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Volume 65, Number 7 Friday, November 17, 2000 http://w-.lclark.edu/-piolog
To Be Left is to be Right;
to be Right is to be Wrong
Otto Sack Day,
Page 2
Teach for America,
Page 3
Piolog Ad
Controversy,
Pages 4 & 5
Review of Big Love,
Page9
Success for LC
footbal I team,
Page 11 How much intellectual
freedom do we have?
Do we tolerate diversity of
opinion?
Are we too liberal for our
own good?
Pages 6 & 7 •
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COVE-'l ART
PI-IOTO MOM l'IOlOG AAOWH
~I« AAT BY M[ACHAA lAMAARl
As always, we
enocurage attendance al
our weekly story
meetings on Monday
evenings al 7 pm.
. lb~ Pioneer
Log
Eo110R41N·C~mF: MfAGHAN
lM'IARA.E
Assoc1ATl Eo,,oa: E~u11 HAtC~
Ntws Eonoit: JOE ClOCK
FORUM EonOR: AE MHZ
Fv,n.,~n Eo1TOJ1~ Co1uv LOtiG
Aus Eonop;: E1t1N HAICK
SPORTS EDITOR: OIJ~TY HOlO{N
CAUNDAR EonoR: MuGHm
I.AMAARE
StMF WRITERS: BRIANNA Gov,.N.,
JE-SSICA BIJRT()t,I, TANDY AWAVA
CONTRIBUTING WRll'ERS: Buzzy
N•ElllN, 0;'.N RuPltECHl. 8EN
ROHLFING, Joo, GAAAINGTON
COPY EDITORS: TR!OA PMRSON,
MACG1f ENGt8R£TSOt.l
ADVlRTISING MAHAGUt: 5ARAH
HM
AsSOClAlf ADVfR,JIS!NG MANAGER:
T ;'.NOY A.,,._'/A
COMPUlfR SPECIALIST/Wu
MASTER: ME.AGHAN LAMARRE
AovtSoR: Pnffi CHRtST£NSON
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The Pioneer Log is funded by
your student fees. Provost Council forum
by Joe Clock --------
o,, Novrmher i, the Provost
Cou11c1I held ohc fn,;o or wh"'
1hcy hope will become regul.ir
lorums ~o address con..:erns lh:ll
students h:wc :'lboul Lewis. CJ
Clark. A large !(tOllij or s1ude111s,
faruhy, and s,aIT ancndcd ,he
fon.lm, and :u:ldrc-ssc:cl a w1dc
variety ofie;sucs.
The issue that rcccivl'd the:
most allcn1ton was lhe Colltgc'>
long lenn building pL111. includ­
ing plans co improve Evans Mu­
sic Building. Michael Ford in­
formed s1ude:n1S- that a new per­
forming ans building was pan
or the planned consm,clion. al­
though it would i10l be com­
pleted for several years. In lhe
meanLhnc facililies services is
looking into temporary illl­
pn,1vcmcnts to help soundproof
the rooms.
The forum them moved to a
discussion of the proposed con­
struction in general. People who
helped plan the construction
told lhccommunity how instead
of being demolished, the build­
ings tha, will be rnken (!own in
the consLruc,ion will be
dcconsm,cted. so tha1 lheir parts
can be reused or recycled, This
process has been very effective
in ,he conslruction tha.t is going
on al the l:rw school, where af­
ler fo\~r momhs of cons1 ruction
nothing has gone lo a landfill.
Planners also poinoed ouo \ha,
while I hey use the most envlr()n•
men,ally soun\l met hods when•
ever \hey can, they also have to
make sure that all or lhe buUd­
ing materials will be rcllable.
The College hopes 10 be able lO
use the b!lildings that they arc
buil(ling now for seveniy-five
yt~trs withOlll major changes.
Another lssue lhal received a lot or attention ill the forum w;-is
rntc rcl.'.lt10ns. Junior tv1oc
Ucm:t-Yonamine brou_ght u1, the
foe, that nrnnr StUdems of color
!ch uncomfortable at Lewis &
Clark, and did nol fed lhcrc was
~l!l ou1kL for lhctr frehngs or
:n1y1hong 1hc)' could do 10 crfecl
change. A group of mmonty slu­
dcms has gollcn logcthcr t(J dis­
cuss th1s issue and hopes h> have.
campus discussions and t,ring
speakers l0 LC. The group has
already begun to make connec­
tions with other colleges, and 1s
working tow.-rd opemng up 1hc
issue of race rcl~lions lO o, cam­
pus forum.
The forum ,1lso a1ldrcssccl
coinplain1s th•l studcn1s had
about 1hc campus bookstore.
Students broughl up concerns
lhal lhc apparel solcl in 1he hook
SIOl'C wa.s made jn :sweatshops~
Ford responded 1hal the
bookslores supplier, Barnes and
Noble, is a member or the rair
Labor AssociaLion. and does not
use swea1shops- Soude.nls and
administration also had a 1ong
debaoc abouo whether or nol
Laughing Horse Books should be
allowed IQ sell books on campus.
O!hcr issues that the forum
addressed were lhc problems
with ihc new dance 0oor and the
receni air qµality problems in the
1hea1er building. The air quality
issues ha\'C been cleared up, and
dancers may he able IO praclicc
in the gym, or lnstall some of lhe
gym nooring in10 lhe black box
1hcatcr.
Swdrnts also brought up the
lack or a field for club spons, ,he
idea of on-campus childcare, is­
sues o[ conununlc<1lion between
advisers and s1Uclen1,S1 the clcc•
ironic music program, and the
lack of So/An clas_«s available to
sludents.
SAAB SCOOP
by Buzzy Nielsen ---'---------
No new -grams co repon I lus
week, b111SAAB does has 01her
exciting news. Firs, off, do you
remember Joy Leising, Dan
Metcalf, and Kmc Roach's appli­
cation LO bring in a Zimba­
bwt,rn Theatre group? Well,
SAAB re-reviewing said applica­
,ion -and is recommending dun
ASLC Executive Council fund
ll an additional $2,720. We £eh
that this projen would be such
a benefit lo l he Lewis & Clark
cQn11nunily and beyond that we
as a sludcnt body s1,ould sup·
port it even morel I'll kt.cp you
updalC.'.d on what ASLC Coun­
dl decides.
lo ;iddition. senior Commu•
nicalion major Adam D1xon
was granted use ol the SAAB
XU d1g11al video camera for his
senior project. Adain will be
shoc:Hing a 12-18 minute com­
edy abom the rcl:uionship bc­
lwccn l\V\) old rricn<ls lh:n will
invc.srigate how perceived and
real power can ahc-r ;:~ friend­
ship. Do any or the rest or you
out there h;wc cool projctl ideas
but Jack the c4uipmtnl to carry
them out? Come <:.heck out
SAAB"s equipment and sec if any
of it could be or use!
The bulk of SAABs meeting
las1 Thursday. however. was taken up by a discussion of just
wh_at "s1uden1--innta1e<'.1" n1eans.
As most of you know, rhc SAAB
grant program aims Lo fond sLu­
dem-initiated projects. However,
that tern\ is very hazy, particu·
larly ,fa project relates. wilh a
professor's research. To clarify
lh1s, SAAB is adop11ng a new ler•
minology: Sludcm-mo1ivaled. So
what does this mra.n, yon ask?
Well, basically it mc,ms 1ha1 our
concern is th~t you arc the per•
son doing it anti thtH you)rc lhc
person benefiting from H. As
long as yo,1'rc devollJ>g the im•
pews and the innov~uion to the
project, you're eligible 111 our
book! We're nice people here ao
SAAB, and we don't wam you to
1101 apply fora granljusl because
your project lies m with your
professor's ·rc.111,earch. Questions?
Feel free to ask me or your
dcpanmcnt's SAAB representa­
tive.
There wori'I be :l SAAB 111cct­
lng this we.ck, but srny tllnc.d for
more ex.citing news in the wc.cks
lO come frolll the SLudcnt Aca­
demic Affairs Board, your link l0
academics
The research gram deadline is
'approaching quickly: Monday by
5:00 pm to be exac,. 1£ you need
tu talk with rnc, I'll be ,ivaibblc
between 10:30 and 2:30 on Mon­
d;,y.
2 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 Students pu 11 ivy, save trees
as part of Otto Sack Day
""'.,-.....,,-,..,,.
Seniors Peter Berkhout, Daniel Ruprecht and Jules Kopel­
Bailey have cleared a "lifesaver" around the trunk of this
tree and work to clear the remaining ground ivy around it.
by Meaghan Lamarre
Walking across ,he Howard
Bridge on Saiurday, November
4. you migh• have noticed a
number of smdcn1s, staff and
facuhy wrestlin_g around in the
ravine. ,\bou, 40 people lUrncd
ou.t for Ouo Sac~ Da)• and
helped clear lhe trees a"d
ground o[ the encroaching ivy.
Armed wi1h clippers and
gloves. members or lhe LC com•
1nunhy galhcred on 1he wesl
side or lhC Howard bridge. ··we
focused our energy on rcmov•
ing ivy groun(lcO\'Cr [rom
around lrees lha1 had already
been 'freed' of ,vy." explained
senior Jules Kopel-Bailey.
"Ground ivy IS the most dill\­
cuh to remove because il is
rooted in so many spols and
because it comes back much
more qutckly lh-an ivy on a
tree, .. he coruinocd. 'vVhilc it is
imporwn1 LO remove iv)' thal is
g-rowi ng on lhc trees, 1.ha1 can
bt done by one ot I wo people.
The large turnout allowed for an
cffcct1vc attack on the ivy cov~
ering the ravine t1oor.
W11 h nearly r.r,y people
workmg fo·r three hottr!l>, the bases, of many trees were cleared
of ivy. More impon;:111tly, many
large patches of ground ivy were
cleared fro1n antong 1hc lrccs.
"Wlml we accomplished that day
was signiflC.anl.1' Kopcl•Bailey
concluded, "We clc;ircd several
h,rgc-:\reas a.nd llnkctl mosl or
them together, H nalivc plams
can be started there. Lhcy can
provide seeds and spores l0 01hcr
tlcnrcd areas."
When the College llrst moved
to Lhcsc grounds, Quo Sack was
a groundskccpcr here and
worked h:nd LO keep l he ca,npus
beautiful. Ouo S»ck Day wasi111-
lintcd many years ago in his
11:;icmory lO encourage Sl udcnts
tO hdp Wilh 1hc bca.mifica1ion
process. Over the years. rcspon­
sioilhy for organizing OU<, Sack
Day has shif1ed among various
groups~ 1n the recent past, Otto
Sack Day hasn'l occurred due to
organizalional problems. Srnrt­
ing ,his year, the Pamplin Sod·
c1y t>f Fellows has undcrwkcn
lhc rcsponsihihty for Olto !',ack
1'.Jay and plans l0 rcsurrctl the
1radh1on or hosting a day each
year to involve .studc111s Ill v.-ri.
ous projtcts LO rnaimain ~he
grouncls.
--~ Crime Beat
Novcmbc,· 6. 2000
Window screens were lorn
off or I he wmdows in -a nu m­
bcr or the lounges
of Copel,111d, They were re­
covered on the ground lloor
OtllSidc or
Copeland. Also lhe exit
liglu in E-30 was 1orn down
from the ceiling,
Novemher 7, 2000
Thef, of basketball shoes
from a locked locker in the
Pamplin Spons
Complex. A combina,ion
lock wns t;i111pered with 10
gain cn1ry to lhe
locker.
Theft or CD Changer from
1hc Plateau in Plt111-Hownrd.
November 8, 2000
Graffili was found scrolled
on the stalls of a resl room m
Copeland. November \I, 2000
Medical tall to one uftlw rcsi
dcnce halls on a possible over
cfosc of
mc(htaticm by~1 student. Stu
dc:111 was transponod w the hos
pi1al by
parnmcdks~
November 10, 2000
Campus Sllrny Olhccrs as
sistcd ResidcnL Assisrnn lS ,v11 ~
the disposal
of confiscated alcohol m th
residence halls.
November 12, 1000
Unau1horizc.d entry ~ind Lh]
, hcf, or food from the 6011 A p
petite Food
Service area in the middle o
1 he n1gh1. l
N,wembcr 15, 2000
Arrcsl Q( astutlent for posses
sion or more 1 han an ou,ncc u
marijllana
in 1hc residcucc halls. ==~==Features Pioneer Log
LC Alum fights to improve American classrooms
by Corey Long
To teach anything 1s difficult.
To 1each children from low-in­
come families in under-funded
locauons wilh no formal 1cach-
ing cducaLion and fow resources
sounds like a recipe for insanuy.
Yet this undcnaking is exac1ly
wha, over 1500 college gradu­
ates attempt each year as mcm•
bcrs or 1cacli for America, a pro•
gram ded ica1cd 10 1he bcucr­
mcnt of p11bhc education in ar•
cas lhat need i1 rnost lhrough•
ou1 1 he coum ry. College gmdu­
:ncs of all acadcrnic majors-arc
rccrui1cd, sdcc1ed and placed in
one or 15 districlS in need of
teachers. The program is highly
selective, and those chosen ex­
hibit -an impressive combirnuion
of academic success, lcadershii:>
skills as well as the dedication
and durnbili1y 10 survive a rig­
orous nvc week trainmgscssion
which lakes place in 1hc ntids1
of 1hc Texas sum mer heal. Those
who make this impressive grade
arc rewarded with an experience
Lewis & Clark alum and TFA
pariicipant Megan Locke11 calls
"'1he hardest thing she ha ever
done, hands dow'n." Megan 1s
one or five LC alumni that have
pariicipatcd in 1his program over
l he last five years. She shared
some or her experiences in 1his
irnportant yc1 laxing vcnmtc vi;1
email. Her candid detailed ac•
count offers an opponunity for
LC s111dents considering Lhe Op• tion of TF,\ 10 receive details
about the program direct from
1he trenches. Megan began by
describing her training experi•
cnce, and then she cllscussed her
teaching pl:.lccmcnt in Nc.w Or•
leans;
"Basically." she begins. "they
send all 1he first years 10 Hous­
ton to 1cach-a month or summer
school and attend workshops for
a ha,nds•on, intensive Leaching
program. If you can get through
Houston, you can do anything.
l had a real tough lime and still
l have mixed feelings abou11hc
whole thing."
