Daily Vanguard January 21, 2010

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 54

Student Leaders for Service and Robin Morris Collin of Willamette University are holding an open forum for students and community members in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Global solidarity is the main theme of the event.

When: Noon Where: SMSU, room 228

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NEWS Campus Connections News for students, by students PAGE 2

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SCH: The School of Community Health works to teach the community how to be healthier.

Party for a cause Russian-influenced band Chervona plays to support Haiti relief PAGE 4

There is no Dana...

Only Zuul brings operatic metal hardcore spastic doom to the Red Room PAGE 4

Succeeding on every level Snow Falling on Cedars is beautifully produced and skillfully written PAGE 5

Sports

Our new rec center Part one in a threepart series exploring the new fitness and recreation options in the ASRC PAGE 6

School of Community Health aims to serve greater public good Tyler Carter Vanguard staff

The bold capital letters above Broadway Street proclaim “Let knowledge serve the city,” a proclamation that the School of Community Health (SCH) clearly embodies.

Located on the fourth floor of the Urban Center Building, the SCH offers a variety of degrees pursuant to careers in public health. The mission of the program is to encourage social change and train people for futures in public service, with the belief that health is influenced by a variety of external factors beyond individual choices.

The SCH is interested in educating future public servants and individuals about the ways in which everyone can make better decisions about health.

The program is built into the

School of Urban and Public Affairs.

Both programs are interested in educating students on issues affecting the public, but the SCH is specifically interested in the ways in which social and economic factors influence the health of individuals within populations, said SCH Director Dr. Carlos J. Crespo.

The program is not only focused on preparing people for careers, but on educating those who utilize health care services. This means placing more emphasis on healthy choices and attitudes that will prevent illness, rather than waiting to treat patients until their afflictions are so serious that they need acute medical attention.

For the average Portland State student, these principles have broad implications. The SCH is interested in informing the PSU community about the ramifications of their health decisions.

“Students at PSU are a unique demographic,” Crespo said, “But while different, there are the usual suspects.”

Many young people, newly independent of mom and dad, take up smoking as a way to look older.

“And if they continue, by the age of 30, they’ll look 50,” Crespo said. “A dangerous intersection occurs when you combine a newly independent young adult, make junk food more accessible and introduce new social pressures.”

The department encourages PSU students to use their natural environment to stay healthy. Portland is a unique location, surrounded by beautiful natural scenery that is augmented by parks, walking trails and rivers. The size of Portland encourages walking or biking to school or work, which benefits the public’s health.

“But, [it] also impacts the environment and has huge implications in other areas,” Crespo said.

The people in SCH believe that the decision of one individual to ride a bike to work, for the benefit of their health, affects how many people ride public transit or drive to work, which positively impacts the environment.

Not only is that person making a decision about their health, their decision ultimately affects the health of the community.

Faculty members serve on numerous advisory boards for public health, including the Oregon Health Policy Board as well as organizations both locally and internationally known. Some partners of the department are the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Portland State is a WHO collaborating center, meaning it is internationally recognized for urban health sustainability. The idea behind health sustainability is to take sustainability into account when making health decisions—ultimately, how human beings can best become and remain healthy without destroying the environment.

Faculty members’ interests are varied within the health field.

Professor Mark Kaplan is working with several organizations on the issue of suicide prevention.

Additionally, a $1 million gift was donated to expand the Global Aging Initiative in Nicaragua, which works in poor areas to help create support networks for the elderly.

Portland State’s economic future A look at President Wiewel’s development strategy Gogul Krishnan Vanguard staff

Editors note: The Vanguard distilled a 36-page document from the President’s Office, called the University Economic Development Strategy, into the following story. Further analysis from key decision makers and any potential impact on students will be reported in the coming weeks.

According to the University Economic Development Strategy (UEDS), Portland State leaders aim to better align the activities of the school with the economic development goals and actions of the Portland metropolitan region, particularly those of the City of Portland and the Portland Development Commission.

Themes in the strategy New strategies are planned in such a way to help implement the five guiding themes for the university set by President Wim Wiewel’s administration.

- Civic leadership through partnership - Student success - Achieve global excellence - Enhance educational opportunity - Expand resources and improve effectiveness

Current situation Between 2007 and 2009, the School of Extended Studies provided workforce and professional development to 6,312 individuals, 1,727 companies, 199 government agencies and 110 health-related organizations.

Since 2000, PSU has acquired more than 1 million square feet of new space and has plans for $300 million of new capital investment by 2012.

The university’s economic impact on the Portland regional economy (2007–08) is: - $403M as an employer - $410M as a purchaser - $89M as a researcher - $122M as an urban developer - $48M as a workforce developer - $25M as a community partner

- $7M as a business accelerator - $1M as an expert advisor Total impact: $1.11B PSU’s total research expenditures for 2008–09 exceeded $52 million. Of that number, $18.8 million funded research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and $7.3 million went to the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Strategic links The new investment strategy is closely linked to two key plans: the City of Portland’s Economic Development Strategy and the University District Framework Plan. The Plan for Promoting Economic Growth and Job Creation was completed in 2009 and is now being implemented.

