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THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND’S STUDENT NEWSPAPERVol. 112, Issue 20 www.upbeacon.net
!ursdayMarch 24,
2011BEACONThe
Employee’s car crashes into tree outside UPFor full story, see
page 5
Photo Courtesy of Christina Nelson
Tsunami ripples over UP community
Hannah Gray News Editor
Where’s your Beacon been? Living, page 8-9
Meet Terry and VerniaLiving, page 7
UP students from Japan re!ect on the recent devastation
Friday, March 11
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has been happening
in Japan, it is getting
hard to keep all the
facts straight. Here is a
quick list of the things
you need to know.
-Rosemary Peters
Timeline of events
Saturday, March 12
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Monday, March 14
Yuuki Ohashi – a former UP
student from Chiba, Japan, near
Tokyo – knew that when the
earthquake hit off the coast of
northern Japan on March 11, it
was different from every other
earthquake she has experienced.
Yuuki, who was at home,
could not even stand up straight.
For the UP students who are
from Japan, the 9.0-magnitude
earthquake and its aftermath
have hit close to home.
About an hour after the
earthquake hit, Yuuki began
cleaning up her home when she
felt the ground shaking again.
However, it felt and sounded
different than any earthquake she
had been through.
“My family went outside
again,” Yuuki said in an email.
“Then we found dark and red sky
covered by smoke.”
LPG tanks caught on fire
at the Chiba refinery when the
earthquake hit. The fire raged
for 10 days. It was extinguished
Monday.
“Even though the factory was
not close to the residential area,
we felt scared,” Yuuki, whose
family is safe, said.
Satomi Fukumoto – another
former UP student from Saitama,
Japan, near Tokyo – was also
at home when the earthquake
hit. Like Yuuki, the earthquake
was the biggest Satomi has ever
experienced.
“I was so scared,” Satomi
said in an email. “When I saw
the live broadcast of the tsunami
(engulfing) the towns near the
sea, I just couldn’t believe what
was going on.”
Some UP students from
Japan were in the U.S. when the
earthquake hit.
Junior Seiji Oyama – also
from Saitama – received a text
message from a friend asking
if his family was OK. However,
initially, Seiji did not know what
the friend was talking about.
“I went to the news on
the Internet, and I was really
surprised – oh my gosh,” Seiji
said. “I watched YouTube. (There
were) horrible scenes – tsunami
engulfed the rice field.”
Seiji was unable to make
contact with his family for almost
two days.
“I tried to make contact with
my family, but I couldn’t,” Seiji
said. “I got really upset… But my
family is OK. I made contact on
March 13.”
Senior Maika Canada, from
Tokyo, was on her way to Boston,
Mass. when she heard about the
earthquake.
During a layover in Phoenix,
Ariz., Maika checked her Twitter
account on her phone.
“I was shocked,” she said. “I
had no idea what was going on in
Japan. It was just crazy.”
While Maika could not call
her family, she was able to
connect with them via email. Her
family is safe.
Maika’s grandparents live
in Sendai, in northern Japan. A
couple days after the earthquake,
her family heard news of her
See Japan, page 3
Tuesday, March 15
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“President Obama said he’ll do his best to save Japanese peoples’ lives. I feel happy in my heart.”
Seiji Oyama, junior
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NEWS2 ! March 24, 2011
Portland is due to have a
massive earthquake.
According to scientists, the
Cascadia Subduction Zone,
which lies about 75 miles off the
Oregon coast, has a fault which
produces a major quake about
every 250 to 500 years. Currently,
we are about 311 years out from
when the last one occurred.
According to Public Safety’s
Environmental Health and Safety
Officer Jeff Rook, the shaker
that will send the ground under
Portland quaking is expected to
be on par with the 9.0 magnitude
earthquake that occurred in
Japan earlier this month.
“Disaster is going to be
inevitable,” Rook said. “With the
one that strikes here, and not if
but when, survival is optional.”
In order to make sure the
UP community is prepared
for earthquakes, Rook started
working with CCERT, the
Community Campus Emergency
Response Team.