In New Orleans, her work
was definilel)• cul out for her.
The staoc or Louisiana is ranked
las1 in terms of the coun1ry's
eclucatioMI standards. and 1he
New Orleans Public Schools arc
ranked las1 in Louisiana. She is
teaching a class or six1h gr.l(lcrs
that aprarcn1ly iook some 1i11le
to gc1 used to her.
"It Look a while for rny SlU·
dcnlS 10 gct over my appearance
asa whitc,short, young female,."'
she wrote. 61Bul now the seem 10
be accep1ing that I an\ 1heir
teacher."
Megan docs not pull any
punches when discussing the
rcali1y of her simation. Yet it is
clear 1hat she believes strongly
in the progr.nn and is willing 10
take 1hc difficuhies 1hal come
with il in s1ricle. "'1 won't sugar~
c.oat the teaching experience,"'
she said. "People in my corps have quil already. WhaLis keep­
ing mt on is tha1 I knew gomg
illlo 1his program 1ha1 it would
be hard. It is okay 10 be op1imis-
1ic and hope 1he best for your
classroom, bul ir you aren'1 real­
istic with your goals you will
burn Olli rrom rrustration. My
classroom goals arc simple but
important."'
Megan claims that she chose
Teach for A mcrica beta use she
believes in lheir mission 10 im­
prove America's public schools.
Because she is young and has lhe
freedom tQ move anr.-.ihcre, she
sees 1his poi111 in her life as the.
bes, lime to make lMs commi1~
men 1.
··1 warned to Ul kc pan in a
national moverncnl that attlrnlly
does wha, they talk a.bout," she
explained.• Also, lam interested
in teaching, and felt tbal this was
a good way 10 try i1 out 10 sec i[
it is really what I wan I lo do.•
Despite. ilS rigorous narurc,
Megan would recommend 1hc
program to students who have a
real intCl'l'Sl in educa1ion and
1hose who believe all chilifrcn
deserve an equal educ;nion.
However, she warns lhal rc;1lism
in crucial for success.
Megan ,,.,~lS quick to ackno,,il.
edge how her cxperkaccs al Lewis & Clark helped 1oprtparc
her for such a trying situauon.
lt is cle:.1.r she spc-m her lime at
LC wisely and the ,ools she ac­
quired here-are-serving her well.
•1 feel rc:,11)' good about my
college background and 1each­
mg1" she wrote. "l took a diverse
course load, including all of 1hc
education classes that were of•
fcred. More importamly, while at
LC, I vohm1eercd in schools
through mentoring programs
and rntorlng. Without tha1 in•
class experience and 1he eduCa•
1 ion classes, I wou Id no, be do­
ing so well righl now!"
Megan passionately summed
up her experience thus for in the
rollowing siatemem.
• What lam learning from the
experience is how to~1lly messed
up the schools are in 1crms of
money, race, class etc:. lt is re•
ally hard to put imo words right
now, bm the inequalily 1hal l see
011 a daily basis is as1ounding,
and I feel like I am already de­
scnsilizcd to some of it. Conling
from Portland, where the
schools arc sarc, well rundecl,
and there arc good teachers.
caused ror a big shock when l
saw how things arc here in New
Orleans.I remember all the stu•
denlS at l.C being so passionate t.lMGf COUfCUSY flACHFOR>MUUCA
about global incquahues. Well
there are inequalities right here
m the United St,11cs 1ha1 are ig•
norcd on a daily basis. Wha1 I
am learning is tha1 more young
pco1)k need to focus their energy
on the issues 1ha1 they can ,Ji.
rccoly impact. like improving
schools by tutoring m them. I
have always known 1hat, but
now that 1 am a 1eacher I know
what a difference that (a 1u1orl
could make rormanyofmys1u­
dcnts,"
Megan will visit LC early ncxl
year 10 help recruit for TFA. She
would be more than happy 10
share more of her experience
with those slUdems who art in•
!Crested in this noble program.
Also, the Wes, Coast recruit­
mcnL operations manager for
TFA is Dennis Chm1en, and he
can be reached at
dchiutcn@Lcachforamcrica.org.
"'l::vcn arLcr only two months,
1hcrc is one 1hing that I know,"
Megan concluded. •Ar1cr 1l11S
experience. my outlook on life
will be comple1cly altered."
Af1cr being in Megan's
Lockcu's class, and experiencing
her passion, many sixth gniders
in New Orleans will
uncloub1ably be able to say ex•
ac1ly ,he same. .
Genereous helpings of pork, AIDS Awareness Week
punch and cultural diversity ~!rtK::·:~~~~~:nKi~~zabelh
by Tady Awaya
Hot roasted LUrkcy, warm
trc-amy po1a1ocs, and swcrL des~
sens: Thanksgiv111g is righ,
around lhc comer. While some
of us arc awailing next
Thursda)"s fcas1, some cuhural.
mmdcd SlUdtntS round a way 10
celebrate this Amc_rican holicla)'
a lilolc early.
Sunday nlglH, individuals
from ,he Ellmic Cuhures Ooor,
the lnternalional Aw:,reness
Croup, Odell residents, and the
Hawaii Club gathered in Stamm
East 10 get" umc or a Hawaiian
Thanksgiving rcas1. Organizing
dinners is a common activity for
1hescs1uden1s. Each month the
Ethnic Floors and the lmcrna-
1ional Awareness group hosL a
dinner. Meals like 1hls 1101 only
10 provide a change or pace from
1he Bon, but also help to create
a greater cultural awareness on
campus.
The mouth•watering combi•
nation of Kalua turkey, tradilion­
ally-cookcd smoked pork, swee1
potatoes. rice, coconut cake.
pineapple upside-down cake
and punch. as well as Hawaiian
music and hula dancing creau;d
a warn1 oasis from the chilling
34 degree air. "They look like
lhey are having so much fun,"
and ••Oishii" (meaning delicious
in Japanese), were some o[ the
comments heard throughout the
evening.
Acti.vitcs like this dinner stem
from he s1ar1 of 1he Ethnic Cul-Students invloved with numerous groups dedicated to the
celebration of cultural diversity enjoyed a traditional
Hawaiian Thanksgiving dinner last Sunday evening.
lure floor in Forest ,his year.
Various groups 1hroughou1 1he
Lewis & Clark community have
begun to share more of 1heirctil-
1urc with 01hers. This residence
Ooor imends to promote greater
awareness between international
and domestic sLUdents on cam~
pus. The college boasts strengths
in in1ernadonal affairs and cu)~
tural diversity, but in some cases,
slUdents graduate without gain­
ing any new insighlS aboul Slu•
dcnLs from cu1tures a apart from
their own.
. Each day, Lewis& Clarkstu•
dents from countries all over the
world walk along the same coble
stone paths 10 class, slide their
blue plastic trays in the same
lines in Field, S<[Ueezc into the
samcshutlle 10 shop in 1hcsanw
isles at Freel Meyer. Ye, very little is done LO ini1iaLe any internc•
t..i.on.
"People don't 1hink about
cuhural awar(;!ness daily. They
1hink ori1 on special occasions,"
says Myah Moore, the resident
assistant of the Ethnic Cuhures
floor on Upper Manzanita.
The problem is not a lack of
desire LO lean\ and mceL new
people, bu1 a lack of active par­
ticipation. h appears tha1 only
those who already belong to
1hese culturally inspired clubs
carry an interest. To combat this.
each monlh, a diCferen1 ethnic
group will be represented at a
dinner. The Ethnic Cul1ures
0oor invites anyone in I he LC
commun11y who expresses an
interest to auend. To find out
more, contaCL Myah Moore at
mmmoore@lclark.edu. Did you know thal roughly
16,000 people a'tc infec1cclwi1h
HIV each day> Approximalcly
fi[ty percent new HIV inreclions
occurln young adu hs under I he
aagc of twenty-five. The week
of November 2711' 1hrough De­
cent her t·1 is AIDS Awareness
Weck al Lewis and Clark.
Why should you gel tested?
You should ge1 tested ,f you eur­
ren1ly are or have been sexually
active. The Lewis and Clark
Health Center offers HIV teSl·
in~ for a small rec or fourteen
dollars lo students and staff.
Tes1mg is also available at Out·
side In ( 1236 SW Salmon St.)
for 1en dollars. HIV testing is
confidcn1ial, can be oaken
anonymous!)', and only the per­
son lCSLed is notifiecl of I he re•
suits.
The resu hs arc in and what
do they mean? What is the dif­
ference between testing scrop­
osilive and testing seronega­
tive?
Testing seroposllivc means
that there are HIV antibodies in
the blood stream, and you have
been infected wioh the HIV vi­
rus. It is possible 10 get a false
positive 1es1 due to human or
mech"nical error, if you Lest
positive, be sure to retest with
a physician who can adminis•
ler slightly m()rc expensive but
more accurate leSl$, However,
tcstingscroncgativc means that
you arc not mfcc,ed with 1he
HIV virus. l-lowcvcr~ you
should be retested in six AIDS Awareness Week at
LC, Nov.27-Dec.1 ,, ___ _
As of December
1999, 3.36 million
people worldwide
have been
infected with HIV or
AIDS, and 16.3 mil·
lion have died. _____ ,,
mon1hs because it can take up
10 1ha1 long for HlV antibodies
10 be observable in the blood
stream.
In order 10 protect
yourself, please come OUl and
gel tested during AIDS Aware­
ness Week. If you choose no1 io
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11ng otl,ers at ri.sk. As of Decem­
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limes 1he population or the soate
of Oregon. GET TESTED!!
November 17, 2000 Pioneer Log 3 Pioneer Log Forum======~=
The JJ Other'' Gender The Mystery Box
Where have all the men gone? no weakness as tra11slatcd by
By Melissa Almquist public displays or fear or sad-
nc.ss.
My frustralion wllh 1he op• These are the standards de-
positc sex has been fueled by 1he vcloped b)' the medi;o, but what
most dangerous of resources: about the in0uenct the [cmalcs
personal experience. Flam- have had on this image? First,
mable, 111na,able, stretchable women complain men :.lTC 100
and completely applicable 10 all aggressive, but l hen th:n they arc
m)r encoumers with men-en- not aggressive enough. They are
counters that l just recently '' came to reahzc I <lo not under-
stand. With the spotlight on
I have been born wll h the the female struggle, luxury of fcmimsrn: a movement men have been that has invisibly defended and
supported my ever)' move, open• marginalized- their
mg doors ancl justifying my sex identities completely m prev10uslyd1scnmma1mgsccr subjected to the ridi- tors. Feminism has liberated one
gender, hut it has also caged an-cule of a changing
other. society. With the spotlight on the fe-
male snuggle, men have been '' rnargmalizcd-their 1dcn1ittes wo weak then they arc overly
completely subjected 10 the ridi-confickm pigs. They are sexist,
cule of a changing society. What but then thq• will not open the
,s 1h1s societ)' telling men about car door on a date or compli-
themselves? ment beauty. Frustrated the)'
The ramifications or n1odcls comment: "'what happened to
and advcnisemc11Ls on women chivalry?" To return 10 the prov-
have been thoroughly discussed. erb: you can not have )'Our cake
The prolifora11on of anorexia and cal it too~
ancl huliinia 1s snmmng in us The currcnl fcmuust trend
sia1is11cs, but there have not has ambiguous long-term goals
heen highlighted reports 10 call that are serving 10 not only pre-
a11cnuon 10 the perceptions men serve rcmalc rights, bm 10 com-
hold because or such media in• plc1ely redefine those o[ males.
nucncc. To name a few, here is In fact, feminism has complete!)•
what I have determined as the rewrincn men all 1oge1her.
main coven factors dttcrmining As noted, the conclusions
masculinity: penis size, llu:. dC· previously fonned by this wriler
,•clopmcnt of muscles. namely were based on personal expen-
the biceps, being able to drink a ence (read: limited experience)
lot, status symbols such as cars and were rostered by thcsociall)'
and expensive clothing, sleeping accepted criticism or the m;1le
wi1h many women and showing•. gender found in literally every pubhc arena. However. lhcse
publlc arenas do not negate but
rather completely ignore the dif-
llculties faced by the male gen-
der. With the s1<reo1ypical male
quickly becoming ,he steremypi-
cal scapegoat, society must come
10 realize that equality can not
be achieved my kminizing men~
Me:n have their own construe-
tion with a rich base that de-
serves rcspecl and undcrsrnnd-
ing, nurturing and exploration.
The enigma of the man, uuder
the precepts or equality, is as
deserving of attention of th.tt of
1he woman.
In a historically male tlo,m-
natcd world, the struggle of
women deserves all sympathy
and understanding. However,
the cos, of JUSl!ce should not be
the American male identity. Yes,
there is scxtsm. Yes, there is
sexual harassmcn L Yes, l h..:re ts
discrinunauon and bias, bUl tu
begin 10 see every man wnh the
same eyes of resentment only
rurthers the thousands of years
of inequality "'e have already
born. Not every man descends
from an oppressor. • Identity is individual. 1t is my
opinion that the world would be
a more m1ercs1ing place if expec•
1a1ions could be relaxed and true
priorhies and characterisl ks de-
vcloped withouL 1he pressure to
conform. \Vhilc our social 11~1-
LUre ma)' prohibit such isolated
development, it docs 1101 pro-
hibit a fostering or sensitivity
towards the individual and lus
plight.
This is one person ,hat docs
not expect men lo be anything
more lhan human. See this box? Put anything in here you want; it~ ,m c111011y-
mo11s fornm Jo•· yo1t, t),c LC community member. Sen,/ all sub-
missions 10 piolog@lclarl<.edu with /he ~11bjcc1 "mystery box·.
Why We Need More Nudity At LC
It intl'i'gucs and gladdens me,
This unmatched place o[ thought I sec.
Present to me all around,
The challenged assumptions abound;
Our minds yearn lO be free.
We search for Lhe truth as it fits in 011r lives,
Rejecting society's lies and disguise,
While embracing socieLy's important strength,
Celebrating our youth while we leam how they link.
