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Volume 74, Number 10 Friday, November 13, 2009 Vote Roo for Pres, 2010
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A Tale of Two Beckett(s) pg. 7World of Warcraft at LC pg. 3
Anti-Princeton colorsThe York Memorial Project Committee
has selected artist Alison Saar to cast the York Memorial sculpture.ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK
by Sanne Stienstra
At the Presidential Search
Committee’s latest meeting, which
was held on October 29, the group decided which presidential candi-dates to invite for in-person inter-views. Trustee Jay Waldron chairs the committee, which is set to se-lect Lewis & Clark’s new president by early next semester.
“We’re hopeful for a /f_i nal deci-sion by February,” Waldron said.
/T_h e committee will interview
this “short list” of candidates in early December, and at present there are no clear favorites from amongst the names on the list.
“We’ll know a lot more about
the candidates after the inter-views,” said Student Representa-tive Sarah Grossberg (’11). “We have a lot of really good candidates
/T_h e York Memorial Project Commit-
tee has announced that the Lewis & Clark York monument is scheduled to be unveiled on May 8, 2010, during Commencement Weekend.
York was a member of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, William Clark’s slave and the only black member of the party. /T_h ere are no visual records of his appearance, and only a few written ones.
/T_h e York Memorial Project Committee
began when a law school student, Charles Neal (’07), approached President Hochstet-tler as well as several students in the Offi ce of Multicultural Aff airs. “He then proceeded to tell us about York’s story and great contri-bution to the Lewis and Clark expedition,” said Parasa Chanramy (’10), one of the com-mittee members. From there, the York Me-morial Project Committee was formed, com-prised of LC professors, students and alumni, Portland State University Professor of Black Studies Darrell Millner, Oregon State Sena-tor Avel Gordly and more. /T_h e committee met for the /f_i rst time in May 2008.
At its most recent meeting this August,
the Project Committee chose the likely May York statue to be unveiled Commencement Weekend
by Laura Nash8 date for the unveiling of the statue, as well as an artist and location for the statue. Direc-tor of the Hoff man Gallery of Contempo-rary Art and Committee Chair Linda Tesner said that the statue will be placed “in a small glade, near the Watzek Library and just off the path from the Manor House to Pam-plin.” Tesner said, “/T_h e Committee chose this spot as it is a very public place where the sculpture would be seen by virtually every-one who uses the CAS campus.”
/T_h e artist that has been chosen for the
York statue is Alison Saar. In her proposal she wrote, “I have a personal interest in the recognition of unsung heroes, particularly those who have been overlooked due to their race or gender.” She has previously complet-ed several sculptures addressing this theme. Tesner said that Saar is “a highly prominent, nationally-known artist…I believe that her York Memorial will become something of a public art destination in Portland.” Addi-tionally, in fall 2010, Saar is scheduled for a “single artist exhibition in the Hoff man Gal-lery.”
/T_h e statue of York will be life-size—six
feet tall and mounted on a two to three foot tall base—and cast bronze. Saar wrote, “As there are no known images of York, I feel a realistic portrait would only continue to misrepresent the man.” /T_h us, the sculpture will focus on York’s back, symbolizing the burden that he bore during the Lewis and Clark expedition. One of William Clark’s maps, drawn during the expedition, will be inscribed on the statue’s back and shoulders.
Tesner remarked on why she became
involved with the York Memorial Project Committee: “I have been intrigued by the motto ‘Art Heals.’ I am constantly wonder-ing if…this is true. I don’t think that art can right all wrongs, obviously, but I am con-vinced that it can help.” Perhaps, she says, the York Memorial will be able to right some of the wrongs that were perpetrated toward York. When asked whether she thought the LC or the Northwest community considers the York statue to be important, she cited the involvement of the College, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the artist as evidence that they do. “Had they not felt the project to be important,” she said, then they would not have put in funds, time or eff ort.
When Chanramy was asked why she
thought the Memorial was important, she said, “We are taking steps to recognize a key member of the Lewis and Clark Expe-dition—a member whose contributions have
often been forgotten in historical narratives. We hope that this project will establish York and his story as part of our collective history and public memory.”PHOTO COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK and the committee is really excited about all of them.”
