The BEacon
Vol. 117, Issue 10 November 6, 2014
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UP Fashion Club makes fall lookbook Living, p. 9
Oregon 2014 midterm election results News, p. 2
Freshman walks on to women’s basketball team
Sports, p.16
EXTREME MAKEOVER
The University is raising money to turn the Pilot House into a central student center, complete with a pub and a stage
Christine Menges menges15@up.edu The Pilot House might look a lot different next year. The University plans to transform the building into a pub and event space that can be a central hangout for students, alumni and visitors. With an opening date tentatively set for fall 2015, the new Pilot House will feature a bar, a permanent stage, more seating, an open environment and late-night and weekend programming. Fr. Gerry Olinger, vice president of Student Affairs, said the project is a response to a survey taken three years ago in which students indicated they wanted laid-back programming where they were free to come and go. When UP began seriously considering an on-campus pub two years ago, they brought
Maureen Doyle, general manager of the University of Notre Dame’s nightclub and bar, Legends of Notre Dame, to campus. She pointed out that UP lacked a common area for students to socialize at night. According to Doyle, alcohol citations at Notre Dame decreased by 30 percent a decade after Legends of Notre Dame opened. After the renovation, the Pilot House will more closely resemble Notre Dame’s pub, with a permanent stage and better lighting and sound systems to facilitate music and other events. The rest of the inside of the Pilot House will also look completely different, with an open, modern lounge area. The wall separating The Cove from the rest of the Pilot House may be removed. “Right now, the space itself is not ideally set up,” Olinger said. “It’s kind of bifurcated. The
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hope is to be able to knock down the division to create one large space.” The more open space symbolizes what he hopes the project will achieve: a greater sense of community. “This is like the front door when you come onto campus,” Vice President of University Relations Laurie Kelley said. “We want it to be a really welcoming space where people can meet friends and bring guests.” After viewing draft pictures of the new Pilot House online, sophomore Caitlin Varquez said the update is definitely an improvement. “I think that’s a good idea to update the Pilot House because that’s the first thing you see when you step on campus,” sophomore Caitlin Varquez said. Freshman Katherine Hays agreed. See Pilot House, page 3
Sketches courtesy of UP Marketing
Artist’s renderings of the renovated Pilot House show new features like a bar, a stage and pool tables. The renovation, which UP hopes to complete by fall 2015, is intended to make the Pilot House a central hang-out spot for students, alumni and other community members.
Practicum in Ghana canceled amid Ebola fears Alina Rosenkranz rosenkra17@up.edu
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UP canceled a social work practicum in Ghana in August as the viral disease began to present a threat to the region. Though Ghana is near some countries afflicted by Ebola, it borders countries without reported cases and has had no known cases of its own.
Concerns about Ebola have put UP’s social work practicum in Ghana on hold indefinitely. In August, as the outbreak in some Western African countries escalated, administrators canceled the program for the current semester. “With the risk of Ebola uncertain, and because the University did not have the resources on the ground in Ghana to be able to adequately respond to a potential emergency, the University decided to cancel the social work practicum experience in Ghana for fall 2014,” Provost Thomas Green said in an email.
“Any decision to cancel a program is based on ensuring the health, safety, and well being of students. Such decisions are made on a case-by-case basis after careful consideration of all available information.” According to the World Health Organization, as of Aug. 28 there were 1,552 deaths due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The number of deaths continues to increase in three heavily impacted countries: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4,941 people have died in countries with widespread transmission. Ghana does not share a border
with any country with high Ebola infection counts and has no known cases of Ebola. “The [social work] program and I had no say in whether to cancel the program due to Ebola concerns,” social work professor Kevin Jones said. He met with the administration to tell them more about the program so they could make an informed decision. Junior Rebecca Tabor, the only student who planned to go on the practicum to Ghana this semester, declined to be interviewed. The social work practicum to Ghana started in fall 2013 with four UP students going to Ghana. They volunteered in Accra, the capital city, at a hospital and two orphanages.
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November 6, 2014
On Campus LECTURE: DANTE, On Campus ST. FRANCIS & POPE
Oregon midterm election results OUTCOME
IMPLICATIONS
YES: 55% NO: 45%
Posession and recreational use of marijuana will be legal in Oregon beginning July 1, 2015. The state will regulate the sale of marijuana.
YES: 33% NO: 67%
People who cannot prove legal residence in Oregon will not be able to obtain temporary driver’s cards allowing them to drive legally.
MEASURE 92 GMO LABELING
YES: 49% NO: 51%
The measure, which would have required labels on all foods containing genetically modified organisms, failed by only 1.2%.
GOVERNOR
KITZHABER: 49% RICHARDSON: 45%
Incumbent Democrat John Kitzhaber will stay in office for his fourth term.
SENATE
MERKLEY: 55% WEHBY: 38%
Incumbent Democrat Jeff Merkley will remain in office as one of Oregon’s two U.S. Senators.
BLUMENAUER: 73% BUCHAL: 20%
Incumbent democrat Earl Blumenauer will continue to serve as a House Representative for District 3, which includes Portland.
ISSUE
FRANCIS
Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:15 p.m. in Buckley Center Auditorium.
MUSICAL THEATER: 1940S RADIO HOUR
Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 in the Mago Hunts Art Center at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m.
TRIVIA AND MUSIC Pilots After Dark: Friday, Nov. 7 in The Cove. Trivia will start at 10 p.m., and the John Wayland Harr Guitar Duo will play at 11:30 p.m.
BLUFFOONS IMPROV SHOW Friday, Nov. 7 at the Mago Hunts Art Center Recital Hall at 10:30 p.m. $2 per person, $3 per pair, sold at the door. Doors open at 10:15 p.m.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Pilots After Dark: Saturday, Nov. 8 in The Cove at 10 p.m. followed by KDUP DJ at 11:30 p.m.
