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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

Volume 71, Number 2 Friday, September 22, 2006
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S'1 liDtN't H~ll$. NSO and Res Life Reviews, First of Many
by Scott Devlin and Angela Webb
Becwcen mid-full and mid-spring of chis aca­
demic year, the Residence Life and New Sruden,
Orientation departments ac Lewis & Clark Col­
lege will C"J.Cb undergo a rtvicw and assessment
of rheir respoctive sucngtbs and capabilities. The
review marks the beginning of a process that wilJ
evalua(c one or two deparuneMs within scudent
life each year.
Normally, LC is required 10 compl«r a com•
prehen.sive review every 10 years for rcaccrc<li ..
d:nion. TI1ese focused reviews wilJ assi.st in char
process, preventing whar1 in rhe past, h3s been a
last-minute rush every ninrh year ro cbeck th¢
sysrcm. There are 12 deparnnenrs char full un­
der the ca1cgory of Srudcnc Life, and each wil.l
be subject to a focused revic..·w in a new 1 0•ycar
cycle.
Dean of Students W. Houston Doughmy
played a lead role in instigating this ... sysrem. •
He said char he looks forward tQ it as a c.h:Hlce
co learn abour the positive and ntgarivc aspects
or 1he current sicuat.ion ... Thjs review is not a
hunr-it's :l process of assessm~nt and improv~
mem," he s~id. IU.USTRAOOH BY SO. Y 81.0(){
The delicate processes of Lewis & Clark's internal review: A poetic metaphor.
ihe process wiU accepr input from imer-nal
and cxccrnal sourc("s. Srafr from wichi.n rhe de ..
partmcnt, as well as students and fuculcy From
other parrs of LC, wiU comprise the main review
commirree.
A,;sociatc Dean of Sn,denis Greg Caldwell
wiH head cl1c commin~ on Residence Life and
NSO review. ln addicion, Smdenc Life expens
from orher educalional inscitmions will be on
campus fora few days dtis November, to provide
perspective and context for evaluation.. Referring
to the breadth of input. Ooughany said, •rn,is
proc.css of assessment and review) provides rra.ns ..
parcncy, openness. and a chance for everyone who wams to be heard, co be heard."
The Residence Life and New Student Ori­
cnrarfon programs hold a p;_itticufar irnportanc.e
to ovcralJ student Hfet and are ,hus receiving the
first review in rhis program. According ro F<:,resr
Halls Residence Dim:cor David B. Roscngard,
1o1Residence life it important w studcnrs because
it direcrly ,lfccts their lives." He says 1hat • R,-.i­
denoc Life review is imponanr ar this point in
time, since there has been much rece.nt change
in the dcparum:m. For example, there arc now
two new full-time staff positions in Residence
Life: Direcror of Residence Life ond Oiroctor of
Rcside111ial Services.
Tue Residence Life program also provides
an example of the openness and integration
that is a goa.J of the new focusl-<l-rcvicw system.
Dougharty spoke io the importllJ1ce of nor com-p.arrmenmliiing the Student Life departments,
because each srudent experiences :tH of them in
connecrion with one anorher.
"'Ir is hard to separate Residence Life frorn a
p:micular problem char srudenrs might be per•
coiving:• said Dir<.-aor of Residence Life Sachiko
Vidourek, 9f 1he connection between all aspecrs
of LC life.
Specific issues 10 be addrcs,;ed during ,his
rcvi(.,·w include the quality of facilirics, effective­
ness of staff, and the nu,nber of programs pur
on in the Residence Ufe deparunenr. However,
rhe review will also be used ro generare a more
general sense of c:ach dcpartmentS srrengths. Ac•
cording co Dir<--ctor of Residential Scrvicc:s Sandi
Bottemiller, "11,e negative things ccnd to over•
shadow the good things. A new perspective will
be very helpful."
Saudi Royalty sponsors students in
effort to strengthen ties with U.S. DARFUR: MAl<ING SENSE OF
THE MESS
by Kevin Stark
On Sept. 9. The Associated Press ran
an an ide d~ribing ~a new educational
e,<change program· 1hat has coUeges and
universitie.~ rushing fO enroll .scu,.lerllS from
Saudi Arabia under full scholarship paid for
by the Saudi Royal family. Boasting roughly
cwenty Saudi srud<-·nts here already w1der
the exdiange program, L<.·wis and Clark
College is one of ,he approved colleges for
srudy under rhe exchange progrnm .
Dircccor of JatcmarionaJ Srudenr Ser .. ' vices Greg Caldwell explained thac most
of the Saudi studencs arc studying under
LC's Academic Englisl, Srndies (AES) pro­
gram-a formal study to bols,er srudents'
grnsp of ,he English language-and will be
moving on co educadon at other schools
such· as Universicy of Portland. Four of the
srudcnts wiH remain at LC for cheir uadcr­
g~do::ue education.
C:1ld\\·eH 1nenrioned tha1 LC is .ackno,\11-cdgc-d under the exchange program partly
because of it's repuration and academic ex­
cellence, bu, also because of ic's pre 9/t I
hisrory wirh educating Saudi Arabian and
mainly Uni1ed Arab Emirates srudents. All
of che scudcncs from the UAE and Saudi
Ambia tbai were studying ar LC on Sepe.
11 chose 10 transfer back home, althougb
C-tldwell is adamant that ic ,v:is not because
of displeasure with LC.
Caldwell is quick co compliment ,he new
wave of Saudi students-the first new arriv­
al of studenrs from Saudi" Ar:,bia afier 9/1 I
happened spring semester 2006 wid, more
srudenrs trickling in o\.'er sum,ner and frill
semesters-as being increasing inrelligent.
Caldwell and the I nccrnational Srudeot
Servic~ have a plan in chc works for a "con­
versation" with LC's Saudi students which
he describes as a very i11forn1al get toge1hec
where orher LC srudems c.1n come and ask
the Saudi srudenrs questions. SEPT. 28TH 7: 3 OPM- COUNCIL CHAMBER
LLOYD SACKS, UN HUMANITARIAN
Al D WORK FR, DFMYSTIFIF~ THF
COMPLEXITIES AND CHALLENGES OF
THt DAR,UR CR1$1S. the Pioneer Log, September 22, 2006
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
:po~TLAND: • • • BEAT • •
•
•
• • • Friday Forwns: • •
• A venue of debate for some, murder for others
By Peter Beland • Unforrunatdy, the days when
• forums exhibited world lead-
• ers being bludgeoned 10 dead,
by senators died alongside of
• Romo-begging one ioecho nos-According 10 Tara We-•
fers, vice president of marketing •
~nd communications for lht
Holland, Inc., Bugcrville's mis-•
sion is to provide f•.,. Fre.sh, Le;,. •
cal [aud] Sustainable ... • prod-• ucrs. Though there may be some
• ralgically, • Ei n,. Bru«'" Luckily,
forums still exist! Every Friday,
• Cil)' Club hosts a forum, com•
• posed of experrs, on issues that
affect Portland and Oregon in who think these words, much •
like pacchouli oil, Sl'rve to mask •
the srcnch of the hippie behind • .. '-"'..,.....,"""c....--':...:....:.-' PHOTO&Y"' ev
,hem, Wefers said , har as a busi• • several Copeland residents were the victims of theft at the commencement of the semester.
nesswoma.n, she chooses ro use
sustaiilable producrs because •
,hey arc «onomically viable. • • general. L'!St week's forum, held
• on Sept. 15 at the Hord Gover­
nor dowmown1 was entitle.cl ''Or•
• egon's Omnivore Dilemma.10 The
• forum was inspired by rhc book
··Tue Omnivore's Dilemma, .. au-
• thorcd by Michael Polfan. 1he
• cenuaJ question of the book and
forum was 6rs1 asked by Uni•
• versity of Pcnsylvanfa professor
• of psychology Paul Roz.in-"As
omnivores. wliat should we c:u
• when we could, hypothetically
• ear anythingi"
Using l'ollan's book as a mod-
• d, rhe three experts in the fo.
• rum dt-conmucrcd three food
producc.s in order ro underst3nd
• txactly where they came from
• ,rnd why, as local goods, they are
lx:ner oprion$ than more mai11~
• sucam fare.
• After an iurroduct ion by
Deborah Kane, Kristi Obbink,
• l'oroland Public Schools Nurri•
• don Services Director, told of
rhe odyssean voyage which grade
• school children • make from tl,c
• classroom ro the l,inchroom,
only to be grce,ed by the Cyc•
• 1opic lunch ladies and their stew
I of questionable.- ingredients.
Yet KrLsti is one Cyclops who
1 is not myopic. With ,he bdp of
e local organiiations, 10<:al foocl­
includlng Road Runner piwi-1 is now served by cafeterias in the
• Portland area. And whca kids
grow older and desire more: than
• the cornucopia the cafeteria has
I ro offer, they can, as Kristi said,
" ... walk righr across the srreer ro
• Bugerville." • • • • • • • • She.-went on lO point our Copeland Thefts Jar Residents
• how the bt'<'f in their burgers By Maia Penchansky ly cooperated and provided info,.
madon abour and the locations of
the guilty parries. each complex their preference for
being present or not when wotk
needs· co be done in chcir rooms
which will be submirred wit.h ser•
vice requests/' said Copeland Rcsi~
den, Director Jenn Crowder. "Tue
drawback co chis new system is t.hac
it will take longer 10 get work com•
plcctd for those wishing to be pres• comes from Angus mnches in •
Oregon. lhis nor only anracts
cusromers because of the quality •
of the product, but, as she put ir •
"all the cows ... arc happy cows.''
I know I can go ro bed with a •
smile Oil my fuce knowing rhar •
there arc conrcmed cows om • there ... that is, before they go 10 Severn! srudents in Copeland
had a very discouraging "welcome
back io school" Tuesday, Sept. 5
whtn they returned to their rooms
only ro find that many precious
items bad mysteriously vanished.
Initially these srudcnrs believed
they had simply misplaced the
irell)s, bur once ir bepme clear that Even before rhis incident oc~
curred, many srudcnrs were skcp­
rical of the workers entering chdr
rooms. Wilson said that she was
out buying a couch that day and
caUcd a floor mate ,o gcr measure­
ments of ,he rooon. \'Qhen her ffoor enc."
the slaughterhouse. • tbe m,Jtitude of dissapearences
were related, people involved be­
gan ro suspecr ,heft. On an only slightly less ma­
cabre note, Lisa Sedlar, presi• •
dent of New Seasons Marker, •
outlined rhe sysrcm by which 1n:ue realized rhe. door v.ias locked,
the workers, givc.n master keys t0
all Copeland rooms, volunteered 10
open it for her. New Campus Safety Dirt'<:­
tor, Timothy O'Dwyer, reminded
srndc.nrs co a.lways "keep rooms
locked when you're not around be­
cause sometimes people's stuff gers • most food produc.rs are uans-
porrcd to grocery store$. Treat· •
cd much like "widgets", food is • usually imponed inro mono•
lirhic di.srriburion ccnrcrs and •
subsequently sem co smaJler. •
regional disnib~rion cencers be•
fore reaching su~rm:uke~. As a •
rcsulc, " ... food cmvels an aver­
age of 1,500 miles 10 our dinner •
plates." •
1his forum, with all of its • valuable questions it both Jn•
.swcred and posed, is jusr one •
example of the weekly forums
City Club hosrs. On Fri. 29, the •
forum will be "On Discussion •
of Ballot Measure #43 (Parenral •
No,ificatjon for Mino<> Seeking
Abortion)," and in Ocrober rhe •
~o gubemarori:il candid.ates •
w,11 debate.
To find our more about this •
valuable resource, go
pdxcityclub.org. • • • • • to www. •
• • • Campus Safety was called
around 2:30pm, a half hour af1cr
the thefts presumably began. 71,ey "I just don't tl1ink it was a good
idea 10 give 17-year olds master
began 1hcir search by inter------------------­
viewing suspeccs ro, info,. "I just don't think it was a
m:uion, srarring witb the Jd mken." He added, "If you
have m,y concerns about
AIIJ'Olle ia the dorm, please
call Campus Safery."
contractor and assistants good idea to give 17-year O s Though these sorts of
repairs a.re nor normally
done \Vhen school is in s,es ...
sion, it was unavoidable
this ye.ar. Tue contractor who were replacing fuu!I)' k
d d d h. 1naster eys ... blin s that ay. Aroun t 1s
time Kiya Wilson ('10), -Nick Penchansky
whose warcb wa~ one of the
missing items, was passing
by the contractor's van and noticed
her floormatls missing iPod-e.n•
graved witb the name "E.mily''­
mcked away inside.
Upon bringing this m the ancn ..
tion of Campus Safety, who were
in the midst of an imen1icw with
chc suspect, the nervous culprit
took off running. '!hough a Cam•
pus Safety officer arrcmpred 10 ap•
prchend the criminal, the crimi•
nal gor away. However, this didn'1
prove to be mucb of an issue-as the
concracdng company in quesrion,
Northwest Window Covering, ful-keys in rhe firs, place," said Nick
Cassella ('09), whose waller was
stolen and found again in an F­
wing bathroom without money .
lcems stolen include an iPod,
rwo digital cameras, a watch, some.
lingerie, a waller and approximare ..
ly $330. All were recovered except
che cash, some of the lingerie and
rhe watch.
For now, the srudcms have been
tcimbursed, but new measures have.
been put into effect by Residence
Life 10 ensure rhe safery of the sru•
denrs and their belongings.
~srudenrs have been asked in used by Lewis & Clark for
13 years has now been d ismjssed.
Sharo,1 Hayes, Assisranr Direc•
tor of Facilities, explained 1ha1 the
contraaar had drawn from his own
funds 10 reimburse the studcms for
their losses. "He just felt horrible
that it happened," she said, "He's
devastated and very apologetic."
"I rhink ir's imporram for sru ..
denrs to know ,hat th< p,oplc ia·
volved arc going to be prosecuted,"
said O'Dwyer. "Though no one
has been arrested yet, ,.he possible
ch.arges include burglary in the first
degree." _4 _______________________ .... @j@f ...... ________ th .. e_P .. io_n_e_e_r_Lo __ g_,_s_e_p_t_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_,_2_o_o_6
Federal Collection of Student
Data: Hochstettler sides with
government
By Katie Walter
In a ltot:r submitted Lbis sum­
mu to rhe t'l/mhing,011 Post, Lewis
& Oark's Pre,ident ·n,omas J.
Hochsrcnler \'oiced hes support
for a much-oomcsml proposirion
co cre:ue a government d.acabase of
college student rnformarion. lhc
lcrrer was published in the Aug. 30
t<Ution of th, Po11.
The proposal was pori of a re­
port issued on Aug. IO by the Spell­
fogs Commission on rh~· Fururc of
Higher Education. U.S. Sccrerary
of Education M;trgaret Spellings
creaccd the commission in Septem­
ber of lase year to "develop " com•
prchcnsivc national strategy for
postsecondary education tbar will
meet rhe needs of America's divcrfte
population and also address the
economic and workforce needs of
the country's future''. inquiry, exponding knowledgo­
Lhcsc Jre surely hallmarks of Amer•
ic:rn higher cducacion.'' he wrote.
"So, when rhe academy iLself is tilt
subjta of rigorous srudy. shouldn't
we c'Xpecr rhe leaders of our colleg•
cs aod universltics w suppon such
inquiry Qn che same prindpks?""
E.uUcr this swruner, rbe NAI­
CU also rdeased a survey conduJ­
ing 1h:1t rhc majority of Americans
a,c againsr the ide:, of a smdcnr
unit records dtuaba.se. Fears that
studencs ► personal information
would be abused were shown to be
the strongest grolmds for opposi­
tion.