Coordinated implementation of these plans will ensure the efficient use of City of Portland and PSU resources, and lead to the best possible outcome for city residents and PSU, faculty and staff, according to the UEDS.

Industry One of the stated goals of the plan is to grow trade sector jobs through the implementation of a "cluster strategy" targeting four industries. PSU’s programs and research activities will support the city’s four clusters plus the emerging biosciences cluster.

The five clusters are: - Clean tech and sustainable industries - Active wear and design - Software - Advanced manufacturing - Biosciences University enrollment is expected to increase substantially over the coming decades. To accommodate an anticipated enrollment of 36,000 students over the next 25 years, the University District Framework Plan proposes to focus on missionsupporting PSU uses in the university district core.

UEDS continued on page three

Vanguard 2 | News January 21, 2010

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Sarah J. Christensen Editor-in-Chief

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Virginia Vickery News Editor

News for students, by students

Theodora Karatzas Arts & Culture Editor Richard D. Oxley Opinion Editor Robert Britt Sports Editor Shannon Vincent Production Manager Marni Cohen Photo Editor Zach Chastaine Online Editor Robert Seitzinger Copy Chief Robert Seitzinger Calendar Editor Jae Specht Advertising Manager Judson Randall Adviser Ann Roman Advertising Adviser Illustrator Kira Meyrick Production Assistants Bryan Morgan, Charles Cooper Williams Online Assistant Nicolas Charbonnier

Writers Stacy Austin, Will Blackford, Bianca Blankenship, Tyler Carter, Corie Charnley, Meaghan Daniels, Erica DeCouteau, Sarah Esterman, Amy Fylan, Natalia Grozina, Patrick Guild, Rosemary Hanson, Steve Haske, Nadya Ighani, Carrie Johnston, Mark Johnston, Zoe Kellett, Tamara K. Kennedy, Anita Kinney, Gogul Krishnan, J. Logue, James MacKenzie, Sharon E. Rhodes, Wendy Shortman, Catrice Stanley, Amy Staples, Nilesh Tendolkar, Robin Tinker, Vinh Tran, Allison Whited

New solar reactor facility to open in Corvallis in spring Corvallis will embrace a new fully functional solar research facility at the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute, which was building 11 at the Hewlett Packard site, and should be up and running this May. The facility was an HP donation to the state for a 25-year lease and has been occupied by the Pacific Northwest National Lab and OSU. The facility is now a signature research facility of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute.

Funding of the new facility has reached $2.7 million so far. Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies unleashed the stream of investments with $232,000 and will continue financially supporting the new facility. Other funding has come from OSU, ONAMI and a three-year Department of Energy grant to OSU, CH2M HILL, Voxtel and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

“We’re going through an expansion of lab space,” said Greg Herman, associate director of the Oregon Process Innovation Center and associate professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering.

—Michelle Ofelt, Daily Barometer

Open source lab: a place for education With the constant surge of computer technology, creating new programs and networks for communication has been a focused effort for computer and processing

engineers. Arguably more important than the development of new technologies is the continual need to find ways to implement them and streamline them for maximum productivity and efficiency.

OSU’s open source lab offers computer science students the opportunity to both work in a setting that gives them real-world experience and the freedom to create new software applications.

The OSUOSL is even more unique since undergraduate students run the system administration.

According to a 2008 OSU press release, the Open Source Lab has provided world-class hosting and custom development for many of the world’s largest and most far-reaching open source efforts, including the Mozilla Firefox browser, portions of the One Laptop Per Child project, the Linux Foundation’s main infrastructure, the Apache Software Foundation and the Drupal content management system.

“There are a lot of ways to do something. You can write a code, and it works, but can take forever.

We try to write the best codes which allow for the most efficient processing,” Connell said.

—Eric Sepulveda, Daily Barometer

Insurgent, Survival Center gets PFC funds The Programs Finance Committee continued budget hearings Tuesday, allocating $22,222 to the Student Insurgent and $19,763 to the Survival Center, among others.

“I’m really happy; they gave us

Graffiti-proof bathroom walls

almost our entire request,” CoDirector of the Survival Center Mariah Thompson said. Most of the increase is going to funding anti-oppression and anti-racism events. “We’re looking to work with other groups, like the Multicultural Center, on these issues, so you can be expecting more in that area for next year.”

Former PFC Chair Devon Duquette stepped down as chairperson earlier in the day yesterday, and PFC Vice Chair Kamal Ararso took over his position of running the hearings.

Duquette remained on the committee. His letter of resignation stated personal issues and time commitments as his reasons for stepping down as chair.

“At this time, I cannot handle the position with the diligent attention and time that this committee deserves,” he said in an e-mail addressed to the PFC. “I apologize for the inconvenience at this time, during the beginning of budget hearings, I just cannot dedicate the time that being a chairperson demands.”

