The Rose Award For 4-1-2008

The Rose Award for 4-1-2008 goes to Portland State basketball players
Scott Morrison and Jeremiah Dominguez, who are in a Mexican jail after
an altercation in the resort town of Cabos San Lucas. Lorena Blanco,
spokeswoman for the consulate in Tijuana, said Morrison beat up Kyle
Meagher, 23, of Michigan, and Dominguez attempted to flee police.

"Dominguez was the not the one who beat him up but he ran away from
police and that's what got him in trouble ... Police threw him on the
ground and punched him because he resisted arrest," Blanco told The
Associated Press. Alejandro Rojas, general manager of the hospital
where Meagher was taken, was quoted as saying: "Kyle was choking, his
gums were all damaged, his lower jaw was broken into pieces and he had
internal bleeding. You couldn't do damage like this with a baseball
bat - it's worse."

We at the Rose Committee salute Scott Morrison and Jeremiah Dominguez
for their well-deserved Rose Award. Their actions are consistent with
the attitude, morals, and sociological aptitude as demonstrated by the
namesake of the Rose Award.