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Portland State partners in technology-based learning initiative University set to further develop Learner Web, the online learning support system Erick Bengel Vanguard staff

Portland State has partnered up with the Community College District of Columbia (CCDC) and other colleges to launch a technology-based learning initiative to improve college success and completion rates, especially those of young, economically vulnerable students.

The initiative will be funded by the CCDC’s recently acquired $750,000 grant from the nonprofit association Next Generation Learning Challenges.

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Leadership program to start fall term SALP Leadership Fellows Program provides more opportunities for student leaders Ryan Deming Vanguard staff

Beginning fall term, Student Activities and Leadership Programs will be available to all presidents and vice presidents of Portland State student organizations.

The program is designed to help the leaders of student organizations develop their leadership skills and receive compensation for their hard work.

“The goal is to make sure students are getting something out of their leadership experience that is applicable for the rest of their life and education,” Laken Harrel, the ASPSU representative on the SALP Advisory Board, said.

Though she was opposed to past programs, Harrel believes that the new program will be more successful because it outlines specific objectives for participants.

SALP Director Aimee Shattuck said student leadership positions will no longer be automatically paid positions because of budget reorganization. According to a press release, the average stipend for student leaders by 2006 was $525 a month. However, the administration felt that this system was expensive and “legally questionable.”

Shattuck said the new program will be open to student leaders from all of the 132 student organizations on campus. Participants in the program may receive a $300 scholarship per term and also have the option of paying for two independent study credits per term for their work in the program.

In the future, Shattuck hopes to open the program to interns and volunteers, as well as to student leaders.

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Muslim student group racially targeted on Internet Politically-motivated blogger crashed and filmed group’s event without permission Vinh Tran Vanguard staff

An event hosted by the Muslim Student Association at Portland State, intended to educate the public about Islam as part of the Islamic Awareness Week, April 4 to 8, turned into a confrontation between the group and an unidentified attendant over a video recorded without permission from the organizers.

The six minute and forty second video recorded and disseminated by a YouTube member who goes by the username “LaughingAtLiberals,” was also posted on several political blogs. It received a little over one thousand views and several racially insensitive comments from viewers.

The video begins with the speaker, Imam Mikal Shabazz from the Oregon Islamic Chapter, acknowledging an unidentified man who was videotaping his lecture with a Flip Camera.

“First of all, I see someone with a Flip Camera,” Shabazz said in the video. “When I’m using my Flip Camera, I have permission to use [it].”

When asked what he’s planning to do with the content of the video, the unidentified man said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with

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Moving on: Muslim Student Association President Dhari Al-Saqabi works in the group’s office.

it until later on.”

Shabazz then proceeded to ask the man to turn off his video camera since he couldn’t give a reason for his intention with the video.

“I think it’s proper protocol and courtesy that these things be clear with the organizer before,” Shabazz told the observer. “You can’t tell me what you’re filming for, I would appreciate it if you don’t film me when I’m talking.”

The man began arguing with the MSA and the

Sustainability groups move to Market Center Building Groups will relocate to new Oregon Sustainability Center in 2013 Miranda Schmidt Vanguard staff

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Consolidating: PSU's sustainability groups recently moved to the Market Center Building on Southwest Market Street.

Over the last few weeks, many of the sustainability organizations on Portland State’s Campus have moved into a first-floor sustainability suite in the Market Center Building on Market Street and Fifth Avenue—a high visibility location, according to Mark Gregory, associate vice president of Finance and Administration.

“The idea to co-locate academic and operational sustainability offices was born in 2008 to promote collaboration and better serve faculty, students and staff,” Gregory said.

In 2009, some sustainability groups moved into offices on the eighth floor of the Market Center Building, according to Gregory. The move to the suite on the first floor precedes plans to move groups into the yet-to-be-built Oregon Sustainability Center.

“The decision to consolidate the offices happened organically,” Sustainability Leadership

speaker, claiming that since the event was public he had a right to film it.

Several MSA members who were in attendance reminded him that he still needs permission from the group before taping the lecture, and at the pleading of Shabazz, the man responded, “Then perhaps the event shouldn’t be public then…are you guys trying to hide something?”

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and Outreach Coordinator Heather Spalding said. “When the ISS [Institute for Sustainable Solutions] changed its name from the Center for Sustainable Processes/Practices, a new director and associate director were also being hired. The first floor of Market Center Building was chosen to be the sustainability suite, and we all decided to join up and share the space.”

The offices are currently trying to find ways to identify common purposes and to present themselves as parts of a unified whole, according to Spalding.

“I see this consolidation to be positive,” she said. “It will help us leverage PSU into a hub for sustainability research, engagement and action.”

The groups in the new sustainability suite are using an open office plan with shared workspaces, meeting rooms and conference areas that allow for cross-office collaborations, according to Gregory.

Though co-locating PSU sustainability offices can make it easier for them to collaborate, there have also been drawbacks to the Market Center location, Spalding said. The Market Center Building is on the edge of campus, which makes it more difficult to engage with students.

“It is important to consciously take trips up to the park blocks, the Green Space, etc., to stay in touch with the heart of campus,” Gregory said.

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Starters: Keith Nevison of the PSU Garden Volunteer Program prepares and hands out ready-to-plant vegetables.

PSU celebrates Earth Day Hundreds of students and community members congregated on Portland State’s Park Blocks on Friday in celebration of the 41st annual Earth Day. This was PSU’s fourth Earth Day Festival, and students have spent several months preparing for the event. Aside from food and live music, displays were set up around the Park Blocks promoting sustainability-related initiatives such as PSU’s Take Back the Tap.

Portland State President Wim Wiewel approved the Student Fee Committee’s budget for the 2011–12 school year on April 7, officially recognizing the SFC’s request to raise the student fee by $2. The fee, which covers all special services that are used by and benefit students, accounts for just under $14 million of PSU’s budget.

The request for the increase came at the recommendation of the SFC, as well as the approval of the Student Senate. According to Wiewel, he was reluctant to approve the increase of the fee on the eve of a nine percent tuition increase for the 2011–12 school year.

“I was disappointed when I heard that the fee would be increasing,” Wiewel said. “I asked them to explain areas that experienced a large percentage increase in funding; ultimately, we were unable to avoid raising the student fee.”

The $2 increase, which represents a fairly nominal portion of the now $230 fee (for a 12-credit student), will aid in the continual funding of programs like Campus Recreation, student publications and the childcare assistance program.

According to SFC Chair Kristine McCants, before the fee was raised, the SFC had decided to cut several expenses that it felt should be

paid for by university administration, rather than the students.

“PSU’s recycling program, as well as ‘sustainability,’ were two areas where we felt it was more appropriate for the university to be funding rather than the students fees,” McCants said.

According to Student Activities and Leadership Programs Adviser Amanda Newberg, a huge percentage of the increases was due to costs out of the control of the SFC. Inflation, indirect costs and other personnel expenses all accounted for the student fee increase.

In order for the president to better analyze the budget, it was required that the SFC give justification for any areas that experienced substantial growth. While most of the line items experienced at least a small increase in funding requirements, due to issues such as inflation and rising enrollment, other areas did have greater percentage increases in their budget.

According to McCants, the Queer Resource Center justified a 20 percent budget increase with the hiring of a new staff member, and areas like Helen Gordon Child Development Center and the Children’s Center defended their budget growth as their needs increased.

In addition, the Athletics Department received a 15 percent budget increase, accounting for $3.7 million—or 27 percent—of the student fees.

According to Wiewel, despite the current increase, a major hike in student fees is not a reality, unlike tuition, as they are used solely to fund operations that fall outside of the normal functioning of the university. ■

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Governors to spell out Columbia bridge design

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PORTLAND (AP)—The governors of Oregon and Washington plan a press conference Monday aimed at getting the two states off the dime and started on building a replacement for the Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River.

They are expected to decide between a design that’s functional and quick to build and alternatives that would be more appealing visually but might not be so easy to get under way. They’ve been signaling they’ll go for functional and quick.

In February, Govs. John Kitzhaber of Oregon and Chris Gregoire of Washington abandoned a bridge design that their transportation departments spent years and millions of dollars developing.

But experts said it was a costly design, and nothing like it had been built to such length.

Their Portland news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m.

PORTLAND (AP)—A highway construction boom in Oregon funded by federal stimulus money and state bonding is coming to an end.

The Oregonian reports that spending on new projects peaked in 2009 at $800 million. Now, annual spending is projected to drop to about $300 million by 2015 — the same level as 10 years ago.

Oregon Transportation Department Director Matt Garrett has announced a hiring freeze and expects his staff to shrink by 5 percent over the next four years.

Garrett also expects cutbacks in new state highway and bridge projects by 2017.

Firm hired by GOP ends work on gay marriage ban ATLANTA (AP)—A law firm hired by Republican lawmakers is dropping its work

defending the federal gay marriage ban amid criticism by advocacy groups.

King & Spalding chairman Robert Hays Jr. said Monday that the Atlanta-based firm had filed a motion to withdraw from its involvement in fighting challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Republican leadership of the U.S. House had retained one of the firm’s lawyers after the Obama administration directed the U.S. Justice Department to stop defending the law in court.

Hays said the firm didn’t properly vet the engagement and apologized for the decision.

The Human Rights Campaign and several gay rights groups had planned a news conference Tuesday to protest the firm’s involvement in the case.

With 12,000 still missing, Japan keeps searching SHICHIGAHAMA-MACHI, Japan (AP)—A line of somber

soldiers walked methodically through a drained swamp Monday, with each step sinking their slender poles into the muck beneath.

If one hit a body, he would know.

“Bodies feel very distinctive,” said Michihiro Ose, a spokesman for the Japanese army’s 22nd infantry regiment.

The men were among 25,000 troops given the morbid duty of searching the rubble, the seas and the swamps of northeastern Japan for the bodies of the nearly 12,000 people still missing in last month’s earthquake and tsunami.

The two-day operation was the biggest military search since the March 11 disaster.

With waters receding, officials hoped the troops, backed by police, coast guard and U.S. forces, would make significant progress. By Monday evening, they had found 38 bodies, the military said.

Taliban tunnels at least 480 out of Afghan prison KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP)—Taliban militants tunneled at least 480 inmates out of the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 1,000-footlong underground passage they had dug over months, officials and insurgents said Monday.

Officials at Sarposa prison in the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, say they only discovered the breach at about 4 a.m., a half hour after the Taliban said they had gotten all the prisoners out.

The militants began digging the tunnel about five months ago from a house within shooting distance of the prison guard towers. It was not immediately clear whether they lived in the house while they dug.

