Daily Vanguard April 27, 2010

Event of the day

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 97

Dr. Keith Stanovich will be giving a free lecture titled “What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought.” Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the study of brain function (with an emphasis on intelligence testing) and human learning!

When: 7 p.m.

Where: University Place, 310 SW Lincoln St.

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INSIDE OPINION Guest Opinion Want to know who didn’t agree with me? The Nazis PAGE 2 Jets and tanks and science oh my!

The STARBASE program misrepresents military life and careers to children PAGE 3

NEWS After-hours academia Program gives students support after business hours PAGE 4

ARTS

ASPSU election results announced Katie Markey elected 2010–11 ASPSU president Corie Charnley Vanguard staff

Katie Markey and Selina Poulsen were announced yesterday as the 2010–11 ASPSU president and vice president, respectively, winning a total of 432 votes out of 701 valid votes collected during the election. Krystine A. McCants, who ran against Syed Qasimuddin and current Student Fee Committee Vice-Chair James M. Gent, was elected as the 2010–11 SFC Chair with 367 votes.

The total number of votes received this year is 99 less than the number received in last year’s election, which is considered to have had a low turnout.

Markey, Poulsen and McCants were all part of the Students First slate of candidates.

VANGUARD Mountain air, minus the altitude sickness Banff Film Festival comes to Portland PAGE 6

STUDENT ELECTION COVERAGE 2010

“My heart literally stopped,” Markey said after her name was called. “It’s a big task ahead of me and I’m looking forward to it.”

According to Markey, the first task she would like to accomplish in office is to hire staff members and to fill All-University Committees. This process includes setting time limits for posting jobs in order to “keep [the hiring process] as professional as possible,” she said. “[If we] start hiring sooner, we can get a coherent group together,” Markey said.

As the new ASPSU vice president, Poulsen hopes to start with a “backwards plan.” “[Backwards planning is] establishing an end goal and then doing whatever is needed to get there,” she said.

Poulsen said she also wants to ensure that all 25 Student Senate seats are filled by next September.

McCants’ first plan in office is to meet with the new SFC in order to discuss how to communicate with SFC-funded groups. In addition, she will check in with those student groups to establish communication, McCants said.

“I want everybody to be on the same page about the [SFC],” she said.

“I’m really excited to take this on.”

During the election, presidential candidate Jil Heimensen and others accused Markey of misconduct after several students claimed they saw her making copies of voter registration cards collected during the Get Out the Vote campaign with the intention of using the information in her campaign.

In an open letter to Markey, Heimensen wrote, “After speaking with numerous opinion leaders and staff on campus, I discovered that copying voter registrations is a standard practice…I truly believe

All photos by Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

ASPSU winners: President-elect Katie Markey, Vice-President elect Selina Poulsen

and SFC Chair-elect Krystine McCants.

2010-11 SFC members

2010-11 Student Senate

Xiaxi Mei (258 votes) Yusug Godil (303 votes) Aaron Aikin (218 votes) Aaron Baker (321 votes) Sid Gandhinathan (212 votes) Marcus Mantik (223 votes) Molly Shove (243 votes)

Adam Rahmlow (199 votes) Cathy Symes (274 votes) Matthew Fleskes (279 votes) Lucius Shields (282 votes) Karen Ulbright (240 votes) James Au (270 votes) Armenia Sarabia (211 votes) Alejandro Hoyer (181 votes) Patricia Binder (222 votes) Jared Stromer (142 votes) Makoto Matt Blasa (222 votes) Sephinish Guild (205 votes) Aniq Tanwir (270 votes) Pearce Whitehead (205 votes)

that you were not doing anything other than working very hard for students during the voter registration process.”

Commenting on the elections results, Heimensen said she was not surprised by the outcome.

As write-in candidates, Heimensen and her running mate, Johnnie Ozimkowski, were not allowed to campaign on campus. However, she said she was excited that she and Ozimkowski received 269 votes.

Heimensen said that she believes the guidelines for elections processes need to be changed in the future to allow campaigning of

write-in candidates. In addition, she spoke with a lawyer about the constitutionality of barring write-in candidates from campaigning and was told that the rule was certainly questionable.

Although Heimensen will not be involved with ASPSU next year, she hopes to get involved with politics on a state level.

PSU plugs in

Failing to deliver A strong cast and crew can’t save WWII-era Othello from falling short of the original PAGE 7

University chosen by Toyota as test site for hybrid vehicles

SPORTS

Carrie Johnston Vanguard staff

Tennis season in review A look back at the 2010 men’s and women’s tennis campaigns PAGE 9 Hiking with a purpose Portland State’s Disc Golf Club participates in community fundraiser PAGE 10 Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Electric charging station: More to be added as part of a car testing program in the region.

It was announced last week that Portland State is one of six national sites selected by Toyota to demonstrate and evaluate the next generation of Prius plug-in hybrid vehicles.

The university is working closely with Portland General Electric, its corporate partner on electric vehicles and energy management, to create a sound infrastructure for electric vehicles.

“They are interested in the ‘electrification of transportation,’” said George Beard, senior PSU instructor and manager of PSU’s relationship with Toyota Motor Sales USA. “PSU was chosen because Toyota likes Portland and its leadership in sustainability. [PSU] has unmatched stature for urban planning and is

connected to affairs of the region,” he said. “It is fabulous for PSU to be involved in this program.”

PSU’s Parking Structure 1 currently has an electric car charging station, but it is “not to current standards,” Beard said.

Toyota will be providing 10 plug-in vehicles in late spring to early summer for demonstration by citizens and businesses around Portland.

“PSU will be a kind of program administrator, and will also be collaborating with Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium,” Beard said.

According to the Toyota Prius plug-in demo website, each placement scenario will have a variety of driving conditions (i.e., commute length, usage type and access to charging).

“People to test the vehicles will be chosen based on geography, individual story and driving record,” Beard said.

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Vanguard 2 | Opinion April 27, 2010

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From the horse’s mouth

Nuts and banana?

I work for an egg donation agency, which adheres to the guidelines of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, and can tell you that we welcome applications equally from students at Oregon State, the University of Oregon and Portland State [“Civil war over eggs?,” April 23]! …additionally, we find that the vast majority of recipients are simply looking for a donor who resembles the intended mother, who has a healthy medical history and overall fine family medical health, which is certainly reasonable. For those who have struggled with infertility for years, adoption may be the right answer ultimately. Egg donation, or in vitro, or surrogacy, or deciding to be childless may also be the right answer. Whatever the choice, we are fortunate that there are many ways to be a family in this day and age. *read the full comment online at dailyvanguard.com —Alexa Abrams Director of Donor Recruitment Beverly Hills Egg Donation

Wow, I could hardly tell there is a WAR going on....lemme eats some nuts and banana and discuss wolves... [“Stop aerial wolf hunting,” April 14] —Anonymous

Guest Opinion

Want to know who didn’t agree with me? The Nazis Charles Leineweber Daily Barometer staff

You always have to be careful when traveling around campus. Not just campus for that matter, but anywhere you go, you should always make a conscious effort to ensure your personal safety.

Why, just last week I ran into a hideous pack of zombies in the MU. Luckily, I took steps to protect myself.

Using my newly acquired AR-15— courtesy of everyone’s favorite student group—the zombies discovered that my brain was off-limits to consumption.