SUMMER RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM Sunday, Nov. 9 from 5-7 p.m. in the Bauccio Commons. Students will present findings from undergraduate researches in all different fields.
CORRECTIONS In the story “Large student enrollment prompts new courses, registration changes” in the Oct. 30 issue of The Beacon, Associate Provost Matthew Baasten was incorectly named. In the story “Ten classes to spice up your schedule” in the Oct. 30 issue of The Beacon, Statistics was incorrectly listed as a prequisite course for Media and Society. The Beacon regrets the errors.
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The Beacon strives to be fair and accurate. The newspaper corrects any significant errors of fact brought to the attention of the editors. If you think an error has been made, contact us at beacon@up.edu. Corrections will be printed above.
MEASURE 91 MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION
MEASURE 88 DRIVER’S CARDS
HOUSE, DISTRICT 3
UP implements changes to crime reports Emily Neelon neelon17@up.edu The federal government recently published new regulations requiring colleges and universities to be more transparent about information on sexual assault and hate crimes. The new rules are part of the Clery Act, a federal law requiring all colleges and universities that receive federal funding to make crime and security information available to the public. Published on Oct. 20 and taking effect in 2015, the changes to the Clery Act now require: • Statistics on dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. These three issues will fall among the list of other crimes in UP’s annual report. • Statistics on the number of reported crimes that are “unfounded”. Unfounded crimes include incidents that have been determined untrue by law enforcement. Based on apprehension that colleges were “unfounding” crimes incorrectly, schools are now required to publish how many of their reports are unfounded to the Department of Education and in their annual security reports. • Statistics on the number of reported hate crimes that were prompted by a victim’s race or gender identity.
• The list of various sanctions colleges and universities might enforce against perpetrators of sexual violence. • Statements explaining resources accessible to victims of sexual violence after reporting the incident. These statements must explain the counseling, clinical and protective options available to victims as well as the preventative measures they will take. Under the Clery Act, UP is required to release an annual report listing crimes that have been reported on campus, areas immediately adjacent to campus and off-campus property owned or controlled by the University. The act went into effect following the rape and murder of Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery in 1986. Following her death, the Clery Act was passed to combat the unreported crime occurring on many college campuses. Director of Public Safety Gerald Gregg and his team implemented some of the newly required statistics in the 2013 Public Safety Crime and Fire Report, released in October. Among the changes was the recategorization of sex crimes from two separate categories – forcible and nonforcible sex offenses – to one category of sexual assault. Sexual assault
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encompasses any sexual act or suggestion that is unwarranted. “We’re constantly watching for information that’s disseminated about the situation of reporting, and we’ll always adopt the best practices that are recommended,” Gregg said. “We really have been watching this closely and have been following developments. We want to be very transparent in our reporting, and we will err on the side of caution in reporting something.” Taking into account Clery’s new requirements on sexual violence information, Gregg is focusing his efforts on
prevention, investigation and support for victims of assault. Sanctions for perpetrators of sexual violence on campus include warnings, community service hours, holds on student accounts, monetary fines, written reflections, counseling and education to possible suspension or dismissal from the University. Additionally, students living oncampus may face hall probation or recommendation of removal from the hall. “Dating violence – for me – See Clery, page 5
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ASUP debates use of student fees, narrows MPF options Maggie Hannon hannon15@up.edu At the ASUP Senate meeting Monday, Senate narrowed the list of options for the Major Project Fund (MPF) from 10 down to five. The ASUP executive board made the final decision about which projects to fund yesterday, but will not announce the decision until the Monday Senate meeting. Senators also debated the best use of the MPF money, which is more than $60,000 this semester and comes from the ASUP student fee each student pays. The five MPF options still on the list are: • The Pilot House renovation project • Financial installment for phase two of of Recreation Center project for a pool • Quasi-endowment for sexual assault prevention programming •Quasi-endowment for undergraduate research • Electrical outlets for lecture classroom tables in Franz and Shiley Halls. The senators also debated whether or not they should use the money this semester or have it transferred to Spring Semester
instead, which would have put the spring MPF around $90,000. After Vice President of Student Affairs Fr. Gerry Olinger expressed concerns about the current options for the funds at the previous ASUP Senate meeting, some senators questioned whether this money should go toward an activity instead of capital improvements.
Because ASUP is basically in charge of where the student government fees go, [the administration] want to see all student government fees get spent here and now, immediately. Josh Cleary ASUP vice president “Their philosophy of the Poorman administration is that because ASUP is basically in charge of where the student government fees go, they want to see all student government fees get spent here and now, immediately, with immediate impacts for the students that are paying them,” ASUP Vice President Josh Cleary said.
Some senators argued that using the fund for capital improvements as opposed to activities makes it more of a lasting or sustainable purchase, that the students want to see the campus improve and that there are enough activities and events on campus already available to students. “I honestly see programming every single weekend. I don’t know if we need to supplement that program with more funding, maybe that’s a possible idea,” ASUP Secretary Mariah Wildgen said. “Last year we did vans, which wasn’t a capital improvement, and granted it doesn’t affect all of the student body, but we’ve heard really good feedback from a lot of different clubs.” Senator Samantha van den Berg said the administration makes shallow promises for capital improvements and that using student funds towards these improvements can make progress towards the things that the students think are needed for campus. “[The administration] really wants to do what is best for the students … but in terms of an actual commitment, I don’t think they can say, ‘The administration
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ASUP Treasurer Jessie Robinson manages ASUP’s budget, including the MPF, which is more than $60,000. Robinson and the four other members of executive board will announce the final decision for the MPF on Monday. is going to do it. Okay, it is going to get done,’” van den Berg said. With the change in administration, ASUP has seen a shift in how the administration wants them to spend the MPF. Although they are willing to change the MPF and how it is used, ASUP wants the main priority to be following what students want. “Its been an interesting switch that ASUP is trying to work out how best we can work in this new environment and with the administration,” Cleary said.