In addirion. it was made public
on Sepr I, 2006. that the FBl was
given access rn sruclent r.:cor<l in­
formation for a federal anri-terrO,­
ism progr.un. The program began
shortly after tl,e 9/11 arracks and
cominued for five years.
rlochsre:nler acknowl-
edged dte prevailing concern
Cor privacy in rhe public sector.
"h is iJnpomun co noce that the
proposal, in its larcst iteration this
monrh, explicitly stares that the
system would not idemify individ·
uaJ students," he: wrore. p.is~d by rhose who ar<
ovencalous in th.e pursuit
of cerrorisrs co the poi"t of
bdng destructive of our mosr
precious and basic fre,edoms."
he said.
In rhe Washi11gton Post ar­
rid,, the Presidem aligned him•
self mongly with the Sp<:Uings
Commission propo$.-tl$ "scacc:d
pUipOst,,,. char is. "'ro m:ike higher
educ:ation more rransparenr :lJ'ld
accoumable by requiring char it
keep berrer track of scudenr per­
formance; and ro expand the fund
of data available for much-needed •
analysis of our coUegc and uni­
ve~iry systems."
(Continued pg 5)
President l·lochs1enler's 001"1'1-
me.nts come :.1c a time ,vhcn oth­
er privare collage -and uni\'ersity
presidencs arc publicly Opposing
the idea of a natioMI database of
$tudcnt information. lhc N3tiooal
Associa,ion of Independent Col­
leg .. and Uuivcrsitics, ofwltich LC
is a member. sent a letter opposfog
chc f«teraJ srudenr onit record da­
tabase ro the Spellings Commis­
sion on Aug. 8.
There have been rwo looming
concems for leaders of other col ...
leges and universities regarding
the proposition: firsr, tbc possible
threat to rhc.securiry of srudent in­
formation and second. the (ilonesi.ze
firs all" approach that rhe Spellings
Commission has proposed for data
interpretation and statistJcs. He al.so points om that govern­
ment student information databas~
es aJready exist, such as those used
in collecting infotmation for chc
Frl-c Application for Federal Scu­
dcnr Aid (FAFSA} and rhe Se.lec­
rive Service. / ,, ~~1
•The more we rry ro bring about
a single federalized way of looking
a, e:,eh unit, each picoe of the la­
bor force, d,c more we arc headed
toward a sysrero ffiat stiAes innova.­
tion and comperirion," said Chr~
tophcr Nelson, president of St
John's College in Annapolis,
Md. Nelson also called the data•
base "an Orwellian proposal"
Hochsrenler responded_,. r
such charges in the Pott ;tr•
tide by calling arrenriMro-· • .
rhe founding priciplcs o
academic growth. Hochstectler ex.pounded upon
the issue of priv~cy to 7he Pioneer
log ... My own posi1ion...is
that we as educators 3nd 'a as citiz.ens musr be vigi ..
lane and -alert ro prevent
abuses a.nd thot
the courrs 1'\0t
be simply by-
"Gathering and •nalyzing in----­
formation, advancing unfettered .,,, DATA
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Sri Lankan Parliment
member speaks at LC
Tsunami is subject of discussion
by Andrew Sunderson
L<:wis & Clark alumni and elec1cd
member of chc Sri Lank..1.n P:uliamenr Sa ..
g:ila Rarnayaka spoke las1 Wednesday 10
srudencs about Ulc response and relief cf ..
fons s,ill taking place from ,he 2004 tsu­
nami.
R.,rn"yab, who graduated (from LC?)
in 93', indic~ucd rhar adequate pl'cp:irarion
and response were the key problems in
dealing wi,h ,he disaster 1ha1 left 516, I 50
Jl"Oplc displ:acc:d from ,heir homes.
Never de:,1-Ramay,ka described how approxi­
mately 88.000 homes we« complerely de­
stroyed by Ole massive 'Nave. Ar present,
"only ccn rhousand homcs have been fully
rebuilr," said R.trnayaka.
Another 1ragic issue fuced by rhc citi­
,ens of Sri L.1nka is their loss oflivdihood,
he said. 'lbe water srretchc:d fur inland
and destroyed vast amOUfllS of furm land
for ~vcral years to co,ne.
On che shore, 1he coastal community
suffered extreme losses regarding their
source of revenue.
ing with a tsu ..
nami before, as
well as difficul­
ty a.~c~ing chc
possibility im­
pactc:d I he lack
of rcsponse
and prepara-"Judging by the responses
of Katrina, we are do-.. Approximately
75 percent of the
fishi1lg Acee was
desuoyed," Rar­
nayaka said. ing better. .. a lot better."
-Sagala Racnayaka Life is btiJ1g re­
stored and lhings
are progrcssing
though nor by leaps or bounds. Ramay­
aka compared the relief effort ro that of
hurricane .Katrina i1\ 1he U.S. and bclicv<.-d
that Sri 1.,..·rnk.11's progress is slow bur app:tr­
ently more efficient then Katrina's. tion. said Ramayaka ... No1 knowing took
the roll che mos,. We were no, prepared."
he said.
Due co 1he lack of prcpamion, i1 LOok
lhe (Sri Lankan?) government a momh
to srrategi1..c and contribute relief effons.
Ramayaka l"Xplaincd hl'>\\', in ,hat fi.rsr
monrh, "ic was people responding, nor chc
government." Ajd ('.:)me primarily from
groups of cith-..ens and organizations who
were serving food and building shdters.
Currently, the process of rebuilding
and regaining che li\•dihood for che people
of Sri Lanka is slow butgradu,I. However,
the majority of the coastal inhabitants still
live in tents withour a home they can call
Lheir own. •Judging by the responses of Katrina,
we are doing better," he ~.-.id. "\Y/c have
done a lot bcuer.''
The goal shared by Ramaraka and ,he
government of Sri Lanka is co provide the
people with a liule higher living than rhq
previously had and psychologically re­
cover lhcir minds from this tragic event.
l he important thing is ro continue m give
support and do what you can. '"For every
house buih, 1hat is one more family under
a roof," R.11nayaka said.
Collection of student data
(Continu<-d from page 4)
When asked what he 1houghr d»t
such a sysrcm could do for LC specifically,
Hochstcn.lcr said that a govcmrncnr data•
base would "inform us more fully about
what we as an insrinuion are doing wdl
and what we could improve," He also cit­
ed student retention as a spc.."Cific issue 1,,ha1
could porenrially be berrer addressc:d wi1h
the informacion provided by a federal da­
tabase.
The idea of a student unit records da­
r.tbase is not new. Plans m propose such a
darabase were announced by Department
of Education officials as early as December of2004.
There are many obst:icles ro 0\'Crconw
for chc proposed database to become a re­
ality. 71,e Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Acr (FERPA) would need 10 be
amended (O alJow sharing of SlUdent in•
formation bcrwccn ioscitucions, che Na•
tional Studcnr Loan Oa,a Sytccm and
mhcr entities: th::it may be involved in chc
implernent:uion of ,he database.
In July, the HousC' of Rcprescnrutives
passed H.R. 609, making several amend­
menr$ to the Higher Educn1ion acr of
I 965 che crcarion of a federal database of
student ioform:.\tion.
The Sen:ue has nor addressed the issue. _6 _______________________ ... §•jnjpp __ ., _______ ..;;Lh .. e_P_io .. n.,e .. e .. r,_L.,o..ig,.;,.,s .. e_.p_r_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_._2_00_6
Ed(itorial) Board
The editorial board is con1prised of Editor-in-Chiefs Christie
Wrighc and Ethan Stone, News Editor Nathanael Massey, Spores Edi­
tors Hunter Franks and Craig Gilden, and Forum Editor Jonathan
Frochtzwajg.
Harvard University announced
last week that ir woul.d discomin ..
ue its t..-arly admiS$ions program
p(causc c:hc program purs low-in­
come :tppHcants at a dis.1dv:uuage.
"'\Y/e di.ink it will produce ,,
fairer process, because che existing
pcocess has been shown to advan ..
cage lhosc who ~ue aln .. -ady advan ...
mged," said Derek Bok. theimc,im
president of Harvard, in the N,iu
YDrk Tima.
·n1e prestigious insrirurion's an­
nounccmenr sec off debates in ivo­
ry rowers across che nation, where
many admjnistralOts wondered
whether, if Harvard isn't going to
admit studt..·nts t..-arly anymore. we
should follow suir?
One week afrcr Ha.r­
V.trd's aJUlouncement,
Princeron University an ..
nounced 1h;tt it, roo.
would halt early admis­
sjons.
"l th.ink jc"s imporr;anr
for there to be momen­
nun t because I chi..11.k i c' s
rhe righr decision," Princ­
eton presidenr $hidey L.
TJghman, said in the New
¼rk 17mes.
And momenrum is boild­
ing. Other high-fullatin' colleges
ha,,e publicly discussed drop­
ping lheiJ e.1.rly admissions
programs.
The racion:ale be­
hind the growing
mOVt'mcnr is thar
early admissiQns
programs :tre bi­
ased ;tgainst low­
income smdems
because they olien
require .srude,nrs' COJT)­
mitmear ro enroll if
they are admitted early­
before 1hey know whac fi.
nancial aid they will be offered.
Only fairly affluent students can
a/ford co rake ,his risk.
In addition, early admissions
.,pplicanrs arc usually students
who have good college counsel­
ing -a halJmark of wealthy sru­
dcms' college preparations.
We agree with this logic, aad
laud Harvard and Princeton for
r.,king up the vanguard of the
movemem to djrcb early ad--How much can one
practice change the
face of the academic
landscape and, by
extension, society?
Aloe, says Harvard
and the Ed Board.
-·
~.n/; /: .
r • .;:.,.L
_,,, . -
""'·" -· missions.
Harva.rd has an early acrion pro­
gram. Linder e.-rly action, smdenrs
apply earlier 1han others and re­
ceive:: decisions eal'lier than others.
But srudcucs admirred under early
acrion a.re not n.-quircd ro accept an
offer of admission until later, afier
rhcy h:we had a chance ro review
other offers of admission and fi­
nancial aid.
Harvard argues rh::u evcu though
rheir eady ac1ion program is non­
binding, low-income: smdents ,\1ho
lack good college counseling often
mistake ir for e..1.rly decision. which
is binding and hence do oot ap•
ply. In addition. a bck of college
counseling means rh~l low-in­
come srudcms have less ofan
oppOrtunity to hear abour
early action programs.
\'<lhen you consider rhe
smrisric that more than
one 1.hird of Harvard's
srudcms are accepted ear­
ly, and chat chis dispro­
portionate number of ear­
ly :icceprances is common,
it demonstrates how much
one practice cm change rhc
face of ,be academic landscape
and, by extension, society.
Lewis & Clark, ljke Harvard,
has an e;1rly accion progra,n.
le is our opinfon char chis
insi.itu1ion $houJd join
in this groundswdJ
of suppori for doing
away with rhese iojust
programs.
\Y/e c:annoc es­
pouse a <lc,ire for
increasing_· diversity
while simult.1ntously
provMfog an admissions
.. in11 for wealthy srudcncs.
·n,is i, " markc-d discrepan-
cy in rhe College's aims chat
nnm be remedied.
Cenainly, Harvard !us paved
cheway for us co do chis, and wi1h
rhc academic world abuzz wiLl1 j~~
decision, rhe rirne ts ripe for us co
work in collusion with other smaJI
institutions to tnsure th:n. with­
out losing our ground in itttroct­
ing ::tpplicanrs, we can together
make the college application sys­
tem more equitable.
UUSJRAnON BY JESSE f'OX{f'VSJROM Letters to the Editor
I was ve.ry saddened to read your 3rticle r<..-ga.rding former
l?r~sidcnt Michael Mooney and che Mooney-award. Tht ankle men-
1ioned only the negative and omim .. -d chc enormous contributions
he made ro the college. Many current srudcms a.-~ be11e6ting from
chose contributions. Just co mention a few:
An updated and expanded library
Miller Humanities Building
Fields An Building
The AJl>:"'Y Complex, including che DovecQte Cafe
Ea.Ii;. Wes, and Robem Halls. including Maggie's
South Gunpus
Expan$ion of the law campus and library
Campu.s landscaping
lnrcrner infiastrucrure
An improved academic reputation for c.he college
On :i personaJ uotc. J spcnr rwo w~ accompanying President
Mooney overseas. \Y./e visited programs in London and Ken~-n. His
ht$1 concern was alw.iys for cl,c studetH$ and tho College. J would
hope you wouJd use a dilfcn:nt name for your awasd.
77u £,/itqr rrpbnds: Ann Whiting, NP
Heald, Cemer Direcror
\17hHt your contn-11 is mned, the .Moom:y m<miker shall "mrfin. It's
imp'Jrtant w undmtaud rhm 1he Mooney is inrtntled fl) br lig/JJ .. ht1lft ..
~rl. mthcr 1han malirious. and thdt it should rJJUs 11()1-be wkm too stri-
01'$/y. U'/4-chust to rramt our tuu11rd after M(](Jllt'J only htctLuJr his 11n.1m•
iI t'I bit ef LC «Jre thtff hns come h) mean a hunglr. And hung/a are
exnc1/y w/,11( we're 1rying 1-0 poim out. /11 nq w11y are u~ suggesting 1hn1
the emitir.s /.(} u1hom we award thr MtHmry 11rc n/1 bllll. or thm Mr.
Mbo11,y rua, 11/1 bad. \\',f, thank)"'" far Jbur r.xplicatio11 bf his ,-omribu­
tions to LC.
-J.F. .tl.1e_P_io_n_e_e_r _L_o_g_, .s .. ep_1_·e_m_b_e_r_2_2_, _2_0_06 ________ ...ai,j•jujn _______________________ 7:.,_
Jesus w:is a greot
man, perhaps besr remem ..
bered for his killer fushion se11se,
bur even he would have ditched the
damn sandals by now.
When wa.., the las, time anyone
•• Lewis & Clark College wan­
dered the deser1> Harvesred papy­
rus :1long the Nile? Visiu .. -d a bath­
house?
Sanda.ls are very. very rarely a
necessary evil rhcsc days. :md yet
many scudcms seem co think i1ts
actua11y okay to ,ve,r them.
The only situation for which
sandals :.ire appropriate in the 21 ~
century is if you are going ro the
be.1.dl with the intention of en­
joying the surf and sun. Since no
one in Oregon does I his--un ..
less by "enjoy rhe surf' you mean
"die ... and by "sun" you mean "that
vaguely shiny morsel of happiness
choking on cumulonimbus"-ic is
cenainly not an adequate excuse
for anyone at LC
[ get it-s.1nd.als arc super com­
fy. ·1 hey'rc so comfy, in fucc, rh•t it
can be easy ro forger how hideous
they are. But along with mom
jeans and anything velour, s,indals
make a sratemem: Ir's too hard for
this person 10 pur on real dotbcs.
lhe perpcrrarors of such fashion
crimes know {hat lhis is nor a posi­
tive mcss"gc, but rhey really like
no1 having co spend precious time
and energy eying confusing laces
and fastening tricl-y bu11ons. So
insread of changing rheir style, they
change their arrirude. ~tnd the mes•
sage is spun into "I don't care what
od1er people rhink.• But I have a
hard lime believing that someone
really wouldn'r care 1ha1 when l
look ar their rhong-clad fecr I'm
d1inking:
"Check out that roenail! My
god, why is it green> Why would by Kit Shields
Sandals
suck.
Students
should
learn to
correctly
own and ·,
operate
laces.
they e.xp,pse it tO humanity? Ale
th<:y proud ofit or something?"
See, fee, are ugly. Even pretty
fee, arc just less ugly fee,. Thus,
wearing sandals is kind of like dis­
playing your kidney srones in an
old jar. No one wams ro see your
kidney stones in the fim place, bur
if you're going co have them out in yo,1r living room, al least put rhem
in a nice mahogany box ,..,ith some
ivory inlay. and maybe a stilccco
heel. You know what l'm saying?
l'm saying that in a perfecr
-world, I would never sec these
three kind.,; of foocwcar on campus
agajn:
Flip flops. \'(le all wish ,hey were
as cu1e as 1hey arc comfortable.
