Vol. 115, Issue 4September 19, 2013

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Today Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will make an appearance from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Chiles Center. He will speak with professors Gary Malecha and Bill Curtis in this Garaven-ta Center sponsored event. The event is free and open to the pub-lic.

Tickets are not required, but the Marketing department estimates 45 minutes to make it through security clearance.

According to a student announcement by Associate Vice President for University Relations Laurie Kelley, the University expects more than 1,000 attendees.

Thomas will also be present at UP’s Red Mass at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher along with the current Archbishop of Portland Alexander K. Sample. The Red Mass is a Mass celebrated annually in the Catholic Church for the legal community. The Mass is also free and open to the public.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak on campus today

Sarah HansellNews Editor

hansell14@up.edu

Photo Courtesy of the Garaventa Center

Lightning strikes bell tower, fries computers and phones

Nastacia VoisinStaff Writer

voisin15@up.edu

A bolt of lightning struck the Bell Tower last Sunday around noon, causing a campus-wide power-surge that affected computers and telephone connections.

On Monday, departments and individuals across campus reported phone or electronic failures to the Technical Services help desk. At least 35 help desk tickets were registered as of Tuesday.

St. Mary’s Student Center and the Chapel of Christ the Teacher bore the worst of the

surge due to their proximity to the Bell Tower. Campus Ministry, ASUP and Student Activities temporarily lost all phone service. At least two computers – both Macintoshes – and a phone will need to be replaced.

Junior Marissa Birmingham witnessed the lightning strike from Bauccio Commons.

“There was a really bright light through the window,” Birmingham said. “And then a crash of thunder that was really loud, right after.”

According to Dallas Korn, UP’s network and telecom specialist, the Bell Tower

functioned as a lightning rod, channeling electrical pressure through UP’s underground data and phone cabling. The surge mainly affected the older campus phone service.

Korn says desktop and phone outages resulting from storm activity is unprecedented at UP.

“I’ve been here eight years, and we’ve had some lightning strikes, but nothing this bad,” Korn said.

Information Services has been working since Monday morning to restore the damaged systems and all campus desktops and phones should be functioning.

Kelsey Thomas | THE BEACON

On Campus

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MOREAU CENTER IMMERSION TRIP

APPLICATIONS DUE

Friday Sept. 20: Application for the Rural, Civil Rights, Nicaragua and Food Justice Immersions due

CPB MOVIE Friday Sept. 20 and Saturday Sept. 21: “Pacific Rim” is showing in Buckley Center Auditorium at 10 a.m.

PILOTS AFTER DARK

Friday Sept. 20: CPB Coffeehouse at St. Mary’s Lounge at 10 p.m.

Open Mic Night at The Cove at 11:30 p.m.

Saturday Sept. 21: Zumba, Hip Hop, Jazz and Oula Dance at The Cove at 10 p.m.

KDUP MGMT CD Release Party at the Cove at 11:30 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

Saturday Sept. 21: 4x4 Beach Volleyball Tournament at Shipstad Hall from 12-4 p.m. Winners will receive 4 Blazers tickets, and best-dressed team will also receive a prize.

HOW TO WORK AN INTERSHIP FAIR

WORKSHOP

Monday Sept. 23 and Tuesday Sept. 24: in Career Services in the lower level of Orrico Hall at 1-1:30 p.m. and 4-4:30 p.m.

FALL INTERNSHIP FAIR

Wednesday Sept. 25: In Franz from 1-4 p.m.

RETIRED PROFESSOR READING FROM HIS

WORK

Wednesday Sept. 25: Louis Masson is reading from his work in Mago Hunt Recital Hall at 7:45 p.m.

On CampusNEWS2 September 19, 2013

Last Thursday students and faculty gathered in the Buckley Center Auditorium for Spanish professor Kate Regan’s film, “Trekking with Quijote” - the first event in UP’s new International Film series.

“I admire the great filmmakers of the world,” said Regan. “I want to use filmmaking to enhance my teaching.”

A scholar, writer, traveler and avid enthusiast of Spanish culture, Regan has found filmmaking to be a novel way to impart knowledge to her students.

“I didn’t like the traditional way of education,” Regan said. “I wanted to find another way of engaging my students.”

“Trekking with Quijote,” Regan’s most recent film, is also her first focused on Spanish literature.

“I wanted to make a film that would not only speak to students, but I also wanted to make a film that would speak to people who are interested in Spain,” said Regan.

The film presents the experiences of Spanish families who have passed the 1605 novel, “Don Quijote a la Mancha,” an important piece of Spanish culture, down through many generations.

“I truly enjoyed watching the film including the questions that

were asked to readers of ‘Don Quijote,’” junior Baris Inan said.

Regan’s passion for filmmaking is not a new development. When Regan was a child, she found over 1,500 feet of film her father had made of family videos. She fell in love with her father’s camera and movie projector in high school and started making videos of her classes.

After the camera broke down shortly after receiving it, she put filming aside. But 14 years later,

Taking text to the screenSpanish professor Kate Regan presents her own film for UP’s new international film series

W.C. LawsonStaff Writer

lawson14@up.edu

UP’s International Film Series

UP’s new International Film series, sponsored by UP’s Collaborative for International Studies and Global Outreach, will feature works focused on international travel and research by filmmakers in the UP and local Portland communities.

Fall semester 2013Sept. 12: “Trekking with Quijote” by Kate ReganNov. 19: “Nicaragua Experience” by Jeff Kennel and Vail Fletcher

Spring semester 2014 (dates TBA)Jan.: “Walking the Camino” by Lydia SmithFeb.: “Filming Overseas” by Jeff KennelMarch: “Les voyageurs sans trace” by Ian McCluskeyApril: Student film festival

Kristin Garcia | THE BEACON

Spanish professor Kate Regan explains her film “Trekking with Quijote” before its showing in Buckley Center Auditorium. This is her third full-length film.

Starting this year, the Shiley School of Engineering will transition toward a new curriculum to give students more flexibility and make it easier for them to pursue other fields of study. The School is changing its curriculum in three major ways: opening up electives in non-engineering fields, rearranging the capstone course and creating a common first-year engineering experience.

Sharon Jones, dean of the School of Engineering, said flexibility was the main goal of making changes.

“We wanted to provide more flexibility for the engineering students to take other courses that would further their professional interests, but weren’t necessarily courses in their exact major,” Jones said.

Prior to the changes, students in the School of Engineering were tightly bound to the course requirements for their major, preventing them from pursuing many electives in other fields. Jones said the changes in requirements will allow students to focus more on their

professional goals by allowing them to take electives in other disciplines to create a more specific skill-set.

For example, a mechanical engineering major interested in biomechanical engineering could take extra biology classes to specify their focus.

“We wanted to free up a little flexibility so the students could do a little customization,” Jones said. “So the students have an opportunity to take part in other wonderful programs that the University has that they weren’t able to before.”

Sophomore Max Robinson, a computer science major, said he preferred the stricter curriculum.

“I like the rigid structure, because they tell me ‘You’re taking these classes,’” Robinson said. “It keeps me more focused. And fewer choices make it easier when it comes to Registration time.”

Most students won’t have to adjust much to the new changes. Freshmen entering the engineering program will be immediately under the new curriculum, and upperclassmen will finish their track without

Jin Yun | THE BEACON

Sharon Jones is the dean of the School of Engineering. She hopes to provide engineering majors with more flexibility with the curriculum and requirements changes.

Engineering changes give students more freedomChanges in curriculum and requirements in the School of Engineering give students more flexibility

Lydia LaytheStaff Writer

laythe16@up.edu

See New engineering requirements, page 3

See Filmmaking professor, page 5

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Alongside excited freshmen and their nervous parents on move-in day was an equally eager group of people: upperclassmen. Unlike their younger neighbors, these upperclassmen have previous Residence Life experience and are choosing to remain on campus.

Staying on campus is beneficial for those who don’t want to worry about taking the trash out on time or creating the dreaded chore chart. While their off-campus counterparts are learning the do’s and don’ts of North Portland neighborhoods, these upperclassmen are lingering a little while longer, prompting Residence Life to take another look at the value of upperclassmen living on campus.

