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Volume 200 [Volume 60]

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1996-02-01

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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

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Rumble In the Bronx
showcases Jackie Chan
How to save a home! (Z)
~ Plos win playoff against
~PLU
Bond measure lobbied at LC
Br Jo, GREENMAN
., the last ten days, two groups
.nopposing sides of nn upcoming
bond 1.Ssue have 1?$tabllshed tables
ol \~ Tt1nl Room m atdet \a
, l.ewis & Clark students who are
to vote. The Is.sue is an S11
<11 bond whicll would increase the
. taxes or those In the district .
nwnue would be used to create a
:l!dtool for the Rwerdnle .school dis­
Thos<! students registered to vc>te
.. district will help decide whclhet
nt the bond issue pi>SSes. Yesterday,
""1ry 22, factions from both side,, of
""'e appcnred on campus for a stu•
forum organized by ASLC presi­
Cory Cums. Due to deadlines the
rrr LO!I was unable to cover th\S
111 th is issue.
This bond measure would be used
Riverdale High School on prop­
Mrenlly own,>d by Steve 8ell, who
lien lobbying students on campus,
•oold border on Tryon Creek State
The school distTicl ha,, already
lb eminent dom11in case m court
Bell's property has been c:on­
The Riverdale school district
th.it lhe high school ls necessary
1/ie slle 1s the optimal site.
According to supporters of lhe bond
, represented on campus by SOS
, our Schools), building the high
became nec:essa.ry in 1991 when
Ible legislature passed Senate Bill
SB 917 mandated that all S<'.hool
th.it didn't have a high school
IX> either build one by September
oqoln n school district that has a
"'1ool The bond measure support·
llilSt they lobbied the state legisla­
bul were unsuccessful and thus
theU'focus inward. Theirconclu­
.-.i.s lhat rather than join Portland
le sthools or the Lake Oswego
I district, they would build a high
1111d form their own school dis-
lbt decision to build a high school
wn fire from Steve and Anne Bell,
le Neighbors for Dialogue. and
ie Wagner. President of Friends of Tryon Creek State Park.
Bell and the Riverdale Neighbors for IIIC
Dialogue argue that the idea of building .~
a high school to house on average 100
m-<1.\S\tk\ s\uden\s, m <><<iet \<> <:~a~ a
school district for 300 students (kinder­
gartl'll through 12th grade) ls unwar­
ranted. Bell was lhe first person who
cilll\e on campus a.nd began lobbying LC
students. Early last week he set up a
tab!., and began lo tell Sludents 1Vho
were interested ,,bout the bond i>sue and
wl\y he opposes IL Frank Way;ner, who
illso Uves in the Riverdale district and
opp= the bond. accompanied Belt £
As a concerned c,hzen Wagner has ,,,.
some problems with he underlying as­
sumptions made by the school d1strkt.
"They are rru!ilng the funds to bulld thls
!ugh school based on making thn.>e as­
sumptions which no one can address,
One. they don't know the building costs.
Two, they don't know what the com pen•
sation figures are for the property (mean-
ing the settled ptice, established by a Jury -·-·-
in tourt, that the district w.U have lo pay
Bell). Three, they base the .revenue of
their school on getting 200 turnon pay­
ing sludents?H
Bell feels that the high school is un•
necess.-u-y while also ma.in mining a mu.ch
higher stake personally in the outcome
of the vote. "If the school district loses
the vote by a substantial margin then I
believe lhat the district will drop its emi•
nent domain claim against me and al­
low me to keep my home." Srove Bell, who>e homo and property is being threatened by the
upcoming p(opo,lfon to build o high .chool In the Tryon Creek Area,
,peoks lo ,tu<lent> O<Jlside 1he Troll Room. lt()10a,IM-..~
Bell and Wagner also raised several
charges against the feasibility and equa­
blUty of the high school. "IA/hat would
be the harm in joining lhe Lake Oswego
or Portland school districts? Both of
these districts would benefit greatly
from R.iverdale's tax base. CurrenUy 40
to 45 percent of the students in the
Riverdale district go to private high
schools, will this trend continue after the
high school is built, and If so, how can
you say the high school is feasible?"
Stephanie Wagner, President of
Friends of Tryon Creek State Pa.rk
weighed in for the Friends of Tryon
Creek against the proposed high school with a letter citing many potential harms
that the proposed high school might do
to the park O,ie! among the concerns
she cited were erosion, sediment and
pollution. When the high school is built
the land will be covered with burldings
and asphalt which will increase run-off
and erosion. llult run-off would carry
sediment into Tryon Creek. That sedi­
ment would contain fertilizers and in•
sedlcides from the alhlelic fields and
landscaping.
A few days after Bell showed up on
campus, Steve and Stephanie Jewell
c:ame to campus representing SOS (Save
Our Schools) which is a g.roup advocat­
ing the passage of the bond measure.
They enthusiastically defended the idea
of building the high school saying, "We
have an opportunity to build an inno­
vative new school which offers an inten­
sive college prep program without many of the frills. The fact the it Is being built
right next to Tryon Creek park allows us
the additional luxury of using the park
to leach our students about the ecology.•
When asked to respond lo many of
the charges by the opponents to the high
school the Jewel ls said, "The high school
will be feasible b~>eause we wilJ offer a
unique c-urriculum which is unlike any•
thing any olher high school offers, that
will c-reate a demand sufficient to attract
the 200 out of distrlcttuition paying stu­
dents. iJ for some reason we fall in this
effort we have C!l"Cated ., $2 million con­
tingency fund which will allow us lo
adapt in case our plans don't work in1•
lially. We also have a $350,000 private
foundation fund which could be dipped
u,to. The demand, however, does exist.
Look at Jesuit and Catlin Gable, they're
full with wailing lists.n
Riverdale, ccntlnued on page 2
SLC reiects limited lav, enforcement
IY Jr,, SHAW decisionsotheycouldgetmore min lhe students against your Is that after three incident re-day of the session. Then, Bill
SLC voted 9-0 against student input.• will," said Hobbs. ports, a case gets referred to Curtin talked to his good friend,
supporting Limited Law AletterwillbesenttoPresi- Hobbs also ~pressed that PRB,"said Hobbs. theMultno.mahCountySheriff,
£ruom,ment {LLE) pow-dent Michael Mooney and c>ther campus judicial systems like Campus Safety has been and requested deputlzatlon.
lllC'.ampusSafety on Tues-members of the Executive Peer Review Board (PRB) have pushing for LLE powers in re-Deputlzation, which is what we
Chief Justice Nathan Council explaining the ASLC proven them.selves as elfective cent years. "They actually re-call Limited Law Enforcement,
!ilid that this vote"sends position.. legal tools. quested these powers f mm the dlffers from full police powers
ippropriatc. message to the Hobbs explained that his "The first re.ason ... is that Oregon State Legislature last in lhat officers will not be aJ.
tion that lhestudent main rationale for voling PRB enables cases of wrongdo- spring, and were denied: said lowed to carry firearms,
11very much against Um• against LUl was "lhe lack of n ing to be heard without resort· Hobbs. mainly," Hobbs said.
law Enforcement.• need." ing to the criminal Justice sys- •Last term, Bill Curtin re- Next, Hobbs expects Cam•
the vole, while not neces- "Lunited Law Enforcement tem of the United States. The quested theclassificallon offu.11 pus Safety to bring their case
b,nding, may have influ-would nol increase investiga• second reaso~espite protes- Oregon Stale Police Olficers directly to the Executive Coun•
h will amount to a •rec--tion powers Campus S.-uety has. tations of Campus Lile--is that from the Oregon State Legisla- dL
atlon for the Executive It would simply allow Campus PRB ac:tua!ly has quite a bit of ture. After inteTVention from "Executive Council is
where the t'innl decision will be
made," said Hobbs. L" said Hobbs. "The Safety to circumvent the cam• jurisdicti.on. Basically, the net the poUce lobby, lhe legislature
pus judicial system and to de-effect of our (lobbying) lasl term turned lhem down on lhe last We urge all members of the Lew1>
& Clark commumty to vote NO on the
upcoming bond measure for the
Riverdale School District.
We've come 10 1h1s conclusion for
~veral reasons, not the least of which i.s
the condemnation of Steve and Anne
Bell's home. Thi! Bells infonned the
school district that th~y had no inteicst
in selling or otherwise leaving their
home, which is located on properly
school supporters would like to see their
new high school built on. The Bells havl'
every right to remain on the property
thi:y have shared for the better part of a
dec'1de.
TI,e rull' of eminent domain allows
condrunnaUon of property to be used for
the "greater good" we don"l believe the
greater good has bc<>n demonstrated In
this case. For une thmg. the Rlverd,lle
School District doesn't have nearly
enough high school students to warrant
a high school~ Riverdale :.tu dent,, nre
high school ag<' lhb year. The Oregon
Education 1\ssoc1ation recommends that
no h,gh school should have of under 400
stud en ls due lo proh1b1tive funding and
lack of diversity. Currently Rivcrclale's
goal is only 300, far less then the bare
minimum recommended. The sc.nool
district ru-gues that they need to mam•
lain autonomy to preserve "excellent
education." Yet the districts they wou Id
merge with already have "excellent edu•
cation"- at a fraction of the cosL Lake
Oswego, for instance, has produced
comparable 5<:0re, to Riverdale al lhe
3rd, 5th, and 8th grade levels with state
support of $4.500 per student.
Riverdale's state support? sr:,00 per stu­
dent. And the scores are virtually the
same.
Like most students who have been
inundated with a barrage of propaganda
from the Yes side outside the Trail Room,
we have become aware of several half­
truU,s US(.-'d by the R1vcrclaleSchool Db•
trict which obscure the reality of the situ­
ation. They drum in their "Answt?rs"
pamphlet that this is the "last chance•
for the proposed high school, and that 1f
the bond measure f.uls, that's the end for
the RJverdalc School DistncL In reality,
school bonds fail all the time. The resi-
• dents of Sandy just voted down a recent
bond measure, bul the bond will be
brought up again. Steve Bell also points
out that lhc bond could be brought up
ag.1in as early as May.
11,e Yes side tnes to portray a Nn
vote as a vote ,11,r.un.st edw;alion, wher,
In a,1uallty, they haven't demon:.tr.ited
,,ny change in ,vorking c.ondlt1ons for
tead,ers or the quality of education for
the students. The elementary school
won't change: 11 will simply be under
tJ,e name of anolhcr school district. n,e
high school students ,viii continue to
attend the same schools, getting the
same quality of education they have in
the past. Additionally, the money in From the
Editors'
Desk
R1\ferdale'~ "slush fund," about $'2 mil·
hon, w,11 go to the new school di.Strict.
And if school d1str1cts like Lake Oswego
can produce better test scores wJth less
money, just think whnt they'll be able to
do with Lhis money. That's like S4 mil•
lion at Riverdblel
Another half-truth told by the Yes
side is that voting Yes Is a vote for the
high school "in theory," and that if the
bond passes, it Just means U1ere will be
a high school sometime in the future.
