Daily Vanguard November 10, 2009

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Tour Russia on two wheels

INSIDE OPINION

Great deals on toilet paper and no. 2 pencils Portland Public Schools sells supplies back to teachers PAGE 3

NEWS For that price, we’ll take gold lettering SALP increases price of copies to offset costs PAGE 4 Online SALP training boosts turnout Student group training how available through Blackboard PAGE 5

ARTS

Russian culture and cycling enthusiasts hosted night of photos, tips on touring

Refining the research process

Millar Library

Millar Library switches to new, user-friendly catalog WorldCat Local Gogul Krishnan Vanguard staff

WorldCat Local is a next-generation library catalog offered by Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC), which will be replacing Vikat, the present library catalog used at Millar Library at Portland State.

WorldCat Local is a localized version of www.worldcat.org. It is configured in a way to reflect all the services the library provides at a unique URL to help users with better search results.

Online Computer Library Center Inc. OCLC is a large, nonprofit information network. OCLC and

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its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. They also work with libraries to provide WorldCat Local.

Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 36 universities, colleges and community colleges in Oregon and Washington, maintains a Union catalog and borrowing system (Summit) with 9.2 million titles representing 28.7 million items.

OCLC has contracted with EBSCO—a subscription provider for more than 300,000 journals serving more than 50,000 libraries worldwide—to provide indexing of its articles from selected databases.

This will eventually greatly increase the number of articles available through Portland State WorldCat. Depending on how Millar Library defines its workflows, users are pre-

sented with different options for obtaining the material they want.

Users in WorldCat Local do not currently see any local item records or local edits not present in WorldCat. The expenses involved in the transformation to WorldCat Local from Vikat have not been tabulated yet.

Benefits Portland State WorldCat will help students find books and other items, all in one search. It will cover Portland State’s collections, Summit titles, interlibrary loan titles and many article databases.

It will not include all library databases for technical and contractual reasons.

“Right now, students must search many places to find information at the library,” said Thomas Raffensperger, assistant university

SEARCH continued on page four

Love makes us do crazy things Fool for Love reminds its audience of the power love can have PAGE 6

The untold story of Bitter Tears by Johnny Cash New book is a fusion of musical biographies and historical events PAGE 6

SPORTS

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Diane Hofland, avid cyclist and Russian graduate student, joined forces Monday evening with Vladimir Filippov, vice president of the Russian Cycle Touring Club (RCTC) and council member of the Bicycle Transportation Union of Russia, in Smith Memorial Student Union to share their mutual passion for touring Russia by bicycle.

Hofland entertained the sparse crowd with her enthusiasm for both Russian culture and landscape. A Reed College alumna, she left on her first cycling trip in 1977, on a cross-country trip from Portland to Virginia.

Now, 32 years later, she has several notches in her cycling belt, including trips across Canada and five tours in Russia.

“The reason I tour Russia,” Hofland said, “is not the narrow, highly trafficked streets of Moscow, but the many dirt roads of the unseen parts of Russia.”

Filippov gave an engaging presentation on the more logistical side of touring Russia. He addressed the misnomer that the country may be a dangerous place to tour.

“This is incorrect,” Filippov said.

“I have been touring in Russia for 30 years, and I’m still alive. It’s just as dangerous as touring anywhere else, but even native Russians think it’s dangerous.”

His club, the RCTC, organizes and leads tours in Russia and all over the world. Filippov explained that, much like touring in America, the perks are bountiful. New cultural experiences and pristinely beautiful landscape make for unforgettable sightseeing and are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to touring Russia.

National Sustainability Week begins

Wim Wiewel

Students and community come together for sustainability leadership Virginia Vickery Vanguard staff

Bye, bye birdie The Vikings sweep the visiting Eagles in front of a packed Stott Center PAGE 9

Ryan Pemberton

Today, Portland State kicked off a weeklong series of talks and activities in honor of National Sustainability Week.

University President Wim Wiewel began the event with an address highlighting the importance for sustainability leadership to a group

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of nearly 30 students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in the Multicultural Center.

“This is a great opportunity to create community, to have an impact on our area and to send a symbolic and real message to the world about the possibilities [of sustainability leadership],” Wiewel said.

The event also featured Douglas Cohen, chair of the National Youth Initiatives of U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which is co-sponsoring the events with the Students for Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning student group.

Cohen began his talk with the challenge to, “imagine a Portland that is thriving, green and just.”

He said that this thought, given to him by a partner in sustainability, is hopefully inspirational to the community of Portland as a goal.

The purpose of the week, recognized by communities across the country, is for participants to further understand their role in bridging local, regional and global issues to affect a just, livable, diverse and sustainable world, according to a press release.

More information about the week’s events can be found at www.wiseearth.org.

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Vladimir Filippov: Vice president of the

Russian Cycle Touring Club and council member of the Bicycle Transportation Union of Russia.

Vanguard 2 | Opinion November 10, 2009

Sarah J. Christensen Editor-in-Chief Danielle Kulczyk News Editor Theodora Karatzas Arts & Culture Editor Richard D. Oxley Opinion Editor Robert Britt Sports Editor Shannon Vincent Production Manager Marni Cohen Photo Editor Zach Chastaine Online Editor Jennifer Wolff Chief Copy Editor Jennifer Wolff Calendar Editor Matthew Kirtley Advertising Manager Judson Randall Adviser

OPINION Rant Rage The

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By Dick Richards

Believe it or not, this pisses me off They yammer on and on about their way of life. Endlessly trying to convert those who don’t believe as they do. Given the chance, they will preach on and on about their lifechanging dogma and the good it will do for others. And I’ve had it. I don’t care, you wretched, annoying atheists!

Yeah, that’s right, atheists! I can handle most religious nuts. But the stupidity of a nut who can’t see they’re just as crazy as the next faith

freak is just too much for me.

Get this straight all you condescending, egotistical atheists: You dipshits most certainly do have a religion. It’s ironically called atheism!

You witness its creed whenever you try to convert everyone around you to your way of thinking.

It’s one thing, in general, to not believe in higher powers, and that’s fine.

Plenty of people live their lives peacefully believing as such. However, your frantic attempts to spread your word makes you just as guilty of the annoying superiority complex held by some believers you so despise.

Hmm, let’s see…I could either listen to someone pushing their religion on me, or listen to you aggressively espouse how not to believe. Either way, guilt is involved and, sadly, you come off a hell of a lot more like a pompous and arrogant bastard!

I really don’t care what you say; it takes as much “faith” to not have spirituality as it does to have a belief.

The burden of proof that you so pathetically shove off onto believers is

as much your burden as it is anyone’s.

You’re still trying to prove something.

You have your tools: prepared arguments for the inevitable “why I’m an atheist” conversation, condescending religious insults or documentaries like Bill Maher’s Religulous. By the way, Bill Maher making a documentary on religion is about as credible as having a neo-Nazi skinhead direct a movie about Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

Not all atheists are idiots like you, but there just seems to be a whole lot set out on a crusade to impose their “beliefs.” Just admit it, you’re as organized as any church. For example, the American Atheists, a group where one can tithe, er, I mean buy a membership. They have support for youth and family, oddly similar to church. They accept donations like your car or boat, etc., just like other religious organizations. They even have winter solstice parties to combat the holiday season. That’s right, solstice parties. That event tradi-

tionally celebrated by, um, religions!

You guys really stick your heads up your collective keisters when it comes to politics, too. Who really gives a shit if a manger shows up during the holidays? Or the Ten Commandments, a historical reference to law (usually misprinted anyway), pop up around buildings of law! True, America is definitely not a nation on any religion. But let me clue your overconfident minds in on something. Religious people happen to live here too, not just you, in this America meant to represent us all. Militantly standing up for your rights as a non-religious person doesn’t mean religious people, in turn, lose theirs.

