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A&E:Features:Forum:Executive Council redrafts constitution
by Danny Garcia // editor in chiefby Sanne Stienstra // editor in chief
Forum:
Forum:
Smoking
policy up
for debate
Executive Council, including Deputy Speaker of Activities Congress Cary Young (’10), Vice President of Student
Organizations Brad Elkins (’10), and President Shane Rivera (’09), are quietly redrafting the ASLC constitution.ILLUSTRATION BY KATELYN MUNDAL
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page 8 page 12 page 14/T_h e Executive Council has been redraft-
ing the bylaws for student government over
the past few months and is preparing to re-lease the fi nal draft to the student body some time next week. /T_h e fi rst draft, originally
prepared by Vice President of Student Orga-
nizations Brad Elkins (’10), outlines an en-tirely new form of student government for Lewis & Clark that would create a student senate to go along with Executive Council.
According to Elkins, the current draft
speculated that there would be 12 senators
in the body, three from each class. /T_h e sena-
tors and the Executive Council would make
up the senate. Along with the new senators, Elkins said that there would be two new po-sitions on Executive Council: a Senate Sec-
retary and a representative from the Student
Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Each
member would have equal voting rights.
/T_h ere will also likely be some reorganiz-
ing of responsibilities between the new Ex-ecutive Council, according to Elkins.
When asked what sparked the change, El-
kins said that Council members in the past have said that the “system is not working as it stands.”
“I agreed to do a rough draft over winter
break,” said Elkins. “/T_h e whole idea was to make it more effi cient and transparent.”
News of the redrafting has been kept rela-
tively quiet, however. “We wanted to come
to a consensus before presenting it to the
students,” said Deputy Speaker of Activities
Congress and Executive Council member
Cary Young (’10). “We’re planning on hav-
ing two forums and invite e-mails and such
[to discuss the draft].”
“Nothing is set in stone,” said Elkins.
Besides changing the governing body and
procedure, the draft earlier this week had added some restrictions on who would be al-
lowed to participate in the student govern-
ment body. According to President Shane
Rivera (’09), one of the changes is to increase
the GPA requirement to 2.75. Young said re-
search on other college governments inspired
this change.
Other limitations to eligibility were add-
ed, according to Executive Vice President
Lindsay Alt (’11). For one, only juniors and
seniors would be allowed to run for president and executive vice president.
Another restriction was an exclusion of
Campus Living Advisors (CLAs) and interns
from holding offi ce, but these two clauses
have been removed, said Young.
/T_h ese particular restrictions will probably
not show up on the fi nal draft unless called for by the student body. What does seem to be part of the draft,
according to Alt, is the replacement of the
First Year Advocate position by the three
senators.
/T_h e future of the revisions will depend on
a vote by the undergraduate student body of LC. But some fear that the voters might rush
it through without much consideration. “It
can be really easy for this to become pub-
lic, have a student speak and then put it to
a vote,” said Alt, who calls for more con-sideration before action. “I cannot begin to
stress how important it is for students to be
involved.”
Although most of the revising has taken
place in closed session by Executive Coun-cil, former President Autry Liggett (’09) was
allowed to take a look at an earlier draft. “I
believe it’s a good and comprehensive form
of government,” said Liggett. “I’m very, very
pleased.”
/T_h e revisions to the draft were not fi nal
by the time of printing. Council predicted that the fi nal draft should be made available
to students on Monday.
Once that happens, students are en-
couraged to voice their opinions about the
revisions in their entirety and to partake
in forums, which will be announced later.
Before fi nalized, the new constitution will
need to be voted on by the student body./T_h e Lewis & Clark Faculty Council
presented the Executive Council with a resolution about smoking on campus late last semester, which is currently being ad-dressed by the Substance Use and Abuse Task Force, co-chaired by Dean of Stu-dents Celestino Limas and Coordinator of Health Promotion & Wellness Melissa Osmond.
An online survey about smoking on
campus will go out to all students, faculty and staff of the LC community on Mon-day.
/T_h e resolution that was presented to
the Executive Council stated: “In response to chronic complaints about secondhand cigarette smoke among the LC communi-ty, the Faculty Council recommends that the Executive Council institute a policy that confi nes smoking to specifi c loca-tions on the LC campuses,” while it also advised that the Council “initiate a cam-
pus-wide discussion” about the eff ects of
smoking at LC.
Associate Professor of History Andrew
Bernstein is part of the Faculty Council
that presented the resolution last year.
Bernstein believes “that the current policy
doesn’t work to the satisfaction of many
people.”
“/T_h e Faculty Council came to a con-
sensus that the way smoking is now man-aged on campus is a problem,” he said, “mainly because it inadequately protects nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.”
Daena Goldsmith, professor of com-
munication, also sits on the Faculty Council and assisted in presenting the resolution. “/T_h e thing that won me over to this position was hearing about faculty and staff who are allergic to smoke or who have really bad asthma,” she said. “[/T_h ey] come into their offi ce and smell smoke because of the way it comes in through the air intakes.”
Goldsmith also believes that smok-
ing on campus should be reevaluated by students, faculty and staff because of the “broader” eff ects, like “the environmen-tal, social justice and public health impli-cations,” she said.
Students have also been displeased
about other students smoking around the dorms on campus. “Many undergraduate
Continued on pg. 3, SMOKING
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by Tom Meath // news editorStudents “pay it forward” at blood drive
The Red Cross was on campus Thurs -
day, Feb. 12 collecting blood from students.
The organization makes the trip to Lewis &
Clark every year, and spends the majority of
their time traveling to different locations and
recruiting citizens to donate their blood.
From 8:30 a.m. until 1:15 p.m., approxi -
mately 70 students took the time to donate.
First time donor Nikki Hamilton (’11) was
nervous but wanted to help the cause, be -
cause “it seems like a good thing to do,” she
said.
“You could save 3 lives,” said Marni Bates
(’12), “that is huge!” Bates explained that if
donors personalize it, thinking about family
needing the blood, the importance of giving
blood increases.
Another first-timer out to give blood was
Michael Tofte (’12) who knows that “blood
is always in demand” and wanted to do his
part.
Collections Operation Supervisor of the Red Cross, Chris Corrigan, spent the day
preparing supplies for each volunteer as well
as assisting with students who felt dizzy.
According to Corrigan, “the school year
is a good time for collection,” as high school
and college students “contribute to approxi -
mately 20% of blood donations.”
Corrigan’s team is based out of Legacy
Emanuel Hospital in Portland, yet it collects
blood as far north as the Canadian border, as
far south as Eugene and as far east as Hood
River.
There are 20-30 blood drives each day
and the collected blood gets sent to 80 differ -
ent hospitals in the area.
Donators must weigh at least 110 pounds,
have general good health and be at least 16
years old. After reading a instructional book -
let, donators answer 50 questions about their
lifestyle, travel and health history and they
receive a physical. Then they get on a bed
and have 1 pint (2 cups) of blood pumped
from their arm.
“I am surprised at how completely pain -
less this is,” said Emma Redfoot (’12), while
squeezing a ball and watching blood pump
out of her. “I get to sit here, squeeze this
warm thing, and have a nice relaxing time!”
Corrigan said only 3% of people get light -
headed after donating blood, but all donors
are encouraged to hang out for a while, drink
some juice and have a snack.
Grace Zelenski (’12) was one of the few
who got dizzy enough to need assistance. “I
felt fine, and then ‘Whoosh!’” she said. “It
was kinda cool, my mind was conscious and
separate from my body.”
Overall, donors felt good about “paying it
forward,” as Bates put it.
Bauman added, “It’ll be karma when I
am in the hospital getting somebody else’s
blood!” by Hannah Meganck // staff writerEmma Redfoot (’12) donated blood at the Red Cross blood drive in Stamm held Thursday, Feb. 12.
Approximately 70 people each donated one liter of blood at LC last week.Photo By haNNah MegaNckcrime Beat / Crime Beat / CrimeCrime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Be / Crime Beat / Crime Beat /at / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat D A student reported theft
from the Watzek Library
on Feb. 8.
D An employee reported the
remains of a small fire in
lower campus on Feb. 11. Fire and Mice
Some say lower campus will end
in fire,
Some say in killer mice.
From what I’ve learned on
TV’s MacGyver,
I side with those who vote for fire.
But if it had to go down twice,I know enough of what
psych labs create
to say behaviorally conditioned
killer mice
with rapid heart rate,
would also be a suitable
device.
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Smoking policy options weighed Pamplin lecturer
discusses racial
cues in politics
by Richard Mailey // staff writer
Casino
Night
Lewis & Clark’s annual
Casino night was held
Saturday, Feb. 14 in Tem -
pleton. The Valentine’s
Day timing may have
affected attendance, but
attendees enjoyed an
abundance of prizes,
including candy bars and
an iPod nano.Photo by Natalie baker
from SMOKING, pg. 1
smoke because students will smoke
outside of the resident halls and
that’s their home,” Limas said.
While the original resolution re -
quested that smoking be confined
to designated areas throughout the
three LC campuses, the survey will
present three options to the com -
munity about the policy.
The first option would favor
maintaining the current 25-foot
rule, the second would support
creating designated smoking areas
on campus, and the third option
would make the campus entirely
smoke-free.
The survey will act as the stim -
ulus for the “campus-wide discus -
sion” the Faculty Council sug -
gested in December. After the LC
community votes on the issue, the
Task Force will then make a recom -
mendation to the Executive Coun -
cil about what actions should be
taken.
“I think that the Task Force’s next step then would be to actu -
ally quantify what is the cost of any
change that the task force would
propose to those of us on Execu -
tive Council, because we have to
know,” Limas said. “We can’t just
say we are going to be smoke-free.”
Besides the monetary costs in -
volved with changing this policy,
there are other issues to be consid -
ered by the Task Force and the Ex -
ecutive Council.
“There is also the neighborhood
component,” Limas said. “If the
College were ever to go smoke-free
in the future, I would hate to see
someone wanting to uphold and
really honor our no smoking pol -
icy by going across the street and
standing in front of someone else’s
house to smoke.”
The survey will be available to
the LC community for three weeks
and once the results have been cal -
culated, they will be made available
to the public.
“Unfortunately what can re -Professor Vincent Hutchings of the University of Michigan
gave a guest lecture to Lewis & Clark students in Council Cham -
bers last Thursday, Feb. 12.
The lecture was organized as part of the Black History Month
series, which will continue throughout February at LC and ad -
dressed the subject of racial priming techniques commonly used
in election campaigns.
Professor Hutchings spoke from the outset of his desire for an
“interesting and provocative discussion” based around what he re -
ferred to as “a research agenda designed to explore the ways in
which the elite attempt to influence our evaluation of political
optics.”
He suggested that, “many Americans still embrace negative
racial stereotypes.” He showed a number of campaign advertise -
ments in an attempt to demonstrate how political candidates can
effectively exploit racial stereotypes.
One clip, a Republican campaign commercial from the Bush-
Dukakis presidential race, made explicit reference to Willy Hor -
ton, an African-American who had previously been convicted of
rape and murder. Hutchings suggested that these negative conno -
tations represented a “subtle cue intended to prime negative racial
attitudes.”
Professor Hutchings also outlined a number of research experi -
ments which he had carried out to investigate voter malleability
as a result of exposure to “stereotype consistent” racial cues. He
argued that the results of these studies were overwhelming in their
exposure of “racial influence in modern America.”