Residence Life Director Christopher Haug believes upperclassmen choosing to stay on campus benefits not only the older students, but the entire UP population. Though moving off campus can help one develop life skills earlier such as cohabiting with roommates and dealing with difficult landlords, many students are taking advantage of the skills and perks one can receive on campus, like security, utilities, laundry rooms and free cable.

“It benefits all of us as a community,” Haug said.

Though the new Residence Life director pointed out the benefits of living off campus, he firmly believes that the sense of community on campus is one of the most important elements of students choosing to remain on

campus. “My vision of residential

education is one where we’re providing students an experience where they feel connected to a small group of people, very closely, so that they can then learn a lot of those skills that we all need to be good neighbors to each other when we do move off campus, and to be good colleagues when we’re in the workplace,” Haug said. “Honestly the most important thing is so that we learn how to treat each other.”

Junior Sarah Weedin said that her choice to stay on campus in Mehling Hall was about community and enjoying the on-campus lifestyle.

“You’ve got the rest of your life to be off campus,” Weedin said.

She admits that it is also about delaying the difficulties of real life for a little while longer and enjoying the luxuries unique to on-campus living.

Kenna Hall resident Dorothea Nguyen said living on campus allows her to have relationships with all students and serve as a role model. She also chose to remain in the halls due to convenience.

“It’s more convenient for me, and also since you’re on campus you’re in the hubbub of things,” she said, “And I have two campus jobs already, so it’s just easier.”

Jake DePledge, a junior ROTC Haggerty Hall resident, has stuck with student housing because of his ROTC scholarship like many of his neighbors. DePledge also appreciates the “homey feel” he gets from remaining close to his friends. Unlike off-campus housing, residence halls guarantees one to live side-by-side his or her peers.

Residence Life welcomes all upperclassmen but addresses the fact that when more upperclassmen choose to live on campus, the typical residence halls will need to rethink living situations.

Haug explained that with more students living on campus, Residence Life has the opportunity to create memorable,

unique experiences that will make more students want to live on campus.

“How can we make the residence halls feel less cookie cutter-ish and more gourmet?” Haug said. “We have the opportunity to make every residence hall feel unique.”

Residence Life hopes future expansion projects on the River Campus will encourage more upperclassmen to find a home in new residence halls. In the meantime, Residence Life challenges the current hall directors to create an identity connecting all classes for students to latch onto.

Beyond the living benefits of residence halls, upperclassmen that stay also have the opportunity to help UP create an identity, mold traditions alongside their younger hall mates and help the university expand. The lingering upperclassmen use their final years on campus as an opportunity to grow up with The Bluff and spend a little bit more time protected from the problems of the real world.

As Nguyen puts it, “I’ll get there eventually.”

Upperclassmen opt for longer stay on The BluffResidence Life sees many advantages to upperclassmen staying in the residence halls

Becca Tabor | THE BEACON

Junior Sarah Weedin sits in her Mehling Hall room. She enjoys the community aspect of living on campus.

Becca Tabor | THE BEACON

Junior Dorothea Nguyen sits in her Kenna Hall room. She finds living on campus more convenient partly because of her two campus jobs.

Sierra HuittStaff Writer

huitt15@up.edu

“How can we make the residence halls less cookie cutter-ish and more gourmet? We have the opportunity to make every residence hall unique.”

Christopher Haugdirector of Residence Life

much change. Sophomores may be the only ones to experience much change, as some of the course changes may affect the classes they’re taking this year. The biggest change that affects current students is the consolidation of several courses. Where previous students would’ve taken two sections of a class on a certain topic, now students will only take one section.

Junior Nicolas Boesé, a mechanical engineering major, said he would’ve explored an additional minor or major had the

curriculum allowed when he was a freshman.

“At this point, I don’t have many options for getting a minor,” Boesé said. “But had the program been in place before, it definitely would’ve been a factor that would’ve edged me toward getting another major.”

Students in the School of Engineering are required to do a capstone project their senior year, which is a group project to demonstrate the culmination of all their studies. Now, students will be required to take a class their junior year that prepares them for the dynamic and challenges of the capstone

project. The new course will teach students ethics, leadership and presentation skills.

Junior Mike Hector, a mechanical engineering major, said the capstone course change is helpful for students who are unsure of their focus.

“I think it’s a good idea,” Hector said. “The sooner you can get started on the senior project, the better.”

Boesé said the course will be helpful in preparing for his capstone.

“It’s giving us a chance to practice the sorts of skills we’ll need in our capstones before we actually have to use them,” Boesé

said. “It’ll be nice to have a course that’s specifically designed to provide us with the sort of support, feedback, references, tools that will hopefully help us be better at executing what we need to – and eventually land us a job.”

Prior to the changes, freshmen were required to select their focus (mechanical, civil, electrical or computer science) by the spring semester of their first year. Jones said that wasn’t enough time to learn what each focus was about. A new scheduling system will fix first-year courses so that each freshman takes the same set of courses.

This common first-year schedule allows students to learn about each focus before they choose one and pushes the deadline for choosing a focus to the fall semester of their sophomore year. Jones said the changes will allow students to make informed decisions about what area of engineering they want to pursue.

Boesé said he feels confident in the School of Engineering changes.

“I trust the judgment of our deans,” Boesé said. “If they’re making this change, it’s for the better.”

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1. Sept. 13, 11:01 p.m. - A staff member reported an intoxicated student lying behind Villa Maria. AMR responded and the individual was transported to Emanuel Hospital.

2. Sept. 14, 8:08 a.m. - Officers located a suspicious vehicle outside of Kenna Hall. Officers located the individuals associated with the vehicle. They were not UP students and were subsequently trespassed for possession of items prohibited on campus.

3. Sept. 15, 12:53 a.m. - Officers made contact with a group of students attempting to access River Campus. They were advised they could not do so and were compliant.

4. Sept. 15, 5:32 p.m. - Officers made contact with a suspicious person by Bauccio Commons. The individual had previously been trespassed from campus. Portland Police Bureau also responded and the individual was arrested.

5. Sept. 17, 10:23 a.m. - A student reported a theft from their vehicle while it was parked behind Christie Hall. A report was taken and investigation remains open.

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Fall Cultural Fest welcomes West African-themed band

Parker Shoaff | THE BEACON

The West African-themed band Dusu Mali plays for the Fall Cultural Fest. The festival was sponsored by Multicultural Programs and International Student Services, and fea-tured arts and crafts, food and information about multicultural clubs on campus.

ASUP announces 2013-2014 SenateSenators for 2013-2014

Freshman Class SenatorsClaire KenneallyAnthony NgAlan KneplerSophomore Class SenatorsDavid ZabinskiLondon BallardJunior Class SenatorsJosh ClearyBrenagh SanfordSenior Class SenatorsAnndres OlsonCollege of Arts and Sciences Senators

Matthew BaerSamatha DelucchiSharon CortezTyler BeyerleinPamplin School of Business SenatorBrooke MurphySchool of Education SenatorSarah WeedinShiley School of Engineering SenatorsParker HalcombReece TeramotoSchool of Nursing SenatorsKaile ErhartCharmaine Tano

Christie Hall SenatorAnthony MontoyaCorrado Hall SenatorErin PuetzFields Hall SenatorTennessee LaPorteKenna Hall SenatorNerissa LemonMehling Hall SenatorsGrace HolmesJennessa OffuttSchoenfeldt Hall SenatorAlexander DillardShipstad Hall SenatorAlex KennisonVilla Maria Hall Senator

Killian MustainHaggerty/Tyson Halls SenatorMatthew SutherlandOff-Campus SenatorsJohn Julius MuwulyaSamantha van den BergMariah WildgenAndrew BosomworthBryan Chipman

Open Senate Positions2 Senior Class SenatorsInternational Student SenatorNon-Traditional Student Senator

Yesterday’s election welcomed 33 new senators to ASUP but left four positions empty

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There are no worries about noise complaints being filed for this year’s fall dance. It will be a silent disco, where the music comes through headphones each student will be given for the duration of the dance. The dance will be a held on a covered event deck at Jeld-Wen Field, the home field of the Timbers and the Thorns, Portland’s professional soccer teams.

