Daily Vanguard March 4, 2010

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 78

Event of the day A Capstone course is performing "Sexual Assault Education Theater," regarding sexual consent and alcohol use.

When: 2 p.m.

Where: SMSU, room 338

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Visions of magic The Underscore Orkestra plays an alchemy-themed carnival PAGE 4

Singing on the job Portland State performs musical Working PAGE 4

Brooklyn's foulest Brooklyn's Finest tells us the difference between "righter" and "wronger" PAGE 5

Sports

Spring golf, take two Women's team and Yada both finish ninth at Fresno State Lexus Classic PAGE 6

En garde!

Fencing club to host Valhalla Invitational over the weekend PAGE 6

Budget caps Initial student group budget allocations contained limits on travel and stipends Stacy Austin Vanguard staff

The Student Fee Committee has established travel and stipend spending caps for student groups and has released its initial budget allocations for groups and departments.

Student groups received an approximate total of $230,000 less than what was requested. Some groups are fine with the budget limitations, while others fear their groups will cease to exist on a smaller budget.

The SFC Web site encouraged groups to sign up for an appeal, which is a five-minute hearing, through the Student Activities and Leadership Programs office by 5 p.m. on Feb. 24.

SALP Director Aimee Shattuck feels that the response from groups has been, on the whole, positive. She was present at an open forum held Feb. 26. for student groups.

“There were questions on caps for stipends and travel. It affected some groups a lot more than others, [and] some groups were not affected at all,” Shattuck said.

This year the SFC had the goal to “shave down budgets,” Shattuck said.

The committe requested that no group or department ask for more than a 5 percent budget increase this year.

The SFC presented a slideshow at the forum, and later e-mailed the presentation to student groups, describing Oregon legislation governing student fees (ORS 351.070), the guiding principles, and various numbers showing growth and spending within student groups.

The presentation stated that the student fee rose by $87 per student since the 2004–05 fiscal year, leading to a 66 percent increase in student fees within five years.

Caps have been established for the current fiscal year by the committee. This includes a travel cap at $2,500, a stipend cap at $3,000 and a total student group budget cap at $40,000. Awards and promotional items have a cap at $1,000, but after an appeal, that may

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SFC: The committee members meeting to discuss the intial budget allocations.

be overruled by a three-quarters majority vote from the SFC. SFC member William Zimmers said these caps were put in place to help “govern ourselves with viewpoint neutrality.”

After reviewing the initial budget allocation, Debate Team coordinator Kelly Welch said that the team’s stipends, trophy and travel budget were decreased.

“They told us during initial hearings our type of group would get something like $8,000 for travel, but they cut us to about $2,000… we requested far more than that. As it stands, it’ll be a miracle to have a competitive team at all this year,” Welch said.

The Debate Team has had many

successes this year, including placing at the 2009 Pan Pacific Championships at Hawaii Pacific University, the 2009 Smelt Classic at Lower Columbia College, the 2009 Mahaffey Memorial Tournament at Linfield College and the 2010 Eagle Debate Invitational at Northwest University.

Welch did not want to comment further because the SFC has not yet decided on the group’s appeal and the final budget allocations have not been finalized.

At the appeals on Feb. 26, the SFC did state that the Debate Team is an “outlier” in the SFC’s new model of what it considers a student group.

SFC continued on page two

Practicing Recycling roundup what they teach Aaron Leopold/Portland State Vanguard

Portland State and Aramark make strides in recycling and composting

Students go to Salem in an effort to address violence against children Sharon E. Rhodes Vanguard staff

After taking a class called “Communicating about Violence and Children” last term, eight students decided to practice what the class taught through an independent study course, “Communication in Action: Addressing the Violence in Children’s Lives.”

On Friday, Feb. 25, three students from the independent study went to Salem to speak with lawmakers about legislation mandating the use of video cameras in daycares to prevent caregivers from abusing children.

One of the students who went to Salem, Benjamin Shannon, a senior majoring in communication, said he joined the independent study “to have a hand in helping these children.”

According to Shannon, he and the other students who went to Salem met with the Oregon Commission for Child Care, whose

board members included Sen. Rod Monroe. The senator encouraged them to write letters and to have friends, family and classmates write letters to members of the Oregon Commission for Child Care, senators and congressmen, because “that’ll have a big effect as well.”

“It was interesting to see how a commission like that works,” Shannon said.

Gisele Tierney, senior instructor in the Department of Communication, taught “COMM 317U: Communicating about Violence” last fall and led the independent study this term.

According to Tierney, Detective Mace Winter of the Portland Police Bureau spoke to her class last fall about the legislation he had been working on to mandate the use of video cameras in daycares. When he learned about what students did this term, he invited them to join him in Salem.

Tierney said the original course “look[ed] at how the media talks about violence and children,” because there is a “tendency for the public to be protected” from

Joe Hannan Vanguard staff

Known for its recycling, and sustainability in general, Portland State has contributed to keeping the environment clean for decades.

In 1969, PSU initiated a “new multimaterial recycling service through student services,” according PSU’s Sustainability Web site.