After the hearings, the committee voted to make Ararso the chair and to postpone the voting of vice chair until the next meeting.

Following the hearings, members of the PFC discussed a concern brought up by Steve Morozumi of the Multicultural Center, which had its budget hearing Friday. The committee allocated $115,825 to the center, an increase of 0.34 percent from last year.

—Emily Gillespie, Daily Emerald

Graduation date choice questioned Another wave of complaints has hit the University administration recently after the finalized spring 2010 commencement schedule appeared on the University’s Web site last week, further emphasizing that the decision to move most ceremonies to Monday, June 14, was unpopular among many.

University Director of Commencement Amber Garrison said she had recently received a handful of calls and e-mails from families of graduating students who thought the June 14 date may have been a typo on the University Web site—but Garrison assured them the bulk of the ceremonies are indeed on a Monday.

“Important events do not happen on Monday mornings,” parent Mike Papas wrote in an e-mail to University President Richard Lariviere and the administration at large on Monday, referring to the University’s decision to schedule the main ceremony at 9 a.m.

Monday. “Would you schedule your next birthday party on a Monday morning? How many of your friends would come if you did? I hope you see my point.”

The main ceremony and most department commencements will be held on a Monday, a day on which the University has never before held commencement, to avoid a scheduling conflict with the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which will take place on campus from June 9, the Wednesday of finals week, to June 12, the Saturday on which most ceremonies would normally be held.

—Jill Kimball, Daily Emerald

Media scholars present at PSU

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All of the restrooms in the Smith Memorial Student Union will be made graffiti-resistant in the coming months.

The Smith Memorial Student Union Advisory Board brought the issue of graffiti-ridden bathrooms to the attention of the Auxiliary Services Department, which agreed to take on the task of making all of the public restrooms in Smith graffiti-resistant.

In order to do that, restroom stall doors and dividers will be either painted black or replaced with an inkresistant, graphite-coated material.

“Using graffiti remover was

impractical, for a number of reasons.

It involved a lot of labor, and left a chemical smell,” said Auxiliary Services Manager Mark Russell.

The new bathroom stalls will be of no additional cost to students because the money for the graphitecoated doors will come from a fund already designated for such expenses, and repainting will cost virtually nothing.

Russell estimates that all of the restrooms in SMSU will be graffitiresistant by the beginning of spring term.

— Erica DeCouteau

“Newspapers are in a moment of rapid and extreme collapse,” said John Nichols, a media scholar and author who visited Portland State yesterday with Robert McChesney, University of Illinois professor and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again. The two spoke to a standingroom-only crowd of over 200 people in the Native American Student and Community Center as part of a West Coast tour promoting their new book.

During the talk, Nichols explained the

extent of the crisis facing journalism in America today and McChesney shared their suggestions for reestablishing a vibrant fourth estate.

The authors’ research revealed that every month in the United States, more than 1,000 newspaper employees are laid off and over the last two years, a total of 30,000 newspaper employees were laid off.

“This is not a journalism crisis, not a media crisis, it’s a democracy crisis,” Nichols said.

— Virginia Vickery

UEDS |

from page one

Vanguard News | 3 January 21, 2010

Overview of investment strategies, issues and expected outcomes 1. Connecting with partners: In order to connect with partners, a new office headed by the vice president for research and partnerships is to be formed, which will evaluate existing policies and create new policies and tools for economic development.

Results expected - The vice president will work with PSU’s leadership to assure alignment of the university’s research and other programs with regional economic development strategies. PSU will also work with its faculty, public agencies and private partners to expand research capacity and resources - The vice president communicates internally with researchers and administrators at PSU about new programs and activities, and externally with public and private partners to understand their needs and connect them to appropriate PSU programs, research efforts and activities

2. Alignment with regional economic development goals: To align with regional economic development goals, PSU plans to align academic plans and research efforts with growing and emerging economic clusters, and to expand partnerships with Oregon Health & Science University and other institutions of higher education.

regional economic growth through partnerships - Implementing this plan will also help public and private sectors through specialized academic tracks that meet the needs of targeted and emerging economic clusters, and yield greater availability of highly educated graduates qualified for positions in companies and agencies throughout the region and nation

Results expected - For PSU, implementing this action will provide support from regional private and public entities that benefit from PSU’s specialized tracks, such as financial underwriting of programs and contracts for PSU services - It is also expected to assist the university as it pursues grants and other funding for programs, and increase the number of PSU graduates with leadership positions in growth clusters - A solidified international leadership position capable of implementing sustainable

3. Campus planning and development partnerships: For improved campus planning and development partnerships, PSU plans for an updated university district, called an EcoDistrict, a new urban renewal area (URA) and to create a more sustainably built environment.

