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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & The Pacific Sentinel Productions 4-2020 The Pacific Sentinel, April 2020 Portland State University. Student Publications Board Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel Part of the Mass Communication Commons, and the Publishing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Student Publications Board, "The Pacific Sentinel, April 2020" (2020). The Pacific Sentinel. 28. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel/28 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Pacific Sentinel by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. the PACIFIC SENTINEL Volume V Issue VII SOLIDARITY WHILE SOLITARY Oregon Responds to Coronavirus The Case Against Joe Biden Views on the Decline of Civilization In Defense of Radicalism The Quiet Compassion of The Good Place & more! APRIL 2020 CONTENTS Letter From the Editor 3 NEWS Rolling Back Water Protection 4 Relatively Speaking 5 Oregon Responds to Coronavirus 6 OPINION The Case Against Joe Biden7-9 Sounds Terrible 10-11 Views on the Decline of Civilization 12-13 An ASMRticle 14-15 In Defense of Radicalism 16-18 ARTS AND CULTURE nîpawistamâsowin: The Boushie Family Stands Up 19 Sunless Shadows Complicates the Murderess 20 Martin Eden’s Class Struggle 21 The Quiet Compassion of The Good Place 22-25 Portland’s First eSports Bar Creates Community 26 FUNNY PAGE 27 The Pacific Sentinel is a monthly student-run magazine at PSU. We seek to uplift student voices and advocate on behalf of the marginalized. We analyze culture, politics, and daily life to continually take the dialogue further. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Jake Johnson NEWS EDITOR Vivian Veidt OPINIONS EDITOR McKinzie Smith ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR Shane Johnson PRODUCTION MANAGER Haley Riley MULTIMEDIA MANAGER Bee Torrez DESIGNERS Kacie Cooper, Alison White, Bailey Granquist, Haley Riley ILLUSTRATORS Josh Gates, Alison White, Dilla Hanifah, Bailey Granquist, May Walker, Greer Siegel, Haley Riley PHOTOGRAPHERS Hailey Blum FRONT COVER Alison White BACK COVER Alison White FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS McKinzie Smith, Nick Gatlin, Jacob Cline, Vivian Veidt, Claire Golden, Sophie Meyers, Van Vanderwall WE NEED WRITERS AND REPORTERS Join our team! Apply at thepacificsentinel.com/jobs LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Covid-19 caught 2020 by surprise illustration by Josh Gates It’s the 21st of March, 2020. It seems safe to the end of the tunnel is a fun thing to have; and sake!), and wash your hands. Tip your rideshare say that a month ago there were very few people we also want to support the small business who and delivery drivers, restaurant and coffee shop who anticipated our world looking the way it prints our magazine, NW Printed Solutions. workers, and gas station workers. does. Portland State University plans to run Jacob and Jose at NW Printed Solutions have The Pacific Sentinel is gonna keep marching classes entirely remotely until the end of the been incredibly helpful and supportive of our along through this. We’ll be trying to keep you 2019–2020 school year. This year’s graduates magazine. In working with them for the last informed, connected, and entertained. We’ll be will experience virtual graduation ceremonies two years, they have shown themselves to care working to continue bringing you articles and instead of walking across ceremonial stages as about what we’re doing and since we have the digital content that displays and contemplates PSU seeks to prevent spreading COVID-19. means to support them financially in a very the beautiful, weird, sometimes depressing, Our magazine functions pretty gosh darn small way we feel that it is important to do so. and absolutely delightful world we live in. well as a physical, printed magazine. We think Why does that little anecdote matter right the articles we write are excellent. We take now? I’m not trying to score points. I know Peace, love, health, and sanity, pride in our writing, reporting, research, and that Amazon is not going to go out of business Partying on (at home with my cats) analytical approach to the articles within each because of this crisis. The mammoth that began issue. And we really love the way that text- as an A to Z bookseller has already made it Jake Johnson based work is elevated through thoughtful tough for bookstores and other small businesses Executive Editor illustrations and design. around the country, before people were It is very hard to accept that we may not be encouraged (and in some places, mandated) able to see people picking up our magazines on to stay home. If you can order books, supplies, Connect with us on social media: campus for a while. The Pacific Sentinel’s editorial groceries, clothes, and entertainment