Over 40 years later, PSU has added many programs for recycling and sustainability—such as PSU ReUse—to examine the waste stream of PSU, composting and to obtain grants that enable more research. It has also added two recyclers located on campus.

The PSU system of sustainability and recycling stems from research on two related fields: human and natural systems. These two coincide to formulate the general way that PSU deals with its recyclables.

RECYCLE continued on page two

CHILD continued on page three Sustainable services: PSU has extensive recycling efforts.

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Vanguard 2 | News March 4, 2010

Sarah J. Christensen Editor-in-Chief Virginia Vickery News Editor

NEWS RECYCLE | from page one

109 tons of food waste diverted

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Reduce and reuse: PSU Recycles! and Aramark have expanded recycling education and efforts.

PSU Recycles! and Aramark Limited run the way that PSU recycles and composts. PSU Recycles! takes care of the campus at large, while Aramark deals with the Viking Food Court, the PSU Dining Services, Victor’s in the Ondine Residence Hall and the Meetro in the King Albert Building.

There are various programs involving recycling going on right now.

Chuck it for Charity is a fundraiser and recycling program in which unwanted things are given to PSU Recycles! and discounted to students. The proceeds go to local charities. Recycling bin consolidation is another program, in which trashcans are taken from rooms and placed in convenient locations around campus, while recycling bins are placed in almost all rooms across campus. PSU also participates in the international RecycleMania competition.

Aramark also takes part in composting and recycling. In a recent e-mail, Aramark said that PSU Dining Services composts all kitchen pre- and post-consumer food waste. In the past academic year, they diverted 109 tons of food waste from the landfill via composting efforts at Victor’s and The Viking Food Court. For all catering events, Aramark also purchases compostable food ware, such as cups, plates, napkins and flatware.

Aramark supports local vendors, which include Sunshine Dairy, Pacific Coast Fruit Company, Pacific Seafood and Portland French Bakery. When asked if Aramark affiliates itself with companies that do not practice sustainable recycling techniques, Aramark representatives responded that it “has formalized agreements

with our suppliers in which we require them to abide by all applicable environmental regulations.”

Honore Depew, PSU Recycles! student marketing and outreach specialist, said that PSU Recycles! is connecting with the academic side of keeping campus sustainable. he said that student leadership will play a role in progressing PSU Recycles! and the sustainability program in general so working with Freshman Inquiry classes is important. The FRINQ class that Depew worked with looked into the way that the Broadway and Ondine buildings recycled materials and used utilities. The recycling center also has nine new recyclers—this will help free the PSU Recycles! staff to focus on academics and research.

In spring term, PSU Recycles! will christen a new composting station in the Smith Food Court with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Since the fall of 2008, Aramark has implemented tray-less dining in the Victor’s dining lounge. Aramark works closely with Lean Path, a company based in Portland that works with organizations to minimize waste.

Once all the compost and recyclables are gathered on campus, it is disposed of by Trashco, a local disposal company. Christel Eichner, PSU’s research management coordinator, said that PSU can only use companies to take disposal away to a certain point. Rather than sending compost and recycling away, PSU Recycles! is trying to move toward keeping it on campus to be put back into the ecosystem here.

For more information on sustainability efforts by PSU Dining Services, please visit www. campusdish.com/en-US/CSW/ PortlandState/Sustainability/.

SFC | from page one

SFC members said there are "outliers" within the budget process “We do a have a really thoughtful discussion ahead of us,” said SFC Chair Johnnie Ozimkowski, in regards to the Debate Team’s budget.

Ozimkowski said he wants to be sure not to “open Pandora’s box” of student groups wanting what the Debate Team wants when they may be less deserving.

Shattuck said she feels this year’s SFC has done a good job at seeing how “individual requests have a larger impact on the whole.” “[The SFC] is thinking about realistic incremental growth for student groups,” she said.

Shattuck also described that as the student fee budget increases over time, more money needs to be spent to cover SALP staff and accounting time. These resources are necessary to “administer that much money. It’s a ripple ballooning effect,” she said.

Also with the initial student fee budget allocations, the Oregon Student Association campus organizer position was cut for next year. Former ASPSU president and current student Courtney Morse currently holds this position.

Shattuck said she received an e-mail from Morse, directed to the SALP listserv. Morse stated that not every school chooses to have an OSA organizer, and she found only three other universities that did.

“OSA’s campus organizers contribute directly to the success of student efforts, statewide and federally, by providing professional expertise on campaign development

and planning, grassroots organizing, and more,” Morse said.

During the appeals meeting on Feb. 26, the main “ask” of ASPSU Administrative Director Ed Hallman, in the appeal for ASPSU, was for the OSA campus organizer position to be restored.

“I helped mobilize and train students to effectively lobby state legislators in Salem. Thanks in part to those students’ lobbying efforts, additional funding was secured for the Oregon Opportunity Grant,” Morse said.

Zimmers admitted that there were a few “outliers” but otherwise, the SFC budget allocation appeals were “going well.”

“The student groups and departments seem to understand why caps are in place,” he said.

Hearings are “fast paced” but to be fair to everyone, all group hearings must remain at five minutes.

