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Bob Speltz, the director of public affairs at The Standard, said in a statement that the company has a special rela-tionship with PSU.

“Many employees received degrees there and others are currently pursuing degrees. The school has also partnered with The Standard to provide customized learning opportu-nities for our business leader-ship program,” Speltz said.

According to Mihalko, the SBA administration prides it-self on connecting students to the local business community. The renovation and expan-sion will add new event spaces and meeting rooms to better accommodate local business leaders, Mihalko said.

In a prepared statement, SBA Dean Scott Dawson said that the project will bring the school together in a new way.

“The new building will, for the first time, allow us to cre-ate a true business community with the benefits that come from all being under one roof,” Dawson said.

PSU’s School of Business Administration was ranked 14th in the world by Beyond Grey Pinstripes, an indepen-dent, biennial business school survey and ranking managed by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education.

“Our building should match with our curriculum,” Mihalko said.

PSU President Wim Wiewel agreed, and believes that the SBA is a key part of PSU.

“Having its students get ac-cess to a functional, attractive space is a huge win for all of

PSU. We are not yet widely recognized for the quality of our programs; having quality space to match the excellence of our academic programs makes a big difference sym-bolically, as well as in day-to-day reality,” Wiewel said in an email. “I’m so grateful to the donors who are making this possible!”

The SBA’s need for space is reflected in the fact that its varied “centers,” which offer concentrated study in particu-lar aspects of business, don’t have their own facilities. The centers at SBA focus on top-ics including real estate, retail leadership, entrepreneurship and sustainability.

The goal of the centers is to unite students and fac-ulty with the community, Mihalko said.

“School and community come together in centers,” she said. “Right now they don’t have a facility. There needs to be a place and a face to the centers.”

In addition to space, the renovation and expansion will add state-of-the-art class-rooms, auditoriums, offices, study rooms and common ar-eas, Mihalko said.

The existing business school space is 52,000 square feet. The construction will add 42,000 square feet, and 53,000 square feet now used by the Graduate School of Educa-tion will be renovated for use by the SBA. The result will see the business school nearly triple in size.

The new facility will also meet Leadership in Energy

and Environmental Design standards and incorporate sustainable design. The goal is to meet Platinum standards, Mihalko said.

Whether PSU will receive funding from the government will be announced this sum-mer. While it is not set in stone, Mihalko says that the SBA feels confident it will receive the funding because the project

is ranked number one in prior-ity on the Oregon University System Capital Project Priority List, a list of projects to be state funded. According to Mihalko, the high priority is thanks to a recommendation by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber.

Planning for the expansion of the SBA began back in 2008, but stalled during the recession. In the past two years, however,

the project has again gained momentum, Mihalko said.

During construction, Mi-halko said that students will most likely be able to take classes in parts of the building and move into the newer class-rooms as they are built.

She also noted that the Graduate School of Education will most likely be relocated to Neuberger Hall.

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Aramark refutes concerns, says demands are unreasonable

Food For Thought [the stu-dent-run restaurant] is tucked away in the basement. The ad-ministration cares most about profits, not students’ health or autonomy.”

When asked about the pros and cons of outsourcing food services, Kristine Wise, the university’s manager of Auxil-iary Retail Services, said it can be a success.

“The University of Oregon has an in-house food service program, and my experience is that it works very well and is profitable for the university,” Wise said.

The contract with Aramark requires that a total of 30 per-cent of all food purchased be locally sourced (a designation that includes Oregon, Wash-ington, Idaho and Northern California) and that this per-centage must increase by 2 percent each year. Thirty per-cent of fruits and vegetables, 50 percent of beef and flour and 100 percent of dairy prod-ucts must be procured locally, but it’s often been unclear if these quotas are being met. Erratic submission of re-quired quarterly reports and

protests from Aramark that some of the requirements are unreasonable have clouded the issue.

In fall of 2012, PSU sociol-ogy major Danielle Grondin assumed the newly created position of food systems co-ordinator within the Sustain-ability Leadership Center. She has been working closely with Aramark to increase the amount of locally produced and organic food purchased for campus food services. In addi-tion, she is overseeing efforts to reduce packaging and waste, including the introduction of reusable takeout containers and a composting program for the residence halls.

In an effort to do its part, Ar-amark hired Daniele Minniti, a recent graduate of PSU’s en-vironmental studies program, to track local and organic pur-chases as the company’s first-ever sustainability intern.

Tim Kellen, the food service director for Aramark, met with Student Activities and Lead-ership Programs earlier this month to receive their input on Aramark’s catering pro-gram. Among the suggestions

made were requests for more locally sourced, organic and free-range menu offerings. The weekly farmers market held on campus was mentioned as a possible source.

“There are three things there,” Kellen said. “I can’t purchase from the farmers market because they don’t have a vendor’s license to sell to wholesalers. [With] free-range meats, that gets into the price issue. It’s not going to meet the…price point of $8 a head. We have a sustainable menu with free-range meats, and if people want to pay extra for that it’s available.”

Local and organic vegetables

and fruits would likewise drive up costs, Kellen said. He defended Aramark’s catering program, saying, “We make 10 percent over cost. We barely make a profit on it. It’s about helping students provide food for their events.”

Student groups using Smith for catered events must use Aramark’s catering program, according to the university’s contract with the company. And student groups hold-ing a catered event anywhere on campus are required to use Aramark if they want to be able to bill the cost to the university rather than pay out of pocket. There is also a

requirement that all freshmen living on campus purchase a meal plan through Aramark. These stipulations have led to criticisms that student choice is being compromised in the name of corporate profit.

Wise says the university tries to balance financial con-siderations, sustainability goals and student needs in its food service program.

“There’s always that fine line you have to walk in this indus-try, or any kind of service in-dustry. What do people want, what will they consume? It’s al-ways a push and pull between cost and other goals. In the end, it’s consumer-driven.”

A rendered imAge features the interior plans for the proposed business school building.

KriSTin mihAlKo, director of external relations in the school of business administration, discusses the school’s future on campus.

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STudenTS have criticized the administration for allowing Aramark to hold a monopoly on freshman meal plans and student group catering options.

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were explored, how the pro-gram will be funded in the immediate future remains undecided.

Andrews is still gathering information before giving a response to Chiron Studies coordinators, said her assis-tant, Cathy Knight. The pro-vost declined comment before next week.

“I understand that there is information she wants to research following our meet-ing,” Medina said. Andrews plans to give Chiron coordi-nators some information by Friday, he explained. “Hope-fully by that time we will have a guarantee of a budget.

“[The provost] wants to find out where exactly the tuition revenue will go,” Medina said.

Though former Provost Roy Koch cited budgetary concerns as a reason for dis-continuing Chiron Studies funding, Medina said that the tuition brought in by the pro-gram vastly exceeds its bud-get. This concern was not fully resolved during the meeting, Medina said.

“[It was addressed] to an extent. There’s a lot of conver-sation around where tuition raised by student credit hours goes,” Medina said. “That con-versation is convoluting a lot of conversation around budget and creating an atmosphere of uncertainty.

“It’s a really unfortunate situation,” Medina contin-ued. “While we understand that there are budget cuts all over the university, those

budget cuts are usually in the 2 to 4 percent range. A program that our students really love and value was cut by 100 percent without an adequate explanation of why that happened.”

Medina did not get the sense that Andrews was particularly supportive of the program it-self, but he remained hopeful that other members of the ad-ministration will help garner support. Associate Vice Pro-vost for Undergraduate Suc-cess Sukhwant Jhaj, who was also present at the meeting, showed support toward the program, according to Medina.

“I think that our leaders are hopeful that there is potential to work with [Jhaj toward]

a sustainable future for the program,” Medina said.

Medina was also optimistic that Chiron Studies instruc-tors, who have been teaching without pay, will be compen-sated for their time.

“One thing that was prom-ising is that there was indica-tion…that the administration might be willing to rectify the situation of our instructors and myself not being paid,” Medina said. “We’ve been part of this university for almost half a cen-tury, so there really is no right for the university not to com-pensate our instructors.”

Future funding options for Chiron Studies included inte-gration into existing depart-ments, but Medina remains concerned about funding for the upcoming school year.

“This thing is unfolding very slowly,” Medina said.

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chiron coordinator calls situation ‘unfortunate’

DAN ShEPARDVanguard Staff

In 2012, students across the Canadian province of Que-bec went on strike. Hundreds of thousands of students marched against government legislation that would have led to an increase in tuition rates. The student protests quickly gained momentum as thou-sands—largely liberal groups, ranging from workers unions to leftist political parties—joined a common cause.

Ultimately, the government held tuition steady.

On Friday, a group of stu-dents, faculty and union work-ers met in the Smith Memorial Student Union for the second Portland State Student Gener-al Assembly, organized by the Student Action Coalition.

The coalition is inspired by the actions of the Quebec stu-dent protesters. Their website declares that they are “dedi-cated to the project of building student power on campus,” and that they “believe that education is a social right and that students, professors, and campus workers should have a say in the direction and op-erations of the educational institutions which they are a part of.”

Cameron Frank, a member of StAC who attended the Fri-day gathering, said the group has realized its strength is in unity.

“This year was interesting, because we got a clear message about the need to work togeth-er and form partnerships,” Frank said.

Given the diversity of at-tendees at the assembly, the

conversation was equally varied, touching on the many issues and interests that the group brought to the assem-bly. With attendees seated around a large circle of tables, topics of discussion ranged from tuition increases to the effectiveness of the Associated Students of Portland State University to union nego-tiations and the loss of many programs because of heavy budget cuts.

While many issues were brought up throughout the meeting, there was a repeated concern about the budget cuts that have affected various programs.

In particular, the defunding of Chiron Studies was heav-ily discussed. Those in at-tendance were supportive of the program, promoting not only the value of the teaching opportunity for students but also the program’s financial viability and profitability. The consensus seemed to be that the administration’s response was inadequate and insincere. Given Chiron’s long history of trying to go through the proper channels for funding, attendees seemed to agree that a greater mobilization of student groups to take more assertive action is necessary to get the administration’s attention.

“One take away was that everyone is concerned about the attack on education by the economization of higher edu-cation,” Frank said.

Another issue that reso-nated with the group was the current labor negotiations be-tween the administration and university professors. Given the presence of Service Em-ployees International Union members, faculty and stu-dents, the discussion about labor negotiations (referred to as a “pending showdown”) led to talk of these various groups

forming an alliance in order to form a united front and reach the goals of each.

The various representatives of each group recognized the logistical problems inherent in creating this sort of alliance. Not less so because securing student involvement is a dis-heartening problem, which the group recognized by point-ing to the low turnout for the recent ASPSU elections as well as a “general malaise” among PSU students.

Two things ultimately came out of the second gen-eral assembly. First, there was agreement among those in attendance that cuts to valued programs like Food For Thought Cafe and Chi-ron Studies were a part of a wider series of losses to PSU students.

This concept may have been best described by one attendee, Ahjamu Umi, who called their defunding “an ef-fort to eliminate the voice of students.”

