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2009-10-01

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Volume 74, Number 5 Friday, October 2, 2009 See you after Fall Break!
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Sports:pg. 6-7PioLogpg. 11Blazers training camp
LC music makers pg. 8Drag show pg. 3
Liquid pleasure
Dean of the College Julio de Paula is one of many Lewis & Clark administrators stepping down this year .Dean of College to become chemistry professor
by Nicole Carnell“/T_h ere should be no
confusion about what a
swastika means on this
campus. . . we have to
take action,” said Eli
Cohn (’10).
Elkins attains veto powerSwastikas on campus
prompt tolerance dialogue
DJ Furth, John Coffi n and Doug Surgenor (’10) are sworn into offi ce.by Tom Meath & Tatty Bartholomew
Six swastikas, drawn in ballpoint pen on
the wall of a bathroom in Watzek Library,
provoked a strong response from community members.
/T_h e graffi ti was found late last Friday, but
administration withheld the news until T ues-day, after the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.
“/T_h ere should be no confusion about
what a swastika means on this campus,”
said Eli Cohn (’10) at an open forum held
Wednesday to discuss the implications of the
off ensive symbols. “/T_h is is not just a long-
term process. We have to take action.”
“It seems to me there is no leadership,”
said Kermit Pace of Facilities Services, refer-ring to what he sees as a larger pattern on campus. “We tend to have meetings and fo-rums and then nothing until the next inci-dent.”
Faculty, staff and students met at the fo-
rum, which was led by Dean of the Chapel Mark Duntley and Assistant Director of Multicultural Aff airs Shavette McGhee. /T_h e discussion centered on what response such an action of vandalism warranted and ways of preventing future hate messages.
Some argued that this incident could ini-
tiate a greater community emphasis on tol-erance. /T_h ey expressed hope that such van-dalism might inspire a positive dialogue on campus. “Our /f_i rst goal in any situation is to decide what we do to ensure students learn from these actions and never repeat them,” said Duntley.
Another view held that this vandalism
was not a random act, but rather stemmed from a more deeply rooted /f_l aw in Lewis &
continued on SWASTIKA, pg. 2/T_h e Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark held its /f_i rst senate meeting last /T_h urs-day. According to Jason Feiner, director of student activities, it was the /f_i rst seated sen-
ate to meet since the 1980s.
One bill and one resolution were present-
ed in the /f_i rst meeting. /T_h e /f_i rst student bill introduced would give the ASLC President
veto power, meaning he could send bills back
the senate for a two-thirds majority (much like the United States legislature). /T_h e soph-
omore senators were most vocal about the risks of this amendment to the constitution, supposing vaguely that issues could arise in the future. After discussion, the senate passed the bill with one revision: the option of a student referendum as well at a two-thirds majority in the senate.
In other business, the senate approved a
resolution for ASLC President Brad Elkins (’10) to sign on to the Get Real Campaign,
continued on SENATE, pg. 2by Jared Schy
Julio de Paula will be ending his tenure as
dean of the College this year, but he will not be leaving Lewis & Clark./uni00A0De Paula will be-
come a faculty member at the school, teach-
ing chemistry and biochemistry as well as
E&D and survey courses./uni00A0
/uni00A0 His transition marks what he called “an
easy decision” as he desires to spend more
time with his “young family.”/uni00A0
De Paula has a 14-year-old daughter, Me-
gan, who is beginning high school this year
and an 8-year-old daughter, Sara, who is in 3rd grade.
During his time as dean, de Paula worked
on initiatives to increase funding for aca-demic programming.
On remaining current with his /f_i eld, de
Paula said, he “managed,” but it was “diffi -
cult.”/uni00A0 To stay up-to-date within his /f_i eld, de
Paula continued writing textbooks with his
co-authors as a way of “teaching outside the classroom.”/uni00A0
Additionally, he continued his research
on nanotechnology, which he began at
Haverford College in Pennsylvania and some
of which has been published./uni00A0
He noted, however, that he is looking for-
ward to getting back into his /f_i eld more fully./uni00A0
De Paula said he misses teaching, spe-
ci/f_i cally “[being] engaged more directly with students.”/uni00A0
When asked what he liked most about
teaching, de Paula said “working with kids to make them realize their potential” and also the “day-to-day contact.”
Describing himself as a “utility teacher,” de Paula is enthusiastic about teaching a va-
riety of courses in addition to his primary
/f_i eld./uni00A0De Paula joined the LC administration in 2005, coming from Haverford College
in Pennsylvania where he taught chemistry, biochemistry and a core program.
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Hispanic Stud-
ies, Latin American Studies, and Gente Latina Unida
The Taino: The Native
Americans Who Discovered
ColumbusTeatro Milagro per-
forms El Ultimo, a
bilingual play
Growing Up Hispanic in
the U.S.Oct. 5, 7:30 pm, Miller 105
Bobby Gonzales will talk about the
lifeways, art, history, outstanding lead-ers and spirituality of the Taino, the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. The Tainos introduced Europeans to rubber, tobacco, corn, and the pineapple. The saga of these Native Peoples who encountered Columbus is an amazing story of great accomplishment, tragedy and survival.Oct. 12, 7:00 pm
A timberman acquires an island, which he plans to turn into a sustainable logging com-munity. But his plan is delayed when forest spirits and an enemy from old environmental wars attack him. This not only challenges his integrity but also his dream of creating a utopia.
Come hear and share the experiences of members of the L&C Commu-nity. Featuring Asst. Dir. of Overseas and Off-Campus Programs Lucretia Choto, Asst. Prof. of Philosophy Joel Martinez, Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Offi cer Celestino Limas, and student Karla Ortiz (’12). Moder-ated by Dir. of Latin American Studies and Assoc. Prof. of Hispanic Studies Juan C. Toledano. Appetizers will be served.Oct. 12, 3:30 pm, Stamm
October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Night! Celebrate with
themed food in the Bon and with live salsa music by Freddy
Vilches and Lo Nuestro Latin Esemble!
45: number of students who have been asked
to self-isolate due to fl u symptoms (presumed H1N1)
3-5: average number of days students self-
isolate for swine fl u (until 24 hours after fever ends)
0: number of members of the LC community
who have died, or been hospitalized due to swine fl u
“At least 2” : number of parents who called
in a panic after last week’s Backdoor
**The swine fl u situation may “change very
rapidly,” according to Associate Director of Health Promotion Melissa Osmond. These numbers are accurate, as far as the Health Service knew, as of Tuesday, Sept 29. Anyone with concerns about H1N1 is welcome to contact Osmond at mosmand@lclark.eduSwine /f_l u stats:
according to Student
Health ServicesFirst Senate resolution vetoed by Pres.
continued from SENATE, pg. 1
intercollegiate student organization con-
nected to the Amethyst Initiative. /T_h e Am-
ethyst Initiative is a nationwide petition by
college and university presidents to recon-sider the legal drinking age in light of in-creasingly dangerous drinking practices on
college campuses. President /T_h omas Hoch-
stettler signed the initiative last year to mixed
reception by alumni, according to Feiner. After some heated discussion by the mem-bers of the senate and the Executive Council delegates, the resolution was passed. It was later vetoed by Elkins. According to Elkins, the resolution will appear again to the senate for further discussion.
Senate members were elected by each
class in early September. In addition to the 11 members of the Senate and the Executive Council, delegates were present from vari-ous student organizations, including the Stu-dent Media Board, International Students of
Lewis & Clark, Student Athletic Advisory
Committee and Multicultural Aff airs.
/T_h e senate will make recommendations
to the Executive Council, pass bills to be
incorporated into the Constitution, off er
resolutions to be presented to the Board of
T rustees—the ultimate decision-makers—by
Elkins, and accept appointments of various college committees.
/T_h e /f_i rst order of business was the swear-
ing in of the three senators from each class. /T_h e junior class, however, was in the process of /f_i nding a third representative at last /T_h urs-day’s meeting. Chief Justice Collin Hamilton (’10) swore in the remaining senators on the newly adopted constitution.
/T_h e senate holds open meetings every /T_h urs-
New junior senators Adlai Arnold and Jarré Lyman lounge before meeting.
