Portland State Vanguard, vol. 72 issue 2

PORTLAND STATE VANGUARD

VOLUME 72 • ISSUE 2 • JULY 4, 2017

BRAWLTRIGHT ANTIFA SQUARES OFF AGAINST SKINHEAD AND PROUD BOY RALLY

ARTS & CULTURE: MANIC PIXIE DREAM TROPE P. 11

NEWS: OUTGOING PSU PRESIDENT WIEWEL TO BECOME 25TH LEWIS & CLARK PRESIDENT P. 4

INTERNATIONAL: MUSLIM BAN BACK, SUPREME COURT WEIGHS LEGALITY P. 7

OPINION: DRAWING THE LINE AT GRAFFITI P. 13

SEE FULL COVERAGE OF JUNE 30 FREEDOM OF SPEECH RALLY ON P. 8-9 JOE W. SHAPIRO/PSU VANGUARD

CONTENTS COVER PHOTO BY JOE W. SHAPIRO

NEWS CATHOLICS CHAT ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE

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ARTS & CULTURE SUMMERTIME READING CATCH-UP: NINA LACOUR’S ‘WE ARE OKAY’

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INTERNATIONAL THIS WEEK AROUND THE WORLD

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OPINION THE NEW NORMAL FOR MILLENNIALS

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FEATURE FREEDOM OF SPEECH RALLY TURNS TO DOWNTOWN MARCH

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ON & OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS JULY 4–10

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STAFF

OPINION EDITOR Evan Smiley

EDIT ORI A L EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Colleen Leary

ONLINE EDITOR Andrew D. Jankowski

MANAGING EDITOR Tim Sullivan

COPY CHIEF Thomas Spoelhof

NEWS EDITOR AJ Earl

COPY EDITORS Harlie Hendrickson Nada Sewidan

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Alanna Madden INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Chris May ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Matthew Andrews

CONTRIBUTORS Cassie Duncanson Jordan Ellis Gray Bouchat Tim Steele Anamika Vaughan Anna Williams

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NEWS

FOSTER TALKS EVENT RAISES AWARENESS FOR OREGON FOSTER CHILDREN ANAMIKA VAUGHAN

Boys and Girls Aid hosted its monthly event called Foster Talks on Tuesday, June 27 to discuss the journeys of three former foster children who are now adults. Lagunitas, who provided the event space, Mississippi Pizza and Porque No sponsored the event, which approximately 50 people attended.

The three speakers broached a number of issues challenging foster children today. Such issues range from abuse, crime, drugs and prison, to the feelings of alienation and resentment that often accompany foster children as they jump from home to home.

According to Suzan Huntington, president and CEO of Boys and Girls Aid, the average foster child moves around to four different homes per year while escaping abusive families or drug-addicted parents. Of nearly 9,000 children living in Oregon’s foster care system, half are from the Portland Metro area.

Additionally, just over 50 percent will graduate from high school, and less than 5 percent will go on to attend college.

“We’re in a cycle, and it’s a cycle of trauma and abuse,” said one speaker, who went by the name of Alexis in order to protect her identity.

“So why do children enter the system? They enter because they have been traumatized.

Without any other pretty way to say it. The children have been traumatized.”

The second speaker, *Amy, shared her experiences of sexual abuse by her father, who was incarcerated at the time. Amy’s father managed to perpetrate this abuse on camera in a government institution, which she carried with her as she jumped from home to home, never feeling comfortable enough to talk about it.

The final speaker, *Matthew, discussed his experience with his final foster family which he found at age 16. According to Matthew’s story, this had been the first time he was able to call his foster parent “mom” instead of by her first name. He credits that experience to his new sense of family and stability toward the success he has now in adulthood, where he is now a business owner with his own family.

The event wrapped up with the speakers sharing what they would like to see change about the foster care system. Alexis suggested siblings should no longer be separated from each other.

“My answer would be that we would have started intervention far before the kids got pulled,” Alexis said. “I’m not an advocate for the system, I just think that the first time the cops get called to your house is when intervention needs to happen. We should keep families together if we can.”

FOSTER TALKS, A MONTHLY EVENT HOSTED BY BOYS AND GIRLS AID ON JUNE 27. ANAMIKA VAUGHAN/PSU VANGUARD Amy shared her own experience in suggesting that guardians of foster children should rely less on medication to solve behavioral issues. At one point, Amy discussed, she had been prescribed over 100 pills a month. In addition, Amy also suggested that children should not be strip searched as they enter the system.

Portland Community College’s Fostering Success program is dedicated to helping foster kids complete their education and career goals.

Boys and Girls Aid is an organization dedicated to connecting foster children with dependable adults.

“We started Foster Talks because we wanted to have a conversation around how we can help children in foster care,” Huntington said.

“I believe that if people really understood what was happening to children in foster care, they would want to make a difference.” *Editor’s Note: Due to the nature of the event and the circumstances discussed, the names of event speakers have been changed in order to protect their identities from potential harm.

BLUES FESTIVAL 2017

THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL PORTLAND BLUES FESTIVAL HELD AT TOM MCCALL WATERFRONT PARK ON JUNE 30TH. MYLES BOYNS/PSU VANGUARD

COUPLES DANCING IN FRONT OF THE FRONT PORCH STAGE DURING THE 30TH ANNUAL PORTLAND BLUES FESTIVAL HELD AT TOM MCCALL WATERFRONT PARK ON JUNE 30TH. MYLES BOYNS/PSU VANGUARD

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NEWS NEWS

GOING OUT ON A WIM WIEWEL TO BECOME NEXT LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE PRESIDENT ALANNA MADDEN

Outgoing Portland State President Wim Wiewel announced in an email on June 20 that he’s to become the new Lewis & Clark College president in October 2017. The announcement of Wiewel’s new presidency comes nearly one year after last summer’s announcement of his retirement.

On June 27, 2016 Wiewel announced his retirement as PSU’s president, stating, “I will be 67 years old and will have served nine years, and I want to have time to pursue some other interests.”

Wiewel is set to begin his new position as LCC’s 25th president on October 1. Lewis and Clark College is a private liberal arts college located near Lake Oswego.

As mentioned in his public announcement, the job acceptance is a divergence from his original plan, which was to work as a part-time faculty member for PSU’s Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning.

“Accepting the presidency at Lewis & Clark will allow us to stay in the community we’ve come to love and call home,” Wiewel’s email stated. “It will allow us to continue to be deeply involved in shaping higher education and contribute to Portland’s success.”

The future LCC president plans to finish his term at PSU on Aug. 14, when Dr. Rahmat Shoureshi begins his term as the ninth president of PSU. Wiewel signed off on his announcement stating: “I am very grateful for the opportunity to serve as your president, for all the support we’ve received over the years, and for the many warm wishes of the last few weeks. I am proud of everything we have accomplished together during my nine years at PSU. I will miss you all. But I’m sure I will be seeing many of you in the community in the months and years ahead.

Go Viks!”