The second point of agree-ment was that greater action is needed from those in at-tendance to mobilize those affected by these issues. This translated to members of various groups—such as union workers, students and faculty—recognizing that they need to form better net-works in order to facilitate communication and make their actions more effective. Ultimately, unity and cohe-siveness are key to making progress in addressing the many issues facing the stu-dents, faculty and workers of PSU, they agreed.

“The next step is to set up a meeting with the SEIU, AAUP, ASPSU, and concerned stu-dents to discuss specific strat-egies for meeting all our goals and making this an open, fair, and democratic university,” Frank said.

Meeting calls for greater engagement and cooperation among PSU student groups, faculty

General assembly sparks conversation

AllIE clARKVanguard Staff

This week, students will have a chance to meet the candidates for the coordinator of student media position, which oversees Student Publications, with open interviews taking place tomorrow through Friday.

Candidates Jil Freeman, Reaz Mahmood and Natalie Shaak will give presentations on how they would handle a hypothetical problem. The presen-tations are an opportunity for students to learn about the candidates and offer their feedback to the committee in charge of hiring the new adviser.

“Those people’s styles and personalities and philosophies make a huge difference in how successful student leaders can be at PSU,” SALP Director Aimee Shattuck said. “It matters that we hire people students can connect with.”

The adviser’s purpose is to provide support and instruction to students involved in KPSU, PSU.tv, the Vanguard, the Rearguard, the Portland

Spectator, the Portland Review and Pathos literary magazine.

According to current adviser Judson Randall, who is retiring after serving as the publications adviser for 17 years, the adviser’s goal is to “foster an atmosphere in which students can express their voice through publications.”

The new adviser would do this by teaching publi-cation and management techniques and serving as a resource for students with questions. The adviser would also help the publications with legal matters, such as making contracts with outside companies for necessary services, and administrative tasks such as payroll.

Tomorrow, Freeman will be interviewed from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294. Mahmood will be interviewed Thursday at the same time and place, and Shaak will be interviewed from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SMSU, room 296, on Friday.

Publications adviser candidates visit campus this week

CAmeron FrAnK, left, Christina Kane, Eva Soto and members of PSU’s Student Action Coalition gathered on Friday.

Chiron CoordinATor ruzzel medinA is hoping the university adminis-tration will back the program.

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Marxist Bill Fletcher Jr. shares his perspective

JESSE SAWyERVanguard Staff

On Saturday, the International Socialist Organization hosted Bill Fletcher Jr., a renowned Marxist and labor activist, who spoke before a modest yet passionate crowd at the Unit-ed Church of Christ in North-east Portland.

Fletcher stressed that the political left in the United States desperately needs to re-define its goals among the list of new crises the nation faces.

Fletcher emphasized that these crises are producing a very serious situation: a mas-sive polarization of the na-tion’s wealth brought on by what he described as right-wing populism.

“The term that’s regaining use is plutocracy” to describe the phenomenon, and the moneyed group whose mem-bers he considers “in charge,” Fletcher said.

He described the current crisis in a threefold manner: economic, with what he called a structural system in trouble; environmental; and the crisis of confidence in our govern-ment, which he believes is compounding the other two.

“Under both Democrats and Republicans we’ve seen a shift to the right, at the same time that neoliberalism is

strengthening,” Fletcher said. He went on to say that the

strength of right-wing poli-tics has been aided by the persuasive narratives they deliver to the public. These narratives, he said, are often tied to blaming one group’s problems on an entirely differ-ent demographic. This tactic has strengthened the resolve of many who are struggling in the current environment.

Famous among these is the narrative that “white Ameri-ca” is being marginalized by other demographics that are gaining prominence.

“This country began as a white republic,” Fletcher said. “The rest were at best guests and at worst interlopers.”

The right wing is playing off this theme, Fletcher contin-ued, but attitude is changing with changing demographics in this country.

Fletcher sees this change as a potential opportunity for the political left. In the wake of these crises, along with the changes in demographics, he believes that a new era of orga-nization may be emerging for the political left.

According to a Gallup poll Fletcher cited, 30 percent of Americans (roughly 90 mil-lion people) have said they would try alternatives to capi-talism. Such big numbers, Fletcher suggests, mean that the left needs to reorganize its message to reach out to this group of citizens.

“We’re not used to think-ing on the scale of thousands and thousands of people, and that’s the challenge,” he said.

In the end, Fletcher’s mes-sage centered on the need to reimagine the organization of such a potentially large group.

“In the absence of organiza-tion, people look for all kinds of solutions,” he said, adding that the left needs to seek more concrete stances for people to latch onto and that it’s not enough for people to talk in abstractions.

“What people need is a

counternarrative telling peo-ple who are being hit by the right that it’s not their fault,” Fletcher said.

To genuinely engage with this large group, the left must find linkages between the struggles of its various elements.

“It means repudiating a small-group mentality,” which Fletcher suggests is what the left is used to. “The obligation of the current left is to ask ourselves, ‘What are the questions that we can unite on?’”

Activist urges unity

New director chosen for Master of Social Work Program

Open mic night gives attendees an opportunity to share their experiences

DANIEl ShEPARDVanguard Staff

There is a certain trepidation many people feel when they step outside at night—and it isn’t imagination alone that feeds their fears, but the cul-mination of so many news stories about sexual assault, aggressive panhandlers or verbal abuse.

Many people, be they stu-dent or professor, male or female, have been a victim of street harassment.

On Wednesday, a group of Portland State students will lead the “Hollaback!” open mic night event, which will provide a forum for individu-als to share their experiences with street harassment in or-der to raise awareness about the issue.

The event will be held at the Women’s Resource Center, lo-cated at 1802 SW 10th Ave. in the Montgomery Court Resi-dence Hall basement, and will run from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The event is free, and both men and women are encouraged to attend.

Aubrey Limburg, one of the event’s organizers, said

that the inspiration for it came from an assignment in her “Sociology of Family Vio-lence” class, taught by profes-sor Amy Lubitow.

Lubitow, who has a con-nection to the Hollaback! or-ganization on the East Coast whose aim is to end street harassment, gave students the opportunity to organize an event in place of a final exam. Consequently, students orga-nized the open mic night and even began working toward forming an official PSU chap-ter of Hollaback!

Limburg explained that the night will begin with a mixer, where attendees can help themselves to food and drink while they chat, followed by an introduction to Hollaback! The night will close with the open mic, where presenters can express themselves in whatever way they wish, and will include music, poetry and even a puppet show.

“I hope that attendees can walk away feeling in-spired about what they can do to combat harassment, and feel more empowered,” Limburg said.

Spots are still available for those who want to speak dur-ing the event, and can include up to two five-minute speak-ing slots per person. If you’re interested in speaking, contact event organizers at hollaback psu@gmail.com.

‘Hollaback!’ to raise awareness about street harassment

meAn STreeTS: An event will give students, faculty and the community a chance to speak out about streeet harassment.

KevA miller is now the director of the Master of Social Work Program.

Bill FleTCher jr. talked about “reimagining” the many parts of leftist politics on Saturday.

Keva Miller, a former PSU professor, is promoted

JESSE SAWyERVanguard Staff

Portland State’s School of So-cial Work has hired a new di-rector for its Master of Social Work program.

Keva Miller, who received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin and her doc-toral degree from Fordham University in New York, has taken the position.

Aside from her education, Miller brings a resume that includes: school and medical social work; juvenile and adult criminal justice; adoption; and child welfare research consulting.

Miller was an assistant professor at PSU for five years before the promotion. With a passion for both re-search and administration, she said she is committed to promoting the key tenets of the SSW’s mission state-ment. Key among those is a

“dedication to social change and to the attainment of so-cial justice for all people.”

“As a social worker, it’s syn-onymous with social justice,” Miller said. “My vision is to go forward with what we’re do-ing and strengthen it.”

That strength, Miller ex-plained, comes from a con-stant concern for and focus on the school and its curriculum that faculty, staff and students alike share.

Miller asked: “Are there in-justices in any way with the work we’re doing?” She an-swered her own question with a resounding yes, and went on to say, “We as humans can al-ways do better.”

Miller focuses her work on the idea of doing better and emphasizes the utility of the skills and perspectives found throughout the department’s curriculum.

“It’s always important for the students to have a social justice lens,” she said. “It’s not just the responsibility of fac-ulty but the student’s respon-sibility. We’re all responsible for learning and holding each other accountable.”

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urban trees and the challenges that come with managing an urban forest,” Karps said.

“The city’s trees provide a wealth of tangible and intan-gible benefits to the residents,” Karps added. “Yet integrat-ing trees into the fabric of the built environment presents challenges in maximizing the benefits they provide while limiting management and liability costs.”

As such, the class also con-siders the liabilities that come with living with trees, and the relationship between trees and people. Along with this they look at volunteerism and the many ways people can get involved with trees.

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Several years ago, geography professor Joseph Poracsky cre-ated a class called “The Urban Forest.” Recently, Poracsky became the department chair, and adjunct geography profes-sor Jennifer Karps took over the class.

Karps has been an adjunct professor in the geography department since 2008. She also works for the City of Port-land as part of a program in the Environmental Services Bureau that plants trees to manage storm water. She has been working with Portland’s urban forest for 11 years.

The class is a 400/500-level geography class that begins by looking at the theoretical con-text of the topic and exploring answers to several questions: What are trees? What is a for-est? What is ecology? What is urban ecology? Then the class examines trees in the urban environment more directly.

“We look at the benefits they provide, and how humans in-teract with them. We…begin to talk about the management of

Class profile: ‘The Urban Forest’ The class meets twice a

week for an hour and 50 min-utes. Karps said the class is mainly lecture, initially. But as they delve deeper into the topic, students get more inter-active and the class leans more toward discussion.

Karps said there are four major assignments through-out the term, one of which is to read a journal article that has something to do with urban forests. The field is very broad, so the students all get to look into something that interests them. In the last five weeks of the term, students present to the class.

“[I]nstead of only hearing from me, they’re also hearing from their peers,” Karps said. Since the articles students choose vary, discussion topics range from social to ecological.

Karps has many colleagues at her job with the City of Port-land that work within the ur-ban forest field. She gets many of these colleagues to come to class and lecture on the top-ics on which they are experts. With the range of information provided by this mix of sourc-es, Karps believes that her students are getting a much broader view of urban forestry.

An important thing to un-derstand about this class is how it qualifies as a geogra-phy course. “The geographer’s lens is really helpful because geographers look [at] patterns across space and through time, so that’s natural of the urban forest,” Karps said.

Some of the geographical questions the class looks at include how the urban forest on the east side of Portland differs from that on the west side; the differences between downtown and East More-land, or Mount Tabor or For-est Park; and how the urban

forest in Portland is differ-ent than those in Gresham or the Gorge.

Karp said that looking at these spatial patterns helps one to better understand what the urban forest is, and can help the urban forest to be successful in the long run.