We pUl sequins on chem, we make
chem out ofle.uher, but we cannot
ovel'con,e their inoacc unattractive­
ness. B,-sidcs, Rip Rops provide so •
. disparate a shoe-1◊-foot ratio that
1hey hardly quali~• as shoes at all.
Trons. ls their business philoso­
phy that even the bml-uglicst thing
in che wol'ld can be made classier
by a weird Aztl.-c-inspired motif on
1he scraps?
Birknuto(kJ. Summer's answer
IO Ugg boors. Alrhough it's hard
co imagine char anythjng could be
le.,; sexy than a c.1nkle..,nhancing,
Resh-colored pile of fleece around
your legs, rhe sweoty, discolored
imprint of a foor i1l che bed of a
llirkensrock rorally pulls it off.
ln Gonc:.lusion, Pioneers, ir's
time co swp dressing our mocsic-s
in Aimsy crap. L.cr us embrace the
plethora of options availoble ro us.
Let us try sneakers :,nd pumps and
loafers :-rnd mules. Let us w<.-.ar sling
backs and wing rips and wedges
ancl boots. BCCluse if I see another
cruSl)', soiled r~. I'm seriously go­
ing to heave.
~TOSff(
JOCB.m
$TOl<E$ _8 ______________________ __. ..... i•i•••••--.,_ ________ th_e_P_io_n_e_e_r_L_o_g_,_s_e_p_1_e_n,_b_e_r_2_2_,_2_00_6
And The Safest City In Afilerica Is . ••
by Amy Pombo
T he Federal Bureau oflnvescigacion (FBI) released its
annual crime report lase week and after prompt, in­
dependent analysis of the data, San Jose, Calif., and New
York are both declaring themselves the safest, An1erican
big cicy.
.. This is a stacistic:al stand-off-which of
rhc cwo coastaJ cities will gee co righcfuU)'
boas, che Safes, City title on tl,cir websice?­
btn ir seems th:1c rhey arc playi11g by stan­
dards dilferenr enough chat neither will have
ro turn che honor over to thC' orhcr. ·rhc FBI
report includes sufficient information chat
either city can prcscnr figures lO support its
daim, d¢pending 011 what the ciry rne3nS by
"safest."
According ro irs \Vebsirc, for the past 76
years ,he FBI has been e-01lccting staristia;
"co create a nationwide barometer of crime
ro help authorities uadersrand m:nds and set
priorities." The Uniform Crime Reporting
(UCR) Program gc1s i1s data from 1><>lice re­
ports volunrarily submirred by law enforce­
ment agencies rbat represent over 94% of
the US population.
Since 1960, che FBI included a
Crime Index in the reporcs.
The index combined
rhe counrs for murder,
forcible rape, robbery,
asgra-,ued a.ssaulr, bur•
glar)', larccny/chcft and ..if'r
motor vehicle chef, by city. ,-
111 2004, it was deemed
un nccess.,ry ro be included
in furure reports. lhc in ...
dexes, the FBI says, '\vc.rc not
true indicarnrs of the degrees
of criminaliry because they were
aJways driven upwacd by che olrense with the
highe,;r number, ,ypically larceny•thefr."
But superlatives make for a good sdl. so
its no surprise that though the FBI specifi­
cally notes that rankings "'create misle.iding
pcrceprions" and don't take into acco,ant dif­
ferences in d-,e makeup of mcuopoliran ar­
eas, cities Still w:tnt to be at ,he rop of a lis,.
·rhis year, New York claims its tirk in an
anicle by die Associated Press (AP). The Al'
rcporu chat it did its own analysis of the dara
by calculating "che tot11I numher of crimes
n:poned per residenr nnd did not distin­
guish berv,teen violent crimes and propcrt)'
crime.,." lhat is, ir did cxacclr what the FBI
warned was an ,uudiablc method of judging
ciry safety.
And then, New York City Mayor Michad
R. Bloomberg proudly declared New York
"the safest big city in America, according to
rhe FBl's Uniform Crime Report for 2005"
in a press rdcase issued by che Office of the
Mayor. The press release is undear about
just how creatively rhe mayor had ro inter• prer the raw facts presenrcd in the UCR co
corne ro that conclusion. but cbc San Josi
Mermry Nrw, writer Leslie Griffy reveals dm
where New York bears San Jose is in number
of reported crimes per ci,y resident. So ei­
ther New York has fewer cri,nin:'.lls or ir just
has a big problem wirh unreporred crime.
In any case, New York's approach ro the
dara is a bit of a "broad brush" over chc mun-bers, ~ San Jose's m::tyoral Communications
Director David Vossbrink puts it. It fuils 10
cake into accounc the violcuc,: involved in
checrimcs countccl. A city where 100 people
ger shot in a year i.s still more dangerous rh:.111
;i city where 300 people gee their cars stolen.
For rhe time being, San Jose take.~ this into
acconnr in its approadl to rating city safety.
San Jose is basing irs own claim chat ir is the
safest city in lhc US on the fuct rhar it has the
second lowest mu..r<ler r:..He (Ho11olulo h:1s
the lowest, but has :1 high rare Qf prop~rry
crime) a.~ well as the second lowest overall
crime rate. New York, though it has chc low•
est overall crime race, has a murder race more
dian double that of San josc-somediing
Vossbrin.k was quick co poinc 01ir.
However, when Morgan Quimo Press ►
which has been purring ouc city rankings since 1987, publishes cbjs year's crime rank­
ings in November, San Jose wiJJ turn to irs
ljs1 as che dc6nitivc say on which city r<-ally
is safest, ;lS it h:)S in years pas,. L1.St ye:tr) S:in
Jose was number one on che lisr. Numbers
from the FBI reporr ''were plugged into a
formula char measured how a particular city
or metro area compared co the nationaJ :.l\'Cr­
agc for a given crime category. 1·hc ouccorne
of this equa1·ion w:is then muhiplied by a
weight assigned ro each of 1he six crime care•
gories. Each of rhe six crimes was given equal
weight. Br weighting each crime equally, cit•
ics arc compared based purdy on chci r crime
rales," reads tbc dt.-scription ofMorg-111 Quir­
no's me, hodologr. Vossbrink would do be,.
ter off sticking with the accounr of ciry safe ..
ness char is balanced bcC'\veen ovcraH crime
race and Sl.'VCticy of crimes r<.·poncd.
(MACRO)
A weekly piece that focuse.< on large-scale
issues.
UUSJRATIOH 8Y £MII.YBI.OCK _1h_e_P_io_,_1e_e_r_Lo_g_,_s_e.;p_1_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_,_2_0_0_6 _________ ............... ., ______________________ 9_
The Mooney
Michael Mooney was a former LC president who resigned in 2003 after it was revealed that he
had invested $10.5 million worth of College funds in a risky business venture chat flopped. Each
week, the Piolog wiU award "The Mooney" to somebody who has fucked up as badly as Mr.
Mooney did.
by Ben Brody
I cringe"' rhe
thought of
srayiog in a
scat for :in hour and half, getting lcctur«l,
raking nores and forcing my eyes ro s1>y open.
llut I gladly accept it, knowing that rhcrc is
something IJrger and far more sopori6c on
my hori1.on. Ttn1e ia the classroom should
be optimized, enjoyed and lively. However,
it has recemlr hecome apparent char while
some classes definitely do have rhe.<e
qualities, cJ:crc are others th;tr comenredly
go on withour then1. 'I here is a very obvious
correlation between rime spea, in d3SS and
rime spcnr "zoning out"-my economks
reacher woul<l caJI ir a dir«t relarionship.
Thar is why this week's HMoooey" is being
awarded to the longest, ugliest and most
time dcvou.ring period of the.m all, the
three hour class.
Now. some srudcms may be in favor of
r.hc long class time 1har gives them only on<:
obUg::uion a wcek1 I know tbar was what
inirially arcracccd me. Bur aFter thinking
:ibom i(. I reali-1.ed char the only merit of
having • , hree hour period one day ._ week \.YaS exaccly t.hat. A :,,rudenr could caregorizc
a class with a single day. After a whole
semester of school rhcy would only have 10
see a professor and acmally be in a classroom
14 times ... seems pretry good, right?
If school was free and l<lidn't ca.re how my
tinte was spent, then .sure-why not make
every class three hours? Hell, wouldn't LMt
lx-a win-win for everyone: tcache.(') would
be ar school less (stiU p.ud the same) and
srudcnrs could porenrially be in class ouc d.,y
a week. t can see i{ now-a fantaStic pbcc,
brimming with eager young srudenrs who
are gecring taugbt nothing in a lacadajsical
classroom and evenrually being pumped ou,
iMO the workforce confused <ll'ld ignorant
wid, 100,000 less in rheir bank accounrs.
The a"er3ge adult attention span is 20
miJ)utes. Lmaginc bow little is absorbed
in three hours. lhc allowed existence of
these periods se<ems illosical. How can
people compare a system of regimemed
and reinforced learning for one hour every
orhcr day. wiLh one thar rri~ co give you
r;veryt_hing all ar once ia duce hours? Doe.~
i, seem reasonable t.h-1t a sn.1dt:.m will benefit
The Fighting Hamster
by Matt Savage
"They cut all over my privace parcs ... they were deliber­
ately slow. One would cut me, then another would cake
his curn .. .I never saw che sun, not even once."
This is th<-· horror of our "'\X1:tr on Terror".·
according to Binyan-l Mohamed. Binyam is
an Ethiopian Nacional who was captured in
2002 by Pakistani forces in the Karachi Air­
port, on his way to return home co lolldon.
He was lhcn flown in a ClA plane co M-o ..
rOC<'o, where he was held a11d ronured.
Binyam Mohamed is jusc one of the rhou­
sands of people suspecled of cerrorism t.h:u
President Bush admincd last week h:.we beeo
held in ovc.rS(:as dctc-nt.io11 ca.mps.
This process. called •·exU'aordiaary rcn•
dition". it often done so rhar interrogation
techniques can be used on rbc suspects ,h,11
would nor be legal in the United Scares.
The US government now adm.its Lhat over
14,000 troops have been held overseas in sc­
crer deremions camps. M::iny of rhese people
were capcurt-d in Iraq. Seventy co 90 pc:r­
ccm of tbesc lr3q derenrions in 2003 were
•mist:akes.tt U.S. officers 011ce cold the inter­
national Red Cross.
All this happens despire efforts by both the Congress and the Supreme Court co swp
efforts of chis kind. "The Senate passed a re,;o­
lution banning torture, which che president
signed. However, he added a "signing srarc­
mcm•, saying th.\t Lhis law a;,uld not tic the
Prcsidt,11t's ha11ds in w·anitne. The conuitu-
• cionalicy. of such signing statements is con•
troversial.
The Supreme Court also ruled r.hat the
President's system for crying terrorism sus.-.
peas in milirarytribuna1s was ruled LU1con­
sticutionaJ. lo a bill clarifying how tcrrori.s-111
suspect> would be cried, fou, key Republi­
cans, including Republican verernns John
Warner, John McCain, :,.nd Lindsey Graham
bucked the adminisrrarion by joining Dem­
ocrats in giving dctai11ees rights like being
able t0 see aU the evidence used against them
and banning evidence obrained through ille­
gal interrogation mcrbods (like torture) and
hearsay evidence.
\~lY is this imponant? One could argue
that many or tht:~ people a.re ccrroriscs. and equally from both? I envision educuion of
sn,dents to be simUar to the creation of a
bridge-we have our supplies to build the
bridge and our support beams 10 hold it
up. When we are given the ~upplies we can
make some progress, bm we. will soon need
a .support be.am co enforce it. then agajn
more supplies and more pcogress And once
more another suppc,rr 1"'3m is needed. With
rhrcc bour dassc:s all ,he supplies arc thrown
co us with ac be.st only one :;;upi'>Ort beam ro
,,,force the bridg<. 1 he conclusion being
thar despite the filer we may have •ll the
supplies, we are constructing a wc:.lk bridge.
~rhc current sysrcm views hours as the same.,
irrespective of their proximity, but thcy1rc
not. ll,e realiry is that l think everybody
al read)• knows d,is.
1hcqucstion temnins sdU, why do colleges
allow this submndard S)'stem 10 ex,isr? The
besr explanation J have been gj\'cn is that
three hour periods are creared co deal with
deserve co be torrured. One could also argue
that conure provides valuable information
saves lives.
Besides being inhuman<.: and c:roel, rnr ..
cure an be bad for the \Var on Terror. Ptls-­
oners who arc tortured gh·e unreliable infor­
marioo, because tbey will say everything and
anything lO make ir stop, whether it is troe
or not. lhe •evidence' of collaboration lx­
rween A,I-Quaeda aod lraq's securiry forces
came from an AJ-Quaeda operative who was
corrured. That lead ro a disastrous war thac
cost over 2500 American lives and cotuuing.
With oil of rhe problems the imelligence­
oommunity fuces, we do not need :rny more
bad intelligence.·
Secondly, torture is :1g:1insc the Geneva
Conventions, of which the US is a signatory.
IJ we ru en our b:icks on another internation­
al treaty. especiaHy one of this magniwde, we
will lose even JnOrc support. from d,e imer­
nationaJ community. \Y/c will need th.is sup­
pore to fight ce(mris1s in I he furu.rc. It willal-scheduling diffict1lties. Cerrain mandatory
dasse,; cannot be allowed to take place as
ordinary one hour periods for t:hcir lack in
a.cccssibility. 1 hope this is nae rruc because
it makes rhe solution sc.."Cffi easy. Ont:, for
CX-'mple, would be ,Jlowing J mandarory
class co mccr ar lacer and less popular hours
in the d,y. Bur as this probably is not Lhe
full srory, my only conclusion c.1n be char
srudcnts bavc simply become complacent
cowards this elephant in their dassr{)()m.
However, this is by no m1.'<IJ1s 3 call ro accion.
I like having less homework and more timt'
to goof' off duriflg the day-it give.s me tirtte
,o fuel my drug habit. But I jusr ,bought
you guys should kn(.)w because, wdL .. your
gming ripped off.
so make other natiooswonder what we rcaJly
srand for, •nd make chem less likely to hand
over porcnrial terrorist suspccrs, if countries
rhink the suspcns will be tortured.
Turning our back on the Geneva Con­
ventions and embracing rorrure could also
be harmful in future wars. If we do not ad­
here to the Geneva Conventions, ocher na•
tions may use this as an excuse ro rorture
American prisoners of wnr.
For all of rhe,;e reasons and more, tJ,e US
cannot rurn it's back on the Geneva Conven­
tions. It wiJI not provide us wich imporrn1u
information, and will tum more in ,he world
against us. Uush said in a recem speech that
this was a war for civili1 .. 1tion 3gainsr terror.
\Y/c should nor allow ourselves co cmbr.lce
terror 10 •save civiJi1.ario1l _1 __ 0 ____________________ ..... j..@l/,m.llllll.__ _______ 11_1e_P_io_n_ee_1_· L_o_g._,_s_e..,p_1e_m_b_e_r_2_2_, _200_6
Global Perspective
a look into the good and the bad of study abroad trips
Senior Claire Smallwood (left) overseas in Senegal last spring through LC. Dawson Law ('07) studied independently in Belgium, making trips to Egypt.
by Rachel Schiff
As rJ1e deadline for F_all 2007 Study Abroad applicatio,;s_ draws near, L~wis & Clark stu~er_us are seriously co~~id­
enng where they will spend part or all of next year. Wh1le the actual trme spent abroad is 1meortant, the dec1s1on
of where to go doesn't just determine a few months' experience. Almost all students who spoke of their faraway expe­
riences had one thing in co1nmon: they felt significantly changed by their time away. Witn a plethora of programs to
choose from, here is an indepth look at a few of the1n from students who aren't afraid to tell ilie good witn the bad.