Hutchings also accused President Barack Obama of using
negative racial cues to attract white voters during his presiden -
tial campaign last year. He claimed that Obama’s use of priming
tactics marked a continuation of Democratic strategies employed
successfully by former Democratic President Bill Clinton the pre -
vious decade.
After his lecture, Professor Hutchings opened up the floor to
students and faculty members. Confronted by sustained pressure
from faculty, Hutchings refused to accept distortions of his pro -
posed theories, noting his reluctance to “push the data as far as it
will go” as some suggested he should.
Student reaction appeared to be a little more forgiving. One
student, Betto van Waarden (’10) said he found it “interesting
that they do research like this.” Van Waarden also suggested that
there are possible merits of applying research techniques such as
those referenced by Professor Hutchings in “other countries and
perhaps even other regions of the United States.”
ally hinder an effort like this that
may be done for good reasons is
poor communication,” Limas said.
“So making certain that we’re very
open about that is really key.”
So far, there have been positive
responses to the Task Force’s plans
about tackling the issue. “I think
it’s good that they are asking for
input,” said Maria Brown (’10).
“If you feel strongly about it, you’ll
be sure to answer the survey and if
you don’t care, then you won’t, so it
will be accurate in that way.”
Members of the Faculty Council
have also been receptive to the ac -
tions the Task Force has made thus
far. “I think that for some small
group just to say from the top
down we’re going to be smoke-free
is going to have limited coopera -
tion,” Goldsmith said. “I think it’s
going to be much better and much
more consistent with our values as
an institution for us to have con -
versations about this and have peo -
ple think about it.”A survey will soon be released to gauge student opinion about the school’s smoking
policy. Faculty Council has recommended an institution of designated smoking areas.Friday, September 12, 2008 Forum 4 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Having been out of the closet from the
fresh age of 16 and grown to the ripe age
(at least at clubs) of 22, I, as so many other
homosexuals, have become too complacent
with my place in society. It is easy to be con -
cerned about equality, marriage and other -
wise, but not really fight to change it at my
age as I have only had 5 boyfriends (most of
them in high school, and never for longer
than 6 months).
Marriage seems so distant that although I
recognize the importance of equality in it, I
am more concerned with the 10-page essay
due next week, the guy who checks me out
on the MAX in downtown Portland, what
I want to do for a career when I graduate
college with a degree in English Literature,
which I love, but which funnels me into be -
ing either a writer or teacher. Let’s be honest:
there are enough David Sedarises and Augus -
ten Burroughses in the world, and, though I
love kids, over $50 a year is quite enough, at
least I would get summers off.
The fact remains that my government-
assigned inequality should dwarf all of these
concerns, and, as of late, it has. I should be
writing a 10-page essay right now.
I am not one to believe that movies can
change one’s life: my favorite genres are hor -
ror and porn. After seeing Milk, however, I
am of the opinion that movies can reinspire
us to act up. The true story the movie told is
itself not necessarily about victory, the tragic
end of Harvey Milk and George Moscone’s
lives make that apparent, but the importance
of the fight. I have stopped fighting.
It is true that times have changed for ho -
mosexuals. At 16 I was more of an activist
than I am today and faced adversity in the form of hate mail to my high school mail -
box after the Albuquerque Journal published
an article about the “phenomenon” of an
openly gay teenager, called “Pride (Not
Prejudice).” Those letters, however, were the
only adversity I faced so I, consciously or
not, began to forget that it was important to
continue fighting because there was no real
danger, nobody really “cared” that I was gay.
The newspaper article went from being hung
on my bedroom wall, to on my desk, to in
a notebook, to on the shelf, to right back in
the closet.
This devolution is hap -
pening across the gay com -
munity. As our presence
becomes increasingly appar -
ent and “accepted,” we are
all becoming complacent
merely with being “safe.”
Until we have all the rights
afforded to every other
American citizen regardless
of race, nationality, gender,
ad nauseum, ad infinitum,
we are in the most dangerous place possible:
a gray area. And as people of the rainbow, we
must refute this with all of our gusto, with all
we can muster, by fighting.
The Declaration of Independence declares
that all men are created equal and have cer -
tain unalienable rights: life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. It is time to pursue our
happiness by achieving equality. If Ameri -
ca was founded on the idea of “no taxation
without representation,” then we must stop
paying our taxes. We must take to the streets
and show that although we are “tolerated,”
tolerance is not enough. Although we are
“accepted,” acceptance is not enough. The only thing that is enough is equality, through
and through. And I have had enough.
I am angry. I hope you are angry, too. The
absence of total
equality in the
form of the
1,138 rights
afforded to
m a r r i e d
couples is
a constant
reminder
of homosexual inferi -
ority. It is social seg -
regation, a force of
utter separation. A
force of dehuman -
ization. Let us rise
up and show the
world just how
human we are,
how brutally
human we
can be.
Let us
wear pins
p r o u d l y by Seth Stambaugh // guest writerFinding Atlantis: the quest for gay equality
When you fly Frontier Airlines with
your frequent flier miles, they happily up -
grade you to “classic.” Cwlassic is like first
class, except that they don’t offer first class
on Frontier, so instead they give you free
television and courtesy boarding and call
it “classic.”
While I was flying “classic” this past
weekend, after
Obama’s press
conference was
over, and after
CNN had given
some decent but
u n i n t e re s t i n g
feedback, I de -
cided to see what
good ol’ Fox
News had to say.
I have never watch
Fox News, simply be -
cause I don’t have cable. I hear vicious
rumors that Fox spews lies like facts,
and is generally the least-credible while
still widely-available news source in this
hemisphere. So I wanted to see for my -
self.
I was not disappointed. About two
weeks ago in the New York Times Online ,
there was a great interactive graph of eco -
nomic downturns of the last 150 years.
They showed only the plummet, so you
could compare how the recession of the
1980s only suffered a relative half the de -
cline of the Great Depression. Similarly,
there is a very cool poster in the Econom -
ics department showing an overall com -
parison of economic growth in the U.S.
and where particularly important presi -dencies map onto it.
What I discovered from looking at
both items was that our current economic
decline closely follows that of the Great
Depression in its suddenness and its mag -
nitude. It also shows that FDR’s election
sharply altered the economic landscape
and turned a depression into long-term
growth.
The Fox News show I
tuned in to was “On the
Record with Greta,” where
her only guest was another
Fox News show host, Sean
Hannity. She asked him
his opinion on the Obama
press conference. The
following are para -
phrases:
Simply said, we
are not experiencing
a downturn any more severe
than what we experienced in the ’80s.
– Lie. See: any actual economic
data.
FDR’s New Deal policies ruined the U.S.
economy more than they ever helped. – Lie.
We wouldn’t be here today without it.
In fact, Obama would be better off
adopting Reagan-era policies, like the ones
that saved us in the ’80s. – Lie. We would
be a couple trillion dollars less in debt
were that the case.
I was amazed to find that the talk
show host said things that were, on a
purely factual basis, utterly false. With
such high ratings, it’s no wonder so many
are still deluded about the severity of our
economic crisis and the extreme measures
that are required to fix it.by Kiersi Burkhart // staff writerFox News: fear and balanced
by Melody Parker // forum editorEvans at 4:00 p.m.:
a rumination on noise
Templeton Award:
The musical cacophony that my ears are
presently trying to make sense of includes
three pianos, one opera-singing soprano, a
string duet, and is that a…duck?
I signed up for piano lessons this semester
hoping that a few hours of practice here and
there would be a serene vacation from the
enormous amount of time I spend silently
staring at computer screens and textbooks.
Little did I know that Evans music center is,
in fact, one of the noisiest places on campus.
The cardboard walls of the practice rooms
in Evans not only make me self-conscious
about my own playing, but provide no pro -
tection from outside musical forces. Old fli -
ers taped across the small windows of the
practice rooms serve the purpose of shel -
tering my private rehearsals from nosy mu -
sicians, but also leave me listening to and
questioning the (strangely) unidentifiable
noises around me.
The soprano a few rooms down yawns in -
differently-high-pitched “ahhhs” whilst the
pianist behind me improvises
jazz inversions. Currently,
the oboist (or is that a bassoon? I can never tell) across the hall is
practicing waterfowl calls. Who knew Lewis
& Clark students were so talented?
Meanwhile, I’m incredibly distracted
from the task at hand: accentuating the dis -
tinct voices of this prelude while simultane -
ously trying to keep up with the *flash flash
flash* of my metronome. This metronome,
though embarrassingly noisy at it’s peak
physical condition, quickly drained most of
its battery and now just winks a red glow.
Sometimes it stops altogether, crimson eye
glaring at me like, “No, that’s the wrong fin -
gering. Stop making up notes! This is Bach,
for god’s sake…not freaking Satie.”
Now the soprano is singing an Italian
aria that I immediately associate with Hil -
lary Duff’s character in “Raise Your Voice.”
Great.
As I face the piano from my—no wait,
it’s not actually a bench, it’s a plastic chair,
watching my fingers furiously form arpeg -
gios, my thoughts naturally drift to what I
would rather be doing with my hands right
now: typing away on my hot pink laptop,
formulating funny alliterations and clever
quips to brighten up my so-boring-it’s-inter -
esting life. Or maybe I just want to check my
Facebook.
Either way, if it takes
that kind of concentration
to gain the kind of
musical aptitude that
I overhear coming
from my corner
of the building,
then maybe I
will return
to my own
comfort zone: the library. illuStration by Melody ParkerilluStration by rob MCCorMaCkUntil we have all the rights afforded to
every other American citizen regard -
less of race, nationality, gender, ad
nauseum, ad infinitum, we are in
the most dangerous place pos -
sible: a gray area.every day proclaiming that humanity, de -
manding the equality we deserve. Let us
strike our jobs one day a month, one day a
week, every day of the week until we get the
rights we deserve. Let our silence become
vocal by making more days of silence, and
by speaking more about the issue on days
when we talk. Let us band together in times
of adversity rather than separating based on
political party, ethnicity, sexuality, gender or
non-gender.
Especially us young folks: let us show
that youth is the force of the future and
that we are going to guarantee equality in
ours. Let us take our newspaper articles
back out of the closet and hang them
on our 16-year-old bedroom walls. Let
pride, not prejudice, guide us.
We can all be as inspiring as Har -
vey Milk, we can all share the impor -
tance of the fight, and, if we all act
together, we can achieve victory.
So next time you read Sedaris or
Burroughs, think of how you wish
they could marry Hugh and Den -
nis. Next time a guy checks you
out on the train, invite him to
the rally down the block. Next
time you are writing an essay,
write this instead.5Volume 73, Number 1 Forum the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Sustainability is sexy
How we interact in our environment
refl ects the virtues we wish to uphold. T wo
weekends ago in one of the dorms these virtues seemed to be guided only by igno-rance and selfi shness.
/T_h is may be an exaggeration, but the
evidence is appalling: someone went into a dorm and purposely left on all the show-ers and a stove. /T_h e attack could have been aimed at throwing a competition: forcing this dorm to waste energy dur-ing the start of the Eco-Olympics, or it could have been to make a statement that the Eco-Olympics are trivial. Since the event’s prize is a party with the President, it is hard to imagine someone sabotaging just to win. Whatever their reasoning, the message was the same.
/T_h is attack was waged on two fronts.
/T_h e unattended stove could have easily led to a fi re and done untold damage to dorm and its inhabitants—this violation of per-
sonal safety is a blow against the trust we
hold as a community to keep each other safe.