They meticulously plotted the tunnel’s course around police checkpoints and major roads, the insurgent group said in a statement. ■

Around four minutes into the video, with the camera still on, the guest left the event and was followed by several MSA members.

The man continued to argue with some of the members, asking them why they were following him, and continued to claim that he had the right to film a public event.

According to Dhari Al-Saqabi, president of the MSA and a senior studying computer engineering, an online video can be taken out of context and the public may misconstrue the message of the MSA. This is why the speaker did not allow him to videotape the event without having a clear reason for doing so.

Al-Saqabi said he later learned that the speaker was uncomfortable with being filmed.

“The guy was being very rude,” Al-Saqabi said.

“If you come to a public event, you have to be respectful to the organizer.”

In the video, the unidentified man claimed that since the lecture was held in a public place, he has the right to videotape it. However, according to Scott Gallagher, communication director for PSU, this is not true.

Gallagher said when students are on PSU property—in this case, the lecture was in Smith Memorial Student Union—their privacy is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. In other words, in order to capture a student on film, he would need to first get their consent.

In the video, the man mistakenly identified SMSU as a public place.

“Public spaces include the street and the park blocks; PSU buildings are not considered public,” Gallagher said.

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Administration hopes to merge sustainability offices into one department Community sustainability organizations, such as the Portland Sustainability Institute, Oregon BEST and the Community Environmental Services, are also sharing space in the Market Center Building with PSU organizations, according to Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions Robert Richardson.

Construction on the new Oregon Sustainability Center is scheduled to begin in 2012, and should be completed by late 2013. When construction is complete, the sustainability

offices currently in the Market Center Building will move into the center, according to Spalding.

PSU was recently given a gold rating by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the university has many environmentally focused projects underway, according to Gregory.

“We’ve been focusing on building grass roots leadership across the campus, communication infrastructure via PSU EcoWiki, and tracking greenhouse gas emissions,” Gregory said.

“We have also done a fair amount of strategic

According to Rachel Samuelson, adviser for the MSA, the rule applies to events hosted by all student groups that receive funding from Student Activities and Leadership Programs, as well as to lectures and concerts held in Lincoln Performance Hall.

“You can’t just walk in and tape it, no way,” Samuelson said. “The students are within their rights to make that request.”

The video from the incident is now being disseminated on several conservative-oriented blogs, such as americanpowerblog.blogspot.com, with the tag line, “Citizen Journalist Gets Kicked Out of Islam Event.”

The content of the blog posts that go along with the video contain anti-Muslim rhetoric, with one blog comparing the MSA to “Nazis” and calling on viewers to “expose the truth on campus” by filming footage of “blatantly hurtful, anti-Semitic, anti-American, etc. things.”

As of press time, the man who posted the video did not respond to any of the Vanguard’s messages sent via his YouTube channel.

planning around our energy and carbon goals, resulting in our climate action plan. We have also been drafting campus-wide policy that will support the climate action plan.”

A program focused on developing interdisciplinary faculty collaborations around sustainability issues will be taking place this summer, according to Richardson.

Though much has been accomplished by PSU sustainability organizations, Spalding believes there is still more to be done, particularly in gaining endowments, investments and growing organizations to meet student demand.

“Young people are going to have many opportunities to create positive solutions to the challenges we face in the coming years, but they need to have the self confidence and real life

Al-Saqabi said, however, that he and his group are not worried about the kind of message that is being put out there about Islam and the MSA. “He has his own agenda; why waste time addressing this?” Al-Saqabi said. “He’s not harming our image [because] people know us around campus, I don’t think our image in any way is affected.”

Gallagher said after watching the video, he was pleased to see how the MSA and its members responded to the incident. In the video, several members of the group invite the guest to return to the lecture, as long as he turns off his camera.

Samuelson said the MSA pays attention to how it deals with situations like this and that their main concern is to make sure everyone feels welcome at their event.

“The purpose is to share the [culture], and the intention was inherent in the video,” Samuelson said. ■

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New location: The sustainability suite is located in the lobby of the Market Center Building.

experience to be effective,” she said. “We need to use our collective voice to make changes— at the individual, local, state, national and global level.” ■

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Here comes the sun And I say get off your ass Attention all slug people. Nay, I am not referring to some half-human, half-slug hybrid, but many of us who dwell in stormy Portland.

We winter-plagued, rain-drenched individuals who have slowly morphed from active, funloving folk into pasty, lazy, slug people.

During the dreary rainy months in the Northwest, which often can span from September until April we forget that sunlight even exists. The streets downtown become scarce of life during the day and fall to near silence at night. It is in this time of proverbial hibernation that we venture outside by necessity and not by choice. There are no rainbows without rain, but there is a serious lack of activity with it.

It hasn’t been without consequence either. It is time for us people, perhaps slightly pudgy from the extra winter poundage reserved for our metropolitan hibernating, to come out of hiding. We have made it through the gloom and have reached the end of the gray days as the sun comes back and the weather finally warms up. It’s time to get out and reclaim the streets from winter’s cold.

We are fortunate enough to exist in an area with such a wide range of outdoor escapades available. With rivers, the coast, mountains, valleys and even snow if you want it, I’m wondering how we can even stand to stay inside for so long.

And lucky us, we don’t even have to invent our own adventures! The months indoors have perhaps rendered us intimidated by even the slightest notion of physical activity. Portland State’s Outdoor Recreation Program has a multitude of options to cater to even the most adverse to sunlight.

“All of our focus is on providing gear and instruction to the student body, to encourage

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them to get outdoors,” said Adam Edwards, PSU Outdoor Recreation staff member. “Every Portland State student gets half price on rentals, which is extremely affordable compared to conventional renting centers.”

If you have an itch to do anything from kayaking to backpacking, the Outdoor Program will help you scratch it.

“Anyone can sign up for the trips we organize, non-students included,” Edwards said. “The groups are wonderfully led with a 1-to-3 ratio of instructors to students, so you have all the help you’d need if you’re inexperienced.”

In the near future students can look forward to a variety of trips including a hike to Ramona Falls, a mountain climbing tutorial and a week-long backpacking excursion along the Hoh River trail.

“The Hoh has some of the most pristine trails in Oregon,” Edwards said. “Last year we took

Problems in Gaza They’re not going away anytime soon Joe Mantecon Vanguard staff

College has, in spite of itself, taught me a number of things.

How to negotiate your way out of a late fee; the astonishing speed at which mold can invade a sink full of unwashed dishes; how quickly a $300 bank account becomes emaciated when you’re doing your own grocery shopping and Safeway has you by the balls or you live a roughly 15 minute walk from Powell’s Books.

Another thing college has taught me is that a problem—such as that worthless Mentored Inquiry class on “how-to-find-books-at-a-library” you simply have to take—rarely goes away by ignoring it. Despite your best efforts at apathy, Mentored Inquiry, for some God-awful reason, will end up costing you 25 percent of that UNST grade you need to graduate.

Which brings me to Hamas, as I’m sure you saw coming. Yes, Hamas: the pseudo-democratic benevolent political party and/or nefarious terrorist organization currently running the show in the Gaza Strip.

This depressed tiny stretch on the map has long been a thorn in the side of the Arab/ Israeli peace process, and in an act of shrewd

political maneuvering President Obama, for the most part, has decisively taken the problem and ignored it. Probably out of respect for the ultimate setback to his credibility that this international policy headache can undoubtedly deliver.

Unfortunately, like my sink of dirty dishes with the mold that any day now may become self-aware, this problem is not going to go away any time soon.

For those who don’t know, here are the basics.

There’s this place in the Middle East that, honestly, doesn’t have much going for it other than a lot of history. The Jews want it, and they want it to be Israel. The Muslims want it, and they want it to be Palestine. Right now, Israel has the high ground, and the Palestinians are accordingly pissed. That’s about it.

Think there’s more to it than that? I’ve done the research, I’ve read the books and I’ve listened to the debates. With that context, and the ultimate perspective that no one is entitled to land—after all, you’re always taking it from someone—the whole issue pretty much denigrates into a glorified combo of “it’s mine because I saw it first” and “it’s mine because I want it more.”

Those are just the fundamentals. We can get into a whole lot of muddled, contradictory details about who’s the better group. We can talk about Israel’s use of white phosphorous against the Gazans and we can talk about Hamas’s use

“It’s absolutely energy intensive. You get a hell of a workout being out there…Plus, you get to say ‘I’m on a boat!’ which is pretty much as good as it gets.”

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a full group of students on the trip and had an amazing time.”

The Outdoor Program is currently in the middle of their white water kayaking seminar, and more information about all of their trips can be found online and at their office on the back side of the Rec Center.

On top of that, PSU has a variety of clubs to

of human shields. We can talk about Hamas’s building of schools and charities and we can talk about Israel’s turning a patch of dirt void of resources into a wildly successful, educated and civilized bastion of modern society.

We can talk about a lot of things when it comes to Israel/Palestine. But for now, let’s talk about just one thing: That pesky little peace process. Where is it now? And what, by golly, is Mr. Obama doing about it?

Oh, and by the way, the big task of the Palestinians at the moment is to achieve recognition by the United Nations. They’re hoping to do this by September, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (really the brains behind most of this) has endorsed this vision effectively as a goal of American foreign policy.

For the time being, the peace process is in a pretty decent murk of a stalemate. That’s nothing new, of course, but some recent developments make this current stalemate worth paying attention to.

There is an indelible tension between Israelis and Palestinians at the moment. One pattern that tends to repeat itself in the whole diplomatic mess is, whenever the U.S. sidelines the issue in favor of more pressing international concerns, both Israeli and Palestinian camps tend to become distrustful of not just one another, but American policymakers as well.

There is some sense to this. How can you sincerely respect the commitment of a third party player that wavers so consistently, that wavering is the only consistent trait of its involvement?

Don’t take that as a jab at Mr. Obama—the American president has plenty to occupy himself for the time being. And with an election fast

tempt us back into the wilderness. Groups that give us the opportunity to experience things that would otherwise be unavailable to us. Recently joined member of the Sailing Club, Rebecca Waits, has nothing but praise for the group.

“I definitely never expected to find myself in a sailing club. It always sounded like something reserved solely for wealthy boys all named Chad,” Waits said. “I know now that it’s just a fantastic chance to not only get outside, but out onto the water to really experience the Willamette.”

Of course it isn’t for the faint of heart. While sailing is beautiful and relaxing it is a great physical activity as well.

“It’s absolutely energy intensive. You get a hell of a workout being out there,” Waits said. “Plus, you get to say ‘I’m on a boat!’ which is pretty much as good as it gets.”

