Daily Vanguard December 1, 2009

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 42

Event of the day Interested in getting involved with your student government? Want to find out what the current issues are? Sit in on the ASPSU Senate’s meeting today.

When: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: SMSU, room 296

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INSIDE OPINION

ASPSU stipend shortage

Law and order Officer Humphreys acted within the law to protect his partner PAGE 2

Portland State students warned in time

Photo illustration by Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard

Water Bureau finds E. coli in west Portland water supply Sarah J. Christensen

NEWS Hellooo Cancer!

“Hellooo Cancer! A Nearly One Woman Show” is a comedic look at living with cancer PAGE 4 Today is World AIDS Day Events on campus spread understanding of epidemic PAGE 4

ARTS

Holidazed and confused A holiday play accurately conveys the drama this season can bring PAGE 6

Darker realms Dragon Age: Origins’ mature approach to RPGs is refreshing and rewarding PAGE 8

Senate meeting: ASPSU will present a plan to deal with the budget shortage at tonight’s Student Senate meeting.

Student government is strategizing ways to pay its staff Virginia Vickery Vanguard staff

Due to a clerical error, ASPSU is nearly $60,000 short of what it needs to pay all of its stipend positions throughout the year. It will present to the Student Senate tonight at 5 p.m. how this and next year’s ASPSU can compensate for the shortage.

ASPSU chose not to ask for additional money from the Student Fee Committee to cover the shortage, but has already implemented a fundraising plan and a new printing contract to save money in its day-today operations, said Edward Hallman, administrative director.

“We didn’t want to start the year by asking for exceptions and there are less [SFC] reserve fund dollars this year than last year,” Hallman said.

The mistake During the initial budget request phase of the SFC proceedings last school year, the amount needed for Student Senate stipends was calculated at $180,000 for the coming year by student government, though only $62,400 was needed for Student Senate stipends.

“The initial request was a gross miscalculation, it was way too large,” Hallman said.

The stipend cap for ASPSU is set at $200,000 so, combined with the amount needed for other stipend positions, a total of $343,650 was

requested from the SFC, $143,650 over the allowed stipend amount, Hallman said.

When the SFC saw the $343,650 request for stipends, the calculation error for Student Senate stipends was undetected. Instead, the SFC reduced each line item by a percentage to reach an overall total of $200,000, he said.

“This is a wake up call to the SFC to check it [everything] twice,” said SFC Chair Johnnie Ozimkowski.

When Hallman discovered the error, the SFC adjusted the Student Senate stipend amount to the correct amount of $62,400. However, the other line item remained at the reduced rate.

“That means that the total stipend amount for ASPSU for 2009–10 ended up at $159,777, which is around $60,000 short of what we’d need to fully fund all stipend positions for their full terms,” Hallman said.

Solutions ASPSU is now operating 20 percent short of what it originally budgeted for because of the error.

“This only effects ASPSU’s pocketbooks and there are ways to be creative and proactive to get around the shortage,” Hallman said.

In Hallman’s proposal to the Student Senate, he will make the following suggestions to achieve savings: implement small pay cuts across the board for the remainder of this year; implement slightly larger, strategic pay cuts for next year’s staff; and include a line item for a stipend overage in next year’s budget.

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Portland State falls to Stanford Turnovers plague Vikings in 83-64 road loss PAGE 9

All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

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On Saturday, the Portland Water Bureau (PWB) told residents west of the Willamette River—as well as other water districts including Burlington, Palatine Hill and Valley View—not to drink water without boiling it first. The bureau’s routine testing uncovered E. coli and other hazardous bacteria in tap water supplied west of the river.

Within 24 hours, PWB lifted the boil-water notice and had informed as many residents and businesses as possible. Portland State was included in the boil-water zone, and campus organizations made many efforts to notify students.

Students at Portland State received an alert via e-mail on Sunday

afternoon from PSU Info—an e-mail account used to notify students of campus-wide matters—to not drink the water out of their tap.

However, the alert was sent out the day after Portland Water Bureau had set a “Boil Water Notice” into effect, and only a few hours before the notice was terminated.

The e-mail, although delayed, was only one aspect of notification efforts for students on campus.

“We put up notices, staff went door to door in the Residence Halls,” said Corey Ray, director of Residence Life.

“I had received a couple e-mails from students on Saturday night, asking if what they heard was true, and at that point we had already started our process,” Ray said.

Signs were also placed on water fountains around campus to prohibit students from drinking, though Facilities and Planning has since removed them.

Breakfast for dinner Annual Midnight Breakfast provides students with an escape Klara Cachau-Hansgardh Vanguard staff

Portland State’s Programming Board will host the annual Midnight Breakfast in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom this Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 9 p.m. to midnight.

In collaboration with Student Activities and Leadership Programs, ASPSU, University Communications and Campus Recreation, this is the first year Portland State’s Programming Board is organizing and executing the event.

“It’s a tradition, a way to blow off steam,” said Lorrie McCullough, office manager for SALP. McCullough emphasized the nature of the Midnight Breakfast, in that it alleviates stress in the middle of dead week and allows for students to reconnect with their peers outside the studying environment.

“There’s always at least 500 people,” said McCullough. “It’s a lot of fun.”

Christian Aniciete, ASPSU communications director, highlighted the theme of this year’s event: “The Portland State County Fair.” Aniciete attested to the increased efforts the Programming Board put into maintaining the theme and tone this year.

According to Aniciete, in addition to numerous activities in accordance with the theme, including photo booths, raffles and an inflatable jousting game, Aramark caterers will participate by

wearing appropriate costumes.

Aniciete stressed the importance of maintaining the tone and drawing in students as an integral part of developing student pride and a community at Portland State.

“When you look at the bigger picture, there’s an absolute need for events that just allow the students to connect,” Aniciete said.

That bigger picture has to do with the number of student dropouts, percentage of students who graduate on time and overall student happiness, Aniciete said.

Aniciete acknowledged the nontraditional nature of Portland State’s student body, but stated the importance of garnering pride in students in order attain the benefits such a student community could invoke.

Aniciete stated that this was truly the purpose of the Programming Board, and that this year, handling the Midnight Breakfast gave them an advantageous stance to fulfill that purpose, through something fun nonetheless.

As well as fun games and activities, the Midnight Breakfast will provide breakfast foods, including vegetarian and vegan options, and there will be items such as pencils and scantrons for students. Admission is free.

Annual Midnight Breakfast Tomorrow, Dec. 2 9 p.m. to midnight SMSU Ballroom Free

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OPINION Law and order Officer Humphreys acted within the law to protect his partner Will Blackford Vanguard staff

If there are two things to know about dealing with law enforcement, one is to never talk to cops. The other is to never, ever, under any circumstances, resist arrest. If you violate that second rule, the consequences are on your head.

The quickest way to find yourself in a jail cell is to throw a punch at a uniformed police officer.

On Nov. 14, a young woman boarding a TriMet MAX train decided to test this hypothesis. The Portland Police Bureau’s press release regarding the issue states that officers Aaron Dauchy and Christopher Humphreys responded to a call to break up a house party on the date in question.

They saw a number of people from the party boarding a MAX train nearby.

Officer Dauchy recognized a young woman whom he suspected had been previously banned from riding the MAX. He called out to her to get off the train. When he tried to talk to her and take her into custody, she started swinging.

Officer Humphreys was carrying a beanbag gun, in case he had needed it

at the house party call. Officer Dauchy took the girl to the ground and she continued to strike him in the face repeatedly. Officer Humphreys issued a verbal warning that he would shoot if she didn’t stop. She didn’t, so he shot her in the thigh with a beanbag at close range. They eventually subdued her and she was taken to juvenile detention.