We struggle, as do many students today,
To find answers 10 why life fiows in lhis way
And while holding fast 10 those results,
We leam to live as adults,
In a world 1ha1 usually won't hear what we say.
Some of us express views 1ha1 submit LQ the norm,
For others, obedicoce cannot be bourne,
But acting on one's beliefs and still having run
Need nol be criticized by anyone.
Just because our beliefs challenge Amenca's core.
And environmental des1tuc1ion and greed we abhor,
Does not mean we don't deserve a community, 100,
Or that we enjoy simple Insults and prejudiced views.
Though 11 IS fun lo sec how we make some folks squinn,
Which we do, as any Pio Log will confirm.
But we aren't hurting people wilh our odd quirks or dress,
Though some make it sound like we strive to oppress.
We YEARN for a challenge 10 our walk and our 1alk,
Because 1hal's what WE do lo the US'.s 0oclc
As long as you allow us a chanc~ 10 lalk bac::k-
Not merel)' an underhanded mystery att.~ck.
Who knows which of us 1vill C'onvince the other­
Open dialogue is the only way to discover. •
So let's quil the assumption tha~Uberals crowd the debate•
We're all on the same side so long as we just get naked
more often. -
Diversity and Advertising: the Piolog Policy
By Meaghan Lamarre
In the November 3, 2000 is­
sue or the Pioneer log, we
printed an advertisement advo­
cating tighter imrnigralion l;hvs
from lhe American Immigration
Comrol Foundation. We under­
stand 1ha1 some or our readers
were offended by this advcrtisc­
mcnl. However, we stand firmly
behind our decision to print it.
First of all, we would like 10
clarify that although we printed
lhis aclveniscmcnt, as a newspa­
per and as individuals, wedo no,
endorse the advertisement. It has
always been the policy of the
Pioneer Log 1ha1 we do not en-dorse any advenisement l.hat
appears in our paper. This is
identical 10 our policy on print•
ing editorials and lwers 10 1.he
edilOr. We realize 1ha1 this policy
has not been clear 10 our read­
ers and we ha,•e made efforts to
clarify our polic)' in the infonna­
tion box on the second page:
"Advrniscmcnts, Letters to the
Editor and E<liwrials do not nec­
essarily renect the opinions or
the Pioneer Log or Lewis & Clark
College."
In his lcuer to the editor
printed in this issue. Jonas
Lerman states •1 believe in the
First Amendment, and I support
the AICF's right 10 air their views. But not in our newspaper.
Nol in a forum supported b)' our
tuition dollars." We respectfully
disagree. As the only student
newspaper on campus, we are
conuniuecl to d1e free and ardcu­
late expression of ideas.
The editorial Slaff of 1he Pio-
11cer Log have full comrol over
what advcnising appears in the
newspaper. We rccch1c adver­
tisements from various sources
rangmg from national advertis­
ers 10 local business owners, as
well as politically-oriented orga­
nizations and unaffiliated indi­
,,iduals. Those wishing 10 place
advcnlsemcms- contact us and
send us the ad they wish to
Cl-0
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4 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 place. We receive their insenion.
order and the advertiscinent and
place the ad accordjng 10 the in­
structions supplied by theadvcr­
tisc:r. At any lime in the process,
we may ref use an advertisement
or refuse to respond 10 a poten­
lia.1 11clveniser. \1/e prefer to err
on I he side of inclusion. includ•
ing ads that may be conlrovcr•
sial or potentially offensive,
The advertising dcparunem
at The Oregonian has the same
policy. They were contacted and
asked abou1 their ad pohey. Re­
garding lhrec or our most con­
lrovcrsial ads-AICPs ad, lhe
ad on the back or 1he lhi.s issue
which is sponsored b)' , he Or• cgon Right to life, and an ad we
chose 1101 10 prim from I he Com•
n1it1ec for the Open Debate on
the Holocaust, a revisionist
group-The Oregonian would
have primed all of them.
As mem hers of the Lcw1s &
Clark communily, we 1·cgreL lha1
some sw<lcnts felt unwelcome
because. or the advcrtiSClllClll.
Blll as members or the Pfoncrr
Log staff, we recognize that it
would be unethical 1101 10 pnnt
an adveniscment or opini,ln
simplr because It was unpopu•
lar.
\Ve appreciate the co111n1cnLS
we have received regarding this
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Letters to the Editor
Immigration Control ad
When I read l:1s1 week's
PioLog (Nov, 3, 2000), the :,d­
vcr1isc11\cnt from 1he American
hnmigrmion Con1rol Found:.l-
1ion, on page 11, caught my eye.
The headline read; "Mass lmmi•
gration or Modcrnlion?'" I had
never heard or1hc AlCf. bu, 1hc
ad was typical of s1anclard ant••
hnmigration rhc1oric, I nouccd
1he las, paragraph of1hc a<l, writ•
,en in bold: "()f ~penal 1meres1
10 college s1udcn1s: Current un•
mignttiou policies rna,y keep )'Ott
from gwinggood h1gh-techJobs
arlcr you gradua1c." This caL~gln
my nucntion. Then I nolltr<l the
picture on 1hc lehside of ,he ,,d:
the Srnwc or Lihcny hol,hng a
.. Slow Downr· sign while a boat•
lo:,d of people-presumably im­
m igr~nls-row lowarcJ New
Yurk's-shon.·s.. All dus made me
sus1>icious. So l fired up my
computer, 1ypcd m the J\LCI'~
address and s1,1r1«J exploring.
1 ... 0011 c~mc to tht cunclusion
lha1 1hc Al'nc.rica,n lmmlgr:uion
Control FQundalion has no
place a, Lewis & Clark Col lcgc.
Their Websi1c makes this ab,m­
d,n11ly dear, On the first page,
things looked innocuous
enough. Bt!t as I made my w,iy
Lhrough 1hc silc. l be.came more
and more dis1 urbed. It wou lei be
impossible lO sum up their en­
tire \Vcb she here:, but some scc-
1ions swnd out. One page, cx:4
plaining the goals and mission
of 1hc AICF. asks the question
""Shou Id Amcn<:{1 Be :t
~Mul11cuhura1· ~ocie1y?~ The
answer, according IO the AICF.
1s a re-sounding 110. "ll as 11mc to
encl , hls abuse of A mcncan gen•
crosil)'." 1hcy write. "Help us
.creel a moratorium on mlmigra, ..
lio11."
Fair enough, I though. I may
disagree wh.h 1his argumcm, bul
il is a vali<l one nc.v<1'rthclcss.
Besides. a healthy deba,c over
the immigr:u ion is!iuc is a good
1hing. But 1he AICI~ as I soon
le.1rncd, is not. intcrtslcd in an}'
sort or clcb;1Lc, bm rather m scare
rnc1acs,a1armisl propagancla,'ilnd
radsrn.
The AICF shows i1s u1.tc col­
ors on the "Brit [ 1-listory or lm­
rnigra t ion" page. The :1tnhors
take grca1 paiJ1s to jusiiry, ancl
encourage lhc revival ol, l)ast
U.S. immigration politics. Ex•
plaining why the Chinese Exdn•
sion Ac1 of 18$2 should be rem­
slituted. lhcy write: •Tod~)'. 1he
violcm criminal acli\'itics or tht
Chinese Tong gangs, the wide­
spread criminal activities or Chi­
nese alien• and drug•smuggkrs.
ancl the espionage at 1hc Los
Al:i.1nos Re.search Labs proves
the wisdom of our ancestors."
If 1ha1 were not e.nough. the
J\ICr goes on LO argue thal ''the
annual ticl~I \'lave of over a mil­
lion immigranis Ocgal and ille­
gal) is endangering our Amcri·
can way of life. Currendy, fewer
than 15% of our immigrants
come from Europe and share 1hc
ht:rilagc lh~l made. America
s1rong. i\ majority of 1oday's im•
migra.nts ~re {consciously or
unconsciously) undermining
our cusloms, our culture. our
language, and oi~r in.stitutiorcL''
They cominue: "lns1ead of rc-
1naining in their n:nive l~ndsand emula11ng 1he United Sillies,
they arc descending upon our
shores and trying to rcsh•pe the
Ut1ilcd Sla,tcs into the image or
the lands they forsook.•
1r Lhis is not blatant rac.ism, I
don'l know wha1 is, I l am~,zcs me
~hat 1hc American lmmigralion
Control fotrndation would ha\'e
the gall IO place such an ad in
the r\cwspapcr al le\°"''S &
Clark-a school built on lhc
idea tha1 cross-cultural exchange
and an intermuion:11 di31oguc arc
csscntic1I not Qnly ror America's
entichmen! hu1 for world rcla-
1ion,. lmmigra11on 1s the hie•
blood or ottr co11n1ry: if anyone
is '1thrca1cning_ our American
way ol life.'· it ,s the AICr; not
some overseas bogeyman. The
only threat I can find on the
AICI' Web site is 1he J\lCF itself.
I believe m the Fi,sl Amend­
ment, and I support the AlCFs
right lo air thc.ir, icws. Bul no1
in our ncwsp~lper. Not in ::t ro~
ru,n supported by our tunion
dollars. Not when I he group de•
pends on alarmism and h~le to
make their arguLi1cnL. Nazl
an<1.logies get thrown around 100
of1cn in our cull ure, but wl1.h the
J\ICF such comparisons arc in­
evitable.Their language is rtmi•
niscen, or lhc Third Reich: "am­
ncs•)' for several million Hlegal
aliens (hasl sown 1hc seeds ol
ethnic s1rifc in America .... 85%
of all tmmigra111s 10 1he U.S. arc
non .. Eurnpcan. T.hcgrca1 Amen•
can 'malting pot' bas begun 10
meh down."
I hope that if and when 1he
AICF mtempts to place another
-ad m the PioLog, our newspa­
per will have 1he good sense to
1urn them ;-1.w:1y al the door.
Jonas Lerman
Are we welcome at Lewis
& Clark?
\Ve. ~s nuerna,ional students,
are dis1urbe<I and saddened 10
recognize ,ha, xenophobic ad•
vcruscments cQnstilulc part Qr
1he "cxp:msion of the horizons"
of 1he newly reformat1cd Pioneer
Log.
ln 1he bsl issut of 01,r sLu ..
<lcru newspaper (November J,
2000), we wne faced with an
Jdvert1scmc11t which Cillis for
prevention or labor inimigralion
10 1hc Unned S1a1cs of America
(p, 11). The ad appeal, to 1hc
po1.cnt1al xenophob1e feelings of
Amcricai, students by .s1a1ini;
that .. iuunigrauon can make-or
break • a eou n try I. I immigra-
1 ion policy ""'Y keep you [rom
gcuing good high-tech jobs af­
rcr )'Qu gm(lmuc."
The 1ru1h of 1hc contents of
d1c ad can be argued~ however,
the issue in. question here is the
racl lhat our studcnl newspaper
ha,s chosen lo disseminate pro•
paganda of " hate group. The
organizat1on1s \\1Cb sue confirms
1his.
We appreciate and value 1he
American cornmitmem 10 fret·
dom or expression. However, il
is stated in the. disclairncr or Lhc
Pioneer Log (p. 2) that: "The
Pioneer Log serves 10 inform •nd
educate the Lewis & Clark com­
munity on issues of concern to
s1udenls. We do not diserin1i• nate based on ellmicity I. I. We
reserve the right to refuse to
print ~ny adverhsemc:nt, sub·
missio1t, or anidc that docs not
!UCCI the cilucal siandarcls or 1hc
Pioneer Log.• Needless to sar,
we are llOl only dis~ppoi111ed,
but distressed, 10 find 1ha1 OUR
studcnl newspaper has chos,~n
to prim an ad of such hostile
characlct- and 1ha1 an ad whkh
blames in1n1igran1s [or 1he
wrongs m this cournry ls within
the ethical standards "f <>ur
newspaper.
We arc proud to be i11tcrna-
1ioml studcms at Lewis & Cl~rk
C.illegc, and we believe 1ha1 we,
together wuh 1he imcrnational
lacuhy members a, our college.
consmu1c- a valuable asset lo 1he
Lewis & Clark community. In
t.hc course catalogue tl is prom~
isecl 1ha1 our Co0cge is·(.) ope.n
10 diversity and disciplined t0
work in an hucrdcpendenL
world." \Ve were, al ~he 1m\C of
comm111ing I() 1his College, not
aware 1hal p~rt of our tuilion
fees were allocmed l0 fund astu~
dent newspaper which endorses
loa1hi11g or non.Americans.
Lucas Arcovcrdc
Bencdik1c Bjorgc
Pat rici:, Lee
Cathrine Magelssen
Rajvi Mariwala (on behalf of
1 he ISLC board)
Yusuf Munnaz
Stanisla" Osipov
Kairi Raud
Brede Rors1ad
Kariikcy Shiva
Uarbara Teixeira
Daniela Wagner
Josphai Waruhin
Dear Piolog people,
I like yo,u· paper, so I gotta
give )'OU guys " li11le heads up
aboul your latest cdilion.
l direct your aHention t() the
lower n_ghl hand corner of page
11. Thal add from "Mass immi­
gration 01· moderation?'', spon­
sored by American lmmigr,uion
Control Founda1ion. really
s,ands Olli like a sore thumb in
y<.>ur paper, and a, ,his sc1,ool.
\Vith lhc abuse of 1mmigrarHS
which has rccemly been exposed
at INS in Pon land, and the
prominence of the international
s1udics prograrn at LC1 you tan
ill afford 10 run a xenophobia
add or this nature. I'd be sur·
priseJ if l'm 1hc only one who
points this out LO you, it seems
sooo gloring. I mean really, did
any of you read i1 before it ran
and was distributed?
"lmmignuion poHc,es n~ay
keep )'OU from getting go'od
high-tech jobs after you gradu­
a1e ... " The notion 1ha1 H will
hard rora qualified grad from LC
to ge1 a liigh 1cch job in our
economy is simpl)' untrue and
wriucn in a way which wHl pro·
,note racism :ind xenophobia in
a syslcrn which is alrc;acly noto­
riously hostile lOward imlni­
grants, Think abo111 LC• 11% of
LhcsLUdcm co1nm1ml1y a1 LC art
international stu<lei1ts1 some of
which w,11 probably f\lc for a visa
10 stay after gradualion.
l suggest you rc-exan1ine ,he
appropriateness oC includinS
American Immigrant Control r()und:uion h, our paper. Oth­
erwise, I enjoyed 1hc story abou1
the Rccdics ...