The club meets three days as week at the Willamette Marina. It’s open to anyone, and right now they are actively looking for new members to join their awesome crew.

Of course there’s a massive difference between talking about everything we could do and actually going to do it. As much as I can fantasize about waking up early on weekdays before class to go jogging, when it comes down to it, my warm bed and purring cat are way more appealing than sneakers.

As students, we have ridiculous schedules as it is, and fitting in time to just soak up sun or get our blood pumping isn’t the easiest task. Nothing gets a brain working like some fresh air, and we’ll need it with the impending doom of midterms arriving. It’s important to set goals, at least small ones at first, to get back outdoors.

Be you a wannabe pirate craving for some time off the land, or just a student looking to get some skiing in before all the snow on the mountains melt, there is plenty to get excited about now that the sun is shining down on Portland again. ■

approaching, it is understandable that he would be reluctant to plunge into the god-forsaken pit of Israeli/Arab diplomacy.

But there we go again—ignoring the problem.

It’s not enough to hope for the best. The currently tense quiet lurking between the two factions is disturbing.

For one thing, both parties are fielding more advanced weaponry than ever before, and with much of the Arab world mired in revolution and sectarian bruising, the threat of armed conflict looms darkly on the horizon. Hezbollah is better armed than it was in 2006, and while Hamas has never posed anything resembling an existential threat to Israel, a notoriously trigger-happy Israeli government (a coalition headed by the right-wing Likud) justifiably feels cornered between a rock and hard place.

War remains a distinct possibility. Hamas’ recent firing of a precision-guided weapon (a Russian-made Cornet rocket) at an Israeli school bus could have easily triggered a second Israeli invasion into Gaza, had the school bus not already released all but one of its passengers. Far too close for comfort, in my humble opinion.

That’s the situation as it stands. The public opinion polls show that both sides are willing to accept a two-state solution, yet, interestingly, both sides doubt the other’s commitment to this ideal. The Palestinians hope for peace, yet consider another intifada. The Israelis hope for peace, yet consider another Operation Cast Lead.

Meanwhile, Mr. Obama continues to hope for peace on both fronts. He (and Hillary Clinton) have a great deal to consider. ■

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Yet another diet trend Gluten-free diets aren’t for everyone

duces symptoms such as severe abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea and vomiting.

Most would agree that these symptoms do not sound particularly appealing. What people Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Oprah with celiac disease must do to minimize these Winfrey. What do all these high-profile celebri- uncomfortable side effects is follow a glutenties have in common? All have either publicly free diet. These diets require a strict avoidance declared their love for the gluten-free diet or of the protein. Generally, they must avoid most have promoted it in some way. Now, a number grains, cereals, pastas and processed foods. It is of people are jumping on this trend, many of also important to ensure that dairy products and whom do not necessarily have condiments that they might health problems that might consume, such as ice cream CHRISTINE SELVY require this method of strict and ketchup, do not contain it eating. as a filler ingredient.

Some may be wondering Americans often embrace what exactly a gluten-free diet entails. Let’s be- new diet trends whenever superstar celebrities gin with the basics. Simply put, gluten is a type make claims that the reason for their smokin’ of protein found in various species of wheat, hot bodies is because of a new approach to eatbarley and rye that gives dough its elasticity and ing they are trying. The gluten-free diet is no chewy texture. exception. According to the University of ChiSufferers of celiac disease for example, are cago’s Celiac Disease Center, about 1 in 133 unable to consume such foods containing glu- Americans suffer from the disease. Latent celiac ten. Found in the small intestine, villi help us disease, which is considered to be less debilitatabsorb nutrients from foods; people with celiac ing and is associated with having a gluten “sendisease, however, do not have this function and sitivity,” is becoming more prevalent in the U.S. have an almost allergy-like effect in which the Scientists are still trying to determine the cause immune system attacks these villi and thus pro- for this.

Time to vote It seems the candidates are actually interested in government and the students of Portland State instead of just using the position to further their own agendas or build resumes.

It is that time of year again: time to vote for your Students can log onto their Banweb account student government. Maybe you aren’t aware of and vote—it’s that simple. Voting began on this because last year only around 700 students April 22. Usually students have one week to submitted ballots out of a student population of cast their ballot, but because of maintenance over 25,000. to Banweb on Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m. to The Associated Students of Portland State midnight, the voting has been extended to University (ASPSU) is your May 1 at 5 p.m. Students student government. The stualso have the opportunity MEAGHAN dent government is responsito vote between 11 a.m. and DANIELS ble for distributing more than 2 p.m. on these days at the $13 million in funds collectvoting stations in Victor’s ed by the Student Fee. They are also supposed Dining Hall; between Smith Memorial Student to serve in on-campus committees that voice Union and Neuberger Hall; inside of SMSU; the student opinion as well as advocate for the first floor of the library, and on the second students at the university, city and state levels. floor of the Rec Center.

It seems that this year there are more fliers inBecause the name of ASPSU has been so taintforming students which candidates are running. In ed and left a bad taste in the students’ mouths, fact, there are five parties running for president and it has forced the Elections Board to take some vice president. Contrast that from last year, when much needed action for this year’s elections. current president Katie Markey ran uncontested.

Their goal is to increase voter turnout to Elections are best when students actually have 10 percent, 2,700 students. They are planning a choice. This year, students do have such a a “Rock the Vote” event for April 26. The choice between candidates, reflecting who is best Elections Board is also hoping to change the suited for job and different opinions on how to minimum GPA to serve on ASPSU (2.0 for run ASPSU, which is definitely beneficial when undergraduates, 3.0 for graduates) in ortrying to figure out who is going to run your der to increase the standards that candidates student government for an entire year. are held to.

Let’s stop the trend of poor voter turnout at PSU

An increasing number of Americans who do not suffer from celiac disease, however, are taking the initiative to convert to a gluten-free diet. Rising rates of obesity and diseases related to obesity are scaring people into thinking they need to take extreme measures against these conditions by vetoing all foods from a certain category—in this case, carbohydrates. A scary word for many people.

It must be understood, then, that the main carbohydrate believed to be the primary cause of obesity is sugar. As with any nutrient, excess amounts of carbohydrates can have adverse effects on one’s health; fiber, for example, can be found in several whole-grain products that often contain gluten, but it is still a necessary component of a healthy diet. Those who do not suffer from a gluten sensitivity, yet still participate in the special diet for reasons such as losing weight, are at a potential risk for developing some sort of nutrient deficiency.

Denying one’s self of these common foods (who could say no to a giant piece of toast or huge bowl of cereal if they are able?) does not seem like something one of the fattest countries would be interesting in practicing.

Nevertheless, when stars like Oprah and Jennifer Aniston announce to everyone that they are eating a certain way, it automatically makes peo-

ple assume that the explanation for their thinness is these extreme dietary plans. What is not taken into consideration, yet should be, is their entire lifestyle, which probably includes regular exercise and personal chefs who prepare everything in the healthiest way possible.

One health benefit connected with eating gluten-free that should be mentioned—someone decides to cut out the majority of processed foods that are too often consumed in the U.S., they are also cutting out unnecessary extra calories coming from unhealthy fats and added sugars. Yes, weight loss is a definite possibility, but there are simpler and even healthier ways to do so.

Our society wants an easy answer to everything, and the gluten-free diet gives us a simple solution to dealing with problems related to being overweight. Still, it does not make sense to go to such extremes as to cut out such a large part of one’s diet when it is not necessary.

Moderation is key with almost everything, and the same goes with food. Unless gluten sensitivity is suspected or diagnosed, the glutenfree diet, no matter how glamorous the stars are making it seem, should be reconsidered by those who still have essential nutrient needs that are found in gluten-filled foods. ■

All of these are necessary steps. We need candidates who are responsible, hold a certain amount of accountability and really want to be here, serving the student body. The student body also needs to learn more about ASPSU and what exactly they do. Voting is also a responsibility.

There is a general universal rule for all elections; if you do not vote then you cannot complain. It is important to get those voting num-

bers up, students! These are the people who are going to represent us for an entire year. They should be capable, likeable and responsible.

Knowledge is power, knowing what exactly ASPSU does and when elections are, the student body will hopefully be able to get behind candidates who will be the right voice for the students. Remember to vote on Banweb. You have up to May 1 at 5 p.m. ■

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■ OPINION

THE VIKING VOICE

What issues matter to you most for this aspsu election?

ONLINE COMMENTS The story doesn’t stop when the print hits the page. Don’t like something you read in the Vanguard? Want us to cover a story? Do you feel there is more to be said?

You have the opportunity to praise us or rip us apart here at the Vanguard. Post a comment online or write us a letter. Tell us what you think.

Here are some online highlights from www.psuvanguard.com.

Tit-for-tat violations

Victoria Leca Junior, Political Science “The most important issue to me would be tuition increases. I do know that it would be very difficult actually go against the situation of 9.2 percent. I know the students don’t agree with it and they are trying to do something about it…and also inclusive spaces and unity at PSU and diversity.”

I don’t think they did much of a wrong doing [“ASPSU candidates investigated before campaigning begins,” April 12]. Besides, I saw a couple of students on campus wearing red shirts that stated “Vote Corrine & Steve” just the other day...obviously there are more than one candidate who is violating the ASPSU constitution.

Anonymous

No case I think that if the materials were conflicting, then there is not case against these men [“ASPSU candidates investigated before campaigning begins,” April 12]. I think that their enthusiasm for the campaign should be seen as inspirational rather than disgraceful. People need to stop blowing things out of proportion and focus on the real issues here. Let’s remember that it’s April 14th. Simmer down.

Anonymous

Crooks and cheaters?

Francisco Ibarra Freshman, Architecture “The tuition increase. I heard it’s going to go up six percent, nine percent for in-state. Right now, I’m barely getting tuition paid.”

SALP FROM PAGE 1

Wow, these guys are crooks and cheaters [“ASPSU candidates investigated before campaigning begins,” April 12]. If these two had cheated in a class instead of an election they’d be failed or expelled from the university immediately.

Oh, and in case it isn’t inherently obvious, Mr. Rahmlow and Mr. Whitehead are commenting on this article. Yes, PSU students, they think you are that stupid.

bring up issues that concern students would rock PSU’s boat just a little too much.

Just a thought.

Anonymous

Tracking the slate One would perhaps find this to be a compelling student testimony if it weren’t for the fact that Mr. Polsin is a candidate for senator on this very slate [“Letters to the editor,” April 15]. The cheaters are arguing that they’re not cheating?! I’m shocked.