FaJse. lf the bond passes, the last chance
Steve and Anne Bell have to save their
house passes with iL
In literature handed out by the
school supporters at Lew1s & Clark, they
address the question of greater diversity
by sending their students lo Lake Os•
wego or Portland high ,;chools. They
portr•)' the R1ver<!Jht school dlsti:11:t ,b
a perfect school dlstnct, with no prob­
lems related to disopline. They present
" rather frightcrung answer tt1 lhl' ques­
tion of diversity, "There's diversity and
diversity. We don't want the kind of d1·
versity that creates disciplinary prob­
lems ... • The assumption that Riverdale
children are somehow perfect is absurd.
Equally absurd is the notion that by sim­
ply sending their duldren to a somewhat
larger school dislrict, they will engender
disciplinary problems. After all,
RJverdale kids a.re sent to out-of-district
high schools now. So why haven't we
heard complaints about their current
education?
In a recent conversation with a
former Riverdale student who eventu­
ally went to Lake Oswego for high
school, he sa,d that 1t was ''one of the
best thmgs" that happened to him 1n his
childhood. Not only dld he meel more
than thirty people in his own dass, the
diversity of ide.1s, cultures, and people
,vas invalunble to him, and a resource
he never would have gotten had he sim­
ply stayed in Rivcmnle.
11,en there.', the environmental is-•
sue. Not only Is sewage nn unresolved
question financially and safety-wise, the
presence of a high school so close to the
beautiful Tryon CreekS~ate Park should
have us all nervous. Not only wiU bmld­
ing a facility the size of a high school
right by Tryon cause risks of its own, but
the pres<>nce of high school students
raises issues of litter, Increased tralfk,
and ,.,relessncss. Even if they find~ safe,
cost-effective sewage systcm ... cven if
building the high school ca~ no en•
vironmental damnge ... the potential for
litter will certainly take Its toll on the
park's bc.,uty.
Es.sentially, a.ny benefit from build•
,ng the high school has not been well
demonstrated. Even if such benefits ex­
is\(-d, they wouldn't ou1welgh the tragic
loss of Steve and Anne Bell's home, the
environmental rl~k to Tryon Creek, and
the mlsappropnatlon of taxpayerm.oncy
which might better be spent elsewhere. ARY2
Proposed ASLC bylaw
Intl. S1udent
Rep. EJoetlons
Chair
President I Current ASLC Structure...__ __
Copyeard
Keyt:wi r-PRe-7 VP tor Budget VP lor SAAB
~~t .:_~':..] & F,nance VP tor lnlo. &
Programming
B &F Board SAAB Board Programming
Board
Prealdenl HaltCouncll
Uason Intl, Student
Rep. Elections
Chair
Proposed structure
VP tor Budget VP lor SAAB
& Finance VP lot
Student Orgs.
U '98
Allocation SAAB Board Student Orgs.
Board, Includes
chairs lrom
Comm, Board
Club Sports Board
Programming Board 0 IY MAmllA$ FRll'f'
he ASLC Student Council is
submitting new bylaws for
ratilication by students on
Wednesday, February 28. If approved,
the n,,..,, Bylaws will be prosenled to the
collcge' s Board of T mstees for approval,
and become binding. The Constitution
and Bylaw~ currently governing ASLC
have no offici.~1 place in the college's or­
ganizational structure.
Here o1re some of thl! major changes
1mder the new bylaws:
The lnfom1abo11 and Programming
position has been replaced with a new
Student Organizations Board. 11us VP
oversees chartering and annual budget•
ing Of all student groups.
There is a new Chtb Sports Board,
which includes representatives from nil
club sports.
n,e Communication Board Chair
sits on the Student Organizations Board
instead of ha,•ing a non-voting position
on the Executive Council.
The Programming and Club Sports
Boards collect annual budgets from their
members and present them to the Stu•
dent Organizations VP, The SO VP col­
lects budgets from all other chartered
groups and Joins the SAAB VP. U&F VP and Comm. Board Ch.lir once a )'at
fonn the Annual Budgeting Boan!.
board, Instead of thecucrent B&:F
is n.-sponslble for making annunl
lion densions. The board balmll't;
groups' budget~ against each uther
creates a finished budget for St
Council ,1pproval.
The B&F Board 1s replaced by•
plified Budgel AllocdliOn Board,\\'
will distribute the Genera.I Alloc
Budget, opproxi:mately JO% of the
budget, se:t aside during the annllill
gcting process.
There is a new requirement Uut
Dean of Students consult with the
Chief Justice when making c.hanse
the Code of Conduct
If ratified, the new bylaws ll'lli
amendable by a majority vote of
dents, combined with the signatu~
the President and Dean of the Co
Councllmembers say they be
the ASLC's nc,v, official status will
them a stronger position and
working relationship with the
administration.
Student votes will coun
Riverdale, continued from page 1
... made by Wagner. The J ewells said
"The le_tter written by Stephanie and the
Friends of Tryo.n Creek misc some vruid
Issues which we have and will address.
We have had an aquallc biologist come
out to the site to do some preliminary
evaluation,, and he has said that the con•
cems could be addressed by implement­
ing the proper building techniques."
When asked If the school district
wo1tld lobby for additional funds from
the state if the school had a hard time
gelling off the ground, Leroy
Hemmingway, Chairman of the
RJverdale School Board, responded by
<aying, HWe won't do that. Bven if we
w.inted to we probably wouldn't be suc­
cessful if you look at our efforts to over­
tum 58917."
Bell, however, feels that the, claim
ts suspect at best. Citing a recent school
board report stating that " .. .should the
proport1on of the in-district students In·
crease significantly and thus fewer Lu•
ltion studen1s enroll, 1he Josi tuition
would be made up by state fundmg for the additio.nal in-district studerm'
Opponents have also dnlnied
the district docs not plan to make
sions to educate handicapped chll
Hemming-way also addressed I
dauns stating, "We will accom
any In district handicapped student;
that need arises. Our attorney• runt
dicated that we have grounds lo
entrance to out-of-district handi
students, howeveL"
The legality for this Is dispu
Arthur Piculcll, the former Oregon
Pre!'ident of Children with Lea.ming
abUlties says that th~ groundsare•
p«t without reason. The key won!
the law here is publl~."
With all these issues involved
sides are highly concerned with·
ing students of the facts involved m
decision. Because 418 out of the
registered volcrs in tl,e dlslnct ,,.
students a forum wns held yestcn11
After the forum much more abou1
issues involved in the election shootd
clear to students who are eligible to, SLC finds forgotten money: $70,000
8Y MitnHAS FRIPP
1 ~I.C got a break from
budgetary woes this
week, when Budget
Jncc Vice !'resident
Tumcr revc.i k-d that he
,od over S70,000 In a for­
\Sl.L lm·t•,tmcnt fund.
ordmi; I<• SAAB VP
~nt,, the ASLC Endow-
.\«nunl \\'il~ )Cl ur ~,l'\'-
1' ago ru. pan of., plan
•5'1 of student fe~ e.1ch
>0»1bly unlll thi, ASLC
illl1d 1tselt entui,ly rrom
irom the ilccount Af•
'93 venr, the student
stopped depos,tmg
.ind the nccount d1$.~p­
ttl1m ASLC paperwork
he look office ln Janu­
·,rn,:r hns been worklng
ll•yne Pede r~on, tlw coUege's Vic<' Pre.1dt!nl of Bu.1•
ness and Ano~ lo .art out the
ASLC's confused ,,ccounts.
Pederson lipp<'d h,m ofJ that
lhc account might exist. but
other adn11nistrators lhou11h1
the monev had including applymg the funds
relnmctively to equipment pur­
chase, from previou~ yc,iri..
Rather than moving ,\II thl.'
money ,nto operating reserves,
however, Turner plM> to apply but thdt', not what It', there
for .. Thi:. i!! what we fe11l i~ the
reopon.>ible thing It> do with IL"
Tumer IS ,bll lrylng to plt'\'C
toscthcr the ASlC's account,,,
n.s well as working on o plan lo
keep budgets
balanct'd thi, .,Jr.•ady been
trnn~forred ,nu,
the ASLC', opcr­
.,ung re.!,ervl!s.
r urnt'r ,Ind
Pt'<i<'rson >1h~
thr11ui;h
Pcde~n·, com-"ASLC ha.'! an enrl.owment account,
which everyone forgot about. yL•ar and ron•
trol th~ better
In the future . It ha..'! roughly $i0,000 in it."
-('.harle!'I Turner, Three weeks
ago, proji. ... "tio,~
showi:d the
ASIC going Vice Pre!'lirlent of Budget & l<'inance
puter ,ccord,
un ul they found the account,
contarnmg S70,445.
Tumersays the funds must
be used for large, one-11me pu,..
chnso,s, such as eqUlpment or
vehicles. ASLC Is froe to d<'<:idc
how tn apply tho.e e~penses, 1tonly to the purchases burden•
mg ASLC this year: S<J,702 ap•
plied 10 the purchase of n new
v11n, and S20,960 allocated for
new equipment as part of
KLC', move. "(ASLC] could
spend thl., endowment now, S49,360 into
debt th!> :-emcsteT Since then,
Turner h~ uncovo:>red an ac­
counting error that h,d S13, l25
m college matching funds for
rlub sports. He's 3lso trying to
tuck down and elomlnntc a
S5,000 dub sports contingcru:y fund Thl' J\SLC's ne" van cost
$700 less thJn orig,nail)'
thought, and Turner 301 a con•
ces,i<>n for th,, n.>mruning $101)2
the van went 01 er budget from
College Outdoors, which M>s
olso ,n1•olvcd in lht' purch.tse.
Student kc mcome proved to be
$5085 higher thnn originally es­
t, muted bnlnnccd agrunst
$2,275 tn newly found unre­
<urded expenses Based on
these figure, and the 530,662
c<>ming from U1e endo" mcnt
,1cc1>unt, Lhc ASI.C should
'<jUCt'I,.. by i\ few thou"1nd dol­
lilrs in tht.' black thb year
"The endowment b , . go­
mg to b<! oursaviur, Without us,­
rng the endowment, the only
wny to come out even would be
to cut groups' funding," Tumer
says.
orest lounges made into single rooms
fY RE11cCA Swrir
~t summer, eight lounges in
the Fore.I complex were con•
1erted to singles to provide
lf<1tC and to meet the requests of
for more singles. What looked
to be a good idea hns tumed
tic for many Forest res1de:nts.
"prtvious years, all the dorms in
with lhe exception of Juniper,
".id two lounges and four RA's on
!iit,r llecal!S4) or thi.~, the tw~year
• ttqwrement, and the popular•
,mgles among students, II was de­
totum 01w of the lounges into two
rooms, one of which would be for
oJRA's. Th,~co,wersion was also
to create more of a comunity by
uvmg one lounge in wh,ch stu­
an ,tudy and socialize.
'I\, two rooms wen, created by
g • wall in lhc middle <If the
thereby creating two rooll\5.
ong heater 1$ us..-d for both rooms.
~gh this change sounded like an
•ment, many complaints have
,,ucd. Problems ranging from
:o he•t to privacy have been ex­
by students all over Forest
ti hornblc m the singles, espe­
dunng the freel'.ing spell,• said
Duckworth, an senior and RA 1n
"The lotmges weren't built
·u,g arrangements, They were
hastily and with poor construc­
l\ba1ever precautions were made
roorru, weren't taken in ours."
