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Volume 74, Number 8 Friday, November 6, 2009 Swiper, no sign swiping!
Left: ASLC Vice President Henry Loeb (’12) and Associate Dean of Students Jeffrey Feld-Gore at the Collins View Neighborhood Association meeting
on Wednesday. Right: The CVNA met at Riverdale High School to discuss issues concerning Lewis & Clark and the surrounding community.Neighbors’ concerns cause off -campus party crackdown
by Garik Lawson Asplund
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Obama goes greenGraduate student dies due to H1N1 complica tions
by Angela Webber
Kris Kerstiens, 25, was a student in the Master of Arts teaching program.PHOTO FROM KERSTIENS FAMILYContinued on pg. 2, OFF-CAMPUS
Kris Kerstiens, a student in the Gradu-
ate School of Education and Counseling,
died this weekend from complications con-nected to the H1N1 virus. Kerstiens, who was 25, was studying to be a history teacher in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. Kerstiens was described as an “amazing” and “vibrant” individual, and was a graduate of Beaverton High School and Oregon State University.
Kerstiens, according to information pro-
vided by his father to the Oregonian this
week, was healthy and had no chronic health conditions. He was admitted to Legacy Me-ridian Park Medical Center a week prior to his death. According to an e-mail sent to students by interim President Jane Atkinson this weekend, “The illness advanced to the
point that he developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).” Kerstiens was placed on a ventilator on Oct. 25, which re-quired he be in a state of medically induced unconsciousness. He died at 2:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.
/T_h e death of a member of LC’s com-
munity was unexpected. “I was shocked and deeply saddened,” said Atkinson. “[He was] someone dedicating himself to a life as a teacher. One would hope for a bright fu-
ture.”
/T_h ere have been 20 H1N1 related deaths
and 745 hospitalizations in Oregon since
Sept. 1, according to data provided by As-
sociate Director for Health Promotion Me-lissa Osmond. “When it strikes someone in
your own community it strikes with special force,” said Atkinson.
“/T_h e death of this student saddens us
all and renews our commitment to make our campus as safe as it can be in regards to H1N1,” said Director of Wellness Services
John Hancock.“We should be vigilant about maintain-
ing our own health and vigilant about tak-
ing care of others,” said Atkinson. “By taking
care of ourselves we slow the spread of the
disease to people who can’t handle it.”
Although a “vast majority” of people
who contract H1N1 recover completely, it
can become quite serious, and thus certain
precautions are important and necessary, as
stressed by the on-campus health commu-nity. Underlying health issues such as asth-ma and other chronic heath conditions can
cause H1N1 to be much more serious.
Hancock described that students with
such conditions had approached him with
concerns about going to class and being ex-posed to H1N1, as other students who are
sick may attend. “We are all responsible for
each other’s health and you never know who
next to you is high-risk,” said Hancock.
/T_h e new push by LC’s health service
is “making our classrooms /f_l u-free zones.” Someone may be contagious before showing
symptoms, which makes it important to fol-
low the “cover your cough” and hand-wash-
ing advice even when you don’t think you’re sick, said Hancock. And when you are sick,
Enforcement of Lewis & Clark policy re-
garding off -campus parties is changing, due to increased concern from members of the neighborhoods surrounding campus. Off -campus parties are being watched more in-tently by campus offi cials, notably Campus Safety.
/T_h e Collins View Neighborhood Associa-
tion (CVNA) held its monthly meeting on Wednesday and spent the majority of the time discussing off -campus parties and other qualms it has with LC. Associate Dean of Students Jeff rey Feld-Gore and ASLC Vice-President Henry Loeb (’12) attended the meeting. ASLC representatives are, for the /f_i rst time, attending meetings and trying to engage the community about issues concern-ing the school, students and the community at large.
Besides parties, other concerns for the
CVNA include parking and transportation and the school’s master plan, which is still undergoing review and is subject to an ap-peals process through mid-December.
Living off -campus is seen as a rite of pas-
sage for many undergraduates at LC, but the sentiment at the CVNA meeting was that LC students make less-than-desirable neigh-bors. Craig Arrowsmith, who moved into Collins View in 2008, said, “With having a newborn, noise is a big issue—we are really concerned about the neighborhood that we moved into.”
“/T_h e issue is not just with parties, we all have parties, but it is with college parties when everyone from the College comes and makes noise,” said Chair of CVNA and LC alum Prakash Joshi.
Feld-Gore spoke at the meeting about
the College’s increased involvement with off -campus students and parties. Four off -campus houses have been noti/f_i ed that they are causing regular disturbances to neighbors and at least one off -campus party was pre-emptively broken up last weekend. “/T_h is is a
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by Tom Meathme Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Cri you should self-isolate until 24 hours after
your fever subsides without the use of fever-
reducing medication, according to Hancock.
The CDC has described target groups for
concern about H1N1, which include people
with chronic illnesses such as asthma, preg -
nant women and those with compromised
immune systems. Another target group is “all
those under 24.” This includes most students
at the undergraduate college as well as some
at the Law and Grad schools. As the Health
Service orders vaccines, they take these CDC
targeted groups in consideration. “We will
be trying to vaccinate as many members of
our community as possible,” said Hancock,
though he said that how the vaccine will
be specifically distributed depends on how
many doses of the vaccine they receive.
The Heath Service is asking students with
chronic health conditions to call and self-Health Service concerned with spread of H1N1
identify so they can be put on a priority list
when the vaccine does arrive.
“Everyone is holding their breath for vac -
cines to become more widely available,” said
Associate Director for Health Promotion
Melissa Osmond. Vaccines are being distrib -
uted by county, said Osmond. Multnomah
County, in which LC is located, is current -
ly prioritizing distribution of the vaccine to
health care workers, pregnant women, and
children under five. The county has a lim -
ited number of vaccines, and “manufactur -
ers overestimated how quickly they could get
them out,” said Osmond.
T wo-thirds of the people who have died
from H1N1 have had some sort of underly -
ing medical condition. A big cause of com -
plications for the third without underlying
conditions is that H1N1 weakens the im -
mune system such that other infectious ill -
nesses, which would otherwise be fought off,
small step and we are trying to address these
issues,” said Feld-Gore. “Off-campus behav -
ior can have College consequences.”
College policy states that Campus Safety
can enforce the Code of Conduct off-cam -
pus, which means that they can write in -
formation reports, also known as write-ups,
for underage drinking off-campus. Students
who are writtten up will be responsible to the
College for these offenses.
“The school has had this authority for a
while, but it has chosen not to use that au -
thority at off-campus parties. Choosing to
enforce this policy now is part of the school
trying to pass the master plan,” said Karen
Lickteig (’11), Community Relations Coor -
dinator and a member of the ASLC Execu -
tive Council. “We can’t do the buildings we
want to do if the neighborhood doesn’t let
us.”can take hold and become fatal. “A healthy
person can die from this, though it is rare,”
said Hancock.
Hancock also shared a rumor that some
LC students may be holding “flu parties,” in
which students get together to be infected
with H1N1 so they can get the disease and
get over it. Hancock likened these “parties”
to a similar phenomenon among parents who
bring their kids together to get chicken pox,
and thus gain immunity so they don’t get the
disease at an inconvenient time such as when
the family is going on vacation. Hancock
said that the “flu party” idea shocked him,
however. H1N1 can last a long time, even if
one does recover. “Boy, I was real concerned
about that,” he said in response. “I think
it’s very unwise from a health perspective,
if it’s happening,” said Hancock, especially
with the vaccine about to become available.
“Don’t do this—get vaccinated!”
Students swipe
event signs
by Laura Nash
During the recent Campus Living health
and safety inspections, Area Directors noted
a number of stolen signs adorning the walls
of dorm rooms.
This issue was discussed the ASLC stu -
dent senate meeting last Thursday, October
29. These campus signs include those direct -
ing visitors toward symposiums, banners,
and flyers. Freshman senator Megan Saddler
identified that the problem is “specifically in
Stewart, Odell, and Akin.” “There are mem -
bers of [my] peer group that steal signs,” said
Saddler.
The reason that sign stealing is such a
setback for LC is that the signs “are pretty
expensive to make,” said Saddler. “That is
money that could go to other things.” When
students steal them, the College either has to
pay to have them remade or go without.