“The clock is on. [We] cut ourselves off, [we] cut them off,” Zimmers said, referring to the appeals process.

KPSU Station Manager Jeremy Doucette-Hardy said KPSU’s appeals hearing was on March 1. The station did not appeal every item that was cut and did not argue against the travel or promotional caps put into place.

Doucette-Hardy said he has “tried to instill in the staff and station that there is a process in play.”

“I have faith in the process,” Doucette-Hardy said.

Along with their five minutes to appeal, Doucette-Hardy said KPSU

prepared what he called a “hefty packet” for the SFC. KPSU submitted additional documents and paperwork to help support its appeal request.

Members of the staff submitted testimonial letters, and they attached clippings of KPSU news stories and posters of events.

“I hope the SFC really takes a look at the packet, to honor the process and their responsibilities…it would be the respectful thing to do,” Doucette-Hardy said.

Zimmers said many of this year’s elected members ran on a campaign goal to not raise the student fee and to possibly even lower it. He said that the current budget allocation could have little effect on future budgets, because “it could just go back to the way it used to be.”

Instead, Zimmers is looking forward to spring quarter when the SFC can begin reworking the guidelines for the next fiscal year.

“After going through this process, the [current] guidelines seem ineffective in dealing with scenarios we have come up against,” Zimmers said.

“The guidelines need to be changed to reflect SFC funded groups,” he said.

The SFC aims to have its last scheduled meeting on March 8, and have the budget complete and presentable for the ASPSU Senate on March 9. The bylaws state that the Senate would then have 21 days to review the budget and respond with any recommendations.

Guiding principles set by the current SFC - Student fees are used to fund university programs and services that, in addition to the traditional academic elements of the university, further the cultural or physical development of the students at large - It is a primary goal of the SFC to keep the fee at the same level and work towards eventually lowering it - Fee-funded programs should be held to a high level of accountability and be good stewards of students’ money - Growth of the programs within the student fee should be economically sustainable - Funding from student fees should focus on the entire campus community and bringing resources to PSU - The process of allocation should spread the precious resources within the student fee as evenly across the campus populace as possible

ANTI-RAPE GUERILLA ART

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Yesterday afternoon a Volkswagen van pulled up to Smith Memorial Student Union, and the wooden display pictured above was pulled out and placed between SMSU and Neuberger Hall. With the display were flyers that said: “One in five women will experience rape or attempted rape in their four-year college term, and only 10 percent will report it. Over 90 percent of the rapes are committed by young men [who say] their judgment is impaired

by drinking. This is a misconception, these men are serial predators. Don’t be a victim of an evil dick. Report rape.” “ManChild” is the handle of the man who put up the temporary display. He said he got the rape information from several National Public Radio reports. ManChild said that he and several friends regularly create and display unauthorized art installations in the Northwest region. The group calls its efforts the “Unsettled Project.”

CHILD | from page one

Collages about violence will hang in SMSU finals week the realities of the violence that some children face.

“Language and messages in general have a way of deactivating us as a public. There tends to be an emotional triggering, followed by horror, followed by a desire to make change, followed by a lethargy [at the difficulty of making change],” Tierney said.

According to Tierney, students of this term’s independent study “really wanted to affect change in some tangible way.”

“The legislation is our main task,” she said, but the group will also place collages in Smith Memorial Student Union and may form a student group on campus.

According to Tierney, “the idea of the student group is to keep the issue of violence in children’s lives in the consciousness of PSU.” The aim in hanging collages is to raise awareness, but Tierney and her students “want to move away from squeamishness into action.”

Of the class itself, Tierney said, “I’m very pleased with the work and the enthusiasm has remained up all term.”

According to Tierney, she is not usually so active in independent study courses, “it’s just something that has been very rewarding.”

While the idea of the student group is still under debate, Tierney said, “In some capacity the special project will continue into next quarter.” Students have agreed to speak about the project in COMM 317U next term and they were invited to come back to the April session for the Oregon

Commission for Child Care.

In part, the class served to remind the students that, “We can’t just barrel through and make these decisions…we have to do the research, the investigation, properly,” Tierney said.

To this end, the students conducted an informal survey via e-mail and Facebook to gauge public opinion on video cameras in daycares.

Although the survey was not rigorous, Tierney said they revealed that, “as a general public we’re appalled by child abuse [and] we want it stopped,” but “we’re terrified of implementing anything that might invade our privacy.”

According to Tierney, children age two and under are murdered more than any other age group, but “we are generally under-informed about the violence in children’s lives,” in part, because “we want to not know the specifics.”

“Its not that people want to be in the dark, but it’s comfortable in the dark,” Tierney said.

According to Tierney, she and her students want to promote awareness of the violence children experience “without horrifying [people] so much that they turn away.”

The collages will be up in SMSU during finals week and will “hopefully prompt people to want to get involved” in addressing and curbing the violence in children’s lives, Tierney said.

