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Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. portland stateMAGAZINE THE YEAR THAT SHAPED PSU Facing the coronavirus challenge together P. 2 BE A PART OF Spring 2020// The magazine for alumni OREGON COAST AQUARIUM’S contents and friends of Portland State University CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FEATURES The Oregon Coast Aquarium is one of the jewels in the Pacifc northwest, frequently rated among the top ten aquariums in the U.S. Since opening in 1992, the Aquarium has immersed more than 15 million visitors in the mysteries of the deep blue sea. To expand our reach and continue our mission for generations to come, we have embarked on a campaign to remodel our exhibits, enhance the education programming experience, and build a new facility dedicated to meet the growing need for marine wildlife rehabilitation. We invite you to help us fulfll our role as a crucial resource for marine wildlife wellness, ocean literacy, and imparting values about Oregon’s natural wonders. Donate today at givetoaquarium.org //14 //20 //24 1970 50 Years of Honors Art for All From “The Battle of the Park Blocks” to PSU’s haven for high achievers has evolved from PSU’s new museum brings art to the heart of protests that led to campus childcare, this a small, experimental program into a leader in the city with a focus on free exhibitions and pivotal year of turmoil shaped the modern PSU. educating first-generation college students. educational programming. DEPARTMENTS 4 Park Blocks 28 Alumni Life Student safety ambassadors; Alum Chris Bartlo wins a the wisdom of crowds; Little Cow Pigeon Presidential Award for his work at Wilson High 8 Research Ph.D. candidate Katie Conlon IN EVERY ISSUE: takes on plastics waste 2 President’s Letter 3 Inbox 10 Arts 31 Bookshelf OUR OCEAN Professor Darrell Grant’s new opera about 32 Looking Back gentrification in Northeast Portland 12 Athletics A walk-on player’s long journey to a starting OUR COAST position with Viking football //12 YOUR AQUARIUM ON THE COVER// Scenes from some of 1970’s dramatic events at PSU; design by Evan Kirkley BE A PART OF Spring 2020// The magazine for alumni OREGON COAST AQUARIUM’S contents and friends of Portland State University CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FEATURES The Oregon Coast Aquarium is one of the jewels in the Pacifc northwest, frequently rated among the top ten aquariums in the U.S. Since opening in 1992, the Aquarium has immersed more than 15 million visitors in the mysteries of the deep blue sea. To expand our reach and continue our mission for generations to come, we have embarked on a campaign to remodel our exhibits, enhance the education programming experience, and build a new facility dedicated to meet the growing need for marine wildlife rehabilitation. We invite you to help us fulfll our role as a crucial resource for marine wildlife wellness, ocean literacy, and imparting values about Oregon’s natural wonders. Donate today at givetoaquarium.org //14 //20 //24 1970 50 Years of Honors Art for All From “The Battle of the Park Blocks” to PSU’s haven for high achievers has evolved from PSU’s new museum brings art to the heart of protests that led to campus childcare, this a small, experimental program into a leader in the city with a focus on free exhibitions and pivotal year of turmoil shaped the modern PSU. educating first-generation college students. educational programming. DEPARTMENTS 4 Park Blocks 28 Alumni Life Student safety ambassadors; Alum Chris Bartlo wins a the wisdom of crowds; Little Cow Pigeon Presidential Award for his work at Wilson High 8 Research Ph.D. candidate Katie Conlon IN EVERY ISSUE: takes on plastics waste 2 President’s Letter 3 Inbox 10 Arts 31 Bookshelf OUR OCEAN Professor Darrell Grant’s new opera about 32 Looking Back gentrification in Northeast Portland 12 Athletics A walk-on player’s long journey to a starting OUR COAST position with Viking football //12 YOUR AQUARIUM ON THE COVER// Scenes from some of 1970’s dramatic events at PSU; desi gn by Evan Kirkley CONNECTING STUDENT ACTIVISTS ACROSS THE YEARS portland Thank you for publishing my “Looking Back” Portland StateMagazine column [“When unrest reigned”] on the history state inbox of the 1969-1970 student anti-war protests at MAGAZINE PSU and in Portland. It was an important and FALL 2019 dramatic time in American history, when our campus became a major part in the activism SPRING 2020 FOND MEMORIES OF VOL. 