2009.10.06

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 13

Event of the day Barbara Garson, author of The Electronic Sweatshop and All the Livelong Day is giving a lecture today entitled “Down is a Dangerous Direction.” Stop in and receive some pearls of wisdom from this Vietnam-era activist.

When: 4 p.m.

Where: Neuberger Hall, room 407

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INSIDE OPINION

Snuff out smoking bans Anti-smoking legislation is an infringement of individual rights PAGE 3 Ban secondhand smoke Smoking should be banned in public places PAGE 3

NEWS

Textbook borrowing Portland State student highlights the opportunity, no movement yet PAGE 4 The Daily Cut Your world in brief PAGE 5

New Higher One contract aims to address concerns Portland State sticks with same bank, with new agreements Vinh Tran Vanguard staff

Portland State recently inked a new contract with Higher One—the financial institution charged with handing out millions of dollars in financial aid reimbursement to students—after a long search process for other vendors that began last fall term.

Eric Blumenthal, director of Portland State’s Business Affairs Office, said the decision was not simply to continue doing more of the same, but to realize the best option for Portland State students.

Blumenthal can still recall Higher One’s stale reception back in 2004 when Portland State signed a five-year contract with the company, a decision that received little fanfare and no input from student representatives.

That contract with Higher One expires this year.

Blumenthal and his staff assembled a committee on Aug. 1, 2008 to oversee the search process for a new company, which includes student representatives Hannah Fisher and Monique Peterson.

“It wasn’t just us continuing the agreement, business as usual,” Blumenthal said. “The process was as

inclusive of students as we could.

Monique did an excellent job at getting student opinions.”

In November 2008, Blumenthal and his committee attempted to get student feedback about Higher One through an online survey.

“The responses were a statistically representative sample of the university,” said Karen Preston, manager of Purchasing and Contracting Services.

According to the results, a majority of the students who responded said they already had a bank account and disliked the idea of being forced to open an account with Higher One. The pin-based transaction fee of 50 cents and expensive replacement card fee are also among students’ complaints.

In March 2009, the university sent out a letter to various financial institutions expressing their interest in finding the right company to handle students’ money. The list of companies that responded included Wells Fargo, Sallie Mae, Blackboard, U.S. Bank and Higher One. Preston said committee members charged with the task of rating these institutions are from various offices at Portland State that receive heavy interaction with students—such as the Office of Financial Aid, University Housing, the New Student Program and ASPSU. Higher One scored highest of the four institutions Portland State was interested in working with. Out of

a possible score of 180, Higher One received a score of 161.8, followed

by Sallie Mae with 94.7.

“When we did the evaluation, Higher One really provides the best service to our students,” Blumenthal said. “They consider us a major client and are willing to make concessions for us.”

Preston said runner-up Sallie Mae

would end up costing the university more money through their service.

“They want to charge a $1,500 fee per ATM per month, or students can go to the Cheerful Tortoise or 7-Eleven to withdraw money,” Preston said. “[Sallie Mae] also charges the university for making new ID cards, Higher One does not.”

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2004 Higher one protests

Archive/Portland State Vanguard

In November of 2004, several hundred students protested in an anti-Higher One campaign in the Park Blocks before staging a sit-in in then-President Daniel Bernstine’s

office. As a result, Bernstine created the non-Higher One card option.

Information from April 13, 2005 archived Vanguard issue. Photo from archived June 3, 2005 issue.

Portland State pride

ARTS

New “Go Green” campaign finds what Portland State students are proud of

Cinematic decay Filmmaker Bill Morrison finds beauty in deterioration PAGE 6

Carrie Johnston Vanguard staff

Menos el awesome Minus the Bear kicks off a month-long tour with warm-up dates in the Northwest to break in new material PAGE 8

SPORTS Vikings bring bug spray PSU wins three in a row after dropping first set to Hornets PAGE 9

Julie Smith

Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard

On a nontraditional urban campus where students typically come for class and then leave, a new “Go Green” campaign aims to highlight student and faculty accomplishments.

University Communications’ “Go Green” campaign is designed to encourage the cultivation of a strong community by further promoting the spirit of Portland State students.

Christian Aniciete, communications director for ASPSU, said he would like to see Portland State represented as ubiquitously as University of Oregon and Oregon State, but it will take time and persistence—and the “Go Green” campaign is where that will start.

“Going green means finding what PSU students are proud of and broadcasting it,” said Director of Marketing Julie Smith.

To encourage the spirit and achievements of students, Portland State now has its own YouTube, Flickr and Facebook Web sites where events can be discussed and

photos and videos can be posted.

The campaign spawned from last year’s push for “College Color Fridays,” but the idea dissolved, as there were not enough students to support it on the University Communications committee.

The Interim Programming Board, an entity formed this year under Student Activities and Leadership Programs, Campus Recreation, ASPSU, Residence Housing Association and University Communications, is a committee in charge of facilitating campus traditions like “Go Green” that do not necessarily have a home.

Currently, University Communications is providing student volunteers to help with “Go Green” efforts.

“PSU is a nontraditional campus, which means students don’t spend much time here. It’s a commuter school…They have families, jobs, activities and homes all off campus.

What we need is a culture shift,” Aniciete said.

Last year, Portland State received a lot of criticism about “College Color Fridays” being too focused on school spirit—replacing individuality with sameness. This year’s campaign is intended to magnify student and faculty accomplishments across a variety of disciplines and activities.

Director of Communications Scott Gallagher said, “Going green

means more than being sustainable.

It’s riding your bike to school, recycling or showing spirit at sporting events. The hallmarks of PSU are involvements across campus—aside from just research and academics.”

Initiatives and campaigns benefit the university in terms of graduation rates, retention and admissions.

Submit a “Go Green” video: Step 1: Upload your video to YouTube.

Step 2: Send your name, phone number, e-mail address and a link to your YouTube video to gogreen@pdx.edu by midnight Nov. 12.

All entrants will receive a new Portland State T-shirt, along with the chance to win an iPod Nano or a $150 Hot Lips gift certificate.

Visit www.pdx.edu/gogreen for more info.

Vanguard 2 | Opinion October 6, 2009

OPINION

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Get it together Democrats!

As the health care debate rages across the country, there remains strong public support for a single payer system. Regardless of the phone calls, e-mails, and letters sent to Democrats in Congress, we still hear talks of compromise with the Republican minority. As a Democrat, I am frustrated that my party is bowing to Republican ideals while garnering no votes in the process. I am outraged that my fellow citizens spoke with a united voice when they voted in November yet the mandate for change has not materialized. By creating a single payer system, Congress could save the middle class in spite of the crashing economy and increasing unemployment.

What happened to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” I believe we can safely assume that each of those items include the health of a citizen.

How can we have life, liberty, or happiness if we are unable to afford basic preventative care? Let’s eliminate the health care system as we know it for the simple reason that it is bankrupting the majority of Americans and is stifling economic growth.

Would you take more vacations and spend more money if you had an extra $5,000 to $12,000 in your pocket each year? I believe the answer is “yes.” What about those medical bills sitting unopened on your kitchen counter? If that burden of payment were lifted, most Americans would happily find ways to spend that money in their local communities.

Ah, the taxes you say. Estimates for the cost per person range from $650 to $1059 per year under a government run medical system. In essence, would you rather be taxed that additional amount annually or have the current national average for health care of $8000 removed from your paycheck for the same (or better) heath care you currently receive? This is basic common sense, yet our elected officials in Washington continue to waffle and weaken their stance on strong health reform.

However, I have a plan. We outnumber the lobbyists and are able to provide a clear real life example of the health care crisis. Starting today, I urge everyone with medical bills to make copies of them and send them to your Representatives and Senators until we get the reform we desperately need.

As Americans, we are fiercely independent and progressive in our thinking. We cannot sit idly by and wait

for the outcome of the health reform process. This is a democracy. Get involved. —Gina Mason, PSU graduate student, wife and mother.

