The 2012 INDEX NEWS............................2 FREE PSU Prepares ARTS...............................6 The Vanguard is published every OPINION.........................11 Tuesday and Thursday Green Guide for Earth Day SPORTS..........................14 PSUVANGUARD.COM PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE SINCE 1946 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED SINCE 1946 THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 • VOL. 66 NO. 48 PSU students PSU looks to hire new design sustainable university librarian communities Roy Koch, the provost and Field narrowed to three vice president of around the world academic affairs candidates; university hopes until the end of Professor Sergio the school year, is to fill position by summer part of the team Palleroni gives students that will select the SAM LloYD while library material gets more opportunities to use new university VANGUARD STAFF librarian. expensive. We’re also looking for some- their education ortland State is currently one who is comfortable with working conducting final interviews in a collaborative environment,” said KATRINA PETrovICH for the position of university Roy Koch, PSU provost and vice presi- VANGUARD STAFF P librarian. A new university librar- dent for academic affairs. BaSiC Initiative is a nonprofit or- ian became a necessity in June 2010 A hiring decision could be made in ganization that provides communi- after previous librarian Helen a few weeks, although it is expected ties with creative building solutions Spalding retired. Adriene Lim re- to take longer than that. The new to meet locale-specific challenges. placed Spalding on an interim basis librarian will be chosen from a cur- Co-founded by Portland State profes- for the 2010–11 school year, but left rent field of three candidates: Lynn sor of architecture Sergio Palleroni, to take a job at another library. For Baird, Peter McDonald and Marilyn BaSiC Initiative—which stands for 2011–12, Lynn Chmelir agreed to be- Moody. Each recently gave a presen- Building Sustainable Communities— come the new interim librarian, but tation on the PSU campus regarding provides students with the opportu- only for a year, which made finding a opportunities and challenges they nity to do hands-on fieldwork while new, permanent librarian a top pri- expect to encounter over the next simultaneously providing assistance ority for PSU. five years as well as how they would to populations in need. “We are looking for someone ca- respond to them. pable of working in an environment SEE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ON PAGE 5 DREW MARTIG/VANGUARD STAFF where they can manage all issues SEE LIBRARIAN ON PAGE 4 PSU professor to PSU moves forward with implement clean performance-based budget model water and energy University Declining state funding program in Rwanda The percentage of PSU’s total revenue that comes from Oregon department 40% evaluations 32% Newly designed sensors Students will also be sent to Rwanda 30% this spring in order to participate will track and record in the program, and permanent to set budget process staff members will be situated there 25% throughout the year. allocations 16% KALI SIMMONS Rwanda currently faces health 15% VANGUARD STAFF DESMOND FULLER issues stemming from unclean water VANGUARD STAFF Portland State Professor Evan and inefficient cook stoves. Drink- 10% Thomas spent part of his life design- ing unfiltered water can contrib- In panning out the Oregon state bud- ing life support systems for the harsh ute to the spread of diseases and get for 2011, legislators made signifi- environments in space. Now, Thomas takes the lives of 1.5 million chil- cant cuts in funding to state univer- 0% is using his expertise to improve the dren each year. In many homes, the sities. Whereas once state university living conditions of people on Earth, only form of stove is an open fire, expenditures were mostly covered 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 with technology he is developing for which can produce soot and smoke. by state subsidies, now the opposite BEN PATTERSON/VANGUARD STAFF use across the world. Breathing in soot and smoke can is true, with most expenses covered This spring, he will lead a program contribute to the development of by tuition and fees. With a dramatic the adoption of a performance-based clarity for the administration to see that will send 500 high-efficiency upper respiratory disease, which 23 percent decrease in state funding budget model. Since developing the where revenue is being generated cook stoves and water filtration sys- annually kills more than 1.6 million and a continuing harsh economic cli- new model, PSU has moved for- and where expenses are the high- tems equipped with high-tech sensors people worldwide. mate, Portland State administrators ward, calculating and documenting est. The new model is expected to be to Rwanda in an effort to improve liv- In addition to providing clean wa- set about devising a proposal for a all of PSU’s expenses and allocation in place and running by the 2013–14 ing conditions for its residents. The