The dance will be Oct. 5 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., and tickets will be on sale Sept. 30 through Oct. 4 for $15. Students are allowed to bring a guest with a valid ID.

The idea for a silent dance stemmed from last semester when Castro and the previous CPB director wanted to have a dance at Jeld-Wen Field.

“We really wanted to have our fall dance there because Jeld-Wen Field is just such a huge thing for Portland. It’s the soccer stadium, the Timbers play there and our school is so big on soccer,” Castro said.

Because Jeld-Wen Field has a noise ordinance after 10 p.m., the dance committee had to come up with a creative way to keep the noise down.

“One of the ideas was to have a headphone disco,” Castro said.

The only issue with a headphone dance was trying to find enough headphones within the dance budget. Through one of UP’s dance contacts, the committee was able to secure 750 headphones for the dance from a company called Headphone Disco.

At the dance there will be two different setlists played over the wireless headphones, which will be controlled by a disk jockey.

“Students will be able to ... listen to either station,” Weekend and Late Night Programming Coordinator Eric Luke said. “There will be one dance floor, two stations.”

Buses will be available to pick up students outside of Buckley Center and transport them to and from the event. The first bus is scheduled to arrive at 8:30 p.m. and will continue to pick students up from UP until 11:30 p.m. After that, the buses will only return students to campus.

The lower level of the event deck where the dance will be held will have an area for students who are 21-and-over only, as well as an area with no alcoholic refreshments and a socializing area.

When the idea for a silent dance was first suggested, CPB officers were a little unsure.

“Some of them were a little hesitant,” Castro said, “But after we showed them promotional videos and things like that they ,were like ‘Oh! That’s kind of

cool!’”Luke had seen people dancing

with headphones on at dancing venues before and he was a fan from the start.

“When I was traveling in Europe, I saw a couple of guys with headphones on dancing and

it was separate from (what) the DJ was playing,” he said. “It just looked like so much fun. They were doing their own thing. I thought it was great. (The dance is) going to be fun!”

The sound of silence: CPB to host silent discoThis year’s fall dance will be a silent disco at Jeld-Wen Field

Rebekah MarkillieStaff Writer

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Photo Courtesy of Sam Schelfhout

A covered event deck in Jeld-Wen Field is the site of this year’s fall dance. Jeld-Wen is the home field of Portland’s Major League Soccer team, the Timbers, and National Women’s Soccer League, the Thorns.

while teaching and working on her doctorate in Spanish culture and literature in 1992, she picked it back up, using film in projects with her students to make classroom skits.

While taking the first group of UP students to Segovia, Spain for the Spanish study abroad program in 2003, Regan found an opportunity to work with Segovians who researched their ancestry to share the history and culture of Segovia. Instead of pursuing her original plan of translating texts from Spanish into a book, Regan chose to use filmmaking to dig into the history of medieval Spanish culture. In 2005, Regan completed her first film, “The Sephardic Legacy of Segovia: Pentimento of the Past.”

“If you scratch the surface of a medieval town, you’re going to hit into some history, and all of this history has been covered up,” Regan said.

In January 2006 Regan began working on another film project called “Fiesta Remos.” This film focused on singer Judy Frankel and her role in Sephardic Jewish culture and musical tradition in Segovia. After four days of gathering footage, Regan went back to Portland to begin editing the project. A year later she realized she needed more

material, but her beloved friend, Frankel, had been diagnosed with cancer. With 90 percent footage, Regan connected with Frankel one last time to complete the film.

“The gift in this film was the chance to meet and work with Judy Frankel,” Regan said. “And even though we only knew each other for a short amount of time, thanks to her generous spirit we created a beautiful bond.”

Regan said that the showcase of her latest film, “Don Quijote,” was an amazing experience last Thursday, and wanted to thank everyone who came out and supported the film. The film will be used in the “Don Quijote” Spanish class this year.

“I feel like Dr. Regan did a very good job capturing the cultural importance of ‘Don Quijote’ in Spain,” senior Katie Chale said. “I enjoyed the the stories that the cast had to share about their experiences with the book.”

Although Regan doesn’t necessarily want to make a career out of filmmaking, she feels that it is a great medium to engage her students in a way that writing cannot.

“I am very much coming to peace with how I am using film,” Regan said. “Teaching will always be a part of my filmmaking.”

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For incoming freshman, the threat of the dreaded “Freshman 15” can cause anxiety and stress. For junior Brenagh Sanford, a misunderstanding of the dreaded Freshman 15 lore magnified her anxiety.

“I thought it was the ‘Fresh-man 45,’” Sanford said. “I was really scared to come to college.”

It turns out she wasn’t the only freshman who was misin-formed. A study, “The Freshman 15: A Critical Time for Obesity Intervention or Media Myth?” by Jay L. Zagorsky and Patricia K. Smith, busted the myth by finding that, on average, freshmen gain between two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half pounds during their first year at college. Rather than putting on 15 pounds in one year, students gain weight gradually over their four-year college ca-reer: around seven to nine pounds for women and 12 to 13 pounds for men.

Campus dietician Valerie Ed-wards knows from her own re-search and experience that the Freshman 15 is a myth.

“It’s so much in our popular

culture that everyone’s terrified,” Edwards said. “I see a lot of peo-ple who are really worried about gaining weight.”

The term was first coined in the September 1989 issue of Sev-enteen Magazine, giving advice on “Fighting the Freshman 15.” Since then, the term and the anxi-ety that comes with it have per-meated popular culture.

For many students, this anxi-ety may stem from changes the move to college brings, such as the transition from home-cooked meals and organized activities to managing personal meals and ex-ercise plans.

“I came from dancing 20-plus hours a week in high school and then swam on a swim team too,“ Sanford said. “I have always been super active, but it’s always been planned activities.”

For freshman Francis Stretch, the transition from home-cooked meals to dorm room and campus

food has been difficult.“It’s like having to do it

myself, and not wanting to go through the whole process of thinking what I want and making it,” Stretch said.

Despite the stress of this change, Edwards sees college as an opportunity to establish a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This includes balancing nutrition and exercise with school and work in a way that cultivates a healthy lifestyle during and beyond col-lege.

According to Edwards, the pay-per-item system at the Bauc-cio Commons and The Cove may contribute to healthier Pilots. The system leads some students to consider the food and portions they choose before buying. For some, including Sanford, it may be one of the deciding factors when it comes to choosing UP over other schools with an all-you-can-eat model.

“My other top choice was Car-roll College … they have buffet style,” Sanford said. “But here, coming in and having to buy ev-erything, that’s going to make me pick and choose instead of having everything.”

However, freshman Madison Case still sees the ease and avail-

ability of food as a difficulty.“I feel like I’m eating more

now because the portion sizes are huge,” Case said. “It’s just easy to get food and I don’t have to cook it, it’s just right there.”

Despite the debunked myth of the Freshman 15, Edwards said it is important for students to build healthy nutrition and exercise habits. The Health Center is one

place for students to get informa-tion and evaluate their habits.

“We try to focus more on is your eating in balance, is it going in an extreme, one way or anoth-er?” Edwards said. “And how can we find balance in that? We just try to be holistic about it.”

Horse Feathers seems to have an affinity for churches. I saw the indie folk group play a few years ago at a church-turned-venue in Pullman, Wash., and last weekend during Musicfest Northwest they played at The Old Church. But when I saw them last Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver, it fit especially well. Like a Unitarian church, Horse Feathers’ music is full of ambigu-ous holiness.

“Of fickle faith / cynics that seethe, how their children are cursed, / cursed to believe,” front-man Justin Ringle sang out near the end of the set, while violins and percussion swelled around him. Ringle’s lyrics tend to ex-plore tensions between faith and doubt, cynicism and utter beauty. At Friday’s concert, the univer-sal appeal of these tensions came through as a crowd of young, bearded Portlanders and elderly, bearded Unitarians from Van-couver sat together, rapt in the complexities of Horse Feathers’ music.