This account seems to be a relatively routine interaction with violent suspects. However, a few variables have given this incident a bit of infamy here in Portland. The girl was only 12 years old, the entire incident was caught on camera at the MAX stop and, perhaps most importantly, Officer Humphreys was involved with an incident during 2006 in which James Chasse lost his life in police custody under questionable circumstances.

Each incident is different and requires different measures of force.

These measures are outlined fairly specifically in the Portland Police Bureau’s Manual of Policy and Procedure. In short, the section on the use of force states that an officer may use force when “reasonably necessary to perform their duties and resolve confrontations effectively and safely” after considering all options.

It states that the beanbag gun should be used at a minimum distance of 10 feet when aiming at the torso or head,

but does not mention limbs specifically.

So did Officer Humphreys display an abuse of force?

According to the letter of the law, no. Other avenues were explored, verbal warnings were given, no rules were violated. He resolved the situation, a situation in which his partner was being physically assaulted, safely and with no risk of serious injury.

What should he have done instead? Continued to ask the young woman to stop resisting while she attempted to injure his partner? Smacked her in the head with his baton?

Many of those speaking out against Officer Humphreys’ conduct have proposed no solution of their own.

Now I know some of you are saying, “But she was only 12 years old!

Couldn’t they have subdued her without the gun?” First and foremost, the 5-foot-7-inch woman weighs 150 pounds, meaning she is plenty capable of throwing a damaging punch. I don’t care if you are 12 or 22, throwing a punch at an officer is going to get you in trouble and the consequences are yours to bear.

Perhaps the young woman could have been subdued without the beanbag gun, but that device is a tool designed for the exact purpose for which it was used—to subdue violent suspects in a nonlethal manner. So are batons and fists. Had she been punched or hit with a baton,

Illustration by Kira Meyrick

the public outrage would have been as bad or worse.

The police do abuse their power sometimes—I’m not denying that.

Documented cases of police abusing suspects can be found throughout the ages. But this case is not one of those.

Officer Humphreys acted in his legal capacity to prevent physical harm to another officer and subdue a violent suspect. End of story. People are looking for abuse where none exists because of the officer’s past. That’s not justice, that’s revenge.

Police should be held accountable for the actions they take while wearing the uniform—their job is to maintain order within the bounds of the law. We should not engage in blindly accepting everything the police do, but neither should we engage in blindly condemning any use of force by an officer.

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A look at what you’re saying at www.dailyvanguard.com The story doesn’t stop when the print hits the page. Don’t like something that you read, want us to cover a story or feel that there is more to be said? You have the opportunity to praise or rip us apart here at the Vanguard. Post a comment online or write us a letter and tell us what you think. Here are some highlights of last week’s online comments.

Americans will do the jobs There are NO jobs that Americans won’t do [“Illegal lip service,” Nov. 24]. It’s been this way for 233 years. Lawbreaking illegal aliens account for only 2 percent of farm jobs. Not long ago a fast food place advertised for 50 burger-flipping type jobs and about 1,000 Americans and legal immigrants started showing up at 4:30 a.m. to apply. A new college grad was interviewed recently because he’d taken a farm job

to survive because the economy is so bad. There are 15 million unemployed American workers looking for jobs while 8 million illegal aliens hold American jobs having used stolen or fraudulent identification documents to qualify. Deport all illegal aliens and watch unemployment drastically reduced. While your [sic] at it, jail the criminal employers and vote out the Senators and Representatives that have failed to enforce our laws.

—Estoban

Cell phone sections at diners?

I think this is a no-brainer [“Pay attention and drive!” Nov. 24].

Using a cell phone while driving is dangerous, and texting while driving is insane. This seems like a good law but I even question the provision that “delivery services” are exempt. Bluetooth and hands-

free technology exist for people who absolutely need it, and everyone else needs to learn how to shut the damn phone off while they are driving.

In addition I think they should have laws treating cell phones like smoking in public places so I don’t have to listen to annoyingly loud phone conversations while I am trying to enjoy a meal in a cafe or diner!

JMO ;-) —T.W.N.

Puppets and politicians We were told in 1986 by corrupt politicians that the amnesty of that year would be the very last...ever [“Illegal lip service,” Nov. 24]. Since then these slimeball politicians have passed numerous smaller amnesties, and now this loathsome NWO puppet in the White House wants to cram the outrageous DREAM Act as well as a huge general amnesty masquerading

as “comprehensive immigration reform down our throats? I’ve got news for ya..... NO WAY JOSE! —BajaRat

Both sides of the equation This article is an adventure in missing the point [“Shelters are not solutions,” Nov. 20]. Should we have legislation that targets johns? Yes. Taking on the demand side of the equation is a fundamental necessity. However, that does not mean that the supply side of the equation should not be looked at, dealt with, or otherwise engaged. Women and children are being dragged through horrendous trauma in the midst of prostitution and trafficking [sic].

Shelters won’t solve the issue. They will however, allow women and children to not be condemned to a life without hope as the demand side of the equation gets taken on.

—Mike Noblin

TO DIE A GREEN DEATH

Oregonians take going green to the grave Robin Tinker Vanguard staff

Not all of us will graduate college, give birth, win a Rose Bowl or even cook a Thanksgiving dinner, but we all will eventually die. Our own mortality and that of our loved ones is not something we spend a lot of time thinking about and planning for, but it should be.

We have a major taboo in our country regarding death. Our hushhush attitude, besides being weird and unnatural, is arguably going to cause environmental problems.

We cannot keep going forward with our current funeral practices without reexamination. Some in Oregon are starting to consider going green even in death.

Since the Civil War, the practice of embalming bodies and holding elaborate funerals with open caskets has become increasingly popular. There are many explanations for this, ranging from claims that it stops the spread of disease to monetary gain from the funeral industry—and that it helps family members seeking closure in losing a loved one.

Embalming involves emptying the body of blood and replacing it with embalming fluid, which is largely made up of formaldehyde.

This preserves and disinfects the body, making death seem more hygienic and less disturbing. Regardless of the excuses for embalming, burying a body full of chemicals is a blatant form of pollution.

There is a common misconception that embalming is required by law. This is simply not true.

According to a Journal of Environmental Health article by Jeremiah Chiappelli, the EPA has classified formaldehyde as a probable carcinogen since 1987. A

recent Journal of the National Cancer Institute study concluded that longterm exposure to formaldehyde among funeral workers puts them at an increased risk for fatal myeloid leukemia, among other problems.

The dangers are known in direct exposure, but there is a bit of a gray area when considering the traces that leak into the ground.

According to Chiappelli, concerns were raised in the 1980s by a national groundwater task force pertaining to the pollution impacts of cemeteries, but they were dismissed due to lack of study. It seems no large-scale studies have been done. This is very irresponsible.

Chiappelli stated that from the millions of Americans being embalmed each year, seven million gallons of formaldehyde are being buried in the ground.

The EPA considers formaldehyde a hazardous chemical, but has tiptoed around this issue, arguably because

of the death taboo. Chiappelli claims that an embalmed body should technically be considered toxic solid waste, but the EPA does not do this, so as to not upset mourning families.

Even if studies haven’t proven direct negative effects of these traditional burials, common sense tells us that this practice is far from environmentally friendly. With ever increasing populations, our planet has only so much space to devote to cemeteries, not to mention the resources and material used to make elaborate caskets. Embalming fluid constantly leaking into the ground is eventually going to cause problems if it hasn’t already. Due to these factors, a “green death” industry is evolving.

