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INSIDE OPINION Food fight Someone takes a stand for the farmers PAGE 3

Hitting the books while hitting the streets A surprising number of Oregon students are homeless PAGE 4

ARTS

Ralph Nader

Eradicate extreme poverty by 2015 Model UN event helps achieve Millennium Development Goals

Internet killed the record store star Music Millenium owner and local band talk about the new music industry PAGE 5

Dance the night away Magdalena heats up the Portland dance floors with Flamenco PAGE 6

NEWS Then and now Depression-era photo shows West Linn woman as a child PAGE 8

SPORTS

Women’s soccer preview Vikings look to continue their hot streak against Bears and Lumberjacks PAGE 10

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Tasia-Jana Tanginoa

Gogul Krishnan Vanguard staff

Most students know that Model United Nations is a student group that simulates the United Nations.

However, most students do not know all of the impactful events that are orchestrated by MUN at Portland State.

Graduate student Jim Mignano formed model UN two years ago.

Students attend conferences under four committees: General Assembly, Fifth Committee, International Atomic Energy Agency and United Nations Environmental Programme.

MUN is trying to foster awareness and activities at a local level for the UN Millennium Development Goals, explained Secretary General of MUN Tasia-Jana Tanginoa.

Model UN events On Oct. 4, PSUMUN hosted Ralph Nader to speak about healthcare. It was one of the biggest events organized by MUN this month. Nader focused on healthcare reform, specifically, single-payer healthcare.

“Although MUN is a nonpartisan organization, we believe that Nader’s single-payer healthcare is congruent to what is stated in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Tanginoa said.

MUNs all over the world are joining hands for the next event entitled, “Stand Up and Take Action—End Poverty Now!” Groups are campaigning to achieve one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, which is to eradicate poverty by the year 2015.

At Portland State, the “Stand Up” event takes place on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Hoffman Hall and Walk of the Heroines, located at Southwest 12th and Harrison Street.

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Innovate | Collaborate | Oregon State’s largest universities launch site for research collaboration Lindsay Bing Vanguard staff

In an effort to network, gain a competitive edge and get research and development partnerships, Oregon’s four largest public universities teamed up to launch the Innovate Collaborate Oregon Web site over the summer.

The site, www.icoregon.net, works as a search engine that exclusively finds information from the research databases of Portland State, University of Oregon, Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Sciences University.

While the search engine brings up jargon-heavy pages of research being done by the universities’ faculty and students, the Web site itself also provides reader-friendly news updates to raise awareness about projects being done at the schools.

Dana Bostrom, director of innovation and industry alliances in Portland State’s Graduate Studies and Research department, explained how the collaboration works and some of the benefits of participating on the site.

Bostrom said that when someone in Oregon, the rest of the United States or even abroad has an idea or a project they would like to work on, they can search in a single location to find out who else has those same interests.

That manifests itself in local and national companies investing in research to be developed into technology at one of Oregon’s universities, she said.

It can also mean less legwork for faculty and students of other universities who are looking to share and exchange ideas, or even work together on a project, Bostrom explained.

“What it might do is give more awareness to the university’s research specialties,” she said. “We can find new collaborators, and it makes us more competitive for grants.”

Chuck Williams, director of technology transfer at University of Oregon, explained that contrary to the rivalry that exists between the schools during the football season, the institutions cooperate and work together when it comes to research and each have an unique specialty.

“We don’t have an engineering program here, so we’re always looking to reach out to OSU and PSU,” Williams said.

Each school has its own research specialty, Bostrom ex-

plained. University of Oregon excels in education, Oregon State in engineering and nanotechnology, OHSU in the biological sciences and medical field and Portland State in physics and chemistry.

Williams said that University of Oregon is ranked in the top three universities nationwide for its research in education, particularly for its evidence-based approach.

It is also making strides in green chemistry.

Both Bostrom and Williams highlighted the new opportunities each university would have by both working together for research, and inviting companies in the private sector to invest in projects and turn ideas into products and technology.

“From our perspective, it’s a fabulous educational and networking tool,” Williams said. “We’ve already had a lot of interesting connections.”

The value of a statewide portal has been realized by other state university systems, such as the collaboration between schools in New Jersey and California.

“It’s hard to know if someone is interested until you put the information out there,” Williams said, emphasizing the benefits of networking and relationship building while collaborating on ideas, instead of keeping them private.

Having a one-stop shop that connects directly with the universities’ databases saves time for all involved, Bostrom said.

Portland State has already received three or four inquiries from groups and individuals who’ve used the site, and Oregon State has had quite a few as well.

Putting Portland State’s research out on the Web increases awareness, and can put the university on the map in a variety of fields.

Bostrom explained her role, and the role of the directors at the three other schools.

“We say that our job is a contact sport,” she said, meaning that it’s all about networking and connections to developers, researchers and firms.

Williams expressed similar sentiments about innovation, human connections and networking. The Web site doesn’t just provide facts, figures and data, but uses intellectual property rights as something to trade. Relationships between people facilitate those trades and the flow of ideas, he said.

“It’s Oregonian in its nature,” Williams said. “It’s people-based, not always what’s patentable or profitable.”

Oregon State and OHSU were unavailable for comment as of press time.

Vanguard 2 | Opinion October 2, 2009

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OPINION Editorial

Letters

Has PSU sold out?

Party in the Park this year was pretty great and the turnout was inspiring. Many students charged through the booths, amassing sticker after sticker in order to grab themselves some free food. Though aside from the usual proof of visiting student groups, students this year also had to visit four corporate sponsors in order to earn their grub.

Look, we’re college students, and aside from Top Ramen, we don’t come by food too often.

Don’t toy with us.

Students went from sponsor to sponsor, listening to spiels and selling points as one final hurdle to obtain their desired culinary prize. In the end, corporate sponsorship isn’t too horrible an aspect of Party in the Park. However, it does shed light on a growing issue.

Is Portland State selling out?

Take a walk through the building that the School of Business Administration is currently housed in. You will find a series of lecture halls and classrooms titled after a variety of corporate sponsors who contributed private funds to our institution. You can take accounting in the Wells Fargo Room, or learn about advertising in the Bank of America Room. It makes you wonder: when you finally get that degree in your hands, will it say “sponsored by Nike” on it?

One perspective to consider is that, as intimidating as private funds may be, we don’t really have a choice. Earlier this year, state legislators proposed a budget cut of $11.5 million to higher education. We were

saved by the mercy of Governor Ted Kulongoski, who vetoed the cut at the last minute.

Recently, Oregon’s State Board of Higher Education was able to cut 8.9 percent from the educational budget, a move that would have been much worse if not for the federal stimulus funds that were piped in. Still, Oregon universities expect a 2.3 percent increase in enrollment over the coming year despite the budget cuts.

Another thought to keep in mind is the connection made through such relationships with PSU’s corporate neighbors.

Dee Wendler, PSU’s associate vice president for finance, believes that because Portland State’s needs are different than our Oregon University System counterparts, it can bring opportunities, most beneficial.

One example is the City of Portland’s archives now being housed in the new Rec Center.

“The relationships we establish have long-term benefits, they are not just monetary,” Wendler said. “They go to our service learning components as well as internships and Capstones.”

Portland State may be considered a smaller part of OUS, but we carry the largest enrollment in the state. This all equals more money needed to keep us running and learning.

Until legislators see education as a means of economic prosperity and future investment, we may continue to knock on corporate doors asking for handouts.

Sarah J. Christensen, Editor-in-Chief | Danielle Kulczyk, News Editor Theodora Karatzas, Arts & Culture Editor | Richard D. Oxley, Opinion Editor Robert Britt, Sports Editor | Marni Cohen, Photo Editor Shannon Vincent, Production Manager | Shane Danaher, Online Editor Jennifer Wolff, Chief Copy Editor

Waiting for the G.I. Bill

Higher One should be an option

Thank you for giving coverage of the issues that student veterans face when embarking on their academic pursuits. It is bad enough the reintegration and time it takes for veterans, specifically combat veterans to become comfortable enough to engage in society as a valid member. Add on the campus environment and the byzantine system that Portland State runs on, and the difficulty that veterans are dealing with is compounded. PSU continually labels itself as a center of progress and outside of the box thinking. Waiting for the G.I. Bill to kick in and pay up front the tuition costs for education does not equate to a viable option for most veterans, or progressive thinking. Six to eight weeks for reimbursement to arrive after paying tuition leaves a hole of debt that feeds into a cycle where basic needs are not met. Nobody, including traditional students, would entertain this as an option. Our veterans need a permanent staff member on the administration that will fill the gap that has been glaringly missing for so long. —Zaki Bucharest, ASPSU Chief of Staff

First of all, you should read the original article in the paper since it contains the full details of the contract.