Mitch

Just a little fact Also, just a little fun fact—Candidates are not allowed to post any campaign material, have a table, or do chalk drawings in between Cramer and Smith because President Wim Wiewel’s office is in Cramer and he doesn’t want to see any of the candidate’s materials. Interesting [“Editorial: Campaign in the ass,” April 15].

Anonymous

Hmm… How can it be that Dr. Coleman “could not be reached for comment as of press time,” but is quoted in the beginning of this article?!?! It seems to me that this inconsistency raises some serious ethical questions [“Communication breakdown,” April 5].

C. Fitz

QUOTE FOR THOUGHT

Jesse

Taking it on the chin

Javan Villegas Senior, Health Sciences “One of the biggest ones for me is the reallocation of athletics money. They get a really strangely large amount. I know it’s not a part of my life, it’s not a part of any of my friends’ lives. The only people athletics benefits are the people directly involved with athletics. Whereas other student groups, other organizations do things that are much more wide ranging and have vastly smaller budgets.

They could do a lot more with the money that athletics is using…that and they are funded by the student fee committee. “

Any chance of President Wiewel going in front of the State Board of Higher Education and asking for more than a 9 percent salary reduction for himself and college administration [“Proposed 9.2 percent tuition hike this fall,” April 5]?

Once again the masses taking it on the chin!

Anonymous

Immobile student body Have you considered the fact that it is not in PSU admin’s best interest to have a large involved and vocal student body [“Vanguard Editorial: Campaign in the ass,” April 15]? It seems to me that if ASPSU is truly lobbying for the interest of the student body and not the institution then the electoral system that is currently in place makes total sense. Administration doesn’t want the student body mobilized and having time to campaign and

New program aims to develop leadership skills

Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org

“I can certainly put myself in Israel’s shoes.

They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.”

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

credits can apply toward that as well, according to Liane O’Banion, assistant director in the Learning Center.

Shattuck explained that there are 100 spots in the program. Selected leaders will join a cohort of 20 to 25 others for the academic year and will attend nine leadership sessions (three per term) together.

O’Banion said the cohorts will choose a theme for the year, such as social responsibility, teamwork, citizenship, common purpose or community and systems.

As the cohorts meet throughout the year, they will receive leadership training, reflect on their experiences and develop networking abilities and an e-portfolio, according to Shattuck.

One of the main goals of the program is to help student leaders make career connections in their academic fields, she said.

“This was one of the things that I benefited from as a student leader,” Shattuck said. “As I made connections through student leadership and my volunteer work… what I was doing was creating career connections.”

After a year in the program, student leaders must reapply to continue for another year.

Shattuck hopes that student leaders continuing in the program will help to facilitate it in the future.

O’Banion emphasized the fact that while the program does provide monetary compensation, it should not be treated like a job.

“This is not a job,” O’Banion said, adding that students should assume leadership roles for the sake of leadership—not for money.

“The opportunity to get leadership experience is great on this campus. It’s a chance to get something for your resume and a wonderful experience.”

O’Banion said that the program will be seeking students with a “proven leadership track record within a PSU sanctioned organization.” Students who wish to contribute to PSU through leadership and who wish to attain professional leadership training in the field are encouraged to apply.

The application for the program is available on the SALP website and is due

by May 20. ■

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Reder also hopes to develop a writing support system using Learner Web Learner Web is, in fact, used in many different projects and serves many different demographics. Learner Web’s Digital Literacy Project, for example, is aimed low-income adults, while the NGLC initiative will focus primarily on incoming college students, Reder said.

to fund technology-based innovations to both increase college readiness and college success, Reder said.

PSU became part of the NGLC initiative by virtue of the university’s ongoing partnerships with the other campuses involved in promoting higher-educational success

“The hope is that this will add something to what colleges and universities are already doing to help their students to become better writers and more successful college students.”

STEVE REDER

The NGLC grant comes from a consortium of funders called EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is “to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology,” according to its website. NGLC’s mission is to put together grants

through online proficiency, including CDCC, St. Paul College of Minnesota and South Texas College in Knoxville.

This latest technology-based initiative is an outgrowth of these intercampus relationships, according to Reder.

The CCDC was selected for the grant from a group of

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Online learning: Steve Reder helped develop the Learner Web software.

more than 600 proposal submissions that had 50 finalists, according to PR-Newswire.

Of these finalists, 29 proposals were ultimately funded from an $11 million pot.

“One of the things in [our proposal] that stood out was that we have a very promising technology, number one,” Reder said. “Number two, we’re focused on improving college writing. Not just the mechanics, but understanding what you need to do to become a good writer for your chosen field in college.”

Using Learner Web, Reder plans to develop a writing support system to be used by the other partners in the project and that will be put into practice starting with this fall’s incoming students. The system will be employed for a year and evaluated by the Association for Institutional Research, another partner in the project. If the system works as well as Reder hopes, it will be made widely available to other institutions.

“The hope is that this will add something to what colleges and universities are already doing to help their students to become better writers and more successful college students,” Redder added. “That’s the purpose of the project.” ■

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EDITOR: NICHOLAS KULA ARTS@DAILYVANGUARD.COM 503-725-5694

YU knows where we’ve been YU Contemporary Arts Center celebrates the past and looks to the future Joshua Hunt Vanguard staff

The YU Contemporary Arts Center, located at Southeast 10th and Belmont in Portland, opens both its library and its inaugural exhibition at 6 p.m. on May 6. Selections from the Portland Center for the Visual Arts Archive will be the first of YU’s preview projects. The exhibition will examine a critical moment in the history of contemporary art in Portland, offering a historical context for YU while considering a future rich in potential.

PCVA was founded in 1971 by artists Jay Backstrand, Michele Russo and PSU Arts emeritus faculty Mel Katz. In the nearly two decades that followed, PCVA hosted some of the most important figures in the world of contemporary art. The exhibition will showcase ephemera, sketches, letters and archival documentation of visiting artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Terry Riley, John Cage, Sol LeWitt, Trisha Brown, Chuck Close and Ed Ruscha.

The inaugural YU exhibition will mark the first public viewing of the archives, which document PVCA’s attempt to showcase the best contemporary American art of their time. While PVCA raised awareness on contemporary art in America, many Portlanders are unaware of the

role that their own arts community played during these critical decades, said YU Communications Director Neal Morgan.

“It’s one of the seminal art institutions of its time,” said Morgan. “Yet a lot of folks don’t even know that it existed.”

While honoring the legacy of the PVCA, the exhibition also provides a direction moving forward with YU’s own goals, said Director Sandra Percival.

“Portland hasn’t had a major institution with landmark space dedicated to the production and presentation of contemporary art since the PCVA closed in 1987,” Percival said. “YU will be the first major arts institution on Portland’s east side.”

YU is located in the Yale Laundry Building, a landmark on the national registry of historic places, and Percival hopes their tenancy will help to reinvigorate the neighborhood and expand the arts landscape of Portland’s east side.

The YU Contemporary Arts Center is not, however, simply a carbon copy of the PVCA model. On the same day that the exhibition opens, YU will open the doors of their library and simultaneously launch their first publication, “Veneer Magazine.”

Edited by Portland-based artist Aaron Flint Jamison, “Veneer” will be comprised of an eighteen-volume set, each volume limited to 300 copies, available by subscription or at the YU building. Subscribers will receive a bookshelf to house the entire eighteen volumes, the first of which was released in 2007.

SARIA DY/VANGUARD STAFF

Sandra Percival: Contemporary art, she knows YU want it.

In spite of the impressive building, new library and hand-crafted publications, the mission of the PCVA is at the very heart of what the YU Contemporary Arts Center aims to achieve: the cultivation and promotion of contemporary art within the Portland community. YU wants to help create a continuing dialog on contemporary art and the community, said Percival.

“YU will bring the most challenging international and national contemporary art to Port-

Circus act Is “Water for Elephants” the main attraction or just a sideshow?

Kynna Groff Vanguard staff

The movie “Water for Elephants” tells the story of Jacob Jankowski after his life turns off its previous track and he joins a traveling circus.

Once he’s a part of the crew, he soon learns that much of what the crowd sees when they go to the circus is an illusion. A lot of glitz and glam dazzles the spectators into giving their money and creating drama, when in fact, it’s all just a perfectly timed performance. This, as it turns out, is quite fitting because “Water for Elephants” creates the illusion of a gritty, dramatic movie, when it’s actually more akin to a fairy-tale.

Imagine a movie that’s a little like “Titanic” mixed with “Big Fish,” and you’ve basically got “Water for Elephants.” The cinematography of “Water” is both stunning and beautiful. It simultaneously captures the grandeur and awe that was depression-era circuses, along with the hard times and often-rough lifestyle which performers and workers dealt with behind the scenes. The costumes are detailed and period accurate—right down to Marlena’s bleached eyebrows. And Francis Lawrence, the film’s director, manages to capture the moments of tense drama and simple comedy that can exist in the same scene.

Residual British anger: Of course the redcoat is the bad guy.

The actors of the film also did well. Chistoph Waltz gives an amazing performance as the dark and often scary ringleader of the circus, August. Reese Witherspoon garners sympathy as August’s wife, the circus’s show-stopping Marlena. Robert Pattinson never wavers in his portrayal of the down-but-not-out Jacob.

However, this is where I take a bit of umbrage with the writers. Marlena is tragic and beautiful, and clearly a damsel in distress. Jacob is the hero who’s going to fight to rescue her from her circus prison and take her to a better life. And August is evil, hates animals and will do anything to keep hold of the gorgeous Marlena. They’re all typical, Hollywood

cookie-cutter characters. However, characters that are true-to-life, or “round,” have traits within themselves that conflict each other. The characters in “Water” are as flat as if they’d been trampled by an elephant. There’s not a single redeemable trait in August. There’s not a single unlikeable trait in either Marlena or Jacob; you practically expect to see halos floating over their heads while August sits sharpening his pitchfork. This, in turn, gives the movie a very fairy-tale-esque air. The audience automatically knows who they’re supposed to root for and who they’re supposed to hate. The viewer never gets a chance to question it or see the characters as multi-faceted people.

land,” said Percival.

“Engaging artists in experimental ways that raise questions and catalyze new dialogue between the artists, the arts community and the broader communities.

YU’s vision is to present the most though provoking contemporary work, to form a community of ideas relevant to Portland and to empower the artistic imagination and cultural life of the Northwest.”

The YU Contemporary Arts Center celebrates its inaugural exhibition, the opening of its library and its debut publication, “Veneer Magazine,” all with a very special opening reception, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m.

The opening reception also includes a special screening of Richard Serra’s 1976 film “Railroad Turnbridge,” which was shot at the St. Johns Bridge. ■

Selections From the Portland Center for the Visual Arts Archives, Opening Reception May 6 6—9 p.m.