PRESIDENT WIM WIEWEL DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MAY 2016. BRAD BOURGEOIS/VANGUARD ARCHIVES

PROVOST SONA ANDREWS ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION COLLEEN LEARY

PORTLAND STATE PROVOST SONA ANDREWS SENT A MESSAGE TO THE PSU COMMUNITY ON JUNE 28 ANNOUNCING HER RESIGNATION. COURTESY OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

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Portland State Provost Sona Andrews sent a message to the PSU community on June 28 announcing her resignation. Andrews has been provost since July 2012.

The email read: “Dear Portland State community, I wish to share with you that I will step down as PSU’s provost at the end of August. This is a decision I have contemplated for a number of months and feel the time is right. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your provost and work with all of you over the past five years. I want to give my sincere thanks to the faculty, staff, students and my fellow administrators for your support, the opportunities you have given me and for what I have learned from you. This job would not have been possible without your creativity, dedication, advice and support.

I am proud of the progress we have made together on rethink PSU student success initiatives, support of our faculty, addressing issues of equity and inclusion, building a stronger relationship with OHSU and our research and fundraising efforts. I believe strongly in PSU’s mission and the difference we make in the lives of our students and this community.

I will be taking a sabbatical next year, but hope to see many of you on campus and in the community. I will continue to make sure others know what a great place PSU is for students to learn and for faculty and staff to work.

Thank you all! It truly has been a pleasure to have had this opportunity.”

NEWS

CRIME BLOTTER ALANNA MADDEN

OVER THE COURSE OF MAY 21 through June 23, Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Officers have been very busy with reports of theft, drug use, campus exclusion, and criminal trespassing.

Here’s a partial list of what you missed while you were gone:

MAY 22

No valid reason Parkway Housing Officer Fischer issued an exclusion to Taurus Lapin after he was found inside the single occupancy restroom of Parkway Housing. Lapin had been reportedly inside the restroom for the last four hours and “had no valid reason for being inside the building.”

MAY 24

Missing elevator doors Cramer Hall A PSU employee called CPSO at around 8:19 a.m. after the elevator on the north side of Cramer Hall had been vandalized for the second time. The staff member reported that on both occasions the elevator doors had been physically removed from their tracks.

Verbal harassment SW Montgomery A PSU student reported that a male had approached him near the Subway and began verbally harassing him with yelling and loud cursing. Suspect was described as being in his mid-20s, about 6’5” with a “strong build,” having short facial hair and wearing a hat.

MAY 25

Skeet-skeet Engineer Building Student reported to CPSO that she had “perceived” to see a man masturbating inside the women’s restroom on the first floor of EB at around 8 p.m. The woman was not able to describe the man because he was inside the stall of the bathroom.

Dude, where's my mom?

King Albert and Epler At 11:52 p.m., a suspicious person was found trying to jimmy the lock of the King Albert and Epler buildings with his I.D. card. The person was visibly intoxicated and told Officer Smeltzer that his phone was dead and his mother lived inside of the building.

The intoxicated person was unaware of his environment and claimed to be very cold, despite the warm temperature outside. Person was taken to hospital after he requested an ambulance.

MAY 26

JUNE 6

MAY 27

JUNE 8

"Science"?

Student Research and Technology Center Non-PSU student Sabrina Davidson was excluded from the PSU campus after she dropped a syringe on the floor in SRTC at around 3:45 p.m. Davidson admitted to Officer Fischer that she had been using meth inside the bathroom beforehand.

Back stabber SW 12th and Montgomery Portland Police Bureau responded to a “transient campsite” near Epler Hall at 12:49 p.m. where a male had been stabbed in the back by another male. Suspect was described as white, 6’2”, bald, wearing a white shirt and riding a bike. Victim was uncooperative with police.

MAY 28

CPSO Helps PPB SW Broadway At 11:19 p.m., Portland Police Bureau contacted PSU CPSO officers to help with a courtesy report on SW 6th and Broadway. PPB were unable to respond due to “PPB patrols being engaged with a shooting in NW Portland.” Officer Higbee was able to receive a witness report on incident at 7 a.m.

A witness said that a man had parked his dark-colored Ford SUV in front of a Vietnamese restaurant on SW Broadway before exiting the car at 4:30 a.m. with a four-foot yellow crowbar in hand. The male reportedly broke into an ATM and made a lot of noise until 5:15 a.m., when he was seen leaving the ATM with the inner compartments.

MAY 30

Campus intoxication Smith Memorial Student Union Cynthia Collins was found intoxicated at 11:15 a.m. after she had already been warned about public intoxication before. Collins received an official exclusion from the PSU campus.

JUNE 1

Warrant arrest SW 4th Avenue and SW Lincoln St Officers were called to the area at 2:34 p.m. on a report of a man yelling at people nearby. The person yelling was identified as Scott Broyles, who was then arrested for an outstanding warrant for dangerous drugs.

JUNE 3

Candy swiper Skanska Office USB Building Joneric Christenson was excluded from PSU campus after CPSO received reports of him stealing candy and supplies from a first aid kit in the Skanska office at 8:16 a.m.

Sex offender with extensive PSU assault record released ALANNA MADDEN MICHAEL DORGAN, A 54-YEAR-OLD known sex offender, was released a year early from Multnomah County custody on May 23.

Dorgan was convicted for the eighth and ninth time for public indecency occurring over the summer of 2011. One of the instances in particular took place at PSU. Before Dorgan’s most recent sentence, however, his affinity toward exposing himself at PSU can be traced

That escalated quickly...

Ondine Building Officers were called to the Ondine building at 7:48 p.m. over a possible fight. CPSO reported that a resident had her purse stolen by a man who forced his way into the room and assaulted her and her boyfriend. The crime’s suspect was identified and no injuries were reported.

No bath-rooms Market Center Building Raymond Martinez, a non-PSU student, was contacted

by Officer Troppe while showering inside the third floor bathroom of MCB. Martinez was given an exclusion from campus.

JUNE 10

Meth, knives, and shoplifting PSU Bike Hub Officers arrested Gregory Barkett for Theft III and Unlawful Possession of Meth after Bike Hub employees reported him for shoplifting at 2:34 p.m. Brackett was in possession of multiple knives and a pair of bolt cutters during the time of arrest and was additionally charged with being a fugitive from another state for a warrant located in Washington.

JUNE 12

Trapped in elevator Broadway Housing At 1:15 a.m. CPSO responded to a report where three people were trapped inside an elevator of BHB. The Portland Fire Bureau was called and rescued the people inside of the elevator.

Just say no to drugs Parkway Residential Building Jonathan Steven Palin was arrested by CPSO officers at 9:07 a.m. inside the secure area behind the Parkway Residential Building. Upon arrival, officers found Palin going through a Ford Explorer in the parking lot and was later charged with possession of methamphetamine, trespass II, and attempted unauthorized entry of a vehicle. Palin was in possession of a large sheath knife at the time of the crime.

Seriously though...

University Place At 12:20 p.m. Officer Dewey was dispatched to investigate a suspicious person report near the dumpsters behind University Place Hotel. David Horst, a non-PSU student with a misdemeanor warrant for theft III, was found and issued an exclusion. While arresting Horst for his warrant, Dewey reportedly found a small amount of methamphetamine in Horst’s possession.