'.lher students voices similar con-ccrru.. Melissa Rudd, a resident in Man-
1.anita, said, "l might as well have a
roommate; you can hear everything.
Plus, where the wall meets the ceiling
you can see the light from the other
single. Also, it got so cold during the
frecz.ing rain thal I had to type with
gloves on.•
Steven Chan, an RA ln Alder, said,
" T h e According to many students, the
amount or heat was not necessarily the
problem, but rathl!I' the lack of insUla­
ti.on, or holl!S OJ' crac.kli in walls and/or
wmdows through which heat escaped.
"My wU1dow had a crack in it, so J
called Physical Plant, but II was never
fixed,· said Julieta Kang, an RA in M,-u,­
zruuta. ~1 had to tape the crack myself
a n d
w a 11 s
separal•
Ing tile
t w O
rooms
are very "It'!'! horrible in the single!'!,
e!!])ecia.lly during the freezing spell,"
-Da."½ya Duckworth put a
bl.ml\ct
over
l h C
,,, I n ·
Ihm and
aren't bghtly secured. As a result, light,
are able to penetrate through cracks in
the wall."
Since the onset of problems, com­
plaints have lx,en made to the Forest RD,
Phillip Armstrong, and lo Physical Plant.
"The healers aren't working as well
ns they should and sounds carries quite
easily through the heater as it's a big hole
m the waU," said Anru.trong. "I put II\ a
work reque,;t on the heater righl away.
Physical Plant felt that lbe heaters were
blocked by clothing, so all the students
with heating problems removed any­
thing that could be blocking the heat.
There was a slight improvement, so 1
reported it ngarn and as~ them to ln­
crease u,e heat, but they (Physical Plant]
said that there was nothing more that
they could do as the heat was already
un 24 hours a day, seven days a week" do w
n n d
then tape that just to keep 1vann. I also
comphuneq about the loghlh coming
through from the other room, but they
haven'! done anylhing. There are even
holes in the walls that are big enough
for you to stick your hand through. The
condllion is just terrible.•
Richard Bettega, c!Jrcdor of Facilities
of Physical Plant said that complaints
were madedurlng the freez.ing rain, but
that It was Just II matter of removing
items from the healer.; lo allow the heat
to pass through into the rooms. "The
rooms are oil insulated, but they're not
designed for cold weather for that long.
There wasn't much of a change except
for adding a center wall When com­
plaints were made our maintence engi•
neers responded and since then we have
had no further registered complain LS.•
When asked If anything will be done this
Do you trust your RA? summer to improve the conditiun of the
rooms $0 students will not tlave lo suf­
fer ag,un next winter, Bettega ~ijid,
"Nothing wlU be donl! b<.-cause this is a
rare event. We can keep the buJl.dtn~
warm, but not always hot,•
The is:me of privacy Is also a large
concern, especially among the RA's. As
an RA, one must have space available to
speak with residents about confidential
issues, but this, according to many For­
est RA's is not posslblc. Mosl com­
plained that they arc able to hear all that
occurs in the other !iinglc and that there
is no space or privacy to hold confiden­
tial conversations with residents.
"If I want to ha\'e prwate conversa­
lloru. with my residents, I have In go
somewhere else. I can hear e\'~rything
m the other room and they c.1n hear <'V•
erythmgm mmc," said Kang.
Because or the lack of help t rom
Physical rlant, most students feel that
there is notlung that there Ls nothing
more they can do about the situation.
Heather Barnes, an RA in Manzanita
sajd, "I've complained to Physical Plant
and Residence Ufc and I've always got­
ten the same response which is that there
is nothing that they can do.•
Bet1egn said that all that is needed
is for people to register complaints and
the maintence engineers will help as
soon as possible. A metal divider for the
heater, so as not to ollow heat to escape
is a possibilty for improvement, as is
caulking the walls to stop the light from
entering one room from the other.
~ She likes 10 try to ·•Yes, I do. Sure. What
little I see of her''
Ben Hewitt,
first-year "Oh, definitely. 1 trust her
with the well-being ... "1 trust her not 10 bust us." "I trust my RA like I trust
my bong. He's always
there and he always makes
me foci good." y 1rick the citi1..ens of
her hall.''
Hillary Snodgrass,
first-year of my hall."
Ben Abernathy,
junior Amy Cook.
first-year
Kosh,
sophomore Activism fights LC apathy
0 arJ111£MY8ROWH
l every tum, newspaper a.nd telcv,s,on re­
ports herald the recent trends and results in
the Republican presidential caucuses and pnmanes.
In spite of the rclcnUess media barrage, LewiS & Clark
students may be dodging the torrent of news, as well
a.s polllical acnvism in general, 1£ the results of a recent
nationnl poll hold true on assistance for children coming to the US."
It is dlli1cult to generali.ie on the political whims
of ~tudents, for Pionl'el'S have myriad inten.'SIS, pas­
sions, and achv1bes. Associate Professor of Political
Science Robert Eisinger declined to speculate whether
LC students arc as politically apathetic as their coun•
terparts across the nation, stating. "I don't like to con-
jecture without data.''
Palatine HIil
According to a poll "I
published by !he Waslt•
i11g1011 Post Natio11al
Wttkly Edilio11, interest in
politics and govemmenl
among college freshmen think in anything an innivictual
can make a clifference"
-Ryan Thoma..,, i;iophomore However, Eisinger did
suggest, "Maybe people
are doing other things
besides voting. Maybe
ft's volunteering.•
Indeed, many op-
has fallen to an all-time low. Just 29 percent of the stu·
dents polled thought ii was important 10 keep up with
politics. In spite of this apparent death knell for stu•
dent involvement, both activism and apathy exist
among underclassmen al LC.
"No matter which way you go, Democrat or Re­
publican, you'll end up with the same thing." sopho­
more Linsel Greene said. ''Effectively it's all fashion,
no matter how ,t's packaged." Greene, a registered
voter in Multnomah County, said that he had better
things to do than to pay attention to polihcs. "It seems
like a real big hassle, 1. have another life." Freshman
Gina Kelley said, "I'm notsuffioently infooned on lhe
!primaries) to give thum much thought."
Whlle many students pay little attention to the
world of politics, there are others who believe that un­
derstanding govemment affairs is essential. Sopho­
more Ryan Thomas of the Young Conservatives Club,
who once boasted in a so.1pbox discussion thal he de·
votes 30 hours a day to politics, said, "I think that ev•
erythmg ,s poUtical. Eve.rything we do, how fast we
can drive, what we eat, the information we have ac­
cess to, where we can build home:1, there are always
two sides to everythlng."
And according to Kalei White, a first-year law slu•
dent and Representative of Minority Law Student As­
sociation 8 s«tlon, political decisions have a definite
Impact on his life. •Asa mixed ethnicity, a lot of things
affect me," he said. "I or course am worried about de­
cisions that are being contemplated to end affirmative
achon programs, Head Start programs, and bilingual portunities exist for LC
students to devote themselves to co.mmunlty, service
and student government. Freshman Liza Smith is cur­
rently applying for a volunteer position at McCoy
Academy, an alternative high school i.n Portland, and
also participated in !he Urban Action trip during New
Student Orientation !his fall "I feel like f've been re­
ally lucky and blessed with a good family and oppor­
tunities,• she said. "It's appropriate to reciprocate some
or that to the community.•
According to Smith, who said politics are "not a
big focus• in her life, regardless of whether someone
cares about politics, he or she <'.an make a difference.
Thomas agrees, "I think in anything an individual can
make a difference, it depends on lhescale. For example,
in the Republican primaries, my impa<'.t is probably
negligible. But In lhe Riverdale school issue, my im·
pact is huge. It just works on a local basis."
Organizations such as OSPLRG and ASLC provide
outlets for students to become active on the local level,
although both groups have come under fire recently.
"It doesn't seem like they draw people who aren't in­
terested in the subject," Greene said. Thomas added,
"OSPIRG is a great group, despite some of the id<:0·
logical differences l have with them. ASLC, despite
lhe immaturity and petty jealousies lhnt can take hold,
is good lor the organizational experience."
At times passionate, at times lac.kadaisical, LC stu·
dents run the gamut of personal involvement. Regard·
less of what has happened in Iowa or New Hampshire
In recent days, it is clear that differences in ideology
and interest will continue to be prevalent at LC.
The 31 st International Fair is coming
n loo• Got.we 0 he event that breaks cultural barriers and
brings the LC community together m the eel•
ebration or its diversity, the International Fair,
L~ only days away. Those who have attended the fair
in the past can already smell the food !hat is gomg to
be served at the Food Bazaar. The freshmen will have
to see It in order to believe it cuisine from around the
gl<Jbe ready to ll'ISte, and a parade of native costumes,
ethnic musk, and dance from all four comers of the
worJd.
The 31st annual International Fair will t-ake place
on Saturday, March 2nd, and it will feature its tradi·
tlonal set-up: an internationnl food court and a cultural
performance. Students, faculty, alumm, and !he gen•
eral public will all have the opportunity to taste some
or the exhibits Crom the enonnous menu between 11
a.m. and 1;30 p.m. in Stamm. The perfonnance will
follow at 2 p.m. in the Agnes Flnnogan Chapel. The
Fair is being organized by the international students
at LC and its governing body, the ISLC.
The coordinators of thi:. event and the members of
the international student community would Uke to In·
vile their peers to 10m them in the festivities in lhe light
of th~ theme of this year·s Fn1r. "Peace It Together"
stands for two separate messages, says the President
of ISLC, Pavcl Krum.kachev.
"We are ail pieces of different cultures." he explruns.
"The Iheme promotes international peace ai,d descnbes
the mullicultu~al 0avor of Lewis & Oark."
The unorthodox demographics oJ the LC srudent
body make th.is theme that much stranger both in the
eyes of the Mu dents and the PorUand pub Uc. With :?H
foreign student,, Crom 44 dilCcrent countries, LC is a
rare find among educ-atlonal institutions in the United
States. lnternati.onal students help shape life on cam·
pus and in the classroom at LC. They speak a foreign language and they try to adapt lo the American cul•
lure during their stay here Por this one afternoon, in•
tcmational students get a chance to share something
from their own cultures with their American friends.
Last year's event gathered more then 3,000 people
to the plates and dishes Crom Asia, Africa, Europe,
Middle East, and even North America. The food was
consumed in less then one hour, which left many
groups in diSbelief and with empty serving racks. Al·
though this year there won't be any American group,
for the first time th= will be a Russian and an Eastern
European group. The organizers guanntee that there
will be no hungry mouths after this year's Pair.
"We ran out of food last year", says K.rumkachev.
"This year we will cook more, a.nd we will be ready."
Nevertheless, Krumkachev suggestsstudentscome
as early a.s possible. Prices will range from $2 to $5,
"just lo cover our costst says K.rumkachev.
When you can eat no more, follow the sounds of
the Kukuva Marimba Band from Stamm down the
stairs. There, each room will be decorated with the or•
naments and artifacts from the different parts of the
world. Sit in an Arabian tent or play Japanese games;
listen to Croatian and Serbian music or check out Afri­
can jewelry. Students dressed in native costumes will
guide you through the rooms and will answer que$­
hons about their countries.
