Daily Vanguard November 17, 2009

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 36

Event of the day John Perkins, economist and author, is lecturing and signing today in support of his latest book, Hoodwinked! An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy Imploded and How to Remake It. When: 7 p.m.

Where: SMSU Ballroom

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Scapegoats at Fort Hood Americans shouldn’t let tough times divide us PAGE 3

NEWS Portland Spectator wins design award First-place award given to the student publication by The Collegiate Network PAGE 4 Crime Blotter Portland State knows how to party...and get caught PAGE 5

Regular season champs: Women’s volleyball claimed their second Big Sky regular season championship in three years.

BREAKING NEWS Official announcement on the future of PSU football expected today Robert Britt Vanguard staff

ARTS

Splender in the living room False Front Studio presents a collection of work from Lynda Frese PAGE 6

Portland state Volleyball Secures championship

Portland State football may be getting a new head coach.

Jerry Glanville, the enigmatic former NFL coach who created a media stir upon his arrival at Portland State in 2007, is rumored to be out after just three seasons and an overall record of 9–24 at the helm of Vikings football.

Portland State Athletics Director Torre Chisholm declined to comment on the

matter, but a press conference is scheduled for today to discuss the future of the football program, and it is expected that the official announcement will be made then.

A source from within the Athletics Department said the general consensus is that Glanville’s future with the program was determined after Saturday’s loss to Idaho State, the team’s fifth straight.

Glanville, 68, led the Vikings to a record of 2–9 this season, 1–7 in conference—the worst record the program has seen since starting Division I play.

The last time Portland State went 2-9 was as a Division II program in 1982.

Photo courtesy of Portland State Athletics

Vikings pillage Lumberjacks and Bears in final home games J. Logue Vanguard staff

Hosting Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado for their final home games of the season, the Portland State women’s volleyball team (19-7, 13-2 Big Sky) played as close to perfect as possible Friday and Saturday. The Vikings claimed their second regular season championship in three years in decisive wins over the Lumberjacks and Bears.

Playing Northern Arizona (8-16, 5-10 Big Sky) first and grasping onto the top spot in the conference, the Vikings took on a Lumberjacks team Friday night that played tougher than their record indicated. Northern Arizona is a young and athletic team with a roster that boasts 11 freshmen and sophomores.

On a night where the graduating Portland State players were honored before the match, it was only fitting that seniors Nique Fradella, Erica Jepsen and Marija Vojnovic played their hearts out. Combining for 28 kills on .349 hitting, the Vikings rode the outstanding play of the seniors to an easy victory at the Stott.

“I thought it was huge that the seniors were able to contribute like they did,” said head coach Michael Seemann. “Nique did a great job of getting the team into a rhythm, and Erica and Marija were fantastic as well.”

Despite falling behind early in the first set 4-0, Portland State pulled ahead midway through the match and never looked back. The Vikings steamrolled a Lumberjacks team that had no response to Portland State’s increasingly efficient offense, winning in three straight sets

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Adding to the list Voter Registration Drive endeavors to get max number of voters registered

It’s the bomb We Bombed in New Haven is smart, lifeaffirming and well executed PAGE 6

Gogul Krishnan Vanguard staff

SPORTS

Oh captain, our captain A look back at Nathalie Wollmann’s career at Portland State PAGE 9

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Nearing the goal: Volunteers for the ASPSU Voter Registration Drive have secured 1,821 voter cards, bringing them closer to their goal of 2,000.

Around 30 volunteers are set to work for the ASPSU Voter Registration Drive this week, with a goal to have at least 2,000 voters registered at Portland State. By the end of last week, volunteers had already collected 1,821 voter cards.

ASPSU believes that if students contribute a considerable percentage of the voting population, they can draw better attention from legislators, which will eventually lead to increase in funding for schools and academic institutions. The Voter Registration Drive was started for this purpose.

“Almost all students should have come across the volunteers of Voter Registration Drive, who ask you to register your name, so your right to vote can be exercised,” said Katie

Markey, interim ASPSU Legislative Affairs director. “We have 10 core volunteers and 50 others who campaign occasionally.”

Markey invited students to take part in the debate.

“We are also organizing ‘class raps’ where volunteers would give a presentation during class hours about how important it is for students to vote,” said Markey.

“On Dec. 2, ASPSU along with Portland State Debate team has arranged for a discussion about the special election on Jan. 25,” Markey said. “I request all students to attend.”

In the beginning of winter term, Jan. 4–5, ASPSU is planning to distribute educational guides with the pros and cons about the choice of voting.

Markey requested for more students to volunteer for the Voter Registration Drive, and she asked students who haven’t yet registered to come by the ASPSU office at SMSU room 117 to do so.

Vanguard 2 | Opinion November 17, 2009

OPINION

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Here are some highlights from last week’s online comments.

Slander As a medical marijuana patient, I’m highly offended by this article/ opinion piece [“Social medication,” Nov. 13]. These clubs are primarily for people from out of town, where they have a legal place to smoke while they’re visiting. They provide patients with the ability to ingest their medicine without fear of arrest. There’s also a membership fee to join these clubs. As a Portland resident, I don’t need what they’re offering, but I still applaud NORML for making this available. If you’d like to learn more about this, since it’s obvious your only research into this was the Oregonian article you quoted, I’d suggest that you contact NORML directly, or perhaps read the article the Mercury wrote about this last week. It’s way less slanderous.

—Chuck

Shame on us Writers Kate Alexander, William Blackford, Bianca Blankenship, Klara Calhau-Hawsgardh, Maeve Connor, Meaghan Daniels, Erica DeCouteau, Joel Gaddis, Natalia Grozina, Patrick Guild, Rosemary Hanson, Steve Haske, Ed Johnson, Carrie Johnston, Mark Johnston, Tamara K. Kennedy, Anita Kinney, Gogul Krishnan, J. Logue, James MacKenzie, Holly K. Millar, Stephanie Fine Sasse, Wendy Shortman, Nilesh Tendolkar, Robin Tinker, Vinh Tran, Allison Whited Photographers Aaron Leopold, Rodrigo Melgarejo, Liana Shewey, Adam Wickham Copy Editors Amy Lee, Robert Seitzinger Advertising Sales Matthew Kirtley, Ana SanRoman, Jae Specht, Wesley Van Der Veen

You should be ashamed of yourselves for promoting the homosexual lifestyle [“Almost gay marriage,” Nov. 13]. It’s wrong and Maine should be commended for doing what they did and Washington should be berated.

—Steve

Is Dick Richards a hateful person?

You are a very hateful person [“The Rant and Rage: Believe it or not, this pisses me off,” Nov. 10]. I have never seen an Atheist go door to door (except in a comedy) or yell from a street. They don’t send missionaries, they don’t have TV channels (not yet that I know of, but perhaps they should). So they write some books and post YouTube videos. There is far more religious media being shoved down throats. American Atheists is more like a political organization like the EFF, ACLU or NAACP, to which the vast majority of Atheists probably do not donate. BTW, Is that really your name?

—Chris W

Valid reasons to network Those of us with valid reasons to smoke marijuana, some with nausea so bad they can’t keep food down, are not gathering at these clubs to stuff their faces [“Social medication,” Nov. 13]. The “network” the writer speaks of consists of people who haven’t had a place to talk with others with similar health problems and hopefully find new ways to deal with their pain and suffering. Perhaps Ms. Grozina’s disdain for these folks would be mitigated if she would have spoken with them about the real issues involved.

—Thomas

At least one guy got it

What’s wrong with stamps anyways?

