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The UniversiTy of PorTland’s sTUdenT newsPaPerVol. 112, Issue 20 www.upbeacon.net
ThursdayMarch 24,
2011BEACONThe
Employee crashes car into tree outside UPFor full story, see
page 5
Photo Courtesy of Christina Nelson
Tsunami ripples over UP communityHannah Gray News Editor
Where’s your Beacon been? Living, page 8-9
Meet Terry and VerniaLiving, page 7
UP students from Japan reflect on the recent devastation
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-Rosemary Peters
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Yuuki Ohashi – a former UP student from Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo – knew that when the earthquake hit off the coast of northern Japan on March 11, it was different from every other earthquake she has experienced.
Yuuki, who was at home, could not even stand up straight.
For the UP students who are from Japan, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftermath have hit close to home.
About an hour after the earthquake hit, Yuuki began cleaning up her home when she felt the ground shaking again. However, it felt and sounded different than any earthquake she had been through.
“My family went outside again,” Yuuki said in an email. “Then we found dark and red sky
covered by smoke.” LPG tanks caught on fire
at the Chiba refinery when theearthquake hit. The fire ragedfor 10 days. It was extinguished Monday.
“Even though the factory was not close to the residential area, we felt scared,” Yuuki, whose family is safe, said.
Satomi Fukumoto – another former UP student from Saitama, Japan, near Tokyo – was also at home when the earthquake hit. Like Yuuki, the earthquake was the biggest Satomi has ever experienced.
“I was so scared,” Satomi said in an email. “When I saw the live broadcast of the tsunami (engulfing) the towns near thesea, I just couldn’t believe what was going on.”
Some UP students from Japan were in the U.S. when the earthquake hit.
Junior Seiji Oyama – also from Saitama – received a text message from a friend asking if his family was OK. However, initially, Seiji did not know what the friend was talking about.
“I went to the news on the Internet, and I was really surprised – oh my gosh,” Seiji said. “I watched YouTube. (There were) horrible scenes – tsunamiengulfedthericefield.”
Seiji was unable to make contact with his family for almost two days.
“I tried to make contact with my family, but I couldn’t,” Seiji said. “I got really upset… But my
family is OK. I made contact on March 13.”
Senior Maika Canada, from Tokyo, was on her way to Boston, Mass. when she heard about the earthquake.
During a layover in Phoenix, Ariz., Maika checked her Twitter account on her phone.
“I was shocked,” she said. “I had no idea what was going on in
Japan. It was just crazy.” While Maika could not call
her family, she was able to connect with them via email. Her family is safe.
Maika’s grandparents live in Sendai, in northern Japan. A couple days after the earthquake, her family heard news of her
See Japan, page 3
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NEWS2 March 24, 2011
Portland is due to have a massive earthquake.
According to scientists, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which lies about 75 miles off the Oregon coast, has a fault which produces a major quake about every 250 to 500 years. Currently, we are about 311 years out from when the last one occurred.
According to Public Safety’s Environmental Health and Safety Officer Jeff Rook, the shakerthat will send the ground under Portland quaking is expected to be on par with the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Japan earlier this month.
“Disaster is going to be inevitable,” Rook said. “With the one that strikes here, and not if but when, survival is optional.”
In order to make sure the UP community is prepared for earthquakes, Rook started working with CCERT, the Community Campus Emergency Response Team.
CCERT trains students, faculty and staff not only from UP but Portland Community
College and Portland State University as well.
According to Rook, 75 to 80 percent of people who respond in an emergency situation are volunteers. The purpose of the CCERT program is to make sure the University of Portland has some prepared volunteers.
“It’s disaster medicine,” Rook said. “It’s learning how to take a cardboard box, strip it down and use it for splinting.”
On April 1, CCERT will haveafour-hourfieldexperienceday where members will utilize their training to size up a fake emergency situation and extricate victims from the emergency. They will also practice search and rescue as well as triage skills.
“There are one to two Public Safetyofficerstoatotalstudentbody of over 3,000 plus faculty and staff,” Rook said. “You are in a situation where you are completely overwhelmed. We want to make sure our campus members are better prepared.”
UP has also taken steps to prepare for a disaster.
According to Rook, UP has a small stock of Koldkist water bottles on campus, despite
the water bottle ban that was implemented last year. The Bauccio Commons has three days worth of food that could sustain up to 3,000 people.
“We have at least that much product on campus during the academic calendar,” Kirk Mustain, the general manager of Bon Appétit, said in an email. “Obviously we would amend the style of service and offerings but Ifeelconfidentthatwewouldbeable to take care of the university community.”
Back-up generators are in Franz Hall, Shiley Hall and Public Safety that can run for a week or two at full capacity.
“In an emergency situation we wouldn’t be running them at full capacity,” Rook said.
According to Rook, secondary items would not be powered up to make the generators last longer.
The school also has an agreement with Belfor Property Restoration so UP could receive a back-up generator for the Chiles Center within 24 to 48 hours of an emergency.
Finally, Rook encourages everyone to make a 72-hour kit for his or her place of residence.
“Each kit should have one
gallon of water per person per day,” Rook said.
He said the kits should also include at least a week’s worth of food that doesn’t take much effort to prepare, such as Power Bars.
A full list of supplies to include in a kit can be found on Public Safety’s website at http://www.up.edu/showimage/show.aspx?file=7037.
“How many more times before it actually happens do we need to see examples before we get prepared?” Rook said.
The next CCERT class is coming up this summer. Students can contact Rook at [email protected] if they want to take the class.
Jeff Rook
On Campus
Accuracy in The BeaconThe Beacon strives to be fair and accurate. Thenewspapercorrectsanysignificanterrorsof fact brought to the attention of the editors. If you think an error has been made, contact us at [email protected]. Corrections will be printed above.
MANQUISITION
Tonight, LXG will host the Manquisition, a satirical mock trial of prominent men on campus, in the Terrace room in The Bauccio Commons at 6 p.m.
MR. CORRADO Tonight, Mr. Corrado will be held in the Buckley Center Auditorium from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Mr. Corrado is a man pageant fundraiser for Holy Cross Charities. The event is free.
‘COUNTRY STRONG’ Friday and Saturday night, “Country Strong” will play in the Buckley Center Auditorium at 10 p.m.
BLUFFOONS IMPROV SHOW
Friday night, the Bluffoons are having an Improvisational Comedy Show at the Mago Hunt Recital Hall at 7:30. Tickets are $2 per person, or $3 for two people.
HAWAII CLUB LU’AU Saturday, Hawaii Club is hosting its 35th annual Lu’au, “Ke Ea o Hawaii,” in the Chiles Center. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and dinner is at 6 p.m. Pre-sale tickets are the following: first200 students are free, faculty and staff are $10, general admission is $20, senior citizens(55+)are$15,children(5-12)andgroupsof10ormoreare $12 per person and children under four are free. Tickets can be purchased Friday at The Bauccio Commons from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Pilot House from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or in the UP Bookstore with a sales associate. Ticket prices will increase at the door.
CORRECTION
In the March 10 issue, the photo for “No strings (or ropes) attached” on page 16was submitted by Sebastian Berisford. The photo at the top of page 14 was submitted by Victoria Clark. The Beacon regrets the errors.
On Campus
Q: What causes earthquakes?
A: The two-word answer is plate tectonics, which is motion between lithospheric plates. On their boundaries, forces build up and get released.
This particular plate boundary that released its stored energy on March 11 was the boundary where the Pacific Plate divesbeneath Japan. The plates are converging, moving towards eachother, and thePacificPlatebends down and dives down into the Japan trench.
That’s a line of deep ocean floor,offtheeastcoastofJapan,and the Pacific plate is a slabwhich is about 100 kilometers thick, and it dives down into the deeper mantle below Japan.
Q: What causes tsunamis? A: To produce a tsunami,
an earthquake has to move ocean water. Most tsunamis are produced by great, shallow earthquakes. And when we mean shallow, we mean 10 kilometers.
This particular earthquake
actually initiated at about 24 kilometers depth, and then it ruptured a big patch of the plate boundary. It changed the shape of the ocean floor, and produced abig mound of ocean water.
Q: What does “9.0” mean? A: There a bunch of different
magnitude scales for earthquakes. The most effective scale to use is a moment magnitude scale.
That actually uses information such as the displacement, the opposite sides of the fault – how far did one side of the fault move with respect to the other side of the fault – and it also uses the area of the fault that got moved.
Q: Explain the risk and what possible scenarios could occur in the Portland area and at UP.