Perhaps you should create a new name for yourselves so you don’t start offending other atheists you don’t represent. Maybe you could just adopt the title of other organized belief ’s bad apples, and just call yourselves hypocrites.

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Don’t make marijuana legal I don’t want the Government to make Marijuana legal [“What do you think?: Marijuana,” Nov. 6]! I want them to reschedule it Class II, or III as it should have always been.

Then a lot of the problems will like magic go away. This will clear up a lot of the confusion the courts, and law enforcement have.

—why?

Not another streetcar Thank you! I’m glad someone else feels the same way about this antiquated, slow, and unnecessary conveyance we call a streetcar [“Portland’s regressive rail,” Nov. 6].

If, more than half the time, I could walk to my destination faster than an electric powered vehicle would

get me there, chances are it’s no great shakes. What is the city of Portland thinking?

—Lanik M.

vate a dozen plants. It’s a win-win.

—Concerned parent

Put criminal drug dealers out of business

Thanks for your thoughts on this issue, Patrick [“Every rose has its thorns,” Nov. 6]. I do want to clarify two things. You say that the “Blazers, who retain special development rights in the area, have the right to veto the committee’s recommendations.” This is not true. The Blazers currently hold operating rights if the Memorial Coliseum remains a spectator facility. They also hold the “right to first proposal” if the city opens the space to private development.

However, this “first proposal” right expires late next year. The city owns the Coliseum, and it will be up to the city council—with significant input from the Stakeholder Advisory Committee that’s meeting every other week to discuss this issue— to determine its future. The Blazers absolutely do not have a right to veto the committee’s recommendation or the city’s decision. Finally, you note, “the committee fails to understand that you can’t plan urban authenticity.”

I’d disagree with you on that one. The committee has been struggling with many of the issues you’ve raised here.

They’re striving to create a vibrant,

Licensing, taxing, and regulating the distribution of marijuana is the surest way to put the criminal drug dealers out of business and protect our children from the money-hungry criminal element [“Medical marijuana users can breath easy,” Nov. 6].

It’s time to protect our children and take the marijuana business out of the hands of criminals. License, tax, and regulate the marijuana business. And while we’re at it, let’s find a way to pull the revenue-hungry public policy in the right direction on personal cultivation (i.e., let’s get past the “you can’t tax it because people will just grow their own” argument). Let’s implement a personal cultivation permit. Limit the size of the growing area or the number of plants, and put a small user-fee on it to cover administrative costs, something like a fishing license. Maybe high enough that there will be a little something left over for education or fixing the roads. One possibility: $100 per year for a permit to culti-

Jumptown clarification

authentic neighborhood—but they’re smart enough to recognize how challenging a task that is. Thanks again for covering this issue.

—Amy Ruiz, Planning and Sustainability Policy Advisor to Mayor Sam Adams

Regulate it This is a great step, now to regulate cannabis by legalizing it so we can finally see the benefits we have seen with alcohol [“Medical marijuana users can breath easy,” Nov. 6].

Lower use rates, lower crime rates, the abolishment of the alcohol black market, regulation, ID requirement. The list goes on and on, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that cannabis prohibition is a thing of the past. When they implemented it, maybe they did think it would work. But, we’ve had the chance now to see for ourselves that it has failed. Let’s end cannabis prohibition before we are all old.

I know that I would like my rights back while I am still young. I don’t wanna mess around with the politics of cannabis until I grow too old to fight anymore.

—James Crosby *Online comments can be edited for space and brevity

Great deals on toilet paper and no. 2 pencils Portland Public Schools sells supplies back to teachers

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

Correction: Last week, two photographs of women’s basketball player Kelli Valentine were incorrectly identified as being Claire Faucher.

The Vanguard regrets the error.

Patrick Guild Vanguard staff

Portland Public Schools (PPS) recently held their quarterly yard sale in an effort to make some quick cash during lean times. The true winners of the auction are difficult to discern since half of the bidders at the auction were employees of PPS. Items for sale included basketball hoops, sewing accessories and pallets of wood for shop classes.

But other supposed “surplus” could be considered indispensable for teachers: reams of photocopy paper, laser printers, desks and 32 cases of toilet paper were sold for fractions of their value. A Skutt electric kiln, which could fetch $2,500 brand new or $950 on eBay, sold for $56. When the auction closed, the district raked in $6,357.

This is infuriating. Portland Public Schools advertised the items in The Oregonian and on Craigslist for a week before the actual auction. Why not sell them through classifieds or eBay? $6,300 begins to seem like a silly number when the cases of toilet paper alone—which brought in $325 for the district—retail for $1,800. In charity auctions, most items up for bid are donated. Bidders are able to get deals on items they usually can’t get elsewhere. The school district auction attracts bargain investors who sell the PPS supplies at a huge profit. Basically, they do what the schools should have done all along.

Rebecca Levison, president of the Portland Association of Teachers union, says that, “Every year teachers spend, on average, $600 from their own pocket on classroom supplies. I’m certain much of what was sold teachers would have used in their classrooms.”

If teachers could use these items, where does PPS get their surplus?

According to Willamette Week, individual district departments had discarded all items, and it was up to departments to donate the items on their own if they wanted them to go to schools.

I’m not sure it’s up to the PPS to decide that the supplies should even

Vanguard Opinion | 3 November 10, 2009

What do you think?

Gay marriage Last week Washington state passed Referendum 71, sometimes referred to as the “everything but marriage” law, granting equal rights to same-sex partners. This stands as a big win for gay rights in the Northwest.

However, the state of Maine in a similar battle repealed their gay marriage law allowing same-sex partners to marry. Oregon has its own take on same-sex marriage, with our Oregon Family Fairness Act that grants certain rights to same-sex couples.

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go up for sale. According to the PPS Web site, “Portland Public Schools operating funds come from the State School fund, fed by income taxes, local property taxes and, this year, federal stimulus funds.”

Taxpayers paid for the supplies at top dollar with the expectation that they would be used, not hocked at bargain-basement prices or sold back to PPS employees. District spokesman Matt Shelby admitted to Willamette Week that there’s currently no mechanism to tell teachers what’s available. So teachers are kept in the dark while bargain hunters are notified a week in advance of the PPS warehouse’s inventory.

Something is wrong here. Why is there such a disparity between schools that some are desperate for supplies and others can give them away? One problem, according to PPS administrators is school size.

Schools with low enrollment can’t compete with larger ones that get an understandably bigger chunk

of funds. As a result, supplies and course offerings are hard to come by.

In an article on Portland middle school disparities, Willamette Week showcased the shocking difference in education from schools in the same district. Robert Gray Middle School in Southeast Portland offers choir, concert band, cadet band, French, Spanish, art, journalism and technology classes. Beverly Cleary K-8 School in Northeast Portland offers an elective called “Puzzles,” where students learn Sudoku.

Jackson Middle School provides 342 minutes of instruction a day.

Peninsula K-8 School in Kenton gets 320 minutes a day. That adds up to two fewer weeks of school a year.

Really, there’s no one to blame but the economy. Educators and administrators are working hard to stretch a limited budget that’s down 3 percent from last year. According to The Oregonian, Superintendent Carole Smith proposed $32 million dollars in reductions through a combination

of furlough days, pay freezes, reserve spending, staff reduction and central office cuts. The district plans to use $9 million of its $38 million reserves to help fill the budget gap. Amazingly, only 40 full-time positions—teachers or administrators—will be eliminated.

Portland Public Schools administrators need to practice some of that sustainability that Portland is famous for. A warehouse full of supplies is wasteful, especially when educators are forced to buy their own provisions on a limited salary. Increased communication between district administrators and neighborhood schools can only benefit the quality of education offered in Portland’s largest school district.

Let’s make use of what we already have instead of letting it gather dust in a warehouse. Grabbing a deal on a lifetime’s supply of toilet paper may seem like a nifty way to cheat the system, but you’re really only cheating the kids.