“How do we hopefully one day make it so our visions align, as well as the student body really gets represented and gets what they wanted out of this process? Because at the end of the day, that’s what the process is for.” The MPF options that were eliminated at Monday’s meeting were the additional lighting for south side of Prusynski Pitch, more water bottle refilling stations, ice machines, an athletic field on River Campus and the Terrace Room patio renovation project.
Pilot House: Alcohol to be served next year Continued from page 1
LEADERSHIP
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INNOVATION
The Sharing Economy Meets The Driverless Car Friday, November 7th, 2014. Buckley Center Auditorium The University of Portland will be hosting a panel discussion among three leaders in innovation and emerging technologies, Steve Brown, Steve Gutmann, and Dr. Diane Michelfelder, on this interesting and far-reaching topic.
“It looks like an actual restaurant. It makes me feel like I want to stay,” she said. In addition to a more restaurant-style interior, a new bar will serve alcohol to students 21 and older. “[Serving alcohol] is not unusual to a campus setting, we just haven’t had it here at the University of Portland,” Kelley said.
(The Pilot House) is like the front door when you come onto campus. We want it to be a really welcoming space where people can meet friends and bring guests. Laurie Kelley
Vice President of University Relations
Steve Brown is the Chief Futurist and Evangelist of Intel corporation. A thoughtful technological optimist, Steve scans the horizon to identify opportunities for Intel while deeply considering the broader questions those opportunities imply. Steve Gutmann has been "a driver" in the car sharing industry since its birth. Through his work in that industry, and his latest project Stuffstr, Steve creates transformative business models with social and environmental values built into the core.
Administrators hope the bar will attract upperclassmen who have moved off campus to spend more time hanging out on campus. The renovation will cost about $2.2 million, half of which has already been raised. The project will not use funds from the RISE campaign, which ended in May. Instead, the renovation will be funded by other donations. Kelley said the University is looking for a major donor, whom
the building would be named after. The University might also receive some funding directly from student fees through ASUP. At a Senate meeting Monday, Senators narrowed down the list of Major Project Fund ideas to five options, including a project for renovating the Pilot House. The MPF is more than $60,000. Kelley hopes construction will start soon. If UP reaches its $2.2 million fundraising goal, construction will start in May. According to Olinger, this renovation will be the final piece of a four-part plan to address student gathering spaces. The other construction projects – the Bauccio Commons, The Library and the upcoming Beauchamp Recreation & Wellness Center – serve different aspects of student life. The change to the Pilot House will evolve the space from just serving food to serving students’ social needs. Pilots After Dark will play a vital role in the new Pilot House by providing evening programming. Due to the program’s past success, Olinger has high hopes for the future. “We averaged 900 students a week last year. This year we’re averaging over 1,200 students a weekend,” he said. “My hope is that we see those numbers increase even more.”
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Symposium highlights undergraduate research McKena Miyashiro miyashir17@up.edu While still undergraduates, students in disciplines ranging from theatre to electrical engineering are doing research across the nation. The Summer Research Symposium, which will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9 in The Commons, highlights the accomplishments of UP undergraduates engaging in research both on and off campus. Junior Julia Meng, a biology and chemistry minor, helped organize the symposium. She will be presenting her summer research at MIT at the symposium. Meng proposed the idea of the symposium to John Orr, an English professor and director of the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement. “UP students are all over the nation doing research in labs, and I think that’s not known by very many people here,” Orr said. “Ideally, this is going to be a recruiting tool and a bunch of students are going to come in and say, ‘Why don’t I do that?’”
Brains and naming
Senior Brett Bankson, a French and psychology major with a neuroscience minor, will be presenting his summer research at the University of South Carolina. Bankson’s studies focused on language function in the brain for people with aphasia, or the disturbance of comprehension and expression of language in the brain. Bankson worked on the “Name Game,” a video game that would help people with a specific type of aphasia. He studied people who are unable to name objects by going through recorded audio data and seeing how people made mistakes when they were naming objects.
“We were trying to see if this game would be feasible in people’s homes without having to come into a clinic for treatment, especially because most people with language dysfunction are generally older,” Bankson said. On the side, Bankson was completing his own research using MRIs, which he will be presenting at the symposium. Bankson was interested in looking at how people perceive causal events and how people encode causality in language. He was able to design and implement the entire neuroimaging program during his nine-week stay in South Carolina. “I had people look at a list of
[Neuroscience research] is just inherently exciting to me, and I would love to do what I can do to be around that thing that makes me throw up my hands with excitement. Brett Bankson senior verbs and I looked at the parts of the brain that helps with perceiving and animation that are also parts of the brain implicated in change of state verbs,” Bankson said. In the future, Bankson hopes to study neuroimaging and continue research in a laboratory setting. “The first time I saw my brain on a scanner, I was like ‘woah, we can do that,’” Bankson said. “It’s just inherently exciting to me and I would love to do what I can do to be around that thing that makes me throw my hands up with excitement.”