CCERT trains students,
faculty and staff not only from
UP but Portland Community
College and Portland State
University as well.
According to Rook, 75 to 80
percent of people who respond
in an emergency situation are
volunteers. The purpose of the
CCERT program is to make sure
the University of Portland has
some prepared volunteers.
“It’s disaster medicine,” Rook
said. “It’s learning how to take a
cardboard box, strip it down and
use it for splinting.”
On April 1, CCERT will
have a four-hour field experience
day where members will utilize
their training to size up a fake
emergency situation and extricate
victims from the emergency.
They will also practice search
and rescue as well as triage
skills.
“There are one to two Public
Safety officers to a total student
body of over 3,000 plus faculty
and staff,” Rook said. “You are
in a situation where you are
completely overwhelmed. We
want to make sure our campus
members are better prepared.”
UP has also taken steps to
prepare for a disaster.
According to Rook, UP has
a small stock of Koldkist water
bottles on campus, despite
the water bottle ban that was
implemented last year. The
Bauccio Commons has three
days worth of food that could
sustain up to 3,000 people.
“We have at least that much
product on campus during
the academic calendar,” Kirk
Mustain, the general manager
of Bon Appétit, said in an email.
“Obviously we would amend the
style of service and offerings but
I feel confident that we would be
able to take care of the university
community.”
Back-up generators are in
Franz Hall, Shiley Hall and
Public Safety that can run for a
week or two at full capacity.
“In an emergency situation
we wouldn’t be running them at
full capacity,” Rook said.
According to Rook, secondary
items would not be powered up to
make the generators last longer.
The school also has an
agreement with Belfor Property
Restoration so UP could receive
a back-up generator for the
Chiles Center within 24 to 48
hours of an emergency.
Finally, Rook encourages
everyone to make a 72-hour kit
for his or her place of residence.
“Each kit should have one
gallon of water per person per
day,” Rook said.
He said the kits should also
include at least a week’s worth
of food that doesn’t take much
effort to prepare, such as Power
Bars.
A full list of supplies to
include in a kit can be found on
Public Safety’s website at http://
www.up.edu/showimage/show.
aspx?file=7037.
“How many more times
before it actually happens do we
need to see examples before we
get prepared?” Rook said.
The next CCERT class is
coming up this summer. Students
can contact Rook at rook@
up.edu if they want to take the
class.
Jeff Rook
On Campus
Accuracy in The BeaconThe Beacon strives to be fair and accurate. The newspaper corrects any significant errors of fact brought to the attention of the editors. If you think an error has been made, contact us at [email protected]. Corrections will be printed above.
MANQUISITION
Tonight, LXG will host the
Manquisition, a satirical mock
trial of prominent men on
campus, in the Terrace room
in The Bauccio Commons at 6
p.m.
MR. CORRADO
Tonight, Mr. Corrado will be
held in the Buckley Center
Auditorium from 8 p.m. to
10 p.m. Mr. Corrado is a man
pageant fundraiser for Holy
Cross Charities. The event is
free.
‘COUNTRY STRONG’
Friday and Saturday night,
“Country Strong” will play in
the Buckley Center Auditorium
at 10 p.m.
BLUFFOONS IMPROV
SHOW
Friday night, the Bluffoons
are having an Improvisational
Comedy Show at the Mago
Hunt Recital Hall at 7:30.
Tickets are $2 per person, or $3
for two people.
HAWAII CLUB LU’AU
Saturday, Hawaii Club is
hosting its 35th annual Lu’au,
“Ke Ea o Hawaii,” in the Chiles
Center. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.,
and dinner is at 6 p.m. Pre-sale
tickets are the following: first
200 students are free, faculty
and staff are $10, general
admission is $20, senior
citizens (55+) are $15, children
(5-12) and groups of 10 or more
are $12 per person and children
under four are free. Tickets can
be purchased Friday at The
Bauccio Commons from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at
the Pilot House from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. or in the UP Bookstore
with a sales associate. Ticket
prices will increase at the door.
