Daily Vanguard May, 19, 2010

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Event of the day

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010 • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 64, ISSUE 111

Tonight is the Annual MFA Creative Writing Graduate Readings! Whether you are a writer or just enjoy listening to the work of our local talented writers, don’t miss this awesome (and free) event!

When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave.

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INSIDE

TriMet conducts safety review

NEWS

Fundraising shortfall ASPSU fundraising efforts re-focused to food-raising PAGE 2

“Truth and Reconciliation” became “Health and Healing” and then nothing at all Joe Hannan

ARTS

Bikes, beer and pinball Apex Bar is new and rockin’ the patio for the warm weather to come PAGE 4 The Breakfast Club meets again Local theater company adapts classic coming-of-age movie to the stage PAGE 5

OPINION

The electric drive The electric car and beyond PAGE 6 Cutting down coal ASPSU signs resolution to close coal plant PAGE 6

Campaign promise broken Vanguard staff

Last week one of ASPSU’s campaign goals of holding a week of events for students regarding togetherness and community health failed to happen. Leaders cite a lack of planning and a reprioritization of campaigns. When current ASPSU President Jonathan Sanford took office last June, he did so with Rodrigo Melgarejo/Portland State Vanguard three campaign goals: shared Better bus routes: TriMet altered three bus routes near PSU to ensure left-hand turn safety in regards to pedestrian traffic. governance, more student look at what other transit agencies downtown, it made route changes housing and the idea of “truth and Bus routes near PSU have done about left-hand turns, as to lines 12, 17 and 44, according reconciliation for campus healing.” changed in response to well as examine mirror placement, to Bekkie Witt, a TriMet public Sanford’s last campaign goal was training and other aspects of information officer. slated to commence last week. fatal accident operational safety, according to Witt. Immediate changes to the lines However, scheduling and staff “This comprehensive safety 12, 17 and 44 address left-hand turns issues interrupted the event. review is an opportunity to in order to give drivers more time Tamara K. Kennedy Sanford’s conception of challenge all of our old assumptions to get into position before turning Vanguard staff the Truth and Reconciliation and take into consideration any and to continue to the Portland Transit campaign was inspired by a speech all new approaches to improving Mall, according to Witt. In response to an accident that given by Archbishop Desmond safety across our system,” said As part of the route changes, involved a TriMet bus that struck Tutu on May 4, 2009. Tutu’s TriMet General Manager Fred Witt said westbound line 17 will several pedestrians near Portland message was simple—if a society Hansen. no longer stop at Southwest Fourth State, TriMet changed three bus would go through the process of On April 24, just prior to and Hall streets. Though lines routes in the downtown area and reconciliation, it would be able midnight, police officers responded 12 and 44 will continue to service plans a top-to-bottom safety review to identify problems within its to the accident that involved a the stop, buses will now turn left at for all aspects of its operations. communities. Such problems that TriMet bus and five pedestrians Southwest Fourth and Mill to allow The accident, which occurred on Sanford hoped to address at PSU at the intersection of Northwest more time and distance for making April 24, resulted in two fatalities. include women’s, minority and gay the left turn. After TriMet looked into rights, as well as issues that are In addition, TriMet is conducting immediate ways it could improve hushed, such as sexual abuse and BUSES continued on page three a safety review that will include a safety around stops and turns in rape on campus. The Truth and Reconciliation event was designed to promote unity amongst PSU students and the community that would hopefully translate to the city at large. After winter term Sanford began to refer to the event as Health and Healing. “CleanAir allows the wireless place last month highlighted several week-long event would CleanAir technology tested system to accurately identify these areas regarding wireless technology: haveThe been ready to commence sources of interference and adjust -Growing challenges within on campus to enhance last week if other ASPSU priorities the characteristics of the signaling wireless environments and conflicts among staff so that the effects on performance -The benefits of Borderless wireless performance members had not interrupted the are minimized,” Daffron said. Networks architecture and its campaign schedule, according According to information from Amy Staples Cisco, the IPTV broadcast that took WIRELESS continued on page two to Laura Morency, ASPSU’s Vanguard staff communications director. Morency also considered time Clayton Daffron, Portland to be a factor in pulling the event State’s network architect and team off, and said that Sanford’s idea manager, participated in Cisco’s for the event would have needed Internet protocol television webcast at least a year of planning to do last month to talk about how new it right. wireless networking technology has In an e-mail from Sanford, been working out for Portland State. he said that “health and healing Cisco introduced a new product, have been mostly pushed aside called CleanAir, to PSU a few to focus on the transition for months ago, according to Daffron. [president-elect] Katie Markey.” PSU became a beta-tester for the As of now, other ASPSU product that has advanced radio priorities have resulted in the frequency scanning and interference discontinuation of the Health and avoidance. Healing campaign, and no set date A large, urban campus like has been scheduled for the event PSU is a good place to test the in the future. system because of the prevalence Adam Wickham/Portland State Vanguard of microwaves, Bluetooth devices, cordless phones and other wireless Less interference: Freshman Ashley Murray, a computer science major, using PSU’s wireless networks. internet, which is currently part of a Cisco beta program to reduce wireless disruptions.

PSU beta testing Cisco wireless


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