Vanguard News | 3 March 4, 2010

News Editor: Virginia Vickery 503-725-5690 news@dailyvanguard.com

Correction In the article entitled "Engineering: The next generation," the correct date of the Engineering Discovery Showcase event is actually Feb. 26. In addition, the event was listed as a technical festival, however it is a recruitment event for middle and high school students.

The event was sponsored by MCECS and organized by Kristen Nieman, undergraduate student services and outreach program manager for MCECS. In addition, MCECS sponsored this year's event. The Intel Corporation, Vestas, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry donated prizes for its raffle.

The Vanguard regrets its errors.

[Editor's note: A member of the Vanguard staff is enrolled in this class]

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Vanguard 4 | Arts & Culture March 4, 2010

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

Thirsty Thursday: Live music to go with your drinking problem Jared Mees and the Grown Children, Typhoon, Kusikia, Holy If you haven’t seen Typhoon play a live show before, you’re in for a real treat. The large group of multiinstrumentalists may fluctuate in size, but they always play solid, lovely music. Their forthcoming album, entitled Hunger and Thirst, is an exercise in folk tinge rock, filled to the brim with carefully crafted string parts and a rich horn section. See them now and look for their record release in May. The Artistery, 8 p.m. $6, all ages Chrome Wings, U.S.F., Asss, Tracey Trance It could be easy to write off Chrome Wings as yet another experimental, ambient electronic project because God knows we have a lot of those, but there’s something distinctly different about this project. While there is that electro-pop/ techno feel in some of their songs, it’s largely overshadowed by an overlaying sense of calm. This show is to celebrate the release of their debut full-length album.

Willamette Week may have compared them to Philip Glass and Kraftwerk, but I think this is just what would have happened if John Cage had been given access to more modern and sophisticated sound equipment.

Holocene, 9 p.m. $5, 21+ Jaguar Love, Soft Paws, Diamond Liars, Party Girls Remember The Blood Brothers? That wonderful Seattle art punk band that broke up three years ago after a solid decade of making music that melted faces? Many were crushed by the disbanding, but since then, members of the defunct band have been involved in numerous other musical projects. One of these projects is Jaguar Love. Their music sounds like The Blood Brothers in only its vocal stylings.

They’ve toned down their instrumentation, added a lot of structure and thrown in more of an electro-pop influence as well. I gotta say, it’s not bad. It’s not The Blood Brothers, but it’s not half bad.

Satyricon, 8 p.m., $7, all ages

ARTS & CULTURE

Visions of magic The Underscore Orkestra plays an alchemy-themed carnival Leah Bodenhamer Vanguard staff

With a sound reminiscent of pirates and gypsies, oceans and cobblestone alleys, The Underscore Orkestra rocks a jazzy spell over audiences and unsuspecting listeners find themselves romantically inclined to dance the night away.

Known for the bands of belly dancers, hat-trick artists, jugglers and stilt walkers that perform with the band, The Underscore Orkestra defies the modern folk band archetype. Though they may first appear to be another folk band, complete with violins, accordions and guitars, they embody a much more worldly approach to the folk scene.

“It all started as a vaudeville circus act consisting of anywhere from 15 to 25 performers” selfproclaimed ringmaster Jorge Kachmari said. “The members of the band that played music for that show got together and formed The Underscore Orkestra.”

This week, the band will consist of Kachmari, who plays violin, piccolo and harmonica, guitarists Scott Stobbe and Lucas Warford, Russian-born Andrew Alikhanov on clarinet, bassist Russel Gores and percussionists Doug Schafer and Bruce Beaton.

The currently seven-piece ensemble can liven up any room with their celebratory essence. Their style is heavily influenced by the

ancient Jewish style called “klezmer,” which was often associated with weddings, where the band invoked the whole spectrum of human emotions. Other styles found in their music include gypsy jazz, balkan and swing, not to mention a pinch of contemporary humor.

“I’m Romanian, Andrew’s Russian, a few of us are Jewish,” Kachmari said. “It’s just in our blood to play these styles of music.”

Stobbe also plays with the group Zdrastvootie, an avant-garde pop band from Santa Cruz, Calif., and teaches guitar, composition and music theory on the side. Warford is a truly incredible guitarist, trained in all styles of music, though most notably jazz. He may have indeed sold his soul to the devil for fingers so effortlessly quick. Alikhanov is amazing on the clarinet. As that first note of his solo blows through that horn, one should not be surprised if women in the audience begin to swoon as faces melt.

This week’s performance is hardly out of the ordinary for The Underscore Orkestra. Organized by Reed College student Hazel Rickard, who will also be performing that night as a singer in The Dapper Cadavers, this event will be taking place at Reed’s student union.

Beginning outside with fire dancers, the alchemy-themed carnival will end around midnight after a variety of performance art, slide shows and the creation of magical potions.

From dream interpretation to ghost stories, the event revives a spirit similar to that of the Orkestra’s sound.

“We needed art project funding and jokingly I brought it up, the idea

Photos courtesy of Underscore Orkestra

Underscore Orkestra: Taking world influenced folk rock to a new level.

to have a medicine show,” Rickard said. “It really is going to be a surprise to see how the night turns out because so many people are contributing to the production.”