Secondly I just want to say that as a 25-year-old PSU student who knows how to manage my own finances, I have absolutely no need for another checking account. I think that it is unfair for a university to impose on students a bank account with an institution no body ever heard of. I agree that we need an effective way to reimburse students’ money, but the Higher One card should be an option, not a requirement for all new students. We should be allow to choose whether we want a regular ID card, or one that ties with a bank account. —David

Is this the best we can do?

The PSU athletic department has done it again. First, they hired two washed up old men, Jerry Glanville and Mouse Davis, who have run the football team into the ground. Then they jacked up football ticket prices by one-third smack in the middle of the worst economic crisis in 70 years.

Now Portland State Athletics has awarded its broadcast rights to a bible-banging, fundamentalist Christian radio station, KPDQ 800 AM. It is unseemly for a publicly funded institution to contract with a company espousing such a narrow point of view. Listening to the Vikings stumble again on the football field again is bad enough. But being hectored

by Billy Graham during commercial breaks is worse. Is this the best the athletic department can do?

—Matthew Sproul

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It’s not always a choice [“Ban second hand smoke,” Oct. 6] I am allergic to cigarette smoke.

To further complicate matters, I was exposed over my formative years, to tremolite asbestos in Libby, Mont. My pulmonologist told me that my early exposure to asbestos makes it critical I stay away from cigarette smoke, as this increases my chances of lung cancer or mesothelioma by quite a bit (I cannot remember the exact percentage). Now, I commute and walk through downtown Portland on a daily basis. I find it impossible to go very far, usually within a block, where I have to walk past someone on the sidewalk smoking. Worse, oftentimes I’m walking behind a smoker who is smoking while walking in the same direction I am. Being behind them gives me no way to escape the smoke.

I have thought of wearing breathing protection, but I shouldn’t have to do that. Why isn’t it safe for me to walk from the bus stop to the MAX station or to drive through downtown with my windows down? Something needs to be done to address this. The smoke lingers long after the cigarette is extinguished. —Ada Makawee

Should PSU ban smoking on campus?

VikingVoice Daniel Axel

“I transferred from the Oregon Institute of Technology.

Many in the smoking community at OIT understood that this is a health issue and we need to be respectful of those who don’t smoke, so it was agreed that there would be designated smoking areas…for me I’m a realist, so to say ‘should we ban smoking,’ well, it’s kind of hard to do, but there should definitely be a dialogue between the smoking and non-smoking community at Portland State.”

Mary Ann Reeves

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“I don’t think they need to. I haven’t seen a lot of people bothered by it. In between classes when I have a 10-minute break, as a smoker I like to have my coffee and smoke my cigarette between classes. I understand if it bothers people but it is large [PSU’s campus] and I don’t think we need to ban it.”

Alex McCarl

Sarah Walsh

“I’m gonna say no. Smoking is being banned everywhere and I’m not a smoker myself, but I feel like it’s coming to a point where people are forced to smoke indoors. As long as no one is blowing it in my face.”

“Well, considering that our campus is integrated within the city, unless smoking is going to be banned in all of Portland, I don’t see how that is really possible. I don’t know if it is really effective to ban smoking on campus.”

What’s the deal with genetically engineered foods anyway?

While the term “genetically engineered” (GE) doesn’t sound too pretty to begin with, what’s the big deal anyway? We mess with our food, learn new ways to produce it and use farming techniques to change the way it grows.

But what is so different about GE foods? How common is it?

GE food takes place in 60 to 70 percent of the food in our grocery stores.

Kelsey Harris

Brandon Willey

“I don’t think so. It’s a massive campus. The Park Blocks are part of the campus. I could see it maybe in certain corridors. But I don’t think we should ban smoking completely.”

“I think that perhaps to make it equal for everybody, they should have a minimum distance from doorways or section off the corridors between Cramer Hall and the student union for instance, but I don’t think that they should be banned on the whole campus…I think they should make non-smoking areas, but I don’t think they should have designated smoking areas.”

Antonio Gatt

Alex Sempel

“It’s obviously not healthy, but still it’s every person’s personal choice. So, no.”

“I don’t think so. I don’t personally smoke, but some people do and to each his own. Smoking areas, I think, are fair.”

Someone takes a stand for the farmers Richard D. Oxley Vanguard staff

In September, a California federal judge made a decision that should help American small family farmers “beet” out their bigger corporate counterparts.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White made a huge impact when he announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service fell short on their job determining if Monsanto’s genetically altered sugar beets would mix their genes with other crops.

Hold up. So what does that exactly mean? To understand the issue, we have to go back in time a little bit. You see, Missouri-based Monsanto is the world’s leading producer of herbicide; you may recognize their product Roundup.

Monsanto discovered a way to make seeds of a variety of crops resistant to Roundup, therefore making them able to thrive in the presence of the herbicide, while other plants and weeds wouldn’t. They did this by genetically modifying the crops. It’s all a bit technical from there.

Monsanto then copyrighted their genetic invention, just as any company would when they invent or create

Food Fight!

something new for the marketplace.

And this is where the root of the issue lays and where the problem started.

Plants grow, consume and reproduce. It’s the reproducing part that Monsanto has no control over. When their genetically modified crops would pollinate, there was no way to guarantee that their pollen wouldn’t mix with other varieties of similar crops or other farmers’ crops who didn’t originally buy their Roundupready product. So when their plants did exactly that, the company got all up in a hissy over it. Since their crops were copyrighted, when their genes showed up on other farms not in business with Monsanto, the company went on a suing spree.

Small farmer after small farmer were taken into the courtroom over corn, soy and other crops, partially because the crops tested positive for the gene that Monsanto had copyright control over. The gene had simply blown in the wind over great expanses of land, onto a number of farmlands and mixed with other crops.

Yet another reason the corporate giant was able to sue so well was because their contracts allowed farmers to use their seed, but did not

allow for saving the seed, something farmers have done for thousands of years. How is a farmer supposed to plant for the next season if they haven’t saved some seed from the last harvest? It seems that Monsanto was more interested in having farmers continually buy seed year after year, season after season. With this move to prevent farmers from saving seed, Monsanto really kind of made a jerk move. It’s one thing to want your product to stay where it is, but it is another to force farmers into dependency upon your company.

Farmers like Homan McFarling who, according to a January 2005 USA Today article, saved his soybean seed.

Monsanto took McFarling to court over a charge of “technology piracy.”

Another example is farmer Kem Ralph, who in 2004 was sued by Monsanto for saving cottonseed for a friend. For saving cottonseed— Monsanto’s copyright-protected cottonseed—Ralph spent eight months in prison and was ordered to pay $1.7 million.

And here we are, years and hundreds of court cases later. Judge White’s decision will help turn back the tide of struggling farmers,

at least those struggling against a giant like Monsanto.

“The potential elimination of farmers’ choice to grow non-genetically engineered crops, or consumers’ choice to eat non-genetically engineered food…has a significant effect on the human environment,” White wrote in his decision.

White’s ruling currently only affects sugar beets, but there is the possibility that it will shed light on other crops suffering under similar practices.

As horrible as what Monsanto is doing, the truly sad aspect of all this is that it is not illegal. In fact, it is very legal and Monsanto had every legal right to do what they did. The issue at hand is much bigger than our law. Monsanto is basically copyrighting genes, copyrighting life. No one should have that ability and no one has that right, especially when great numbers of people, such as our farmers, are at stake.

Hopefully, this new legal development in the food fight against Monsanto will lead to other crops being reviewed. We can turn back this tragedy, and farmers can save their seed as they have practiced for thousands of years.

No studies have been done on GE foods. And there is no premarket safety testing done on them.

Genetic engineering can homogenize a crop, leading to less biodiversity.

Antibiotics can be used in the process of genetic engineering, which can lead to antibiotic resistant bacteria.

There is no labeling for genetically engineered foods. We don’t know what we’re eating.

Using genetically engineered or modified seeds has become intellectual property.

Farmers usually aren’t allowed to save their seed for the next harvest and are forced to buy further seed to plant.

Genetic engineering has been used on soybeans, corn, cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, rapeseed, sugar cane, sugar beets, sweet corn and rice crops.

Source: www.safe-food.org

Vanguard 4 |4Opinion | News February January Month October Day, 23, 13, 9, 2009

Homeless youth It is estimated that around 2,000 youths are homeless on the streets of Portland.