34// NO. 2 PROFESSOR NUSSBAUM of that era. I plan to be at the PSU campus Just want to say how delighted I was to see for the May 11 ceremonies in memory of the an article [“Voices of the Holocaust”] about violent confrontation between student anti- EDITOR war protesters and large numbers of Portland Scholle McFarland my former German teacher at PSU, Laureen Nussbaum. It brought back a memory from Police ofcers in the Park Blocks. I am eager to GRADUATE ASSISTANT address PSU students of today and be able to Jennifer Ladwig that class many years ago. The article mentions Dr. Nussbaum’s language expertise. It was the relate the experiences I had there 50 years ago, COPY EDITOR frst day of class in second year German and and hard lessons learned by everyone there, of Martha Wagner we were all asked to take a short quiz to see which I’ve always felt proud. CREATIVE DIRECTOR where we were with our German knowledge, so —Doug Weiskopf ’70 Turning 50: Brett Forman that Dr. Nussbaum could see just what review Black Studies overcomes // 18 we needed. We handed our papers in and sat DESIGNERS Evan Kirkley, James Wilson quietly while she looked them over. Suddenly she beckoned me to her desk at the front of the “As a person who got my PHOTOGRAPHERS class. She whispered to me, “Are you Dutch?” WHO SHOULD THE CENSUS COUNT? So-Min Cotik, NashCO “Yes,” I replied, “How could you tell?” “Well,” How disappointing to open the magazine and bachelor’s degree at 48, see Lyneil Vandermolen’s letter [in reference VIDEOGRAPHERS from the president she said, “the mistakes you made are what a Spencer Rutledge, Peter Simon Dutch person would make, not an American!” I understand, somewhat, to “Census may undercount Oregonians”] Needless to say, I was expected to get an A on displaying her own dishonesty and political LETTERS TO THE EDITOR all exams that year! bias (something she accused PSU and the Portland State Magazine OUR CAMPUS IN THE being outside the magazine of having). Shamefully, she accuses University Communications “illegal aliens” of “stealing” political represen- P.O. Box 751 TIME OF COVID-19 —Lisette Sage ’86 mainstream, which Portland, OR 97207-0751 tation, simply by virtue of existing. It is not possible to steal something that is granted [email protected] THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS has unfolded on amazing things happen! I anticipate that this shift makes what you’re doing our campus the way it has in communities across will lead to profound learning experiences. freely—congressional representation is applied ADDRESS CHANGES by total population and not by citizenship Please go to the website our nation and our world: in the words of Ernest We realize that many of our alumni have their even more of a blessing Hemingway, “Gradually, then suddenly.” own questions about the crisis or are searching for status, something that an anti-immigration pdx.edu/alumni/contact activist would already know. Ms. Vandermolen or call 503-725-4948 We had to respond quickly when it became a way to help students in need. Please visit to your students.” apparent the virus was spreading across the letknowledgeserve.org/resilience to read also attempts to buttress her weaker-than-weak PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION argument by claiming that no citizen would Mary Coniglio, Interim Executive Northwest. Working with Gov. Kate Brown and perspectives from PSU researchers responding to presidents of other universities, we made the this moment in history. have reason to evade contact from a census Director worker, a suggestion that faunts its own Simon Benson House decision in mid-March that all courses would be On this page, you can also fnd information on PICKATHON TRAGEDY ofered remotely for the entire spring term in making a gift to the PSU Resilience Fund—a new failed understanding of what motivates people 1803 SW Park Ave. I fnd it odd and somewhat disturbing that in (including fears of many types). Portland, OR 972011 order to keep our students, faculty and staf as safe philanthropic fund established to help address your glowing description of the site design 503-725-4948 as possible. critical needs across campus in the wake of the of last summer’s Pickathon festival [“Unique —Alan Silver ’96 [email protected] As always, our students are foremost in my mind coronavirus. Many PSU students are particularly stage presence”], no mention was made of the PSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES and the minds of my colleagues.