Results expected - For PSU, implementing this action will provide a new West Side URA that recognizes and supports PSU’s ability to further develop a vibrant, mixed-use university environment and

News Editor: expand its role in advancing regional economic growth through strategic tax increment allocations in support of capital projects - This plan is also expected to create an opportunity for expanded partnerships with the private sector as PSU builds additional facilities to host a mix of tax-generating uses - An updated University District Plan that reflects current PSU needs in its code language and boundaries, and enables PSU to more effectively secure support and funding from the Oregon University System - It will create an opportunity for PSU to collaborate with public and private partners to finance critical university developments, secure control of future development sites and co-locate in facilities to help to reduce development and operating costs

Virginia Vickery 503-725-5690 news@dailyvanguard.com

Portland State Alumni Association Blazers game night The Portland State Alumni Association—a group that promotes the continued engagement of alumni at Portland State—will host a Blazers game night on Sunday, Feb. 21.

Alumni may purchase tickets to the Blazers vs. Jazz game at a discount.

Prices range from $22 to $125 per ticket and seating varies.

Tickets for the group will be released on Jan. 28.

For more information about Portland State Alumni Night, please contact Blake Wehling at 503-963-3964.

Vanguard 4 | Arts & Culture January 21, 2010

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

2009 Portland restaurant survey: Best bartender 1: Kevin Ludwig, Beaker & Flask: This was an absolute landslide. It should be mentioned that every bartender at Beaker & Flask got multiple votes— quite an impressive victory for such a new restaurant/bar.

727 SE Washington St. 2: Kelly Swenson, Ten 01: Kelly always seems to come up in top 10 lists, and for good reason.

1001 NW Couch St. 3: Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Clyde Common: Jeffrey has been around bars for a long time, but is fairly new to Portland.

For a newcomer on the scene, this is an impressive showing.

1014 SW Stark St.

ARTS & CULTURE

Party cause for a

Russian-influenced band Chervona plays to support Haiti relief Bianca Blankenship Vanguard staff

What happens when the Mt. Tabor Theater fills a stage with singers and musicians that are Russian, Brazilian, German, Lithuanian, Caribbean, Argentinean and Polish, all in the same band? The answer? A party.

Chervona, a Portland-based band that is best known for its high-energy shows, seeks to create just that.

“I’m coming from the angle of the audience,” said Andrei Temkin, lead singer and guitarist for Chervona.

He and Chervona’s crew of musicians want to connect with the audience in a way that most Portland bands fail to do. They want

to see people dancing, singing, shouting and having some serious fun.

“If us happy, then we make everybody happy,” said Temkin, who was aghast at the difference between the riotous Russian weddings he saw back home and the sulking, sweatshirthooded youth who comprised concert audiences in Portland.

Chervona will play this Saturday at Mt. Tabor Theater as part of the Groove Movement Fundraiser for Haiti relief. They will be headlining next to local bands Intervision, Voltronic, Mimi Naja of Fruition and Groove Movement. The show will be an eclectic set of R&B, soul, funk and folk. The bands are all worth a listen, but count on Chervona to get the dancing started. Proceeds from the show will benefit earthquake relief in Haiti.

Hungry for some fun and upbeat music, Temkin started out 10 years ago in a Russian punk band called

MiruMir! He then transitioned into Chervona and translated many of the original MiruMir! songs into English. The band still uses old Russian songs but often translates them into English to make it easier to reach the local audience.

“We had an idea that we wanted to shake hands with every Portlander,” said Alma Laskoniene, who, aside from acting as a songwriter and muse for Chernova, also heads the art and design.

Their music takes cue from all the band members’ heritages, and more.

The mix of Eastern European, Spanish and Brazilian beats is only a taste of the band’s versatility.

The bouncing rhythm is carried by a lot of horns—tuba, trumpet and trombone, to be exact—and a drumbeat that doesn’t stop. The clarinet and violin lighten up the tone, while the guitar and bass are naturally essential components in a

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Chervona: Portland's own internationally influenced, Gogol Bordello-esque group of ruffians.

Photos courtesy of Chernova

rock band. And, of course, who can play eastern European-influenced music without a sizeable dose of accordion?

As if this great gathering of instruments wasn’t enough to jumpstart a party, most of the band sings along with the songs so that the audience feels as if they’ve just been dropped off at some sort of wild Russian wedding. The lyrics add to the fun and refuse to take anything too seriously.

“They’re uplifting,” Temkin said of the song lyrics. “We’re always trying to find an uplifting subject that everyone can relate to.”

With song titles like “Girlfriends Are Pain in the Ass” and “I Know Who Is Hiding Osama Bin Laden,” the intended humor is obvious. Just because a subject is heavy, they said, doesn’t mean the song has to be dark.

Chervona hasn’t produced any albums yet and is still struggling to make a name for itself in Portland.

But when they’re not working towards recording and creating a video, they’re having fun playing shows around town, hoping that the word will spread.

“To be happy is the final destination,” Temkin said, so don’t expect to find anything but a good time when it comes to Chervona.