The band swept its viewers up into heights of emotion, from the joy of the reeling “Belly of June” at the beginning of the set to the suspense of the quiet, ominous verses in “Better Company.”

They’ve built a bigger sound

since last time I saw them per-form, having traded in their cellist for a bassist and sparse percussion for a full drum set. The changes kick the volume up a little and push the band in a slightly poppi-er direction. But Horse Feathers’ sound is still there, the gentle vo-cals, nuanced string arrangements and dry, precisely picked acous-tic guitar melding into a dynamic wall of sound.

That unique sound is what makes Horse Feathers so excit-ing. In 2013, we have plenty of pseudo-folky indie pop bands, but not many real folk groups doing innovative things with old traditions. Horse Feathers is one of those few bands, and their cre-ativity and impressive musician-ship shines through especially well when they play live shows.

If you have a chance to see Horse Feathers play anytime soon, do it. Or even better, wait until you can see them play in a church where their music will fill up a dimly lit sanctuary with its odd worship.

-Philip Ellefson

Maggie SmetStaff Writer

smet14@up.edu

“I thought it was the ‘Freshman 45.’ I was really scared to come to college.”

Brenagh Sanfordjunior

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Horse Feathers’ new album “Cynic’s New Year”

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Rappers make their rhythmStudents find expression, bonding and career possibilities through rap music

Photo courtesy of Andrew Sims, Hypable

No, I’m not J.K. Rowling you.Author and venerated magic

master J.K. Rowling has recently announced, with Warner Bros. productions, that a screenplay based on Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is in the works.

“Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the ‘Harry Potter’ series, but an extension of the wizarding world,” stated

Rowling in the press release.Let the Potterhead squealing

commence!Published in 2001, the 42-

page Hogwarts textbook is writ-ten by the fictional wizard Newt Scamander, former head of Hog-warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It gives an A to Z guide of the many creatures and mon-sters that roam the magical world as well as their safety classifica-tions.

Mentioned before in the books, Scamander’s adventure starts much earlier than those of Harry, Hermione and Ron.

“The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the ‘Harry Potter’ books or seen the films,” Rowling said. “But Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway.”

Not only does this screenplay revive the Potter universe like a phoenix from the ashes, another recent announcement about the Harry Potter theme park has ex-cited Potterheads.

The Wizarding World of Har-ry Potter in Orlando, Fla. is set to expand in Spring 2014 with new theme park additions.

“We’re opening a second ‘Harry Potter’ attraction in Or-lando which I think is one of the most creative ideas I’ve ever seen in the theme park business ... ” said Steve Burke, CEO of Com-cast, the company that owns Uni-versal, in a statement regarding the expansion.

The announcement of both theme park developments and the highly anticipated screenplay brings hope to the millions of “Harry Potter” fans in the world that thought the franchise could

go no further after the release of the last movie in 2011. Thank-fully, Rowling and Warner Bros. are willing and excited to satisfy fans and give us at least one more look into the amazing wizarding world.

So grab your Firebolt broom-sticks, start re-watching and re-

reading all things “Harry Potter” and find out which house you belong to because the “Harry Pot-ter” franchise is returning to the muggle world to enchant us all once again.

-Sierra Huitt

Alex Gatewood and Nate HarrisGIZ’s Lyrics:“It’s just one man one chance trying to make some his-tory sometimes young minds think that no one’s listen-ing.”“We’ll rise up to the top and get it where they get it done cuz you only live once so let’s get it while we’re young.”

KDUP performance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdprZ8GXVISoundcloud channel and free downloads - https://soundcloud.com/gizrpYouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/alexgate-woodTwitter - @Gizrp

Ryan and Gina Garaventa

The Baker’s Bunch Lyrics:“I went out in the snow. I got my Christmas tree. Chop-Chop timber, this tree’s as big as me.”“I dip it, I dunk it, I never woulda thunk it, this food be so good I’m movin’ my mouth just like a Muppet.”

Ryan is also part of a band, Brette and Blake, which can be found on Spotify, Facebook, iTunes and Bandcamp. Their album “Hi-Five” is for sale for $5 on Bandcamp.com.http://mydarlingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hi-five

Megan LesterStaff Writer

lester15@up.edu

Photo courtesy of Ryan and Gina Gatewood

Siblings Ryan and Gina Garaventa started rapping together on a whim and formed the rap duo, The Baker’s Bunch.

Photo courtesy of Alex Gatewood

Senior Alex Gatewood hopes to pursue music as a career. He works with producer and fellow senior Nate Harris.

The University of Portland is recognized for its women’s soc-cer team, its Fulbright successes and its commitment to service. What potential Pilots won’t find in the brochure, however, is UP’s dedication to rap music.

Freestyling may not actually be the most popular pasttime on campus, but there is a surprising amount of hip-hop music being created by Pilots on and off The Bluff. Whether they are pursuing a musical career or just blowing off steam after class, several stu-dents turn to rap as a preferred medium of expression.

Alex GatewoodIt’s the second quarter, the

game is tied, and senior Alex Gatewood, a defender, may be found freestyling while waiting to go on the field.

“I freestyle on the bench sometimes when I’m not playing (soccer),” Gatewood said. “And at practice all the time.”

Gatewood even raps in the offense’s ears at practice, mak-ing his teammates laugh during a scrimmage.

A marketing major, Gatewood hopes to work in the music indus-try one day. Gatewood writes all his own lyrics, and with producer and senior Nate Harris, makes music under the name GIZ.

“My nickname always has just been GIZ … I play soccer here at school, that’s what they call me on the field,” Gatewood said. “It kind of just stuck and I wouldn’t be true to myself if I didn’t go by that.”

Gatewood and Harris, an op-erations and technology man-agement major, met last spring through their respective music.

“We linked up last spring when we formed the band Anach-ronda, which eventually led me to making his beats for GIZ,” Har-ris said. “We both realized that we could complement each other musically and decided to give the rapper/producer duo a shot.”

Between soccer, E-scholars, class and music, it can be hard for Gatewood to find a balance.

“It’s hard to do school and play and also make music,” he said. “All my free time goes to balancing the student-athlete stuff and music.”

Gatewood expresses this sen-timent in the first minute of his song “Chairmen Meow:” “They ask me how I do it, keep it bal-anced keep it tame, while I’m writing term papers rather fly a paper plane.”

Gatewood and Harris are working on a mixtape to be ready in mid-October and hope to have a concert around the time of the release.

“We’re going to try to get a space that a lot of people can

come to. I want to get more stu-dents here. I just want people to know this kind of thing is going on (at UP). We’re a private, Cath-olic school and you can’t really see this kind of music coming out and I think it would be awesome if people knew that it was hap-pening,” Gatewood said. “I think it would encourage more people to do it.”

Ryan and Gina Garaventa“Yo, G, I got a fat beat,” ju-

nior Ryan Garaventa called to his sister in their parents’ home in Salem, Ore. Freshman Gina Garaventa glanced at her brother tacitly.

It was almost Christmas, and

the Garaventa siblings had joined forces, creating the rap duo known as The Baker’s Bunch.

“Rapping definitely helped us bond,” Ryan said. “We became re-ally close over a two-day record-ing session (that December).”

The Baker’s Bunch’s music is often food-related, singing about topics ranging from baking to French dip sandwiches. Their first collaboration, “PAM,” may be considered the anthem for non-stick sprays:

“I don’t bake much, but when I do it’s dope. My devil’s food cake would even please the Pope.”

The Garaventas don’t take

their flow seriously but they are genuine in their love for one an-other and their happiness at being brought closer together through rap.

For months the siblings have been hard at work on a massive rap project, one that has extended to their entire family.

“We rap for our family. We’re working on a Christmas rap,” Ryan said. “There’s six of us to-tal, six kids, and we each have a verse in it. It’s to a pumped-up beat of Jingle Bells.”

Entertain MeJ.K. RowlingScreenplay

Biology professor Tara Maginnis is an expert at the Crab Walk.