This is hilarious! I’ve rarely seen a parody done so well, or so ridiculously. Congratulations! [“The Rant and Rage: Believe it or not, this pisses me off,” Nov. 10] —Benedict Nasalroad

What a load of hot air. Atheism is my religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is my hobby. [“The Rant and Rage: Believe it or not, this pisses me off,” Nov. 10] —Jim

We already do that

You’ve been Godwinned

“We cannot let superstition and blatant hatred become acceptable platforms for public policy.”

Except that we have and they are [“Almost gay marriage,” Nov. 13].

—Bill

lol. Atheism is as much a religion as NOT collecting stamps is a hobby. This was a fun little rant though, till you Godwin’d yourself.

Cheers! [“The Rant and Rage: Believe it or not, this pisses me off,” Nov. 10] —belt

This person has no problem with homosexuals, can you tell?

This has nothing to so [sic] with equal rights!!!!!!! [“Almost gay marriage,” Nov. 13] This has to do with what is real!!! If this passes it is going to be devistating [sic] for the entire nation that is not homosexual!!! Eventually they will change our children’s textbooks to show familys [sic] as two mommys [sic] or two daddys [sic], which is disgraceful!! It is going to become illegal for us hetrosexuals [sic] to teach our children that being homosexual is not natural... I do not dislike homosexuals, but I also think it os [sic] wrong for you to impose your immoral actions on the rest of the world. Keep it to yourself !! You should not have the right to get married. That is not what mariage [sic] is about! This is not about equal rights, this is about homosexuals wanting to make a big scene, and be in the media like usual...you don’t see heterosexuals rioting because gays are getting more attention then [sic] them... do you???? All I have to say is ho-

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mosexuals need to get a life....being homosexual is wrong!!! So... keep it to yourself...don’t try to pass laws that impose your immoral behaviors on the futeure [sic] generations...too many children are confused these days...they don’t need these ideas that maybe they’re gay!!!

PS: You are not born gay....something in your life went majorly wrong and you took the easy way out by saying hey, I can’t help it, I’m gay. That’s not the way it is... your [sic] not born gay, you decide to be that way, don’t mae [sic] excuses for you behaviors...there aren’t any!!

—christian

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Separate but equal?

Let me get this straight [“Almost gay marriage,” Nov. 13] (no pun in-

tended): Gay folk should be grateful for the limited relief, magnanimously provided by straight folk, from the second-class citizenship that has been imposed on them by straight folk in the first place. Really? It’s exactly the sense of entitlement to privilege that you just expressed that needs to be corrected. You’re in no position to decide who gets what, or what gets “accommodated,” simply because you believe that you’re in a position of moral authority. Society and the rights guaranteed by it are to be shared, not hijacked and distributed unevenly by those narcissistic enough to convince themselves that normalcy is defined only by who they are, and that anything else is to be generally oppressed and sparingly “accommodated” as need be. I’m sure that many Jews under the Third Reich, black folk in the Jim Crow South, dhimmis in Muslim Spain, etc., heard such ideas (“Why can’t you just be grateful that you’re allowed to live/own property/not get the s*** beaten out of you everyday?”). Not that the current situation of gay folk in America is as bad as any of the examples I just gave, but the same sense of ownership on the part of the majority is behind all of them. That’s what needs to change.

—Eric Comments may be edited for brevity and clarity.

Americans shouldn’t let tough times divide us Robin Tinker Vanguard staff

The extremely tragic massacre at Fort Hood carried out by Army Psychiatrist Major Nadal Malik Hasan has shaken American citizens recently, and rightly so. Killing enemies in combat is one thing, but someone violently killing members of their own crew is very different and unsettling. American agencies and individuals seem to want someone besides Hasan to blame.

According to The New York Times, last year an FBI-run terrorism task force had found out about some e-mails between Hasan, who is Muslim, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Islamic leader who has been linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. After some investigating, the task force concluded that Hasan was asking purely religious questions to Awlaki and was not himself linked to terrorism. The matter was dropped.

Congress and President Obama want to fault someone involved in this investigation for missing some sign and, in turn, for what happened at Fort Hood. According to The Associated Press, President Obama has ordered a full review of all intelligence related to Major Hasan and whether it was properly handled, so we will know the government’s version of the truth soon. The first results of the White House review are due by Nov. 30.

It makes the public feel better in these situations to find someone else to blame, even though it doesn’t change what happened or help the families who, terribly, lost loved ones get them back. We as a population seem to need some sort of closure by naming a scapegoat and finding some false rational explanation for an irrational behavior.

When it comes down to it, the blame should mostly be on Major Hasan himself, and his reasons are undoubtedly complicated. He pulled the trigger all by himself. Whatever the outside circumstances were, it is his fault, and he should not have done it.

Scapegoats at Fort Hood

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

What is PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been a term thrown around over the past few years after the breakout of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Department of Veterans Affairs classifies PTSD as an anxiety disorder resulting from a traumatic event such as combat, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, assaults or serious accidents, “such as a car wreck.”

Symptoms and problems associated with PTSD can include: Kira Meyrick/Portland State Vanguard

The man is obviously beyond disturbed, and perhaps, being around so much violent combat is also part of the problem. They used to call it shell shock, now they call it posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and it is definitely not the only psychological problem attributed to the violent effects of war.

For those of us lifelong civilians, we can’t imagine such a culture of killing that soldiers experience in war, and it must have a wide range of impacts on the human psyche.

Those impacts don’t stop with the military individual, either. Their families are affected too. According to The New York Times, Fort Hood and the surrounding community has seen a huge rise in suicide, domestic abuse and other violent crime since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began.

Major Hasan’s violent rampage at Fort Hood is a deep and complicated

Guest Opinion More practical, but less present Grace Pettygrove Daily Emerald

Jeannette Rankin, the first United States congresswoman, was a Republican from Montana.

She was also pacifist and the only congressperson to vote against World War II, which alone should remind us how much party lines have shifted. Rankin was a maverick before it was cool to be mavericky.

The first political party to allow a rogue feminist to run amuck in the House of Reps. has now come under fire for alienating women.

Meredith Shiner and Glen Thrush, of Politico.com, call it the GOP’s “women problem”—the increasing divide between the far right and

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the Republican Party’s moderate, female minority.

In Monday’s post, Shiner and Thrush responded specifically to the gendered undertones of conservative Republican politicians reprimanding moderates, like recent New York House candidate Dede Scozzafava and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), for their left of far-right social views. The reporters also touched upon a recent gaffe from Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who likened gender in health insurance costs to a pre-existing condition, such as smoking.

Without the bad vibes and ugly sound-bytes, the numbers show a clear trend. While two decades ago, congressional women had an equal likelihood of identifying with either party, Republican women now form only 29 percent of total number of women in Congress—which has been steadily on the rise over the same time period.

issue that cannot be neatly categorized or reasoned about. Whether he had PTSD or a religious conflict with the war is pretty irrelevant at this point, since the damage is done.

This incident is one of many tragic effects that can happen because of war. Many veterans do return to live relatively normal lives, but many of them have trauma and consequences for years. Hopefully, our veterans can receive the psychological help they need to prevent as much suffering as possible.

Maybe someone missed warning signs or didn’t take the right action to try and prevent this from happening, but there is no crystal ball. In hindsight many ordinary things can be considered warning signs. If an agency missed something that could have prevented this, hopefully a lesson can be learned, and hopefully this is the reason

for any investigation. Blame and hate among American politicians, agencies and citizens will not change what happened and will only divide us further—arguably, what radical American-hating terrorists would want.