The senate concluded that stealing signs
should be discouraged. One solution sug -
gested was for RAs to write up evidence of
stolen signs if they see it. According to Sad -
dler, LC recycles the signs when they are
done with them if they cannot be reused for
a repeat event. However, the College would
prefer if students did not take the signs out
of the recycling and trash bins.A number of event signs like this
one have been stolen by students.Other area neighborhoods, including
South Burlingame and Marshall Park, were
represented at the CVNA meeting and
voiced their worries about the College. Chair
of the South Burlingame Neighborhood As -
sociation Betsy Shand addressed illegal park -
ing. “You’ve got a traffic problem,” she said.
“At least 60 cars park every morning and [the
students] walk a block and a half to catch the
bus.”
Another resident reported that the Pio -
neer Express was driving down side streets
to drop students off at their cars. The com -
plaints have not yet been confirmed, but the
College is investigating the claims.
LC’s Law School dorm plan was also un -
der scrutiny. CVNA’s Danni McGloughlin
and other neighborhood volunteers con -
ducted an experiment on October 20 at the
intersection of SW Boones Ferry and SW
Terwilliger Boulevard “in order to counter the school’s traffic reports with an example.”
Three teams videotaped traffic while people
walked through the cross-walk at different
intervals of time. The experiment tried to
replicate the effects a new dorm would have
on local traffic.
McGloughlin concluded that the results
were disastrous: “People were calling the
police because of the increased congestion.”
Commuters from Lake Oswego and Dun -
thorpe were negatively affected, she said, and
there were two examples of people nearly
being run over. The videos, a photo album,
e-mails and other documentation were sent
to the hearing officer regarding the school’s
master plan.
More information can be found at the
CVNA website collinsview.org and LC’s
master plan website legacy.lclark.edu/dept/
planning/2008masterplan.html.College to begin enforcing policy off-campus
Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime
Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat /
Welcome back to Crime Beat, loyal
reader. We appreciate the trouble you go
through, wading through the rest of the
paper simply to keep up to date with the
week’s crimes and our strange and special
sort of humor.
If you have any crime concerns or any
information on unsavory events on cam -
pus, email Campus Safety at safety@
lclark.edu and Crime Beat at piolog@
gmail.com. We’ll send out our criminal
correspondent, Stubz Z. Stubz, to sniff
out the truth and report back to you here.
Mwynhau!
d Theft was reported from Boley
Law Library on Oct. 21.
This report is part of Boley’s new late
book return policy. Instead of simply
charging fines and sending intimidat -
ing emails, the library has begun pressing
criminal charges against tardy book bor -
rowers.
Hired thugs for the library plan on
roughing up long term offenders starting
with the oldest outstanding case, a copy of
T ropic of Cancer checked out in 1971.
d Public indecency was reported
in Odell hall on Oct. 23.
During a heated exchange between
members of the Lewis & Clark College
Starcraft varsity team, one individual
reached into his pants, withdrew his geni -
talia, and proceeded to waggle them ag -gressively at his adversary. T eam Captain
Bart Larson (’10) reprimanded the of -
fender. “We do not waggle our genitalia at
one another to make a point,” instructed
Larson.
d An employee reported a theft
from Stamm Dining Hall in
Templeton on Oct. 24.
Witnesses say that the perpetrator
snuck in during one of those fancy-shman -
cy lunches for trustees, picked up an entire
roast duck with orange mango glaze and
walked out.
Bon Appétit staff members expressed
dismay at the event. “Everyone knows that
the really good food is only for trustees,”
said one staff member. “Undergraduates
are only allowed to eat goulash and root
vegetables.”
d An employee reported graffiti
at the gazebo near Watzek
Library on Oct. 27.
A gazebo, according to Merriam-Web -
ster, is a freestanding roofed structure, usu -
ally open on the sides. Personally, I would
not consider the structure overlooking the
cobblestone path near the reflecting pool a
gazebo. It’s much more of a belvedere or a
parapet, if you ask me.
Regardless of definition, Crime Beat
does not suggest writing on our campus’
beautiful belvederes, which are one of the
big sells for the admissions department. I
know at least two friends who came here
entirely for our glorious parapets.Continued from pg. 1, OFF-CAMPUSContinued from pg. 1, FLU3Forum the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
While it certainly was a surprise
for most students and staff to hear
that Lewis & Clark received a C+
on its College Sustainability Re-
port Card, it seems that if all the
College is looking for is a good
grade, then LC is certainly not on the right track to sustainability.
Many prospective students on
the hunt for a school that is right for them have learned to disregard most of what the Princeton Review
and U.S. News and World Report
college rankings say about diff er-ent universities across the country.
It has become common knowledge
that if a college is appealing to the
standards of rankings like these,
then press, rankings and public im-age are probably too high on that
school’s list of priorities.
/T_h e same holds true for sustain-ability, likely to an even greater
degree. If LC and similarly graded
Reed College and the University of
Puget Sound are despairing about the rating the Sustainable Endow-
ment Institute has issued, then we
are not looking at the bigger pic-
ture.
/T_h e grade should be, if any-
thing, a wake-up call for students,
staff , faculty and administrators
that while we may have recycling
on campus and some people like
to drink coff ee out of old pea-
nut butter jars, that does not
mean everyone is doing all they
can to reduce our impact on the
environment.
Students Engaged in Eco-De-
fense (SEED) is currently hosting its second Eco-Olympics, which
aims at getting students to reduce
their energy use in residence halls on campus. /T_h is group seems to have a focused perspective that
the rest of the College can learn
from—in order to cut back on our
harmful environmental impact, the LC community needs to focus on the campus and the amount of re-
sources we use right here on Pala-
tine Hill.
Without serious support from
the administration, and likely Fa-
cilities, Campus Living and other
campus-oriented offi ces, LC will
never be able to improve its sus-
tainability. /T_h ere are so many plac-es on campus over which students have no control, including the
computer labs, diff erent offi ces and academic buildings that have lights
on and power running all through
the night. By making a few simple
changes that would aff ect very few people, if any at all, it seems that the College could start to counter
this discouraging grade.
/T_h e Oxford English Diction-
ary’s /f_i rst de/f_i nition of “sustainabil-
ity” is: “Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, bearable.”
/T_h is explanation of the word says
less about simply avoiding harming
the environment and more about creating a self-suffi cient setting from which we can gain our own
resources.
Instead of just looking at how
we each can stop hurting the en-
vironment, the administration should be coming up with ways
we can create our own environ-ment—the Bon should have “Eat Local” day every day, the buildings
should be powered by solar energy,
the lawns could, instead of being covered by brown grass all sum-mer, be places where fruits and
vegetables, or even composting,
are hosted.
As Environmental Studies Di-
rector Jim Proctor said last week in
regards to the report card, “/T_h ere
will never be 10 simple things you
can do for sustainability.” Instead
of counting on the simple things that people have been doing for years now, the College needs to
look at the more diffi cult things,
and make sustainability a tangi-
ble goal, instead of a ubiquitous ideal—a challenge to be faced, instead of just an inconvenient
grade.
Gay marriage: no need
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Since 1991, LC has expanded its construction by 41%, but
also invested over $3 million in energy-saving measures.
by Sanne Stienstra
GRAPH FROM LCLARK.EDU
/T_h ere is no reason why gay marriage should be legal.
Now let me rephrase that: No same-sex couple should
be eager to enter the “sanctity” which is the “union” of marriage. Speaking of rephrasing, that is actually what should happen in the /f_i rst place. Marriage, by contem-porary de/f_i nition among the young and scared, is “the thing that happens before divorce.” As a woman who one day would love to share arguments, debt and a house with another woman, there is no way I want to live in a state that gives me the chance to enter into the dungeon that marriage has become. Marriage and want-ing to spend your life with someone are two very diff erent things.