Ninety percent of homeless cite some manner of violence in their home life.

Thirty percent of homeless youth are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Thirty-six percent of homeless girls have reported problems with childhood sexual abuse.

Source: www.outsidein.org

Dignity Village Did you know Portland has its own tent city? Dignity Village, located in North Portland near the airport, was founded in 2001 as a place for homeless people to congregate and live.

Today it is recognized as an official non-profit governed by a board of directors.

The village has 50 housing units of 10-foot-by-10-foot shelters made entirely from recycled materials.

They also have communal gardens, cooking facilities and access to showers.

Source: www.dignityvillage.org

Hitting the books while hitting the streets A surprising number of Oregon students are homeless Natasha Grozina Vanguard staff

In elementary school, what kind of picture of your family did you draw to hang up on the wall? There was probably a house, your mom, dad and a sibling, a dog if you had one, lots of flowers and the sun was shining at the top left corner of your picture. You were happy. But perhaps your picture wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine.

Recent statistics from Oregon Department of Education show that the 2008-09 school year saw an increase of nearly 14 percent in the number of homeless students enrolled in Oregon schools. According to a Willamette Week article on Sept. 18, “There were 18,051 homeless students—nearly enough to fill the Rose Garden for a Blazer game—in K-12 schools statewide during the 200809 school year, compared to 15,859 the previous year. Last year’s number also is more than double what it was in the 2003-04 school year.”

In addition to that, of the 18,051 homeless students, 8,268 of them were attending elementary school.

What kind of pictures do you think these kids are drawing? Boxes and cans, not green lawns and white fences.

A Sept. 24 Portland Tribune article titled “Homeless, but still learning” has a better answer to this question.

According to the article, “Under the heading: ‘With our money jar,’ one student drew a stick-figure family happily clutching armloads of boxes and cans. The student completed the sentence with: ‘I’d buy my mom food.’

Others wrote that if they had a full money jar, they’d buy their mom a house, or buy their family a car. One said simply: “My mom needs a chair.”

To be honest with you, it is pretty unbearable for me to even write this article without feeling guilty for having a bed with a warm blanket to sleep under during the winter. It would be one thing if it were in my control and power to change how many people are homeless and give them all beds and roofs under their head. Sadly, I have no means to do that and we all have to rely on our state government to provide these children homes. There is nothing more precious than childhood, and if a 7-year-old child seeks shelter with his or her family in cars, parks and under bridges, they are not having a stimulating growing experience.

We can all agree that we need to implement a plan of action to change

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Elevating my frustration Richard D. Oxley Vanguard staff

It really pisses me off. Elevators.

Not the idea of them, just the assholes who use them. We all have somewhere to go. And we all have to use the same avenues to get there.

So why the hell do you use the elevator to travel up one measly floor! Come on, it’s one floor, jackass!

Allow me to enlighten your obviously stunted mind. Over the past few years there have been great advancements in the realm of building travel. Where once you may have had to wait for those magic metal doors to lift you up and down to traverse one or two levels, now through the modern marvels of science, most buildings—and by most I mean all—have a wonderful invention called “stairs.” These stairs will allow you to walk (that’s right, walk) up or down to your destination.

I know you’re thinking, “How is this possible?” And I would explain it to you, though since you are already putting your dimwittedness on display by making the rest of us wait as you move by only one floor, I feel that explaining it to you may be a waste of both our time. Just trust me that there are stairs, and you can use them.

Honestly, are you lazy or just stupid? The rest of us are going to the top of this thing, I have one minute

to get to my class, the guy next to me smells pretty nasty and you come in with your sense of elevator entitlement and prolong this process. All just so you don’t have to strain your precious little calves.

You probably already know this, but America is fat. I know that’s not too PC to say, but we are, and that’s the way it is. Well, actually, about a quarter of us are fat or obese according to www.cdc.gov, and the number is only getting bigger.

We are all aware that exercise is key to bettering multiple aspects of our lives. Mental and physical health is shown to dramatically improve when folks simply hit the pavement every now and then. Though I am not entirely here to tell you to get off your ass, just to let you know that your ass and mind (for some it’s the same thing) is only one concern. My time, and everyone else’s on this elevator, is another.

The Center for Disease Control further states that it basically comes down to a calorie imbalance. We are taking in more calories than we are using. This equals poor health. You know what doesn’t burn calories?

Elevators. You know what does?

Walking and using stairs.

So think of it this way: every time you hop on that lift to go a mere 20 feet, you’re throwing on more bodily harm and contributing to America’s obesity predicament. When that happens, America loses. And when America loses, the terrorists win.

That’s right, you anti-American piece of donkey dung, next time, don’t waste ours and hit the stairs!

Kira Meyrick/Portland State Vanguard

this. I don’t know what went wrong with the 2004 Citizens Commission on Homelessness, but it is certainly not achieving its campaign, “Home Again, A 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.” The only other program in Portland I know of is Outside In. According to them, 80 percent of their youths never return to the streets again. This program is actually one that works, but that is not the problem I have with it.

After looking at the Outside In 2008 year-end report on their Web

site, Oregon gave them $41,947, compared to $1.1 million the program received from the federal government.

Gifts from citizens were $318,048.

What I am trying to say is that our own state barely gave the program enough money to remodel, let alone fund some kind of drug treatment facility.

I was always told that children were the seeds of the future, so what is the excuse?

What do ya think?

Street preachers sure aren’t anything new to PSU. Many have made their way through the Park Blocks to spread their word. And while freedom of speech is a right in our country, sometimes the stuff these guys say is, well, perhaps,

a little…offensive. Everyone has a right to speak their mind and their own opinion, but can it be taken too far? Write us at the Vanguard at opinion@dailyvanguard.com, or post an online comment and tell us what you think.

Richard D. Oxley/Portland State Vanguard

ARTS & CULTURE

Internet Music Millennium owner and local band talk about the new music industry Stephanie Fine Sasse Vanguard staff

In seventh grade I couldn’t have been more excited to bring home a new CD, rip open the packaging and read the jacket from cover to cover. I wanted to know everything about an artist. Discovering a band and making the commitment to bring it home with you was like forging a new friendship with someone way cooler than you were.

The accessibility of online music has quickly revolutionized the music industry and all of its components, making it far more impersonal than my junior high days. Some mainstream artists resent the Internet invasion for taking away from record sales, but for many independent artists it is a far more complicated, bittersweet shot at spreading their music far and wide without ever having to sell their souls to a big, bad label. Of course, every opportunity has its price.

Portland success story Throwback Suburbia has learned firsthand the pros and cons of streaming tunes online.

“We can’t deny [that] the availability of music has increased with new technology,” said the band in an e-mail. “This means more music to choose from. At the same time, I think it’s started a sad trend and disrespect for art in general. No longer do people care about album artwork, camp out for concert tickets or lineup outside of a record store on a release date. Art has almost become disposable.”

Throwback Suburbia is a 4-year-

Your friendly neighborhood

old power pop quartet known for juxtaposing nostalgic, upbeat melodies with contemporary rock ’n’ roll. They have traveled around the country performing with everyone from The 88 to The Gin Blossoms to Rooney.

A favorite on Web sites like www. garageband.com, it’s safe to say that a significant amount of their success can be attributed to online accolades and exposure of their talent. So then, with all of the opportunity for musicians and listeners that accompanies the techno-corruption, what sort of sacrifices are being made? And just what are they worth?

Music Millennium, the iconic Portland music superstore offering every avenue of music to its browsers, also experiences firsthand the darker side.

“Downloading has had a dramatic effect on the selling of physical music,” said owner Terry Currier. “In 2002 there were 7,500 record stores in America. Now there are about 2,000, and they are mostly all struggling to stay in business. Music Millennium included. Our business has been on a nine-year slide and expenses keep going up. We have had to cut back our staff and trim our expenses to the bone. We still have one of the best selections in the country though.”

Music Millennium also offers a home to local musicians through their concert series, which will be featuring Throwback Suburbia this weekend. Independent artists can come to the shop for face-to-face support and exposure, and have been doing so for 40 years.

“We have supported the community since day one in 1969 when the store opened,” Currier said. “We were like a community center. People met their friends here, their lifetime partners here. Music Millennium is one of the best resources to find out about

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Strength, Sugar and Gold, Jeffrey Jerusalem

Throwback Suburbia: Playing an in-store set at Music Millennium this Sunday.

music in the country. There are not stores like this in all major cities. You can find a Turkish music section and at the same time find a great electronica section.”