Former LC basketball coach and
alumnus Dean Sempert was honored this Sunday at a memorial service on campus in Agnes Flanagan Chapel.Jason Can/f_i eld’s memorial service
was held on campus this Saturday. Ja-
son passed away this summer. /T_h e me-morial was well- attended by friends and family. It happened between 10 and 11 a.m. on the Lewis & Clark campus at the /f_l agpole. Friends of Jason per-formed the Greenday song “J.A.S.” in his honor at the service. He would have been a senior at LC this fall and was ma-joring in Political Science. Jason Can/f_i eld
memorial service
by Tatty Bartholomewcontinued from SWASTIKA, pg. 1
Clark culture. “It’s surprising how many conversations just aren’t had,” said Port-land Hillel Director Rachel Hall. “What do
you want to be loud and proud on campus about? It has to be more than just recycling.”
Duntley explained that the reason for
delaying noti/f_i cation was to keep the news from interfering with Yom Kippur. “We didn’t think it would be prudent to dissemi-nate this information on the holiest of Jewish holidays,” said Duntley.
While some students wished they had
been noti/f_i ed immediately, most appreciated Interim-President Jane Atkinson’s respect for the holiday.
“I thought it was nice of her to take [Yom
Kippur] into account,” said Daniel Gwirts-man (’12). “Going into Yom Kippur with that information would have made it diffi -cult.”PHOTO BY LUCCA CIROLIA
Tolerence talk
PHOTO BY HANNAH PRINCEI often find myself wandering
around campus thirsty enough to
drink my own urine. Instead of
peeing into my water bottle I make
a beeline for the top floor of Tem -
pleton, to the most beloved and
thirst-quenching water fountain
known to man.
“Arctic Blast,” as I know and
love it, perches before the bath -
rooms directly across from the
Bon, just outside of the doors to
Stamm. There it sits, like a boat full
of virgin goddesses awaiting your
entrance into Nirvana. The coldest
fountain any human has ever tast -
ed, it is undoubtedly fed by glacial
streams of the Alaskan Arctic com -
bined with the celestial waters of
Lake Minnetonka.
No other water fountain on
campus can even compare. When
you fill your water bottle from the
simple and elegant spout of Arctic
Blast you can literally feel its cold
and soothing powers in your hand.
When you sip its luscious fruit,
your esophagus is cleansed to yo -
gic proportions. Sometimes when I
can’t sleep on a hot summer night I
imagine swimming in its cool wa -ters, backstroking naked while it
caresses my parched soul.
I try not to loathe those “other”
fountains, but when I don’t have
time to get to Arctic Blast I really
wonder why the other water sourc -
es on campus are not even in the
same stratosphere in terms of deli -
ciousness and refreshment. In fact,
I often cry when I taste the ho-hum
and mundane water that flows into
Miller and Howard halls.
So now I call on all LC scien -
tists, facilities staff and water en -
thusiasts to find out the reasons
behind the other fountains’ inepti -
tude. Why can’t the special pipe
that feeds upper Templeton be re -
routed to other parts of the build -
ing, or better yet, all over campus?
Is this racism, elitism, fascism, xe -
nophobia, hydrophobia or some
other “-ism” or “-phobia” that I
have yet to ponder?
If you haven’t tried Arctic Blast,
you’d better. If you know anything
about its fantastically chilled se -
crets please contact the Pioneer Log
or me immediately. Until then, en -
joy its immaculately almost-frozen
gifts and just try to imagine what
magic lies beneath its gray metallic
casing. Drink on, Pios, drink on.3Forum the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
Liquid pleasure
by Michael Richman
Even though most students
who attend Lewis & Clark spend
the duration of their four years ei -
ther on this campus or completing
a related LC off-campus program,
there are still many times when
peers completely lose contact with
one another. This unfortunate oc -
currence became especially appar -
ent to me after learning about the
death of Jason Canfield, someone
with whom I was once friends and
with whom I had regrettably fallen
out of correspondence.
After hearing that Jason had
passed, I thought of all the other
people who I had also stopped talk -
ing to or spending time with since
my freshman year. During New
Student Orientation and following
the first few weeks of school, most
people think they have a good idea
of whom they will associate with
for the next few years. This is not
usually what turns out to be true.
Most are unprepared for being
thrown into a situation as intense as
the one many college students find
themselves while living on-cam -
pus. The easiest and most effective
way of coping with the unending
stream of people, classes, profes -
sors, eating, sleeping and studying
is by finding a strong set of friends
and a good support group.
While many of the friends stu -
dents find in the first weeks of
school may end up providing life -
long companionship, some rela -
tionships are forged more for con -
venience’s sake than anything else.
As a result, many people seek new
and different companions as the
years progress.
Another means by which people
constantly lose touch with one an -
other is by the overlapping overseas
programs in which students partic -
ipate. A friend may be away for one
semester, and then you are away for
two. In the end, you have not seen
the other person for a year and a half. College is only four years long
and if nearly half of this time is
spent only talking to someone via
Facebook, it seems a difficult task
for the friendship to remain strong.
Regardless of the many chang -
es students inevitably undergo
throughout their undergraduate ca -
reer, there should be more emphasis
on keeping up with the people who
shaped that experience. Whether or
not your tastes are the same as the
person with whom you went on a
College Outdoors trip before NSO,
remaining in contact is something
most probably never regret.
What can cause regret is not
knowing about someone’s life and
then losing the opportunity to
speak with him or her ever again.
The case with Jason is the most
tragic, worst possibility that could ever happen, so it is not likely ev -
eryone will have to experience this
misfortune.
However, many people move
away, transfer to other schools or
drop out before making contact
with everyone they ever knew. It
seems worthwhile to avoid the
heartbreak that results from com -
pletely losing contact with some -
one you were once close to.
A simple wave and “How are
you?” would suffice in keeping the
terms between yourself and others
you know congenial and happy.
Perhaps this campus would also be
a friendlier place if everyone took a
few moments to ask those they’ve
once sat next to in class, previously
lived across the hall from or spent
time with freshman year about
their day.Editor’s Note: Keeping in touch
Maintaining friendships over the course of a complicated four years
by Sanne Stienstra
“Dude, you gotta take the sailing class,”
was one of the first suggestions one of my
friends received when touring Lewis & Clark
back last fall. In fact, most of the people that
I encountered in the first couple weeks at LC
were excitedly stoking the fire of their fu -
ture education with prospects of yoga, rock
climbing and sailing as part of their school
schedule. LC’s exciting P .E. courses make
the College’s requirement an exciting way to
branch out and stay fit, significantly different
than the mandatory P .E. classes in elemen -
tary school.
A majority of students enjoy the fact that
they can spend time outside of the class -
room, getting a break from basic reading,
writing, et cetera, by taking the required P .E.
classes. LC, however, offers much more than
the usual volleyball, basketball and weight
training. Students are offered the choice of
many of the already noted sports as well as
beginning scuba, skiing, women’s self de -
fense, ballroom dancing and deep water run -
ning. “I think it’s awesome that they offer
such a wide range of options, and that they
expand a lot of people in that way. I’m a
naturally active person though,” said Shelby
Campbell (’13), a participant in this semes -
ter’s rock climbing course. It’s true: by allowing students the chance
to participate in these activities, the school
is helping to expand students as humans.
Most people think that physical education is
more beneficial to younger kids who might
not have the mental capacity to sit still all
day and learn. Health specialists note that
physical activity is necessary for people of
all ages. With the school implementing the
requirement for students to participate in a
physically productive class, they are helping
students become healthier and more active
individuals. A lot of stu -
dents find that after they
take a physical educa -
tion course, such as rock
climbing, they are more
inclined to continue par -
ticipating in that physical
activity for more than the
semester.
There is the age-old
complaint that “we’re too
old for this.” Maybe P .E.
isn’t something that col -
lege kids need. In col -
lege, students are sup -
posed to be focused on
completing their major
and studying while con -
centrating hard on ex -panding the intellectual side of their mind.
Some students who are working ridiculously
hard gaining credits for their major find that
the added stress of getting P .E. credit is lu -
dicrous. Once again, this goes back to the
argument that now that students are adults,
there is no need for the school to be teaching
them athletics.
While that is a valid point, the majority
of students that I’ve encountered are much
more excited about the idea of physical ed -
ucation in college than they are perturbed. Physical education provides a launch pad for
students to find new athletic endeavors or
at least to try something new. For students
who are too busy with schoolwork to make
time for physical activity, having a class that
is athletic-based is killing two birds with one
stone. Yes, it might be a burden to have to
get those two credits of P .E. in order to grad -
uate college, but LC has done a phenomenal
job at providing eccentric classes, and it’s a
great opportunity to be active and try some -
thing new.