Now, if you asked me if I think two
same-sex people should be allowed to be together for the rest of their lives, I’d say yes. If you asked if same-sex couples should be allowed to use family health care, I’d say yes. Same-sex couples shar-ing bank accounts, beds and mortgage payments all yes, yes and yes, but why call that marriage? /T_h at terminology is purely set-ting happy couples up for failure, otherwise known as divorce. Let’s change the name of what we want from “gay marriage” to “gay rights.” Let homosexuals do what all the straight people get to do when they love some-one, including sharing health insurance, having ba-bies and not being able to testify against each other in court. Let us not be joined by the Lord “for better” or for when we can /f_i nd separate divorce lawyers. Just give us the respect that is given to all those other opposite-sex-lovin’ lovers. While we’re at it, let’s just get rid of marriage all to-
gether. Only 50 percent of marriages today will survive. Only 40 percent of second marriages will live, and then a scanty 30 percent of third marriages avoid divorce. Let’s face a new reality: Marriage isn’t working, so why would we want to make more people eligible for failure? No more marriage. Life sans marriage would make things so much simpler. Just think of never having to talk about “where this relationship is going,” of less boring, scary talk and more fun.
Not to mention the crazy amount of
money not getting married would save. Just to put this in perspective, here is the MasterCard tally of wedding expens-es: marriage license, $50; engagement ring, $9,000; matching wedding bands, $1,650 each; simple, white, wedding cake for 300 guests, $3,900, add deliv-ery, $4,000; marking the Mrs. & Mrs. box on your taxes, priceless. /T_h e aver-age American wedding comes to over $20,000. /T_h e average American divorce can be even more expensive, especially given that the paperwork for a divorce
(depending on the state) can be anywhere from $100-$300, not to mention court fees, lawyer payment and potential child support.
Embrace the idea of life partners, and know that you
don’t need a license to be in love. To governments, recog-nize love, and let those actually in it enjoy couple bene-/f_i ts. We’re too sel/f_i sh in this day and age to promise to be with someone forever. Especially when someone better is just around the corner, and you snore. But when you are in love, regardless of whether you love a man or a wom-an, you should be allowed to garner all the amenities.Editor’s Note: /T_h e challenge of sustainability
Marriage isn’t
working, so
why would we want to make more people eligible for failure?by Lindsey Bosse
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Macro: Obama goes green
The Obama administration has
weakened its defense against mari -
juana dealers in the past few weeks, at
least those operating under state law.
These loosened ropes are a big “boo-
yah” to the Bush administration and
their attempts to tackle marijuana as
one of the biggest threats in the “War
on Drugs.” Until now, federal drug
agents were allowed to pursue and
arrest growers and dealers of medi -
cal marijuana, regardless of state laws.
Fourteen states currently allow the use
of medical marijuana: Alaska, Califor -
nia, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Mary -
land, Michigan, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Vermont and Washington.
Obama’s new policy basically states
that there is no need for federal agents
to seek users and dealers of medical
marijuana. Simply stated, the presi -
dent is finally valuing the power of
states’ rights. Up until now the gov -
ernment has wasted countless hours
and dollars trying to persecute persons
associated with dispensaries. The Bush
administration had no respect for the
power of the states to legalize Mary
Jane, and still called medical mari -
juana a federal offense. Most people
just turned and laughed at Bush’s at -
tempt to stifle their fun. Nonethe -
less, the “War on Drugs” waged on
and thousands of people were arrested
for selling medical weed regardless of
the protection of states’ laws allowing
medical dispensaries.
When flipping through the news
channels on Monday night, you might
be pleasantly surprised to find a show
on CNBC called Marijuana Inc.
where reporter T rish Regan goes “be -
hind the scenes” of the medical mari -
juana industry. Let me preface with
saying it’s a great show. Regan either
has never been around weed for the entirety of her life, or she’s just really
good at playing dumb. The key mo -
ment of the show is when she’s stand -
ing next to a seven-foot marijuana
plant and asks what part of the plant
is smoked (the buds were in season
too, and looking mighty fine). Any -
way, on the show both dealers and
federal agents alike pretty much admit
that there is no hope for the marijuana
industry to burn out. Certain high-
rolling dealers on the show weren’t
jumping up and down to share how
much weed they were actually selling
behind the backs of federal agents, but
they did sport nice little smug smiles,
and now, they’re safe. You might want
to keep an eye out for Marijuana Inc.
II now that there’s no need for these
dealers to hide.
So, although we may not have
universal health care or an end -
ed war, those individuals with pot club cards are safe. The
president knows where to pick his bat -
tles, and has finally written off weed
as a waste of time. All enthusiasm for
decriminalization aside, it’s nice
to know our president is aware of
the bigger fish to fry. This is a
simple matter that should have been
dealt with a while ago, not only be -
cause of the disregard for states’ rights,
but because of the money and ener -
gy that was spent trying to stop legal
marijuana distribution. The decision
was sent out in a memo to the FBI,
the DEA and all of the states that have
legalized medical marijuana. The fact
that it was sent in a memo further em -
phasizes the bogusness of Bush’s prior
ambitions. Obama has said that legal -
izing marijuana would not be benefi -
cial to the economy, however. Note
to self: Get a medical marijuana card;
you’ve got the President’s a-okay.
by Lindsey Bosse
Over-advising the well-advised
Let me set the scene for you: On the top floor of one of
the academic buildings, in an office flooded with books,
sticky notes, perhaps a potted plant somewhere (probably
by a window), sits a professor in a big chair behind a desk
with you on the other side. This is your advising appoint -
ment, which is mandatory before you sign up for classes
every semester. Since you are such an obedient student,
you’ve already made a list of classes you want, you know
what courses fill what requirements. It takes a solid two
minutes for you tell your advisor (the professor in the big
chair) what classes you’re going to take. It takes your advi -
sor around 30 seconds to tell you you’re on the right track.
Then you discuss slobbering Newfoundland dogs, quinoa
salad at the Bon and, of course, the rain. And this is man -
datory?
Unfortunately, all students at Lewis & Clark are re -
quired to have academic advising sessions before they
sign up for classes. Some kids really benefit from
checking in with their advisor, getting questions an -
swered here and there and making sure they too are on
the right track. Other students, however, don’t have
any questions. In these cases, both the student and the
advisor are more than confident of the student’s per -
sonal ability to choose classes. The advisor most likely
has something more important to do than talk at a stu -
dent for 15 minutes (sounds strikingly similar to their
other job, teaching). The student is generally pressed too,
scraping the bottom of the barrel for advising meeting
time. Thus we come to our conclusion that, like every -
thing else in America, some things work for some people, and other things don’t. Hence the ever-popular American
term “optional.”
Academic advising is crucial for some students that do
have questions about their upcoming terms. But even so,
have you ever noticed that when you ask your advisor a
question, sometimes the best answer they can give you is,
“Go ask so-and-so.” Academic advisors are great for check -
ing availability of open courses, recommending courses and
making sure that you are fulfilling requirements. Beyond
that, a majority of students have learned that you ask most
other questions either at the Registrar’s Office, Student Life
or in the handy-dandy course catalogue. So for those stu -
dents that feel solid on their course choices, and who have
no questions that can be answered by their academic advi -
sor, why do they still have to go to these meetings?
As an NSO participant, I remember hearing over and
over how our lives were now our responsibility. They made
it very clear that from here on out we would be dictating
our future success, and then they gave us advisors and man -
datory meetings. One of the biggest parts of leaving home
and learning about life on your own is learning how to ask
for help. Let academic advisors be assigned, and let it be
up to the student whether or not they need advice for the
upcoming semester.
“I guess they’re helpful if you don’t know what you want
to take or are not willing to put in the effort to figure it
out on your own. The fact that they’re mandatory is fairly
paternalistic,” said Kellen Morimoto (’10), who is in his se -
nior-year stretch and has felt the necessity of these meetings
weighing down on him for almost four years. Every single
student at LC will use an advisor at one point or another,
but the obligatory frequent visits are not necessary. by Lindsey BosseILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKMore anger solves nothing
This problem with the swastikas being drawn all over
campus is the most bizarre and frustrating thing in my expe -
rience at LC so far. On the one hand, you have an individ -
ual who is ignorant at best or threatening at worst, roaming
around campus scrawling offensive symbols on the stalls of
our bathrooms. On the other hand, you have a lot of useless
finger pointing and meaningless accusations by the student
body as a whole. I’m not saying that this incident should
be ignored and swept under the rug. This is a problem that
needs to be addressed as quickly and as effectively as possible,
yet we have members of the student body getting angry at
the fact that we aren’t getting angry enough. At whom should
we be angry? There is nowhere to direct our frustrations aside
from the faceless individual or group perpetuating this frus -
trating trend. All we’re left with as an object of our anger is
an abstract idea or group of people.