The Underscore Orkestra will be playing throughout the night but The Dapper Cadavers will be the final act.

The future does not seem to slow down for The Underscore Orkestra. Their new project RevelMe! incorporates Kachmari, Gores, Shafer, Znama Dance Company’s Danielle Smith and multiinstrumentalist Gus Clark. Aiming to create a Balkan, Spanish and Middle Eastern influenced production of original music and choreographed dance, they have recently booked 2010 West Coast tour dates.

The Underscore Orkestra is heading out soon after their appearance at Reed College to spread their magical ethnic flavor to the alleged cold shoulders of the East Coast. Fear not friends, for the all singing, all dancing captivators of spiritual hypnotism will return to Portland in April.

The Underscore Orkestra Reed College Student Union 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Tonight, 9 p.m.

Free, all ages

Singing on the job Portland State performs musical Working Bianca Blankenship Vanguard staff

The idea of musical theater tends to conjure images of peppy actors hamming it up with catchy songs and dance. But Working, the latest show from the Department of Theater Arts, doesn’t fall neatly into that category. It’s not a strictly traditional or contemporary musical.

Rather, “it’s on the cusp,” said Sarah Andrews-Collier, director of Working and chair of the Theater Arts Department.

When the play was selected for production a year ago, it was done so as a direct response to the economy, as Working focuses on the average American in his or her job. As people encounter trouble finding jobs—and keeping them— in the present economy, the play speaks to problems that many of us currently face.

Working debuted in Chicago in 1978 and minor changes have since been made to the script and music, but the essential story and structure have remained the same. The cast

is made up of average Americans working blue- and white-collar jobs.

A housewife, a fireman, a waitress and a trucker account for just a few of the script’s 26 roles. While some interaction between characters occurs, the play is primarily a set of monologues and songs where characters speak about their jobs.

Their comments cut to the heart of daily problems that most workers encounter: How to find deeper meaning in one’s job, how to sustain a sense of dignity in a degrading job and how to stay optimistic and honest.

Written by Stephen Schwartz— who is best known for Wicked—and Nina Faso, the play is based on a book of the same title written by Studs Terkel, first printed in 1974.

Prior to writing the book, Terkel conducted countless oral interviews with average working Americans around the country. To what extent he fictionalized the resulting stories is uncertain, but it’s clear that he intended to represent the ideas and sentiments of people working lowerto middle-class jobs.

The intimacy of the songs and monologues in Working reflect the oral interviews that they were taken from. Farm workers and prostitutes give us a sense of their daily life. Cleaning women and copy

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Working: Director Sarah Andrews-Collier stands with a poster for her latest production.

boys allow us a glimpse into their relationships with their jobs. Some songs express a melancholy, such as “Nobody Tells Me How,” where a teacher laments the changing school systems and a new generation of disrespectful children. Other songs are playful and uplifting, such as the waitress’s “It’s An Art,” in which she takes pride in her work and considers it her own personal art.

There is certainly song and dance, but don’t expect canes and top hats.

In contrast to showy musicals like Guys and Dolls or Chicago, Working is a more realistic, more relatable play.

A host of almost 40 talented student actors and actresses from Portland State will perform in the show. It’s the first show this

year where they can show off their musical and dancing talents.

Working will also feature a live band that will include bass, drums, guitar and guest musical director, Mike Van Liew, on piano.

Working Artists Repertory Theatre 1515 SW Morrison St. Runs March 5–13 Tue–Sat, 7:30 p.m.

Sun, 2 p.m. $8 students, $10 general

Vanguard Arts & Culture | 5 March 4, 2010

20 most annoying songs of all time 1. Black Eyed Peas “My Humps” 2. Los Del Rio “Macarena” 3. Baha Men “Who Let The Dogs Out” 4. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” 5. Nickelback “Photograph” 6. Lou Bega “Mambo No. 5 7. James Blunt “You’re Beautiful”

Brooklyn's Finest: Playing off every cop film cliché known to man, it's more of the same mediocrity with this movie.

Photo courtesy of Overture films

Brooklyn’s foulest Brooklyn’s Finest tells us the difference between “righter” and “wronger” Sarah Esterman Vanguard staff

It wasn’t until a couple of hours after seeing Brooklyn’s Finest that I realized I’d seen this movie before.

OK, so I hadn’t seen this exact film before, but I might as well have, considering director Antoine Fuqua followed the cop-versus-street recipe precisely, only altering it to yield three times the normal results—and I’m not talking success here.

The film tells three stories.

Not only do you have Ethan Hawke’s

portrayal of Sal, the good cop turned bad, but you’ve also got the undercover man among the thugs (Don Cheadle as Tango) and even Eddie, the “depressed and about to retire” old fogey who needs his one last shot at redemption (Richard Gere).

Each man’s story is supposed to make us question the difference between right and wrong, and the existence of a gray area. Sal steals money from the drug deals he busts (and even kills a few men unnecessarily) in order to afford a new home for his four kids and wife pregnant with twins. Tango sells out his street friends as part of his job and feels guilty about it, often wondering why he’s still a cop. And Eddie—well actually, I couldn’t tell you what part he plays, except to provide some comic relief as he refuses to be a corrupt cop.