Scary Scandal The ResLife office is having a “Haunted House 2009” for $3 per student admission Oct. 24. This is an embarrassing scandal for the university.

It is doubtful the ResLife office even knows what they are spending, especially if staff hours/salaries are counted in the budget. There is no way such an event can be excused as economic stimulus, even if you count increased spending at breweries for refreshments. Portland has 1,400 homeless, and families with children living under bridges. That taxpayer dollars should be spent on such childishness as this PSU event is scandalous.

If the money is coming from student fees, then we need to keep in mind that most of that money comes from Uncle Sam in the form of student loans. This event, even though some payout to a couple of nonprofits is claimed, labels PSU as a bush league school. Formerly, such events, if scheduled at all, were the province of fraternities and sororities. Thankfully, PSU has only fragments of the old Greek system. By staging such an event, ResLife displays that it has no moral judgment, and not a tiny piece of a sense of propriety. —Joyce Boles, PSU student

ling the costs of our health care system will pay dividends for Oregon far into the future. Healthier kids mean fewer visits to the emergency room. Minor illnesses will be addressed before they become major illnesses. Kids will perform better in school and have a better chance at succeeding in life.

Meanwhile, because these kids can now get preventive care, you and I will no longer be forced to pay for the expensive, uncompensated care they often receive today. It’s one way we will begin to put the brakes on the rapidly escalating costs of our health care system.

Unlike California, the Oregon Legislature faced this global recession head-on. Yes, we made billions in budget cuts. But we also passed these new laws that will pro-actively spur Oregon’s economy, create thousands of new Oregon jobs, and pay us huge dividends in the decades to come. And we protected the core services of education, health care and public safety on which so many Oregonians rely.

So while our kids may not realize it today, we helped pave the way to a much brighter future for Oregon.

—House Speaker Dave Hunt

Promote our spirit in the classroom More students might show up if they were promoted in classrooms [Editorial, Oct. 2] for example, or if they didn’t have to go to the PSU

box office for a ticket and just had to show their ID (if this is the case, then I stand corrected, but I’ve always gotten a ticket using my ID). Why not cut out the middle man? It’d also be more “eco-friendly” then printing the actual tickets out themselves.

—Anonymous online student

Here’s a comment, that is a comment Hiring competent people to start, is a start [PSU’s tough decision, Sept. 29]. Too many university staff were not subject to solid background checks and were hired based on overstatements of their qualifications. Just check the directory and see who lists their post-graduate degrees as in progress. Huh? The university and ultimately the students we serve are paying now for this, in the inefficiency and potential loss of grant funds due to incompetence and welfare to work hiring practices.

Clean up time ladies and gentleman.

—Dr. Doom (online comment)

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Health Care, Transportation and Jobs Act Go Into Effect on October first While all you seem to see these days in the media are stories about how some corporations and their lobbyists are mad at the legislature for finally raising the $10 corporate minimum tax, there’s a much larger group of Oregonians who are happy with the work the legislature did this sessions – Oregon’s 80,000 uninsured children.

On October 1, the two laws that the 2009 Legislature passed to provide Oregon kids with health insurance coverage go into effect. Many of us in the Legislature believe those two bills – HB 2009 and HB 2116 – will eventually be considered two of the most important bills we passed this session.

Providing access to health care for our uninsured kids and control-

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Snuff out smoking bans

Vanguard Opinion | 3 October 6, 2009

Anti-smoking legislation is an infringement of individual rights

Opinion Editor:

Will Blackford Vanguard staff

On Jan. 1, 2009 the state took away our right to smoke cigarettes in a bar. Four months later the House of Representatives passed a bill to make littering cigarette butts a Class B Misdemeanor. Now moves are being made to ban smoking in public parks and college campuses.

Smoking cigarettes, as it stands right now, is legal. No one will deny that smoking is bad for anyone who engages in it on a regular basis, but the freedom to do so exists nonetheless. This freedom, however, is being constantly infringed upon by the state. They may not be outlawing smoking, but they are limiting the locations in which smoking is

legal. This is an affront to the rights of smokers—people whose rights are often not recognized, I suspect, for the fact that what they are doing is harmful to their bodies.

Some may be asking, “But what about the rights of those who don’t smoke to not have to breathe in your secondhand smoke?” I would say to these individuals that public air, shockingly, is public and not quite as clean and particle-free as one might think. It seems to me that many simply just do not like the smell of tobacco smoke. There are many things of which I do not like the smell, like perfumes, colognes, certain foods or body odor, but I tolerate them because that’s just life. Something that insignificantly inconveniences me is not worth making a fuss over.

The odors previously mentioned, however, are not hazardous for me to inhale, whereas tobacco smoke is. The fact is that the air we breathe downtown or in any city in general, is full of hazardous materials. Long-

term exposure to auto emissions can cause respiratory problems, as can the particles shed by a car’s brakes.

Even the buildings downtown spout emissions from their heating vents.

Aren’t the people driving downtown choosing to do so even though it is harmful to others and the planet as a whole?

There also seems to be a consensus, among some, that inhaling a few wisps of secondhand smoke while walking around campus is going to give them lung cancer tomorrow. Of course secondhand smoke is harmful, but what many people fail to realize is that the length and consistency of exposure is a critical component.

The literature on the American Lung Association’s Web site on secondhand smoke is clear on the health hazard it can present, but not so specific on the levels of exposure required. Even a smoker, who is inhaling the smoke directly, must do so often and over an extended period of time—usually years—to

Illustration by Kira Meyrick

develop significant respiratory problems. The same goes for secondhand smoke. I have often found myself on public transportation, forced to be near someone who has seemingly just bathed in perfume, and found it somewhat difficult to endure or breathe deeply. It is an inconvenience and not much more, and certainly not long lasting.

No one denies that tobacco smoke is harmful, but the effects of intermittent exposure to small amounts of secondhand smoke, such as in a wide-open space like a public park, are often just an inconvenience and sometimes exaggerated.

I like to consider myself a conscientious smoker. I try to keep downwind of those who I believe may be bothered by my smoke, but there is a limit as to how much I can control the direction of my smoke, and there are those who are wholly intolerant of it.

Smoking bans on campuses and in public parks may seem like small changes at first, but they open the door to even more bans and sanctions on smoking. These bans effectively stifle the freedoms of smokers, who deserve their freedom like any other.

The freedom to smoke, as much as it may be harmful, is a freedom nonetheless. So is the freedom to drive a car, turn on the heat or even eat a cheeseburger. Smokers make an easy scapegoat because of those smokers who are not aware of those around them. The mother who smokes in her car with the windows rolled up while her child sits strapped in the back seat—a smoker doing real damage to another—is not going to be affected or deterred by a smoking ban in parks or at universities.

One wonders where the bans on smoking will end and how much they will invade one’s personal freedom to smoke at home or in the car. How long will it be until one of your favorite, yet unhealthy, activities comes under scrutiny?

Smoking may not be a freedom you agree with, but that does not make it any less legitimate.

ban secondhand smoke

Smoking should be banned in public places Meaghan Daniels Vanguard staff

Walking to class is becoming a life-or-death adventure as the dangers of secondhand smoke are becoming more of a priority to Oregonians, with college campuses and parks going smoke-free.

Portland is working on becoming more of a smoke-free city. According to the American Lung Association in 2007, Portland updated an existing tobacco policy.

The policy prevents smokers from smoking within 25 feet of any playground or picnic table. It also made all of Pioneer Courthouse Square, and now Director Park, smoke-free. Ideas such as more smoking restrictions in city parks are still being discussed.

The Multnomah County Health Department Tobacco Prevention Program states that 86 percent of Oregonians believe that people need to be protected from secondhand smoke, while 89 percent of Oregonians believe that secondhand smoke is harmful. Secondhand smoke kills approximately 800 Oregonians each year.