P .E. credit: Is this elementary school all over again?
by Lindsey BosseMicheal Richman (’10) enjoys a delicious slurp from
“Arctic Blast,” the fountain of the gods.
PHOTO BY SAM DODSON
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK
ILLUSTRATION BY SAM MARGEVICIUSVolume 73, Number 1 Forum 4 the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
One month down, three more to go. The first month of
the fall semester has flown by. As the freshmen have finally
settled into their dorms and become acquainted with the sur -
rounding scene, first impressions of the school are beginning
to wear off.
New Student Orientation wel -
comed the freshmen with open arms,
creating a home and a sanctuary to
the newly freed students. Although
this freedom from parental supervi -
sion has been more than welcome for
most, many of the students have be -
gun to feel instances of homesickness,
as most will not see their families until the winter break.
Unlike universities located within the heart of a city, Lew -
is & Clark is different in that we are essentially living in the
middle of the forest. Hawaiian native Lu’ukia Nakanelua
(’13) said, “I liked that the school is secluded and that there
is a balance between the city and the forest. However, I’m
beginning to miss the ocean.” Freshmen discover first impressions and depressions
To a select few students, LC is reminiscent of high school,
but many enjoy the school’s intimate community. In com -
parison to many universities, LC’s undergraduate size is not
35,000 but 1,999. Whereas the community of LC may be
small, the sense of a “community” is more so emphasized.
Aside from the minority of freshmen who are not enjoying
the fact that the school’s population
seems a lot smaller than when they first
got here, many of the freshmen like that
aspect of LC. When asked what she
thinks of the small community, Lauren
Reiterman (’13) said, “I’m finding the
people to be really relaxing and easy to
get along with. I also like that the teach -
ers are approachable.” Most freshmen
agree that the size of the classroom as well as the student-
teacher conduct provides a long-lasting good impression of
the school.
Aside from atmosphere and academics, freshmen are be -
ginning to become accustomed to the real “Bon food.” Many
agree that the Bon food in the start of the school year was
relatively tasteful. However, after parents have departed, the quality of the food appears to have gone as well. “I feel as if
there is a lack of variety,” Nakanelua said. In addition to the
repetitive pasta, cous cous and rice dishes, freshmen like Josh
Spegman (’13) are annoyed by the Bon’s new policy on food
removal. As Spegman stated, “I don’t like that we can’t take
simple food out such as an apple.”
The little things of a newly-acquired “adult life” are be -
ginning to cause frustration as well. From the small number
of washers and dryers to the inconveniently timed weekend
meals, the term adjusting is proving to be daunting to the
new students. Despite the fact that the world cannot be per -
fect, especially at college, one must look on the bright side
and “Make the best of what we have,” as said by T raci Naka -
mura (’13).
Although the beginning month of college has faded from
the “honeymoon” feel to a more deploring “I miss my friends
and family” feel, freshmen should be advised that there are
plenty of ways to occupy one’s mind while living at and at -
tending LC.
Don’t be afraid to explore the city as well as the various
welcoming clubs on campus. Break out of your shells and
take in a world of culture.by Brandy Miller
While the community
of LC may be small, the
sense of a “community”
is more so emphasized.
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“In Hunt Seat, which is what I do, you try to look like a man. You got a hair net, helmet,
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Pioneer Log: How long have you been with
Brainstorm?Patrick Phillips: About a year. [We] started last summer, had to take a break from No-vember to April while I was in Spain [study-ing abroad].
PL: Do you play on campus?
PP: We have not ever played on campus. We would like to.
PL: A lot of music-making on campus is
pretty incestuous. Is it refreshing for you to not be involved in that?PP: I like that people play music together on campus; it’s fun. I’d love to. I think one rea-son why we haven’t played here yet is a lot of times there’s not good turn-out. It’s hard to get people excited to go to shows at the Co-Op or something—we don’t have a very good venue. [Referencing the Drag Show event coinciding
with a low-attendance Co-Op
concert]: It’s not really any-
one’s fault but there will be
con/f_l icting events, but there’s
also not an infrastructure here
for kids to play music. /T_h ey
have, like, open-mic night or
something….
PL: /T_h at’s always been really
weird to me, since so many
people here make and are inter-
ested in music, but live music
events always fail.
PP: I heard that Sunburn last
year was a big disaster [be-
cause of a bad sound techni-
cian and low turn-out]. It ends
up turning away bands from
the school, even if they’re get-
ting paid. /T_h ey’d rather go to Reed and have a bunch of really
stoked kids see a show that’s of-
tentimes free, with /f_i ne sound,
and they have a big open student space and
venue.
PL: So in contrast, you’ve been playing a lot
of good venues around Portland. How’s that
been?
PP: It’s been fun. I’m not totally used to playing on a stage. It’s de/f_i nitely more fun
to do house shows, with a diff erent energy,
but it’s been cool playing with better sound
systems. I’m excited for the Mississippi Stu-
dios show because it will be the nicest venue we’ve ever played at, and it will also be kind
of weird because we’ll be up on a stage. I’m
excited to open for a big band that we really
respect [AU].
PL: Have you done any extensive touring?
PP: We did a small tour this summer, north
to Seattle and south to Santa Cruz. It was
cool to know that we could just go and do
that, play shows every night and people will
come out. We did have some weird ones.
PL: Like what?
PP: We played at the Guayaki Yerba Mate
factory in Sebastopol, and it was a pirate
punk show so there were all these weird
vaguely punk rock-looking guys saying stuff
Charley Zheng �'11�
Yvonne Zheng (’11), or Charley as most people call her,
plays the ukulele and is something like the tiny instrument
she often wields. With a petite stature and small hands, Zheng sings with an unexpected ease and her vibrant voice seems disproportionately vast when compared to the rest of her. “I really like the ukulele because it’s such a small instru-ment and I am sort of known for my really small hands,” she said. “A lot of sound comes out of the uke.”
Her con/f_i dent way of singing is the basis for two bands—
Bird Announced Land and King T ut, the latter of which formed just this summer. “King T ut was just this summer band that I was in with John Moxley, Peter Moxley and Mat-ty McBride [from the Bay Area],” Zheng said. “We just all sort of came together and spent about a week just playing really intensely.”
After recording an album and playing three shows, in Palo
Alto, CA, Portland and Tacoma, WA, King T ut as a proj-ect has been placed on the back burner, but it remains on Zheng’s mind. “/T_h at whole experience was really awesome because I’ve never been in a group in which I felt so at ease and so comfortable and completely myself,” Zheng said.
/T_h is summer also saw great things happen for Zheng’s
other band, Bird Announced Land, when one of its songs was included on the PDX Pop Now! compilation—a charm-ing, nostalgic track entitled “Sweet Dreams” that was record-ed with Owen Wuerker (’11) and Mac Pogue (’11) by a re-Happy Prescriptions plays exactly the
kind of rock that one would hope to stumble upon in a dimly-lit Southeast bar or in the basement at somebody’s friend’s house party where whiskey and heavy beats reign supreme. As the drummer and youngest member of Happy Prescriptions, Wyatt Schaffner (’11) enthusiastically answered the
Pioneer Log’ s questions about his mu-
sic, inevitable fame and college life.
Pioneer Log : What’s cool about being in a band?
Wyatt Schaff ner: I get to play at bars and people don’t ask questions. Basically you don’t really get paid to play shows, so bars give you drinks or drink tickets.
/T_h at’s an easy in right there.
PL: Describe your band’s sound and in/f_l uences.
WS: /T_h is is like the hardest question. We all
bring diff erent elements to the table and what we’re in/f_l uenced by. For me, it’s like garage rock and post-punk new age stuff . [My bandmate] Nate’s really into songwriting, but it’s pretty much a heady psychedelic
mix of stuff that we’re all into.PL: If your band was a
sandwich, what type of sandwich would it be?
WS: I think I need to confer with Nate
on this one. But I would say like peanut butter with jelly, honey and fried bananas in the middle and a hint of Aardvark hot sauce all over it.
