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Sports:pg. 8PioLogpg. 11Soccer ties in upset
Staff ord to music pg. 7“/T_h e Green” pg. 3
Hate speech policy
It was standing room only
/T_h ursday when James Loewen
came to Lewis & Clark to speak on “the most important era in history you don’t know about,” which cov-ered the years from 1890-1940, or what Loewen described as the “Na-dir of race relations.”
Loewen is the widely-known
author of Lies My T eacher T old Me
as well as other books, such as /T_h e
Truth About Columbus, T eaching What Really Happened, Lies Across America and his new book, Sun-
down T owns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism.
His lecture mainly covered ma-
terial from Sundown T owns and
shed light on a whole new realm of what students think about in rela-tion to modern day racism.
Loewen is a sociologist, pro-
fessor and writer. He co-wrote an American history textbook, Missis-
sippi: Con/f_l ict and Change, which led to a First Amendment battle when Mississippi banned the book in the school system. /T_h e U.S. District Court ruled in favor of Loewen.
Loewen started the lecture with Author James Loewen lectures on era of race relations
a mini-vote using a projector, dis-playing four possible reasons why the South seceded and then having the crowd raise its hands to vote on which reason was correct.
/T_h is essentially brought the audience back to its days of high school, and once the memories were summoned Loewen asked the crowd to question them.
/T_h e four options were slavery,
states rights, the election of Lin-coln, and tariff s and taxes; 28 par-ticipants voted slavery, 70 opted for states’ rights, 11 believed Lin-coln was to blame and 17 agreed that the secession was due to taxes and tariff s. /T_h e correct answer was slavery
and Loewen whipped out docu-
ments stating individual states’ rea-
soning for their secession, where all
signs point to slavery.
Out of a room /f_i lled with very
intelligent students and profes-
sors alike, less than 50 percent
answered the question correctly.
Loewen said, “Most of my audi-ences get that wrong.”
/T_h e rest of Loewen’s lecture fo-
cused on sundown towns, of which
a high majority of people in the
room had never heard. Sundown towns were (and, in some places, still are) towns that required all
people of color were not in the
town after sundown. Loewen de-
scribes the plethora of towns that had this “unwritten rule” instated.
/T_h ere was a majority of extreme
cases where there were actually towns that had sirens warning peo-ple of color to leave town at 6 p.m. A majority of these towns were in the North, not the South, and that’s when Loewen began sharing some of Oregon’s dirty secrets.
Oregon, like Loewen’s home
state of Illinois, had a number of sundown towns. At this point
by Lindsey Bosse
James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, lectures on sundown towns.Administration seeks to raise “s’more” retention rate
by Deanna Horton
In the 2008-2009 academic
year, the freshman retention rate was 83 percent. As sophmores no-
tice the absence of their friends, the
administration seeks to retain the
class that’s left.
/T_h e Sophomore Advising Din-
ner, held at the end of September,
was part of LC administrators’ at-
tempts to devote more energy to
retaining students.
/T_h e administration has been
referring to the class of 2012 as
s’mores, a popular camp/f_i re treat
and an apparent contraction of the
word “sophomores.”
Perhaps this is because the soph-
omore class is sandwiched between
the symbolic graham crackers of
the freshman and senior classes,
both of which have a large amount of the school’s resources directed
toward them.
Last year’s 83 percent reten-
tion rate was fairly consistent with
the statistics from the past decade, and is in fact equal to the average
/f_i rst-year retention rate between 1995 and 2008. /T_h e retention rate
peaked at 88 percent in 2006 but has since moved to 86 percent in
2007 and 83 percent in 2008.
“Eighty-three percent is closer
to the low median than what we
want,” said Associate Dean of Stu-dents Latricia Brand, who serves
as a co-chair with Associate Dean
of the College Jane Hunter on the
Subcommittee for Retention.
/T_h is decline has corresponded
with the worsening economy.
“Parents have to start thinking
about where the better value is. A Lewis & Clark degree requires con-siderable resources,” said Brand. “Some students are still exploring
the value of a liberal arts education.
Some are choosing to go to public
schools and some are staying close to home.”
“/T_h e LC Subcommittee for Re-
tention is working closely with our
data sets and with other members
of the campus right now to really do some research,” said Brand.
“We want to see some of the other
reasons why students are leaving.”
/T_h e committee recently sent a survey to students who did not re-turn to LC this year.
It seems that consistently stu-
dents felt the opportunity to talk one-on-one with professors was ideal and that the opportunities for involvement on campus were plen-tiful.
However, the question arises
of whether students’ investment in LC is strong enough that they will want to persist and /f_i nish their education here. For this reason, the committee is trying to /f_i nd ways to strengthen community at LC.
“Retention has to always go be-
yond the numbers. /T_h e numbers help us to see how we’re doing, but it’s really more of the conversations and exploration with students that helps us to understand how we can
support these students who are
most likely to leave,” said Brand.
“Because usually that decision is
very individualized.”
Logan Fields, who entered LC
as a freshman in 2008, decided not to return for her sophomore year.
“I didn’t feel motivated enough to
Continued on pg. 2, LOEWEN
Sophomores, called “s’mores” by the administration, had an 83% retention rate last year .
Continued on pg. 2, S’MORE
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tby Tom Meathcrime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / at/ Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Be
a number of students looked shocked, and
jaws dropped at the mention of “Lake No
Negro” (better known to campus as Lake
Oswego).
Lies My T eacher T old Me is easily thought
of as Loewen’s most popular book. /T_h e com-
position of the book took Loewen two years
of comparing and studying widely used
American history textbooks.
He found that the textbooks weren’t reli-
able, and thus he began writing books to as-
sist history teachers.
Loewen supports student analysis of his-James Loewen lecture on forgotten history
tory, instead of the learning and reciting of dates and names. He also points out through
his books the huge holes that textbooks
leave, for example the sundown towns.
Loewen has been awarded the Oliver
Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished An-
ti-Racist Scholarship as well as named Dis-
tinguished Lecturer for the Organization of
American Historians.
Loewen also off ered an all-day workshop
entitled “Teaching What Really Happened”
at the Graduate School of Education and Counseling on Friday, which was hosted by the Center for Community Engagement.
James Loewen is an award winning
author, scholar and lecturer.
Retention rate in sophomores addressed
Hey there, Crime Beat enthusiasts!
/T_h is week in crime is thankfully slow
compared to the hurly-burly of the last few weeks. /T_h e miscreant responsible for the prior sexual harrasment is still unac-counted for, so keep those eyeballs peeled. Other than that, you know the drill. Nautima!
 An employee reported criminal
mischief at Griswold Stadium on Oct. 7.
Here’s a lesson for newbie Crime Beat
readers: Criminal mischief ALWAYS means graffi ti, period. I mean, sure there are probably other crimes that would /f_i t under the “criminal mischief” classi/f_i ca-tion, but how often do a bunch of sopho-more’s decide to ghost-ride a campus golf cart, really?
 A student reported a theft from
Watzek Library on Oct. 13.I think this one is about me. I’ve tak-
en one of those little stubby golf pencils from the library every day for the past 4 years (even during school vacations). So far I’ve accumulated 1148 golf pencils. I’m building a log cabin in my backyard out of them.
 Campus Safety recently released
a sketch by Portland Police Detective Joe Luiz of the male who inappropri-ately touched a female student on Oct. 8. Anyone who has any information is encouraged to contact Campus Safety.
In an email to the campus, Cam-
pus Safety Director Tim O’Dwyer advised anyone in a similar situation to “do all that you can to alert others to your predicament, and to try to get well away from the suspect while caus-ing the suspect to reconsider/stop his actions. Appropriate steps to consider should include screaming, kicking, biting, /f_i ghting back, and, of course, /f_l eeing.”May I propose that the mystery sus-
pect be the next Style Source? He’s got a scraggly, jail-chic look going. Just look at that luxuriously quaff ed ’70s rocker hair, the thin lips pursed in de/f_i ance of all things moral and the high cheek-bones of nobility. /T_h e only thing he has going against him is that he is a creepy sexual predator. Bummer.
❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ be spending $45,000 on school. I just want
to explore my options,” said Fields. “I really
appreciated LC and enjoyed my classes and
professors, met amazing people, and I love
Portland. But now, after looking at some
other schools, including bigger state schools,
I’m discovering a lot more options that LC
doesn’t off er, like a broader array of classes
and better facilities.”