If anything, this perceived lack of action has a lot to do
with disbelief among the student body more than anything
else. I for one cannot think of anyone on campus I have ever
met, even in passing, who I would even begin to consider
a possible neo-Nazi. The concept itself is mind-boggling.
Could this be the work of someone who just really wants to
offend people in order to cause a reaction? In my mind, this
is the most likely reason. I’m not saying I have a solution, I’m
saying that getting mad as hell isn’t going to solve anything.
To fight bigotry, maybe we should try using understanding
instead of non-specified anger and hatred.
Aaron Upsal
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2010
All is not well with society
There are some very disturbing problems in American so -
ciety that don’t seem to be discussed very much. For example:
• The alarming proportion of Internet traffic that is por -
nographic. The exact figure is probably no less than 20 per -
cent, with some estimates ranging upward of 50 percent.
• The declining ability to focus well enough to read and
retain information, and the related abundance of various
forms of ADHD medication, particularly among students.
• The real sense of lack of community, and increased dis -
tance to one another, that we all feel. Students in a dorm
setting, as well as adults in apartments, can and do live a few
feet one another without ever learning anything substantial
about each others’ lives. Conversations often seem to start
and end at “ ‘Hey, how are you’ / ‘Pretty good thanks’,” with
subjects of any real consequence being kept out of the dis -
course.
These are just a few examples. Not everyone may have
personally encountered all of these problems, but my expe -
rience is that most of the people around me have grappled
with, and been frustrated by, some of them. These issues tak -
en together cast some doubt on the quality of the society in
which we live and its relationship to our mental health; as we
adopt programs of economic development abroad and social
justice at home, it is worth asking about the spiritual, rather
than material, quality of the life we attempt to promote.
The problems of mental health and human spirit are ex -
tremely difficult at present for people to talk about. It wasn’t
always this way, as a reading of Plato will show. It is hard
to discuss this stuff even with those we like; for example, I
admire my Shakespeare professor and have good conversa -
tions with him, but I couldn’t just sit down with him and talk
about the effect of pornography in American society with
any kind of satisfactory outcome. Our discussions with one
another chart a different course and so, inevitably, the mind
becomes a backwater of all the serious issues that aren’t ad -
dressed in any external context.
There don’t seem to be any evident concrete solutions to
these serious issues, but it seems to me critical to bring them
into the consciousness, and to reflect on them a little bit.
Most of the people on this campus seem a little bit haunted
in some way or other, and some are very haunted. To recog -
nize this in each other is extremely important.
Matthew Stahlman
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2010Letters to
the Editor
A sampling from the voices of the
Lewis & Clark communityFeatures 5 the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
nine days out >>>>
friday saturday sunday
monday tuesday wednesday
thursday friday saturday6 7 8
9 10 11
12 13 14November 6 to 14
Beckett(s) Mainstage Production
Directed by Stephen Weeks
Fir Acres Main Stage, 7:30 p.m.“Slingshot Hip Hop”: Film Documentary
SALAM event
Council Chamber, 7 p.m.
Valentino Achak Deng Lecture
STAND event
Agnes Flanagan Chapel, 7:30 p.m.6th Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium
Keynote Lecture, Dmae Roberts
Council Chamber, 7 p.m.
Health Professions Panel
Health Professions Club event
Miller 103, 7 p.m.Zimbabwe Art Show and Sale
Proceeds help Zimbabwean women artists, Dallaire scholars
Thayer rooms, Friday and Saturday, noonVisit Wolf Haven
Animal Club event
RSVP to waterman@lclark.edu by Nov. 9“The Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers”
Invisible Children film
Council Chamber, 7:30 p.m.LC Día de los Muertos
Gente Latina Unida event
T amarack, 6 p.m.you know my steez by Kathryn Miller
these kicks are impregnable.” -jb.
air mend eeez
tuggle and the newest kicks on the market
mendelson was moving out of the dorms sophomore year and he put a bunch
of shoes in the co-op. we literally raced up from the bon and then a
couple more shoes were found in the dumpster, and then it became a phe -
nomenon to get air-mendeez. they’re always on the market, but now you
got to be on the inside to get them. “these kicks are impregnable.”
-JCBJames Conrad Beyer ’10/Los Angeles, California/Photography George Williamson Bullock ’10/Atlanta, Georgia/Religious Studies
Charles MacDuffie Tuggle ’10/Evansville. Indiana/Philosophy Jacob Adam Mendelson ’10/Baltimore, Maryland/History
From left: Beyer, Bullock, Mendelson, Tuggle “getting new shoes: it
usually relates to jake
seeing how busted our
shoes are, and hooking
us up. he likes the papa
role.” -GWB
{30 cycle miles results in killer calves} Air Mendeez {Air Mendelsonskicks} acquired by jake
Mendelson via sick hookup and spread round various
campus men, including those pictured here. Volume 73, Number 1 Features 6 the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
Multicultural Symposium to discuss hybrid identities
by Deanna Horton
/T_h e sixth annual Ray Warren Multicul-
tural Aff airs Symposium will begin Wednes-
day and address the theme “Mixed: /T_h e Poli-
tics of Hybrid Identities.”
Parasa Chanramy (’10) and Brenda Sa-
las Neves (’12) are student co-chairs for the 10-person symposium planning committee. “We haven’t had a lot of conversation about
mixed identities in past symposiums at LC,”
said Chanramy. “It’s important for everyone
to have a voice and this symposium can be a springboard for public discussion about mixed identities.”
/T_h e three-day symposium will feature
three keynote speakers. /T_h e /f_i rst will be As-sociate Professor of American Indian Studies Andrew Jolivétte from San Francisco State University. On Wednesday his lecture, which
is entitled “Obama and the Biracial Factor:
Race, Sexuality, and the Battle for a New
America” after his upcoming book, will dis-cuss the eff ect of Obama’s biracialism on the
2008 election campaign.
Independent radio artist and writer
Dmae Roberts will present “Secrets of a
Mixed Race Child,” a more autobiographical keynote lecture, on /T_h ursday. Roberts’ audio
documentary work has been featured on Na-
tional Public Radio and Public Radio Inter-
national programs and is often fueled by her
biracial identity.
Associate Professor of Public Policy at
Harvard University Kim Williams will pres-ent the /f_i nal keynote lecture “/T_h e Future of
Multiracial Politics” on Friday. Williams is
the author of Mark One or More: Civil Rights
in Multiracial America, which discusses the
recently changed American racial classi/f_i ca-
tion system.“What I’ve learned from this process is
that there are so many great ideas and topics
that still need to be explored when it comes
to hybrid identities,” said Chanramy. “One
can be hybrid in so many ways, for example,
children of interracial relationships or being a TCK [/T_h ird Culture Kid] who has lived in
several diff erent countries.”
/T_h e symposium will also include four
panel discussions featuring Lewis & Clark
students and faculty. A panel discussion on /T_h ursday, entitled “Interracial Relationships, Adoption, and Identity,” will facilitate dis-
cussion about “mixed” families and the im-
pact of transnational adoption.
“Indigeneity and Cultural Exchange” will
include students involved with the Hawai’i
Club, partly because of a discussion that was
started last year about the annual lu’au cel-
ebration at LC and whether it is an appropri-
ate representation of Hawaiian culture.
“Remix: Identities and Artistic Expres-
sion” will be a panel discussing art—musical, visual, literary and otherwise—as a channel
for expressing ideas about race and identity.
“Nation-Building and Mixed Populations” will explore the notion of “mixing” in the
context of nationalism.
/T_h e featured event of the Ray Warren
Multicultural Aff airs Symposium is the Race
Monologues, titled “Identity: According to Whom?” /T_h is event will feature 10 LC stu-
dents telling of their experiences with race
and personal identity through poetry and
prose.
“For the Race Monologues, students
wrote their own monologues detailing as-
pects of their life, personal identity and
perspectives on race,” said Chanramy. “It’s
a really powerful event that students put to-
gether. It gives them a chance to share their own story.”
/T_h roughout the duration of the sympo-
sium there will be an art exhibit displaying work from LC students as well as local artists
pertaining to the theme of hybrid identities.
/T_h is is the /f_i rst year that the symposium is off ering a prize to the winning stu-
dent artist.