JUNE 14

Taser exclusion University Honors Building At 10 a.m. Officer Dewey was dispatched to area to find a man who was reportedly discharging a taser into the air. Dewey located the suspect, Jeffry Hutton, who was arrested for already having a valid campus exclusion.

Disorderly conduct Parkway A student called dispatch at 8 p.m. about a man described as a “transient” with a “mental disturbance” who had attempted to steal an item and made a large disturbance in front of Parkway. CPSO arrived and the man was identified before he eventually left campus.

At 9:37 p.m. the student called again to report that the man had followed them into a Plaid Pantry on SW Mill. The student’s report was transferred to PPB in both cases before the man was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct.

JUNE 17

Residential burglary St. Helens Residential Building At 7:54 a.m., the residents of the St. Helens building reported to CPSO that their cell phones had been stolen from the building.

Two knives and a harmonica Stott Field At 12:15 p.m. PPB informed PSU Police that a man was reported to be swinging two knives around in the middle of Stott Field. The man was found in the field dancing with a knife in each hand. When confronted, the man dropped both knives and a harmonica. Officers described the man as having a mental or psychological crisis and called emergency services to assist them.

JUNE 18

Fugitive arrest SW 13th and Clay Officer Fischer arrested Ivan Smith at 3:25 p.m. near the transient camps by SW 13th and Clay. Smith was wanted for Rape I at the time of arrest.

JUNE 22

Manic phone harassment Engineering Building CPS Officer Troppe responded to a call from the Engineering Building for a report on disturbing phone messages that were left by a male who describes himself as “Michael 'Mode' Coleman Odeguard.”

Odegaurd reportedly left two incoherent, rambling messages that threatened to have somebody fired.

When Officer Troppe called Odeguard, he became irate and yelled at the officer on the phone before hanging up.

JUNE 23

back to 1999. According to the Oregonian, in the 11 years between 1999 and 2011 there had been six separate instances alone on the PSU campus in which Dorgan sexually assaulted and harassed victims. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bloch sentenced Dorgan to six years in prison.

Dorgan’s victim profile consists of college-age females, but his release conditions include no contact with minors. Multnomah County’s High Risk Sex Offender Notification profile of Dorgan also describes his method of offending to involve frequenting “college campuses and other areas where college-age females are known to be and masturbates in close proximity to victims.”

Dorgan is excluded from the PSU campus and should be reported if seen. Dorgan is described as being 5’5”, 125 pounds, and having black hair and brown eyes.

Trespassing CPSO Patio Christopher Padilla, a non-PSU student, was found by Sgt. McCleary on the CPSO patio under the influence of heroin and meth. Padilla was found with infected wounds on his neck and was reportedly incoherent and unaware of his environment or the amount of time spent in the location. Paramedics were called to the site and transferred Padilla to the hospital.

Campus heroin use Hoffman Hall Kyle Shiejak and Ashley Hare were contacted by officers at 10 a.m. and issued campus exclusions for injecting heroin on the west side of Hoffman Hall.

JUNE 24

Bad grade?

Science Teaching and Research Center At around 11:30 p.m. CPSO received numerous calls for a series of burglaries within the STRC. Over the previous night, 11 offices and laboratories between the second and third floors were vandalized and visibly rummaged through although nothing appeared to be missing. Many of the doors had been broken into in order to gain entry.

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NEWS

WRC HOSTS CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE DISCUSSION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ANAMIKA VAUGHAN

The Portland State Women’s Resource Center hosted Catholics for Choice, an event exploring misconceptions about abortion and Catholicism and its role in reproductive rights on June 29 at 3:30 p.m.

Guest speakers Kate Parke, domestic associate from Catholics for Choice, and Dr. Amy Cantor from the Center for Women’s health spoke to and answered questions from around 20 community members, staff and students.

Catholics for Choice is a nonprofit organization working on a national and global level based out of Washington, D.C. “So we’ve done polling, community outreach, and the truth of the matter is that the Catholic hierarchy—that is the bishops, the priests, the pope,

although maybe not this one— sometimes claim to speak for all Catholics on these issues: reproductive rights and religious liberty,” Parke said.

“They really are missing the mark when it comes to majority catholic opinion.”

Parke described three aspects of Catholicism she saw as a religious foundation for being pro-choice. She claimed that at the core of Catholicism lies the idea of preferential option for the poor, or as she alternatively puts it, social justice. For Parke, this means all members of society should have access to the same health care.

“In Catholicism, not only do you have a right to follow your conscience in moral decision making, but you actually have an obligation to do so,” Parke

said. “So, if your conscience is telling you to seek contraception because you’re in college and you would like to finish your education and not start a family at this time, then you could follow your conscience and seek contraception. If your conscience is telling you that you are already trying to feed four kids and you can’t afford to have another child, you may follow your conscience and seek an abortion.”

Parke also brought up the topic of religious liberty, which has two parts: freedom to practice one’s religion and freedom from the imposition of another person’s religion.

“I think that’s really important when it comes to the bishops and the Catholic conference, which is the lob-

bying arm of the Catholic church,” Parke said. “When they’re down in Salem and they’re lobbying for further restrictions on abortion or family planning options, that is their religious, conservative narrow-minded perspective being imposed on Catholics who disagree, or people of other faiths, or people of no faith.”

According to Catholics for Choice, Catholic-owned or Catholic-affiliated hospitals are governed by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare, authored by the U.S. Conference of Bishops. The directives explicitly prohibit certain health services, including abortion (Directive 45), contraception (Directive 52), in vitro fertilization (Directives

37, 38, 39), and embryonic stem-cell research (Directive 51), among others. Doctors are required to follow these directives regardless of their own religious beliefs or the beliefs of their patients.

“We don’t want to just have access to contraceptives because there are non-contraceptive uses for a lot of contraceptive options,” Cantor said. “And the importance of having access to those, even in the context of these Catholic health care systems where we should be able to provide them for managing all sorts of diseases that don’t have to do with preventing pregnancy, although that is sometimes a helpful side effect.”

Hannah Rosenau, program director at NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, also

talked about Bill HB3391, a reproductive health equity bill, which passed through the Oregon House of Representatives July 1.

“One of the major things about this bill is that it actually will establish the right to safe and legal abortion in Oregon,” Rosenau said. “So right now we actually have great laws protecting that right, but it’s not in our constitution. So this actually will allow, especially if something nationally were to happen, [us to] make sure that we continue to be a really pro-choice state when it comes to abortion access.”

Rosenau hopes this bill will protect Oregonians from losing contraceptive coverage if the Affordable Healthcare Act were repealed.

KATE PARKE, DR. AMY CANTAR, AND HANNAH ROSENAU DISCUSSING MISCONCEPTIONS OF ABORTION AND CATHOLICISM AT THE WRC. ANAMIKA VAUGHAN/PSU VANGUARD

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INTERNATIONAL

SUPREME COURT RULES MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN MODERATELY ACCEPTABLE CHRIS MAY

Travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries and refugees from around the world are once again being barred from entry to the United States, following a decision by the Supreme Court to review lower court rulings blocking the enforcement of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

Until the court hears oral arguments during its next session in October, injunctions have been lifted which previously prevented the government from ordering a 90-day hold on issuing visas from six predominantly Muslim countries—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—and a 120-day suspension of refugee admissions from across the globe.