“[I]ntegrating trees into the fabric of the built environment presents challenges in maximizing the benefits they provide while limiting mangement and liability costs.” Jennifer Karps, PSU professor

Course looks at trees in the city

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You know the story: A mysterious tragedy, a sur-ly gumshoe, an old flame, a bittersweet ending.

It’s been almost a century since Dashiell Hammett mastered the noir genre with The Maltese Falcon, but since then the same yarn has been unraveled in thousands of different ways. As mystery fans know, it’s not where you end up but the road you took to get there.

Written by John Arcudi (known for the ex-cellent Hellboy spinoff B.P.R.D.) and with art by Jonathan Case of Portland’s Periscope Studios, The Creep centers on a detective bent on solving the mystery of a pair of teen suicides.

Oxel Karnhus is put on the case via a letter from Stephanie, the mother of one of the de-ceased boys. She’s an old college girlfriend from before he was a private eye—before his mug looked like the side of a limestone cliff.

A real syndrome called acromegaly, which usually surfaces in adulthood, warped Oxel’s body and face. He gets stares from little girls on the train and is harassed by youths in the street.

It’s the same pituitary disorder that gave cult icon Rondo Hatton his classic Hollywood horror look. Oxel is more or less based on Hatton, who was known as “The Creeper” after a character he played in a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film.

Though most everyone in the story reacts strongly to Oxel’s appearance, readers will be less put off. The comics medium already has a tendency to exaggerate features, so Oxel’s face

dark horse releases new mystery graphic novel the creep

only appears monstrous when juxtaposed with regular faces in the same panel. Most of the time it just feels like Herman Munster actor Fred Gwynne has taken up P.I. work.

Despite his condition, Oxel spends the novel struggling to look beyond the surface of the mys-tery. Unable to face his former lover, Oxel focuses on the mother of the other deceased boy, a woman named Laura, and Stephanie’s ex-husband, Greg.

Barring them, we sense that a few other things are picking at Oxel: Questions of mental illness and the sexualities of the two dead teens—best friends before death—plague Oxel in his search for the truth.

Arcudi manages to bring up these questions without asking them aloud. In one scene, Oxel is going over the case in his head while staring at what seems to be a gay couple on the subway.

One of the men lashes out at Oxel, who meant no harm, telling him that he of all people should know it’s not polite to stare. Oxel asks himself, “What the hell just happened?”

To his credit, Arcudi doesn’t spell it out, leaving the reader to come up with an explanation.

Though the back half of The Creep is a real page-turner, it takes a while to get going. We learn the names of players and their relationships with each other before meeting most of them, creating confusion as to who is who and to whom.

The disjointed introductory chapters can

probably be attributed to their original format. Like many graphic novels on the shelves, The Creep first hit stands in a single-issue format and is now collected in hardcover. But the first chapter is made up of three smaller segments that initially appeared in the anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

This transition is awkward, but the sto-ry finds its groove by the end of the second chapter. From there, The Creep glides, slowly accelerating to its inevitable but shocking resolution.

Arcudi crafts an ending that is truly un-expected and horrifying, but also solves the

dark horse Comics presents The creep By John Arcudl and Jonathan Case $19.99 Available at bookstores and comic shops everywhere

northwest Film Center presents Diabolique Tuesday, May 21, 7 p.m. Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave. $9 general admission

I’m a weirdo mystery in a satisfying way.Case illustrates The Creep with two styles.

The predominant one is characterized by simple lines and cool blues and grays, con-veying a bleak town with an even bleaker history.

His second style is much warmer; Case portrays past events with thin, sketchy lines filled out with nostalgic red and yellow wa-tercolors. This style is employed mostly for flashbacks, but we also see it when Oxel is on the phone with Stephanie.

With the watercolors the reader sees Oxel’s old girlfriend not as she is but as Oxel imag-ines her through the lens of his rose-tinted memory.

Case’s usual hard, cold style is not nearly as attractive as the scenes using watercolor, but that plays to the novel’s strengths. The past is an alluring mirage, its illusions opaque and dangerous.

The Creep moves slowly, and aside from its terrifying conclusion it doesn’t leave a strong first impression. But over time the details will start to tug at you: Like a fly buzzing near your ear in bed, the minutiae will return your thoughts to the plot over and over again, whether you like it or not.

The more time that passes after reading The Creep the easier it is to appreciate the finer points of the understated story—though that could just be the passage of time.

TESS ANDERSONVanguard Staff

Over the last few months, the Northwest Film Center has screened—and will continue to screen—films for the class/film series “Literature into Film.” The course is exactly what its title sounds like, offering a deeper look into the way directors, producers and screenwriters interpret and transform words on the page for the silver screen.

This evening, the center will offer another screening in the series—the 1996 film Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani.

Like so many movies from the ’90s, Diabolique revolves around murder and the scandal and af-termath that accompany it.

This version involves a murder triangle in which the points are the fragile wife, the willful mistress and the abusive husband. All three work together at a boarding school for troubled boys: The wife and mistress are both teachers and, oddly enough, very good friends. The wife is very much aware of her husband’s affairs and the abu-sive husband doubles as a sadistic dean.

The wife, Mia (Adjani), and the mistress, Nicole (Stone), have both come to loathe the husband, Guy (Chazz Palminteri), and by some roundabout logic come to the conclusion that the only way they’ll ever reach peace in their lives is by killing the monstrous Guy.

So, the ladies lure him into Nicole’s home un-der the pretext that Guy and Mia will discuss a divorce.

Prior to the meet-up, Nicole has laced a bottle of scotch with a drug that renders the recipient unconscious. Guy downs a few drinks and, after a brief scuffle, is knocked out.

nwfc screens 1996 thriller diabolique

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The ladies take his consciousness all the way out by drowning him in the tub. When the deed is done, they return him to school grounds and dis-pose of the body in the pool, making it look like a tragic drunken accident.

Shortly after the completion of the scheme, strange events keep happening: the body goes missing from the pool, the suit Guy was wearing the night he died is returned to his office and pic-tures of the women disposing of the body appear.

Police Detective Shirley Vogel, played by the ever-charismatic Kathy Bates, begins looking into the matter. As every character in the movie has realized, something about this whole situation stinks.

The two ladies grow increasingly disconcerted and frantic, resulting in hectic events, multiple

twists at the ending and murders that aren’t quite what they seem.

The film is based on the 1952 novel Celle Qui N’Etait Plus, roughly translated as The One That Was Not, by the crime-writing duo Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac under the pen name Boileau-Narcejac.

The twosome have contributed to many oth-er famous films with their writing, including Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face and the original adap-tation of Les Diaboliques.

Now, I’ve never seen the original, but from what I’ve heard the two differ greatly: The 1996 version has the feel of a typical ’90s crime thriller, whereas the French 1955 model has more of a Hitchcock-ean vibe. (The British “Master of Suspense” origi-nally wanted to buy the rights to the film, but

Boileau-Narcejac instead let him work his magic with Vertigo.)

With the exception of Kathy Bates, whose char-acter ultimately has no significant purpose, the acting in the remake is subpar to say the least; it’s my biggest complaint about this film. I have no other version of the characters in my mind to com-pare it to, though, so my standards may be lower than others.

Even though Stone plays a part that appears to mirror her real-life personality, her delivery of her lines is forced. Adjani pulls a Carrie Fisher circa A New Hope and switches between accents: It gets to the point where bets could be made about whether she’ll put on her fake American accent or her na-tive French accent in each scene.

The newer version, though far less popular and acclaimed than its predecessor, stays truer to the novel than the original did, according to NWFC “Literature into Film” professor Pietro Ferrua.

The fact that the 1996 version was more accurate is one of the main reasons it was chosen to repre-sent one of the many books that have made their way into film form.

Ferrua’s has taught since the 1970s: He taught literature at Lewis & Clark College and eventu-ally designed the curriculum for “Literature into Film,” which was considered an experimental course at first.

“The idea was to study how faithful and creative the adaptation was in comparison to the writings,” Ferrua said, “as well as to study how the two di-verge or combine content.”

The discussions after screenings offer insight into “cultural interrelations,” as Ferrua put it, al-lowing audiences to study how different forms of art, culture and expression can all be intertwined in a way that isn’t normally observed in the every-day classroom setting.

Two SideS oF A love TriAngle: Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani star in Jeremiah S. Chechik’s 1996 thriller, Diabolique, which screens this evening at the Northwest Film Center.

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So i Creep: John Arcudi and Jonathan Case release their new graphic novel, The Creep, on Portland’s Dark Horse Comics.

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Messages from an Antique LandpSu English professor to lecture at central libraryMEGAN FREShVanguard Staff

No matter what Thomas Freidman says, global-ization is not a new phenomenon. PSU profes-sor Bishupal Limbu’s upcoming talk will touch on this topic and other misperceptions we hold as citizens of the modern world.

Limbu’s lecture is based on the 1994 book In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Trav-eler’s Tale by Amitav Ghosh.

Through a grant from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities, the lecture is spon-sored by the Middle East Studies Center, the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, the Oregon Council of the Social Studies and the Multnomah County Library. It will be held at the county’s Central Library this Friday.

Limbu explained the three layers of the book explored in his lecture: “It is a story about this guy who goes to do field work in Egypt. But before he goes, he discovers a reference—he’s studying at Oxford for a Ph.D. in social anthro-pology—a very marginal note that refers to an Indian slave, and he’s intrigued. Part of the story is his attempt to recover or to recreate the life of this marginal figure who like himself is from India.

“Another strand of the story is more or less about this world in the 12th century, this me-dieval world that is depicted as a world of commerce, of trade, and also of this wonder-ful cosmopolitanism,” Limbu continued. “And this part is about a Jewish trader from Tunisia who lived in the Middle East but then goes on to India.”

In an Antique Land is the rare nonfiction book that reads more like a novel.

“The main part is about Ghosh’s experiences living in two different villages in Egypt—a large part of it is memoir,” Limbu said. “The genre of the book is fascinating because it’s not a dry, an-thropological account, it’s…an account that re-ally places the anthropologist [as] the focus of the villagers with whom he interacts.”

Many students have been taught to think of anthropology as a “first world” endeavor. This book, as Limbu said, questions “the figure of the anthropologist being a white person from the first world in a pith helmet who goes to a corner of the third world to do field work.

“It’s to challenge that image, but also notice how because he’s coming from this privileged university…he participates in that sort of power

relation of the anthropologist. But…that power relation is very interestingly overturned by the fact that he is himself from a country that is ac-tually the object of anthropology, rather than a place from which anthropologists come,” Limbu continued. “So it’s a very interesting way to subvert traditional notions of what anthropology is.”

The lecture will also subvert our belief in the benefits of living in the modern world and the newness of globalization.

“Ghosh calls it the ladder of development—the notion that modernization is the goal of all societies,” Limbu said. “If you have that kind of idea, both India and Egypt would be really on the bottom rungs of that civilizational ladder.”

That’s one idea that the book tries to both present and critique.