“/T_h e proof of the pudding will
be the one person that is selected,” Waldron said.
At this point in the process, the
committee has no plans to intro-duce potential candidates to the LC community until the ultimate decision is made. Additionally, both the identities of the candi-“It’s still too early to see if
the committee’s priorities have
changed,” said Grossberg. “I don’t
think they have changed, but they
may once we talk to people and
gauge what is realistic.”
Waldron says he has sought
feedback from many diff erent
members of the LC community re-
garding their own priorities for the
College’s next president.
“I went and talked to faculty
groups from each school, I talked
to the students, and we got a varied
committee that includes staff from
each of the three schools, a student
representative and alumni,” Wal-
dron said.
Each of the three campuses has
a faculty member on the commit-
tee, including Assistant Professor
of Education Kasi Allen, Profes-
sor of Law Jennifer Johnson and Religious Studies Professor Rob
Kugler, but one undergraduate stu-
dent speaks for the entire student
body.
“/T_h e hardest part of being the
student representative is that I am
supposed to represent all three
campuses and there is a certain dis-
content between law, grad and un-
dergrad students,” Grossberg said.dates and the exact number of in-
terviewees remain con/f_i dential.
“Our goal is to keep transpar-
ent, but there are a number of
people, because of their status or
position, that are reluctant to be
involved in a public process,” Wal-
dron said.
In order to maintain some
transparency, Waldron updates a
page on the LC website that pro-
vides the LC community with any
information that is not con/f_i den-tial at this point. /T_h is includes a list of the characteristics and skills
the committee is searching for in
LC’s next president. /T_h e list in-
cludes qualities like a commitment to diversity, success in fundraising, public speaking and writing abili-
ties and a speci/f_i c interest in liberal
arts education.
“I think those qualities provide
a good framework that we are us-
ing to interview and evaluate peo-
ple,” Waldron said. “I don’t value
one thing more than another.”
“/T_h e most important thing is to
/f_i nd someone who /f_i ts LC and who
is willing to take the next steps the
school needs,” Grossberg said.
/T_h e list of characteristics was
drafted in July, and the committee
hasn’t seen its goals change yet.Volume 73, Number 1 News 2 the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
Pioneer
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Editors in ChiEf:
Angela Webber &
Sanne Stienstra
nEws Editors :
Tom Meath &
Laura Nash
forum Editors :
Lindsey Bosse &
Stephen Maxwell
fEatur Es Editors :
Deanna Horton &
Megan Quint
arts Editors :
Caitlin McCarthy &
Liam O’Connor
sports Editors :
Nichole Carnell &
Michael G. Richman
BaCkdoor Editor:
Danny Garcia
stylE sourCE:
Kathryn Miller
illustration Editor:
Emily Block
illustrator :
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photo Editor:
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Prince, Maggie Oliver &
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Multicultural Symposium
The student-run Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium this week focused
on hybrid racial identity in politics, arts and relationships. An art show in
Stamm Hall showcased works by students and local artists.你好 ,
leaves
spiral down as
crime rates
rise
oddly
lined poetry
expresses crime
more aptly than
crude jokes.
玩得开心!
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Ponderosa Hall on Nov. 1.
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green forests
with broad words
of profanity
again.
H Four students reported their
vehicles had been broken into
in the South Campus and lower
Griswold parking lots on Nov. 4.
wheeled
machinations of
frantic human transport
violated.
irreverent thief:
don ’t purloin my
car radio.Three days of events explore the politics of hybrid identitiesHowever, according to Waldron, “There
are no constituencies being represented—
each person on the committee represents
the entire Lewis & Clark community as a
whole.”
In September, Grossberg and Waldron
hosted an all-student forum to discuss quali -
ties students hope for in the next president.
“The turnout for the last forum was less Valentino Achak Deng shares life story
than spectacular,” Grossberg said. “But it was
good for the people who did come to put a
face to the committee.”