Not the party game that involves walking on hands and feet with stomach flipped toward the air. No, Maginnis is the owner of Crab Lab, a research fa-cility in Swindells Hall. Saturday, Sept. 27, the Crab Lab is opening its doors for the annual Crab Walk, an open house for the community.

Though party games are not in store for the event, expect to find research students pointing out various marine life. Interactive tanks will cover every inch of spare space.

“I want UP students and staff to know this (lab) is here. Because there’s no windows, they have no idea what’s in this room!” Maginnis said.

Working as research assistants this summer, seniors Kate Bates and Tai White-Toney know the lab well. Along with Maginnis, the trio studied limb loss and regeneration in crabs.

“We had 150 crabs at a time this summer,” White-Toney said. “It was beneficial to learn how to keep them alive too!”

There was more to the job than merely making sure the crabs were kept alive and well. Bates and White-Toney worked closely together. When Magin-nis was out of town one week, they imi-tated predators such as birds to test the effect of predation on the crabs.

“The gulf sounds (we used to mimic predators) were kind of the most obnox-ious things!” Bates said.

Granted a great degree of indepen-dence, Bates and White-Toney spear-headed their own experiments under Maginnis’ direction. Such self-driven research is rare among undergraduates, particularly at non-research universi-ties.

“What’s the point of saying, ‘Here are your instructions … Go!’” Magin-nis said. “The point of this (internship) is for them to be creative, figure it out: fail, succeed. This has prepared them to do research anywhere that has an ani-mal facility.”

Because of their resiliency, crabs have proved ideal candidates for re-search. The crabs are used in freshman biology courses in addition to others taught by Maginnis. More sensitive species would not be able to sustain the fluctuations to their environment or the many hands that work with them.

Maginnis is undeniably passionate about her work.

“I have questions to keep me busy for 30 years!” Maginnis said. “The field of leg loss and regeneration is huge.”

Crabs won’t be the only animals

showcased at the Crab Walk. Snails and an octopus named Po will also be on display.

Found accidentally on a trip to Oceanside, Ore, Po is the Crab Lab’s first octopus.

Bates and White-Toney are teaching her tricks, such as how to open a jar.

“Maybe by the 27th she’ll be able to open it!” White-Toney said.

The Crab Walk will take place Sept. 27 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Swindells Hall 128.

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Walk it outThe Crab Lab invites the community to meet their aquatic guests at its annual Crab Walk

Photos by Becca Tabor | THE BEACON

The Crab Lab is home to more than just crabs.

(Above) Senior Tai White-Toney holds one of the many Crab Lab specimens. (Below) White-Toney and senior Kate Bates stand with professor Maginnis in the Crab Lab. Bates and White-Toney were hired as summer research assistants for Maginnis.

Erika MurphyStaff Writer

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College: there’s an app for that

Mint: Free - available on iOS and Android. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this app, which acts as your personal financial adviser. Sync up your bank accounts to your phone or tablet and Mint will keep tabs on how much money goes to rent … or late-night Taco Bell runs. Plus, it budgets your money and sends you reminders when bills are due.

Wunderlist: Free - available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. To quote a friend, Wunderlist is wun-derful! For those of you who just can’t live without lists (and lists for your lists), Wunderlist organizes all of the things you need to do in one place. It also sends you helpful re-minders when things are due, and you can prioritize all of your lists. You’ll never forget when that history paper is due, or to buy extra chocolate at Fred Meyer for midterms week.

SkyDrive: Free - available on iOS and Android. Backing up your files is super important because you never know when Murphy’s Law is going to rear its ugly head, leaving your computer useless and you on the verge of tears. SkyDrive can help

with that. Send your important docu-ments to that lovely Cloud in the sky with SkyDrive and access them from any of your devices.

Spotify: Free - available on iOS and Android. A lot of people might prefer Pandora, but Spotify lets me listen to exactly who I like, rather than throwing a bunch of random art-ists into my mix that I “might” enjoy too. All you need is a Wi-Fi connec-tion, and your personal soundtrack is ready for doing homework, working out - whatever your heart desires.

7 Minute Workout: Free - avail-able on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. I always complain about wanting to exercise and not having enough time, but with the 7 Minute Workout app, my excuses fall as flat as my future abs (hopefully!). The app takes you through 12 short exer-cises for seven minutes per session, making your heart pump just enough so you don’t have to feel guilty about the cookie (or three) you ate earlier today.

UP Library: Free - available on iOS. One of UP’s best kept secrets is

that the Library has an app! It’s been available since last year, but has been a bit under the radar since its release. You can search the catalog, contact librarians, renew and request items and scan ISBN numbers to see if the library has a book you just stumbled across in Powell’s.

EasyBib: Free - available on iOS and Android. After writing your huge term paper, the last thing you want to do is spend more time figur-ing out how to cite your sources in Chicago Style when all you know is MLA. Download this app, and your troubles are over. Simply scan the barcode of a book and it will create a citation in perfect APA, MLA or Chi-cago Style and send it to your email.

CalcMadeEasy: Free - avail-able on iOS. It’s been three years since I’ve last taken a math class, and while I’ve definitely forgotten quite a bit since then, I haven’t forgotten the burning anger of being forced to buy a $100 scientific calculator which I would never need again after that class. This app, that can perform the same calculations as a scientific cal-culator, would have seriously come

in handy then.

IMDb Trivia: Free - available on iOS. One of my favorite ways to unwind in college is watching TV or a movie. I think it’s safe to say I’m not alone in this. But when you’re in the middle of a huge study ses-sion and only have five minutes for a break before the nose goes back to the grindstone, check out IMDb Triv-ia. Put your encyclopedic knowledge of movies, TV and celebrities to the test, compete against your friends and learn even more random facts about “Game of Thrones” or “The Walking Dead.”

Pivvot: Free - available on iOS. I have found my new study-break addiction, and its name is Pivvot: a captivating game that tests your logic and sense of timing. All you do is piv-ot to the left or right on your phone or tablet to avoid obstacles as your target travels down a winding path of beautiful shapes and colors. It doesn’t sound super exciting, but trust me on this one. I might never put my phone down now.

If you take a gander around the UP campus, you will see a peculiar sight: a person shuffling along the sidewalk with glazed eyes, not realizing where he or she is walking, totally absorbed in the small digital rectangle in his or her hand.

Multiply that sight by roughly 3,000, and you’ve got a good por-tion of the UP student body that is glued to smartphones, iPads, Kindles - you name it. In this digital age,

how else are we supposed to plan our schedules and social lives, stay up to speed with the latest celebrity drama, manage our school assignments and listen to that new singer who’s climb-ing the charts?

I did my homework this week and scoured the App Store for apps tailor-made for the life of a college student. From music and money management to gaming and graphing calculators, here’s a taste of what’s out there.

Kathryn WaltersCopy Editor

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If you haven’t been fully ini-tiated into the Catholic Church, I’m inviting you to consider it. Three sacraments mark entrance into the Church and they are truly beautiful: baptism, the Eucharist and confirmation. Water, oil, can-dles, robes, bread, wine, family, friends: the experience of initia-tion into the Church is sensual in the best sense of the word. Catho-lics don’t simply profess their be-lief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; we feel it in our bones. We consent to being taken into something ancient and mysteri-ous and we do so with the help of others at every step of the way. We mold and shape our minds, bodies and hearts all at once. Along with all this, as adults, we thoroughly prepare for the life-altering experiences of the sacra-ments.

For non-Catholics, we offer an amazing year-long process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA).

Whether you’re unbaptized or have been part of another Chris-tian tradition, you can have a group of students and staff ac-company you on a journey to receive the sacraments at Easter. Through a combination of doc-trine and spiritual experience, the RCIA consistently transforms people into women and men on fire for God. Over the course of the year, members of the RCIA will dive into Scripture at Mass, learn about central Catholic doc-trines from theologians and stu-dents and find themselves being directly mentored by a commu-nity of faithful men and women. RCIA will meet each Sunday afternoon and culminate with a Mass of epic proportions on the night before Easter.