The issue continues to loom over America as many opinions are drawn on the subject.

Some believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman only, while others believe that no one should be denied certain rights no matter who they marry.

So what do you think?

Write a letter to the editor here at the Vanguard. How should this issue be handled and what do you think will happen in the future battle for gay marriage?

Vanguard 4 | News November 10, 2009

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

Class registration and change deadlines

NEWS For that price, we’ll take gold lettering SALP increases price of copies to offset costs Klara Cachau-Hansgardh Vanguard staff

A second major blow has struck student organizations in the wake of

this year’s budget cuts.

In 2009, the price of copies in the Student Activities and Leadership Programs’ office rose to 5 cents a page— an increase of 2 cents from last year.

SALP sees the difference in cost as a necessity, but Portland State student organizations might fail to see the change in the same light.

The online class registration period for Winter term 2010 runs from Nov. 9, 2009, through Jan. 10, 2010.

The online Class Schedule can be accessed at www. sa.pdx.edu/soc.

The following dates reflect the first possible day that various classes of students are able to register: Mon, Nov. 9: Graduates and postbac graduates Thu, Nov. 12: Seniors Mon, Nov. 16: Postbac undergraduates Wed, Nov. 18: Juniors Mon, Nov. 23: Sophomores Wed, Nov. 25: Freshmen Mon, Nov. 30: Quick entry students For the current term, Nov. 15 is last day that a student may change their class grading option to either pass/ fail or to a letter grade.

It is also the last day on which students may withdraw from classes.

If a student withdraws from a class, no grade is given, though a “W” is recorded on their transcript and no refund is granted.

The SALP office verified that last year the cost to copy a single-sided sheet was 3 cents a page. This year the same copy costs 5 cents. In addition, a double-sided copy, with print on both sides, cost 5 cents last year—that price went up 3 cents to 8 cents a copy.

Director of SALP Aimee Shattuck asserts that the rise in cost came as a result of underfunding for the copier last year, thus SALP was not breaking even on the cost of the copier.

Shattuck also emphasized that SALP charges themselves the same fee that student groups are charged.

Shattuck explained that in the past year SALP was losing money due to the cheaper pricing of copies. SALP gains no profit or revenue from the cost of copies, rather the money spent on copies goes toward maintenance, toner, ink, paper and the actual rental of the copier.

If the price were misrepresentative, Shattuck stated, SALP would need to charge in student fees to make up for the deficit.

“Instead of charging all students for copies, we are charging student groups for how much it actually costs,” Shattuck said.

According to the proposed budget plan for 2009–10 as stated on the SALP Advisory Board’s Web site, $4,200 of the $24,691 reserved for the

student organizations’ subsidies and fees is allotted to copies.

If that money were used solely for single-sided copies throughout the year, that money would only account for 84,000 copies or approximately 571 per group for the entire year.

Paying for additional copies would have to come from another part of the student group’s budget or the advisor and members’ wallets.

On the other hand, the SALP office is given $1,920 for copies a year, or 38,400 single-sided sheets.

Shattuck acknowledged that student groups utilize the copier all the time, printing fliers for events, advertisements, daily agendas and schedules.

In keeping with Shattuck’s statement, a representative for the multicultural group Las Mujeres noted that ample copies were incredibly important to the functionality of a student organization.

Las Mujeres prints out copies for events and fliers on a regular basis, but does not utilize the copier in SALP’s office. The student group has their own copier in their office, but Las Mujeres’ Marisela Rodriguez confirmed that the student group having and maintaining their own copier did not ease budget constraints.

“Either way it still takes out of the budget,” Rodriguez said.

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Expensive copies: SALP raised the price of copies for student groups by 2–3 cents due to

underfunding, in order to pay for ink, toner, paper, maintenance and the copier rental.

SEARCH |

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Vikat is out, library switches to WorldCat Local catalog librarian for public services.

“Moreover, students looking for articles must search multiple databases. I believe that Portland State WorldCat is an important step forward to improving information access.”

Searching with WorldCat Local is easy. It is very similar to Google, with a simple free-text search box.

There is also an advanced search option that allows for more precise searching and limiting.

The initial browse display is ordered by a ranking algorithm that gives higher preference to Portland State’s records over those of other consortia partner libraries (the 35 Summit libraries in the Orbis Cascade Alliance) and over those of other WorldCat libraries.

Student opinion “The old catalog does not provide a search result with good-ranked relevance which means your keywords don’t give you what you expect,” said Shavali Alisher, engineering master’s student, “but the new catalog provides a better-ranked relevance.”

This basic holdings information presents a “Held by: [which library]” statement in the brief results list.

When a user selects a specific item to view, the system queries a local or consortia catalog to determine current circulation and information about the availability of the material.

“I feel it’s simpler and timesaving when I want to do a comprehensive search on all the available library resources,” said Harishankar Raghavan, a business administration student at Portland State.

Simplified: WorldCat Local allows simple searching, similar to Google.

WorldCat Local beta version is available at: portlandstate. worldcat.org

Online SALP training boosts turnout Vanguard staff

Student Activities and Leadership Programs, which supports student organizations and community connections at Portland State, has moved their mandatory trainings for leaders of student organizations online.

SALP recognizes over 120 student groups at Portland State and each group has at least three leaders.

According to Aimee Shattuck, director of SALP, the in-person trainings were not as effective as they needed to be, due to leadership turnover rates and scheduling conflicts.

The online training has eliminated these issues because the training videos, which cover topics like event and traveling requests, are available 24 hours a day through YouTube and Blackboard.

“This has been helpful, since we can now share our basic trainings with anyone across campus, and students or faculty can access them when they need them,” Shattuck said.

The in-person trainings had about 250 attendees, whereas the Blackboard course has more than 400 students registered.

Shattuck also noted that the training surveys have displayed positive results with more than 90 percent (a significantly higher

percentage than in previous years) of respondents stating that the training provided them with a good overview of SALP, resources available to them and where to go to access those resources.

Students must pass with a score of 90 percent or better to be invited to join SALP’s OrgSync Admin Club.

Joining means they have access to paperwork and resources available to student groups.

Tana Atchley, a SALP advisor, said the online training is especially helpful for international students and appeals to a number of learning styles because students can read the material and watch videos as many times as they want.

“The videos were useful [and] it was nice to have different people narrate them, but it was a lot of information to retain,” said Kimberly Kleinhans, the assistant coordinator of World Dance Office.

Veterans Day, an annual American holiday honoring military veterans, is tomorrow.

Portland State will be closed in observance of the holiday. Though it usually falls on Nov. 11, if it falls on a Sunday, then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if it occurs on Saturday, then either Monday or Friday may be designated.

It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on Nov. 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I.

To learn more or to register for the Blackboard training course: Contact SALP’s Office Coordinator, Lorrie McCullough, at 503-725-5966

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Caryll Day: A student at Portland State, Day helps put together videos for SALP training online.

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Vanguard News | 5 November 10, 2009

LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP)—The National Weather Service has confirmed that it was a tornado that tore through a coastal area of Lincoln City over the weekend and packed winds that reached 85 mph.

The tornado’s destruction path was 150 yards long by 80 yards wide, and a report from the National Weather Service said 11 homes, three cars and three decks were damaged.

Pacific Power representatives said almost 350 homes were without electricity. The power has been restored. No injuries were reported from the tornado.

Resident Brenda Ruble lives on a stretch of coastline in Lincoln City and said it took a moment to realize that a tornado was hitting the coast.

“Your brain is trying to process what’s going on, and it kept getting bigger and bigger, and there was a spin on it,” said Brenda Ruble, who lives in the area. “All of a sudden we looked at each other and go, ‘That’s a tornado!’ And my husband says, ‘Hit the ground!’”