We have enough divide within our government and country.

Everything that happens now seems to grow that divide among American politicians and, in turn, the citizens, perhaps even more so. Obviously, no one wanted this to happen and didn’t purposefully let this maniac kill innocent people. There may be a few American extremists who would believe such a conspiracy existed, but let’s not let their paranoia divide us any further.

Let’s remember and sympathize with these victims of the Fort Hood tragedy and all victims of war. Let’s hate the effects of war and violence, not blame and hate each other.

Re-experiencing traumatic events which can include flashbacks. Or, emotions experienced during the traumatic event can be relived.

Difficulty expressing emotions or “feeling numb.” Emotions may become difficult to experience or convey, while parts of the event may become more difficult to remember.

Experiencing hyperarousal, which is a sense of consistently being on alert. This can be perceived as being “jittery” and can cause difficulty concentrating or sleeping as well as sudden irritability and anger.

Problems with alcohol and drugs can be common results of PTSD. PTSD has been known to interfere with a person’s employment.

Deborah Pryce, former chairwoman of the House Republican Conference from 2003 to 2007, told Politico that women are less present in the Republican party because they “tend to have a more practical, less ideological way of approaching politics, and our party doesn’t always take kindly to that.” It’s an interesting hypothesis; I always thought that women were too emotional to make practical decisions.

But let’s talk pragmatism. As an American woman, I don’t have to agree with the underlying ideology of the Democratic Party to lean away from the GOP. All I have to do is vote with enlightened selfinterest. Which party supports abstinence-only education when, according to the Guttmacher Institute, 62 percent of women ages 15 to 44 use contraceptives?

Which party has consistently stood in the way of reforming a broken health care system that disproportionately disenfranchises women, and which party has used the health care bill as a platform to diminish access to abortions?

The Stupak Amendment, Nancy Pelosi’s big compromise with the right to push health care legislation through the House, is a giant step back for women’s reproductive rights.

It bans elective abortion from the public option and excludes anyone receiving federal health care subsidies from purchasing insurance plans with abortion coverage, essentially barring the very women who aren’t

prepared to have children from opting out of pregnancy. Women with inadequate policies will have to purchase supplemental coverage to plan ahead for the possibility of unplanned pregnancies.

Of course, 64 Democrats also voted for the amendment, named after Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak, which pushes pro-choice feminists off the map of mainstream politics. Bloggers for Huffington and Salon declare the Democratic Party is not for women either.

The Democratic Party would have struggled in 2008 without all the ladies, who voted 56 percent for Obama; only 49 percent of men voted Democrat in the same race.

I was one of those women. I voted blue with the belief that it made a difference—that, at the very least, the politicians I supported would defend my basic reproductive rights from the ideologues, not trade them away to appease a party that is stuck in reverse. While I won’t argue with the dire necessity of passing health care reform, collapsing under the pressure of Catholic patriarchy isn’t good strategy for a party that relies heavily on the female vote.

This is just a practical tip for Senate Democrats grappling with their own version of the health care bill. When women lose, so do you.

Cc: Oregon senators Wyden and Merkley. This donkey never forgets.

This column originally appeared in the Oregon Daily Emerald.

Issues with relationships that can include domestic violence and divorce.

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Vanguard 4 | News November 17, 2009

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This day in history 1777 – Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.

1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).

1827 – The Delta Phi fraternity, America’s oldest continuous social fraternity, is founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.

1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day ZambiaZimbabwe.

1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

NEWS The Spectrum applies to be official student publication Funded by Queer Resource Center and Student Organization Council Maeve Connor Vanguard staff

The Spectrum is applying for recognition under the Portland State Student Publications Board, also known as Pubs. The currently independent student publication addresses issues relating to sex and gender equality, oppression, discrimination and advocacy within the community.

The Spectrum was founded summer of 2008 and was formally recognized by the Student Organization Council that winter. It receives funding from both SOC and the Queer Resource Center.

Funding would continue to come from the SOC and the QRC if The Spectrum becomes formally recognized as an official publication at Portland State, according to their Web site.

The Spectrum is different from other student publications because it focuses on discrimination and oppression and tackles these issues through a variety of mediums including personal narratives, visual art and poetry.

The paper prints quarterly, and two issues have been released so far. The most recent can be found on campus in various locations and also online at www.thespectrum. groups.pdx.edu.

“Several on-campus publications have already stated their willingness to allow for our inclusion to be brought on,” The Spectrum said on its Web site.

If Pubs approves The Spectrum, it will gain access to resources already available to the Vanguard, The Rearguard, The Portland Spectator, Portland Review, Pathos Literary Magazine and KPSU, all publications currently recognized by Pubs.

Official Portland State publications receive counsel and assistance from Pubs.

1911 – The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first AfricanAmerican fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to antiNazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal.

Virginia Vickery Vanguard staff

Portland State’s student-run Portland Spectator won first place for Layout and Design for the 2008­­–09 school year at a national conference for college magazine editors.

“They already had great design, then they made it even better,” said Amanda Yasenchak, director of The Collegiate Network, the organization that put on the event in San Antonio, TX. The Spectator beat out similar publications at schools like University of California-Berkeley, Brown University and Yale University at the annual event.

“I couldn’t be more proud of

1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of 15.

1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, “We are inflicting greater losses than we’re taking...We are making progress.”

1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

—Wikipedia

what our design team has done and continues to do,” said Joe Wirtheim, editor-in-chief of the Spectator.

The Portland Spectator has been an independent student publication at Portland State University since 2003. The editorial news magazine is published once a month and is funded by student fees, advertising revenue and a grant from The Collegiate Network.

“I think design is as important to the magazine as the content,” said Spectator Art Director Laura Jones. “Good design engages the viewer whether they notice it or not; it informs the story; it provides clarity and contributes to a more captivating product.”

The Collegiate Network brought in two Spectator staffers for the conference, at which they mingled with editors from university publications across the nation and attended lectures on journalism.

Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Official under Pubs: The Spectrum is in the process of trying to become officially recognized as a student publication at Portland State, under the Student Publications Board.

Youth coach arrested

1989 – The Cold War Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police.

2004 – Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.

Portland Spectator wins design award First-place award given to the student publication by The Collegiate Network

1933 – United States recognizes the Soviet Union.

1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Fla., U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors, “I am not a crook.”

Photo courtesy of Portland Spectator

Thara Kumbeno Memor: The host of youth

basketball camps at Portland State was arrested last Thursday on sex abuse charges.

Portland State basketball camp director being held on charges of sex abuse Virginia Vickery Vanguard staff

A youth basketball coach and director of a basketball camp held at Portland State every summer was arrested on allegations of sexual abuse and burglary on Nov. 12.

Milwaukie police picked up Thara Kumbeno Memory, 32, on accusations of unlawful sexual penetration, sex abuse and burglary made by a woman unrelated to his coaching duties, according to a story run yesterday, Nov. 16, in The Oregonian.

Memory, who runs the Hoop Dreams Basketball organization and is a camp director at the annual Ime Udoka Basketball Camp at Portland State for children and teens is being held in Clackamas County Jail on $250,000 bail.

The Portland man’s previous convictions include driving under the influence of intoxicants, criminal mischief in the third degree and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

He is also coach of the I-5 Elite, a 17-and-under Amateur Athletic Union basketball team. Ime Udoka, a NBA basketball player for the Sacramento Kings and Memory’s friend, sponsors the team, according to The Oregonian.

Memory also leads varsity girls and boys, junior varsity and Hoop Stars workouts five days a week at the River Place Athletic Club in Portland.