On that note, it is about time that Beaver Nation addresses an issue

of the utmost importance. For the past couple weeks, the Barometer has been filled with freedom-hating, liberal rhetoric about gun control, and rebuttal by the Screaming Eagles’ gun-wielding defense of freedom.

The back-and-forth between the two sides has been tiresome for the few of you out there who actually read the paper. To be honest, I can’t blame people for tuning out, but this is freedom we’re talking about, people.

As college students, we are subject to preachy, Constitution-hating professors who use their position of power to infuse our minds with their tree-hugging, gun-hating ideals.

I can’t recall ever meeting one, but the TV said colleges are just teeming with them, so be on your guard.

What these socialists want is to make Oregon State a “gun-free” zone. Way to ignore my Second

Shut up Dick Richards!

Hey! You don’t have kids? Shut the fuck up [“The Rant and Rage: The kids aren’t all right,” April 21].

Children are people with free will and little to no ability to control their impulses. They learn by exposure to real life experience and by being around adults who do control their impulses. It takes time and a few outbursts. And believe it or not, just because you don’t remember it, there were times when you were the “little shit” making scenes. Maybe you were removed.

Maybe you were scolded. If you were spanked, I’m truly sorry. Clearly it didn’t stop you from becoming a self righteous, rude individual.

You say you don’t behave in

Amendment rights. I need my guns to make myself safe from tyrants like the King of England.

Those Brits have tried to take us over before, and they’ll try it again.

Conveniently, British columnists like Cate Hardy want to restrict our gun ownership to “make us safer.” Nice try, Cate, but I’m on to you.

Guns play a vital role in increasing the safety of a college campus. Just imagine how much safer you would feel if you knew the tattooed guy next to you in lecture has a Glock underneath that leather duster. Or the girl texting in front of you is packing heat in that Gucci handbag. No crazed gunman is going to mess with that.

Who needs the police when our gun-wielding citizenry can deal with violent lunatics themselves?

The right for the people to keep and bear arms is the most timehonored and most often-criticized of all the basic human needs. Since day one, the oppressive man has tried to take away the guns of the people.

As R.J. Friedman said in his guest column, the first step to a government-sponsored genocide is “the fact that arms were taken away from the common citizen, usually ‘to make them safer,’ before the killing commenced.”

He goes on to say, “Imagine if all six million of those killed during the Holocaust had been armed.”

distasteful ways? Wake up! Telling a person it’s ok to spank their child is extremely distasteful! It’s insensitive at best and is not constructive in any way. Parents tell you not to tell them how to parent? That’s not a parent shooting down useful advice. Your advice is not useful! That’s a parent telling you that it’s not your place to tell them to abuse their children just because you were abused. You say that spanking trained you well, but your diatribe against children and parents here demonstrates that it only served to make you bitter. There are other ways of communicating to your child that they are behaving inappropriately without resorting to violence. In fact, studies show that spanking a child leads to more aggressive behavior—it certainly doesn’t make the child feel secure and loved.

—Anonymous

Wait, what? I…huh?

I tried my best to be on board with the idea of carrying a piece to class and having weekly shootouts on campus (I would totally do Humans vs. Zombies then), but please stop.

I know it’s easy to revert to comparing something you don’t agree with to Nazis, but using the Holocaust as a basis for your argument is never a good idea.

It is both immature and illogical to claim that arming the populace could have stopped the Nazi war machine. The French army had guns, yet they had trouble stopping the Germans, and they were supposedly a trained fighting force.

It takes a lot for me to get genuinely mad, but this irked me.

The merciless killing of six million people should not be used to support an argument for carrying guns on campus. It’s just not right.

And a little suggestion for R.J.: Just get a job at The Barometer. You write in it enough; you might as well get paid for it. It’s not a bad gig.

This isn’t anti-gun; the Second Amendment is a good thing. But let’s think about how we’re going about it. *This article was originally published in the Daily Barometer. It is reprinted here in its original form.

JETS and TANKS and SCIENCE

oh my!

The STARBASE program misrepresents military life and careers to children Will Blackford Vanguard staff

Portland Public Schools’ STARBASE program has been teaching children the wonders of science, technology, engineering and math on a military base for going on 17 years. This year, for the first time in many, some members of the school board rightly voted against the program.

The STARBASE program consists of bringing Portland area elementary school students onto a National Guard base in northeast Portland to help them get a hands-on experience with science and technology from military personnel. Children participate in such activities as exploring jet fighter cockpits and submarines, using computers to design space stations, and learning about physics.

The chief concern about the program is that of military recruitment of children—the objectors believe that the program, which takes place on a military base, is indirectly related to recruitment efforts. Some parents have even gone so far as to say that the program violates the district’s long-standing ban on military recruitment for elementary and middle schools according to a recent article in The Oregonian.

Though no direct recruitment takes place on the field trips, there are many factors that must be taken into account when considering the potential impact of this program on young minds.

Children, especially children of elementary school age, are like sponges. Their minds are forming along with their identities and possible visions of their future.

There are a variety of ways that the STARBASE program can indirectly influence a child to pursue a military career.

For one, many of the activities described by children and the STARBASE website itself are distinctly military in scope. The base is littered with tanks, jets and other military vehicles. The children are invited to climb inside a light armored vehicle and an F-18.

They are even consulted, according to the Department of Defense’s STARBASE website, on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers on military facilities.

Now perhaps this does not count as direct recruitment to the letter, but there can be no mistake that a child would have a hard time flying fighter jets and driving tanks as a civilian. The children in this instance are being shown a flashy military vehicle out of context, and if they get it in their head that they want to drive one, there is only one real way to do that—by joining the military.

This kind of program also plants a seed. It takes military realities like war and death out of the equation and presents the military as clean and safe. Even if a child does not recognize their surroundings as a military base initially (as many of the children have said they did not even know they were on a military base) that association will stay with them, especially when they recognize one later, perhaps in a recruiting office.

Defendants of the program say that it provides resources and

education that are not available at the schools. This is true, to be sure. But that says less about how good or acceptable the program is, and more about how bad schools can be. That seems more like an argument for more funding and better programs within the school than an argument for the STARBASE program.

This is not to say that the program is all bad, or that it is bad simply because it is run by the Pentagon and associated with the military—the program does indeed provide children with valuable and educational experience that they may not get elsewhere.

Any kind of meddling with children’s minds at such a young age should be considered a

potential hazard, even if it is something seemingly benign.

We should be making sure that children are allowed to make up their own minds as they come of age, and not be influenced into making someone else’s decision. It also happens to be the case that a military career may have a higher casualty rate than others.

STARBASE may not be a direct recruitment effort, but the more subtle effects may show it to be such. A military life may be fine for some, but it should be represented as a whole and not masked or dressed up as glamorous and fun for all, and certainly not to impressionable children who may not know all the facts before setting themselves on a given course.

Vanguard Opinion | 3 April 27, 2010

On this day in history 1822 Ulysses S. Grant is born in Ohio.

1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends habeas corpus. Over 130 years later President George W. Bush utters, “Hold on, I can do that? Well that will make this all a heck of a lot easier.”

1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia shortly after that state secedes from the union Awkward!

1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson dies.

1903 The Highlanders (NY Yankees) are shut-out by the Philadelphia A’s 6–0. Highlanders respond by beheading the A’s to absorb their power.

1904 Poet Cecil Day-Lewis is born in England—father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

1927 Coretta Scott King is born in Marion, Ala. 1937 The first social security benefit is given. Or as the Tea party would say: The first commie-socialist, anti-American bastard takes the very first Social Security payment.