Currently there are no plans to host an -
other student forum, but the committee is
open to the idea if students want it.
“If it seems appropriate, I’d be happy to
have another student forum in January,”
Waldron said. “I have no problem talking
with students and faculty. I am very inter -ested in what students think about a new
president.”
Until the committee has completed con -
ducting the interviews in December, Wal -
dron recommends that students, faculty and
staff extend a certain amount of trust.
“The committee as a whole is very mind -
ful of what the students, faculty and the
community of Lewis & Clark expects,” Wal -
dron said. “We’re taking this very seriously.”
by Marissa Fenley
Valentino Achak Deng shared expe -
riences as a Lost Boy of Sudan.Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost
Boys of Sudan and the subject of Dave Eg -
gers’s book What is the What, spoke at Lewis
& Clark on T uesday. Deng discussed his past
and the history behind the Sudanese Civil
War, as well as the progress his foundation
has made in bringing secondary schools to
Sudan.
Deng was brought to LC by STAND,
the anti-genocide coalition on campus. After
their attempts to bring him to campus last
year fell through, he finally was able to make
it and was greeted by a full chapel.
During the Sudanese Civil War, which
began in 1983, Deng’s village was attacked
and he was separated from his family. He fled
to Ethiopia “as a way of escaping war.” After
his four-month journey, however, he realized
that escaping the violence would not be that
easy.
He shared that one of his friends “was
sleeping next to me. I tried to wake him up
because I didn’t know he had died.” The chil -
dren who survived the trek were placed in
camps and divided into groups to be placed
in schools. These schools, however, took
place under trees, with no chalkboards or
books for students.
Eventually Deng became a leader in these
camps and was put in charge of organiz -ing youth into sport teams. His program
was so successful it “became the most in -
fluential program in the camp.” This, along
with Deng’s own experience in the Sudanese
schools, contributed to the later goals and
success of his foundation.
The Lost Boys were a large group of Suda -
nese children brought to the United States. When Deng arrived, he “realized [he] need -
ed to advocate for the rights of [his] people,
stop war in Sudan and bring awareness to
[his] community.”
Reading the newspapers’ accounts the
events in Sudan frustrated him. This brought
him to seek out a writer, Eggers, to help him
record his story.
Along with Deng’s relation of his per -
sonal history, he shared many slides of his
current experiences in Sudan. He showed
students playing soccer (provided with uni -
forms and equipment through Deng’s foun -
dation) and women selling coffee and tea.
He showed children going to school under
a tree and said that they would remain there
even when it rained because they were deter -
mined to learn.
The slides depicted a sign Deng had
placed where he was going to build a school,
the process of building the school and the
finished result. The first year, the school had
so many applicants they had to administer
placement exams.
A reception followed his speech, where
many students were able to speak with Deng
and share their responses. Elle Tilden (’13)
said, “It is easy to forget these things are ac -
tually happening.” Deng’s response to the
event was also positive, and he said, “The
people [at Lewis & Clark] seem like they are
active already.”
Committee continues presidential search
Continued from pg. 1, PRES
PHOTOS BY HANNAH PRINCEPHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVER3Forum the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
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.Letters to the Editor
A sampling from the voices of the Lewis & Clark communityOur school colors are among the ugliest and least ap -
propriate most of us will see associated with a school. Ev -
ery time I see the orange and black designs that often ac -
company our college’s name, I think how there
couldn’t be a combination more abrasive
and more at odds with the scenery and
colors of our school.
They have a history, some people
say. “They’re tradition,” our conserva -
tive trustee board and alumni will cry!
Yes, our school colors have tradition
and it’s rooted in the prestigious Princ -
eton Theological Seminary. According to the
history section of our school’s website: in 1890, the stu -
dents of then Albany College chose orange and black as
our school’s colors to honor the alma mater of first presi -
dent of the College, William J. Monteith.
For a little historical background on our dear first presi -
dent, the Necrological Reports and Annual Proceedings of
the Alumni Association writes, “Mr. Monteith was born in
Broadalbin, N.Y., June 16, 1808 of that goodly stock of
staunch Presbyterians from Perthshire, Scotland, who first
settled that region.” Of that goodly stock—I just thought
that needed repeating.