Groove Movement Fundraiser Mt. Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Jan. 23, 9 p.m., $8, 21+

Best wine shop 1: Cork Wineshop 2901 NE Alberta St., 1715 NW Lovejoy St. 2: Liner & Elsen Wine Merchants 2222 NW Quimby St. 3 (tie): Square Deal Wines, Zupan’s and Great Wine Buys

Best pizza 1: Ken’s Artisan Pizza, by a fairly healthy margin 304 SE 28th Ave. 2: Apizza Sholls 4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

3: Nostrana, in a very distant third 1401 SE Morrison St.

Best burger 1: Cafe Castagna, a rout of the ompetition, no one else came close.

1758 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

2: Slow Bar, with very respectable showing and a good option.

533 SE Grand Ave. 3 (tie): Carafe, Higgins Bar, Le Pigeon

—portlandfoodand drink.com

There is no Dana…

Only Zuul brings operatic metal hardcore spastic doom to the Red Room Mark Johnston Vanguard staff

Hailing from the mean streets of Portland, Only Zuul are intent on a few things: drinking, head banging, having fun and bringing the metal.

After a short time together, the group has created a buzz amongst the underground metal scene with their spastic blast beats and nonsensical, sometimes comical vocals.

“With songs like ‘Machete BitchSlap’ and ‘Lysergic Jesuscide,’ you are going to turn a few heads,” said bassist Jason Frost.

Since their inception in spring 2007, Only Zuul has turned heads and wowed audiences, being honored with opportunities to play with top metal and hardcore bands after only a few months in existence.

“One of our first shows, we got to open for Skinlab, which would have been a ton of fun, but I was sick as a dog,” Frost said.

Only Zuul formed quickly, due to the fact that most of the members knew each other from the Portland bar scene.

“Portland is a small town, so in some way everyone knows each other so we got together pretty quickly,” Frost said. “Most of us

worked together at bars and had friends that played instruments.

Once the group was together, we found our vocalist through an online advertisement. We had posted an ad and he was the only one that responded.”

The group has since enlisted a second guitar player to round out their sound.

“Just recently we added a second guitar player, Ian, who plays in local band (A)wake,” Frost said. “He just joined about a month and a half ago.

His first show will be Thursday— which is also his birthday.”

Since forming, the group has made one recording. The band’s selftitled disc was recorded during the spring of 2008 in Geomana Studios, with Chris Finster at the helm. The six-song disc contains blasting, powerful songs with hard screaming, operatic pieces, driving drums, thundering bass and doom-laden guitars. The band is planning to hit up the studio again in February to record some new songs they will ship to interested labels, as well as to sell to their fans.

The draw of Only Zuul for their fans is definitely their live show.

The group’s fans are ravenous moshers that simply go nuts when the band plays.

“When we played the Deluxe in McMinnville, the kids went absolutely crazy,” Frost said. “One dude got his shirt torn off and wrapped around

Photo courtesy of Only Zuul

Only Zuul: If you're rowdy enough, maybe they'll buy you a beer...or punch you in the face.

another dude’s neck. People [were] getting punched in the face, falling over each other—and that was just our first song. Whenever we play McMinnville, there’s always some crazy drunken madness.”

Beer seems to be involved in many of the band’s shenanigans.

“Once, we played in Eugene at the Black Forest on the anniversary of Dimebag Darrell’s death,” Frost said. “One of the attendees worked at the Samurai Duck next door and loved our set so, bought us drinks at his bar and then asked us to play an impromptu set. So there we are, drunk off our asses, trying to get through our set.”

This year also marks the second year the group has been even asked to play an annual Pabst Blue Ribbon Festival in McMinnville.

“We play the PBR Fest every year in McMinnville. A couple of bartenders at the Deluxe started the festival

as a birthday party but it ballooned into a huge festival. Last year, there were 20 kegs of Pabst gone through in 24 hours.”

Obviously the guys in Only Zuul are in it for the rocking and the partying. Sometimes one thing gets in the way of the other, but it doesn’t matter when you play face-melting metal. Most of the groups fans are either too drunk to notice, or lying face down in a pool of their own blood—either way they can live with a few miffed chords and the occasional off-key, alcohol-induced voice crack.

Only Zuul Red Room 2530 NE 82nd Ave. Tonight, 8 p.m. $5, 21+

Succeeding on every level

Snow Falling on Cedars is beautifully produced and skillfully written

Vanguard Arts & Culture | 5 January 21, 2010

Anita Kinney Vanguard staff

Snow Falling on Cedars: With its high production value and nuanced writing, this recent production from Portland Center Stage is a hit.

Photos courtesy of Owen Carey

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Based on the 1994 novel of the same title, Snow Falling on Cedars is a period piece set on a fictional island in the Puget Sound. The play chronicles a years-long romance, the personal narratives of several Japanese Americans who find themselves in internment camps during World War II and a murder investigation. Portland Center Stage’s adaptation was written by Kevin McKeon for Seattle’s BookIt Repertory Theatre, and is just as relevant for Portland audiences.