Illustration by Kira Meyrick/Portland State Vanguard

Organic for everyone Farmers markets accept public assistance cards Robin Tinker Vanguard staff

Most college students know that it is cheaper to buy low-quality processed food than it is to buy fresh and healthy food. Some of us might be pinching our pennies while we are in college and planning on eating better once we are done.

Unfortunately, many Oregonians aren’t so lucky and their budgets never make it to the next level.

Adam Drewnowski, of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle published an article in 2009 titled “Obesity, diets, and social inequities.”

He points out in the article that refined carbohydrates— such as white bread and pasta, as well as added sugars and fats are inexpensive, good tasting and filling, though almost completely lacking in nutrients.

America’s rising obesity rates have often been blamed on personal

choices, and experts have suggested that people know what to eat to be healthy, but they choose poorly.

Drewnowski doesn’t agree with this, stating that “the rapid rise in food prices has helped demonstrate that healthier diets are no longer merely a matter of choice.”

You can get more bang for your buck in the supermarket with cheap, nutrient-lacking, processed foods over fresh organic ones, and they are more filling. Many Americans, some of them right here in Portland, seemingly cannot afford a healthy diet.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a program to help lower-income residents of our fair city shop for fresh and healthy food at some of our amazing farmers markets? Well, there is. Oregon’s public assistance SNAP (supplemental nutritional assistance program), EBT (electronic benefit transfer), WIC (women, infants, and children) and the Oregon Trail card are accepted at 30 of the 34 farmers markets in the Portland metro area.

Tokens are given out at the market’s information booth in exchange for a swipe of the public assistance card in the corresponding amount.

Tokens are accepted like cash and can be used to buy fruit, vegetables, meat, bread, cheese and baked goods. Seeds and plants to grow food can also be purchased.

This trend is spreading in the Northwest. Seattle’s major farmers markets have a similar policy and Boise is starting its own program this year. This is a step in the right direction to combat many negative factors on both sides of the food fence—the consumer and the producer.

Betty Izumi, assistant professor at the Portland State School of Community Health said of the program, “When EBT service is offered at farmers markets, people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program) have increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables and other nutritious foods. At the same time, the service also benefits farmers, fishers and other vendors who sell their products at the farmers market.”

This process is benefiting Oregonians in need by helping them purchase the best kind of nutrition by buying fresh healthy food. When they do this, they

stop supporting factory farms and giant food corporations. Federal assistance money is now supporting Oregonians by helping them eat healthier while also helping our local farmers and food producers make more profits.

The links between health and wealth as well as poverty and obesity are astounding.

Drewnowski reports that the rates of Type 2 diabetes, of which obesity is a major risk factor, closely follow a socioeconomic gradient. The lowest income neighborhoods, districts and states have the highest rates of obesity. Obesity rates are increasing for all Americans, but it holds true that the wealthier someone is, the less likely they are to be obese.

According to Oregonhunger.org, Oregon ranks number two in the nation for the number of citizens that experience food insecurity.

Many Portlanders struggle with their financial situations and cannot afford prices of organic fresh foods at supermarkets.

Allowing them access through our farmers markets benefits their health, fights against the link of poverty and obesity and supports our local food producers.

1951 Ace Frehley is born in Bronx, NY. Ah ha! So the Spaceman is not actually from another planet!

1989 Students in Beijing, China take over Tiananmen Square.

—todayinhistory.com

Vanguard 4 | News April 27, 2010

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

Portland State program recognized for civic engagement Portland State’s Student Leaders for Service program has been awarded third place in the annual MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship.

The award, given out by the Talloires Network and the MacJannet Foundation, recognizes student civic engagement initiatives at Talloires Network member universities, according to a press release. This year, 66 programs from 54 universities received nominations.

NEWS After-hours academia Program gives students support after business hours Sharon Rhodes Vanguard staff

University Success offers free academic, career and life-skills assistance after-hours when other programs, like Student Health and Counseling and the Tutoring and Learning Center, are closed. “[It’s] an after-hours academic support program,” said Kari Meiser,

graduate assistant for University Success and master’s student in the School of Social Work.

University Success aims to “teach the skills and strategies to help students become independent and active learners and to achieve academic success,” according to literature put out by the program.

It began in fall 2008, modeled on similar programs at the University of Connecticut, Indiana University and Stanford, all of which “have pretty successful programs,” Meiser said.

Although University Success works with students at every level of study from freshman to senior,

“This award is an acknowledgement of how Portland State University is intentionally building global citizenship in our students,” said PSU President Wim Wiewel in the press release.

According to the Talloires Network’s website, over 6,000 SLS volunteers have served over 82,000 hours in Portland’s community since 1999. The program also has global projects at the American University in Cairo and the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Members of the SLS commit up to 10 hours of service per week at a local organization to address community needs, acting as “liaisons” between the organizations and PSU, according to its website.

In addition, the program provides resources and opportunities for students interested in civic engagement.

For more information about the winners of the MacJannet Prize for Global Leadership, visit www.tufts.edu/ talloiresnetwork/.

­—pdx.edu/news

Liana Shewey/Portland State Vanguard

Help in Ondine: University Success office located in traditionally first-year dorm.

HYBRID |

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The short-use capabilities of hybrids will be examined PSU will be sharing eight other cars with Corvallis and Salem. The car-sharing service Zipcar will be getting two plug-in Priuses as well, one of which may be placed on the PSU campus.

“We want to see how well-suited this car is for short-use driving,” said Beard. “And we want it to get visibility.”

Zipcar is a good candidate for determining how feasible electric cars will be for Portland since its users typically use them for short, around-town trips.

Portland Zipcar General Manager Bill Scott said, “Our members tell us they place a high value on the opportunity to drive electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrids, and the average trip in a Zipcar falls within the range of most batteries, so Zipcar is a good fit for the test.”

“One car will be placed at Shaver Green, a sustainable, affordable new apartment building at Northeast Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Shaver Street,” he said.

“We are working with PSU staff to locate the other plug-in on campus.

We believe PSU will be a great location for the test because Zipcar is already so popular with students and faculty and their awareness

of sustainable transportation is so high,” Scott said.

The new plug-in Prius has a battery pack that allows the driver to go 13–15 miles on a charge, and then switch over to an internal combustion engine.

“The average driving miles in Portland is about 14 miles a day, whereas Los Angeles is around 80,” Beard said. “So it’s very practical for Portland to have electric cars.”

“Toyota wants to see how often and easily [the electric vehicles] can be used so they are not spewing out emissions,” he said.

According to the Toyota website, in late 2009 Toyota began delivery of 600 Prius plug-in hybrid vehicles, equipped with lithium-ion batteries, to participate in this global demonstration program.

Electric vehicles are being placed around the U.S. to demonstrate “plug-in hybrid technology, educate and inform the public, evaluate performance and better understand the technology’s benefits to future customers,” according to the Toyota plug-in program website.

Other regional demonstration programs are lined up for California, Washington, D.C., New York City and Pittsburgh, Pa.

its services are geared toward firstyear students who need assistance “to successfully transition into academic life at Portland State University,” according to the literature.

To best serve first-year students, University Success is located in room 204 of the Ondine Housing Building, a particularly convenient location for freshmen.

According to Meiser, University Success “offer[s] three tiers of service.”