So what colors should our school colors be? One idea,
and I have a sweatshirt from our school’s very own book -
store to attest for this, is dark green, light green and grey.
Imagine a slightly muted lime green color and a pondero -
sa pine green accented by a grey border. My sweatshirt is What’s orange and black and ugly?
by Jared Schy
Marriage, there is a need
I respectively disagree with Ms. Bosse’s article, “Gay Mar -
riage: no need.” I believe her argument misses the point. The
fight for gay marriage is not about individually buying into
the institution of marriage, it is about collective equality. If
you believe in gay rights and equality, then everyone should
be allowed to marry.
I personally still believe that marriage is a meaningful
commitment between two people to love and honor each
other forever. It is true that 50 percent of marriages fail to -
day, but that does not justify throwing out the entire insti -
tution. We do not have a problem with the institution but
rather with superficial social values. For those “too selfish...
to promise to be with someone forever,” they should not get
married. However, there are still myriad couples, gay and
straight, who desire to pledge their life to another person in a
socially recognized, meaningful way.
Beyond the problems with the institution, gay marriage
is about personal choice and equality. I do not want to get
married anytime soon, but I should have the right to marry
whomever I want when, and if, I am ready. The word “mar -
riage” has not degenerated so much as to set “happy couples
up for failure.” It is still recognized and respected by at least
50 percent of all couples who enter into it, so that’s some
thing. Marriage also provides an institutionalized way for
couples to share governmental benefits like health insurance,
adoption and taxes.
Marriage is about personal commitment and social rec -
ognition. While I agree that we “don’t need a license to be
in love,” there are social and economic benefits to marriage
as well as the traditional value that it still holds for many
people. This is an issue of equality: everyone should have the
right to marry.
Jessica Lodal
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2011
Wording is not the reason
I was disappointed to see that you chose to publish the
article “Gay marriage: no need” in your 11/6 edition. This
article offended me to the core, not just because the author
wishes to deny marriage to those same-sex couples who de -
sire it, but also because her argument is absolutely invalid.
The author begins by explaining that most marriages end
in divorce, and then goes on to say that the word “marriage”
is “purely setting up happy couples for failure.” She then sug -
gests that couples do everything involved in a marriage but
just not call it marriage. However, it is not the word but the
couple that causes a relationship to fail: If two people have a problem committing to each other, the relationship will fail
regardless of what they call it.
She explains that since marriage is the cause of divorce
(well, yes, you can’t have a divorce without a marriage) we
should just do away with it and so therefore the gay marriage
issue is null and void. This fallacy distracts from the real issue
here: Why do marriages fail? What can we do as a society to
help people truly commit to each other in a loving way? Be -
cause in the end, whether it’s a partnership or a marriage that
fails, it’s all the same to the two people involved.
The idea that calling a partnership “marriage” is what
causes the breakup of serious and long term relationships is
ridiculous, and since her argument rests on this idea, I think
it is completely out of line.
I reserve the right to call my life partnership whatever the
hell I want.
Diane Murray
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2012
An excellent column by Garik Asplund
I have been in and out of Portland for most of my life and
still have family that live in the area.
Portland can be a great place to visit and, for many, to
live. Garik Asplund asks questions that should be asked and
makes statements which should be examined.
Portland is at its best when it drops the self-satisfaction
that comes from spending too little time looking outward.
Much of this attitude started with then Governor Tom Mc -
Call in the 1970s and continues to this day. It is not positive
or productive. Portland can, and should, do better.
This is a promising article and suggests a bright future for
the author.
Mark Johnson ’75
Anchorage, Alaska
C+ is not okay
I am so bummed that Lewis & Clark got only a C+ for
sustainability. I chose LC partly because it seemed like they
were making such great headway in saving the world, one
piece at a time! After reading this article I noticed something
that made me think it was no wonder we got a C+. The gar -
deners on campus use leaf blowers! Why not pick up a rake?
It’s better for the planet, for our health, and it saves energy.