Kate Christensen also came to LC in
2008 and left after her /f_i rst year. “It was the combination of not knowing to study, and
really expensive tuition,” she said. “I prob-
ably would have made the same decision at
any other liberal arts school. /T_h e people,
teachers, campus and food were great. What was missing for me was just a lack of a pas-
sion for a certain major.”
At the end of September Dean of the Col-
lege Julio de Paula and Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Offi cer Celestino Limas in-vited all current sophomores to have dinner with their academic advisors and staff from Student Life to discuss how sophomores can “re/f_l ect on how [they] will integrate [their] recent experiences into [their] future plan-ning.”
/T_h e Sophomore Advising Dinner was
the idea of Associate Director of the Cen-ter for Career and Community Engagement Adonica DeVault, among others. /T_h e event’s goal was to address the phenomenon of the “sophomore drift.”“In the sophomore year we see the biggest
dip in retention,” said Brand. “/T_h ere is tre-mendous attention paid to engage students as freshmen. As sophomores, those resources are diverted again back to freshmen.”
“Sophomores are feeling anxiety. /T_h ey
have to make a decision about what they’re going to do and a major is on the horizon,” said Brand. “If they’re not sure of what they want their future to be and they don’t have the available resources, they are likely to be-come disengaged.”
Michael Tofte (’12) attended the Sopho-
more Advising Dinner. “I thought it was a great opportunity to meet with the advising faculty and discuss the future of our Lewis & Clark education,” he said. “For those that plan on staying, it was another resource to get information about majors and to spend some time with faculty from that depart-ment.”
“For those with serious concerns about
continuing their education at Lewis &
Clark, the sophomore dinner is not going to
prevent them from /f_i lling out transfer appli-cations,” said Tofte.
“It was hard to have regular conversa-
tion with my advisor because of the format-
ted questions that we followed,” said Emma
Chandler (’12) of the Sophomore Advising Dinner.
Overall the event was perceived as a suc-
cess. 340 sophomores attended, along with
53 faculty members and 19 staff members
from Student Life.
“Our hope is that the dinner has recon-
nected sophomores with each other and with faculty and advisors to once again get plugged in to resources on campus,” said Brand. “It’s also ok if they’re not ready to make some of those decisions.”
The retention rate for fi rst-year students for the last 13 years has been
reasonably stable, with a mean retention rate of 83.38 percent.Continued from pg. 1, LOEWEN
Continued from pg. 1, S’MORE
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DIAGRAM BY DEANNA HORTONPHOTO BY HANNAH PRINCE3Forum the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
In light of the recent events regarding swastika
graffiti on campus and the administration’s promise
to write hate speech rules, it seems an appropriate
time to evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of
such policies.
Let’s first examine a history of hate speech rules.
In the 1980s and 1990s, “speech codes” were written
in over 350 universities across the country that regu -
lated potentially offensive or bigoted speech among
students and faculty. Many universities saw their
new rules challenged and several cases even made it
to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1991, UWM Post v. Board of Regents of Uni -
versity of Wisconsin saw the Supreme Court over -
turn the university’s hate speech rules, which were
written in response to, among other things, a “slave
auction” hosted by a fraternity. The court disagreed
with the institution’s justification that its codes were
designed to prevent “fighting words,” one of the only
universally accepted defenses for going against the
First Amendment.
This case, however, upheld the First Amendment
and the court found that “the suppression of speech,
even where the speech’s content appears to have lit -
tle value and great costs, amounts to governmental
thought control.”
In 1994, a group of students at Stanford Univer -
sity brought a case to the Supreme Court that chal -
lenged the school’s speech code, which is under the
jurisdiction of the Leonard Law. Since 1992, the
Leonard Law has granted all students of secular pri -
vate universities and colleges in California the right
to free speech under the First Amendment. The Su -
preme Court agreed with the students and ruled that
Stanford’s policies were illegal.
All public universities in the country are also re -
quired to abide by the First Amendment, but as a
private institution outside of California, Lewis & Clark does not have this obligation. Does this mean,
however, that the administration has the right to in -
fringe upon students’ privilege to free speech?
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) be -
lieves that “[c]ollege administrators may find speech
codes attractive as a quick fix” but that in actuality,
regulations of hate speech at places of higher learning
do not address the real issue: bigotry and intolerance
amongst its students.
As the ACLU also points out, preventing expres -
sions of hate and bigotry only makes it harder to see
the problem. When college campuses suffer from ac -
tions spawned by hate, as LC and nearby Reed Col -
lege have of late, administrators and students are giv -
en the opportunity to “organize effectively to counter
bad attitudes, possibly change them, and forge soli -
darity against the forces of intolerance.”
While some may accuse this attitude of supporting
inaction, the truth is that there are plenty of actions to
be taken in response to the swastika graffiti at LC and
the anti-Semitic jokes at Reed. Writing potentially
restrictive hate speech codes is just not one of them.
Since the Supreme Court defended the Leonard
Law in California, there have been attempts to pass
a federal law that would apply to all private universi -
ties and colleges in the United States, but these at -
tempts continue to fail.
Thus, one potentially constructive action for stu -
dents to take is to write letters to Congress and state
representatives. By sharing the story about the swas -
tika graffiti on our campus, a more universal Leonard
Law could protect students of private colleges like
ours.
For now, the ACLU puts it best: “more speech—
not less—is the best revenge.” Wouldn’t it be better
to prove that students here are capable of saying—
and writing, drawing, sketching, painting or carv -
ing—intelligent and worthwhile things? Perhaps
then, the administration wouldn’t feel the need to
write new speech codes after all.Editor’s Note: Hate speech policies Letters to the Editor
A sampling from the voice of the Lewis & Clark community
“Arctic Blast” a waste of energy
First, does the PioLog have no
more pressing issue to report than
the relative coldness of water foun -
tains? Second, the water fountain
reporter has got the story totally
backwards. The Templeton foun -
tain is ridiculously, brain-freezing -
ly, teeth-achingly cold. There are
other fountains around campus
that are also difficult to drink from
for the dental pain they cause, but
none are as bad as the so-called
“Arctic Blast.” Anyhow, refrigerat -
ing water fountains wastes energy
(both for the machine to cool the
water down, and for our bodies to
warm the water back up), and I
would like to express my apprecia -
tion of the drinkable and environ -
mentally friendly water fountains
that have been slandered in your
paper.
Ian Crozier
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2010
Joh Eh Da Bop raises the bar
Upon reading last week’s review
of Momo & the Coop’s new al -
bum, Joh Eh Ba Dop , I was shocked
and angered by the scathing review.
“Who does this writer think he is?”
I asked myself. “Clearly, someone
who feels he knows a lot about mu -
sic – but knows nothing about a
cappella.”
Well, Mr. O’Connor, I won’t say
your opinions are wrong– you’re
entitled to what you believe. How -
ever, I would like to offer a second
opinion of the album to you and
readers you may have dissuaded.
As a genre, a cappella is goofy;
the idea of making odd sounds to
imitate instruments can sound
strange. However, if a listener is so presumptuous to believe that
in singing a cover, an a cappella
group intends to sound exactly like
the original song, he’s completely
missing the point. A cappella is
supposed to take liberties to take a
song in a different direction– to re -
lease music from strings and wood -
en boxes and to let it take on new
life using nothing more than the
human voice.
That said, Momo & the Coop
raised the bar with this CD. It is
leagues beyond the group’s pre -
miere album. The group’s growth
blossoms with added maturity in
tonality and song choice. Momo’s
control of dynamics and their
seamless intonation are, overall,
impeccable. The level of difficulty
of each song is drastically under -
stated by the seemingly effortless
delivery. Momo made it sound
easy, effectively masking their
months of hard work and dedica -
tion.
Universities across the coun -
try have a cappella groups, with
the more successful ensembles di -
rected by professors and consist -
ing solely of vocal performance
majors. The fact that LC has an a
cappella group that can produce
such an outstanding album while
being completely student operated
is something the college should be
immensely proud of.
Come on, PioLog – superflu -
ously bashing a student group of
wonderfully talented singers after
they spent nearly a year creating a
spectacular album? Shame on you.
And to Momo & the
Coop, congratulations, guys. All of
your hard work has truly paid off.