A:ThePacificNorthwesthasthree kinds of earthquakes. One kind is what would be considered to be a deep earthquake.
Another kind is crustal earthquakes. These are on faults, where the North American crust is broken. There is large crustal
fault called the Portland Hills Fault. It’s immediately across the Willamette River from UP. We know the fault is capable of certainly having magnitude 6.0 earthquakes, maybe even magnitude 7.0 earthquakes.
But we don’t know very well, at least, when the last earthquake occurred on that fault. That means it makes it difficult toassess the risk which is posed by that crustal fault.
There is another fault called the East Bank Fault which is basically mapped to go along parallel to the East Bank of the Willamette River, and it runs under the UP campus.
That fault is really hard to evaluate. We know it’s there, but we don’t have a very good idea about what risk it does or does not pose.
The third kind of earthquake is what people around here in thePacificNorthwestregioncall“The Big One.” This is a great earthquake occurring on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
We know the last one of these great Cascadia earthquakes, which was probably a magnitude 9, occurred on Feb. 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. That one is parallel to this great earthquake that just occurred in Japan. It’s the same kind of plate boundary.
The 1700 earthquake produced a tsunami which kind of did the mirror image of what the Japan earthquake did – that is, the Cascadia 1700 earthquake created a tsunami that arrived in Japan and caused damage.- Butler will present “March 11, 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami in Northern Japan: Comparisons with Past and Future Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Cascadia” today at 4:30 p.m. in Buckley Center, room 163.
-Hannah Gray
Q&AEnvironmental science Professor
Robert Butler discusses earthquakes and tsunamis
Disaster preparedness at UP?Rosemary Peters [email protected]
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The Beacon — www.upbeacon.net 3NEWS
Q: What happened in Japan to cause the nuclear crisis the country is experiencing?
A: The reactors did well in the earthquake, but it was the tsunami that got it. It looks like the water mayhavefloodedthepumpsandcontrols. The plant was probably experiencing hardware issues. Also, it is not just water that entered the plant – it is ocean bed, topsoil, mud and seawater. That is not good for electronics and seawater is highly conductive and corrosive.
Q: Concerns have been raised in the media about trace
amounts of nuclear radiation from Japan hitting the West Coast. Could this happen? If so, what would the ramifications be?
A: In general, radiation is something to be concerned about. It is radioactivity. If it interacts with biological material it can cause genetic problems. Any time there is an explosion, stuff goes up and then falls back down and stays residually around the explosion. To get here from there by wind is problematic because of the way currents go., though they run south of us. Places
in California would be more affected.
Q: Are there steps people can take to protect themselves from radiation if there ever is a nuclear radiation emergency?
A: People can take iodine, but we naturally get iodine from living near the ocean. People in Kansas who don’t live near the ocean put iodine in their salt. However, if you take too much, there are problems that way. Basically the government would help if there was a real problem – they want you to pay taxes after all.
Q: The decommissioned Trojan Nuclear power plant is about 40 miles outside of Portland. All the uranium from the power plant still sits in bins on the property. Are there any health risks that could pose?
A: We are upriver from the Trojan Nuclear power plant. Even if there is an earthquake, nothing would probably happen.
Q: Could Hanford, a power plant in central Washington with an active reactor, be an issue?
A: Maybe. We’re down river
from Hanford, and Hanford is a colossal nightmare. They’ve buried stuff for years. I don’t know how water gets to Columbia there. They don’t know what it is doing to the water.
-Rosemary Peters
Physics Professor Mark Utlaut answers your questions about nuclear power
Q&A
UP senior fundraises for Japan relief Rosemary Peters [email protected]
Danielle Castro is selling t-shirts, proceeds will go to the Red Cross
Photo Courtesy of exclaimorange.com
Senior Danielle Castro’s t-shirt design. T-shirts are $10, and all of the proceeds go to the Red Cross.
JAPAN: Japanese students reflect on situation
Senior Danielle Castro has strong ties to Japan, so when she heard about the 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, she was concerned.
“I have family in Okinawa,” Castro said. “Everybody on my mom’s side is from Okinawa.”
However, Castro’s family is OK.
“They had enough time to evacuate,” Castro said.
The epicenter of the earthquake was closer to the northeastern coast of Japan, and the tsunami didn’t affect Okinawa as badly as places such as Sendai, more than 1,100 miles northeast of where Castro’s family lives.
According to CNN, 9,487 peoplehadbeenconfirmeddeadand 15,617 officially listed asmissing – a total of 25,104 – as of9p.m.(AEDT)yesterdayasaresult of the quake and tsunami. About 387,000 evacuees – including those affected by the damaged nuclear plants – are staying in around 2,200 shelters with limited food, water and other supplies, according to the Kyodo News Agency.
Shortly after hearing about the crisis, Castro visited the website threadless.com where she entered a t-shirt design contest. For every t-shirt sold during the course of the contest, 25 percent of the proceeds went to the Red Cross to be donated to Japan.
After crunching the numbers, Castro realized if she took her shirt design and sold the shirts on her own, she could raise more money.
“I wanted to raise more money than what was going to be coming off of this competition,” Castro said.
Castro approached UP’s Marketing Department with her idea and Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communication Laurie Kelley responded.
“Danielle came to the marketingofficeandtalkedwithmy colleague John Furey about this idea she had for the t-shirt competition with threadless,” Kelley said in an email. “I loved her design and knew she would be successful in trying to sell them to raise money for the Red Cross.”
In the end, Kelley connected Castro with UP alumnus Mike Thompson.
“UP alum Mike Thompson of
Taylor Made T-Shirts printed the shirts at an extremely low cost so that more proceeds could go to the Red Cross,” Castro said in an email.
When designing her shirt, Castro incorporated symbolism intoeveryfigurethatappearsonthe white cotton tee.
“Rays of sunlight from a Japanese sunrise come over the father and his child, revealing shadows of a Samurai spirit,” Castro wrote on her website. “This design acknowledges the history of Japan and what Samurai embody: honor, endurance, tradition, and hope. In the sun, you’ll see the seismograph drawing of the 9.0 earthquake to acknowledge the tragedy, but the father and son walk on.”
Castro said the money raised will go straight to Japan.
“Japan has been an ally,” Castro said. “With Hurricane Katrina, they sent over about $13 million and the government also gave money to the Red Cross.”
Castro sold over 100 shirts with the International Club at Espresso UP yesterday.
While selling shirts last night, Castro and the International Club set up a booth for students to fold purple origami paper cranes.
Their goal is to fold 1,000 cranes because it is a sign of well wishes in Japanese culture. In order to reach 1,000 cranes, they will have students fold at other events.
“Just keep the people of Japan in your thoughts and prayers,”
she said.Shirts can be purchased for
$10. Castro is selling the shirts to people who contact her via email at [email protected]. She is also selling them on her website.
A more in depth timeline can be found at: http://www.swedishwire.com/component/content/article/34:global-news/9027:japan-disaster-timeline-day-by-day
grandparents.“I guess it was about two
days later, they heard from my grandparents,” Maika said. “They are doing OK.”
During the natural disaster, Japanese people were asked to conserve electricity. Satomi, Yuuki, Seiji’s family and Maika’s
family are all trying to save electricity.
“Some days ago, every family was asked to save the electricity because the nuclear plant was stopped by the earthquake,” Seiji said. “My family also tried to save electricity.”
The area has had scheduled blackouts since March 14,
according to Satomi and Yuuki. Even though Japan is in
the midst of a natural disaster, students are hopeful about Japan’s recovery.
“People are helping each other,” Yuuki said. “I saw lots of cooperation and warm behavior duringthisdifficulttime.”
Satomi worries about another
big earthquake, since there are still many aftershocks. Regardless, she is hopeful.
“I appreciate those people who work for saving Japan,” Satomi said. “I really hope these efforts will bring bright future in Japan soon. I want to do what I can do as much as possible.”
Seiji is also happy about the
support that Japan is receiving. “The American Navy came to
Japan – I really appreciate that,” Seiji said. “President Obama said he’ll do his best to save Japanese peoples’ lives. I feel happy in my heart.” - Rosemary Peters and Ona Golonka contributed to this story.
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The University of Portland’s Physical Plant recently repaired some of the potholes in the main parking lot behind the Pilot House, buttheyareonlytemporaryfixes,due to budget restraints.
“We fixed them as best wecan,” Assistant Director of Physical Plant Faye Beeler said.
The potholes affect many UP students, faculty and employees as well as visitors to the campus.