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Nation: Judge tells Chicago to let students transfer CHICAGO (AP)—A federal judge says Chicago Public Schools must arrange for the immediate transfer of students who want to leave a South Side high school after an honor student’s brutal beating death.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman’s ruling Monday came in a lawsuit filed last week against the district by 11 students who say they don’t feel safe at Christian Fenger Academy High School.

Along with the transfers, the students want a judge to order the district to make Fenger safer.

Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old Fenger honor student, was beaten to death in September during a sprawling fight that was caught by a cell phone video camera.

—Karen Hawkins

Local: Ore. pot season reveals more environmental damage PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—Police discovered at least 200,000 marijuana plants in raids during the busy Oregon growing and harvest season that just ended.

But that’s not all they found.

They also came upon juryrigged irrigation pools filled with chemical fertilizers, causing worry among officials and environmentalists that already-threatened steelhead runs could be at risk.

In Grant County, for example, dams and chemical-laden pools were discovered along crystal clear tributaries of the John Day River.

Pot-growing operations, most run

by Mexican cartels, pour fertilizer into the pools and run irrigation lines to their plants.

“They dump it by the 50-pound sack right into the water supply,” said Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer, whose department seized 60,000 pot plants at nine operations this summer in raids with the Oregon State Police, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and other agencies.

“It’s a really concentrated level,” he said. “You know it’s got to be harmful for the environment.”

The rise of cartel-run operations has led to other problems, too: Rural sheriffs say frequent raids squeeze their already-pinched budgets and small staffs. In

Malheur County, some ranchers have started packing guns even on horseback, in case they encounter armed marijuana growers.

Officials won’t have a final tally for a month or so on the amount of marijuana seized in Oregon in this year’s raids, but it could reach 215,000 plants worth about $451 million, said Chris Gibson, director of a federal program that targets Oregon’s high-trafficking areas.

That’s up from 78,000 plants last year, when a late spring and heavy snows made it difficult for growers to reach the backcountry, but not as high as the record 300,000 plants seized in 2007.

Brent Fenty, executive director of the Bend-based Oregon Natural Desert Association, said fertilizer typically contains high nitrate levels.

“I think there’s going to be universal concern among the folks that this isn’t the appropriate use of the federal land and could very well have impacts on salmon and steelhead recovery,” he said.

He knows of no fish die-offs over the summer but said steelhead and salmon could be vulnerable if the practice continues, especially during low summertime flows.

Sheriff Palmer said the growers’ indiscriminate use of fertilizer so alarmed the BLM that the agency sent a hazardous-materials expert along on raids to make sure officers weren’t exposed to harmful chemicals.

—Richard Cockle, Oregonian

crimeBlotter (Times and dates are when incidents were reported.)

Portland State knows how to party…and get caught 10/26/09 School of Education – 8:16 a.m.

Burglary into computer lab Theft of cash and one iMac computer.

Cramer Hall – 12:15 p.m.

Theft of computer from office.

10/27/09 Millar Library – 10:16 a.m.

MP3 player and medication stolen from desk.

Broadway Housing – 10:33 p.m.

Male stole his brother’s driver’s license.

Male provided false ID to officer.

Minor possessed and consumed alcohol.

Male provided alcohol to minors.

Male allowed a female to consume so much alcohol that she had to be transported to the hospital.

10/28/09 Science Building 2 – 10:09 a.m.

Electronic device stolen from book bag.

10/29/09 Art building/Annex – 9:29 p.m.

Theft of unattended wallet.

10/30/09 Psych exam approved for Ore. murder defendant ALBANY, Ore. (AP)—A Linn County judge has granted a defense motion seeking a psychiatric evaluation for a Brownsville man accused of fatally stabbing his mother last month.

The examination approved Monday will determine whether Josh Lee Shaddon is competent to stand trial.

The 31-year-old is charged in the Oct. 23 death of Gerlene Thorne. The woman was found dead at the foot of the stairs in a house she shared with her husband and son.

An autopsy showed she died of multiple stab wounds.

Shaddon remains in custody at the Linn County Jail.

Peter W. Stott Center – 10:34 p.m.

Suspect cited for Criminal Trespass II.

10/31/09 University Center Building – 2:57 a.m.

Suspect arrested on warrant.

Southwest Broadway and Harrison St. – 3:33 a.m.

Suspect urinating in the middle of the street.

Science Building 1 – 11:58 p.m.

Suspects cited for Offensive Littering.

11/01/09 Science Building 1 – 12:35 a.m.

Suspect cited for Reckless Endangering.

Science Building 1 – 12:35 a.m.

Suspect cited for Premises Closed to a Motor Vehicle.

Parking Structure 1 – 12:35 p.m.

Vehicle break in and theft.

11/04/09 Parking Structure 2 – 9:53 a.m.

Large amount of tools stolen from facilities van.

Vanguard News | 5 November 17, 2009

Tips for winterizing an apartment and its residents: Put plastic over all the windows.

Put sawdust sleeves underneath the doors to prevent drafts.

Put a small space heater in the living area, bedroom and bathroom.

University Service Building – 3:15 p.m.

Suspect broke into vehicle, damaging door and lock.

Get a Snuggie or a Slanket to stay warm while lounging.

University Center Building – 3:57 p.m.

Laptop was stolen from the School of Social Work.

Close the blinds when possible.

11/05/09 Broadway Housing – 3:27 a.m.

Subject pulled fire alarm.

Use temporary ceiling covers in rooms where the heat truly seems to escape.

11/06/09

Close doors to unused rooms.

Fourth Avenue Building – 10:10 p.m.

Suspect arrested on two warrants.

11/07/09 300 block of Southwest Lincoln St. – 4:59 a.m.

Suspect arrested on three warrants.

University Center Building – 6:31 a.m.

Criminal Trespass II, subject drinking and sleeping inside closed building.

Hoffman Hall – 11:57 p.m.

Suspect cited for Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor.

11/08/09 Hoffman Hall – 1:46 a.m.

Riot at dance.

Disorderly conduct at dance Harrassment of a Public Safety officer.

—Information from Campus Public Safety Office campus crime log

Put up curtains.

Move big furniture pieces to outside-facing walls.

Put down rugs.

The more one exercises, the better they tolerate cold.

Cook using the oven.

Light candles.

Let sunlight in during the day.

—www.lifehacker.com —ask.metafilter.com

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ARTS & CULTURE r o d n ple he in t g lirvoinom

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Theodora Karatzas 503-725-5694 arts@dailyvanguard.com

Tuesday attach and release: three bands with new music and shows to celebrate Neon Indian, Guidance Counselor, Tigercity, Remy the Restless When you think Mississippi Studios, delicate folk is probably what comes to mind rather than mindblowingly awesome dance music. The venue will be trading in the typical folk, though, to mix it up with the likes of current hot stuff Neon Indian. Neon Indian, an offshoot project of VEGA, recently released their first album Psychic Charms to rave reviews and has been garnering a lot of press as a band not to be missed. Their perfect blend of chilled out vocals, poppy drumming and spectacular electronics mixes together into a wonderfully rich package of danceable goodness.

Mississippi Studios, 8 p.m., $10, 21+ Thunderheist, Winter Gloves, Fleshtone, DJ Lifepartner Fleshtone is a funny group.

Their sound seems far too sophisticated for a local duo, but I guess they have had a few years to polish themselves by now.

Jayme Hanson’s vocals are hauntingly off-sounding and perfectly compliment the neo-discoish instrumentation her partner Brett Whitman provides. A little bit Blondie, a little bit Saturday Night Fever, this group just works.