Jim Jenneke said he was watching the Portland Trail Blazers game with his wife when he heard a large bang.

Winds ripped the deck off his house, blew down trees and caused damage to a power transformer.

The storm blew the roof off another house near Jenneke’s home and left it twisted and destroyed.

Pink insulation remained in trees and on the ground for about 150 yards inland on Saturday.

“All I heard was, ‘Woooooo!’ A big roar, you know,” said Jim Bobber, who lives nearby.

Large waves continued to crash against the beach Saturday evening as a high surf warning remained in effect.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President issue another proclamation to observe Nov. 11 with appropriate ceremonies.

An act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made Nov. 11 of each year a legal holiday.

In 1953, an Emporia, Kan., shoe store owner named Al King had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who served in World War I. King became involved with the American War Dads during World War II. He began a campaign to turn Armistice Day into “All” Veterans Day. The Emporia Chamber of Commerce took up the cause after determining that 90 percent of Emporia merchants, as well as the Board of Education, supported closing their doors on Nov. 11, 1953, to honor veterans.

With the help of thenU.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress.

President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.

Congress amended this act on Nov. 8, 1954, replacing “Armistice” with “Veterans,” and it has been known as Veterans Day since.

—Wikipedia

Vanguard 6 | Arts & Culture November 10, 2009

ARTS & CULTURE

Love makes us do crazy things

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

Tuesday attach and release: three bands with new music and shows to celebrate White Fang, Sewn Leather, Million Brazilians There’s a weird kind of chaos in White Fang’s music. The sound, on its own, isn’t the most incredible or riveting thing to come out of the local music scene, but what is amazing is their live show. Look at any photo taken from their performances, and you can see how things gradually dissolve into mayhem, with audience member participation and broken instruments littering their photo albums. The name of the game for these guys is fun, and it can be heard and felt at any and all of their concerts.

The Artistery, 8 p.m., $6, all ages St. Frankie Lee, Porches As evidenced at their record release show, St. Frankie Lee knows how to rock while still playing some amazing folk-inspired, country-esque rock. Chelsea Campbell and Derrick Martin, the couple who fronts the band, have an incredible chemistry onstage and have employed a talented group of friends to back them up as they croon and strum away.

Their recently released album is raw and rife with emotion, reflecting their honest approach to the craft and undeniable knack for songwriting.

Ella St. Social Club, 8 p.m., $2, all ages

Fool for Love: A play about insanity and a couple who don’t seem to know when to call it quits.

Fool for Love reminds its audience of the power love can have Anita Kinney Vanguard staff

Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love is a battle between lovers in a dingy motel room somewhere in the American West. Eddie (Chris Harder) and May (Val Landrum) compress a years-long argument into the span of 70 minutes. The pair have known each other since high school and have been in and out of love ever since, with Eddie leaving May every few years to fend for herself in their trailer—

The Woods, 8 p.m., $12, 21+

to reside with the other one. Shepard’s script elegantly describes the impact that his actions had on his children and their mothers.

May, in particular, is reliving her mother’s experience by remaining with Eddie, and her recitation of her mother’s pleas for May to avoid making the same mistakes is one of the play’s most moving moments.

May and Eddie also give Shepard a canvas to express his own passion for the West. Eddie straps on spurs and uses a lasso to express his emotions, torn between the woman he loves and the open range he craves. Being May’s lover is against Eddie’s nature, and the contrast between what Eddie offers and what May actually needs is apparent when May’s new boyfriend, Martin (Spencer Conway) comes to pick her up for a date.

Martin’s presence gives Eddie the chance to stake his claim on May and to display some of the qualities that May finds herself attracted to. When Eddie is vulnerable, he becomes lovable, and the dilemma of these “fools for love”

is thrown into stark relief. Eddie’s love for May is primal, urgent and a fact of their lives. In running from Eddie, May is running from herself. They have a connection that cannot be severed, and Harder and Landrum thrillingly expose the depth and insanity of this connection. They have a real chemistry (perhaps the result of being married offstage) and use Stapleton and Conway effectively in their performances.

This production is truly excellent and a welcome showcase for its cast and Sam Shepard’s vision.

Fool for Love CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. Thu—Sat, 8 p.m. Sun, 2 p.m.

Through Nov. 21 $20 students and seniors, $25 general

The untold story of

Bitter Tears

by Johnny Cash

Loch Lomond, Tu Fawning It goes without saying that the nationally acclaimed Loch Lomond will be putting on an amazing show for their record release at The Woods.

What should be said, though, is that Tu Fawning has a good shot at stealing the show. At Musicfest NW, they opened for the Dirty Three at Berbati’s Pan to a lively and enthusiastic crowd. The four-piece band could be likened to a more rock and roll-based Beach House, with wonderful vocal harmonies, rich instrumentation and lead singer Corinna Repp’s haunting vocals. Their music has an uncanny ability to rivet its listeners, wrapping them in a warm cocoon of smooth brass and melodic ambience.

but always returning to try to take her away to a new life. May observes that nothing ever changes yet somehow she has her suitcase packed to go with him.

Fool for Love observes one of these perpetual fights, after Eddie has driven 2,480 miles to find May after cheating on her with a famous actress (May calls her “the Countess”). The play focuses on describing the emotional impact that May and Eddie have on one another.

“I get sick every time you show up, and I get sick every time you leave,” May said, in between screaming at Eddie to leave. It’s this eternal torment that gives Fool for Love its shape and substance.

In a very real way, May and Eddie are stuck with one another. Not even the revelation that they share a father can drive them apart.

Their absent father is played by a spectral observer (Tim Stapleton) who occasionally interjects. He has lived a double life, having two wives whom he tried for his entire life to keep separate from one another, living with one for a few months at a time and then disappearing

New book is a fusion of musical biographies and historical events Wendy Shortman Vanguard staff

Why did one of the most influential and well-known musicians— whose songs “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Walk the Line” previously topped the charts and received major radio airplay—have to publicly write Billboard magazine asking the media to take notice of his new single “Ballad of Ira Hayes?”

The answer is that the single, “Ballad of Ira Hayes”—and the album, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian—by Johnny Cash, was censored from the public sphere after a backlash from media and citizens alike.

In A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, Antonio D’Ambrosio offers the compelling story of how and why Cash collaborated with Peter La Farge, a virtually unknown folk artist, to create an album that gave voice to oppressed people across the nation.

In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, the Red Power Movement was taking place, which most Americans failed to notice.

The Indian Termination Policy claimed to make Natives full citizens of America and to cut off all government funding of reservations (the term “Native” is used in the book, instead of Native American, because they were natives to the land before it was America).

In reality, what it did was grant the government more access to land and resources in the reservations and caused groups to lose their tribal affiliations and relocate to places where they were often victims of racism.

Cash, who felt an obligation to the oppressed group, made the album Bitter Tears with the song “Ballad of Ira Hayes,” written by Peter La Farge. The song is about U.S. Marine Ira Hayes, a tribal Akimel O’odham or “Pima,” who was one of the soldiers in the iconic World War II photograph, “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.”

In the book, readers learn about Ira Hayes’ purpose to make his people proud and his sad story of dedication to a country that failed to return the favor.

D’Ambrosio genuinely tells the story of Hayes and other Native groups that were disenfranchised by the U.S. government. By telling those stories, the author creates the backdrop for Cash’s controversial album.

In A Heartbeat and a Guitar, the reader is pushed and pulled into different directions every few paragraphs. In true musical biographical style, one story seems to lead into another story, and the next thing you know, you’re a little confused when the author gets back to the original story. It may take a little while to get used to, but trust me, it’s worth it.

Nonetheless, the book provides countless pieces of information, biographies and social and political commentary that illustrate what Cash and others were trying to do in a time of civil unrest. Not only does the book capture this, it brings it back to life.

If you’re a fan of musical biographies and being exposed to our country’s social injustices involving civil rights, you’ll love this book.