The first tier is a study lounge, open from 5–10 p.m. on Sundays and from 2–10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. In addition to using study space, students can receive help with things like time management and editing papers, Meiser said.

The second tier of support that University Success provides comes in the form of weekly services.

On Sundays, Meiser said, drop-in tutoring is provided by two tutors who cover English as a Second Language, Spanish, writing, linguistics, basic math and physics.

On Monday students have access to conflict resolution services from the Student Center for Dispute Resolution on a drop-in basis from 6–10 p.m.

According to the SCDR website, its mediators are second year graduate students from the Conflict Resolution Masters program who help settle “interpersonal disputes between two or more students” such as “between classmates, roommates, hallmates, boyfriends/girlfriends, domestic partners (both current and ex), and others,” according to its website.

On Tuesdays, by appointment, students can get after-hours academic advising from the staff of the Undergraduate Advising

As feedback from the demonstration programs becomes available, it will be posted to the Toyota website.

“We’re in the early stages of a shift from internal combustion engines to vehicles with a much shorter range,” Beard said. “There is a story unfolding with electric cars…This is a pawn move in a much bigger chess game of electric vehicles in Oregon.”

and Support Center. UASC staff “help students with questions about general education, degree and university requirements, and… provide advice to students who are struggling academically or need assistance with choosing a major,” according to its website.

On Wednesdays students can drop in for “Let’s Talk,” a casual venue for students to receive help from SHAC counselors, Meiser said.

“Let’s Talk” also benefits students who need immediate professional help, as it can be difficult to see a counselor at SHAC on short notice, Meiser said.

In addition to tutoring and a study lounge, Meiser said that University Success offers a series of workshops as its third tier of support, every term on Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

The workshops cover a myriad of topics from “How to Choose a Major and Career” and “Filing your FAFSA” to meditation and self-defense.

Today, University Success is hosting a workshop titled “Navigating Financial Aid.” Next week’s workshop is “Budgeting Your Benjamins.”

Interested students can also consult University Success’ Facebook page to see a more detailed list of workshops.

During fall and winter, University Success offered academic coaching as one of its weekly services, but due to the low number of students utilizing it, they have since halted the program, Meiser said.

“We’re hoping to roll out a different model of that next fall,” she said.

According to Meiser, University Success will send out a survey later this spring asking students about their experience with University Success and what they would like to see added or changed in the program.

For more information, interested students can go to Ondine 204 or email University Success at usuccess@pdx.edu.

More information about Toyota’s Prius plug-in hybrid demo program: www.sustainablemobility.com

Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard

Not enough: PSU currently only has one charging station for cars; more will be added.

Where’s the book-drop box?

And other library questions answered…

Updates on Millar Library services Catrice Stanley Vanguard staff

Though construction may make it inconvenient at times to get to the library, its staff wants to remind students that all of its services are still accessible.

Book-drop box Due to construction, one of the drop boxes used to return books to the Millar Library has been removed.

But the library has two drop boxes, one of which is located in front of the library by the south stairs and it will remain fully-functional throughout construction.

The second drop box was at the corner of Southwest Harrison and Southwest 10th street but it is temporarily inaccessible because of the construction, according to Nathan Baty, a billing clerk at the library.

The drop box will return once construction has been completed.

“People can always return books inside the library when it is open, too,” Baty said.

Overall, the construction has not been too detrimental to Millar Library.

“The noise and shaking from the construction has been unfortunate, but it seems like people are getting used to it,” Baty said.

Baty has been working at Millar Library since December of 2004.

Students might recognize him from the circulation desk on the first floor, which he considers to be his favorite part of the job.

Vanguard News | 5 April 27, 2010

Capstone Fair next week

When he is not at the circulation desk, he is busy doing accounting for his department or working on the “various activities related to late charges and lost books.”

For students who still need to take a capstone course, the 2010 Capstone Fair will be held on Thursday, May 6.

WorldCat search engine Baty said that the default search on the library’s webpage has recently changed to a search engine called Portland State WorldCat. “WorldCat allows patrons to search for books at our library, libraries in the Summit system and libraries worldwide. VIKAT, our PSU-only catalog, is still accessible,” Baty said.

According to a press release, the purpose of the capstone fair is to inform students, faculty and community members about the available capstone courses for the following summer and academic year.

Other resources When asked about the things he wished more students knew about the library, Baty gave a short list.

First, he wished students would utilize the faculty more.

“The library can seem like an intimidating place, so keep in mind that we employ a lot of people to help students, staff and faculty find what they need,” Baty said.

Also, he stressed that the reference desk is a great place to go for a student who may need helping finding books or articles at the library.

“The circulation desk has many required textbooks for classes. Most of the textbooks check out for two hours,” Baty said.

Many students are unaware of the vast amount of services the library offers, he said.

“The library offers research workshops, classes, and tours

In addition, visitors can learn more about the general purpose of the capstone courses and ask instructors specific questions about each course.

The capstone fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, rooms 327–329.

Refreshments will also be served.

Michael Pascual/Portland State Vanguard

Same services despite inconveniences: Construction hasn’t kept the library from operating in the

same way.

throughout the year,” Baty said.

To find more information about these services, visit the PSU library website (library.pdx.edu).

These little-known services will be under the link titled “Instructional Services.”

Fun fact According to Baty, Sunday mornings are a very popular time at Millar Library.

“There could easily be 100 people waiting to enter the library right before we opened,” Baty said.

To view course descriptions for capstone courses, visit www.capstone. unst.pdx.edu.

Capstone course descriptions by term are available at www. pdx.edu/unst/seniorcapstone-courses.

For more information, contact University Studies at 503-725-5890.

Vanguard 6 | Arts & Culture April 27, 2010

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

Out now: New music releases Acid Mothers Temple: From 0 to Infinity (Important) The Black Swans: Words Are Stupid (St. Ives) Blunt Mechanic: World Record (Barsuk) Chin-Chin: Sound of the Westerway (Slumberland) Eric Copeland: XXXX 7” (PPM) Frightened Rabbit: Nothing Like You 7” (FatCat) Frog Eyes: Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Dead Oceans) (U.S. release) Gogol Bordello: Trans-Continental Hustle (American) (U.S. release) Hole: Nobody’s Daughter (Mercury/IDJ) Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power: Deluxe Edition (Columbia/ Legacy) Juan MacLean: DJ-Kicks (!K7) The Lodger: Flashbacks (Slumberland) Mono: Holy Ground: NYC Live With the Wordless Music Orchestra (Wordless/Temporary Residence) Mount Carmel: Mount Carmel (Siltbreeze)

ARTS & CULTURE

Mountain air, minus the altitude sickness Banff Film Festival comes to Portland Bianca Blankenship Vanguard staff

Rock climbing, river kayaking, high-altitude paragliding and speed flying. Those are just a few of the mountain sports featured at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. This week the festival brings its world tour to Portland.

REI stores in the Portland metro area are sponsoring the festival locally, as part of a fundraising effort to support Adventures Without Limits, a nonprofit organization that provides outdoor experiences for people of all ages and abilities.

Proceeds from the screenings will go to Adventures Without Limits and will allow it to continue to lead outdoor trips for all people, including those with disabilities.

Banff Mountain Film Festival features over 25 films from around the world with one similar thread tying them together: mountains. Mountain culture, mountain sports, mountain lovers—anything involving a fair amount of altitude and ice fits the bill.

Most of the films are naturally focused on the great outdoors. There are plenty of scenes to make a viewer’s stomach jump into their throat.