Kylie Della
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2010
Kylie Della is a member of Section
Line Drive and the Merriwethers.by Sanne Stienstra
The Pioneer Log accepts and encourages letters to the editor from all
students, staff, faculty, and community members. Submissions should
be kept under 300 words and sent to piolog@lclark.edu.
Students interested in writing a Forum column or any article are
invited to come to a meeting Mondays at 5 p.m. in Thayer,
or to contact an editor at piolog@lclark.edu.
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK
Lewis & Clark is fortunate to have saunas
in its athletic locker rooms in Pamplin. They
have served the community well, as people
have brought in tree leaves, eucalyptus oil
and their bad moods, all to be absorbed by
the warmth and moisture of the saunas.
Yet as more women are reportedly going
into the men’s sauna instead of their own
(and not vice versa), a minor controversy
has erupted between students and staff. Re -
cently, a couple LC women were caught and
escorted out by Intramural Director Dinari
Foreman as they were about to enter the
men’s sauna. This isn’t the first case of wom -
en getting busted for entering the men’s sau -
na, either.
“The men’s sauna is in the men’s locker
room, which is for men only,” said Director
of Physical Education and Athletics Clark Yeager. “If women want to use the sauna,
they can use the one in the women’s locker
room.”
A number of women have reported that
the women’s sauna is closed, or even nonex -
istent. However, when asked, Yeager revealed
the inside of the women/faculty locker room
(the room had no women inside, of course),
and showed that the women’s sauna is not
only there, but there is no lock on it either.
“The women’s locker room would never be
closed when the men’s locker room is open,”
said Yeager.
“I’ve been told that we’re not supposed to
be in the faculty locker room,” said Morgan
Lyons (’12), but Yeager reported that female
students are welcome to and encouraged to
use the women/faculty locker room.
What is different about that sauna is that
it is smaller—almost half the size, which is
strange for a school with 61 percent women.When asked why women would use the
men’s sauna when the women’s was open,
Yeager said that he didn’t know. He had
“speculations,” but he chose not to say what
those speculations were. Indeed, there are
speculations that could be made—that, for
instance, a sauna is a desirable space to for -
nicate.
But I really don’t think that’s right.
First of all, ew. Awkward. Second of all,
saunas are not always intimate spaces,
nor do they have to be divided by sex. There
are several co-ed saunas, and they don’t
require nudity. Rather, saunas are places
to relax, rejuvenate, and perhaps have a
conversation with a friend or acquaintance.
I have been in LC’s sauna several times
with women in it, and it hasn’t been the
least bit uncomfortable. Some great co-ed
conversations have been carried in that
room.The fact remains, though, that the men’s
sauna, in all its glory, is perhaps unfortunate -
ly located in the men’s locker room, which is
technically for men only. This is not an en -
tirely bad rule, either. Some men would real -
ly prefer if not just any woman could walk in
and see them in their locker routine, what -
ever that may be.
Certainly, the same could be said for
women. T rue, this is LC, where the nud -
ist-to-clothed student ratio is 3:1; but that
doesn’t count for everyone, and thus we
shouldn’t force that not-so-small percentage
to feel uncomfortable. (This isn’t to say that
if a woman goes into the men’s locker room,
she’s a bad person. This is just why the rule
is in place.)
So, ladies, if you want to use the men’s
sauna, fine. I don’t blame you. It’s a better
sauna. However, keep in mind that you are
breaking the rules, and you might get caught.by Robin AubrySaunas should be sex-integrated and sex-freeHow neccesary or desirable is it to throw around new rules and decrees?Volume 73, Number 1 Forum 4 the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
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Council Chamber, 9 p.m.Postcard Making Party
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T amarack, 1-3 p.m.The Great Halloween Adventure
Haunted corn maze $5, Pumpkin patch, Free hay ride
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The 12th Annual Symposium on Environmental Affairs
Reimagining the Good Life
Various locations around campus, 3-9 p.m. Halloween in the Halls
Boys & Girls Clubs come to campus to trick-or-treat
6-7:30 p.m. e-mail agorman@ to register your room
Which Way to the Good Life?
Environmental Affairs workshop
Stamm Hall, 5-6:30 p.m.Ryan Pierce, Artist
Art Department lecture
Miller 105, 12 p.m.Habitat for Humanity
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live free done no internships before graduating.
3CE provides students with a connection
to internship databases, called NIC and Pi-
oT rak. “Applying for an opportunity is the
starting point as we encourage students to follow up on their application whenever pos-sible and to identify potential connections
to the organization (alumni, family, faculty,
etc). Going the extra step is what makes an
application stand out,” said Heyman.
Networking
“Lewis & Clark has an underemphasis
on networking,” said Tanya Sloan (’07),
assistant director of alumni and parent
programs. /T_h is is an unfortunate state
of aff airs, as “networking represents 60-
80 of how
jobs are found,”
according to Heyman.
“I think a majority of students recognize
that networking is important, but don’t think
they need to worry about it at this point in
their lives.” said ASLC President Brad Elkins
(’10), who used networking, as well as a re-
sume developed with the 3CE offi ce, to get an internship in Germany’s Ministry of De-fense last summer. “It seems to them disgust-
ing and corporate…it violates their ethos.”
/T_h e Alumni offi ce and 3CE are working
to counter this attitude by hosting network-
ing events on campus. A networking brunch held with alumni two weeks ago seemed to
worked for HR at Intel,” she said. /T_h is friend of a friend helped Price get connected to the
people who could hire her.
Heyman explained that students should
use 3CE to help them de/f_i ne what they are
looking for, to make networking more eff ec-tive. “Building your network is an on-going
necessity. /T_h e outcome of developing these
connections is not always immediate so it is
important to continue to cultivate these rela-tionships,” she said.
Advice
/T_h is year, a new student-alumni associa-
tion has been formed under Alumni offi ce
intern Simone Wren (’11). /T_h e goal of this group, according to Wren, is to “help stu-dents build professional skills” as well as to “inspire a loyalty to the school that will be valuable to them throughout their lives.”
/T_h is new group has been heavily involved
in networking events on campus this year,
said Wren. “I want to help create an envi-
ronment in which students AND alumni
feel comfortable using each other as valuable resources.”
“Apply for positions that you think you
can do, even if the quali/f_i cations don’t match
your background exactly,” Price advised. “As
a graduate of LC, you are a bit of a Renais-sance man/woman in that you should be able to do a lot of things relatively well and learn
how to do new things easily. I have talked to
employers who would rather hire someone
who is bright, curious and energetic than someone with the ‘right’ degree.”
3CE and the Alumni Association are host-
ing a “Careers for Pioneers” networking event on Sunday. /T_h e event will be held in Stamm at 11:30 a.m. E-mail careers@lclark.edu by the end of today to sign up.help. According to Sloan, 50 students at-tended and noted that their negative view
towards networking had changed by the end.
Alumni of LC agree that networking is an
essential skill. Adan Vielma (’08) programs
iPhone and iPod apps for a living, working for himself. He says that networking skills he
learned at LC help him in his professional
life. “I’ve been traveling around and making
connections is pretty gosh darn diffi cult,”
he said. “It brings you back to those days at
New Student Orientation where all you have
to do is sit at a new table in the Bon and in-
stantly you have 10 new friend requests on Facebook the next day.”
Meredith Price (’07), the President of
LC’s Board of Alumni, found her job as a li-
censing analyst at Intel through the twisted
web of networks. “I met a neighbor of my aunt when on a road trip with my parents during March of my senior year and she Volume 73, Number 1 Features 6 the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
/T_h e “Networking” Word: How LC alums get jobs
TOP 10 INDUSTRIES
FOR LC ALUMNI
1. EDUCATION
2. BUSINESS AND FINANCE3. HEALTH AND MEDICINE4. LAW5. ENTERTAINMENT, ARTS, AND TRAVEL6. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING7. MARKETING/ADVERTISING/SALES8. GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND TPUBLIC SERVICE9. SELF-EMPLOYED10.NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONSby Angela Webber
In response to growing concerns about
climate change and the world’s carbon emis-
sions, an organization called 350.org created
the International Day of Climate Action, a call to nations worldwide to help implement climate change solutions.