PL: Do you have any
advice for anybody who would want to sleep with a band member?WS: Oh, it’s this kind of interview? (Laughs) Sound re-ally sincere about their music and how emotional it is even if the music sucks. And Wyatt SchaffneR �'11�Patrick PhilLips �'10�
PHOTO COURTESY JOSH LATHAM
Yvonne “Charley” Zheng with her famous ukelele—no, really,
search “ukulele” and “bathtub” on YouTube and watch.If you think writing a thesis is tough, try writing a thesis and holding a legitimate place in the Portland music scene. Patrick Phillips (’10) is one half of the soothingly schizophrenic Brain-storm.A Taste, A tease, A Collection of LC Music Makers
: Describe your band’s sound and in/f_l uences.
WS: /T_h is is like the hardest question. We all
bring diff erent elements to the table and what
we’re in/f_l uenced by. For me, it’s like garage
rock and post-punk new age stuff . [My
bandmate] Nate’s really into songwriting,
but it’s pretty much a heady psychedelic
mix of stuff that we’re all into.
: If your band was a
sandwich, what type of
sandwich would it be?
WS: I think I need to confer with Nate
on this one. But I would say
like peanut butter with
jelly, honey and fried
bananas in the middle
and a hint of Aardvark
: Do you have any
advice for anybody
ally sincere about
their music and how
emotional it is even if
the music sucks. And
like, “Yar, I’m not a cabin boy!”
PL: Wait, for real? /T_h is is an actual genre of
life?
PP: Yeah! You’ve got your, like, steampunks who are obsessed with Victorian era steam technology and clothing, and pirate punks are a subdivision of that. So that was weird. Playing in Salem was weird because that’s where I’m from and it was just like playing shows in high school because nobody came.
PL: Not even your old friends?
PP: I don’t have any old friends.
PL: What’s the back story with the tuba?
PP: I played tuba starting in sixth grade, un-til ninth grade when I quit because I hated marching band. I didn’t really play it after-wards but when we started this band part of it was being desperate to be original or novel, like, “Hey, let’s write songs with the tuba.”
But then it started to make more sense. Ini-
tially we had too much extraneous stuff : the
tuba, a keyboard and we also carted around this really heavy accordion—just so desper-ate for people to be like, oh look at all those
instruments with that two-piece. But now
we have it more stripped down and re/f_i ned.
PL: How did you and Adam Baz begin col-
laborating?
PP: Adam gave me a mix CD with some dif-
ferent bands that he’s into, [his] in/f_l uences:
Tinariwen from Mali, USAISAMONSTER, this band Laos and another band Vialka. I was de/f_i nitely in/f_l uenced by the type of gui-
tar music coming out of the T uareg Berber
tribes of northwest Africa.
PL: Can you describe your sound to me in
a really cheeseball way? Or a really reductive way?PP: /T_h e best description I’ve heard, maybe, was when I overheard this guy who didn’t
know I was standing behind him describing
us to the sound guys, and he said, “It’s like
Lightning Bolt meets spirituals.” Somebody else called it “math hymns” once, which I think is ridiculous and doesn’t really make
sense.
Brainstorm plays Mississippi Studios with AU
and Nice Nice on Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. $8. 21+. See myspace.com/brainstormbrainstorm.
cent Lewis & Clark alum, Nick Moen (’09). “It just sort of happened,” Zheng said. “I was online somewhere and I saw that PDX Pop was accepting submissions and I just wanted
to send in our song for shits and giggles.”
Zheng can’t recall when she began singing exactly but
she says R&B and Christina Aguilera played a major role in jumpstarting her singing career. “I remember just being re-ally into R&B when I was in middle school and I am still a
huge nutcase about ’90s slow jams. I hold them close to my
heart,” she said. “Christina Aguilera played a huge role in my
life too.”
Not surprisingly, as she grew older her tastes developed
as well. “Junior year, a boy made me a mix CD with Ani-mal Collective, CocoRosie and Devendra Banhart and that changed my life,” she said. Zheng’s current major in/f_l uences include various new wave and post-punk bands; groups that inspire the feeling of what she calls “post-punk, new wave
sex.”
As for the future, Zheng keeps her sights set high both for
herself and the people with whom she collaborates. “I have so many aspirations just to do everything. I’ve always really loved to play music, especially with people, people who I can connect with,” she said. “I would love to play more shows in the future, PDX Pop Now! or even other things, like house
shows. Broaden my opportunities, as they say.”
To hear Zheng sing with Bird Announced Land, visit www.
myspace.com/birdannouncedland.by Caitlin McCarthyby Maria Morrisson
PHOTO BY ALEXA JOHNSONPHOTO COURTESY BRAINSTORM
by Sanne StienstraFriday, September 12, 2008Arts 7 the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
Happy Prescriptions plays exactly the
kind of rock that one would hope to stumble upon in a dimly-lit Southeast bar or in the basement at somebody’s friend’s house party where whiskey and heavy beats reign supreme. As the drummer and youngest member of Happy Prescriptions, Wyatt Schaffner (’11) enthusiastically answered the Pioneer Log’ s questions about his mu-
sic, inevitable fame and college life.
Pioneer Log: What’s cool about being in a band?
Wyatt Schaff ner: I get to play at bars and people don’t ask questions. Basically you don’t really get paid to play shows, so bars give you drinks or drink tickets. /T_h at’s an easy in right there.
PL: Describe your band’s sound and in/f_l uences.
WS: /T_h is is like the hardest question. We all bring diff erent elements to the table and what we’re in/f_l uenced by. For me, it’s like garage rock and post-punk new age stuff . [My bandmate] Nate’s really into songwriting, but it’s pretty much a heady psychedelic mix of stuff that we’re all into.
PL: If your band was a
sandwich, what type of sandwich would it be?WS: I think I need to confer with Nate on this one. But I would say like peanut butter with jelly, honey and fried bananas in the middle and a hint of Aardvark hot sauce all over it.
PL: Do you have any
advice for anybody who would want to sleep with a band member?WS: Oh, it’s this kind of interview? (Laughs) Sound re-ally sincere about their music and how emotional it is even if the music sucks. And Wyatt SchaffneR �'11�A Taste, A tease, A Collection of LC Music Makers
: Describe your band’s sound and in/f_l uences.
WS: /T_h is is like the hardest question. We all
bring diff erent elements to the table and what
we’re in/f_l uenced by. For me, it’s like garage
rock and post-punk new age stuff . [My
bandmate] Nate’s really into songwriting,
but it’s pretty much a heady psychedelic
WS: I think I need to confer with Nate
Meet Rueben Lange (’12): chalumeau virtuoso,
opportunist and prodigy, racing toward success. /T_h e
chalumeau is a black woodwind instrument originat-ing in the Baroque period. /T_h e register of the chal-umeau is in the soprano range and is tuned to B-/f_l at, A and sometimes E-/f_l at (the E-/f_l at tuning gives a brighter tone than the other two). Most tend to denote this instrument as the clarinet.
Lange started playing this instrument at the ripe
young age of eight years. Although he had music in his blood (his biological father graduated from Berk-lee School of Music as a jazz pianist), his childhood home was not the classic musical family. “I never had a consistent musical in/f_l uence,” he said.
/T_h e exception was a jovial uncle with dreams of
rock ‘n’ roll stardom. Outside the home, his chief musical in/f_l uence was his /f_i rst band conductor, an elderly man from the southern United States. Lange said, “He was free spirited and full of ‘umph,’ but with the layman’s sense of rhythm.”
All of that “umph” got to Lange: “Well, I used to
have a tendency to press down on the buttons too hard, and I broke my /f_i rst clarinet that way.” Since then, the level of overwhelming fervor has subsided, and an eloquent, sophisticated tone has replaced it.
In addition to the clarinet, Lange enjoys dabbling
in guitar, banjo, mandolin and, heck, even the sitar. But the clarinet is what he knows best. Along with music, Lange’s passions also include the culinary arts. “Both require creativity, passion and soul, as well as a direct relation to time,” he said.
Although eligible for a conservatory setting,
Lange found himself straying from this path, feeling that the formalized setting inherent in a conservatory would ruin much of the beauty and enjoyment he gets out of music.
“In the throes of auditions, skill sets and a strict
ideas of what is theoretically correct in music and what isn’t, I often /f_i nd myself questioning the point of music,” Lange said. “/T_h at’s why I could never be a professional musician. /T_h ere are too many unnec-essary formalities that would taint one of the purest things in the world: music.”