Rotture, 9 p.m., $10, 21+ Throwback Suburbia, Ari Shine, Adam Bones Their name sounds a bit like a lame emo band that might play at the Hawthorne Theatre to crowds of teeny-bopping scenesters, but Throwback Suburbia is far more enjoyable in actuality. If anything, they sound like a highly nuanced Tom Petty cover band. Their peppy brand of power-pop is a little cutsey, but always a toe tapper. Ari Shine will be another one worthy of checking out, with his singer-songwriter persona and the vocals of an ’80s chart topper to boot.

Tiger Bar, 8 p.m., $7, 21+

Photo courtesy of Lynda Frese

False Front Studio: Artist uses collage and photography as therapy in the wake of disaster.

False Front Studio presents a collection of work from Lynda Frese Joel Gaddis Vanguard staff

The creative process can be a healing one. Mixed-media artist Lynda Frese’s collection at False Front Studio, Tara in the Living Room, provides a perfect example of art as therapy. As a Louisianabased artist, Frese has confronted the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in an honest and constructive fashion.

Daily Vanguard: What can we expect from your latest exhibit?

Lynda Frese: The exhibition is a collection of artworks from different bodies of work that span about 10 years. One group is collage, gelatinsilver photographs on canvas with paint. They were made while I was

working at an artist’s colony in Italy in 2000.

My subject matter was the Madonna and the Female Divine, about the connection of the Madonna with the early goddess figures. Where were her origins in time? How were the early goddess figures connected in history to the concept of the Madonna in Christianity? I have always been interested in pre-historic art and the early pre-Christian pagan stories.

Then there is the larger concept of the mother goddess that exists in all religions. So, it was a project about the divine feminine.

Some years later, I began to explore the gods and goddesses from India. This series, called Hindu Deities Along the Gulf Coast, was put together after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated Louisiana in 2005. In these digital works—the collage work is made entirely with the computer—Indian deities like Lord Ganesh and the goddess Tara appear inside the ruined spaces from the houses I photographed along the

coast in Mississippi and Louisiana after the hurricanes. The title of the show at False Front is named Tara in the Living Room after one of the pieces. Tara is the Eastern goddess of compassion. In the picture, she hovers near a pile of household debris collected after the storms in what was once someone’s living room.

DV: What is your creative process like?

LF: My latest work is a combination of photography and painting. I’m using egg tempera on top of digital photographs. In this body of work, I examine the parallels between the Italian Renaissance and the Mayan 2012 prophecies. This work is not in the show, but you can see how I am again bringing two cultures together, in this case to understand notions of the apocalypse and rebirth.

DV: As a Louisiana-based artist, how would you say Hurricane Katrina has impacted your work?

LF: Hindu Deities Along the Gulf Coast was an immediate response to the intense grief and distress around the catastrophe. At this time, I visited India, as I was also beginning to practice yoga. As I remember, I also desperately wanted a break from the misery of Louisiana immediately after the storms. Fascinated by the vast Hindu pantheon and religion stories, I photographed many of the

altars and figurines that were found everywhere.

Back home, I photographed along the coast in small towns, as well as around New Orleans. Then I started to merge the two worlds. One was a pure documentation of the disaster and the other was a spiritual dreaminess.

Funnily enough, the disaster really ended up kick-starting photography in Louisiana in a very positive way. Artists and musicians came together in amazing ways.

One of the crucial ways we have all healed is through the arts. Hurricane Katrina (and Rita, which came two weeks later to southwest Louisiana) was a relentless subject in my work and the work of many, many artists. The big issues of life and death around the storms became the only subject for a while. Even now the galleries are filled with hurricane art. Sometimes it is dealt with in a trite manner, and sometimes it is profoundly moving and transcendent.

Tara in the Living Room False Front Studio 4518 NE 32nd Ave. Runs through Nov. 30 Free

Zombies need love too Zombie book offers a new twist on a story of the eerily undead Wendy Shortman Vanguard staff

Scott G. Browne will be visiting Powell’s today to read from his new book Breathers, a romantic zombie comedy set in an alternative reality where zombies live among humans in a world where they have no respect.

“They have reality shows like we do and reality shows with zombies,” said Browne. “[But] they’re the lowest of the low, they have no rights [and] they’re not even considered second-class citizens.”

Breathers is another addition to the array of literature about these supernatural beings, but don’t let the generalization of yet another zombie book fool you. The book talks about zombies from the zombies’ perspectives, rather than a fatal plague for the living. Unlike movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and countless others, this book offers a new spin to the zombie phenomenon.

“Those movies are about the people and how they deal with the problem of zombies,” Browne said. “[In this book] zombies are the heroes,

and it’s about how they’re dealing with humans. I thought it’d be a fun way to approach the zombie in a different way.”

Browne, who has been writing since 1990, has written many short stories, and Breathers is his fourth published novel. His previous novels were supernatural horror books, and his short stories have always incorporated his dark sense of humor.

Browne first began thinking about creating a novel that included aspects of supernatural science fiction and comedy just a few years ago.

“I realized it probably in October 2002—well, that was the first seed of the idea,” Browne said. “I had actually written a short story in 2001, ‘The Zombies Lament,’ and then I read Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk in 2002, a dark comedy with supernatural horror.”

The author’s inspiration to write Breathers came from a combination of the short stories that he wrote and the novel by Palahniuk. The desire came from his enjoyment in reading stories that had elements of the supernatural and rough, dark comedic edge.

“It’s the type of stuff that I would like to read or see in films,” Browne said. “If you’re writing something that you like to read, chances are it will resonate with someone else. I’ve been fortunate enough to have my novel resonate with enough people

to read my book.”

In his book, the main characters meet at an Undead Anonymous meeting, a zombie support group for zombies dealing with the plight of new “life” as the undead. At the meetings, the zombies Andy, Rita and Jerry create a bond through the unique circumstance. A romance occurs between Andy, a new member of the undead, and Rita, a suicide survivor.

“Their romance gradually takes place, and they find each other because they’re both missing something. There aren’t really any other options for either of them, when you’re a reanimated corpse living as the undead. [Both of them being zombies] enhances their romance, the things they do, the choices they make and the nature of their existence draws them together.”

Some of Browne’s characters were inspired by little pieces of himself and a combination of many different experiences. There is a little bit of Browne in the character of Andy Warner, but Jerry was probably his favorite character to write.

“Jerry is your typical 21-year-old,” Browne said. “He says ‘dude’ all the time because ‘dude’ is my favorite word. The thing about Jerry that I love is that he has no self-awareness, he just says whatever comes to his mind without thinking that there’s

anything wrong with it. He doesn’t edit himself.”

Breathers is a dark comedy in every sense of the word and will be a surprise to readers from the first chapter where Andy’s parents are found in a certain household appliance. The interactions between the undead and the humans in this alternative reality will be an entertaining, funny and horrific new perspective on the zombie horror genre.

Reading from S.G. Browne Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.

Tonight, 7 p.m.

Free

Failure to pick up steam

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Morningbell’s latest release falls flat Theodora Karatzas Vanguard staff

It’s a shame when a band puts out an album with a strong start and a weak follow-through and finish. Morningbell is very guilty of this musical crime, making their album Sincerely, Severely a mediocre artistic attempt.

The album can really be boiled down into a boring string of songs that sound a lot like other bands, robbing the band of any claim to

originality. They start with “Let’s Not Lose Our Heads,” one of the stronger tracks of the collection, a song that reeks of the typical indie power pop.