These students will all be the familiar faces you
have seen so many tnnes around campus and have al·
ways wondered where are they from. The PhJUppines,
lndones,a, T.uwan, China, Malaysia, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Nigeriii, RomMin, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Russia,
Germany, France, Belgium, SpaUl, The Netherlands,
United Kingdom, Italy, l.sracl, United Arab Emirates,
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Chan Rumbles his v,ay into theaters
OviE. 1:1 rev1ewl!J{
BY B11m BEACH
~ 1th th.; uutput of the
\;U Hong Kong and Cha•
nc,c film industrie~ rmng to
,n("reasing populunly an the
United States in recent 1·cars,
the IJmang Ill perfect for Jackie
Chan to be rc,ntroduced to
mainstream America. Chru1's
fir.st attempt al J IMgc cro,;,;iwcr
occum,d wcJI ,wer IS years ,,go
with the American-made 11,i:
Bii,: /lrnwl. Thl5 tame, however:
th!! mo1•ie Rw11/1/t III flit 8,vnx
(Hong K<>ng', biggest
m<>neymnker lru.t year) was
made ()Ver..,cas and wns se-•
lcctcd by New Lane Cinema to
be presented lo us n"1SSL-S (1500
5'"re<>ns across the country) in a
dubbed vcrsior\. Chan has been
douig the taJJ,.-,how circuit nsor
late and on II ra-ent Late Show
app11aran,-e he proved himself
tn be an nffable sort, clisplilyang
hi, numerous Nbattl., wounds"
and shattering many n botllc wllh n swirt kick of his fccL
It', lh,,t sort of bravado
that ~po1rks many of the mnrt!
plensurablc momt!nts t>f
Rumble, but even ,o, the.-film
drag, whl'n Ch,,n .,. not exlub-
1Hng hlS breathtaking murhal
arb/,tunt sk1b or offering up
ht> own br,1nd of self-dcprec:at•
mg humor. The plot (as it
st,mds) hns Chnn as a Hong
Kong cop wh11 con,es lo Ncw
York for his cousin'< wedding
and stay, ll> battle th<' loc,11
thugs 1Yh1> ML· intent on trash­
ing th<! cousin', 1,roc:ery store
Th~re·s al<;o an even more rl·
dkulous~ubplot involv,ingdia­
mond ~mugglers who ~cc.i­
dently cru:,s C.n.1n'b path
Obviously, the more c:Us•
trading that the plot•act,on ra­
bo ,s skewed heavily to the
!onnl'r. 11,e major action se­
quences, uneset inn gang's lair
and the other involving a
hovercrnft chase on sea and
l,tnd, .ire both spectaculiu and
enthralling in ., goofy kind of
w,,y. Ch,,n pn>vl!!-huns.::lf It>
bl! a bad-1™> whoi,e refusal (like
that of Chow Yun•l'at, ,1nothcr
major Hong Kong star) to take
himself too oeriow;ly contrib­
utes ,mmenscly lo his appeal In addition to the plot, the
otherprunarydlstraction is the
ludicrous dubbing Whether
Intentionally hysterically funny
or not, the dluloguc is almost
loo painful to listen to at limes.
In thas case, Lt dcfarulcly detracts
from the en1oyrn,>nt of the film.
H~re•s hoping 1ha1 l.hts film at
lea.st 3du.eves the goal of spark•
ing n wider interest in Chan's
body of worJ.., and a new-found
respect for hi> considerabll!
skilli. and charisma. (")
Pio Log Movie Pick of the
Wee.le Although it Isn't wholly
sathrying (and Ls the latest ma
curl'Cflt crop of film~ to have its
dramahc prcmasc utterly mis•
represented by its trailer) the
new Meryl Streep-Urun Neeson
d r;una Befort a11d After has
enough strengths going for al
(including an alway~ utterly
convincing as Sheep and an en•
gaging far.;t hour) to make at
m.irg,naliy recomrncndoble
Strecp and Neeson play com•
fortable midd lc-clnss parents
whose world is rocked when
thelr son (Edward Furlong) 1s
the primary suspect 1n lhl!
grisly death of a local girl he
had bel!n doting. In •pile of the
Rayburn entertains LC
Br COUH R-fONO
1ke Rayburn was
ha,lt>d as • America's
best s11lo performer~
by Clmpus ActaviJie•
Tu!;!m(_in 1994 Originally from
Vi.rgll\ia, he dclh•~rcd n t=en­
dousl y entertaining show at
Lewis & CL1rk's Club Stamm on
Wednesday, February 14. Hb
,-onfidence, charisma, and en•
thuslaslic sen5'" of humor made
him an huge success with the
LC crowd.
Rayburn started out with
high school and folk concerts,
then began playuig with bands
1n clubs b<!forc go,ng solo.
Rayburn has recently toured
college campuses ,,cross the
country. His tours last 170days,
with 120 pcr£orman1.-es m more
than twenty states. He started
touring campuses when he
joined the NationalAssoc.labon
for CampusActivibes (NACA).
SOFA cliscovered Rayburn al
NACA's national conference In
Anaheim, California last year.
"I like college audiences,"
R.,ybumsays, "because of their
responsiveness, their general
willingness to laugh, and thelr
openness lo new stuff so they
don't expect me to play Jlmn,y
Buffott the whole time."
Has show bll!n~ both hu•
mor and senousness. 1-::-or ex­
am pie, early in his show,
Rayburn did a series of satires
m which he did such impres­
sions as Dan Fogelbcrg doing
nn AC/DC song. The humor element of his pcrformances
was originally spawned from
a high school performance
wh<!rt! Rayburn discovered the
thrill of b.?ing able to make an
audience laugh. Also, he said
that humor is a gwd way lo
mak<' a patenliall_y horrible
situation good. For example.
he sap, ,t someone requests n
song by M1chacJ Jackson, he
can easily tum ii into a delight•
fully runnv parody.
Then, was another side lo
Rayburn's performance as he
sang several excellent serious
wngs with emotional intensity.
He abo did =e instrumental,
classical pieces which en­
chnnte!d the audience. Has in­
terpretallon or ·•rachelbel's
Canon" brought the audience
into nn appropriate Valt!ntinc's
Dnymood.
Rayburn cuncntly draws
his inspiration from such art­
ists as Mike Cross, Bruce
Springsteen, Lyle Lovett, and
Jimmy Bulfott. In the past, he
has looked up to such musi•
cians as Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, and
the E.1gles. Besides perform•
ing, Rayburn enjoys spending
11111e w,th his wi(e and white­
water kayakmg.
Make Rayburn can be
found on the World Wide Web
at lrttp://so1111s.co111/110111a/111r
ond by e-mail at
mmybunr l'itaol.cam. The Gender
Studies
Symposium
Gender Fllm
Festival:
In the Rusty Nail
Wed. 2/28/96
8pm The Incred­
ibly True Adven­
tures of Two Girls
in Love
10pm Jeffrey
Thurs. 2/29/96
8pm Thelma &
Louise
10pm Patty Rocki
Fri. 3/1/96
8pm The Color
Purple
10pm A Raisin in
the Sun d,rcctaon the
pr,:mise implies,
what follows IS
neither a revela­
tory thriller nor
courtroom
drnm,1. Indeed.
the c,;pl,1n,11Jon
for her death LS
u£fcrcd halfway
through nnd yet I
still thought, "Is
that 11?" But thJs
film is a11 exam,,
nation of a family
m crisis and how
their response
ends up digging
the hole eve11
deeper for lhl>ir
son. The film's
style i.\ a dehmtc
dep,1rture for di­
rector Barbel
Schroder whose
recent output has
mcluded lhe styl· lo an in um o fn I e ll<onx
ish, somewhat trashy thrillers, rcdeemcdbyastrongfin.,i,
Sm11/e W/11/e remnle and Kiss of fnrr a11d Aflu is not without
Deni/,. Here, the colors arc merilb, but f.ills short afba.
muted and the lone is kept som-the emotional .ind intclletu..
ber and winter-like. After what eng.,ging drama it would
happen~ lo the girl, the Rim to be.
drogs along until it•~ !iDmewhat
Pisces (Feb. 19-Mnr 20)-The Sun and Jup1tur Join form
Show off your tnlcnts. Now ,s the lime to show off your Uj
dancing skill,,.
Aries (March 21·April 19)· The Sun is nt odds with Satun­
T.nke a bre.tk from the daily grind. The coast Is nlways nk~.
T.iurus (Aprll 20.May20)- The Sun is in Sagitlanu~. Pu~u.
your desires, no matter how strange.
Gemmi (May 21-J une 21)-fup11cr,qu,1Jt>S up 10 Saturn. Kcor
your en,olions under control. Try not ta ,hed tear:. over spa!
mil.k al the Bon
Cancer 0une 22•July 22)-The Sun enters Capncom, YOUI
opposite sign. Do more and dream less. After all, midtennsdo
exist.
Leo {July 23-Aug. 22)· Lots of planetary activity this montti
Success is more a result of gOQd sense than of genius. Sorry.bu!
you mlght want 10 open those books and study.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)-Mercury is keeping a fast pace11p
Try to keep things in perspective. That test is only 40% of y®t
grnde.
Llbra (Sept. 23-0ct. 22)-Saturn ,s pluymg a key role in your
life. There is more to life thnn working your fingers to the bone
Live 1t up, party hnrd this weekend.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nuv. 22)· Mars enters Arie.~. Laugh It up.
But then, don't you lllwnys?
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)-Salum ls in Pisces. You will
get exactly what you ask for this week. So, what do you want?
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jnn. 19)-Sun is in your birth sign.
You have a lot to look forward to. Maybe there will be n
party this weekend.
Aquiu,us {Ian. 20-Feb. 18)· Venus links up with Ncptunr
and Uranus. Romance ,snot out of the question. tudents 11 chill'' in neW' dorm rooms
I
aY Rtt:H P,zo•
1 has never made much sense
10 me that thl.' ,,drrunll>trnticm
of th,s !;Choo! -;eem~ to c,,re ~o
ibout th~ physical ,,nd mental
md well-being of lb ,tudent,.
iru! again we've lived through cpi·
Ill wluch our voice wa, ignored
rspec1!1c wishes were summnnly
rdNI without so much as ., cur-­
txplanation. Bui putting sllJdents
cl.ltd housing ha,. got lo be the
bi•tant Qffons,, I can think of
Ion npprcdatl' that there L< a lack
on campui, -or al lca~t that
~®Id be ,f 1t w35 filled to capac-
1 there are a number of rl.'SOUl'C('S
ing U1dt nn.'ll't bemg utilv~. I
orlhnnd, of .>t 11.'ru.t 3 doublo!•
m the Stewort/Odcll complex
let ,1lonc rumors I've heard of
,ngll!S, qund-doubles, and even
oc"CUpied by ot>ly two people
dorm.<. Clearly, there is not a lack
for<htdcnts to live on lhJS cam•
especially since one ,onsidNs that
1.a1, double-singles werl.' suppos•
going lo be clim1nat.>d a,; a volun•
hou,ing option
M.anwh,le, while all thb space l,
' , studenls get placed m rooms
are dearly not up to the standn~
111g that one would cxp,>ct or an 1n•
w1th as high a tuition ai, L,ewc, & Clnrk's, Despite Physlc,11 Plant's ad•
monitions to the contrary, the new
~lnglcs in Forest are not u,,able ln their
current condition, Prl\'.u:y ls something
that there i,, ne\'er .t lol ol m dorms, but
11 "' unacceptable to put RAs 1n a pos,­
bon where they cannot gu...antee ,1t leasl
~ degree or pnvnc} to thc,,r floor mcm•
bcrs -a,; ,s currently the c.ise for any
RA hv,ng m one or the new Forest
singles. Cracks and holes in lhe walls
carry hght. And JUSI imagine, we get
chllrged SI .00 for putting thumb tacks
In th1> wall, or other dorms ...