When probed for his thoughts on the LC music
department, Lange said, “I like Lewis & Clark for the reason that anybody can join the symphonies and orchestras, and everybody has an opportunity to learn and grow in these settings. /T_h e downside to that is that if somebody really is a music major and trying to grow and learn, they are often stilted by the wide array of technical disparity.”
So look out for a curly-headed bicycle rider and
cook with a pencil behind his ear and an uncanny kick in his step: that would be Rueben Lange, chal-umeau player extraordinaire.
Pioneer Log: Tell me what it’s like to write music.Shohei Kobayashi: I can only steal metaphors. But John Mayer says the song comes down on you; the writer is more of a conduit for the music. Not that writing is impersonal. It’s the music coming down on me, and the lyrics I bring. But it’s not divine.
PL: In colors and textures, explain your music.
Shohei Kobayashi: Colors, /f_i rst. Blue, like the ocean shade. Dirt brown. Honey mustard yellow. Textures. Wet beach sand, your second most comfortable blanket and binder pa-per with Sharpie writing on it.
PL: Describe the ideal venue for your sound.
SK: It’s small, preferably a stage on the same level as the ven-ue. I like to see everybody’s faces, so there needs to be light-ing on the audience, too.
PL: Top jams. What are your top jams?
SK: Jeff Buckley, in any case, and then Matthew Santos, who sang on Lupe Fiasco’s “Superstar.” /T_h ey both have the same recording guy in Chicago. And then Dave Smallen, who’s from Oakland. I got to meet him at a show.
PL: When are you at your most volatile? And what is most
insulting to you as a musician?SK: Well, I’m usually pretty levelheaded. But one time, back home at Crosstown Café, there was a nonpro/f_i t thing going on because the café was trying to stay open, and I was play-ing at their last open mic. /T_h ere was a donation jar. And somebody stole it, and that’s so wrong, stealing from a place that is trying to give.
PL: Yes, mega wrong. Where do you get thrills?
SK: /T_h rill-seeking moments? Well, if it’s not raining, I de/f_i -nitely bomb the hill on my skateboard on my way to class. Also, when I’m on stage playing and look into people’s eyes. I don’t do it too often because I’m scared. My music’s generally pretty personal, so I like to sing it to them rather than have it just coming out of me.
PL: What are your musical aspirations? And other aspira-
tions? SK: All aspirations are playing on an equal /f_i eld right now. I would like to play music for a living, but something I’d really like to do is teach math to high school students. I couldn’t teach music because I don’t know theory. I just taught my-self.
PL: Do you have a show coming up?
SK: I would like to play at the Co-op. And my next record-ings are going to be called /T_h e LC Recordings. And they’ll all
be on cassette tape because it makes the guitar all twangy.
PL: Do you have a demo?
SK: Yes, take one. And anybody else can email me [shohei@lclark.edu] and just ask.cent Lewis & Clark alum, Nick Moen (’09). “It just sort of happened,” Zheng said. “I was online somewhere and I saw that PDX Pop was accepting submissions and I just wanted to send in our song for shits and giggles.”
Zheng can’t recall when she began singing exactly but
she says R&B and Christina Aguilera played a major role in jumpstarting her singing career. “I remember just being re-ally into R&B when I was in middle school and I am still a huge nutcase about ’90s slow jams. I hold them close to my heart,” she said. “Christina Aguilera played a huge role in my life too.”
Not surprisingly, as she grew older her tastes developed
as well. “Junior year, a boy made me a mix CD with Ani-mal Collective, CocoRosie and Devendra Banhart and that changed my life,” she said. Zheng’s current major in/f_l uences include various new wave and post-punk bands; groups that inspire the feeling of what she calls “post-punk, new wave sex.”
As for the future, Zheng keeps her sights set high both for
herself and the people with whom she collaborates. “I have so many aspirations just to do everything. I’ve always really loved to play music, especially with people, people who I can connect with,” she said. “I would love to play more shows in the future, PDX Pop Now! or even other things, like house shows. Broaden my opportunities, as they say.”
To hear Zheng sing with Bird Announced Land, visit www.
myspace.com/birdannouncedland.ShoHei
Kobayashi �'13�Rueben Lange �'12�also, say that you play an instrument even if it’s a lie.
PL: Wouldn’t the lie kind of cancel out the sincerity of
the statement?WS: Well I mean, you’re just trying to sleep with them, so…
PL: How do you balance schoolwork and being in a
band?WS: I try and get my schoolwork out of the way be-fore I play a show. Last night, we played a house show and I brought a book with me.
PL: Would your band want to play at LC for Sunburn?
WS: Hopefully, hopefully before then. Just to be able to play at the Co-Op and for kids, that’s what it’s all about, you know? Being able to play for your own school.
PL: What are your plans for the future?
WS: We plan to tour, our plan is to end up at SXSW [South by Southwest] and even if we can’t play an offi -
cial show, at least piggyback on another show.
Hopefully music will take me to a place
where I don’t need a real job. I’m hap-
py with my education but I don’t
want a real job.
PL: Anything else you want Piolog
readers to know about you?
WS: I co-DJ two radio shows! One
is “Buttland” on T uesdays from 12-2
p.m. /T_h e other is “Log
Jamming” on Wednes-
days from 2-4 p.m.
PL: Any advice for freshman
who want to become
famous?
WS: Play as many
shows as you can in
Portland, just play people’s houses and
don’t worry about whether you sound
good or not. Just
be into your music,
that’s what matters.
And if you have a
good sound then stick
with it.
Visit myspace.com/happy-
prescriptions for music.by Maria Morrisson
by Jerred Blanchard
by Kathryn MillerPHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUS
PHOTO BY CATHY GRELLAPHOTO BY ALEXA JOHNSONFriday, September 12, 2008Features 8 the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
by Marissa Fenley Nothing’s better than drag & moneyEavesdropping
nine days out >>>>
friday saturday sunday
monday tuesday wednesday
thursday friday saturday2 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 10October 2 to October 10
Philosophy Colloquium
Howard 202, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
LC Women’s Volleyball vs. Pacific
Pamplin, 7 p.m.LC Women’s Soccer vs. Pacific
Griswold Stadium, noon
Every War Has Two Losers Screening
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland
7 p.m., $7 studentsYoga in Tamarack
T amarack, 10 a.m. – noon, Free
One-Act Festival
Fir Acres, 7:30 p.m.
Apocalips Poetry Slam
Trail Room, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Poetry Reading: Witter Bynner
Albany, Smith Hall, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.Panel on Graduate Programs in Int’l Affairs
Howard 102, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.“Do you believe in the
American judicial system?”
“I don’t need any more jizz
in my life.”
“I’m so thirsty for milk.”
“Top three things Idaho’s
known for: potatoes, the KKK,
and nothing.”
“But I’m still the man in this
relationship, as long as we’re
women.”
“Fuck oatmeal!”
“It’s like a blood-borne patho -
gen, except a naked person.”
“He put Reservoir Dogs on, but
I told him it was too intense; then
he put Forrest Gump on, but that
was too intense, too.”
“My girlfriend has a
weed allergy.”
“They look like skaters...
except with jobs.”
“Sometimes I hear the weirdest
shit in the Bon.”
“When I met my girlfriend
I was wearing a dress.”As The Lion King’ s Timon brilliantly demonstrates, in the
face of conflict the only logical conclusion is to “dress in drag
and do the hula.”
While escaping from a band of hungry hyenas may be
very different than supporting the Sexuality Minority Youth
Resource Center (SYMRC), and hula may not have been
the preferred form of dancing at Friday’s 11th annual Drag
Show, both provide for a wonderful source of entertainment.
Platt, Howard and Hartzfeld Area Director Liv Edens,
the coordinator of this wild event,
said that while the show has al -
ways “served as a way to challenge
societal gender norms and pro -
mote awareness and acceptance
of difference,” it was not always a
fundraiser.
Liv turned the event into “something much bigger than
ourselves” by choosing to benefit the SMYRC. SMYRC is
the only organization in Oregon that offers drop-in support
for young members of the LGBTQ community.
DJ K-Money started the show by sharing her own per -
sonal connection with the cause. She explained that she was
a victim of rape because of her sexual orientation and wished
she had the support SMYRC offers. While her honesty gave
a serious tone to the start of the event, it also increased the
level of purpose and participation in the already lively crowd.