The references to other bands begins on the next song with “Marching Off to War,” an Animal Collective-esque piece with plenty of well-timed yelling but less of the crazy that make Animal Collective’s stuff so enthralling.

Morningbell describes some of

their work as neo-soul. This is a very true description of songs like “Soul Ma’am” and the title track, but both are failed attempts at anything truly soulful. “Sincerely, Severely,” in particular, is rife with sleaze and feels incredibly forced as singer Travis Atria croons out tired lyrics with things like “mama” and “the good lord” thrown in there. As he attempts to hit some high notes that he has no business courting, his words—which appear

to be a shot at adding some R&B cred to his craft—are just a sad reminder that real soul died with classic Motown.

Sincerely, Severely Morningbell Orange Records of Gainsville

Weekend box office: Top 10 highest-grossing films for the weekend of Nov. 6–8 1. 2012 Weekend Gross: $65,237,614 Gross to Date: $65,237,614 Weeks in release: 1 2. A Christmas Carol (2009) Weekend Gross: $22,308,913 Gross to Date: $63,272,757 Weeks in release: 2 3. Precious Weekend Gross: $5,874,628 Gross to Date: $8,699,180 Weeks in release: 2 4. The Men Who Stare at Goats Weekend Gross: $5,681,753 Gross to Date: $23,038,050 Weeks in release: 2 5. This Is It Weekend Gross: $5,078,920 Gross to Date: $67,190,296 Weeks in release: 3 6. The Fourth Kind Weekend Gross: $4,605,365 Gross to Date: $20,449,660 Last week’s rank: New Weeks in release: 2 7. Couples Retreat Weekend Gross: $4,164,940 Gross to Date: $102,045,330 Weeks in release: 6 8. Paranormal Activity Weekend Gross: $4,043,417 Gross to Date: $103,690,184 Weeks in release: 8 9. Law Abiding Citizen Weekend Gross: $3,796,327 Gross to Date: $67,190,452 Weeks in release: 5 10. The Box Weekend Gross: $3,158,368 Gross to Date: $13,179,622 Weeks in release: 2 —boxofficemojo.com

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

This week at the 5th Avenue Cinema: In the Mood for Love Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 98 min.

“Wong Kar-wai’s atmospherically haunting masterpiece, In the Mood for Love, is a breathtaking, sensuous and gorgeous film about desire, yearning and the power of a whispered secret (Lost in Translation borrowed the ending; Sofia Coppola thanked Wong Kar-wai in her Oscar acceptance speech for his influence).

Set in early 1960s Hong Kong, In the Mood for Love is a stunning success of mise-en-scène—every detail is beautifully orchestrated and shot with a quiet yet powerful intensity, and the acting is impeccable, with Tony Leung as Chow Mo-wan and Maggie Cheung as Su Li-zhen. Maggie’s magnificent dresses (cheongsams) are reason alone to see the film.” z—5thavenuecinema.org Nov. 20­–21 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Nov. 22 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.

It’s the bomb We Bombed in New Haven is smart, life-affirming and well executed Anita Kinney Vanguard staff

Joseph Heller’s We Bombed in New Haven is a suitably absurd counterpart to his landmark 1961 novel Catch-22. Like Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, We Bombed in New Haven, and its more famous predecessor, evoke a particular blend of nihilism and humanist compassion as a response to armed conflict.

Third Eye Theatre’s take on Heller’s 1967 piece is an enjoyable and timely production that will speak to the average Portland liberal’s feelings about the Iraq War and give shape and substance to the their fears, frustrations and lack of faith in elected officials.

The play follows a group of servicemen who have been tasked with bombing Constantinople. The nonexistent target is the first sign of the absurdity that Heller traffics and a scathing indictment of the seeming pointlessness of the conflict the characters are involved in.

Simeon Denk plays the cowardly Captain Starkey who initially questions the wisdom of bombing Constantinople. When the major

All photos courtesy of Third Eye Theatre

We Bombed in New Haven: Local company has their own take on a Joseph Heller classic.

(Chandler Adams) explains that the attack is “in the script,” Starkey shelves his questions and resumes his place in the chain of command. Soon, it’s revealed that the script involves a number of character deaths.

With this revelation comes the first hint of ambiguity—are the characters really dying, or are they just playing their assigned parts in the play they’re performing?

(Or, is the play about actors who think that they might die in real life instead of just onstage?)

We Bombed In New Haven quickly

establishes that it’s a play within a play. Its actors have been assigned parts to play and play them readily until the soldier destined to die in the first raid asks for a better role.

When Henderson ( Jeff Gardner) discovers that he is the next to die, he becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the fate of the man who died before him.

Much of the play’s humor comes from the characters’ singlemindedness—for much of the first act, no one actively questions the script, and it’s not until the

second act that Henderson starts to break “the rules.” Fortunately, We Bombed in New Haven departs from its otherwise Kafkaesque sense of humor by including the Red Cross Girl, who doubles as Starkey’s girlfriend. Jamie Mallory is charming in this role and draws attention to the script’s willingness to squander not just talent, but human life. She provides a perfect counterpart to Starkey and helps to reveal his shallowness, cowardice and absence of compassion.

Denk, for his part, begins as a rather likeable character but quickly devolves into a simpering robot.

Starkey’s weakness of character and inability to feel are, of course, in the script, but Denk’s performance would have been more moving had he conveyed a deeper mourning for the shallowness of the role he is doomed to play.

Fortunately, the devolution of Starkey’s character is paralleled by a deep development of Henderson’s.

Gardner is effective and likeable as he transitions from a brash, trashtalking young man into one who is terrified for his life and the only character brave enough to try to escape the prison that the actors have created for themselves.

We Bombed in New Haven is a smart play that invites us to think on our complicity with the status quo. It’s a subtle critique of attitude and culture that reminds us that the things we find abhorrent would not be possible if everyone agreed to stop playing the game and walked away together.

It’s refreshing to see a play without a scapegoat—after all, in a bureaucracy, there are no villains, and everyone is just playing their part. And, rarely is a critical play so life-affirming. The moral of We Bombed in New Haven, condemnation of groupthink aside, is that people should not choose to be limited or defined by their assigned role in life and a powerful reminder that everyone has the freedom to write his or her own script.

We Bombed in New Haven Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Thu–Sat, 8 p.m.

Runs through Nov. 21 $12

SPORTS Oh captain, our

A look back at Nathalie Wollmann’s career at Portland State Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

Senior midfielder Nathalie Wollmann was 5 years old when she first took up soccer, a time that her father fondly recalls.

“It was 1993. We were living in Houston, and Nat played on a boy’s team,” he said.

Her mother added, “She played with the boys because the girls weren’t as competitive as her. There was no wearing a dress, playing Barbies or jump rope—hockey and soccer, that’s it.”

Wollmann, now 21, has moved her soccer career from strength to strength, and she capped it this year by leading the Portland State women’s soccer team to a recordbreaking 10-6-4 season.

Along the way, Wollmann has played 77 career matches at Portland State, with an incredible 75 consecutive starts. This year, her final on the squad, the Viks were crowned conference regular season champions.

“It was an awesome season and a lot of fun,” she said. “It’s a great way for the seniors to go out. I think we have left a stamp on the program.”

Before coming to the Park

Football finishes season with a 41-34 loss in an unpredictable second half

Blocks, Wollmann played club soccer at Calgary Celtic Soccer Club and at the provincial and national levels in Calgary, Canada. An ardent field hockey enthusiast, Nathalie was coaxed into pursuing soccer by her parents, who were concerned that she might hurt herself.

“I would have played hockey if my mom would have let me, but she didn’t want me to lose my teeth—so I played soccer. I would have much rather played hockey,” she said.