/T_h e attack also made an ideological
statement. /T_h e Eco-Olympics are the fi rst time the entire campus has been asked to work together to investigate our connec-tion to our resources and avoid wasteful-ness. By purposely wasting water and elec-tricity, the culprit is making the statement that this connection is insignifi cant. If this was the case, any environmental action would be impossible. /T_h is attack should be taken seriously and make us question what would prompt such an action.
/T_h is person wasted energy while at-
tacking the very values of what it means to be a community. A foundational value of any community is the interdependence of its constituency, which leads to the ne-cessity of being mindful of each other’s personal rights. /T_h is incident is not only an embarrassment to the majority of us that share a respect for each other’s right to freedom of action, but a disappointing by Kiel Johnson // staff writerEco-Sabotage
/T_h ere is a sign that I see every day that
tells me to “give your best to the world and
take the best from the world.” /T_h e way I understand things is by looking at Lewis & Clark as a world in and of itself. However, the problem that I have found in my past year and a half at LC is that the students do not give their best to our little world.
/T_h rough the students and faculty I have
met at this college, I have come to under-stand that people choose to come here be-cause of what this small, intimate school can off er both faculty and students. But because
students do not give all that they have to this
school, they are missing out on what this
school truly has to off er, and that is a loss that at the end of a four-year stay will inhibit life after college.
After cheering at football, basketball and
baseball games, after listening to on-campus lectures and theatrics, after attending student plays and musical concerts, I am disappoint-ed to say that I seem to be one of the few stu-dents who cares about showing my support and my pride for this school.
We may not have the best athletic teams
in the nation or even in our division, but we do have athletes who rigorously practice for their seasons. We may not have the most prestigious speakers and actors come to our campus, but we do have exemplary profes-sors and enthusiastic visitors come to tell and show us what they know. We may not have the biggest and the most fl amboyant music and theater department, but we do have im-mensely talented students.
/T_h e point is that I have heard LC stu-
dents complain that our school does not of-fer them enough, or that campus events are lame and not worth their time.
What they don’t understand is that the
events on campus are not unsatisfactory because our school cannot aff ord to hire any worthwhile en-tertainment, it is be-cause our community
does not support the events we do have the opportunity to attend.
I was recently at
the showing of “Por-traits of Courage,” held in the Chapel on campus, with free admission, and stud-ied actors who had something impor-tant to tell us about inspiring African Americans during Black
History Month. I was embarrassed to see
that only about 12 people showed up. /T_h is
is not the only time that I have encountered
these circumstances, and I am embarrassed
to admit that as well.
What I believe is missing from this cam-
pus is a sense of unity and spirit. I believe any event, whether it is a football game or a
small campus lecture about how a beach is
made, can be interesting if people attend and
show their support for those who are repre-
senting us on this campus. I don’t really like
football or science, but I do like the feeling
of a crowd standing on their feet screaming
for a player to run those few extra yards. I do
like watching our professors light up as they
talk about the subjects that have consumed
their lives. What makes an event for me is
the group experience to see, listen and show
something new to one another.
I think LC can be better. But improve-
ment doesn’t always have to do with money;
it has to do with eff ort. We need to give our best to this school; we need to show that we care about the eff orts of others, even if what they are striving for is not a personal inter-est.
College only lasts for four years. It is so
easy to make the excuse that we are busy with school and work and whatever else, but the fact is that life is too short to make excuses, and time can always be made if people are willing.
We as students need to get out and en-
joy the other aspects of college, so that at the end of our four years we have an experience worth remembering, and we don’t look back with regret at missed opportunities that we just didn’t take when we had the chance. Give your best to every part of Lewis & Clark, and you will see the best that this in-stituton has to off er.by Mariah Shields // features editorStudent apathy: Can LC
students do better?
PHOTO BY NATALIE BAKER
PHOTO BY NATALIE BAKERillustration of a defi ciency in our common
social upbringing.
Our society teaches us to each strive for
individual success but this lacks an appre-ciation of an individual role within a com-munity. It is one thing to choose not to participate in an opportunity to do good,
but it is the work of an egotist to ransack
the good eff orts of peers.
/T_h ere is no doubt that 99.9% of people
at Lewis & Clark would condemn this act of defi ance and ignorance. However it’s very hard to deny that such an act charac-
terizes at least a minority within our stu-dent body—it is hard to imagine someone doing this without at least believing their friends would get a kick out of it.
It is diffi cult to imagine how the col-
lege environment, which is built on in-tegrity and education could breed such blindness. However, we must forgive this crook because at the roots of the attack lie unawareness. /T_h is is what the Eco-Olym-pics and going to college is all about. /T_h is attack is a reminder that we must make sure that society provides an opportunity to make real connections with the sources
of life that we depend on.
In order to avoid destructive mishaps
such as these in the future, I urge you all to get outside and observe what surrounds and supports you. /T_h en look inside at what it has created, and consider the rela-tionship between the two! You are a prod-uct of your environment and it continues to be the source of every new cell in your body, idea in your brain, and pulse of your heart; respect it thus!
hey you!
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It is diffi cult to imagine
how the college environ-ment, which is built on in-tegrity and education could breed such blindness.
Above: Poor student turn-out at Watzek Rocks! Below: the National Teach-
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E D I T O R I A L S T O P I O L O G @L C L A R K .E D U
PHOTOS BY NATALIE BAKERVolume 73, Number 1 Friday, September 12, 2008 Forum 6 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
President Obama has a lot of clout with
the youngsters of America, that is no lie.
However, his $789 billion economic recov -
ery plan doesn’t seem to be going over well
with the young’ns.
Hailed by Time Magazine as the biggest
piece of legislation in history, young har -
bingers of political inquisition are throwing
around various fightin’ words regarding The
Great Depression and the German hyperin -
flation of 1923 (when 4.2 trillion Deutsch
Marks was the equivalent of $1 US).
But are these doubts simply the manifes -
tation of young financial anxiety?
Fear-mongering institutions such as Fox
News suggest that Obama’s stimulus plan is
border-line socialism, in that it, “[the] pack -
age isn’t meant to stimulate the economy,
it’s meant to reshape it.” Fox reporter Glenn
Beck continues, “what [the Obama admin -
istration is] doing now—using fear to pro -
mote long-term changes to the country—
is exactly the kind of thing that has led to
the biggest deficit of all: The deficit of trust
we now have in our leaders.” Really, Glenn
Beck? Are you going to accuse and criticize
the government of using fear to manipulate
the American public? Hello, Kettle? It’s Pot.
Yeah, you’re black .
But Obama isn’t trying to scare the coun -
try into economic stability, per se. The stim -
ulus package plans to distribute thick wads
of cash with the hopes of achieving a little
infrastructure renovation and preparing the
country for the turning of a newer, greener
leaf.So how does all this economic hoo-ha
concern the ever-expanding community of
college students? Well, $100 billion of the
stimulus package is directed toward new
funding for education, $60 million of which
is going to student aid (yay!). Though this
money might not affect students who are en-
route to graduate within the next few semes -
ters, there is one chunk of money that prob -
ably will.
Obama has designated $500 million for
“green job” training. Though the title sounds
Over 3,000 Liberians who are currently
living in the United States will be deported
back to Liberia on March 31 now that their
“Temporary Protective Status” (TPS) is run -
ning out.
Civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989
when a group of rebels, the National Patri -
otic Front of Liberia, attacked various Libe -
rian counties out of anger against the Gov -
ernment. The Liberian Army struck back
by attacking the entire population, killing
250,000 innocent civil -
ians.
In 1990 as civil
war intensified, the
United States
granted sanctu -
ary to any Li -
berian who
could escape.
This status,
issued by the
Department
of Homeland
Security and the
U.S. Bureau of
Citizenship and
Immigration Ser -
vices, grants asy -
lum to citizens
of countries ex -
periencing “civil
unrest.”
Those granted sanctu -
ary are considered legal resi -
dents, but not legal citizens. Every
year residents under TPS must reapply
in order to legally live in the U.S. for
another year. There is an additional
rule prohibiting TPS residents from ap -plying to become U.S citizens.
After 14,000 Liberians managed to make
it to America, they settled down and began
to rebuild their lives—paying taxes, getting
married, and having children. War raged on
in Liberia until 2003, but when female presi -
dent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected into
office in 2006, progress finally became vis -
ible by 2007.
Noting this progress, the
government decided those
under TPS had been here
long enough and it was
Ch o o s e Y o u r o w n A d v e n t u r e :
A w e e k l y p o l i t i c Al c o l u m n
a little nebulous, considering the demo -
graphics of Lewis & Clark College, it’s prob -
ably not unfair to assume that a large number
of LC students will pursue these “green jobs”
after graduation. That is to say, pursuing jobs
in the environmental sector of the country:
sustainability, ecology, energy, etc.
Another interesting portion of the stimu -
lus package is the $5 billion directed towards
“weatherization.” Though it sounds like a
cover-up title for a secret $5 billion embez -
zlement scam, weatherization is a program which aims to help lower income families
to reduce their energy bills by making their
homes more energy efficient.
Okay Fox News, I see where you are get -
ting this “socialism” BS from. Yes, Obama
has designated a lot of money to the recon -
struction of our country from a number of
different angles. But in a time as turbulent
as now, when the world is facing an energy
crisis and a burgeoning population of young
people struggling to pay their college loans
and find jobs, what’s so wrong with trying to
give the States a little make-over?
Think of the country in the context of the
cult-classic, “How Stella Got Her Groove
Back.” The part of Stella will be played by
The United States. After years of roman -
tic impotence (in this case, years of politi -
cal clusterfuck) Stella meets a steamy young
man (Taye Diggs) who teaches her about
herself and motivates her to embark on a
heartwarming journey of self-reinvention. In
this case, Taye Diggs’ character will be played
by Obama, and the heartwarming journey of
self-reinvention is the U.S.’s voyage towards
a more progressive, efficient, and not-piss-
broke status as a first-world country. Get it?
Unfortunately, it might take a little time
for many young people to warm up to the
bill. “As far as I’m concerned,” grumbled
Clara Laurence (’10), “Congress can stimu -
late their own packages.”
A detailed list of spending is available on -
line. Google it if you’re curious and are in the
mood to feel really poor and inadequate.America gets her groove back
by Helen Hunter // staff writer
art by melody parker
time for them to return home. Former Presi -
dent George W. Bush signed off on a “de -
layed enforced departure,” giving Liberians
18 months to return home before being de -
ported. Now Liberians who have married
U.S. citizens or had children (legal U.S. citi -
zens) here, are forced to leave them and re -
turn home.
With approximately 3,600 Liberians fac -
ing deportation on March 31, many are
pleading to stay and hoping they can find
a way to keep their families together. Ap -
peals have been sent to President Obama
and there are congressmen fighting for an -
other TPS extension.
Politically stable or not, Liberia’s econ -
omy and infrastructure are being built on
broken ground.
Yes, Liberia is recovering, but with an
unemployment rate of 80 percent and as
one of the poorest countries in the world,
how can it be considered a good idea to de -
port thousands of americanized Liberians
unwillingly back “home”—a home which
they fled and have not chosen to return to.
How will they be received by those Libe -
rians who did not escape—those who en -Obama plans to sweep America off her feet to a tropical new destination.
Liberians formerly granted sanctuary told: “Go home”
by Hannah Meganck // staff writer
Yes, Liberia is recovering, but with an un -
employment rate of 80 percent and as one
of the poorest countries in the world, how
can it be considered a good idea to deport
thousands of americanized Liberians un -
willingly back “home”? dured the war, and witnessed the suffering?