“I’m glad they did something about it,” freshman Zachary Hyrndej said. “I had started to know by heart which parts of the parking lot were the bumpiest. It was getting pretty bad since the beginning of the semester.”
After rainfall, potholes tend to form when the water disrupts the base material under the surface asphalt, creating a void. The asphalt can no longer support theweightoftrafficandpotholesdevelop. Apart from causing an uncomfortable ride, severe potholes have the potential to damage cars.
“Some student bent her rim and flattened her tire becauseof a pothole many years ago,” Jim Haines, the sports fieldsmaintenance manager, said.
“When you drove across it you could feel it in your teeth,” Haines said.
“This sounds silly, but I tripped because of a pothole once on my way back from Villa,” freshman Katy Stevens said.
Physical Plant temporarily repaired the potholesbyfillingthem in with asphalt. However, this treats only the symptoms, not the problem.
The real problem comes from how the parking lot was originally constructed, according to Haines.
“The main parking lot was built in the early 40s, when standards were lower,” Haines said. “They just scraped the ground and put the gravel on it. People were used to the rattling because they were driving Model T’s and stuff.”
Facilities and Construction Director Paul Luty told Haines that re-paving the unfinishedsection of the parking lot would
cost a little over $100,000, and they would try to get it done this summer if funding is available.
“When it comes to funding priorities on campus, it’s buildingsfirst,thenutilities,andthen asphalt comes last,” Haines said. “But things have been looking pretty good money-wise recently.”
Due to recent construction work at The Bauccio Commons and The Chapel of Christ the Teacher, the road leading there is also in need of repair.
NEWS4 March 24, 2011
1. March 11, 12:44 p.m. - A student reported an assault. Portland Police Bureau and Public Safety continuing investigation.
2. March 14, 11:19 p.m. - Public Safety responded to a noise complaint about a house in the 6400 block of N. Willamette. The renters were compliant, and they kept the noise down.
3. March 15, 7:24 a.m. - A student reported a theft from his vehicle parked in front of a University-owned house in the 5300 block of N. Willamette. The student was advised to cometoPublicSafety,andareportwasalsofiledwithPPB.
4. March 16, 3:16 a.m. - Public Safety contacted a suspicious person near the Chiles Center. The person stated he was picking up cigarette butts. He left the campus without any confrontation.
5. March 18, 1:10 p.m. - Public Safety responded to a medical call at the Bauccio Commons. A prospective student fell and turned his knee the wrong way. He was provided an ice pack and a knee wrap. No other medical action was taken.
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Potholes create problems for drivers
Error: cannot connect to server
On March 9, around 9 p.m., the University of Portland’sserverexperiencedtechnicaldifficultiesand was inaccessible for approximately three hours.
UP Systems Administrator Ming Qi was the technical support staffer on call that night. He received the phone call from Public Safety that the server was down.
“Thereweretwoserverswithall thefilesonthem,” Qi said. “One server was having problems, and we had to move the files to a differentserver.”
According to Qi, two servers are clustered together so that one is a backup for the other.
Paul Disbury, director of Information Technology,saysthatwhenthefirstserverfailsitis supposed to “fail over” to a secondary server, which is supposed to work in conjunction with the primary server to access the storage unit. None of this is supposed to be noticed by the user on the other end of the computer.
However, the access problem occurred when thefirstserverfailedovertothesecondarydrive.
Technical Support was aware of the server’s age, and the department has been in the process of movingfilesovertoanewenterpriseclassstoragedevice called Netapp.
“My goal is to completely decommission the LeftHand(thecurrentmainstorageunit)withina few weeks,” Disbury said. “I want to keep the Left Hand as a sand box to play in.”
In light of the recent accessibility issues, Disbury has sped up the estimated timeline for getting the new storage device up and running and to make sure all critical data is moved over to the new server.
Currently, Disbury’s technical group is in the process of moving over the U drive, which is the drive for faculty and administration.
“We should have the U drive moved over after the end of the weekend,” Disbury said.
ThePdrive,whereallofthestudents’filesarelocated, will be the next drive to migrate over to the new server. Completing this move should take about three weeks.
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“I didn’t mean to freak you out,” said a threatening man on the UP side of Willamette Boulevard while psychology professor Deana Julka was walking home from teaching her senior seminar class on Feb. 28.
This individual followed Julka for about three blocks after she crossed the street to avoid him. Eventually, Julka had to walkintotrafficinordertogetinthe light of passing cars to thwart the individual’s advances.
“Once the headlights were on him, he put this thing into the back of his pants,” Julka said.
Now knowing if the man had a weapon of some sort, she walked in the street with the lights of the car for a few blocks before running the last half block back to her house.
“Itwasdefinitelyfrightening,”Julka said. “I’ve been living in the neighborhood for 14 years and things like this happen.”
Despite the close call, Julka remains positive.
“I still do feel safe here,” Julka said. “I wouldn’t live here with my family if I didn’t.”
Incidents like what happened to Julka periodically call into question the safety of the University Park neighborhood.
UP offers services to help
students proactively stay safe. Public Safety holds a women’s self defense class in Mehling Hall at the beginning of each semester. Students are encouraged to call Public Safety for an escort if they find themselves in anunwantedsituation, and Public Safety Director Harold Burke-Sivers helps those who live off campus to protect their apartments and rented houses.
“I do written safety evaluations,” Burke-Sivers said. “Most of the evaluations I do aren’t university-owned houses.”
The best way to avoid dangerous situations might be paying attention.
“I don’t want people to stay in the halls because they are concerned about off campus safety, but students do need to be aware of the risks around,” Mehling Hall Director Holly Allar said.
Will Lyons Staff Writer
“I jog without earbuds in, in order to be aware of my •surroundings,” Julka said.“I carry pepper spray in my purse just in case,” sophomore •Hannah Kintner said.“Let people know if you’re going out alone,” Director of •Public Safety Harold Burke Sivers said.“Walk with your car keys in your hands. They can be a good •weapon in a pinch,” Mehling Hall Director Holly Allar said.
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A longtime Bon Appétit employee, Gwen Johnson, and her husband are still in the hospital after their car crashed into a tree near the University of Portland’s main entrance early March 20.
According to Johnson, who has worked in The Bauccio Commons for 11 years, her husband Phil was driving her to work around 6:30 a.m. when he fell unconscious behind the wheel.
“My husband had a stroke,” Johnson said. “It got out of
control. We hit a tree.”The Johnson’s station wagon
ended up at a 45-degree angle after it hit a tree next to the bus stop outside Shipstad Hall.
“There were branches laying all over the street, and it looked like the car hit the tree head on,” senior Christina Nelson said.
Nelson was driving back to campus from the airport on Sunday morning when she saw the aftermath of the collision.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, two calls were placed to 911.
Paul Hesser, a UP alumnus who lives across the street from the University, said the collision woke him up.
“I heard a loud thud,” Hesser
said. “When I heard the noise, I knew a car had been hit. “
Hesser said he jumped out of bed, put on his shoes, grabbed his phone and keys and ran out the door.
“I called 911 as I was walking to the car,” Hesser said. “When I got to the driver’s side of the car, I asked if they were OK.”
According to Hesser, Johnson said no, and her husband was unresponsive.
Both Johnson and her husband are being treated at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital. Johnson said she is bruised, and her injuries include fractured ribs and vertebrae in her neck. Johnson is expected to be discharged from the hospital today.
According to Johnson, her husband is in the Intensive Care Unit and is still unconscious.
Tamee Flanagan, a marketing manager for Bon Appétit, said Johnson will be taken care of.
“Abunchofus(atBonAppétit)are her friends,” Flanagan said.
“We will take care of her pets, groceries and rides.”
Flanagan visited Johnson at the hospital after the accident.
“We are so glad that no one was hurt,” Johnson said. “We are so sorry about that tree.”
Last Friday and Saturday, UP mechanical engineers got 13th place out of 35 teams in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)Aero Design West Competition in Fort Worth, Texas.
The “Co-ed Civilian Team,” composed of seniors Anastasia Borok, Alec Devereaux, Madeline Alanko and Rian Throckmorton, concluded a year filled withstruggle, creativity and triumph.
According to Borok, the annual SAE Aeronautics Competition brings together mechanical engineering students from across the country as well as international students to put their theories into practice by building remote controlled airplanes.
“We started designing the plane in late September and began building in October,” Borok said. “We had more than a couple of 15-hour days throughout the
building process.”Since this competition is also a
senior capstone project, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty adviser Dakshima Murty knows how important it is for them to own their work.