Lewis & Clark’s Students United for Real
Food (SURF) and Students Engaged in Eco-Defense (SEED) are two student groups par-ticipating in this event, which will take place tomorrow. Members from SURF and SEED
will be tabling outside the Bon to inform
students about climate change and Day of
Climate Action events around Portland.
SURF plans to hand out cookies tomor-
row during brunch to emphasize the current
climate problems. Some cookies will have
been baked at 350 degrees, while others will
have been burned at 390 degrees. /T_h ese two temperatures represent “the approximate
normal vs. actual parts per million of carbon
in the atmosphere,” said SURF Co-President
Elie Lauden (’12) in an email.
Portland State University is hosting a
march starting from its campus in down-
town and ending at Pioneer Square, where a
rally with performances and speakers will be-
gin at 1 p.m. “We’re encouraging members of SEED and SURF and other students to go to PSU’s march,” Lauden said. “/T_h e rally will
be broadcast to the Copenhagen Climate
Conference headquarters, and to the rally in
Times Square.”
Other Day of Climate Action events in
Portland include the River of Action and
Greenpeace ActionArt Fest’s 350 kayaks and
canoes /f_l oating down the Willamette River.
SURF is a club devoted to food—more
speci/f_i cally, “real food,” or what is usually de-
/f_i ned as sustainable, environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables. “One of SURF’s goals
is to promote food which is environmentally friendly—‘real food’ nourishes the commu-
nity, producer, consumer and the Earth,” Lauden said. “Food transport accounts for
19 percent of fossil fuel use, and 33 percent
of carbon emissions come straight from the
food system.”
/T_h e people at 350.org, including author
and activist Bill McKibben (/T_h e End of Na-
ture, Fight Global Warming Now), physicist
Vandana Shiva and World Future Council
Chair Bianca Jagger, made it their mission to spread the word about the world’s car-bon emissions. According to their website,
NASA’s James Hansen, a renowned climatol-
ogist, believes it is unsafe for the amount of
carbon in the atmosphere to go above 350 parts per million. /T_h e cur-rent amount of carbon is al-
ready at 390 parts per mil-
lion.
Focusing on the up-
coming United Nations
Framework Con-
vention on Climate
Change in Co-penhagen, 350.org is attempt-
ing to spread
the mission
of 350—that is, “the cour-age, the com-
mitment, and
the creativity to
set this earth on a steady course before it’s too
late”—so that in
December, they
may encourage world leaders to make a plan “that gets us back to safe-
ty.”by Sanne Stienstra350.org International Day of Action
Send your eavesdroppings
to piolog@lclark.edu“None of my classes are Jedi
classes.”
“/T_h e thing about this relation-
ship is it has made me realize
I’m a really attractive person.”
“He’s got the fastest hands in
the west.”
“Did you just excavate that
cornhole over there?”
“Both of them are going to kick
large portions of ass.”
“He gets paid!?”
“Is it vegan?......or is it edible?”
“Why are you cleaning the
kitchen!?”
“/T_h ere is a little trail of corn-
muffi n crumbs coming out of
my crotch.”
“I could’ve nailed him with my
carrot.”
“I’ve never wet a cat before.”
“I try hard not to look like
people who look like me.”
“She left half her clothes in our
room.”eavesdropping
“If you are concerned at all about climate
change, one major factor to account for is
food economy,” said Lauden. “Environmen-tally friendly food is not only food which is local, therefore not burning tons of gas on the journey to our bellies, but organic—free of harmful pesticides and fertilizers which disperse carbon.”
David Rovics, a political protest sing-
er from New York, is coming to perform on campus next Friday, Oct. 30 to kick off SEED’s second Eco-Olympics. “/T_h is is not part of the 350 parts per million event but
technically it’s all part of
the same movement,”
said SEED Co-President Laura Bogar (’10).
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKHomecoming is this weekend at Lewis &
Clark, and as alumni from the /T_h eatre de-
partment, Residence Life and the Pamplin
Society of Fellows return to campus for their
respective reunions, it seems a good time to ask: What do students do once they leave LC, how do they get there, and what does one need to do at LC to be successful after-wards?
“A liberal arts institution is not designed
as a vocational training for the job market. However…a liberal arts education is ex-actly what an employer is looking for, in terms of the skill set required: analytical skills, problem-solving skills, written and communication skills,” said Minda Heyman, director of the Center for Career and Community Engagement (3CE).
/T_h e 3CE offi ce specializes in helping stu-
dents translate these skills onto a resume, or
as Heyman says, “articulating the value of
that education.”
When it gets down to brass tacks, though,
you need something more, something that
3CE and the Alumni and Parent Programs
offi ces are trying to encourage.
Internships
Phil Gardner, a Michigan State research-
er on economic trends, came to campus last
year and shared some insights into the job
market. According to his research, 85 per-
cent of employers say that they ask for a minimum of one internship in order to hire someone; internships are really the /f_i rst jobs
students have.
According to a survey done by 3CE last
year, 51% of graduating seniors last year had 7Features the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
/T_h e Green, a new feature of the
Lewis & Clark website redesign, is
an online discussion forum open only to LC community members.
“It’s a great opportunity to ask
questions to the entire commu-nity,” said Assistant Director of Alumni & Parent Programs and alum Tanya Sloan (’07). “[You can] off er rideshares for vacations and carpools for commuting, post stuff for sale and barter, off ers of help and, importantly, start discussions on issues pertinent to LC.” Sloan posted an entry in the marketplace asking for /f_i rewood.
/T_h e Green is divided into /f_i ve
sections: opportunities, announce-ments, marketplace, help and soap-box. Right now the Green con-tains posts from students and staff about the news of the bookstore
going independent, good places to
grab late-night dessert in Portland,
Momo & the Coop’s new album release, and a law student’s desire to form a new band.
“It originally came out of the
redesign strategy we did with our web consultant White Whale in the spring of 2008. Essentially, we had a bunch of meetings all across
the campuses with all kinds of peo-
ple,” said Director of New Media
David W. McKelvey. “[It] emerged that people felt a disconnect be-tween the schools (college, grad
and law) and in some cases even
within some schools, and the web-
site re/f_l ected that.”
/T_h e Green is open to anyone
with an LC e-mail address. /T_h is al-lows undergraduate students, grad-uate students, law students, staff and faculty to engage in discussion A Puppy Party on Wednesday, planned by Forest RA Jen Schildmeyer (’10), drew crowds
of pet-deprived students wishing to spend some quality time with the puppy pals. LC students turned out in droves to show some puppy love. “This is the best program yet,” said Natalie Dole (’12).PHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVERby Deanna Horton/T_h is is “/T_h e Green”
on the same level in the same place.
“While other services like
MyLC will be available to people
outside of LC, the Green will be limited to just us. It was created this way so that any discussion is as open as possible—we’re asking the community to be the moderator,” said McKelvey.
“When I was an undergrad
there was a Usenet-style listserv for LCers called /T_h e Soapbox,” said Assistant Director of Alumni & Parent Programs and alum Murray Cizon (’98). “I see that /T_h e Soap-box has been reanimated on the Green, and I eagerly await the in-evitable blossoming of that forum into the muckraking, /f_l amebaiting, speaking-truth-to-power, den of iniquity that its namesake was cir-ca 1997.” Cizon posted an off er to
trade mix CDs and has been con-
tacted by a few interested people
already.
“Since its launch there are de/f_i -
nitely more and more people get-
ting involved, from staff members
to students to Watzek librarians.
It’d be a hoot if faculty members starting showing up, too,” said Cizon.
Many people agree that what
the Green is missing is a larger number of users. Cary Young (’10), who posted an announcement on the Green about his independent
blog about LC, said, “I think its
real shortcoming is a lack of pub-
licity and a small userbase...No matter how conceptually awesome a website may be, if it’s centered around user-generated content, it’s going to fail if it doesn’t have us-ers.”
LC community members can ac-
cess the Green at lclark.edu/green.In a talk titled “50 Years of
Popular Music: What is America
Singing About?” Professor of Com-
munication Peter Christenson,
Stephanie Locke (’10), Nichole
Carnell (’10) and Nick Bjork (’08)
presented the /f_i ndings of their on-
going project to “code” the top 40
songs from the Billboard charts
since 1960 on T uesday.