Unfortunately, Music Millennium has already had to close one pair of its infamous doors on Northwest 23rd Avenue. Its survival now relies on the success of its original home on East Burnside Street and the support of the community it has supported since its start. With its live music performances, which pioneered in 1989 and made it the first record store of its kind, Music Millennium continues to offer fans of all ages a venue to access their favorite acts and musicians a place to gain exposure.

Essentially, Music Millennium laid the framework for everything the Internet is relied upon for these days, with a lot less streamlining and a lot more character. The biggest differences between online support systems and live venues like Music Millennium are the cultures and the communi-

ty. Music Millennium has them; their Web site does not.

So is the spread of music really worth the loss of so much of its charm? You make the call. One thing is for certain: Throwback Suburbia puts on a great live show. Check it out this weekend and while you’re there, turn off your iPod, silence your cell, mingle a bit, buy a real live CD and read the jacket cover to cover.

Throwback Suburbia Music Millennium, 3158 E Burnside St. Sunday, Oct. 11, 3 p.m.

Free All ages

Fresh off three California tour dates with Portland darlings Starfucker and drum masters Deelay Ceelay, Strength has long been seen as a symbol of Portland dance music, making an impressive name for themselves among those in the city who love to dance. Not quite pop, not quite electronic, the threepiece group makes some incredibly danceable disco-influenced rock, coming out a bit like a less falsetto-infused Scissor Sisters.

Someday Lounge, 9 p.m., $5 advance $7 door, 21+

Team Evil, The Hand that Bleeds, Jana Osta Their name is a little off putting, like those bad emo bands that used to play at your local pizza place in high school, but Team Evil is, thankfully, nothing of the sort. Playing with the likes of Alan Singley and Pants Machine and Experimental Dental School, their sound is a mellow, soothing brand of folky indie rock with thin, raspy vocals and catchy, Broken Social Scene-style instrumentals.

Backspace, 9 p.m., $6, All ages

Monorail 5, Remy & Lamar, Salvatore Principato

Dexter as revenge apotheosis and American dream Ed Johnson Vanguard staff

he culls from the ranks of non-convicted murderers. Dexter murders people, yes, but only those who deserve it.

He’s a revenge archetype: a man with rigid moral weight who will stop at nothing to see justice served.

The only problem with this picture is that Dexter has a pathological need to kill.

In the show’s first season, we found out that our hero witnessed the horrific murder of his mother as a young child. This apparently instilled a permanent psychological compulsion to murder. As a teenager, when he confesses this salient desire to his adoptive father, a homicide detective, the dad decides he can’t change his son’s behavior, only direct it toward a greater good.

He gives Dexter “the code.”

The code is the binding principle of Dexter’s life, a series of rules that set out who should be killed, and how he should live his life. The code saves Dexter from a life without meaning, but establishes that he is a monster.

Dexter is best looked at as series of dualities. The hidden life versus

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Friday night is alright for a fight (or music)

serial killer

A serial killer is at his most honest when he’s doing his killing: when the knife blade glides through the flesh, when the hands work soft skin raw, and the flash and burn of a muzzle foretells destructive bloodletting.

Certainly Dexter Morgan, the eponymous main character of Showtime’s best show, believes this is true. Over the program’s run (it just started its fourth season two weeks ago), the main tension between audience and character has always been our uneasy total access to Dexter’s inner mind. His running monologue of personal assessment—”I am a monster”—and unbridled bloodlust face plant into this brutal truth: We want him to succeed.

See, Dexter portrays a certain kind of American revenge fantasy, but complicates it, which is the reason the show is so damn good.

By day, Dexter is a forensic technician for the Miami Police Department. There, he learns all about how to commit murder and, more importantly, how to get away with it. He also grows his stable of victims, which

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Dexter: A blood-spattered Dexter (played by Michael C. Hall) grins out at the audience.

the projected life. The good serial killer versus the bad. The criminal justice system versus Dexter’s justice system. Which side is better is hard to see.

In the fourth season, Dexter has a changed life. He’s a new dad and husband, living in the suburbs, which cuts into his stabbing time.

He’s also about to meet the Trinity Killer, the newest in a series of truly awful serial killers who Dexter has danced with in the past.

Set with a dark and moody neonoir style, Dexter, as ever, entertains with a certain humor, panache and delicious style that sets the show apart. It’s part police procedural and part existential crisis. It’s also just bizarre. Matter of factly, it aims to

humanize a serial killer in a way no other piece of cinema has done before.

The moral questions at play are vast, and the production and writing substantial. It’s just one more show in a long line of premium cable productions—The Sopranos, The Wire— that prove television is one of the best places for filmic art.

Dexter Showtime Sunday, 9 p.m.

For those of you not into ’80s post-punk, the name Liquid Liquid is one you need to get yourself acquainted with. Setting themselves apart from the pack with groove-based, funkinspired work and lack of traditional structure (largely omitting verses and choruses in favor of using only bridges), Liquid Liquid blazed a path through the herd of hair metal and pop so common during their time in action.

The group’s vocalist Salvatore Principato will be gracing Portland with his presence tonight to play with Monorail 5 and Remy & Lamar.

Holocene, 9 p.m., $8 door, $6 before 11 p.m., 21+

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Trevor Hall Self-titled

Dance the night away Magdalena heats up the Portland dance floors with flamenco

If I were in middle school, I would be totally into Trevor Hall. He looks like he stepped out of a surf magazine and certainly has the beach-bum acoustic rock thing down to a T. The thing is I’m not a ditzy tween.

Bianca Blankenship Vanguard staff

Hall’s music, to put it bluntly, is boring as hell.

Passably good acoustic rock should be soothing, not make you want to skip through the song. Hall’s voice is kind of clunky and a little husky, like he has a bad cold and a speech impediment. In parts, he seems to be trying his hand at more of a reggae feel and also fails miserably at this as well. It’s as though he and his friends got stoned and decided it would be fun to record an album.

I guess it’s not that he’s a terrible musician; it’s more the fact that he’s doing something that already has been done a thousand times over and not very well at that.

Shoeshine Blue Howl At the Wooden Moon

If Vetiver front man Andy Cabic had a musical cousin in Portland, it would have to be Michael Apinyakul of the band Shoeshine Blue.

Apinyakul’s music is frighteningly similar to Cabic’s earlier work, with its minimal sounding production and his simple, honest voice. The group of musicians comes together on this album to make some incredibly warm sounding folk, laden with beautiful vocal harmonies, a nice dose of Wurlitzer and some gorgeous lyrics.

Apinyakul is the primary writer and vocalist for the band and his talent shows through on tracks like “Warm Champagne,” a soft strumming, sad sounding ballad and “All the Pretty Women,” which opens with a violin/flute duet that falls perfectly into the first verse of singing and a countryinspired chorus.

Howl at the Wooden Moon is an excellent first shot and it’s clear the band has their hearts in the right place.

Flamenco: Madeline “Magdalena” Perlman demonstrates her internationally renowned technique.

This might only be the end of our second week of school, but there are already a number of weary, sleepdeprived faces on campus. There are two good solutions to this problem: one is to spend the weekend on your couch eating ice cream, and the other is to dance away your worries… flamenco dance that is.

Madeline “Magdalena” Perlman, a renowned flamenco dancer, choreographer and teacher, is filling the latter role this weekend as she pays a visit to Portland to teach workshops on this traditional gypsy art form. For three days she will share her knowledge with musicians, dancers and any newcomers who have even the slightest interest in the dance.

Perlman, who lives in Seville, Spain, has been teaching flamenco for fifteen years. She studied under El Farruco, a Spanish dancer who has yet to be surpassed in the art.

Because she had been a teacher before learning the dance, it was a natural progression to begin to teach.

She quickly became involved in the flamenco scene in New York City and has been trading time between Seville and the Big Apple ever since.

When she isn’t busy teaching, performing or choreographing, Perlman takes on multiple side projects. One such project has been coaching opera singer Janara Kellerman for her role as Carmen in the New York City Opera.

Additionally, Perlman is working with prizewinning filmmaker Lisa

Katzman on a documentary titled, Flamenco: Here and There, which focuses on the journeys of three women from different cultures exploring the world of flamenco.

Following in her mentor’s footsteps, Perlman likes to focus on the importance of complex rhythms that accompany the dance. Her Ritmo flamenco class centers on palmas, the rhythmic hand claps that dancers use to complement Spanish guitar. Rhythm is also lent power through the use of finger cymbals and complex, tapping footwork.

“The essence of flamenco is still based on the cante, the song,” said Perlman. “When a dancer can accompany the music and song, that’s when the audience is wowed.”