It’s the little things that we can change on campus that will
make a difference.
Kate Garvey
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2013“As for students living in the surrounding neighborhoods,
I know we can count on you to be respectful of your neigh -
bors. A little courtesy and respect goes a long way towards
earning goodwill. On the other hand, it does not take much
in the way of noisy parties or streets littered with beer cans to
make our neighbors upset about our presence.”
—Vice President and General Counsel David Ellis on
the Source
David Ellis encourages us to tone down the off-campus
partying and become better neighbors. We should always re -
spect those with whom we share space, streets, and sound; it
is in our interest to be friendly to our neighbors, especially
right now.
Lewis & Clark is in the process of renewing its “Con -
ditional Use Master Plan” with the city of Portland. This
is something the College must do every 10 years. The plan
comprises the construction and land use projects that the
College might want to do in the next decade. Many of these
things will not get done, as most building depends on what
we can get donations for. For example—we’d love to build
a parking structure down near the tennis dome to fix some
parking problems. Wouldn’t that be great? But no one wants
to put their name on a parking garage. It will be much easier
to build the chapel addition, for which we received a specific
donation, or the Law School apartments, for which students
will pay rent, making the money easier to raise.
To put it simply, we need to pass our plan through the
city, and the city takes input from our neighbors. And so
the neighbors have the ear of the administration right now,
with all these neighborhood meetings and hearings and such;
the off-campus party issue has been raised. The plan now is
to use Campus Safety and currently underused policies to
calm down (or, if you prefer, “crack down on”) off-campus
shindigs…
Which is weird. Do you want Campo coming to your
house? The general argument is that this is better than the
police, or the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, coming
and making students deal with the real-world laws. The pro -
tective bubble of campus now extends to your off-campus
house, where you signed a real lease and live, possibly with
people who aren’t LC students. And now, instead of Campo
just coming to warn you, they may write you up, and you
may have to deal with consequences through LC’s conduct
system. The Man is keeping us down. But the Man has a
reason.
It sucks to be a young family with a newborn, unable to
live in peace as pounding music seeps through the walls at all
hours. It is a real bummer to wake up to find beer cans, Hal -
loween costume parts, and vomit on your front lawn.
The College is located in the middle of a neighborhood,
and it’s not our neighborhood. Other people were here first.
And that’s why we need to pass a “Conditional Use Master
Plan,” because we are using this land “conditionally.” There’s
not supposed to be a school here. Apparently Portland is like
this all over. According to Ellis, Reed College deals with simi -
lar issues, and Portland State University dodged this techni -
cality by making their own district of the city.
It’s not ideal. I wouldn’t move into a house this close to
campus if I didn’t want to be near loud obnoxious drunk
kids; I think the College would prefer that we were settled
somewhere where neighbor relations didn’t determine what
could be built and developed or how late we could keep our
stadium lights on.
The administration thinks about our neighbors, they
think about our parties; we think about our parties and
about the administration. I think it’s time we thought about
our neighbors; because they’re people, and we’re people, too.Editor’s Note:
Lewis & Clark &
friends & neighbors
& parties
by Angela Webberbeautiful, all except the hideous brand,
the scarlet letter of a mark, black and hid -
eously orange, stuck right in the center of
my chest. I really have no problem with
orange, it’s actually my favorite color,
but the fact is that it just does not go
with our school’s feel.
The major impediment to chang -
ing our school’s colors is that we have
to ask ourselves, “Is it really worth
the fight?” When our meal plan rips
us off, we lack a permanent Afri -
can studies history professor, we
have only one environmental stud -
ies professor, and all the while our
school is trying to push through a
10 year master plan with God knows
what screwing God knows who, do we
really, really want to take our time and
devote ourselves to this cause? The obvi -
ous answer is no. Hell no. Hell no for two
reasons: 1) because “tradition!” would
rear its annoying head and stamp on our
attempts, and 2) because there are more
significant issues than school colors to deal
with. So I hope you like Halloween, and I
really hope you like Princeton because the
proud tradition of our school colors lay
rooted there.