It’s the corruption that seems to run rampant. If these men are Brooklyn’s finest, then Brooklyn had better get some more qualified applicants in uniform. This section of the New York Police Department is full of officers that aren’t afraid to kill innocent people and steal from crime scenes to get what they want, so long as they twist the story to make them look good for the media.

While some of this may be true, I don’t even care after the first 20 minutes. While I am originally horrified when Sal shoots a bullet between a known criminal’s eyeballs in order to dash with some dough in the opening scene—after the fourth time in five minutes that a gun is fired—I’m pretty desensitized to it.

It’s almost as if Fuqua was sitting in a planning session and instead of spending time working out the

script and bringing anything original into play, he was like, “Let’s just have a lot of gunshots, you know, like one every two minutes. That’ll distract the audience from the fact that this movie sucks.”

But instead of keeping the film moving, the excess of violence makes it so I have a hard time caring about anyone in the film.

Sal is a despicable scumbag, and although I feel for him—his wife is sick because of the mold in their house—I can’t seem to get past his terrible accent (seriously, he sounds more like he’s from Georgia’s finest with his southern twang). Then there’s Tango, whose situation is so cliché that I want to yawn. Eddie, on the other hand, is just plain pathetic and makes choices that don’t fall in line with the rest of his character (e.g., he often frequents a whorehouse, seeing the same prostitute and asking her to run away with him—I mean, sure, Gere was in Pretty Woman, but really?)

When it comes down to it, Brooklyn’s Finest is a deceptive film. You walk out of the theater feeling numb from hearing the F-bomb being dropped nearly every other word and your ears ringing from the ridiculous amount of gunshots, and you think, “Hey, that wasn’t so bad.” A few hours later though, all of the flaws begin to take shape in your mind and you feel a bit duped, like you’ve been had. And you realize that—since this movie debates that gray area between good and bad, light and dark—Brooklyn’s Finest is definitely on the “wronger” side of the spectrum.

Brooklyn’s Finest Directed by Antoine Fuqua Opens Friday

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Vikings rake in Big Sky honors Three Portland State student-athletes from two sports earned conference honors this week.

In weekly honors, the Big Sky Conference named junior Alex VanDerschelden the men's tennis Player of the Week and senior guard Dominic Waters the men's basketball Player of the Week.

For season-wide honors, senior forward Jamie Jones was selected first team All-Big Sky Conference and Waters was named second team All-Big Sky. This marks the third straight year that PSU has earned at least two All-Big Sky selections.

SPORTS

Spring golf, take two En garde!

Women’s team and Yada both finish ninth at Fresno State Lexus Classic Tanya Shiffer Vanguard staff

After a rainstorm spoiled the scheduled start to the spring season nearly a month ago, the Portland State women’s golf team finally began the 2010 season this week at the Fresno State Lexus Classic.

The Viking women finished ninth among 14 teams at the Fresno State-sponsored tournament held at the Copper River Country Club in Fresno, Calif., on Monday and Tuesday.

Freshman Britney Yada shot a 220 (74–71–75) to tie for ninth place, putting her just six strokes above the event’s leader, San Jose State’s Cristina Corpus (74­–69–71=214).

VanDerschelden finished the weekend with a 3–1 combined record in singles and doubles play and is now 7–3 on the season. He is one of only three players in the Big Sky to be undefeated in league play, with a 4–0 record against conference opponents.

A native of Lake Tapps, Wash., VanDerschelden is the second honoree in the history of the men's tennis program.

Jones, a native of El Segundo, Calif., has shot .591 from the floor and .738 at the line this year. Overall, he averages 14.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots per game.

Photo courtesy of PSU Athletics

Finding her line: Freshman Britney Yada.

Senior pitcher Tori Rogers plays today, but may coach tomorrow

He leads the conference in both rebounding and blocks, and for the second straight season he has the most doubledoubles in the Big Sky. Additionally, he tied the school record with 70 blocked shots this season.

James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

Daily Vanguard: Why did you decide to transfer to Portland State from New Mexico?

Tori Rogers: I chose Portland State because they recruited me in high school and so I had a really good relationship with former head coach Amy Hayes. I had already seen the school and the facilities, and felt that it was a place where I could fit in.

Waters, a Portland native and Grant High School graduate, scored 57 points for the second consecutive week in two wins that secured PSU's ticket to the Big Sky Tournament.

Over the weekend, he averaged 28.5 points, 3 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. He shot .594 overall, .471 from downtown and never missed from the charity stripe. Waters leads the conference this season in free throw shooting, assists and ranks third in scoring.

This is Waters' second consecutive All-Big Sky honor, his second Player of the Week selection of the season, and third of his career.

Yada finished four under par and improved on her previous best 54-hole score by eight shots, and ties the fifth best in school history.

It also marks the third time in five events that she has led the PSU team in scoring.

Portland State shot 917 as a team (310–300–307), and bested the other two competing Big Sky Conference schools, Sacramento State (919) and Eastern Washington (1,014). The Vikings' score is the lowest they have tallied in a 54-hole event since winning the 2008 Big Sky Conference Championship with a 911.