Liberia will not be the only country af -
fected, either. What the U.S. government
has failed to realize is that these residents
contribute to our work force—our economy.
Despite having degrees, there are only a few
jobs that TPS residence can have. The main
occupations of Liberian residents are in the
healthcare field. When they are deported next
month there will be a signifi -
cant dip in healthcare workers
in areas where there are large
Liberian communities.
President of the Federation
for American Immigration Re -
form Dan Stein said, “It is time
for people to go back and re -
build their country.” He claims
if the Liberians were allowed to
stay here it would not only be
abusing the hospitality of the
U.S. but it would also be mak -
ing “a mockery of the concept of short-term
temporary humanitarian protection.”
In areas where Liberian communities are
prominent, there has been an increase in the
number of immigration officers present—an
obvious sign that the government is prepar -
ing to go through with this mass-deportation
transpiring in less than one month.
While this is a difficult situation for both
sides to grapple with—one side trying to
stick to the rule-book while the other pleads
for the sake of their families—there is still
discussion taking place on what to do come
March 31.
One can only hope this does not tear fam -
ilies apart, and that whatever decisions made
will be sensitive to those whose lives will be
uprooted for the second time.LiberiaFeatures 7 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
nine days out >>>>
friday saturday sunday
monday tuesday wednesday
thursday friday saturday20 21 22
23 24 25
26 27 28February 20th to February 28th
The Vagina Monologues
Flanagan Chapel, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., $3 students
Masquerade Ball
Stamm, 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.Once Upon a Weekend
Fir Acres Theatre, 10:00 p.m.
Women’s T ennis: Pacific Lutheran at LC
12:00 p.m.Women’s Basketball at Whitworth
Men’s Baseball: Oregon T ech at LC
11:00 a.m.
Physics Colloquium: Why There Are Beaches
Olin 204, 4:00 p.m.Painted Dog Conservation Project
Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd.
7:00 p.m.
Learn about a 16-year effort to bring the
African painted dog back from the brink of extinction.
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Howard 102, 7:00 p.m.
Presented by Adam Bradley BA ’96Third Rail presents “A Skull in Connemara”
World T rade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon
Building 2
7:30 p.m., $16 studentsIs it Fair? Workshop
Stamm West, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Do you think it’s fair for other students
to get extended time on tests?
Saturday Market reopens for the season
Old Town at SW Ankeny & Naito Pkwy
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
this is charlieby Kathryn Miller // head copy editor style source
yvonne zheng
class of 2011
san francisco
english major
1. beards
2. pound cake
3. danimal’s drinkable yogurt
4. cake batter
5. beards
6. antique books
7. shoes
8. beards
9. pound cake
10. young jeezy
favorite color?
olive green and transpar -
ent. i wish transparent was a
decent answer to this ques -
tion. ornaments
“This feather barette? Yes, i made it! I went to michael’s one day and bought
a huge bag of feathers. It’s so easy. I just love ornaments. Pins, gaudy bobbles.
I like putting things together. It’s feminine, classic, and there’s nothing wrong with adorning.”dress to: josef k and starfucker
undress to: bon iver and david vanderveld
top ten lovesVolume 73, Number 1 Features 8the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
“It’s really fun—
you have to pee every 35 minutes!”
“But eggs don’t even have hair”
“Forget the Burberry scarf
for my birthday, I want that owl!”
“I can’t even write 15 sentences! I
feel like a lost child.”
“/T_h at’s nothing compared to the
time I was roofi ed
in Tijuana.”
Send your
eavesdroppings to
piolog@lclark.edu!Katie Dahlhausen (’11) makes the
decision to put her education fi rst
by Keletso Maine // staff writer
Eavesdropping
Katie Dahlhausen (’11) suff ers from a condition
known as Uveitis Pars Planitis, a rare form of the eye
disorder Uveitis.
Dahlhausen has an advanced case, which means that
her condition is irreversible and can lead to blindness in
her aff ected eye.ILLUSTRATION BY PAYDEN EVANS
( ((
Photo of the weekSince the disorder is uncurable at this stage, Dahl-
hausen chose the minimum treatment so that she could
continue to aff ord college. /T_h ere are surgery options
available that cost approximately $50,000 that have
proven to be the most eff ective form of treatment, how-ever there are risks involved.
She has student loans to pay off , and would rather
focus her eff orts on her education as opposed to her
eye. “I don’t think that [the surgery] is necessary if the
chances of getting my eyesight back are low,” said Dahl-
hausen.
A biology and physics double major, Dahlhausen has
read scholarly articles addressing this condition and is
interested in working with her doctors to fi nd a cure.
In this volatile time for the US economy, it is not
surprising that a situation such as this would arise. /T_h e choice between paying the high costs of education and
the high costs of medical bills is a diffi cult one; both is-
sues greatly aff ect one’s future.
/T_h e economic crisis becomes a repressing factor for
Dahlhausen because she doesn’t know if she would be able to fi nd a job to pay off her student loans. She does
not want to add medical bills to this already diffi cult
equation.
Her understanding of the condition along with the
support she receives from her family has helped her
through this situation, though her greatest support sys-
tem seems to be her personality.
As opposed to looking at it as a disruption to her life,
she fi nds it intriguing in its rarity. “It isn’t so much as scary as there is so much mystery behind it,” she said.
“It made me aware of what eyesight is and how valuable
it is, and how easily it could be lost.”
/T_h e topic of whether juggling is a sport or a
hobby is contested. “You call juggling a sport,
and people laugh. You call juggling an art, and people laugh. You show them there’s a juggling magazine, and people laugh a lot,” said the founder and president of the World Juggling Federation Jason Garfi eld. “You punch them in the face, and they stop laughing.”
/T_h is light-hearted attitude towards the activi-
ty is akin to that of most Lewis & Clark jugglers. /T_h e LC Juggling Club formed three years ago, inspired by the juggling skills of Parker Lewis (’08) and motivated by Lauren Brown (’10). Now, the club mostly consists of Brown, Molly Gibson (’10) and Jesse Schouboe (’10).
“We have no legacy,” said Gibson, “but we
wouldn’t mind if the club continued. People don’t realize how awesome [juggling] can be.”
/T_h e jugglers practice when they have free
time, meeting in Council Chambers or in front of the basketball courts. /T_h ey can be seen around campus, and while the group may be performing soon at a Co-Op study break, “It’s hard to orga-nize a show,” Gibson said. “We would love to do one, maybe in conjunction with the Seri-ous Club so it’s not just juggling.”
Gibson began juggling her freshman year
of high school. “I could unicycle, and I joined the Circus Club because the president was su-per cute,” she said.
She soon learned to juggle, and recalls fel-
low circus members teaching her to pass—a technique she still uses with LC jugglers.
“Juggling is great because there is always
something new and more complicated that you can try, or new exciting ways to put it all together,” she said.
Brown, Gibson and Schouboe have all at-
tended the week-long International Jugglers’ Association festival, and may be going again this summer. “It’s great, you get a bunch of amazing jugglers in a gym and juggle for a week. I seriously had to ice my hands before I went to bed,” said Gibson.
To Gibson, juggling can be defi ned in many
ways. “Juggling can be whatever you want it to be,” she said. “Extreme, fun, a hobby, a work-out, or a party trick. It’s good for everything.” LC jugglers know how to juggle academics and clubs
by Melody Parker // forum editor
Juggling club members from left to right: Parker Lewis (’08), Lauren
Brown (’10), Molly Gibson (’10) and Jesse Schouboe (’10). PHOTO COURTESY OF MOLLY GIBSON
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Lewis & Clark study abroad: /T_h e
experience of education overseas
by Keletso Maine // staff writer
When speaking with LC alumnus Rod Downey
(’50), chairman of the committee in charge of the
Cornerstone Project, it’s clear that the Lewis & Clark campus and its society have signifi cantly changed as time has touched LC and the world with the hands of progress. Luckily for the class of 2009, however, its students are being given the opportunity to truly re-member their college days and to communicate with their future selves.
/T_h e Cornerstone Project is designed to enable stu-
dents, who are soon to become alumni, to write down their perspectives and enclose important memorabilia which they can use to refl ect upon their lives ten years from now—what has changed, what have they forgot-
ten, what they still want to achieve. Downey hopes
that seniors will take this chance to “gather items that
are important to them so they can remember their
years at Lewis & Clark.”
/T_h e memories seniors choose to leave behind sim-
ply have to be something they consider worthwhile be-
cause in ten years, students will be able to reopen their
youth and share their memories with each other dur-
ing their ten-year reunion. After the reunion, alumni
will have a choice to add to their memories and restore their capsule for future reunions or to take their items home in order to remember the event and what each
object, letter or note represents for them.
/T_h e Cornerstone Project started in 2006 and was
carried out again in 2007. Unfortunately, the Project
lacked involvement, so the committee decided that it would not off er this time capsule to the class of 2008
and instead it took the year off to revamp the Project.
Now Downey and his colleagues think that with bet-
ter planning, the Cornerstone Project will have more success. “I didn’t have the opportunity to have this reminder,” Downey said, and he hopes that this op-
portunity will enable “students who leave to feel more
connected.”
On Monday at 4:00 p.m. in Smith Hall, there will
be a seniors-only meeting that will give a more in-depth
explanation of the goals this committee has for the Cor-
nerstone Project this year.Cornerstone
Project: making
memories for
LC future grads
by Mariah Shields // features editor
/T_h e PioLog talked to a few students who were overseas
last Fall in China and East Africa and heard about their life-
changing experiences.
David Willis (’10) went on the China overseas program,
which was mostly concentrated within Beijing. He went be-cause he wanted “to improve [his] Chinese and live in Chi-na.”
/T_h e Olympics were held a few weeks prior to the pro-
gram, which gave him the opportunity to visit the country fi rst and take pleasure in the festivities of the Olympics. “/T_h e Olympics were crazy. We partied with the American track team and Evander Holyfi eld!” said Willis.
Every program off ers a week or so of free travelling with-
in the region or country and for many students, this is the most memorable time for them because of the adventure and freedom. While some may want to take pictures in front of cultural monuments with a big “Hi Mom!” smile, for many the serenity of taking in the mystery of an unknown culture is the most rewarding. Willis’ most memorable moment was “watching the sunrise on top of the Emei Mountain in the Sichuan province.”
Sara Eichelberger (’10) and Anja Moulton (’11) went on
the East Africa program together and still remain close with people in their group. One of Eichelberger’s favorite places they travelled to was the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. Moulton said that in Zanzibar a lot of their sched-ules involved waiting on the beach to go to class.
Like other students, they had their own personal interests
in going to East Africa, but for some, their most signifi cant moments came from the accomplishment of being there and experiencing the challenges and excitements faced in a for-eign country.
Eichelberger also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. “It felt ex-
hilarating and I haven’t felt as much of a sense of accomplish-ment as that moment because it was not only physically de-manding but SO mentally demanding,” she said.
Others who embark on the overseas programs also have
the ambition of returning to these communities and giving back to them. Katie Walter (’09) is the Lewis & Clark fore-runner to receive the 100 Projects for Peace grant (the offi cial grant winner will be announced on March 16), which pro-vides funding and the opportunity for students to embark on community service projects around the world.
Walter went on the Fall 2007 overseas trip to India and
has decided to go back, specifi cally to the town of Vrindavan. She plans to help the women there create a collective for the production of local craftwork, including product develop-ment and marketing strategies for national and international sales.PHOTO BY DAVID WILLIS
PHOTO BY ANJA MOULTON
Lewis & Clark students who studied in East Africa in the Fall semester of 2008, taking in the view.Students on the Great Wall of China, from left to right: David Willis (’10) with Liu Song,
Phil Mathangani, and Reed Bartlett, students of other universities hosting abroad trips to China.