With over 4,000 chemicals in secondhand smoke and over 50 causes of cancer, it is no wonder that secondhand smoke can lead to heart disease, lung cancer,

breast cancer, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), asthma and other problems.

The American Lung Association states that even 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand smoke can impair coronary circulation— and that is in someone who does not smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke are 20­to 30 percent more likely to get lung cancer, and secondhand smoke increases the risk of heart disease by as much as 60 percent in nonsmokers Secondhand smoke is especially dangerous for children. The American Lung Association reports that, across the nation, children exposed to secondhand smoke miss seven million more days of school each year. In Oregon, SIDS is the second leading cause of infant deaths, and exposure to secondhand smoke increases that risk.

Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at a higher risk for asthma, respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia, colds, and lower respiratory tract infections. Approximately 7,500 infants and 15,000 children in the United States are hospitalized annually because of lower respiratory tract infections that are due to secondhand smoke exposure.

The City of Troutdale is working on preliminary plans to make their parks smoke-free, according to the office of the Community Health Educator at the Multnomah County Health Department, which completely supports eliminating secondhand smoke exposure in parks.

Across the state, more and more college campuses are becoming smoke-free. Most recently added to the list is Portland Community College, as of Sept. 9, 2009. Oregon Coast Community College became smoke-free in the 2009 fall term.

Mount Hood Community College will soon join this list and become a nonsmoking campus in January 2010.

The Oregon Tobacco-Free College Initiative and Portland State University have discussed the possibility that Portland State could become a smoke-free campus. One problem stands in the way, however, and that problem happens to run directly through campus—the Park Blocks.

The Park Blocks are publicly owned, so Portland State cannot make the campus smoke-free as long as smoking in parks is still legal. But with citizens pushing for smoke-free parks, hopefully Portland State will be able to protect their students, faculty and staff soon. Making the Park Blocks smoke-free would not only protect those who attend school or work at Portland State, it would also protect more Portland citizens from contracting various diseases caused by secondhand smoke.

The National Cancer Institute has a list of the chemicals that are found in secondhand smoke. Some of these chemicals are arsenic, benzene ( found in gasoline), cadmium (the metal used in batteries), ethylene oxide (a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment) and polonium-210 (a chemical that gives

off radiation) and vinyl chloride (a toxic substance used when manufacturing plastics). Who wants any of those things in their body, let alone their lungs?

While it’s a person’s right to choose to smoke, it is also a person’s right to choose not to smoke. It is unfair for a person to inhale secondhand smoke when they have chosen not to do it firsthand. Some people suffer from severe asthma or respiratory problems, so while inhaling secondhand smoke has been proven to be dangerous in a healthy non-smoker, it is especially risky for those with serious health problems.

So how do we solve this problem?

Should we support one person’s freedom while ignoring another’s?

No. What it comes down to is health.

The concerns and major health issues linked to secondhand smoking are prominent issues, and the health of the citizens should be the city’s main concern. Thus, the best solution is to designate certain areas for smoking that are well-ventilated so as not to affect the health of those who choose not to smoke.

So, while you may still be able to smoke in Portland public parks, stay away from playgrounds. The next time you reach into your pocket to light up a cigarette, think first. Think about what you are doing to the environment, other people, children and animals.

Think about what you are doing to yourself the next time you reach for that cigarette. Is it worth it?

You decide.

Richard D. Oxley 503-725-5962 opinion@dailyvanguard.com

What’s in a cigarette?

The government has approved 599 ingredients that can be added to our tobacco products. However, burning tobacco, which is mainly what we do with it, causes chemical changes to occur. Therefore, when you smoke a cigarette, over 4,000 chemicals are released in the smoke.

You’ve probably already heard about elements like urea in cigarettes (eww). But have you heard of some of the more odd ingredients?

Alfalfa extract Ammonia Apple juice concentrate, extract and skins Bergamot oil Butter, butter esters and butter oil Caffeine Celery seed extract, solid, oil and oleoresin Cinnamon leaf oil Coffee Cocoa Honey Hops oil Mace powder Maple syrup Pineapple juice Rum Rye extract Smoke flavor Sugars Vanilla extract Wine and wine sherry Source: Tobacco.org

Vanguard 4 | News October 6, 2009

News Editor: Danielle Kulczyk 503-725-5690 news@dailyvanguard.com

Top 10 Portland landmarks

NEWS

Textbook borrowing Portland State student highlights the opportunity, no movement yet Lindsay Bing Vanguard staff

1. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) 1945 SE Water Ave. Portland, Ore. 97214 2. Oregon Zoo 4001 SW Canyon Road Portland, Ore. 97221 3. Portland Saturday Market 108 W Burnside St. Portland, Ore. 97209 4. Powell’s City of Books 1005 W Burnside St. Portland, Ore. 97209 5. International Rose Test Garden 400 SW Kingston Ave. Portland, Ore. 97205 6. Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave. Portland, Ore. 97205 7. Pittock Mansion 3229 NW Pittock Drive Portland, Ore. 97210

Jil Heimensen, student and member of the Student Fee Committee, recently posted information about the increasing number of college campuses offering textbook renting programs.

According to the New York Times article she posted on the Portland State Student Fee Committee blog (www.psusfc.com), more and more college campus bookstores are offering textbook borrowing programs to students, renting books at 30 to 70 percent off the list price.

Cengage Learning, one of the country’s largest textbook publishers, is implementing this program in participating college bookstores and with unaffiliated bookstores that sell high volumes of textbooks around campuses.

Crucial to implementing the program, according to the article, is the commitment from professors to use the same text for at least two years, a challenge given the frequency of new editions.

Heimensen cannot do much to push for the program as an SFC member, explaining that her days are packed with classes and committee work. One option available to get this program running, she said, would be to form a student group.

However, textbooks are costly, and it takes years for new student groups to become eligible for more than $5,000 of funding, according

to SFC and Student Activities and Leadership Programs rules.

Another option, Heimensen said, would be for the Portland State bookstore to offer this sort of program in cooperation with high-volume publishers or even independently. This could be costly, however, and for other universities, rental is not profitable until the book has been rented for four semesters, or two years.

Portland State does not currently offer a rental program for textbooks.

Professors can put course materials on reserve at the library but this is typically limited to just a few textbooks for the whole class.

“I think it’s a great idea, it’s just the implementation that is a challenge,” Heimensen said.

Private bookstores that operate in conjunction with colleges recently began piloting the program as well. Barnes and Noble College Booksellers will test the success of book borrowing at three of its 624 college bookstores, according to the New York Times article.

National Public Radio also reported on the trend, noting that Sacramento State University has started to rent books out this year. They offer approximately 15 percent of required titles for rental.

Costs vary depending on the university, and current buy and sell back policies already offered by most college bookstores are often a better deal than rental reimbursements.

“It’d be a great benefit to everybody at the university,” Heimensen said.

Heimensen hopes that somebody will take up the mantle and work towards making textbooks more affordable for all students.

Aaron Leopold/Portland State Vanguard

8. Portland Japanese Garden 611 SW Kingston Ave. Portland, Ore. 97205

ONE | 9. Portland Classical Chinese Garden

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Higher One is staying

239 NW Everett St. Portland, Ore. 97209 10. Hoyt Arboretum 4000 SW Fairview Blvd.

Portland, Ore. 97221 —www.Portland.com

In the end, Preston said students may not like Higher One, but it’s still the only company that provides what they need.

On Aug. 21, Denise Wendler, associate vice president for finance and controller, signed a new five-year contract with Higher One, with the option for extension of an additional six years.