Oregon is on the leading edge of this new—and necessary— trend in death. Several green burial businesses have sprouted up in recent years. Among them, according to The Oregonian, are Natural Burial Company in Eugene,

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owned by Cynthia Beal, Cornerstone Funeral Services and Cremation in Boring, owned by Elizabeth Fournier, and Portland Natural Caskets, owned by Scott Cummings.

Traditional local cemeteries such as Riverview Cemetery are even beginning to set aside land for green burials according to David Noble, executive director. The Estacada Funeral Chapel and Estacada Cemetery District are also teaming up to create green funeral packages according to The Oregonian.

The major component distinguishing green burials is that the bodies are not embalmed and the caskets are biodegradable.

Deb Harris, professor for the School of Community Health, was quoted in The Oregonian as saying she thinks one reason this is so easily taking root here in Oregon is our lack of regular churchgoers. We are not tied to religious notions of what our own funeral should entail.

It seems our eco-friendly, earth- centric attitudes allow us to choose to return to the earth in a much more natural and less damaging way. Oregonians like to break taboos, and this death taboo is one that needs to be broken for our own good and the good of future generations.

For those of you who worship the almighty dollar, green burial could be a great option for you too, as is often the case with eco-friendly solutions: These burials are generally about half the cost of traditional ones.

Professionals in the funeral and cemetery industries use terms such as “end of life” in the place of death to sugarcoat the topic. If we let death be what it is and engage in rational thoughts about it periodically, it may not be so shocking and devastating when it touches our family.

Because it will.

We should all be prepared to be environmentally responsible, even in the sensitive area of death and funerals.

Food fights brewing in the streets of Portland Do food carts threaten restaurants?

Meaghan Daniels Vanguard staff

The battle for customers between restaurants and food carts is being taken to the law while restaurants call for enforcement of legislation that states that the food carts must move.

In Multnomah County, food carts are considered and licensed as mobile food units, meaning they have to move around from place to place.

However, most of the food carts around Portland don’t really move at all, and have been where they are for some time now. Students on the Portland State campus can attest to that.

The Portland Tribune recently reported that Bill Perry, lobbyist for the Oregon Restaurant Association, says that because these food carts do not move, then they are nothing short of restaurants.

New legislation should be introduced so that food cart owners as well as restaurant owners alike can be happy.

It is pretty clear that despite the

recent praise by citizens and media about food carts throughout the Rose City, not everyone is a fan of food carts. Some restaurant owners are declaring that because the food carts are not moving when they are supposed to, it is giving them an advantage for customers and profits.

Restaurants also have to provide restrooms and hand washing facilities whereas food carts do not. And food carts also have less of a startup cost than restaurants do. What food carts do need is a license from the county health department, which runs about $315 for most carts and possibly $345 if the food is prepared elsewhere and then brought in.

Currently, the present law is not being enforced, aggravating restaurant owners and giving food cart owners an advantage. Therefore a new law is being called for. So what can be done?

There should be some of sort of compromise that both restaurant and food cart owners alike can live with. After all, everyone has to eat, and both food carts and restaurants give Portlanders a multitude of options.

Food carts should not necessarily have to pack it in and move everyday.

But something must be done to level the playing field. For example, food carts should have to be at least a certain amount of feet away from a restaurant so that they are not right next to each other.

It would also be beneficial for food carts to require some sort of hand-washing station like restaurants do. Maybe in a place like Portland State where there are a number of food carts together, there can be one communal hand-washing station for all of the food carts in the Park Blocks. This way it puts them more on the same level in sanitation requirements as restaurants without them becoming restaurants.

Or food carts could follow the footsteps of Roger Goldingay who created the food cart pod, Mississippi Marketplace at North Mississippi Avenue. The Mississippi Marketplace consists of Prost!, the pub, and a food cart pod.

In the food cart pod there is seating for about 100 people as well as portable toilets and an ATM. The seating area has tables that sit under rain-shedding canopies. If the weather proves to be too harsh to bear, customers of the food cart can take their

food inside the pub as long as they have a drink with their meal.

Goldingay recruited 10 food carts to his location. The owners of the food carts pay $495 each month to reside in Goldingay’s food cart pod.

So far this method has appeared to be successful and it could be the new way citizens see food carts as more and more people are looking to mimic Goldingay’s method.

Both food carts and restaurants provide their own benefits to the Portland community. Portland State’s campus would look a lot different without the food carts around it. They provide reasonably priced, good food to Portland citizens without having to go into a restaurant and sitting down. Food carts are a good alternative to fast food.

Of course, sometimes a person wants the atmosphere of a restaurant and the ability to be able to sit down and enjoy a good meal without having to rush around and eat in a hurry.

There are advantages to both.

They are both vital parts of Portland so it is important to figure out a new law that makes food cart owners and restaurant owners happy in the Rose City.

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

Rant Rage The

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By Dick Richards

Hot and steaming mad Be warned. I am about to utter words of Portland heresy and sacrilege. I may have to go into hiding once you all know my innermost feelings about a deeply rooted Portland treasure.

Mobs will be formed as many wooden boards fashioned with pointy nails are forged.

But I am sorry, I can’t remain silent anymore.

It has to be said: Stumptown Coffee really blows.

Yours truly has been known to drink a lot of coffee. Through this addiction, I have experienced an array of blends brewing from our corner of the state, and I am weary of the Stumptown homogeny plastered over this city.

The stuff isn’t that amazing to begin with.

And all you people sipping it, regurgitating its praise throughout the streets of Portland are either sheep, or else have really bad taste in coffee. I am tired of hearing hipsters spout idioms such as, “Oh, I’ve never had fair trade taste so great before,” or, “This organic coffee warms my apathetic heart.” I’d ask you to sit down and shut up, but I’m sure that doing so would split your extratight, high-water hipster jeans as tears flow down your poor excuse for facial hair.

I am talking about how Stumptown garners grand admiration, yet certainly isn’t the best brew on the block.

Don’t get me wrong.

Stumptown isn’t evil.

Fair trade should be the standard practice.

And I will concede that it is possible I haven’t experienced all they offer.

However, I have experienced the very poor sludge dripping from a plethora of pots scattered across this city—either steaming black mires of caffeinated crude, or liquid presentations of acidic mold. Perhaps this is less of a rant and more of a cry for help.

Come on Portland! Brew me something better!

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NEWS

Hellooo Cancer!

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

Rosa Parks Day today Dec. 1 is recognized as the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus and move to the back.

The incident sparked a boycott of the municipal bus system that is now viewed as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.

Parks, a seamstress and activist, was found guilty of disorderly conduct.

Parks was not the “quiet seamstress” as the media has often portrayed her.

In 1943, she became a member of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

She served as its secretary until 1956.

After the bus boycott, Parks lost her job and, with her husband and mother, relocated to Detroit in 1957.

In 1965, she joined the staff of Michigan U.S. Representative John Conyers and worked until her retirement in 1988.

In 1999, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States.

Mrs. Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, at the age of 92.

—www.e-portals.org

“Hellooo Cancer! A Nearly One Woman Show” is a comedic look at living with cancer Catrice Stanley Vanguard staff

A little over a year ago, Carmen Anderson found out that she has metastatic thyroid cancer. The 37-yearold second-year graduate student in the School of Education and graduate assistant at the Women’s Resource Center then wrote and produced a comedy show about it.

According to the American Cancer Society, metastatic cancer is a type of cancer that has spread away from the original site. It is named after the place the cancer was first found in the body.

When fellow WRC staffer Sue Cahill asked Anderson if she would ever share her experiences in front of an audience, Anderson mentioned that she had always wanted to coordinate a one-woman show.

Then the idea became clearer and clearer.

“About four and a half months later, here we are...Carmen’s first onewoman show,” Cahill said.