Expect everything from snowboarders who free-ride narrow strips of snow between exposed rocks to worldchampion unicyclists displaying their off-road unicycling skills.

It’s easy to assume that the festival will be packed with action

shots of wild people taking wild chances at some dangerous mountain sports, but this festival isn’t just for the gnarled outdoorsy types. The “extreme” component is left at the door and a more holistic approach to respecting mountains—and nature in general—is apparent.

The grand prize-winning film this year is Finding Farley, an hour-long documentary about a Canadian family of three that decides to trace environmentalist Farley Mowat’s footsteps. Paddling, sailing and trekking across Canada, this husband and wife and their two year-old son follow the 5,000 kilometers of land that Mowat’s literature covered. Their documented quest won the film not only a grand prize, but also the People’s Choice Award at the festival.

Other films in the festival have nothing to do with mountain sports and instead focus on various mountain cultures, like those found in Tibet and Mongolia. Such cultures often find difficulty remaining intact, and the films are a testament to their strength. A number of films about Japanese culture regarding snow and mountains also made it into the festival.

Nevertheless, there is certainly a lot of rock climbing and skiing to be seen at the screenings, as they are popular themes.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival began in Banff, British Columbia, and started to reach out to other communities in 1986. Since then, the festival has spread to cities all over North

All photos courtesy of Bart King

The Big Book of Gross Stuff is pretty self-explanatory

Brian Posehn: Fart and Wiener Jokes (Relapse)

Wendy Shortman

Unnatural Helpers: Cracked Love (and Other Drugs) (Hardly Art)

Vanguard staff

Various Artists: We Are One, In the Sun: A Tribute to Robbie Basho (Important) The Wave Pictures: If You Leave It Alone (Moshi Moshi) (U.S. release)

White Fence: White Fence (Woodsist) Wounded Lion: Wounded Lion (In The Red) —pitchfork.com

Banff Mountain Film Festival REI Stores, see website for details April 27, 28, 29, times vary $12 REI members $17 non-members 18+

can you go?

Naked on the Vague: Heaps of Nothing (Siltbreeze)

The Wave Pictures: Instant Coffee Baby (Moshi Moshi) (U.S. release)

America and the rest of the world, making its mountain films more accessible to the public through a community-based outreach program.

REI will select films from the festival to screen this week.

While the first screening— tonight in Portland—sold out almost immediately, there are still tickets available for screenings on Wednesday and Thursday.

How

The Mynabirds: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (Saddle Creek)

Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne: A Distant Roar (Family Vineyard)

Photo courtesy of Banff Center

Banff Mountain Film Festival: Bringing the mountains down to sea level for the less adventurous.

Bart King: Get down and dirty tonight with

the grossest author in town.

Reading with Bart King Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.

Tonight, 7 p.m.

Free

Bart King is a lot like Bill Nye the Science Guy. He teaches kids and immature adults about science and the human body, but King takes it to a whole new level—a new and disgusting level.

The Big Book of Gross Stuff certainly lives up to its title as an encyclopedia of all things disgusting and disturbing.

The book includes humorous explanations and real facts on just about anything the common person would consider disgusting—from sneezes and farts to fecal matter.

King has written eight children’s books so far, including The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Girl Stuff and several pocket guides for little ones. King is a former middle school teacher and lives here in Portland.

“I want to make my writing irresistible to a reluctant reader,” King said. “To do that, I’m happy to be gratuitous and comical, but

embedded within it there needs to be redeeming elements of science, history and current events.”

As a former teacher, King probably knows a thing or two about the reluctant reader.

“As a social studies teacher, I was often frustrated by the topics not covered in our textbooks,” King said. “So I’d write up supplemental packets and try to keep the material lively with lots of humor, odd facts and illustrations.”

After that, King started bigger writing projects, and the next thing he knew he was writing children’s books. Kids aren’t the only ones enjoying his books, though.

“I just received an e-mail from a precocious eight-year-old who enjoyed the book, and a handful of adults reluctantly confessed to reading it as well,” King said.

“My guess is that these are deeply troubled individuals.”

King, who comes from a large family with eight brothers and sisters, explained that his upbringing definitely made him a reader.

“As you can imagine, privacy and quiet were rare commodities in our

household,” King said. “So I came to treasure the moments when I could curl up with a good book, uninterrupted.”

Throughout the book, you’ll find some things that disgust you more than others and some things you’ll wish you’d never read. King even includes a “Gross Quiz” to measure your tolerance of all things gross.

So what does King find the most disgusting?

King explains the story of St. Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), who nursed a woman with a “dreadful growth” on her body. The growth apparently released pus and horrible odors. Catherine took excellent care of the woman, but was ashamed of her own disgust with the woman’s growth.

So, to prove her religious devotion, Catherine did the unthinkable.

“Catherine apparently collected the pus coming out of the growth and drank it,” King said. “Hey, how do you think she became a saint? If there is anything to like about this horrifying story, it’s that even the most disgusting situation can bring out the best in people.”

Okay, but, ew.

Vanguard Arts & Culture | 7 April 27, 2010

Weekend box office: Top 10 highest-grossing films for the weekend of April 23–25

All photos courtesy of Owen Carey/ Artist Repertory Theatre

A strong cast and crew can’t save WWII-era Othello from falling short of the original Andrea Vedder Vanguard staff

The most compelling part of any Shakespearean tragedy—aside from the stabbings, shootings and poisonings—is its timeless storyline, a quality many directors emphasize by translating the setting into a modern time and place.

In Jon Kretzu’s production of Othello at the Artists Repertory Theatre, the decision to place the story in a vaguely post-World War II Mediterranean setting is what creates the play’s most interesting moments. His other decisions— especially the characterization of Othello and of Iago’s motivation to ruin him—fall flat.

Othello is a play about jealousy.

Othello is a black army general, newly married to the senator’s white daughter Desdemona. He is so strong and well-respected that he rose in rank despite heavy prejudice against his race.

Iago is his trusted adviser.

According to Iago, he has been unfairly passed over for a promotion to the rank of Othello’s lieutenant, and a soldier named Cassio was promoted instead.

In an effort to oust Cassio and ruin Othello, Iago leads Othello to believe that his new wife is having an affair with Cassio and consequently prods him into a jealous homicidal rage. Iago is a villain plagued by self-hatred and insecurity, so closed off from his heart that in the end he has turned against every last one of his companions, even his partner in crime.

In ART’s Othello, these characters are not clear. Iago (Todd Van Voris) is excellently played, but he is too jovial and ruddy-cheeked to be believable as a cold-blooded villain. His cunning, his calculating, his hatred and his jealousy are all delivered with a lighthearted cartoonish punch.

Likewise, Othello (Victor Morris) is portrayed as such a pussycat that while his intense love for Desdemona (Amaya Villazan) is believable, his insane jealousy is not. Where are the qualities that brought him to the rank of general? Is anyone afraid of him? And most importantly, why is Iago out to get him? Real motivation was absent from this production.

The strongest points of this play are its behind-the-scenes contributors, namely the scenic, lighting, sound and props designers.

Don Crossley creates perfect moonlight through the set’s Venetian blinds, a believable crack of lightning

1. How to Train Your Dragon Weekend Gross: $15,025,000 Gross to Date: $178,021,000 2. The Back-Up Plan Weekend Gross: $12,250,000 Gross to Date: $12,250,000

and—with the utilization of a ceiling fan—the sense of dizziness and confusion preceding Othello’s poisoned-induced seizures.