“Related to that idea is the focus on cosmo-politanism that Ghosh finds existing in the medieval world that we do not find anymore,” Limbu continued. “We tend to imagine global-ization as something that is new and belongs to our age, but one of Ghosh’s projects in this book is to show how globalization has a very long history that stretches at least as far back as the medieval world.

“And it’s also a history that does not only in-volve, for instance, the West as the lead actor,” Limbu said. “It’s a history that actually involves other parts of the world—the Middle East, In-dia, Asia. The friendships that [formerly] ex-isted across regions of the world, Ghosh finds, are more difficult now.”

Limbu also aims to challenge “the idea that Muslim or Islamic communities are not open, or that their histories are separate from ours, or that the only types of histories worth writing or reading or listening to are the ‘big’ histories.”

Throughout his book, Ghosh highlights oft-overlooked historical characters.

“One of the major themes of this book is the attempt to look at the histories that involve fig-ures on the margins of the stage, about whom we do not know much at all—that is to say, people like you and me,” Limbu said. “When someone writes a history of this moment in time, it’s not going to be about people like you and me, people who will probably be in the audience at the li-brary. So in a sense the book is about us.”

pSu’s middle east Studies Center presents About In an Antique land: A book discussion with Bishupal limbu Friday, May 24, 2:30 p.m. Multnomah County Central Library 801 SW 10th Ave. Free and open to the public

porTlAnd STATe engliSh proFeSSor Bishupal Limbu, who studies postcolonialism, globalization and cosmopolitan-ism, will speak about Amitav Ghosh’s work this Friday.

Taking artistic risks

RAchEllE SchMIDTVanguard Staff

Imago Theatre is closing out its 2012–2013 sea-son this weekend with Beaux Arts Club, a new play written by Imago co-founder Carol Triffle.

Curtain up: It is the evening of the annual Beaux Arts Club meeting, a club in which ev-eryday American women meet to discuss fine art and literature in hopes of elevating their own creative endeavors.

As the play opens, we see Susannah, a down-and-out artist who is hosting this year’s event. The walls of her apartment are covered with many of her previous (unsuccessful) artistic attempts.

Although her art career has not been every-thing she had hoped it would be, she is excitedly putting the finishing touches on a new art in-stallation before her guests arrive.

After years of bad reviews and frustration she has finally created a work of art like no other—this piece will turn the art world upside down and finally establish her as a dynamic force within it.

Susannah’s installation will be her master-work, provided she can get the man she kid-napped, gagged and handcuffed for the piece to remain quiet long enough for her to complete the installation.

Triffle described the play as “part com-edy, part cheap mystery, with the whole thing wrapped up in film noir.”

The story was inspired by a custom that originated in the late 19th century: Bored housewives would get together for tea parties

includes Ajax, Oh Lost Weekend, No Can Do and Missing Mona.

In 2006 her music-theater style changed form under the influence of Richard Maxwell, often featuring anti-clown heroes played by Danielle Vermette and cofounder Jerry Mouawad in works titled Hit Me in The Stomach, Mix Up, The Dinner, Simple People and Backs Like That Splat.

Over her 30-year association with Imago, Triffle has won numerous awards, including Best Tour-ing Production from the Independent Reviewers of New England, an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, New York Dance Film awards and Portland Theatre awards for choreography, cos-tume design and best original play.

For Imago, Beaux Arts Club is a return to a more traditional style of theater. Triffle points out that at its heart Imago’s primary mission is to present innovative work that will entertain audiences.

imago Theatre presents Beaux Arts club Friday, May 24, through Sunday, June 9 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $10–20 Recommended for teens and older

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to pursue intellectual endeavors and educate themselves on fine art and literature.

Triffle has decided to take that custom and give it a contemporary twist to create an ab-surdly post-feminist riff on female competition and the subversive nature of support groups.

The play tells the story of three misguided con-temporary women artistes—Susannah, Miranda and Harriet—whose frustrations with painting, poetry and their lives lead them to engage in cra-zier and crazier stunts in order to create the art they so desperately want to create.

Susannah has created a human art installa-tion with a subject that may or may not be will-ingly taking part in the piece.

As the other women arrive, the work is met with a mixture of shock, excitement and a re-newed sense of creativity. At the core of this play, two main questions are posed: What is art? And is it worth it to take great risks in order to pursue your art?

For actress Anne Sorce, who plays Susannah, the answer to the latter question is an enthusi-astic yes.

“Susannah’s core is about being an artist,” Sorce said. It’s about “who she wants to be ver-sus the voice inside her head.”

Sorce’s Susannah has had a lot of disap-pointment, and even failure, in her life, and yet through it all she always manages to pick her-self up and carry on. She is a character that you want to root for, and the big question is whether she will be able to pull it off this year with her new art installation.

Triffle, who founded Imago Theatre in 1979, has a long history of creating and acting in in-novative productions. According to imago-theatre.com, in 1997 she wrote and directed Ginger’s Green, which marked the beginning of a canon of original music-theater works that

ArTiSTS And FriendSSusannah, Miranda and Harriet gather in Susannah’s living room in Beaux Arts Club. (Pay no attention to the man detained against his will.)

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‘I’m Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you!’milk comes to 5th avenue cinemaTESS ANDERSONVanguard Staff

The year 2008, like many election years, was a big one in terms of politics—and political films: Che, Nothing But The Truth, Frost/Nixon, W. and, of course, Milk.

Though not quite as financially successful as other movies released in 2008, Gus Van Sant’s Milk was certainly one of the most decorated: It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and took home two—best actor (Sean Penn) and best original screenplay (by Dustin Lance Black).

The theater will be showing the emotionally wrenching biopic Memorial Day weekend. The timing is appropriate, in my opinion, to com-memorate not only those who fought in foreign wars but also those who fought for freedom within U.S. borders.

The movie is about Harvey Milk, “the first openly gay man elected to any substantial po-litical office in the history of the planet,” accord-ing to Time magazine. Milk chronicles the story of how Harvey went from being a friendly, chip-per camera-store owner to a friendly, chipper, significantly more confident politician in San Francisco.

Not only does the film tell Milk’s story of get-ting from point A to point B, it also shows how he impacted individual lives as well as the is-sues of gay rights, awareness and acceptance.

It’s one of the few movies where the ending is revealed from the get-go, though this is usu-ally the case with biopic films involving assas-sinations. This does not make Milk any less enjoyable, however: It’s all about the story, not

a happy ending. Anyway, Sean Penn doesn’t do happy endings.

Milk’s opening credits feature archival foot-age from the ’50s and ’60s of police raiding gay bars and arresting patrons. Contrary to the mood the credits establish, the entire film is in-credibly hopeful and positive, even in times of despair and failure.

The film opens with Milk recording his will nine days before his assassination, setting up the narration and the film’s frequent jumps back and forth between past and present.

Van Sant makes use of copious amounts of archival footage from interviews, debates, newsreels and public speeches. The material

makes for a powerful storytelling device that demonstrates the subject’s historical signifi-cance, and the reels elicit both compassion and outrage from the viewer.

The film also uses photographs to serve as transitional or artistic devices. They’re left be-hind after the first half, leaving the viewer to focus more on the story and less on the artistry of the editing.

Penn took home his second Oscar statuette for his portrayal of Harvey Milk, and rightfully so. It was a subtle yet effective thing of beauty to watch his character evolve. Even his vocal patterns and intonations change to mirror his character’s growing confidence.

Penn has established a reputation in his personal life for being, shall we say, less than personable. He frequently chooses somber and serious roles, and as a result he’s also known for being one of the more emotionally moving ac-tors in Hollywood.

In Milk, he plays his polar opposite: amiable, cheerful, positive, appealing to multiple types of people; Penn’s very talented at faking it.

Honorable mention in the acting category goes to Josh Brolin, playing Dan White, the initially subtle antagonist whose desperation manages to incite the audience’s empathy while simultaneously making viewers despise him.

There are other political antagonists in the film, including Anita Bryant, who only makes appearances via archival footage; in other words, you can’t make up some of the stuff she said.

There’s also John Briggs—the biggest oppo-nent of gay rights and what Milk represented in general—played by Denis O’Hare, an openly gay actor. Van Sant, who was nominated for best director, screenwriter Black, who won for his screenplay, and the film’s two producers are just a few of the players involved who are also openly gay.

For whatever reason, this film tends to be shown when there’s something substantial happening in the world of gay rights.

Milk was first released mere weeks after the November election in which Proposition 8 passed the California ballot, restricting the rec-ognition of marriage to opposite-sex couples. Who knows—had the film been released ear-lier, there might have been a different outcome in the vote.

And now, as the film is set to play on campus, Gov. Mark Dayton just signed a bill making Minnesota the 12th state to legalize gay mar-riage. Harvey would be proud.

5th Avenue Cinema presents Milk 510 SW Hall St. Friday, May 24, and Saturday, May 25, at 7 and 9:30p.m. Sunday, May 26, at 3 p.m. Free with student ID

oSCAr winner SeAn penn stars in Gus Van Sant’s 2008 biopic, Milk, which is screening this weekend at 5th Avenue Cinema.

Sweet red rhubarb cobblerSay that 5 times fast

KAT AuDIcKVanguard Staff

A recipe that would truly make your grandma proud, this delectable rhubarb cobbler will ab-solutely sell you on vegetable-based desserts. This dish is both cheap and easy, a student’s two favorite food-related words.

Rhubarb is so good for you that you don’t even have to feel gluttonous chowing down on the leftovers for breakfast.

Rhubarb is one of those bizarre vegetables with flavors that cross over into the fruit world. While extremely low in calories, this mystery plant has a surprising amount of nutritional benefits.

High in fiber, rich with antioxidants and packing a heaping helping of B-complex and K vitamins, rhubarb is a great go-to food for seri-ously good eats.

The key to a well-made rhubarb cobbler is proper timing: Before you even begin to mix your other ingredients together, toss your cut rhubarb with 1 cup of sugar, cover and set aside to macerate.

For best absorption, slice your rhubarb stalk into 1/2-inch pieces, cut at a diagonal. Once your cobbler cooks, be patient; let the pastry cool completely before cutting so that all of the tasty filling has a chance to settle. Serve with whipped topping or a scoop of vanilla or lemon curd ice cream.

(Note: You will need a 9-inch brownie pan and parchment paper for this recipe.)

InstructionsPreheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice rhubarb

on a diagonal into 1/2-inch pieces and toss with 1/2 cup sugar; cover and set aside. Coat a 9-inch square baking pan with cooking spray and line with a sheet of parchment paper, leaving a few inches of extra paper on two sides for easy re-moval later.

In a large bowl combine flour, salt and baking

ingredientsCobbler:Cooking spray1/2 lb fresh rhubarb (a little over 2 cups when sliced), cut into 1/2-inch pieces1 cup sugar, divided1 cup flour1/2 tsp kosher salt1/2 tsp baking powder3/4 stick of unsalted butter, softened1/2 tsp grated lemon zest1 egg 1 egg yolk1/2 tsp vanilla extract1/4 cup sour creamWhipped topping for garnish (optional)

Crumble topping:1 cup flour1/4 tsp salt1/8 tsp ground cinnamon1/4 cup brown sugar1/2 stick unsalted butter, melted

powder and set aside. In a separate bowl beat 1/2 cup sugar, butter and lemon zest until com-bined. Beat in egg, yolk and vanilla extract one at a time. Mix in sour cream and then gradually incorporate flour mixture into the batter.