Reading A Heartbeat and a Guitar is like watching several episodes of VH1’s Behind the Music, except you learn much more meaningful information about these artists and the way they influenced and were influenced by social movements of their time.

Reading from Antonio D’Ambrosio Powell’s Books 1005 W. Burnside Tue, 7:30 p.m.

Antonio D’Ambrosio

A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

Science geeks New release from They Might Be Giants celebrates education Mark Johnston Vanguard staff

With their third “educational” disc, Here Comes Science, They Might Be Giants tackle a more tactile subject that older youths can latch on to.

The band valiantly dives into subjects that they admittedly know little about (members joked about how they had to rein in a scientific consultant, since this was a harder subject for them), bringing songs such as “Meet the Elements,” “I Am

a Paleontologist” and “Speed and Velocity” in an upbeat fashion that teaches kids important ideas and reminds parents that you can rock out at any age.

While the group’s records are not really age-specific, historically, their educational series has targeted younger audiences by incorporating simple ideas (counting and spelling), but now tackle scientific concepts, not limited to speed and velocity, astronomy and photosynthesis.

Making educational music that is not only fun but informative and easy to remember has been a challenge and a joy for They Might Be Giants—and, as the Flood-era fans grow up and have children of their

own, the group makes music they can enjoy and share with their families.

The group recently set out to tour in support of the new album and present it as a multimedia teaching tool through a book and music, in stores as well as live concerts. Additionally, the band will commit certain stops along the 16-city tour to devoting entire performances to either performing kids-only material, rock-only material or material solely from the Flood album.

They’ll be stopping in Portland this Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the Crystal Ballroom for an 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $20 advance, $23 at the door, and the show is 16 and over.

Vanguard Arts & Culture | 7 November 10, 2009

This week at the 5th Avenue Cinema Paths of Glory

They Might Be Giants

Here Comes Science Idlewild/Walt Disney Out now

Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 87 min.

“A compelling anti-war film, Paths of Glory shows just how dynamic of a force Stanley Kubrick had become before even reaching his 30th birthday.

Kirk Douglas delivers a powerful performance as Colonel Dax who leads his ill-prepared men into battle. Dax’s French troops see their mission against WWI Germany as a sure suicide mission, yet the military brass wants someone to pay for the shame they feel for their failed mission. Dax will not allow his men to be scapegoated and vehemently defends them.

This is a war won and lost in the trenches, and Kubrick takes us inside the fight with scenes as powerful as any other committed to film.”

—5thavenuecinema.org Nov. 13–14 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Nov. 15 at 3 p.m.

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

Vanguard 8 | Arts & Culture November 10, 2009

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

Weekend box office: Top 9 highestgrossing films for the weekend of Nov. 6–Nov. 8 1. A Christmas Carol (2009) Weekend Gross: $31,000,000 Gross to Date: $31,000,000 Last week’s rank: New Weeks in release: 1 2. This Is It Weekend Gross: $14,000,000 Gross to Date: $57,855,000 Last week’s rank: 1 Weeks in release: 2 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats Weekend Gross: $13,309,000 Gross to Date: $13,309,000 Last week’s rank: New Weeks in release: 1 4. The Fourth Kind Weekend Gross: $12,521,000 Gross to Date: $12,521,000 Last week’s rank: New Weeks in release: 1

St ark r av ing m ad Rabbids Go Home is a ridiculous ride with a message Steve Haske Vanguard staff

So what is a rabbid, anyway?

These goofy-looking bunny creatures are totally insane, live to cause mayhem and are the stars of Rabbids Go Home.

The rabbids have a problem: They’re trying to get to the moon, which may or may not be where they originally hail from. Given their manic mindset, they decide the best way to go about getting there is to collect a giant pile of junk, stealing and hoarding everything in sight, from parking cones to small dogs to the clothes off people’s backs.

Terrorizing is second nature to the rabbids. They first showed up in 2006, as characters in Ubisoft’s now-defunct Rayman platformer series. They usurped an unofficial company mascot position from the title character while changing the series from platformers to the party mini-game genre.

Rabbids is the rabbids’ first solo adventure, a sort of platformer with the jumping and with a dose of the Katamari series’ junk-collecting thrown in for good measure.

Given a shopping cart and blatant disregard for normalcy, your team of three rabbids have a simple goal per level­: Take as much crap as possible from each place you visit, adding the cumulative square feet to your evergrowing junk pile.

The game provides plenty of visible items to pick up or bump out of storage devices and the like. The real fun, though, is in wreaking havoc on the world. The rabbids can yell or speed their shopping cart into groups of hapless and very alarmed citizens, knocking their clothes off and sending them scurrying for shelter, which is pretty damn amusing.

There are also occasional corollaries to this design as well, such as when the rabbids bash a jet engine from a plane and ride it through an airport like Slim Pickens’ atomic bomb in Dr. Strangelove.

Occasional mini-games are peppered between levels too, such as ricocheting one of your (customizable) rabbids, who lives inside a virtual Wii-mote, around

its interior, just for the hell of it. It’s stuff like this that helps break up the game’s relatively straightforward design while showing off the development team’s clever ideas.

Rabbids is, after all, a pretty unique game, and making a pile of junk to get to the moon is just whimsically nonsensical enough to work in context to the rabbids themselves.

But what I found that was even more surprising was the social critique the developers embedded within this seemingly random, ridiculous game—the emphasis being on junk.

See, the world where the rabbids exist is skewed. Everywhere you go, chimed announcements are played, feeding messages to the world’s population that range on motifs running the gamut from totalitarianism to mindless consumerism to just plain nonsense.

“Remember, if you even think about it, you buy it,” the voice might say.

You may also hear things like, “Lunch breaks are limited to 10 minutes a day,” or, “Resting is considered unproductive. It is recommended that resting be abolished.”

Citizens, for their part, are all highstrung, whiny and panicky or nervous about trivialities. For instance, when

the rabbids knock their clothes off, everyone is carrying bottles of soda.

The rabbids make a trip at one point to the Babel Mall, suggesting a level of personal disconnect in the world.

There’s even a recurring Santa that drops hamburgers when hit—a clear sign for the McDonaldization of the game’s world. Throw in a bizarre soundtrack of old radio singles, ranging from Jefferson Airplane to John Denver, as well as lots of similar environs, and you’ve got a world that appears to be committed to a surface-level conversation.

In short, between the schizophrenic public service announcements and the citizens’ oblivious positions as mindless, shallow drones, it seems that these people have junk on the brain and clearly lack the ability to think for themselves. Thus, Rabbids becomes more of a game about having your priorities all screwed up than anything else.

Moreover, the rabbids themselves (who are clearly unhinged) are the ones disrupting this “normal” society, an inverse of what the situation appears to be. Suddenly, collecting a gigantic pile of junk in order to get to the moon perhaps doesn’t feel quite so insane.

And here I thought I was just going to be enjoying Rabbids for its inspired insanity.

Rabbids Go Home Ubisoft Nintendo Wii $49.99

5. Paranormal Activity Weekend Gross: $8,600,000 Gross to Date: $97,430,00 Last week’s rank: 2 Weeks in release: 7 6. The Box Weekend Gross: $7,855,000 Gross to Date: $7,855,000 Last week’s rank: New Weeks in release: 1

Five

7. Couples Retreat Weekend Gross: $6,428,000 Gross to Date: $95,980,000

The 12x16 Gallery unveils a reconfigured world of collage

Last week’s rank: 4 Weeks in release: 5 8. Law Abiding Citizen Weekend Gross: $6,172,000 Gross to Date: $60,873,000 Last week’s rank: 3 Weeks in release: 4 9. Where The Wild Things Are Weekend Gross: $4,225,000 Gross to Date: $69,268,000 Last week’s rank: 5 Weeks in release: 4 —www.the-movie-times.com

Joel Gaddis Vanguard staff

European Starlings weave their surroundings into the songs they sing. In urban areas, the birds can often be heard mimicking sirens, car alarms or the loud report of a jackhammer. They gather snippets of their environment and rearrange those pieces to create something entirely new.