“I really wanted to be a
part of the planning commit-
tee because it goes beyond the classroom. It also covers topics that you wouldn’t necessarily get
to discuss every day in class,” said
Chanramy. “Some of these are really per-
sonally related to our own racial and ethnic identities. How we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us is very complicated.”
/T_h e symposium as a whole “will be a great
venue for people to come together to discuss issues related to the social and political re-alities of how we self-identify,” Chan-
ramy said.
/T_h e Multicultural Aff airs
Symposium is named af-
ter Ray Warren, an LC alum of both the under-
graduate and graduate
schools, a 1989 induct-
ee into the LC Sports Hall of
Fame, former Associate Dean of Admissions
and Director of Ethnic Student Services
(now known as the Offi ce of Multicultural
Aff airs). Warren died of cancer in December
2004.
“He was known as a person with an open
door, if you just wanted to talk he was there
for students, staff and faculty. His spirit
and energy is still remembered to this day,”
said Chanramy. “He was dedicated to help-
ing others. I hope that his story and com-
mitment to the College continues to be ac-knowledged by future students, staff and
faculty.”
The theme of “Mixed: The Politics
of Hybrid Identities” has come at a convenient time. The 2010 census will be the fi rst census to offer the option of checking more than one category for one’s ethnicity.
Halloween spirits awoke from a restless year on Friday when the Physics Club brought out a wooden trebuchet (above left) to freeze and launch pumpkins and coconuts; some students were fully costumed for classes on Friday (above right); the crowds on Saturday made it out to various parties on the hill and in Sellwood, dressed up for tricks and treats (below). HALLOWEEN
WEEKEND
PHOTOS BY SAM MARGEVICIUS
7Features the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
This summer, instead of merely sit -
ting around and enjoying the fine Portland
weather, Cary Young (’10) started an unti -
tled blog that focuses on the happenings in
and around the Lewis & Clark community.
The blog, lclark.us, is intentionally not regis -
tered as an official student group and “does
not have an agenda,” according to Young’s
inaugural post on the website.
“I wanted a place on the Internet, but
outside the jurisdiction of the College, as an
entity where people could discuss the school
and talk about positive things and events
that are coming up,” Young said. “I really
don’t want it to be a sort of Juicy Campus,
gripe-y type thing because I don’t agree that
that’s ever productive.”
The idea to start an independent blog
about events and issues pertinent to mem -
bers of the LC community came to Young
when he was blogging for the Admissions
Office’s “Real Life” journal last year.
“I liked the idea of having a day-to-day
account of life at school, but I really didn’t
like how much administrative control Ad -
missions kept over those blogs,” Young said.
“As an advertising tool that’s totally cool, but
I felt like for my purposes it could be done a
lot better independently.”
Young has written about everything from
the best drinking fountains on campus to the
cheapest way to get textbooks, changes in
student employment and the swine flu. Most
of Young’s posts are based on facts and re -
search that he has compiled in his free time. Cary Young (’10) runs independent blog about LC
by Sanne Stienstra
Eavesdropping
PHOTO BY SANNE STIENSTRA
Cary Young made lclark.us after being a Real Life blogger for Admissions.“The world needs both
pirates and ninjas so
they can bounce off
of each other.”
“Dude... you had sex in
the womb?”
“You just got second
hand crotch on your head.”
“I probably smell like
Liz Lemon right now.”
“Do you want to engage
in mid-air coitus with me?”
“Hi, my name is Megan.
I really like my hands.”
Kettleman Bagel Co. serves up NY bagels
by Deanna Horton
For a piece called “meal plan math, or
why it’s better not to think about things
like this,” Young calculated the average cost
of a meal at the Bon, arriving at the conclu -
sion that it would be almost $1,000 cheaper
to purchase 14 meals a week in cash instead
of through a meal plan.
Since its birth in August, the website
has seen positive responses from LC staff,
like Forest Area Director David Rosengard
and Public Communications. When Young
wrote a post that revealed a few faults in the College’s online sexual harassment training,
the College took Young’s suggestions seri -
ously and began working with the company
to fix the errors.
“Basically the company that we con -
tracted with to write the online quiz for the
sexual harassment awareness training is not
very good at writing software. If you do a
few things in your browser, you can find out
all the answers, because they didn’t write it
right,” Young said.
Young’s post, entitled “how not to use javascript,” estimated that the College pays
this company between $5,000 and $7,500
each year for its service. “If money is paid
to write a web application that functions as
a quiz, the quiz-takers better damn well not
be able to just crack it open and look at the
answers,” wrote Young.
Another post pointing out problems with
the search engine on LC’s new website re -
sulted in similar adjustments. “The post ba -
sically lit a fire to change the way the search
was run on the website,” Young said. “It’s
still not perfect and it’s still not what I would
like ideally but the fact that I was just able to
write an opinion article and a bunch of staff
members that I didn’t know implemented
[changes] days later was really cool.”
While Young has written most of the
posts on the blog, he has a few contributors
who write occasionally and he is hopeful
about getting more. “I am interested in any -
one who wants to contribute—either once,
or frequently, or whatever,” he said. “And for
any reason, like to plug an event or anything,
as long as it’s related to Lewis & Clark, I am
interested in having it on the website.”
Besides finding more writers to post on
the blog, Young hopes that these “unofficial
musings” will serve to complement already
existing media and information-sharing net -
works on campus.
“I don’t see it at all as a replacement for
the PioLog or KLC or anything like that,”
Young said. “I want to keep it separate from
Student Activities, but I don’t want it to re -
ally be a competitor as much as something
that aids in cohesion.” The Pioneer Log is
looking for a
features editor !
If interested, come to
our Monday meeting at
4:30 p.m. in the PioLog
office in Templeton.A sesame bagel with plain cream cheese from Kettleman Bagel
Company’s downtown location. PHOTO BY DEANNA HORTON
Since moving to
Portland I have often
longed for the taste of
a real New York style
bagel.Kettleman Bagel Company is a bagelry
and bakery with three locations in Portland.
I’m from Long Island and therefore some -
what of a bagel snob, and while I will not be
quick to transfer my bagel loyalty from Bagel
Master in Syosset, NY to Kettleman of PDX,
I am quite impressed by the quality of these
Pacific Northwest bagels.
Since moving to Portland I have of -
ten longed for the taste of a real New York
style bagel. Noah’s “New York” bagels sim -
ply do not cut it. Nor do the squishy, bagged
Thomas’ bagels that used to be found in the
Bon until they were recently replaced with
equally squishy bagels that also claim to be of
the New York variety.
A New York style bagel is boiled in water
(hence the name Kettleman) and then baked
in a standard oven. This method results in
a dense interior, paired with a satisfyingly
crisp, golden-brown crust.
Jeffrey Wang, owner of Kettleman Ba -
gel Company, owned three bagel shops on
Long Island from 1980 to 1997. This makes
sense. He opened the first Kettleman in SE
Portland in 2006. Since then Wang has es -
tablished a location on NW Lovejoy and one
downtown.
I went to their newest location down -
town on SW 4th Av -
enue, a very small shop
with no indoor seating
and a few tables on the
sidewalk, but a very
short walk from Pio -
neer Square. For $5 I
got two sesame seed
bagels with plain cream
cheese — a little pricey
for what it is, but not
over the top.
The bagel from Kettleman was compa -
rable to the bagels of my past, but it wasn’t
quite as dense as a true New York style bagel. A few things that remind me that I’m not
on Long Island when eating at Kettleman
are that they don’t include hamantaschen
in their selection of baked goods, they don’t
offer bialys, and their downtown location
is not open on Sun -
day. They also ask if I
want my bagel toasted.
On Long Island this is
usually a request that
has to be made by the
customer. There is a
general understanding
there that there is no
real need to toast an au -
thentic bagel.
Kettleman offers “Eggel” sand -
wiches of many varieties, including a bagel
with egg and a soy sausage patty for vegetar -
ians. Gourmet hummus is offered, as well as plain and vegetable Tofutti vegan cream
cheese. Their menu features “Brooklyn’s Best
White Fish Salad” and “Coney Island Square
Knishes.” Kettleman also serves Portland’s
favorite Stumptown Coffee.
Another great aspect of Kettleman is that
they are committed to environmental sus -
tainability. They use organic products when
possible and local, natural and seasonal prod -
ucts at all times. Their website states that “we
all live together and we must all work togeth -
er to sustain our planet.”