ILLUSTRATION BY DEANNA HORTONVolume 73, Number 1 Friday, September 12, 2008 A&E 10 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
/T_h e Pioneer Log: What poets do you read?
Joel Newman: Was it e. e. cummings who wrote some par-anoid modernist poems? He was really into alternative capitalization and punctuation formatting. I like him. PL: Do you look to these poems to bolster your work?JN: /T_h ere is no union, not with the poems. But there is a union with science and defi nite intersection engineering. PL: What beats do you beat while working?JN: Lately I am listening to a lot of Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Gogol Bordello, a gypsy punk band. PL: Well, what are your thoughts on discussing a project before it is completed? JN: Well, I do it all the time. PL: Let’s talk about yours. Tell everybody how big it is, your senior project. JN: Hopefully it will include three or four paintings, and the biggest one is 8-ft by 7-ft. /T_h at’s what I’m working on now. I’m doing it in acrylic and airbrush. /T_h e idea is built from my curiosity about hugely complex systems, like power grids, or freeway sys-tems. In our daily liv-ing, we know not to look at them, they’re meant to be used. So the project is about exploring those shapes as something other than utility. PL: If your current project had Scratch ’n Sniff qualities, what would it smell like? JN: Good question. I think they would smell like— [two minutes of silence]—Oh. Goodness. /T_h ey can’t smell like anything too industrial, because that would be almost cli-ché. /T_h ey would have to smell like something kind of commonplace. Like a basement, a little bit musty, but a little pleasant, like you’re coming into your basement from the outside on a summer day.PL: What is one thing you wish you had with you at all times while you’re working? JN: Pizza. /T_h e kind with all kinds of stuff on it, cheese and maybe meat, too. PL: If you weren’t making art, what would you be doing? JN: Math, probably.PL: Actually?JN: I don’t know, I can’t imagine not doing art.PL: Are you good at math? JN: Yeah. Well I was, then I quit for a while and forgot everything. PL: If your hands were blown off in an accident, what would you do with yourself?
JN: I would probably make art with a computer.
PL: What artists do you idolize? JN: /T_h is guy T rygve Saste. He’s from the U.S. but I think he’s Czech. He tackles similar topics for sure—painting entire systems, pipelines going all over the place. It’s a lot smoother, a lot more unifi ed than my paintings, but pret-ty similar. PL: What artists do you demonize? JN: Demonize! Well. You just got to be tolerant, right? I wouldn’t kick anyone off the planet. /T_h ere are kind of a lot of people who are pieces of shit, but I won’t demonize anybody.PL: Do you go to art downtown? First /T_h ursday?JN: First /T_h ursday is such a scene, you know? I saw some art that was pretty inspiring at the Hoff man gallery re-cently. /T_h at huge one that has tiny groupings of red peo-ple in it? PL: Do you like that goat one? JN: /T_h at’s pretty moving. It wasn’t my favorite, but jar-
ring and successful that way. PL: Are you a doer or a thinker?JN: A thinker. PL: Does that ever im-pede your doing? JN: Sometimes I can’t
make the decision. But really, if I were a doer, would I be in academia at all? PL: Where does idealism enter into the scheme of your art?JN: Yeah, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of idealism em-bodied in me, but it’s kind of wild trying to explore these things. Like I’d love to discover how to paint the internet. Paint what we can’t see. But I’ve gone and taken photos of all the things I like to paint, which sort of negates the whole idea, in a way. PL: Will you try to paint the internet? JN: Someone already has.PL: But would you still do it?JN: Yeah, I would, but I probably won’t. PL: Do you ever eat paint, accidentally or intentionally? JN: It happens. Unintentionally. A lot of times I put the back end of my brush in my mouth and paint comes off . PL: I do that, too. What percentage of time spent paint-ing are you thinking about other things? JN: I think that I probably only think about other things about 20 percent of the time. Food, mainly. Pizza. I don’t know. Food most of that time, and then I think about the time of day. And then everything else I need to think about the rest of the time.Joel Newman (’09) is a self-proclaimed thinker. Thirty minutes of conver-
sation, punctuated with long, thought-pregnant pauses confi rmed this. His
steady, brown-eyed gaze meandered from his canvas to his brushes, and he
explained where he gets clarity, how he would manage without hands and how he decorates his pizza. Senior art profi le: Joel Newman
by Kathryn Miller // head copy editorJoel Newman’s (’09) senior art project explores connections between the effective and the unseen.
“I don’t think there’s a whole lot of idealism
embodied in me, but it’s kind of wild trying
to explore these things.” -Joel Newman (’09)PHOTO BY KATHRYN MILLERSong From the Treetops
If you haven’t made it down to PDX Contemporary
Art, a gallery in the Pearl, you need to. Now. Find an escape route into an alternate reality with “Song From the T reetops,” a collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and videos curated by Harrell Fletcher.Now until Feb. 28Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.925 NW Flanders St.GET OFF
YeR ASS!
A list of artsy things to get you movin’ in and around Portland this weekend.
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Sharpen your claws with Panther
Panther has gone from the weirdo-pop solo project
of Portland’s own Charlie Salas-Humara, to a dancey
electronic trio, adding Joe Kelly and Eliza Sohn. Now Panther is making ready to leap across the pond for
a trans-European tour, bouncing from Bordeaux,
France all the way to Moscow, Russia. But before that international journey, Panther will sharpen its claws at Backspace, for its lucky hometown fans.Tonight, 9:00 p.m.Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave. $5, All ages.
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Bobby Hutcherson: master of the vibes
While he did not invent the vibes, Bobby Hutcher-
son damn well could have. His music is free fl owing and melodic, he is a virtuoso, but he still shows an appreciation for group jams. He is no stage-stealer. He is a genius. Tomorrow, 2:00 p.m. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. $30-$45, All ages.
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Angela Davis: writer and activist
As part of Reed College’s Black History Month,
writer and civil rights activist Angela Davis will give a lecture called “1 in 100: Dismantling a Prison Na-tion.” Her most recent work focuses on prisons in American history. She is a professor of history of con-sciousness and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Tomorrow, 7:00 p.m.Kaul Auditorium, Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.Free, All ages.
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Andrew Bird
If you’re worried that summer just isn’t coming
soon enough, don’t worry! Andrew Bird is here with his sunny form of folk-inspired pop. Blending vio-lin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling so serene that the sweetest of songbirds stop in midfl ight to listen. Which is probably why they call him Andrew Bird... Tomorrow, 9:00 p.m. Roseland /T_h eater, 8 NW 6th Ave.$22.50, All ages.
ILLUSTRATION BY DEANNA HORTONVolume 73, Number 1 Friday, September 12, 2008 A&E 11 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
It’s been almost two weeks since Barba-
dian singer Rihanna fell victim to the
violent hands (and perhaps teeth) of now ex-beau singer Chris Brown.
/T_h e incident occurred in Los
Angeles in the early morning Sun-day, Feb. 8, after the couple had left a Grammy’s pre-party.
Allegedly, on their way home,
Brown and Rihanna got into a dis-agreement that turned physical.
Police arrived at the scene fol-
lowing a 911-call and found an un-conscious Rihanna with “horrifi c” in-juries.
According to sources at TMZ.com
(who were fi rst to break the story), she had two swelled up “contusions” on both sides of her forehead, a split lip, bloody nose and bite marks on her fi ngers and one arm. Brown had fl ed the scene.
Numerous media outlets followed suit
and began to feature extensive coverage of the situation, often with an inappropriate-ly humorous twist.
Celeb-blogger Michael K. of Dlisted.
com speculated that it was “probably a dick slapping gone wrong,” while others made light of the situation by saying “Chris hit Rihanna with an umbrella-ella-ella,” follow-ing reports that Rihanna was assaulted with a deadly weapon.
Despite the media frenzy, both parties
kept hush on the situation during the days that followed.
/T_h e consequences of Brown’s alleged ac-
tions, however, were manifest in a string of public decries.
Both Doublemint Gum and the Body
by Milk campaign indefi nitely suspended him, while
numerous
radio sta-
tions across
the nation
banned his
songs.
Several days after a screen-
shot of an alleged real (later proved fake) Fa-cebook belonging to Brown surfaced, which featured an ambiguously unapologetic status change that read: “You’ll begin to see her true colors. Believe it!,” Brown issued a public statement expressing his apologies as well as plans to seek the counseling of his pastor, his mother and other loved ones.
In an eff ort to bring awareness, and per-
haps to also capitalize on the situation, MTV Chris and Rihanna: Media frenzy and celebrity hype
by Lee Yang // staff writer
hastily produced and aired a one-hour spe-
cial titled ‘Chris Brown & Rihanna: Love in T rouble’ during which fans and experts sounded off on not only the alleged assault but, more importantly, the issue of domestic violence.
“Rihanna would be stupid to return to
Brown. He can go to counseling by himself,” criticized 19-year old Chandra Bonner from New York.
Dr. Michelle Callahan, an expert who ap-
peared on the show, advised young people in relationships on the importance of heeding
warning signs that could lead to problems
before it becomes too late.
“[Abuse is] any time there’s fi ghting, re-
straining a person, jealousy or control is-
sues,” she said. “A lot of stuff passes that we
think is OK until a punch gets thrown, but it’s not.”
Others are concerned with the mass me-
dia’s extensive coverage of an arguably very
private issue.
Not only has Brown’s image been stained,
perhaps permanently, but the humiliation that Rihanna will have to deal with in the coming months, maybe even years, could have lasting eff ects on her career. Perhaps she will come out of this sordid episode and emerge as a symbol of strength. After all, it’s not an unexplored territory.
Ronnie Winter, lead singer of rock group
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, recounted the sto-ry of his mother being physically abused by his father in the 2006 single “Face Down” which featured a controversial music video that painfully captured the extent of damage caused by the violence.
Singer Christina Aguilera has also been
vocal about her childhood experiences of living with domestic violence; she sings on the song “I’m Ok” (from 2002’s Stripped),
“Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, I still remember how you kept me so afraid.”
With the future looking uncertain for
both Chris Brown’s and Rihanna’s careers, one can only hope that the media’s role in this wasn’t purely sensational. In today’s hy-per-mediated culture, the obsession with ce-lebrities has made it impossible to avoid the public scrutiny of private matters that are, to be frank, none of our business.
Is media frenzy the real domestic distur-
bance at hand?Using the African-American experience
as the backdrop, Daniel Beaty explored the concept of freedom in the Chapel, Wednes-
day night.
In the beginning of his one-man play
Emergence-SEE!, Beaty used humor to open
up the crowd.
/T_h e humor quickly moved into some-
thing more profound as the play pro-gressed, something that anyone could relate to, whether or not they shared anything in common with the characters. Chances are, they did.
Part drama, part spoken word piece,
the play followed 43 diff erent characters as they struggled to cope with their own dif-ferent forms of slavery, mirrored by the ar-rival of a slave ship that resurfaces near the statue of liberty.
/T_h e characters span diff erent social and
economic groups, as well as diff erent sexu-alities, genders, and ages.
/T_h rough the course of the play, Beaty
played a homeless man, a scientist, a repub-lican business executive, a street vendor and an 11-year old boy from the projects, all of whom responded to the phenomenon of the slave ship.
/T_h e diff erent perspectives shown in the
play weave a unique tapestry of African-American life in America.