Collage artists take a similar approach to their craft. Artifacts of everyday life, such as photographs or business cards, can be arranged and incorporated into new, often surprising works of art. This is the favored technique of local artist Liz Cohn, whose work is now on display at the 12x16 Gallery.

Cohn, who has been making art for 25 years, is very enthusiastic about her latest creations. Entitled Five, the exhibit consists of mixedmedia collage. The pieces feature

stenciled paint as well as threedimensional elements, including a cast of the artist’s teeth.

“This current body of work is like overlapping realities: the high Renaissance meets Wild Kingdom,” said Cohn. “Dark, old classic works with birds and mountains and goats overlaying the scene.”

The juxtaposition of wildlife imagery with the formalism of Renaissance painting creates interesting, and sometimes amusing, dichotomies. In one piece, we see a starling overlapping a classical depiction of Madonna and child.

Another repeated motif in Five is dots, which Cohn claims serves a special purpose in her work.

“The dots create a partial veil that obscure parts of the image and that makes you want to see what is hidden, all the more,” Cohn said. “It allows me to redirect your attention and focus. Or, as Aimee Mann put it in one of her songs, ‘creating want by holding back’.”

Cohn’s method for creating art involves meditation and a quieting of her inner critic—keeping an open, non-judgmental state of mind. There is also a good deal of reshuffling,

rearranging and reevaluating that occurs throughout the process which, Cohn says, can last several days or weeks. When the finished product is finally on display, viewers sometimes have interpretations of the work that are revealing even to the artist.

“People point out to me their perceptions of what they think I am saying, and my unconscious motivations are freshly revealed to me,” Cohn said. “Often the viewer is only bringing their own baggage and experiences to my works, but sometimes they help me to see the workings of my own mind. I can then see patterns and themes that were there all along, but were too close to see as I was creating the work. That is one of the things that is still so interesting about creating art for me.”

Collage seems to encourage this sort of psychic conversation between artist, viewer and environment. Providing a new context can open up previously hidden layers of meaning. Just like the starlings, we are capable of recreating our landscapes.

12x16 Gallery 8235 SE 13th Ave., No. 5 Exhibit runs Nov. 5–29 Thu through Sun, noon to 6 p.m.

Free

Image courtesy of 12 x 16 Gallery

Five: Not your little sister’s collages.

SPORTS

Bye, bye birdie The Vikings sweep the visiting Eagles in front of a packed Stott Center J. Logue Vanguard staff

Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Stellar setter: Nique Fradella recorded her

sixth double-double in the Viks’ weekend win.

Riding the superb play of senior outside hitter Whitney Phillips, who had her best performance as a Viking on Friday, the Portland State women’s volleyball team demonstrated why they should be considered the top-ranked team in the Big Sky Conference this year.

“I thought we came out and executed our game plan well,” Phillips said. “We put in three hard days of practice, and it showed.”

Walking into the arena before tipoff, it was easy to see the determination on the faces of every player on the court. Despite losing to Portland State earlier in the season on their home court, the Eagles looked as ready as ever to go to battle with the Viks.

With each and every set going right down to the wire, the Vikings (17-7, 11-2 Big Sky) willed themselves past Eastern Washington with three consecutive set victories (26-24, 25-21, 25-22) to sweep the Eagles (18-9, 11-2 Big Sky) in convincing fashion at the Stott Center.

“It was a great win,” said senior middle blocker Erica Jepsen. “I think we played even better than we did last time, so that’s a good step for us going into the conference tournament, possibly having to see [Eastern Washington] again.”

Seemingly finding the weaknesses in the defense every time she hit the ball, Phillips was virtually on fire Friday night, with 25 kills on .477 hitting. With both teams nearly even

in almost every statistical category, the difference in the match came down to who could hit with more efficiency.

Portland State also did an outstanding job shutting down Eastern Washington’s best player, and last year’s Big Sky Player of the Year, Hayley Hills. Hitting just .088 on the night, Hills was held to one of her worst performances of the year and never seemed comfortable.

Winning out in the first set, 26-24, Portland State fell behind quickly, 4-1, early on in the second.

Regrouping and showing no signs of panic, the Vikings inched their way back into the game until they were tied at 6-all and eventually won the match, 25-21.

Determined not to go down without a fight, the Eagles jumped to an early lead again in the third set on a kill and a block by Hills. Playing

Players of the game:

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#18, Whitney Phillips Senior, outside hitter 25 kills* 9 digs .477 hitting * The most kills in the conference for a three-set match this season

#11, Nique Fradella

Senior, setter 40 assists 10 digs Her sixth double-double

The highest rung Lacrosse Club shows off their elite skills at PGE Park over the weekend James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

During a wet and frigid halftime of a football game at PGE Park on Saturday, the Portland State Lacrosse Club showcased their skills in a crosstown scrimmage against University of Portland.

In what equated to roughly onequarter of regulation lacrosse play, the Vikings came out on top, 2-0, thanks to a sharp-looking offense and a swarming defense.

According to club founder and player James Taylor, the defense will be a valuable weapon for the Vikings when the season opens in February.

“We have one defender that is…6-foot-4 or 6-foot-5. He’s a huge kid—lots of talent. Next to him you have a guy that’s…just a pickpocket, a thief,” Taylor said. “We have an AllState defender next to him. Our defense is insanely good.”

Not to be outdone in an opportunity to show the Viking-faithful the team’s talent, the Viking offense scored two quick points—one

within the first five minutes of play and another with halftime drawing to a close.

The first came courtesy of Keith Jane, and he assisted on the second to returning player and midfielder Ryan Heider.

“Our attack has gotten exponentially better than it was last year,” Taylor said.

The improvements have come with good reason, as this season marks the team’s second year in the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League, which is part of the larger Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association. The teams in the league play at an elite level, and the competition is some of the stiffest in the nation.

“Last year we put in an application to be a member of this league and we got in. It was a pretty tough year; the competition’s pretty stiff,” Taylor said. “Without being NCAA, we’re in the highest rung of lacrosse without being a varsity sport.”

Like several other of the Portland State Rec Clubs, it seems the Lacrosse Club is redefining what club sports are capable of accomplishing. This year, the club went to local high schools to recruit new players—and, in their own right, are becoming a potential draw for students to attend

like the veteran team they are, the Vikings crawled their way back into the set and won, 25-22.

“I’m extremely proud of our effort tonight,” said head coach Michael Seemann. “I thought we did a great job at staying balanced on both sides of the ball.”

Adding even more importance to the night, Northern Colorado won both of their conferences games to tie with Portland State for first place. Despite the big win against Eastern Washington, the Vikings have yet to beat the Bears this season, having lost to them earlier this year.

With Portland State still in the driver’s seat, they will lock up the conference regular season championship this week with a win against Northern Colorado. No matter what obstacles they face in the near future, the win against Eastern Washington will keep them hungry.

Portland State.

Members of the coaching staff, players and administrators of the club went to local games to not only scout the players, but to recruit them to join Portland State. A big reason for the recruitment process was due to University of Oregon and Oregon State being the only lacrosse options in the state.

“With as much competition as there is in our league and within the area, we decided it would be a good thing to at least get the word out that we’re there,” Taylor said.

“We tried to hand-pick some of our players. We have three All-State players, one All-American…we’re trying to build something that’s a community of excellence.”

Taylor said the issue with such a narrow draw was that first-year players would go to OSU or U of O and languish on the bench as the rosters would swell to accommodate the incoming talent.