The props are spot-on and put the audience right in the mid-1940s. From old radios and microphones to brandy snifters, martini stems and elegant breakfast trays, props designer Kollodi delivers an aesthetically enchanting Mediterranean army base.

Costuming is a mixed bag.

Desdemona and Iago’s wife Emilia (Sarah Lucht) wear beautiful vintage dresses, skirts and blouses (including a particularly notable blue evening gown worn by Desdemona).

The male characters Othello, Roderigo (Alec Wilson) and Lodovico (Michael Mendelson) are also well dressed, but a few of the costuming choices are so lackluster that they mute the visual sparkle this mid-century take on Othello has almost successfully realized.

Despite this production’s shortcomings, it does make for

3. Date Night Weekend Gross: $10,600,000 Gross to Date: $63,471,000 4. The Losers Weekend Gross: $9,605,000 Gross to Date: $9,605,000

a nice evening downtown. ART is always a pleasure to visit and the cast is genuinely excited to put on a show. The play’s length (three hours and ten minutes, with one 15-minute intermission) is unjustified, but there are enough funny and well-played moments to spur a positive after-the-show conversation.

The show is certainly worth consideration for a place on your dinner-and-a-show itinerary, but don’t expect anything groundbreaking.

5. Kick-Ass Weekend Gross: $9,500,000 Gross to Date: $34,870,000 6. Clash of the Titans Weekend Gross: $9,000,000 Gross to Date: $145,639,000 7. Death at a Funeral Weekend Gross: $8,000,000 Gross to Date: $28,449,000 8. Oceans Weekend Gross: $6,000,000 Gross to Date: $8,466,000

Othello Artists Repertory Theatre 1515 SW Morrison Tue–Sun 7:30 p.m., Wed 11 a.m., Sun 2 p.m.

Runs through May 13 $20 students

9. The Last Song Weekend Gross: $3,700, 000 Gross to Date: $55,398,000 10. Alice in Wonderland Weekend Gross: $2,200,000 Gross to Date: $327,473,000

—boxofficemojo.com

by Sarah Engels

Vanguard 8 | Arts & Culture April 27, 2010

Billboard Top 10 Week of May 1 Pop 1. “In My Head,” Jason Derulo 2. “Telephone,” Lady Gaga feat.

Beyonce 3. “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum 4. “Rude Boy,” Rihanna 5. “Hey, Soul Sister,” Train 6. “Imma Be,” Black Eyed Peas

Local Film highlights New and classic films playing at local theaters this week Sarah Esterman Vanguard staff

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’ve decided you’re too good for midterms, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Major Dundee

Prodigal Sons

The Ghost Writer

There is only one thing you need to know to understand that Major Dundee is worth your time: Charlton Heston. If you don’t know whom I’m talking about, then I duly apologize, but we can’t discuss movies again until you see one of his films. And since one of his films is playing tonight, why not take the opportunity as a sign of awesome movie-type-blessings to come and head over to Laurelhurst? Heston plays Major Dundee in this epic action revenge flick set during the last winter of the Civil War.

If you don’t see anything else on this list, then Prodigal Sons will make your week worth it as far as film is concerned. The award-winning documentary takes an up-close-and-personal look into the life of Kimberly Reed as she travels to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, where she hopes to meet up with her estranged adopted brother. Taking the audience from Montana to Croatia, the film challenges viewers to question whether people can truly change.

The second thriller on this list, The Ghost Writer follows—well— a ghostwriter as he completes the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang. But when the ghostwriter discovers information linking Lang to the C.I.A., he finds himself in mortal danger. Directed

by Roman Polanski, the film stars Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

Laurelhurst Theater 9 p.m. $3 21+

Living Room Theaters 11:50 a.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:15 p.m. $6 w/PSU ID 21+ after 4:30 p.m.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Based off of the internationally bestselling novel of the same name

by Steig Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish film that will keep you in suspense. Whether you’ve read the book or not, the film, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, is not one to miss. Since it’s a foreign film—which, let’s be honest, always makes one seem more cultured— you’ll have to read subtitles, but you’re literate, so who cares?

7. “Nothin’ On You,” B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars 8. “Breakeven,” The Script 9. “Break Your Heart,” Taio Cruz feat.

Ludacris 10. “Carry Out,” Timbaland feat. Justin Timberlake

Cinema 21 4:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m. $5 w/PSU ID before 6 p.m., $6 w/PSU ID after 6 p.m.

All ages

—Billboard

Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures Corporation

Major Dundee

Photo courtesy of Danish Film Institute

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Hollywood Theatre 9:15 p.m. $6.50 All ages Friday, Saturday and Sunday Music On Hold When a character in a film has the name “Ezequial,” you know it’s got to be good. Music On Hold is one of those witty romantic comedies that are worth spending an afternoon or evening with. Ezequial is a musical composer that needs to come up with a score in 20 days. Running out of time, he’s finding it extremely difficult to compose anything, until he is suddenly inspired by the musak playing when he’s on hold to speak to a bank executive he’s never met named Paula. Paula is pregnant, single, and has yet to tell her very conservative mother about either of those details. So when both the composer and her mother are in the same room, she impulsively tells her mother that Ezequial is the father. As one might imagine, confusion and much hilarity ensue.

Whitsell Auditorium Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 9 p.m., Sunday 4:30 p.m.

Free w/PSU ID All ages

SPORTS

TENNIS SEASON IN REVIEW Photos courtesy of PSU Athletics

A look back at the 2010 men’s and women’s tennis campaigns Nilesh Tendolkar Vanguard staff

In many ways, 2010 has been a tough season for both the Portland State men’s and women’s tennis teams. After former head coach Brian Parrott left the program mid-season to pursue outside business ventures, the teams often played without several key players and both teams failed to make it to the playoffs.

The men’s team finished fifth in the Big Sky Conference, while the women finished eighth. The men’s tennis team finished their season in the fifth spot in the Big Sky standings with a 4–4 record in conference and a 7–10 record overall. In the coach’s poll earlier this year, the team was picked to finish seventh in the conference.

“I am disappointed in the fifth place finish and I know the guys are as well,” interim head coach Jay Sterling said. “When you look at the teams that finished in the top four in the conference, we had opportunities to beat two of them. The difference between being in third place and fifth place came down to a matter of points in a game.”

The Vikings began 2010 with a 0–7 whitewash to Portland but chalked up crucial victories in February against Big Sky opponents Montana State (5–2), Eastern Washington (4–3) and Northern Colorado (6–1).

After a loss to Weber State in early March, the team’s chances of making it into the final four in the Big Sky depended on winning at least two of their three remaining conference encounters in April.

Going into the final games, Big Sky Athlete of the Week junior Alex VanDerschelden seemed confident.

“I feel like we made a lot of progress in the last two years and I think we have a good chance of making the top four in the conference,” VanDeschelden said.

However, in the match against Big Sky favorite and eventual champion Sacramento State, the team played without VanDerschelden and junior Chris Rice. Four players in the team were suspended for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

“Teamwork and accountability for actions is something that we focused on a lot this year,” Sterling said. “As a team, we set rules and established reasonable consequences for breaking them.

Unfortunately, prior to the Sac State match, a team rule was broken by some of our players, so the appropriate consequence was enforced.”

The team lost its matches against Sacramento State and Northern Arizona and won its final game of the season against Idaho State.