“She still loves hockey and is a huge fan,” her father said. “Dolly Enneking and Rachel Jarvis, who are her roommates at Portland State, have been great. When a hockey game is on television, they know where Nat is and have even tried to sit through and watch a couple of games with her.”

Wollmann has been the mainstay of the Vikings midfield for the past four years. Interestingly though, this wasn’t the position she was used to playing before.

“I always played forward before I came here, and the big joke at home was that I couldn’t defend. When I told my coaches back in Calgary about my new assigned position, they thought it was a joke,” she said. “The coaches here kept telling me that I was really strong and good in the air, and those were some of the things I never used to use in my game before.”

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After the fall of 2006, in her freshman year, Wollmann was named co-captain along with then freshman goalkeeper Cris Lewis by head coach at the time, Tim Bennett.

“As a freshman, it was a little intimidating to be named captain— but Cris and I made it work, I guess,” she said. “The coach said that he saw some leadership qualities that he wanted me to grow with. Cris and I used sit out on the field after practice, and we tried to make sure that the team’s morale was high.”

When asked to name a few highlights in her career, she said, “One of the games I will remember forever is the game against USC last year. To be tied 0-0 at halftime with the national champions felt awesome. Also, the winner I scored against Montana in my sophomore year is exciting because my dad and grandfather— who is a huge supporter—had driven down from Canada to see that game.”

Not to have her success confined to just the soccer field, Wollmann also excels in academics. She has been named in the all-academic team in each of the last four seasons and has a GPA of 3.895 in her undergraduate studies in public health.

“I think it’s a matter of putting in the effort—and about finding a balance and taking it seriously,” she said.

Final game, final loss

Vanguard staff

Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Nathalie Wollmann Senior, midfielder Four-time All-Academic Team Four-time All-Conference Team

Justin Engstrom 23 for 42, 239 yards, 2 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, and 1 fumble

Ben Bowen 12 carries for 86 yards, 1 fumble Zach Brown 2 field goals, from 37 and 40 yards, setting school record for field goals in single season at 18 Ryan Rau 7 tackles, 1 quarterback hurry Ryan Pedersen 6 total tackles, 5 unassisted, 2 tackles for loss, 1 sack and 2 quarterback hurries

Justin Engstrom: The junior quarterback got his first start of the season on Saturday in Idaho.

The Viks had first possession in the second half, and went threeand-out. A Bengals fumble on the return resulted in a recovery by the Viks in Bengal territory. Engstrom scored the go-ahead touchdown run just 1 minute and 56 seconds into the quarter.

The Bengals replied with a touchdown of their own. The Vikings took the lead on a field goal while the Bengals missed one of their own.

Entering the final 15 minutes of the game, Portland State led by three.

Then the floodgates opened and the quarterback starting his first game imploded under the pressure.

On the Vikings’ next three possessions, Engstrom threw a pick, fumbled the ball with Idaho State recovering it and threw another pick.

In the meantime, the Bengals scored a touchdown to take a 31-27

lead. After a botched punt by the Vikings, in which freshman punter Thomas Duyndam accidentally downed the ball at the Portland State 15 yard line, the Viking defense came alive and limited the Bengals to a field goal, making it a seven-point game.

Engstrom seemed to suddenly find his footing. He led the Vikings on a six play, 70-yard drive to score the touchdown to tie things up. The scoring pass was a perfectly thrown 40-yard bomb to freshman receiver Keitrell Anderson.

On the Bengals’ subsequent drive, the Viking defense held strong and forced the Bengals to punt.

Unfortunately, a Portland State mistake would give the Bengals the ball back.

The Vikings took too much time switching out defense for special

503-725-4538 sports@dailyvanguard.com

Phillips earns second straight Big Sky Player of the Week honor

The junior outside hitter led the Vikings to the 2009 Big Sky regular season championships this past weekend with wins over Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado. Phillips tallied double-doubles in both matches, as the Vikings did not lose a set.

Bobby McClintock 16 carries for 93 yards, 1 touchdown

Steve Brenner, courtesy PSU Athletics

Robert Britt

For the second straight week, Portland State’s Whitney Phillips has been named the Big Sky Conference Volleyball Player of the Week.

Allison Whited

It’s official: The Portland State Vikings, in their third year under head coach Jerry Glanville, have posted their worst season since they began playing at the Division I level.

With Saturday’s loss to the Idaho State Bengals, the Viks amassed an overall record of 2-9, finished conference play at 1-8 and ended the season on a five-game losing streak.

In a surprise move, Glanville started junior Justin Engstrom at quarterback. A transfer student this year, Engstrom is third on the depth chart, behind junior Drew Hubel and sophomore Connor Kavanaugh.

Hubel injured his shoulder last week, and it was presumed Kavanaugh would be the man under the gun. Kavanaugh is a good option-style quarterback, but has been averaging only 44.4 passing yards per game.

Before Saturday, Engstrom had been taking snaps in the final quarter of the previous five games, but had yet to start.

The Vikings’ ground game took some of the pressure off of Engstrom. Senior fullback Bobby McClintock ran for 93 yards and a touchdown. Freshman and fellow fullback Ben Bowen rushed 12 times for 86 yards, with an average of 7.2 yards per rush.

The Viking defense also proved to be more aggressive up front, recording five sacks to the Bengals’ none.

In the first half, the Vikings and the Bengals went back and forth trading scores, and they entered half time with identical scores of 17.

From the very beginning of the third quarter, it was clear that the second half would not go as smoothly as the first.

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teams personnel and were called for too many men on the field— an automatic first down for the Bengals. The very next play by Bengal quarterback Russel Hill was a 45-yard pass to receiver JD Ponciano who, despite a broken ankle, broke free from freshman cornerback Mike Williams to make a clutch catch at the Portland State 1-yard line.

The 1-yard rushing touchdown that followed left the Viks with just 32 seconds left on the clock. In an act of desperation, Engstrom threw the ball into the end zone only to have it intercepted for his fourth pick of the day.

The Vikings have a long offseason ahead, which will surely be full of soul searching and reevaluating.

After a season like this, the only way to look is up.

Phillips averaged 5.17 kills, 3.67 digs and 5.33 points per set in the two matches. She racked up 16 kills and 11 digs against NAU on Friday night, and then finished with 15 kills and 11 digs against Northern Colorado as the Vikings clinched the conference title. In both matches, she led all players in kills and points.

A transfer from New Mexico State, Phillips has led the Big Sky in kills and points for much of the season. Her 4.90 kills per set and 5.25 points per set averages are the best amongst all conference players. She has led the Vikings in kills in 24 of their 26 matches.

The Vikings (19-7, 13-2 Big Sky) have won eight straight matches, all via the sweep. They have won 24 straight sets, which is tied for the third longest streak in program history.

—Ryan Borde, assistant media relations director

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VBALL |

from page one

With one game left to play, championship already secured

Funny sports quotes “I told him to rub some dirt on it and get back in there, then I realized we were playin’ on artificial turf.”

—Bugs McFeely “He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”

—Lou Deva “I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.”

—Tug Mcgraw (On whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) “Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”

—Duffy Daugherty “You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.”

—Dan Birdwell “His clipboard holding needed some work.”

—Bugs McFeely (On why he didn’t put in his backup quarterback at the end of a 45-10 blowout)

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and putting together their seventh straight-set sweep.

The Vikings combined to hit .285 on the night and used Friday as a tune-up for their pivotal matchup against Northern Colorado (18-11, 11-4 Big Sky) on Saturday. With a loss to the Bears early in the season, Portland State entered Saturday’s matchup with revenge on their minds.