UC Davis won the 14-team tournament with an 880, just two strokes under San Jose State.

Contributing to the Viking's team score was junior Alexia Brown who, with a 229, finished 23rd out of 74 golfers. Senior Danielle Ranallo finished in a tie for 40th with 233, sophomore Tiffany Schoning tied for 51st with 236 and junior Kalyn Dodge tied for 61st with 242.

This was Portland State’s seventh best 54-hole score and the secondround score of 300 is a single-round best for the 2009–10 season. The Vikings are now 8–3 on the season in head-to-head scoring against conference opponents.

The Gold Rush Golf Tournament hosted by Long Beach State in Seal Beach, Calif., was slated to be their first event on Feb. 7–9, but heavy rains forced organizers to cancel the tournament.

Due to the cancellation, Portland State is scheduled in four more spring tournaments, including the Big Sky Championship in Chandler, Ariz. on April 19–21. The next competition for the Vikings is the UNLV Spring Invitational at Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nev., on March 8–10.

DV: What’s your most memorable softball moment?

TR: I think last year when we beat DePaul, when they were No. 16 in the nation. That was pretty memorable.

DV: What’s your first softball memory?

TR: The first thing I remember about softball is playing catch in the yard with my dad—when I was four.

Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard

Tori Rogers

DV: What’s your greatest strength?

TR: I think over the years I really wanted to be confident in my ability, so the girls and the coaches call it my swagger when I’m on the mound. So I guess it’s the confidence I have in my ability and my team behind me.

Fencing club to host Valhalla Invitational over the weekend Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

Portland State is set to host the Valhalla Épée Invitational fencing tournament on Saturday at the Academic and Student Recreation Center. Fencers from the University of Oregon and Lower Columbia College will join the Portland State Fencing Club for the épée-style dual.

In épée-style fencing, unlike foil or sabre style, participants use a heavier weapon and the entire body counts as a target. As a thrusting weapon, the épée has a stiffer blade that is V-shaped in cross-section, has a larger bell guard and is heavier than a foil.

All standard procedures for fencing competitions will apply for the tournament. The fencers will be split into pools based on previous tournament results, and each individual competes with everyone else in the pool. The bouts go to five touches and have a time limit of three minutes. The pools determine the seeding for the direct-elimination brackets, where bouts will be fenced to fifteen touches and will again be limited to three minutes.

The Valhalla Invitational will mark the first time that Portland State will host a fencing tournament, and members of the Fencing Club are excited to put their skills to the test at home. They also take pride in working through the challenges of organizing their own tournament.

“Tournaments are a great chance to fence other people,” club member Todd Young said. “Épéeists in our club are stuck fencing the same seven or so people all the time, so we get to know

each other’s styles to a certain extent. I look forward to fencing épéeists from outside our club and seeing how I can do against them.”

In the Gryphon Cup held in 2009 at Reed College, the PSU club won the foil event and came second in the sabre-style duel.

In another competition, sponsored

by Lower Columbia College and held at Beaverton’s Northwest Fencing Center, the club won the team trophy.

Club president Jenny Grant won the foil event, and Young finished third.

“Everybody’s really upping their game and I think we can do pretty well. We’ve got really cool team and individual trophies and medals being made for this event. I think we all want to see them stay at PSU,” Young said.

For Valhalla, extra safety measures have been put in place to prevent any accidents.

“We follow all United States Fencing Association regulations in regard to safety,” Young said.

“Anywhere we feel they lapse, we make up for it in our club’s Code of Conduct.”

Protective gear for the event includes fencing pants (knickers) and underarm protectors, also known as the plastron. A jacket is worn on top of that and the gear also includes a glove worn over the weapon hand and a mask over the head.

CPR-trained safety officers will be on standby for the event and the ASRC is prepared in case something goes wrong, but club members insist that while welts, cuts and bruises may be common, life-threatening accidents are rare.

The Fencing club practices in room 440 at the ASRC from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays. The Valhalla Invitational will begin at 11 a.m. in rooms 440 and 441 of the ASRC.

Spotlight

Athlete of the Week DV: What’s a talent that you have outside of the softball diamond?

TR: I’m a real big people person, so I think that getting along with people is a thing I have. I really like little kids— little kids are my passion.

DV: What are your plans after softball?

TR: I’d like to be a coach somewhere.

Whether that’s Little League or I would even be a college pitching coach, I think that’d be great. I also am probably going to be an elementary education teacher.

DV: What do you like about Portland or Portland State?

TR: I really like how outdoorsy everybody is and how everybody’s always running and that the city is really healthy.

DV: What’s your favorite class at Portland State?

TR: I think that my favorite class was BA 205 with Jennifer Loney. She was a teacher I felt that I really learned a lot from, she did a really good job of connecting with her students and making the topic relevant to us.

DV: If you could talk to a couple people from history, alive or dead, who would they be?

TR: I would like to talk to Albert Pujols because he’s had a lot of success in the game of baseball and seems like a really genuine person.