“Chris and Alex were the cornerstone of our singles play, and they played with a lot of pressure on them throughout the season,” Sterling said. “Looking at our record, when they did well, the team did well. The truth is, Chris and Alex are going to run up against tough opponents, and when that happens, we need other guys in the lineup to step up and help them out by finding ways to win on a more consistent basis.”

However, Sterling remains optimistic about the progress the team has made through the season.

“We’re happy with what we accomplished as a team this season. We finished for the first time with a non-losing record in conference play, we had opportunities for the first time to make the conference championship, in a season where they only took four teams instead of six, we matured as tennis players and individuals, we grew as a team in terms of team work, trust and accountability.”

He added, “Everyone in the lineup improved their games and we saw significant improvement in our doubles play. We announced ourselves as a team to be reckoned with in conference play, and a future contender for the conference championships, and we finished higher in the conference than any of the other coaches had projected we would. So, all in all, it was a successful year for the Portland State men’s tennis program.”

On the other hand, the women’s team finished eighth among the eight Big Sky teams and were 2–17 overall in 2010 without a conference win. Their only

victories came against Southern Oregon (6–1) in February and cross-town rival Lewis & Clark (5–2) in March.

“The women had a tough season and I am proud of them for working their way through it,” Sterling said.

“I asked a lot of them to step up in the lineup and play at spots where they weren’t comfortable, which was necessary with the loss of a couple of key players. For the most part, they competed well and worked to rise to the challenge.

It’s hard not to win more often, but our team kept their head up, worked hard in practice and served as excellent representatives of Portland State University and the Portland State Tennis program at each and every match, handling their losses with the same class and grace as their victories.”

Going into the final game of the season against Big Sky team Idaho State, both teams were yet to win a conference match. But the Viks lost 1–6 to Idaho State at the Club Green Meadows in Vancouver, Wash., thereby relegating themselves to the bottom of the Big Sky standings.

Sterling feels that there is a lot of scope for improvement in the women’s team’s game. Specifically, he said the team struggled with their serves, serve returns and impatience. It wasn’t until the final three matches of the year that Sterling said he noticed consistency in those areas.

“It was interesting because we would work on these things in practice and everyone would do really well, no matter what kind of pressure I created, but for some reason our team had a hard time transferring their high level of performance in practice to match play. Certainly for next year, everyone on the team needs to develop a more consistent second serve, to alleviate pressure on their first serve,” he said.

Sterling added, “Our women just need to trust themselves more and be more patient in point construction instead of trying to end points so quickly, and do a better job of transferring their solid fundamentals in practice to match play.”

Five guys, five girls head to Eugene The Viks are set to divide and conquer at the Oregon Relays this week Nadya Ighani Vanguard staff

Five men and five women from Portland State track and field will be competing at the highly esteemed Oregon Relays in Eugene later this week.

Last week, the team split up as the multi-event athletes went to the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., and the rest of the team traveled to the Mondo Invitational in Sacramento. After reuniting, the team will split up again and send 10 student-athletes to the Oregon Relays.

Juniors Karene King, Malissa Anthony and Adrienne Davis, sophomore Joenisha Vinson and freshman Geronne Black will be the five women competing at the meet.

The five men competing are seniors Daniel Wolverton and Lavonte Kirven, juniors John Lawrence and Andrew Salg and sophomore Tony Crisofulli.

They are all striving to raise their already qualified times and scores for the Big Sky Conference and the NCAA West Regional.

“One of the main goals for the Oregon Relays is for the women’s 4x100 to qualify for the NCAA West Regional,” said Coach Henson.

That 4x100 relay team consists of Anthony, Black, King and Vinson.

They competed hard at the Mondo Invitational and took the number one spot at the event and in the conference with 45.91 seconds.

Vinson, the second leg in the 4x100 relay team, will be competing in the 100m hurdles as well as the sprint relays this week. Along with being part of the top 4x100 relay team, Vinson also ranks first in the Big Sky in the 100m hurdles with a time of 13.94 seconds.

First place in the conference in the 100m is currently held by King with a time of 11.91 seconds. King will be competing in the 200m at the meet this week. She currently ranks second in the 200m.

Black has fourth place in the conference for the 100m with a time of 11.96, merely one second short of second place. In the 200m, she is in 24th place with a time of 25.38.

Vanguard Sports | 9 April 27, 2010

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

Today in sports history 1908—Fourth modern Olympic games open in London 1947–Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and throughout U.S. 1953–Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term “pencil-neck geek” 1956–Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano retires from boxing undefeated 1961–NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio 1969–Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational 1973–Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers 3–0 1975–Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic 1980–Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1981–First female soccer official is hired

by NASL 1982–Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1–0 lead 1983–Nolan Ryan passes Walter Johnson to become strikeout king (3,509) 1984–Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers 8–4 in 19 innings 1986–Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic

Anthony is ranked 22nd in the 200m and is steadily bettering her time and moving up. At the Oregon Relays Anthony, Black and King will be competing in the 200m as well as the 4x100 relay.

Davis is sixth in the conference with a distance of 45 feet 3.75 inches.

She reached this position earlier in April at the Sun Angel Classic.

Competing in the 800m is Crisofulli, who is currently ranked sixth with a time of 1:51.87, just two seconds short of first place.

Distance runner Lawrence will be competing in the 3,000m steeple chase. With a time of 9:16.93, Lawrence is ranked at ninth place.

In the men’s department, senior football players Wolverton and Kirven will be competing in the 100m. In the conference Kirven is in 14th place with a time of 10.98. Wolverton is in eighth place with 10.90. First place in the men’s 100m is Sacramento State’s Albert Reed with a time of 10.67.

Salg will be competing in the 5,000m. Currently he is in 12th with a time of 14:54.2, and is almost a minute behind first place David McNeil (Northern Arizona State).

Next up for the Vikings is the 2010 Big Sky Outdoor Championship in Ogden, Utah.

Vikings qualified for Big Sky Track and Field Championship Men Dan Wolverington Nathan Lightner Tony Crisofulli Andrew Salg John Lawrence DeShawn Shead Nick Trubachik Nathan Edicott Vince Kinney

Women Karene King Geronne Black Joenisha Vinson Amber Rozcicha Julie Pedersen Katie Blue Karissa Fuller Alyssa Rife Amirah Karim Adrienne Davis Stephanie Spauer

1992–NY Jets finish perfect 5-0 preseason for first time 1992–NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent 1994–Seventh longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min, 43 sec) 1994–Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) 1994–Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6–0 1997–Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship —todayinsport.com

Vanguard 10 | Sports April 27, 2010

Portland State’s Disc Golf Club participates in community fundraiser

Hiking with a purpose

Tanya Shiffer

Feb. 17 Pitcher of the Week Tori Rogers Feb. 23 Pitcher of the Week Anna Bertrand Player of the Week Becca Diede March 9 Player of the Week Brandi Scoggins March 23 Pitcher of the Week Nichole Latham Player of the Week Danielle Lynn April 13 Pitcher of the Week Anna Bertrand April 19 Pitcher of the Week Nichole Latham

Vanguard staff

On a perfectly cool morning at Milo McIver State Park, the Portland State Disc Golf Club gathered together for some fun and a chance to help out their fellow students on Saturday.

In coalition with the International Community Development students, club members participated and helped sponsor the Disc Golf for Development tournament to raise money for the ICD students and their trip to Uganda, Africa, where they are traveling to learn how to be better community developers and better world citizens through sustainability.