Baby pigs and disease
Senior Alex Quackenbush, a biology and math double major,
will be presenting work she did this summer under the Murdock Undergraduate Collaborative Research Program. Quackenbush worked with a principal investigator at OHSU in a lab for ten weeks, where she studied a baby pig model and analyzed the effects of different chemicals on the body. Quackenbush’s research falls under the category of molecular biology with a focus on developmental organs of health and disease. Her idea is that adult onset diseases have their origins in pre-natal development. Health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension are linked to certain conditions during pregnancy. “I was looking at signaling cascades that control body growth,” Quackenbush said. “Those provide the motivation for the study and looking at what happens if you nutritionally program offspring and see what happens when they grow.” Quackenbush plans to start a new club on campus with the goal of promoting research both on and off campus. She
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(Top) Senior Alex Quackenbush, a biology and math major, will present medical research she did at OHSU at the Summer Research Symposium Sunday. (Bottom) Junior Julia Meng helped organize the first annual symposium, which will be from 5 -7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9 in the Bauccio Commons. hopes students will share their knowledge and help other students with the process. In the future, Quackenbush hopes to become a director of a research institution. Her interest lies in immunology, or the study of the immune system and how bodies respond to disease. “Disease is integral to the human existence, and I kind of
merge that with cancer biology since cancer is one of the oldest diseases known to man. I think that the immune system holds the keys to treating cancer, so that’s where I want my research to go,” Quackenbush said.
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1. Friday, Oct. 31, 10:28 p.m. - Officers made contact with a intoxicated student on campus. The student was escorted to their dorm and put in the care of the hall staff. 2. Friday, Oct. 31, 10:42 p.m. - Officers responded to a party complaint in the area of the 6600 block of Yale. Officers made contact with several students that were intoxicated. They were escorted to their dorm and put in the care of the hall staff. The party was closed. 3. Friday, Oct. 31, 11:44 p.m. - Officers responded to a party complaint in the area of the 7000 block of Haven. Officers made contact with renters. The party was closed and M.I.P.’s were issued.
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4. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 4:43 p.m. - Officers responded to a report of a marijuana smell in a resident hall. After investigation officers found marijuana and other drugs in the room and referred the students to the Student Conduct board.
For a complete interactive public safety report visit www.upbeacon.com and click UP Crime & Fire Log under the News tab.
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Clery: Public Safety collaborates with Green Dot Continued from page 2 doesn’t matter if somebody’s been dating three years or three days,” Gregg said. “[It] is inappropriate and shouldn’t happen.” In an effort to provide help to every student who seeks it, Public Safety teams up with other divisions on campus to combat sexual violence. “We are certainly [partners] with the Health Center and Residence Life in participating in any programs that could prevent any sort of sexual violence,” Gregg said. UP is also working to educate students about sexual violence through Green Dot, a prevention and education program that works to promote bystander intervention. Wellness Education and Prevention Coordinator Kristina Houck believes the key to stopping relationship violence on campus is ongoing education. “Some of that one-time education only goes so far,” Houck said. “The really important thing is that we have ongoing opportunities. What is it that we as individuals are doing on a regular basis to create a culture on campus where violence is not okay, and it’s clear that each of us is doing our part to prevent it?” UP reorganized its annual “Life on the Bluff” student conduct handbook to increase clarity about sexual violence and
its repercussions for students, including a “stalking” category for the first time in 2013. Natalie Shank, the associate director for community standards, said Residence Life has done a good job of clearly articulating the types of crimes now required under the Clery Act in this year’s handbook. “We’ve very much organized things in a way in which we hope students will find the information easy to read and easy to understand, but will also find policies (and) resources,” Shank said. “Life on the Bluff” articulates two levels of confidentiality, public safety awareness events, safety accommodations and amnesty. Overall, Houck believes conversations about sexual violence can occur all over campus, from classrooms to club meetings. She said the key to ending this problem is preventing it. “It goes far beyond complying with federal legislation,” Houck said. “Really our commitment on campus is to prevent it from happening in the first place and the way to do that is to have as many of us as possible demonstrating our commitment to prevention through ongoing conversation and developing skills in way the fit for each of us.”
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study jams
LIVING Lazy Sunday brunch breakdown
Emera Riley rileyem18@up.edu
With less than five weeks until finals and Thanksgiving Break still three weeks out, there has never been a better time to buckle down and hit the books. To ease the pain of all that relentless studying, here’s a playlist that will make the sound of turning pages almost enjoyable.
“Gravity,” Nico Vega Nico Vega
Contrary to popular belief, rock- n’- roll lives on, and Nico Vega will make you feel like you can eat nails for breakfast, without any milk. Confidence, after all, is a must-have for a good study session.
“American Music,” Violent Femmes Why Do Birds Sing?
With its tell-all lyrical style, this oldie but a goodie blast from the past will surely keep the knowledge flowing.
“The Story I Heard,” Blind Pilot 3 Rounds and a Sound
Fulfilling the second love song requirement of any good playlist, this ballad cements the feeling of rainy Portland in a beautiful way.
“Ways To Go,” Grouplove Spreading Rumors
This cheerful little diddy is a reminder that unfortunately we too still have a long way to go. If worse comes to worse, there’s always the circus.
“Shake It Out,” Florence + The Machine Ceremonials
Ending on a high note, beloved Flo reminds us all to shake off the bad, and keep on moving. When all else fails, close the books and go dance!
“Altered Beast,” Kithkin
Rituals, Trances & Ecstasies for Humans in Face of The Collapse
Nothing screams psychology like doomsayers literally screaming about their divided consciousness to a loud drum beat. If nothing else, the noise from your headphones might get you kicked out of the library.
“Whale,” Yellow Ostrich The Mistress
Because who hasn’t wanted to serenade a whale whilst traveling the ocean blue? Whales are sexy.
“Bought For A Song,” The Terrible Buttons Runt
Selling your soul to the devil may seem like a plausible plan for getting out of your finals, but The Terrible Button’s croony yet creepy ballad is a reminder that peddling body parts usually ends badly.