However, the court said that the travel ban “may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

Such a relationship in the court’s eyes could be a “close familial relationship,” a contract to work for an American company, an invitation to address an American audience as a lecturer, or admittance to a U.S. university.

In a State Department cable providing guidance to embassies and consulates on how to implement the ban, officials outlined which types of familial relationships were considered “close.” Parents, children, spouses, in-laws and siblings

are to be considered close, while extended family members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, and uncles are not exempt from the ban. Only after a change of heart were fiancés later confirmed by officials to be approved as potential visa applicants.

The State of Hawaii has already challenged the administration’s interpretation of the court’s ruling, claiming in a court filing that the State Department’s view of what family relationships should qualify is too narrow and that refugees would be unjustly denied admission despite connections to U.S. resettlement agencies.

Both Trump’s initial executive order issued in January and a revised order as issued in March were blocked by federal appeals courts for being discriminatory and unconstitutional.

While the White House and Justice Department have often framed the order an issue of national security, prior rulings against the ban have cited numerous statements by Trump outlining his intent to ban Muslims from the United States.

Portland State President Wim Wiewel expressed disappointment with the court’s decision and emphasized that the ruling will have no impact on current international students from the six nations on the list, nor on those who have been offered admissions.

JUNE 24 MUJU,

ROBBY DAY “I’m particularly concerned that banning people from the United States because of their country of origin sends a chilling message to all international students that we are not a welcoming place,” said Wiewel in a statement.

Kayse Jama, executive director of statewide intercultural organizing and political advocacy group Unite Oregon, responded to the ruling with a statement predicting increased religious, racial, and ethnic profiling.

“Our community is resilient, strong, and will continue to organize against racism and Islamophobia,” Jama said. “Fear does not protect us.”

SOUTH KOREA

South Korean President Moon Jae-in made a proposal to North Korea to form a unified taekwondo team that would compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be hosted in South Korea. A top North Korean sports official later dismissed the possibility of such an arrangement, citing the 22 rounds of talks and five months of negotiations required for the joint table tennis team that competed in the World Championships in 1991. Another North Korean official stated the country was still open to competing together in the future.

JUNE 26

WASHINGTON, D.C.

JUNE 26

SHENYANG, CHINA

JUNE 28

CRANS-MONTANA, SWITZERLAND

JUNE 30

BERLIN, GERMANY

The leaders of the world’s two largest democracies, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump, met at the White House for the first time. Modi was previously banned from the United States for his alleged complicity in ethnic cleansing while governor of Gujarat province. Trump and Modi shared hugs and lauded the strategic military partnership between their two countries, which includes an upcoming $2 billion sale of surveillance drones to India for use in occupied Kashmir.

China’s imprisoned Nobel peace prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, received medical leave to undergo treatment for terminal liver cancer. Liu has been in jail since 2009, after being arrested for co-authoring a petition calling for democratic reforms and basic human rights protections.

June 24–3O Chris May

Joined by senior United Nations and European Union officials at a resort in the Swiss Alps, Turkish and Greek leaders of Cyprus began negotiations attempting what has eluded the world’s best diplomats for the last four decades: brokering a peace deal to reunify Cyprus.

German parliament voted to approve same-sex marriage, with Chancellor Angela Merkel voting against the measure but encouraging members of her party to vote their conscience. A majority of Germans are in favor of same-sex marriage, and Merkel’s party has faced increased pressure on the issue in the run up to September’s general election.

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COVER

BRAWLT-RIGHT

ANTIFA SQUARES OFF AGAINST SKINHEAD AND PROUD BOY RALLY ANNA WILLIAMS

Portland’s latest collision between Joey Gibson’s crew of free speech marchers and anti-fascist counterprotesters on Friday, June 30 ended right back where it began. Despite several skirmishes and three scorched American flags, police officers neither intervened nor monitored the march on Portland’s southwest waterfront, which seemed to draw little attention from the 2017 Waterfront Blues Festival crowd.

Gibson’s unpermitted “Freedom March,” which attracted a far smaller crowd than his pro-Trump rally in Terry Schrunk Plaza on June 4, gathered at around 4:30 p.m. at the Salmon Street fountains across from a counter-protest coordinated by Rose City Antifa. Gibson was accompanied by the rightwing Warriors for Freedom bicycle gang, including its most popular member Tusitala “Tiny” Toese.

Early antifa gatherers said they were there to oppose hate speech and white supremacy.

WHITE SUPREMACISTS AT LAST TRUMP RALLY

Before Gibson’s June 4 Portland Trump rally, he posted on Facebook that white supremacist groups including, in his words, Identity Evropa, would not be allowed at his event. Identity Evropa’s Oregon coordinator, Jake Von Ott, did, however, show up with at least 40 other IE members.

After speaking as a special guest at the rally, alt-right celebrity Tim “Baked Alaska” Gionet livestreamed a conversation with Von Ott, in which Gionet asked Von Ott to recite the “14 words,” a white power phrase derived from Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The 14 words advocate for “securing the future” of the white race.

Gibson, who said he was aware of Von Ott and Gionet’s conversation, insisted that Von Ott was kicked out of the Trump rally. Von Ott contended this to the Vanguard.

“There are some things that were said after [the Trump rally] that were concerning and we’re looking into it,” Gibson said. “Obviously, I’m going to make a million mistakes.”

SKINHEAD JOINS PATRIOT PRAYER GROUP

One hour before Friday’s march commenced, Gibson’s group attracted a crowd of journalists as he confronted a man with a skinhead tattoo on his forearm who had requested to march. Raul Gonzales, who said he considers himself “a very tan” white person, identifies as a skinhead but not a neo-Nazi.

Portland has a violent history as “the skinhead capital of the country” in the 1990s.

ANTIFA MEMBER WITH ANTI TRUMP SIGN. JOE W. SHAPIRO/PSU VANGUARD

JOEY GIBSON SPEAKING TO CROWD. JOE W. SHAPIRO/PSU VANGUARD

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Jeremy Christian’s deadly MAX light rail stabbings in May have been compared to racist violence perpetrated by white supremacist groups in Portland’s recent past and have been a cause for fear about rightwing groups demonstrating in Portland.

Gonzales argued with Gibson that he had come to see a “different side to skinheads” and that he wanted to participate in the march to support Gibson’s free speech cause.

“If you supported us you would not be here,” Gibson said, “because you give us a bad name.”

A friend accompanying Gonzales argued, “[Antifa is] going to call you a Nazi anyway.”

Gibson added that because the march was unpermitted, he had no way of kicking Gonzales out.

Warriors for Freedom member John Beavers said Gibson had been communicating with Rose City Antifa prior to the march to identify Gonzales so they could ask him to leave if he showed up. The Vanguard could not find an RCA organizer that could verify this, but one antifa-side marcher said he had come solely to “defend” his side from Gonzales.

POLICE MAKE FIRST AND LAST APPEARANCE AS MARCH BEGINS

Twenty minutes before the march was set to begin, two Portland Police officers told Gibson they would not be monitoring the march but would help if “anything happened.” PPB did not approach the antifa organizers, nor could they be seen anywhere near the waterfront for the three hours organizers occupied the waterfront and Salmon Street fountains.