By mapping out the genres, ref-
erences and main themes of the
top 40 songs from every other year
for the last /f_i ve decades, the group
hopes to reveal “the agenda of youth,” accord-
ing to Chris-
tenson. “Music
is the most im-portant media content to peo-ple of the age of students here going down to 10 or 12 years old,” he said.
/T_h is study is
unique to the /f_i eld of com-munication be-cause of its wide historical scope and its focus on the top 40 songs of each year, not just songs selected by the researchers. “Everyone who does research will argue that what they’ve done is spe-cial but this actually is a very spe-cial project,” Christenson said.
Another aspect of the research’s
uniqueness is the extensive range of concepts and variables covered.
By coding topics like relationships,
sex/sexual activity, partying, drugs,
identity, wealth/status, alienation/unhappiness, violence, suicide, religion and other categories, the
group hopes to cover all “the main
themes and references in popular
music lyrics over essentially the en-tire era of rock and roll,” Christen-son said.
“Our assumption is that people write songs about things that really
matter to them.”
By the end of their research,
the group coded 1,000 songs that
contained 100 variables and 50
or 60 diff erent concepts using a
codebook they created from past
research and experience. Bjork ex-plained the detailed coding pro-cedure, which includes about 50
questions to be answered for each
song, and presented the group’s ini-
tial impressions of the project.
“It’s been proven many times
that 55-70 percent of all songs are about romance or sex. We knew
this going into it and we knew it
was going to still be like that so we added some /f_i lter questions,” he said. “One thing we focused on was gender diff erences and charac-teristics and another thing we fo-cused on was tone. Beyond that we also added substance abuse.”
Locke and Carnell presented
the data regarding relationships and sex in song lyrics, noting that since the 1990s, relationships as a main theme has decreased but sex as a main theme has increased. /T_h ey played clips from songs that exhibited examples of their /f_i nd-ings, including “Breathe” by Faith Hill, “Love in /T_h is Club” by Ush-er, “/T_h e Sign” by Ace of Base and “Without Me” by Eminem.
Locke also discussed the phe-
All about sex, drugs and music
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either explicitly sexual or not, in the lyrics of male and female art-ists. In the 1,000 songs the group coded, there was not a signi/f_i cant diff erence in the frequency of sexes referring to physical characteristics of the other sex.
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/T_h e relatively large audience,
which included students from As-
sociate Profes-sor of Commu-nication Stuart Kaplan’s senior seminar, asked questions about the signi/f_i cance of who writes lyrics for these songs, changing slang in lyrics, race, religion and violence as major themes and foreign bands making it on the Bill-board charts.
“It is important for this stuff to
be looked at because we all listen to music and we all try to relate the lyrics to our life,” said Hannah Me-ganck (’10), a student in Kaplan’s class.
While the group admitted that
its research is just “the tip of the iceberg,” some of its /f_i ndings on drug and alcohol abuse in song lyr-ics may be published in the British
Journal of Addiction. “We’re look-
ing for three or four papers out of
this research,” Christenson said.
“I think it’s really exciting those
students had the chance to work
with a professional like Peter,” Me-
ganck said. “/T_h e potential to have
published work while we’re still in school is a unique opportunity not very many people get.”
This graph depicts the percentage of songs sung by male,
female or both male and female singers in the years listed.GRAPH BY NICHOLE CARNELLVolume 73, Number 1 Arts 8 the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
LC music professor sets William Staff ord to music
by Chris Keady
King Lear
Johnny Stallings has been performing his
own adapted version of Shakespeare’s King Lear since 1978—as Lear, Corde-
lia, both her sisters, the Fool, Edgar and Edmund, both Earls, all three Dukes and everyone else. His one-man show is a whirlwind of astounding asceticism, noth-ing but sparse, sharp theatrics, that must be seen to be believed.
PHOTOS BY LIAM O’CONNORSaturday saw the lobby of Evans auditori-
um uncharacteristically full, and with dressy
Portland arts patrons to boot. /T_h e Oregon
Repertory Singers presented its season open-
er under the direction of Gil Seeley, Professor Emeritus of Music. /T_h e program was titled “Modern Choral Masterpieces” and includ-ed works by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein and Eric Whitacre. Of special interest was a brand-new composi-tion by Assistant Professor of Music Michael Johanson. “Earth Dweller” is a setting of the William Staff ord poem of the same ti-
tle. /T_h e Pioneer Log asked
Johanson a few ques-tions to follow up on Saturday’s perfor-mance.PioLog: I thought the ORS’s performance of your piece was excellent, but it must’ve been
nerve-racking for you.To what extent do you
prefer to be involved in the rehearsal of your
compositions?
Michael Johanson: I believe that a composer
should compose a work in such a way that
his or her presence at rehearsals should not
be a necessity./uni00A0However, when the compos-
er is present, solutions to certain problems
can be expedited in important ways, and it is
only natural that composer and performers
work together, particularly when it comes to
bringing a new work into the world./uni00A0A com-
poser possesses a unique expertise of his or
her composition which is of great value to
any interested performer. In turn, the com-
poser will /f_i nd great value in what a dedicat-
ed performer brings to a piece of music.
PL: Do you enjoy attending rehearsals?
MJ: I enjoy attending rehearsals for a num-
ber of reasons. After a productive rehearsal, I emerge with new clarity as to what aspects
of my music are diffi cult, enjoyable to per-
form, and whether they work spatially and
visually in the way I hoped they would. I tend not to /f_i nd them nerve-racking,
since part of my job in presenting my
music is to work with dedicated musi-
cians and to put my trust in their abilities.PL: Your setting of William Staff ord’s text was remarkable. How did you choose that
particular poem? Does it /f_i t within your
general literary or compositional taste,
or was it more of an exploratory choice?
MJ: /T_h e author
and educator Paul
Merchant, who
directs the Wil-
liam Staff ord Ar-
chives at Lewis
& Clark Col-
lege, sparked
my interest
in the poetry of William Staf-
ford./uni00A0 I immediately fell in love
with Staff ord’s gorgeous, deeply
thoughtful poetry, and found myself
reading more and more of it. One of the /f_i rst
poems that struck me as one that I simply
“needed” to set to music was “Earth Dwell-
er.”
PL: Was it generally easy or diffi cult to ex-
press musically?
MJ: After spending some time living with
the poem, it became virtually impossible for me to experience the poem without thinking about the rich musical ideas it suggested to
me. /uni00A0/T_h e process of setting it to music there-
fore felt quite natural and organic. /uni00A0/T_h e ex-
perience also allowed me to express my love
for the poem in a way that words cannot.
PL: Music criticism often seems deter-
mined to pigeon-hole composers and art-
ists, but on the other hand it can be illu-minating for an artist to describe him- or herself in reference to genres and histori-
Emeritus of Music. /T_h e program was titled
“Modern Choral Masterpieces” and includ-
ed works by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber,
Leonard Bernstein and Eric Whitacre. Of
special interest was a brand-new composi-
tion by Assistant Professor of Music Michael
Johanson. “Earth Dweller” is a setting of the
William Staff ord poem of the
same ti-
tle. /T_h e
Pioneer Log
asked
Pioneer Log
asked
Pioneer Log
Johanson a few ques-
tions to follow up on
Saturday’s perfor-
mance.
should compose a work in such a way that
his or her presence at rehearsals should not
be a necessity./uni00A0However, when the compos-
er is present, solutions to certain problems
can be expedited in important ways, and it is
only natural that composer and performers
work together, particularly when it comes to
bringing a new work into the world./uni00A0A com-
poser possesses a unique expertise of his or
her composition which is of great value to
any interested performer. In turn, the com-
poser will /f_i nd great value in what a dedicat-
ed performer brings to a piece of music.
PL
: Do you enjoy attending rehearsals?
MJ
: I enjoy attending rehearsals for a num-
MJ
: I enjoy attending rehearsals for a num-
MJ
ber of reasons. After a productive rehearsal,
I emerge with new clarity as to what aspects
of my music are diffi cult, enjoyable to per-
form, and whether they work spatially and
visually in the way I hoped they would.
I tend not to /f_i nd them nerve-racking,
since part of my job in presenting my
music is to work with dedicated musi-
cians and to put my trust in their abilities.