I think I would like to be able to have another conversation with my grandpa. He died when I was a sophomore in high school, and so I think he’d be really proud of me and the fact that I’m playing college athletics, having made it four years. I just wish that maybe he could watch me pitch once while I was in college.

DV: What have you been listening to on your iPod? TR: Some kind of country music!

DV: Anything else you would like to add?

TR: I’m really looking forward to the rest of this year. We’ve got a bright group of girls that we should win a lot of ballgames with! *This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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Native American Student and Community Center Free discussion held by the Center for Japanese Studies

Friday Seminar: "Adapting Our Transportation System to Climate Change" Noon Urban Center Building, room 204 Free Center for Transportation Studies event regarding climate change issues and urban travel

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POP CULTURE ARTS & CULTURE

GLITTER IS KING Fashionable art that asks about what you truly value Roger Wightman Vanguard staff

All that glitters… is a new exhibit going up today at Chambers@916 gallery from local artist Blakely Dadson. The only way to describe Dadson’s work is awesome. Sure, his stuff may not be as blatantly brilliant as those other brainy types but it is at the very least fun and energetic.

Dadson is from San Jose, Calif. and was educated at the California College of the Arts, receiving his Master of Fine Arts later on at Texas Christian University. With only two other solo shows to date, Dadson is still up and coming in the art world.

His work is sort of all over the place, dealing with subjects as diverse as reggae singers and a giant octopus

dragging a guitar playing man into a fireplace, which he’s named

Cosmic Nostalgia, The deliverance of Saint Paul.

This last piece reportedly took Dadson some six months to complete while living in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y. Six months per piece is a turnaround time that would make actually working as an artist near impossible.

As a result, Dadson thought of other means of getting his art out there—T-shirts. His small T-shirt company called Land Of Immigrants makes a limited selection of prints that are intended to speak of the fusing of cultures in an eco-friendly manner by printing on fair-trade organic cotton.

Dadson’s given himself the moniker Lord Blakely after “a coworker and fellow brother in the proletariat struggle bequeathed unto me the title of Lord,” he said. This title plays a

part in describing Dadson’s work, with him writing “it reflects my propensity for appropriation and the amalgamation of discordant imagery and themes. Understanding this paradox will be quite instructive as we commence in scrutinizing the works of yours truly.”

His first solo show in Portland is all about the value of objects.

What things do we value and why?

It seems simple that one would say things like their bed, computer or a book but increasingly, market value tells us something different.

Take bling for example—you know, that ridiculously gaudy jewelry that has somehow crept its way into the upper echelons of pop culture. Since bling has become one of the more valuable objects a consumer can purchase, Dadson now asks why.

The answer is personal for each of us, because it is based exclusively on what we individually value. The exhibit is not out to titillate your

intellectual senses, but maybe get you to think about the objects in your life you’ve collected and ponder their relevance in your daily life.

In one piece, the head of Jesus is constructed entirely out of painted jewels dangling from a chain in front of a techno-colored background.

The spectacular radiance of the scene is just enough to disguise the glittering tears that roll down the Jesus face as he glances at this crown of diamonds above.

Blakely Dadson: All that glitters...

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Celebrity news is not news The toddler’s hair Various tabloids report that Angelina Jolie is snubbing Jennifer Aniston, the ex of Jolie’s lover Brad Pitt, in the form of how she styles 3-year-old Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s hair.

Recent photos show the toddler sporting a tomboyish haircut that, per the tabloids, is a way of insulting the ladylike fashions of Aniston.

My only hope is that there aren’t celebrity journalists getting paid to analyze this situation. According to articles, celebrity style experts were contacted for their two cents. Now, I understand Pitt or Jolie paying someone to ensure that their fashion trends are current, because a positive image translates to more acting roles (and thus more money). However, if there are “experts” on the hairdos of toddlers, I weep.

We have a doubledigit unemployment rate, and there are people getting paid to report on Shiloh’s locks? If this is the modern definition of newsworthy, journalism is screwed.

The baby daddy’s money

Glitter Jesus: The king of kings finally finds his rightful place as a shiney token on the end of your necklace.

by Ebonee Lee

All photos courtesy of Chambers@916 Gallery

Levi Johnston, father of Bristol Palin’s child and thus enemy of her mother, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, posed nude for Playgirl and is now being court ordered to pay child support to Bristol, according to the New Jersey-based StarLedger.

Just to make some things clear: Sarah once offered to claim that she adopted Tripp, Bristol's child, to avoid a teenage pregnancy scandal.

Then Johnston, a 19-year-old high school dropout, made enough money for posing nearnude (i.e., no junk) that a judge feels he should help support the grandchild of a former governor for whom money isn’t an issue.

The only news here is that some guy knocked up his high school girlfriend and doesn’t do much to support his son.

However, it’s not like young Tripp is in danger of poverty, nor is Bristol under attack from abstinencesupporting groups, nor did Sarah actually lie. Three generations of Palins in one story, and not a lick of news. Now, had Johnston gone fully nude, maybe this story would be news…no, not even then.

—Robert Seitzinger