According to Blumenthal, the new contract contains several agreements with Higher One that should address students’ most urgent concerns.

explained. “That way, when students come to us, we don’t have to say we have no authority to waive that fee for them,” Blumenthal said

New agreements in 2009 Higher One contract and how they measure up to students’ expectations:

Online bill pay In the contract, accounts with $1,000 or more can use the Higher One online bill pay service for free, otherwise the cost is 29 cents per transaction. Blumenthal said the university is working with Higher One to lower that minimum balance requirement.

Effective Dec. 1, the 50 cent pinbased fee will be eliminated In the online survey, fees were the single most common topic mentioned in the “comments” section. The survey also showed 9.8 percent of students use the One card as a debit card and the 50-cent fee was described by students as a barrier to using Higher One. Higher One gives Portland State a small amount of money to help settle fee dispute This gives Portland State more control over fee dispute, Blumenthal

More ATMs on campus Higher One will place two more ATMs on campus, for a total of five. Blumenthal hopes one will be in the new Recreation Center or somewhere that can be accessed 24 hours a day. In the survey, account access and lack of ATMs were the most commonly mentioned barriers to receiving funds.

Card production time According to Blumenthal, in December the university will have a preliminary meeting with Higher One about the possibility of producing the ID card on campus, which should help address the 73.9 percent of respondents who said they prefer to receive their ID on campus instead of waiting five to seven days for it to arrive in the mail.

Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Pin-based fee: Dec. 1, the 50 cent pin-based fee will be eliminated for Higher One cards.

Not mentioned in the contract but cited by students as a concern: Daily withdrawal limit Since Higher One has no physical bank for students to withdraw all their money at once, the majority of students said they access their money through ATMs (24.5 percent according to survey). Many students consider the daily withdrawal limit of $500 a day to be a barrier in accessing their money.

Wire transfer If students cannot take out all their money at once through an ATM, they have the option of making a wire transfer to their bank account.

Currently, Higher One charges $25 per wire transfer to an outside bank.

Given that 80.69 percent of students said they use online banking and 24.5 percent said they use wire transfer as a means of accessing their One account funds, the $25 fee is a barrier to using Higher One by students.

Higher One as an option, not a requirement According to the survey, the majority of students said they already have a primary bank account and dislike the idea of opening another one.

In the survey, 75.6 percent said they prefer direct deposit to their personal bank account instead of a university-issued refund. In the “comments” section, students also said it’s unfair to impose a banking institution on them and preferred opening a One account as an option, not a requirement.

Separation between ID card and bank account A surprise comment from students was that they didn’t like having their Portland State ID looking like a credit card (“embarrassing to show,” said one respondent).

According to the survey, 16.8 percent said having an ID that looks like a credit card was “inconvenient” or “not secure.”

The Daily Cut

Vanguard News | 5 October 6, 2009

Your world in brief

Nation: Another use for your phone: ‘augmented reality’ SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—You’re walking down the street, looking for a good place to eat. You hold up your cell phone and use it like the viewfinder on a camera, so the screen shows what’s in front of you. But it also shows things you couldn’t see before: Brightly colored markers indicating nearby restaurants and bars.

Turn a corner, and the markers reflect the new scene. Click a marker for a restaurant, and you can see customer reviews and price information. Decide you’d rather be sightseeing? The indicators are easily changed to give information about the buildings you’re passing.

This computer-enhanced view of the world is not just available to cyborgs in science-fiction movies.

Increasingly it can be found on cell phones, for free or on the cheap, through programs that provide “augmented reality.”

These applications take advantage of the phones’ GPS and compass features and access to high-speed wireless networks to mash up super-local Web content with the world that surrounds you.

That means you can see available apartments on the block you’re moseying down. You can view photos other people have taken at the park you’re passing, or find the nearest bus stop or hotel room—all by just holding your phone up and peering at its screen.

The possibilities for melding the virtual and actual worlds have just started to become apparent. The first phones with Google’s Android

operating system, which enables augmented reality, have come out in the past year. The iPhone became augmented-reality-friendly with the compass that debuted in June on the iPhone 3GS. Apple also recently joined Google in making it possible for software developers to overlay images on the phone’s camera view.

One company working to make this happen is Amsterdam-based Layar, which recently released an augmented reality browser by the same name for Android phones. Layar lets you search for things on Google, but delivers the results based on your location, which it determines from the GPS readout.

So you can search for, say, a bike shop or a pet store close to where you happen to be.

If you don’t feel like actively searching, you can sign up to have certain kinds of information automatically appear on your phone screen. For instance, Layar lets other companies build on its system to overlay information about such places as skateboarding spots and local landmarks. A startup called Brightkite uses Layar to let people post virtual tags, with their locations and activities that other people can see if they use the same app.

Layar’s goal is to create a “serendipitous experience” that lets you can discover new things about your surroundings, says co-creator Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald.

The company is working on a 3-D function, too, that it hopes to release in November. That will allow virtual objects to be placed “on” actual locations. A guy might be able to put a virtual heart in front of his girlfriend’s house for Valentine’s Day— and she would see it if she used the

Layar app on her phone.

For a year, Yelp, a Web site with business reviews written by customers, had an iPhone app that used the device’s GPS and wireless Internet connectivity to deliver local search results. But when the iPhone got a compass, bloggers wondered whether Yelp would go further and make its app overlay information onto a real-time view of the world. After noticing the speculation, Yelp quietly created such an app this summer, spokesman Vince Sollitto said.

The augmented-reality program, known as Monocle, was built for Yelp by an industrious intern and originally hidden in Yelp’s app. (It was activated if you shook the iPhone three times.) Monocle is now a formal feature that combines the iPhone’s camera view with tiny tags indicating the names, distances and user ratings of proximate bars, restaurants and more. Poke a floating tag on the screen with your finger and up pops detailed information about the business.

Among the other augmented reality programs that recently have hit Apple’s App Store is Robotvision, a 99-cent program built by Portland, Ore.-based developer Tim Sears.

If you hold your phone parallel to the ground, Robotvision displays a map of your surroundings. Hold the phone up, however, and it goes into augmented-reality mode, highlighting places like coffee shops and bars. Robotvision also can search for other kinds of businesses with Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

You can view pictures that people took nearby and posted to Flickr with a “geotag” of the shot’s physical

location. Or you can see Twitter postings composed in the area.

Next Sears plans to update the application with local content from Wikipedia.

“Looking at the world around you is something everyone can get.

That, to me, is what makes it so fascinating,” he said.

Consumers may feel that way initially, too. But Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor who runs the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, worries that the technological limitations these applications currently face will keep them from living up to what people imagine they can do.

Indeed, there are issues hindering augmented reality applications. Cell phones need to be more powerful, with improved cameras and graphics capabilities and more accurate GPS. The technology can generally pinpoint location to within 30 feet if a user is outdoors.

The limitations mean businesses you see on the screen are often not actually in front of you, though they are nearby. And often tags sometimes just kind of dart around on the screen, seemingly untethered to a physical place. Another problem: Using GPS for extended periods quickly sucks up the battery life on most phones.

Developers and industry watchers are optimistic, though, that in the next few years we might see everything from augmented reality video games to museum guide services that recognize paintings and can pull up videos showing the artist at work.

“Things are pretty cool right now,” Sears said. “But they’re definitely going to get better.” —Rachel Metz

Oregon trivia Oregon’s flag is the only state flag to carry two separate designs.

Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.

Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and is formed in the remains of an ancient volcano.

Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without selfserve gas stations.

Eugene was the first city to have one-way streets.

At 8,000 feet deep Hells Canyon is the deepest river gorge in North America.

The hazelnut is Oregon’s official state nut. Oregon is the only state that has an official state nut.

Oregon’s state birthday is on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. —www.50states.com

Vanguard 6 | Arts & Culture October 6, 2009

ARTS & CULTURE

Cinematic decay

Arts Editor: Theodora Karatzas 503-725-5694 arts@dailyvanguard.com

Pitchfork’s Top 20 albums of the 2000s OK, so they got it right on some accounts. I’m all for Kid A, The Moon & Antarctica, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and a few others, but the Strokes?