/T_h e play leaves one with the under-
standing that people are more alike than
they are diff erent.
Daniel Beaty in Emergence-see! : One man, 43 roles
by Liam O’Connor // arts editor
During the play, Daniel Beaty per-
formed as 43 different characters, displaying a nearly unlimited range of emotion.
PHOTOS BY NATALIE EAGAN
Looking at how the media obsess
over celebrity relationships in the
fallout of the Chris Brown and
Rihanna debacle.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAYDEN EVANSFriday, September 12, 2008 A&E 12 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Portland International Film Festival comes to an end
PIFF ends Feb. 21: Film topics range from
politics, romance, comedy and everything in
between. The schedule is jam-packed, boast-
ing works from 42 countries. It will close with
“Dean Spanley” and a closing party ($10).
Visit http://www.nwfi lm.org for times and syn-
opses, and be sure to show up early—
tickets go fast.
The Pioneer Log reviews a remaining few of PIFF’s notable fi lms in this year’s festival.
PIFF chose two fi lms to off er lovebirds and others for the Satur-
day evening of Valentine’s Day: the French romantic comedy “Shall
We Kiss” and the U.S. documentary “/T_h e Garden.” /T_h ough the
latter featured no overt themes of romance, it was a riveting and moving fi lm in ways unprecedented on such a lovey-dovey day. “/T_h e Garden” tells of the miraculous 14-acre community garden cultivated in the midst of South Central LA’s hispanic neighbor-hood, and the story of this neighborhood’s fi ght to keep it.
Since the LA riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have used
the land to cultivate food for their families and loved ones, passing on traditions of gardening in the process. When they are served an eviction notice from the garden’s wealthy landowner, a seemingly-doomed battle ensues between the Farmers and the City Council. /T_h e fi lm has an obvious bias toward the Farmers and their struggle, but when the obstacles that face these families are as large as $16.5 million, it all makes sense. Caitlin McCarthy“24 City” (China) relies on the honesty of its interviewees and
actors to communicate an oral history that could all too quickly be lost in China’s quest for modernization. Combining real interviews and scripted monologues constructed from the 130 interviews not included in the fi lm, Zhang Jiake’s fi lm “24 City” gives its audience a glimpse of the faces and stories behind the rapid industrialization of contemporary China. /T_h e fi lm tells the stories of three genera-
tions of workers at the state-owned Factory 420, a military ammu-
nitions factory that is torn down by the fi lm’s end and replaced by a
series of apartment complexes known as ‘24 City.’ A gloomy por-trait of contemporary China, “24 City”’s story of the 30,000 factory workers suddenly put out of work and home would have remained untold without Zhang.
Peaceful in its cinematography but unsettling in content, the
fi lm moves slowly, unwilling to let its images and narratives disap-pear with the factory. Nothing distinguishes Factory 420 from the masses of factories under China’s grey, urban skies. Zhang’s audi-ence is forced to confront the characters, and the meeting is often awkward. Each interview is prefaced by at least a full minute of the subject staring stoically into the camera as if posing for a photo, re-sulting in nervous audience giggles at the obviously uncomfortable interviewee. But the awkwardness, because of its honesty, works for Zhang. /T_h e actors are honest representations of characters that Zhang has thoughtfully constructed to express the concerns of three generations, while the real interviewees are brought to tears when asked to recount their past. “24 City” serves as a reminder of the danger of forgetting one’s past in looking too eagerly to the future.
Maria Morrisson, guest writer
Today sees Lewis & Clark’s annual pro-
duction of /T_h e Vagina Monologues, the epi-
sodic play written in 1996 to encourage
awareness and appreciation of the travails of
women. Each monologue explores a wom-an’s sexuality through many vagina-centric topics, ranging from menstruation to rape to masturbation to birth, and on. /T_h is is the third year Calli Bishop (’09) has organized the event, and she pinpoints its perennial na-ture as one of its most important aspects: “It is endlessly rewarding. Every year it’s a new cast, and this new energy keeps it interesting and diff erent.”
Bishop, who has no theatre experience
herself, references freshmen involvement and the fact that only a few of the cast members are theatre majors as testament to this fresh-ness. “I’ve never publicly talked about vagi-nas,” said fi rst time Monologues actor Maria
Morrisson (’10). “I went to see it last year and loved it—it looked like they were having
so much fun.”
/T_h is may be Morrisson’s fi rst public vagi-
nal proclamation, but for Monologues stal-
wart Stephanie Locke (’10), it’s the reason to
be a part of the play: “When the signs went up [at my previous college Hampshire], I thought, ‘Hey, I love to talk about my va-
gina!’” She acknowledged the play’s nervous-
making capacity, however; this year she stars
in “/T_h e Moans,” in which she has to “fake orgasms in front of the entire school.”
Beyond the specifi cs of LC’s own produc-
tions, /T_h e Vagina Monologues strikes a chord
because it is performed, on or around Val-entine’s Day, all over the country and the world. “All of the money raised goes to local charities to help women,” said Bishop. “It’s fucking incredible.” Ten percent of the funds raised go toward playwright Eve Ensler’s charity of choice (this year it is Women for Darfur); the remaining 90 percent is donat-ed to the local production’s charity of choice, in LC’s case Portland Women’s Crisis Line.
/T_h e Monologues, progenitor of Ensler’s
larger awareness movement V-Day, supports a good cause and gives a good time. “Every-one should see it once in their lifetime,” said Locke. “It’s for everyone. Well—maybe not small children.”
/T_h e Vagina Monologues shows tonight at
7:00 p.m. in the Chapel. $3 students; $5 non-
students. Proceeds go to charity.
V is for Vagina at this
year’s Monologues event
by Caitlin McCarthy // arts editor
Adrian Gebhart (’12) feigns orgasm at a Vagina Monologues rehearsal.
Terence Blanchard, a mav-
erick trumpeter that once
played with Art Blakey and his ever-changing jazz messengers, held an open recital in Port-land’s Self Enhancement, Inc. Blanchard was rehearsing two tracks from his album, A T ale
of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina). On these two tracks Blanchard’s quintet was joined by the pared-down Oregon Symphony. It was the fi rst time that the symphony had played with Blanchard, who was either absent from the fl oor or pacing the area in front of the decidedly unhip orchestra with a scowl on
his face, fi ngering the large golden cross
hung around his neck. Blanchard’s bassist
Derrick Hodge and drummer Kendrick Scott, on the other hand, were having a blast. At one point in a lull, Hodge began
a slap bass solo that sent Scott, saxophon-
ist Brice Winston and pianist Aaron Parks
into hysterics after joining in.
/T_h e dynamic between the bands was
hilarious, and watching Blanchard com-
municate with the symphony conduc-
tor through his intermediary was great.
Blanchard could not be brought to com-municate with the conductor at any point of the night. Watching Scott switch from
jocular to completely serious while lec-
turing the two older male cellists about
the correct way to accent the 5 in the 5/4
time signature of one of the songs was
priceless. One of the cellists leaned in
close, gave Scott an awkward half smile, lightly slapped himself in the head with the fl at of his palm and leaned back in his
chair, with a look of embarrassment and
sheer terror at being lectured by the gi-
ant drummer. After lecturing the cellists Scott turned to Blanchard and began an animated discussion about the details of the chart, and how they had played it dif-ferently on the album. Scott didn’t have a chart on him, and hadn’t the entire hour and a half they had been practicing; the fact that he was still able to have a serious discussion with the band leader about the diff erences in an enormously complicat-ed, long-as-hell chart was amazing, and showed how dedicated the drummer was, while having fun with the bassist
Watching the all-white symphony
struggle with the rhythm and timing of a jazz song, having diffi culty backing the soloist and keeping the rhythm with bi-zarre drum breaks, highlighted the diff er-ence between the jazz and classical idiom. It also brought up the shifting question of race and the role it plays in jazz and clas-sical music. While the quintet was 4/5s black, and the symphony 100 percent white, jazz has become a racial minefi eld; it has become a much more white domi-nated genre than it used to be, and many jazz musicians and critics are debating the change and what it means for black and American culture. For further reading on this subject, I suggest Terry Teachout’s /T_h e Color of Jazz.Terence
Blanchard
PHOTO COURTESY JENNY BAGERTby Tony Pelton //
copy editorThe Quintet of Gram-my-award winning Terence Blanchard
rehearsed with the
Oregon Symphony for
its PDX Jazz concert last Thursday
PHOTO BY NATALIE BAKERSports 13 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Le w i s & C La r k in t r a m u r a L sp o r t s sCh e d uLe f o r sp r i n g 2009
Coed Dodgeball League:
March 2nd 8-10pm
March 4th 8-10pm
March 9th 8-10pm
March 11th 8-10pm
March 16th 8-10pm
March 18th 8-10pm
Each team must have six members, two being female.
Games are a maximum of 5 minutes long.

3x3 Coed Basketball Tournament:
Sunday March 1st @ 1pm-4pm
Double elimination, open to all students, faculty and staff.
Minimum of three players, maximum of five,
one female on the court at all times.
4x4 Coed Volleyball Tournament:
Saturday March 7th @ 1pm-4pm
Double elimination with rally scoring, best of three sets wins.
Maximum of six players on roster, must have one male on the
court at all times, maximum two.
Coed Kickball Tournament:
Sunday March 15th @ 1pm-5pm
Double elimination open to all students, faculty and staff.
To be played on Griswold turf, weather permitting.
Coed Indoor Soccer League:
April 6th 8-10pm
April 8th 8-10pm
April 13th 8-10 pm
April 15th 8-10pm
April 20th 8-10pm
April 22nd 8-10pm
Teams of seven with five on the floor at all time, two of
which must be female.
Sport for tough scenesters
by Haley Brill // sports editor
Two novice polo players mount their “horses” and swing away.photo by liam o’connorEx-Blazer plays too thugZ-Bo forgets his pro ball etiquette playing against Suns.photo From portlandtribune.com
by Micheal G. Richman // staff writerHave you ever seen a handful of hipsters
on fixies gathered on the tennis courts of
public parks swinging ballet and drinking
Pabst? What are they doing? It looks fun and
cool! Let me introduce you to the wonderful
world of bicycle polo.
All you need is a bike, an approved cycling
helmet, a mallet and a ball. The game can be
practiced and played on a variety of terrains,
including grass parks, dirt fields and tennis
courts. Derived from the rules of equestrian
polo, this variation replaces the dauntingly
powerful horse with the nimble and manage -
able bicycle.
Meg Lee is a Dosha Salon hair stylist and
Portland bike polo player. Marked with the
bruises and road rash that distinguishes her
as a more avid cyclist than the everyday com -
muter, she holds her unique sport in great
reverence. She warns that the trails of the
game can be perilous and not for the aver -
age light-hearted cyclist. However,
cycle polo offers its players
that satisfying relation -
ship with their bike, plus
the opportunity to swing a
wooden stick with the inten -
tion of getting the ball in the
hole. Take a classical chal -
lenge, throw it on a bike and
get Pabst to sponsor and you
got bicycle polo!
Lee first started playing in
her home state of Wisconsin and
brought her skills with her when
she moved to Portland last sum -
mer. It was easy for her to meet
other players in Portland east -
side through blogs and
websites. Her team, the
“Hurricanes,” practice
every Wednesday and
Sunday and participate
frequently in local tour -
naments and weekend
pick-up games.