I will definitely continue to feed my ba -
gel cravings at Kettleman while in Portland,
but I am still eager to return to the perfec -
tion that is a real New York bagel from Long
Island. Some say that it’s the water there. I
think they may be right.
Kettleman Bagel Company’s Downtown lo -
cation is at 845 SW 4th Ave.Volume 73, Number 1 Arts 8 the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
/T_h e Portland Opera’s production of Philip Glass’s Or-
phée, the opera’s West Coast premiere, opens tonight for a
four-show run. Premiered in 1993, Orphée is an intriguing
amalgam of ancient Greek myth and mid-century modernist literature: Glass carefully melded his music to the unaltered script of Jean Cocteau’s surrealist-tinged 1949 /f_i lm Orphée
(originally a play). (Glass eventually set three of Cocteau’s /f_i lms; the other two are La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants
T erribles.)
But Orphée is of particular interest as a re-invention of the
Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. /T_h e original story in short: the young lyre-prodigy Orpheus’s beautiful wife Eu-rydice dies suddenly from a snake bite and goes straight to the Underworld. His attempt to retrieve her fails, and in his grief Orpheus turns to men and develops a cult of lov-ers and musical admirers; eventually, however, he is killed by a drunken mob of enraged (read: sexually frustrated) /T_h ra-cian women and his head and lyre are thrown into a river. As a comparison to roller-coaster original, Christoph Wil-libald Gluck’s commonly canonized 1762 opera Orfeo ed Eu-
ridice truncated the myth and inserted a reunion between the lovers, with a happily-ever-after ending. Cocteau’s play is perhaps an even freer treatment of the myth, but it ex-plores the experiences of a modern artist coming up against inevitable loss of popularity and an inevitable choice between life—exempli/f_i ed by his wife Euridice—and Death. Regard-ing Cocteau’s ending, Lewis & Clark instructor of voice Carl Halvorson—who will play a reporter in the Portland Op-
era production—commented that “it’s up in the air.” And though he hasn’t recently watched Cocteau’s /f_i lm, Halvorson thinks it will be interesting for audiences to see how Cocteau and Glass retell the myth.
Glass has become one of the most prominent names in
contemporary music after scoring such popular /f_i lms as /T_h e Hours, Kundun and /T_h e Truman Show, in addition to
his numerous other chamber and orchestral works and op-eras. He is the most recognizable proponent of a “minimal-ist” style of theater that emerged in the United States in the 1970s and still persists today. Halvorson has performed some larger roles in Glass’s operas in the past, and he said that Glass’s style initially required signi/f_i cant time and work to Philip Glass opera comes to Portland
nail down. But he nonetheless evoked Glass’s popularity by calling him “our greatest living composer.” While a recent article in Willamette Week wondered if Orphée might scare
away some conservative opera patrons, Halvorson noted that the original Glimmerglass Opera production (the Portland Opera production’s sets and costumes are being rented from Glimmerglass) received “rave reviews” and that Orphée is a
recognizable attempt by Portland Opera to “break out of the canon.” When asked if Orphée would appeal to most college
students, Halvorson said, “I wouldn’t go that far,” but he re-mained enthusiastic about the production. “It’s not just the music but the drama, the setting, all the forces together and the creative people...I’m a big advocate of seeing things live.”
Orphée plays Nov. 6, 8, 12 and 14, Keller Auditorium (222
SW Clay St). $10 rush tickets with student ID one hour before curtain. $20-$135; call 503-241-1802 or go to ticketmaster.com.by Chris KeadyChase T wichell’s rough poetry
by Joshua Kaplan
/T_h e Lewis & Clark English department hosted a poetry
reading by Chase T wichell this Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Manor House.
Some of Chase T wichell’s poems are, as she admits, rough.
After announcing that the next set of poems that she would read were about sexual child abuse, a parent led two young children away from the reading.
After reading a poem about sexual abuse at a rundown
amusement park, T wichell then read a poem about a girl who the narrator compared to a centaur—a combination of beast-liness and innocence.
/T_h at poem ended with a line about how the girl’s beastli-
ness and innocence are horrifyingly inseparable: “You have to fuck the horse to fuck the girl.”
T wichell has reason to write about dark topics. She said to
the audience that she has suff ered depression, cancer and, as a child, sexual abuse. Detailing this latter experience, she de-scribed a “funny uncle”—he was a child pornographer who exploited her.
Tying in with the centaur motif running through many
of her poems, T wichell said that she has been fascinated with centaurs since childhood. Her father read her classical stories such as the Odyssey, which often contained centaurs.
T wichell’s fascination with centaurs stems from the fact
that centaurs are a combination of horse—another child-
hood interest—and human (usually, she pointed out, male)
—who she views as scary and beastly, compared to a horse.
After reading her poems about sexual abuse and environ-
mental disaster, Marley Badolati (’10) asked T wichell how
she wrote so much dark poetry. T wichell explained that she
couldn’t write about her abuse for a while, but she kept on
feeling like she was writing around something.
T wichell described a kind of catharsis that she achieves by
writing about her diffi cult past.
Of course, some of T wichell’s poems poke fun of her own
focus on suff ering. In one, the narrator /f_i xates on the diffi -culty of moving, but then (humorously) shifts her attention to a dog pooping on the driveway.
T wichell’s dark poems aren’t just for her own bene/f_i t,
though. T wichell delivered an anecdote about how, after a
poetry reading with about 50 audience members, 11 people
talked to her about their own experiences of abuse and suf-fering.PHOTO BY LUCCA CIROLIA
Redcam Radio’s description promises “[o]ld and
new styles of rock music including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rocket Summer, Coldplay, Muse, Mute-math, Paramore, No Doubt, Spoon, etc.” It is the per-fect line-up for a semi-lazy, semi-productive Saturday afternoon, doing homework and laundry, updating Facebook, or for whatever the day’s mood calls. After all, there is always Sunday. Last Saturday’s show was a Halloween special, and thus not entirely representa-tive of a typical weekly show, but still fully expressive of the DJs’ styles. /T_h e opener was the theme of the T wilight Zone, followed by /T_h riller, Monster Mash, Werewolves of London and a variety of other Hallow-een-themed tracks. Between songs the DJs read scary stories and chatted about everything from Harry Pot-
ter to /T_h is is It. Chit-chat to music ratio was approxi-
mately 50:50, which would generally be considered too high but was acceptable in this case due to the time slot and the lack of viable Halloween-themed music. /T_h e show ended on a sour note, however, when the DJs could not think of any more songs to play, stalled for a few minutes while they searched their playlists, and /f_i nally settled for a reprise of /T_h riller. Overall, a high rating for Redcam Radio and an affi rmation that on Saturdays to come, the DJs might have another lis-tener, should the mood strike her.
Redcam Radio: Saturdays 2-4 p.m. DJs: Marli Lee-Mc-
Garrah (’13) and Willa Keegan-Rodewald (’13).by Laura Nash
If you are picky when it comes to DJs and radio
shows then I would not recommend ¡¡~Roo/f_i e Par-ty~!!. As the title and the description—“Come join us
lol”—suggest, this show is unstructured and unseri-
ous. /T_h e /f_i rst 20 minutes of the hour proved enjoyable,
with a block of upbeat music that was easy to listen to
while typing up a paper or reading an article. After 20
minutes, the show was /f_i nally introduced by one of the
DJs and the songs that had been playing were attrib-
uted to Wampire. /T_h e DJ noted that Wampire “makes
everything better,” and I could not disagree. After this,
there were several more minutes of music, with Lil
Wayne among the line-up. But the DJs lost their fo-
cus; banter digressed into side conversations with one
another rather than the audience. /T_h ey played a song
called “Cool Day” by a new Disney artist, introducing
it sarcastically, and a soundtrack from “the most ter-
rifying movie trailer ever made”—for a German /f_i lm
called Doctor Mabuse. Malaria’s “Just /T_h rash Me” was
next, then a couple more songs and a shout out to a mysterious /f_i gure in England. /T_h e song “Lennon/Len-
in,” recorded by a Lewis & Clark alumnus, almost put the show back on track but was followed by an abrupt
and confusing ending.