It’s not that they’re that bad, just kind of disposable. The Knife on the other hand is just annoying. C’mon Pitchfork, I know you guys are infamously snooty, but get your act together. This list is all over the place!

1. Radiohead, Kid A 2. Arcade Fire, Funeral 3. Daft Punk, Discovery 4. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 5. Jay-Z, The Blueprint 6. Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica 7. The Strokes, Is This It 8. Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun 9. Panda Bear, Person Pitch 10. The Avalanches, Since I Left You 11. Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele 12. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells 13. OutKast, Stankonia 14. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion 15. The Knife, Silent Shout 16. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois 17. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver

Filmmaker Bill Morrison finds beauty in deterioration Joel Gaddis Vanguard staff

Film, as a medium, has clearly undergone some radical transformations since its inception.

To think that we’ve gone from the early short works of Thomas Edison to High School Musical 3 in just a little over a century is dizzying and, frankly, kind of scary.

Filmmaker Bill Morrison, though, is more interested in what happens to film itself, the physical artifact, as time goes by: how it deteriorates and decays. This Tuesday, the Northwest Film Center will be hosting an evening with Bill Morrison, which will include six of Morrison’s short films, each with an introduction by the director.

Morrison, a Reed College graduate who now resides in New York, has received a great deal of attention for his unique experiments in film collage. In his most famous works, Morrison resurrects ancient archival footage that has suffered from severe chemical decomposition. When projected, the various flaws and blemishes of the film stock are transformed into gorgeous, abstract patterns of shifting shape and light.

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Two of the films showing this Tuesday, The Mesmerist and Light is Calling, cull images from the 1926 film entitled The Bells, starring Boris Karloff. The original is a silent-era tale of murder and guilt, but in Morrison’s revision of it, the narrative arc is not so important. In this case, the form, a badly damaged print of an old movie, becomes the content.

The Mesmerist moves from scene to scene in a fairly nonlinear fashion. The opening shot of a man asleep in a chair soon fades into a bustling street scene, where a crowd is gathering to watch the mesmerist of the title.

Later on, we see a murder take place in the midst of a swirling snowstorm, but all of the action takes a back seat to the film stock itself, which almost appears to be alive. The warped, pockmarked frames flicker and dance hypnotically as they progress.

In Light is Calling, this effect is even more pronounced. Ghostly images of a horse-drawn carriage and a woman occasionally float to the surface, but the film is so badly damaged that most of the images are a blur. We’re left with a sepia-tinged tableau of constantly changing patterns, like sand in the wind.

Not all of Morrison’s films lack a traditional narrative, though.

The Film of Her, which will also be

showing, makes use of a documentary format and is based on a true story. It features narration from a former copywriter at the Library of Congress, who singlehandedly managed to save rolls and rolls of ancient paper film from certain destruction. It’s revealed that this act of heroism was inspired by an unrequited love affair the narrator had with a certain female of the silver screen.

Another piece, called Ghost Trip, is the only film Morrison will be presenting that isn’t comprised of archival footage. Moody and meditative, Ghost Trip brings to

mind the stark minimalism of early Jim Jarmush. It also reveals Morrison’s versatility as a filmmaker— one who is very much attuned to his particular medium.

An Evening with Bill Morrison Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Tonight, 7 p.m. $8, Free for PSU students

Bill Morrison: The quiet desolation in Morrison’s piece will be showcased in Whitsell Auditorium tonight.

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at the Doug Fir Lounge

18. Kanye West, Late Registration 19. Spoon, Kill the Moonlight 20. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights —www.pitchfork.com

All photos by Theodora Karatzas/Portland State Vanguard

Swedish musician Anna Ternheim played the Doug Fir this past weekend to a an eager crowd, instilling a sense of quiet reverence from her audience.

Her delicate voice, coupled with a solid backing band comprised

of members from Loney, Dear, balanced out into sheer perfection as Ternheim crooned into the dimly lit venue.

Her third studio album, Leaving On Mayday was released on Aug. 11 and showcases her talent

not only as a musician and singer, but also as a lyricist. On “Damaged Ones,” she painfully draws out the lines “what keeps you from moving / are you afraid to be loved? / See how my hands shake / I was raised on it like a drug.”

Her expressive voice tugs at your heart, compelling the listener to stay riveted to the sound of her voice singing out over intricate basslines, delicate string parts and atmospheric percussion.

Get excited for the Raincoats The original riot grrrls kick off their first tour of the West Coast with a reissue Theodora Karatzas Vanguard staff

If I could list a few bands that have influenced my musical taste over the last couple of decades in my life, the Raincoats would most likely be near the top of that list.

Pioneers in the riot grrrl movement, these British ladies have the kind of swagger and attitude that makes penises shrivel and bras burn.

Swagger aside, there’s something beautiful and raw about the Raincoats’ music. Kurt Cobain said it best back in 1993 when, describing the experience of listening to their music, he said, “When I listen to the Raincoats, I feel as if I’m a stowaway in an attic, violating and in the dark.

Rather than listening to them I feel like I’m listening in on them.”

Indeed, there’s something darkly comforting and strangely thrilling about their music. Like an all-female Velvet Underground, their percussion is thick, their instrumentation distorted and their voices hauntingly monotone. Their pivotal self-titled album features

some incredible tracks, including the anthem-like “Off Duty Trip,” featuring a harmonious chorus and some excellent time changes.

One of the songs they’re probably best known for, though, is their cover of the Kinks’ “Lola,” a song they managed to make all their own by injecting a punk-femme feel into it with their off-kilter singing and drawled out guitars.

Coming out of the shadows this year, Kill Rock Stars will be reissuing the aforementioned self-titled album on vinyl and CD starting Oct. 13 in conjunction with the band’s first-ever West Coast tour. They’ll be starting

things off in San Francisco, coming to Portland the day of the reissue to play with label mates Panther and Explode into Colors.

An incredible lineup and a great venue—Holocene is kick-ass for dancing—this promises to be one of those shows that sticks with you for the rest of your life.

The Raincoats Holocene, 830 E Burnside Oct. 13, 8:30 p.m. $15 advance or $18 door 21+

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Revolutionary 102: Even more ways to sabotage your community while never making any real political statement 1. Make “out of order” signs. Hang them on everything you come into contact with.

2. Start a religion.

This is really not as hard as you may think, and offers you—the young revolutionary—a chance to get really creative. Keep it conservative with a hyper-traditional Christian spin-off cult, or get really nuts and incorporate some interesting robes and rituals into your newly founded faith. Most importantly, remember to be as aggravatingly polite as possible with others when they argue that you’re crazy.

3. Start advocating for marriage between humans and trees.

Find a nicely shaped Doug Fir and make it your bride.

4. Start a viral advertising campaign for a mysterious cause. Make fliers with mysterious Banksy-style graphics and a Web site people can visit for “truth” and “the real answers.” The Web site should link to either an auto insurance site or pictures of kittens (ideally both, though).

5. Protest world peace as an unreasonable goal.

6. Hand out fliers with pictures of delicious meat-filled sandwiches, steaks and other meatcentered dishes with the words “murder sure is tasty” on them.

7. Join an anarchist collective.

Vanguard 8 | Arts & Culture October 6, 2009

Arts Editor: Theodora Karatzas 503-725-5694 arts@dailyvanguard.com

This week at 5th Ave. Cinema:

Menos el awesome Minus the Bear kicks off a monthlong tour with warm-up dates in the Northwest to break in new material Minus the Bear: Music takes flight as the band heads out on tour with new tunes to try.

Mark Johnston Vanguard staff

Ed Wood Dir. Tim Burton, 127 min.