ter and energy, Thomas and his staff new budget model by which to evalu- of revenues. academic year. program is a partnership between will also collect data regarding the ate financial decisions in the coming Once sufficient data is collected to Addressing the decrease in state PSU and water filtration company usage and efficiency of the stoves and years. build the model, the university will funding, Provost and Vice President DelAgua. Work has also been con- water filters. Data will be collected On June 11, 2011, the Financial spend the 2012–13 academic year run- for Academic Affairs Roy Koch said: tracted out to Manna Energy Limited, via the newly designed SweetSense, Futures Taskforce completed a fi- ning the numbers in a shadow-model “Now we are much more like any a company for which Thomas serves a sensor designed and developed in nancial report that evaluated which function, while the current budget other kind of enterprise where the as vice president. PSU’s Sustainable Water, Energy direction PSU should take to make model remains in place. To collect money comes in from the outside. The program is designed to serve and Environmental Technologies spending more efficient and effective. data, PSU will evaluate each school We need to stop thinking like a state over 750,000 households: “The pro- Laboratory. A reduction in state funding and the of the university by counting how agency, which is only about our gram will cover the entire western prospect of an estimated $10 million much tuition each unit raises against province of Rwanda,” Thomas said. SEE CLEAN WATER ON PAGE 5 rise in expenses for 2012–13 prompted its expenses. This creates greater SEE BUDGET MODEL ON PAGE 5 2 VANGUARD • THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 • NEWS NE NE NEWSWSWS • • •T T U UTHEESSUDAYDAYRSDAY, ,J JANAN, AUUPARYARYRIL 24, 19,17, 2012 • VANGUARD 3 EDITOR: VANESSA WENDLAND [email protected] NEWS 503-725-5690 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF [email protected] Joshua Hunt NEWS EDITOR [email protected] Vanessa Wendland Oregonians rally against OPINION EDITOR Bilingual Teacher Pathway [email protected] Joseph Mantecon ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR [email protected] Erick Bengel coal exports in Salem program nationally recognized SPORTS EDITOR [email protected] Randall Theil COPY CHIEF Kathryn Banks PSU Professor PRODUCTION MANAGER Ben Patterson Esperanza De La Vega PHOTO EDITOR Adam Wickham ONLINE EDITOR helps bring diversity Jann Messer ONLINE EDITOR to Oregon schools Bryan Morgan CALENDAR EDITOR Erick Bengel ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR [email protected] GWEN SHaw ALL PHotos COURTESY OF GregorY Sotir “It’s such a unique pro- Meredith Meier VANGUARD STAFF Protesters from Portland, Salem, Eugene, Hood River and other Oregon gram. We attract a lot of first ADVERTISING MANAGER regions assembled for the anti-coal rally. “Speak English. No Spanish.” generation students and non- Iris Meyers Those were the first words that native English speakers, so ADVERTISING DESIGNER young Esperanza De La Vega it’s a place for unrepresented Laura Shea heard on her first day of kin- students to become teachers,” dergarten. She had been so Pullen said. “And our teachers ADVISER excited to go to school with get hired.” Judson Randall Crime blotter Call for clean air Protesters of coal exporting gathered in Salem on April 9. her five older sisters. They all The idea of culturally re- ADVERTISING ADVISER spoke Spanish at home, and sponsive practice, which is Ann Roman APRIL 16 English was to be learned at what the award was intended ILLUSTRATORS Treasurer Ted Wheeler, did 3:15 a.m. Broadway housing building school and outside. But the ex- for, is something De La Vega Elizabeth Thompson Strong opposition to not address the issue of coal A concerned student made a call to the Portland Police Bureau perience of her teacher raising said has been a buzzword DESIGNERS exports during its meeting. and asked them to check on his friend living in student housing. her voice and yelling at her to for a while. “In my mind, it is Tom Cober, Elizabeth Thompson, According to the Power Past speak English stunned her. the action in social justice,” The student said he had received an incoherent telephone call SARIA DY/VANGUARD STAFF Colton Major coal trains bound Coal coalition, the proposed from his friend and was worried about her. There were repeated “I feel like I was a bit trau- she said. “A lot of people talk Esperanza De La Vega is the coordinator of PSU’s Bilingual Teacher Pathway program. terminals are cause for much matized by that experience. about social justice, and yeah, WRITERS attempts to contact the friend but she could not be reached. concern. Of the issues men- So, in kindergarten, I just we want our teachers to have Mike Allen Kat Audick, Kristen for Oregon ports Officers were able to enter her room using a key and found her Carangi, Lindsay Caron, Becca tioned at the rally, the impact stopped speaking,” De La Vega this stance toward social jus- There are instructional assis- Cotton, Veronica Everett.