Joel Runnels
Graclua,c Stuclem through no fault of my own, or
the shuule simply dnesn'l come,
When there is a subs1~nt1al
glitch in lhe shuulc schetlulc,
,,he college should ei1hc1· ptov,cle
Shuttle comes up lacking
This leuer is in response 10
1he low quality sl11111le service
heing provided by 1he college
1h1s year. Already twic.:c this year
I have had to wail al Burger King
for more than h;tlf an hour cad,
1ime be.cause there was smt'lc·
lh1ng wrong with lhc Pioneer
Express bus.
A momh and a half ago the
bus came by far too early and
had 10 be s"s,ched due 10 prob­
lcms_wi1h 1hc radiator. This pas..l
Sunday 1he origin~! bus had to
be sw11ched due lO ahc.rna1or
problems.
Though 11 is peu )', I ~m mad
abou, the phone monC)' I spent
,ryrng '° find someone who
could come and ge1 me. But
more importan1ly. L ,am angry
tha1 1 had to ·wail an ex,ra 40
1ninutcs, in sub hcczing 1cn1•
peraiures, because of the crappy
l>us conditions.
I don·, doubt 1hat Lhere were
genumc and prcssi\lg sa.fe:ty con•
ccn,s in ho1h instances, and I
don·, blame 1hc bus drivers for
I he del.ays. However, the prob­
lems on 1hcsc buses should have
bec11 seen 10 long before, hey h,ft
10 begin 1hcir route. I do blame
Raz for tlN Laking ~uffk\c.nt (.;:\re
ol Lhdr vehicles ;:ind more than
1h,11 1 blame 1he college for bir·
ing a company 1hat seemmgly
places profit above pro1cctlon.
l'msurc I arn not the only one
who has been dislt1Tbecl br 1he
rnnhng buses as 1he)' ehugom1·
nously down 1hc frill. The
sounds some of I hose vcl11dcs
rn.tke arc c.lownrighl scary, and
are 1101 10 be confused wilh 1he
normal sounds made by big en•
gincs as comp::trcd to CH)' buses.
I assume that Raz pu1 in a bid
10 ,he college for the shu11ling
contract and was hired because
lhcir bi<l was lowcs1. However, l
would ask 1hc college adminis·
lral ion 10 consider more cart·
ru1tr why their bid was so low.
When I called Campus Safety
this past Sunday 10 ask ,f they
hacl anr Idea why thcshu11lc was
so late, ,hey were of no help
what.soever, saying thal since the
Pioneer Express is run by Raz
1hey have no idea what goes on.
7'hc only advice I go, was to
make sure I swod ou1sidc (in 1hc
freezing cold I mighuocmion),
and i,01 in (1hc nice, cozy)
Burger King. Also, though Lh1s
has ntvtr happened lo me. si nee
1hc only payphones available arc
n1 the back ofBur~cr King, in the
dark parking 101, or dow11 a1
Fred Meyer, it would be-all too
c:1..sy to n1iss a tardy bus when
trying 10 call for '1Ssis1ance.
I count myself foriunaie to
lu.wt friends who are wilHng tO
tome-and pick inc up when l arn
stranded by the sh.uule, but, as
was 1he case 1his pas, Sunday,
Lhcy ore nor alwa}'S available. h
should not be my responsibilhy
10 scramble to try and prov,rlc
an alternate means or transpor•
tation when I miss the shunk an alternate pick up, or pay for
l:\}{i service.
L:.tstly, 1 would hkc 10 offct up
for considerauon lhc quCSli0ll of
whc1hc1· 1he t\u(ger King ,huulc
swp is a safe place to stop. II is
located on a dark side street, and
after Bu!'ger King and rrccl
Meyer close a, 1 I p.m., 11 ,; not
o ph1ce 1 feel safe wa111ng as a
lone female. Wh,Jc Salcway's lo•
c.:\tion i$ le.,°' converne11L, and I
wou Id ,.,. her shop "' fr,·d
Meyer, it is well-Ii,, with
payphones in plain v1cw1 and
best of all, open l4 hours. It
ought lO be oonsidercd whether
this would not make a better
shuulc stop late :u rnghl, at least
on I he weekends.
Sincerely,
Jod.i Garring1on
Viva Electronica!
J\uenlion Lewis & Clark
co111munily!H The Ele:ctr()nlC
Music sec11011 needs your a~u:n­
uon. Since -ilS incepllon il has
had to struggle [or funding,
space, and safety. We a.re 1rying
to end i1s peril. Herc is wha1 is
motivadng out ::\Cllons:
Joseph Walcrs, inst rucwr of
the electronic music section, can
be credited with not only maln­
caining an ac-,ivc and acdairncd
profcss\(ln:\l career as a coin­
poser ~nd (I\US1cfan (h1s nc-w al•
bum Joseph Wa1crs received
ra'le. Tevicws) bul also for creat•
mg and hu\lding 1hc electronic
1nusk<le1wrtrncnt :;)L 1his c;oHegc.
His classes ;1rc some of the must
popular classes offe,·cd. Unfortu·
1}::tlcly, lhe adminislration is pc·
naliz.ing instead or pr~islng hirn.
De11101cd (because of a decrease
in class load) 10 1he pos1110n of
lns1rut,or, Joe ls on a year to
year contract with the school. tie
doesn't have the secunty or rec•
og11ilion he needs.
The section ol'clccuomc mu·
sic 1s 111 snnilar trouble. Since it
is no, designaied :<s a program it
too 1s on a year to yc~,r c:ont met.
n1e..tning ll could be canceled al
any 1inu,;! Also, elcc1romc; mu·
sic receives no runding of 11 own.
Asa result, the eqwpmem ,s,1111
of da1e and I he space gwen for
its use 1s abys-1113 l
\.V11 h a few si mplc rcmcrlics
lhis no,.., small sec.::Lion of the.
music-dcpanrncnl could bccoi-nc
one of lhc. bes1 and mosL C\Hling
edge programs <-H our school.
fif'!;L, we ~re for the security and
funding of elec1ronic music. h
should designa1ccl as a program,
1hcreby receiving runding aod a
promise ofits C()lllinuation. Sec•
ond. Joseph Wa,ers should he
given the posilion of Senior Lee•
rnrer. This will not onl>1 give him
,he rccog1iilionand apprccia1ion
he clcser"es but alsQ 1hc prom•
isc that he. will co111inuc l0 run
and develop lhc elecLtonk mu­
sic sccLion. For the next two
weeks we will be passing arou11d
pc111ions rur SlUdcnt.S to show
their suppon elect rc>nic music.
Please lend your voice 10 our
cause.
An dectronic- music studcm
November 3, 2000 Pioneer Log 5 PioneerLog To be Left is to be Right======-r
To what degree do we support intellectual freedom?
by Meaghan Lamarre & Erin Haick
)tttniy b c1 fn:shmcm at Lewis
& CJe1rl1 CoHcg,. /11 hfgh school,
he was cht111' of 1he Young Re1ml1-
lica11 s cf44f, arid cuti"vc in hb
church. He lwtw that LC was a
libm1l scl,ool bul chose IO collie
here anyway. In his firsr day of
Inventing America, lit arg,ics in
Javor of ca/Jitalism. only robe ridi­
culed by his classniarcs ancl dis­
missed as "il•c republica11." He of­
ten finds his rcligio(•S v;c~vs in•
suited by liis peers, After a semcs­
te,; lie dcddcs iQ tnm.sfe-r to an ..
01her sclwol.
The al~ovc SLOT)' is ficLional,
but ii might easily be the story
of a dassrna1c you remember, or
a siory ,old by a professor of one
of his or her former advisees.
This s1ory [s representa\ive of
1he perception on 1his camp11s
1ha1 "10 be lef1 is 10 be right, ancl
10 be righ, is 10 be wrong."
This syndrome seems to per•
vadc our campus. h is evidenL
in classes in which studenis shy
away frOJn voicing cQnservativc
opinions. "\Ve sec it in the news­
paper when studetns write
1hings like ··we all know that
Starbucks is evil." \Ve see il in
the Bon when cha1 one student
sits quietly while ihe 01hcrs rant
about what an idiot George W.
Sushis. h's displayed when s1u­
dems ta kc off for Scaulc to pro­
test the \VfO and. even among
1hose of us who don'1 go, there's
little 1alk of the benefits o[ glo-baHzation.
I l's no seerct that lewis &
Clark is a liberal school. And if
wc1rc a clive.rsc. school, as is also
<:hli1r1cd. then Lhcrc-must be di­
versily of opinion ~ts well as
ethnicity. Admitting thls then
kads to the question-where are
chc minority studcms? Surely in
the s1uc!cm bt"ly, ,here is ,11 least
one slU<lem th:u doesn't hug a
lrne daily, and maybe even one
1ha1 suppons Bush for presidem.
Some smc!cms" LC do hold
moderate.-.co .. con.scrvat1vc politi­
cal belie.rs. but the.re is concern
among the fatuity 1haL their
voice is not heard by 1hc major­
ity. runhermorc, some worry
1ha1 1hcse studcn1s don'1 feel
welcome lO express their diffcr­
i ng views in the classroom and
1hc residence halls.
·'Many students are not open
minded," said Chri.s Ryan. leader
of 1he campus Bush Coali1ion.
''h's unhealthy on 1his campus,
I that I either you're left or you·rc
even further 10 1.he left, and there
arc only l wo options that you
have.·
Anthony Azadeh, a sopho­
more. concurs, He was struck by
1he facuha,, as hesays,studems
at LC aren't willing lO even dis­
CI.ISS conservaiive beliefs, "I don't
rc;1lly understand," he said. "For
1he most pan, you 1hink c.onser­
vativcs are closed-minded, but II
seems that the liberals here on
campus take up 1hat role, and
they don·, care for 01her peoples'
opinions."
A few words
from the Right
on the left
by Corey Long
Dan Rosedahl, a senior com­
munication major. political sci­
c.ncc minor from Minnesota,
chose Lewis & Clark bel1>use he
knew he"d be different from the
other students.
At his in1ervicw as a perspec­
tive student, 1.he LC represcma­
\ivc told him, "You know this is
a ,,ery liberal c.~mpus, don'1
you?'" I-le k11ew.
And as a self-defined 'hard­
core.' republican on such issues
as Lhe econorny. taxes, social se.­
curi1y, 1he environment. and for­
eign policy, he was looking for­
ward 10 1he challenge. •1 wanted
an cnvironmen1 that would
make rhe consider my own feel­
ings about government1 people,
and iaxcs." he says. "I Ii kc a cha I•
lenge."
Dan go1 tha1 and more over
his four years here. He admits he
has been made more aware or
issues like 1he environment. Yet
r11 lite same time he has no1iced
1hc way of things here concern•
lng cons<:rva1ive. views, or Lhe
latk of 1htm. For him, the dcaih
of lhCSe poinls of view C0ll'ICS rlOl
through rejec1ion, but through
silence. This 1.ssue is what en­
ticed me 10 interview him1 a
me,tibtr of a poli1ical minori1y,
on a campus tha1 is supposed to be 1olcran1 10 those. of different
and from different backgrounds.
"There is no conserv.1i,ive
voice heard anywhere on cam­
pus, not in tbe Pio log, through
guest speakers or elsewhere," he
says. "On a campus 1.rylng to be
an academic village. Slrivlng 10
include all voices, how is it that
everything outside 1he. 'left-of -
middle" is shifted out? People
don't disrespect my views, they
are just drowned ouL ••
From 1alk[ng to Dan. it is
dear tha1 he is very grounded
and t."lkcs a realistic approach lo
his poli1ics. He expressed how
impressed he is with LC s1u­
dcms' passion, yet he notes 1ha1
sometimes 1hcy become so ob­
sessed wuh one issue, they lose
siglu of I he big picwrc, "Jis won­
d crf u I issues arc taken so
s<Iongly, bu1 1101 just that one
iss11e shouicl be examined," he
laughs. "Sometimes stude,Hs
don·, know enough about 1hc
rest of the issues [irl\'olvcd in a
given cont rovers)') to make a
v,.li,I point," he adds.
In R<,sedahl's opinion, 1his
type of narrowed s1gh1 [s wha1
drew so many students lo sup­
port Ralph Nader. He.claims the
over-spedaliztd agenda wou lei
6 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 Jon Eldridge. Dean of Stu­
dents, 1hinks 1hai some of this
sentiment comes front the com•
pclilivc atmosphere in dasscs.
Admiu;mcc to the school is com ..
pctitivc, in thal eac.h h1dividual
must be bcucr than his or her
pee.rs. Butdiscussion-tJlc equal
sharing of ideas-is suncd by
this ;:1.uiwdc. Discussion~ he said,
is based on coopcra1ivc sharing
or ideas. and some.swde:m-sdon\
aclhcrc 10 this,
Nevertheless. Eldridge 1hinks
1h1s problem has always e:<is1cd.
'·t don't rhmk i1'scome om of lhe
blue and is a crisis. This discus­
sion ebbs and llows over I he
years."
Classes are where Chris R)'an
sees a problem. Teachers arc
open aboul for whom I her are
vo1ing, and several will only dis­
cuss politics on the lef1 wing
side, and constanLly make jokes
about George W Bush. Ryan S'1id
tha1 discussion often degener­
ates into b:1d-mou1l11ng lhc un• popular candidate.
Azadeh 1hinks tha1 ,he prcs­
s1,1rc 10 hold his tongue corncs
from studcn1s, not faculty. ·1
havcn'I fell anything from the
tc,achc.rs," he said. lie said that
most professors a good job of
promoting· dicussion, citing
Robert Eisinger in p~1nicular.