To prepare the crumble topping, melt butter and stir together with flour, salt, cinnamon and sugar. Pour the batter into the bottom of the

pan, top with macerated rhubarb and sprinkle with crumb topping.

Bake in center rack for approximately 1 hour until cooked through and golden brown. Re-move from oven and set aside until cooled. Lift parchment to remove cobbler and cut into squares. Garnish with whipped topping or ice cream.

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Headlines are a great way to gauge how judgmental you are.

The saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is almost irrelevant since people don’t read those any more. It’s all about headlines, bylines and taglines. It’s the two sec-onds when a cleverly crafted phrase catches your eye and tells you its story before you move on to the next one. They’re loaded these days—they have to be.

I got a good sense of my judgy-ness when I recently read the headline: “Eugene CCO to pay pregnant women to stop smoking.” My re-sponse was anything but empathetic, and within min-utes I’d thought of 20 other things that funding could, and should, go to. If having a baby isn’t reason enough to stop smoking, I don’t know what to tell you.

I was embarrassed by it. Embarrassed for the moth-ers. Embarrassed for the program. I tried to imag-ine how it would feel to be paid to protect the life of my child. That’s when I stopped. I couldn’t imagine it. I also couldn’t fathom try-ing to come off 10 cigarettes a day with no one there to support me.

That was Heidi Zauner’s story. She told Oregon Pub-lic Broadcasting that when she found out she was preg-nant she was smoking half a pack every day. I’ve never

It’s not as simple when the smoke clears

Pregnant women paid to give up cigarettes

smoked, except for the pre-dictable few puffs in high school to prove I was…some-thing. Not sure what. I have no idea what it feels like to be addicted to a substance as strong as nicotine. I’m addicted to coffee and that’s bad enough.

According to the OPB re-port, 40 percent of women on the Oregon Health Plan who are of “child-bearing age” know what it feels like. Thirty-two percent of them continue to smoke while pregnant. Yet how many girls grow up thinking they’d like to smoke throughout their pregnancy and put their ba-bies at risk? Still, many of us look at women who do and roll our eyes with disgust.

There’s no justification for knowingly putting your baby’s health at risk. That’s a given. But when was the last time you or anyone you knew changed their behavior in re-sponse to being shamed?

Perhaps it’s not about jus-tifying it but more about un-derstanding it. The Trillium Community Health Plan is providing women with the one thing that most, if not all, of us need to succeed—empa-thy and community.

Sure, it’s possible to go through the horrible expe-rience of withdrawal alone, and more power to those who can, but it’s so much better when someone is there next to you. That’s what this program is, really. With no

judgment, it welcomes preg-nant women who smoke, has them pick a quit date and signs them up for counseling.

These women come in at set intervals during their pregnancy to be tested for signs of nicotine. If negative, they’re given a gift card to a store where they can buy groceries, baby clothes or household items. Each time they prove they haven’t been smoking they get another gift card, and the amounts increase the longer they test negative. If they fall off the wagon they start over again, but they aren’t kicked out of the program.

You might wonder why those who consistently take care of themselves and their children aren’t rewarded in-stead of those who can’t seem to get it together. After all, isn’t this setting a precedent of rewarding bad behavior, leaving the door open for countless opportunities for people to abuse the system?

Perhaps. Then again, per-haps it’s also stretching out a hand to help someone who desperately needs it. Someone like Holly Puzio, a 22-year-old mother of a 4-year-old with another on the way who’s trying to find a place to stay and who’s stressed out of her wits.

Yes, we could all ask her how she got herself into that situation in the first place, but throwing stones is easy. I was ready to throw one, especially when I thought of little babies being born with nicotine in their system. So why not do everything we can to make sure that doesn’t happen?

Everywhere and Here

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A Critical Glance

Adam E.bushen

Back in the 1940s, be-fore Portland State was a recognized four-year

university, the Vanport Exten-sion Center was founded as an avenue for World War II veter-ans to get a college education. PSU’s evolution to Oregon’s largest state university was built on serving a community’s needs.

Now, PSU is getting ready to launch its latest effort in of-fering educational services to student veterans: the Veteran’s Resource Center. With more than 1,000 veterans enrolled at PSU, and even more expected with the looming internation-al military withdrawals, the VRC’s goal is to make the tran-sition from a military environ-ment to an academic one as easy as possible.

Set to open this fall, the VRC will offer new academic work-shops to help veterans map their academic careers and to assist student veterans who need help choosing their major and potential career. The center will complement the variety of services for student veterans that PSU already offers, includ-ing Viking Vets, Veteran Ser-vices and VetSuccess.

Student veterans face a wide array of obstacles that the rest of us can only imagine. Alienation, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and physical injuries are just a few of the hurdles these student veterans must overcome as they navigate their academic career.

Despite these hindrances, student veterans add a depth to PSU that would otherwise be lacking. As Michele Toppe,

PSU creates new services for student veterans, but will the federal government do the same?

Serving a community in need

PSU’s dean of student life, said in a press release, “The wealth of experience and skills they bring makes our campus a bet-ter, more diverse, aware and civil place.”

While the university is doing its best to aid our student veter-ans socially, academically and professionally, we have to ques-tion whether the U.S. govern-ment is doing enough for our returning soldiers. Statistics and widespread opinions paint a pretty bleak picture.

This past winter the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs re-leased the results of a 10-year investigation into veteran sui-cide. What the DVA found is sobering: An American vet-eran commits suicide every 65 minutes. This equates to about 22 veterans taking their own lives every single day. Of these, 31 percent are veterans 49 years old or younger.

Even these statistics are likely an underestimation, as suicide isn’t always listed as the cause of death due to families’ desire to avoid the negative public per-ception of suicide.

If the number of veteran sui-cides continue to rise, then we clearly aren’t doing enough to prevent them.

And veteran suicide is only one blight in our treatment of returning soldiers. The bu-reaucracy that veterans must navigate to receive their hard-earned and often much-needed benefits is leading directly to the deaths of veterans.

Documents gathered by the Center for Investigative Re-porting indicate that the aver-age time a veteran must wait to

receive disability compensation or any other benefits is 273 days, but veterans filing their first claims—those just returning from Iraq and Afghanistan—wait closer to 320 days. Veter-ans living in major cities wait even longer: 642 days in New York City, 619 days in Los An-geles and 542 days in Chicago.

The number of veter-ans waiting more than a year for benefits went from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 as of December 2012. That’s a 2,000 percent increase. If re-ceiving these benefits means life or death—and to some it does—imagine what it must be like to just wait and wait, hoping to get your ben-efits before something bad happens.

That tells you something about where our veterans’ health and well-being stands in our government’s list of priorities.

And let’s not forget the estimated 200,000 veterans sleeping on the streets some-where in our country.

Even President Barack Obama has spoken out on this issue. In a speech he gave last Memorial Day, Obama de-clared that how veterans are treated is “a national shame, a disgrace.”

I’ve never served our coun-try; most of us haven’t. We can’t possibly imagine the things veterans go through. While they say war is hell, imagine coming home from years of enduring the terrors of war in a foreign country and being neglected by the very people you risked your life for.

It’s saying a lot that PSU makes a concerted effort to do more for our veterans. When will our federal gov-ernment do the same?

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KARL KUCHS/VANGUARD STAFF

HFCS is cheap, cheaper than sugar, so it’s every-where. You’ll find it in myriad foods, including less obvious items like bread, condiments, energy bars and pasta sauce. For years it’s been the go-to substitute for table sugar (sucrose) in most U.S. food manufacturing.

Overexposure to high-fruc-tose corn syrup and other un-natural sweeteners makes us less able to taste sweetness. In order for our taste buds to ex-perience similar levels of sweet-ness we must consume larger amounts of sugar. Similar to the way our bodies metabolize alco-hol and build tolerance for it, we build tolerance for HFCS when we eat foods that contain it.

You don’t need a scientist to tell you that eating large quantities of chemically engi-neered, complex-sugar-ridden, unnatural sweeteners is bad for your health. Yet with steadily increasing amounts of HFCS in the foods that we eat, dis-eases like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diet-related illnesses have increased to

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One Step Off

Emily lakehomer

All over the world, honeybee colonies are collapsing. This

phenomenon, called Colony Collapse Disorder, happens when the colonies’ worker bees mysteriously disap-pear. For many years, sci-entists have been unable to determine the cause of these disappearances. Reports have suggested that the widespread use of pesticides may have something to do with colony collapse, but the exact cause remains unclear.

However, a recent study out of the University of Illi-nois may have determined the cause of CCD in bee colonies around the world.

The likely culprit: high-fructose corn syrup.

Over the years it’s become common practice for com-mercial beekeepers to feed honeybees high-fructose corn syrup so that their natural food source, honey, can be re-moved and sold.

Substituting chemically engineered HFCS for the honey that bees usually feed on weakens the bees’ immune systems and makes them more susceptible to disease and death. This hypothesis, while pointing a finger at a single contributor to CCD, may not fully account for the problem’s causes. It is, how-ever, the closest we’ve come to explaining it.

With new concerns and questions regarding feed-ing bees HFCS, will this dis-covery shine new light on how humans are affected by the substance? Not only is HFCS used as commercial food for bees, it’s also added to practically every pack-aged and processed food that we eat.

The sweetly sticky truth about artificial sweeteners

Where’s the honey?

epidemic proportions. More and more people are being af-fected. It raises the question: Are we doomed to a similar fate as that of the honeybee?

Unlike the honeybee, how-ever, which might not be aware of changes to its diet, we’re in control of what we put in our bodies. And we should be con-scious of this.

HFCS and any of its un-natural sugary cousins are included in the ingredients list on a food’s packaging. Check-ing the ingredients before you buy something is an important step in reducing the amount of HFCS you consume, and in negating the potentially life-threatening risks it may pose to your health.

Making foods from scratch rather than buying them from the store will also limit the amount of added artificial sug-ars and syrups you consume, and you’ll be more aware of the ingredients that you put into your body. Food with fewer pro-cessed ingredients is better for you and will make you healthier and happier.

Reducing the amount of high-fructose corn syrup that you eat might make everything taste a lot blander. While that might be true for a while—a few weeks at the most—your body will adjust to the new levels of sweetness and your sense of taste will go back to normal.

Your newly reborn taste buds will be able to distinguish the more subtle flavors of your food, and in turn you won’t have to add as much season-ing. Foods that once seemed bland compared your sug-ary diet will now taste a lot more appealing, and you’ll be a lot healthier. Who wouldn’t want that?

And perhaps if we can lessen our dependence on artificial sweeteners and HFCS, we might be able to change how HFCS is used in other ways. We might even save some honeybee colonies.