When fisherman Carl Heine, Jr. (William Peden) is found dead on his fishing boat off the coast of San Piedro Island, suspicion falls on Kabuo Miyamoto (Bruce Locke) a Japanese fisherman. Miyamoto becomes a suspect because of prejudice and coincidence, and reporter Ishmael Chambers (Vince Nappo), who has long been in love with Kabuo’s wife, Hatsue (Olivia Oguma), seems to be the only person on the island who takes a critical view of the evidence presented in Kabuo’s trial.

Ishmael is a war veteran, torn between his love for his childhood sweetheart, his sense of justice and the hatred he acquired for “the Japs” while fighting in the war.

Snow Falling On Cedars is a particularly interesting piece of theater because of its narrative structure, which closely follows the novel. The narrative passages are incredibly effective and seeing a chorus of characters verbally set a scene is visually powerful.

The lighting is a high point of the show and is very inventive. Lights demonstrate the passing of time and seasons. The sunsets and storms depicted on the backdrop, simply by changing the light, are beautiful.

The hollow cedar tree where Ishmael and Hatsue fall in love, denoted by a circle of light onstage, is likewise gorgeous.

Effective set design also contributes to the show’s atmosphere. A backdrop of silhouetted houses portrays an internment camp and a battlefield, and a wooden deck is, alternately, a forest, a courtroom, a house and the deck of a fishing boat.

The cast features stellar performances by notable actors.

Olivia Oguma is captivating in the role of Hatsue. She plays Hatsue at various points in the character’s life and is equally skilled in the roles of a 10 year old, a high school student and a worried wife.

Tobias Andersen plays Kabuo’s defense lawyer and delivers an impassioned speech about impartiality and transcending racism for the sake of justice.

Andersen, a longtime fixture on Portland stages, is in his element here. It seems this role was written just for him.

The fragmented narrative of Snow Falling On Cedars works well on stage, although it’s disconcerting at first. But by the time the curtain falls on the first act, the play comes into its own and succeeds in creating a unique atmosphere that captures a time and place the way the best theater should.

Snow Falling on Cedars Gerding Theater 128 NW 11th Ave. Wed through Sun, 7:30 p.m.

Thu, 12 p.m., Sat and Sun, 2 p.m.

Through Feb. 7 $30.50 to $50

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Sean Paul and Lil Jon Song: “Fifteen” Artist: Taylor Swift Rock Song: “Break” Artist: Three Days Grace Song: “I Will Not Bow” Artist: Breaking Benjamin Song: “Uprising” Artist: Muse Song: “(If You’re Wondering If I Want To) I Want To” Artist: Weezer Song: “If You Only Knew” Artist: Shinedown Song: “Kings and Queens” Artist: 30 Seconds to Mars Song: “Wheels” Artist: Foo Fighters Song: “1901” Artist: Phoenix Song: “Savior” Artist: Rise Against Song: “Check My Brain” Artist: Alice in Chains

—Billboard

Vanguard 6 | Sports January 21, 2010

SPORTS

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

Portland State women’s tennis 2010 schedule Fri., Jan. 22 Eastern Washington Sun., Jan. 24 at Oregon Sat., Jan. 30 at Colorado State Sun., Jan. 31 at Northern Colorado Fri., Feb. 19 Southern Oregon Sat., Feb. 20 Seattle University Sun., Feb. 21 Montana Sat., Feb. 27 Idaho (at Richland, Wash.)

Sat., Feb. 27 Seattle University (at Richland, Wash.)

Fri., March 5 at U. of Portland Sat., March 6 at Lewis & Clark Thu., March 11 at Sacramento State Fri., March 12 at UC Davis Sat., March 20 Gonzaga Sun., March 28 Montana State Fri., April 2 Washington State Sat., April 10 Weber State Mon., April 12 Northern Arizona Sat., April 17 Idaho State

Dive in: Portland State's newest building offers a variety of fitness options, including a 25-yard lap pool.

Getting rec'd: The ASRC features over 100 pieces of exercise equipment and more are on the way.

Our new rec center Part one in a three-part series exploring the new fitness and recreation options in the ASRC Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

This is the first in a three-part series in the Vanguard exploring Portland State and Campus Rec’s newest facility, the Academic and Student Recreation Center.

More than 20 years in the making, Portland State’s newest recreation facility opened its doors on Jan. 3, and is now ready for use. All students taking one credit or more are automatically members and just need to show their photo on a valid PSU OneCard to access the new facilities, equipment and classes.

Located in the Urban Plaza and right off the TriMet Streetcar line, the Academic and Student Recreation Center (ASRC) boasts a variety of amenities, including three new indoor courts. The two-court gymnasium features wooden floors and can host several different sports such as basketball, volleyball or badminton, and a screened partition allows for simultaneous games on both courts.

The synthetic-floored, multipurpose court is equipped with dasher boards to allow for indoor soccer, floor hockey and other sports. Glass walls allow for plenty of natural light on the court, and wireless scoreboards track scores. The court also features a newer surface compared to the one at the 1960s-era Stott Center.