Students can expect her workshops to have a more holistic approach than most. They incorporate an understanding of Gypsy culture, which is inseparable from the dance.

“I approach things differently than a typical teacher because I’m not focused on steps,” said Perlman. “I do give a choreography, but they learn it more contextually.

It’s not just removed from the culture of flamenco.”

The goal is to prepare students to be able to train in Spain, to learn flamenco at the source. But any student is welcome to attend the classes, which are divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced levels.

If you are less of a dancer and prefer to observe, Perlman is also performing this Saturday at Costello’s Travel Caffe on Northeast Broadway Avenue, where she will be joined by a number of local dancers and musicians. Costello’s is always an international experience in itself, so this night is sure to be a whirlwind of music, dance and culture.

Flamenco con Magdalena The New Day Center for the Arts 5516 SE Foster Rd. Oct. 9 to 12 Exact time and price TBA www.flamenco-con-magdalena.com

Cros s in g th e sta t e l i n e Finn Riggins comes to Portland for the release of their second album Carlee Winsor Vanguard staff

It’s difficult to believe that Finn Riggins was founded only three years ago. With such a well-developed sound behind the name, one may also be surprised that the band met in the tiny town of Moscow, Idaho.

“The three of us met while attending music school in Moscow,” said drummer and vocalist Cameron Bouiss. “Eric Gilbert (guitar, keyboard, misc.) and I had been playing in different bands for about six years and Lisa (vocals, drums, keyboard, misc.) was playing her solo music at that time. Eventually, we began to play together more and more often, and formed the band in summer of 2006.”

Later in the year, the band made the brave decision to relocate to the smaller town of Hailey, Idaho, allowing them to focus on making their music.

“It was the chance at a fresh start and there were very little distractions,” Bouiss said. “However, since that move we have relocated to Boise, Idaho.”

About a year later they released their first album.

“Each of our records is put out

Finn Riggins: Taking flight with garage-inspired indie rock this weekend, the band’s second album promises to be a treat.

by our wonderful record label, Tender Loving Empire,” Bouiss said.

“Our first record, A Soldier, A Saint, an Ocean Explorer was released in Fall 2007, and then, in late March 2009 we decided to put out another.

We recorded Vs. Wilderness in Torrance, Los Angeles. The whole recording and tracking process was basically finished within a three week period.”

Another band that will be sharing the stage with Finn Riggins on their big night are Jared Mees and the Grown Children headed up by frontman and Tender Loving Empire owner Jared Mees. The mellow rock band has an oddly endearing sound

they describe as “Sesame Street core.” They first heard Finn Riggins on New Years Eve in 2007 and found them amusing and easy to dance to.

With time, Finn Riggins has become more established as a group, and they have been compared to some classic names.

“One of the more recent descriptions of our music that we enjoy is Talking Heads meets The Pixies meets Sesame Street music for adults,” Bouiss said.

When listening to their music, one can’t help but agree. Their upbeat, garage-band sound is somehow very familiar, tastefully mixed with strong vocals. Rolling

the whole thing into a neat musical package, Finn Riggins successfully combines the messiness of indie rock with clear vocals and tidy instrumentation, making something poppy and carefree.

Finn Riggins album release Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny St. Oct. 10, 9 p.m. $6 advance, $8 door 21+

Successfully Stolen Sweets Portland band sends listeners back to the days of prohibition and flapper dresses Mark Johnston Vanguard staff

Stolen Sweets: Their music may sound old, but their style is fresher than a taffy pull at the beach.

The Stolen Sweets have been delighting fans with their wonderful early 20th-century revival-style music show. By meshing jazz and ragtime from the 1930s and ‘40s, loosely based on the work of the Boswell Sisters, The Stolen Sweets have locked on to a niche market with their unique music.

While working on their new album, Sleepytime in Chinatown, The Stolen Sweets decided to approach the recording process as it was done back in the turn of the century.

Singer Lara Michell said, “we tried to capture the sound and spirit of the period…we did all of our vocals standing around one microphone to capture them the same way they did back then.”

The group enlisted Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Heatmeiser, Poison Idea) to head up the controls on their recording stint at Kung Fu Bakery! in Portland.

“We wanted to capture the true style of the 1930s,” said Michell.

“We wrote and recorded six originals and six standards.”

But while the group’s sound may be trapped in time, their democratic writing process isn’t. Each person in the band contributes to the writing and arrangement of all the material.

“Pete and David arrange the bare bones of the songs and then the rest of us add our bits and arrangements once the base is established.”

Working organically helped The Stolen Sweets become such a cohesive unit that the band was able to record the entire record in just four days.

The crazy thing is that the band

was never supposed to get this far in the first place.

“The group started out as a oneoff tribute to the Boswell Sisters,” said Michell. “As we started learning these complex songs and practiced them, we decided to make it more than just a one-time deal.”

Had it not been for this monumental decision, The Stolen Sweets would have missed out on countless domestic shows, a European tour and two celebrated albums. The Stolen Sweets were lucky enough to play at last year’s Shining Party at the Timberline Lodge and were invited to play at the Boswell Sisters Festival in New Orleans, on what would have been Connie Boswell’s 100th birthday.

By displaying a strong work ethic, resourcefulness and a little stick-toitiveness, The Stolen Sweets have blazed a jazzy trail across the globe, delighting international fans. Now they return with a new album and a CD release show.

The band approaches their live performances the same way they record: no frills, just a focus on the craft. The group doesn’t mess with fancy costumes, sets or other campy items to capture the Golden Era: they wear simple dresses and suits, letting the music speak for them.

The only exciting visual stimulation is the group’s unique merchandising: aside from the typical shirts, CDs and posters, the band sells chocolate. They have their own brand of delicious sweets that they sell at their shows. Sorry, they don’t appreciate it if you steal them.

Stolen Sweets Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Sat., Oct. 10, 8 p.m. $11 advance, $13 door 21+

getting literary with food Fourth annual Wordstock takes a turn for the delicious

Neuberger Hall room 407 on Monday, Oct. 12.

Dexter’s new work offers a unique kind of storytelling, and his new book promises an intriguing story.

“Spooner is a fascinating book filled with riotous laughs and moments of quiet poignancy. It’s a sweet love story, really, about a wayward boy and the man who became his father, and, eventually, his friend,” raved the Associated Press.The author will, undoubtedly, have an interesting story to tell.

Whether you want to be a K-12 teacher one day, have a strong passion for writing or if you’re simply one of the only other college students such as myself that still enjoy reading recreationally despite being in college, there’s something for everyone at Wordstock.

Wendy Shortman Vanguard staff

“Just like our mothers urged us to eat everything, we want to urge you to read everything. We want you to be open to the new, the unusual, the writers you’ve never tried before. We want you to be a literary omnivore.”

This is the slogan for this year’s Wordstock, one that will be sure to make you hungry. The festival this year will include a diverse group of authors, with food as the featured genre. They’ll be taking the idea of a “literary omnivore” both metaphorically and literally, and will be asking Portland to do the same.

Tons of authors will be gathered throughout the weekend telling stories, reading their work and talking about the importance of reading and writing. The festival this year will mark the fourth Wordstock since its beginning in 2005.

Among the festival’s sponsors will be Powell’s Books, Target, the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication,

Word up: Nerd out with the best of the best in the writing community at Wordstock, Portland’s favorite literary festival.

Columbia Sportswear and many more.

Wordstock is also a nonprofit organization, striving for academic success by improving our K-12 teachers’ writing so that they can, in turn, improve our students’ writing.

Not only is the festival and nonprofit for all of us reading junkies, but our children and their educators as well.

Among the authors present will be Pete Dexter, a National Book Award

winner with the book Paris Trout, who will also be stopping by Portland State on Monday to participate in a Q-and-A session with students, faculty and community members.

The author has written several screenplays and previously worked as a renowned columnist before transitioning to novels. Dexter, whose eighth published novel Spooner was released in September, will be in

Wordstock Oregon Convention Center 777 NE MLK Blvd.

Oct. 8 to 11 $5 For more information, go to www.wordstockfestival.com

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Trick ‘r Treat – Was it worth the wait?

Trick ‘r Treat was supposed to hit big screens across America in 2007 but Warner Bros. pushed back its release date until last Tuesday as a straightto-DVD feature.

Though it never hit a mass audience in 2007, it did cross the path of the film critic community who couldn’t really say anything bad about it.

So why was it shelved for so long?