Merchant, who
directs the Wil-
liam Staff ord Ar-
chives at Lewis
& Clark Col-
lege, sparked
my interest
in the poetry of
ford./uni00A0 I immediately fell in love
with Staff ord’s gorgeous, deeply
thoughtful poetry, and found myself
reading more and more of it. One of the /f_i rst
poems that struck me as one that I simply
“needed” to set to music was “Earth Dwell-
er.”
PL:
Was it generally easy or diffi cult to ex-
press musically?
MJ:
After spending some time living with
the poem, it became virtually impossible for
me to experience the poem without thinking
about the rich musical ideas it suggested to
me. /uni00A0/T_h e process of setting it to music there-
fore felt quite natural and organic. /uni00A0/T_h e ex-
perience also allowed me to express my love
for the poem in a way that words cannot.
PL
: Music criticism often seems deter-
mined to pigeon-hole composers and art-
ists, but on the other hand it can be illu-
minating for an artist to describe him- or
herself in reference to genres and histori-
cal periods. How does your composition-al style /f_i t into the ruptures that occurred
in art music during the 20th century?
MJ: Labels, though helpful, do tend
to be problematic. /uni00A0For my part,
I can only say that my music
makes ref-
er- ence to a wide variety
of styles and genres./uni00A0I
would also add that, to an
extent, my music is of-
ten quite diff erent from
work to work. /uni00A0 Certainly
m y background in both classical and jazz
styles and my love for other styles of mu-sic—including World Music, pop, rock, and others—has informed my music in countless
ways. I feel a certain kinship with the com-
poser Henry Cowell in terms of his desire to
“live in the whole world of music.” /uni00A0While there are certainly compositional approaches which I will never explore as a composer, I
have a high level of appreciation as a listener
for so many types of musical directions. /uni00A0
Leonard Bernstein spoke of the “in/f_i nite
variety of music”—I love this phrase, because
it reminds me of how much there is to enjoy
within this wonderful world of music!/uni00A0Part
of the joy I experience as a composer has to
do with the exploration of the beautiful pos-sibilities to be found within this in/f_i nite vari-ety. I embrace the fact that my creative voice
seems to have a mysterious “will of its own”
as I approach each new work!
general literary or compositional taste,
or was it more of an exploratory choice?
: /T_h e author
and educator Paul
Merchant, who
directs the Wil-
liam Staff ord Ar-
in the poetry of
William Staf-
ford./uni00A0 I immediately fell in love
with Staff ord’s gorgeous, deeply
MJ
:
MJ
:
MJ
Labels, though helpful, do tend
to be problematic. /uni00A0For my part,
I can only say that my music
makes ref-
er-
ence to a wide variety
of styles and genres./uni00A0I
would also add that, to an
extent, my music is of-
ten quite diff erent from
ILLUSTRATIONS BY EMILY BLOCKLast weekend, the Oregon Repertory Singers opened its season at Lewis & Clark. One of the stand-out compositions
performed was written by Professor Michael Johanson: “Earth Dwellers,” based on William Staf ford’s poem.9Arts the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
Do not expect a traditional, ancient depic -
tion of China at the Portland Art Museum’s
China Design Now exhibit, which opened
the second week of October. The exhibit
gives the viewer a new perspective, breaking
away from the depiction of China as a
large, economic power, and
introducing the “explosion of
artistic creativity” that has rap -
idly emerged in Chinese urban
culture in the last decade. While
we see the phrase “Made in Chi -
na” on the majority of our con -
sumer products, we ignore what
else is being made in China—
most of which turns out to be
much more intriguing.
The exhibit runs until Janu -
ary 17 and is divided into three
sections. The first section dis -
plays the graphic designs of
the southern town Shenzhen. The
modern Chinese art is comple -
mented by
new
age mu -
sic, another
one of China’s cre -
ative innovations, play -
ing in the background. Various
mediums are scattered about the
room. Posters depict new views on many an -
cient ideas, such as the Chinese characters.
A particular piece depicts the words “tree”
and “bird claw” as pictorial images, display -
ing the connection of the shape of Chinese
letters to their meanings. Graphic design
promotes artistic expression by the youth of
China, furthering this creative bang. A series of small figures is on display, each represent -
ing a different trait of the modern youth,
most of which are very edgy and appeal to
the culture which they depict. Skateboards,
t-shirts, CD covers and shoes are all a part
of this exhibit, showing a redirection to a
younger audience. Descriptions accompany
all the pieces, helping the viewer
un- derstand the
full meaning
of the works.
The next ex -
hibit displays
the fashion de -
signs of Shang -
hai, much of
which is reflec -
tive of western
styles. Many
of the designs
i n c o r p o -
rate ancient
styles as -
sociated with
classic oriental
dress, yet break
away from those
culture restric -
tions to create an
eclectic new style.
Barbie-like dolls and the
work of Chinese makeup
artists are also on display, all
accommodating the new perspective the
exhibit promotes.
Lastly, we see the architectural develop -
ments of Beijing. A redirection towards sus -
tainable design architecture defines Chinese
architecture today. The Red Ribbon Path is
one of the many new constructions on dis -
play. The path was built to preserve a natural
wetland environment, yet allow for access to
the area and create a recreational park. Digi -
tal Beijing, a presentation space for high-tech
exhibitions, is another important milestone New insights at China Design Now
GRIZZLY BEAR
Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear brought their ethereal, melodic pop to a packed Crystal
Ballroom last Thursday. The eerie lights flickered on stage as fragile melodies slowly
drifted and unfolded just to the point of explosion.
The Beach Boys bounce of “Two Weeks” and the gossamer haze of “Knife” were
crowd pleasers to be sure, but other less popular songs packed just as strong of a
punch. “Ready, Able” seemed so simple and so pure, but the pounding bass and
quiet bursts of resonant guitar and organ made the song seem to transcend the
confines of pop music.
Grizzly Bear played with the restraint and skill of a chamber orchestra, and drummer
Christopher Bear’s played like an experienced jazz percussionist.
With every quiet echo and with every burst of sound Grizzly Bear made it clear; the
songs are all carefully crafted, and exquisite.
-—Liam O’ConnorPHOTO BY LIAM O’CONNORYo La Tengo uses dissonance for a different purpose than
other bands. While other bands might use dissonance to ex -
press extreme anger or rage, Yo La Tengo—who performed
at the Crystal Ballroom on T uesday—employs dissonance
for the whole gamut of negative emotions their songs are
about: loneliness, confusion, desire, tiredness, sadness, and,
of course, rage—not that Yo La Tengo songs are all negative
or even dissonant.
The opening band, Jackie-O Motherfucker, has a similar
philosophy, at least stylistically. Melodically—well, Jackie-O
Motherfucker really doesn’t belong anywhere near that word.
Discordant, atonal, dissonant: Jackie-O is all of those things.
Their 40-minute set had its moments, sure, but the au -
dience seemed to match the band’s attitude. And Jackie-O
Motherfucker socialized with the crowd about as much as
one would expect from a band with the word “motherfucker”
in its name.
After the local group of four experimental drone rock -
ers with large glasses and receding hairlines, the audience
seemed prepared for Yo La Tengo’s dissonance.
After a short opening number, Yo La Tengo played the
long, yet lively, “And The Glitter Is Gone” from their new
album, Popular Songs . Guitarist and vocalist Ira Kaplan (of
no known relation to the writer of this article) didn’t just play
the guitar, he tortured it.
Kaplan, with his possessed-by-demons way of moving—
bending and squirming with each blast of guitar—used
many tricks for achieving his wild dissonance: feedback
loops through the amps, variety of effects pedals, an EBow
(a device that continually resonated a string while his fingers
were free to slide around the fretboard), and simply detuning
the guitar while playing. After many vicious maneuvers like
these, someone would supply Kaplan a freshly tuned guitar
for the next song.
To cool off, and let the audience’s ears recover, Yo La Ten -
go would shift to one of their keyboard/organ tunes like their
hit “Autumn Sweater,” which elicited cheering from the au -
dience.
While the range from dissonant guitar thrashers to fal -
setto and organ-infused soul could seem humorous, Yo La
Tengo pulled it off with the sheer flexibility shown through -out their long career (the band has been around since 1984).
Georgia Hubley sang and played acoustic guitar and
drums; James McNew sang and played bass guitar, electric
guitar, drums and 12-string acoustic guitar; Kaplan sang and
played electric guitar, acoustic guitar and keyboards.