Each king and queen had a tip jar into which the crowd could eagerly stuff their dollar bills. The king and queen who
received the most money won the title of Drag King and
Queen. The rest of the show was a flurry of animation and
sexual promiscuity.
Celebrities including Sallyanne Sugar, the first woman
president, and a hunky member of the San Diego Chargers,
ascended the stage. Many nationalities were represented in -
cluding a foxy Dutch girl and a brawny, fur clad Russian.
The traditional catwalk was abandoned for cat crawls,
shimmies and booty shakes. Crotch grabs were such a favor -
ite among the kings that K-Money said, “Michael Jackson
would be proud.”
After dancing to an array of
songs (most appropriately, “I
Kissed a Girl”), the crowd sub -
dued to hear the results. Taler -
ra Rich (’10) dressed as a sexy,
muscular construction worker
named ’Doser was crowned Drag King. Simon Hudes (’12)
dressed as Sparkle Motion, a glittering diva in a rainbow leo -
tard, was crowned Drag Queen.
The event raised a record-breaking total of over $700 and
more students participated than ever before. In response to
his title, Sparkle Motion said he was “so glad that my sub -
jects adore me enough to grant me title of Queen.” She also
added there would be a “party in my leotard tonight.”
‘Doser said she felt “good to be a man in a woman’s
world.” Spectator Chris Van Putten’s (’12) response to the
show was that “it was like a persona orgasm: It just erupted.”
Send your eavesdroppings to
piolog@lclark.eduPHOTO BY MIRA STEIN“Party in my leotard tonight,”
said Sparkle Motion.
PHOTO BY KRISTIN THORNBURG
Left: Winning Drag Queen Simon Hudes (’12), as Sparkle Motion, strikes a pose as a fan reaches
for him in admiration. Right: Platt-Howard and Hartzfeld Area Director Liv Edens poses with Talerra
Rich (’10) as ’Doser, who traded her hard hat for a crown when declared Drag King.
F A L L B R E A K !An occasion for poetry: Mary Szybist & Michelle Glazer
Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall 7 p.m.
The Taino: Native Americans who discovered Columbus
Miller 105, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.9Volume 73, Number 1 Features the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
nizers. You wouldn’t refer to Iroquois as “Anglicans,” because
it would be insulting. Secondly, it is not historically correct —
Spain was not the only European power messing around in
Latin America. Brazilians speak Portuguese. And what about
French Guiana, or the old British and Dutch colonies? /T_h e same problems apply to the term “Latino,” which refers to languages of Latin origin. /T_h ere are hundreds of other lan-
guages spoken in Latin America. A large percentage of “La-
tino” immigrants can’t even speak Spanish at all, because they
come from indigenous language communities. A freshman living in Forest who identi/f_i es as a “Latina” said that “my family has never said that we are ‘Hispanic.’ Hearing about ‘Hispanic Heritage Month’ makes me feel bad, because I’m supposed to identify with it, but don’t at all.”
Despite the problems with the terms, “His-
panic” and “Latin American” do refer to some-
thing. Ernesto Guevara said it best, with his
vision of a “uni/f_i ed Latin America”—
that is, the terms “Latin American,” “Hispanic,” “South America,” etc., refer
to areas other than the United States, in
the same way that “Africa” was created
and used by European colo-
nizers to refer to something
de/f_i nitely not European.
/T_h e term “South Ameri-
can” speaks of sub-
jugation—Latin
Americans are
uni/f_i ed by their
relationship to an oppressor. /T_h e
term de/f_i nitely
does NOT refer
to any unifying ethnicity, lan-guage, leader, or
ideology. What
it does re/f_l ect is a
culture of opposi-
tion and resistance.
My father likes to say that in Latin America, everyone
is American. /T_h is is true; we only refer to ourselves as Lat-
in Americans in contrast to the U.S. For those of us in the United States, “Hispanic” refers to something else—some-
body who was, at one point, not American, but could maybe
become one. Dean of Students Celestino Limas rightly said
T uesday that there is a growing fear towards the connection of “Mexicans” with health care. With increasing /f_i ghts over immigration, economic policy, etc., us “Latinos,” “Hispan-
ics,” “Aliens,” or whatever we choose to call ourselves must
once again bear the title for what it is —a call to resistance
against a dominating force.
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Call Ricky at (503) 282-9500Being shot by fl uffy marshmallowy goodness is always as fun as it is tasty, as Emma Albrow (’13) and Alexa Moore (’13) found out. Roberts RA Tace James (’10) and Odell RA Lindsay Hilken (’10) already knew this, which is why they embarked on creating a mass movement of marshmallow and PVC pipe last Monday evening. James and her fellow roommates manufactured PVC pipe guns the week prior, while Hilken watched over the carnage in the absence of James who had class during the battle.PHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVER/T_h is happens every year. Around Sept. 15, every one of us
kids with Latin American parents, every single one, from ev-
ery Boriqueno in Nueva York to every güey in Los Angeles gets
wind of the fact that it’s “Hispanic Heritage month.” /T_h ose
of us still in high school get stuff ed into hot gyms and sat down in front of modern interpretations of “Aztec ceremo-nial dances,” and cafeterias throughout America plop sweaty burritos onto our plates. Somewhere along the way, through the bewildering barrage of pride parades and multicultural fairs that follow, a couple of us wonder—“What is this? How did this happen?” I often get the feeling that half of us aren’t even sure what “Hispanic” means. So, I’ll just come right out and say it, even if I get some backhand; no me importa:
Hispanic Heritage month is an amalgamation of lies and the resistance-politics that was built into our post-colonial/immigrant identity.
Ironically, we can thank Ronald Reagan for
Hispanic Heritage Month. Reagan expanded Johnson’s Hispanic Heri-tage Week to 30 days in 1988. At around the same time, he
was authorizing im-
migration raids that
would literally storm into b u s i n e s s e s
and throw ev-
ery brown-
faced employ-ee onto a truck headed south.
Every once in
a while, a U.S.
citizen would end up stuck on the other side of
the fence (inspiring
the Cheech Marin mov-
ie, Born in East L.A.). Added onto Reaganomics, the Rea-
gan Doctrine, and the most notorious crack conspiracy in U.S. history, Reagan eff ectively became the enemy of Lati-no-immigrant people (right up there with dirty words like “T rujillo” and “Pinochet”). In a calculated political move of appeasement (or guilt), Reagan declared the beginning of
HHM on Sept. 15, in order to coincide with multiple Latin
American independence days.
/T_h is brings up the debate and tension surrounding the
terms “Hispanic” and “Latino.” First: the term “Hispanic”
literally means “of Spain/Spanish descent,” in the same way
that “Anglo/Anglican” refers to England. /T_h is is condemned
by many for two reasons: First, it glori/f_i es the Spanish colo-/T_h e politics of “Hispanic Heritage Month”
A duo of current Lewis & Clark faculty members will be
representing the College at Wordstock, Portland’s annual lit-
erary festival. Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist and Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jerry Harp are per-forming Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. on the Mountain Writers Stage, sharing their poetry along with hundreds of other authors and writers. Szybist will also be speaking on campus in rec-ognition of her receipt of the 2009 Witter Bynner Award. /T_h e performance takes place Monday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Albany Quadrangle. Former Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Heather Watkins is designing the broadside for Szybist, which will be presented alongside the performance. Harp has also recently been recognized with his poem “Houses” being included in /T_h e Best American Poetry 2009. “Houses” can be
read on the college website.
Wordstock is an annual festival held in Portland to cel-
ebrate books, poetry and literature in general. /T_h e festival has showcased over 550 writers in its four-year course, shar-ing their literature to over 55,000 people. It is one of the largest literary festivals in the nation, and is also a nonpro/f_i t organization to further writing in K-12 classrooms by off er-ing training and support for teachers. /T_h e main festival takes
place 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. the weekend of Oct. 10 and 11 at
the Oregon Convention Center, but events start as soon as
the evening of Saturday, Oct. 3. Performances will include live readings and music. Workshops will be available for both teachers and writers on Oct. 9
and 10, respectively.
For more information on Wordstock visit www.wordstockfes-
tival.com.LC faculty to rep
the College at
Wordstock
by Eddie Barksdaleby Adrian Guerrero
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKFriday, September 12, 2008Arts 10 the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
“Papers” explores immigrant youths’ experiences facing the nation head-on
Capybara distill generations of pop into musical whiskey
You’d be surprised to learn that a funeral
parlor’s floor is perfectly built for dancing,
but Capybara is the best teacher for the job.