For those who are already Catholic, but have not completed their initiation with the sacra-ment of confirmation, we offer a program just for you. Over the course of the school year, you will meet a handful of times to-gether. The adult confirmation program is designed to refresh and strengthen a faith that is al-ready present. You will find that, as an unconfirmed Catholic, you are not alone, and that God calls you closer to Him at this place and time. You will join a commu-

nity to walk with you. You will learn what it means to call your-self a Christian man or woman in a difficult world. In turn, it will empower you to participate in Church ministries in a new way. Confirmation will be celebrated in its fullness by the Archbishop in April.

Through Sacramental Prep at UP, learning to be a Christian is

not just a matter of intellectual assent. Instead, it is a process of becoming the person God cre-ated you to be. This process in-volves participation of the whole person in concert with the whole community. If you are at all inter-ested in receiving any sacrament in the future, please get in touch with us as soon as possible – no final commitment necessary to

ask. It’s not too late to join either group this year! If you are inter-ested in either option or just want to find out more, email me at paz@up.edu or drop by the Cam-pus Ministry office in the Pilot House any time.

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Administering the sacrament of confirmation, Fr. Gary Chamberland pours Sacred Chrism, a fragrant oil blessed by the local bishop, on the head of Kevin Su, senior, during the Easter Vigil in April 2013. Kevin Chung, sophomore, waits for his turn with his sponsor, Anthony Bedoy, senior, at his side.

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Daily updates from the Syria crisis have largely turned the U.S.’s attention away from our country for the last couple of weeks (and rightly so). But im-portant things are happening at home, too. Just before the cri-sis overseas began, President Obama laid out a set of proposals for U.S. higher education reform that could change the way Amer-icans pay for college.

Obama’s plan aims to lower the cost of higher education, especially for middle-class stu-dents, and for the most part, it is good for students across the country. But because it misun-derstands the value of education, the plan is problematic, especial-ly for liberal arts schools like UP.

The plan succeeds where it most directly aids students – helping pay for college and eas-ing the impact of student loans. Under the proposal, government investment in Pell Grants would double (a growth already under-way). The plan also increases the amount of tax credits middle-in-

come families can get for higher education.

The proposal’s new take on student loan debt is also positive, assuring that no graduate will have to pay more than 10 percent of his or her monthly income for loans. It would also cancel student loan debt after 20 years, making sure college debt isn’t a lifelong burden.

But Obama’s plan for reduc-ing prices of tuition is misguided.

On the surface, the Race to the Top: College Affordabil-ity and Completion challenge sounds good. It provides incen-tive for keeping tuition down by

giving more aid to schools and states that keep costs low while producing more – and more suc-cessful – graduates. This is a necessary step to take, now that the assumption at all universities is a yearly tuition increase.

The problem with the plan is that colleges and universities receive aid according to a rat-ing system that places the wrong type of value on education. One of the criteria for the rating is the average salary of recent gradu-ates, so a school with wealthier alumni receives more federal aid.

This value placed on mon-etary success misses the point of education. It reinforces the idea that a college degree is merely a stepping stone to more money, not a path to a better, more in-formed life. The plan places little value on liberal arts degrees, as-suming that because they don’t lead to high-paying jobs, they aren’t valuable to society at large.

Obama’s proposal, there-fore, does not bode well for UP, where some of the most popular

majors – nursing, biology, Span-ish – lead to lower-paying jobs for recent graduates than, say, engineering. If the plan goes for-ward in its current state, UP will likely not receive as much aid as schools focused on engineering and computer science degrees.

Of course, the average sal-ary of graduates is only one dimension to the proposed rat-ing system. Schools will also be rewarded for providing more scholarships for students, some-thing UP does increasingly well as the RISE campaign helps re-

duce student costs.Still, it is discouraging to see

the federal government devalue the liberal arts education that we at UP so firmly believe in. If the government is going to reform the way we pay for higher edu-cation, it should stop thinking of education as something that can be measured by a yearly salary.

Obama’s higher education proposals are hit and miss

A taste of injustice: the price of unpaid internships

Some evenings I set aside my textbooks and papers and work out a few simple sums.

Basic math: add, multiply and subtract, subtract, subtract. I fiddle with the numbers. I ask myself “What if?”

What if I found a third job? What if I took out more loans? What if I spent less, slept less and worked harder?

Yet no matter how I calculate, I simply cannot afford to work more than 20 hours a week with-out pay while attending univer-sity.

Internships are traditionally a part of the career building pro-cess in that they offer hands-on experience and valuable connec-tions. These two assets appar-ently justify using students as free labor. The logic runs thus: If students are gaining instead of giving, they don’t need to be paid a dime.

This summer a Manhattan judge decided otherwise in a rul-ing that found Fox Searchlight guilty of breaking employment laws by not paying production in-

terns on the set of “Black Swan.” A slew of high-profile organiza-tions – including Condé Nast, Warner Music Group and The New Yorker – have also recently come under fire for not meeting legal standards for unpaid intern-ships.

My generation has been ac-cused of being over-privileged, and I have encountered the opin-ion that unpaid internships are something of a privilege we are too arrogant to appreciate. They are a rung in the ladder of suc-cess, and just like loans or bor-ing retail jobs they have been endured by past, successful gen-erations who dealt without moan-ing.

Clearly, it’s not the system that’s unfair. It must be that we’re too lazy to work for free.

But being unwilling to work up to 50 hours a week without any compensation is not laziness.

Nor are these unpaid internships a “taste of the real world”. They are a taste of injustice. And it is an injustice that is perpetuated in part by students like me.

With tuition costs rising and government loans set to double next year, I do not have the lux-ury of forgoing wages for months at a time. But like most career-focused college students I have a vested interest in padding my résumé, and while not accepting an unpaid internship means less exploitation, it also means less exposure.

I worry that the unforgiving competition of the media indus-

Nastacia VoisinStaff Commentary

See INJUSTICE, page 13

“Being unwilling to work up to 50 hours a week without any compensation is not la-ziness. Nor are these unpaid internships a ‘taste of the real world.’”

Nastacia Voisinjunior

“This value placed on mone-tary success misses the point of education, reinforcing the idea that a college degree is merely a stepping stone to more money, not a path to a better, more informed life.”

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Civil Rights Immersion provides insight

Tadeu VellosoGuest Commentary

Going into my sophomore year of college, I was under the assumption that I lived in a land of equality. I had studied the Civil Rights movement briefly in school and somehow had come to the conclusion that I lived in a post-racial world where the only people that didn’t succeed were the people that didn’t work hard enough. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and lived in Portland; I had never seen racism for myself. I wanted to explore this idea of race and racism so I applied to go on the Civil Rights Immersion through the Moreau Center because I knew that they went to Alabama and Louisiana and I wanted to finally see first-hand the racism I knew existed in our society. I did see racism while on the trip but it wasn’t in-dividual acts of racism. I saw, or allowed myself to see, systemic racism for the first time. I saw injustices that were present in my whole life.

After the trip I was confronted with the reality that I was not liv-ing in the society I thought I was living in. One of the hardest parts about going on a trip like that is trying to grapple with what my

next move should be, and I grap-pled hard. I tried to talk to my friends about it, but within the confines of privilege it was hard to explain to them that there was more in our own country than they, or even I, knew. Racism and Jim Crow never died, they just got a new face. Redlining, lack of funding to low-income public schools, mass incarceration and the “war on drugs” were all ex-amples of how I was not living in the post-racial world I thought I was living in. I was beginning to question the world around me. Unfortunately race, class, gender, sexuality, religion and ethnicity still matter. As much as we would hope they wouldn’t, they do.

This year, my friend Emma Masi and I get the great experi-ence of leading a group of UP students to Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana to talk about these issues in the context of the historic Civil Rights move-ment, but also in the context of our modern lives. If you want to discuss these issues and learn with us then you should apply for the Civil Rights Immersion, which will be taking place in May 2014. Applications are due tomorrow Sept. 20 and the ap-plication can be found on up.edu/moreaucenter.

Tadeu Velloso is a senior organizational communication major. He can be reached at velloso14@up.edu.

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FACESby Becca Tabor

What are you listen-ing to?

Ryan Garaventa, junior, environmental ethics

and policy

“‘I Appear Missing’ by Queens of the Stone Age.”

