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Vik Pavilion Arena Once Scheduled for Ugliness, No Longer

BroadwayVik

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How atrociously ugly the planned arena will be http://www.pdx.edu/construction/peter-stott-center-renovation-and-viking-pavilion.

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The interior walls being painted black reminds me of a drama department acting lab or a photographer's dark room. Another way to keep the spirits of the working class oppressed. There has to be another arena building project in the future. This one is too fricking small!
 
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Anything that detracts from instilling pride in the university needs to be opposed. Still, we can accept this building as greatly appreciated added resource to the campus mall, but it will never serve as a proper university basketball arena. From that aspect, it's laughable. It is a joke on those of us who were holding out for a real basketball arena and a serious and exciting basketball program.

It is simply an intermediate improvement that we can refer to as our events hall, with the basketball arena situation perhaps referred to as our "basketball theater in the round." That, at least, gives it a sense of prestige, as in, "Yeah, I'm going to see a basketball game in our university's theater-in-the-round." Hah!

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We will need to keep pushing for a proper basketball arena but accept this one as a partial solution for the present. See you in about 14-15 months at the "basketball theater in the round." I hope it's a good drama with a happy ending.

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BroadwayVik said:
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Anything that detracts from instilling pride in the university needs to be opposed. Still, we can accept this building as greatly appreciated added resource to the campus mall, but it will never serve as a proper university basketball arena. From that aspect, it's laughable. It is a joke on those of us who were holding out for a real basketball arena and a serious and exciting basketball program.

It is simply an intermediate improvement that we can refer to as our events hall, with the basketball arena situation perhaps referred to as our "basketball theater in the round." That, at least, gives it a sense of prestige, as in, "Yeah, I'm going to see a basketball game in our university's theater-in-the-round." Hah!

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We will need to keep pushing for a proper basketball arena but accept this one as a partial solution for the present. See you in about 14-15 months at the "basketball theater in the round." I hope it's a good drama with a happy ending.

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It looks pretty good for a medical seminar. Being that we entered in to a "partnership" with OHSU on it, isn't that what they wanted? And, oh yeah, we can play basketball there occasionally.

Actually it looks similar to Weber's Dee Events Center, although on a much smaller scale. Dee Events is round, but it holds 10,000 capacity, I believe.
 
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Now, they have a nice facility. Utah nurtures while Oregon neglects their higher education athletic facilities. If it weren't for private support, Oregon and Oregon State would be hurting too. Private support, thus, seems to be the way for Portland State to go too.

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That is why I want to change the mission of Portland State to go from being a "high access" institution where any local slacker can attend to a high-powered technology and arts institution that would attract people from all around the world. Oregon Tech Arts: The Carnegie-Mellon for the rest of us.

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Forget the fancy names. "High access" is what we've been from the beginning, and I for one am proud of it.
 
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Forget mediocrity. Why would you be proud of "high access"? This just means the university has few standards and is not selective. Why not strive for excellence instead? Should PSU lack the nerve to compete? Maybe that is PSU's biggest problem right now. Can't really say I feel proud of it.
 
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Now, they have a nice facility. Utah nurtures while Oregon neglects their higher education athletic facilities. If it weren't for private support, Oregon and Oregon State would be hurting too. Private support, thus, seems to be the way for Portland State to go too.

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Weber does benefit from private support as well. Some guy named Lillard comes to mind. EWU's red turf on the football field came from an alumni donation from Michael Roos who was an offensive tackle for the Titans at the time. It would be nice if some of our NBA and NFL alums could offer some sort of support for the athletic department.
 
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That's a good idea. I would think someone on staff could think of a way in which PSU alum professional athletes would be better off making a donation rather than not. Their donations could benefit many worthwhile projects. Find the means to tax deductibility.

But I still think Portland deserves a great university and not one For Slackers Only. Why send away our best and brightest down to Cal or Stanford or other prestigous universities when they could stay home and pursue quality education here?
 
Looks as if OHSU's contribution may have directed a design change and, thus, saved the design from ugliness. I'm so glad emotional health won out. These things need to be exposed and dealt with. We need to not stand idly by when issues pertaining to depression-related ugliness crop up.

Things are much better when we swim upstream to oppose major bouts of depression to which we are all subject in this climatic region (between mid-October and mid-April). Let's oppose depression's ugly effects and win out over it, like the British and Scots have largely done. Stiff upper lip.
 
Yes, options for different design directions are extant in the inception phase, and then certain resulting budget constraints compel limits not initially imposed. The original pavilion design, for example, was supposed to be a building towering over the old gym to the magnitude of something like two and one-half time its height. Now, its acme, while higher, is now just above that of the old gym; a more prudent design has resulted. And that is fine considering the original was a no-holes-barred approach.

But at least now a more cheery interior design has supplanted the old "paint-it-black" depression motif. It will provide instead sanguine value in raising people's spirits and likely motivate much more burgeoning usage from in and around Portland. I believe this one change will nicely enhance the fortunes of the Viking Pavilion.

I think what it is, it's mission has changed. It will be used as an athletics facility and will house the athletics department, but the arena will primarily serve our own developing basketball and community needs interests until such time that our basketball programs merit a larger facility.
 
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