“There is no comparison to the surface at the Stott Center,” said

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Moriah Willow, third-year sociology major. “I absolutely love the basketball courts here. The surface has a nice soft floor—it is sticky and has good traction. The hoops are of great quality and the ventilation is a lot better.”

Hao Nguyen, Badminton Club member and a junior majoring in finance, said he is pleased with the improvements at the new facility.

“It’s a lot more enjoyable here,” he said. “There is more space and time to practice—also the surface doesn’t let you slide as much as it did at the Stott Center.”

The three-laned running track is elevated above the courts and at 1/11th of a mile long, it is slightly shorter than the track at the Stott Center, though it is indoors and well-insulated from the weather.

The circuit training and weight room portion of the facility comprises an impressive array of over 100 pieces of weight training and cardio equipment, and it offers a great view of the city. Various weight machines complement the 11 treadmills, 18 ellipticals and 16 spin bikes, and a number of machines are specifically made to be wheelchair-accessible and accommodate users with disabilities.

Personal training is available and, in an effort to reduce the risk of injuries, CPR-trained members of the fitness staff constantly provide oversight in the weight room.

“We have a lot more equipment still to arrive,” Matt Orthmann,

Photos by Aaron Leopold/Portland State Vanguard

ASRC staff member and a sophomore majoring in health studies said. “We have eight free-motion pulling machines and four bench presses coming soon.”

The elliptical machines are enabled with ReRev technology, which helps generate electricity using the kinetic motion of the user.

Treadmill screens have access to cable television, and the spin bikes are equipped with multi-player virtual racing games involving different environments and terrains.

“It’s cool because there is also a leader board here, and we can compete against students from other universities,” said junior Alex Kurn while chasing virtual medieval dragons on the screen of his spin bike.

For aquatic activities, the ASRC features a six-lane, 25-yard lap pool and an eight-person whirlpool, both of which are monitored by lifeguards.

At its deepest, the pool is 7 feet deep and can be used for lap swimming, free swims and Water X classes. In keeping with the environmentally friendly design, and to lessen the amount of chlorine needed, the pool’s water is treated with UV rays instead of a heavy dose of chemicals.

Winter term hours: Mon–Thu Fri Sat Sun

6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Noon to 8 p.m.

The ASRC features over 800 lockers that are rented on a first-come, firstserved basis for $12 per month, and members may also access day-use lockers available at no charge. Various sports equipment such as basketballs, soccer balls, table tennis paddles, jump ropes and other specialized items are also available for free.

Though student memberships to the ASRC are included in tuition and fees, alumni, faculty and staff can purchase memberships. Spouses and guest memberships are also available, and more information on pricing and payment options is available at www.campusrec.pdx.edu or by calling 503-725-5127.

Look in next week’s Vanguard for part two of this series, where we will explore other amenities of the ASRC.

Three Viks qualify

Nadya Ighani Vanguard staff

Portland State qualified three more athletes on Saturday for next month’s Big Sky Indoor Championships and surpassed their previous marks at the UW Indoor Preview.

“We’re continuing to improve and we need to continue learning how to compete under stress,” said head coach Ronnye Harrison.

After nearly qualifying earlier this season, junior shot putter Adrienne Davis and sophomore distance runner Tony Crisofulli succeeded on Saturday.

Davis threw for 43–9, which not only met conference standard, but also gave her third in the meet and made her the fifth-consecutive participant from Portland State to qualify for shot put.

Davis

Photos courtesy of PSU Athletics

Crisofulli placed sixth in his flight and is eligible for the championship with a time of 1 minute, 53.3 seconds in the 800-meter. His time is the third fastest in school history for the 800m, and he missed breaking the school record in the 1,000m by less than a second.

Freshman high jumper Jeff Borgerson also met the conference

Crisofulli

standard with his 6 foot, 5 inch leap.

Sophomore Joenisha Vinson clocked in 8.79 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, placing her third in the school’s record books and fourth fastest in the meet.

In the 60-meter dash, junior Karene King improved her time and clocked in at 7.62 seconds, putting her name in the Portland State

Borgerson

record book at third place in the event. Amber Rozcicha nearly qualified for conference in the 800m with a time of 2:16.73, missing her ticket to the conference championship by just over a second.

Portland State's next race is on Friday at the Northern Arizona-hosted Friday Night Challenge.

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This weekend at the NW Film Center: All Tomorrow’s Parties Jonathan Caoette, Great Britain, 2009

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“All Tomorrow's Parties dives headlong into the transatlantic music festival of the same name, in which an outof-season holiday camp on the coast of England is transmogrified into a swirling combination of cutting-edge music, crazy golf, and chalet living, all curated by a single band or artist.

Fashioned from the found or contributed HD, Super-8, camcorder, and mobile phone footage of over two hundred filmmakers, this romp from Caouette (Tarnation) features bands new and old: Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, Mogwai, GZA, Iggy and the Stooges, Slint, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Belle and Sebastian, Patti Smith, Battles, Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave), Portishead and more.