You don’t need a sci-entist to tell you that eating large quanti-

ties of chemically engineered, complex-

sugar-ridden, un-natural sweeteners is bad for your health.

There was a time when I hated wear-ing makeup. I didn’t

enjoy the hassle of applying and then reapplying layers of foundation, bronzer, eye-liner and mascara. I still hate the idea of doing that over and over again, but last year I discovered eyebrow filler and, well, I’ve never been the same.

Since that fateful day, my love affair with makeup has blossomed into a committed relationship, complete with a morning ritual and me car-rying a compact mirror in my purse at all times. A few months ago I got bored with my regular cat eye look and started wearing red lipstick a la Gwen Stefani.

Lipstick is a lot of fun. You can completely revolutionize or tone down an outfit with the right shade. However, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health recently published a study in Environmental Health Perspectives that indicates the lipstick we’ve come to know and love might not be so good for us.

Most cosmetics avail-able at the drugstore or makeup boutiques like Sephora are filled with all kinds of chemicals and man-made products. Many of us know this, but we’ve chosen to ignore the facts. Maybe we shouldn’t ignore them anymore.

The study stated that re-searchers tested “32 com-monly sold lipsticks and lip glosses” and found that they contained “lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals.”

CBSnews.com reported that of the products tested in the study, half had levels of lead “in concentrations

Kiss of death

higher than [the] 0.1 parts per million cap the U.S. Food and Drug Administration places on candy frequently eaten by small children.”

Before you toss out all your lipsticks, though, con-sider the fact that these lev-els of contamination might not be too threatening. The long-term health risks de-pend on how much lipstick or gloss is absorbed. With the liberal amounts of gloss many lovely lipstick wearers here at Portland State use on a daily basis, this statistic is a little staggering.

Berkeley professor Katha-rine Hammond told the Huff-ington Post that this is just a starting point. She urged us not to panic, not to give up lipstick altogether, but said that the study’s results are disconcerting. “I don’t think this is trivial,” she said. “It needs to be addressed.”

Indeed it does. We’ve been using lipstick for decades.

Since the preliminary re-search results were released, the FDA has examined the levels of lead in lipsticks and concluded that the levels are too low to be considered a health risk. According to the Huffington Post, the FDA “has not set limits for lead in cosmetics.”

In fact, in the U.S. there isn’t a single standard set for the levels of metals in cos-metics, according to a press release issued by the study’s authors.

Linda Loretz, chief toxi-cologist for the Personal Care Products Council, didn’t think much of the study. She told the Huffing-ton Post that these metals naturally exist in our envi-ronment, in our air, water and even food, concluding that it shouldn’t come as a

surprise that trace levels were found in lipsticks.

So, even experts on both sides of the argument can’t de-finitively say whether lipstick is truly dangerous.

Products touting “all natu-ral” labels are the answer, some might say. Then again, that these metals and other “toxic” substances occur in nature is the double-edged sword of mass-produced and readily available cosmetics. You’d be hard-pressed to find lipsticks at a higher-end store that didn’t also include the various substances the study warns us about.

Be that as it may, organi-zations like Skin Deep want consumers to know what’s in their cosmetics. Skin Deep provides a “safety profile of various cosmetics and body products,” and you should check it out before making your next makeup purchase.

No one has the time (or the means) to conduct their own safety tests on the makeup they wear. The products I use, which aren’t tested on ani-mals, are probably filled with all kinds of substances that could be considered danger-ous to my health.

Am I going to stop us-ing them? No, probably not. Someday when I’m a wealthy English teacher (go ahead, laugh), I’ll be able to use the purest of red lipsticks and the most toxin-free eyebrow pen-cils. Until then, I’ll take these studies and articles with a grain of salt.

Makeup probably isn’t all that great for us anyway; I mean, it clogs up pores, it has a tendency to dry out skin and lips, it causes acne and who knows what else. But we enjoy wearing it. It provides us with a feeling of beauty, maybe even self-love. Until toxicolo-gists prove that lipstick, eye-liner or any of their cosmetic cousins are actually detrimen-tal to our health, I don’t think we have a whole lot to worry about.

New study shows danger awaits in some cosmetics

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Zane Lamprey, the host of cheeky travel shows Three Sheets and Drink-

ing Made Easy, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his new show, called Chug. Whether you love travel, drinking or just good comedy, Chug is going to be a show you won’t want to miss.

While it will certainly in-volve drinking, Chug won’t just be about pounding beer. The show gets its name from the mode of travel Lamprey will use as he finds new drink-ing holes—the train.

The new show will also al-low Lamprey to once again explore all of the crazy ways people around the globe get absolutely sloshed together, while somehow still managing to be surprisingly informative.

Basically, Lamprey’s MO involves traveling to unique drinking locations, brewer-ies, distilleries and wineries to experience the interesting and bizarre customs people have, especially when it comes to alcohol.

After both of his successful shows were kicked off the air, and when none of the main-stream networks wanted to promote what they viewed as just a drinking show, Lamprey decided he’d take his idea directly to all of the alcohol enthusiasts out there who love his irreverent hu-mor and drinking expertise, and who also love to learn about new places.

The Kickstarter campaign will give Lamprey the funding needed to make the show lon-ger than the previous 22–24 minutes, and if a network did decide to pick it up, all of the excited Kickstarter backers would get exclusive rewards ranging from behind-the-scenes footage to T-shirts to an actual appearance on the show itself.

If you love world travel and learning about all of the fantas-tic things you can do with alco-hol, you’ve probably watched Three Sheets and Drinking Made Easy by now. Despite the alco-hol, or possibly because of it, Lamprey manages to expose the beautiful, hilarious and terrifying differences between people all around the world, as well as their surprisingly simi-lar habits.

In Three Sheets, Lamprey went to places like Belgium, Croatia and the Philippines. Whether he’s jumping into beer baths in the Czech Republic or grabbing drinks from a molecular mixologist in Hamburg, Lamprey’s eccen-tric humor charms locals into opening up, resulting in one damn fine travel show.

Drinking Made Easy, a na-tional twist on Three Sheets, follows Lamprey as he travels all over the U.S. It’s even come to our very own Rose City. He stopped into Mint/820, a bar that I didn’t even know existed but that evidently creates delicious

cocktails from fresh ingre-dients like avocados and cilantro.

He took a stroll over to Hopworks Urban Brewery to check out its carbon-neutral location and its Beer Bike, which can carry two half-barrel kegs and three piz-zas and has a solar-powered MP3 player. Evidently, HUB heats their product using bio-fuel wastes like french fry oils from local restaurants.

Lamprey even went down-town and stopped by Portland’s oldest-operating restaurant, Huber’s Cafe, to try one of its famous Spanish coffees. After lighting the Bacardi 151, spill-ing a bit of Kahlua and sloshing the whipped cream, Lamprey expressed a sentiment com-mon to many Huber’s patrons when he jokingly asked, “Is it possible that I feel drunk al-ready?” after a single sip.

You can expect to see some very zany things in Lamprey’s shows, like a stuffed monkey named Pleepleus, whose ap-pearance is the cue to take a drink of your own. Lamprey’s pal Steve McKenna also spo-radically pops into episodes to down a beer or five, run around naked with Lamprey and add some inappropriate—but welcome—humor.

Whether you find different cultures fascinating or want to see all of the ridiculous things the locals manage to get Lamprey to consume—like vi-per rum—Chug will be a show that won’t disappoint. Jump onto Kickstarter before the campaign ends on June 1 and see what it’s about, and may-be send in some money for a T-shirt.

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Amazing new Zane Lamprey show seeks funding through Kickstarter

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Bob Staplesmay 17The in-store is actually Saturday the 18th!

“COUNTER COULTER”Vol. 67, No. 59

garymay 16I’m going to go ahead and stick with arguing against your racist label. I would love to just say, how is anything Coulter said racist? But I’m sure I would not get a response with any substance, so I proceed with a breakdown of your thought silencing tactic. 1) Coulter uses humor and wit a lot, and this may have escaped you but her jokes are not racist they are jokes about racism. This means that she is using humor to point out a ridiculous situation; her “racist” statements are so out there that only an idiot or an ideologue would take them seriously. 2) How is using the term clitorectomy at all racist? You assert that is an African custom, maybe implying that only black people do it. Well that is wrong; some tribes have a tradition of doing it, but that tradi-tion is diminishing. Where it is increasing is in the Muslim culture, and before you say, “that’s racist!” let me point out that being a Muslim does not mean that one is a certain race. Islam is a religion, not a race; it is an idea, like all religions, and like all ideas it is open to debate, discussion and criticism. 3) Tsnaraev, while he had a good tan, was Caucasian and his wife definitely is and BTW so is Coulter; so no racism there.

You would have been better served arguing for the abolishment of female genital mutilation (clitorectomy) which is a growing problem in only one demographic, Muslims. But then some

other person that believes that “…there are some things we just shouldn’t say,” would try to label you a racist, and then nothing gets done or said to stop women suffering all over the world.

“BROADWAY RESIDENTS LIVE WITH TIGHTER SECURITY”Vol. 67, No. 57

zack Shannonmay 7I really hate that they are doing this. As a student who has lived in broadway for the past year I don’t like walking into my home and instantly becoming a suspect. Everytime they ask me for my ID it makes me feel guilty and that sucks. They have key cards to get in, but how easy it is to get around them I feel like they are only doing this to say they tried to do something when worse comes to worse. If they really cared about security at broadway they would have either cameras or a security guard the specifically roams the building. I do like that I’m treated as a suspect until I prove who I am. Broadway is my home and if they were trying to get people to move out by making them feel guilty then with at least for me they got there wish.

Sara guerre (in response to zack Shannon)may 8Your feelings < safety of students.

georgie orwell (in response to Sara guerre)may 14Your rights < perceived safety of students.

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book Discussion with bishu-pal limbu2:30 p.m. Multnomah County Central Library 801 SW 10th Ave.

Bishupal Limbu, an assistant profes-sor of English at Portland State, will lead a discussion on a book by Amitav Ghosh, a compelling mix of research and imagination with a story that shifts back and forth between very different times. Limbu will lecture on the book at the Multnomah County Central Library downtown. FREE

Portland Art Museum Free Admission5–8 p.m. Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave.

Every fourth Friday of the month the Portland Art Museum offers free admission to guests during specific hours. Come enjoy a night of fantas-tic exhibits and the opportunity to learn something new and exciting about art. FREE

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Eighth Annual Filipino culture night6–9 p.m. Smith Memorial Student Union, third floor ballroom 1825 SW Broadway

Portland State Kaibigan, the Filipino-American student association, invites you to join them for the eighth annual Filipino culture night, a festi-val that will feature Filipino cuisine and modern as well as traditional dancing, songs, poetry and stories.

The zumiez CouCh Tour offers the public the chance to meet some of their favorite professional skaters while also enjoying live music and free merchandise.