By 6 p.m., both sides of the crowd began to meld.

Another identifiable group,

COVER the “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys had arrived in gold-bordered black polo shirts branded by British tennis champion Fred Perry. The Proud Boys tout “anti-white guilt” and commit to a lifestyle without masturbation and “venerating housewives.”

Just before Gibson commanded his group to begin marching, a provocateur in a sun-faded purple polo shirt charged from the antifa side and shouted, “Fuck you! Fuck Trump!” at the right-wingers and gave them the middle finger. The provocateur did not offer his name.

Gibson-side challengers made fun of their opponent, asking if they had Tourette’s Syndrome. This started an explosion of shouting from both sides, ending with a standoff between a masked RCA leader and Toese. The two argued about ideology with their sides surround-

ing them, then agreed to start marching.

As the march cascaded north on the waterfront, WFF kept the groups separated, but antifa gained ground quickly. In the following hour and a half, several brawls ensued. At one point, an antifa member was dragged on the grass and kicked by Proud Boys and other right-wingers.

BRAWLS GO UP IN (MARIJUANA) SMOKE

A red-in-the-face right-wing marcher in splotched painter’s clothing screamed insults at a woman banging a makeshift drum with an anarchy symbol on it. They were then involved in or held back from several subsequent brawls.

Gibson stopped for three impromptu speeches along the seemingly made-up route, but eventually his megaphoned words were

PATRIOT PRAYER MEMBER HOISTING SIGN. JOE W. SHAPIRO/PSU VANGUARD

(TO THE RIGHT) PATRIOT PRAYER MEMBER, TINY, SPEAKS TO CROWD. JOE W. SHAPIRO/PSU VANGUARD drowned out by arguments from both sides, about everything from immigration to white supremacy to medicaid. Gibson donned his own bicycle helmet and put the megaphone away as the crowd densified.

Antifa burned holes in one American flag and set two more miniature flags on fire.

Toese ran a confiscated antifascist flag between his legs before he handed it back to the other side. A blue smoke bomb, quickly stamped out, flew from an antifa-side marcher.

An in-betweener named Kyle Broussard confiscated a pepper spray canister from an antifa-side marcher. “Don’t do this shit,” Broussard commanded, apparently addressing both sides.

Broussard, who said he shaves his head due to alopecia, calls himself “the Virtuous Skinhead” because, he claimed, he is so often misidentified as a white supremacist for his appearance. After several brawls occurred and one more threatened to erupt, Broussard accepted a marijuana joint from a Warriors for Freedom member and offered it to antifa.

Broussard stood between several more heated arguments, at one point telling a woman with an anarchist drum and a Proud Boy that both were “technically right” during an argument about taxes. Broussard maintained a bright smile and

flushed cheeks throughout the march, and interacted openly with the press.

Broussard—a libertarian, student at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Marine Corps veteran— said he normally attends protests in Seattle but came to Portland because he “had the day off.” Broussard claimed he wants to bring “peace and dialogue” to these events.

Though Broussard claimed a neutral stance, Broussard’s Twitter banner is a Kekistan flag, a play on the Nazi flag that originated in a 4chan forum often associated with the alt-right movement. Broussard runs a weekly livestream channel on YouTube with some of his friends. In his latest episode, Broussard called antifa protesters at Evergreen State College “degenerates.”

HOARSE VOICES, TENSIONS FIZZLED

The march turned back north on southwest 1st Avenue, briefly blocking MAX train tracks, where the purple-shirted provocateur wagged his middle finger in the face of WFF’s president.

A black-masked marcher pulled them aside as the rest of the crowd crossed the street and praised them for not becoming violent.

The march ended up back at the Salmon Street fountains, where arguments continued in tight crowds for another hour. Proud Boys

stepped away for cigarettes while antifa marchers wiped sweat from their faces with bandanas. Toese and Gibson leaned back on a park bench.

WHAT NOW?

Portland Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment about why they did not stick around for the march. A masked antifa marcher seen often at the front of the crowd said they thought it was better that the police did not interfere.

“Everybody spoke their piece,” the marcher said.

“The police are busy. They have other stuff to do.”

Several observers and marchers said they were surprised at the lack of police presence. Willamette Week reported that Multnomah County Republicans voted to use right-wing paramilitary groups Oath Keepers and Three Percenters as approved private security for similar political events in the future, because they have “no money” to protect Gibson’s group from antifa threats. An Oath Keepers member was seen on June 4 helping a federal agent making an arrest outside Gibson’s Trump rally.

This week, Portland Resistance founder Gregory McKelvey met with the offices of Police Chief Mike Marshman, City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, and Portland Mayor Ted

Wheeler about the organization’s policy reform recommendations, which include police behavior at protests.

Portland Police Bureau has recently met resistance from the American Civil Liberties Union and Ted Wheeler for its use of riot gear and lessthan-fatal crowd dispersion tools. Marshman defended PPB’s tactics following the June 4 rallies. McKelvey has recommended less use of force and an end to “broken windows” policing.

McKelvey said the meeting only lasted one hour and more are planned to be scheduled in the future. “It’s good to have these discussions so that we can begin to understand each other,” McKelvey said, “but we still have a long way to go.”

As for Friday night, the antifa marcher surveyed the crowd and with a tired voice and reflected “what’s really happening right now, this second, is a bunch of conversation. Everybody’s talking to each other like normal people.”

The marcher denied that these “normal people” conversations necessarily change their mind about Gibson’s crew, however. “It’s my responsibility to come and oppose hatred like I see coming off of this group,” the marcher added.

The Freedom March was Gibson’s last public appearance, according to the Facebook event page, until August.

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NEWS ARTS NEWS& CULTURE

SUMMERTIME READING CATCH-UP: NINA LACOUR’S ‘WE ARE OKAY’ CASSIE DUNCANSON

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour is the kind of book I wish I had gotten my hands on when I was a teenager. It is the kind of book I wish I could have handed to a younger version of myself, saying, “This is a necessary book.”

The kind of book whose impact I wouldn’t have understood at that time in my life, but would come to realize later.

We Are Okay is LaCour’s most recent novel after recently working with David Levithan on You Know Me Well.

The novel follows Marin, a college freshman who has decided to stay in her dorm room for winter break. Her best friend Mabel is traveling from California to spend a few days with Marin and try to convince her to spend the break with her family. While Mabel is visiting, the reader also slowly learns about the events of the summer leading up to the girls starting college. Calling this a narrative about love and loss would be reductive, because the story is so much more than that: found families, evolving relationships, understanding how someone you thought you knew isn’t who you thought they were, and how you can still love them anyway.

As a rule, I don’t like sad stories. They just aren’t my jam. With LaCour’s story, the grief is palpable without entrenching the reader in unbearable sadness. The heartache is there, but the story isn’t about the tragedy.

It’s about growing from it.

Marin’s inability to reveal the truth, and her desperation to appear fine and adjusted feels heartbreakingly honest to anyone who has experienced loss and upheaval in their life. Everyone is flawed but shown to still be deserving of love and kindness. The flaws are not excused; rather they are pieces to be worked on.

