Portland State Magazine Fall 2019

9 Honoring the state’s cycling devotion A BICYCLE pushing forward into clean air is how architecture students describe the new campus sculpture they helped design. Anthropocene, also known as the Bicycle Bill Sculpture, was the creation of Aaron Whelton, architecture faculty, with contributions from his students. It honors the legacy of the late Sam Oakland, an English professor who championed Oregon’s Bicycle Bill. Passed in 1971, the bill requires that a minimum of 1% of new, yearly state highway funds be used for walkways and bikeways. The steel sculpture is located near the PSU Library and features a bicycle and human figure that fades in an out when looked at from different perspectives. The East End: A Novel By Jason E. Allen ’09, Park Row, 2019 TheWidmerWay: How Two Brothers Led Portland’s Craft Beer Revolution By Jeff Alworth, PSU's Ooligan Press, 2019 OregonWildland Firefighting: A History By Sean Davis ’09,The History Press, 2019 Breaking Cadence: One Woman’s War Against theWar By Rosa del Duca, PSU's Ooligan Press, 2019 Prospects of Life After Birth: Memoir in Poetry and Prose By David Hedges ’59, 2019 Whale’s Tails By Dale S. MacHaffie MBA ’73, MT ’80, Page Publishing, 2019 A River in the City of Fountains By Amahia Mallea ’99, University Press of Kansas, 2018 Choices: Death, Life and Migration By Patricia Rumer ’71, PhD ’81, CreateSpace, 2018 Devotion: A Novel By Madeline Stevens ’09, HarperCollins, 2019 TheWhite Death: An Illusion By Gabriel Urza (English faculty), Nouvella, 2019 NEW WORKS Music for all DEEPLY PERSONAL LYRICS are sometimes read but mostly sung by Licity Collins MFA ’06 on her new live album Love Courage Yes . Collins blends rock and folk in her original compositions and describes her music as “‘Eleanor Rigby’ meets ‘Refugee’ by Tom Petty.” This is her second album, and it was recorded at the Underground Exchange in Ojai, California, where Collins now lives. On the June 14 release of Love Courage Yes , Collins was interviewed by both NPR and Fox News. She writes that she is gratified that “her passion bridges audiences.” 