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Seth Pellegrino Sprague, Connecticut :: mathematics/computer science 2010
“The last thing I googled was the average
cost of a Japanese funeral. the high end hov -
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$45,000. Also, in Japan, 99.8% of people are
cremated. These are stats, which i love.”
“all my clothing is isomorphic.”
1. gaming/computers.
2. the internet, because it’s
hilarious and simply because
it’s there.
3. nighttime.
4. art. not bad art, certainly
good art. because black and
white is all there is.
5. free time. i miss this most.
6. the game “go.”
7. i will add that i hate sleep,
my computer science thesis, and
H1N1, though i’ve never had it.
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Zimbabwe Art Show and Sale
Proceeds help Zimbabwean women and Dallaire scholars
Friday and Saturday, Thayer rooms, noonLewis & Clark Women’s Basketball
vs Evergreen State
Pamplin, 2 p.m.
Elephant Engine High Dive Revival
An Apocalips event
Council Chamber, 7:30 p.m.Philip Parr and Jane Streeton perform
Lecture-recital on the life of singer Nancy Storace
Evans Band Room, 7 p.m.
An Evening of Percussion
Featuring the Lewis & Clark Percussion Ensemble
Evans Auditorium, 8 p.m.Dan Bejar from Destroyer, AU, Last American Buffalo,
and The Diamond Light
The Trail Room, 8 p.m., free for LC studentsDido and Aeneas performance
Ariana Lenarsky (’10) is Dido; John Vissell (’11) is Aeneas
Evans Auditorium, 8 p.m.International Game Night
An ISLC event
Stamm West, 6 p.m.Fourth Annual Northwest Indian Storyteller’s Festival
Emerging Storyteller’s Workshop, a silent charity auction
Friday though Sunday, T amarack, 6 p.m.itemizing love (& hate) boffing strap-on
“It takes me an average of three minutes to get dressed in the morning,
though that is dependent upon the length and quality of my sleep the night
before. If I have recently done laundry, I can get it down to one minute.”
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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
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“Native in America” Panel Discussion
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Co-Sponsored by
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program, Ethnic Studies Program, Native Student UnionGerman Club marks 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
by Brandy Miller
Above: Sarah O’Brien (’10) strikes the wall with a hammer. Below: Linton Wright (’12), Jake Mendelson (’10) and Elana Webb (’12) run through the destroyed wall.Students last week likely noticed a large
wall segment on the lawn between the How-
ard and BoDine Halls. Everyone was en-
couraged to take the opportunity to express themselves on it and many did.
/T_h e creation was designed by the German
Club in order to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in
Germany.
When the wall was /f_i rst put up on No-
vember 1, it was gray and graffi ti-free.
/T_h e German department had the Ger-
man 101, 201 and 250 students provide his-tory on East and West Germany, as well as the attempted escapes, for students to read
on laminated /f_l yers.
Constructed in 1961, the Berlin Wall was
a concrete barrier that separated Soviet-occu-
pied East Germany from the newly reunited West Germany. East Germans were trapped
in the East, cut off from family and friends
in the West.
/T_h e wall’s consecration was meant to
keep the two parts of Germany separate at
all costs, representing the Soviet’s manifested
“Iron Curtain” from the rest of the outside
world.
By being built between the Howard and
Bodine halls, the German Club’s wall was
able to symbolize the division between the
East and West.
Johanna Huber, advisor to the German
Club and German language assistant, said,
“We thought most people would pass it on their way to class or the library.”
/T_h e noticeable location of the wall did in
fact draw attention, as evident from the large amounts of student graffi ti.
When asked why the German Club de-
cided to build the wall, Assistant Professor of German Katja Altpeter-Jones said, “/T_h e wall was such a big monument, it needed to be
visual.”
Students indeed were able to engage with
the history behind the Berlin Wall as their
graffi ti represented “voiced opinions.” /T_h e creation and decoration of the wall was fol-
lowed by its destruction.
“/T_h ere had to be the aspect of taking
something apart. /T_h e wall was in many ways
iconic as students were able to chip away and
express a triumph,” said Alpeter-Jones.