Anderson wants people who have experienced cancer personally, or through a loved one, to see her show.

“I am hoping to raise awareness, and reach people who may need to

process how cancer has affected their life,” Anderson said.

As for the “nearly one woman show” in the title, there is one scene in which other women join the stage.

“A number of WRC members are participating in the show,” said Bridge Gorrow, WRC coordinator.

The rest of the staff is supporting Anderson with both publicity for the show and moral support.

“Carmen is hilarious and brilliant, and everyone will learn a lot,” Gorrow said.

It’s not just about performing for Anderson.

“I hope to facilitate conversation around cancer and how it affects peoples’ lives,” Anderson said. “I hope this show is the beginning of a cancer support group on campus for students, faculty and staff.”

“Helloooo Cancer! A Nearly One Woman Show” Sunday, Dec.6 2:30 p.m.

Multicultural Center Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228 Free

Photo courtesy of Carmen Anderson

Carmen Anderson

Today is World AIDS Day Events on campus spread understanding of epidemic Danielle Kulczyk Vanguard staff

The Portland Intercollegiate Rotaract Club is sponsoring a World AIDS Day community event today, Dec. 1.

The college-age organization affiliated with Rotary International is arranging student volunteers from Portland State and Lewis & Clark College to collect donations on both campuses to support the Cascade AIDS Project.

“We hope to spread the word that AIDS is still prevalent around the world,” said Kasia Chaberski, a sophomore at Lewis & Clark and president of the Portland Rotaract Club.

Rotaract volunteers can be seen distributing packets of condoms on campus, as well as red ribbons and AIDS fact cards.

“We are also campaigning on both campuses for students to wear red,” Chaberski said.

The World AIDS Day actions will

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conclude with an educational event in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom. The event will include speakers, art, a fashion show and other music and entertainment.

According to the Rotaract Club, more than 20 student volunteers are participating in the project.

This is the 21st-annual World AIDS Day since the World Health Organization established the day in 1988.

According to CAP, more than 1.1 million Americans live with HIV, 600,000 have died in the U.S. so far and 250,000 are estimated to be infected by the virus and not know it.

World AIDS Day event at Portland State Speakers, music, art, skits, entertainment and fashion show 6 p.m. today, Dec. 1 SMSU Ballroom $5 general admission, $3 students

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ASPSU is examining ways to afford student stipends “If anyone can work out the ASPSU budget and do it well it’s Eddie,” Ozimkowski said. “I am more than willing to take as much of a pay cut as next year’s staff might be expected to take.”

Fundraising A foundation account has been established by ASPSU that will allow them to collect fundraised money, which was a tenant of President Jonathan Sanford’s campaign. Sanford was unavailable for comment.

Other events throughout Portland:

Global Health Week 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Linfield College’s Portland campus 2255 NW Northrup St. Featuring various speakers, exhibitors, artists, musicians, restaurants Fundraiser for the Oregon Student Nurses’ Association and Linfield’s chapter of Nurses Without Borders Contact: Kinara Brocius 503-819-1922

Several hundred dollars has so far been collected through events and donations. ASPSU initially paid out money to sponsor an American Sign Language Club event on Oct. 9. The club fundraised at the event and some of the money was returned to ASPSU to seed the foundation account, Hallman said.

Tasha Triplett, ASPSU’s outreach and funding coordinator, has also collected money from ASPSU alumni and will continue to fundraise at ASPSU events.

Falsettos In Concert 7:30 p.m.

Presented by Live On Stage World Trade Center Theater 121 SW Salmon St. $5, half of which to be donated to Our House and Cascade AIDS Project Contact: John Oules 503-280-5483 AIDS Day Walk 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Columbia-Willamette Women of Vision’s AIDS Walk for Orphans 715 SW Morrison St. Start at Pioneer Square, walk toward Pearl District, loop back to Portland State and end at Pioneer Square Contact: Jill Sherman 503-407-5024

Printing savings ASPSU signed a new several-year printing contract with IKON Office Solutions, Inc., saving ASPSU nearly $30 per month on printing costs.

Their old printer only produced black-and-white pages, whereas the new printer can print 11-by-17 inch color copies for only 10 cents. At a print shop, the same work would cost almost 75 cents, Hallman said.

ASPSU currently allows student groups to use the copier and after Hallman sets up protocol, printing will be open to all Portland State students.

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Your world in brief

Nation: Suspect in officer killings eludes law in Seattle SEATTLE (AP)—A heavily armed SWAT team stormed a Seattle home Monday where they thought they had cornered the suspect in the slaying of four police officers at a coffee shop, only to find out that he was not in the house and still on the loose.

The discovery added new urgency to the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons as police canvassed the neighborhood with search dogs and hundreds of officers were deployed around Seattle for any sign of the suspect. Authorities put up a $125,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

Police had been positioned overnight at a Seattle home where they thought Clemmons was holed up and spent hours trying to communicate with him, using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot sent into the house. But when the SWAT team went inside, he was nowhere to be found.

Pierce County sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer said the location of Clemmons was not known, and it’s possible he still could be in the neighborhood. Troyer also said people who know Clemmons told investigators he had been shot in the torso in his bloody struggle with the officers.

“If he didn’t get a ride out of there, he could still be in the area,” Troyer said.

Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said there was evidence Clemmons at one point was on the property, but officers could not determine whether he was in the house itself. Kappel would not describe what the evidence was, but said it was a “good tip” that led them to the home.

Meanwhile, University of Washington officials alerted students by e-mail and text messages to an unconfirmed report that Clemmons might have gotten off a bus on or near the campus about 3 miles north of the residence, university police Cmdr. Jerome Solomon said. Police were checking the area, he said.

Troyer said warrants for first-degree murder have been issued against Clemmons in the killings of the officers from the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood who were gunned down in a coffee shop on Sunday morning at the start of their shifts.

Clemmons has a long criminal history, including a long prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago, and a recent arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Washington.

Authorities allege he killed Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42, as they worked on their laptop computers at the beginning of their shifts.

Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas.

He was also recently charged in Washington state with assaulting a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child. Using a bail bondsman, he posted $150,000—only $15,000 of his own money—and was released from jail last week.

“The whole time Clemmons kept saying things like trust him, the world is going to end soon, and that he was Jesus,” the report said.

Troyer said investigators believe two of the officers were killed while sitting in the shop, and a third was shot dead after standing up. The fourth ap-

parently “gave up a good fight.”

In 1989, Clemmons, then 17, was convicted in Little Rock for aggravated robbery. He was paroled in 2000 after Huckabee commuted a 95-year prison sentence.

Huckabee, who was criticized during his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 for granting many clemencies and commutations, cited Clemmons’ youth.

Clemmons later violated his parole, was returned to prison and released in 2004.

—Manuel Valdes, Gene Johnson, Rachel La Corte, George Tibbits, Jill Zeman Bleed

Local: Rural Ore. students most likely to be in poverty PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—Rates of childhood poverty vary tremendously around Oregon, with students in rural areas by far the most likely to live in impoverished households, according to new estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Statewide, the lowest rates are in Lake Oswego, Sherwood, Corbett and West Linn-Wilsonville. Six percent or fewer of school-age children in those districts live in households below the poverty level, the bureau reported this month.

On the flip side are Woodburn, nearly every school district in southeast Oregon’s Harney County, the Powers school district in southwest Oregon and the Three Rivers school district around Grants Pass. Onequarter to one-third of all school-age children in those areas live below the poverty line, defined as income of $22,050 a year for a family of four.