YU Contemporary Arts Center 800 SE 10th 503-236-7996 www.yucontemporary.org

The other gripe I have is with the plot.

In the first scenes of the movie, the audience is set up to believe that some pretty tragic events are going to unfold. However, these happenings seem tacked on at the end, and aren’t nearly as dramatic or tragic as other parts of the movie. It feels as if the writers got done and said “Oh wait, we forgot that thing we mentioned at the beginning…let’s just add it real quick here at the end, won’t take more than five minutes…”

I realize that “Water” is a book that was translated into a movie, so there are plot points IMAGE COURTESY 20th CENTURY fox which probably had to be cut in the interest of time. However, the audience shouldn’t have been set up for a spectacular climax that was actually less than thrilling. This cutting of plot from the book may also explain why the relationship between Marlena and Jacob seems to develop slowly at times, then quite suddenly toward the end.

As a whole, the movie is good entertainment.

The audience leaves without lingering questions, and with a feeling that all is right in the world—though the movie does wax sentimental at the end. If you want to see a movie that’s kind of an adult fairy-tale, then by all means, go see “Water for Elephants.” It may not be the drama that the previews suggest, but it’s not without substance. ■

Super Natural Every Day A vegetarian cookbook that goes way beyond tempeh Kat Vetrano Vanguard staff

What’s On The Page: Heidi Swanson, the cookbook author and blogger behind 101cookbooks.com, has a way with writing about food, as she proves yet again in her new book “Super Natural Every Day.” Because she was a blogger before she was a cookbook author, Swanson offers substitutions in her head notes, allowing the cook the freedom to work with their pantry, not rush to the store for one specific ingredient.

Although she is a blogger, her prose isn’t so heavily laced with personal stories that we lose sight of what’s really important. Her use of imagery is skillful like a fiction writer, but careful like a chef. It isn’t uncommon to hear her describe a baked good “studded” with dried fruit, or a “flurry” of grated cheese atop a pasta dish. When she does go into personal anecdotes, its skillfully done, usually to give credit to the origins of her recipe ideas (specific friends or farmers).

The table of contents reads a lot like a menu— you get the title of the dish, then two or three standout ingredients to give you an overall sense of what will be making. For example: Sun Toast, whole-wheat seed bread and fresh eggs. Or Chanterelle tacos, Serrano chile, garlic and Parmesan. It’s a unique way of informing the home cook of what each recipe has to offer.

Lastly, it should not go unnoticed how fantastic the photography is in Swanson’s book. All the photos—which Swanson takes herself—do a fantastic job of really capturing the region of

Northern California where she lives, as well as the simplistic beauty of the food.

Cuisine:

The strange thing about Swanson’s food (on her blog and in this book) is that you often forget she’s a vegetarian. This may be because Swanson’s recipes are highlights of fresh produce, cheeses and whole grains, and rarely (though sometimes) use meat substitutes like tempeh or seitan. Swanson’s dishes are not stuck on one flavor profile, either. On one page, you find a Harissa dressing with flecks of cilantro, and on another, there may be a baked good that starts with coconut oil. The best thing about the recipes in this book is that she doesn’t spend time trying to convince her reader that her food is healthy and low in calories. That’s a given. Instead, she offers dishes that are unique and flavorful that just happen to be good for you.

What Stands Out: The element of this book that is different from her first book, “Super Natural Cooking,” is simplicity. Many of the recipes are one-pot ordeals with small lists of ingredients. And nothing is a six-hour effort; the recipes are accessible and relatively easy to put together. Yes, sometimes there will be a less-recognizable ingredient for novice cooks, yet I would argue that part of really getting good at cooking is building a solid pantry, and Swanson helps you do that, one dish at a time.

What’s Not So Great: Since this book is so successful in so many ways, finding a negative aspect to it is really nit picking.

The one problem I have found is in the baking

chapter. There can be some strange measurements (like 1 3/4 teaspoon) that can be a little challenging since baking is so precise. Yet this is in no way a reason to avoid the book (hell, it may even be that I’m a pretty pathetic baker myself ).

The Verdict: Heidi Swanson has really found a way to make her dishes accessible and enjoyable. She brings home cooks out of their comfort zones steadily and educationally, and it’s likely you’ll find yourself wanting to make several dishes from

20.20.20 vision Finally, a marathon anyone can participate in Rian Evans Vanguard staff

For those who missed out on the previous 20.20.20 marathon hosted by Campus Rec, another shot at fame, glory and riches is almost upon us (by “riches” I mean t-shirts and other various prizes, though it has been said that the feelings of personal achievement, pride and accomplishment are priceless). In less than a month, individuals and teams will have a chance to compete in a mini-triathlon consisting of running, biking and swimming.

Most of us have probably at least heard of the Ironman Triathlon, which is perhaps one of the most extreme and demented tests of endurance to ever be invented by man. Most of these events have a 17-hour time limit in which contestants must swim two and a half miles, bike 112 miles and run 26 miles. Only elite level athletes have any hope of completing such a torturous event within the given time frame.

Thankfully for us mere mortals, the 20.20.20 marathon takes all of these events and crams them into a single hour instead of 17. And rather than focusing on completion time, participants spend 20 minutes on each form exercise with the goal of covering more distance than their competitors.

Competitors are also spared the harsh weather

Start training now: It'll be here before you know it.

conditions that the Ironman Triathlon has become known for, since the 20.20.20 marathon is held inside Campus Rec, though I’ve heard there is a 100 percent chance of perspiration!

The move to focus on distance traveled instead of completion time has other benefits as well. The goal of Campus Rec is help us stay active and healthy, and while some of us do have the proverbial “eye of the tiger,” many more of us are strictly recreational athletes. Heck, I

ADAM WICKHAM/VANGUARD STAFF

Super Natural: This should be about ghost food, but it's not.

IMAGE COURTESY PSU CAMPUS REC

wouldn’t dare speak for anyone else, but I don’t consider myself an athlete at all. My point is that some of us could very well be put off by the idea of race, but switching the focus to distance traveled takes some of the pressure off and reduces the intimidation factor. Those with the do-or-die mentality can focus on the gold, while the rest of us can focus on smaller, personal achievements.

The short intervals and short overall time frame of the event also give the opportunity to sample

the book in one week.

And If You Choose To Meet Her...

Swanson and local baking celebrity Kim Boyce will be holding a meet up/signing at the Cleaners (next to Clyde Common). There will be snacks, a keg of beer and local food site OurFoodShed.com will be offering bags filled with scrumptious food items to go with book purchases. The event goes from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 29, at The Cleaners, 403 SW 10th Avenue and Stark Street. ■

some of Campus Rec’s most popular exercise options. For those who are maybe seeking to mix up their workout and try new things, the 20.20.20 marathon is an excellent opportunity to get a feel for something different. Other than simply relieving mental monotony, doing something out of the ordinary has other benefits of which many fitness enthusiasts are unaware.

For example, imagine a guy who is performing nearly all of his cardiovascular exercise on the elliptical machines. While there is nothing wrong with this approach, it isn’t optimal either. The problem is that the more we do a particular activity at the same intensity, especially when done day after day, our bodies become increasingly efficient at that activity. Normally efficiency is a good thing, but not when it comes to exercising for weight control. Why? Increased efficiency means that our bodies can do the same type and amount of work while burning fewer calories.

Therefore, we want variety in our routines in order to maximize the amount of calories we can burn. That said, for folks who’ve been stuck in the same old routine for a while, the 20.20.20 marathon just got a little bit sweeter and sweatier. Their caloric expenditure levels are going to be through the roof!

We’ve got personal achievement, a shot a prizes, the chance to try new activities and meet new people, the potential to burn some major calories and what should be a good time for all involved. For accommodations for facilities, activities and programs please contact Jen Armbruster of Adaptive Rec at 503-725-2927 or j.armbruster@pdx.edu. ■

20.20.20 Marathon Sunday, May 15 12:30 p.m. $10 entry fee Campus Rec center

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This week in bangers Our resident DJ gives us the lowdown on what’s hot Johnny Mayer Vanguard staff

Do you ever wonder what you should be playing at parties? Or, have you ever thought to yourself, “If I only had a few recommendations to get me out of this sonic slump, I’d feel fantastic”? This time around take a listen to some tracks that are sure to get you shaking.

This week, we have five dubstep tracks on the menu, mostly newer releases and also a jam from last year that definitely should not have been slept on. It is most certainly going to be another hot, heavy and sweaty summer for BASS, so keep your ears to the speakers, your body on the dance floor and your spirits high.

Jeekoos — “Mission Terminated” Another definite banger here—a kind of slow, atmospheric, hi-hat-heavy intro gets things running smoothly. A teaser of the bass to come growls off over some NASA inspired space communication samples. The bass runs in an expressionistic heavily filtered loop for a good while, wobbling and cycling in intensity. The bass line on this track is very well constructed.

Rest assured it will shake any subwoofer near loose from the ground. The breakdown kicks off around the two-minute mark with some trippy space sounds and light drums. A killer outro toys back and forth with heavy bass and then drums alone until the song fades out.

KPSU's Pledge Drive at Food for Thought Café Come to PSU’s version of a basement show

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Vaski: Holding it down with some stellar tracks.

Jake Stevens Vanguard staff

70 BPM, BroTown Records, 2011

Hockey: Behold the iciest of all stares.

Cyberoptics — “Tie Fighter”

Total Recall — “They Live Below”

Rusko — “Everyday”

Epic strings, explosions, whirring jets, the sound of ladders sliding down—you can easily imagine that you’ve been transported to Gotham City in a heartbeat when this track starts off. A hip-hop style beat slides in under the radar before you even notice. Bass that would even the deadliest of foes shaking in their boots starts hitting hard, and the lead in this one is all bass. The strings make a recurring appearance throughout to remind the listener that crime lurks around every corner, but there’s a hero around here to easily fight it.

One bit nostalgia, one bit heavy and all parts awesome. This track is going to be a must-have jump off for summer. A filter-swept intro with some killer “Star Wars” quotes and sounds gives way to a steady simple beat to get your body moving. Without notice, an 8-bit lead and build up start firing off. The claps are heavy and poppy at the same time, integrating very well with the beat, which takes you into rebel fighter pilot mode. Now you’re banking and barrel rolling through space, and BLAM, you’re caught in the middle of a bass explosion—except it’s dazzled with lasers, blips, bleeps and sub wobbling bass.

Imperial TIE fighters beware, ’cause we’re heading into the asteroids.