CORRECTION
In the March 10 issue, the
photo for “No strings (or
ropes) attached” on page 16
was submitted by Sebastian
Berisford. The photo at the top
of page 14 was submitted by
Victoria Clark.
The Beacon regrets the errors.
On Campus
Q: What causes
earthquakes?
A: The two-word answer is
plate tectonics, which is motion
between lithospheric plates. On
their boundaries, forces build up
and get released.
This particular plate boundary
that released its stored energy
on March 11 was the boundary
where the Pacific Plate dives
beneath Japan. The plates are
converging, moving towards
each other, and the Pacific Plate
bends down and dives down into
the Japan trench.
That’s a line of deep ocean
floor, off the east coast of Japan,
and the Pacific plate is a slab
which is about 100 kilometers
thick, and it dives down into the
deeper mantle below Japan.
Q: What causes tsunamis?
A: To produce a tsunami,
an earthquake has to move
ocean water. Most tsunamis
are produced by great, shallow
earthquakes. And when we mean
shallow, we mean 10 kilometers.
This particular earthquake
actually initiated at about 24
kilometers depth, and then it
ruptured a big patch of the plate
boundary. It changed the shape of
the ocean floor, and produced a
big mound of ocean water.
Q: What does “9.0” mean?
A: There a bunch of different
magnitude scales for earthquakes.
The most effective scale to use is
a moment magnitude scale.
That actually uses information
such as the displacement, the
opposite sides of the fault – how
far did one side of the fault move
with respect to the other side of
the fault – and it also uses the
area of the fault that got moved.
Q: Explain the risk and
what possible scenarios could
occur in the Portland area and
at UP.
A: The Pacific Northwest has
three kinds of earthquakes. One
kind is what would be considered
to be a deep earthquake.
Another kind is crustal
earthquakes. These are on faults,
where the North American crust
is broken. There is large crustal
fault called the Portland Hills
Fault. It’s immediately across
the Willamette River from UP.
We know the fault is capable
of certainly having magnitude
6.0 earthquakes, maybe even
magnitude 7.0 earthquakes.
But we don’t know very well,
at least, when the last earthquake
occurred on that fault. That
means it makes it difficult to
assess the risk which is posed by
that crustal fault.
There is another fault called
the East Bank Fault which is
basically mapped to go along
parallel to the East Bank of the
Willamette River, and it runs
under the UP campus.
That fault is really hard to
evaluate. We know it’s there, but
we don’t have a very good idea
about what risk it does or does
not pose.
The third kind of earthquake
is what people around here in
the Pacific Northwest region call
“The Big One.” This is a great
earthquake occurring on the
Cascadia Subduction Zone.
We know the last one of these
great Cascadia earthquakes,
which was probably a magnitude
9, occurred on Feb. 26, 1700 at
about 9 p.m. That one is parallel
to this great earthquake that just
occurred in Japan. It’s the same
kind of plate boundary.
The 1700 earthquake
produced a tsunami which kind
of did the mirror image of what
the Japan earthquake did – that
is, the Cascadia 1700 earthquake
created a tsunami that arrived in
Japan and caused damage.
- Butler will present “March 11,
2011 Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake
and Tsunami in Northern
Japan: Comparisons with Past
and Future Earthquakes and
Tsunamis in Cascadia” today
at 4:30 p.m. in Buckley Center,
room 163.
-Hannah Gray
Q&AEnvironmental science Professor
Robert Butler discusses earthquakes and tsunamis
Disaster preparedness at UP?Rosemary Peters [email protected]
Wednesday, March 16
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The Beacon — www.upbeacon.net ! 3NEWS
Q: What happened in Japan
to cause the nuclear crisis the
country is experiencing?
A: The reactors did well in the
earthquake, but it was the tsunami
that got it. It looks like the water
may have flooded the pumps and
controls. The plant was probably
experiencing hardware issues.
Also, it is not just water that
entered the plant – it is ocean
bed, topsoil, mud and seawater.
That is not good for electronics
and seawater is highly conductive
and corrosive.