Just as the wall suddenly appeared in the
middle of the lawn, it suddenly disappeared.
On Monday, the 20th anniversary of the his-
toric event, students participated in a tearing
down ceremony.
After a few words on the history of the
Berlin Wall from Assistant Professor of Ger-
man /T_h erese Augst, Associate Professor of
Anthropology Deborah Heath began the de-
struction with a blow of a hammer. Other
students and faculty members quickly joined in with everything from punches and kicks
to various other tools.
Within 10 minutes, the demolition had
ceased, with the remains of the wall crum-
bled on the lawn.
“It was representative of the way the real
wall was removed,” Altpeter-Jones said, “[In Germany] it was only a year or two before
signs of it were erased.”
Some students took away pieces of the
demolished wall as souvenirs.
/T_h e German Club provided Lewis &
Clark students with a reminder of the con-stant battles faced with entrapment and prej-
udices. /T_h e destruction of the Berlin Wall was the end of the Cold War and the /f_l ourish
of a new era for the entire world.
/T_h e German Club meets /T_h ursdays at 7
p.m. in the West Hall Lounge.
PHOTOS BY MATTHEW HAMBRO
ADVERTISEMENT7Features the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
It is not every night you can walk by
Tamarack to see a room full of students
watching a presentation about vibrators, dil -
dos and other sex toys. But that’s what you
would have seen last T uesday, the second
night of Love Your Body Week, an annual
series of events put on by the Lewis & Clark
Womyn’s center.
“We do love your body week for every -
body,” said Womyn’s Center co-coordinator
Maggie Hennessey (’11). “We want to create
a better experience at Lewis & Clark, help
the community and make people feel better
about their bodies.”
Love Your Body Week is a national event
held at a number of colleges and institutions
throughout the country, though LC did not
coordinate with any specific national sched -
ule.
This year’s Love Your Body week kicked
off with a henna night, on November 2 in
Thayer. Hennessey described the event as
“packed,” and as the most gender-equal
event of the week, in terms of attendance.
“In doing these events, the Womyn’s Cen -
ter opens up a bit and people get to know
about us,” said Hennessey. The name of the
group sounds gender-specific, and indeed
the membership is overwhelmingly female.
Last week’s events showed more egalitar -
ian attendance than those in years past, ac -
cording to Hennessey, who said that most
events saw an attendance of at least 70 peo -
ple, including “Womyn’s center members,
family and friends.”
“It’s mostly women, but the fact that men Womyn love their bodies
by Angela Webber
What is Wolvetch? Some may have seen
Elias Brockman (’13), creator of this unique
sport, demonstrating the game at Pio Fair;
others may have seen the sport in action on
their way to class. Mud-splattered students
running on hands and feet may look puz -
zling, but Brockman is here to explain the
true significance behind their wolf-like mo -
tion. The sport was originally designed as
entertainment for young children during
Brockman’s experience as a camp counselor,
though he soon realized that Wolvetch was
also a difficult sport. “It is a full body aerobic
exercise,” he said. “You run for 20 seconds
and need a break. You need to pace yourself.”
Brockman summarized the objective of
the sport as “full contact soccer on all fours.”
He said that most sports are “really the same
game with a twist.” More specifically, there
are two goals on either end of the field. You
can hit the ball with any part of your body—
although hands are most effective—and your
knees can’t touch the ground. The sport may
sound chaotic, but neither punching, kick -
ing, nor biting are allowed.
Brockman emphasized that while many
are drawn to the sport because of its element
of contact, it is by no means selective when it
comes to athleticism or gender—anyone can
Wolvetch crawls on all foursStudents play Wolvetch, a unique sport created by Elias Brockman (’13). PHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVER
by Marissa FenleyPirates of Palatine Hill: they play World of Warcraft
by Michael G. Richman
PHOTO BY KARL BERGER COURTESY OF DAVID ROSENGARD
Left: Forest Area Director David Rosengard (center) and the Pirates of Palatine Hill. Right: The group’s World of Warcraft counterparts.
