21+ If you think of New Orleans parade music but imagine it fused with many other genres, you might come close to Rebirth Brass Band. There will be a tuba.

NONAME & BJ THE CHICAGO KID CRYSTAL BALLROOM 9 P.M. $26.50, ALL AGES Two Chicago artists come out to show what neo-soul and R&B has been up to. Poetry, hip-hop, rap and mellow grooves are sure to make this event a bit above a well-drink operation.

JAKE JOHNSON SUNDAY, APRIL 22

MONDAY, APRIL 23

FEATURED EVENTS

EARTH DAY FESTIVAL PSU LEARNING GARDENS LABORATORY 11 A.M. FREE, ALL AGES Come celebrate Earth Day in the gardens! Master gardeners, nurseries, games, crafts, a blood drive and all sorts of other activities for people of all ages.

EARTH DAY ALL DAY, ALL OVER. FREE, ALL AGES For a long long time the Earth has existed, and we’ve benefited from its existence. Some might say it might not even be possible for us to exist without it. Take a look around and appreciate this gosh darn awesome planet we live on!

ONLINE SELF-PROMOTION: PORTFOLIOS, RESUMES, AND CVS KARL MILLER CENTER 460 4 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES As the world becomes increasingly smaller through digital platforms, it is important to understand and do our best to control how we present ourselves online. This is a workshop trying to make that presence and the practices behind making yourself discoverable a little less confusing.

DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND ALL OVER PORTLAND APRIL 14–21 PRICES VARY, MOSTLY ALL AGES If you’ve ever wondered where the action is in the design community in Portland, it really doesn’t get more intense than Design Week. All week long, every day is packed with incredible panels, lectures, demonstrations and opportunities to find out how people from all sorts of design practices work. This week is dense but full of great opportunities to see studios and hear from the cream of the crop.

VANPORT, THE MUSICAL MIDLAND LIBRARY 3 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES African-Americans came to Portland to help build important infrastructure during WWII. After the war, many decided to make Vanport their home, but a giant flood made that impossible. A musical based on an almost unbelievable tale of triumph against the forces of man and nature.

¡CUBANISMO! AND TEZETA BAND ROSELAND THEATER 9 P.M. $25, 21+ Tezeta opens the night with ‘70s Ethiopian-inspired funky jazz, then Cubanismo comes out to bring some Cuban sounds full of blazing horns to Portland.

OTHERSHIP CONNECTION JACK LONDON REVUE 9 P.M. $10, 21+ Local funk legend Farnell Newton brings the funk; don’t come out if you’re not prepared to take a ride on the Othership. His group is talented and unafraid to show you that their chops are for real.

DE LA SOUL ROSELAND THEATER 9 P.M. $38–55, 21+ Hip-Hop and rap pioneers De La Soul join the lineup for the last night of the Soul’d Out Festival. They’ve been around since the start, and they still bring it after almost 30 years.

GOODFELLAS (1990) CLINTON STREET THEATER 7 P.M. $5, ALL AGES Martin Scorsese has a name that looks weird on paper, but he certainly makes incredible movies. Come out and watch a bunch of wise guys beat each other up and get paranoid about life in the mob while rats make their lives difficult. This screening benefits Ceasefire Oregon, which advocates for reasonable gun laws to prevent gun violence.

BEST IN SHOW (2000) HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7:30 P.M. $7–9, ALL AGES Christopher Guest loves making ridiculous movies, and this movie is certainly that. Come watch a bunch of absurd characters hang out with their dogs at a dog show. Eat peanuts while learning about all kinds of nuts. Proceeds from this show are going to benefit the Oregon Humane Society.

Event list and more info at: www.designweekportland.com

MUSIC

JID + EARGANG WONDER BALLROOM 9 P.M. $25, ALL AGES A night of hip-hop starting with Portland legends Brown Calculus and Mic Capes then heads to the south for JID and Earthgang from Atlanta. Socially conscious and innovative sounds make this a night of artists to watch as they continue to rise through the ranks of modern musical discourse.

WYCLEF JEAN WONDER BALLROOM 8:30 P.M. $32–45, 21+ As a Haitian, Jean’s music has always been political. He co-founded the Fugees with Lauryn Hill and now he’s in Portland with some solo stuff for you. He’s still killing you softly with his songs, he just does it in a more experimental neo-soul kind of way.

AFRICAN AMERICANS OF PORTLAND GREGORY HEIGHTS LIBRARY 6 P.M. FREE, ALL AGES The history of African Americans in Portland is one of striving to thrive, despite Portland making that difficult through exclusionary laws and other discriminatory practices. This evening tells some of their tales, from Vanport to the present.

FILM & THEATER

DAZZ BAND AND ZAPP ROSELAND THEATER 7:30 P.M. $31.50–$46.50, 21+ Old school funkateers remember these legends. Roger might not be around, but that won’t stop you from gettin’ all the bounce to the ounce you can while lettin’ it whip.

#JUSTICEFORQUANICE: ALL-AGES HIP-HOP FUNHOUSE LOUNGE 7:30 P.M. $5, ALL AGES Glenn Waco is headlining an evening featuring a variety of local hip-hop artists including Baqi, Rome, G-Low, [E]mpress, and Tyleah Alizay. All proceeds will go to help out the Hayes family.

COMMUNITY

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

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