Kenya/Tam.ania
"We all came back a linlc dif­
ferent: • different future or job for
some; for others, just an under­
standing of poverty char we doil't
gcr in dtc -affiucnce of Lewis &
Clark," said Theresa Likarish ('07)
of her semester in Kenya and Tan­
uini• in spring of 2006. The trip
involved two weeks of intensive
Swahili language study followed by
four wreks of urban studies in Nai..­
robi. Kenya. --_al<~: studencs spc::m six
weeks studying biology and wol­
ogy in T..·uw,ania on safari.
However, L.ikarish did not talk
much about any of this. She spoke
about cwo brief tribe stays: 1hrec
days with the pastoral Maasai and
five days with the hunting Had,,­
abe. Neither tribe spoke Swahili,
so aJI communication was non•
vcrba1, save one hour a day ,,._,l[h
a translalor: "'It was a chalJe:ngc rn
learn without language. Ir rcaUy
increased my :m1arcness of other,
more subtle forms of comrnunica-. . UOll.
During the brief rranslared con•
versations, the women of the: tribes
b:µked ar Likarish's account of her
life in the United Smcs. "When
they heard ,ha, I worked, that I
wenr ro school, they thought that
[ was making ir up," s~Jd Likarish.
"My future Is signifieamly less self­
ish than it would have been because
of this trip.11 Chili: Valparai$o
Adam Sanchez {'07} lived in
Chile and studied ar Universidad
de: Catolioo last spring ... lr was nor
a suing of activitfos and trips. It
was really living there, getting 10
know a city." When asketl why he
did rbis through LC, rather than
s:.wing money by going on his own,
he said, "My hos, family. I will al­
ways have a hornc there."
Ali Brown ('07), who also spent
lase spring in Valparaiso, agreed.
"'Living with hosr families was the
experience. nor going ro r.he uni•
versity. I must have read fifty pages
and wrote ren that semester, but
I was active about raking an easy
course load. J wanted co experience
Chile, not the library."
The trip is led by ,he Council
for hacrnadonal Educational Ex­
change, bur is sponsored and ar­
ranged by LC for interested sru­
dcms. "'I paid LC tuition for a
CIEE program ,hat was half the
price, but <-asiJy got sixteen credits.
ihe students from other schools on
the program had a lor of trouble
gcning credits 1ransfe.rred," said
Brown. Both Brown and Sanchez.
said tha, ahhough they felt "rippcd
off," they appreciated the case pro­
vided by LC.
Bdgiwn: Brussels
Dawson Law ('06} traveled ro
Belgium with CIEE wi<hout LC's arrangements. "To do a program
1101 oO'cred by LC is very challeng·
ing, very frustrating. TI1e regis-rrar's
office and Student Financial Ser•
vices were nor accommodatingi al•
though a couple sea.ff' members were
very helpful." said Law. He chose a
program outside of LC because he
wamed 10 srudy I nrern:uionaJ Af­
fairs abroad. "I wanred to study
Eu1opean Polirics. I wenr away to
bt produc,ive and do something
specific. I didn't want general cul­
n11-c-l've live abroad before."
Wi,h CIEE, Law spent one se­
mesrcr at an international school
for rhe sons and daughrers of dip•
lonms. He lefi-the program ro rake
:m inremship with tlie American
Embassy~ Ir was the internship, noc
the program char was mosr valuable
to Law. "My internship changed
my whole college experience. J met
John Ketty and had pe[Soual meet­
ings wlth a.1nbas$.'ldors :md sena­
tors."
Senegal
The Son.-gal program is labeled
as Erench•languagcincensivc. How­
ever, according ro Claire Small­
wood ('06), ••ir was not a French
program. In the end, the family I
srayed wirb said that J spoke Wolof
(tne local language] brncr than I
spoke French."
Toe academic work, lil<e the
language, was not wlm Smallwood was used w: "'h wasn•r rhc same
kind of academic work (as LC of­
fers). I learned a lot, but sirtcc the
dasses were in Freach, I only re­
rained about 50 percent of the in­
formation. Whar I will rem.in arc
tbe fcdi.ngs, which are a different
kind of knowledge."
The intensive study of Wolof,
the local language, was surpris­
ing to Claire, bur ulti1rnuely very
imponam co her rime in Senegal.
•1hc experiences I had talking 10
people in \Xlolof. their native lan­
guage, were empowering. even
though learning Frcncb would
have been better for my degree."
Although Smallwood enjoyed
her c.xpcricncc, her choughrs a.hour
the cost of the trip re8ccted chose
of 01 her unsatisfied students. '40nc
problem was how rippcd off we fdt.
I tried nor ro think about.the cosr
while l was there;~ said Srnallwood
of paying LC tuition ,o live and
learn in a country where "breakfu.st
coses 25 cents."
Germany: Munich
Thom Jacobs ('06) and Averi
Lohss ('06) were both on LC's trip
to Munich, Germany las, year.
Fron\ Hsrening co their experiences,
one is hard-pressed to believe that
rhcy were on 1he same rrip. 111 he
living is squa(M. \V/c were in Soviet ...
style hell holes. We jus, hoped thar
we wouldJ11t catch some awfoJ dis-case. We co,ddn't cook because tbe
kitchens were so unsanitary," sa.i<l
Jacobs of his high-rise dormirory.
Lohss, who lived in a ·30.per­
son house for inccrnacionaJ sru ...
dents, was more pleased wi,h her
living silua.1ion. "J met most of my
friends while cooking in ,he kitch­
en. Ir was inrcrcsring tO watch pe~
pie from different counrries cook
such dilfoent Jishrs. It was r<ally
wonderful to rncet so many inter­
national ~tuc:lents."
Lohss, :1 German inajor, <:n­
joyed her classes. "They have such
a nice sc,-up. All of us could rake
a.n.y classes we wan tcd at the uni­
versiry/" said Lohss. Jacobs, a music
major. was unable ro study within
his field be-cause he was told to ap•
ply next year at the conscrvacory jn
Munich. "I endod up ,aking over•
ly-specific classes in music bistol)•,"
said Jacobs, who left tl\e year-long
program after one se,ncs-tc:r in or­
der co resume his music studies.
111c Munich trip is unique.· be•
cause studems do 1101 pay LC tu•
idon while on the program, as is
d,e case with ocher rrips offered by
the Overseas Departmenr.
"J probably saved about
$J 0,000." said Lohss. Money aside,
Jacobs advised Students considering
the program that (<unless you arc a
German major, don't expect ro ad­
vance academically. lhe college
systems jusr do not match up.'J _t_h_e_P_i_o,.n.e .. er;..;;L.o.g.:.,.s.e.p,.te;,;n.;,;1,;;b,;e;.r ,;;2,;;2,:,.',;;2,;,;0,;,;0,;,;6 _______ ... _4i111ij§/•jlj--- _____________________ 1 __ 1_
YouTube: letting people everywhere broad­
cast themselves, whether you like it or not
by Ben Brody Illustration by Emily Block
Facebook, M)'Sp,ce, LiveJoumal. All of these names rep­
resena breakthrough internet sensations- whose appeal ranges
from teens co young aduJrs. Tue gi1mnick W3S•Si1nple: it pro ..
vided people wirh the means ro stay coonecred m friends,
blog <heir weekend activiries (1hrough boch words and pic­
rurcs) and broadc:ist perronal derails.for all of rhcir internet
fans. Howevert rime moves on and our interest dwindlt$-­
MySpace, after all, isn'r tOQ diffcmu from Facebook-<tnd
ir was in November of 2005 thac three former PayPal em­
ployees by ,he names of Cha<l Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawad
Karim provided internet junkjes, wid1 :1. new and much more
interactive Social ne1wotk.
Youli.1be.com, the inrerner sen.sat ion that is growing fur­
er than MySpace did. gives fo .. -c acct..-ss co a vircua.l plerhora ()f
videos that can be playing on your computer in seconds. Uri•
lizing Adobe Flosh ,cchnology, anyone wich die internet and
a decc:ut con11ection can watch videos with practically zero
load time.171is means that rhe video doesn'r have m dowu­
lo:id or go through 1..ip drivers, and consequently makes a.oy
c,nl1er video-imerncr technology a w-ast.e of rime. h is easy co
register and once you do. you will be ~•bJe to load 3nd view
literally any video comem you like. "~l1H·re is a lot of shit on
there ... but you have ro weed through it tog« 10 rhc good­
ie.: s:1id Le., Y:H1g (' I 0) of You Tube's endless vidc-o libraries.
Designed to be a forum for video blogging, Youli,be a,­
rracrs hoards of prospt'CtingSpiclbetg's, Gibron's and Sueeps.
Amaceur film makersdominace the site ... Enceringnew cerrain
as a video. a blog can no;;v rake on SQ many more roles than
ircould when i, W3S re.srria.cd to impersonal text, In addi­
tioo co che standard ''stare ar the camera and speak" blog, us­
ers have bra.nchcd out to Jip-synching 1 heir fuvodt<: $Ol'1g or
dubbing their \'Oiccs over X-Men c:u,oons.
Jacob Bourne {'09) said iliac somecimes he will blog his
bomcwork :\SSig1lme1u.s io order to help his friends. He says
1ha1 ''some of I he content on r.hcrc can get prerry ridicl•­
lous ... bur tbar►s wha, makc.·s ic what i, is." Other foi:ms oF
biogs manifest as videos of users performing ralenrs such as
juggling, magic tricks: or musical fears, in hopes that chcy
will elicit conscn1cri\'e feedback ... fllis. in rum, highlights an­
otl~er e1wrmous aohievcmenc y·ouTube can boast-a large
;rncl wholly imcractivc community.
YouTube users have full range when it comes ro illl:;er:-tct•
ing with ,heir peers. Once they bave posred a video, ,bey can
rhen receive cornmentS in the foml ◊f other videos, text or
ranking$. ~n,ere are also ways to signal other users of scnsi­
rive conrenr. Wylie Lewis ('09), a frequcnc YouTubcr, said,
..-sometimes the commcms can get pretty negative, bur on
1he whole people try and give an upbeat message. I mean, if a
video re-ally is roo oftensh'e, all you have m do icS Hag it."
YouTobe cre:ued a, "'Aag-sysrem" where a video rocdving
enough Aags would rhen be marked as possibly inappropri­
a,e. ln affect, users a.re granted pol.icing control of cbeir corn­
muniry. Also, every usc.r has their own homepage where they
can blog, send messages, pos·t personal info and picmre$ ...
Sound like auycl>ing familiar?
To rop it off, everychiog on Youli,be is completdy cus­
toro.i:t.3b1e, From $CCuriry to graphics. Ir protecting personal
~•ideos is desirable. rhen the option is available. However,
mo$t users would say that protecting dips is missing ,.he. poinr. To back rhis up, every day
YouTube's main page is up-::;~;;;;;~t:;i~;;,:.-'!•~-,-~-~-~-;~-~-~•is• dated with chc most
\'iC'\ve<I, bes1 ranked
a11d mosr discussed vid,
eos of the day. To make it
ro chis place is something
of feather in one's cap, and
is chc 6rst step to ~scend­
ing inro YouTube protni­
nence. Some YouTubcrs,
however, prefer co gain hits
in other ways.
Pleory of people 011 rhc
sitt· a.ssodat~ 1.he1nselves
wid1 n1 shows, movies
or eye,catching encer-­
rai1Hne-nr. Any foot•
age chat a user can get
hold of can be broad­
cast on the site. wirh ex­
ceptions. ,Because of _.­
,h.e 9u1bursr of copy-~­
righted macerial that: ,... .:::::=
could be freely accessed
on YouTubc, networ~s like
NBC began ro complain
rind thre.-ucn suit. In
rcspon.se. YouTubc
created a IO min- lJte ma.ximum
for postt..-d videos :ind began forcing users ro
remove videos th:u viola red copyright laws. 1his was to the
dismay of Bou me who said, "J don't Ii.kc chat NBC moni­
tors rhe sire ... they rook away all the SNL clips.''
Unforcunacdy for the ncrwork.s, YouTubc has only
about l 50 employees to manage the 65.000 new videos
posrcd daily, so plent)' of law-breaking videos slip 1hrough
the cracks. Some oF che most notables have been che reccnc
movie •srep-Up,' episodes of"fh~ Daily Show" and "The
Colberc Rcporr." ,he Whir< House Corresponde,Hs Din­
ner and the Showt.imc h.it series "Weeds.-"" These videos and
more arc a lifcsryl<: for some, bur to most just a. distraction.
"l watch funny videos when I ger borcdt said Yang.
To the professional world, You1Ubc is new and uuchan­
ed territory. In recem months. however, several companies
have begun to cake the firsc steps t0wards embrricing ,his
porcncial marketing goldmine. NBC is said ro have «ruck a
deal wi,h Hurley, Chen and Karim, releasing some promo­
{ionaJ foot:ige for rhe.ir show •'Tue Office."
01 her industry pioneers have begun releasing m0\'i¢: pr<:­
view• and clips for upcom.ing blockbusters. The mos, elab­
orate promotion is derived from movie ptoduce.rs who blog
th.rougb an actress to set up 1he story for their new murder
,hrillcc. For reasons like these and rhe .speed ar whicb c:hcv
occur, ic is no surprise that YouTubc averages 100 milUo~
video hiu a day1 and it's worth has been reccody estimated
by CN ET's News.com ac a billion dollars. For reaS-Ons like
rhese, users like Jacob re-pon using the sire "'daII( for "ac
least balf an hour:
We only have to look back a Y""r or so 10 observe an
obvious ma.rke, trend, facebook and MySpacc granted
1 heir lJ.Sers pictures and in response, everyone began to buy 65,000 new videos are posted on You Tube daily.
digital cameras. Following the ueud, it doesn•1 seem roo far­
fecched that in another year everyone will hove small video
cameras attad1e...-d to the top$ of ,he computers. excited at the
prospect or getting on che cop 100 lisL "L can de6nirdy sec
3 ri1ne when \v.ltching videos on rhc computer completely
replaces conventional TV and TV shows," said Lewis. ·n,c
,ec.hnology is there, and now the demand is growing. You­
Tube may h<' the bcgitu1ing o( :'.I revolucioll in rhe way we
wacch videos.
To upload a video on You Tube, you need to:
D Ser up a free ac.eounr oo You Tu~.c:om
D Cuc your video (clips musr be under LO minutC$)
Q Make mre your clip ir 001 copyrighred _1 __ 2= ___________________ .. Jf1jfit§jj4ii¥1m1j _________ 1_he_P_io_11_e_er_L_o_g_,_s_e_p_1e_n_,b_e_r_2_2_, _20_0_6
ird-down
I
\\las football's close call just what the doctor Of
'' hy do people even care? What difference does it make?" Clark Yeager is f
asking dangerous questions. Questions chat could turn many a collegiate
athletic director red in the face, perhaps provoking a hurried, indignant
reply before the question has had time to settle. However, Yeager knows
chat no question is too simple co be asked and it's often the simplest questions chat ar.e the
hardest to answer. So why, exactly, are sports so important to people? And why do we play
them at Lewis & Clark?
•
Top, 7JJe 1963 Pioneer, ukbntte after wi1111i11g 1he Nonh­
""" Co,,ftrenct championship. Bottom; 42 year, later, piny•
trs commiserate after kam.ing of the eanrtll11tion of ,heir
m,so11. Right: Smdems braved 1he cold lns1 fall rq show 1hnt
every kind of LC stude111 can tupport their uam, by Ethan Stone
"'It's a huge phenomenon, re:iUy:' Yeager muses, gazing
thoughtfully 1h,ough d,e window of his offic.c in Pamplin
Sporu Cemer. "You can fight ir, you can ignore it, but it's
still rc.,lity." 11,e reality he alludes t0 is che one in which
sports unite or divide communities, sp~rk riots or renew
friendships, establish heroes and crearc villains. And giycn
che currendy ambiguous smre of athletics ar LC, Yeager, ,he
CoUcge's newly appointed Director of Physical E<luca1ion
:uid Achlctics, has more than enough reason 10 be aslting rhese kjnd of questions. We wanted to kuow \Vhy.