A soft toned, heavily delayed bell kicks this one off with a sound reminiscent of a Super Nintendo RPG’s dungeon. Sick, wet and dirty bass slams the listener hard. The song breaks after about two minutes of bass with a good snare build up rolling right back into the bell sounding lead, but with even more delay—upon which the bass returns with an even filthier feeling, almost heavier, even at times greasier sounding. You definitely get the feeling that the title of the track explains it all on this one: “they” do in fact, “live below.” It delivers the right blend of soothing simplicity with enough heavy bass that it can find its way into any set at almost any point.

“The sun is shining every day,” laments the high­-pitched vocals on this phenomenal track from one of dubstep’s finest producers. A pretty solid mellow intro starts this one off, with some excellent 8-bit sounds to put you in a jovial trance groove. The arpeggiated synth line helps to force you to swing your arms like a bird. Then some high-pitched sampled vocals kick in, and the beat just DROPS. The track rolls on with a pretty decent albeit repetitive synth line and vocal samples. It breaks around halfway through, repeating the intro parts with a standard build up to lead back to the main chorus of the song. Be forewarned however, the track ends very abruptly.

70 BPM, Play Me Too Records, 2011

70 BPM, Play Me Records, 2011

70 BPM, Beatmorph Recordings, 2010

70 BPM, Mad Decent, 2011

Vaski — “Gotham”

PHOTO COURTESY Of jmj2008/flickr

JonnyX and the Groadies: Why yes, that is a headless guitar.

Bros icing bros men dressed in gas masks telling us to get out of the building immediately. We were all naked and it was really funny because it wasn’t until then that we realized that something was wrong.

I remember looking around and seeing people Rian Evans lying down and everyone being really sick.

Vanguard staff When we got outside everyone felt better, but it I’m going to come clean: I’ve always thought a was kind of surreal.”

Viking was an odd choice for Portland State’s Though Portland State lacks an ice rink, the official mascot. Now, before anyone accuses me team hasn’t let that hold them back one bit. They of heresy or marks me as a traitor, let me make regularly meet to practice on the upper floor of it clear that I have nothing but love for our the Campus Rec facility. Skates are substituted Viking mascot. Vikings are hyper-masculine with for inline skates or just plain old sneakers. their muscles, beards, cumbersome weapons and The team also takes full advantage of the weight mead. A Viking is also perhaps the most metal and cardio equipment available at Campus Rec. mascot a school could have, and I appreciate this. After all, hockey isn’t a sport for slouches. Most So yes, I do in fact like teammates are in the gym the Viking as our mascot. at least four days per week, My beef with the Viking in addition to the practice is that Portland seldom and travel schedule. has any snow or ice. The The team will be haventire Pacific Northwest is ing tryouts for new memknown for being miserable bers in the fall, but those and rainy three quarters of that make the cut also the year. have $2,500 to pay in Can anything make the team dues for the season.

Viking really “fit” PortMembers are required to land State? Until last week meet the usual university I didn’t think so, but then GPA requirements and I found a dark secret hidmust be enrolled for at den in the Campus Rec least nine credits. In adfacility: We have an ice dition, current or former hockey team. semi-pro players aren’t alVikings ice hockey has lowed to compete in the actually been active since league. For those who 2007, but few people are can’t manage the price aware of the team’s existag, or just aren’t ready tence (heck, here I am, for such a serious comthe fitness columnist, and mitment, the team also I didn’t even know). The welcomes students to parall PHOTOs karl kuchs/vanguard staff team regularly competes Hit the Ice: Look, real live Vikings! ticipate in the practices. throughout Oregon and Unfortunately for my Washington, and occasionally plays in California readers, my journalistic timing isn’t so great. The and Idaho as well. They’ve traveled as far as Ari- 2010–11 season has already concluded, but the zona in the past.

2011–12 season is scheduled to begin in late Life on the road isn’t always glamorous as it September. The team is hoping to bring in more sounds though. Club president and teammate fans this coming season. They’d sure appreciate Stephen Printup, 24, recalls a mishap on the some more support as they fight to achieve a naroad that could have turned out quite ugly. tional ranking for Portland State.

“I remember in the first year, when we played The team is not only interested in explorin Arizona, the oxygen censor was faulty on the ing avenues to promote the team and their Zamboni. This led to the rink filling up with games, but they’re also looking to gain more carbon dioxide, but no one knew about it. Ev- fans and talented players. For those interested eryone was getting dizzy and throwing up, but in knowing more about Portland State Vikings we were able to finish the game. When we were ice hockey, Stephen Printup can be reached at in the showers, all of a sudden there were fire- stephen.printup@gmail.com. ■

Did you know we have a hockey team that practices at the Rec Center?

It’s that time again: This Thursday at 7 p.m., Food For Thought Café is taking part in hosting KPSU’s Pledge Drive 2011. Keeping clear of frat connotations, KPSU’s Pledge Week is an annual fundraiser that doesn’t involve any sort of binge drinking or ass paddling. Our fellow student group holds this event with every intention to gain support (i.e., money) that will go directly towards creating “bigger and better things,” as stated by previous KPSU Development Director Rachelle Shmid years ago.

In kicking off this fundraiser, KPSU is launching the pledge drive in the epicenter of our campus with this free show. If you are not familiar with PSU’s architecturally post-apocalyptic scenario lurking underneath the Smith building then you probably haven’t heard of Food For Thought, the café that seems to act as the proverbial life-line for many of those in the PSU community who lean towards a healthier type of diet.

Although it is highly commendable for KPSU to utilize a campus outlet for one of their events, there seems to be something just a little off.

The line-up for this event consists of Abiku, Jonnyx and the Groadies, Tombstalker and Negative Queen. The raging persona these bands bring to the table seems to contradict what the dubbed “Commie Café” epitomizes with its

alternative ways. Abiku, a co-ed duo all the way from Baltimore, has been described as what you get when you try and smudge rave and punk together—in a way, like what Crystal Castles successfully accomplished, but not. Gauging by this first groups works already, this is seemingly not going to turn out well. While punkers are flipping tables and tearing down pictures in the once quite-serene chill spot, raging to screaming lyrics that are more penetrating than an unfortunate nail-to-skull event, they will just simply bid their adieus afterward and kick the donations bucket to the side on their way out.

Although the station still gets their fair share of cash from the Student Fees Committee, which simply covers the bare necessities (student wages and staying on the air), KPSU uses the collection of funds from the pledge drive to continue to expand and branch out into the Portland music community as a noteworthy enterprise. Co-sponsoring events like PDX Pop Now! along with other local shindigs, this Thursday is going be a big step towards taking much more of an independent role for the station becoming financially sound and growing in local prominence. ■

Abiku, JonnyX and the Groadies, Tombstalker, Negative Queen Thursday, April 24 Food for Thought Café 7 p.m.

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Well-rounded meet for Portland State Down in Eugene, the Vikings soaked up the sun and improved their stats

Timbers chopped down in 3-0 loss to Galaxy Portland continues to struggle on the road despite recent success at home Stephen Lisle Vanguard staff

It’s sometimes taken for granted just how advantageous a home game can truly be, but the Portland Timbers were brutally reminded of that fact this past Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles. Coming off back-to-back wins at Jeld-Wen Field, the Timbers couldn’t find their stride on the road, losing 3-0 to the LA Galaxy.

The Timbers fell flat against the star-studded Galaxy, a team that has been looking for answers offensively this year, having scored no more than two goals in any match-up so far this season.

Portland seemed to be just what L.A. needed, as Galaxy captain Landon Donovan returned to the lineup after missing three straight games with a knee injury. Timbers’ goalkeeper Troy Perkins also returned to action after sitting out the first five games of the regular season with a right knee injury.

all photos courtesy of portland timbers.com

Attack by Nagbe: Darlington Nagbe heads ball.

Things did not start off well for the Timbers, with the Galaxy dominating play right out of the gates. Only four minutes after the starting whistle, L.A. put pressure on Perkins in his debut for the Timbers, with Donovan getting a pass off to Oregon native Chad Barrett, who placed a shot inside the far post for a quick Galaxy score.

After taking a 1-0 lead only four minutes into play, the Galaxy continued to apply the pressure.

Donovan was able to draw a foul on Timbers defender Rodney Wallace inside of the box, allow-

Galaxy defense too much: Timber offense unable to score in L.A.

ing him to take a penalty kick only eight minutes into the game. Donovan easily put away the penalty kick to give L.A. a commanding 2-0 lead before hitting the 10-minute mark and erased his previous scoring drought, a 731-minute time frame without a goal.

“We probably lost the game in the first 10 minutes, going two-nil down,” Timbers head coach John Spencer said to portlandtimbers. com. “I was disappointed that we conceded two goals in quick succession, it’s something that we are going to have to address, obviously. When you go down a goal, you can’t break down mentally. For the next five, 10 minutes, keep it tight.

We’ve done it too many times now.”

Hope had not been completely lost by this point, but the exhaustion seemed apparent after the success the Timbers had seen in their two-game, seven goal scoring frenzy at home.

Players looked sluggish and holes in the defense allowed the likes of Donovan and company to keep attacking.

Portland stepped up defensively after suffering the quick 2-0 deficit. Neither team scored throughout the remainder of the first half, with the Timbers only real scoring opportunity of the half coming just before the whistle blew. The shot came after defender Mamadou Danso put his head on a Jack Jewsbury free kick, but was diverted by Galaxy goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts.

The second half began slower than the first, but still a Galaxy defensive presence remained, preventing Portland from getting into any sort of rhythm. Newly acquired midfielder and the first-ever Timbers’ DP, Diego Chará, made his MLS debut to start the second half. Portland also brought in their prized MLS draft pick, Darlington Nagbe,

Gretchen Sandau Vanguard Staff

in an attempt to interject some energy onto the field.

Neither team was able to execute much of an offensive attack until the 67th minute when Galaxy forward Juan Pablo Angel drove deep down the right wing and sent a perfect cross to Donovan, who put away a header to give L.A a 3-0 lead, the team’s largest margin of the season.

Things started to click late in the game for the Timbers, as Kenny Cooper had two separate shots on frame with one coming in the 71st minute of play and the second only nine minutes later. L.A. keeper Ricketts denied both shots in an impressive fashion. The Galaxy goalkeeper was solid all night and successfully shut down the Timbers offensive opportunities.

“I thought Donovan Ricketts had a great game,” said Timbers midfielder Jack Jewsbury to portlandtimbers.com. “We created chances.

[Cooper] had a great chance and we had three or four off set pieces. So, obviously the final score when you look at it is disappointing. They definitely had the better run of play, but [Ricketts] had some big saves.”

