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Portland State Magazine Productions Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & Portland State Magazine Productions Winter 1-1-2017 Portland State Magazine Portland State University. Office of University Communications Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Office of University Communications, "Portland State Magazine" (2017). Portland State Magazine. 22. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland State Magazine by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. WINTER 2017 PASSING THE TORCH INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF WOMEN LEADERS / 11 TOGETHER FOR THE LONG HAUL / 8 CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD / 14 JUST ASK ROBERT / 16 LET KNOWLEDGE SERVE PORTLANDIA As interns on the set of the television show Portlandia, PSU students Will Whitley, Briauna McKizzie and Julie Lew gained invaluable career experience and contacts in the film industry. 2 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2017 page 19 CONTENTS Departments 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT New paths toward a law degree The University as sanctuary Portable classroom like you’ve Features never seen them 3 LETTERS Opera composed for PSU singers 8 TOGETHER FOR THE Deinum’s influence lasts a lifetime LONG HAUL Defending English language classes 18 IMPACT OF GIVING Partnering with Daimler Trucks is Sharing stories of generosity giving students experience and jobs. 4 PARK BLOCKS The gift of music Dan Bernstine, former president, A groundbreaking achievement 11 PASSING THE TORCH Committed to equal access passes away Inspiring the next generation Faces in our future A place for every student of women leaders. Four years free The next generation of inventors We’re ‘cool’ and ‘innovative’ 14 CLIMATE CHANGE AT Teaching from a Native American 26 ALUMNI perspective Reconstructing lives with THE BOTTOM OF THE microsurgery WORLD Alumni in the news What Antarctica is telling us about our warming planet. 28 GIVING Raising more than $1 million 16 JUST ASK ROBERT for students Robert Mercer has helped countless student navigate their way to a 29 LOOKING BACK PSU degree. 50 years ago page 4 ON THE COVER Portland Community College student Nista Shrestha visited the state capitol in Salem last year while enrolled in a Portland State Center for Women’s Leadership program. See story on page 11. Photo by Katana Triplett. Page 14 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2017 VOL. 31 | NO. 2 WINTER 2017 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT Winter 2017 / VOL. 31 NO. 2 EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland WRITERS Stephanie Argy, Harry Esteve, Suzanne Pardington PHOTOGRAPHERS Kelly James, Edis Jurcys, NashCO Photography, Andie Petkus, Peter Simon COPY EDITOR Martha Wagner The University as sanctuary DESIGN Brett Forman, Evan Kirkley I GREW UP in the Netherlands in and the tools to make a better life and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the aftermath of World War II. It’s not better world. These are places of hope, 810 Market Center Building well known, but a greater proportion not hiding. PO Box 751 of Dutch Jews were deported than Jews Portland State is home to more than 80 Portland OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 in any other country. It happened in undocumented students who are part of [email protected] part because the Netherlands had a very the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood ADDRESS CHANGES complete population registry, and “good” Arrivals—the “dreamers.” These are Please go to the website bureaucrats were complicit, or at the very students who came to Oregon as children pdx.edu/alumni/contact least, stood aside. of undocumented parents. They were or call 503-725-4948 I have been a naturalized U.S. citizen raised here, went to high school here and ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE for more than 20 years, and I never now attend PSU. Declaring ourselves a Tom Bull, Executive Director dreamed that I would hear threats from sanctuary gives them reassurance that we Simon Benson House the highest levels of my government are committed to their safety and their 1803 SW Park Ave. PO Box 751 about the possibility of mass deportations education. Portland OR 97207-0751 and religion-based registries. With the We are also home to a thriving Muslim 503-725-4948 inauguration of a new U.S. president and student population. They, too, have reason [email protected] arrival of a new administration, some to be concerned about the vitriol during PSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES Portland State students are rightfully and since the presidential election. Muslims Pete Nickerson, Chair fearful for their future. I’m not going to be at campuses around the country—and Swati Adarkar Erica Bestpitch MS ’12 complicit or stand aside in the face of these regrettably that includes