A revealing and funny look into the life and work of the “worst director of all time,” Ed Wood is a biopic that showcases not only director Edward D. Wood Jr.’s films, but also his love of crossdressing, the strange company he kept, and the friendship he cultivated with legendary horror star Bela Lugosi.

Wood, probably best known for his films Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda and Bride of the Monster, is played by Johnny Depp, who perfectly conveys the eccentricities and complexities of his character. The rest of the cast features some other all-star performances from Bill Murray as Bunny Breckinridge, Martin Landau as Lugosi and Patricia Arquette as Kathy O’Hara.

Oct. 9–10 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Oct. 11 at 3 p.m.

5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall Free for PSU students. $2 seniors and all other students. $3 general admission. Admission includes free popcorn.

After holing themselves up for the past seven months, Minus the Bear have finished recording their as-yet untitled fourth studio album ( five, if you count Interpretaciones del Oso), this time without famed producer Matt Bayles. The band will be heading out Oct. 30 on a 30-day tour to showcase some new material and perform old favorites. The group will hit Portland on its four-day warm-up excursion, almost a year after their last visit.

After having Bayles produce their last three records, Minus the Bear enlisted the help of Grammy Award- winning producer, Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes), to helm their newest offering. The group headed to Seattle’s Avast!

Recording Co. and Electrokitty Recording studio to work on the new album and only spent a week in pre-production before allowing Chiccarelli to step in.

“Working with Joe has been a different experience,” said frontman Jake Snider. “The process has been more immediate, slightly more alive and performed.

Our sound became more textural, while not sounding over-produced or busy.”

Indeed, it must be hard and different to go from using a close personal friend and highly skilled producer (Bayles) to a Grammy Award winner. The band was undaunted, however—they opened up to their new producer and gave him more control than they were used to.

“With Joe we were much more open to changing parts, trying new things, making them better,” said Snider.

The as-yet untitled offering won’t hit the stores until early 2010, but the group will be bringing a 7-inch with them on tour that will contain two tracks off the new album, “Into the Mirror” and “Broken China.” They hope to have them by the start of the tour, but unfortunately the warm-up dates will have to wait until the Oct. 27 digital release.

The band boasts that the new disc will have a well-thoughtout mix of typical Minus the Bear complexity, combined with a nice blend of pop sensibility. They also plan to try out at least three of the new tracks on the upcoming tour to let fans decide for themselves.

Minus the Bear’s last offering was their acoustic EP, Acoustics.

It offered up acoustic versions of material from Planet of Ice, Menos el Oso and Highly Refined Pirates, as well as a new track, “Guns and Ammo.” On this album, the group showed their diversity and uncanny ability to take delay-laden songs and transform them to acousticdriven pop songs that can stand on their own merit.

As with all of their albums in the band’s eight-year career, Minus the Bear continue to show that they can tackle a myriad of genres successfully without alienating their steadfast fan base.

One could attribute this to the widespread influences the band cites, as well as the variation of bands that this group pulls from—guitarist Dave Knudson came from the hardcore band Botch (and guest performances with These Arms are Snakes), Erin Tate once played with the post-hardcore outfit Kill Sadie and legendary producer Bayles even joined the group for a brief stint.

The band has an uncanny ability to venture into numerous realms of music while never confusing “influence” with “imitation.”

With not-so-newcomer Alex Rose taking the keyboard/synth/ programming duties, the band is as good as ever and ready to bring on the classic songs, along with some new material. After what will have been three years between albums, Minus the Bear promise not to disappoint with their unique blend of pop, space-rock, progressive and indie-fied music that is uniquely theirs.

Minus the Bear Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside Tonight, 9 p.m. $16 advance or $18 door 21+

House of the ruby sun In the case of The Ruby Sunrise, the sun never sets on even the worst writing when the cast is stellar Anita Kinney Vanguard staff

The Ruby Sunrise is a likable play with the occasional cloudy moment.

A cast of talented actors, led by Megan Skye Hale, ekes some truly exceptional moments from playwright Rinne Groff ’s troubled script.

This period piece follows a mother and daughter during the early days of television. Ruby (Skye Hale), a homeless farm girl and self-taught

engineer, struggles to assemble a television in her aunt’s barn—using a generator, a stolen radio, and a series of homemade cathode tubes. Twenty-five years later, her daughter Lulu (Brooke Fletcher) is an aspiring production company secretary in the growing and lucrative television industry.

These two women have all the trappings of memorable heroines: independence, spunk, brains, humor and courage. Groff ’s script, however, makes them relentlessly one-dimensional idealists. Skye Hale projects a fierce anger and loneliness as the brilliant-but-abused Ruby and Fletcher is simply radiant. Yet, even the actresses’ electric performances fail to make their characters truly resonate— Groff just hasn’t provided the material and, in the hands of less talented actresses, this play would fall flat.

The lowest point of the production is Lulu’s tantrum in a television studio about executive decisions made regarding the production of her Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Eve script. It’s poorly scripted and The Ruby Sunrise: A peek into the lives of women and makes an otherwise compelthe early days of television production. ling character seem like a

hysterical woman, but Fletcher handles it gracefully and makes the confrontation seem almost rational. There aren’t many actresses who could make “shit heel” sound like the worst insult in the world.

In the capable hands of Theatre Vertigo’s cast and crew, though, The Ruby Sunrise shines despite the occasional boring monologue. The minor players are just as rewarding as Fletcher and Skye Hale. MaryAnne Glazebrook’s portrayal of Lois, Ruby’s resentful aunt and reluctant landlord, is one of the high points of the production.

Glazebrook is equally enjoyable in the second act, where she plays Ethel, a prima donna has-been actress who hopes that a role in the tele-drama based on Ruby’s struggle will revive her flagging career.

Mario Calcagno is likewise excellent as Ruby’s fellow boarder, who falls head over heels for her. Gary Norman, as Martin, a ruthless executive at the television company, comes dangerously close to stealing the show as he plays an amalgamation of Mad Men characters. Martin is, by far, the most enjoyable character, perhaps because he’s the only one not plagued by interminable monologues about changing the world through television.

The set design and blocking in this production are flawless, as is composer Mark LaPierre’s original period-appropriate jazz soundtrack.

The lighting design also shines, especially in the parts of the show that

are set in the television studio. It’s really enjoyable to watch a play that really tries to look like television, and The Ruby Sunrise succeeds in this.

The Ruby Sunrise’s overarching theme seems to be the idea of “persistence of vision.” Ruby introduces this term early on to explain the visual phenomenon behind watching television (that is, our eyes piece together a story when presented with a series of moving images). Groff clearly intends for this idea to refer to her protagonists’ unending struggle to tell stories and help people connect with one another through the medium of television.

We’re meant to walk away from The Ruby Sunrise thinking that, with a clear enough vision and enough persistence, we can change the world.

Unfortunately, it seems that Ruby and Lulu don’t succeed in their goals— with a script like this, they’re unlikely to even change this production’s audience members.

The Ruby Sunrise Theatre Vertigo 3430 SE Belmont Thurs–Sat, 8 p.m.

Continues through Oct. 10 $15 (Thursdays pay what you can)

SPORTS

Vanguard Sports | 9 October 6, 2009

Sports Editor: Robert Britt 503-725-4538 sports@dailyvanguard.com

Tuesdays with Victor In a new weekly feature, we are holding a candid (and completely hypothetical) conversation with none other than Portland State’s school mascot Victor E. Viking This week, we’re going to get a feel for what makes Victor tick.

Daily Vanguard: Hi Victor.

Thanks for taking time away from…wait. What do you do when you’re not at games?

Victor E. Viking: I pillage.

A lot! There was this one time with my BVF Olaf when we…you know, I probably shouldn’t get into it.

All photos by Aaron Leopold/Portland State Vanguard

Fists of fury: The Portland State women’s volleyball team has 759 kills so far this season and is averaging over 13 kills per set.