Portland has struggled on the road with a 0-3-1 record away from Jeld-Wen, and currently holds an overall record of 2-3-1, good for sixth place in the Western conference. There’s still much improvement to make for the newly formed Timbers, as they lick their wounds and head back home to take on Real Salt Lake 7:30 p.m. this Saturday. ■

Swift kicking: Kalif Alhassan leans in to kick.

Timbers welcome Diego Chará to lineup Saturday’s match was one to forget for the Portland Timbers, however, it did mark the MLS debut of newly acquired midfielder Diego Chará. Portland signed Chará as the franchise’s first-ever Designated Player, and hoped he will help fill out their midfield attack, something that was glaringly absent in Saturday’s 3-0 loss to the Galaxy.

Chará was acquired from Deportes Tolima in his native Colombia, and was a key player on his team. Diego was a major contributor for his team's 88 goals during their regular season—a league high—grabbing two goals himself and sparking a lot of offense from midfield. Still, the Columbian knows there’s a lot of work to be done in order to gel with his new teammates.

"I thought I played well," said Chará to portlandtimbers.com, "Despite the result I am very happy because this was my first game. But I still have to get accustomed to the team and the playing style and my teammates have to get accustomed to me as well.”

Welcoming Huddle: Timbers bring on the midfielder to lineup.

all photos courtesy of goviks.com

Senior status: This past season marked senior Chris Rice's last as a Viking.

A tough season for men’s tennis Portland State falls short of the playoffs once again this year Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

At the start of 2011, the Portland State men’s tennis team hoped to build upon last season’s performances and take the team to the next level under the tutelage of their second year head coach Jay Sterling. The team’s goal was to finish among the top four teams in the Big Sky Conference and qualify for the playoffs.

However, despite some valiant mid-season performances, the Vikings fell short of their chosen goal. The team failed to make it to the playoffs after finishing seventh among the nine teams in the Big Sky Conference. The Viks had a 2-6 record in the conference and 5-13 overall.

Back in 2010, PSU had finished fifth (4-4) in the conference and had a slightly better 7-10 overall performance.

The 2011 season didn’t get off to the kind of start the Vikings were hoping for, as the team struggled in January (0-3, 0-0 conference), losing all three matches they played in the month.

The Viks kicked off their season against state rivals University of Oregon in Eugene and went down 1-6 to the Ducks. Senior Alex VanDerschelden was the only player to win his match.

In the other two games of the month, the Vikings lost to Cal Poly (1-6) and Idaho (0-7).

Once again VanDerschelden was the only PSU player to win his match. VanDerschelden would go on and finish the season with a 6-9 singles record, tied second for the most number of singles wins amongst PSU players this season.

The Viks found more success in February, posting a 4-4 record overall and a 1-2 record in conference play. The Viks made a brilliant home debut at the Club Green Meadows against Gonzaga, hammering their opponents 7-0 to earn their first win of the season. In the following game, the Viks faced a tough Sacramento State side in their Big Sky home opener. Sacramento State has won the Big Sky regular season and championship tournaments for the past two years. The Viks battled hard, but narrowly lost 3-4 to the Hornets.

The Vikings won their next game against Seattle (6-1), but then lost their next three

matches to Utah State (0-7), Utah (0-7) and Big Sky rivals Northern Colorado (3-4). The contest against Northern Colorado went right down to the wire and sophomore Mitch Somach almost gave the Viks a victory in the final and deciding singles match.

The Viks found some redemption in their next conference match against bottom-placed Northern Colorado. The team hammered Northern Colorado 7-0 at home to record their first Big Sky win of the season. Overall, PSU still had a 0.500 win-percentage through February.

PSU played just one game in the month of March, an important conference game on the road against Northern Arizona. The team knew that despite their resilient performance in the first two conference games, they would have a mountain to climb if they lost to the Lumberjacks. However, Northern Arizona handed PSU a 0-7 drubbing in Flagstaff, Ariz., and relegated them to 0-3 in conference play.

After nearly a month long break, the Viks got back to business in April with an encouraging 6-1 Big Sky win over Idaho State. Suddenly, it looked as though the team could match or even surpass last season’s performance if they finished strong in conference play. However, the win against Idaho would be their last of the season.

The Vikings saw the rest of their year spiral from one loss to another, dropping five successive games in a row to close out the season. The losses included defeats to city rivals Portland (1-6) and conference teams Montana State (2-5), Montana (1-6) and Eastern Washington (0-7).

The Viks played their last game of the season against Idaho’s Lewis-Clark State and lost that duel 2-5 on the road. At the end of the season, Somach stood out with his singles performance of nine wins and seven losses. He led the side in singles results and was the only player to finish above 0.500.

The season also marked the end of the tennis careers of several seniors: team captain Jeff Cero, Matt Erickson, Vetu Mam, Chris Rice and VanDerschelden. With the departure of so much senior leadership from the nine-player PSU roster, the coaching staff is in dire need of new players to step up into a leading role if they hope to make the postseason next year. ■

Season in a Nutshell: Overall record: Five wins, 13 loses Conference record: Two wins, six loses Conference standing: Seventh out of nine Qualified for the Playoffs: No

Best Singles player:

Sophomore Mitch Somach

(nine wins, seven losses)

Best Doubles pair: Freshman Roman Margoulis and senior Chris Rice (eight wins, eight losses)

This previous weekend at the Oregon Relays, down at Hayward Field, the Vikings ended up having a fairly good meet.

“Hayward Field is always a fabulous place to compete because there's so much history and the crowd support is amazing. You can get a great mark there because you're so pumped, and then the confidence from that just carries you into the conference meet,” assistant coach Cassie Stilley said.

Luckily for the Viks, the weather for the meet could not have been better. It was sunny with a slight cool breeze, which feels good after a hard run, especially if that run broke a new school record, as it did for Tony Crisofulli.

On the second day of the meet, Crisofulli, a junior from Vail, Colo., crushed his own school record in the 800-meter, set five years ago, by .36 seconds with a time of 1:49.11.

The time is a new career-best for him by .65 as well. Crisofulli had taken a break from running the 800-m, last competing on March 26 at the Stanford Invitational. Last year, he qualified for NCAA West Regional with a time of 1:49.76, and hopefully will qualify again with his recent results.

Rewinding back to the first day of the competition, senior Karene King, a native to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, finished third overall in the 200-meter with 23.86. This created a new personal record for her, and moved her up to number two in the PSU record books. This was also the first time she had run the 200-m in under 24 seconds. In Tortola, King holds the national indoor record, and is planning on

competing this summer for her country in hopes to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Trials.

Several other athletes recorded new personal records, or season bests at this meet too. For instance, freshman Allison Burkett had a sixinch improvement in javelin with a throw of 134.1 inches. In the second day of competition, Freshamn Luke Leddige qualified for the Big Sky Outdoor Championship in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.89, which ties him as the eighth fastest in the PSU record books. The freshman shows great promise and should have a long and successful career ahead of him.

Adrienne Davis, a senior from Portland, improved her career best with a mark of 46 ft. 3.5 inches in the shot put, and finished third overall at the meet. She now holds the record for the second longest throw in PSU history, and is precisely one foot short of record holder Caressa Sims from 2005–08. Sophomore Geronne Black finished second in the 100-meter with a time of 11.80, just .20 behind Oregon’s Mandy White, who broke the 17 year old Big Sky all-time record this past weekend.

Another athlete who did well was junior Joenisha Vinson. She finished third in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.99, her second consecutive race under 14 seconds. Last week Vinson was named the Big Sky’s athlete of the week for women’s track, and Stilley believes she’s one of the best athletes in the conference.

“The really great thing about her is that she still hasn't maxed out her potential,” Stilley said. “She's continuing to make big improvements and she's got more in the tank. I think she's starting to scare the competition a little.”

Next weekend, the majority of the team will be taking a break, but a handful of underclassmen, as well as some conference qualifiers who’ll be working on their back-up events, will be competing in the Pacific Twilight this weekend. ■

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Today ASPSU Elections: TIME TO VOTE! 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at voting stations or online at Banweb all day; through April 29 What does the student government do? It advocates for students at the university, city, and state levels. It is responsible for distributing more than $13 million in funds collected by the Student Fee. Student government members serve on on-campus committees in order to voice the student opinion on a variety of issues.

Voting is open through April 29.

Voting stations: Victors Dining Hall Between Smith Memorial Student Union and Nueberger Hall Inside of Smith Memorial Student Union First floor of the library On the second floor of the Rec Center Sexual Assault Awareness Silent Auction 7 p.m.

SMSU 236 (Cascade Room) Portland State University’s Chapter of Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology, is holding a silent auction to benefit the Sexual Assault Resource Center, Portland Womens Crisis Line and Psi Chi. The vast majority of the funds raised will help PWCL and SARC continue to assist in making life better for survivors of sexual assault, right here in our community. The remaining proceeds will support the undergraduate students in the Department of Psychology by providing them with the means to host important events, such as this one, that provide an opportunity for learning and community involvement. The event will culminate with a lecture from Dr. Chris Wilson, a clinical psychologist, on the effects of trauma via sexual assault on the brain.

“Debt & Taxes, Two Models for Financing Higher Education” presented

by Bob Meister of UC Santa Cruz 4 p.m.

Native America Student and Community Center, room 110 A lecture and discussion titled “Debt & Taxes, Two Models for Financing Higher Educations” will be presented by Bob Meister, professor of Social and Political Thought at UC Santa Cruz. The lecture is the final of three lectures in a series titled “Outlook Hazy: Does Public Higher Education have a Future in Oregon?” that address the challenges public universities are facing.

The plot follows the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan, and the extramarital affair of Roses mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by her husband.

It portrays everyday life, the ordinary squabbles and gossip of the neighbors as tensions mount building into a tragedy of epic proportions!

Runs through May 1.

Thursday Take Back the Night/ Bike Back the Night 6–9 p.m.

Park Blocks In celebration of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, PSU’s Women’s Resource Center and Portland Women’s Crisis Line will be collaborating to host this year’s Take Back the Night/Bike Back the Night event. This is an event to recognize and speak out in opposition of the violence which occurs against women in our community. Our core message is to promote the understanding that everyone deserves the right to feel safe in their neighborhood and on the streets.

This year we will be leading two different routes, one on bike and one on foot, with the goal of spreading the message about ending sexual violence throughout the city.

We will also begin this year’s event with some local entertainment, and following the ride/march everyone will be invited to participate in a survivor speak out and vigil as a way to honor sexual assault survivors.

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Performance and town hall meeting about public health to be held April 28 12:30–2 p.m.