Given the long anticipated wait and the fact I heard Brian Singer’s Bad Hat Harry productions was involved, I feared my hopes would be raised too far beyond the film’s ability to please me. I had no reason to fear. While Trick ‘r Treat doesn’t entirely scare you so to speak, it does pack its 80 minutes with a worthwhile creepy and eerie treat. The film presents multiple stories unfolding in a nonlinear fashion on Halloween night. And while the story doesn’t present a strong central evil figure as most horror movies do, it does manage to link multiple scary stories together nicely.

The cast is filled with a number of Vancouver, BC actors easily recognizable from the small screen.

Fans from shows like Dead Like Me and to Kyle XY will find someone they know.

And there were also some big names in the movie as well, with Anna Paquin and the always-great Dylan Baker contributing great performances.

In the end, it will taunt those who jump easily, while amusing hardcore horror aficionados. Trick ‘r Treat has what it takes to go down as a fond Halloween classic in the same manner that It’s a Wonderful Life is associated with Christmas. Check it out, laugh, cry, jump and be disappointed that it never offered its antics on the big screen.

- Richard D. Oxley

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Richard Dawkins comes to Portland State Richard Dawkins, famous evolutionary biologist, is giving a book talk Saturday.

His new book is The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.

Tomorrow, Oct. 10 6:30 p.m.

Peter Stott Center Free Hosted by: Atheists and Agnostics Forum Center for Inquiry Portland Biology Association of Graduate Students

2009 Bike Commute Challenge breaks all prior records Every September since 1995, workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington have competed to see who bikes to work more in the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge (www. bikecommutechallenge. com).

Individuals register on their workplace’s team, log their bike commutes online and at the end of the month the BTA does the math and honors the winning companies.

Portland State Campus Rec won public agencies (25 to 99 employees) category Public agencies: With less than 25 employees: OHSU Pediatric Pulmonary Division 96.4 percent commute rate With 25 to 99 employees: PSU Campus Recreation Department 51.1 percent commute rate With 100-499 employees: Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability 51.5 percent commute rate —Stephanie Noll, programs manager; Michelle Poyourow, advocate and educator

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Then & now Depression-era photo shows West Linn woman as a child Steve Haske Vanguard staff

West Linn resident Rachel BakerReinertsen poses with a Depressionera photograph of herself and her parents outside of her father’s church in Dead Ox Flat, Ore. The photograph—part of a series of Dorothea Lange photos taken in 1939 that opened for display in Portland State’s Littman Gallery on Oct. 1—is one of two Lange took of Reinertsen’s family during a two-month stint in the Pacific Northwest.

Reinertsen, now 68, was honored with a print of her family standing in front of the church with its congregation at an exhibit event held last night by PSU Friends of History and the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission in the gallery.

She had not known about the existence of the photographs until about a month ago, Reinertsen said.

“I just think it’s really neat that they’re doing this,” Reinertsen said.

“And I hope others step forward.”

So far other children in Lange’s photographs have come forward.

All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Memories: (Above) Photo by Dorthea Lange of 2-year-old Rachel Baker-Reinertsen with her father. (Below) Baker-Reinertsen at the Littman Gallery.

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MUN helps combat poverty Elizabeth Furse, the first Africanborn candidate to win an election to the United States Congress and a representative of Bread for the World will discuss the key points about Millennium Development Goals at the “Stand Up” event.

The other local organizations joining MUN in the event are World Affairs Council, These Numbers Have Faces, Oregon Food Bank, Bread for the World, Jubilee, Portland Area Global Aids Coalition, Mercy Corps and Portland Roasting Company.

A suggested donation of $10 is requested. Attendees are invited to grab a lunch bag, enjoy Zambian dances and learn about legislation needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The event will also feature performances by pianist Thomas Lauderdale, African drummer Chata Addy, Middle Eastern ensemble Al Andalus and African storyteller, Loveness Wesa.

Achievements Tanginoa spoke proudly of the various achievements of PSUMUN. “We attended a Model UN Cascadia Conference in the 200708 year in Vancouver, B.C., where we brought home the gold for Best Delegation,” she said. “Last year, we attended the Model UN of the Far West, which is the oldest Model UN simulation in the country.

Both of our delegations brought home certificates of Outstanding Diplomacy.”

PSUMUN is currently forming a delegation for 2009-10 where students for the first time will have a chance to sit as a judge on the International Court of Justice.

“We are always looking for more delegates and people who are passionate about international issues,” Tanginoa said.

For more info: Find PSUMUN on ORGsync psumun@pdx.edu modelun.groups.pdx.edu Stand Up and Take Action—End Poverty Now! Saturday, Oct. 17 12:30 to 3 p.m.

Hoffman Hall Performances by: Thomas Lauderdale, Loveness Wesa, Al Andalus and Chata Addy. $10 suggested donation to be split between Mercy Corps and the Oregon Food Bank Video of last year’s event at: www.tinyurl.com/MUN2008

MUN hopes to foster awareness and activities on a local level of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop a global partnership

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Your world in brief

World: Moonstruck: Making one giant thud for mankind WASHINGTON (AP)—For as long as man has looked up, the moon has inspired romance, poetry and songs. Man also likes blowing things up. Now we get to do both—in the name of science.

The aim of Friday’s deliberate crash of two unmanned NASA spacecraft into the moon is to see if they can kick up some ice. It is the 20th lunar crash, most of them done on purpose, since the Russians first did it 50 years ago last month.

And that doesn’t count the eight times we tried and somehow missed the moon or couldn’t get off the ground.

For more than a century, the idea of Earthlings taking a swipe at the moon has permeated popular culture. The most enduring image is from the 1902 classic movie, A Trip to the Moon, in which a bulletlike rocket wincingly lodges in the eye of the man in the moon.

As much as we like to gaze at the moon, we like stirring things up even more. It’s the specialty of the hit show Mythbusters and the aptly named show Destroyed in Seconds.

Friday’s first smack: a 2.2-ton empty rocket stage crashing into the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, equal to the power of 1.5 tons of TNT, followed four minutes later with a smaller hit.

For those fearing that the crashes like Friday’s could cause the moon to shift its orbit or send huge chunks back to Earth, agency scientists have some words of comfort.

They say such crashes have no more effect on the moon than an eyelash dropping on a jet. Sure the impact may seem big, but so is the moon.

This also is something that happens four times a month to the moon, said Dan Andrews, the head of this NASA lunar crash mission.

The only difference is that those hits are from naturally occurring space rocks.

No one personifies the blow’em-up-in-the-name-of-science more than Brown University geologist Peter Schultz, a scientist who worked on NASA’s similar purposeful crash into a comet in 2005. He’s a regular cosmic crasher in the name of science—and jollies.

“Whenever these things happen, the first thing that comes out of your mouth is ‘geez,’” Schultz said. “I’ve got the neatest job in the world.”

NASA’s plan, which often mistakenly was called “bombing the moon,” has generated lots of late-night humor

and even some outrage.

David Letterman, who has dropped watermelons off Manhattan rooftops, has riffed on it repeatedly. He speculated on a counterattack by the moon with his own NASA-like animation and then compared it to the U.S. war in Iraq, as an attack-first, ask-questions-later scenario.

Others aren’t completely joking about their concerns.

Novelist Amy Ephron doesn’t understand the hoopla surrounding NASA’s moon crash and wondered whether the public would be as excited about the mission if a country like Iran were in charge.

Ephron created a “Help Save the Moon” Twitter campaign—part tongue-in-cheek and part serious— to prevent future lunar dustups and to start a debate about who owns the moon.

“I really am a pacifist. I don’t like the idea of sending a missile to Afghanistan or to Iraq or to the moon,” said Ephron, while stressing that she’s not against space exploration.

Still the moon beckons as an inviting target.

NASA’s Andrews said his 12-year-old son was out gazing at the sky a couple months ago and came back and told him: “Look Dad, it’s taunting you.” —Alicia Chang, Seth Borenstein

Nation: Woman thrown off plane for breastfeeding sues MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)—A woman who was thrown off an airplane for breastfeeding her child, sparking a day of airport protests nationwide, is suing the three airlines involved in the flight.

Emily Gillette’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Wednesday, comes nearly three years after she was taken off an airplane because she wouldn’t cover herself with a blanket while nursing her 1-year-old daughter.

Gillette, of Santa Fe, N.M., said she was ejected from the flight as it prepared to take off after a three-hour delay.

Her story generated interest around the nation, leading to a protest “nurse-in” in 19 airports in November 2006.

Gillette’s suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages from Delta Airlines, Freedom Airlines and Mesa Air Group. The lawsuit says Freedom uses Mesa aircraft to run flights under contract

with Delta, and that Gillette’s flight was booked with Delta.