from staff remains committed to our contributors small businesses, that support can really go a Twitter: Pac_ Sentinel and on, and off, campus community. Our staff long way right now. This is not a plea for you made the decision to continue to produce and to spend money, but it is a reminder that small Instagram and facebook: psuPacificSentinel print magazines in April, May, and June. We businesses always live on thin ice, and right are doing this for several reasons: we feel that now that ice has very-nearly melted. Read our articles online: the tangible, physical magazines we produce We will get to the other side of this literal www.ThePacificSentinel.com are super-excellent and we think our articles global pandemic. Be kind to each other. Stay tend to hold their weight for a long time after home if you don’t have to go out. Practice social View PDFs of our beautiful magazines: they’re published; we look forward to holding distancing, give each other 6 feet of space out issuu.com/ThePacificSentinel and flipping through these magazines, a light at there (in line at the grocery store for gosh <3 THE PACIFIC SENTINEL 3 Rolling Back Water Protection Trump rolls back Obama Era Water Regulations by Sophie Meyers Illustrations by Josh Gates The Trump Administration has signed new streams lacking clear protection, and businesses Water Rule in 2015, told National Public Radio water protection regulations that will be the and industries that depend on clean water face that the new regulations pose substantial risk to largest rollback of U.S. water protections since uncertainty and delay, which costs our economy the environment, are expected to affect drinking the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972. every day. Too many of our waters have been water supplies, and create an increased risk of The new regulations could result in some left vulnerable to pollution.” flooding. states losing up to 80% of previously protected Obama’s regulations required developers to The new regulations would allow property waters. The new regulations roll back federal go through a tedious and sometimes expensive developers and landowners to destroy and fill protections for smaller bodies of water, process to get permits before doing anything wetlands. The EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board leaving them subject to development, removal, that involves altering or dumping in a stream warns that the new regulations fail to appreciate and pollution. Ephemeral bodies of water— that had federal control. This received a lot of watershed systems, the process of water waters that flow part of the year, bodies of push back and the Trump Administration is draining into increasingly larger bodies of water, water that form from rainfall, groundwater, attempting to appease these parties with his which results in more pollution entering larger some wetlands, streams, and waste treatment new regulations. bodies of water that may pose greater risks to systems—will no longer be protected by The Trump Administration justifiespublic health. the Clean Water Act. Due to risks to the removing the protections due to beliefs that The impact of rolling back the Obama environment and public health, a coalition they impede economic growth and that federal Era Clean Water Rule will be felt broadly. of 14 states have sued the EPA over the control of smaller bodies of water infringes In New Mexico, ephemeral streams impact new regulations. on the freedom of landowners to use their much larger bodies of water including the Rio In May 2015, the Obama Administration land as they see fit. Expected beneficiaries Grande. The new regulations could impact the established the Clean Water Rule, an EPA of the new Trump Administration water supply of drinking water to 300,000 people regulation that broadened the definition of regulations include agricultural workers, real in the state. In Colorado, 90% of the streams “Waters of the United States” to apply to estate developers, golf course owners, oil and that run into the Colorado River, which 60% of water in the U.S. The rule also limited gas industries, and mining operations. Trump supplies 17 states with drinking water, are the amount of pollutants that are allowed stands to benefit personally as the owner of over created by rainfall and snowmelt, many of into smaller bodies of water. Speaking on a dozen golf courses. those streams will no longer be protected by the the regulation, Obama stated “One in three Gina McCarthy, the former EPA federal government. Americans now gets drinking water from administrator who implemented the Clean 4 NEWS ANALYSIS Relatively Speaking Expansion on Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity proven by Sophie Meyers illustrations by Alison White Einstein’s theory of relativity describes the laws of gravity in the effect of astronomical bodies and the flow of time.