“They spend an enormous amount of time working on the project,” Murty said. “I’m only here to guide. It’s truly the students own work.”
The UP engineers designed andcraftedeveryspecificationofthe plane, except for the engine, which was streamlined for the competition in order to put all the teamsonanevenplayingfield.
“In the competition you had to useall natural, non-carbonfibermaterials,” Devereaux said. “For example, we used Balsa wood for the frame because it’s so light.”
Each member of the Co-ed Civilians built a part of the plane, and before winter break, they put all the pieces together.
“Interfacing everything was probablythemostdifficultpartof
the building process,” Borok, who constructed the main body of the airplane called the fuselage, said.
This semester the teams put the
finishingtouchesontheirplanes,composed papers for the written component of the competition and prepared their accompanying oral presentations before shipping the planes down to Fort Worth for the competition.
“ThankstoDr.Murty’sfluidslab last year we got second place on the written component of the competition because we got really good at writing reports,” Borok said.
After giving their oral presentation on the Friday of the
competition, the UP seniors were ready to see their planes take flightearlySaturdaymorning.Forfour hours, the Co-ed Civilians were unsure if their plane would be able to complete a single lap around the airstrip.
“On our first flight the planegot caught by a gust of wind and crashed into a tree,” Borok said. “The crash broke our propeller, tore the bottom of the fuselage and smashed part of the wing.”
After the crash, all the UP engineers worked together to try and get the Co-ed Civilian’s plane off the ground again.
“Both of the other UP teams dropped what they were doing to help us get the plane fixed,”Devereaux said. “We couldn’t have fixed the plane in enoughtime without them. It became a UP goal to get one plane off the ground.”
In the fifth and final roundof the competition, the Co-ed Civilians stepped up to the runway again.
“At this point, we were wondering if we were even going to bother fixing it if it crashedagain,” Borok said.
After a couple moments, the plane lifted off the ground and circumnavigated the airstrip before touching down for a clean landing, according to Borok.
“I almost cried,” Borok said. “I was so happy when it got off the ground.”
“I yelled, ‘We built an airplane!’” Devereaux said.
Withasuccessfulflightundertheir belt, the Co-ed Civilians slipped smoothly into 13th place.
“Just seeing what we made complete, its intended purpose was so gratifying,” Borok said.
With the competition complete, the memories of hard work paying off will always stick with the seniors.
“This whole experience is probably the highlight of my time at UP,” Devereaux said.
UP teamwork takes flightWill Lyons Staff Writer
UP mechanical engineers place 13th in competition after months of work and frustration
“I almost cried I was so happy when it got off the ground.”
Anastasia Borok, senior
On Thursday, March 10, Archbishop John Vlazny presented UP’s League of ExtraordinaryGentlemen(LXG)with an award from the Catholic Campus Ministry Association (CCMA), recognizing theprogram as an exemplary campus ministry program.
About 50 students and faculty members attended the event, which was held in the Terrace Room.
LXG was recognized with an award for “Facilitating Personal Development,” according to Director of Campus Ministry Josh Noem.
Each year, the Catholic Campus Ministry recognizes six campus ministry programs as exemplary programs. Programs receive the award for excelling in different areas such as forming
the faith community, educating for justice and developing future leaders, according to the CCMA website.
Stacy Noem nominated LXG for the award, and the program was selected from nominations from across the country, according to Josh.
“It is a huge honor for the program,” Josh said. “To be selected for this award, especially on a national level, is really incredible.”
LXG also received the May Dunn award in October from the Northwest Association of Student AffairsProfessionals(NWASAP).
The award recognizes campus programs that display innovative programming, according to Josh.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen began four years ago with a just handful of freshman boys as a way to get more men involved in campus ministry. Now over 70 students participate in the program, along with 14 faculty and staff mentors.
LXG is built on four core values and ideas: brotherhood, the search for truth, justice and service and exploration of authentic masculinity. Students are challenged to explore the question, “Who am I, and what do I believe?”
“Something that you discover when you start talking about ‘Who am I?’ is that you start talking about ‘Who am I going to become?,’” senior LXG member Jason Weeks said. “And that is what LXG is all about.”
Students are divided into small groups, which meet every couple of weeks to participate in conversation about their
experiences. “The beauty of LXG is that it
is so simple,” Director of Student Activities and LXG mentor JeromyKofflersaid.“Itisjustusguys being guys.”
In his brief address, Vlazny emphasized the importance of building meaningful relationships.
“They are not easy to form,” Vlazny said. “But they are essential.”
Vlazny also spoke of his childhood in Chicago, and how his move to Portland was made easier by the support of the community.
LXG gives UP’s men the opportunity to form deep, meaningful relationships.
“The LXG meetings were thefirst times I felt comfortablebeing open with other guys,” senior Nick Etzel said. “These are the guys I go to when I need to talk to someone.”
LXG recognized as exemplary programPortland’s Archbishop presented League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with a national award,
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The release of a new Radio-head album is as monumental in the music world as the election of a new pope is in the Vatican.
Strangely enough, there are only three things all Radiohead albums have in common: Thom Yorke’s hauntingly beautiful voice, the ability to be simultane-ously experimental and mentally enthralling and their extremely different styles.
“King of Limbs,” Radiohead’s newest (and in my opinion, best) album, sounded completely un-derwhelming the first time I lis-tened to it. I had pre-ordered the album two weeks prior and when I heard it came out a day early, I immediately cancelled the rest of my day’s plans. The first time the album’s short 37.4 minutes went by, I went through a mild depres-sion.
It’s not that any of the songs were bad, but rather that none seemed to live up to the hype.
Then I turned the volume up, the lights off, shut my blinds and listened to it a second time. That made all the difference.
The album isn’t only com-posed of songs, but of colors and sensations. It’s aurally adminis-tered LSD. Listening to “King of Limbs” may have been the holi-est experience of my life. I could imagine the Dalai Lama stepping down from being the spiritual leader of Tibet in order to become a Radiohead groupie after listen-ing to the album.
There are a couple tracks off the album that are required lis-tens to all non-deaf members of the UP community. “Give Up the Ghost” heart-wrenchingly showcases the ease with which Yorke stretches his vocal range. On the other end of the emotional spectrum, “Lotus Flower,” the catchiest goshdarn song since Elvis Presley shook his booty to “Hound Dog,” has the interesting side effect of pushing listeners to dance like epileptics during elec-troshock therapy.
On an intriguing side note, within 24 hours of the the album’s release (or, if you count time like
I do, after 38.5 runs through the album) an indie band out of Los Angeles called the ROBOTA-NISTS managed to cover the en-tire album, crazy basslines and all, and post it online. For free. It’s an interesting take. Yorke’s vocals, for example, are replaced by a chorus of unearthly female voices. It’s definitely worth the free, UP-compatible download.
As always, there are rumors that this is Radiohead’s last al-bum. Thankfully, the last song off the album, “Separator,” ends with Yorke crooning “If you think this is over/Then you’re wrong.”
I can’t wait for those heathens to be proven wrong.
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Cassie Passon’s prom dress is unique for two reasons: one, it doesn’t sit in her closet collecting dust. Two, it was free.
“The dress I got for senior prom is my favorite dress and I love it,” Passon said. “Anytime there is a formal event I wear it.”
Passon, a junior at UP, is one of thousands of girls who have benefited from Abby’s Closet, a local non-profit that collects used prom dresses and gives them to high school girls.
The organization started in 2004 when 18-year-old Abby Egland was packing to go to the University of Oregon.
“I was cleaning out my closet, and I got to my prom dresses. I wanted them to go to another girl,” Egland said.
Most girls agree that prom dresses are special. Even though it will never be worn by them again, they still want it to go to good use.
“(Abby) didn’t want to give it to Goodwill where some guy could pick it up and use it as a Halloween costume and trash it,” Passon said.
Abby and her mother, Sally Egland, came up with a solution: why not find a way to give the dress to a girl who needs it and who will cherish it? This idea gained momentum and mani-fested as Abby’s Closet, which is now organizing its seventh an-nual dress drive.
Egland estimates around 2,500 girls will get prom dresses from Abby’s Closet this year.
Abby’s Closet takes donations until the giveaway event. Pas-son is in charge of organizing all the college campus dress drives, including ones at Portland State
University, Marylhurst Univer-sity, Willamette University, Reed College and UP. There is a box in the Moreau Center where prom dresses will be collected until
March 25. The Orleans Candle Co. on Lombard also collects dresses year round.