“Your Town,” LP Forever For Now
What’s any epic playlist without one love song? LP hits all of the right notes in all the right places.
“So Long See You Tomorrow,” Bombay Bicycle Club So Long See You Tomorrow
The buildup of this tune is simply divine and it is a good reminder of what we’ll all be saying to our textbooks when December rolls around.
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Cathedral Park Restaurant Hours: Saturday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Breakfast used to be the most important meal of the day, but brunch is quickly taking its place. Sunday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Christine Menges menges15@up.edu
Maybe it’s our crazy-busy world, mandating we combine two meals into one. Or maybe brunch means nothing more to people than a nice way to spend a lazy Sunday. Whatever the reason, it’s clear that more people are interested in having brunch. If you’re one of those people, here are some close spots to consider eating out next weekend. Also, remember to grab a post-brunch coffee.
Darcy’s Hours: Saturday 8 a.m. - 2:30 a.m. Sunday 8 a.m. - 12 a.m.
If you’re looking for a place away from campus, Darcy’s on the corner of Fiske and Lombard Street may be the spot for you. This casual place won’t frown on your rumpled, fresh-out-of-bed look—no need to dress up. Cushy booths and small tables form the majority of the seating, with a bar for those who want to grab a beer. Just a few friends are all you’ll need to fill a table, and don’t worry about side noise drowning out your conversation. Unlike most cafes, Darcy’s carpeting muffles echoes enough for you to hear yourself talk. Breakfast is served all day, and Darcy’s offers their famous burgers for those craving lunch. If you want, you can also try your luck in the Oregon lottery in the restaurant’s well-known lottery room.
If you have a little more cash to burn, this restaurant near St. John’s Bridge is a great place to go. Its best-known feature is the gorgeous view of the bridge from their patio, but restaurant-goers will find just as much appeal inside. The cuisine is North American, including standard American food like burgers and fries, or Mexican food like beans and rice. If you’re feeling adventurous, try their yucca, either as a seasoning for fries or as a vegetable itself. Yelp lists the average price range from $11 to $30, so a reasonably-priced meal is possible.
The Commons
Maybe you’re sick of campus food, but The Commons is definitely the most convenient place for brunch. Think twice before you write this place off as having nothing more to offer, because when it comes to brunch, there are quite a few options. Warm, gooey cinnamon rolls large enough to last you a week are the most popular draw to this place on a weekend morning. And that’s not to mention the fruit, yogurt, eggs, potatoes, cereal, French toast, pancakes, pastries and plenty of other options as well. Not only is there a lot to choose from, but your money goes farther. Grab a piece of fruit and yogurt, and your total cost is less than $5. Or go all-out and spend as much as you wish. Coffee is also at your convenience, so don’t forget to grab a cup on your way out.
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Brian Doyle: Storycatcher Nastacia Voisin voisin15@up.edu
Brian Doyle, award-winning author, essayist and editor of the Portland Magazine, has been paid in wine, pennies and comics for his writing. His lyrical novels and ensnaring essays have won him devoted fans and vexed critics. He’s a writer that delights in goofing with form, but has a knack for nailing the heart of stories. Last Thursday, before he entertained the UP community at a Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series lecture, The Beacon sat down with Doyle for a meandering Q&A:
Q: If you weren’t a writer, what would you be? A: Probably a musician, I guess. I adore music, but I
have no music skill. I think it’s the greatest art. Music is so naked, it’s so direct. There’s no processing. When you read a piece of mine, you’ve got to read it. When you look at a painting, you have to glare at it. Dance you have to watch, film you have to watch. Music just crawls right into your ear and goes right down to your heart. Music is so evocative. Nastacia Voisin | THE BEACON
Q: Tell me about your irreverent use of grammar and punctuation? Q: Favorite place in Portland to drink? As long as you’re clear, you can do what you want. Writing is like carpentry or A: I love local pubs, I love McMenamins pubs. They’re A: basketball, once you know the rules and put in your 10,000 hours of practice, then you
friendly, shaggy, there’s always a dog or a baby. No attitude, don’t have to think about it. You can just play. So I want to be playful. That’s part of it. no ego, no snark. They’re pubs – and there’s a difference And I want to connect. I want to write how people talk. And people talk in a riverine, between pub and a bar. The corner pub is a great thing. sinuous, twisted, braided, entertaining ways. People talk like rivers. Who talks in little Pubs are about talking; bars are about drinking. prim subject-verb-object sentence? Who talks like that? So why should I write like that?
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I’ve found that many artists are engaged in Q: Writers are known to be odd people, with habits that help them write. a kind of conversation with themselves, and that What are things that you do that help you write? they try various ways of telling that story. Is that A: I sit down and write. I just type. I always try to carry two pens. Pay attention, take the case with you? notes, and as soon as you can, put your ass in your chair and write. The sheer mechanics
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I have obsessions - I have serial obsessions. A kid are part of the process. Once I start, then off I go. asked me once, “What’s the point of your work?” And I You have a number of different roles and personas at UP. But who do you suppose I’m fascinated by grace under duress. How people handle their loads. That just fascinates me. I’m riveted see yourself as on campus? by grace and courage that doesn’t make any sense. I’m I’m the village idiot. But a lot of what I do here…there’s this great word in Gaelic fascinated by stuff that doesn’t make any sense. “seanchaí” – the storycatcher. That’s my job here.
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UP Fashion Club shoots fall lookbook
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Top: (From left to right) freshmen Rafael Benjamin, Brian Psuji and Casey Nguyen pose in front of the classic Belltower backdrop. Top Left: Sarah Golder poses in her-denimn-on denimn look in front of The Chapel doors.