LaCour covers a variety of relationships: Grandparent to granddaughter. Female friendships. Young love. Young adult to elders. Daughter to dead mother. Daughter to dead mother’s friends. The characters are like onions, each layer delicately revealing itself to us.

The big plot twist regarding Marin’s past comes as no real surprise, but was a pleasant piece of the narrative nonetheless.

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DUTTON BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS/2017 This book is important in how it reveals flawed young adults and their guardians as whole people, doing the best they can without excusing their mistakes. It features nonnuclear families. It features characters with mental illnesses not typically represented in

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mainstream media. It features queer characters without a coming-out narrative. It features characters figuring out love in all of its various stages.

I read We Are Okay in a couple of hours one afternoon, curled up with my dog, and I can only

hope you are able to recreate a similar experience. It’s the type of book that makes you want to hold someone close. It’s the kind of book you need some chocolate after. Not because it ends sadly, but because it leaves you feeling tender, having encountered something honest.

ARTS & CULTURE

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE TROPE TIM STEELE

It’s likely you’ve heard or read the word trope recently, perhaps in the midst of some post-film discussion or while perusing movie reviews. It’s usually meant as a criticism and often serves to disparage a film’s originality. Since ascending to movie-nerddom, I’ve encountered the word trope more and more, typically rolling my eyes at what I can’t but help perceive as a reductive, lazy criticism that fails to consider an individual work on its own terms.

My knee-jerk irritation is especially sharp when I hear trope used to describe a character. Doesn’t every character deserve to be looked at individually, just like all of us want in real life? Or perhaps a better and less dramatic way

of putting this would be: Isn’t it more fun to look at characters as individuals? It has often seemed to me that the trope label is a massive killjoy, shutting down thoughts and feelings rather than encouraging them.

Recently, however, I’ve been thinking of tropism and the conversations surrounding it as tools of a larger, healthy societal dialogue.

My hope is that we can have the best of both worlds—tapping into the word’s potential to point out familiarity and make sure we don’t get stuck in tired character paradigms, while at the same time allowing each film and character to exist as a singular entity.

Though the term trope has been more prevalent in the past couple decades, it was

used as far back as the 1800s (albeit much more rarely), with a steady uptick starting around 1980. Professor Josh Epstein theorizes that the increase might be connected to the influence of American deconstructionist Paul de Man, whose work frequently examined tropism (particularly his 1983 article “Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric”).

Epstein suspects the rise of de Man’s work, in tandem with the growing number of trope-related studies occurring at major universities around the same time, may be the root of the word’s surge in popularity. One way or another, it has become a regular part of the cultural lexicon, and we all have to deal with it.

Perhaps the most widely known and cited character trope in recent cinema is “manic pixie dream girl,” a term invented by columnist Nathan Rabin to describe Kirsten Dunst’s character in the film Elizabethtown. This particular trope has been used in reviews and articles ever since, deployed both comically and as earnest critique. In 2014, Rabin wrote an article apologizing for coining the phrase. “By giving an idea a name and a fuzzy definition, you apparently also give it power,” he wrote.

“And in my case, that power spun out of control.”

“Fuzzy definition” may be at the crux of tropism’s danger: It can lead to a generalized bracketing incapable of providing sharp, specific

insight. “Clearly labels and definitions are inherently reductive,” Rabin writes. “And if you are a critic, labels and names and definitions are a necessary evil.”

Since we do sometimes need these reference points in conversation, how can we use them in a way that stimulates thought and preserves art’s wonder? Perhaps the mere act of staying open to other views can go a long way, allowing us to recognize the validity of other interpretations while holding and building onto our own.

I was recently discussing Natalie Portman’s character in Garden State, another character frequently labeled as a manic pixie dream girl.

My friend insisted that while I was choosing to look at the

character in isolation, she couldn’t be divorced from the larger conversation. It struck me that discerning larger patterns when discussing a character’s existence on the world stage can be done without negating how they connect or don’t connect to you personally.

While I still do not claim to be a fan of the word trope or how it is used, I no longer want my reaction to it to involve an immediate turning away.

Perhaps more important than its manner of employment in conversation is the very fact that it appears in our conversations at all. I believe that the mind-expanding potential of participating in a conversation about art far outweighs the reductive potential of any one word.

Tropes

GRACE GIORDANO

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OPINION NEWS

DEFYING STEREOTYPES: A MORE ACCURATE LOOK AT THE MODERN COLLEGE STUDENT Mystery Flavor

by Jordan Ellis As college students and millennials, we are all too familiar with social criticism. We are constantly being categorized in a negative light, condemned as being entitled, lazy, immature, or delusional regarding reality. The internet and social media grant easy access to these remarks until they’re practically inescapable. Such comments, often made by nonstudents or older generations, do not correlate with reality. In fact, research suggests an opposing view.

As those before us, we in the Portland State community today face unique challenges. There are the rising costs of tuition and housing, along with the international importance of a university degree in the job market. Higher education is essentially more important and harder to achieve than ever before. Yet students continue to strive and somehow make it work, setting millennials on track to become the most educated generation.

In response to these challenges, many students are working while attending school. A 2015 Georgetown University report calls this “the new normal.” However, it still isn’t enough.

The report notes that even working full-time a student still wouldn’t earn enough to work their way through college, as opposed to students a generation ago. Because of this, we have become well acquainted with student loans and other financial aid. Debt after graduation is a reality many of us face.

Students in this situation aren’t simply handed an education.

It has a high price that we’re facing with determination—along with some characteristic facetiousness. We are doing what we can with our resources in order to pursue meaningful educations and careers. That doesn’t sound like laziness or entitlement to me.

As a result of these jobs throughout college, students are gaining practical skills in the real world as a part of the workforce that are useful in future careers after graduation. The same Georgetown University report says this experience becomes an asset that can “accelerate their launch into fulltime careers.” Student workers are therefore gaining practical knowledge along with their academic studies—a sort of combination of book and street smarts.

College campuses are no stranger to political involvement.

It’s hard to walk through the PSU campus without seeing action for some sort of cause—whether it’s someone collecting signatures or flyers posted around hallways. In 2016 the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA found that college student “commitment to activism, political and civil engagement” is at an all-time high. Students are staying connected to current events often through the internet and social media. This easy access to information allows us to be incredibly aware of what is going on across the globe, and in turn spurs us on to take action. We are facing a difficult world, but the persistent drive to change things for the better is an amazing trait of our demographic.

It’s easy to despair in light of the challenges that loom over our generation, but contrary to stereotypes, research supports the notion that we are doing better than we are given (and give ourselves) credit for. Adulting is still hard, but we’re doing it in our unique way, and that is inspiring.

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OPINION

VANDALISM OR ARTISTIC VOLITION DRAWING THE LINE AT GRAFFITI Grayscale

by Gray Bouchat

ART PRACTICES PROFESSOR HORIA BOBOIA, WHO SPECIALIZES IN PAINTING. RACHEL LARA/PSU VANGUARD More accessible and less restrictive than oil paints and canvas, graffiti allows artists to express themselves outside traditional art practice in an arguably rebellious way. Street art and graffiti add color and life to our notoriously gray city, while simultaneously representing voices of artists and citizens who might not otherwise have a platform to be heard. However, where I see art and voices, others see a nuisance and the destruction of property. So which is it?