According to Passon, UP stu-dents donated 16 prom dresses last year. Having benefitted from the event, she is passionate about the organization and what it does for young women in the Portland community. She encourages girls to donate dresses.
Passon still remembers going to the giveaway in high school.
“It’s a really long wait, but it is definitely worth it,” she said.
The event is set up like a store, with dresses organized on racks based on size and style. Volun-teers are available to help girls find the dress they need. To make sure the girls feel comfortable, all volunteers are women who are out of high school.
“High school girls can’t work at the event in order to avoid any ‘she saw me here’ issues,” Passon said.
Passon was not impressed when she first saw her floor-length black and white gown hanging on the racks she wasn’t impressed, but as soon as she tried it on she knew it was the one. She made it work even though it was a bit short.
“I wore flip-flops to prom so it would reach the ground,” she said.
Seeing girls find the right dress is one of Egland’s favorite things about Abby’s Closet. But
sometimes, she said, they get dresses that no one believes will find a home. She described one in particular.“It was like an eighties floor-length black lace and pink dress,” she said. “One of those dresses that we thought was so gross.”
Nonetheless, a girl tried it on and fell in love with it. In fact, said Egland, it even looked good.
“When she put it on, half of us started crying,” she said.
Egland now works full time at Nike, but she still makes time for Abby’s Closet.
“It consumes our lives, espe-cially right now,” she said. “It’s become part of what I do, so I’ve worked it in.”
Egland describes Abby’s Clos-et as “women helping women,” and she hopes that in the future more and more girls will get the whole prom experience from it.
Egland finds the work ex-tremely rewarding.
“You see the girl that picks your dress, and you know it’s go-ing to live on with new memo-ries,” she said.
What You Can Do?
• DonateyourdresstotheMoreauCenteruntilFridayorOrleansCandleCo.yearround.
• ThedressgiveawayisApril2-3attheDoubleTreeHotelnearLloydCenter.
• Gotoabbyscloset.orgformoreinformation.
Abby’s Closet by the numbers
• Thisyearistheseventhannualgiveaway.
• Lastyear,about2,100girlsgotpromdressesfromAbby’sCloset.
• Lastyear,UPstu-dentscontributed16dresses.
“The dress I got for senior prom is my favorite dress and I love it.”
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LIVING6 March 24, 2011
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You may have watched mov-ies with animated toys like “Toy Story,” and “Chucky,” but the School of Nursing brings a whole new meaning to dolls coming to life.
The School of Nursing’s
Learning Resource Center is home to two of the most lifelike dolls you will ever come across: high fidelity mannequins.
“They sweat, bleed, open their eyes, drool and have a heart beat and pulse,” Mary Oakes, the School of Nursing’s simulation program manager, said. “They even pee on command.”
These lifelike and technologi-
cally advanced mannequins have been used by the School of Nurs-ing since 2004. Each mannequin costs $84,000. Thanks to donors, the School of Nursing was able to obtain the mannequins to encour-age stronger learning in their pro-gram by providing students with a more realistic experience.
“They’re the same ones used by the military, medics and physi-
cians when it comes to training,” Oakes said.
Nursing students first meet these mannequins toward the end of junior year and will continue to work with them throughout their senior year. The School of Nurs-ing believes that junior and senior year students are ready to move on to the practice caring for real patients.
“As students learn more con-cepts and prog-ress in their learning, the functionality of the mannequins must increase,” Oakes said.
This in-crease means providing stu-dents with a more realistic experience.
“The high fidelity man-nequins show the actual symptoms we’re look-ing for in clinical settings,” Duke said. “You can do a more in-depth assessment.”
Besides being incredibly re-alistic, the mannequins also have multiple personalities.
The two mannequins play more than 10 different patients between them, ranging from a 70-year-old man who resemble Sean Connery to younger pa-tients like 3-year-old Kimberley Wright. Created by Oakes, the pa-tients’ profiles help add to nursing students’ experiences with each patient having a story to share.
“The nursing instructors have spent a lot of time developing each patient’s story,” junior Mad-eleine Lougee said. “It always adds humor to the experi-ence.”
According to Oakes, the patients’ per-sonalities and stories are es-pecially memo-rable. In fact, some students even talk about the patients they work with as if they are real people.
“Vernia has a really good sense of humor in case you didn’t know that,” Lougee said, talking about one of the mannequins. “She has great fashion sense, too.”
Though the mannequins are made up of nothing but steel, rubber, wires and computers, students sometimes get so lost in their lifelikeness that they forget
the mannequins are inanimate.“It’s so funny because they
do a good job when they’re in there because they’re worried they’ll hurt them,” said Septem-ber Nelson, director of the School of Nursing’s Learning Resource Center. “But they can’t. They’re mannequins.”
Yet, the way the nurses treat their inanimate patients shows
they are pre-pared to work with real ones.
“It warms my heart when we have a (simulated) patient and students will hold their hand or com-fort them,” Nelson said. “The caring behavior real-ly gets to me.”
M a n y nursing stu-
dents find the realness of the man-nequins to be helpful.
“You can train a lot quicker because you can actually prac-tice your skills,” senior Sarah Westbrook said. “They may not be alive, but it still gives you a chance to practice.”
However, some students have mixed feelings about their first experiences with the mannequins.
“It was nerve wrecking,” ju-nior Daniel Truong said. “I had to take it slow. But it will help me gain experience for the real thing and for the actual work.”
Senior Susan Toffler did not like working with the manne-quins at all.
“I strongly disliked SIM tests,” Toffler said. “They’re very stress-ful.”
On the other hand, Lougee sees working with these lifelike mannequins as an enjoy-able learning experience.
“The man-nequins are a fun, innova-
tive way to simu-late patient-nurse interaction,” Lougee said.
Despite the varied array of opinions, the School of Nursing believes working with the man-nequins is a valuable experience.
“I would say most students wouldn’t report it as fun before or during their experiences,” Nelson said. “But they do find it helpful afterwards.”
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Where
Immediate Left, Top: Senior Will Blowers at the Oregon Coast.
Immediate Left, Bottom: Ju-nior Jocelyne LaFortune photo at the Oregon Coast.
Far Left: Senior Roya Ghor-bani-Elizeh enjoying the coast with her Beacon.
Left: Sammie the dog and sophomore PJ Marcello hanging out in Seattle.
Right: Junior Joanna Goodwin celebrating her Grandma’s 94th birthday in Olympia.
Left: Freshman Will Lyons and friend, Julie Ainsbury, outside Pirate Cat Radio in San Francisco.
Right: Freshman Luke Riela on the coast of Mendocino.
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Above: Sophomore Kevin Kadooka at Saturday Market.
Left: Senior Megan Osborn on her front porch.
Below Left: Junior Jefferey Sanchez and Senior Roman Bonczek in their Haggarty Hall kitchen.
Below Right: Freshman Sarah Hansell at a local park.
Bottom Right: Sophomore Amanda Blas by the Voo-doo doughnuts truck in downtown.
Bottom: left Sophomore Scott Chia inside his car.
Over to the Oregon Coast
Planted in Portland
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A group from the E-Scholars program on the Great Wall outside Beijing, China.
Left: Junior Hannah Gray and friend, Jake Goicoechea, in Washington Square.
Above: (from left to right) Juniors Caitlin Yilek, Rosemary Peters and Hannah Gray on the New York subway.
Right: Junior Rosemary Peters outside Radio City Music Hall.
Immediate Left, Top: Senior Will Blowers at the Oregon Coast.
Immediate Left, Bottom: Ju-nior Jocelyne LaFortune photo at the Oregon Coast.
Far Left: Senior Roya Ghor-bani-Elizeh enjoying the coast with her Beacon.
Left: Sammie the dog and sophomore PJ Marcello hanging out in Seattle.
Right: Junior Joanna Goodwin celebrating her Grandma’s 94th birthday in Olympia.
Left: Freshman Will Lyons and friend, Julie Ainsbury, outside Pirate Cat Radio in San Francisco.
Right: Freshman Luke Riela on the coast of Mendocino.
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FAITH & FELLOWSHIP10 March 24, 2011
Be a man: join LXG
“Guess what? We’re walk-ing on water.” I couldn’t resist the admittedly corny joke. Deep cracking noises echoed through the ice as we strolled across the lake. The midnight Minnesota air nipped at our noses. Josh, Thom-as and I traded grins as the ice settled beneath us.