Schools face a much greater challenge getting students to read and do math at grade level in highpoverty communities. A federal report released last week showed that a student who attends a school serving mainly low-income and working-class students is about 12 times more likely to attend a chronically low-performing school than a student whose school serves mostly moderate- or highincome students.

“Whenever you are dealing with students at risk, you have issues,” said Peter Maluk, director of federal programs for the Three Rivers district.

“We see more and more needy families, and we need to be sensitive to helping them and giving their kids a solid education.”

Federal poverty rates track a more severe level of financial deprivation than more widely cited free- and reduced-lunch rates. A student can qualify for reduced-price meals if the family earns up to 185 percent of the poverty level or free meals if the family earns up to 130 percent.

In the Portland metro area, childhood poverty is generally less severe than in the rest of Oregon.

In Portland Public Schools, 14 percent of school-age children are poor; in Beaverton and Hillsboro, 10 percent are, according to the new federal figures.

In the three-country metro area, the greatest concentration of childhood poverty is in the David Douglas school district of east Portland, where an estimated 2,500 of the area’s 10,000 school-age children—25 percent—are poor. Next closest is the neighboring Reynolds School District, with 21 percent.

—Betsy Hammond

World AIDS Day today Today is observed as World AIDS Day, as it is every year on Dec. 1. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988.

It’s an opportunity for governments, organizations and individuals to raise awareness and focus attention on the AIDS pandemic.

More than 2 million AIDS-related deaths were reported globally in 2008.

Additionally, 2 million children under the age of 15 now live with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The following are suggestions for action from the Cascade AIDS Project: – Get tested for HIV – Practice safe methods to prevent HIV – Decide to not engage in high-risk behaviors for HIV transmission – Talk about HIV prevention with family, friends and colleagues – Provide support to people living with HIV or AIDS – Get involved with or host an event for World AIDS Day in your community —Cascade AIDS Project

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

Creative things to do with your Thanksgiving leftovers: Make some mashed potato- and stuffing-based art. Bonus points for working in a cranberrysauce stain on all finished art pieces.

Build yourself a small catapult to launch turkey and green bean casserole at your neighbors. That’s what they get for playing Insane Clown Posse at full volume every morning.

Is your skin looking a little dull? I hear gravy makes for an excellent facial.

Try stuffing your old toy animals with actual stuffing. It might smell a little weird after a while, but at least you’ll always have a snack hiding in your teddy bear.

ARTS & CULTURE holidazed and confused

Holidazed: The fictional family at the center of the play sits down for rousing dinner.

A holiday play accurately conveys the drama this season can bring Anita Kinney Vanguard staff

Here’s a recipe for a crowdpleasing holiday play: Take a working mother of three, her almostchauvinist husband, two flaming neighbors, an uptight sister-inlaw, the ghost of her dead hippie mother and two adorable street kids.

Combine on a stage for three hours.

Mix in historical tidbits about the pagan traditions that were coopted for Halloween and Christmas, courtesy of a smart-aleck teenage girl and season with a sprinkling of humor taken straight from National Public Radio (co-playwright Marc

Acito is a commentator on “All Things Considered”).

The result is the half-baked Holidazed, Artists Repertory Theatre’s holiday offering, back for a second production after its successful debut last year. The play calls for a certain suspension of disbelief—after all, its main plot point is unbelievable. That said, many of the challenges the characters face are achingly realistic, and it is a treat to see such well thought-out characters in such outrageous situations.

Julia (Susannah Mars) finds relief from the holiday season when she, on the advice of her mother’s ghost (Vana O’Brien), hands a bag of Snickers to a homeless pregnant teenager, Luna (Ana Reiselman), and her friend Padre (Steve Rathje).

Soon, Julia invites Luna to stay with her family, and all hell breaks

loose. Her husband Scott (Duffy Epstein) objects, their children get into trouble at school when they share Luna’s pagan history lessons with their classes and menacing homeless people try to rob the family on Thanksgiving.

When Luna disappears, Julia goes off the deep end searching for her, enlisting the help of her gay neighbors, Gabe and Nicholas (Michael Mendelson and Todd Van Voris), to comb the worst neighborhoods in town. This leads to an ultimate metamorphosis on her part, where she comes to see how unjustly the poor are treated.

Holidazed has the requisite feelgood holiday ending and characters learn lessons about feminism, dealing with death and coming to terms with the fact that women tend to be more like their mothers than they care to admit. It treads

dangerously close to a number of clichés, but manages to toe the line, remaining familiar, yet fresh.

For viewers of a certain age group, Holidazed closely parallels a number of plot points in that seminal prime-time drama, The OC— wealthy parents with an established household wind up playing host to a smart, troubled teenager. He bonds with their biological child getting into trouble, causing marital problems but eventually winning over the heart of a doubtful parent.

What’s bizarre is that Holidazed— which is obviously a much more intellectual take on the same plot points, as it includes a subversion of gender roles, commentary about the commercial shallowness of the holiday season and alternative history lessons—actually has some of the same dialogue as early episodes of The OC. These similarities are the play’s only shortcomings, however (and to be fair, they might not even be shortcomings if you’re watching without an encyclopedic knowledge of The OC). A colorful cast of characters, a variety of complicated emotional subplots, a holiday drag show and a series of riotous sendups of stereotypical stay-at-home mom Krystee (Michael Mendelson, whose drag performance is one of the play’s highlights) make this show, on the whole, a pretty unique piece of holiday entertainment.

Holidazed Artists Repertory Theatre 1515 SW Morrison St. Runs through Dec. 20 Tue through Sun, 7:30 p.m.

Sun, 2 p.m. $20 student, $30–$47 general

All photos courtesy of Owen Carey

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The Map as Art challenges its audience to look beyond convention Wendy Shortman Vanguard staff

In the book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon, you’ll find 360 images of artwork and art series that bear new meaning to any preconceived idea of the appearance and purpose of maps.

Over 100 artists, who create artwork using maps, are inspired by maps or offer new interpretations of maps, contributed to a compilation that speaks to the human spirit and our own placement in the world.

From a tattooed map on a man’s back representing his long and triumphant journey along China’s 6,000 mile Long March to a map made out of the artists’ own hair, the pieces are as diverse as they are personal. You’ll find pieces as abstract as the bold, colorful lines of oil on canvas over a map in Julian Schnabel’s “South Coast Prickly Point,” to a photograph from Corriette Schoenaerts of clothing laid on a bed in the shape of South America.

Each page of the book offers something new and exploratory to the viewer. The pieces provide social and political commentary that critique ourselves in a world of no geographical constraints, but a world with the ability to create and alter locations as we wish.

Full of color, texture, and unexplainable diversity, the pages of the The Map as Art will keep you entranced throughout.

Every image will keep you guessing until you read the paragraph beside that explains what the piece of artwork represents. From first glance, you may often find yourself having no idea what the piece is supposed to show.

As obscure as the message may seem, or the way in which it’s executed, a powerful message shines through in each piece in the book. As art is the artists’ own interpretation of the world, The Map as Art takes it one step further, showing us the ways in which the world comes into art.

The Map as Art

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Princeton Architectural Press

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A map by any other name

Talk with Katherine Harmon Powell’s City of Books 1005 W Burnside St. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Free

Terrible Tuesday: A break in the chaos of finals for some live music Church, White Hinterland, Fear No Music Church has been having a good year. Coming off of a national tour this fall and set to embark on another one before the year is out, the group also released a stellar album, Song Force Crystal, to rave reviews both locally and nationally.

Their unique blending of well-placed distortion, light psychedelics and talented vocalizing makes this group a local treasure clearly bound for amazing things.