Urban Center, Second Floor Gallery Learn how one woman, a pioneer of public health 100 years ago, in the tenements of New York City, took on adversity and revolutionized the way we approach health and well-being in this country.

Produced by the Jewish Theatre Collaborative, this 45-minute two-person biographical play about Lillian Wald will be followed by a community discussion about public health. Carlos Crespo, PSU’s director of community health in the College of Urban and Public Affairs, is slated to participate.

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TO PLACE AN EVENT: Contact vgcalendar@gmail.com or pick up a calendar request form at the Vanguard advertising office, SMSU, room 114.

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must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating.

● The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given

operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

● Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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ASPSU Elections - Rally in the Park Blocks 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

Park Blocks The Rally in the Park Blocks is a time to hang out, eat good food, listen to music, and vote if you have not had the chance yet. ASPSU is hosting the event to provide students with a break in the middle of the term, while also giving them the opportunity to vote in the ASPSU elections.

Wednesday Portland State University Department of Music Annual Opera Production: “Street Scene” 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Performance Hall Join PSU Opera and Orchestra for Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene” this Spring! With its huge cast, this highly theatrical opera has something for everyone, soaring melodic lines, colorful American jazz idioms and Broadway style dance numbers. It is a story of love, passion, greed and death that all takes place in front of a tenement building in 1946 Manhattan.

PSU sweeps series with Seattle to move into tie for first place

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Portland State softball could not be hitting a hot streak at a better time.

The Vikings swept a four-game series with Seattle University over the weekend to extend PSU’s winning streak to a season-high eight games and put the Green Machine in a tie for first place in the division standings.

PSU defeated the Redhawks 9-6 and 8-0 on Friday before returning to Seattle’s Logan Field on Saturday for a 10-0 win in five innings and a 2-0 shutout in the series finale.

The Vikings (21-15, 9-3 PCSC) are now in a tie with Northern Colorado for first place in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference’s Mountain Division standings.

“It was a key weekend for us. We needed to come out of here with four wins,” drew martig/VANGUARD STAFF head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk said in a Warming up: Freshman Crysta Conn motions to her teammate media statement. “The kids rose to the during practice. occasion all weekend, and especially [on SaturPSU continued the offensive surge in Game 2 day]. It was the final home game for [Seattle’s] by knocking out 13 more hits, with four Vikings seniors, so we knew we had to bring everything tallying multi-hit performances. Sophomore inwe had…I was really happy with our perfor- fielder Carly McEachran—last week’s Mountain mance all weekend long.”

Division Player of the Week—continued her hot The weekend began with the Vikings busting streak with a run, an RBI and a stolen base off out a season-high 15 hits in the series opener two hits in four at bats. with Seattle (9-30, 5-8 PCSC). Senior shortSophomore pitcher Anna Bertrand earned stop Arielle Wiser led PSU at the plate by going the win after holding the Redhawks to only 5-of-5 with two RBIs and senior Nichole three hits. In a complete-game effort that saw Latham ruled the pitching circle with 10 strike- her deliver just 80 pitches, Bertrand struck out outs in a complete-game effort. four and walked one.

PSU's bats barely had time to cool overnight as the Vikings continued to hit well on Saturday, with four Vikings batting 1.000 in Game 3 before the Redhawks were run-ruled in the fifth inning. McEachran went 3-of-3 from the leadoff position with two runs and an RBI, while Wiser and junior catcher Lacey Holm each went 2-of2 for a combined five RBIs. Senior Susan Winningham came in to pinch hit in the fourth and earned a hit and a run from her sole appearance at the plate.

From the circle, Latham gave up one hit over three innings to earn the win and advance her season record 12-7 to before Echo-Hawk handed over pitching duties to junior Karmen Holladay. In just her second appearance of the season at pitcher, Holladay gave up just two more hits to secure the shutout victory.

PSU’s bats were held to just four hits in Game 4, but the Vikings were able to rely on Bertrand to shut down Seattle’s attempts to spoil the series

sweep. Bertrand (9-8) gave up only two hits and struck out four to earn her second complete-game shutout of the weekend. PSU secured the win with runs in the bottom of the second and fourth innings, with freshman Crysta Conn crossing the plate on each.

PSU out-hit the Redhawks .386 to .154 over the course of the weekend.

Wiser finished the weekend batting .500 with three runs and three RBIs, and is now batting .347 on the season. Holm, who leads the Vikings with a .373 batting average, finished with four hits for four RBIs. McEachran totaled six hits in 13 at bats for five runs and three RBIs. She is now hitting .293 with a team-leading .545 slugging percentage.

The Vikings return to the field at noon today to host North Dakota (12-30) in a non-conference doubleheader at Erv Lind Stadium before continuing league play at Northern Colorado on Saturday and Sunday. ■

Line scores Friday Game 1 1 2 3 Portland State 1 4 1 Seattle 2 0 1 W-Latham, N.; L-Ashburn, R.; S-None Game 2 Portland State 0 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 W-Bertrand, A.; L-Ulrich, J.; S-None Saturday Game 3 Seattle Portland State W-Latham, N.; L-Ulrich, J.; S-None Game 4 Seattle Portland State

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16 VANGUARD ■ TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2011

■ SPORTS

Women’s tennis turns the tide this season

ANYA DALKIN

Dalkin departs as the team captain for the 2011 season, but she said that it wasn’t solely her leadership that helped bring the team together this season, but also a combination of her fellow senior Stocking’s leadership, as the two constantly tried to set positive examples during matches.

Despite the improvements this year, the Vikings opened their pre-season in an inconsistent manner.

They split the opening two matches, suffered a string of losses, but were able to realign themselves with a pair of sweeps against non-conference opponents Willamette and Montana State-Billings. Unfortunately, the wins did not transfer to the opening part of conference play.

The Viks fell to the Montanas on the road, but regained their form when they returned to their home courts. PSU claimed their first home conference

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Top performer: Nicole Latham (PSU) – 7 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 3 BB, 10 SO GAME TWO:

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Saying goodbye: Senior Anya Dalkin just finished her last season here at PSU.

victory hosting Northern Colorado in the end of February, in a close 4-3 score.

A near month break from official matches separated the Viks from the second half of conference play. Following the break the Vikings fell into a slump, losing three non-conference matches, then dropping two in a row against Northern Arizona and Sacramento State. The Vikings tried to shake off their struggles, as Dalkin emphasized the importance of focusing on the final matches of the season.

“The matches that were really our goal to win were at the end of the season, so whatever happened in the middle of the season was all part of the buildup to the end,” Dalkin said.

Both of the last matches were against teams with similar rankings as the Vikings, and the team proved themselves both times. PSU first took the Eastern Washington Eagles in a 5-2 victory and then hosted Idaho State for the final match of the season, beating the Bengals with a 5-2 score as well.

The pair of Dalkin and Sugiyama opened the Bengals win with a victory in the No. 1 doubles position.

Sugiyama also went on to win her No. 1 singles match as well. Both players said that winning this match was the highlight of the year, due to finishing the season on a win, and also being part of a team whose record will stand in the books.

Beyond the team record of most conference wins, Sugiyama departs PSU in the books for the most wins in the singles position with 13.

Looking back, the team has an interesting history, as the program was cut from 2003 until 2008, and

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Top performer: Anna Bertrand (PSU) – 7 IP, 2 H, 3 BB, 4 SO NBA playoffs Portland Trailblazers Dallas Mavericks

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SUNDAY APRIL 17TH WHL playoffs Kelowna Rockets Vs Portland Winterhawks

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Scoring summary: SPO (17:49) - M. Marantz, (D. Uher) POR (18:22 ) - W. Wrenn (T. Rattie, C. Cunningham) POR (7:38, PP) - R. Johansen (B. Ross, N. Niederreiter)

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has had a rough time getting themselves back on the track to success since their return. Dalkin said that the team showed great support for each other during matches and the overall improvement has been impressive.

“Not only were we supporting one another, but individually we were out there fighting,” Dalkin said.

“And you could tell we were all out there with the mentality that we could win, instead of our mentality last year which was just going through the motions.”

As Dalkin, Stocking and Sugiyama say goodbye to the Viking team, they leave behind a team that’s certainly on the rise. Sugiyama and Dalkin both have their own advice to continue the development of the team.

“Make sure [the players] enjoy it,” Dalkin offered.

“There were a lot of times in my [career] that I didn’t know if I was going to play for my full four years, so I think that it’s important that no matter what’s happening they push through it and finish out.”

Sugiyama added, “Even when you get emotional, you have to remember to stay calm, and just keep going.”

With a quality coaching staff, a team fronted by strong leaders and a desire to win for one another, the women’s tennis team hopes to build on their foundation and make even further improvements next season. ■

Who to watch next season:

Masha Los

Softball

Scoring summary: SPO (2:11) - B. Brassart, (1) (M. Kalus), SPO (4:25) - L. Koper, (4:25 PP) (S. Kuhn, J. Cowen) POR (19:36) - R. Johansen, (7) (C. Cunningham, N. Niederreiter)

Rosemary Hanson Vanguard staff

“Not only were we supporting one another, but individually we were out there fighting.”

FRIDAY APRIL 15TH

WHL playoffs Spokane Chiefs At Portland Winterhawks

A look back at the Viking’s successful 2010–11 season

The Portland State women’s tennis team finished in style last week, as they beat the Idaho State Bengals to earn the best conference record in the history of the program. The Vikings finished in a three-way tie for fifth place with a solid 3-5 conference record.

Although PSU was unable to clinch a post-season appearance, the team made tremendous strides from last season. However, as the team turns a new leaf, they also have to say goodbye to three key players.

Alongside the two departing seniors, Anya Dalkin and Caitlin Stocking, freshman star Yuki Sugiyama also ended her first and final season with the Viks, as she plans to return to her hometown in Japan to complete her education.

Dalkin said the upward trend the team has taken is only the beginning. The senior said that the consistency head coach Jay Sterling and his coaching staff has been a huge factor in the success of the team. Also, Sugiyama noted that beyond her family, the support of the coaches was a force behind some of her most crucial wins.

“I really wanted to do my best, and also I wanted to win for myself and for my parents,” Sugiyama said.

“And also for my coaches, because they helped make it such a great experience here [at PSU].”

RECENT RESULTS

Marti Pellicano With seniors Anya Dalkin and Caitlin Stocking, alongside freshman Yuki Sugiyama, on their way out for the Viks, the team will need new leaders to fill those shoes, and current junior Marti Pellicano is slated as that player. The junior finished with a 6-11 overall record, and a 3-5 conference record. She became known for her resilience on the court, showing clutch play and persistence in multiple tiebreaker matches this season.

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