We were in Minnesota to represent UP at a conference on best practices for involving the college male. The purpose of the conference was to discuss and analyze the severe drop in male participation in extracurricular activities throughout the country. We attended to make a presenta-tion on our growing UP men’s group, the League of Extraordi-nary Gentlemen (also known as LXG). After the conference had concluded for the day, we seized the opportunity to explore the campus of St. John’s University.
Granted, strolling across ice several feet thick was not particu-larly hazardous. Still, the experi-ence provided a thrill that spoke to the issue we had been discuss-
ing all day: the problem of in-volving men in activities beyond the games Dungeons & Drag-ons or Halo. The men I know are starved for excitement and activity. That hunger can be ap-peased by a multitude of sources, as simple as a walk in the dark or complex as defending the galaxy from the Protoss and Zerg.
Perhaps men are thirsting for more excitement; more targeted and more engaging activities. LXG has undergone great expan-sion since its inception four years ago, making it an exciting time to be a man on our campus. For ex-ample, we are aiming to get men involved in service trips tailored to our groups, building commu-nity, and encouraging a safe but engaging environment of story-telling that leads to deeper re-flection and discussion about the truths that define our lives.
Service is an equally viable option for action. Over the past few years, we have encouraged gentlemen to get involved with LXG local service events at the Oregon Food Bank, Volunteers of America and the Downtown Chapel. We also played a role in planning this year’s Hunger Awareness Week by planning a campaign of writing letters to Congress for foreign aid policy reform. Our service experiences
have been full of fellowship and the joy of sharing our gifts with the Portland com-munity and the world.
One of the striking as-pects of the conference at St. John’s was that just be-cause the men gathered had serious issues on their minds, they did not become or behave any less like col-lege-aged men. Jokes were traded, ironies were enjoyed and friends were made. This, perhaps, is one of the aspects of a male personality that fuels the need for action: even in the face of serious tasks, we approach life with a uniquely male sense of hu-mor that leaves nothing un-touched.
LXG is reaching out in an effort to share that sense of humor with the entire UP campus through an event called Manquisition: on March 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the Villa Lounge, we will be grilling three promi-nent male role models from the university about their own mas-culinity, making them defend qualities about themselves that defy the stereotypes of the mod-ern man. In the style of Stephen Colbert and Monty Python, we will leave no stereotype un-turned. All are welcome and en-
couraged to enjoy our humorous examination of the modern man.
Creede Caldwell is a senior Mechanical Engineering major.
He can be contacted at [email protected]
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Villa Maria Hall Director Ben Helms and Villa Hall Assitant Hall Direc-tor Teige Weidner talking with members of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at a gathering in February.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’s Manquisition
March 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the Villa Maria Lounge
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Diversity in major: Where students diverge
UP was buzzing about diver-sity during the week of diver-sity dialogues. From accepting it to realizing there’s more to it than skin color, race and sexual orientation, Diversity Dia-logues Week had UP students engaging in diversity left and
right. With all this talk
about diversity, it made me think, why not talk about one of the biggest diversities we have on campus. Say, the often unrecog-nized diversity of majors?
Going to UP, we have the chance to pursue over 30 differ-ent majors, from accounting to biology to music to philosophy.
With such a selec-tion, you can imagine the huge diversity that exists when it comes to students’ majors. But the
sad thing is a lot of stu-
dents don’t
appreci-ate this diversity at all.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard someone criticize somebody else’s major with a comment like, “That’s your ma-
jor? You have it so easy!” or “You’re so lucky! You
don’t do anything in your major!” You’ve probably
heard it all before, and sadly, you might have even been the
person who was guilty of say-ing it.
But the next time you feel the need to judge someone else’s ma-jor, think about this: How much do you really know about their major? Do you know how much work they have to do? Or how much time they spend studying for it? How about what struggles they face in their major?
Do you know what they have to do to overcome them? More
than likely, the answer is no.There’s so much we don’t
know about other majors. The same goes for diversity, too. We don’t know about every religion’s beliefs or every culture’s prac-tices or every race’s customs, but
that doesn’t stop us from accept-ing them and appreciating their uniqueness and differences. This is because accepting diversity means choosing to not be igno-rant, especially when it comes to things we aren’t too familiar with. Why should it be any dif-ferent when it comes to diversity of majors?
Sure, differing majors isn’t even close to being a controver-sial subject when it comes to the discussion of diversity. But the bottom line is, it is still diver-sity and should receive respect and acceptance as well. After all, would you want someone to judge you simply because of your major? I don’t think so.
Embracing diversity doesn’t mean just accepting the big things; it means understanding that you should embrace the little differences as well. So if you can wrap your minds around embrac-ing the bigger differences, why not do one better and accept the little ones too?
Amanda Blas is a sophomore sociology and organizational
communications major. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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Here in the U.S. the major earthquakes that have happened in the past few of years have seemed far away from us. We may have contributed to chari-ties that support the relief effort or seen pictures on the news, but it is difficult to wrap your head around the devastation in places like Haiti, Chile and Japan.
For many of us, these are places we have never been and may never go, but the natural disasters that have occurred in these far-off destinations should teach us a lesson at home.
The lesson is old, and one the Boy Scouts have made immor-tal: Always be prepared.
Not to be Debbie Downer, but here in the Pacific Northwest we have reason to fear earthquakes like the one Japan has just expe-rienced.
The exact same type of fault line, called a subduction zone which caused the earthquakes in Japan and Chile, is present right here the Pacific Northwest.
This fault line would be the cause of what anyone who has taken Coach Bob’s natural disas-ter class knows as “the big one.” Namely a giant earthquake that has been expected to hit the Pa-cific Northwest for many years, one similar to the 9.0 earthquake that happened in this region 311
years ago. These large earthquakes are
usually spaced between 250 and 500 years apart from each other, so we are now in a window in which one is likely to occur.
It may surprise many who have seen footage of the recent devastation in Japan that the country was considered highly prepared for an earthquake of this magnitude. Japan is consid-ered an eight out of 10 in pre-paredness, while the U.S. is con-sidered a five.
Portland is one of many cit-ies with old buildings that are not retrofitted to withstand large quakes. According to The Or-
egonian, in 2010 half of Oregon schools were considered high risk for collapsing during an earthquake of large magnitude.
At UP, we should be taking as many precautions as possible, like bolting down large furniture that could shift in a quake. The school currently has an earth-quake response plan in place including stored food, water and supplies for up to three days.
UP has done well so far in preparing for emergency re-sponse. But they should go even further to ensure that all of the older buildings on campus are properly retrofitted to withstand a quake of great magnitude.
The fact is that in the last few years we have been given more than enough examples of the amount of devastation large earthquakes can cause. There is simply no excuse not to take action to make our city and our university as safe as possible, es-pecially given the region’s risk.
Despite the great amount of devastation that occurred in Japan, many more lives would have been lost had the country not been so prepared.
So instead of wringing our hands and talking doomsday about the risks, let’s prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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12 March 24, 2011 OPINIONS
“Are you wearing a purple scarf?”
I would later put it togeth-er what that question had been, but thanks to a heavy British accent, in that mo-ment I had no clue what I had just been asked on the phone.
So I spun around, looking for wherever the voice had come from.
The London Heathrow airport was huge, and here
I was searching for the ran-dom person I would be living
with for the next three months. Thankfully, my new host mom
saw me first. I couldn’t believe her house
when we pulled up. Quaint would be the polite way to describe it, but extremely small is more fit-ting. In a neighborhood of brick houses, 31 Potter Street is identi-cal to the one next to it.
Inside, I struggled to haul my huge suitcase up the very narrow stairway and around the very narrow corners. I soon realized that tight-fitting quarters are to be expected. The AHA London Centre, where I take my classes, is four skinny floors high and sandwiched between two other buildings just like it. I can tell that a rapidly growing popula-tion and not enough open space resulted in all buildings going up, as opposed to out.
A month later, accents and small spaces are only some of the million things to which I have ad-justed. London is spectacular and completely different from living in Portland. I am amazed with the variety London has to offer. There is every kind of ethnicity and culture. Each one has a pres-ence in the city: Brick Lane is known for its Indian
food and
com-munity, Chinatown is constantly busy and the Portobello road market is burst-ing with Scottish crafts and old American high school letter-men jackets. And of course the London-ers, in their pea coats and scarves, are everywhere. In such an international city, I can experience pieces of so many dif-ferent culture, and I am thankful for the opportunity.
Chaos dominates this city, pushing me past the point of ever slowing down. Between the rush of the morning commute, with people squished into every cor-ner of the tube carriages and the night scene that never dies down, it seems as if people never stop moving.