Bcttcga says that there have been no
official ~omplmnts reg.,.tcred since lhe
m.-czing min spell. While I personally
!ind that hard In behew, 11 ~lso doc'!>n't
entirely surprise rne; many students
haveexpcnl!f\Ced a tn?mcndtiu,,amount
ol frustrilllon asking Physical Plilnt to gel
'"'!lll1111g doDc, and it's not at all unlikely
thnt studenb hnve sun ply given up hope
and, w,U, no other n.>course available,
chosen to put up with these substandard
conditions as bc,t they Cilll.
Granted, to say thM these rooms are
completely unlivable would be an e~.ig­
gcralion bordenng on untruth. It would
be Just as foolish to ns:;ume thal they arc
anywhere near the ~tandarth, of nny
other room m any other dorm; indCl'CI,
even other rooms in the ,;nm, dorms are
,n better repair. So sllJdenl'S are bcmg
SLC proposes new bylaws
To THE EorroR,
.\.s you may recall, Ubl semester the ASLC Student Council made n strung
..... , to nuempt to ,mprove relaUons between sllldents nnd the adminislra•
"'"~nd gain greater student legilnnacy and vo,ce on campu~. Thl!re was a
101,on m,1de by Council thal we wuuld "strike," freezing all ASLC fun<b
~ • f\'SOlve was reached between the two p,1rt1e,,, Negotiabons moVl.'d
,anckly last fall and a group was established with equal representation from
.th sides lo work on thc tSsues. Aller several months of disc:uss,on, debate
,id thought, a new ASLC document has emerged. Many of the con/Licts
,1th ASLC had been rn our own structure. it had grown to be meffeclive for
,,Jdcn1 v<llcc and had amassed several unneeded positions and du hes. The
>l.lb!L<hed working group rewrote our Constitution and Bylaws, combin­
"! them into ,1 single effoctive docwnC!llt which has been titled the ASLC
lvLlws.. To complement the document we nrc In the process ol creating a
Imes or Procedure manual whic:h wW clearly outlme the opcrnlional sttuc­
:atof the Executive Coundl and each mdividunl ASLC board.
The new Bylaws have been ratified by Student Council and have bc.-cn
<'Ill by both Dean Atkinson and PresidL>nt Mooney. The next ~tep Is• stu­
itnl•w1de vote on Wednesday, February 28 where the Bylaw:, need a 2/3
IIIUICMion vote by the st\ldcnt body. If the document is accepted by the
tllldcnt body, both the President and the Dilan of the College will accept the
911.awsand they will go on 10 the Board of Trustees for final ratificahon. nus proccs.• creates authority and legitlmacy for StudCJll Council and
J ,tudcnts, We will hnvc tile vested power of the Board of Trustees which
,di grant us more of a sllldent ,,oicc. At thls pomt, with an eJfectivc and
,wUng set of Bylaws, ASI.C Student Co,rndl will no,v begin to look at 11,e
Student Code of Conduct and h.we the power lo asslsl in shaping the Code
iCooducl to better ~J'\le sllJdents. Thi,, can happen with many lssues. in
11tpast we hnve complained about not getting student voice and have made
.Ilk progress with the Issue. With our new Bylaws. btudent voice comes one
'1tp doser to the power of the college by the simple fact that the Boa.rd of
i:nalt-es, the Presideniand the Dean acknowledge us as an importanl, e.1tis-­
lt'lll illld vital organiz.1tion.
A5LC wdl host an informative forum next Tuesday, February 27 in the
(qundl Chambers to answer queslions aboul the document, the process and
!htootromc.
We are not yet aU the way there ln creating a perfect balance between
1t11Joot voice and adminlstrative authority, however this bring us a large
,tq,closcr, ASLC has been very pleased with progress and we wlll continue
II~ the issue until we feel students can truly help qhapc the college in all
"f"C'IS.
I Cory Curtis
i\SLC Presidenl forced to sufler in substandard condl•
lioM b«ause Phy,ic:.11 Plant ls unwill­
ing to help them and Dmpus L1fo bun­
willing to move them. Meanwhile, other
lucky 111dlviduab loung1! nrou11d in the
luxur)' of supposedly non-ex,stenl
double-singles.
Why? I'm guessing it's because the
college gets Mice as much for a double­
single as ii doe, ror a standard smglc Student$ have suffered man)' outrages
at the hands of the Mru,or House, and
always before it was explained as bcing
the only oltcmahve. With the numbcrof
doublr.--singlcs th,s year, however, the;;<>
subst.mdard singles nre clearly not the
only opt,on. I find ii cu nous, but not su"
pr1sing, 1hn1 no modifications are
plan.ned for the rooms this summer.
I'm not too worried, I.hough.
ISLC representative postion
threatened by vote
To THE EolTOII mcrous attempts to bring out the crnpha-
On February 28, there will be a ref: sl. on U1e harmful CQMcqucnces of such
crendum regardlng the ell'Ction procc- a. reforendumtoUleAstCstude~tcoun•
dures for the position of lntcmalional c,I. The:;eattempl!>w"-";blwilly,gnored.
Student Re rescntative 10 the ASl,.C Stu• Furthcrm?re. the ISLC s conc.-rn, about
d t C P.1 If ____ .., th 1 U1e wording of the proposal were ne• en ounct . P"""'-"'• is proposa . . rd will have damaging consequences for glcctcd. In lhe way 11 1s wo ed ~ow,
· 1• I tud ts d th I d I the proposal leads the voters to behevtl intema ,ona s en an es lJ en h th d -L- ill I La commuruty nl large. t al ~ propose Uh'Ul~es w no ""
U d ti ,_.., ch • th• dam.,gmg to the rntcmnllonru students. n er ,e propo ... -... angc,, ~ ki h · h f · intcmntionnl students would lose Uleir However, la ng nway t t> ng I o UI·
righl 10 freely elect their representativ<> ternational students to elect !heir reprc­
to the Student Council The proposal ii-senlativc wou_td dcny U1em ol the oppor•
self is contradictory In th.it It affects a lunity to participate in the student gov­
posihon designed to rep~t intema• emmenl as equals.
tionol s1udent,, and yet denies these sill- Lewis & Clark, College o~tn_umbers
dents the right 10 elect ,1 reprcscntatwe. most of the nahon s coll':Ses m mtcma•
Currently, U,e lntcma.tional Student ttonal student population.Many ,tu·
R t t• · 1 led th I dents choose LC for the opportunity to epresen a 1ve is e ec in c annuo .
ISLC clcctiolls, along with the President l~a m foreign lang~ages. and cultu;es
and Vice Presiden1 of ISLC. lntema• first-h~d fro":' their foreign peers. or
tional students nominntc several rondi- years, mtcmnhonal stud~ts have been
date!land then decide on Ulemostquali• nctive In th~ LC commuru~y. The inter•
fled person to represent them. H this national Pai~· one of the biggest events
~•I a••~ the international stu• on campus is only one of many events prop~ P -• ' ·---' b ' ' I d •· ' dents will only be allowed to choose the orgam'-"" y mtem~tiona stu en~ ,or
candidates for the position. The final the college community.
decision on who gets to represent inter- Tho!re have been n~erous_attempts
b• I tud ts ill bed 'ded • ~ lnthepasttorc!ulethemtern.ilionolstu• naonas en w ea ,n~ ~ _ _.
I lectt S. • 1 t' I stu dents right to equal representation. Ev• genera e on. mce m cma mna • , . .
dents are a mmority on campus, there ery time su~h an tSSue was raised, the
is a.strong possibility that the candidate LC commwi,ty strongly came to u:ie sup­
they support the most won't be elected. port of international stud':"ts. This year,
The ASLC Board feels thnt the voice we w~uld Ukc to ?"cc again ask for_your
f th I t t. al Sllld 1 R help in preserving the mternallonal o e n ema ,on en epreseri• ,
tative jeopardizes the declsion., of the spirit or ~urcollege by votmg NO on the
council, ll's true that the only inlema- lntcmM1<lnal Student Represcntnllve
honal ~tudenl on lhe council sometimes ballot measure on February 28. .
d. . Pavel Krumkachev, ISLC President has a 1/ferencc of opinion with the M . . 0. ISLC p bli • c other members of th" coun<'il. But isn't _ a11or1e ,7..on, u city o-
d,versified opinion a cornerstone of Cha11u I L 1cs· 1 . 1 Stud
k -dedslttns? on u ,c, ntcmallona enl ma mgco .. =• u R . 1994-1995 Members of !SLC have made nu-epresenlahvc • ftMIIR'! 23, )996
Stop the scare
ro THf ro,ro,i: people I d<>n'L <'Ven know who
inlim1da11on These n('w ac•
quaintance~ have w,1nh!d tu
show ~upport ror what the
Rh,crdille Neighbors for Dia•
loguc has been trymg to do
They are compdled to pledge
support in private. Somctunes
it i, 1ust encouragement. Other
tim,>s rt is verbal appreciat,on.
Sadtle-.t of all is when the sup­
port is monetary. II is almost
alway• provided in c,ish. None
.if lhes<.' p<'oplo, wan1 their
nam,'l> Ill be made public for
foar of th,• COMM."!U<:nu:,;. My n,1m11 i;, Fr.ink Wdgno.,r.
I h,wc lived In Corbett f'st.ltes
for lhL'p,1>1 five,md .-. half Y<'.-U-..
I om wntlng th,~ lcUcr a• an in•
dh·1i.lu,II m=btl of thi, com·
mumty What I ,1111 wnhngcon•
terns th.-R1\'crd,1le school situ•
.1hon. For th, purpose of saving
th,• district, ., bond 1~,uo., to
bur Id ,, pcrman,•n1 high school
Hnd• Lhl' n.-,ghborhood al a
ml\J,,r trt..~.-0.ld!;.
In~, ll'tt\•t h.is noth,ni; tn do
w,th 1h11 ml'nl• ur th<! pl,m. or
,,ny pl,ln, for tho., District. Thl.5
\t\\t~ Wl.\tXt\'i\\\\\\'i, \\\\\I.\ \X\\\\
•how"" 5nme mrmbt~r-c; o( our
~omrnun1ty ,11'\.1 .;11:hng Jn tiUp+
port 01 one pt,m. II 1s ont v by
accident that I b~,g:in compos•
1ng this letlN lln the day S<lt
aside to honor Martin Luther
King, Jr. Rev. King was ;r great
man who stood up against in­
JUSlice. What hL' did msp,rcs the
ordinnry man, like myself, lo try
to live \rp Lo hb ideaJs.