Vikings bring bug spray

VV: Best Viking Forever.

DV: I should have guessed as much.

VV: Poor Olaf. Tragically, he made an early trip to Valhalla after a freak funeral pyre accident.

DV: Oh, I’m sorry for your loss.

VV: It’s okay. Like the old Viking saying goes, “You play with fire…”

DV: Actually, I think that’s…

VV: What? You think that’s what? Are you questioning me?

PSU wins three in a row after dropping first set to Hornets

Game, set, match: The Viks rallied to beat the Hornets in four sets.

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down on the ball with her usual ferocity, leading to gasps in the crowd on more than one occasion. Demanding attention every time she approached the net, Phillips further opened up the court for the rest of the Vikings with each kill she tallied.

“You just can’t get scared if you make a mistake or if they block you,” Phillips said. “It’s part of the game, and you just come back with another look next time.”

After serving notice they were playing for keeps, Portland State began to impose their will on a Sacramento State team that was noticeably short on quality backups by winning the second set 2522. The score did not get any closer in the final two sets, with the third and fourth sets ending 25-21 and 25-19, respectively.

Playing from behind in the final two sets of the match, the Vikings carried a chip on their shoulders and showed a killer instinct they will need to carry them through the rest of Big Sky Conference play. Portland State also delivered on a must-win situation and now sits firmly in second place in the conference.

“I think we settled down into a little bit of carrying out what we wanted to do…defensively,” coach Michael Seemann said. “Offensively, we took some bigger swings, some smarter swings.”

With upcoming conference matches against Eastern Washington on Friday and Northern Colorado next week, the Vikings will continue to be tested and will

DV: No, I was just…never mind. Let’s move on. So, where did you get your hat with the horns on it?

VV: Well, this one I picked up used. Remember that streaker at the football game a few years back?

Vanguard staff

With plenty of action throughout four sets, the Portland State women’s volleyball team outworked a Sacramento State team that came into the match on upset alert. After losing the first set to the Hornets, the Vikings dug deep and pulled out a memorable win in front of an energized crowd at the Stott Center.

Having won just three times in the past eight matches against the Hornets, the Vikings had been on the losing end in a series that has also seen Sacramento State teams that were typically more talented.

“I think we adjusted very well to what they were throwing at us,” senior setter Nique Fradella said. “I think our defense adjusted, our offense adjusted—we made changes when we needed to.”

Riding the typically strong play of Fradella and junior outside hitter Whitney Phillips, the Vikings utilized their deep bench to their advantage. By being able to bring in fresh legs throughout the match, they were able to bear down on an exhausted Hornets team toward the end.

After dropping the first set 2125, Portland State finally built the momentum they were looking for early in the second set. In what was probably the defining moment of the match, the Vikings turned the corner after winning a long back-and-forth exchange that tied the score 12-12 and took the air out from beneath the Hornets’ wings.

Despite being occasionally blocked, Phillips began to come

DV: BVF?

need the same determination they showed against Sacramento State to come out unscathed.

The Vikings are 9-6 on the season and 4-1 against Big Sky opponents.

Their next match is tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Seattle University.

DV: The guy in the horns and thong?

VV: Yeah, him. Well, let’s just say he might have gotten away from security, but he didn’t get away from me. Nobody upstages me on my own turf.

DV: Was that a pun?

VV: I think so.

By the Numbers Set Scores: 1st

2nd

3rd

DV: Okay, I think we’re done here. Thanks again Victor.

Sacramento State 25 22 21

19

Portland State 22 25

25

25

Match Statistics: Kills

Digs

Aces

Do you have a question you would like Victor to answer? E-mail it to sports@dailyvanguard. com.

Hit %

Sacramento State 53 74 9

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Portland State 60 73

.246

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VV: Thanks for having me.

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Noteworthy Vikings: Whitney Phillips, junior, outside hitter 20 kills, 10 digs Marija Vojnovic, senior, outside hitter 13 kills, 14 digs

Coach Seemann: Huzzah!

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Big Sky Football Standings

(Conference record in parentheses) t1. Eastern Washington 4-1 (3-0) t1. Montana 4-0 (2-0)

t1. Montana State 3-1 (2-0) 4. Weber State 2-3 (2-1) t5. Northern Arizona 2-2 (1-1) t5. Sacramento State 1-3 (1-1) t7. Idaho State 0-5 (0-2) t7. Northern Colorado 1-4 (0-3)

Continued improvements Vikings set more personal records in Salem Dan Newman Vanguard staff

Heading into the Charles Bowles Invitational at Willamette University on Saturday, the Portland State Vikings cross country team was confident in what it had to bring to the course, but fully aware that it was pitted against a tough field of opponents.

“So far, this is probably one of the best teams we’ve had in the last 10 years,” assistant coach Kevin Jeffers said.

Though they were competing against several nationally ranked teams, the main item of importance was not rankings—it was continued improvement on a season that has already seen new personal records in the first two meets.

As it turned out, the Vikings had nothing to worry about. Three of the men completed the course with times under 25 minutes, 45 seconds, and two of them—juniors John Lawrence and Andrew Salq— finished neck-and-neck in the 31st and 32nd spots respectively.

The women’s squad also put together another solid match. Junior Amelia Holcombe finished 24th in

a field of 203 and four other Vikings finished in the top 100.

Most encouraging are the improvements that the Portland State squads continue to heap upon themselves.

Both squads, sans two members of the women’s team and one of the men, posted personal record improvements across the board.

“Looking back, last year our No. 1 guy [ finished at] 25:40. This year, we had five guys [near] that, so we’re well ahead of last year’s fitness— men and women,” Jeffers said.

John Lawrence, the first of the Portland squad to finish, enjoyed the competition.

“It’s always good to race against somebody whose team is better than you. It provides good competition, [and] makes you want to beat them that much more. …You’re able to keep progressing, and have that much more confidence,” he said.

“We had a goal in mind. We were really focused, and we were really bearing down for sure,” Lawrence said.

“I got out fast, which tends to happen. I started running up in the pack a bit,” he said. “I was trying to be a penetrator and get up, score our team as many points as possible, so we could move up in the rankings.”

Coach Jeffers is optimistic as well.

“We’re expected to be ninth in conference, I feel that we can do better

Movin’ on up: Cross country contiues to improve.

than that,” he said. “I truly feel that we’re going to make that improvement and get out of that ninth spot and hopefully beat another school or two.

The third race is a great indication of where we’re at.”

Both squads are full of new runners and the two coaches, Jeffers and head coach Ronnye Harrison, are new additions this year as well.

Lawrence takes pride in the feeling of accomplishment of being on the team. “Being a Viking is an opportunity to do something that not

a lot of people get to do—getting a chance to represent a Division I program,” he said. “You can feel like you did something phenomenal.”

Coach Jeffers also took pride in his team. “I’m really proud of everyone for stepping up, running as a team,” he said. “We haven’t had such a team atmosphere at Portland State in a while. When everybody showed up today, it showed that they wanted to help themselves—help their team— and I’m really proud of the way everyone ran out there and competed.”

t7. Portland State 1-4 (0-3)

Cross country schedule Mike Hodges Invitational Sat, Oct. 3 Salem, Ore. Big Sky Championships Fri, Oct. 16 Greely, Colo.

NCAA Regional Championships Sat, Nov. 14 Eugene, Ore.

Falling down: The viks have lost their last three games.

All photos courtesy of Portland State Athletics

Vikings drop to 1-4 as Sacramento State runs away with a 31-14 victory

stung at home

James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

After last week’s win narrowly slipped through their hands, the Portland State Vikings needed a win to avoid putting themselves into an early season hole.

Unfortunately, it was a storyline that applied to Sacramento State as well. And it was the Hornets who came out of the gate early and cruised to a 31-14 victory on Saturday, dropping Portland State to 1-4 overall and 0-3 against the Big Sky. The Hornets faced a historic disadvantage going into the game.