Thar question is just as difficult ro answer. Varsity athJet ..
ics programs a.t LC a,re by no means slipping, nor arc the
CoUegc's s1udent-11thleres, coaches and craincrs any less dcdi­
ca1ed or mlcored than chose of years pas,. However, geneml
sn1de1H inrcresr in varsiry sports ha.s lagged in rcceor years,
and for some sp<>ns. chc number of athletes-and victo­
ries-has followed rhe same downward rrend. "LC just got
ofF .. Jinc a bit," Yeager S3ys. 41Jr was norhing drastic, nothing
ro panic about."
Th:u is, ir was nothing drastic untiJ last September, when
GIIY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
& FRINGE fEMINISTS
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red for
neer .athletics?
, da,,gen:,usly low number of player> on the football team
prompted President Tom HocbSterder to-suspend all of LC~
Norchwesc Conference- games on che recommendations of
men-athletic director Steve Wallo and football coach Rog•
er VanDeZande ... Our overriding concern must be co en-­
sure the safety and well-being of all member> of the Lcwi.s
& Clark community," Hochstcttlcr stated in an email to the
student body.
The dispirited Pioneers, many upset and biner about che
decision-which had been made without consulting che
team-Struggled througb four non-conference games that
fall, losing each despite th.e crowds of srudenr> who popula,­
td Gri$Wald Stadium at home g:unes co show d1eir support.
McanwhUe, 1'-tochscenJer swiftly appointed a commission ro
investigate the reasons behind the football program's decline
,nd to analyze the feasibility of rebuilding the ream.
"This Com,ni!$iOn i.s charged with specifically invcstigat•
ing and idenrifying the formula for football to be suce<ss­Past forward 10 September 2006. Yeager leans back in his
chair, his blue eyes gleaming beneath bushy gray eyebrows.
He gwLCS conrempJativcly into the discancc, then cracks a
smile aod asks, •Did you see the Oregon game last week­
end? ..
Prcsidenr Hochsrtnlcr's cominissioo i.s ~ thing of the past
after concluding in a unanimous decJararion of rhe footba_ll
tea.m1s vaJuc to the community, jnspiring a (ew subsrirmions,
ful," Hochsrerrlcr's charge ro rhe
commission read. And1 as if co
acknowledge that tbe roo\S of the
problem co,Jd well lie deeper than
a .s,halJow roster, dle ch3rge con-
1inued: "Although it is beyond the
scope ofrhis Commission. rhe issue
of more dfcctivdy integrating the
role of athlctics-.intcrcollcgiarc,
dub, and intramural sports-into "Although it is beyond the scope of
chis Commission, the issue of more
effectively u:i,tegrating the role of
athletics ... into tlie campus cul cure
may need to be addressed." with Yeager rcplac•
ing Wallo .1.s Director
of l'hysic,,J Education
and Arhlerics and for­
mer assistant coach
Chris Sulagcs stepping
into VanDcZandc's
coacl,;ng posicioo. N
I sic wirJ, Ye::igcr in his
comforrabk office on
,he campus culture may need 10 be "ddressed."
Wirh thar sraremenr. rhe College admini.srr:uion eff«:­
tivdy acknowledged tha< the slowly growing rift between
,·arsity arhJctia and the LC communiry. at first seen only a.'!
, temporary loll in interest, had in fuct widened co the point
of bringing the very exjstencc of sports like football at LC
inco question. ·ro Furrher i1lAame thesimarion,Tom Smythe,
Pioneer football coach from 1988 unril 1993, lambasted the
College in an article in the Portland Tribune \'.)n Sepr. 13.-
2005, eaUing LC "a place rha, hasn't Ix-en concerned about
football player> for a very long time."
Needless ro sny, Hochsrettler's comJni!$ioo had a sticky
.si"marion on its hands. -and ir \\faS evident th:u more ..:vas at
srake than the fare of the football ream alone. a drizz.ly Wednesday afrernoon. the various members of rhe
2006 Pioneer football squad arc probably suiting up for af­
rernoon prictice in the lockf.:.r rooms just acou.nd the:: corner.
lhcsquad issrill small-it's 11or easy to buiJd a b:tlanccd team
&om 42 playel'$--bur thar also means more playing time for
everyone, and chat's a lor berrer chao no ream ar all.
The game Yeager is referring co is 1he Universfry of Ore ..
gon's fast-minute victory over rivaJ Oklahoma in Eugene lasr
S.1rurd:1y. Down by 13, the Ducks rallied for rwo touchdowns
in ,he fi'laJ seconds of the game in front of 59,269 screom­
ing fans. the largesc-ever crowd ro watch a college foorl,all
match in Autzcn Stadium. The incredible comeback ma.de
headlinCS' nationwide:. while closer co home, U of O srudencs
and alumni roucously celebrar<d thei, school's victory. u
To a.n ou\Sidcr, the scene at Gri.sw;ild Stadium on the LC
campus th:u same Sarurcfay :1f(ernoon might have seemed
worlds away from the ruckus in Eugene. In their fuse home
game of the season, the new Pioneer football squad collid­
ed with the Pomona Sage Hens before a modest crowd of
arow,d 400 srudcnts. parents and alumni. Aficr a valiant cf..
forr, rhe l'ios succumbed 38-20, their second loss of the sea•
son after a n:,ugh 47-7 welcome back from Occidental two
weeks ago in los Angeles.
Yet in both places. rhe same thing was happening: a diverse
group of people coming together to celebrate a common pas•
sio,,. Al111hni from years P"-"t cheered alongside fresh-fuced
firsr .. years, economjC$ Stodencs n1.ingled with theatre majors-.
and for l)ionecrs who'd grimaced rhrough sea.~ons of un­
in.spi-ring footbaH, chose 18 poims scparadng victory from
defeat didn'c macrer alJ dlat much. ·Whar mancred wa.~ thar
the Pioneer> were back. It almost seemed as if the Pios' dose
brush with. the obituary column lasr faJJ was in fuct jusc what
the docror ordered 10 bring a bir of school spirit b:tck ro the
game. Bur is i1 enough to reunite the diverse. LC commu,,icy,
so preoccupied with dle "Big Picrure10 off campus grounds,
with its corps of dedicated athletes?
;'\Y/e have bri.Want srudeni.s, but they often rend to be
sclf .. cenrered and individualistic."said the Pios' senior quar­
terback, $con Moyer. Still, Moyer believes that support from
srudems has never rallked among che team's problems: "'11,e
support is thcrc:,.ot he says, "Even if they don't always show up
for games."
Tight end Ben .Elkind ('07) agr<x.-d, but warned that die
Pioneers con'r rely on sympathy alone. "Just because you',c
011 a football ream in college dQeS11't meall chat the stands arc
always going 10 be full. You have 10 earn that." Potluck in the Park TEACHFORAMERICA
provides unique
solution to PDX
hunger problem
by Yan Chen
In a city where rain is a constant pain in
the butt, Sunday, Sept. 17 was surprising­
ly sunny-perfect weather for a barbeque in
the paJk. We followed the rising smoke from
the grill to the South Park Blocks by Portland
State University. As we waJked towards the 15'h
Anniversary Barbeque of Potluck in the Park,
we met others headjng in the same direction.
These people were regulars. They'd been going.
for years.
Sharon Darcy and hn daugh­
•"' Shcllcy Started Potluck in the
Park in 1991. They were helping
a friend wh.h ti catt'riog event, and
.1frcr i1 was over, homeless people
began helping thC'mselvcs ro the
lcfc-ovcrs.
Tue following Sunday brought
,he firs, Potluck in ,he Park. Word
spread and orhcrs bc-gan ro get
im·olved. Church groups made
casseroles, the Western Culinary
J ostitute providt:d lcfrovas. Boy
Scours helped servo, and so did
sruden,s of Lewis & Clark Col­
lege.·. Everyone is a volunteer. Peo­
ple tl1cre ,o ea, help with ser-up
and clc..m up is dooe by whoever's
willing 10 sray.
So how did David Uc,ing·
e:r1 the commander in chief. get
involv('d? Mer ooc co1npany
Christmas party many Sarurday
nights ago, he s•w che porentia.l in
~II ,he lci'rovcrs.
"l saw all the ldlovcrs and
rhoughr. 'wdl. I know wbere
chose wUI come in h:tl'ldy.1
., He
took ,he lefto,·ers 10 ,he l'oduck
die ne:<r tlay. a1td has never missed
a SuncJay since.
Along with ,he Barbeque is
ch< Ptoplc's Resourc:t faire. ,,m­
ed live yeart ago a, the 1 0" An­
nivers..uy Barbcque. What was
once just one rable now fill< up an
en,ire block. Boochs provide free
haircucs, bike repair and bealth
services screening. just tO name :a
few.
On 1op of che weekly Poducks, they have aoorhcr spl-cial event
besides the on!lual bsrbeque. 'The
CbrisrJ'03S dinner is every Christ•
mas day ar ,he YWCA on IO"
and Jefferson, where rbcy provide
l 000lbs of rurkt-y so good th,11
even Sama Claus ha.s ro tome.
Record a«endn,nce was-over
2000 people when ,hey held
rhe Poduck a.r Pion.ee[ Squart in
2002. In roc.cnt monrhs d1ey only
had around 250-400 aueodees,
whic.h is srill a good number, but
lJrz.ingcr said the decline is be­
cause they didn't gee enough 8y­
~t$ out. They have snany regulars,
however, and word geLS arolmd
an)'\vay. Sueer kids come, rh,·
homeless adulrs come, the un­
cmployt-d, the workiog poor and
people of all ages come ro be re•
ceived by friendly smile< and rons
offood for rhe raking.
Dannie Baktr has beeo com­
ing regularly ever since his old­
csr granddaughter, Brejh• ne, now
dcvcn yeaxs old, ,'l:\S four. Her
sisrer Nylia, age 6, grew up com­
ing 10 che Poduck and Jadyn. age
2., is just SC'3cting ht·rshan.· in chis
experience. .. his fi.111/' Baker s::1id.
".AJ1d you get co bave a meol while
ha;ing fun."
l1te volunteers rhink it~s fim
roo. "I had no idea there's such
a huge populacion of homeless
people in Portland," said Chelsea
Goucher (' J 0). ''Ir's a good way
to gc1 io,.·olved in the commun;cy
olfc:ampus. and people seem very
:1pprcciarivei" Eight 2006 LC graduates give back to community by
helping low-inco1ne children catch up co their peers
By Craig Gilden
So afrer four ye•ts of paper$,
test$ and presen rations you've grad--
uared from Lewis & Clark ...... now
what? 1har is the question seniors "How would I know what I want
10 do for the rest of my life until I
lea.med more :)()our who ( w.u in
1 he 1oughesr situations? lCaching
young children on the rc-scrvation,
through Teach for Amcric:c, is al-
"Today in our country, nine year-olds
growing up in low-income communities
are already three grade levels behind their
peers in high-income communities." be more thankful for, "being held
accou.mable for lhc acadt·m.ic cle­
vclopmenr of young children is an
t'lwcsomc re:.pon.sibiHcy thrit soci­
ery e.ndov,s -1 sometimes ques~
rion wherher it had sound judg­
ment. ro place che responsibility
on me. Bur my own doubrs about
my ability did not deter me from
working tow.>rd our goa1 las1 year
of ge11ing every srudenr in firsr
grade reading by the end of tbc
)'car. lc's eye-opening co have such
a rcsponsibiliry pfaccd on you,
learning how ro teach childrt-n
"long the way and hopefully are,·-
are already starting ,o ask rhem­
selves. llte decision of whether ro
go re;, grad school or ger a job •is a
difficult one, and more and more
LC srudcnrs arc choosing 10 spend
rhe next couple yea.rs i.11 publie s.cr­
vice. The mos1 popular program
has become '1Te:ich for America;-'
where recem grads commit two
years co teaching in low-income
communities.
Since 1994. LC alums have
been a parr of ,he program and
i,nercsr has sceadiJy grown. £jghr
2006 grads were chosen ro reach
in communities spanning from
North Carolina 10 South Dakota
to Los Angdes. One of chose is
former Activities Congress head
Ma.urn RossJ \Vho i-s now 1e:1ching
World History 10 renrh graders in
J--lenrico, N. C. '"I ,vas interes"tcd
in Teach for America bi-cause I fell
like it ,vas a re:.\I "1ay ro see ,,:hat
our edocation sysrem looks like in
rhe Unired Srates. Why and how
things are done in scbools is fasci-
1mi ng and l wanted to be able ro
see it in action. I aJso wamed co
support young people who wane ro
make a difference in rheir lives and
follow :l new parh/' said Ross.
1,vo-thousand 6ve grad aod
former LC student body presidenr
Landon Mascarcn3.i ::1Jso \\'enr the
roureofTe.1.ch for Am~rica and now
is embarking on his second year as
a firsr grade reacher on the. Nava.­
jo Nacion reservation in Cht1rch
Rock, N. M. Mascarcnaz w;uucd
to panic.ipatc in something char
would cake him away from what he
has known and provide a unique
experience. I-le bas already found
rhar and more through his experi­
ence with Tcacb for America. -Teach for America
ery srep of 1.he joamt.-y I 1ve cried ro
ready a defining moment in my be humble and do ch,· best I rnn."
life." said Mascarcnaz.. Ross spenc tbc summt:r tcach-
•1 sometimes forger I've 01tly ing fifth grade remedial surnmer
been here for a year, bec:tusc: of all school in Aclanra, Ca., which
the amazing people I've nlf:l ::ind rurned in~Q a truly rewarding ex..­
etperiences f've had. Ar rhe end of perience for her. "Derrick (a fift.h
ir, no marrer what l do. I'll know grader who could barely cead)
I'll always carry chis experience and cold me that his big goal lor rhe
this invaluable pcrspcctivt". ro any summer '"'as reading a chapler
new opportunity l have." book. 71,ac WlLS che highliglu of my
Th¢: adjus1me1\t from 1he urba1\ 1eaching cxper·icnce in Aclanrn. \Y/e
lifestyle of l'orcland 10 Liny rural read 11,e Tiuits by Roald Dal,I," she
communiries has been quire a con-said proudly. "'Tut' mos-r reward­
uasr for che pair. Ross is teaching ing part of the journey is th.c Li,ne
iu a town of only a 1,000 people:;" I , • spent with sruderns. I :tm :1ma1.ed
ger recognized at the store :ts "'dle with rhe rhings chat rhcy bani<: cv..­
world hist0ry teachert aod when ery day and continue co come co
f asked my srudenrs abour rh, fun school ready ro pave a ne,v p:oth for
chings to do in town they rold me l.hemsdves."
thac Wal-Man was tl,e bor spor Fri- Ros.s's school holds a program
"Being held accountable for the academic
development of young children is an awe­
some responsibility that society endows."
-LC Alumna Maura Ross ('06)
da)'s and Sarurdays," she laugbed.
Liv·ing on rhc Na"ajo ReserV3-
don, M:ascaren:ii l~ seeing 1he kind
of povercy chat he had only read
about or seen on TV prior ro lasr
year. "When you sec the same child
come to school wc..-aring the samt
thing for a week, realize thar he is
the youngest of 15 in a house with­
out decuiciry or wacer )'Ou can re-,
ally feel what .wveny i.s, instead
of jusc reading abour ir in a class-
• room.