Mariah Wildgen, sopho-more, political science

“‘Wake Up Everybody’ by John Legend.”

“‘Vanilla Twilight’ by Owl City.”

Julia Gullikson, fresh-man, biology

T Tran, senior, nursing

“‘No Destruction’ by Foxygen.”

on The Bluff

Jeffrey Fang, junior, biol-ogy

“‘Red Camaro’ by Keith Urban.”

try will render my call for fair pay meaningless. I worry that if I do not have enough internship-forged connections, job opportu-nities will pass me by.

Employers move toward an unpaid internship model not for the benefit of students, but to dodge federal minimum wage laws. Internships of the unpaid variety can be found in abun-dance, and our tolerance of them

speaks ill of our nation’s com-mitment to fair pay, economic equality and workplace welfare. This practice of churning people through a system of uncompen-sated labor for their first profes-sional experience is indicative of the increasing dehumanization of the ever more competitive work-force.

I watch the activism of stu-dents and organizations who are attempting to up-end the flawed internship culture, and I stand in

solidarity with their intentions. Yet come spring, I will be hunt-ing for an internship – paid or unpaid.

I have done the sums, and I cannot afford to refuse an unpaid internship.

Nastacia Voisin is a junior communication studies major. She can be reached at voisin15@up.edu.

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INJUSTICE: Unpaid internships unfair

Airstrikes unlikely to end atrocities in Syria

Megan ParkerGuest Commentary

There is no bigger politi-cal water cooler talk going on today internationally than the debate over whether or not the U.S. should send airstrikes into Syria to attempt to end the mass killings of Syrian people using chemical weapons.

Conditions in Syria have re-cently caught international at-tention with the information that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been using chemical warfare to exterminate groups of Syrian people that oppose his reign. The U.S., Britain and France all took up ideas of using military action to put an end to these terrible atrocities.

After the British Parliament denied the idea of striking Syria, even after the emotional, empow-ered speech delivered by Prime Minister David Cameron, the U.S. public has shown little sup-port for the idea of another mili-tary invasion. While Obama has the power to make this decision unilaterally and deploy airstrikes to Syria if he sees fit, he chose to step back and leave the deci-sion to the people. Yielding his unitary power back to Congress to decide was a strategy used by

Obama to remove himself from the fire that would no doubt be aimed at the U.S. due to this im-portant decision.

If Congress votes yes on us-ing military strikes on Syria, the blame will not fall on the presi-dent, as heat from the interna-tional community would likely descend on our government. If it votes no to the airstrikes, then Obama can publicly say that he wanted to go forward and stop the atrocities in Syria, but that he supports our robust democracy and must bend to the will of the people.

With a very split government on the Hill due to the Republican House of Representatives and the Democratic Senate, this de-cision will be of huge debate in the coming weeks. In this case, I would have to agree with the anti-airstrike group including Republican Senator Ted Cruz, in disagreeing with the president’s plan of attack.

I disagree for a few reasons.

First, the public’s enthusiasm for military involvement in in-ternational conflict has deflated, leaving little support for more participation in these types of happenings. This case is neither a direct threat to our national se-curity nor is it endangering U.S. citizens. While this may sound unsympathetic, it is merely a practical reflection of the public sentiment regarding military in-volvement in more conflict zones.

Second, while Assad’s actions are deplorable and should be con-demned, this does not mean that the rebels we would be aiding and arming are a better option. There are many rebel groups that have connections to many known ex-tremist groups and have caused much of the conflict as well. What kind of message would it send to be taking power away from one disgraceful Syrian and shifting it to a group of Syrians who may be just as guilty of large

scale brutalities as well?Last, I see a lot of unintended

consequences arising from the airstrike plan being deployed. This never-ending Sunni-Shiite battle is complicated and deep-rooted in Syrian history. Inter-national military action would be limited and would only affect the surface level of this conflict. It could trigger a chain reaction of escalating violence that would only progress the situation and create more carnage.

The bottom line is that we are not the police of the world and military action is not going to solve the world’s problems. This type of action would only press pause on the immediate danger, and would in turn intensify long-term problems for the U.S.

Megan Parker is a senior political science major. She can be reached at parker14@up.edu.

“The public’s enthusiasm for military involvement in international conflict has deflated, leaving little sup-port for more participation in these types of happen-ings.”

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Redshirt freshman represents USA at Mountain Running Competition

While most students at UP were exploring downtown, camping out in the Clark Li-brary, or soaking up some sun-shine in front of Franz Hall, red-shirt freshman Danny Martinez was competing for Team USA at the World Mountain Running Championships in Poland on Sept. 8.

Martinez completed the 9K mountain course, which he com-pared to running up a ski slope, in 40:42, earning him a ninth place finish overall and a second place Team USA finish. As if this wasn’t impressive enough, Martinez competed with no prior mountain running experi-ence.

“It was actually my first mountain running race,” Mar-tinez said. “I applied fairly last minute after hearing about it from some UP cross-country teammates who had competed (for Team USA) previously. The course suited my cross-country background well. 40 minutes for a 9K is normally really slow, but if you look at the course it’s un-derstandable.”

The course was a 9K two-loop scramble with a downhill followed by a long, steep up-hill. For someone with no for-mal mountain running training, Martinez made the endeavor sound like an average jog along The Bluff.

“We did a course preview so I knew what to expect,” Marti-nez said. “The race started on a downhill so when I got to the base of the big hill I mentally was like ‘Okay this is it. It’s time to go.’ Everyone just started crawling and I guess this was when I made my move. I think at the base I started in about 30th and by the top I was probably in about 17th. A race like that is ex-

tremely tactical. It is really easy to just go hard at the beginning and kind of blow yourself out.”

That’s not to say the run was easy. Martinez was very clear that it was one of the hardest he has ever competed in.

“I feel like after that I can do anything,” Martinez said. “There was a point before start-ing the second loop where I was like ‘Wow. This really sucks,’ but I guess my running mental-ity kicked in and was like ‘The hill is coming, it is make or break time. You can either quit or keep going.’ I just kept push-ing myself and was still catching guys at the finish line.”

Martinez’s only alteration in his normal training routine was a twice-a-week run through Griffith Park in Los Angeles, which was as mountainous as he could get in southern Califor-nia. Not only did Martinez have a 3,000 foot elevation change to overcome, but also a nine-hour time difference to contend with.

“The quick turnaround didn’t affect me that badly till about the third day when I was having trouble sleeping,” Martinez said. “It was a fairly intense travel schedule, because I was only there for about four days. My last travel day was 23 hours.”

Martinez doesn’t know if he will continue to pursue moun-tain running seriously. At this point he is purely focused on his cross-country performances at UP.

“Coming off this race I feel really confident for the season,” Martinez said. “The team is looking really good and I am just really looking to contribute to that. There’s a lot of talent and I’m excited to be a part of it all.”

The men’s cross-country coach Rob Conner has high ex-pectations for this season and was very excited about Marti-nez’s accomplishments globally.

“Obviously going out and

performing at that caliber says a great deal about your running talent,” Conner said. “Mountain running takes three main things: endurance, mental toughness and patience. I am confident all those attributes that Danny dis-played in Poland will cross over to our 10K cross-country race. Everybody (in the cross-country department) is incredibly excited for this season and to see what we can do as a team.”

Martinez will compete in his first cross-country race for UP on Oct. 5 at the University of Oregon.

The absurdly modest Marti-nez had little to say on represent-

ing the USA globally. “It’s one thing to go and rep-

resent the U.S., but I feel like its another thing to do well. I was just really glad that I performed

well,” Martinez said.Luckily, Martinez made it

back to Portland just in time to attend his 8:10 a.m. class Tues-day morning.

Cassie SheridanStaff Writer

sheridan15@up.edu

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Redshirt freshman Danny Martinez (top) runs up the 9K mountain course on Sept. 8. Martinez finished with a time of 40:42 and a ninth place finish overall. (bottom) Martinez stands with other members of the USA team in Poland.