“If you graduated high school and wanted to stay local, that was it. You faced going down and being on a roster with 80 people. So, there were a lot of talented young men that were going to go to these schools and needed playing time, that wanted playing time…and would probably be redshirted until their second or

Vanguard Sports | 9 November 10, 2009

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

Phillips earns Big Sky Co-Player of the Week honors Portland State’s Whitney Phillips has been named the Big Sky Conference Volleyball Co-Player of the Week for matches played Nov. 2–9.

Phillips shared the honor with Northern Colorado’s Taylor Smith. It is Phillips’ first selection of the season, and the fourth for a Viking this year.

The junior outside hitter put up some mighty impressive numbers in Friday night’s sweep of Eastern Washington at the Stott Center. Phillips hammered home 25 kills for an incredible average of 8.33 kills per set. She hit .477 with just four errors on 44 swings, and also contributed nine digs.

The 25 putaways was by far the most in a threeset match by any player in the Big Sky in 2009.

Phillips eclipsed the 20-kill barrier for the eighth time this year, and has led the Vikings in kills in 22 of their 24 matches. Only once this season has she not recorded at least 10 kills in a match.

Phillips has led the Big Sky in kills and points for much of the season. A transfer from New Mexico State, she is averaging 4.88 kills and 5.24 points per set. In conference matches those numbers are even more impressive, as she is putting up 5.39 kps and 5.70 pps.

Additionally, she is fourth in the nation in kills and ninth in points.

third year,” he said.

Not only is the club drawing from a pool of local talent, but according to Taylor, the team has also received inquiries from as far south as Pasadena, Calif., and, the team already has players from California, Washington and Idaho.

“We’re becoming a draw for our school. That’s part of the reason I think we got a very good budget, because we’re bringing students to the university…it’s something we’re very proud of,” Taylor said.

With the recent demise of Portland’s professional lacrosse team, the Lumberjax, the club has come about at a good time to become ingratiated within the community.

This year, Taylor is hoping that the club will expand and become more visible within the community at-large.

“We’re going to start getting youth groups, like local youth lacrosse programs to watch,” he said. “I think we’ll be at maximum capacity this season, as far as where we can put people [to watch].”

The Lacrosse Club is proving, along with a litany of other Portland State clubs, that teams built from the ground up can succeed and flourish in the university setting.

“The Rec Clubs, as we look around, we see one club doing this and another club doing this. Again, [we’re] building a community of excellence,” said Taylor.

The Lacrosse Club will play its last fall scrimmage against Western Oregon on Nov. 21 at the Stott Community Field.

—Ryan Borde, assistant media relations director, Portland State University Athletics

Vanguard 10 | Sports November 10, 2009

Funny sports quotes Sure, athletes aren’t exactly known for their eloquence or vast oratory skills.

But sometimes, even the most benign question can result in a comment that will live on forever. Here are some examples for your reading pleasure.

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

—Yogi Berra “We can’t win at home.

We can’t win on the road. I just can’t figure out where else to play!”

—Pat Williams “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”

—Knute Rockne “I’ve been big ever since I was little.”

—William “The Refrigerator” Perry “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”

—Jason Kidd “Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.

If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.”

—Bill Veeck “Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.”

—Mike Royko “I’d run over my mother to win the Super Bowl.”

—Russ Grimm “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.”

—Duffy Daugherty “On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”

—Lou Holtz “If hockey fights were fake, you would see me in more of them.”

—Rod Gilbert “[O. J. has] an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to make the cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legs and the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with his variation of speed...”

—Howard Cosell (on ways O. J. Simpson can kill) www.listverse.com, www.hubpages.com, www.quotemountain.com, www.basicjokes.com, www.searchwarp.com

Weathering the storm Football suffers another conference loss in final home game of the season Allison Whited Vanguard staff

In PGE Park on Saturday, the weather told the story of this year’s Portland State football season.

It was a nasty day—cold, wet and dark—and it would end with the Vikings dropping their last home game of the season to the Montana State Bobcats, 28-10.

Neither the weather nor the score could have been a starker contrast to the first home game of the season. On that warm, sunny day in early September, the Viks stomped Southern Oregon, 34-10, in their best offensive showing of the season.

On that September day, the season held so much promise. Players celebrated the win with smiles and laughs, mulling around the field long after the game in order to let the victory linger on.

On Saturday, there seemed to be only a sense of anger at the outcome of the season. There were no happy faces or celebratory dances to be seen.

The Viks, in their third year under head coach Jerry Glanville, have had only one conference win, and that came four weeks ago against Northern Colorado. Outside conference play, they have not done any better, only beating the aforementioned Southern Oregon squad.

“I think people are more angry today than they have been in the past because it was the seniors’ last home game. Offensively, we didn’t show up to play,” said senior fullback Bobby McClintock.

Given all this, it would be easy to dismiss this game as just another loss. In some respects, that would be fair.

Offensively, the Viks have still not recovered their identity. Since the knee-injury to senior quarterback Drew Hubel at Northern Colorado, the offense has struggled to be effective, and Saturday was no exception.

Hubel started the game shaky, going only one of four for 15 yards.

On the Vikings’ third possession, he suffered an injury to his shoulder when he dove trying to recover a fumble from a bad snap. As a result, sophomore backup quarterback Connor Kavanaugh stepped in for the remainder of the game.

Kavanaugh was not able to improve much on Hubel’s performance. He completed 53 percent of his 17 passes for a lowly 67 yards, bringing the total yardage for the passing attack up to 82 yards, the lowest total for any game this season.

The Montana offense, however, had a stellar first half—thanks largely to the inability of the Portland State defense to get anything going.

Normally, the Bobcats are not an offensive-minded team. They don’t have a primary quarterback, and instead, split time between two starters. And, their offensive lineup does not include any of the Big Sky Conference’s top five offensive players in any category.

Despite all this, the Bobcats jumped out to an early 28-0 lead with an attack that was almost equal parts passing and rushing—a testament to the overall malaise of the Viking defense.

In the second half, though, the Viking defense became determined to rewrite the story. Everything seemed to fall in place. The much-maligned secondary allowed only 20 additional yards through the air. The run defense, which at times has shined this season, allowed only 42 yards.

They also seemed hell-bent on

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Defensive stand: The Vikings’ defense held strong in the second half against the Bobcats.

making something happen. After a fumble by Kavanaugh in the second quarter, senior linebacker Ryan Pedersen forced a fumble on the very next play. Senior nose tackle Jermaine Jacobs recovered the ball, giving the offense another chance. “[Losing is] tough, especially when your defense is playing well, and the offense can’t take advantage of that,” Kavanaugh said.

The offense may have sputtered through the air, but they did make progress in their running game.

Kavanaugh finished as the team’s leading rusher for the fourth week in a row with 67 yards. McClintock and freshman fullback Evans Okotcha added 46 and 39 yards, respectively.

A short run by junior third-string quarterback Justin Engstrom gave the Vikings 158 yards on the ground, their second highest total for the season. In addition, the one touchdown that the Vikings scored came on a 31-yard run by Okotcha. The Bobcats had allowed only one rushing touchdown all season.

The feat is especially impressive considering that the Bobcats have the top ranked running defense in the conference entering the game, allowing only 77.4 rushing yards per game.

For every step forward though, the offense took two steps back.

While the defense held strong three times when the Bobcats attempted to convert on fourth down, the Portland State offense converted only two of their 14 third down attempts.

After making zero trips into the

red zone last week against Eastern Washington, the Vikings were only able to make the trip across the field twice and only once did they come away with points.

“The last two games, we haven’t functioned well offensively. We’re making it hard,” Glanville said.

“We’re not making plays. That may have been our first long run for a touchdown since I’ve been here.”

The Vikings’ last chance to get another win on their 2-8 season comes next week against Idaho State in Pocatello. Another conference opponent, the Bengals, are winless this season with a 0-10 record.

Kickoff is set for 2:35 p.m.