Q: Concerns have been
raised in the media about trace
amounts of nuclear radiation
from Japan hitting the West
Coast. Could this happen? If so,
what would the ramifications
be?
A: In general, radiation is
something to be concerned about.
It is radioactivity. If it interacts
with biological material it can
cause genetic problems. Any
time there is an explosion, stuff
goes up and then falls back down
and stays residually around the
explosion. To get here from there
by wind is problematic because
of the way currents go., though
they run south of us. Places
in California would be more
affected.
Q: Are there steps people
can take to protect themselves
from radiation if there ever is a
nuclear radiation emergency?
A: People can take iodine,
but we naturally get iodine from
living near the ocean. People in
Kansas who don’t live near the
ocean put iodine in their salt.
However, if you take too much,
there are problems that way.
Basically the government would
help if there was a real problem
– they want you to pay taxes after
all.
Q: The decommissioned
Trojan Nuclear power plant
is about 40 miles outside of
Portland. All the uranium
from the power plant still sits
in bins on the property. Are
there any health risks that
could pose?
A: We are upriver from the
Trojan Nuclear power plant. Even
if there is an earthquake, nothing
would probably happen.
Q: Could Hanford, a power
plant in central Washington
with an active reactor, be an
issue?
A: Maybe. We’re down river
from Hanford, and Hanford is
a colossal nightmare. They’ve
buried stuff for years. I don’t
know how water gets to Columbia
there. They don’t know what it is
doing to the water.
-Rosemary Peters
Physics Professor Mark Utlaut answers your questions about nuclear power
Q&A
UP senior fundraises for Japan relief
Rosemary Peters [email protected]
Danielle Castro is selling t-shirts, proceeds will go to the Red Cross
Photo Courtesy of exclaimorange.comSenior Danielle Castro’s t-shirt design. T-shirts are $10, and all of the proceeds go to the Red Cross.
JAPAN: Japanese students reflect on situation
Senior Danielle Castro has
strong ties to Japan, so when she
heard about the 9.0 magnitude
earthquake on March 11, she was
concerned.
“I have family in Okinawa,”
Castro said. “Everybody on my
mom’s side is from Okinawa.”
However, Castro’s family is
OK.
“They had enough time to
evacuate,” Castro said.
The epicenter of the earthquake
was closer to the northeastern
coast of Japan, and the tsunami
didn’t affect Okinawa as badly as
places such as Sendai, more than
1,100 miles northeast of where
Castro’s family lives.
According to CNN, 9,487
people had been confirmed dead
and 15,617 officially listed as
missing – a total of 25,104 – as
of 9 p.m. (AEDT) yesterday as a
result of the quake and tsunami.
About 387,000 evacuees –
including those affected by the
damaged nuclear plants – are
staying in around 2,200 shelters
with limited food, water and
other supplies, according to the
Kyodo News Agency.
Shortly after hearing about the
crisis, Castro visited the website
threadless.com where she entered
a t-shirt design contest. For every
t-shirt sold during the course
of the contest, 25 percent of the
proceeds went to the Red Cross
to be donated to Japan.
After crunching the numbers,
Castro realized if she took her
shirt design and sold the shirts
on her own, she could raise more
money.
“I wanted to raise more
money than what was going to be
coming off of this competition,”
Castro said.
Castro approached UP’s
Marketing Department with her
idea and Assistant Vice President
of Marketing and Communication
Laurie Kelley responded.
“Danielle came to the
marketing office and talked with
my colleague John Furey about
this idea she had for the t-shirt
competition with threadless,”
Kelley said in an email. “I loved
her design and knew she would
be successful in trying to sell
them to raise money for the Red
Cross.”
In the end, Kelley connected
Castro with UP alumnus Mike
Thompson.
“UP alum Mike Thompson of
Taylor Made T-Shirts printed the
shirts at an extremely low cost so
that more proceeds could go to
the Red Cross,” Castro said in an
email.
When designing her shirt,
Castro incorporated symbolism
into every figure that appears on
the white cotton tee.