They had not won at PGE Park since 1985, and entered play with a record of 2-12 in Portland. In addition, Sacramento came into the game off a four-game losing streak that extended into last season.

Sacramento State looked like easy pickings for Portland State.

But the Hornets were quick to get the Portland monkey off their back as they scored early. A 15-yard pass from quarterback Jason Smith to receiver Brett Willis resulted in a 7-0 advantage with 8:57 left in the first quarter.

The early Sacramento touchdown on third down would highlight a problem that plagued the Vikings all game—Portland State could not stop the Hornets from converting in pressure situations.

“We didn’t look like us. We couldn’t make the play,” Portland State’s head coach Jerry Glanville said. “We couldn’t make the play on defense. We couldn’t stop the third-down play.”

With Sacramento State making the early statement, it was clear after the game that the Hornets had come into town more prepared and ready to play.

“We underestimated this team,” senior defensive tackle Jermaine Jacobs said. “They didn’t play like a 0-3 team. I just think we should’ve taken them more seriously from the get-go.”

Despite the early hole, the Vikings were able to bring the game to within one point, to 7-6, early in the second quarter. But Zach Brown’s field goals for 36 and 38 yards would be the only points Portland State put on the board until the fourth quarter.

The game began to slip away from the Vikings late in the second quarter, when Sacramento State safety Zach Schrader intercepted a deep pass by junior quarterback Drew Hubel.

The turnover proved costly as the Hornets capitalized on the chance to drive downfield for a touchdown. At halftime, they took both the momentum and a 14-6 lead into the locker room with them.

It’s a moment that Glanville wishes he and his team hadn’t let slip away.

“Even though we’re not playing good, we’ve still got the game right there for us. The game has not gotten away from us at that point,” he said. “Although we’re not happy with how we’re playing the game, when something bad happens, you have to respond.”

The Vikings were unable to respond, as Sacramento would reel off 14 unanswered points in the third quarter, starting with a five-yard pass Smith connected with receiver Dylan Lane to end an eight-play, 80yard drive.

From there, the Hornet steamroller continued to pick up speed. Running back Terrance Dailey rushed for a 2-yard touchdown and it would not be the only time that Dailey burned the Viking defense.

The sophomore running back carried the ball 34 times for 111 yards and one touchdown.

By the time the Vikings were in position to score, the game was far from reach. It wasn’t until the Hornets lead 31-6 with 5:44 remaining in the game that the Portland State offense would finally awaken from its slumber.

An eight-play, 73-yard drive by

Portland State ended with Hubel connecting to a diving Nevin Lewis in the end zone for a 22-yard touchdown reception with 3:00 remaining in the game.

Hubel followed the touchdown with a pass to receiver Aaron Woods on the conversion to bring the score to 31-14, where it would remain.

The lopsided loss overshadowed several individual Viking performances. Hubel connected on 31 of 50 passes for 370 yards, despite throwing two interception passes. Receiver Lavonte Kervin set career highs in both receptions and yards, with 13 and 188 respectively.

“I know we had people playing real good, but the team didn’t play real good,” Glanville said.

He emphasized that the losing effort lacked both passion and emotion.

“It just looked like an empty tank.

The spirit makes the master,” he said. “If you don’t have the spirit, you can’t play this game. And that’s my fault.”

The Vikings look to right the ship on Saturday at Northern Colorado.

Both teams enter with identical records, and both are winless within the Big Sky. The game begins at 12:35 p.m. and will be available to watch at www.bigskytv.org.

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Name Goal Assists Enneking 7 1 Dutra 1 2 Allen 1 1 Renard 1 0 Martin 1 0 Robertson 1 0 Fenton 1 0 Rohde 0 2 Ross 0 1 Hlasnik 0 1

Goalkeepers Name Minutes Goals Against All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Solid defense: Senior Alissa Russel’s defensive pressure helped the Vikings shut out Gonzaga on Sunday.

Vikings slay Wolverines and Bulldogs before taking on the Big Sky

By Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

The Portland State women’s soccer team will be confident going into their first conference match this Friday after consecutive victories over Utah Valley and Gonzaga over the weekend. The Vikings carry the momentum of a record-breaking senior class, in addition to their improved record of 6-5-1, compared to the 1-9-2 of last season.

The Vikings began Sunday’s match against Gonzaga with senior Dolly Enneking scoring the 18th goal of her career in the 16th minute, moving her past Portland State’s all-time leading goal scorer, Joanna Bowns. Enneking headed the ball past Zags’ keeper Jessie Thalman after a throw-in by freshman Jenna Horton and a clever flick by junior Frankie Ross.

Not only was the goal Enneking’s record-breaker, it also marked Horton’s first career assist and Ross’ first point of the season.

Gonzaga countered in the 23rd minute, catching the Vikings

off-guard when Bulldog Morgan Manchester sent the ball downfield to Kelsey Werre for a one-on-one situation with Portland State’s keeper Cris Lewis. When Lewis dove to redirect the ball, Werre crossed it into the net to tie the match at 1-1.

Not shaken by Werre’s equalizer, the Vikings continued their attack.

After freshman Megan Martin nearly scored off a header set up by their first corner kick of the match in the 31st minute, it was a header from senior Kat Robertson, eight minutes later, that would find the net.

A free kick from sophomore Tish Parsons set up the play, and Robertson—just brought in as a fresh-legged substitute by head coach Laura Schott—leapt from the crowd to deflect the game-winning goal into the net. It was Robertson’s first goal of the season and Parson’s first career assist.

Schott said she put Robertson in to give her a chance to earn her starting spot back. “She’s a senior,” she said. “She needs to start making an impact—and she did.”

The Vikings headed into the break with a 2-1 lead over Gonzaga, a score that would remain as the final as both teams failed to find the back of the net in the second half.

Senior Alissa Russel and sophomore Tish Parsons were solid in defense

Scoring Summary 16:02 Enneking 57:58 Enneking

daughter’s accomplishment.

He recalled her initial days when she started playing soccer at the age of six to becoming the leading scorer in her youth and high school teams. “She always had a good feel for the game and a knack for scoring goals,” he said.

The Vikings begin play against Big Sky opponents on Friday at 5 p.m., when they will host Northern Colorado at PCC-Rock Creek.

Portland State 2 22 11

Utah Valley 0 11 6

Score Shots Shots on Goal Scoring Summary 16:16 Enneking 23:25 Werre 39:03 Robertson

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Team Statistics Goals/Shot attempts 13/148 Goals per game 1.08 Shots on goal/ attempts 67/148 Shots per game 12.3 Assists 14 Corner kicks 47 Penalty kicks 1-1 Yellow cards 15 Red cards 0

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and Lewis made three saves, denying Gonzaga the equalizer. The win was the Vikings’ first against the Bulldogs since 1998.

In Friday’s match, Enneking scored a goal in each half as the Vikings defeated Utah Valley 2-0 on the road. Michelle Hlasnik provided the assist for the first in the 16th minute and Enneking was fouled in the penalty box in the 57th minute to set up the Vikings first penalty kick attempt of the season. Enneking nailed it to put Portland State up, 2-0.

In the first half, the Vikings took 10 shots compared to Utah Valley’s six. They continued their hot streak in the second half, firing 12 shots, six of them on goal. In the match, Portland State was out-fouled 12-11.

The victory was Lewis’ 14th shutout of her career.

In addition to breaking Portland State’s all-time goals record, Enneking also became the school’s leader in shots over the weekend by tallying four shots, surpassing Jessica Shadle’s career mark of 132 set in 2006, setting the new record at 135 shots.

After the game, women’s soccer team captain Cris Lewis praised Enneking’s ability to contribute both offensively and defensively. Enneking’s father, who was present during the match, was especially proud of his

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Portland State 2 18 8

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