Headed by senior information systems major Tony Skrivanek, the Disc Golf Club has come back to life at PSU after a brief hiatus. With the help of friends they proposed to start the club up again and brought it back to good standing with the Rec Clubs Committee over winter term.

Skrivanek describes disc golf as “hiking with a purpose” and says it can be felt in the inclines, woods and valleys that are typical of the nine or 18-hole courses. The club currently has 22 members and Skrivanek says they are always looking for anyone interested in playing. They meet once a week to practice for 2–4 hours. In addition to Disc Golf for Development, the group has primarily been practicing, with the hope of competing at collegiate levels in 2011.

At the National Collegiate Disc Golf Championship earlier this month, the University of Oregon’s club came in second and freshman Chris Becker took home the title of National Disc Golf Champion.

U of O was the only Oregon school competing, but Skrivanek hopes to change that.

“We’d like to get a northwest collegiate championship going,” he said. “If we could partner up with U of O and get more schools interested.”

The sport follows the general rules of golf, but features a handthrown disc instead of a golf ball.

There are three, four and five-par holes, with the holes sitting above ground with metal chains to catch the discs. The number of times the disc is thrown constitutes the number of strokes for that hole, with the player with the least amount of throws deemed winner.

Penalty strokes can be given for discs that land out of bounds or get stuck in a tree.

The price for equipment in disc golf is considerably less than real golf, and the atmosphere is far less proper. Supplies can be found at Next Adventure or Disc Golf Depot, both of which are located in southeast Portland.

Disc golf is a game that friends can get together to do that doesn’t require a great skill level, but if someone is interested in competing, it can also be a gateway to professional competition. The sport doesn’t involve a lot of physical play, other than precise aim, but can fill the gap for those limited by their capabilities.

“I used to play baseball, but I blew my knee out about two years ago,” disc golfer Jason Back said. “I heard about disc golf through some friends and caught the buzz. It was the only sport I could do that didn’t require running and stopping. It’s highly addictive.”

The Portland area features over 20 disc-golf courses that are open year-round, and several others are in development. The area also hosts a number of tournaments, including the Beaver State Fling coming up over Memorial Day weekend.

All photos by Tanya Shiffer/Portland State Vanguard

One of the biggest competitions on the west coast, the Beaver State Fling will feature professionals from around the world, all competing for top prizes. Due to increased participation in recent years, the amateur event is separate from the professional competition this year.

Though this year is in the preparation and organization stages for the PSU Disc Golf Club, Skrivanek and the rest of the members are setting up next year to be a great one for their club.

Skrivanek says that David Feldberg, the 2008 world champion and person responsible for bringing disc golf to U of O, will coach the PSU club next year. Feldberg also sits on the board of directors for the Professional Disc Golf Association.

With summer approaching and the club’s next tournament not scheduled until the fall, Skrivanek feels the time is ripe for anyone interested in having fun and trying something new to consider giving the PSU Disc Golf Club a try.

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Helpful websites: PSU Disc Golf Club: http://www.pdx.edu/recreation/ disk-golf For information about the fundraising progress of the ICD students or to learn how to be a part of the program: http://oia.pdx.edu/ea/ Beaver State Fling’s website: http://www.beaverstatefling. com/2010/ Next Adventure’s website: http://nextadventure.net Disc Golf Depot’s website: http://www.discgolfdepot.com

Disc golf: Portland State’s Disc Golf Club is back in action and looking for more members.

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Softball team sweeps ISU for eighth-straight conference win at home James MacKenzie Vanguard staff

Portland State softball swept a four-game conference series over the weekend, marking the second time this season the Vikings have taken the brooms to Pacific Coast Softball Conference opponents at home.

The Vikings (20–24 overall, 10–2 PCSC) mowed through Idaho State (11–32 overall, 3–9 PCSC) with ease, and outscored the Bengals 24–3 over the course of the four-game series.

“We had some really good pitching performances,” said head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk. “One through four, all my pitchers threw and did a great job.”

Classifying freshman pitcher Anna Bertrand’s weekend as great would be a vast understatement.

Bertrand struck out 24 Idaho State batters in 14 innings of absolutely dominating softball, including 16 in the first game of the series.

At one point Bertrand sat down 10 batters in a row on strikeouts, striking out the side in three consecutive innings from the second to the fourth.

Sixteen strikeouts in a single game is the most by a Portland State pitcher since Mandy Hill accomplished the feat against Santa Clara in 2008, and is

only two Ks short of the school record held by Michelle Hext, who struck out 18 in a 10-inning game against San Diego in 2006.

For Echo-Hawk, it was among the most dominant outings she had seen by a softball pitcher, and she compared Bertrand to former Portland State great Hill.

“I think Anna’s just getting better and it’s really nice to see her get to that level,” Echo-Hawk said. “Mandy was one of our better players to come through Portland State, and to be on the same level as a freshman—I’m just really excited to see what she does.”

Bertrand needed every ounce of that talent in the third game of the series, as the Vikings fended off the Bengals for a 1–0 victory and dashed Idaho State’s hopes of salvaging a split on the series. Fresh off her 16-strikeout performance, Bertrand went on to strike out eight in seven innings, while wiggling out of a first-inning jam that saw her throw 33 pitches.

“She, as always, was really consistent on the mound,” EchoHawk said. “Her demeanor was really consistent and she did a really good job of keeping hitters off balance. Her changeup was on and when people would start to get a little bit used to the changeup, she’d throw another pitch.”

With the offense scoring 24 runs in four games, it wasn’t just the pitching staff that propelled the Vikings to

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Three-run shot: Senior De’Chauna Skinner hit a three-run home run in the fourth game of the weekend.

victory. Seniors De’Chauna Skinner and Brandi Scoggins led the charge, with Skinner batting .363 with six RBIs while Scoggins added four hits and four walks in nine at-bats.

Skinner would break the camel’s back quickly in game four, after the Bengals jumped to an early 1–0 lead against senior pitcher Tori Rogers. Idaho State had little time to appreciate the one-run lead, as it quickly evaporated after consecutive singles by sophomore Laci Holm and freshman Danielle Lynn put runners on first and second for Portland State. Skinner laid into a 1–2 pitch from Nora Maschue and sent it over the leftfield fence to put the Vikings ahead 3–1. The Vikings went on to win 7–1.

Skinner, who entered conference play batting only .143 with an onbase plus slugging percentage of just over .400, has been a different hitter since conference action began. Her home run on Sunday is her third since beginning the conference schedule.

Echo-Hawk attributes Skinner’s turnaround to a newfound level of self-confidence.

“She’s always had the power,” Echo-Hawk said. “She’s our strongest kid and it was just a matter of her having a little more faith in herself, and she’s done a great job in that aspect.”

Next weekend the Vikings will leave the friendly confines of Erv Lind stadium, where they have gone 8–0 this season against conference opponents. Instead, the Vikings will travel to Orem, Utah, to face off against PCSC-newcomer Weber State.

Weber State’s softball program is in its infancy, and has struggled this season. The Wildcats have a 1–39 record, though their lone win came during conference action.

Coach Echo-Hawk remains convinced that her team will not view Weber State differently than any other team.

“I think the kids are on a mission, and they know what they have to do and they know that we control our destiny. I think with that in mind, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing.

They’re going to be the same team and ready all the time,” Echo-Hawk said.

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