Their instrumental range allowed husband and wife Ka -
plan and Hubley to sing a duet on their newer track “If It’s
T rue,” accompanied by bass, drums and piano.
Kaplan even made a mistake by forgetting to switch his
keyboard’s sound to piano, so in a brief banter interlude he
showed the audience how the keyboard could sound like a
drum kit and joked that Hubley could take a break.
On the last track before the encore, though, Kaplan cer -
tainly didn’t take a break. After the song seemed to wind Yo La Tengo at the Crystal Ballroom: beautiful dissonance
by Joshua Kaplan
down with a presumptive final strum of his guitar, Kaplan
jumped up and, in midair, hit another chord, beginning a
furiously quick solo which bassist McNew and percussionist
Hubley matched in pace.
Kaplan used all of his tricks to achieve a perfect disso -
nance, waving his guitar this way and that, weaving his fin -
gers all over the fretboard, savagely detuning the strings. Like
some kind of ferocious beast defeated, Kaplan finally finished
with leaving the still-resonating guitar on the floor (a stage
hand quickly unplugged it and ran it off to properly tune it).
A three-song encore closed the two-hour-long set. The fi -
nal song of the evening was a cover of Bob Dylan’s “I Threw
It All Away,” and maybe Kaplan will do that to his scarred
and beaten electric guitar—one day.
Ira Kaplan deftly manipulates his instruments to get that perfect amount of feedback and static.
PHOTOS BY MAGGIE OLIVER
Marissa Fenley
in Chinese architecture. There are many rep -
licas and descriptions of the construction be -
hind the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The exhibition was organized by the Vic -
toria and Albert Museum in London. It pro -
vides an original view into the art of China, giving the viewer a true sense of the magni -
tude of change now part of Chinese culture.
The exhibit runs through January 17, 2010
at the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park
Ave). $15 adults, $12 students, members free.
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKVolume 73, Number 1 Sports 10 the Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
Pios lose in three at
second meeting with UPS
by Nichole Carnell
At the net, outside hitter Jessamy Holland (’10) tips past two blockers. PHOTOS BY SAM DODSON
Middle hitter Katherine Fielder (’11)
led the Pios in kills against UPS. The Pioneers suffered their second loss
to University of Puget Sound on Friday. The
Loggers are ranked No. 21 in the nation, but
the Pioneers could not overcome and lost in
three sets (25-22, 25-18, 26,24).
The Pios led in total attacks in each match
but the Loggers didn’t let much hit the floor.
Katherine Fielder (’11) and Margaret Dowl -
ing (’12) led the team offensively with 10
and 9 kills, respectively.
Lou Ohki (’11) once again held down
the Pios’ defense with 10 digs and setter Leia
Matsunaga (’13) finished the night with 30
assists.
The Pios are nearing the end of confer -
ence play with only six games left, five of
which are against teams the women have
already defeated earlier this season. Their
biggest competition will come from No. 15
nationally ranked Pacific Lutheran who the
Pios will face in their last game at Pamplin in
early November.
In this season, the Pios are leading their
opponents in nearly every aspect including
attacks, digs, serves, and blocks. The Pios
have slipped a spot in conference standings
since last week to No. 4. Overall the team is
10-9 and 6-4 in conference. Lewis & Clark will be on the road this
weekend to face Whitman and Whitworth.
They return to Pamplin Friday, Oct. 30 against
Willamette.
Road games are never easy. Facing the
sixth ranked team in the country on its home
turf certainly doesn’t help, as Lewis & Clark
football (0-5, 0-3) found out by way of a 59-
14 pounding at the hands of Linfield Col -
lege.
Linfield (6-0, 3-0)
scored its first of four
first quarter touch -
downs less than two
minutes into the
game.
By the nine-min -
ute mark they had a
commanding 21-0
lead, which eventu -
ally swelled to 42-0
before the Pioneers fi -
nally answered when
T ucker Laurence
(’12) capped off a
nine play drive with
a short pass to Logan
Kotzian (’13) with
four minutes to go in
the first half.
The Wildcats
amassed 499 yards
of total offense and proved why they are one of the top 10 teams
in the country as they dominated every facet
of the game. Linfield averaged eight yards
per play, forced three turnovers and sacked
LC quarterbacks six times. They only punted
once and dismantled
LC despite having the
ball for 10 fewer min -
utes.
The Pios scored
their second and final
touchdown with six
and half minutes to go
in the game on 1-yard
run by Nic Wilson
(’12).
After a fumble re -
covery, LC marched
39 yards on 8 plays be -
fore Wilson’s run fin -
ished off the drive.
The loss was the
second of a brutal
two-week schedule in
which the young LC
team faced No. 17
Willamette followed
by No. 6 Linfield.
“It’s definitely  the tough stretch of our schedule. I think we
played two really good teams,” wide-receiver
Brandis Piper (’12) said. “We’re better pre -
pared for games to come after playing two
very good teams like that. [The past two
games] prepare us
for the rest of the
season.”
Despite the lop -
sided scores, the
team sees positives
after the last two
losses. “It’s an im -
provement from
[last year’s meet -
ing]. We were able
to move the ball
well at times,” Piper
said.
Piper added that
team proved to it -
self that it has the
ability to play with
some of the stron -
gest teams in the
country.
The Pioneers
play Crown Col -
lege in the Home -coming game this weekend at Griswold Sta -
dium at 1 p.m. The Homecoming game is
used as a showcase for incoming LC football
recruits to get a first look at the team they
will join in the fall. At half time the 1989
football team will be
honored with an induc -
tion into the LC Sports
Hall of Fame. The 1989
team won the Colum -
bia Football Association
Conference Title with a
7-2 record.
Piper said that the
team approaches each
game with an attitude
that it can win, but that
the Homecoming game
has a higher level of an -
ticipation leading up to
it and forces the team to
stay on point all week in
practice.
“There is more hype.
The focus level has to
go up [in practice].
We’re really looking for
a win, this is a must-win
game,” said Piper.Pioneers dominated early by Linfield in road blowout
by Michael G. Richman
Logan Kotizan (’13) helped the
Pios score late in the first half. PHOTOS BY SAM DODSON
Tucker Laurence (’12) threw the
Pioneers’ lone first-half score.Tough losses leave soccer
winless over weekend
Browning’s (’11) goal in Sat. game was waived after not beating the buzzer. PHOTOS BY SAM DODSON
by Nichole Carnell &
Michael G. Richman
Pioneer soccer settled for another double-
over time tie on the road against Linfield
after a goal at the end of the first half was
disallowed.
An apparent goal by Katie Browning
(’11) was waived after referees determined
it had not left her foot before the first half
whistle. The goal was taken off the score -
board much to the chagrin of the entire Pio -
neer team.
The Pios were looking to rebound after
playing poorly in their first meeting with
Linfield which they lost 2-1. LC failed to
score the rest of game and had to settle for its
fourth double-over-time tie this season.
On Sunday, the Pios looked to pick up a
win against Willamette, trying to avenge a
2-1 loss earlier in the season and came out of
the gates playing inspired soccer.
“We played really well,” defender Lishka
Havel (’10) said. “I’ve never seen the girls
not back down like they did in that game.”
For a second time in as many games over
the weekend the referees waived off an ap -
parent goal. Katrin Weisbecker’s (’13) shot
was initially saved by the goalie who then
fumbled the ball as she went to the ground.
Weisbecker collected the rebound and put
the ball in the back of the net, but the refer -
ees said the goal did not count.The refs explained that either Weisbecker
had fouled the goalie or she was offside on
the shot. Then they awarded Willamette a
goal kick in a bizarre ruling that baffled LC
players.
“I’m not sure what they called,” Havel
said. She added that she was proud of how
LC responded and held their own against a
big and physical Willamette team.
“The team really just got kind mad. We
said ‘Fine we’ll do it again,” Havel said. The
team’s tenacious attitude was inspiring de -
spite the adverse situation.
Even though they outshot the visiting
Bearcats, LC came up short as Willamette
scored in the 88th minute to hand LC an -
other tough defeat.
“[We’re] prepared from now on to play
11 vs. 14. Us versus the other team and the
refs,” Havel said of the team’s outlook for the
rest of season.