"Mc docs a good job nu1kings11rc
1ha1 all peoples views ,1rc heard.
and his reason is 1ha1 beliefs only
go so far, and then you have lo
h~,ve tlis<:ussion,"
Azadeh 1h111ks that s1udcn1s
are mos, responsible for Lhe lack
of discussion ... , lhink 1hcrf are
some 1ha1 don'1 even want LO
hear reasoning and arc only fo­
cused on their 1clcas,"' he said.
"People have different vkws1 bm
lin against people not listening
10 01her's ideas. I think i1 hap­
pens here quite frcq11cn1ly."
\Ve are prcscnring t~Lis inves­
tigation of the climate at LC in
order th;u we may encourage lhc
open debate of ideas. Too often, unpopular opinions arc mc1 wilh
ad hominim auacks. Conscrva•
tives arc often dismlsscd as "sill•
pid" or ·uncnligh1cncd." Ra1hcr
than personally attacking those
with diffcrc-nt opinions. we
should lis1en 10 them and dis­
agree-if we want. but respect the
individual nonetheless.
11 is only b)' debaung wi1h
01hcrs, ;ind really listening to
their arguments. th~H we c:m
strengthen our own polJns of
view. By hearing the opposing
argumcms, we can sec where
ours .:1rc weak
We offer I h,s suggesnon, for
a moment. s1op trying 10 he
righ1. l;ngagc yourselr ln active
discussion ,vith those or other
opinions. Respec1 those wh() sec
things differemly 1h•tl you do.
Speak up when your opinion
srrays from the m;,jori1y,
lei 1hc deba1es begin,
(Thr cruou·s <IJ'J'<'<H"iug "" ih..-sc
t•trgts ttrc from vt1;r()u~ !.>iudcnls Qn
ihe: Le·wis & Clluk rntttpus.}
To be left is to be right
To be right is to be
'' I can see how some
people here feel op­
pressed. ______ ,,
have fallen apan on a national
stage, "No way would he have
gouen 1he congressional support
to achie,•e anything,'' he argues.
Rosedahl"s admira1ion of
George W. Bush and 1he ap•
proach of the Republican party
stems from the common-sense
approach he sees I hat they take
to all issues of nalional impor­
tance. "The Republican's policy
emphasizes domestic affairs, cs..­
peciall,, the over-dependence on
the federal govcnuncnt conctrn­
ing issues Hkc social security," he
explains.
The Republicans want LO
change 1ha1 program so i1 will
survi\/t over the ne.x1 200ycars.
"Over time, we~ve seen private
investors do more with our
money than the Feds have."
As for the leadership issue of
George W. himself, Dan is far
from concerned. •·1 think he is
decent, fair and loyal," he sa)'S,
"He is a beucr figurehead for 1he
coomry than Gore. He is a 1wo•
term governor in the country's
second largest state where he has
gained 1he respect of both clcmo­
cra1s and republicans, including
minorities. Plus he is surround• '' I am tolerant of con-
servative views so
long as they don't
support biases or
target certain groups
of people on the basis
of discrimination or
prejudice. __ ,,
ing himself wi1h good people.
IVice-Presiden1 candidate) Dick
Cheney is more. ihan knowl­
edgeable abou1 foreign policy
and General Colin Powell and
Henry Kissinger are both advis­
ing him. Besides. Gore is a
smat1~ass," he adds wilh a grin.
Regardless of whe1her you
agree wi1h what Dan Roscdahl
has 10 say about George W. Bush,
Al Gore, or the political 1,aturc
of 1he LC campus, this is prob­
ably the first time, or one of few
times you h~wc hc.ard. or rca<l
sentiments like his cxprc-ssc<l on
this campus. Doesn't this con­
cern you? To fully examine the
issues thai we do a, ,his school.
is it not necessary to see I ha,
there are 1hose i1,1 1his counlTy
1ha1 do not 1ake 1hc "sligh\ly lert
or center" p()int of view 1hal
mOSl here cling lO so passion­
ately. nol to me.ntion conclc• wrong
'' I don't feel conserva-
tive values are al­
lowed to be ex­
pressed without per­
secution at LC, but
anything liberal is
always accepted
without question.
''
scendingly?
lf any 1hing, this pas, election
should serve as a reminder Lhat
there are (very) many people 111
this, your country, that leel 1he
way 1hat Dan does about impor­
iam issues. tlow they reel, ancl
what 1hcy believe, is a far cry
from the coni'munal dict:acorship
of liberalism thai perhaps has
been dcvelopmg on ,his campus.
We don't ·want LO rnrn in10 d1.e
pigs from Orwells Animal Fann.
The sub1lc siilling of views like
Dan's 1hat may be occurring here
indicates tha1 ·we are on 1hal
paih. To be Right is to be Wrong=Pio=ne'e='rlo~g ,,--
Generally on campus, I don't feel 1nhibited with my opinions. There
are certain classes where I didn't feel like opposing views were sup­
ported. I think the student body is open to different expressions but
maybe I would feel different if I was openly conservative. -------~---,,
Residence Halls encourage diversity,
still hear accounts of intolerance
The Residence Life.
program claims to be
"Open -A place where
freedom of expression is
uncompromisingly
protected and wnere
civility is powerfully
affirmed."
by Erin Haick
Classr()om arc one 1.hing, but
when tonscrvalivc•(lpinioncd
siudcn1s go back IQ the dorms
for the nigh,. does 1.hc silence
follow tflem home l
Conservalivc s1uclcnts have.
expressed concern to the RDs
and Jon Eldridge. Some say th,11
1hc pairing or SlUdCnlS \\lilh
roomma,cs CQntribmcs l0 lhe
lack o[ in1cllec1ual divcrsi1y,
Eldridge secs some of the
dorm connicts In 1hc assump ..
lion 1hat all 1hings bc1ween
roommates will ahvays work out
neatly. "Any of us who have c._vcr
had a partner know 1hat reward­
ing rtlati11nsh1ps aren't easy: he
said.
Eldridge secs a trend in $LU•
dents Opting 10 move om or,une
out roommale- troubles rather
1hnn conrronl 1hem hca<lon. He
bclit\'CS that mos, c.liffitu11ies,
especial I)' onc.s involving differ­
era politic..:al views, can be
worked out through discussion,
i( the students make the -altcmpL
He secs the residence halls as a very posii1vc clemcn1 of 1ht
campus, especially given 1h,11
some s1udenis l'nay not ialk
ahou1 their opmions in class.
.. Students arc more ready 10
challenge their peers i11 resi­
dence halls msteacl of class•
rooms/' he said.
One elem em of I he dcbai e is
1hc political awareness of the
campus. 1'Ours is a very active
campus;' Eldridge said. "Some
dmngc can happen, but there$
a lot of polarization."'
This polarization can inhibit
fair debate, because many liberal
s1uden1s 1akc 1hc auiiucle •;r you
dis.1grec, you•re wrong."
People feel 1heir locus of con­
uol is external, mcanh1g that
1 hey respond, ralher-1 han inldaLc
action, he Sll)'li, and lh1s kads 10
defensive and inwlcram hehav­
ior.
Eldridge 1hinks 1hc dorms
teach a valuable lcsson-in1er­
dcpcnclcncc, nol independence.
He says I ha1 independence is
shown as not lhacning or caring
about others' opinions, and in­
terdependence amongst dorm­
males assumes 1ha1 all have
equal ideas 10 share. This phi­
losoph)' helps fairdcba1c by lev­
eling the playihg (icld between
1hc liberal minority and other
opinions.
Jay Friends, the Copeland
RD, seconds this. "My imprts­
sion of students at LC lis 1ha1l
1hcy arc very individualistic.
Many students here do no1 sec the benen1s of group involve­
ment or wh;H the group experi­
ence has co offer Lhc1n."
"They sec llnle need 10 have
others conlributc l0 lhcm, for
they fully believe lhat they are
complete, whole indivfdmils." he
continued.
Fid Castro, ,he RD rn Fore.sl,!
Harizfeld, add rcssed L he preva­
lence of liberal sen1ime111 in the
dom,. "I have dclinitcly nollced
a leaning towards liberalism on
campus," he said ... 1 don'l tMn k
1hc problem is 1ha1 the sehool is
becoming 100 liberal, nsnmch as
1he fact 1ha1 1hc '11on-liberals"
haven't learned how 10 commu­
nicate wlll1 lhc "liberals.,. or v-icc
vcrs;_;i."
Castro noted an Incident
where liberal studems were
leanung down Gore/Lieberman
and Bush/Cheney campaign
posters In the clonn and replac­
ing them with Nader/LaDuke
ones. He said he overheard some
s1uclems who were very upse1 by
the vandalism, and said, .. the
percep1ion I'm gwing ts ,hat the
"non-liberals" feel like 1he "lib­
erals" are squelching their
voice."
IL appears 1ha1 1hc silence of
tnlnorityopinions is as prtvalem
in 1he rtsidence balls as it is in
the classrooins here at Lewis &
Clark. Unlike 01her areas of cam-
pus life, however, 1hc Residence
Life offic.c is aw,,rc of. and iry­
ing hard LO work on, 1his prob­
lem ol imclleclllal freedom.
Other campuses share concerns
compiled by Joe Clock
People tend to respect each others opinions. even if they are very different.
Alex Starns, Stanford University
80% of Williams supports Gore and the democrats, but I think that there is not a
lot of mockery of those who don't. Sometimes it is hard to get certain opinions
across, but in general people are pretty open.
Steven Scroggins, Williams College
I don't feel comfortable expressjng any of my religious or gay rights Views.
although I try my best to express them.
Alex Symes, University of Minnesota
I think everyone here feels comfortable expressing their opinions, Just walking
down the corridors of my dorm, there are signs, stickers. buttons, and other
perephenalia everywhere for Bush/Cheney, Nader/Laduke, and Gore/Lieberman
on everyone's respective doors.
Noah Mehlan, St Olaf College
If someone expresses a view that disagrees with the majority, and they represent
it seriously. it's likely to be looked at simply because the person must have some
reason for holding to what they do. They may not be able to convince anyone to
come over to their side, but I wouldn't say they're ridiculed for it
Jolanta Komornicka, Reed College
The republican party is more popular/vocal among the students, but the faculty
seems to be mostly democrats Most of the people i know are very comfortable
sharing their views, even if they aren't very common. but they tend to be a little
more defensive. The people I've talked to do listen to other people's viewpoints,
and are surprisingly respectful of those views.
Katie Rupprecht, Pepperdine University Campus outcast welcomed
in the rest of America
by Joe Clock ---·-
I wenL to Copeland looking
fnr a Republican: I did not find
1 he specific one I was looking
for, but I found Chris R)'an. The
first thing I noticed as I cnlcrccl
Ryans hall was a Bush-Cheney
sticker above 1hc door. Then I
saw Ryan's roorn. The. dooT was
covered wiLh more Bush­
Cheney s1ickers and sig11s, signs
supporting 1hc Republican party.
and a sign saying "Lewis &
Clark Studems for Bush Coali­
tion Hc-aclquar1ers."' 1 wanted lo
find om how LC's s1rongly lib­
eral views affected modera1c to
conscrva1ive students, a-nd I
knew 1hat I had come Lo 1he
right plate.
Ryan is a Poli1ical Science
major. and 1his year he worked
on the Bush campaign, and Re­
publfcan Tom Campbell~ cam­
paign for congressman in Cali•
fornia. He is also host of the Po•
1i1ical Broadcast Review Show on
KLC, which is one ol the few
oullets for Republican view•
points on campus.
Ryan was quick to poim out
the liberal feel of 1he campus,
and Lha1 some students become
afraid 10 ad mil 1hauhcy arc con­
servative. About 1hc poli1ical tli­
malc. on campus, Ryan said. "llS
kind of unhcahhy on 1his cam­
pus: either you're ldt or you're
even further10 the left, and 1hcrt
are only 1wo op1ions tha1 you
have." Some sLUde-nlS :nc e:vcn
hcsiLant to discuss their cm,set­
vauvc vil'.ws with Ryan even
1ho11gh he is vet')' vocal abou1 his
viewpoint. ( n the classrQonl R)ran said
that professors arc often open
-aboul who lhcy are voling for,
and i'hat several will only discuss
poli1ics from 1he lcf, wing pom,
of v,ew. Ryan said, "ln~Lead of
actually engagmg in debate
abou1 the two canclida1cs they
,viii JUSI I rash 1he candfdatc I he)'
dislike. I 1hink Lhatcan bccoun,
terproducttve to class for some­
one who is conscrvadvc."
Ryan :tlso pomtcd out thal il
h-as become caboo lo express
opmions on 1hc conservative
side of environmental or abor­
tion issues.
Ryan's Bush 1-shinsand slick­
ers draw strong reac1ions from
st u<lcms also. The rcacli(>n Lo
1hc Bush tee-shirt that Ryan
wore on clcc1ion day drew a
strong reat1ion, "People saying
l was brave ... brave lO be wear­
ing a Bush T-shin • tha1's kind
of ridicUL6us to me; anywhere
else that's not considered a brave
acl al all," Ryan said.
Ryan realizes that 1his is a lib­
eral campus, but he remindsstu­
dcn1s I hat, as 1hc ongoing elec­
tion shows, half the country
shares his modcrnle lO conscr­
v:uivc views-, sorncthing he feels
tha1 LC swdcnts often overlook.
A campus 1hat is open 10 di­
verse ideas should make sure
tha1 1 hey do not ignore or pass
too lighlly over the opinions of
Ryan and 1hc few 01hcr Repub­
licans on campus.
Ryan concluded by saying.
"College s1udcllls are going 10
be liberals anti that's how ll Is,
h's Just that it doesn't happen to
be ihc case in my situat,ion." ,,------------
( think that extreme liberal views are
oftentimes tolerated too much. Often objec­
tions are made toward liberal views, while
conservative views are sometimes attacked
without prior thought In that way, I think
there is some closemindedness by liberals on
campus toward more conservative or main­
stream views. -----------,,
Talking politics over
lunch in the Bon
by AE Mel?
In a survey cond.utLcd in the
Bon Qn November 9, fif1y Stu•
dems were asked three quc.cafons
in order to better unders1anc) 1he
poli1ic..11 views and mo1iva1ions
of the ltnclerclassmcn,
The first quesLion: "How
would you feel abom changing
the Gender Studies 10 the Home
Economics department?", met
wllh cri:cs, U,c idea being a dc­
cfdcdly bad one in a 40 10 five
\IOlC.