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UP’s best dressed meet on Thursdays at 6 p.m. in the basement of Franz Hall. They wear boyfriend jeans, bomber jackets and quirky glasses. They wear slouchy sweaters, high heels and high-waisted skirts. Their styles range from vintage to runway, but one thing is for certain: Every single member of University of Portland’s budding fashion club knows how to rock an outfit. Freshmen Emily Mills, Anastasiya Korovskaya and Sam Keeler bonded over their mutual love of all things stylish their first few weeks of classes. Upon discovering that UP did not have a fashion club, the three took it upon themselves to create one. “I think our purpose is to unite in fashion interest,” Mills said. Some of their club objectives include discussing current trends and events, showcasing styles on campus, potentially hosting speakers from the fashion industry and discovering Portland’s fashion scene. And, of course, their fashion lookbook, their first successful event since launching the club. On Oct. 24 the club asked students with stylish fall looks to join them in the back of Franz Hall. With freshman photographer Jack Hulbert and the marketing club,
they shot photos of trend-setting students and compiled them onto their Instagram account, with the hashtag #Upstreetfashion. The photos and videos have been released on the fashion club’s Instagram page and the University of Portland’s Facebook page. The club plans to do more photo shoots of UP students, including a spring and a summer collection. They also encourage interested students to post photos of their friends or themselves with their unique looks to #Upstreetfashion. “A lot of people have cool outfits everyday, but we don’t get to take a photo because we don’t see them,” Korovskaya said. The fashion club uses Instagram as their main portal of communication. Through Instagram they announce photo shoots, upcoming club meetings
Embrace your own unique style. That’s what will make you stand out. Anastasiya Korovskaya Freshman and events and share photos of fashionable UP students. With their use of social media, the fashion club plans to capitalize on the increasing push within the
fashion industry to become more digital. Mills’ interest in fashion stems from her work experience, as she has been modeling since she was 13. To be behind the camera, Mills said, you need confidence. “I think you have to be really comfortable and not be selfconscious,” Mill said. “You have to give it your best shot and be really outgoing. You have to know how to work it.” Keeler, on the other hand, feels much more comfortable behind the camera, and plans to take photos for the club for future events. But the club is not just interested in looking good. “We also want to use (the club) to give back to the community,” Mills said. Currently they are planning a sock drive and are working with the Portland Rescue Mission to give socks stuffed full of toiletries to the homeless. Mills, who started her high school fashion club, organized similar community service projects before. For fashion club members, whether it is modeling, photography, or just clothes in general, being yourself and owning your style is most important. “Embrace your own unique style,” Korvoskaya said. “That’s what will make you stand out.”
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OPINIONS EDITORIAL It’s that time of year when you start counting down to Thanksgiving and Christmas Break. That time when you’re tired of writing 6-8 page papers every week. That time when you start becoming increasingly annoyed by the quirks and eccentricities of everyone around you – especially in the classroom. You might feel like you can behave however you want in and out of the class. After all, it’s your tuition money. But it’s everyone else’s tuition money too, and classrooms are shared spaces for collaborative learning. There are twenty other students in your class paying to learn, not to be distracted by your enthralling Facebook message conversation about what happened over Halloweekend. While a class may be easy or boring to you, it may be lifechanging to someone else. With that in mind, let’s refresh ourselves with some classroom etiquette basics. Be on time. Don’t show up to class more than 10 minutes late. Anything later is disruptive and inconsiderate to your professors and peers. If you’re that late, go to The Commons instead. You’ll
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be doing yourself and everyone in your class a favor. Be respectful of the classroom space. Don’t treat the classroom like your bedroom. Don’t leave crumbs or food wrappers on the desk. Don’t put your feet on the table. This is a shared space, a space that someone will have to clean up after you leave. So be thoughtful about how you leave your space at the end of class. Allow for silence. Don’t dominate discussion. For more extroverted individuals, silence can feel uncomfortable so they feel the need to fill it. But some more introverted individuals need silence to process their thoughts and come up with something to say. Keep your comments and questions on topic. Don’t begin a comment with, “This is off topic, but…” Beginning a statement like that dilutes your point, because it probably is related in some way to the class discussion. And if it truly isn’t related to the discussion at all, you shouldn’t be using class time to say it. Be attentive. Don’t text in class, don’t talk while the professor is talking, and don’t bring your computer to class if you’re not capable of self-control. Tex-
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ting and checking Facebook while the professor is lecturing is disrespectful to the professor, who has spent a large portion of their life dedicated to the topic their talking about. Stay attentive. Don’t pack up before the professor dismisses you. There’s no reason to start
shuffling papers and unzipping your backpack with fifteen minutes left in class. Again, it’s disrespectful to your professor who still wants to talk to you and have your attention. Our classroom behavior should always reflect respect for our professors, for our peers and
for the classroom space itself. That being said, take a deep breath and give your classmates -- and yourself -- a bit of slack. And remember, Thanksgiving Break is only 20 days away.