Then, is injustice tnkmg
place in Dunthorpe/Riverdale.
Whal l am referring lo is \he
sa.nclions Imposed on people
simply ~use they have a dif•
fe.rent opinion abo,ll RiverdaJe
school The t.1ctic of soci>1l in0u•
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Louro Benson <'nc,; used ,n thL~ community
that J s\tonglv oppose is Jnttmi•
d,1tinn. I ,annnt stand bv and let
>Uth ads ,ontlnuc ~nrhill•
lomgcd. s .. lore \'OU ..-un tell me I
mu<t bl• mL,t,,~,•n, li,t me say I
have w1h1c~:.t:d 1nt1m1d,1tlon
,V11h my l,lmil\· and with do,<'
fn,.,,d, l'vr 1n.,·\,<nCI.', -ome ,h1I•
drcn, whose parent> had pulli,d
their kids out ul R,vetdale. IPld
m " ., n What <:,pec1all)• troubles
m11 b tho., pcrva>l\e~ llf thb
fc,u. Adult, M< ,1fm1d to voice
th,•lr optmnn:, lor feilr nf cxdu•
~non J:,•en "ar~t.' tht?y 1HC
Mm1d lor lhe<rchildrcn who at•
tond R1wrdalc l'he threat to
ch1I•
dren.
.ind Jdult
\l)\l\
them
tho1•
bra\'t'
I <>
come "What I am referring to is
the Aancdons lmposeo. on
people simply l>ecause they
have a different opinion
about Riverrlale school." ..,, r -
'"""' the
fam­
rl y,
mi<s .,t len~i-th~ bini.llng force or
the c.immunity • If thi< l< ln1e
ti I,; log1c,1I In conclude th" b~t.
and wo.-t, ol lhiBne1ghhnrhood
revolves ,,round lhc -chool. Th._.
wor,;I has to do with the t,lChcs
otexclus1nn, cx.1lc, and nd1C\llc.
\ ~t,'u\m'i\ \-.l'i\~ \ms,\\.\\\\\~
,f I didn't feel that t~ ,lcb of
intimidation <'Ould !,,.• •t<>ppt.'<I
Even old, long-,,tindlng hab1l1
can change. Paul Dudley H.ut,
from Portland's Outward
Bound calls compassion "the
currency of cooununrty." I am
asJdng individuals who have
engaged m acts or intimidatlon
toward others because or their
views to be more compassion•
ate. I am asking 1ndiv1duals
who, through their own attinn
or in.,ct ion, ttunforce tl1e inlwu•
dators act to no longer condone
such behavior. The currency of
this community could use a
healthy deposit. Tiu· ,.,,,,. uj the schoul s/11111/d a­
pliritlu ~,,,-., mlt11-< ,,f 11111111x1U1~
txpc, talio11 of tm,t, ,wd of dt
crt1~11, Then· ar~ <1 number al
adult, ln thls <nmmumly th•l
might w,111t to return to high
school rf the bond is,ue pa,-<o
~ \~'$ \')\\\~\\Wt~.
in defense of an l'<lucatlon,11 m•
shh1Uon, re<ori In inlimidatioo
to squash dlvergent opmum.,
Such behavior condemns aiw
educatioMI inslilulinn, dcp,;.
dent on these means. to hypo<•
risy ,ind eventual medlOCl'ILy (> u t
and
play in the ncighborhhod. Such
incidents arc a regrettable
legacy of this cornmuruty, I feel
fortunate my own children
were rully grown before I
moved here.
Rl!«'nlly, because of my in•
volvemcnt with Riverdale
Neighbms for Dialogue, I have
come lo realize there arc many
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Anissa Beasley m C
<ick. Just thinking of,, child 1,c..
ing shunned makes my skin
crawl. It is a sad commentary
that this community seems 10
turn a blind eye townrd these
<njU!,tit:es.
The Irony about our neigh·
borhood is thilt. cxcludlng the
school, there seems to be great
amounts of tolerance. The only
sacred cow seems to be the
school itself. I have heard from
people whom I like, admire,
and ,~spect tell me that the
school "is the community," or One or the common prin•
dples oflhe Coalition of Essen­
tial Schools (the cu.rriculum for
the proposed high school) ,s •
Morals a must
To THI U>ITOII,
Al a lime when cultural di•
vcrsity is respected in business,
higher t!ducation, the public
sector, and the arb; when con•
tempor,,ry issues require prac•
tree m human understanding
and cooperallon; and most
promml-ntly, as we arc Ix-gm•
rung to sec mtcgr,1hon m our
living env,ronmeAts and accep­
tance or difference,,, 1 /ind the
determinallon to create a
Riverdale high school di,.turb·
ing.
The worrisome issues or
taxation, bonding, ,ind physical
site are by their nature suitable
for debate and negotiatt.on. ln
contrast, I ra.se the less tangible
issues of ,,alucs, community
ethics, and the soc,al learning o/
our youth. I question whether
the determination to create a
neighborhood school is based
on fears somewhat removed
lrom the welfare of our stu• dents-fears surroundrng pa­
rental control, financial control,
fear of "strangers", nnd fear of
loss of exclusivity. I am dis•
turbed by the law that permits
the creation of n public sdlool
that is dependent on private~•­
l<'ndance and private funding
and quet.hon the wisdom of
public school ad m.rn,st rntors
fon:ed ,nto the school cornpcb·
Lion busrness. Private tu1tron
money ts so!t. This school
would depend for the majority
or Its operating budget on the
market forces with the nc-ed for
a continu~Uy increasing PR :ind
recruitment budget to ensure
private enrollment. The ethic
that perpe1ura1es isolation of
Riverdale studcnl5 throughout
the cntical adolescent learning
years furthers a polarized, ellt·
1st class society. Provincial atti·
tudes have no place in what
should be our most liberru and
universal of all institutions,. 1 have removed myselJ
from active participation with
Riverdale Neighbors For Dia­
logue to work on behalf of AnN
and Steve Bell. They arc trymg
to save their home. I spoke with
them directly about the con­
dl'ml\at1on proceedings on th&
personal residence. From mi
humble opinion, they havr
been the reciphmts of m<lre in­
justice than anyone in our com­
munity deserves to expericin.
I wnnttodomybest IQ tum thi,
injustice mlo justice.
Sincerely,
Frank W,,gner
public schools!
I mvltc and challenge mJ
(eUow neighbors to look belllnd
this polruized dream for ou1
future adults and runbrace •
bolder choice-one that t'Xcnl·
plifies the reality of Uvmg 111 tht
Portland mclropolrtan arei
Th.m, ha,, been much writtl'SI
about the threat to lhe Riv"1'<1.llr
School bu1ldmg, tf the dlSl.riCI
opted to consolidnte. A~ a ;.
through 6th grade school llul
has absorbed students fro111
Lake Oswego, our cmrcnl
Riverdale staff would have tht
opporturuty >1nd challenge to
offer either the existing [in~ cw­
riculum or that of Coalition
Schools to a broad array or stu­
dents versus n chosen fcw••fn•
school railored to the reruism ol
public school consolidation and
lhe advnntagc of a healthy 111,
base. •
Sincerely yburs,
Elaine Inman
\:(•\I \\L't'I,._ kt·t·p ~t1ur l'\·e, dpt n lnr .1 :"!uL!t..•nt :\d\ ll\..,ll\ lt:tlL'f \\ rlllfl,~ l,ln1~,,,ll~n l!ll' purpll",,l' ,,1 tk
rJmp,11gn I ... tn hL\'L' ,tu\h-nh thl' npp(lrtumt\' h)('\.rfl'' ttw,r t1pl0hlll'.' llll lhl· I inHtl•d Pohll' l\l\\"l'r, 1111!7•
l'\t'\."llli\ l' tnmm1lh't' lh1 .. 1.., thl' t.: nmnulh.•(• that \\ di dt.x1d1..• w twttwr II 1 1mplt•nwnt the L1m1lt-d 1'11lit.:l' l'<rn
'--'r' If yl\U \\"oulJ hkL• to ~t•t 1m l1ln-d in this .:.1mp,11~n tn \'Oicc student opinions
e-mail Student Ad,·ocacy at advocacy@lclark.edu or send a note to bo\
130 / if you want to talk to someone personally call x8331. ,
j ote no for the sake of Riverdale kids
To l'HE EDITOJt
Mil.ny of us oQ campus received an
:.Ill from " few supporters of the Vote
eiorSOS group. A couple oJ those urg·
u., lo vote yes are Lewis & Clark
Oespitt? the gray area of using
inlluence as ~'<111co1or.s 10 coerce our
lhoughts, they have resorted to nu·
half•truthsnndoutright Iles. The
.l>wmg is a retort to their email by
and Steve Bell.
In• few days you will rterive a ballot
r!t>nd meas,,,r to co,i,;fn,ct n Riv,:rdnle
School a11d to repair the clcm,mtary
J1mrtl1qw1ke-p11111e gy,w1asi11m. If yo11
tly lrve 011 campus, !J()II arr mlilled
.dto11 lhis is.s11~ We are l.nuis & Clark
in, who arr also comm1111ity rr:sidmts
• 1/mlly i11 support oftlrisbo11d mea­
Wt 11,gt you to uote YES.
I Best Option for Riverdale (and
4& Clark!)
The best options for Riverdale are
fold.
))Merger with Portland School Dis.
4) Portland Public Schools have an
, of l!ducalional programs and ser­
"' The district has magnet schools at
tkmentary level, open to all students
!hf district, indud ing special pro­
in languages and other subjects.
11w high school level, magnet pro­
for dance <!Xrst at Jefferson; for in­
Nonal ,tudents at Lincoln; and for
nlarts at Benson, to idcntily just
tw, (Riwrdale al a Crossroads Oct 30,
4l'J
2) Merger with Lake Oswego
I OistricL
a) Lake Oswego School District
es a merger with the Riverdale
Riverdale students and pa.rents
,cgarded as valued additions lo the
Oswego school community. Lake
.. ,go wtU work to mak~ the merger a
eexperience for the Riverdale Sl]J•
parents al\d community.
-..dalt at a Crossroods Oct 30, 1992)
3) Build a high school to avoid
with either Portland
or lake Oswego school districts.
•) Find an area withoul the omvi•
talconcems
olthrcu=ntly proposed cite.
b) Find an area with land owners
toseU their
fond without having their property
nppl!d away from them.
Ask the Vote Yes supporters why
aof their land is suitable.
Jlarl,o,,d mensun, is tire result of afo1ir
II' ,wttss that irrvol!Jtd over a l11111dred
na«tings111 t/111 Riwrdaledistrict. 111t
l!rb!tSd,ool Boord, in co11sultatio11 will, LC ed11a,fro11fnc11lty, l1nsndopted tJ,~ Coa­
lit11111 of EsS1'11l1nl Schools' model
However, "Riverdale•s student
populalion is too small to support a Ira·
ditional high-sdtool cucriculum. • Th~
State Department of Education n?COm•
mends that high :!Chools have a mini­
m um enrollment of 400 students
(Riverdnlenl a Crossroads Oct 30, 1992)."