Delta spokesman Anthony Black said Thursday the Atlanta-based airline does not comment on litigation but supports a mother’s right to breastfeed. A spokesman for Mesa, based in Phoenix, which owns Irving, Texas-based Freedom, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, the Vermont Human Rights Commission filed a state lawsuit Thursday against Mesa and Freedom. Executive Director Robert Appel said the commission had determined it could not hold Delta responsible for the actions of Mesa and Freedom.

Appel cited a Vermont law that says “a mother may breastfeed her child in any place of public accommodation in which the mother and child would otherwise have a legal right to be.”

Gillette’s lawsuit says she was sitting in a window seat on an Oct. 13, 2006, flight from Burlington to New York City.

Gillette, who was 27 at the time, began nursing her “hungry and tired” daughter, 1-year-old River, and had the toddler “positioned with her head toward the aisle and no part of [Gillette’s] breast exposed,” according to the lawsuit.

A flight attendant brought Gillette a blanket and told her to cover up, but Gillette declined.

The flight attendant “forcefully demanded that [Gillette] cover the toddler’s head, stating, ‘you are offending me,’” according to the suit.

When Gillette again declined, the flight attendant got a customer service representative to order Gillette and her family off the plane.

Gillette “felt shamed and humiliated” and “tearfully gathered her belongings to exit the plane,” the lawsuit states.

Gillette “has since felt anxiety when she has breastfed in places of public accommodation, and has felt inhibited from nursing her second child based on her experience” on the flight, the suit says. —Dave Gram

Local: Feds consider critical habitat for sea turtles Federal fisheries managers have agreed to consider designating critical habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean off Oregon and California.

NOAA Fisheries officials said Thursday they will make a decision

by Dec. 4 under terms of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by conservation groups.

The groups had sued the government for failing to follow through on their petition to designate critical habitat.

Pacific leatherbacks migrate each year from Indonesia to feed on jellyfish in the California current between Lincoln City, Ore., and Point Conception, Calif.

As part of the settlement, the agency also is considering whether loggerhead sea turtles should be listed as endangered. —Jeff Barnard

Groups say nothing new in Columbia salmon plan Groups suing to make Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safer for salmon say there is nothing new or real about the Obama administration’s revised plans for saving threatened and endangered salmon.

Formal responses from the state of Oregon, the Nez Perce Tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen were filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore. They argue that the NOAA Fisheries Service plan, known as a biological opinion, filed last month lowers triggers that would prompt stronger conservation measures to population levels at the brink of extinction, and does not improve on short term measures proven to help salmon, such as increasing the amount of water spilled over dams when young fish are migrating downstream.

“If you are not going to do anything different until you see population crashes of that magnitude, you are running a huge risk,” said Steve Mashuda, an attorney for Earthjustice, a public interest law firm representing some of the plaintiffs. “You run the risk of sounding an alarm bell and five years later the fire department shows up.”

U.S. District Judge James Redden called for the responses as he decides whether the plan covering dam operations, habitat improvements, hatchery operations and predator control meets Endangered Species Act requirements to restore threatened and endangered salmon to healthy populations. —Jeff Barnard

MTV’s The Real World looking for Portland cast members Bunim/Murray Productions are hosting an open casting call for Portlanders between the ages of 18 and 24.

When: Tuesday, Oct. 20 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Grand Central Restaurant and Bowling Lounge 839 SE Morrison St. Bring a recent photo of yourself (which will not be returned) and a photo ID. “We look for characters from real life— people with strong personalities who are unafraid to speak their minds,” said Jonathan Murray, executive producer.

“It’s important to us that The Real World reflects the diversity of the general population.

This season we’d love to include a person who is physically challenged, an individual struggling with weight issues, someone who has been affected by a natural disaster, a cast member who is a product of home or alternative schooling and an individual who wants to bring the spotlight of The Real World to a cause, condition, or social issue they care deeply about or are personally affected by.”

—Mariah O’Hara 310-248-6177 www.bunim-murray. com

Vanguard 10 | Sports October 9, 2009

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

SPORTS women’s soccer preview

This weekend in sports history Friday, Oct. 9 1928 – Yankees sweep Cardinals in 25th World Series, and Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a game.

1974 – Frank Robinson becomes first black MLB manager.

1974 – Washington Capitals’ first NHL game; loss begins a road-game losing streak of 37.

1977 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Club Classic.

1986 – Gilbert Perreault becomes 12th NHL player to score 500 goals.

1991 – San Jose Sharks win their first NHL game.

Saturday, Oct. 10 1868 – First written account of a Canadian football game.

1892 – Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan.

1920 – Indians’ Elmer Smith hits baseball’s first postseason grand slam.

1960 – 16 members of Cal-Poly football team die in plane crash.

1961 – Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and NY Mets.

1972 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Open.

1979 – Nordiques’ Real Cloutier sets NHL record for hat trick in first game.

Sunday, Oct. 11 1902 – Lawrence Auchterlonie wins U.S. Open golf tournament.

1967 – World Series record of three consecutive HRs by Red Sox. 1978 – Dodgers’ Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in the ninth.

1991 – Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18-hole score of 59.

1997 – Dennis Rodman returns from second-longest NBA suspension. www.todayinsport.com

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Vikings look to continue their hot streak against Bears and Lumberjacks Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

What: Portland State (6-5-1) vs.

Northern Colorado (4-5-1) When: 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 9 Where: PCC-Rock Creek

What: Portland State (6-5-1) at Northern Arizona (5-5-1) When: 12 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 11 Where: Flagstaff, Ariz.

After a weekend sweep that put them on top of the Big Sky in nonconference wins, Portland State begins their quest for the 2009 Big Sky Championship at home today against the Northern Colorado Bears and Sunday at Northern Arizona.

Records entering the games: Portland State comes off a twogame winning streak after defeating Utah Valley 2-0 and Gonzaga 2-1.

Northern Colorado comes off a 1-0 loss Sunday against Wyoming. In their last four matches, the Bears are 1-3-0 and haven’t tasted victory since Sept. 27.

The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, defending Big Sky Champions, enter conference play with a record of 5-5-1. They have won four of their last five matches.

Last year’s meetings: Last season, Portland State opened up conference play at Northern

Colorado and defeated the Bears, 2-1.

Northern Arizona was the only team the Viks played twice last season, and they tied 0-0 with the Lumberjacks in Portland, then fell to them in the semifinals of the Big Sky Tournament in Ogden, Utah, 1-0.

Scouting the Bears: Freshman Danielle Birdsall is the leading scorer for Northern Colorado with three goals, two of which have been gamewinners. In the net, Kirsten Salminen has made nine appearances this year and given up 10 goals.

Scouting the Lumberjacks: Lauren Zallis leads Northern Arizona with four goals in 10 games this season. In the net, the Jacks have used three different keepers led by Tori Rocke, who has seven starts. The trio has allowed a combined 19 goals and earned two shutouts.

Scouting the Vikings: The Viks have not lost a conference opener

since 2001 and have a 7-3-2 record in their openers. Portland State leads the Big Sky in four categories: two in team rankings and two on the individual level.

Senior Dolly Enneking has accounted for five of her seven goals this season in the last seven matches. In her three career matches versus Northern Colorado, she has scored a total of four goals and the game winner in each match.

Vikings head coach Laura Schott insists, “The team we play this year is very different than the team of three years ago. Tim [Barrera] and his players have done a very good job at UNC. Our team is very different than PSU teams of the past also. Bottom line, I suppose, is that stats from past years won’t win the game Friday. We’ve got to win it from 5 to 7 p.m.”

Viking Softball to host fall tournament Vikings invite local teams to fall softball action James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

This weekend, the Portland State softball team will play host to several community college teams from the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges at Erv Lind Stadium in Northeast Portland. Nine games in all will be played between Saturday and Sunday, with the Vikings team participating in four.

Portland State will face three teams over the two-day tournament, starting with the Lower Columbia Lady Devils at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a 7:30 p.m game against Clackamas Community College. Play resumes for the Vikings on Sunday, with back-to-back games against Mount Hood Community College at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

For a full list of games between all participating schools, refer to www.goviks.com.

The 2009 season Portland State was fantastic last season, winning the Pacific Coast Softball Conference championship with a record of 29-26, including a 15-6 record in PCSC play.

The Lady Devils were 37-7 last season, with an 18-2 record within

October classic: The Portland State squad will take on teams from several local schools.

the NWAACC league.