The Pios are now 3-6-5 overall and 2-6-2
in conference play. They travel this weekend
to Tacoma to take on Puget Sound and then
Pacific Lutheran on Sunday. LC is changing
up its formation and will play with three for -
wards up front instead of two to try to gener -
ate more offense. Havel said the change in
formation is a message of inspiration to the
team telling them not to quit despite their
recent bad luck.11 Sports
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
COMPETITIONLewis & Clark
1st Place - $100
2nd Place - $50
3rd Place - $25
Monday, Nov. 2 - Friday, Nov. 6
sponsored by the ASLC Community Relations Committee
& The New York Times
For details and to enter, visit: http://lclark.edu/~crc
A decade ago Razor USA was founded
in Cerritos, CA. /T_h is fall the Razor scooters
made a triumphant return to Lewis & Clark.
/T_h e revolution started in the /f_i rst few weeks
of school when Jennifer Mullins (’12) and Sam Cortrane (’12) /f_i rst mounted Razors and began scooting all over campus.
/T_h e trend quickly caught on, as Mullins’
sisters and some of her friends acquired Ra-zors and they began to scoot as a group. At /f_i rst the small horde only scooted at night, but eventually they ex-panded to scooting to class to increase effi -ciency.
Scooting became
such a phenomenon over the early weeks of the semester that Mullins and Cortrane helped form a tight crew of “scooterers”
who called themselves
One Blood. Another ri-
val scooter crew formed shortly after, calling themselves Blue Scoot.
Blue Scoot has just
two members, its co-founders Matt Karsh (’12) and Drew Hub-bard (’12). Both mem-
bers exclusively ride
blue scooters and are
deeply committed to countering the larger One Blood crew.
One Blood current-
ly consists of Jet’aime Mullins (’13), Jessica Mullins (’10), Lamar Curry (’13), Andrew Frisina (’13), Chris-tina Herring (’11), Megan Spence (’12) and Chuck Krause (’13), along with Mull-
ins, Cortrane and a few other less dedicated
friends.
One Blood identi/f_i es itself as a scooting
“crew,” because of the negative connotations
associated with the idea of a gang. But al-
though they are not a “gang,” per se, they do
have a few rules of initiation and a hand sign
that represents their squad.
“You got to be legit,” Cortrane said in ref-
erence to the initiation process.If you want to scoot with One Blood, you
better ride a bona /f_i de Razor scooter.
“None of that off -brand shit,” as Curry
put it. OB encourages its members to have a piece of /f_l are on their scooters, but has no rules regarding the color of its members’ rides.
OB currently displays baskets, horns,
bells, lights, streamers, wheelie bars and boom box holders.
Despite its resistance to having any affi lia-
tion with the notion of a gang, OB does have a /f_i erce rivalry with Blue Scoot.
“It’s full-out war,” Curry said. He added
that when he sees one of the Blue Scoot’s
scooters around campus he does not hesitate
to push it down, step on it and walk off in silent celebration.
Frisina, OB’s resident trick specialist, said
that Blue Scoot and its non-scooting sup-
porters have occasionally stolen his scooter
and hidden it around campus.
“/T_h ey attack us when we’re not paying
attention,” Curry said. He then added that
OB’s turf is all over
campus and that Blue Scoot won’t have any problem as long as they stay out of OB’s area. “We control this campus,” he said.
OB encourages
people to take up scooting and they of-
fer some words of ad-
vice.
“Do not scoot in
the rain unless you
want your butt to
get torn up,” Jenni-
fer Mullins said. She
also advised against scooting under the in/f_l uence and rec-
ommends scooting
downhill from Forest
towards Copeland by way of the access road that runs behind the
apartments.
Jennifer is one of
the few members to
ever scoot off campus,
as she once scooted to a nearby party and back.
Razor revolution ignites scooter crew feud
by Michael G. Richman
Members of scooter crew One Blood throw up their signs. One Blood and rival Blue Scoot have a major feud.PHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUSthe Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009Backdoor 12
The Toast
Written by Rand McNally
/T_h is week’s toast goes out to a relatively
small (but given the season, undoubtedly
growing) number of students who take
their academics seriously.
While this may seem like a no-brainer (I
mean, we go to a somewhat elite private in-
stitution with relatively diffi cult admissions standards — shouldn’t we all be focused on our studies?), I’m talk-ing about a very particular group here.
/T_h ese are your peers
that will stop at noth-ing to take full ad-vantage of every minute of class time off ered to them.
/T_h ey are
your fellow s t u d e n t s that hang
on ev-
ery word
muttered by your pro-fessor.
/T_h ey are the
students that, despite all odds and adversities, will do every-thing in their power not to miss a single second of class. /T_h ey are the people who
will risk life and limb in order to not waste
a single dollar of their precious tuition.
/T_h ese are the students who are so driv-
en…so motivated…so determined…that
they will ignore threats (even to their own
lives!) in order to attend their full schedule.
Yes, dear readers, if you haven’t guessed
already, I am proposing this toast to those
among us who go to class sick. And to those of you out there who are amongst this dis-tinguished group, I have but one thing to say to you:
You are a dick.
Yes, you read me right, you sniffl ing
Drink of the Week
Loaded Doctor
1 1/2 oz white rum
1 1/2 oz whiskey6 oz Dr. Pepper
Drink this after you’ve caught Swine Flu and had to
visit your doctor a few times. Drink to the fact that he’s loaded and you’re about to be. Oh, and your health, too. Drink to your health.swine. I hate you. What gives you the right
to saunter into class, armed to the teeth with
tissues and cough drops, with full knowledge
that you are carrying a contagious plague
that will undoubtedly infect the rest of us? You think that the professor is going to re-spect your “commitment to the coursework” because you came in sick? NO!
Professors, like other living crea-
tures, tend to instinctively
avoid things that are
sick. By showing up,
all you’re doing is
showing how little
respect you have
for your profes-
sor and your
peers.
I get it
though. You
don’t want
to miss
class be-
cause you
d o n ’ t
want to
fall behind.
Well, here’s
what I’ve got to
say to you: Boo hoo. Email
Student Support Services. Email your pro-fessor. /T_h ey are prepared to deal with things
like this and will help you out.
Ignore your schoolwork for a few days
and focus on getting better. By showing up
to class, you are invariably putting a strain on your body and, thus, more likely to con-
tinue being the disgusting sack of sickly shit
you already are.
So as you sit at your desk, hocking up a
storm and spewing your swine spittle into
the back of my neck and most likely passing your horrible sickness on to me, just remem-ber one thing: We aren’t staring at you in disgust, we are just admiring your dedication
to pursuing your education, you sel/f_i sh fuck.Backdoor Ad Libitum
You Caught My Eye
/T_h ere have been so many plural noun this length of time ! I
don’t even know how I feel about them. First the grass was
color, not green because they stopped -ing verb the lawns.
What about all the administrators leaving, like the political
position , the body part of admissions and the vacant
position at Lewis & Clark College . I guess he’s not really leaving;
more like putting on a new article of woman’s clothing as a
major off ered at LC professor.
/T_h en there were the cartoon character that were written on
the location, preferably one that is seen by only a fraction of the population .
/T_h at led to a event involving a few people and a congressional
committee . Maybe it’s been past tense verb a little out of
proportion, but religious /f_i gure knows.
We probably should be -ing verb more about all the
insult for a person with low intelligence who had to go to the
setting of children’s show last month for -ing verb too much
agricultural byproduct . /T_h at might be more relevant, but in the
end, it’s all just a bunch of singluar noun that was used earlier...or a
new one, whatever . Please e-mail your“You Caught My Eye” to piolog@lclark.eduILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONASYou: Freshman on the softball team.
Me: Hoping that you will play for my team. You: Disney brand country pop appreciating boy.
Me: Wanna Taylor you Swiftly.
You: Guy with the red fanny-pack.
Me: Wanting you to sling me around your waist.
You: Curly-locked ginger god.Me: Wanting to ride your crimson tide.You: T urned me down already.Me: Thought you were writing me a YCME.You: Sweet and sexy Alaskan berry.Me: Eager to taste your forbidden fruit.You: Are the Who I’ve been looking for .Me: Nose this will probably get me in trouble.
Me: Looking for a good movie.You: Wild thing.
You: The sexy footballer with a cough and strong arms.Me: Just looking to score with you, maybe after you crush PSU?
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKthe Pioneer Log, October 23, 2009
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