"The experience has odminedly
been an "eye--O(>ener·1 for Masc.arc_ ..
naz. but it i$ one chat be couJdn'r (;IJle<I intersession every nine weeks
where srudenrs with good grades
can rake elective dassC'S from visit­
ing insuuccors. She invites :myone
intcresccd in 1.he LC C<nn.ml.1nity
t0 come and S-t3Y at her house on
lake Gascon for a week •nd ,each
something they have a personal in­
rcresc in. "f promise thar a wc!ck
here will be a rewarding and in­
splring c:x.pcriencc for anyone. Aod
hey, if you need 10 practice public
spe•king, explaining things ro
people who don"r srudy what you
study, or you just like lO meet new
people, this is ic." I
/ _l1_,e_P_i_o_n_ee_r_L .... og_,_s_e_p1_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_, 2_0_0_6 _________ 4ie,i§•i•W41111 ___________________ 1 __ 5_
• • • • • • •
•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • J«.ii.e, B,tttcr ( 1 07)
Hometown: Urah
Major. Environmental Studies
Favorite brands: Gramicci panes
What I'm wearing: "This Jackec! I've bad it since I was seven
years old, and it's s1ill kickin'. le has some rips in the arm pies
though. This Hae; Ir never really comes off. It's Peruvian. It's
fuzzy, and it's made out of animals. These pams. They're black,
like Johnny Cash -you wear rhem for all the peeps. White and
black just look good together."
Inspiration: "I gee dressed in the morning for comfort. I'm
always comfortable. I'm fuzzy. I feel good. Nor only char but all
I need co do is tie my shoes and I'm ready for everyrhing, right
now. [fl had a parnchuce, righ1 now, I could go base jumping .
I cou.ld do the chicken dance if you needed me co. I could hop •
-bar hop. Yes, I could even steal home." .. l ... 6 __________________ ...,i_i.... ______ 1_h_e_P_io_n_e_er_L_o_g_,_s_ep .. 1_e_m_b_er_2_2.;.,_2_00_6
_ by Stephanie Beechem -Flying ~pontaneity's flag:
Donald Hall has always ~n • bmer essayist rhan a poet. His 1987 es.<:iy "Young titled) \flhiu Appks aJ1d the Tn,u ofS1011e: Se/med Poems !946-2006, and you'll see
Bly," originally published in the now dcfimcr Grunt, opens with "He didn'r stcm thar Hall sm,ds by what he believes in; a few pages in I can already imagine his broad
youog ar rhe. time.." 1bis portrait of :.in ondergraduatc...cra Robert Bly-now a fuce leering above these poems' initial dr-.1.fts, a t,hesaurµs in one hand, v,rondering how
promincnc poet and cransfotor-is immensely funny. bclplcssly loving aod delic~uely he could jusr jam more words inco rhe chins, or creating claborare theodes :tbouc how
dfawn. HalJ wri{es> '"He wore a rhrcc~piccc brown rweed suit and brown sbocs with indcming every otller line, as he often dmcs does, will really ger :u che fundamcnta1
a narro,v maroon cie, sniped with grt.-en ... be was skinny, incredibly skinny, I assu.med truth of his poem.
from excess of inrcUigcnce; he wore inrelligenr horn-rimmed glasses; he spoke rarely, In other words, ir's rhe coldest and mosr bloodlessly calcularcd coUection of poem,
opening his mooth nMrowly, wid, compunction and recicencc. He never, ever ['vc seen frorn a major conrcmporary American poet in the lase cen years. Everything
smiled.,. from narure poe1ns ro poems of domestic life 10 poems abouc his Harvard-era days-
If onl)' Hall's adeprness at pori rairure crossed over into his poems!-rhough, ,he suppoocdly rhrilli□g and titillating days spenr with 'Young Bly' and Kenneth Koch
somcone-n<1mcly the Academy of American PoetS-tbh\ks it does. Hall was named and John Ashbery at Harvard, wirh a young Adrienne Rich nearby. the days that
U.S. Poer L1areare on June 14th, succc-eding rwo-rern, Laureare and Pulirn:r Prize should've been rhe mosr cxciring and glamorous of his lifo---all ofit fulls inordinmely
winner Ted Kooser co the post. On making the appointment, Librari::rn of Congress Oat. It's as if-c.an you imagine it?-all the inir.ial spomancicy and exciteme.nc of these
James H. Billington said, "Donald Hall is one of America's mo$( disrinccive and poems had bc-.:n relentles.<I)', sysrcmarically pummeled our of them.
respected lirerary figures. For more than 50 years, he has writt<n beauriful poetry The only rime when Hall r<-ally hirs a high mark with his poems occurs,
on a wide variety of subjcc:rs lhat are ofre.n dis,incdy American :md corweyed wirh unforrnnarely enough, in the poems about the. illness and death of his wife Jane
passion." • Kenyon (a sirnil:uly unin\'igorating
Ah no1hing Wh p L • poet who I have often tried to love~nd
!_ibk:ua,·•,fullinpeoelitkrye y our new oet aureate 1S fuiled--so I have always thought her ,~ and Hall an apt marcl,), who died of
on a wide variecy
of subjects chac arc often distincily Americ:1n" ro really sell me on the new Laureate.!
Damned with foint prai.se, as ic were, on the very day of his appoimmenr .
.It is al·ways dishcancning when so,neone as conrrolled, mcrcrc.xl and scrubbed
as Donald Hall ascends to the post of Poer Laurcarc. One of Hall's arguably most
important contributions co rhe fidd of poetry has been :1 series of ess.1.ys and inrervicws
e.xpou,,dillg the imponancc of revision (see his essay "Flying Revision's Flag." or his
1993 interview witb Martin L.1.mmon in Kntrnl}. Rcvisioo is, of course, absolutely
necessary, in poeary or any orher kind of writing. But how about Hall's belief mar
"(You should] never, uevec sbow a poem to anybody unless you have worked on it
in solirude for ar lease six rnoncht? Or how about the fuct char one of his poems has
gone th.rough over @drafrs? Isn't char a sign tha,r you should be junking it, Donald
Hall?
Whar often stands in die way of revision for Hall is this: ,ponrn11ri1y. He rold
Lammon tb,r "ls)pooraneiry is celebrated only by tl,e nervous imellecr, by tl,c
intcllecr afraid of sceriliry ... Sponraneity tdls lies rhac ddibera,e, careful thougbr
can alter inro truth." Spontaneity, Hall believes, derives from a son of vairt self­
cxprcssio1l that can almosr never manifest imo a 'Real Poem' wirhour, apparencly.
thirty or eighry drafts between the spontaneous moment that birthed the poem and
the poem's completion.
lhke a peck imo the laresc and,ology of Halls poems, the formidably siud (and bad for poetry
ICukc1nia only fifteen months afcer her diagnosis. Hall writes of scayiog home with
her, caring for her, attending ro her 11ecds as her condition progressively ,1,-·orsened.
These poems are the real hcanbreakcrs in Hall's pond~rous new volume. \Vhen
he wrires, "You rhink that their I dying is 1he worsr rhing char could happen. /I
1ben they stay dead," it is such a simple and rruc and uncouch:tblc: senrimenr rhar I
refuse ro bdieve ir rook 600 drafts to arrive at it. lt is as if, in the grief of rbc time,
in. the relative inarrcmion which he must have been paying m his poems, his mind
,vandcrcd off his religion of revisioll inro a place Where pmting down his feelings as
,bey came became nor only preferable bur viscerally n~c,;s;,ry.
Orher dearh poems in the book are similarly touching: rhe poem from which
rhe ride of the book was taken, "Whire Apples," is abour ,he death of Hall's father.
Ir is a shorr poem with a brillian, final cwo lines-•if he called •gain / I would pur
on-my coar and g.,loshes"-and it is here, 6nally, u1ar Hall feels free, unaffcc,cd,
unencumbered by the burden of heavy-handed form and relentless revision. '.'<lhar a
shame it cook him 350 pages and dte last fifty years of ltis career roger there. _1I_1e_P_io_n_e_c_r_L_o_g_, _se_p_r_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_, _2_00_6 _________ ......._. ____________________ 1_7_
Get off yer ass
by Sanne Stienstra
AIJas & Ta.rsier is a perfecily dissonant duo, consiSLing of airy lyrics
(by ·r.irsier) mixed wich grca, be.us and sampling (by Alias). lhe
pair comes from the talcmcd underground rap label Anticon. where
Alias bas developed bis career. Alias & T.-trsier released ,heir 6rsr Full­
lengrh, Bro•kl,md!Ottklyn, bsr ,\,fay. Tuesday, however, brough1 rhc
release of ,heir second album, A Plan~ 1bat Drmus a Wlhite Line.
lrus colfaboration is said co be more synth-y and fearurc-s three
previously unreleased t.rac.ks and 6ve rerni.xes. One temix is done by 3
fellow Anlicon artisr, Odd Nosdam. 1'he duo will bear ,he Doug Fir
Lounge comorrow evening with another talented indi<.·/hip bop artist,
Ascronauralis. 830 £ Burnside. (21+) 9:00pm. $JO door.
Ben KweUer, whose larcsr seJJ .. citlcd release came our Tuesday, will
have a free in-store performance at Music Millennium next week.
Kwdlcr, who hails from San Frnocisco. has had several successful
releases in recent tears, induru11g Sha Sha and \flmud and Rudy. Free
in-srorc: Music Millennium NW, 801 NW 23rd. Thursday, Sept. 28.
6:00pm. Live show: Crys1:1I B•llroom, J 332 W Burnside. S•me \lay,
9:00pm. $ I 8.
D,p1h & Motion: 3.D Art .from NYC by Brian Loube is •n exhibir
featuring c..hree i:ery different, yet very related collect.ions of
phocography meam co be fully experienced. At You Not With You is
• collection of different fucc,, of people of aU ages, sexes and races,
1h:u seem ro smre at tJ1e vtsiror, follow their movemenrs and laugh at
chem. "It's kind oflikc a junior high school niglumarc." rhc anise cold
the rnuSt,:;um. S11bw11y !xrics iJlustr:ucs Manh:in:an-ites on the subw.ty
and their der.achmenr from their travels and r.ime. 9111 3D is a more
serious collection of stereo slides taken during and after the :macks
on tbt World Trade Cencer chat sat jusc blocks from Loube's home in
Ne,v York. 30 Cenrer of Art and f>hotogrophy. 1928 NW Lovejoy.
Open ·n,ursdays through Sundays, I :00-5:00pm. $4. £xhibir ends
Sept. 24.
UUS!RATIOt<
BY JESSE FO): INSTROM Director Michel
Gond.ry brought the
concept of erasing
memories duri11g
sleep co tbe screen in
2004 with Eternal Sun­
shine of the Spotless
Mind. Now, wirh
The Science of Sleep,
he continoes co
rouch on dre.1m•
like scares and
s11rreal lifescyles.
·n,~ film stac,; Gael
Garcia Bernal Obc
Motorcycle Diaries,
I.lad Educ;n.ion), as Stephane, a
youn.g mao our of rouch ,vich re-­
:i!ity who movt.s in to his morher's
aparrmenr. Only when Charlotte
Gainsl>ourg (21 Grams) as Sceph­
anic mo,·cs in co the apartment next
door does he mempr ro escape his
dreams and recurn co real life. Cin ...
ema 21,616 N\'(/ 21,c Ave. Friday­
'Ihursday. Sq,t. 22-Ocr. 5. 7:00 and
9: 15 p.m. Sarurd.,y and Sunday, 2: 15
and 4:30 p.m. a tussle
with
• uss1n
Llamas, clergy and meditation
Assistant Professor Justin
Tussing's newest story involves
•11arnas, tl1e People's Prize, a farm
in norrhwe.srern Conneclicur, and
a young girl of maybe eighc or I 0
years cclebra.ting her birthday," he
said.
As if rhal's nor e.xciciog enough,
1~ings oovd 71,, &st· Peopk
;,, rh, World "'"' published by
Harper-Collins in April 2006
and \\f3S pr(.,'C(..-dcd by a preview
printed in 77,e New ~rkds a.11111.ial
dCbu l fiction L~ue. 'The piece. was
condensed into a brief shorr for
71,e New Yvrk,r ar d1e suggesrion
of his age.nr. Thcsubmis.tion to 77,e
New Yorker was We largest amount
of promotion done for the novel,
as Tussing said he prefe.rs nor 10
promote his own writings.
1l1e novel represents some of
1he v1opian q"aliries of S(lcieiy
and, more specifically. ,he id,-a of by Rachel Weber
starring anew.
The story cakes place in 1973,
where 17-ycar-old Thomas Mal1ey
has just moved to northwesrern
Kencucky co start fresh. \'(11,ile
cberc. he falls into an affair with his
reacher Alice Lowe.
the story lx-gins in chc summer
and follows chdr relationship as
it grows incre:1singly rnmuhuous.
rc8octing the dlangcs in rhc
weather. Meanwhile, chcrc is an
additional sobplor involving dergy
from chc Vatican who are looking
for rniracl<.."s.
T'-1ssing cornrnen«xl th3t che
simple senrenccs used in the novel
arc.-more imponanc than the acrual
ploc.
Tussing rries ro find time ro
write on a regular basis. While he
does nor actually sit down at his
computer Oil days rhar he reaches
(Tuc'Sdays and Thursdays), he docs sir down and write for a Hrclc bir
every other day. lie also crcares
his own space ro write, he said, no
maner where he is living.
Like all writers, Tussiag said he
has tl,e good days. the bad da)'$, and
the days somewhere in bcrween.
On rhc good days and on the bad
days he will find himself writing for
longeramour11sof ri,nc, so,netimes
because he has been inspired and
orhcr times lx.-c..1.use he feds the:
need ro wrire more.
"lu.ssing uses Frank Conroy's
1ncthod of medicating on his own
te«, which 1,e said works especially
well whe.n ii comes ro editing.
Either way, he.-said, ir is
nccc.·ss:try to be faithful to one's
te.xr and co cry co understand one's
ccxr because "one writes ro figure
out what [onel koow(sJ. If you're
fuithful to ,he process, ic will make
sense." .. l .... 8 ___________________ __,.........._ _________ 1_he_P_io_n_e_er_L_o_g_._s_e_p_te_m_b_e_r_2_2_._2_00_6
A crowning year of modernism featured at Watzek
First editions of Hemingway & Lawrence; art by Picasso & Leger; lectures by Zimring, Merchant, Munk -
by Sanne Stienstra
This September, the Aubrey R. Watzek
library is hosting a special collection
entitled "The Year 1923." The exhibit
features several first editions of works by Ernest
H.emingway, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent
Mjllay, e. e. cummings and a wealth of others.
Also on display are reproductions of art made
in this notable year, by artists su,ch as Fernand
Leger, Charles Demuth, Joost Schmidt, and
ocher artists of the Impressionism, Cubism,
and Dada movements of the era.
Coinciding with the \'Vanek exhibit is a series oflecrures thar ddve ioro
the lircrary background of the period offocu.s, the art and mu.sic of this year,
.ind 1he bohemian lirer:ary scene in Portland.
Rishona Zimring. associate professor of English here ar Lewis & Clark,
spoke at rhe first lecture in chis series on Wednesday. Sept. 13, Zimring,
whose. lirerory speci::1;lry is r11odernis111, diSCl1Ssed Briti~h and European l'TI◊d­
crnismt as well as r.he m~my orhcr f:tccls of rhc changing literature and art of
1923 and the years surrounding.
"Thi.s c;)(hibit is :.:i gr~t opportunity co See how the Uterature, music and
arr of 1923 influenced one other. lhis overlapping ofinAuence is inreresr•
ing because it is true of d1e i11Aucncc.-s on artisrs of the 1imc:t Zimring sa.id.
"Because our departments arc separated by subject, it is hard ro appred:nc
modernism l>ec.1use you don•t llways gee to see rhese mediums overlap and
their i.of:lucncc on each other." ..