Lincoln Hall hosts the Performance Attendance Recital Series, where you are invited to attend perfor-mances during the lunch hour for free. Each performance has a dif-ferent theme and they run through the term. May 23 will feature vocal performers from Portland State.

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net impact Energy Efficiency Month lecture Series: Trans-formation 4:15 p.m. School of Business Administration, room 190 615 SW Harrison St.

Scott Lewis of Brightworks will be the guest speaker for a lecture that is part of a month-long series on energy efficiency. He will answer the question: How do organizations influence their culture to adopt ener-gy-efficient behavior? A happy hour reception will follow the lecture.

FREE

Beyond words: Language(s) and learning Mathematics6:30–7:30 p.m. College of Urban and Public Affairs, room 303 506 SW Mill St.

Professor Judit Moschkovich, Uni-versity of California, Santa Cruz, is a noted author and speaker. She will be at Portland State to offer ideas about alternative forms of knowl-edge in relation to the construction of mathematics. FREE

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are Bicycling and walking “cool”?: Adolescent Attitudes about Active TravelNoon–1 p.m. College of Urban and Public Affairs, room 204 506 SW Mill St.

Tara Goddard, a Ph.D. student at Portland State, will be presenting her research related to the attitudes of children between the ages of 4–17 years about physical activity for fun. Though the rates of activity seem to have declined, some research shows that this data differs from the ideas that young people have about things like biking and walking.

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Admission is free for Portland State students; faculty and staff will be admitted free of charge but donations will be accepted for the Kaibigan Scholarship fund. FREE

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compound Fracture Movie Tour7:30 p.m. Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.

Actor Tyler Mane—Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II, as well as many other noted horror roles—will be at the Hollywood Theatre for one night only for a screening of his new film, Compound Fracture. VIP tickets can be purchased for $30, which allow for early entry to the theater and time for meet-and-greet and photo opportu-nities. Tickets are otherwise $20.

MONDAy, MAy 27

Zumiez couch Tour12:30–7 p.m. Clackamas Town Center 12000 SE 82nd Ave.

The Zumiez Couch Tour brings brands and fans together for an event unlike any other. Celebrity skateboarders will be performing demonstrations of the latest gear, and local Portland band Red Fang will provide live music. The event will also include numerous games and giveaways, and it is all yours to attend for free. FREE

TuESDAy, MAy 28

information Session: Ever Thought about Study Abroad?6:45–7:45 p.m. East Hall, room 236 632 SW Hall St.

All students are welcome to attend this information session about Port-land State study abroad programs. Students who have just returned from studying abroad themselves will be available to answer any ques-tions that you might have, as well as provide information about how to find scholarships and begin applica-tion processes. FREE

Screening: how’s Your news?7 p.m. Smith Memorial Student Union, room 298 1825 SW Broadway

How’s Your News? is a documentary film that follows the journey of a set of reporters with developmental dis-abilities as they venture across the country and interview people that they meet along the way. FREE

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Tuesday night Tango7 p.m. class, 8 p.m. open dance Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St.

On Tuesday nights the Bossanova Ballroom offers you the chance to learn to tango. Bring a partner or come alone for free dance from 8 p.m. to midnight. All skill levels are welcome, including beginners, and a lesson will be offered from 7–8 p.m. for those who would like to learn the steps. Admission is $8 per person. 21+

2013 Mark Gurevitch Memorial lecture5 p.m. School of Business Administration, room 190 631 SW Harrison St.

Portland State welcomes profes-sor Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, to lecture on some of the fundamentals of quantum phys-ics and then focus on photons and their relation to the field of quantum information. The lecture will present recent experiments in long-distance quantum teleportation and other exciting developments in the world of physics.

WEDNESDAy, MAy 22

The Portland women’s Move-ment Part 3: Fighting for ideas and Dollars7–8:30 p.m. College of Urban and Public Affairs, second floor gallery 506 SW Mill St.

This event features four panel-ists who are leaders in the field of women’s studies. The discussion will be based on how to organize and find funding to make sure that important programs are funded and included in educational institutions. Portland State’s women’s studies program is used as an example. FREE

ThuRSDAy, MAy 23

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ROSEMARy hANSONVanguard Staff

Megan Govi is quick to give credit to her team’s effort in 2012–13, but the sophomore earned plenty of accolades on her own this season. Govi broke multiple school records as a member of the women’s tennis squad, including those for single-season wins and conference wins. She also won Big Sky Honorable Mention accolades for her performance throughout the season. Govi is an all-around athlete whose passion for fit-ness continues to drive her success on the court.

“She is focused, commit-ted—she sets goals,” head coach Jay Sterling said. “She knows what she wants to

DREW lAzzARAVanguard Staff

The scheduling of the NBA playoffs makes no sense to me. I could probably write an entire column about how foolish it is that the West-ern Conference Finals began Sunday afternoon while the Eastern Conference Finals don’t begin until tomorrow evening, three long days later, even though the matchups have been set since Satur-day. What this means is that the West champion may be crowned and resting up to a week before the East cham-pion is decided.

It also means that the West-ern Conference Finals will have begun by the time this article is published, so I will not be able to appropriately preview the most compelling of our two remaining play-off series. I would love to be able to tell you that the Mem-phis Grizzlies versus the San Antonio Spurs is going to be simply wonderful basketball. San Antonio’s excellence is well documented, but I doubt many people outside of Texas realize how much evolution that excellence has undergone in order to be maintained.

The Spurs have morphed from a defense-first, slow-it-down juggernaut built around

Tim Duncan and an aging David Robinson into one of the most unstoppable offensive forces in the game. (As you watch the West finals, be sure to note how many open cor-ner threes the Spurs hit—you could make a drinking game out of it.) And the Grizzlies are doing everything well. They won eight of their last nine games in the playoffs leading up to this series and made both the Clippers and the Thunder look totally outmatched.

It would have been great to talk about that stuff, but sadly that’s in the past.

The future is the Eastern Conference Finals, which will almost certainly be less en-tertaining. Even if this series lasts seven games and each contest comes down to the wire, it could be some tough basketball to watch. A lion’s share of that blame goes to my beloved Indiana Pacers, one of the least aesthetically pleasing teams in the entire league. All season long, the Pacers have played the best defense in the NBA; were it not for a slight lull in mid-April, their num-bers would have been histori-cally great.

That is their potential, and if you have the patience to appreciate it, it’s a sight to behold. Indiana’s starting lineup is huge and long. They never double-team, so they are the best in the league at chasing teams off the three-point line. They play the pick-and-roll masterfully, with either a hard hedge from David West or a pack-the-paint step back by the 7-foot-2-inch Roy Hibbert. They defend the rim without fouling, and they rotate on

a string.The problem is, it just

doesn’t look like much. In fact, it usually looks like two teams not scoring, because as good as the Pacers are on de-fense, they are equally average on offense. For much of the year, their per-100-possession numbers (the best indicator of how relatively successful a team’s offense is) put them near the bottom of the pack. Since the All-Star break, they have made adjustments and seen better production from Hibbert and shooting guard Lance Stephenson, improve-ments that have actually pulled them close to the top 10 in scoring. Still, they win no beauty contests even on their most efficient days, and are still prone to stretches in which they are simply awful.

But the dirty little secret of the Eastern Conference Fi-nals and their potential for unwatchability is the Miami Heat. Perhaps I’m the only one who thinks so (a distinct possibility), but the Heat are rarely any more fun to watch than the Pacers. They are bet-ter in nearly every way (except in rebounding or defense, two areas that represent Indiana’s slim chance of taking this se-ries), but they go about their business in a machine-like manner that makes their suc-cess look mechanical rather than exuberant.

At the beginning of this season, I wrote about learn-ing to love LeBron and his robot game, and I’ve done my best to appreciate his brilliance. It just isn’t as much fun to watch as Kobe’s or Michael’s or even Ha-keem’s. Their games had

fluidity, a certain kind of grace that LeBron’s superhu-man physicality kind of flat-tens out. Those other greats also seemed to be constantly struggling against some-thing, their achievements al-ways made to feel unlikely no matter how often they hap-pened. LeBron just seems inexorable.

Plus, there’s just some-thing about Mario Chalmers and Mike Miller and Shane Battier and Udonis Haslem and Norris Cole that irks

me. These guys are utilitar-ian at best, but in Miami they benefit from wide-open looks. It makes the team great, but not fun to watch—it offends my sensibility as much as the Pacers’ style likely offends yours.

Which means that the East-ern Conference Finals are go-ing to be ugly. I hope they will be competitive, and Indiana’s strengths form a perfect reci-pe for upsetting Miami. They have beaten the Heat twice this year, both wins coming

Contrasting styles in NBA conference finals

by double figures, and in both contests they contained Mi-ami’s offense and dominated the boards. In Miami’s lone regular-season win, LeBron scored a season-low 13 points. Indiana makes you ugly, and that gives them a chance. But Miami is just a better team, and I’m not sure there’s go-ing to be much to like for the casual fan in this one. I, of course, will be watching ev-ery minute, and I’ll be sure to give you every boring detail. Go Pacers!

4 teams left standing as playoffs head toward June

govi turns in record seasonTennis player among best in Big Sky

achieve and she works really hard to make it happen.”

As a child, Govi’s athletic interests were geared mainly toward swimming and bas-ketball, but after following her brother’s lead onto the tennis court at age 12, she was hooked. Govi’s family remains her principal source of motivation, both on and off the court.

“My brother played [ten-nis] and I wanted to be just like him,” she said. “So I picked it up and found out that I was pretty good at it.”

Govi has proven that she has the talent to compete at the collegiate level, something that is already paying off for the team—her breakthrough second season for Portland State is one of the main rea-sons the women’s squad was able to score 12 wins in their 24 matches, the first time in the history of the program that the Vikings did not finish

below .500. Govi’s main goal is to build on that success go-ing forward.

“It’s nice that I had a good record, but it would feel a lot better if my team had also had that record,” she said. “It would be great if our team could have that success.”

Govi is currently working toward a degree in commu-nication. She hopes to go into broadcasting or publishing after graduation, and is look-ing to do an internship at a radio station this summer. But she’ll be on the court as well, working with Sterling and the rest of the coaching staff to diversify her attack, play more aggressively and con-tinue improving her net game. Sterling isn’t concerned about Govi’s ability to handle the transition.

“She is going to continue to get better,” he said. “We have only started to scratch the sur-face [of] her potential.”

megAn govi proved to be the driving force behind the improvement in the PSU women’s team this year.

leBron jAmeScan expect to get swarmed by the Indiana de-fense when the series begins tomorrow.

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MATT DEEMSVanguard Staff

Feelin’ Thorny? The once-controversial T-shirt slogan turned into an unofficial motto as the Portland Thorns rolled through their first six games of 2013 unbeaten, leaving the competition wondering if they had just taken an up-close and personal tour of the city’s rose gardens. But when the Na-tional Women’s Soccer League leaders faced off against Sky Blue FC on Thursday, they finally ran into an opponent they could not deny, losing 1-0.