With the Big Sky Championship on the line, Portland State entered Saturday night with a chip on their shoulders. Though the Bears took an early lead in the first set, the Vikings regrouped and played with a sense of urgency to grab the win 26-24.

“We felt like we created a lot of opportunities with our serving, but we didn’t convert them,” Seemann said. “We did a better job in the second half of that first set of taking advantage of free balls and one-on-one situations and terminating them.”

After pulling the rug out from underneath Northern Colorado’s feet in the first set, Portland State turned up the pressure. In the next set they cruised to an easy 25-15 victory. Leading by as much as 12, the Vikings played like a playoff team and set the tone for the rest of the match.

“I feel like its just all coming together at the right time,” said Jepsen.

“This is the perfect time for our whole team to come together.”

At full steam in the final set, outside hitter Whitney Phillips finished off what was left of the Bears and pieced together their eighth straight

sweep of the season. After hitting only .190 in the first two sets, Phillips hit .461 in the final stanza. Her six kills in the set raised her total to 15 on the night.

After the game, Jepsen put the feeling of the win best, “It’s amazing.

Every conference championship is amazing…I feel like this team has a better shot [at winning the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament], just because we have been together for one more year.”

With one game remaining in the season at Sacramento State on Friday, the Vikings have already locked up the Big Sky regular season championship.

However, in order to get to the NCAA Tournament, Portland State will also need to win the Big Sky Tournament hosted by Eastern Washington in Cheney, Wash., Nov. 27–28.

Players of the game - Friday Whitney Phillips

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Players of the game - Saturday Whitney Phillips

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Reason to celebrate: The Vikings swept the Lumberjacks and Bears in six straight sets to win the conference title.

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SPORTS EXTRA Women’s basketball opens season with win Vikings beat Huskies 67-66 with last-second shot Rosemary Hanson Vanguard staff

With less than a second on the clock, junior forward Kelli Valentine tossed up the final shot of the Portland State women’s basketball season opener against Washington on Saturday.

The final buzzer rang through the Stott Center as the ball sailed toward the basket, and when the ball dropped through the net, the Vikings chalked up their first win of the season in dramatic form.

The Vikings celebrated a narrow 67-66 victory over the Huskies, a Pac-10 team that Portland failed to beat in seven previous tries.

Though the first half saw the Vikings struggling to keep up, the end of the second half displayed Portland State players at their finest. The game began with the Vikings gaining a slight lead early on, but a high number of turnovers in the first half were not in Portland State’s favor.

“At halftime our assist number was lower than usual, so it was pretty much a team effort [after that],” Valentine said after the victory.

The Vikings posted only five assists in the first half, all coming from senior guard Claire Faucher. The number of turnovers was relatively high coming out of the first half, with the Vikings posting 12 to Washington’s eight.

The Vikings knew they would

have to work to beat the Huskies, but with a number of missed shots in the first half, along with missed passes from the outside, Portland State struggled to keep up with its competition.

Head coach Sherri Murrell credits the missed shots to her players becoming overly worried about the size of the Washington squad.

The Huskies managed to increase their lead to 11 points in a portion of the first half, largely by dominating over the Vikings’ defense. Washington finished the half, making 14 of their 33 field goal attempts, with leading scorer forward Sami Whitcomb posting four.

After the first half, Portland State was ready to show they meant business. Valentine said the overall intensity and confidence level of her team were keys to the second-half success.

“We just realized we needed to focus on playing our game,” she said.

Murrell agreed that her squad’s confidence differed in the first and second halves.

“We did not display confidence through the whole game, but we did display confidence in the last five minutes,” Murrell said. “When you have an opponent that has had struggles, then the last five minutes is all about confidence.”

And confidence they had.

In the game’s final minutes, the Vikings demonstrated confidence and ability by coming back and scoring 11 of the last 13 points of the game. With less than a minute on the clock, Faucher nailed two

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Defensive swarm: A stepped-up defense and last-second buzzer brought the Viks a win.

free throws to bring the team to Murrell said that it wasn’t just within five points.

Valentine’s last-second shot that Jumpers by freshman guard led to the win—she also credits Karley Lampman and Valentine Lampman. sliced Washington’s lead to one, and “She did a heck of a job with the with Faucher fouling out with 14 jumper down at the end. She just seconds left, Murrell called a timehas confidence,” Murrell said. out with 2.8 seconds remaining to Portland State travels to Boise set up the winning play.

State for their next game at 6 p.m.

In what is probably her most on Thursday. memorable assist yet, according to Murrell, sophomore guard Eryn Jones made the pass from the sideline to Player of the game: Valentine, who was open for the 13-foot game-winning jumper.

Kelli Valentine “She was the only Junior, forward one lighting it up, so we were designing pick24 points and-pop plays for her,” 10 for 15 field goals Murrell said.

2 for 3 three-pointers She also noted 9 rebounds that not only was Valentine’s shooting impressive, but also, her rebounding was Photo courtesy of PSU Athletics equally on-point.

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Returning with a 0-3 record to start the season, the Portland State men’s basketball team has separated itself from last year’s team in all the wrong ways. Losing to Belmont, Wright State and Washington over the weekend at the Athletes in Action Classics in Seattle, the Viks now have more questions to answer.

Despite building early leads in two of three games, the Vikings failed to shoot a better percentage than their opponents and couldn’t rebound effectively enough to compensate. In what looks to be a glaring weakness, the Vikings were out-rebounded in every game, which was magnified by their reliance on the deep shot.

Taking on Belmont first, the Viks had some success early on, but were unable to sustain a lead for any length of time. Building a five-point lead early in the game, the Vikings fell victim to unnecessary turnovers and untimely fouls to fall behind the Bruins by five at the end of the first half.

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inability to protect the ball. The Bruins were also able to draw fouls more effectively down the stretch, and outshot Portland State on the free-throw line 18 to nine.

Entering the gym with less than 24 hours separating Friday and Saturday’s games, the Vikings had to forget the events of the previous night against Belmont and face a Wright State team that had won 20 games last year.

Reeling from the previous night’s loss, Portland State did give reason for some optimism and gave good effort down the stretch.

“In the second half our guys played hard, and we competed, and that was good to see. We didn’t roll over and play dead—we continued to fight,” said head coach Tyler Geving. “I told these guys to continue to be positive. I know you can get down with a couple losses, but Belmont and Wright State are good midmajor-type programs.”

Starting three forwards, the Vikings were able to shore up their rebounding some, but were still outrebounded 28 to 27 by the Raiders.

Though the score was closer than

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Chris Harriel: The freshman guard saw playing time but no wins this weekend in Seattle.

the game against Belmont, Portland State was still unable to close out the game and missed critical free throws in the waning minutes of the game.

Saving No. 14-ranked Washington for last, the Vikings tried to keep the score close going into the game, but were unable to even do that. Getting completely humbled by the Huskies, Portland State built an early five-point lead before being dismantled on the way to a 111-55 dressing down.

Playing against a team that was clearly more talented—and returning most of their players from last year’s Pac-10 winning team—the Vikings did have a few bright spots in forwards senior Jamie Jones and junior Phil Nelson. Both played well and combined for 27 points on 13 of 23 shooting.

Up next, Portland State will be

hosting Cal Poly Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Stott. Look for the Vikings to build some momentum and try to improve their rebounding as well.

Weekend results: Friday Belmont 74, Portland State 67 Saturday Wright State 75, Portland State 70 Sunday Washington 111, Portland State 55