Mississippi Studios, 9 p.m., $8, 21+ Cold Cave, Former Ghosts, Reverse Dotty Normally, Former Ghosts is a three-piece band comprised of members from Xiu Xiu, Zola Jesus and This Song is a Mess But So Am I that play some pretty dreamy electronic music. Tonight, their lineup will be a little different, with Freddy Ruppert sticking it out solo on stage. Cold Cave will join them, shaking up the dreamy factor with some more hard-hitting electronic music that’s heavy on the synth and rife with sass. Topping off the bill are local favorites Reverse Dotty, a more indie-rock-centric group that features some awesome female vocals and power-driven instrumentals.

Rotture, 9 p.m., $7, 21+

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

Weekend box office: top 10 highestgrossing films for the weekend of Nov. 27–29 1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon Weekend Gross: $42,870,031 Gross to Date: $230,947,696 2. The Blind Side Weekend Gross: $40,111,364 Gross to Date: $100,238,841 3. 2012 Weekend Gross: $17,651,729 Gross to Date: $138,451,427 4. Old Dogs Weekend Gross: $16,894,511 Gross to Date: $24,228,546 5. Disney’s A Christmas Carol Weekend Gross: $12,230,000 Gross to Date: $79,791,000 6. Ninja Assassin Weekend Gross: $13,135,000 Gross to Date: $21,193,565 7. Planet 51 Weekend Gross: 10,218,641 Gross to Date: $28,487,409 8. Precious Weekend Gross: $7,081,032 Gross to Date: $32,433,482 9. The Fantastic Mr. Fox Weekend Gross: $6,965,267 Gross to Date: $10,024,072 10. The Road Weekend Gross: $1,502,231 Gross to Date: $1,977,453 —boxofficemojo.com

Darker realms Dragon Age: Origins’ mature approach to RPGs is refreshing and rewarding Steve Haske Vanguard staff

Dragon Age: Origins has a lot of interesting things going for it.

First off, it’s the new roleplaying game (RPG) from Bioware, the brains behind many of the best Western-developed games in the genre over the past 10 years, from Baldur’s Gate to Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect.

Western RPGs have more often than not taken a far different approach to the genre than their Eastern counterparts, generally offering more flexible narratives at the cost of a set role.

Basically, they play more like digital representations of old pen-and-paper RPGs, which makes sense given those original games’ origins. The tradeoff between Eastern and Western RPGs is often one of aesthetics, class or ability creation and narrative approach.

Dragon Age is seen as something of a spiritual successor to Bioware’s Baldur’s Gate series that thrived on the PC years ago, complete with all the customizable stats and character creation you could want, set in a world that’s very Tolkien-esque.

There’s also blood in Dragon Age—buckets of blood. It sprays when you engage in the game’s often-brutal battles, or when you lop off a foe’s head. It pools on the ground, seeping from the slain bodies of your enemies and splatters on your clothes and skin.

Not to say that violence is anything

new, but Dragon Age certainly handles war and bloodshed in a more graphic way than a lot of other RPGs. It also doesn’t shy from equally adult subject matter. When was the last time you played a game where you were forced to kill a child, for example? In Dragon Age, you may be forced to do just that.

That depends, however, on the path you choose. I’m not speaking directly of morality, but rather the class and race you choose at the start of the game.

Dragon Age weaves a complex tale of war and political corruption in the midst of a siege of orc-like demons called the Darkspawn, but what role you choose to play may make the game’s overall storyline similar or dissimilar to another path you might’ve chosen.

So if you decide to play as a mage, you’ll start off in the hands of the state-regulated magician’s guild.

However, if you choose the life of a noble, a corrupt ruler will attack your castle and you will be forced to flee for your life.

No matter which of the six origins you get, however, your path with the Grey Wardens—sort of a group of nomadic protectors that bear some resemblance to Tolkien’s Rangers, which Aragorn belonged to—is an inevitability. After an initial encounter with a Darkspawn horde, though, the Wardens are betrayed by a close ally, framed for regicide and left for dead.

The result is a civil war between territories of the realm, all in the midst of a growing threat from the Darkspawn blight that’s been laying waste to the world. As you can see from even this brief excerpt into the

Dragon Age: Blood, gore, violence and the art of the modern RPG.

mythos Bioware creates in Dragon Age, the game is chock-full of rich history throughout its dozens of hours of gameplay.

It’s easy to get sucked into this game. On the gameplay side, Dragon Age plays more or less how Bioware’s old-school RPGs have always played, albeit with a smaller party (consisting of you plus three teammates, although guest characters often join in the fray) and a bigger focus on single-player tactics with AIcontrolled teammates.

You are, however, given the option to switch party members at any time in battle, which can lead to a lot of micromanagement. But if you’re going to attempt this one, you’ll need it— combat in Dragon Age is no joke.

Enemies overtake and flank you with ease, and you’ll need to use every tactical advantage available to gain the upper hand.

Magic and special abilities play a big part in how things will play out, and although it’s far too detailed to

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Commemorative concert is technically masterful but creatively uninspired Ed Johnson Vanguard staff

If the idea of slogging through a four-hour concert special that’s as confusing as it is boring to watch holds some appeal for you, then boy has HBO got your number.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, now available on the premium network, features a gross array of classic performers mish-mashed together in odd formation, playing continuously for a long, long time. The set, shot over two days on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 at Madison Square Garden, was supposed to be in honor of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary. And it’s successful in that goal, sort of. It’s just not successful as a compelling piece of entertainment.

Most concert films suffer from the same problem: It sure seems like it would have been a lot of fun to be there, but watching it happen after the fact is pure tedium. What’s supposed to hold this particular work together is the surprise factor—you get to watch artists who have never shared the stage (and almost definitely never will again) perform tracks together in a unique setting.

But these unnecessary hybrids are the worst part of the film.

Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel?

Fair enough. Metallica and Lou Reed? Um, OK. U2 with Mick Jagger, Will.i.am and Fergie covering “Gimme Shelter?” Get the fuck out. That’s not “honoring rock’s legacy,” it’s ruining a great song by forcing old, talented people to perform with young, untalented people.

While most of the collaborations aren’t quite as disastrous as the one mentioned above, very few of the songs work. The concert is built around headlining performances by

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really get into here, let’s just say the combat can be very rewarding when you know what you’re doing.

Considering how staid RPGs have become in the past several years, Dragon Age is a welcome change.

And while Bioware is one of the consistently good developers still making RPGs, it’s still nice that the genre hasn’t been completely overrun with derivatives.

Between this and the excellent, unorthodox Demon’s Souls, it’s a good time to be a console-owning fan of the genre.

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his point), it’s instructive of the whole Hall of Fame exercise.

“For a lot of us, rock ’n’ roll means one thing,” he said. “Liberation.”

But rock ’n’ roll means a lot of things, as much as it means nothing at all. There’s nothing liberating to be found in a rock star justifying their importance. The Hall of Fame suggests, as this concert film does, that the most important part of rock music is the people who created it and made money off of it.

The point? Watching giant egoists stroke their egos ain’t worth shit.

Crosby, Stills and Nash, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, U2 and Bruce Springsteen. Each of those artists then sees several other bigname acts—Aretha Franklin, Tom The 25th Anniversary Rock and Morello, John Fogerty and Sam Moore Roll Hall of Fame Concert to name a few—hop on stage for a couple minutes and do a sort of Now showing on HBO medley with everyone else. The pacing is frenetic, but the effect is tiring. You just stop caring.

To be fair, the sound and camerawork are all top-notch. Even when there are 50 people on stage, nothing becomes lost or muddy. And the editing is clear and useful.

It’s the content of the concert that is worthless.