I spoke with Art Practices professor Horia Boboia, who specializes in painting, and an anonymous art major, who specializes in painting and illustration influenced by graffiti and tattoo culture. I asked them how they thought graffiti fit within the realm of art and expression.

Boboia shared that he believes there is no such thing as traditional art. “I associate graffiti with painting or performance,” Boboia said. “It could be associated with many things. Art is expanding. Always expanding.”

The student added, “Graffiti is all under this umbrella of what I consider art. I think a lot of times it’s motivated by a sense of not being seen and then acting in a way to be seen.”

“I think graffiti is one form of this compulsory expression that artists have,” they continued. “I consider it a high form of art and expression and discussion. To me, it’s a real noble endeavor, and I think people dismiss it a lot as vandalism, but I think a lot of the motivations are really true and important.”

However, the Graffiti Abatement Program may disagree with that idea. The GAP is a program that “decreases graffiti in partnership with neighborhood and business associations.”

Despite the prevalence of citywide street art, I discovered that Portland is not a friendly canvas of graffiti artists. Along with programs like GAP, Portland has rules

about what constitutes as art and what is vandalism.

According to Chapter 14B.80 Graffiti Nuisance Property, the “nuisance” of graffiti is basically up to the owner of the property. If the owner catches the person who infringed upon his or her property, the individual can be fined for violating someone else’s property. In Portland, graffiti is considered a violation, not a crime. However, if caught, a mandatory 100 hours of community service is enforced. But will regulation ever end the practice of graffiti?

“It’s a great force, and it is presenting itself in the public,” Boboia said. “It is something to embrace.”

No matter what regulations the city enacts, graffiti will continue, and maybe graffiti isn’t the problem. Maybe the problem is our perception of graffiti. Perhaps instead of rejecting these voices, we should listen. Perhaps we, as a city, should expand our definition of art.

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July 4–10

EVENT LISTINGS

OFF CAMPUS FEATURED EVENT

MUSIC FESTIVAL JUNE 30–JULY 4 30TH ANNUAL TOM MCCALL WATERFRONT BLUES WATERFRONT PARK FESTIVAL $10–15, ALL AGES Some of America’s best blues musicians take over the waterfront for five days of jazz, blues and Americana music. Tonight is the big 4th of July fireworks celebration over the Willamette River. Read our coverage of the 30th Annual Waterfront Blues Festival at psuvanguard.com

TUESDAY, JULY 4 VIEWING PARTY 6 P.M. THE CHILL OUT GRILL REVOLUTION HALL OUT SOLD OUT, ALL AGES Hang out on top of Revolution Hall, eat hot dogs and hear music from Mama Bird and DJs Vincent Bancheri, Haley Heynderickx, Sir Eric Loeffler and Ryan Oxford while you watch the fireworks display from the Blues Fest.

FILM (SCREENING THRU RESTLESS CREATURE JULY 6) (2016) CINEMA 21 4:30/8:20 P.M. $6–8.50, ALL AGES Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger directed this documentary about award-winning American ballerina Wendy Whelan.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 OPENING RECEPTION 5 P.M. AXIS SPREAD | BRENNA UPFOR GALLERY MURPHY FREE, ALL AGES An installation of digitally-fabricated sculptural elements.

INDIE POP MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS LA LUZ, SAVILA $12, 21+ 8 P.M. The Seattle surf-pop quartet tours in support of their new LP, Weirdo Shine FILM CLINTON STREET MORNING PATROL THEATER (1987) $5–10, ALL AGES 8 P.M. This Greek dystopian offering from Church of Film centers around a woman with no memory sneaking into a guarded city with electricity, working cinema and no citizens.

THURSDAY, JULY 6 NETWORKING TUGBOAT BREWING NEW YORK PUBLISHING COMPANY HAPPY HOUR FREE, 21+ 5:30 P.M. Indigo Publishing hosts a regular happy hour for Portland writers and publishing figures to meet and ask questions about how to break into New York’s publishing scene.

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THEATER SHOEBOX TOM(BOY) SAWYER $18, ALL AGES 7:30 P.M. A semi-gender flipped, rock-tinged, contemporary take on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

COMEDY BOSSANOVA BARBARA HOLM BALLROOM BELIEVES IN YOU FREE, 21+ 7:30 P.M. Jen Tam, Kirsten Kuppenbender and Lewis Sequeira deliver hilarious stand-up alongside local comedian Barbara Holm.

SATURDAY, JULY 8

PARTY WHITE OWL SOCIAL LIFE IS GOOD CLUB 2 P.M. $5, 21+ DJs Kwame, Easy Egg and Bnick play tunes during the day. Hosted by Delioso (Legends Radio).

FILM THRU JULY 14) AMELIE (2001) MISSION THEATER 5:30 P.M. (SCREENING $3–4, ALL AGES Celebrate Bastille Day with this delightful French rom-com classic.

THEATRE/FILM WORLD TRADE CENTER WHO’S AFRAID OF THEATER VIRGINIA WOOLF? $15–23, ALL AGES 2/7 P.M. Third Rail Repertory Theatre and NT Live screen hi-res projections of live-captured theatrical productions as a summer series.

The inaugural play is James MacDonald’s critically acclaimed take on Edward Albee’s play about a collegiate afterparty between professors and their wives that takes a dark turn with the revelation of devastating secrets.

CABARET 7 P.M. SHOCK OPERA: THE PARIS THEATRE AUTHORIZED ALICE $20–30, 21+ COOPER STORY Dylan Hillerman leads a cast of local actors and burlesque artists in an original play about Alice Cooper the Band, which recently won the approval of Alice Cooper the Person.

COMEDY FORD FOOD AND DRINK GET NERVOUS FREE, ALL AGES 7 P.M. The stand-up comedy edition of this RACC-funded series on readings from writers with mental neuroses like anxiety and depression includes Barbara Holm, Alecia Gatlin, Jonathan Hill, Ebin Lee, Mel Wells, Alexey Moore and Lacy J. Davis.

COMEDY SIREN THEATER SUMMER FOREVER $12, 21+ 8 P.M. Lez Stand Up and Minority Retort present stand-up comedians Karina Dobbins, Brittani Nichols and El Sanchez for a night of air-conditioned comedy.

HIP-HOP 8 P.M. TWISTA, LC JETSON, MR. ROSELAND THEATER PATRON & RUSH WUN, $35–140, ALL AGES RUSO Twista is one of the fastest living rappers in the world. It’s going to be a night to remember.

FRIDAY, JULY 7

FILM THRU JULY 12) MOULIN ROUGE (2001) MISSION THEATER 9 P.M. (SCREENING $11, 21+ While other screenings of this Oscarnominated musical are normally all-ages at a third of the price, tonight is the singalong edition celebrating Bastille Day. Film-inspired cocktail comes with ticket purchase.

NIGHTLIFE HOLOCENE RnB HOLY TRINITY $10, 21+ 9 P.M. AnteUp celebrates three of this century’s most dominant women on the pop landscape—Beyoncé, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj—through their biggest singles and most obscure features.