Last T uesday the pop foursome played The
Woods, Portland’s newest venue-that-once-
housed-the-dead, and yeah, it felt a little il -
licit, maybe a little creepy, but mostly it just
felt right.
Local band Paper Brain started the night
off, with plenty of peppy tunes and enough
plaid to choke a horse. They did well as
the kick-off band; Patterns, another local
goodie, followed, and though also sporting
wholesome good looks, brought the energy
level down a tad. Both bands felt the need to
comment on the bizarre incarnation of The
Woods, further proving that this venue is a
stroke of PR genius nobody saw coming.
But Capybara, after all, boasts the best
name of the three bands, and it was the one
everyone waited for. Flanked by Rasterized They play music in real life!
Capybara is not a rodent. Capybara is one
of those strange days in winter that is warm
and sunny, one of those mornings in sum -
mer that is cool and moist, one of those short
days of autumn where all the leaves fall off
at once. Capybara is a messy shuffle of key -
boards, xylophones, guitars, tambourines,
drums and banjo. Capybara is four young
men from Portland and Brooklyn, who quit
their jobs to make an album in the moun -
tains of New Mexico.
“The Wimp,” the first track of Capyba -
ra’s debut Try Brother , begins with the steady
pounding of a floor tom, swooping vocal
harmonies, the warm familiar twang of a
banjo and a bass line that sways from side to
side. The drums saunter headfirst into a skit -
tish chorus, clearing the way for flourishes of
baroque-inspired synthesizer and the spritely
jingle-jangle of bells and snare drum.
Capybara does not make disposable pop
ditties and to be sure, they can craft musical gems at any tempo; “San Francisco, 1906” is
no exception. The song builds slowly: frag -
ile plucks of banjo and the nervous shake
of the tambourine grasp onto gentle vocals
and a quivering mandolin until the song
cartwheels into a syncopated Sufjan Stevens-
esque jam. The song wobbles from a quiet
folk tune into a trembling palpitation of gui -
tars and keyboards as they sing, “What there,
there lies/there lies, there lies,” until the song
collapses like post-earthquake San Francisco.
The final song of the album “Waves in the
Wire,” lilts along like classic chamber-pop,
but it is neither twee nor effete. A peacefully
serene piano riff complements an ostinato
bass-line that dwells in the upper register as
a placid vocal duet (featuring Megan Burns
of Flamingo Pink!) explores “simplicity over -
taken/ by the sum of our lives.” The song is
anything but simple.
Capybara plays in the liminal zone be -
tween memory and music. With delicate
transitions and explosive swells of sound,
Capybara relies on the memory of a fading
cymbal as it melts into a new harmony to
drive their sound home.
Capybara takes the excitement of a
16-year-old’s freewheeling summer road trip
and smear it with guitar, bass and synthesizer
until it is no longer a nostalgic look back -
wards, but a new memory forming.
The album closes in at only 38 and a half
minutes, but with arrangements so ripe, so
ready to burst, it would be indulgent to do
much more. Sometimes it’s ok to be indul -
gent.
T ry Brother is available now from The Re -
cord Machine.
They put out long-play albums!
by Liam O’Connorby Caitlin McCarthyby Kathryn Miller & Dallas Jones
PHOTOS BY SAM MARGEVICIUS
lifesize cutouts of basketball all stars Charles
Barkley, Larry Bird and Shaquille O’Neal
(the latter in huge head form), Capyba -
ra used keys, quips and chords to woo the
crowd.
The harmonic crowing of “Birthday Song
for Bridgegirl” had the audience swooning;
the nerdy pop throttle that is “The Wimp”—
undoubtedly Capybara’s breakaway hit—had
a choice few kicking up their boots. Mark,
Darin, Joel and Jared skipped around the
stage, trading instruments willy-nilly. They
bantered a bit, informing us that crappybor -
ing.com helpfully redirects to capybaramu -
sic.com, and plugging their second Portland
show on Saturday night. But mostly they
just cooked up savory concoctions of melod -
ic nourishment, a fine last supper for T ues -
day night’s rain-soaked music apostles.
See Capybara with EGADZ and Incredible
Yacht Control at Backspace this Saturday, Oct.
3 at 8 p.m. $6. All ages.tion of future.
With citizenship and important futures
on the line, the film aims to bring reform to
immigration in the U.S. The film is associ -
ated with a movement called The DREAM
Act.
This program will lead these undocu -
mented youth to citizenship, provided they
attend college or join the military.
The cheers that resounded in the theater
during the explanation on screen made it
fairly clear that this is indeed what the youth
want and need.
“Papers” was produced, directed and
filmed in Portland, but drew a cast from
across the country.
The film does three things. It raises aware -
ness about the inequalities of our immigra -
tion laws, incites an activist desire to rise in
defense of these youth, and tells stories close -
ly, sweetly and without artifice. The produc -
ers intend the film to “have a national im -
pact,” and will “screen on Capitol Hill.” This
is likely the case, considering the audience,
part youthful dynamite, part interested city
officials.
The hometown backing lends the film
still more power. The Hollywood Theatre is
rarely abuzz with such fierce youth. At the
end of the premiere, the film stars and men
and women of The DREAM Act flooded the
stage in momentary triumph over the per -
sonal obstacles that still plague them.
The film is playing at select theaters in Port -
land this month only. “Papers: The Movie” is an insistent doc -
umentary in blaring Technicolor about the
trials undocumented youth face when they
turn 18. The title comes from the problem
that arises when undocumented students
graduate without the proper papers.
The film, produced by Lewis & Clark
alumna Rebecca Shine, focuses on five
young men and women in the same situa -
tion: they are American-educated kids, iden -
tify as Americans, were raised exclusively in
America. In most cases, have no idea they
immigrated here illegally as babies.
Through a series of raw interviews, the
five teenagers illuminate the lives they are
trying to lead in a country that will not ac -
cept them without legitimate documenta -
tion. The interviews zone in on each indi -
vidual, focusing on the intricacies of each
human life.
For far too long, the mantra of these un -
documented youth has been, “Keep your
head down and your mouth shut.” But these
kids are sticking up their chins and speaking
openly because it is the only way they can
hope to get anywhere in the only country
they know, the United States.
Without documentation, they will never
be licensed to drive or accepted into college.
And they will never be able to work a legal
job with government benefits. Every youth
who speaks risks his or her U.S. residence by
telling their stories openly.
Initially, “Papers” was meant to be “a
work in activism and education.” The film -
makers soon found that “Papers” had a
much more humane demand. It serves a key
purpose as a coming-of-age story and fierce
call to action for youth attacking the ques -Juan Carlos (above), who is fea -
tured in the documentary, at the
premiere; below, El Grupo Juvenil
tours with “Papers” to share their
stories.
PHOTOS BY KATHRYN MILLERLC alum, Shine, produces documentary in full color11 Sports the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
Pioneer volleyball is on top of its game
after two big wins against conference rivals
Whitworth and Whitman last weekend.
They beat Whitworth in three games and
took Whitman in four.
In their first conference
match-up against Whit -
worth, the Pios defeat -
ed Whitworth in three
matches at home with
little contest from the
Pirates.
There were no errors
reported in the first set
for the Pios who were
lead in kills by Jessamy
Holland (’10). Hol -
land, along with Sarah
Hall (’10) and Marga -
ret Dowling (’12), lead
the teams in blocks with
four each. Lou Ohki
(’11) once again led the
team defensively with
14 digs.
The Pios did not let their win from the night before affect their
play the following night as they took on
number seven Whitman for more action.
The Pios took the first set but lost by two
points in the second to the Missionaries.
From there the Pios took over, winning
25-17 and 25-19 in the
next two sets.
Jennifer Dowdy (’13)
and Hall led the Pios,
each pumping out 14
kills, while Leia Matsu -
naga (’13) led assists with
50 and also dominated
on defense with 17 digs.
The Pios are current -
ly ranked number three
alongside the number 15
team in the nation, Puget
Sound, with a 3-1 con -
ference record and a 7-5
record overall.
The Pios look to contin -
ue their home court streak
as they take on number six
Pacific at 7 p.m. on Fri -
day.