Locally, bicycle polo has
found a receptive demo -
graphic in this biker-
friendly city. Bicycle polo
is an attractive sport for a
cyclist because the major -
ity of the players’ success
is determined by bike-
handling abilities. Swinging the mallet is the
riskier element of the game, and getting hit
by the ball is part of the endurance. At last
fixy kids will be able to take their street skill
and throw down on a court.
In light of the recent popularity of “bike
polo,” the origins have come under recent
debate. The U.S. Bicycle Polo Association Former Portland T railblazer Zach Ran -
dolph, who now plays for the Los Angeles
Clippers, was ejected in the first quarter of
a game against the Phoenix Suns for punch -
ing Louis Amundson in the jaw on T uesday
night. The ponytailed Amundson is one of
the more annoying players in the NBA, but
punching someone in the face during a bas -
ketball game is nonetheless ridiculous and
unacceptable.
Why this has any significance for Blaz -
ers fans here in Portland has nothing to do
with the outcome of the game or what pun -
ishment Randolph will eventually receive for
his behavior. Instead it’s important because
it highlights just how far this Portland team
has come since its days of being the Jailblaz -
ers.
Randolph was the last remaining vestige
of the Jailblazer era and his exit two years ago
marked the dawning of a new brand of Blaz -
ers basketball. No longer are players making
headlines for smoking weed, spousal abuse
or other misdemeanors. Now Portland’s
squad is newsworthy because they are win -
ning games and playing the right way.
The embodiment of this new team men -
tality is the unquestioned leader and two-
time All-Star Brandon Roy. Roy played with
Randolph his rookie season so he got a first -
hand look at what not to be as an NBA play -
er. Roy turns out to be everything Randolph
and the Jailblazers weren’t. Roy is quiet and
determined and plays hard every night. Roy
doesn’t demand lots of shots and never even
hints at complaining to the media. The rest
of the young Blazers follow his lead. His ma -
turity on and off the court is a welcomed change and soon the memories of the Jail -
blazers will be a thing of the distant past.
The Jailblazers were not only way worse
than this year’s team, but they seemingly had
no interest in winning. The move to unself -
ish, team-oriented play has not only brought
success, but also a much larger fan base that
actually has something invested in how their
team performs.
This isn’t to say that Randolph wasn’t good
as a Blazer. In fact, in his last year here, his
numbers were fantastic. He averaged more
than 20 points a game and a shade over 10
rebounds. A 20 and 10 guy is hard to come
by, but his antics far overshadowed his play
on the court. And beyond his individual play
on the court, Randolph’s Blazers teams never
won more than 35 games. This year’s Blazers
team already has 32 wins.
This year’s Blazers, with the youngest core
of any team in the NBA, General Manager
Kevin Pritchard and Head Coach Nate Mc -
Millan have done an excellent job of getting
the right kind of players. Big egos are no lon -
ger a problem, legal troubles are a thing of
the past and most importantly they’ve im -
proved the team tremendously while distanc -
ing themselves from the Jailblazers identity.
So Z-Bo can punch as many guys in the
face as he wants. In fact I root for him to
clock a couple more guys across the dome.
Next time Randolphs’s Clippers play the
Suns, hopefully he lands a better punch
and leavers Amundson wishing he’d never
picked a fight with Randolph’s thuggish self.
But for now, all Blazers fans can appreciate
how far we’ve come from the days when this
kind of thing was commonplace for Portland
ballers.believe the sport first appeared in India 100
years ago when British troops stationed there
honed their polo skills with a modified bi -
cycle-based style. Wikipedia begs to differ,
however, claiming that cycle polo came out
of Ireland in 1891. This story is backed by
Ireland’s glorious domination of the game
when it first appeared in the inter -
national arena at the 1908 London
Olympics.
No matter who did it first, bi -
cycle polo has since modernized
and globalized. Today bicycle polo is
played in France, Germany, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Canada and the United
States. Indian and the States rose to
dominate the bicycle polo scene in
the 1980s, and since then the
hegemony has been unwaver -
ing.
Urban bike polo is a casu -
al, less competitive variation
centered on concrete play -
ing courts in cities across the
country. Recently bike polo
has made a populous debut
here in Portland.
The Friends of Alberta
Park, local polo and park en -
thusiast, has teamed
up with polo club
Axis of Evil to work
with Portland Parks and
Recreation bigwigs to en -
sure that bicycle polo con -
tinues to be allowed and to
made some improvement to
the courts, such as better night
lighting fixtures and someday
a scoreboard.
Axis of Evil and their polo
playing support of bike messengers and
punk-rockers was criticized back in 2004 for
making the game too intoxicated. It remains
to be seen whether or not polo players will
be allowed to have alcoholic beverages, but
some sort of creative permit doesn’t seem too
far-fetched at this point.Cyclists worldwide play classic game of polo with a new twist.
“...cycle polo offers its
players that satisfying re -
lationship with their bike
plus the opportunity to
swing a wooden stick with
the intention of getting
the ball in the hole.”
illustration by
rob mccormack
Sports 14 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Pioneer swimming sets new Lewis & Clark records
Lewis & Clark’s women’s swimming team spent their
weekend making waves and breaking records. Coming home
with a whopping 11 new school records, LC coach Chris
Fantz called this meet “probably the best in team history.”
/T_h e women’s team is going to have to completely re-set
their record board after six diff erent swimmers broke individ-
ual school records. “It was an epic weekend of record break-ing, national cuts, tears, hugs, and extreme amounts of love,”
Lindsay Nixon (’09) said.
“/T_h ere was a sense this year that no one wanted it to end,”
said Fantz. “It was pretty inspiring.” /T_h at feeling was mu-
tual among the women who bring home a third place fi n-
ish, moving up one sport from last year’s conference. Nixon remembered, “/T_h e fi rst day started off amazing with many people swimming incredibly fast. /T_h e momentum began
rolling for our team with the opening session.” Momentum
is an understatement.
In the fi rst day of swimming, Fantz expected everyone to
swim “really fast,” and it was evident in preliminaries that this
meet was going to be a success. When competetion started
four school records were broken right away. Nixon, along
with teammates Koy Collier (’09) and Claire Jordan (’11), all
broke individual records. Later Annie Hay (’09), Susie T rex-ler (’11), Nixon and Collier crushed the school record in the 400-medleys by four seconds. “Every single person on the
team went out and gave it everything they had and the feel-
ing of success even after the fi rst swim,” Hay said of the fi rst day. “Claire Jordan’s stunning 500-freestyle was infectious.”
What was most important to not only the fi rst day, but the
day to follow, was that this meet was a team eff ort. “Whether
or not a swimmer broke records wasn’t important because
every time anyone broke a record, it felt like everyone did,”
Hay said.
“With a day like that, it’s tough to think you could top
it, but the next day was even better. It was an absolute team
eff ort,” he said.
/T_h e Pios walked away with more broken records on day
two. Nixon’s time in the 400 IM won her second place but
also made a provisional qualifying time for nationals, not to
mention once again smashing a school record. Hay followed
by breaking the team record in the 100-backstroke, coming
in third and also making a provisional qualifying time for
nationals. Hay joked, “I guess those 6 hours of practice a day
over Christmas break really paid off .”
Susie T rexler (’11) bettered an 18-year-old mark in the
100-breaststroke. /T_h e 200-medley relay (Hay, Nixon, T rex-
ler and Collier) also broke school records and took the third
place spot. “I’m really proud to have been part of it all,” she
said.
Later Nixon, Jordan, T rexler, and Collier took another
record in the 800-freestyle relay, destroying a record set in 1989 by nearly fi ve seconds. “For many of us it was our last chance to go out with a bang,” Nixon said. “After many of our swims, all we could do was cry and hug our teammates
because of the amazing swim and emotional high we were
on.” Records continued to fall as the conference went on
with Cat Menkel-Lawrence (’11) setting a new Pio record in the 200-backstroke.
In the fi nal women’s event of the meet, Collier led off the
400-freestyle relay with a school record time in the 100-free-
style. Lead-off legs count as offi cial times, so she racked up
one fi nal record for the team.
When all the times were tallied, the Pios walked away
with 11 new school records under their belt and fi nished
third overall. /T_h ree Pios swimmers made provisional qualify-
ing times for nationals, but results are still coming in to de-
termine if they will be going. Coach Fantz thought that there would be records broken but it was a surprise to him, and the team, that the number would be so high. “I think we all
expected to swim fast and have a great weekend but no one
could have imagined it would go as well as it did,” Hay said.
Not all swimmers broke records, but the eff ort was collec-
tive. “/T_h ere is no way any of us could have done what we did
without the love and support of our team,” Nixon said.
“I was impressed across the board,” said Fantz. /T_h ere were
no star swimmers this weekend, just an exceptional team that has come to appreciate and support each other. “Everyone worked extremely hard this season and the payoff was obvi-ous this weekend” Nixon said, “Chris [Fantz] is a phenom-
enal coach that helped us not only get here, but supported
us throughout the entire process.” Some could call this a
storybook ending, but Coach Fantz would argue that this weekend was simply “amazing.”
/T_h e men also came out with more than respectable times.
/T_h e 400 free relay team fi nished in eighth place with Noah
Boring (’12), Zac Hixon (’10), Steven Carrero (’12) and
SamPalmer (’09) fi nishing with a time of 3:24.17. Palmer also took eighth place in the 100 freestyle. /T_h e men’s team fi nished in seventh place, defeating dual meet rival Wil-
lamette who defeated the Pios earlier this season.Lewis & Clark women’s swimming takes third place and the Northwest Conference Championships and walk away with eleven records
Featured Athlete: Amalia Nilsson
by Nichole Carnell // sports editorLewis & Clark’s number one tennis player has Swedish roots and Japanese tennis skills
Coming off of two big wins last weekend in singles
and doubles women’s tennis, you would have no idea af-
ter talking with her that Amalia Nilsson (’11) has a “dan-gerous” tennis game. Nilsson is a soft-spoken, intelligent young woman with a fi erce game that intimi-dates the competition.
While commitment
may be one aspect of her passion, another is the enjoyment she gets. After taking the summer off to reha-bilitate her back, Nils-son couldn’t wait to step back on the court last fall, and the Pio-neers are lucky to have her. She will lead this year’s women’s team in singles, and along with Whitney DeBree (’11) (who is her favortie doubles partner) will take to number one spots in doubles.
Nilsson is a secret
basketball fan, but she doesn’t see any compel-ling reason to put her racket down. Nilsson started playing tennis in the second grade in Sweden. “It was some-thing my friends were doing and I wanted to try it out,” she said. At that ripe age, she likely would have no idea that she would be dominating the dome at LC.
As a freshman last year, Amalia never lost a set and con-
quered that number one spot for the Pios and also in the Northwest Conference (NWC). /T_h e success has not gotten
to her head, however—Nilsson is very grounded and focused
on her game.
Her favorite tennis memory comes from last season. Nils-
son described it as a time in her life when everything “fell
into place.” “All the things coach-
es and parents had been telling me fi nally started to happen,” she said. Last year was a time when she “grew up as a player,” and she has the record to prove it.
After playing tennis in Swe-
den, /T_h ailand and then moving to Tokyo for high school and playing on a Japanese team (a time that she called an “an ex-perience in itself”), it is no won-der that she is inclined to inter-national aff airs. /T_h is incredible athlete is also an incredible aca-demic: Nilsson is a double major in economics and international aff airs. She is also a tri-linguist who speaks Swedish, Japanese and English. When asked where she will be in fi ve years, she thought she will probably work-ing in Portland at her dream job, at Nike.