UP baseball welcomes alumni back to The Bluff

Photos by Jin Yun | THE BEACON

(right) Sophomore infielder Kevin Farley runs down the baseline af-ter hitting the ball in Saturday’s game. (top) Desiree Hartsock enjoys the game with Chris Siegfried’s sister Ahna. Both Chris and Ahna attended UP.

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This week in sports

Women’s Soccer The Pilots beat Nevada Friday night 2-0 and Missouri 3-2 Sunday. The team plays at San Diego State Sunday. The team is now No. 16 in the nation, second in the WCC and has a record of 6-1-1.

Men’s SoccerThe Pilots won both games they played this weekend, 4-0 over Air Force Friday and 2-1 over Seattle University Sunday. The team advances to 3-2-0 and is second in the WCC. The team battles state rival Oregon State tonight at 6 p.m. on Merlo Field.

Cross-Country Both the men’s and women’s teams fell into second place behind BYU at the Autumn Classic hosted by BYU in Utah last Saturday. The men’s cross country team races at the Salem Invitational in Salem, Ore. this Saturday. They are currently No. 8 in the nation and are No. 1 in the West rankings. The women also race in Salem this Saturday at the Willamette Oak Knoll Invitational. The women are ranked No. 11 in the West.

VolleyballThe Pilots lost all three games this weekend to Toledo, UC Davis and Oregon State. They open up conference play against St. Mary’s tonight at 6 p.m. in Moraga, Calif. and then against Pacific University Sun-day at 1 p.m. in Stockton, Calif.

(courtesy portlandpilots.com, WCCsports.com)

MidfielderThomas Iwasaki

Soccer weekend on Merlo Field

Photos by Kristen Garcia | THE BEACON

(top left) The men’s soccer team celebrates after senior Thomas Iwasaki’s goal, the second of the game in their 4-0 win against Air Force Friday. (top right) Senior Michelle Cruz runs down the ball in Friday’s game against Nevada, they won 2-0. Friday was Military Appreciation Night. (left) Junior Steven Corbett fights an Air Force player for the ball in the first of two games the Pilots played last weekend on Merlo Field. Both teams went undefeated and collectively outscored their opponents 11-3 over four games.

Pilots’ soccer teams celebrated Military Appreciation Night, went undefeated for the weekend

Thomas Iwasaki is a se-nior midfielder for the Pilots. Thomas received honorable mention on the WCC-All Academic team last year, made the WCC-All Aca-demic team his sophomore year and WCC-All Fresh-man team his freshman year. Thomas scored a goal in last Friday’s match against Air Force as the Pilots cruised to a 4-0 victory, his fifth as a Pilot.

What’s your most memo-

rable goal?My sophomore year

against USF, I scored to tie it up. There was only a minute or so left in the game. So that was a big one. I was young at the time, so it was really exciting and special for the team. We ended up going on to win in overtime, which made it all. And it was on Merlo, which just makes all the goals two times better.

What are your plans after school?

It’s always been a dream to try to make it at the pro-fessional level. I’m going to give it a shot but nothing’s guaranteed.

Where would be your dream to play?

I’d like to play abroad. I didn’t really get the study abroad experience because I was busy with athletics. Liv-ing abroad for at least a short while would be pretty awe-some, in Europe probably.

What’s your favorite

thing to do besides soccer?Spending time with my

friends, but I’m always do-ing projects. I was part of the E-Scholars program last year. We worked on our own ventures and did some travel associated with that. My (venture) was a speaker com-pany, which I’m not working on any more. The whole year we built our venture, made these business partners, then did a competitive pitch at the end of the year. We pitched it to a mixed panel: local busi-ness owners, professors, and outside-business owners and entrepreneurs.

What’s the elevator pitch for your venture?

Most speakers that go along with your phone are pretty boring-looking ... black, plastic, etc. This is completely clear, and you can customize it with an image on the back. It gives you a little bit of expression to go along with your music. Music is expressive, so your speakers should be too.

What games are you looking forward to?

Oregon State this Thurs-day is huge ... Bragging rights in the state. Besides that, getting into conference, I think that this is the year we could really do some dam-age. We’ve kind of come up short in second and third the last couple years. So I think we’re all going to be extra fired up for conference this year to make a statement.

- Peter Gallagher

Pilot in the Spotlight

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‘Bachelorette’ winner Chris Siegfried takes the mound at UP

Katie Dunn | THE BEACONChris Siegfried is joined by fianceé Desiree Hartsock at the alumni base-ball game this past weekend (right). Siegfried pitched and hit in the game alongside his fellow alumni, including many of last year’s players like Beau Fraser, Brian Frattali and Nick Armenta. Many baseball fans and reality TV fans turned out for the game to see some early baseball and snap a picture with the stars. Katie Dunn | THE BEACONJin Yun | THE BEACON

Caleb Patterson: Fandom for a cause

Senior Caleb Patterson can count on two hands the number of Pilot soccer matches he’s missed in the last eight years. If he had to, he’d put the number of match-es he’s attended at “140-ish.” Pat-terson’s rough estimate does not include the numerous basketball games and volleyball matches he works into a schedule that can put even athletes to shame.

“I could go back and find the schedules and get an actual num-ber,” Patterson said. “But that’d take a trip to the archives.”

One year stands out, how-ever, when Patterson’s loud voice could not be heard from the side-lines. On Sept. 15, 2009, a motor-ist struck and killed Patterson’s father, Gordon, as he biked home from Hudson’s Bay High School,

where he taught science for 12 years. In a grim coincidence, the motorist turned out to be a for-mer student.

That year, Patterson took time away from the stands to grieve alongside his family. When he returned to the bleachers for the 2010-11 season, Patterson brought a renewed enthusiasm and a growing sense of purpose.

“I took fandom very passively up until I lost my dad,” Patter-son recalled. “Until I lost him, I didn’t realize how much encour-agement and how much of a role he played in my life. A lot of peo-ple didn’t. I wouldn’t say losing him was good. But I was able to find a greater good, encouraging people.”

In a town that breeds fan ra-bidity, and at a school whose fandom is as notable as its sports teams, Patterson stands out among supporters for his invest-

ment in the team’s fortunes.Overwhelming positivity em-

anates from Patterson. It’s a con-tagious disposition that has de-veloped since Patterson received news of his father’s death four years ago.

“Fandom to me … it’s encour-agement,” Patterson said. “It was because of my dad showing up and encouraging me. That en-thusiasm, that encouragement, that ‘I’ll be there every game, or as many games as I can be there for,’ that’s what a fan is. A fan is somebody who takes the time of day to care about their kids, or someone else’s kids, and encour-age them no matter what they’re doing.”

Patterson attributes his signa-ture booming voice to his father.

“If you’re going to be blessed, or cursed, with a loud voice, then use it. For good,” Patterson said.

Patterson’s support for the

things he loves goes beyond what he can do with his voice or a tube of body paint. Patterson’s father graduated from UP’s Master of Education program, dedicating 25 years of his life to teaching science.

To commemorate his father’s career, Patterson has begun fun-draising for the Gordon Patterson Memorial Scholarship, working alongside Amy Kwong-Kwapisz, director of community profes-sional development in the School of Education. The scholarship will provide financial backing for undergraduates and those pursu-ing their master’s degree in edu-cation at UP.

“I have had more funds com-ing in from this appeal than any-thing we’ve done in a while,” Kwong-Kwapisz said of the fun-draising efforts. “I think people know about Gordon Patterson, they know who he is, and they

value what he has done.”Last Saturday, Patterson led

a bike ride in Vancouver to raise money for the scholarship. But Sunday?

“On Sunday, how am I? What am I? Where am I? I have no idea,” Patterson said.

He’s asked friends and family to wear white at a small gather-ing at the site of the accident in remembrance of his father, who became known for his trademark white lab coat while teaching.

“What do you think about when you lose somebody? I try to think about the positives … About the good he did in 25 years of teaching,” Patterson said.

So on Sunday, when the men’s and women’s soccer teams faced opponents at Merlo Field, one at-tendee was notably absent. And for one day out of the year, Pat-terson shed his Pilot purple and donned his father’s white.

Peter GallagherStaff Writer

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