When Bono decides to go into a speech about the danger of building idols and then explains why he and everyone Photo courtesy of Stephen Lovekin else on stage is so impor- When evils collide: As if Bono wasn’t annoying enough on his own, they decided to throw Fergie in there for good measure. tant (thereby negating

SPORTS

Portland State falls to Stanford Turnovers plague Vikings in 83-64 road loss Vanguard staff

The number of consecutive shots senior forward Jamie Jones converted on his way to a 16-point, two-board night.

10 Second-chance points made by Portland State, compared to Stanford’s nine.

-10 The Vikings’ net points off turnovers, after scoring only five to Stanford’s 15.

Robert Britt 503-725-4538 sports@dailyvanguard.com

Former Vikings football coach dies in car crash

Hoover, along with his family and Eastern Illinois strength coach Eric Cash and his family, were returning from the Eastern Illinois first-round playoff game at Southern Illinois when the vehicle they were driving swerved to miss a deer and rolled over. Two people were released from the hospital early Sunday morning while all others involved in the accident were transported to a hospital in Champaign, Ill., for further observation.

Dominic Waters: The senior guard shot six for nine with four three-pointers, six assists and two rebounds.

All photos by Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard

Despite a rough second half, several players finished with strong performances. Junior forward Phil Nelson finished with 13 points, while Julius Thomas grabbed 10 rebounds—two of them offensive. Overall, the Vikings hit 50 percent from the field, while Stanford shot .589.

The Vikings play cross-town rivals University of Portland at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Chiles Center. The Vikings have played only one game on the Park Blocks so far, opening the season with four of five games on the road, including two road games against Pac-10 teams.

Aiming for the big leagues Portland State seniors try out for professional soccer team Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

Waters: He chalked up 28 minutes of play.

0 Portland State’s fast-break points, compared to Stanford’s six.

22 The Vikings’ points in the paint, compared to Stanford’s 40 near the basket.

“We are very saddened by the loss of Jeff Hoover,” stated Eastern Illinois athletic director Barbara Burke on Sunday morning.

“He was a valuable member of our football staff and was looked up to by the young men in our football program. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Penny and their two children along with Eric Cash and his family in this difficult time.”

Hoover, 41, just completed his third season as the Panthers’ offensive line coach. He had previous assistant coaching stops at Portland State, Utah State, Henderson State and UC Davis.

Team play: The Viks shot 50 percent from the field, but were bested by Stanford on the road.

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Sports Editor:

CHARLESTON, Ill. – Eastern Illinois assistant football coach Jeff Hoover was killed in a singlevehicle accident late Saturday night just south of Effingham, Ill. Hoover had previously spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Portland State.

James MacKenzie

The Portland State men’s basketball team lost to Stanford on Sunday at Maples Pavilion. The 83-64 loss drops the Vikings to 1-4 on the season and raises the Cardinals to 4-3.

Both teams started hot before Stanford ran away with the game.

Led by Landry Fields, who scored 25 points, the Cardinals had inspired effort from the field—converting 11 of their first 17 shots to create an early 27-13 lead.

Portland State rallied with consecutive three-pointers from senior guard Dominic Waters, sophomore guard Dane Johnson and junior guard-forward Paul Guede. A layup from senior forward Jamie Jones resulted in an 11-0 Vikings run that sliced Stanford’s lead to three with just over five minutes left in the half.

After the Viks tied the game at 38-all with only seconds left before the break, Stanford carried the momentum into the locker room by scoring five points in four seconds to close the half with a 43-38 lead.

Portland State stayed competitive in the first half by relying on three-point shooting— knocking down eight of 13 attempts from downtown, and 15 out of 23 overall. Waters led the way, sinking three of his four three-point attempts before the half, while dishing out four assists.

The Vikings’ hot shooting did not carry over to the second half, however.

Portland State opened the second half hitting only five of 17 shots, and quickly found themselves victim to an 8-0 Stanford run. The spell of cold shooting lasted through the half, with the Vikings hitting only .379 from the field, including two of 11 from outside the arc.

Senior forward Jamie Jones and Waters provided the bulk of the Vikings’ second-half scoring. Jones chalked up six points and two boards, while Waters scored seven, including his only three-point attempt of the half. Both led Portland State in scoring with 16, while Waters added six assists to only one turnover.

Turnovers proved to be a major culprit in Portland State’s inability to capitalize on their hot first-half shooting, and prevented a secondhalf comeback. The Viks turned the ball over 10 times in the first half and six times in the second, while managing only 11 assists. Given the chance, Stanford capitalized by scoring 15 points off Portland State’s turnovers.

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Senior forward Dolly Enneking and goalkeeper Cris Lewis tried out for the Women’s Professional Soccer franchise Atlanta Beat on Nov. 21–22 at the Kennesaw State campus in Georgia.

Enneking ended her career in the South Park Blocks this season as Portland State’s all-time leading goal scorer and the Big Sky’s Offensive MVP, while team co-captain Lewis ended her career as the Defensive MVP after tallying eight shutouts on the season and breaking Portland State’s career wins, saves and shutouts records.

“I was very excited about this tryout. I knew that it was going to be a great experience,” Lewis said.

The Atlanta Beat, who will play its first WPS season in 2010, is one of two exhibition teams to be added to the seven-team league. WPS is widely considered to be the top-level professional women’s soccer league in the U.S.

“It’s a great opportunity for them,” head coach and Big Sky Coach of the Year Laura Schott said in a statement released by the school. “They both had fantastic years, and if they can both continue their careers, this is a great opportunity to do so.”

The tryout spanned two days, and both student-athletes got their chance to showcase their skills.

“We were guaranteed two games.

One was 100 minutes, and the other was a regular 90-minute game,” Lewis said. “As a keeper, I was also involved in a keeper-only session on Sunday.”

Both Enneking and Lewis were unable to make the final cut during the tryouts, though both remain optimistic.

“I felt like we gave it our best effort and we’re looking to continue to try out for other teams,” Lewis said.

“Most of these teams are looking to get most of their players from the draft in January, so any open tryout is a chance to get my foot into the door and have my name out there. Maybe Santa can bring me a couple plane tickets for Christmas.”

Hoover was an offensive line coach under Tim Walsh at Portland State from 1995–99. He went on to coach at Utah State and Henderson State. Hoover returned to PSU in 2006 to be offensive coordinator and offensive line coach under Walsh, when the Vikings went 7-4.

“Jeff was a great friend and one of the funnest [sic] guys I coached with,” said Walsh. “He will be truly missed by anyone who had the opportunity to know him.”

—Portland State Athletics and Eastern Illinois Athletics

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Portland State football’s 2009 season schedule in review Sept. 5 at Oregon State L, 7-34 Sept. 12 vs. Southern Oregon W, 34-10 Sept. 19 at Montana L, 17-49 Sept. 26 vs. Weber State L, 29-36 Oct. 3 vs. Sacramento State L, 14-31 Oct. 10 at Northern Colorado W, 23-18 Oct. 17 vs. Northern Arizona L, 23-44 Oct. 24 vs. UC Davis L, 31-34 Oct. 31 vs. Eastern Washington L, 10-47 Nov. 7 vs. Montana State L, 10-28 Nov. 14 at Idaho State L, 34-41

A season to forget

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A recap of football’s unsatisfying 2009 season Allison Whited Vanguard staff

For the moment, football is dead on the Portland State campus.

The 2009 season was a crushing disappointment and the Vikings finished at 2-9—their worst record in 27 years—winning only one conference game and losing seven. Topping it off, head coach Jerry Glanville resigned less than three full days after the final game of the season.

Glanville resigned after finishing just three seasons of his four-year contract and had yet to have a winning season in the South Park Blocks.