The second qncs1ion: • As­
suming. Nader's two percent or
the vote in Florida would have
gone 10 Gore, how d11 you lee!
abou1 Nader's candidacy?" was
asked in order LO gauge the re­
action of lhc rcacnon o[ 1he
n,any liberals on campus who
fo11nd 1hcir realism and idc.,lism in connin during 1bc las1 elec­
tion. 23 1;>crsons were SLill
pleased wi1h Nader's candidacy,
21: were angry aboUI i1, and cwo
a.clmiuecl LO voting for Bush.
The third ques1ion: "Which
phrase a,re you more Hkely lQ use
and endorse: 'I find il barbaric
thaL after so many mrllcnni~ hu­
mans are still using violence 10
st>lve Lheir problems\ -or-'Yoo
can have my .gun whtn you pry
my cold dead fingers from il'i')
met wilh some inlcresLing re­
sponses. A Naderi re couple sup•
poried 1he second sta1cmelll, re­
ferring to 1hcmselves as "1nili1anL
Greens". Others said 1haL .whil.c
1hey did not yet own a lirearm,
they would be loalhe to lose the
righ1 LO. All in all, however, only
six persons supporicd 1he la,er
statcmcn1, ·\vith 40 supponmg
1hc first.
November 17, 2000 Pioneer Log 7 =P=io=n=e='er=L=og;,,t==========Arts==============
Music and culture @work at the Hip show
The American perspective
by Erin Haick
I went 10 the Tragically Hip
show at the Aladdin as a fan of
lhc b:md~ I ,,i-(ts inlroducc<l to l he
band ,ohilc sining in, DJ booth.
I've listened 10 their albums and
enjoy 1hc1n, nnd several sotirccs
confirmed that 1hey produce an
aninzing live show•. \·\'lttn I ac-
11.1ally go, 10 1he show. I learned
th:H n,y appreciation of 1hc mu­
sk was minor in compilrison to
lhc pa..,,;sion:.uc response from our
northern nelghbors 111 town for
1hc 5how. l was comp1cu:·1t un­
prepared for 1hc show 1hat was
taking place-no, ons1.1ge, but
right next hl me.
I can't deny 1ha1 1he sheer
musicianship and s1ory-1elling
skills of the Hip should be
enough LO gather a dedicated
fol1owing. However~ Lhcsc con­
c<!"n ~H 1cndccs LOok fandom lO
new heights. I 1hink my C)'C·
brmvs have taken up permanent
rcsiclcncc about two inches
hi.gher on my forehead than 110,­
mal, since l spcnl mosL ol the ,, ___ _
I was completely
unprepared for show
that was taking
place-not onstage,
but right next to me. ____ ,,
show gazing with disbelkf at the
crowds bch,w10r. These were th('
1ype of concen Junkies 1ha1
wouldn'1 leave the theaLre, even
when microphones were being
boxed awar and it was vc.ry cl{t·u
1ha1 1 he band would not be do­
mg another encore 1ha1 nigh1.
Fron, the bcgi.11niug, stancling
butsidc. lhe theatre in the cold,
1hc cxtilcmcn1 in the air wa.s
high. Whoops of" volume usu­
ally reserved for ot11s1cle a
hockey arena resounded m ihe
nigln, and nearl>• every attendee
spoke whh a clipped accent and
sported tt shin wilh some form
of Canadian S)'mholism in de-
.. ·---. ·-.
' ..,. >
;t_ ,.
• ~.-: ,,_, -~,
.. sign.
Once we actually got into the
connned space. or 1he Aladdin.
the anticip:uion was so lhick tha,
n was nc:1rl)' tangible.
Uni1y was :i r.ommand111g
force w11hln the crowd. The age
l':mgc was evenly d1s1rihu1ccll
v1sibl y showmg t hr broad range
or people 1hat 1hc Hip aitract.
Mos1 aucnclccs were not Amen­
can Ponl:mdcrs~ rather., I spoke
wi1h <cveral people who'd glad Ir The Canadian perspective
by Corey Long
The event Slaff at 1hc Aladdin
Thcalre was not quite sure how
lo act.lam sure it had nc,•crsccn
1hc theatre r:lvagcd ,otith as 111::iny
scrl°11lling. dn1nken Canadians
as u was S:1turd:1r. Nov. ➔. No,
Buh and Doug MacKenzie were
not m Portland to give I hci r b­
mous speech ... Bac.:k Bacon and
..
Gordon Downie fronts the Tragically Hip with striking
onstage charisma and imporvised lyric additions.
endured the seven-hour drive Beer: The Rest is Just De1ails.·
rron, Vancouver, BC 1.0 ~11end Instead The Tragicall)' Hip were
this show. All these people were in town. And, as has been the
drawn 1ogether from differcn1 case over ,heir fifteen year ca­
lives for 1wo rc:\sons-lhcir rccr, lhey hrought wi1h them~,
uniqt,c nihural heriwgc and 1hrong of die-hard followers
1heir love or 1he band 1hat epilO• from nor1h-of-1hc-bordcr who
mizcs it. refuse lO miss anr chance to e::x­
periCJ1ce lhis five piece rock
band which has become a Can:t·
dian cuhural icon.
No band m Canadian history
ha:> ever received si1ch j_ mHion­
widt following nor has evoked
1he sense of national pride tha1
1hc Hip have. Thm appeal nms deeper than their ncldictivc com­
bma1io11 of.-passiona1c gui1ar ...
driv('n sound ancl sensual poc11c
lyrics. From legends abmu fallen
hockey heroes to love sLOnC!, Sci
m small l<>wn Ont::irio, 1hdr
songs arc·· st9ncs or Canacl~l.
They arc a rare example of a rl •
iSlS who have tmbraccd their
~·can,ulrnnlsm," vrrsus ,he: nrnny
who rushed to dis\.ard H
(Barcnaked Ladies, eh?). This
t r:ii L ha$ g1Vc.n ,hem Lhc loyal
legion of followNs, some of
whomgl,,dl)1 put thi.~,r lwts on
hold lo follow the band across
the U,S. Gra1cful Dead s1ylc, on
Lhcir tnll!li(@wod: ,our. Also,
seeing the rlip ,n 1hc S1a1,·s
(whl'rc llwy ha\le: )'Cl to g:i.in any
mass popularity) allows for 1hc
opportuni1)' to c-xpcric.ni.:c thc1n
in small venues, ;1 luxury 1ha1 1s
non•cxistcnl in Canada. Thc1·c,
u 1s ,he nonn for thcnt to sell­
out arc.nas;md su_1mner rcs1lv;1ls
including A11utJ1c, Roculside Al­
trnction, the ksti\1;111hey crca1cd
111 1992.
Their Portland performance,
which was prcccclcd b)' an audi­
ence sing-~1-long or"O C;lnada."'
(1h31 in ond ofi1sclf, w•s worth
the price or admission)\ was a
typic,il HiI) experic11cc (my
firth). The cupho1ic aunospherc
i 11 the sold-out Al add in added w
the swe•1-drenched level of en­
ergy the band radiated. Their
sets corisiMcd of a diverse mix
of songs from their eight smcho
albums, including Fully Com•
pfctely, Day Fur Night• 7h111b/c at
tht lienhousr and Ph<mtom Power
(bur them). However, the focus
oft he two hour-long sets was on
lhcir newest release.
mu$1c@worh. Lead singer songwriler. Gor­
don Downie rronLcd lhc h:;md
wiLh ,:., charisnut I h<ll is crumr1-
atcd b)' his cvcr-constam string
of improvised 1)1·,cal poc1 ry and
vaudevillian body movements.
l·hs raw emotional phn,~ing.
::tlong wuh 1hc complex combi•
nanon of Rohh1c Baker and Paul
L;.1nglois 011 g111lars give 1hc band
a lruly unique sound. Their rare
guitar.sound corncc; from 1hc fac1
thai lead and rhylhm dunes arc
nm spl111 hu1 arc sharc.·cl bc:twC'cn
lht• l wo. Ikea use I he b.-nd 1.s so
t1gh1ly knit, they can gc, ;1way
wnh such a rbky vnHl1rt, Ev•
l'ry song. cvtn I hose 1ll"wl'r ones
like "Lake Fcl'Cr" ;,nd the new
nlbum's 11Llc track, were IH.'r·
forn1ccl wu h I he c<mf1dcncc th.lil
a llowecl for I he deepest levels ol
cmonon 10 be thsplaycd without
:my fear of a miss1cp. Their 1lrn·
sic ,s C\'L·r cvolvmg and 1hc. lrl1st
1ha1 15 shared amon)?. the gl'<H1r
has allowed for 1hb grnw1h 10
01.·t.ur.
Good mmac :isic.lc, ll is dtar
1hc Hip's appeal gncs deeper 11110
some1 lung that perhaps explams
wh)1 1 hey have not caught on
he-re 111 1he U.S. There is an
'"insider's view" 1h~L C'Xists \ll
1lmr music 1ha1 can only be ap­
preciated by those a part and
aware of the Ct\natli{11l cxptri­
t>ncc. They will lw rorcvcr adored
in Canada because of ii, but this
also migh1 be the curse 1ha1
~ccps them from fully expand•
mg 1hc1r li!iittncr :,hip s.outh
The pcrfornlancc they ol­
fercd a1 the Aladdin was enough
for any ro,J.; fon, Amcrir~n or
Cn11adian. to appreciate on some
kvtl, whether il \\1as 1,rnsical,
cuhural, or bo1h A Tragically Hip lh•c perfor.
man<..:t is an impressive expcn•
ci,cc IO behold. but from my per•
spcctivc. lhc crowd was rnuch
more lascinaung than an)' or lhe:
anlit:S or haphazard revelations
from lead singer Gordon Downie.
onstJl.ge. from spomancous ren­
di1ions or·o Canada" 10 the re.
vc.rcd roars "'hcnever a Cana­
dian cultural icon was 1ncn­
tioncd in a song, Lhcrc. w::is ::i
sharp divide between the Oma•
dians an<l tht few Americans in
Lhc audience. Upcoming events in Portland
From my standpoint as a fon
of tlte: I lip's music, l he conccn
was highly cnjoy:iblc; as :in
American 1 frh like l w:,s never
qm1c gelling the joke.
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let the fuzzy the
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warm feellng
fill your soul
KLC 104.1
www.klcradio.net UP~Omlng
Peter Murphy returns to
the Roseland
by Erin Haick
Peter Murphy kicked off his
last show al Lhe Roseland from
a velvcl throne. promp1ing me
t0 label him one of, he reign­
ing kings of rock prc1ension.
He'll murn Nov. 22 10 1hc
same venue to dehver an all~
~lCOl•Slic sr, of m;ncn::il lo
hordes of bhck-clad worshi1>·
pcrs.
Old go1hs never clie--1hcy
jus1 get thinner. Rail-like Pe1<•r
Murphy cuts as much of a
spec1ral figure as he did in his
Bauhaus days. Any Bauhaus
rdcrcnces were missing last
lime around, bo1 1his mnc
Murphys decidecl 10 ombrace
his past.the Bauhaus concert
lllm The Grid: A Darh Joumcy,
will be previewed prior to lhc­
conccrL Tiu: Gtfd, shot during
B:tuhaus• hcy<la)i, has never
bec_n shown before in Arncric;:1.
Murf)hy will bring om his
new "Subham1lh1h," a bilingual
1Une sung in both English am]
Turkish, and continuing his
e;.:ploration o( Eas1ern
rhythms.
So break out lhe black
lipstick and [ishnets, and come
wa1d1 1he children of 1hc nigh1
and their king. upcom;na
Wallflowers showcase new
material at the Schnitz
by Erin Haick
Bnnging clown a new album,
the Wallnowers will play the
Arlene Schnilzcr Conecn Hall
this Friday. The 1our, the band's
rirsl as a headliner, will showcast
malcrial from the nt·w album,
Breach.
The Wallnowcrs released a
self-1i1lecl debm album in 1992,
which, while featuring s1rong
pitl-110 work and songwri1tng.
ia,iked in the mids, ol 1ht
grunge era. The band was
dropped 1n short order, but
D)'lan rebuilt the band aml ,e-
1case.d Bringing Down ,J,c Hu, st
m 1996. A Orstsiugle, "Sixth Av•
cnuC! Hcanache." £c:1lurcd
Counting Crows' 1\d:nn Dunu on backing vocals and the tore~
boding "One llcadligh1:
lnought the \Vallllowc..·r~ i,uo 1h1:
national consciousness.
Anti now, dter ~ four-year
w~•it. ,he \.Vallnowc:rs rcmrn. In
all il\ltrvicw ('arhcr 1his year
with MTV. guilarist Michael
Ward said or 1he album. "It's a
nice 1111x or things -somt th:n
sound pret1)1 <..:urrcnt and mod­
ern, !':iomc that sonnd more tra­
ditional arid acoustic- and .... 1hat­
not. IL $eCms 10 be a prc11y good
combo."
Orccich features an all-star ca.<;t
of supporling players, including
Elvis Cosicllo ("Murder 10 I"),
Pixies Icade,. Frank fllack, and
Mike Cam1>cll of Tom Pe11y's
Hcanbrcake,s.
\Vi1h Brend,, one lndc vowel
11111kcs all 1hc <liffcrenc.'c ... , was
just more comfortable this lime
saying '111
~• Dylan explained. "I've
been ·in a11 my songs in one way
or a not her, but lhb time (
wanted to purge. a liulc more in
, he first person ... .I don't wanna
lie, and on 1his record I dic.ln1L
want lo make up stories."