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No, I’m not dating him Molly McSweyn Staff Commentary I met Keith when I was a bossy, know-it-all kindergartener who thought boys were literally the worst things in the world. Forget cooties – I simply did not understand them. All that changed when I accidently hit Keith in the face with a metal bowl, leading to
a lot of blood and tears. After all the drama and parental involvement, I handed Keith a handmade card and tearfully apologized. He smiled at me and started laughing. From that day onward we were inseparable. I learned to climb trees, color and play hide and seek with him. Grown-ups thought we were twins because we looked alike and spent so much time together. Keith became my best friend and I thought nothing of it. Not until I heard for the first time (but not the last time) that golden
question, “Ohh, do you guys like each other?!” Although we did not remain friends when we began grade school, I fondly remember Keith as my first great guy friend. I didn’t think about having a guy friend again until I became friends with Christian, who is one of my best friends to this day. We continued our friendship throughout middle and high school, and that golden question popped up again and again. Having Christian, and my other close guy friends in my life has been incredible. I go to them when
I am happy and upset. Christian especially gives me completely objective and straightforward advice. He challenges me daily, and we argue more than anything, but I am so thankful for him. But there have been countless times I’ve had to explain that we are just friends to strangers, to family members, and even to others in our class. Each time someone asked if we were dating I became angry, and I didn’t understand why they were asking. I find it upsetting when people believe that true friendships cannot exist between members of op-
posite genders. I find the limiting assumption that guys and girls who are friends must be dating is completely false. Some people seem to believe that there are acquaintances and there are relationships, with no room in between for deep friendships with the opposite gender. This very narrow view of the relationships we can form in life hinders the possibility of discovering true connections with other human beings. See FRIENDS, page 13
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Who’s your favorite professor and why? Johanna Lopez sophomore sociology
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Molly McSweyn and Christian Golden pose for a silly photo. They have been friends since high school.
Continued from page 11 Having guy friends has been one of the best parts of my life, and I would not change it for anything else in the world. While some people believe that the differences between guys and girls make them incompatible as close friends, I think the differences are what make these close friendships so valuable. It is crucial that we are open to the refreshing and often surprisingly different outlook that a member of the opposite sex can provide. I greatly value all of my
friendships, whether they are with girls or guys, yet I appreciate how diverse my closest friends are because of their different outlooks on life. I go to my guy friends for certain advice, and my friends that are girls for other conversations. It is the diversity of those in my life that I find so essential to the way I want to live.
“Monto because he is very knowledgeable about his field and super funny to listen to and great at explaining everything” Jordan Paul junior political science
Molly McSweyn is a communication studies major and a sports reporter for The Beacon. You can reach her at mcsweyn18@up.edu.
“Curtis because he’s energetic and really passionate about his subject.” Jenna Sintenga junior biology
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“Dr. Crenshaw because she is really good at communicating with the students and making everything hilarious.”
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SPORTS
Women’s basketball wins first exhibition game
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Left, senior guard Kari Luttinen takes a free throw. Luttinen scored 15 points in the Pilots’ 70-60 win over Western Oregon. Right, sophomore guard Kaylie Van Loo looks to drive past a defending Western player. Van Loo was a perfect 4-4 for free throws on the night. The game marked the first for new Head Coach Cheryl Sorenson who took over for Jim Sollars after he retired last spring.
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Pilot in the Spotlight
Why did you choose to come to play in America? [I came] to combine studying and soccer, because that is not easy in Europe to do both. Soccer is my absolute passion. I love playing soccer, but I know that studying is my future, and it is more important to have a bachelor’s degree. My first priority is studying, and then to play soccer. I like the way that I have the chance to do both in America. Why specifically at UP? I visited first in April of this year. I heard about the good soccer program and I Googled the city of Portland and I saw a lot of good things. I like rain, and I love windy weather. But for sure the soccer program was most important to me. I have a great goalkeeper coach and he (Coach Aiden Brown) played professionally, and I would like to improve myself through his coaching.
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Hanna de Haan Goalkepper Sophomore Leer, Germany
What was difference for you coming in and adjusting to the American game? It is great. Sometimes in Germany I had problems combining club soccer and school, because I have to do a lot for school and I had practice all the time. My school didn’t understand that I had practice, so it was hard to combine it. Here it is so much easier because you can leave class earlier if you have a game or if you are traveling. Have there been any differences in the actual match? The rules are the same, but what is different be-
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tween German and American soccer is Americans are more aggressive. I really like that. It is more like one vs. one play instead of in Germany, passing around and tactical things. It is sometimes slower play in Germany too. We analyze a lot of our next moves, and here we just get to play. What is your favorite tradition with the Pilots? Listening [to] Michael Jackson in the training room before home games. What are your feelings about this past season and not making the playoffs for the first time since 2000? You know, we are a very young team and I really like that we have the chance to grow up together. We are a very close team. We had ups and downs, but the overall experience will make us better. I am a little disappointed, but I know that we improved a lot in the last games. I think this season was for us as a young team to learn together. So I am really looking forward to next season. What are your goals for next season? I would like to stay healthy, help my team by being a confident goalie, and I would like to make the playoffs. What is your favorite thing to do off the field? Hanging out with my teammates, even just going for dinner together. I love my teammates. They are a great group of girls. They have helped ease my transition to America a lot. - Malika Andrews
Cross country: Pilots earn WCC honors
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WCC Coach of the Year title. David Perry’s individual win, which set the record for the 8K course as well as set a new personal record, earned him the WCC Runner of the Year award and a spot on the WCC First Team.
Every day has to be purposeful. I think moving in I am just looking forward to racing aggressively. David Perry Senior He is joined on the First Team by Fauble, Buchanan and Danny Martinez. Junior Timo Goehler’s finish of 23.44 earned him Second Team honors. Senior Tansey Lystad finished first overall and led the women’s team to a second place
finish, behind BYU. This performance earned her Runner of the Year and First Team Honors. Anne Luijten’s eighth overall finish with a time of 20:20 also earned her First Team honors. Sanna Mustonen finished third for the Pilots and 13th overall with a time of 20:36 receiving Second Team honors. The NCAA West Regionals takes place Saturday, Nov. 14 in Palo Alto. The Pilots’ best finish at the national level is seventh, but they look forward to attempting to best that. University of Colorado is ranked No. 1 and favored to win. “Every day has to be purposeful,” Perry said. “I think moving in I am just looking forward to racing aggressively. This has cemented my ability to be one of the top guys in the NCAA. I believe that nothing is going to stand in my way. I believe I am a front man in the NCAA.”