Riverdale nt a Crossroods is a report com•
piled by the Riverdale Cori,;olidation
Ta.sk Force, which was appointed by
the Riverdale scllool board to assess the
eflectsofthe 1991 Consolidation Man­
date.
for tire proposed higlr school. Tltis
model ~mplwsius lite $/111k11I as 011 inde•
P"lldetit lmmerw/111 dosefnc11/lyi11volvr-
111e,1I in studnrl work. 111t /1ig/1 school will re a 11niq11t opporl1111ity for mutropollta11
area st11dt1ils to nptJril!lla! n small sclrool
eirviro11me11t, similar on tire hig/1 scJrool Riverdale citizens against the wishes and
pl.ins o( our school. I suppose in nil f.tlr­
ncss that this is working 'closely'.
Z. T/1t curriculum w{I/ emplras,u prrb/1c
servict a11d i,,rv/ro11111nrla/ t111"11t'lless. If tire
l11glr scJrool Is able to local, 011 tl1t Tcnu/11,ger
site ad1ace,1/ tv Tryo11 Creek Park, tl1r st11dnrts
1u11/ /rn1,r a 11111q11r opport11111ty to leam from
park n!S()11,us and co111rib111t to tlrt hea//11 Of
tire tcosyst,111 .
The proposed site will prove lo be a
larger disservice to the plants and animals
of Tryon Park. Added traffic, Jilter, noise,
night lighting,evening activities, wandet­
ing students, wale¥ run-off, sediment, un·
known sewage solutions and potenLial
problems (no plan yet, probability of mas•
sivesewage spill unknown). #To this date,
sewer requirements have not been suffi•
ciently addressed by the planne.rs of the
proposed high school (Fnends of T_ryon
Creek State Park).# The options include
":Facts are stubborn things; a.nrl whatever may be
our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our
pa..qsions, they cannot alter the state of facts or
evirlence (author unknown)."
level to tu/rat you clio,t Jo~ college.
Riverdale lras also lult'd 011 LC al1111111a,
Kim
Please keep in mind that none of
us chose a school with 300 students.
Po, obvious reasons a school of this
srze can not provide such luxuries as
AP classes, adequate sports programs,
diversity and exposure to new ideas,
and prohibitsstudents from experienc­
ing different view-points and prepar­
ing themselves for exposure to college
and the 'real world.' In essence this
school will cloister, shelter, and hide
these aforementioned issues behind a
small, elite and dlscnmmatory school
environment. (111e Riverdale proposal
does not include leaming•disabled stu­
dents in its master plan. As a public
school, it should rulow all learning-clis­
abled tuition paying students into its
student body. If it were a private
school, which proponents wish it was,
they could exclude these students.)
Campbell, ns its /rigli sclroo/ pri11dpal
m,d will continue to work closely ,mt/1 LC
as tlr< l11glr sclrool ,s furtlrcr developed..
And we all know iust how willing
the surroundmg community has been
to accept the wishes o( the Lewis &:
Clark student body. Numerous issues
have pitted a small, yet loud, group of uphill pumping of sewage (with possibil·
ity o( back-flush), Terwinlger option
rneans sewer line running down
Terwilliger towruds highway 43 (construc­
tion affecting large are.1 in addition to pro­
posed high school site). In addition to the
above problems a large, paved parking
area would likely add to the problems as­
sociated with erosion, sediment and pol­
lution.
Alrmdy, Riwrdale elem,nlt1ry sluderils
vol,mleer for tire park's ivy e;adicntio11 effort,
and the park tori/ be 1/10 primary be11eficrnry of
tire sc/rool's public service ll''/llirr111e111. 111e
park will also re able lo 115(' school buildings
during vacations 10 apa11d its td11cotio11 pro­
grams. J. The proposed /rig/I sc/lool is Ille best
use of tire Tcrruillig~r pro,,erty.
The famlly losing their home dis­
agrees.
oi1111trs of tire property I= already pro­
posed s11bdrvisro11 of tire site and s~k of de­
veloping ell!Vt11 l1011ses tl111re.
The owners of the Edens/Bell prop­
erty have never proposed a subdJvision
and have never spoken of developing the
property.
Tire lriglr 5d100I is l/111 m1ly opliorr I/wt will
m1s11redei1tlopme11t compatible ruitl· the adja­
C1!11t Tryon Cmk Parle.
Development is not proposed without
the school and Friends of Tryon Creek
et over yourself! There is another item that ca1,1ght
my ear on the KLCnews.Appa.rentiy there
are two kinds of dlversity ... lhere's the kind
that .Riverdale can provide, and then
there's the "diversity# that Portland
schools can provide. Apparently, the
people of Riverdale don't want their pre­
cious children exposed to the BAD diver­
sity that Portland schools can provide.
This is straight out of the literature that
Riverdale printed up to answer out ques•
tions. This pamphlet also mentions how a
"small, selective• high school can prol<.'Ct
.Riverdale kids from Portland "diversity".
Um ... excuse me ..... doc:; thls sound RAC­
IST or OISCRIMlNATORY to you????
This is 20th century America, people, and
you just don't build a "small, selective• To m, Eon011,
I have a few tiny problems
r.lh tl1e Riverdilll' "Save Our Sch.ool"
:impargn. Fust and foremost, how can
"' ·sa,·e• something that isn't even
:,,ltyei' We mightbeabletosavethis
!1111l)"s home (since they already live
tmt ors,lVe some money (since there
, already a perfectly good school for
llr Rh-erdale kids to attend). But it's
jft'lt)' impossible lo save a school thai
4.lesn'tCJCISt,
And, if anyoni: was listening
»KLC news Sunday night then you know how many children are saved
from the horror or bussing lo another
high school. Yes, that's right,
folks ... sixty-foue Riverdale is trying to
evict a man and his family and take
over his house for sixty-four kids who
already have a place to attend school
And what about the other children
who would be needed to flesh out this
proposed student body? Wouldn't they
have to be bussed in from other places?
So, wouldn't ii be much less of a hassle
for everyone involved to bus those
sixty-four kids to another, already ex•
isting high school? I think so. State Park object to placing the school
011 this site.
II is tire only proposal 11,at ca11 br/11g a
StWer IC/ tire site, instead of leaky res/de,1/ia/
septic tanks /1,nt pollute park rooters.
The residenbal tanks currently on
the proposed site have not been shown
to have ANY detrimental unpact to the
park. No pollution within the pa.rk has
any relMion to the current sew,,ge
arrangementon the property in question.
It is lite only proposal t/1nl will 1eavt
most of 11,e land in p11blicly-i1cassible opt11I
space.
Massive development is mutually
exclusive to #open space.• Publicly ac­
cessible to whom? The school has al•
ready proposed excluding those with
learning disabilities. Who is next? If fora11y reaso11,l1awever, tlris site does
not meet mt1iro11111mtal ITl1llim,re11ts -in•
c/11di11g Oregon's rery strict land use laws•
Rive-rdale will look/or a different silt.
lf another site is possible, why take
Steve Bell's home? Answer anyone?
Remember, 1/ris vote dtcidcs 011/y
rv/1ell1tr to b11ild a /1igh school, 1101 where or
lroi1•.
If this were the case then why did
the Bells receive a letter of condemna­
tion on January 9th. And where are the
other sites? Why not use them now?
Please do 1101 M distracted /,y all the
mrsleadrng rl,etonc of a small group of
Rivmlalc appon,11ts.
Misleachng rhetoric? To this "'I' an•
swer "l'acts are stubborn things; and
whatever may be our wishes, our indi•
nations, or the dictntes o( our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts orcvi•
dcnce (author unknown)." The Vote Yes
supporters are quite passionate, and
have many wishes, yet the facts consis­
tently show that you should vote NO.
THE REALISSUE IS WHAT IS BEST
FOR KIDS/ Plmses11pport ncndt1nicexrel­
l,11c.-and vole YES 011 tire Rivrrrlal( lta11d.
If you l1ave any questions nr co11r:rms, plea.se
ea/I any one of us,
The real issue is to do what is best
for the kids, Vote No. The children de­
serve lo have a park that still exists, Lo
get a well-rounded education, lo bee~­
posed to ideas other than those their
parents and to have the ability expert·
ence a 'normal' high school.
Sincerely,
Ryan Thomas in conjunction with
Steve Bell
Vote YES info provided by:
Roy Hemmingway, Tum Rubi, /mnifer
/0l111sor1
high school to ensure the kind of di­
versity that your lads are exposed to
is the kind that you want them to be
exposed to, It's a public school-and if
we have forgotten, only a private
school can screen their student body.
Also discussed is the fact thnt
condemnation is a last resort. to bal­
ance the needs o( property owners
fairly against the ne~ds o( the
community ... how is forcing the Bells
togiveuptheirhomefair? lt'snot. The
Uterature also mentions how impor­
lanl #ne,ghborhood commu.nity• is
the people of Riverdale. I think tis a
pretty shitty community that offe.rs to
COHnMJEO OH PAGl! J Pioneers keep cool playoffs • 1n
I Men's Basketball I
With a win over
PLU, LC goes up to
Whitworth to see
just who's the
king of the court.
National playoffs
are up for grabs
too!
8Y MAT, 0AJLY
0 y the looks of things, the
casual fan m,,y have
U\ought U "'as Hallow•
e1,n this pa,t Wednes­
day in Pamplin Sports Center.
Don't get me wrong. There
were nu h11 le kids drcsso:.-d as
ghosL\, no hick ur trealers beg­
ging hn c.indy. But orange o111d
black was plentiful in the stands
as the Pioneers creamed the Po•
dnc Lutheran Un1vers11y Lules.
66-60, to open up playoff action.
From 1he start, it was
obvious that LewJS & Clark
came to play. The Pios crept
ahead lo grab an early 16· 13
lead, thanks ,n part to ~ 1ump
shot by super soph Jeff Flowers.
Fellow sophomore Brooks
Meek paced LC wlt.h 10 firs)­
Mlf poinls. He was supported
Ul his scoring ways by junior
Perry ~m and sophomore Carl
Schreck. Each knocked down 6
points apiece as well as dishing
off the rock with relative ease.
Yes, the LC Pioscoringlllllchine
was off and running. and wiili
a 36-27 lcad going into the in•
1ermission, it looked as ,r noth­
ing may stop its destructive
paili.
To start things in the bl!C•
ond hill, Ll'wis & Clark picked
up nght where it Jcfl off. LC
extended to 42-31 on a lrce
throw by Meek early in the sec-
Br JAMIi 01AMONO
0 ey all you little future go­
getters and getlstrcs~es
and welcome back 10 an­
other line week of fun,
sun and occasional flooding.
This week's hp IS related to the
theology of living and to be­
coming as one as poSS1ble as a
community he(C on Palatine.
Whal is this way of life thal l
speak of, you may ask? Well,
it's simple and straightforward,
but, at 1he same time it's over-­
looked by much of the LC com­
munity at large. It's all about Pio
Pride
ls back!
Whitney Bro~• 900• up strong os the P,os roll to v,cto,y
<>nd hair. The lcisty 1.utes were
able tu trim the Pio lca.d to 43-
37 on a Jumper by Jason neer T'.. Orange swea1$hirls
also popped up around
Pamplin, quickly earning the
rLU mane one la.CJat run, but
the Pio defenRe, put Rimply,
wa.'f tough.