But I love it. I thrive on how hectic it is. At times Portland can’t offer me anything, but Lon-don offers me everything.
I am in constant awe of the history that permeates from ev-ery wall. Around the corner from AHA is the house Charles Dick-
ens lived in. I can see the Tower of London and Big Ben across the river Thames. Some build-ings still host scars from the 1940 bombing of London. In the center of Camden town is an old grave-yard that was transformed to a public park when it was threat-ened by the growing city. I love London for all the stories it can tell me.
It seems impossible to com-pare UP to school in London, yet in some small ways their features blur together. I am still required to do my homework, though the city is more tempting than prob-ably anything else could be. But the beauty in studying here lies in the chances to live what I am learning about. Never before have I been so immersed. After studying the complex workings of British Parliament, I am off to see the live debate. I can listen to a lecture on Enlightenment era
art, then go to the British National Gallery and
see all the paint-ings in the text-book. After read-ing a Shakespeare play, I am lucky
enough to then see it on the
stage. Yet still the
overall con-
cept is
the same. I have
great professors to learn from and motivated classmates to work with.
Though I hardly have time to miss anything from
home, I do envy the simplicity of Portland. The massive size of London can be overwhelming at times, and I have found myself missing how manageable Port-land is. And I miss the view of Mount Hood and the green grass of Cathedral Park down by the river. I miss casually playing in-tramural sports and hanging out in The Commons.
But all of those things will be there when I get back. For now, I couldn’t be happier in any city but London.
Laura Frazier is a sophomore English and history major. She
can be contacted at [email protected]
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“To pause time.”
Allie Rackerby, sophomore, engineering
management
Faces on The Bluff
By SCOTT CHIA Photographer
What would you choose as your super
power?
We asked:
“To be a jumper.”
David Lee, sophomore, mechanical engineering
“To read minds.”
Patrick Tomassi,sophomore,
mechanical engineering
“The power to heal anyone.”
Gabby Sucher, junior, psychology
“Be a Hawiian on command.”
Jordan Heintz, junior, mechanical engineering
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In my short semester and a half here at the University of Portland, I have been to exactly 14 off-campus house parties that have been shut down by Public Safety (and only two others that have been busted by the Portland Police Bureau).
See, I do think Public Safety is providing the entire campus community with a commend-able service by doing this. It’s downright inhumane to expose uneducated freshmen to the likes of Keystone Light, Miller “High Life,” or Natural Ice (pro tip: there’s nothing natural about it).
But there is a nationwide problem that we have to ad-dress, and it isn’t un-derage drinking. It’s the whole concept of “underage.” Can somebody please explain the logic be-hind our system?
When I turned 16, I was given a piece of plastic with my picture on it that gave me permis-sion to drive a two-ton slab of steel at 75-miles-an-hour. When I turned 18, I was deemed wise enough to spend my money on cancer-sticks (also known as coffin nails), to sign a lifelong con-tract with an organi-zation that would fly me around the world for the express pur-pose of killing peo-ple, to get married (in a ‘traditional’ marriage, but that’s another subject) and
to have a kid. However, it isn’t until my
hypothetical child becomes two years and three months old that I suddenly and magically become mature enough to see for myself how amazingly awful (yet un-questionably hipster) Pabst Blue Ribbon is.
That just doesn’t make sense.If you’re ever bored on a Fri-
day night and feel like a laugh, hang around in the lobby of your dorm with whoever is manning the front desk. Keep in mind that peak hours for drunk hunting are between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Hoardes of stumbling, disheveled freshmen (if they can figure out how the front door works) will come piling in within that key time frame.
We freshmen can be pretty stupid. Away from our homes for the first time, we’re respon-sible for everything from our
eating habits (beware the Cove’s chicken strips) to our grades and keeping our rooms clean(ish). College is a training ground for life, and, not to sound cliché, we learn more through our mistakes than through our successes.
This stigma against ‘under-age’ drinking has got to end. We have the highest drinking age in the world. The only country with a higher drinking age is Saudi Arabia (to the uninformed – al-cohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia).
I am a fan of how UP treats underage drinking. For the most part, the people who get caught are the people who do stupid things. The parties they shut down are, for the most part, too loud and too raucously obvious.
The reason the American col-lege system is world-renowned is because it gives people the chance to learn about how to function in the real world, under
the light-handed guidance of a benevolent administration.
Our drinking policies don’t fit in with that at all. I’m sure that we wouldn’t have had the whole Dance of the Decades debacle if kids didn’t feel the need to drink too much too quickly behind closed doors.
We wouldn’t have a Bluff-tumbler if drinking were seen less as a catalyst for fun and more as a guarantee of a terrible Sun-day.
Philippe Boutros is a freshman philosophy and political science major. He can be contacted at
PhilippeBoutrosStaff Commentary
Corporations are the problem
What is the biggest prob-lem with the world today? War? Famine? Oppressive Drug Laws? Poverty? Nay, it is none of these. It is the corporations!
They cause all the problems of the world. As long as corpo-rations are allowed to be corpo-rate and spew their products and materialism in the world, we will never be truly free from their grasp.
See, what corporate apologists don’t understand is corporations only care about is money and making a profit at the expense of
good, earthly people.Corporate greed takes over
society and tells us what is right and what is wrong. What they are really doing is spreading their corporationy lies and making more money. The more money they make the more corporationy they become. When that happens people get oppressed. They make laws, that are, like, supposed to be passed by our representatives but are usurped by money and corporate greed. You know what these laws are called? Corporate laws. Was your mind just blown? Mine was.
Now that we know the prob-lem, I bet you are wondering what the solution is. Prepare for some knowledge. This solution isn’t something that can be found on the shelves of any corporate supermarket or in some corporate factory. The solution is threefold.
First, we need to reorganize society in such a way that ben-efits everyone and not just the corporate fat cats. For starters, we can have these places where people come together and ex-change goods and services. Like, one person will grow food, and another person will take care of people when they get sick. And another could open peoples’ minds to the true state of affairs. Pretty mind blowing, huh? Now let’s expand on that idea for a bit. These people could, like, create a bunch of other utopias like this, and they can, like, exchange their goods and services with each other. It’s going to be huge!
Second, we just need to get rid of the means by which the corporations control our lives: money. Without money people could have as much stuff as they wanted. The corporations design
things that break so we have to buy more things. Without money we could just make things that work. Like, this way people, in-stead of exchanging money for goods, people would exchange, like, the most commonly ac-cepted commodities for goods. Without money the corporations would be forced to stop being so corporationy.
In conclusion, we have just laid out how we can effectively take down the corporate ma-chine. Without their money and with the implementation of uto-pias, we can create a better world free of their corporationy ways.
Only then can we implement our third step: legalize it!
Braden Behan is a senior me-chanical engineering major. He
can be contacted at [email protected].
A reasoned consideration for a new world order
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Reduce drunken ruckus: Lower the drinking age
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14 March 24, 2011 SPORTS
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Men’s Basketball
The Pilots dropped the opening game of the 2011 CollegeInsid-er.com Postseason Tournament to the Hawaii Rainbows last Tuesday, ending their season. It was the third time in a row the Pilots have lost in the fi rst round of the postseason, and the fi rst postseason victory since 2004 for the Rainbows. The Pilots graduate Luke Sikma, Kramer Knutson, Jared Stohl and Jasonn Hannibal this year.
Track
The Pilots began their outdoor season for 2011, competing at the Oregon Preview. Senior Dana Morgan recorded the top fi nish for the women’s team in the 3000m at 9:42.18, while Ju-nior Alfred Kipchumba recorded the top fi nish for the men’s team in the 3000m (and a top 3 fi nish overall), with a time of 8:29.52.
Men’s Golf Pilot senior Jake Wagner led the Pilots in last weeks Oregon Duck Invitational, shooting a team-best 217. Wagner was the only top-20 fi nisher for the Pilots, who fi nished 14th overall in the tournament. Next, the Pi-lots will travel to the Braveheart Classic, which will be held in Beaumont, Calif. April 11-12.
Women’s Golf
Last week the Pilots placed 14th in a the Lumberjack Shoo-tout, led by Pilot freshman Sara Banke, who shot a 232 and tied for 44th place in the tourna-ment. The Pilots will wrap up their season in Hollister, Calif., on April 18-19 in the West Coast Conference Champion-ships.
(courtesy portlandpilots.com, WCCsports.com)
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A handful of grunts and sighs are heard around the Tennis Cen-ter at the men’s tennis practice. Under it all, with any missed shot or inadequate hit, unintel-ligible Spanish phrases expel out of Alex Ferrero in fi ts of athletic frustration.