"'IJ,e Ye~, 1923" wlt$ inspired by rhe rnoderri poetry class Englisb Profes­
sor Mary S1.ybis, is reaching rhis semester th:u is de\'oted solely ro rhe poeuy
of this year and the years directly surrounding.
'"Some of my favorite poems in the world emerged in thjs yc.-ar, and 1
believe they srill h"ve ,he power and vitality ,oday thar ,hey did when the
6rsr lucky readers cur their pages in 1923." Szybist said. ·r.s. Elior's 71,e \l"a,r, La"d was published in 1922 in America and was
considered a m:Jjor event in liter:ny his1ory. '"lhe ye3r :'.lfcer ics publicntion
saw more new developments in an and lire.ramie. many by women and
many by the cxpatriatcs livins in Paris at chc time.
'Int class will b< re;1ding works ,uch :is New Hflmp1hir, by Ro~err Fros,,
ll11rmo11i11m by Wa.llaa: Stevens. Tulips & O,imneys by e. e. cummings,
Bird,, Bemts and jlouxn! by D. H. Lawrence and ochers. Poetry by the pio­
neering won,en of 1923 will also be sludied, induding works by Mill:iy. che
fiist woman ro receive a PuJiner Prize. Stein, Mina Loy and Edith Sitwcll.
"Rather rhan acccmpt (O sample from che tremendous range of these
poets throughout their carec:rs," Szybi.sr said, "the limitation of 1923 will
allow. I hope, dy1lamic explor~uion of rhe work that these poers cr~tcd at
chc same his,orical moment,"
Zimring notc<l in her lecrure lasr \Xlednesd:ay nighr thar five yea.rs h3ve
now pass,,d since 9/ 11 and thar, in 1923, jusr 6ve years had claps,,d since
rhe end of World \'q,,r I.
'"~n,ese are not entirely par:1Uel events, of course," Siybist said, .. bur we
are living in a world ,hat is st ill largely defined by a "iolent and devasming
cvcnr rhat cook place five years ago. 1hc same ching was true in 1923.''
The lecwrc series continues Wednesday, Sept. 27 whco Paul Merchant,
college lib~ry :lSSisrnnr and •·the brains behi1\d 1he whole operariont :1c•
cording to Zinuing> discusses che music of 1923. Merchant will also speak
on Wednesday, Oct. I I obour the art of 1923. Tbe series wiU conclude on
Wednesday, Ocr. 25 when Michael Munk, professor of poli,ica.l science at
Rurgers University, discusses Portland's bohemians. AJl lccrures are held in
Miller 105 and begin at 7:00pm. Artwork, top Left: Reminiscence, by
• U&ssih,-Kandinsfiy
Top right: Poster for 1923 Bauhaus
exhil:>it, Weimar, by joost Schmidt
Bottom left: Mother and Child, by
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Haute cuisine heats up r':
-----t) tlte ~ct
by Stephanie Beechem
The new anis.anal cheese flight ac Bluehour-rhe uJcramodcm hub of
Pear·!. District hauce cuisine, located in tbe same glamorously refiir­
bishcd warehouse as tbc ad~cr1 ising behemoth \X1ieden + Kennedy
on NW 13th-is protce<c-<l better rhan the president. Lue Sa.turday
njghc in the Bluchour dining room. a sampling of cwelve to fifteen exotic chees­
es-one of whid1 1 che waitress proudly pointed out. had jU$t wor1 a prestigious
cheese award. beating our ":ibout 950 ocher cheeses"'-arc being wheeled a.round •
on a mobile can by two Bluehour scalfers. each cheese neatly Aaggcd wirh a cag
explaining che origin~ ingrcdiems, and gastronomicaJ qualiries of the: sample.
71,e whole display is encased in a thick Plexiglas shell, much like the one used
ro prorecr ,J,, Hop, diamond from tJ,efr. And as I think silently. Are 1h,rt: really
950 varieties of ehrm in th, world?, I glaJtGe down a, the art fully monogrammed
arcisanaJ cheese menu aod notice the phrase, ... nmty undcnones wirh a piquam
afcerrasre"' and am so wanned by the unexpected and lovely use of rhe word
"piquanr," rhar I :1,n instantly won ovel'.
Second only 10 Hjggins Resrauram on Broadw.,y
and Bluehoor's sryli.sh sis1cr restauram. Balvo, on
NW 23rd, Bluehour is doubrlcssly the best place
in Portland ro show of'f rhe swag. Young profes­
sionals in heels and power suirs and b:mdcrafred
jewelry From France crowd the bar os the highly
onusuaJ chandeliers-long rhin met:d arms
holdiflg .i wjdc circle of gencly glowing whi1e
balls-casr a kind lighr on the impossibly
chic modern diniog room, where on any
give.,1 night the Pearl Oisrrict's suited and
scented congrf,."g;m.: for pan-seared fois gras,
.smok(.'d goose proscuiuo, or BluchourS
self-proclaimed old Standby, gnocchi
with rrumes . Por dinner I order die por:uo gnocchi with bbck truffles and fomin::t vaJ
d'uosra (but is it in the arri.sn1111' rhuu flight? L chink) off rhe r..pasta and risono''
porrioo of the menu-which, a SI 5. by Bluehour standards, is like ordering olf
die dollar nenu. Date gcrs rhe -.:ascade Natural New York S«,ak, wi1h grilled as­
paragu.si talcggio porarQ gr:trin, and sauce :iu poivre ven-which is a
more rypieal enrree price. a< $39. E.veryrhing on the co­
rrCe ponion of' 1hc menu cost.~ berw<.:.-en $24
and 542. which makes me chink rim
ordering Giamb:llvo's suggested three ..
course dinner tnighr. at $57, might nor
be such 3 bad option, if only one were
forrunate enough ro have a rcscrvarion
before it ,vas sold our.
Other enrrees on tbc menu include
swordfish, wild S:tlmon with hof( .. -seradish
crust, a veal d1op with black truffle buner,
• semolina crusred Alaskan haUbur, and griJlcd
.Ac 9pm on chis particular Sarurd:1y free range chicken wirh radicchio, kalamata
night the place is busrling, exquisircly P. ~ -. . V. olives, and a balsamic glaze. The most auda~
garnished drinks arc flowing, the din- ~ Ro11 0~ cious single itern on d1c menu is an appetiu:r
ing room is eight-fiV(' percent fi.,11, ·•1r1,. b b sreD 1\1/Jl ✓/1?? of Amerieau Sturgeon Caviar served with "1r:1di-
ond h<-ad chef Kenny Giambalvo's 1
'0'bed b • 'Y 0
''1<hok D %1r1, rional accompaniments and a choice of brioche or
19.oo ''•d <r11-b C ""«1, Po ' Bt1ss b " I II , suggested rhrc, course dirwcr SI\ ... "Jr,d •cued buckwhear linis. at S98. ,\I in a , rour drinks,
(highlighred in a chin box in rhe lMoN , .. .,_, torr1~to "' Por:itoes rwo s;i;lads. and cwo emrees, without dessert, <:omes
cenrcr of the menu: roasted quail, "'irJ, ho €/l'¼" '0
"11::'otr ' to a cool $1 00, with a $30 rip. "'•d "0"-di,h '•Ce 8 c grilled veaJ chop, and 1nillefiori S troo, . <'rus, l{EJvtvA ~. \Y/t. finally make our way out of the restaurant
liA.rol "'"'•,z7 o ' c,,c,,,.,,, • ~v• d d th l I f honey panna corra, $57)-has "''rl, INI\ C!l • O ""'•, Cr< aroun 11pm. win ing our way rough rhe ta, es o
long been sold OU(. Bur there .' 'Crf//ed UsreD "'• r...,<1,. well-heeled Pearl dimicrcrs, forks srill in their enrrees, ol,,._c () 11 S(Jm,n Af...1s (
is 1har golden chandelier GIIJ· ', c,;,p O <r sq.,.,.,1, ivt,v 1-ut ralltingand laughing, 1brough rite impos.<ibly rail, hc-avy
ligbr 6ll;ng all the shadows 11,;,h ~lED Of1£;"s« •nd b "'.'•110.,;11,, bl li/Jf.rr glass front <lnors and past a row of rabies for rwo juSt our-
on pcoplc:S faces, bouncing ::tq 'flgert;n ,ON l.A.A,, a,,119,oo :tc.Jc side the resraura.nt oa chc raised sidewalk. diners se.ucd
happily off all ,he scrubbed ei:-;;0go.,,,tJ;06;oes. i;,_,. ~ . happily in the chilly dark under the brilli;nt red glow of
silver jewdry and shiny i.;,1, ti/ E Nt1ruivi ""•• baby• raised heat lamps.
tttth. Even I've goucn S-luc-e g 1ed :tsp-if':.> l NE\~Yi 1'1.tgu/,1, And it occurs ro mt..--as i, has 1hroughouc c.he oighc-
swanked up for the ocea-311 Poi,~. 8"-', t:i/0 Oill(s,. rh,r •• a place like llluehour onc· is not onl)"»)•ing for acce$s • ·••t:,139 !:810,~ '€ti[( r-sion, and I've somehow -OQ rvr.ttc) g. . co rhc: piquant cheeses. porci,~i mushroom dumplings, and
:.cuffed my keys. crc<lit t'tttin :kl)d ~d bacon.wmpped sC".a scallops, but for u:mporary mcm-
c.1rds, -and phone into bership to this roman1ic.Jlr-lir, posh, ultramodern world in
a shiny black fuux al- which all rhe women wear knee-length Calvin Klein wool-blend
Ugamr dutch thot sirs at the pencil skin< and shiny Ferragamo heels an<l the men walk srraight
edge or the cable glinting up ar me. our of rhe J. Crew caralogue in cbarcoal grey business slacks and
We srart with safo.ds--firsr '!I sliced comaro, basil. anfully musse<t hair and Americ:in Express platinum cards in their
and fresh 1110-,-,arclla salad chat arrives. chilly, rhe romaroes ar-«us,,,,., po<kcrs, and people read the Nrru Y,,rk,r and know about art and
ranged in a tight circle on rbe plate around the pe.tfect!y round swoop ia.e,~ pronounce everything correcrly when they order and barely even look
of soft, salry rnoz,.ardla. It'• S\Vcer and simple. unlike the orher s.tl:od. a raugle of •~,,,,. at rhe bill when ir arrives.
thinly sliced appl<s and chicken served on a messy tuft of pale greens-" prcrry So ir pays to remember, ar Bluehour, char one is not simply paying for the
.irmngemcnr bur nor the sore of salad you can ear suavely. It's a good blend of food, but for rhe mood-and ir's good to know, I think, um you don'r have
r.asres, though: the round plumpness of the chicken wjth the bristly, birrcr rite ro pay a million hucks :::u a rc.srauranc in Portland co feel like .1 million. Some
greens. and jusr a hinc of sweet crunch from the :apples. nigh rs. you pay $130. Arid that makes Blueh.our. by my accoum, a Ste-al. .2 .... 0 .... ____________________ ~•I•lMf--.., ________ th_e_P_io_n_e_e_r_L_o_g_, _s_e1 .. )t_e_m_b_e_r_2_2_,_2_0_06_
Football falls in home opener against the Sagehens
By Nick Bjork
Ust S:uurd.1y markeJ the re­
ru rn of Lewis & Clark football to
Griswold $radium. as the Pioneers
Ion their homv opener ro Pomona­
l'irl.Ct 38-20.
The Sagehens ,rnick fir,,r as
qu~urcrb:tck Cody Percrson con­
nected wich wide•rccciver Macr
Martini for a 47-yard touchdown
pass.
The Pios returned 1be fuvor wich
a 71-y:ird drive on 12 plays. -rhe
drive ended with a 65-yard pas.<
from quarterback AJ llrown ('09)
to widc-r(."ccivcr Mike Wcnncrlind
('08) ro ,ie clw game 7-7 after one
quar1cr of play.
Porno11a racked on rwo more
10uchdowns in rhe second quaner
,ogive them a 21-7 halftime lead.
Sagchcn running back Andrew
Russell took the first rouchdown in
on the ground, follow,-d by anoth­
er rouchdow11 pass from Pererson
10 Martini for ,he 34-yard score.
In rhe rhird quancr. Brown
found wide-receiver James Con­
nelly C09) in the end >.on< to make
thescore21-13.
The Sagehens an1werod back
with another Russell rushing
touchdown, followed by a Mac­
th,·w Lapolla touchdown run from
the one ya.rd line. With three min­
utes lefc in the game :md trailing
the Sagehens 38-13. tl,e Pioneers
pu1 in qu:irrerback Scor~ Moyer
('07) ro finish ,he game.
On his first play of the game,
Moyer hooh-d UJ> with wide-re­
ceiver Br•ndon Zerr-Smith C07)
for• 57-y:,rd complciion. He then
completed a 17-yard rnuchdown
pass ro \Xlenncrlind on founh-and­
thrcc for the Pios third and final
touchdown of the day.
Pomona's Peterson ended rhe
day with 270 y:rrds passing for rwo
touchdowns a!ld completed IS of
his 31 passillg arrcn{plS. Mardni
had 154 yards receiving on nim:
catches and two touchdowns. On
,he ground, running back L1polh
had 145 yards on 24 c.1rries.
For rhe Pioneers, 13rown fin­
ished rhe game with 188 yards and
rwo rnuchdowns while completing
14 of his 32 J>OSSCS, bur also threw
three interceptions.
In three minmes of pl.tyt Moyer
was 3-5 with 81 y:ird.s and a couch­
down pass.
The incredible rccc:iving core
for the Pios, anchored by Wcnnc~
rlind ~,nd Zerr-Smith, lived up to Enthusiastic football fans cheer on the Pioneers during
their home opener against the Pomona Sagehens.
"I was very pleased with-the enthusiasm of both
the players and fans ... but we still need ro grow as a
ream and work on improving each and every day."
• • -Ryan Osborne ('07)
their ei<pecrarions. Zerr-Smith
caught nine balls for 114 yards and
a touchdown. Wh.ik Wennerlind
had 89 yards receiving and two
rouchdowns on only three catches.
On defense for Lewis & Clark,
linebacker Kevin Takeno ('09) lead
rhc team wich 1 l tackles. four of
which \\'ere solo including a sack. On the defensive line, Erik Ger­
wick ('07) had six rnckles. Gerwick
made his defensive plays count
wich 3.5 rncklcs for a loss, a sack
and a forced-fumble. Although the
team loSt, borh the players and fun.s
were excited to bring foorball b•ck
to Griswold Stadium after a long
and ucachcrous off .. scasora.
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The Pios showed off their new helmets to the home crowd
on Saturday, but unfortunately they came up short 38-20.
"l was very plcasc.xJ with the en­
thusiasm of both the players and
fans/" said running b~ck Ry.u1 Os­
borne ('07) "bur we still need ro
grow as a team and work on im ..
proving each and every day." With
wcU over 400 people in ancnd:mcc,
thc.·rc was an cruirdy new and <.·n­
thusiru.tic atmosphere rrom both
,he pla)'<IS and funs at Griswold
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scay.
·n,e Pioneers (0-2) hir the road
rhis weekend as they tr:wd to Col­
orado Springs to ploy Colorndo
College. The Pios are looking for
revenge as they lost to Colorado
last season 38-35. The game prom­
ises to be one of Lewis & Clark·s
best mo,ch-ups of the ye:ir.
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It's Sara Kettler's block party and you are all invited
by Aron Phillips
Coming off rhe bcsr season rhc
progrnm has seen since 1991, the
Pioneer volleyball rerun has been
challenged in 2006 to build on las,
s<"ason's succa,s.