“Rays of sunlight from a
Japanese sunrise come over the
father and his child, revealing
shadows of a Samurai spirit,”
Castro wrote on her website.
“This design acknowledges the
history of Japan and what Samurai
embody: honor, endurance,
tradition, and hope. In the sun,
you’ll see the seismograph
drawing of the 9.0 earthquake to
acknowledge the tragedy, but the
father and son walk on.”
Castro said the money raised
will go straight to Japan.
“Japan has been an ally,”
Castro said. “With Hurricane
Katrina, they sent over about $13
million and the government also
gave money to the Red Cross.”
Castro sold over 100 shirts
with the International Club at
Espresso UP yesterday.
While selling shirts last night,
Castro and the International Club
set up a booth for students to fold
purple origami paper cranes.
Their goal is to fold 1,000 cranes
because it is a sign of well wishes
in Japanese culture. In order to
reach 1,000 cranes, they will have
students fold at other events.
“Just keep the people of Japan
in your thoughts and prayers,”
she said.
Shirts can be purchased for
$10. Castro is selling the shirts to
people who contact her via email
at [email protected]. She is also
selling them on her website.
A more in
depth timeline can
be found at: http://
www.swedishwire.
com/component/
content/
article/34:global-
news/9027:japan-
disaster-timeline-
day-by-day
grandparents.
“I guess it was about two
days later, they heard from my
grandparents,” Maika said. “They
are doing OK.”
During the natural disaster,
Japanese people were asked to
conserve electricity. Satomi,
Yuuki, Seiji’s family and Maika’s
family are all trying to save
electricity.
“Some days ago, every family
was asked to save the electricity
because the nuclear plant was
stopped by the earthquake,” Seiji
said. “My family also tried to
save electricity.”
The area has had scheduled
blackouts since March 14,
according to Satomi and Yuuki.
Even though Japan is in
the midst of a natural disaster,
students are hopeful about Japan’s
recovery.
“People are helping each
other,” Yuuki said. “I saw lots of
cooperation and warm behavior
during this difficult time.”
Satomi worries about another
big earthquake, since there
are still many aftershocks.
Regardless, she is hopeful.
“I appreciate those people who
work for saving Japan,” Satomi
said. “I really hope these efforts
will bring bright future in Japan
soon. I want to do what I can do
as much as possible.”
Seiji is also happy about the
support that Japan is receiving.
“The American Navy came to
Japan – I really appreciate that,”
Seiji said. “President Obama said
he’ll do his best to save Japanese
peoples’ lives. I feel happy in my
heart.”
- Rosemary Peters and Ona
Golonka contributed to this
story.
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scho
olt
each
er,
•
24
-yea
r-old
T
aylo
r
And
erso
n w
ho h
ad b
een
mis
sing, is
fou
nd d
ead
.
Wednesday, March 23
Jap
anes
e re
sid
ents
st
art
•
ho
ard
ing
bott
led
wat
er
afte
r te
stin
g
show
s
rad
ioac
tive
mat
ter
in t
ap
wat
er is
at
le
vel
s u
nsa
fe
for
infa
nts
.
Offi
cial
s ev
acu
ated
•
som
e w
ork
ers
from
th
e
Fu
ku
shim
a pla
nt
as
a
bla
ck
plu
me
of
smoke
bil
low
ed a
bove
a re
acto
r.
Jap
anes
e gover
nm
ent
•
exp
and
s fo
od r
estr
icti
on
s
afte
r th
e hea
lth m
inis
try
said
te
sts
det
ecte
d
rad
ioac
tive
mat
eria
l at
level
s ex
ceed
ing
leg
al
lim
its.
CN
N r
eport
s 9,
487 p
eople
•
had
bee
n c
on
firm
ed d
ead
and 1
5,6
17 o
ffici
ally
lis
ted
as
mis
sing
–
a to
tal
of
25,1
04.
Ab
out
387,
00
0
evac
uee
s •
are
stay
ing
at
2,2
00
shel
ters
, ac
cord
ing t
o t
he
Kyo
do N
ews
Agen
cy.
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