Nilsson’s favorite tennis play-
er of all time is Martina Hingis, because when playing Venus and
Serena Williams she “used her head and played smart.” Right now, Nilsson is a fan of Roger Federer because of his “grace
and fi nesse” and his ability to play a hard match, but when it is over, he never looks tired. Nilsson’s dream tennis match would be to play someone who was just a little bit better than her but to have “one of those days,” where she made less mis-takes and know that she played well.
PHOTO BY KATIE SUGARMAN
Amalia Nilsson (’11) has a quick, dangerous game. by Nichole Carnell // sports editor
Lewis & Clark Women’s
Swimming
2008-2009 New Team Records
100 Freestyle - Koy Collier 54.39
200 Freestyle - Koy Collier 1:55.61500 Freestyle
Claire Jordan 5:10.97
100 Backstroke - Annie Hay 59.26
200 Backstroke
Cat Menkel-Lawrence 2:10.37
100 Breaststroke
Susie Trexler 1:09.53
200 IM Lindsay Nixon 2:10.03
400 IM Lindsay Nixon 4:38.48
200 Medley Relay 1:51.87
Annie Hay, Susie Trexler, Lindsay
Nixon, Koy Collier
400 Medley Relay 4:05.52
Annie Hay, Susie Trexler, Lindsay Nixon, Koy Collier
800 Freestyle Relay 7:58.03
Lindsay Nixon, Claire Jordan, Susie Trexler, Koy Collier
Susie Trexler (’11) broke four Pioneer team records. PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHRIS FANTZ
Coach Fantz and his eight senior swimmers.
Volume 73, Number 1 Friday, September 12, 2008 Sports 15 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
Basketball
Women’s:
2/13
Linfield ….................… (W) 56-522/14Willamette …...........… (W) 68-59
Overall Record: 11-12
Conference Record: 5-9
Men’s:
2/13Linfield …..................… (L) 73-652/14Willamette …............… (L) 60-58
Overall Record: 15-8
Conference Record: 9-5
Swimming
Women’s:
2/14-15NWC …........................… 3
rd Place
Men’s:
2/14-15NWC ….........................… 7
th Place
Tennis
Women’s:
2/13 Whitman .......................... (L) 6-32/14 Whitworth ........................ (L) 7-2
Men’s:
2/13Seattle U ............................(L) 7-22/14Whitworth .........................(L) 9-0
Baseball
2/14 (Double Header)Occidental ….................… (L) 2-1 (L) 5-4

/T_h e Bourne Sports Report
Two peas in one illegal, media frenzied pod: Chris Brown & A-Rod. Who is worse?
It has been two weeks now since stories were fi rst pub-
lished claiming that Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for
steroid use in 2003. In those two weeks, Rodriguez has ad-
mitted it and apologized to the minimum extent necessary to
start to clear the media circus that has surrounded him since the story leaked.
It has been two weeks now since stories were fi rst pub-
lished claiming that Chris Brown beat Rihanna after a Gram-my pre-party. In those two weeks, Brown has admitted it and apologized to the minimum extent necessary to start to clear the media circus that surrounded him since the story leaked.
A- Rod, A-Fraud, A-Roid, whatever you wish to call him
these days, held a press conference after the allegations of a positive test came to light in which he called his actions “stu-pid,” “naïve” and “a mistake.”
Chris Brown, CB, C-Breezy, whatever you wish to call
him these days, released a statement after the allegations of abuse came to light in which he expressed how “sorry” and “saddened” he was by the situation.
In the days following the allegations, Rodriguez was
backed by his peers as fellow major leaguers Derek Jeter, Johnny Damon and Kurt Schilling all made public state-
ments in defense of his character. Interestingly, Schilling, al-
though less formally, has been accused of banned substance
abuse as well.
In the days following the allegations, Brown was backed
by his peers as fellow entertainers TI and Terrence Howard
made public statements in defense of his character. Interest-
ingly, TI will start a year long prison sentence next month
for purchasing machine guns, while Howard was arrested in 2002 for domestic abuse.
Prior to the scandal, Alex Rodriguez was considered the
Golden Boy of Baseball. His numbers have been outrageous,
he has made People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People
List,” was featured in a Guitar Hero ad, and his numbers
were supposedly untainted, unlike Barry Bonds whose per-jury trial starts next month.
Prior to the scandal, Chris Brown was considered the
Golden Boy of Pop Music. His chart success has been as-tounding, he has made People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful
Stars Under 25 List,” was featured in a Wrigley’s ad, and his image was squeaky clean, a stark contrast from his R&B con-temporaries like R. Kelly, who was mysteriously acquitted of child pornography charges last summer.
I think you get my point. T wo separate cases, striking-
ly similar circumstances and details. /T_h e level of stardom
achieved by those involved has sparked the vast media cov-
erage of these events. /T_h ere is however, one major divider between these two circumstances that few in the media are recognizing, and that is severity of the crime. Chris Brown was so violent that night, and pre-
sumably other nights, that his signifi cant other was said to have had bite marks on her body and wounds that resembled devil horns on her forehead. Alex Rodriguez gave himself a shot. Chris Brown fl ed the scene of his bloody screaming girlfriend. Alex Rodriguez hit 156 homeruns from 2001-2003. Rodriguez may never make it to the Hall of Fame because of this. Chris Brown might not see one day behind bars.
It doesn’t matter if baseball is America’s pas-
time—steroid use is not a cheating issue, it’s not a lying issue, it’s not a moral issue, it’s a health care issue. /T_h e problem is not the players who have used banned substances to remain competitive, it is the environment that was created starting in the early ’90s, gaining maximum speed by the end of the millennium, that dictated the philosophy that said “Steroids are the norm, anything less is subpar.”
Rodriguez’s steroid use proved substantially
successful when he signed a 10-year, $314 million contract extension. Luckily for A-Rod, he already has two daughters, and seems to have been off the juice long enough to regain natural muscle mass that won’t deteriorate abnormally and cause severe health problems down the road.
Baseball’s steroid users should not be villainized,
however. /T_h ose with numbers worthy of the Hall of Fame should be let in—no question. It’s true that drugs have aided their statistics, but the environ-ments of baseball from diff erent eras are not really as comparable as people like to make them. Pitch-ing that guys like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Henry Aaron saw was substantially inferior to contemporary pitching. In other words, if you put Barry Bonds without steroids in the eras that these men played in, it would be shocking if he still didn’t shatter their records.
Much like the inequity of the pot dealer who
serves 10 years versus the rapist who spends 6 months behind bars, the issues at hand with Alex Rodriguez and Chris Brown have been weighted askew. Yes, steroid use, like any drug use, is against the law, but honestly, it’s quite clear that we have big-ger fi sh to fry. Sports and its heroes are not the be-all, end-all of what can be deemed important, and I would bet my A-Rod rookie card that Rihanna, and any suff ering victim of domestic abuse, could not care less whether or not an asterisk appears in the record books next to the names of the stars from the Great Steroid Era.
by Jacob Bourne // staff writer
/T_h e basketball event of the year
Although the men’s and women’s team split the night,
with the women taking the win over Linfi eld, it was defi nite-ly a night full of basketball madness. /T_h e women’s team hon-ored their sole senior Emily Deichsel before taking the fl oor in a close game that kept the fans on the edge of their seats. /T_h anks to Kim Kittell’s (’10) free throw with three second on the board, the Pioneers secured the win, 56-52.
Half time proved entertainment as well with ASLC Exec-
utive Council taking on the Student Life team. /T_h e Council dominated over the beloved CLAs. Don’t worry guys, there’s always next year.
/T_h e men also honored their seniors before their last game
on the home court. Seniors included David Berggren, Tyson Papenfuss and Stephin Roberts. Tied at half-time with 32 each, the teams would enter the locker room to see the Presi-dent’s Offi ce take on the Executive Council in their second The Pioneer men come up short but the women squeak past the Linfi eld Wildcats.
by Nichole Carnell // sports editor
appearance of the night. Even with one win under
their belt the Executive Council stole the win from the President’s Offi ce in what some would call an upset victory.
/T_h e Pios just couldn’t butt out a win as the Wild-
cats stepped up the intensity and took a 10-point lead with just over 11 minutes left to play. /T_h e gap was narrowed with a three from Drake Green (’12), but the Wildcats ran ahead and the Pios came up short. /T_h e men and women fi nish their conference play this weekend with the men taking on Whitman and Whitworth. /T_h e women will fi nish their season in the same way. /T_h e men still hold strong at third place in the conference and the women are holding out in seventh. Celestino “the Dean” Limas sees his
lane and gets by his defender.
Kim Kittell (’10) fakes her defender Friday night.PHOTOS BY FRITZ FITZERBackdoor 16 the Pioneer Log, February 20, 2009
You Caught My Eye
Please e-mail your“You Caught My Eye” to Piolog@lclark.edu ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONAS
Inside the issue:
• Local mad
scientist declared basket case.
Pg. 80085• Baby animals cuter than adult counterparts.
Pg. 4.4/3• Local hero sel/f_l essly comforts attractive woman.
Pg. -5 /T_h e Top Ten
Reasons to be depressed
10. Battlestar cancelled.
9. Your boyfriend broke up with
your best friend.
8. You mumbled your wish to be a
member of Dead Prez.
7. Happy people.6. T weenage angst. 5. Meaningless of existence.4. Inedible panties.3. Sugar Ray broke up.2. Your insigni/f_i cant other.
1. OJ still free.
You: Hott.
Me:
You: God’s gift to the Bon kitchen.
Me: Willing to /f_l ex you in, anytime.
You: From Alaska.Me: Wanting to give you lots of Eskimo kisses.You: Only want it if it’s organic.Me: Only give it if it’s orgasmic. Also I don’t have chemicals.
You: Belly rubbing, loud mouthed drummer boy.Me: Looking to get beat.You: Blond Pondo track-star.
Me: I want you, Annie.
You: Sexy racist.
Me: I put the ‘big’ in bigot.You: Seminar shawty.Me: You got me 30 pages thick girl.You: /T_h rilling, talented, Quinn.Me: A girl who just doesn’t have a chance, upper Manzi.
You: Kickin’ mad ass at Supra-Smash Bruddaz.Me: Want you to pound my Jigglypuff with your Donkey Kong
Dan vs. DanDan ONE
Adult lobbyist
Probably not, right? I
mean…they’re babies. /T_h ey don’t really know anything. Won’t they just vote for a giant pair of breasts? Or for rattles? I don’t really think we want a rattle as a presi-dent, do we? Are babies even
capable of abstract thought?
/T_h eir votes will just mirror
the votes of their parents, which means that politically-active parents will just have as many kids as possible so that they
will have more political in/f_l uence. And if stealing
candy from a baby is easy, then it can’t be that
much harder to steal their votes. Wait, are we seriously arguing about this? We can’t let babies vote. /T_h is doesn’t make any sense! Is anybody really going to take this issue seriously?
Should babies vote?Dan TWO
Baby activist
Hell yes they should vote. You
think they’d vote for a rattle? So what? I think that having a rattle as a president would really shake things up. Babies have contributed their fair share to America; they deserve some representation. And don’t our laws aff ect babies? Do
they really deserve to suff er under
the heavy taxation of today’s baby
law without getting anything in
return? What we need is a voting baby majority, a majority that can make the super-youth vote
count in 2010. Heck, President Obama was once
a baby himself. If we don’t give the babies the vote
in this election, they may very well hold an ador-able revolution, and overthrow our government with their fat little Winston Churchill bodies, and we don’t want to live in that America.
Dan vs. Dan