¡¡~Roo/f_i e Party~!!: Tuesdays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. DJs:
Yvonne Charley Zheng (’11), Magda Runcinski (’11) and Heather Purchase (’11).Tune
in or
tune
out?
The Pioneer
Log reviews two KLC shows so you can make the decision
by Joshua Kaplan
reading by Chase T wichell this Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the
Manor House.
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¡¡~Roofie Party ~!!
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK9Arts the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
DIRTY PROJECTORS
The Office of Multicultural Affairs invites you to celebrate:
Native American & Alaska Native
Heritage Month
Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium:
Indegeneity and Cultural Exchange
November 13, 2009, 1:45 - 3:15 pmTempleton Campus Center StammNorthwest Indian Storytellers Association:
Tribal Storytellers Symposium
November 15, 2009, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
“Native in America” Panel Discussion
November 18, 2009, 4:00 - 5:15 pmTempleton Center Stamm WestAppetizers will be served!Film in Focus: “On & Off the Res: with Charlie Hill”
Filmmaker Sandy Johnson Osawa as Featured Speaker
November 18, 2009, 7:00 - 9:00 pm BoDine 300
Co-Sponsored by
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program, Ethnic Studies Program, Native Student UnionPHOTO COURTESY OF SARA REIHANI
Dirty Projectors is a diffi cult band to de-
scribe. With unexpected arrangements that
include intricate tempo and chord chang-es, this Brooklyn-based sextet makes music that puts the listener on edge. It should not work, but it does.
Following a mellow opening set by Lit-
tle Wings, Dirty Projectors was a welcome burst of sound and spectacle at the sold-out show on T uesday. Guitarist and lead singer Dave Longstreth started the set alone, play-ing “Like Fake Blood in Crisp October,” one of the band’s earlier songs.
After that /f_i rst number, the rest of the
band joined Longstreth on stage. /T_h ey mostly played material from their latest re-lease Bitte Orca, and a few unreleased new
songs.
Highlights of the evening were the funki-ness of “Stillness is the Move,” the twang of “Temecula Sunrise” and the hidden ex-plosiveness of “/T_h e Bride.” Dirty Projectors made it impossible for the crowd to remain imprisoned in the Aladdin /T_h eatre’s comfy seats.
/T_h e band concluded the show’s encore
with “Knotty Pine,” a rollicking duet be-tween the powerhouse blondie Amber Coff -man and Longstreth, with female vocalist Haley Dekle.
At times the harmonies are harsh, the
drums are overpowering and the guitars are diffi cult to swallow. /T_h e same is true of the band’s live performance. But that’s the point; the songs are polyrhythmic, arhythmic and challenging but moments of surprising clar-ity reward a patient listener.
—Liam O’Connor
CHURCH
EXPLODE INTO COLORSILLUSTRATION BY KATELYN MUNDAL LCMC presents a concert in the Trail Room
Church plays melodic pop; the kind of music that builds
up from fuzzy nothingness into a haunting melody or a danceable jam. Heavy on droning synths, churning guitars and light airy harmonies, Church plays up the dichotomy between light and dark, between moody and bright.
Explode Into Colors is rhythmic, minimalist, and catchy-
as-hell. Melodica, drums and baritone guitar form the basis of their afrobeat and punk inspired grooves. Explode Into Colors was named Willamette Week’s Best New Band this
year.
Church and Explode Into Colors will play the Trail Room
tonight. Doors at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Closed to the public; free with LC ID.
ADVERTISEMENTVolume 73, Number 1 Sports 10 the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
PIONEER FALL SPORTS IN REVIEW
Football
Conference record: 0-4
Overall record: 1-6
Avg. rush yards/game: 152.3
Avg. pass yards/game: 176.8
Remaining home games:
11/7 — Whitworth (1 p.m.) 11/14 —
Puget Sound (1 p.m.) Volleyball
Conference record: 9-5
Overall record: 13-10
Conference standing: 4th
Avg. kills/game: 11.26
Remaining home games:
11/6 — Linfi eld (7 p.m.) 11/7 —
Pacifi c Lutheran (7 p.m.) Soccer
Conference record: 2-10-2
Overall record: 3-10-5
Total goals: 11
Avg. shots/game: 8.9
Remaining games:
11/6 — @ Whitman 11/7 — @ Whitworth X-Country
NWC Championship Results:
Women: 4th
Top Finisher:
Heather Spurling (’13) — 15th
Men: 5th
Top Finisher: Karl Dickman (’10) — 5th
ADVERTISEMENT11 Sports the Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
Field hockey, a relatively popular sport
internationally, is starting to gain momen -
tum on “the hill.” Although the Lewis &
Clark field hockey club hasn’t technically
played any competitive games, “we aren’t
looking to make field hockey a competi -
tive sport,” said club president Charlotte
Reisen (’11). “We want experienced play -
ers to continue playing in a relaxed en -
vironment and to teach beginners who
want to come out and learn a new sport.”
LC’s field hockey club was started
last year after two
women from the
Portland Field
Hockey Club
recruited players
at Pio Fair. Lat -
er Reisen, a field
hockey player since
middle school, and the
Portland Field Hockey
Club decided to bring
the club to campus.
Reisen was the
only student in the
beginning, she said,
but eventually oth -
er students joined
and Portland
Field Hockey
Club membership
grew as well. “Now
there is a consistent number
of students who come play regularly,”
Reisen said. “As our numbers grow, the
Portland Field Hockey Club’s do also—
last week we had a full field of players plus
subs.”
Tiffany Su (’13) is a regular at field
hockey. As a prospective student last year
she heard about the club. “I kept my eyes
out for the table at Pio Fair and signed up
immediately!” she said. Su plays midfield -
er and has competed since high school.
Although women dominate field hock -
ey in America, internationally it is a very
popular sport for men, said Reisen. T rue
to the liberal arts spirit, LC’s field hock -
The Portland T railblazers are off to a frus -
trating 2-3 start to the season and after an
awful loss at home to the Atlanta Hawks, I
am starting to wonder just how they plan to
turn things around.
This was supposed to be the big jump
year where the Blazers would magically find
themselves among the Western Conference
elite, battling deep into the playoffs, and
maybe even playing for the NBA title.
The problem is there is no magic, no big
jump, nothing. There are just a bunch of
disheartening losses and unanswered ques -
tions about how this team can get back on
track.
What’s particularly troubling is that two
of Portland’s losses have come at home where
they were 34-7 last year. Both those losses
also came after the Blazers were leading at
half time. Last year the Blazers were unde -
feated (26-0) when they had a lead at the half
in the Rose Garden. So much for the home
court advantage.
The Blazers have yet to play a game de -
cided by a double-digit margin this year. Last by Michael G. RichmanT railMix: Still searching for identity in slow, 2-3 startby Nichole CarnellSeldom seen: field hockey
Martell Webster and the Blazers have
been slipping up early in the season.Pio basketball opens play
by Michael G. Richman Young club on campus hopes to build presence in community.
ey club is open to both men and wom -
en at any level of experience. “We want
anyone who wants to learn how to play
to come out and give it a try,” said Rei -
sen. “If you want to you can always come
out and watch us play first and then join
in a scrimmage.” The club meets twice
weekly, Thursdays 8-10 p.m. and Sundays
6-8 p.m., for some friendly scrimmage at
Griswold Stadium.
For those of you who feel enticed to
join, but have no idea what field hockey
is, here is field hockey in a nutshell. It’s
basically a combination of soccer and
hockey, minus the ice and changing up
the sticks. “Field hockey is a lot like
soccer—the positioning and the strate -
gies are extremely similar,” said Su. “Any -
one who enjoys field sports should defi -
nitely give field hockey a try.”
Worried you don’t
have the equipment?
Reisen said all you
need is a water
bottle, may -
be some shin
guards and
for those
of you
who espe -
cially value
your teeth,
a mouth
guard. “We
have extra sticks if you
don’t have one or forgot yours at home,”
she said.
“It’s really easy to play with us even
if you’re a beginner and have never even
seen a field hockey stick, or if you didn’t
even know that field hockey had sticks,”
Reisen said. “If there are people new
to the sport there, we make sure to run
through the basic rules and skills of the
game, how to handle the stick and how to
control the ball on the turf.”
If you don’t feel like playing the first
time, Reisen said everyone is welcome to
watch and join in later if they want to.