Back-to-back wins put
Pio volleyball at no. 3
Katherine Fielder (’11) goes up for the kill at the end of Saturday’s match.
by Nichole Carnell
PHOTO BY SAM DODSON
Dowdy (’13) sets up for serve. PHOTO BY SAM DODSON
Pioneer women’s soccer struggles in conference play
by Sam Dodson
It was a tough weekend for Pioneer soc -
cer. The women lost two conference games,
one at Willamette and one home game
against Linfield, which dropped the team to
1-3 in conference (2-3-3 overall) and seventh
in the standings only two weeks into confer -
ence play.
The Pioneers continued their season-long
offensive struggles in Saturday’s match, as the
Willamette Bearcats shut them out in a 2-0
road loss. Even though the Pios battled in the first half, they were unable to prevent an
early cross from the left sideline that found
an open Willamette striker 15 minutes into
the game. The Bearcats gained momentum
in the second half and continued to pressure
the Pioneer defense, peppering LC goalie
Elise Delgado (’13) with nine shots. The sec -
ond Willamette goal came in the 60th min -
ute, resulting in the 2-0 final.
On Sunday the Pioneers returned to Gris -
wold Stadium to face Linfield. The Pios took
a one-goal lead into the locker room at half -time when Katie Browning (’11) beat the
Pirate keeper with 15 minutes remaining in
the half.
The Wildcats answered just three minutes
into the second half off an early foul in the
box that resulted in a penalty kick. Delgado
managed to make the initial save, but failed
to stop the rebound shot. The second Wild -
cat goal came moments later, as conference
goal leader MacKenzie Doty put away the
game winner for the visiting Pirates. Katrina
Weisbecker (’13) led the Pioneers in shot at -tempts with four and Delgado made three
saves.
Browning’s goal against Linfield broke a
five-game scoreless streak for the Pioneers.
Delgado, who did not allow a goal in her first
five collegiate games, has given up nine goals
in the past three games.
The Pios travel to George Fox (1-3) on Sat -
urday and will return to home to Griswold Sta -
dium Sunday to take on Pacific (2-2) at noon.
Nichole Carnell and Michael G. Richman
contributed to this article. The start of the NBA season is still a
month away but the Portland T railblazers
are already gearing up for a year filled with
newly-raised expectations. The Blazers are
one of the younger teams in the NBA and
certainly the youngest team in the upper
echelon of the Western Conference, but
their relative youth does not mean their
standards for success aren’t extremely high.
After picking up a few additions in the off -
season, their solid core that lost no one of
importance from last year’s 54-win cam -
paign, the team has its sights firmly set on
winning the division and advancing deep
into the playoffs.
The team only lost two players from its
core rotation: back-up big man Channing
Frye, who signed with Phoenix as a free
agent, and back-up point guard Sergio Ro -
driguez, who was dealt in a draft day trade.
Rodriguez and Frye averaged a combined
eight points per game last season, so the
team really isn’t hurting much from their
departures.
The big story from training camp is
the development of third-year center Greg
Oden. Oden has well-documented injury
problems ranging from a broken hand dur -
ing his only season at Ohio State to the mi -
crofracture knee surgery that caused him
to miss all of his first season and a myri -
ad of injuries that caused him to miss 30
games last year. This year Oden is report -
edly lighter on his feet and has brought a T railmix: Blazers are back
by Michael G. Richman
PHOTO COURTESY OF ESPN.COM
fresh competitive edge and arsenal of new
moves around the basket. The young cen -
ter insists that his focus is on becoming an
imposing force on defense, which is good
because that side of the ball was one of
the few glaring weaknesses from last year’s
team. If Oden is as improved as the organi -
zation continues to suggest, watch out be -
cause the kid has all the tools necessary to
be a monster in the paint. Let me say that
again: a monster.
For Blazers fans, we’ve heard all this be -
fore so a wait and see approach is probably
the best bet. It really all hinges on whether
Oden can stay healthy and whether he has
really added the face-up game that contin -
ues to churn in the rumor mill.
On top of losing basically no influential
players, the team added a handful of fresh
faces. Martell Webster rejoins the team this
season after missing all but five minutes of
last season with a foot injury. All the re -
ports from camp indicate that Webster is
back to full strength and maybe even in
better physical shape than years past.
The team also signed veteran point
guard Andre Miller to a three-year, $21
million contract. Seems like a whole ton
of cash for a point guard in his thirties,
but Miller is the veteran floor general that
coach Nate McMillan has been pining for
the past few seasons. His basketball savvy
should be a major addition to the team.
Look for part two of this article in the
next issue on Oct. 16.Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge look to Greg Oden to step up this year.Volume 73, Number 1 Backdoor 12the Pioneer Log, October 2, 2009
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For Sale or Trade
FOUND: Philly Cheese Steak. Not
even shitting you, a whole sandwich
someone just threw out. Sooo good.
Willing to trade my parking pass
for an actual parking spot. Must be
on LC campus and should not cost
$165 a semester. Need before my
next class. Gravel and staff spots
need not apply.
Selling my dignity for food and cash.
Worked on campus, now donʼt have
work study. Willing to fi le and input
data on the cheap. Tutoring and
grading papers is extra.
Want to sell used bar of soap. Has
not been used in last month, still
works. Currently gathering dust in
my dorm room. Will probably be
there for a while.Wanted
Best Man. URGENT. Must call in next
24 hours.
Need heart surgery intern stat! I was
just diagnosed with a heart condition
and doctors say I have 2 months
to live. This is unpaid, but you will
recieve snacks while operating. If you
do a good job this could turn into a
paid position. Must have your own
heart tools.
SUPER POWERS. I am hoping
someone can teach me how to fl y
by Tuesday. Invisibility and telepathy
also acceptable. Want to be able to
skip class and spy on pretty ladies.
Wonʼt turn evil, promise.
WANTED: Gerald Ford and Richard
Nixon lookalikes for school project
on American presidents. Havenʼt
done the reading, but hoping that
grand entrance and special eff ects
in the theme of “Bill and Tedʼs
Excellent Adventure” will get me an
A. Cannot pay.
Send pics, stats ASAP. People seeking People
Cute blonde F seeking M. Must
love “Must Love Dogs,” starring
John Cusack and Diane Lane, but
not actual dogs b/c theyʼre gross.
Knowledge of Cantonese a plus.
Lazy, bookish type M seeks sexy
librarian F who will “check me out.”
Something about our meeting being
“overdue” and you looking “fi ne.”
Um…Dewey Decimal System.
M seeking M/F Roommate: Someone
who wonʼt pile up dirty dishes in the
sink and belch all the time when I
have a girl over.
M seeking M/F Roommate: Someone
who isnʼt so fucking passive
aggressive, JOHN. P.S. Youʼve never
had a girl over and I pooped in your
bed this morning.
Young, attractive W seeking mutually
destructive LTR. Must be insanely
jealous, addicted to NASCAR and
willing to lounge around the house all
day being useless. Ability to shout
unreasonable requests or unabashed
criticism at me is a plus.
You Caught my Eye
Edward Cullen look-alike with the cutest
freckles, Will you be my freshman crush?On the foyer. On the floor. Every time I see you. Want some more.
You: Entire Women’s Soccer Team.
Me: Entire Men’s Cross Country Team
send your YCME to piolog@lclark.eduYou: Birthday twinMe: For the win!Better than Craigslist!
There once was a girl who had to study.It was so boring, it made her feel cruddy.She needed to do it, but she’d rather say, “Screw it. I want to go out with my buddy!”Poem of the Week
by Maria Brown
submit your poem to piolog@lclark.eduYou: All the girls on campus Me: Collin HamiltonM seeking M/F for long walks, dinner
by candle light, and other romantic
things. Naivete and a lack of home
security is a plus. Please call with a
list of your lootable goods. We need 2 acres of open space to
land our spacecraft. Close proximity
to a major city is preferred, but
willing to settle for corn fi elds. Will
pay with guaranteed freedom from
imminent enslaving of human race. Selling soul for ten million dollars
or a harem of women. Soul is like
new, never been used. Willing to
gather more souls for more women
or money. Need proof of payment
before I give proof of soul.
Looking to trade my name on
your groupʼs listserve for your
name on my groupʼs listserve. No
commitment either way, just want
to seem involved before I get too
lazy to even keep up appearances.
Serious Club need not apply.
The Backdoor is a work of fi ction and and is not based on fact. No one is trying to buy superpowers. Come on, people. 