“I think, in some intangible way, he had a significant impact on many of the successes of some of our other programs,” said Torre Chisholm, athletic director, after announcing Glanville’s resignation. “Unfortunately, that success did not extend itself into the football program.”

The idea that Glanville went peacefully into the night seems flimsy, but given his departure it is worth reviewing the season that may have been his last on a college coaching staff.

He started three games and played in eight, but only threw for an average of 44.4 yards per game.

For the past two years, Portland State has had the first-ranked passing game in the nation. This year, they were only the fifth-ranked passing offense in the Big Sky Conference.

It is tempting to say that the offense simply became more balanced, but even with the increase in yards rushing the Viks only finished with the eighth-ranked rushing game in conference.

Defensive trouble The defense Glanville installed when he landed at Portland State seems to have been overly complicated for typical college offenses and difficult for his players to grasp.

Further complicating things was Glanville’s decision to play an inordinately large number of true freshmen.

Glanville installed freshmen in all positions: Mike Williams at cornerback, Nathan Snow at safety and Joel Sisler at linebacker.

After a difficult loss at home against Northern Arizona, Glanville defended his decision to start so many inexperienced players by reiterating the old adage about losing a game for every freshman started.

He may have been joking about it then, laughing that the Viks didn’t play enough games for that to be true, but the humor in his comment seems lost now.

The biggest problem on defense was the play of the secondary. Outstanding passers drive the Big Sky teams, and against a struggling pass defense—the Viks were ranked nextto-last defending the pass—these quarterbacks threw for an average of 280.9 yards per game.

The secondary didn’t have any luck forcing turnovers either. They recorded only five interceptions for 55 yards, and that combined with Portland State’s 11 fumbles and 23 interceptions, left the Viks with the worst turnover margin in the conference.

Throughout preseason practice and up until the game against last year’s conference champion Weber State, the secondary was hot and heavy—swarming on every play. But the Sept. 26 game against the former champions changed that.

The game ended in a last-second loss after senior cornerback Tracy Ford had a pass in the end zone slip through his hands. Instead of a Portland State interception, the pass became a game-winning touchdown. The Vikings’ second-

ary never seemed to recover from that—it was the hangover that wouldn’t go away.

The run defense was very effective at times, bottling up runners like Weber State’s Trevyn Smith, who entered the game averaging 115.7 yards per game only to be kept to 34 yards. Anytime the Viks were faced with a solid runner, they limited his production.

Coaching decisions “I told them you can’t give up, you have to work yourselves through it,” Glanville said after a 28-10 loss to Montana State, referring to the team’s inevitable losing season.

True, but when your head coach is making poor decisions that you have no control over, that statement carries only so much weight.

Decisions in clutch moments—like replacing the starting quarterback for the third-string passer in the final minutes of a freshly-tied game against UC Davis—and decisions that determined the course of the season—like developing a roster with 65 percent freshmen and sophomores—were things decided by one person only.

He may be out, but the Portland State football team and community is now left with a mess to clean up.

Offensive woes With the departure of offensive coordinator Mouse Davis in June, the Vikings suffered an identity crisis. Jim Craft took over as the de facto offensive coordinator and made a point of incorporating a more visible running game than had been present in years past.

This year’s running game racked up 1,184 yards—compared to 322 yards last season—but as the ground attack gained momentum, the passing game suffered mightily.

Junior quarterback Drew Hubel was injured in mid-October against Northern Colorado. His return to duty two games later left him looking shaky, and an injury to his nose forced him out of that game. Then, against Montana State, he injured his shoulder to end his season in the second-to-last game.

Hubel’s spate of injuries was an insurmountable obstacle for the Viks. Sophomore backup quarterback Connor Kavanaugh is a good optionstyle quarterback, but he struggles throwing the ball downfield.

Taking the field: Portland State’s season started strong with a hard-fought battle in Corvallis, but it went downhill soon after.

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Too soon an end Northern Colorado upsets Portland State in Big Sky Championship J. Logue Vanguard staff

Ending the season far too early, the Portland State women’s volleyball team suffered a shocking defeat to Northern Colorado, 3-1, in the championship match of the Big Sky tournament.

Hitting a dry spell at the worst possible time, the Vikings failed to finish above .200 hitting in either of their games in the tournament.

Normally relying on the arm of junior outside hitter Whitney Phillips to do the heavy lifting, Portland State looked lost offensively when she couldn’t find her rhythm.

“I felt like we got beat tonight.

We got outplayed,” said head coach Michael Seemann.

It is easy to see why Seemann felt that way. After the Viks dropped the first set 25-17, they didn’t look comfortable for the rest of the night.

Portland State appeared to turn a corner with a second-set win that tied the match one-all, but they fell behind early in the third set—something that plagued them all weekend. Making a late fivepoint run with the Bears up 12, Portland State’s offense sputtered out again before losing 25-21 and falling to 2-1 on the night.

Even when the Vikings got it going offensively, Northern Colorado always seemed to have an answer.

With next to nothing left in the tank, the Vikings played hard to the end but were unable to stop the surging Bears, who won 25-19 in the final stanza.

The Bears were deserving of their first Big Sky Championship in any sport. They played like the more inspired team and led for nearly the entire match. Tournament MVP Kenzie Shreeve paced all players with 28 kills, and was practically unblockable all night as she continuously found holes in the Vikings’ defense.

Shreeve and Phillips were named to the Big Sky Championship All-Tournament Team, along with senior setter Nique Fradella. Also earning all-tournament honors were freshman setter Marissa Hughes and senior middle blocker Allison Raguse of Northern Colorado, and junior middle blockers Sara Todorovich and Chenoa Covaire from Eastern Washington.

Despite the tough loss and failure to earn an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament, Portland State put together a season that will not soon be forgotten. The Vikings strung together a record fifth consecutive season of 20-plus wins, and added another regular-season championship to their trophy case.

Along with matching their best conference record ever for volleyball, this season’s squad was ranked near the top of every statistical category in the Big Sky for much of the season.

“We had a lot of contributions from a lot of different people, and a lot of our seniors who received limited playing time came in and did a great job,” Seemann said. “We fell short of the one last goal that we wanted, which was to win both the regular season and conference tournament championships—Northern Colorado earned it tonight.”

With a season full of highlights, the Vikings won for the first time ever at Sacramento State and set a new school record of 10 consecutive match wins. With every reason to hold their heads high, this year’s seniors combined for two Big Sky regular season championships and one Big Sky Tournament championship during their tenure in the South Park Blocks.

With Phillips and junior outside hitter Christie Hamilton returning, next year’s team should also have the offensive firepower to hold their own amid the Big Sky Conference.

After this year’s heartbreaking finish, the Vikings will have plenty of motivation next season and will again set their sights on the NCAA Tournament.

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Big Sky Conference women’s volleyball team records (Conference record)

1. Portland State 21-8 (14-2) t2. Northern Colorado 21-11 (12-4) t2. Eastern Washington 18-11 (12-4)

Big Sky Tournament Semifinals: Portland State 3, Montana 1 Northern Colorado 3, Eastern Washington 2

Big Sky Tournament Championship: Northern Colorado 3, Portland State 1

4. Montana 14-14 (10-6) 5. Idaho State 13-15 (7-9) 6. Sacramento State 16-16 (6-10) t7. Northern Arizona 8-17 (5-11) t7. Weber State 8-21 (5-11) 9. Montana State 3-23 (1-15)

Whitney Phillips: The junior outside hitter led the Vikings to victory in the Big Sky Semifinal against Montana.

Regular season champs: The first-place Viks were upset in the Big Sky Championship match.

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Team effort: After playing superbly all season long, the Viks stumbled in the final match.