"I 1hink it's a fairly posi1ive
record, oddly enough," Dylan
said. "That's why i1~ titled
Brc<ffh: h~ somewhat or a bre.:,k·
1hrqugh. r didu'L try to be i111er­
CSling ()n this one-jus1 more
honesL"
8 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 ==============Arts==========Pi=·o=n==e=·e=r==L==og_Q=
Poe's Haunting is Deeply Personal Big Love tackles
complex roles by Erin Haick
M()thcr~ answering uwchi11r:
lie/lo, 11obodys home. Lrnve "
me!)sagc aJre,-r he betp and some~
botly wrfl get bc,tl, to you. bi1c of "Conirol", and through
the swaying propositions or
"Hey Pretty." The album picks
up speed on songs like 1he fierce
independence of the first smglc,
"Walk the Walk" and "Nol a Vir­
gin". The instrumentation of 1h1s
album range from lone acoustic
guitar through complicated.
computcr~aklcd drum looping,
and draws Oamcnco, sitar, and
psychcdcha into 1he mix. This song morphs, almost wi1h­
ou1 no1ice, into the "If You Were
Here", an honesliy sad, 1er1ibly
pure final goodbye 10 her fa1her.
Beginning with a hushed '"I miss
)'O\l,·• this quiet acoustic narrates
the last conversation between
fa1her and daughter. Samples
this time arc t~1ken from a kttcr
10 Poe's bro1hcr, and her ragged,
dc.hcatc. .. slcel voice crcalcs a
stunning conclusion. by Dusty Holden I he res1; he seemed lO know
himself and the world around
Dc,ughtcr: 1 llwug/11 you ,/101,lc/
/mow. Dculdy ditcl 10</ay. lie dosccl
hi, eyes am/ Ire left here at I 2:0.3.
11c !)en<h his love. lle wanted you
to /mow he isn't Jrolding a grudge,
am/ if you ar-e you should let
go--.. arc you the,.e? Mom? Pkh up,
ple(lse ...
These ore lhe flrsl, scra1chy
words on Poe's new, second al­
bum, Harmted. Con1rary 10 1hc
mle, and lhc release date (Ocl.
31), cartoon spook~ and campy
vamps arc. noncxisttnl on 1his
album. Ralher, ii rs pervaded by
an cmouonal. unncrV1ngs..1.dncss
and longmg. The haun1ing ,s the
ghosl of Poe's farhcr, who chcd
in l 993. Tad Oamclcwski was an
award~w1nning documcntar)'
[ilmmakcr, hes, known for
1962's Nv Exil,
Mus1cally, 1hc album draws
heavily on clec1ronics. For 1hc
1tiost pan, it was created on a
compmcr. Older elcclronies. in
1he shape of a round box of au­
dio tapes of Poe's fa1hcr speak­
ing and <lic.:tating ktters arc what
allows Poe IO draw on voices
from beyond 1he grave. The al­
bum 1s a conversation ol sons,
be1wcen Poe and her fa1hcr, and
her fathers voice is frcquemly
used to effectively counterpoint
some aspec1 of 1hc singer's lyr­
ics. The album's lyrical comem
ir:wtls the gamu1 of father/
daughter rckuions, as tender and
loving as 1hcy arc biller and ach­
ing.
For an album 1hat runs the:
scope or musical as well as cmo~
tlona1 Sl)1lcs. the sounds arc
crarted into a sophisticated
whole, and 1he range of s1ylcs is
1he grea1cs1 strengths of ,he al­
bum. Beginning appropriately
with "Haunted,., Poe ranges
from 1ha1 song's ethereal folk­
pop 1hrough 1he iron-handed
Requirements The reader should nol, how- "If you were here, you would
In this album, samples are taken from a letter to Poe's
brother, and her ragged voice creates a stunning conclusion.
ever, think Lha1 1he album is all
dour looks and gloom; most
songs are easily described as
upbeat and even some as
"poppy". Though dense in emo­
lion and inslrumentation. lhc
songs arc atccssiblc. Powerful
ca1harsis slings 1hroughou11his
album. but a unanswered ques ..
uons remain in her father's voice.
as he often asks "What is thai ?"
"The ghos1 of my falher s1ill
loud as ocfore/i L used ,o scare me
bm not anymore," Poe sings on
lhc sixteenth lrack, .. Ama.z.ed." iruly be amazecl/a1 wha1's be­
come of whal you made."
As a crilic, I should be able
10 remain objective. in the face
of my s1ereC). Haunud has take.n
up lodging in my brain and re­
fuses lo be discarded. Rarely is
, his range and depth of emo1ion
con1ained in such enjoyable,
engrossing melodics.
fmher: /l's been great f111r­
talhi11g with you /ihe this. /11 fact,
J'm going ,o ll.o it mOft often.
Daughtu: /1 s olwy, you ca11 go
now." The fall Mains1age show
brought Charles Mee's Big
Love to Fir Acres Theatre. The
play.addresses love, marriage,
and gender roles in an active.
in1riguing, and muhifacetcd
lighl.
Lydia, played by Julianna
Gray, appeared first . She
showed a personality that was
a mix of the mher two bridcs-
10-be. She was caring and
undcrsrnnding while s1i11 be­
having in a way lha1 didn't
place her in the 1radi1ional
femminc role. The Other two
girls arrived shonly ,hereafter.
Thyona (Barbara Teixeira) was
a \1ery p:tssionatc, possihlv
even overly aggrcssrvc and
oulspoken bride-10-be. She
yelled a loL, bur was very
a,ware ;1nd intelhgcnt. She w~s
a liule loo negaLive in some of
her opinions. but was also
willing 10 hear others. The
las, was Olympia (Lyndsay
Trader), a blonde girl who
seemed a bi1 nal\'e. l found
her perspective refreshing in
some instances, even if not
fully informed. The charac-
1er was very optimis1ic and
insigh1ful in a diffcrcn1 way
from the 01he.rs. Sbc was will­
ing to hear Olhers. but was a
bit 100 quitk 10 agree somc­
iimes.
The women arrived at a
castle and were greeted by a
smoo1h Lalking individual, 1he
son of 1he head of the house­
hold. He greeted the womca
not with open arms, bul with
respect, probably wisely, con­
sidering I ha1 I he women were
running from their husbands.
The 1hree husbands arrived
soon enough, and had very
dirfercm persona lilies.
Cons1antine, played by fir
Acres regular Jus1in Sanders,
was more introspccLivc than
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., .. hin1. The character could
give calming anc.l soothing
advice. bu1 when needed.
would turn it up a notch.
Black-haired Nikos {Brad
Slitz) knew what he wanted
and wasn'I afraid 10 appear
vulnerable if need be. Scnsi-
1ivily did ge1 1hc best of him
upon occasion, bu1 he did
find more "true• lo"e lhan 1he
others at the end. Oed
(Kotaro Kawashima) wasn·,
very vocal in 1hc play and i1
'' Even though the play
was about marriage,
it wasn't necessarily
focused on love.
'' '·
was difficult to gain a real un ..
ders1ancling of his feelings
Even though the play .vas
aboul marriage, il wasn11 nec­
essarily focused on love.
There was a dis1inct differ­
ence in the aunosphcrc be-
1wecn ,he first and second
act.s.
Rela11onsl11ps were ro­
mamicizcd a grcal deal more
in the 11rsl act. even though
1hc brides were running from
1heir husbands. l think an
bvcrcinphasis was placed on
the ex1rerne feelings of 1he
fleeing bnclcs The emphasis
was also in place LO help
transform the 1radilional cul­
tural view thal only mer1
avoid marriage. The second
act addressed some of the sac­
rifices that arc necessary for
successful relationships. I
liked 1he ponrayal of the
1hrce different couples. They
all seemed uniquely human
and it shed light .on how in ..
tcractions bclween people
occur in 1his day ~nd age.
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November 17, 2000 Pioneer Log 9 • th<' ·" Pioneer Log ======~==Arts-====
Jazz band spits fiery tunes
by Joe Clock
This ts 1101 yo11r lugh school
jan b.tnd The l,ewis &Clark Big
Band did 1101 squeak through
anr shaky rend111ons or .. The
Girl From lpanema" in their
concert on November 3. They
instead played a vanc1y or songs
that included some Latin jazz.
some fast songs rrom the sixties
and scvcmics, -and some nice
ballads. Throughout thcconcen
the band stayed together over
complex rh)•thms and enhanced
lhcir songs with vcr)' good ;m­
proviscd solos.
The band faced very difficuh
and fas, rhythms in many or
their songs and Lhcy almosl
made it sound easy. Both Lhc
Latin songs and ,he jazz songs
from 1hc sixties and seve.nlics
relied on rast, off beat rhythms
that kepL the music imerestlng
for the hstencrs. The band was
almost always 10gc1her and the
rhythm section kept up the beat
well.
Improvisation is a key pan or
jazz, and the LC Big Band has
some imprcssivcsolois1s. Strong
solos added 10 all or the songs,
and several of them involved
improvised dialogues be1wcell
two or more rnusicians.
for example, the band's ver­
sion of Bob Mintzer's "El
Caborojeno" involved a lively
dialogue bmveen a trumpet and
two s:txophoncs,
The band also did a good job
of mixing ,hen taster Jazz and l'HOlO 8Y COREY lONCi
The LC Big Band played a mix of Latin jazz and American
hits of the 60s and 70s at their Jazz Night concert.
La1in songs with slower blues
ballads. Stan Kcn10n's ballad
"The End of the Love Affair" fea­
tured al10 sax player Lesley
Kernochan, and somehow did
not sccan ou1 of place between
two rasl Lalin songs.
The mosi impressive pan or
the conc_en, however, wa.s I he
finale. The band built lip 10
Buddy Rich's 19(>9 song "Chan­
nel One Suite.• For the last song
of lhe evening, drummer 'War­
ren Murray wok control of tl1c
band and opened the song up
witlra cool drum fill. The song
swned out with a sLraight, fast
be.st. ancl al times threatened 10
break mw a seventies de:tcctivc
sho\v Lherne.
The song suddenly slowed
down and took a swing beat for
Alc>:andra Dalmau's saxophone
solo, picking up again 10 its
onginal bca1 as soon as she fm• ishcd. Before ,he song ended
Lhe.re was another saxophone
solo, and a drum solo 1ha1 really
built up 1hc audience. The end
ofthesong lcfl the auclicnce sat­
isfied and excited. ll was a gtcal
choice for a finale.
The band's only fouh was thaL
in some or I he songs the back­
grounds behind the soloisLS be­
came overbearing. AL Limes tbe
soloist would have 10 fight to be
heard over their backgrounds.
Also, ah hough the band has a
shor1age or trombones and had
1.0 bring in guests and alurnni to
fill out the section they were ial­
emed players,andit would have
been nice 10 hear thenl fomurcd
"little more prominently.
Overall, however, the LC Big
Band did a great job in 1hcir fall
Semester Jazz Night, and I rec­
ommend that anyone lake any
opportunity 10 hear them play.
Invalid • ... is perfectly good
by Christina Malle
What would Moliere lia,•e
said afler seeing Tl,e /magi11ary
lnva(lc/ with mt SaLUrclay 111gh1?
Probably, "What the hcll ... Lhe
Imago Theatre rocks my world!"
The rcinvcnU:.·d lmogirtary hi·
valid focuses on Argan, a New
Yorker hypochondriac a11emp1-
ing IO arrange a marriage be-
1wccn his daughter Angelique (a
classic 80s poster child) and a
doctor's spastic son. Argan, a
fearful but miserly hypochon­
driac, divides his time between
summoning the. doctor to care
for his ills and trying no11osc11k
the resultant bills. He lights on
the arra11ged marriage as a
scheme to acquire unlirnitecl ac­
cess to grotis consuhalion.
Argan's wire, howcver1 plans 10
send Angelique 10 a convcm, rc­
ml)ving her rrom 1he Hneinhcr•
itancc. The plot thickens when it is
revealed 1ha1 Angelique has spe­
cial feelings for the rosy-checked
Cbemc, a skater/surfer potential
boy-toy type, who poses as
Angelique's music 111s1 rue Lor.
Complicat1011s ensue when
Argan's maid, bad--ass exis1cn ..
tialist Toineue, forn:,.s a plan 10
expose Lhe infidelity of Argan's
highly mockable wife and rein•
force Angelique's tender love for
her fat.her.
With Lhe hclpofToine11e. 1he
young lovers convince. Arg,m LO
liberaie himsclr from the 1win
tyrannies of his ailing body and
his grasping physicians by be­
coming his own doc1or The plo1
mcludcs Monnon belly dancers.
bowel troubles, a pharmacist
who is mosl likely Satan himsdf,
an enraged proc10logisl, Argan's
death and reawakening and
dc,.,h and reawakening (sec the
play and iL will all make sense).
10 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 From there, 11 also discusses
crec1ile dysrunction, a lawyer
who i-S a cross between Elvis and
·ftlScd-carsalcsman, and Argan's
initiation into dc,ctor-hood
through a SabbaLh-hke n1ual.
Trying to wrilca review·about
this play is a jo~e-1he play is
much too humorous, hnagina-
1ive, and enthralling to be wri1-
1en about. It prescms many ele•
mcntstonccrning the ethics and
morality or the medical world,
for all those intellectual 1ypes in
the audience.
The Imaginary Invalid is part
of a series of amazing plays Lhe
lmago is generously prescming
tbis year. I highly recommend
... no ... no. I de,rcc that every­
one within 20 reel of 1his article
auend Lhe play before its clos­
ing show on December 9. I can
promise Lh:u no 9ne wil1 be dis­
appointed wnh what they en­
counter onstagc. Jazz Mandolin Project's
Xenoblast disappoints
by Jodi Garrington -----
I'm no1 sure what if anything
,he 1111c. Xl'1wbl,1St, is sup1>osed
lo mean, but it is frnnkly the
111os1 mtcrcstmg thing about the
CD. There .uc rtiiic instrumcn ..
ial pieces, with Jamie Masefield
playing the mandolin and
mandola, Chris Dahlgren play­
ing the 11pnght and electric b,1ss
and Ari Hoenig playing the
drums and pcrcussio'n. 1 would
usually enjoy lis1ening 10 these
instrumcnls, cspcci::dly the man ..
dolin, whose very n.lmc in my
mind evokes Lhc lilting melodics
it is capable or producing. And
I genuinely like understated
1nusic1 but on this CD 1he mu•
sic is so low key as to be almost
non-existent.
The overall sounds arc ,111cx­
ci11ng and hardly even count as
background noise. The pieces.
ranging rrom four 10 eight min­
utes in leng1h, are unrcn,:.11rkable.
and I had trouble telling one
song lrom another, for 1hcy
blended coge1herwhhou1 notice.