The Clackamas Community College Cougars were 21-21, and 10-10 in NWAACC play.

Rounding out Sunday are NWAACC league champions, the Mt. Hood Community College Saints, who took the championship with a record of 27-12 on the season and 9-10 within the NWAACC. Scouting the Vikings The two-day tournament amounts to what coach Tobin EchoHawk equated as spring training.

“It’s just a preseason tournament,” she said. “Our [opportunity to] just see what we’ve got in terms of new-

comers and returners and different positions. We don’t really keep score, it’s just kind of our way to scrimmage teams other than amongst ourselves.”

The tournament will highlight the skills of Portland State’s newest freshman recruits and transfer students, including standout freshman recruit Anna Bertrand from McMinville High School.

The Gatorade Oregon Softball Player of the Year, Bertrand helped bring her Grizzlies to the Oregon 6A semifinals by striking out 268 batters in 176 innings.

“She’s the type of pitcher that, even though she’s a freshman, she doesn’t act like a freshman,” Echo-

Hawk said. “Our strength—as far as this year’s team goes—it is going to be on the mound.”

Also making their debut this weekend are freshmen Danielle Lynn and Carly McEachran, both new recruits fresh out of high school. Lynn, an outfielder, and McEachran, a utility infielder, are components that Echo-Hawk feels will make important contributions to the 2010 club.

Echo-Hawk said of Lynn, “She’s going to be a starter in the outfield.

She’s little but definitely mighty. She has a lot to offer and is kind of like a little sparkplug for us.”

McEachran, a two-time first team selection at Henry M. Jackson High School, hails from Spokane, Wash., and will be an emotional addition to the team.

“On the infield, right now she’s at third. She’s a very emotional player, she plays for every pitch, every inning,” Echo-Hawk said.

All in all, the tournament will be an opportunity to see what six new freshmen and one junior college transfer have to offer the 2010 Viking softball team.

The team will play in one more autumn tournament, beginning on Oct. 24. That two-day event will be co-hosted by the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, and will serve as another litmus test for the 2010 Portland State team.

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Soccer vs. Northern Colorado Where: PCC-Rock Creek When: 5 p.m.

Volleyball at Eastern Washington Where: Cheney, Wash.

When: 7 p.m.

Coverage: www.bigskytv.org

Churnin’ em’ out

Up and over: Zielke led the Viks to victory by hitting .471, with 10 kills and four service aces.

Vikings close out nonconference schedule with win over Seattle University J. Logue Vanguard staff

Puttin’ a whuppin’ on Seattle University, Portland State women’s volleyball embarrassed the Redhawks on their home court with a three-set sweep on Wednesday night. Despite a poor offensive showing, the Vikings were able to ride the effective play of junior Lana Zielke to add another win and bring their record to 10-6.

On a night where Portland State only hit .168 as a team, they received big contributions on defense from senior outside hitter Marija Vojnovic and sophomore defensive specialist Nicole Bateham, who combined for 31 digs.

In a match that was mostly a warm up before taking on Eastern Washington tonight, the Vikings built early leads with blocks and timely kills.

“Seattle is a solid program,”

head coach Michael Seemann said.

“They have had some good matches against some solid teams.”

With only a few lead changes early in each set, the Vikings pulled away quickly every time and never looked back all night, finishing with set scores of 25-19, 25-23, 25-19.

Even with the team’s subpar hitting, Nique Fradella continued her streak of 30-plus assists a match and has strung together 10 in a row thus far.

“I thought it was a steady road performance,” coach Seemann said. “We had solid performance from the middles. [The match was] not concrete, or pretty, but it’s good for on the road.”

Also getting strong contributions from junior outside hitter Whitney Phillips and senior middle blocker Erica Jepsen, Portland State gave a strong performance on the road right before traveling to Cheney, Wash. for a pivotal game against conference-leading Eastern Washington.

Looking ahead to tonight’s game against the Eagles, the Vikings will have their hands full

Photo courtesy of Troy Wayry

in a match that will decide the early favorite to win the Big Sky Conference, as well as the coveted No. 1 bid in the postseason tournament.

“They have weapons all over the place,” Seemann said. “They’re big, they’re physical, they handle the ball, [and] they serve tough…certainly in their own gym.”

The Eagles have talent all across the board including at outside hitter with junior Hayley Hills, last year’s Big Sky Player of the Year.

Having never beaten them on the road since joining the conference in 1996, the Vikings will be confronted with a challenge that is equal parts mental and physical.

“Hayley Hills is their outside hitter,” Seemann said. “She puts a lot of points on the board. She’s a lot like our Whitney Phillips.”

In what will be a game full of great matchups, none will be more important than that of 6-foot-3inch Lana Ziekle and 6-foot-5-inch Sara Todorovich. Controlling the middle of the net will be a determining factor in this match and whichever team can utilize it effectively will have a huge advantage.

Noteworthy Vikings Lana Zielke 10 Kills, .471 Hitting

Football at Northern Colorado

Maria Vojnovic 9 Kills, 20 Digs

Where: Greeley, Colo.

Whitney Phillips 8 Kills, 7 Digs, 4 Blocks

When: 12:35 p.m.

Nique Fradella 2 Kills, 5 Digs, 30 Assists

www.bigskytv.org

One bit of history that does favor Portland State in the matchup against Eastern Washington is their victory in the last meeting of the two squads. After losing last year’s regular season title that they were favored to win to the Eagles, the Vikings got their revenge by winning the Big Sky Championship game that brought them to the NCAA tournament.

“We haven’t won there yet since going Division I,” coach Seemann said. “We would like to go up there and play well.”

In what should turn out to be a great match no matter the outcome, both teams have ample reason to be motivated.

The Portland State women’s volleyball team faces Eastern Washington tonight. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m. and can be seen on www.bigskytv.org.

Up next:

Northern Colorado Bears

24-21, Vikings. Portland State entered halftime up seven with 21 points. The Colorado defense stiffened up in the second half and allowed only three more points. It proved to be enough as the Vikings were able to bleed the clock after a Bears touchdown late in the fourth quarter to improve to 4-7 in the season.

The team has struggled to get started this season. Their scoring offense is next to last in the league and is averaging just 13.6 points per game. The Bears are also inconsistent; they have managed 27 points in a game and none in another.

They do have the best pass defense in the conference, so it will be interesting to see how they fare against the spread offense the Viks run. Defensively, they offer a 94 percent conversion rate for points in the red zone.

Quarterback Bryan Waggener is fairly efficient, but their leading rusher, Andre Harris, is only garnering an average of 65.2 yards per game.

Perfect pair:

Scouting the Vikings:

In Big Sky Conference statistics for the season, the Vikings and the Bears are within one ranking of each other in the following categories: kickoff returns, field goals, interceptions, third and first down conversions, scoring defense and rushing offense.

Injuries will hurt the team this week. Senior linebacker Erik Pedersen, who leads the team with 40 tackles, will likely miss this game with a hand injury. Fullback Bobby McClintock, also a senior, is questionable with a calf injury. Neither of them practiced this week.

Last year’s meeting:

Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: 4 p.m.

Softball vs. Clackamas CC Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: 7:30 p.m.

Sunday Soccer at Northern Arizona Where: Flagstaff, Ariz.

When: 12 p.m.

Softball vs. Mt. Hood CC Where: Erv Lind Stadium When: 1 p.m.

When: 3 p.m.

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Both teams are on equal footing.

They enter with identical records of 1-4, 0-3 in conference games. This game marks the halfway point in the season and both teams need a win to prevent it from slipping away.

Softball vs. Lower Columbia CC

Where: Erv Lind Stadium

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Scouting the Bears:

Coverage: 800 AM KPDQ,

Softball vs. Mt. Hood CC

Football makes a weekend trip to Greeley

Records entering the game:

Saturday

Scramble: The Viks are gunning for their first win since Sept. 12.

Aaron Leopold/Portland State Vanguard

The Vikings have the top passing offense in the conference and two of its top three receivers in Ray Fry and Lavonte Kirven. If the defense can keep up the pressure they have been exerting, they should be rewarded with sacks, considering the Bears have given up 16 so far this season.

Who: Portland State (1-4, 0-3 Big Sky) at Northern Colorado (1-4, 0-3 Big Sky)

When: 12:35 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 10 Where: Nottingham Field, Greeley, Colo.

Coverage options: Watch at

www.bigskytv.org; listen on 800 AM KPDQ; read on vanguardblog-psu.blogspot.com or in the Vanguard.

Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard

Slipping away: The Viks and Bears are both still looking for their first conference win of the season.