Born in Almeria, Spain, 1991, his life has always been focused on tennis.
“I started playing when I was 10 years old because my dad plays,” Ferrero said. “I played with him and that is when I de-cided I wanted to be a pro-play-er.”
The route he took to making his dream a reality was different from the path others may have taken in the states, but he was driven to succeed.
“When I was 17, I joined a high level group of 10 guys that traveled all around Europe to different tournaments,” Ferrero said.
Back in those days, Ferrero lived and breathed tennis.
“I completed high school on-line so I could focus on tennis, but now there is a big difference. This is harder because I have to change my mind between tennis and school,” Ferrero said.
The combination of school-work and sports may be some-thing he has never really expe-rienced before, but Ferrero says he has been working hard to stay motivated.
“It is a really hard thing to go to practice all day and then have to write a 10-page paper when I
don’t want to do it, but you just have to do it anyways,” Ferrero said.
Head coach Aaron Gross and assistant coach Henry Oldham discovered Ferrero the same way everyone seems to be discovered these days: the Internet.
“Oldham is Spanish-speaking so that created communication through email,” Gross said. “We researched his results, got emails from recruits and were able to see how he did in pro-tournaments.”
Even Gross said that he has made a fantastic adjustment.
“He started mid-year, and he could have chosen to come in with the idea to adjust to the team or adjust the team to him,” Gross said. “He adjusted well and didn’t need any special treatment even though this is his fi rst time living in a new country.”
Despite only joining the team in mid-January, Ferrero has as-similated nicely to his new sur-roundings, thanks to the support that he gets from the rest of the team.
“Before, on my other teams, you would just think about your-self, you would even compete against your other teammates. I just had my coach for support. But here, we are thinking about everyone and cheering each other on,” Ferrero said.
Fellow teammate, Geoff Her-nandez, is proud of his new dou-bles partner.
“He came in, right off the bat, ready to fi ll the role very well,” Hernandez said. “He is doing a great job at working with Aaron to improve aspects of his game.”
Ferrero is new at doubles but he is excited about the new expe-
rience it is giving him.“I prefer singles better, but I
am starting to like doubles,” Fer-rero said.
Hernandez loves when they get the opportunity to play to-gether too.
“I think our big and little contrast fi t together well, we are always yelling and screaming in Spanish, always supporting each
other. It’s really fun,” Hernandez said.
The team considers the addi-tion of Ferrero to the UP team to be great and are interested to see how he will continue to progress.
“He just has to keep compet-ing,” Hernandez said. “He is so great now as a freshman, I can’t imagine where he’ll be as a se-nior.”
Joanna GoodwinSta� Writer
Featured Pilot of the Week: Alex Ferrero
who started in the Pilots fi rst game, said the evacuation took a toll on the team.
“No one got a good night sleep, and it was hard to focus with all the distractions,” John-son said.
The effects were apparent ear-ly in the Pilots’ second meeting with Hawaii. The Pilots didn’t recover after giving up four runs in the fi rst, despite holding the Runnin’ Rainbows scoreless in the last seven innings.
The team was able to return to their hotel before the third game of the series, and the good night’s
sleep proved to be a much needed one.
The Pilots trailed 5-1 go-ing into the seventh inning, but scored nine runs in the last three innings to grab their second win of the series, beating the Rain-bows, 10-7.
“It was really nice when things calmed down and we real-
ized there was no real danger. For a minute we were all a little wor-ried, and the whole thing was a big distraction,” Johnson said.
Aside from baseball, Melby added it was nice to be able to en-joy the Hawaiian paradise.
“We always get excited about the Hawaii trip. I mean, its spring break and it’s Hawaii. So it was relieving that we were still able to enjoy all the things Hawaii has to offer,” Melby said.
The Pilots fi nished the series 2-2 after losing the fi nal game on a Hawaii walk-off homerun in the 10th inning.
The team then returned to the mainland to face Air Force in an-other four game series.
The Pilots lost all four games.Portland’s home game against
Concordia was postponed due to rain and is being rescheduled.
The Pilots were scheduled to face Seattle University in a two- game series on Friday and Satur-day, but due to a weather forecast that calls for rain, the Pilots will begin the series today at Joe Etzel Field.
They will still play on Friday.
Continued from page 16
Joanna Goodwin | THE BEACON
TSUNAMI: UP Baseball surges on
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When senior Matt Mardesich’s class was asked who had the most exciting spring break story, his hand quickly shot up.
“I survived a tsunami,” Mar-desich said.
While the baseball team was in Hawaii facing the University of Hawaii in a four-game series, a 9.0 earthquake hit the coast of Japan, sending Pacifi c coastlines into a panic.
After news of the quake reached Hawaii, state offi cials forced residents on the coast to head to higher ground. The Pilots were staying in a hotel on Wai-kiki Beach. They left the hotel after being there for only hours
and headed to sophomore J.R. Bunda’s house, located further inland.
The Pilots found out about the quake after their fi rst game, a 5-1 win as sophomore right-handed pitcher (RHP) Chris Johnson al-lowed only two hits in seven in-nings.
“We started hearing about the earthquake from the parents after the game but didn’t realize how serious it was until we got back to the hotel,” Johnson said. “Then we started hearing police sirens and were soon told we had to leave the hotel and head to higher ground.”
Many of the players had to sleep in a nearby church and and had to improvise their sleeping arrangements.
“I used pew cushions as a bed, an old couch cushion as a pillow and a cushion as a blanket,” soph-omore Jeff Melby said. “Needless to say, I didn’t get a very good night sleep.”
While no physical damage came of the warnings, Johnson,
After reaching their school re-cord 3rd straight 20-win season, the men’s basketball team lost to Hawaii in the opening round of the CollegeInsider.com Postsea-son Tournament.
The men’s team traveled to Oahu for the tournament where they faced the University of Ha-waii in the opening round. The Pilots led for much of the fi rst half, but a late 25-12 run put the Warriors up 38-32 at half. From there, the Warriors kept the lead, ending the game in a 76-64 loss for UP.
“It was a learning experience. As a team it was nice to go to Ha-waii but we are disappointed with the end result and we have to use it to grow and get better for next year,” junior Nem Mitrovic said.
Coming into the game, the Pi-lots were shooting an impressive 41 percent from beyond the arc. However, against the Warriors the Pilots struggled and only hit 35 percent from three point range.
According to the Pilots, though they came home with a loss, they have a lot of great memories from the season and a lesson from the tournament that will leave them hungry for next year.
“This is the third year in a row that we have made it to the post-season and the third straight year that we lost in the fi rst round of a tournament,” junior guard Eric Waterford said. “We want an-other opportunity and a different outcome.”
Overall, the Pilots believe they overachieved this season and are happy with the progress they have made over the past few years.
“A lot of people thought this would be a rebuilding year for us. We take pride in the fact that we aren’t just a team with a couple good seasons,” Mitrovic said. “It’s nice to see the program get-ting some respect. When I was a freshman, this was a considered a small school without much tradi-tion. It’s changing, and I’ve been able to witness that change.”
Next year’s seniors are look-ing to make history by being the most successful class ever for Pi-
lots basketball. “If we have a good fourth year
we’ll be the fi rst class with no losing seasons,” Waterford said. “The program has come a long way and we want to work hard our last year because we have big goals.”
The accomplishments of the past three seasons have re-defi ned Portland’s basketball reputation which has garnered the attention of both media and recruits.
The Pilots will be losing se-niors Jared Stohl, Luke Sikma, Kramer Knutson and Jasonn Hannibal this year. To replace them the Pilots have a strong recruiting class this year led by three star prospect Kevin Bailey (whose highlight video is must-see material), three point special-ist David Carr and power-forward Dorian Cason.
“We have some key pieces to fi ll next year and we’re excited about the freshman class from this year and the new incoming class,” Mitrovic said. “Whether it is a freshman or a returner, we’re going to need people to step up and we’ll fi nd out who those peo-ple will be.”
Pilot baseball goes 2-2 against the Hawaii Rainbows after a tsunami scare evacuated their hotel
Bruce GarlinghouseSta� Writer
PJ MarcelloSta� Writer
Pilots deal with tsunami, Rainbows in Hawaii
Hawaii sends Pilots packing early, team looks to young players, recruits
See Tsunami, page 15
Pilot of the Week Alex Ferrero is a di� erent
type of tennis athlete Page 15
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