After the first rcw minulCS l even
forgoL I had put on musie.
r donl wanl to give I he i m­
press1on Lhat the music is really
bad, because it's not. l1'sjus1 re­
ally boring. 11.ike Lhc basics, and
would have loved to hear some­
thing buih on the underlying
beat. There jus1 wasn'L. The inlros especially hc1.vc some very
nitc rhythms~ hm 1hC)' need piz·
zazz. Though d1crc arc h111b or
Lluin zi11gand Russian marchC"S,
as we-II as t·chucs ol clas~,1<;al
musk, the resemblances always
appear in the form of pallid 1111\-
1ations.
The songs possess a good
found at lon, b\U l hey arc made
11 r only of I he one layer. That
layer 1sanyd1111g but int:omplctc,
just Lhe opposite. If any1hing it
is loo polishcd,wnh any person•
alil)' of the songs worn .1way.
NoLall sections were so lacking
in cl)crgy. bm those ,,onions
with potential mvariably disap­
pointed because they didn't lead
anywhere ncv,• OT 1mcresung.
Mostly the rhytlrms were re­
peated so endlessly 1ha1 I was
turned-off even by 1he pans I
had ini1.ially liked. Tins is the
case w11 h I he last song on I he
CD. which was surprisingly up•
beat, bu1 the constant rcpcut1on
annoyed me.
So if you're looking lor some
new elcv:uor music this 1s the
perfecL disc for you, hkew,sc ir
you want Lo provide a hgh1 back­
ground for a dinner party. How­
ever, if you w:rnL some musk
lha1 will hold your a11cn1ion for
more lhan thirty seconds, try
somethmg else.
Irish tale entertains
by S~rah HIii
The second play in ,he
Portland Center Su1gc season
is set in the barren and rough
Aran lslancls off the coas1 o[
lTeland in 19.34. The play,
wri11en by Manin McDonagh
feawres a cas1 or hearty char­
acters shaped by the extreme
environmenL of the solid rock
isl:mds. The defiant sense of
humor developed in these
harsh conditions came
through in an animaLed and
entertainmg perfonnancc.
The mam character, l,)layed ,, ____ _
The character Helen
was especially sharp
and kept the audi­
ence laughing with
her shin kicking and
nasty mouth. _____ ,,
by Joshua Hano. is an or­
phan who has been raised
by two women in the vil­
lage. "Cripple Billy" has a
deformed leg and ann that
are in stark contras, 10 the
other brawny inhabitanlS of
the island. The plot begins
when an American film
crew from Hollywood visiLS
these remote islands 10 do
screen tests for a movie
about the area.
Billy, togeLher with
Helen, a mean-spirited
preny girl of Billy's age, and
her brother Bartley, head Lo
lnishmore to see if they can gel a screen test. Everyone
-laughs at Bill)'S aspimLions,
but he is given an opponu­
ntty and goes 10 America, The
most i111eres1ing pan o( tl1is
play were the many sub-ploLS
thaL run parallel Lhroughou1
the swry. During lhe play you ,, ____ _
I was laughing more
often than not, but
Cripple also had
serious moments. _____ ,,
are trying co figure ouL what
is true. and what is just a na:Hy
Hu.Jc. town rumor.
The performers emphasize
the powerful Irish brash resil­
ience and indomitable spirfL.
The humor is black and sar­
casLic. The character Helen,
played by Siobhau Mahoney,
was especially sharp and kept
lhe audience la11ghing wi1h
her shin kicking and nasty
mouth. Everyone in the town
onstagc was afraid of her as
she delivered eggs and threa1-
ened 10 shove them up their
"arsch" (ass with a thick Irish
accent). Her performance was
one of the best highlights of
the show.
Th, Cripple of lnishmaan is
winy and entertaining. I was
laughing more often lhan noL,
but ii also had serio1.1s mo­
menLS 1hal in1erjec1ed 10 re-
1nind vou bow life is not al­
ways ·runny. This Portland
Cemer Stage production runs
through November 26. ===========Spotts=======~=p=n=&=r=Lo~g~
LC's football team fares more successfully this season
by Dusty Holden
"Team 1111i1y was 1hc d1flcr­
cncc.'1
5-0 SO)'S 1-cwis & Clark 1001-
ball coach Mike Fangcr. looking
back on how h,s hardy hand of
Pioneers salvaged then grichron
season by wrnmng lW() or lhc1r
lasl three games.
Ahcr an cxc111ng season
opener, a 21-17 co111cback vie•
rnry ovt·r the University of
Redlands. the Pioneers skidded
rn10 a rlVc-gamc losin~ Slrcak
1ha1 included a tough 42-35 loss
10 Puget Sound in their North­
west Confcnce opener.
Bm wilh ,heir season lCC'lCr­
ing on 1he brink of disaster, 1he
Pioneers lrckkecl halfway-across
th,· country and handed Colo­
rado College a 31-13 thrashing on their home turL The "cry
next week LC cclcbratcd 1hc
highlight or itsscaso11 with a 33-
30 triumph at Willameue. earn­
ing nghtS 10 1hc •wag9n wheel"
lor J year
TMs ~rave1mg 1rophy. treated
by th~ Bl11c Kq• mens honor so•
ciCI)' m 1948, documenL:S rcsulls
ol 1.hc annual LC-W1lla111cue
football game. Each year's score
is ingrained mlll a. square plaque
in the middle of the wheel.
Wi1h 1hc wag()n wheel back
on Palantioc Mill and a two~
game winningstrcak under the-it
bells.., the. Pioneers came ever so
dose to knocking offWhitwonh
in a season-ending game Nov.
11. The Pirates escaped "1th a
33-26 "ictory, but only because
of a lOuchdown pass with 48 sec-oncls left 10 play.
No one was more 1hrille:d
with LC's late-season resurgence, '' -I loved to compete
when I was playing,
and now that I'm a
coach, I love it even
more.
Mike Fanger
Head coach
Football _____ ,,
of course, than the head coach.
Fangcr says he saw "legitimate
confidence" m allo[ his players
as they played their final three
games. "They played like they
belonged on the field. I was prood c1I 1he way 1hey com­
pc1cd,"
Fangcr commends his scmon;
ror helping the team end i1.s sra­
son on a totnpct1ti\1C- and posi­
twc nmc. Good leadership was
1hr kc)' 10 "a "cry 1igh1-kni1
group that hung 1ogc1hcr and
cared a lot abom each 01hc,·:·
fang.er s-ays.
TMs year's roSlcr wasn't as
large as ranger would have
liked. Lack of depth, in foci, was
onr of the team's wc3k Unks.
Some players held stanlng spo1s
bu1 faced Ii lilc or no compel••
tion lrorn withm lhcir own
ranks.
Fanger and his staff have
already begun a rtcruiung pro~
ccss they hope yields grea1ct ros­
ter numbers ncxl season and a more fierce compctiuon lor play.
ing umc. "I loved lo compclc
when ( was playing. an<l now
thal 1'm a coach. l lovc ll C\'Crl
more.""
LC's foo1bail rnache, are
looking for some1hing more
than live bodies. howc,.er. Hav­
mg a great every day aui1udc 1s
one of the most important quali­
ucs they hope 10 spot in a player.
They also prize players who have
conndc,,cc in Lhcmselvcs :1,ntl
t'cspen for the coaching staff.
And they wam unselfish players
who are supportive of thc1r
Lcammates.
As re.cruuing continues, re~
U.Jrning players will strive to
make themselves Slrongcr anrl
fo.slcr. Thal mc~ns long hours ol
weight tminingand plyomc,rics.
NCAA Division Ill West Region
X-Country Championships
Prado Park, Chino, CA -Saturday 11/11 LC hockey team hits the ice
seaS◊n wi1h an overall score: 4:1.
WOMEN'S RESULTS MEN'S RESUt:rs By: Tandy Awaya ----- Displaying the most charac­
ter of 1he other competing
teams-, Lhc men of LC's ice
hockey club skates not only 10
·win. bu1 lO have run. ''\,Vc1rc a
rag lag team," commented Sad­
dler. Arriving at the rink in ca­
sual sweats and sneakers rmw
deceive. fons when compared
with Lhe fancy tics and black tics
of the opposition. Prat icing only
once a week. late Wednesdays
from 10pm to 12nm, and or1en
competing with only 10 players
against teams of 15-20, the or­
ange and black manages 10 dis­
play class and a great sense o(
1cam•ness on I he. ice,. sibility or or 1hem scJ,.es.
"Its dishcanening 10 go IQ
01hcrcollcges wi\h ,heir doctors
willing 10 look at us. bu1 1101 or
own,"' says teammaLc Dan
Roscdahl. Team Scores
I. Willamette 71
2. Clarc111on1-MS 76
3. Whiiman 87
4. \Vhiiworth 100
5. Pacific Lutheran 120
6. George Fox 122
7. Occidental 214
8. Colorado Coll 217
9. Redlands 238
10. PomonaPit?Cer 239
11. Lewis& Clark 280
12. Cid Lutheran 335
13. Chapman 395
14. Caltech 410 Team Scores
I. Claremont-MS
2. Puget Sound
3. Willameuc
4. Lowis& Clark
5. Pacific Lutheran
6. \1/hinier
7. PomonaPiizer
8. Colorado Coll
9. George Fox
10. Whitman
11. Chapman
I 2. Cal Lu1l1eran
I 3. Caltech
Individual Results 53
58
75
110
139
140
174
184
197
314
327
364
368 The fas1eS1 pe9ple-moving
spon, ice hockey. slowly makes
hs way back into 1he north wcs1.
While si11ing on 1hc side Hncs
waiting for Lewis and Clark':.
varsilyspons 10 nulkc headlines,
the ice hockey club takes on
compclition and rights bac}
with inlcnsity. Drawing Lhc at·
tention or other colleges and
universities in Lhc northwest in
onl}' the second season. Lewis
and Clark's ice hoc.key club
looks fonvard 10 bringing home.
more victories for lht Pioneers
Lhis ~l"aSon. tlowcvcr, lhc leam ex_pre.sscs
gratitude for wha, 1hc generos·
ily of college. "We wouldn't be
here wday as a team, i( nOl ror
thesuppon o( GAAB and ASLC.
All we need is for ,hem lO build
an ice rink on campll.$," Saddler
joked.
Individual Results (5,000 {8,000 meters) One or the newest sports in
the college athletics. the ice
hockey 1c,m grew from a c.as11al
joke between Brian Saddler,
tca.rl\mate. i1nd the currcnL 1ea1n
captain, and friends who had
played varsity ice hockey in high
school. A little initiative. and lots
of motivaLion t11ong with sup•
port from GAB. ASLC, and the
a1hle1its dcpartmem, the. 1eam
was quickly put its reel and into
1hcirska1es. The. results? Exccp-
1ional achievments, ending last While the school has doncllS
bes\ in supporting che young
,cam, the playersslill seek more
LC fans, an<l welcome ~\ny intcr­
esicd players. Rccen1games held
al Bca,.cnon Valley Ice Arena
whh a bar, bowling alley and
c.:oru:cssion. stand, no admission
fee, and just~ lOmin drive from
c.:ampu.s, has drawn cro,11ds or
LC supporters near 100. Hold­
ing lt home games of lG..tbi;j
year cncourngcs Lhe communi1'y
to cheer them on and hnve :-1
good time. Friday, November 17
and Saturday, No,.emcbcr 18, I he
LC hockey ,cam will be chal­
lenging Eas1crn \.Vashingwn. mete.rs)
(All-Region)
35. Selena Hannan
(19:51.10)
57. Odessa Weber
(20:52.50)
66. Mary Finnan
(21:30.30)
69. fauna Williams
(21:35.00)
74. Sadie Grossman
{ 21 :43.40)
&s. Monie.a DePries1
(22:39.300
(104 finishers) {All-Region)
14. Neil Wemc
(26:56.60)
22. Andrew Aull
(27:21.30)
24. Chris Mayer
(27:27.10)
27. Andrew Cody
(27:38.30)
28. Chris Jensen
(27:39.70)
40. 8. Schoenemau
(28: 18.90}
59. Nick Kitzerow
(29: 11.50)
( I 00 finishers)
' Playing 1 he roles of coordina-
1or and toacl1, along wilh keep~
ing tract or injuries, the club
becomes a pan-time job for the
players. Budge1ing with each
game taking a bite close 10 S500
for ice time and referees, contin•
ues as one of 1he gn:a1e.s1 drnl­
lcngcs.
In abscence of the suppon of
of LC's athletic trainers and ph)•·
sicians. the men also depend on
their o,-vn insurnnce and respon-
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November 17
Internship Resources
Workshop
Gray Room, 11 :00 am.
Bon Appetit/L&C Classic
Men's Basketball
Tournament
Pamplin Sports Center,
6:00pm.
Great American Film Series:
Katherine Hepburn
Miller 105, 7:30 pm.
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8:00pm.
Saturday
November 18
Saturday in Service: Oregon
Food Bank,
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Bon Appetit/L&C Classic
Men's Basketball
Tournament
Pamplin Sports Center, 6:00
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Big Love
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Sunday
November 19
Potluck in the Park
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12 Pioneer Log November 17, 2000 AIDS Awareness Movie
Night: Bloodlines,
Philadelphia, And the Band
played On, Council
Chambers, 7:00 pm.
Tuesday
November 28
AIDS Awareness Week
Speaker: Donna Standing
Rock presents
"Dangerous Liaisons;
Touching Base with HIV",
Stamm 7:00 pm.
Wednesday
November 29
AIDS Awareness Week
African AIDS Response
presents "Hope is Vital",
World Trade Center
Auditorium, 7:00 pm. Thursday
November 30
Mixed Choir Concert
Evans, 8:00 pm.
lstope 217 and Chicago
Underground
The Rusty Nail, 8:00 pm
Friday
December 1
AIDS Awareness Week
Life and Rock; Concert for
World AIDS Day, Portland
State University, 6:00 pm.
Great American Film Series:
Race, Miller 105, 7:30 pm.
Lewis & Clark Orchestra
Evans, 8:00 pm.