Of the Piooeers' cwdvc games,
five of them have b"·cn against op­
ponems ranked in the Top 25-in­
cluding a visit last week from rhe
University of Lo Verne, ranked ~3
in the na,ion. Ahhough rhe prog·
ress rhe Pioneers have made may
not show up in the box scores, this
young t<.-arn has matured 1remen•
dously in the past few weeks.
Over rl1csummer, the ream rook
sever~! big injury hirs, leaving the
squad with some sudden holes 10
fill. Forrunatdy, rhc Pio11eers hove
be-en able to boaSt • very ralenred
and experienced core, anchored by
6-foor-2, budding superstar Sara
Kettler ('08).
Kcrder, an Environmeotal
Studies major from Dana Poioc)
California, came ioto the season as
oi,c of the ,op-ren oil-rime !coding
blockers in Lewis & Cla1k history.
Ploying middle blocker for the
Pioneers, Kcrdcr regisrered 20 solo
blocks as a frc:shmon, 37 as a soph•
omore and has :ilre::'ldy recorded 14
solo blocks this season -putting
her in fourth place on the all-dmc
list surpassing form.er reammate,
and second team All-Cooference
player Audrey DiJling ('06).
Already this season, Kerdcr has
collected a Pioneer Athletic Club
Athlete of rhe Weck award when
she had 41 kiUs in 6ve matches, to
go along witb 13 solo blocks and
eight block assisrs. During that
srre,ch. against
Pomona, Keuler
scored 14 kills on
17 anempts with
no errors i,1 rhe
Pioneers' vicrory.
But don'r
think Kettler is
chc only Pioneer
receiving rbe 3C­
col:idcs. Keuler,;
fronrcourr ream ..
mate, • junior
Nicki Smith from
Brea, Californio
also garnered a
PAC Athlere of
the \'(/eek award
just this past
week,
ln ,he Norrh­
west Conference
opener against
the George Fox
Bruins, Smith
had 24 lolls ond
seven digs; along
wid) four•srraighr
matches with
doublc-<ligirlolls,
including scoring
10 ag,tiJlSI 113 L,1
Verne. (At the
time of press,
Smith is averag­
ing an oudand-
ing 9.58 kills per match this sea­
son.)
With rhcdyoamicduoofKerder
and Srnirh firing on all cylinders,
Northwest Conference opponents
should be scared. This weekend,
the Pioneers head to eastern \'q,15h. ingcon for a pair of marches.
Tonigbt, the Pion«ers will rake
on the Whirworth Pirarcs ln Spo­
kane ar 7:00p.m. and then hcod tO­
WaUa Walla on Saturday for a 4:00
p.m. march against the Whitman
Missionaries.
Every Monday and Thursdoy
afternoon College Outdoors offers
rhc Stoneworks Climbing Clinic.
The shuttle will leave Templeton at
5: I 5pm and rerurn at 8:00pm. 'Ihe
ride is free. buc gym fees and reruaJs
are not indudc-d. An adult day pass
is $IO and a d.iscounred monthly
pass is $35 for LC smdenrs. If you
~ot co go, make sure co sign up by
noon of rhar day. To 6nd om more
abouc Swnc.works check our Lhe
website at www.belay.com.
College Ourdoors is also hosting
a Caving Clinic whicb will be tak­
ing place on Sarurday, Oct. 21 a11d
Sunday, Ocr. 22. Sign up sheers go
up today (Friday) at 9:00nm. l"he
trip costs $20. For more inform••
tion cal.I or visir the College Out•
doors office in Templcron at cxtcn·
son 7116. Junior Sara Kettler (left and above) spearheads the Pios
front line as they head into co_nference play.
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Ultimate shows off their skills Pioneer Trade-ables
by Hunter Franks
lewis & Clark College srudcnrs
are hip, trendy, and jusr plain cool.
Not a phrase ofrcn heard. Yet, ir ap­
plies ,o ,he Lewi; & Clark Wom•
en's and Men's Ultimare Frisbee
team:i. Nor because rhey are diving
for diS<S wirh popped collars while
Jn il'od carapulrs rhc larcst Gnarls
l\arkley runt into their ears.
Ra,hcr, they are following an­
other national rrcnd: the growing
popularity of ultimare Frisbe<: on
college campuses.
1his year~ the \Xlomcn's tearn,
named Artemis after the Greek
goddess of the hunt, has added 24
players co their rosier. Flhe /vtcn's
team, named Bacchus, has also
stacked up on new players tbis •
year.
"\Y/c arc very excired by rhese
numbers because rhey show the po­
tcmial for expanding the ul,imarc
program and getting recognition,"
s:aid Arcemis co .. captain Chris Kiser
('08).
After competi11g in numerous
rournarncnts and beginning to
make a name for themselves last
yc:ar1 Artemis began this year lasr
Saturday afternoon wirh the Club
Sectionals Tournament at Reed
College.
Artemis began the toum.amcnt
by fucing off againsr Schwa, a na-POOTO COURTESY Oft!$ MJSER
Lewis & Clark's Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team engages
in their traditional pregame cheer.
tionally rank,d Pon:land club ream.
Artemis played well bur was simply
overmarched by Schwa, fulling by a
rally of I 5-1.
In their second game of the
tOurnarnem Artemis battled tough
agai,ist a mixed team from Cor"aJlis
but came out with their second loss
of ,he day.
In the final game of the nighr,
Arrcmis pounded rival Reed 13-3.
Artemis was happy with their play,
considering ,hey had only practiced
once as a team leading up to the
rournamcm.
The Men's team, who made a
name for themselves by finishing
third at the Division Ill National
championships Im year, compet­
ed in the same tournament as rhe women at Reed. They beat Pacific
by a score of 13-10 in a game Ula(
,cam captain Grant Cole ('09) in­
si.srs "was much rnore one sided
than the score reAecred." In ,he
second game of the day Bacchus
wenc up against Recd.
Bacchus was up ar halfrim_e by
a score of 8-3 but rhen Cole suf­
fered a dislocated jaw and a minor
concussion and had ro rush to the
hospiral. With ,heir caprain gone,
Bacchus could nor conYCn offen­
sivdy and ended up losing a right
game to Recd 17-16.
'"\Y/e haYe srrong alumni sup­
port and have worked hard to cre­
ate a ream rhat has a strong repu~­
rion in the Nonhwesr and around
rhc country," said Cole.
Upcoming Schedule
Football: -Saturday, Sept. 23 @ Colorado College. l :OOpm
Soccer: -Saturday, Sept. 23 vs. Willamette. 12 noon
-Wednesday. Sept. 27@ Pacific, 4:30pm
Cross Country: -Saturday, Sept. 30, Willamette Invitational, 9:30am
in Salem, Ore.
Volleyball: -Friday, Sept. 22 @ Whitworth, 7:00pm
-Saturday. Sept. 23 @ Whitman, 4:00pm
lntramurals: -Hoops League. Sept. 27@ Pamplin, 10:00pm
-Ultimate Frisbee, Sept. 27@ Lower Field, 3:30pm Each week the Piolog will highlighr two athleres who have gone
above and beyond the call of duty in their respective sport. Collect
them all and trade with your friends!
This week we look at Volleyball srar Kelsey Clark ('09). She
comes ro LC from Eagle Creek, Ore, where she was a third team all
performer. She is third on the ream in blocks and was a big conrrib­
uter in rhe l'ios win over George Fox. She also dorninar,cs the coun
in lnrramural ba,ke1ball.
Football player Danny Lockard (' I 0) gcrs the nod as well. 17,e
younger brother of senior Ryan, is making a name of his own. He
was all over rhe field agajnst Pomona and anyone in attendance
srill reinembers rhe vicious hit layed on a helpless Sagehen. The
defensive back is sure to be a key co the Pios success for rhe next
four years. _lh_e_P_i_o_n_ee_r_L_o_g_,_s_e ... p_1e_m __ b_e_r_22_, 2_0_0_6 _________ j§i§,i•€1 ____________________ 2_3_
The Calendar: What's happening this week at LC
Friday,
September 22
0Ooi.ng a thesis this year?0 Workshop
3:15 PM
Location:J.R. Howard, Room 114
A workshop designed for seniors that wiU be
\Vdting an in•dcpth paper this year. Ir will
cov<"r, among other topics, how co overcome
stress, proc.r:tsrinntion and str::ttegies to aid
chc;: writing process. Because of room size, at ..
ccndaocc will have to be Jirniccd,
Tuesday,
September 26
CAS Faculty-Student Collabora,ivc
Research Pre.ientations
3:30PM
Location: J. R. Howard, Room 122
Stepaa Simek, of the Theatre Department,
along with Kcsrryl Lowrey ('07) wUI discuss
their new rranslations of three Ct.ecb plays.
Jobn S. Rogers Science
Research Poster Conference
4:30 PM
Location: Albany Quadra11glc, Smith Hall
Refreshments arc provided while smdenrs
can learn abouc research projects conducr­
ed during u,e summer by undergrads along
with science foculry. Also information for
prospective researchers and upc.oming proj---
ccts available.
"Dofog a thesis this )'Car?'' Writiog \Vork­
shop
3:15 PM
Location:J.R. Howard, Room ll4
A workshop designed for seniors chat will Ix
engagillg in writing an in-depth paptr chis
year. ft will cover, among ocher copies, how
to overcom,· stress, procrastination and s1 rar­
cgics ro aid tbc writing process. BecauS< of
room size, anendancc will be limited. Saturday,
September 23
• S<,a Kayak the Colombia Gorge
All-day event
Colkgc Outdoors hosrs a paddling trip along
rhe Colombia River Gorge, and parrici­
pams will experience the bc.1utiful scenery
of southwest Washington. 1l1e trip will help
reacb basic sea kayaking skills.
For further details. conrac, College Our­
doo,s.
Wednesday,
September 27
Chcm.istry Scm in:u
1:50PM
Locacion: Olin, Roon,30 I
Tyler Adinr reveals his Senior Seminar
Presentation.
Office of Overseas & Olf-Campus
Information Meeting
3:30PM
Locatjoo: Counc,U Chambers
Thls mceciog is for studC'nt$ i1uercsred io
off-campus and overseas programs. Program
coordina1or:s :arc 10 discuss ,md answer qucs-
dons. and 10 prcscnr program details.
Philosophy Colloquium: TI1eory, Public
Policy and Non-Human Aoi·mats
3:30PM
Location: J. ~-Howard, Room 302
Profrssor Ramona Ilea will assess the phil­
osophical merirs and pote11tial for social
change of rite 1heory called "the capabilirics
approach," as well as rhe relationship
between the rwo.
Choosing a Major
4:00PM
Location: Albany Quadrangle, Room 218
A seminar ro help srudencs by tying in their
imercsrs, v;,lues and career goals and using
them to dcccrminc which major firs
them be.«. Sunday,
September 24
Sundays with the Oregon Symphony
7:30 PM
Location: Schoit.ur Cc:mccrl Hall
Cost: $10 (witb student cickcts}
Conductor Carlos Kalmar and pianisr Valen­
tina Lisirsa lead d1e symphon)' concert, rhe
music or which runs the ganrnr from sweep-
ing concertos co orchcstraJ com<.-dy.
AJOSWalk
8:00 AM -12.:0() PM
Location: Pioneer Square
Walk the river front with fellow students and
UniScx to support rhe Ca.scide Al OS Proj­
t'Ct. Oonalions can be m~,de online.
Website: aidswalk.com
Thursday,
September 28
Underground l'oruaod WaJk;ng Tour
2:00PM
Location: Pioneer Square
Cost: $15
Think )'OU know Porrlandi Ger ro know all
of the City of Roses' hidden secrets and all of
the scandalous acti;iries char have occurred
0v<r the past 100 years. A 6ne opporrunit)'
ro k·arn about the tnnh of rhe city you now
call "home."
Developing a Resume and Cover Lener
4:00 PM
Loeacion: Albany Quadraogle, Roow 207
l his work.shop stresses the importance and
proper use of a resume and rover lecter, borh
of which arc necessary in professional docu­
ments, including applications for full-time
or p3rt-tirne employmcms.
Portland Twilight Farmers Market
3:30 PM -7:30 PM
Ecotrusc (Pearl District, Portland)
Enjoy spring produce, artisan foods and
namraUy grown garden pl.anr.s ar rhe farmers
marker in dow1,rown Porrlan<l. Monday,
September 25
Sri Lan.kan Pt.-acc aod PoUtics Lecture
6:00PM
Location: Templeton, 11tayer Rooms
Guest lecturer Sagala Raonayaka discusses
-:tnd 31\Swers questions relevant to Sri Lanka,
including the Sri Lankan civil war, the peace
proc<.".ss and struggle for peace and the effec,s
char a time of u1ueaso,, have upon the coun-
try :and ir.s denizens.
Friday,
September 29
Charles Wilkinson: Wildness and the Soul
of the American West
7:30 PM
Location: Flanagan Chapel
Charles Wilkinson will discuss tlte crucial
role of ,he Federal and Indian lands, as chis
copk was referenced ac large in 1Us writings
and his chirtcen books on the subject, the la,-
csr of which poses the question,
"can the Indian voice endure?"
BiceotennfaJ Symposium: Legacies
All day event
Location: Albany Quadrangle and
Flanagan Chapel
1he finaJ symposium commemorating
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and
rhe profound effect that their expedicion had
on rhe American Wes,. LC faculcy and guest
speakers will -.1.tttmpl co determine whl"re ex ...
pl oration is headed in rhc 21st century. 24 Lhe Pioneer Log. September 22, 2006
The· Toast You Caught My Eye ...
You: Artemis player with a .streak of red in your h3ir
Gora face like asupenno,lel, body like a coke borrlc
Me: Jusr a play.i, "'The Toast" is a featu,rc wb.ich a11ows the student body
to pay homage to something they fee.I descrvc.s respect.
Piolog sirorigly encourages student submissions-they
can be sent via email to heotge.f@ldark.edu.
TI1is week, Back.Door Editor Grant Hentges makes the
ina ural toast to lbu rofen. Shrooms or brooms' ·n,, good life or housewife! You pick.
On chose mornings when rhe sweet brt'ath or p:,in You: Rccei,•cr having:, hml rime hanging onto b:tlls
Me: Hoping you can hang omo mh'le.
Had, breathed 100 hard, and poundeth tl>rough mine
brain.
E.1ch futeful Sund:>)', afrcr night bleeds ro morn,
'l11c late nighc carousing is now but a thorn Sexy thearcr boy: While you're mile high this weekend gasping for air, i'II
be cuddled in your cu,hy queen cama.
In my head! In my hc.-ad! I need some relief.
For ph~ica, pain merits more than mere grief.
So 10 you I rum, my n,osr dependable:
Oh, Ibuprofen! Mose commendable!
You st't:, for me. I cannot deny,
There ls bur one non-st<:roilfal anri .. inAammatory drug in
mine eye.
Your dense outer shdl dissolves in my rhro:tt,
Of your peppery '""e myself I will ,1uore:
... Ilic taste! 1he rasrc! It pains me so,
That this is nor SOmcching of which my peers k.l\o\v!""
h is true that minl' kidneys fed ac chcir best
\'(,'hen excessive cxcrecion of lithium has been dcprcsst-d.
(c is so romantic, it leads me a shiver,
·1nl' loweced levels of prosrogla.ndills cause me to quiver.
But rake heed, my brothers and sisters, no, ro all this
:1pplies,
For mochers who are nursing chis drug clenles.
re saddens me so, ro think d1~n anon
M)' 100 dearesr tablets will depart, wirhour spawn.
Oh bt-H to just ponder th·:u thin blood in my veins,
e,,couragcs celebration, dancing. ample champagne. Weekly
Photo
Fix
This photo, of a sculpmrc
ou1Side of Olin Hall. wo-<
captured on a rainy eve~
ning by an inspired young
lad (Gr.int Hemges, Back­
Door Editor).
in the "Weekly Photo J-;i.x,n
please-send it by email to
hc11tgd@lclark.edu.
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