Connor Kavanaugh: 9 of 17 for 67 yards with 1 interception passing; 20 carries for 67 yards rushing Bobby McClintock: 6 carries for 46 yards and 2 receptions for 30 yards Evans Okotcha: 8 carries for 39 yards, 1 touchdown Jaycob Shoemaker: 9 tackles, 4 unassisted DJ McCarthy: 7 tackles, 6 unassisted Zach Brown: 1 for 1 from 22 yards* *sets new single-season field goal record of 16

Ducks sweep Viks off the ice U of O skates away with two wins over Portland State Robert Britt Vanguard staff

In a heated rivalry between the hockey clubs of Portland State and the University of Oregon, it was the Ducks who skated off the ice with two wins over the weekend.

On Friday and Saturday night, the Ducks and Vikings faced off at the Valley Ice Arena in Beaverton for the first in a pair of two-game series between the clubs. Though Portland State rallied in the third period of each game, it was the Ducks that won 6-4 and 6-2, respectively.

“It’s frustrating,” said Portland State head coach Ross Gale. “It’s our biggest rivalry, so of course we want to beat them.”

The first meeting of the rival clubs on Friday began close, with a goal from Oregon’s Sam Cehula and a power play goal from Portland

State’s Tucker Dougherty keeping the game tied 1-all at the end of the first period. In the second 20 minutes of play, Oregon’s pressure in the Portland State zone led to a 5-2 lead.

The third period belonged to the Vikings. The penalty-killing lines held strong against the Oregon power play, and Dougherty’s second goal of the night, along with a shot from Portland State team captain Anthony Libonati that found the net less than a minute later, made it a one-goal game with less than four minutes to play.

The late-game comeback was not enough, though, and the Ducks left the ice with a win after an empty-net goal with 10 seconds left on the clock put the score at 6-4.

Libonati finished the night with a matching goal and a save, and teammate Alex Zsenyuk had four assists.

Saturday night featured aggressive Portland State play on both sides of the ice. A major penalty on the Vikings in the first led to a

All photos courtesy of Portland State Hockey Club

Cold-hearted rivalry: The Viks fell to the Ducks this weekend and must wait until February for a rematch.

5-on-4 power play for Oregon, and forward Derek Wolfson capitalized with a goal to end the period at 1-0, Oregon.

Portland State goaltender Ryan Stanchfield prevented a barrage of shots from finding the back of the net early in the second period, but like the night before, the Oregon attack wore the Viks down, and the period ended with a 5-0 Ducks advantage.

A late-game Portland State revival was aided by third period goals by Dougherty and Hunter Levengood, but Oregon’s defense stopped much of the attack, and the game ended 6-2, dropping the Vikings to a 3-3

record on the season.

“We just don’t have the depth that Oregon has. That’s what a lot of it comes down to,” Gale said following the loss.

The weekend was not all lost to the Ducks though. By accepting donations for admission, in two nights the Portland State Hockey Club collected over 600 cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank.

“It was great,” Gale said of his team’s contribution. “We had a lot of fans coming out, and we filled up two barrels with cans.”

The Portland State Hockey Club’s next game is scheduled for this Sunday against Idaho.

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Big Sky standings (Conference record)

Volleyball t1. Portland State 17-7 (11-2) t1. Northern Colorado 18-9 (11-2) 3. Eastern Washington 15-9 (9-4) 4. Montana 11-13 (7-6) 5. Sacramento State 15-13 (5-7) t6. Idaho State 11-14 (5-8) t6. Northern Arizona 8-14 (5-8)

Last-shot loss All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Regular season champs lose to Northern Arizona in semifinal shootout, 4-3 Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

After 110 minutes of play that ended in a 1-1 tie, the Portland State women’s soccer season came to an end on Friday night with an agonizing 4-3 loss in the first conference shootout since 2006.

“The entire night, we had a great game. I had no doubt that we were going to win,” said Portland State head coach Laura Schott, after her team was upset by fourth-seeded Northern Arizona in the Big Sky Semifinals in a heartbreaking penalty kick shootout.

“There is no team that I would rather have going into a penalty kick situation, and things didn’t go our way tonight,” she said.

Schott started the match against Northern Arizona on Friday with the same 11 players that started most of Portland State’s conference games this season, and she was rewarded almost instantaneously. In the fifth minute, senior Dolly Enneking scored the first goal of the game off a double assist from freshmen Michelle Hlasnik and Amanda Dutra.

Enneking, the season’s Big Sky Offensive MVP and Golden Boot Award winner, slotted the

ball towards Northern Arizona team to simplify the game and not goalkeeper Tori Rocke’s left post to defend flat against Portland State. send the Viks up 1-0. The goal was At the half, the teams headed into her 12th of the season, and with it the break still tied. she tied the school’s single-season Late in the second half, Portland points record of 27 set in 2002.

State again had a chance to close Enneking’s attacking partner, out the game. Sophomore Esty junior Frankie Ross, said, “We came Geiger tested the Lumberjacks’ out on fire in the game and kept keeper in the 88th minute with a attacking. I wish we had kept that long, audacious lob. The ball struck tempo up for the entire half.” the outside of the crossbar before The Vikings going out of play. couldn’t capitalize After 90 minutes of on their one-goal aggressive play, the advantage, and the score remained 1-1.

Lumberjacks scored In the first in the 34th minute. overtime, Ross shot Northern Arizona’s wide what would Jenna Samora have been the Viks’ latched onto a long game winner. The pass by teammate only shot on goal in Sarah Neatherton, the period came from and slipped the Northern Arizona’s ball past Vikings Kristi Andreassen, keeper and Big Sky but Lewis held strong Defensive MVP Cris in the net for the Viks.

Lewis. After hitting In the second the inside of the period of overtime, post, the ball nestled Hlasnik: Her assist in the first half Portland State into the net to tie freshman Megan gave the Viks an early 1-0 lead. the match at 1-1.

Martin fired a During the high-intensity first powerful volley at the Northern half, Portland State had four Arizona goal only to have it palmed offensive substitutions to try and away by Rocke. The Vikings led the keep fresh legs in the game, as the Lumberjacks 6-1 in corner kicks Viks looked to take the lead again. and tied for attempts at goal with 14 Northern Arizona head coach Andre shots in the match.

Luciano, in an effort to contain the After failing to break the deadlock relentless waves of Portland State after 110 minutes of action, Portland attacks, could be heard urging his State headed into its first penalty kick

Team Regulation goals Shots Corners Shootout goals

Scoring Summary: 4:41 Dolly Enneking 32:14 Jenna Samora Golden Boot: Dolly Enneking scored PSU’s lone goal in 110 minutes of regulation play.

shootout of the season, egged on by a recorded crowd of nearly 500.

Despite Lewis’ record-breaking season in front of the net for Portland State, with the shootout tied at 3-3 going into the last kick, Northern Arizona’s Sarah Neatherton scored to lead her team into the Big Sky Finals.

“We played well for the most part, and it’s unfortunate we couldn’t get a winner. There was no doubt at any point during the game that we were going to win it,” Lewis said. “But I am happy with the team, and I wouldn’t have wanted to enter this game with any other group of girls.”

In a message to the fans that turned up for the match in huge numbers, she said, “They were awesome. We couldn’t give them a win, but it was great to have them here.”

In Friday’s other semifinal, Idaho State edged out Eastern Washington 2-1. In the Big Sky Championship match on Sunday, Northern Arizona went on to win its second consecutive postseason title by demolishing Idaho State, 4-0.

After a historic run this season, the record-breaking Vikings now take an offseason break before the start of their 2010 campaign.

“I think the team now knows that they really are good enough,” Schott said when asked about the lessons leaned over the season. “Sometimes we battle thinking that we are not as good as we are, but we shouldn’t be that modest. Sometimes we are better than we think.”

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