NIGHTLIFE STAG PDX BRONCO $6+, 21+ 9 P.M. Stag PDX’s monthly body positive night shines the spotlight this month on the Lumberjacks Rugby Team.

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ROCK 8 P.M. THUNDERPUSSY, DANTE’S CAVE CLOVE $12–15, 21+ From the copy: “They are literally whipping you with it, like ‘80s Madonna, or dry humping you like a tranced-out Prince.”

SUNDAY, JULY 9

CONVENTION PORTLAND PORTLAND BEAD FAIRE CONVENTION CENTER 10 A.M. (ALSO $7, ALL AGES EXHIBITING JULY 7–8) Get wholesale prices on beads made of crystal, Czech style, glass, lampwork, gold, silver, gemstone, pearl and unique materials. Free jewelry repair while you shop. This event was submitted via the PSU Vanguard Events Portal on psuvanguard.com. Visit our site to find out how to be featured.

THEATER/FILM WORLD TRADE CENTER NO MAN’S LAND THEATER NOON $15–23, ALL AGES Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan star in Harold Pinter’s play about two aging writers whose drunk discussions turn dark. Staged in London.

THEATER/FILM WORLD TRADE CENTER AMADEUS THEATER 5 P.M. $15–23, ALL AGES Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones) stars as Antonio Salieri in the Oliver, Tony, and Oscar-winning play told from Salieri’s perspective in his rivalry with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

MONDAY, JULY 10 R&B STAR THEATER R.LUM.R, BLOSSOM $13.50–22, ALL AGES 8 P.M. The smooth Nashville-based R&B artist layers his voice with incredibly crisp productions.

NIGHTLIFE THE GOODFOOT GET ON UP $5, 21+ 9 P.M. Listen to live covers and remixes of the hits & rarities of Michael Jackson, James Brown, Prince and more from Takimba and other local musicians.

NIGHTLIFE LIQUOR STORE YOU ARE REA1 $10, 21+ 10 P.M. Music from DJs Jock Club (AZ), Carly Barton and Perfect Health.

NIGHTLIFE 10 P.M. JUMP JACK SOUND MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS MACHINE $8, 21+ This queer-centric dance party celebrates its first birthday with music from DJs Chanti Darling & Nasty Tasha (Chanti Darling), Waterbed, Orographic and the Last Artful, Dodgr.

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ON CAMPUS FEATURED EVENT

FILM WHITSELL ERASERHEAD (1977) AUDITORIUM FRIDAY, JULY 7, 7 P.M. $6–9, ALL AGES The inaugural screening of NW Film Center’s David Lynch retrospective starts with one of Lynch’s earliest films, a difficult film that might be a metaphor for anxieties about fatherhood, or might be an imagist film with characters like the Lady in the Radiator and the Man in the Planet. Will also be screening Lynch’s early short films: Six Men Getting Sick (1966), The Amputee vols. 1 & 2 (1974), The Alphabet (1968) and The Grandmother (1970).

TUESDAY, JULY 4 CHAMBER MUSIC LINCOLN JAZZ VARIATIONS ON PERFORMANCE HALL AN AMERICAN THEME $10–60, ALL AGES 7:30 P.M. Chamber Music Northwest presents an evening of jazz-inspired chamber music, including Martinů’s Suite from La Revue de cuisine and a world premiere by William Bolcom, to celebrate the Fourth of July.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 WORKSHOP 10 A.M. STRONG INTEREST ADVISING & CAREER INVENTORY WORKSHOP SERVICES (USB 402) SERIES | SESSION II $20, ALL AGES Part 2 of a two-part workshop series on how to turn your interests into a choice of major. You must have attended Part 1 in order to attend Part 2.

CLASSICAL PIANO THE OLD CHURCH KAY ROBBINS FREE, ALL AGES NOON The pianist and music educator plays military music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Joplin and Chopin, as well as patriotic American standards and “interesting commentary.”

THURSDAY, JULY 6 FITNESS 9 A.M. VINYASA WITH THE OLD CHURCH VERANDA $5–10, ALL AGES Veranda Haddon leads an hour of yoga with an emphasis on breath and bodily movement, accessible for all ages and experience levels.

ART RECEPTION P:EAR “PLACE” FREE, ALL AGES 5 P.M. Kanani Miyamoto, Jillian Barthold and youth artists present a group exhibition that “engages culture, relationship, space, objects and personal identity.” Part of First Thursday.

FRIDAY, JULY 7

CHAMBER MUSIC LINCOLN RECITAL NEW @ NOON HALL 75 NOON $10–15, ALL AGES Internationally acclaimed violinists, including Bella Hristova, Arnaud Sussman, Soovin Kim and Becky Anderson, Internationally acclaimed musicians, including violinists Bella Hristova, Arnaud Sussman, Soovin Kim and Becky Anderson, perform the music of Kaija Saariaho, Philip Setzer, Augusta Read Thomas, Gabriella Smith and Emerson String Quartet’s Eugene Drucker.

FILM WHITSELL M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY AUDITORIUM (1953) $6–9, ALL AGES 7 P.M. David Lynch loves this French film about a near-silent, comedic uncle character (think French Mr. Bean) bumbling about Southern France and finding people unable to relax because of the technology in their lives meant to make life easier.

Sound familiar?

SATURDAY, JULY 8 FILM 5TH AVENUE CINEMA WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) $4–5 (FREE W/PSU ID), 9:30 P.M. (ALSO ALL AGES SCREENING JULY 7) Bela Lugosi’s most famous non-Dracula film features him as the “Zombie Master of Haiti.” Think less Walking Dead and more The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari when it comes to zombies.

SUNDAY, JULY 9 FILM 5TH AVENUE CINEMA PICCADILLY (1929) $4–5 (FREE W/PSU ID), 3 P.M. (SCREENING ALL AGES JULY 7–8 AT 7 P.M.) This U.K. film about a young chanteuse (Anna May Wong) usurping the aging star dancer of a London nightclub makes use of the femme fatale character trope before the rise of film noir.

CHAMBER MUSIC LINCOLN EMERSON STRING PERFORMANCE HALL QUARTET SOLD OUT, ALL AGES 4 P.M. Emerson String Quartet’s last concert of its 2016–17 CMNW Residency features Purcell’s Fantasia No. 8 and No. 11 and works by Shostakovich and Beethoven.

FILM 7 P.M. THE B-SIDE; WHITSELL DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT AUDITORIUM PHOTOGRAPHY (2016) $6–9, ALL AGES This documentary acts as an exhibition of Elsa Dorfman’s photography while explaining the significance of the Polaroid Land 20 x 24” camera: only six exist in the world. Dorfman’s analog portraits include figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Richmond and Joni Mitchell.

MONDAY, JULY 10 FREE FOOD (NEAR SHATTUCK HARVEST SHARE HALL) NOON FREE, ALL AGES SOUTH PARK BLOCKS Bring a bag to collect free produce from local farms and fields, sponsored by the Oregon Food Bank and the CISFS.

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MARIKA VAN DE KAMP & GRACE GIORDANO