Portland took to the pitch at Jeld-Wen Field in front of a crowd of 11,055 and found out exactly why Sky Blue FC is nipping at their heels in the NWSL standings. The Thorns had every reason to be con-fident going into the second home game in franchise histo-ry with a dynamic lineup that features Alex Morgan, who is currently tied for second in the league in goals, as well as the April NWSL Player of the Month, Christine Sinclair.

But Portland’s attack came up empty against Sky Blue FC,

zAch BIGAlKEVanguard Staff

Twenty-two minutes into Sat-urday’s Memorial Cup opener against Halifax, the Portland Winterhawks held a 3-1 lead after Ty Rattie sliced through the Moosehead defense for a power play goal. By the sec-ond intermission, however, any hope of a Winterhawks vic-tory had evaporated as Halifax center Nathan MacKinnon’s hat trick spurred a five-goal second period that propelled the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champions to a 7-4 win.

Portland took the initia-tive against Halifax goalten-der Zachary Fucale in the first period, outshooting the

winterhawks fall to halifax in Memorial cup openerHuge 2nd period lifts Mooseheads to victory

Mooseheads 16-7 and going into the first intermission tied at 1-1 on a Seth Jones goal late in the frame. The Win-terhawks then stole the lead 39 seconds into the second period as Portland captain Troy Rutkowski snapped home his first of two goals of the night, and Rattie followed him less than two minutes later to make it 3-1. Looking potent offensively and solid on the other end of the ice, Portland returned to the fa-ceoff circle appearing to have stamped their mark on this matchup.

But the Winterhawks’ third goal seemed to wake up the lethargic Halifax line. Jonathan Drouin started the goal glut for the Mooseheads a minute after Rattie’s mark-er, potting a rebound behind Mac Carruth to cut the deficit in half. MacKinnon, parked in front of the Winterhawks’ crease, redirected Brendan

Duke’s shot from the blue line to add the equalizer with 15:24 left in the period. For the next five minutes the two sides traded scoring oppor-tunities, waiting to see who would bend next.

When defenseman Derrick Pouliot’s slashing penalty put Portland a man down midway through the second period, Halifax got the opening they needed to open the floodgates and put the game out of reach. On the ensuing power play,

Luca Ciampini streaked down the left wing, fighting off tight marking from Jones and switching from backhand to forehand before finding a gap between Carruth and the near post to give Halifax a lead they would not relinquish.

MacKinnon added two more goals before the sec-ond period ended, beating Carruth on the power play with 5:57 remaining and nabbing a shorthanded tally with less than two minutes remaining

before the intermission.“They can score at the flip of

a switch, and that’s what they did,” Rattie said after the game.

Rutkowski narrowed the gap to 6-4 with his second goal of the game early in the third period, but the Winter-hawks would find no more holes in Fucale’s defense on the night. Stephen MacAulay restored the three-goal lead for Halifax with 14:27 remain-ing, the seventh goal allowed by Carruth on 35 shots.

“There’s a reason they’re ranked number one [in major junior hockey],” Rutkowski said. “We got away from our game the last 15 minutes of the second period, and it cost us.”

The round-robin stage of the Memorial Cup concludes tomorrow, when the Win-terhawks face the Saskatoon Blades. The champion of ju-nior hockey will be crowned in the tournament’s finale on May 26.

Thorns suffer first loss of the seasonLate goal lifts Sky Blue FC to victory at Jeld-Wen

getting just three shots in the first half compared to eight by their opponents. The Timbers defense did their part, holding Sky Blue FC in check to keep the game scoreless at halftime, but the visitors began to estab-lish themselves in the final 10 minutes of the half and seemed to have the energy on their side by the time the teams headed into the locker rooms.

That trend continued into the first 20 minutes of the second half as the Thorns appeared worn down on de-fense and lacking in pass-ing accuracy on offense. Sky Blue FC was relentless, feed-ing off the pace of Australian forward Lisa De Vanna, who had four shots in the game and two on goal as she con-sistently pulled off brilliant moves to lose her defenders. The Thorns continued to look for answers and were nearly rewarded for their patience in the 67th minute,

when Alex Morgan sent a ripper on goal that flew just a few inches over the right post.

But it was Sky Blue FC who finally saw the fruits of their labor against the exhausted Thorn defense, when they earned a yellow card on a foul by Sinclair in the 79th

minute. The resulting free kick was passed to Taylor Lytle, who converted it into a goal just a minute after being substituted into the game.

With only seconds left in stoppage time, Lytle was whistled for a hand ball, giv-ing Portland one last chance to even the tally—but the

ball was cleared away with a header and the Thorns took their first loss of the season.

Portland goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc was deflated after the game but determined to look on the bright side. “Oh, it hurt, especially at home, because we want to put on a good show for the fans and make them know

Portland took to the pitch at Jeld-Wen Field in front of a crowd of 11,055 and found out exactly why Sky Blue Fc is nipping at their heels in the NWSl standings.

that we appreciate them,” LeBlanc said. “To lose at home stinks that much more, but you know it’s good to have it this early in the season.”

Defender Rachel Buehler echoed the sentiment. “We’ve had a good record so far,” she said. “The loss is a good wake-up call.”

on The run against Sky Blue FC’s potent offense, the Thorns were defeated 1-0 at Jeld-Wen Field.

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zAChAry FuCAle was able to limit the Winterhawks’ offense in the first game at the Memorial Cup. Halifax came away with the win 7-4.

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Unbeaten streak now at 10 games

MATT DEEMSVanguard Staff

The Portland Timbers need-ed another gritty comeback to keep their unbeaten streak going against the Vancou-ver Whitecaps on Saturday. Vancouver welcomed the Timbers to BC Place with the vast majority of the 19,823 fans in attendance behind the Whitecaps for the clash with their Cascadia Cup ri-vals. Going into the game, Portland was in second place in the MLS Western Confer-ence, while the Whitecaps were one spot from the bot-tom.

The Timbers nearly jumped out to the lead in the 14th minute, as Portland passed the ball around the perim-eter until Diego Valeri found Ryan Johnson, who chipped it back up to the streaking Valeri. Finding a hole in the Whitecap defense, Valeri sent a perfect cross on goal that Vancouver goalkeeper Brad Knighton managed to tip but could not corral. Timbers midfielder Rodney Wallace pounced on the loose ball but got tangled up with several defenders on the goal line, and the Whitecaps managed to clear the ball away.

Portland’s Will Johnson was dealt a yellow card for a foul in the 23rd minute, giv-ing the Whitecaps a free kick at the top of the box. Camilo

Sanvezzo took the opportu-nity to blast a stunning curl-ing shot over the Timbers line and into the top right corner of the goal, just out of reach of goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts.

The Timbers almost got the equalizer in the 29th minute with some polished passing that led to another solid cross by Valeri to Wallace, who placed a textbook header on goal that required a stellar save by Knighton to avoid the goal.

Portland finally broke through in the 52nd minute af-ter Johnson attempted a shot on goal that a Whitecap de-fender deflected with his arm, prompting the referee to call for a penalty kick. Johnson faced off with Knighton and caught the Vancouver goalie guessing wrong with his dive to even the game at one-all. Undeterred, the Whitecaps answered right back in the 54th minute with a goal from Gershon Koffie off an as-sist from Camilo.

It was a physical defensive battle from there. The Tim-bers received their first red card of the season as Mama-dou “Futty” Danso hit the turf with Camilo on a race for a long ball in the 81st minute, and Portland was reduced to a 10-man squad.

Remarkably, the Timbers were able to tie the game just three minutes later. Johnson sent a pass down to Jose Valen-cia, who brought it through the crowd of Vancouver

defenders surrounding him, then stopped on a dime and sent the ball past Knighton to even the score at 2-2. Nei-ther team was able to score in the closing minutes and Portland escaped with a draw, its 10th consecutive game without a loss.

The Timbers are slated to take on D.C. United on May 25 at RFK Stadium. The offi-cial viewing party will be held at Mad Greek Deli on East Burnside Street.

Timbers grind out a draw

Season comes to an end for Big Sky co-champions

ROSEMARy hANSONVanguard Staff

The Vikings softball squad watched their hopes of mov-ing past the first round of the NCAA regional tournament collapse with a devastating 2-1 defeat at the hands of the University of Washington Huskies. The Vikings strug-gled at the plate against the Huskies’ starting pitcher and also had some difficulties defensively as they failed to advance in Seattle. The loss dropped Portland State into the consolation bracket for a meeting with the University

of Minnesota, but the team fared even worse against the Gophers and fell 5-0, official-ly putting an end to the 2013 season.

The Vikings could not make any headway against Wash-ington pitcher Bryana Walker, who struck out six of the first nine batters she faced and didn’t give up a hit until the fourth inning. That hit was big one for Portland State, as senior second baseman Carly McEachran slammed her ninth home run this year to put the Vikings up 1-0.

Unfortunately for PSU, the Huskies had an answer, tying the game on an RBI double by Kaitlin Inglesby in the bot-tom of the fourth. Inglesby struck again in the fifth with a sacrifice fly that brought

another runner across the plate, giving the Huskies a 2-1 advantage. Walker took care of the rest for Washington, shutting down the Vikings in the sixth and seventh innings and allowing only one batter to reach base over the last two innings.

Portland State took on Min-nesota next in a consolation matchup. Coming off their struggles at bat against the Hus-kies, the Vikings again failed to produce much at the plate. Only

two Vikings reached base over the first four innings, both as the result of walks, as pitcher Sara Moulton gave up only one hit in a 5-0 shutout performance for Minnesota.

The Gophers cashed in on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third, then broke the game wide open in the next inning with four more runs. Portland State tried to mount a comeback in the sixth, when Crysta Conn reached base and advanced to third on a Lauran

Bliss single, but Moulton ended the game with her 13th strikeout to complete the victory.

Though Portland State’s 2013 campaign is now over, the Vikings will go into the record books as co-champions of the Big Sky regular season and winners of the inaugural Big Sky Softball Tournament. Anna Bertrand has finished her career at PSU as the team’s all-time leader in wins and strikeouts.

PSu softball loses in first round at NcAA regionals

REcEnT RESUlTS

Thursday, May 16

NWSl

Sky blue Fc 1Thorns 0

Top performerskarina leBlanc: 5 saves

Friday, May 17

SOFTBAllNcAA Seattle Regional

Seattle, wash.

washington 2vikings 1

Top performerscarly mcEachran: 1-for-3, hr, rBi

saturday, May 18

SOFTBAllNcAA Seattle Regional

Seattle, wash.

Minnesota 5vikings 0

Top performerslauran Bliss: 1-for-3

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halifax 7winterhawks 4

Top performerstroy rutkowski: 2 goals

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Timbers 2vancouver 2

Top performerswill Johnson: 1 goalJose Valencia: 1 goal

saturday, May 18

NWSl

Thorns 2washington 0

Top performerschristine Sinclair: 1 goalalex morgan: 1 goal

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The viKingS fought hard to stave off elimination in Seattle but were ultimately defeated 2-1 by Washington.

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