“Throughout the scrimmage the more ex -
perienced players help out with explain -
ing positions and different moves and
plays,” she said
“If you are interested in being ac -
tive, trying a new sport, but might not
want a huge commitment,” Reisen
said, “this might be the sport for you.”
season this was a key part of their success:
they just didn’t lose close games. They were
9-1 in games de -
cided by three
points or less, the
best mark of any
team in the NBA.
Portland also
had the best re -
cord against the
East of any team
from the West -
ern conference,
and then they lost
to the (freaking)
Hawks on T ues -
day night. Just
five games into
this young season
I have my finger
firmly on the pan -
ic button ready to
press it at the drop
of a hat, or say a
three-game home
losing streak.This team just doesn’t have an identity.
Last season, they played the second slowest
pace of any team
in league. Then
they signed Andre
Miller and said
they were going to
push the tempo.
I guess we’re still
waiting for this to
come to fruition.
The team also
preached a new
commitment to
defense this sea -
son. After five
games, they have
only played de -
fense in one game:
a nine-point win
over the Okla -
homa City Thun -
der, in which they
held Kevin Du -
rant to 16 points
on 3-21 shoot -ing. Other than that, the Blazers have effec -
tively turned pedestrian players into all-stars.
See Aaron Brooks’ 28 in the loss to Houston
or Jamal Crawford’s 27 in the Atlanta game.
If the Blazers are going to turn things
around something has got to give. Brandon
Roy has played fairly well, but not great de -
spite two huge scoring nights. LaMarcus Al -
dridge has disappeared in a few games. Greg
Oden has been up and down and the bench
has been anything but consistent. Martell
Webster has been solid, but that hasn’t trans -
lated into wins thus far.
I don’t think playing up tempo really fits
this team, so committing to actually playing
defense is what can get them out of this ear -
ly season funk and up there with the West’s
elite.
Tonight the Blazers play the San Anto -
nio Spurs, one of the top teams in the con -
ference. If they truly want to be one of the
league’s top teams it needs start tonight. If
they lose, which at this point appears to be
the most likely scenario, the season is far
from over, but the hole is getting deeper and
the climb out a bit more weary.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ESPN.COMIt’s November. That means college basket -
ball players across the nation are lacing up
their sneakers and getting back out on the
hardwood. Both the Lewis & Clark men’s
and women’s teams play this weekend on the
road against Division I opponents. The men
face University of Oregon in Eugene and the
women face Oregon State in Corvallis.
Both are bringing in solid newcomers
that complement rosters of quality returning
players. The men’s team finished 16-10 over -
all and 10-6 in the conference, good enough
for third place. The women had a tough sea -
son, finishing 11-14 overall and 5-11 in con -
ference.
Key additions should help both teams
improve on last year’s results. The men are
welcoming six players, including two junior
transfer students.
“To win the way we want to win we felt
we’d have guys who were more game ready,”
associate head coach Dinari Foreman said.
“For this team we felt we would have to have
older guys, but still bring in freshmen who
will be ready.”
The women are fielding four true fresh -
men on this year’s team, who may all get into
the rotation.
“We’ve got a lot of talent across the class -
es,” head coach Juli Fulks said.
“Freshmen are go -
ing to give us
s i g n i f i c a n t
time in the
game[s].”
While the
men will be
playing their
first game of the sea -
son this Sunday, the women’s team already
played four games in Canada over Fall Break.
The first three were scrimmages against very
strong Canadian teams including the reign -
ing Canadian national collegiate champion.
In the final non-scrimmage against Univer -
sity of Victoria the Pioneers won 71-64.
Fulks said the team made tremendous
strides as a basketball team both on and off
the floor and credits the Canada trip as a ma -
jor chemistry builder. Fulks admits that she
is having as much fun with this group of girls
as she has with any in her six years at LC.
The men do not have the benefit of hav -
ing played together before facing Oregon,
and are looking to get the whole roster in -
volved in this early season match up against
such a quality opponent.
“We’re going to go out trying to win the game, it’s such a great atmosphere,” Foreman
said. “We want to get guys in the game, want
guys to experience the fun atmosphere.”
Both teams will use the first few games
to test new lineups and find their best start -
ing five going forward. Neither team starts
conference play until January so the first two
months of the season will allow them to work
out the kinks before jumping into the tough
Northwest Conference in the new year.
“This conference is loaded,” Fulks said.
“Finishing sixth in the conference could still
put you in the top twenty in the country.”
Foreman said the men’s team has high
hopes for the season and is looking for -
ward to proving themselves
in a conference that he
sees as totally wide
open.
“We’re playing
right now for Febru -
ary. We recruit, we
prepare, and we play to
win our league,” Foreman
said. “We take the now to prepare
for the future.”
Foreman is particularly excited to have
the team’s best wing player Josh Kollasch
(’10) back to the team after he only played in
eleven games last season.
“He’s back playing his tail off and it’s
spilled onto the rest of the team,” Foreman
said. “He’s the epitome of what you would
call a true warrior, a model student athlete.”
Fulks echoed Foreman’s emphasis on the
need for hard work as an entire team.
“It comes down to work ethic and ability
to defend in the half court,” Fulks said.
Fulks is pressing her girls to work hard to
improve on last year’s disappointing season.
The women play their first home game Nov.
11 against Evergreen State. The men play in
two tournaments in November and December
and return to LC to play their first home game
against Whitman Jan. 2.
Josh Kollasch (’10) and Margaret
Dowling (’12) lead Pioneer hoops.PHOTO COURTESY OF LC ATHLETICS
ILLUSTRATION BY SAM MARGEVICIUSILLUSTRATION BY EMIILY BLOCKLeoBackdoor 12
You Caught My Eye
Please e-mail your“You Caught My Eye” to piolog@lclark.edu ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONASthe Pioneer Log, November 6, 2009
The Backdoor is a work of humor and does not actually contain real news.
The horoscopes, although generally legitimate and completely reliable, most likely won’t come true. Oh, and don’t lie about swine fl u!You: Half-naked men running circles around us.
Us: Tripping over the ball while staring at you.
Thanks for your support!
HoroscopesILLUSTRATIONS BY EMILY BLOCK
Inside the Issue...
You: In New York City.
Me: Can’t wait to NYC you.
LibraPisces Aquarius Capricorn Sagittarius
Virgo TaurusAries
Gemini CancerScorpio
Your future is hazy:
Don’t leave your room. Say you have swine fl u or some-thing, just don’t do it!No one likes you, you’ll probably fail your next test and your dog’s planning on running away. Oh, and happy birthday!
The stars are aligned in your favor. Don’t feel too special, though. They do that a lot, always aligning and never actually predicting anything. Stars are whores.Expect a fruitful love life this month, then nothing for 16 years. Try to live it up, it’s going to be a long 16 years.
The spirits will watch over you this month. Try to avoid being na-ked, though. They see everything and talk behind your back. No, not because you’re fat. Because of your ugly birthmark. Ew.Mars is in your house. Seriously, get him out before he eats all your food and steals your bed.
An Aries will become your best friend, then stab you in the back, take your wallet and sleep with your girlfriend. Don’t worry, she’ll be taken care of. Your fi nancial woes will be forgotten soon after you’re hit in the head by a Frisbee and you lose the last six years of memories. Goodbye calculus!That thing you’ve been thinking about doing with your life is a horrible idea. You should probably aim lower. Much lower.
Not a whole lot is going to happen this month. No increase in love, wealth, luck or career. Yep, you’re average and will continue to be. Keep living the dream.A big fat A is coming your way. It will prob-ably miss you and go to the guy who sits next to you. You know, the guy who always talks and smells a little. Yeah, him. So close though.Well, at least you have your health right? For now...Bet you wished you had that extra Emergen-C before class, huh.
Fact of the Week!
Q: How did Gertie Gorilla make the Playboy calendar?
A (for kids): She was “Miss Ape-ril”!
A (for you): She was cheap and had a nice set of gorilla boobs.
[pg. 2] World’s
largest Ferris wheel
unveiled today. Still considered the most boring ride in the world. [pg. 7] Attempts
to remake The Lion King with live
animals has fi nally been shelved after three Pumbas were eaten by Simba. [pg. 10] Mall Santa Clauses hit hard during recession. Some decide to shave and get real jobs.