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This week in sports WOMEN’S SOCCER
On Campus
The Pilots tied San Francisco and lost to Santa Clara last weekend. They are 6-9-3 on the season. Saturday marks their final game of the season as they play Gonzaga.
MEN’S SOCCER The men tied LMU and lost to San Diego last weekend. They are 4-8-4 on the season. Next, they play at Pacific on Friday and at home on Sunday at 1 p.m. against St. Mary’s for Senior Day.
CROSS COUNTRY The men took the WCC title last weekend and seniors David Perry and Tansey Lystad took individual first place titles. The women took second behind BYU. The NCAA West Regionals are Nov. 14.
VOLLEYBALL The Pilots lost to Pepperdine and LMU last weekend. They have two home matches this weekend against San Francisco tonight at 7 p.m. and Santa Clara on Saturday at 1 p.m at home and WCC wins of the season.
MEN’S BASKETBALL The Pilots have an exhibition game against ConcordiaIrvine on Saturday at 7 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The women won 70-60 in their first exhibition game against Western Oregon last night. They play Concordia on Tuesday at home at 7 p.m. (courtesy portlandpilots.com, WCCsports.com)
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Senior Tansey Lystad took first place for the women at the WCC Championships.
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‘Once you’re on the team, you’re a part of the team’
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Freshman walk-on Madison Ward runs down the court during practice. Ward played in the final part of the team’s first exhibition game on Wednesday against Western Oregon. Molly McSweyn mcsweyn18@up.edu The recruiting process for D1 athletes starts as early as sophomore year of high school. Yet, for freshman Maddie Ward, everything was different. Her recruitment didn’t start with a bunch of basketball coaches reaching out to her to choose their college. Rather, she was the one reaching out after she made her college decision. Preliminary tryouts were set up for the beginning of the UP’s fall semester. Head Coach Cheryl Sorenson and the rest of the coaching staff saw Ward practice and run through skill sessions. It didn't take long for them to decide they wanted Ward on the team. “It was pretty obvious early
enough on that she was a quality player that could really step on the floor and help us,” Sorenson said. “And, you know, could be somebody that added value to the team.” Once Ward was offered a spot, she quickly accepted and became as much a part of the team as any other player. “We don't distinguish if you're a scholarship or a walk-on, you’re a member of the Portland Pilots, and so we just said ‘Hey, she’s on the team,’” Sorenson said. “The team was able to accept that and bring her in our arms, and she's added a lot to the team.” Ward felt welcomed right away. “All of the girls are super nice, they were all super welcoming,” Ward said. Ward, who is from Golden,
Colorado, has been playing basketball since fifth grade. “My dad convinced me to play because I actually didn't really want to start,” Ward said. “I loved it once I started it.” Attending a small Catholic high school didn’t offer her a lot in the ways of athletics, but she played all four years, three of those on varsity at Mullen High School. She also played for a well-respected club team. Ward knew she wanted to continue to play basketball in college and she talked to a few coaches as she was making her decision. However, she decided she needed to choose a school based on the community and academics, instead of just basketball. “I just decided that the best option for me was to look at the school itself, and what I'm get-
ting through my education, because obviously I'm at college for an education,” Ward said. “And then I was going to do everything that I could to play basketball, because that’s what I am passionate about.” Ward contacted Sorenson last spring to let her know she was making her college decision and that UP was a top contender. She told Sorenson that if she ended up attending the school, she planned to try to walk on to the basketball team. Walking on to a D1 sports team is rare and difficult. Many players recruited played at highly competitive levels within their respective sports for many years. The women's basketball team only has one other walk-on, senior Colleen Olinger. In the past 10 years, there have only been six
walk-ons for women’s basketball at UP. Part of what walk on players have to deal with is acclimating to the team environment later than the rest of the players. For women’s basketball, this transition is a key part of the team’s motto: ‘TLC: Using your talents, being loyal and communicating to each other.’ Despite the difficulties associated with walking on, Ward is quickly adjusting to the team and playing a D1 sport, especially as the season began yesterday. “I think its a mentality. Like once you're on the team, you're a part of the team,” Ward said. “You have to trust each other to have your back on the court, so you have to start building that relationship from day one.”
Seniors lead cross country in WCC Championships Malika Andrews andrewsm17@up.edu
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Senior David Perry races on his way to his first place finish in the WCC Championship. The men’s team took first place in the WCC.
On Nov. 1, the No. 8 ranked Pilots cross country team, led by redshirt senior David Perry, beat rivals No. 18 BYU Cougars to claim the 2014 West Coast Conference Men’s Cross Country Championship. Portland beat BYU by only 3 points (Pilots-28, Cougars-31). This is the Pilots’ 34th WCC title. BYU has been in the WCC for four years, beating the Pilots two of those years. The rivalry between the teams has become something both runners and coaches look forward to. “It has become a significant rivalry between us and BYU,” Head Coach Rob Connor said. “We felt like with four nationallevel seniors (Reid Buchanan,
Ryan Poland, Fauble, and Perry) this is the year for us to have our best team ever.” Perry crossed the finish line in a time of 23:25.4, with redshirt senior Scott Fauble on his heels finishing in second place with a time of 23:26.1. This is Perry’s second race back from injury and first cross country meet win. “As soon as I finished, I turned around to see as Scott came in as our number two, and Reid come in as our number three,” Perry said. “The fact that I won didn’t set in, I was just wondering where my team finished, because the massive trophy we have in our locker room is because of my team. It isn’t because of me.” In addition to the WCC title, Connor took home his eighth See cross country, page 15