‘Visually dazzling…pure catnip for anyone who has www.pitchfork.com bookmarked.’”

—Variety Jan. 22, 9 p.m.

Army of Two: The 40th Day brings the pimp back to co-op shooters Steve Haske Vanguard staff

Army of Two is a series that doesn't take war too seriously.

Once again stepping into the combat fatigues of Rios and Salem, former Army Rangers turned privately contracted mercenaries, the game is just as much about camaraderie and cooperation off the battlefield as it is when the tracers are flying overhead.

OK, so that's only sort of true.

40th Day may look like just another co-op shooter, and it certainly has the requisite you (or in this case, you and a buddy) versus thousands war-dog mentality. But the story is silly—some unknown group takes over Shanghai, which they then proceed to completely level on a scale of mass-nuclear detonation, minus the nukes.

Judging from the skull masks worn by the titular two, you'd think this would be one of the countless deathly grave action games lining the walls of your local GameStop.

But for once, these the titular two hard-bitten cases aren't just your typical gruff Gears of War/Killzone/ Halo/what-have-you types.

Rios and Salem actually have some personality. These partners like to joke around and, despite the relatively dangerous scenarios they get mixed up in, are quick with a joke or some banter. This is to be expected since Salem is Uncharted's Nate Drake—I mean, Nolan North. It's kind of like playing a buddy-cop film.

The game itself has a relationship system that, while not actually doing much in practice, let Rios and Salem get all warm and fuzzy on each other. In other words, after mowing down a group of entrenched enemies, you can enact a little affection towards your partner.

The big, beefy Rios may pick up Salem. The two may rock out using their guns as air guitars, high five or do a fist pound. There may even

be some ass-slapping involved. But what's privatized war without a little homoeroticism between bestfriends-come-military-contracted killing machines?

Rios and Salem also enjoy being flashy. This is one of the keys to the Aggro system, which basically has you or your partner drawing attention from the enemy while the other either flanks or snipes them. This is actually pretty useful, as you can order your partner AI to advance, stick with you or stay put either passively or, uh, aggro-ly, with orders to shoot on sight.

But the most ridiculous thing about the Army of Two games is the customization you can get into. This time around, EA lets you design your own death mask for Rios or Salem, which they can then wear in the game. And if you've played the first Army of Two, you know it's all about blinging out your weapons, which also draws the enemy's attention.

That, and it's just silly. You want to gold-and-platinum-plate your handy AK, or throw diamond-encrusted grenades at your foes? Go for it.

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to burn, since they might as well be hurling explosive-wired attaché cases full of greenbacks across the battlefield. It's about as subtle.

In quieter moments, though, the two can be stealthy, to some degree.

40th Day throws several scenarios, some with hostages, some not, that involve some degree of stealth or trickery.

One or both of you can mock surrender, only to quick-draw on your enemies, dropping them before they know what's going on.

Alternately, you or your buddy can mark baddies with your handy skull mask sensors (they also have an equally useful GPS unit).

Sneak up on a solider (make sure they're a high rank) and either force a group surrender, tie them up or shoot them. This leads to the game's morality system, which is an interesting distraction, but doesn't do that much.

You might come across a cache of weapons in a building, but the security guard doesn't want you to take them, or choose to help a beaten woman or not. If you're good, you'll get rewarded with more weapons or allies later, but that's about it.

Either way, you're treated to a cut-scene showing the repercussions of what you chose, though about half the decisions I ended up making backfired—the security guard was paid off by rival mercs for the weapons, and the woman was actually a contracted killer who ended up gunning down a bedridden woman in a hospital. Yeesh.

But despite these foibles and some questionable AI, 40th Day has paper-rock-scissors matches. And a city inexplicably blowing up. What's not to like?

Army of Two: The 40th Day EA PS3, Xbox 360 $59.99 Army of Two: Bringing the pizzazz back into the world of co-op shooters.

Wheedle's Groove Jennifer Maas, U.S., 2009 “Wiping dust from a wonderful stack of forgotten vinyl, director Jennifer Maas offers a celebratory trip into the largely undocumented Seattle soul scene of the 1960s.

Imagine Memphis’s Stax Records without innovative marketing savvy or geographic blessing. Doing so will only increase your empathy for Robbie Hill, Patrinell Staten, and other artists who decades after their zenith remain largely unheralded. Deftly illustrating how music shapes community, breaks barriers, and forges new paths, Wheedle’s Groove reveals that Seattle’s gray-sky grunge owes a debt to musicians such as native Kenny Gorelick—yes, Kenny G—who wailed soul sax in his hometown’s mostly black Central District years before becoming the coy prince of marshmallow jazz. Who knew!”

—John Hubbell Jan. 23, 7 p.m.

All screenings are in Whitsell Auditorium, 1218 SW Park Ave. Free w/ PSU ID. —nwfilm.org