PSU—have Gale Castillo MA ’74 fears. I am standing with our students. reported an increase in hostile acts. One Sho Dozono MS ’69 We have declared Portland State of the things that impressed me about Maude Hines University to be a sanctuary campus. What the United States when I first came as Thomas Imeson Margaret Kirkpatrick this means, in broad terms, is that we will a high school exchange student was its Irving Levin not—unless compelled by law—share amazing diversity. PSU exemplifies that Rick Miller MBA ’91 confidential student information, including diversity, and I have made it clear that Steff Shao ’16 Lindsay Stewart immigration status; consent to immigration while we consider ourselves a bastion of free Peter Stott HD ’11 enforcement activities on campus; or speech, there is also no place at PSU for Christine Vernier enforce immigration law. discrimination, harassment or intimidation. Wim Wiewel In short, we will not voluntarily be a I am aware that declaring Portland State Portland State Magazine is published party to policies that seek to disrupt the a sanctuary campus brings a certain level three times a year, during fall, winter education of students who are on a path of risk at a time of political upheaval. But and spring terms. Contents may be to become our future leaders, our teachers, promoting fear by targeting a particular reprinted only by permission of the editor. The magazine is printed on our scientists, our entrepreneurs and the group of our students is wrong. We must recycled paper. Portland State University backbone of our economy. stand with them. is an affirmative action / equal opportunity institution. I MADE A CAREER in higher education because of my unswerving belief that our universities are sanctuaries of a different sort—places where students of all Wim Wiewel backgrounds come for knowledge, wisdom PRESIDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY 2 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2017 Portland State Magazine wants to hear from you. Email your comments to [email protected] or send them to Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to Letters edit for space and clarity. Deinum’s influence lasts Columbia College’s) approach to leading private tutors, the only way a student is discussion about the art of film. going to get instructed in learning the a lifetime I retired from full-time teaching but English language is through dedicated have stuck with adult education. For the English language learning classes. In Ore- past 12 years I’ve been teaching a class gon, ELD teachers have an extra teaching I call Passion for Film. credential for teaching ESL [English as a Many of Andries Deinum’s ideas about second language] and are highly qualified the art of film discussion became part teachers. I think it was irresponsible of of a book I co-authored, Understanding you to imply otherwise. the Film, with five editions published between 1975 and 1995. Maureen Ray EdD ’15 Now that I’m retired and have more Milwaukie, Oregon time, I’ve gotten back into film pro- duction in a local community college Andries Deinum, from the 1969 Viking yearbook. film production program. But instead of working with physical film on a Moviola as I did at Columbia College, I was interested in seeing Andries Dei- I’m now working with digital images on a num’s name in the short article about a computer. I just completed my first short film student’s plan to document a refugee film,Uncle Ken, which can be viewed on family in the fall 2016 issue of Portland Vimeo. State Magazine. I was one of hundreds of students who took his film classes during Ron Johnson ’69 the school year 1968-69. Dr. Deinum Become a was one of my heroes. I remember many member of the of his comments (like making light of the PSU Alumni movie Sound of Music by calling it “The Sound of Money”). I use this phrase and Defending English Association many others to this day when discussing language classes It’s the easiest way to maintain the power of the moving image. After a connection to Portland State taking every film class Portland State I just finished reading the article “Culture offered, including classes with Tom Challenge” [Fall 2016 Portland State University and our community Taylor, I went on to receive a master’s Magazine]. I am an ELD [English of over 170,000 alumni degree in film education from Columbia language development] teacher, and I worldwide. Membership is take issue with this statement: “English as College in Chicago in 1972. free! Just sign up online at second language classes aren’t always best I began teaching Film Study, Film- pdx.edu/alumni/join-now making and Mass Media at a high school for Korean students even if they’re not yet to unlock a host of benefits in Illinois for 10 years during the 1970s fluent.” Please tell me what you are bas- until the district dropped the film classes ing this rather extreme opinion on? Can and services.
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