Dahlberg wilh 13:45
rem.~ming. Could iliis be? The
Pioneer s.:onng machine look­
ing for some fuel?
So where did LC look for
msplrnbon? None other than
the infamous Keystone Klan,
The Keystone Crew was in (in·
est lorm, decked out in their
stellar "Jugy Frulr orange Pio-nickname "The Pumpkm
Pa1ch. • lnspuahon from the
orange crews was definitely
abundant, and lhe energy was
generated on to ilie basketball
court.
L&C took off on a run of
Its own, extending Its lead to 52·
•11 with a Brake jumper mid•
way through the second half. PLU made one last run,
but the Pio defense, pul simply,
was tough. Sophomore Carl
Schreck was dutch down the
stretch, nailing treys much lo
the trowd's dellghL LC sealed
the win when Meek skied on a
breakaway for a thunderous
two-handed jam, sealing the 66-
60 Pioneer playoff victory.
This Saturday, Lewls &
Clark will travel to Spokane,
Washington, 10 clash with the
Whitworth Pirates in more
playoff action. The Pirates
handled the Pios on their home
floor last weekend, but LC
pulled olr o iliriller on Palatine
Hill the week before lo sink the
P1rates.
Tired of being unsure if your
coolness is in question? The
health tip has the love!
"NOTBlllNGTHATCUY" (or
girl, whichever the case may
be).
This •tyle of H,•ing ,,nows
for contentment, c:reat:Mty and
p;?rSOnal choice when choo.~ing
from a plethora of options on
how to live. These options in­
clude: clothing, hygiene, atti­
lude, or just about anything iliat
deals with human behavior or
its close cousin, the human
psyche.
What exactly can I do to
avoid "BEING TiiAT GUY,"
oncmayask. Welltobeginwilh one musl make some personal
choices that ull:tmately benefit
#1 without stepping on #2's
1oes. Ideally, "NOT BEING
THAT GUY• promotes uruque
and uncustomary behavior
such as not conforming to 90210
or Melrose standards.
Dress to impress, but not to
impress others .. Wear what you
have, but don't wear It like any
one else has before you. A clean
body is a happy body and a
happy body usually has a
happy soul inside. Once these
very microscopic pieces of the big picture are taken care of,
larger Issues such as self worth
dnd positive sclf image can nm
wild m your everyday hfe. The
grass will smell greener, the sun
will burn bnghter and even the
food in the Bone will taste jus1
a tittle less li\(e pig's butt.
Just keep this altitude in
mind when doing the HIiie
things that get us going in the
morning and remember to do
something nJce for a stranger
one of iliesc days wh.en you
ha,•e noililng better or more
important to do. Until next
weel<,. take care, and for heaven
sakes, take it easy! op
That Your
Is Getting "
OF 1-IAND!"
] o.
an1ount of nakec
people outnum·
ber the amount tJ
half-dressec
people.
9. While tall·
ing to the poliet
you notice you ait
wearing pajamai
and fuzzy slip­
pers.
8. Countq
music has bee
playing for we
over 10 minut
and you haven
even noticed.
7. Thepuke
the carpet has
dried to match
last week's pukt
on the carpet.
6. The only
one sober enough
to drive home i;
the next door
neighbors com­
plaining abo
their cat being
used as a bong
tube.
5. The amounl
of unconsciow
people outnum•
hers the amounl
of passed out
people.
4. The
neighbor's 15•
year-old daugh·
ters are working
the taps.
3. You have to
wait in line to takf
inverted keg hits.
2. Coolio is
rapping on top of
your ping-pong
table.
1. Two words:
EVER CLEAR. C LacrOsse rules the streets at night!
's Lacrosse
IY JAMIE 0tAMOHO
What'$ new wlUt lhe LC
men's lacrOSS4! team you
may ask? Whal',old ba
Comming off dedsive
,gamst big name oppo­
LC loo~ (orwatd lo a
~! birth in the Northwest
wtc t..1cros;,e League.
IC has destroyed NCLL
15 such as l'\'Y'East, Or­
State, aod Montana by
that look like football
LC look Orega,, Stale
Monl.lna by 9 and routed
• by 10.
!be squad is off 10 a good
but the toughest part of
,J,>On lies ahead. Home base of returning players to
form a stable team around.
Along with the veterans, rook•
,es nnd newcomers have
proven to be a welcome and
contributing force.
Along with the three re­
maining home games, LC trav­
els to the University of Oregon,
Washington, Puget Sound,
WashmgtonState. and Whunan
College. The Pioneers are de­
term ined to ,weep these
oponcnts, however, with 3 of 5
wlJl.• agdmst conference oppo­
nents such as Lonf1eld, UW,
WWU, WSU, and Whitman, the
r,os should be in good position
to 11cqul.re one of the coveted
playo(f spots.
against t..in(ield and
llong with Western Wash­
will prove to be fomu•
obstacles for the boys of Locrosse ls an exciting and
faced paced sport that every fan
can enjoy. You can catch th.e
Pioneers in action at home
against Unfield this Satu:day
all :00 pm ut Griswold Stadlum.
Admission is free and so is the
c><dtement, so come on out and
bnng a friend! The Pioneer Lacrosse Team
~ ." ' : .
VOTE To RATIFY ASLC
CONSTITUTION!
Wednesday the 28th,
from 9am-7pm outside the
Trailroom and the Bon.
THINGS TO LOOI< FOR:
1) Petitions to run for elected office.
2)Vote on International Student Rep.
more information, contact Andrea Williams, at x7148 or e-mail
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LC s women· s tcnni~ team takes on Portland
Smte ;u Pamplin Spores C-.enter nt 3:30 pm. Free.
LC men's tennis facC$ rhem on WednC$day a, 3
pm.
Tho}1 r.dlled ii. Uabbledome.
For $12.50, you cnn ger a chance ro mecr and
discu~ your philosophy papers with like-minded
philosophical peers a, ,he Northwest Re­
gional Conference for Undergraduate
Philosophers. 8 pm at Stamm, continues
Saturday nt 8:30 am, and Sunday at 9 am.
!lark to our rools.
Flashdance. Ger Footloose. Show olT all the
brcakdancc moves rhar made you so popular
during middle school. It's 1he 80's Dance
Party at the Plattform. Free, so boogie down
from 9 pm rill you drop.
SatURdav
Urge lo PIRC.
OSPIRG rhrows rhe Free the Planet Norrh­
west environmental conference and srr2tegy
session for students. Speakers, workshops and
panel discussions galore for $10 at the Council
Chambers. The whole shebang gets going at 8:30
am. and conrinues tomorrow at the same time.
Saturda11 Night Movie.
SOFA is showing something or other at the
Council Chambers. 7:30 and 10 pm. LcrY
kicks it off.
am. Free.
Free Willies. Getting tho swing of
lhings.
LC's men's and women's tennis
rakes on Oregon Store University
at the Pampljn Sports Center at 9
The wacky WilliC$ do n free live performance of
eclectic acoustic/funk/rock runes from their
second CD, Jefferson i ltur Dead Shou,. 4 pm at
Mwic Millenium Norrhwesr (N.W. 23rd and
Johnson).
Perlorming profs. Ir's fitculcy recirnl time with Ann Christensen ar
violin and Susan Smith ar piano. Evans Audito­
rium at 8 pm, free.
l~llio Tune.t
Women involved in Cclric mwic from 11II over
Portland and che West Coasr get 1ogethcr ar the
Ea5t Avenue Tavern (727 E.. Burnside) for an
evening of fiddlin', Ru tin' and guitarin'. 9:30
pm. $6 advance: from East Avenue Tavern.
Arric;hokc Music, Samish Country Shop, and
Kathleen's or Dublin.
SuNdav
l~ening Servioo, FreshlJ1 Served.
Mark Duntley doC$ you one fine evening service
at the Chapel ar 6 pm.
Dancing in lhe dark.
Take that special someone our ro Stamm for rhe
Lights Our Dance, a scmiformal dance wirh
candles, Rashlighrs and disco balls for that c:xrra
romantic blind and stumbling around feel. 7 pm.
x8830 for more derails.
Black History !Ion th, gospel sl11le.
The Cathedral Choir of Berhe! African Method·
ist Episcopal Church (5828 N.E. 8th Ave.) invite
you to an evening of Negro Spirituals cnritled
"Once Upon a limc ... \~hen We Were.Colored."
5 pm. Free.
Belting it out.
Karen Seeley cranks ou, the tunes, soprano-style:,
to kick off rhe series of srudenr rcci1als at Evans
Auditorium. 8 pm. Free.
Uaki ng tracks.
Griswold Sradjuin is the sire of the Lewis &
Clark DeCllthlon and Hcparhlon, IO am. free.
The \'Cnerdblc Vermeer.
The world-rcknowned classical musiCll ensemble Vermeer Quartet makes asbow ofBra.hms,
Haydn and Ginastcra at Lincoln Performance
Hall ar Portland Smee University ronighc and
tomorrow night at 8 pm. SI 0.50 for studcnlS,
with rix available at Gl Joe's lickerm<aSTer and
rhe PSU Box Office. Call 725-3307 for more
info.
Tuesdav
LC at bat.
Pioneer baseball ar full effect! The Pios rac:kle
Western Bapcisr at the Huston Sports Compla.
3 pm, free.
lleexamining 1\IIIS.
Dariu.s Rcjali, associate professor of political
scienc<" at Recd College, speaks up on "AIDS
Policy in Compardtivc: Perspective" 3> part of 1hr
Contempora,y lncernational Affitirs series. At fhc
Armstrong Lounge or the: Manor House. 4 pm,
free.
Fast-( onvard.
OSPJRG sponsors Campus 2000: an entire day
of environmental education to show what th~
campw will look like in rhe year 2000 if things
progrc:ss as they :ire. All over c,mpw.
A virtual sophomorgasborg.
Second•ycar students bond and binge at the
Sophomore Class Dinner. 5:30 pm at
Sramm.
WedNesdav
1\ mosque~ee event.
field trip, field trip! We don'r ger enough of
these anymore in college. Hop on a van and
d,ec.k out a local mosque to learn more: abou, ch<
curio"s religion of Islam. 3:30 pm in front of
Templeton.
Gonna get llelaphysical.
Jeff Ramsey of Oregon Srate University speaks on
the Physics/Chcmisrry/Philosophy topic of
"Shape and Issues of Realism." 4:15 pm at Olin
Room 204. with Pre-colloquium discussion a,
the libn,ry of Olin ar 3:45 pm. Free.
Musir,al hisfory.
As par< of Black Hiscory Month, the national
touring African American Dram.a Com­
pany prcscms "High John Da Conqueror."•
folkloric musical fitnrasy in the style of Americ,tn
plant:uion musical. Ar Sramm, 7:30 pm.
ThuRSday
lla,'o you gol soul'.
Soul Food Dinner nigl11 concludes Black
History Month at Smmm Dining Room. i\dmi;.
sion ~ Free, but reservations are required. RSVP
to warren@lclark.edu orc::all x7051. I
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