“We talked about what we didn’t like about
our bodies, and why society has imposed
that on us. Then we circled those parts of our
bodies and danced,” said Hennessey.Right now they are probably playing.
When you finish reading this sentence they’ll
still be playing. They are all over the country
and even all over the globe. They are the Pi -
rates of Palatine Hill, Lewis & Clark’s official
World of Warcraft guild.
“Everyone in the guild is either directly
associated with Lewis & Clark by being a
student, alumni, staff or faculty,” Forest Area
Director and guild master David Rosengard
said.
The Pirates have about 40 active mem -
bers along with about 10 additional less ac -
tive members that don’t play with the guild
on weekly basis. The guild includes 139 in -
dividual characters, as many of the guild’s
members develop more than one in-game
character at a time. At least 40 of the guild’s characters are level 80s, the highest level at -
tainable in the game.
“Sometimes we raid, which means we
get ten people together and run around in
a dungeon together,” Andrew Janeba (’11)
said. “Pretty much every night of the week
we’re running like a five man dungeon to -
gether, sort of on an impromptu basis.”
The guild also has a standing date on 9
a.m. mornings in which they run either ten
or twenty-five person raids.
“Ten man raids are more intimate, they’re
easier to organize, easier to coordinate” said
Lillie Mae Stone (’10). “We play every week -
end, three to six hours. It depends on if we
have one or two raids.”
The guild members all play varying
amounts, but agreed that around 10 hours a
week is about the average.
“Oh my god, I play so much,” Stone said. “Depending on homework, I’ll play upwards
of 14 or 15 hours a week.”
The guild members all have varying levels
of gaming experience, from seasoned veter -
ans of the computer screen to Stone, whose
first true gaming experience was when she
picked up WoW in March of last year.
The guild is also a social circle that allows
people from all over to stay in touch and
game together.
Alums across the country or even as far
off as China and Japan can stay in touch
with people back on Palatine Hill.
“[The guild allows] the alums to remain
connected with the college and to still be
able to communicate with each other on a
regular basis pretty cheaply,” Diana Wiener-
Rosengard (’04) said.
The close connection is not the only ben -
efit. It’s also possibly to play at any given
are beginning to feel comfortable with the
Womyn’s Center is saying something,” said
Hennessey.
The Center hosted an Open Mic in the
Platteau on November 4, which featured
acoustic music, poetry, and other perfor -
mances, interspersed with facts about body
image presented by Womyn’s Center co-co -
ordinators.
Hennessey approximates that there are
20-30 active Womyn’s Center members.
Members hold office hours, but only once
they have been through a 3-hour training
by Associate Director for Health Promo -
tion Melissa Osmond on how to counsel
and support survivors of sexual assault, and
to educate them about the available options
in terms of physical
and emotional help
and pressing charg -
es.
“It’s an under -
used resource,” said
Hennessey, refer -
encing that statistics
for sexual assault on
campus tend to be higher than the numbers
of people who seek help. “But it’s good that
we’re trained.”
The sex toy workshop on November 3
was presented by It’s My Pleasure, a women-
run shop in Portland. Hennessey described
the event as a “huge hit” and a “fun opportu -
nity to get people out of their shell.”
“I don’t think [It’s My Pleasure] expects
us to use all these things… but it’s nice to
know that they’re out there, and that there is
a friendly place to get it.”
Love Your Body Week concluded the
night of November 5 with a “Knicker Night”
dance party in the Womyn’s Center office in
Templeton.
“We talked about what we didn’t like
about our bodies, and why society has im -
posed that on us. Then we circled those parts
of our bodies and danced.” Hennessey said
that the event was fun and “Liberating, too.”play Wolvetch. Nicole Scherm (’13), a dedi -
cated Wolvetch player, feels at home playing
Wolvetch. She is drawn to the sport because
it is “different” and provides a “relaxed envi -
ronment.” Brockman himself admits he has
not perfected the sport, saying that the game
is different every time depending on who
shows up, and the dynamics will change de -
pending on the ratio of boys to girls.
The story behind Brockman’s inspiration
for Wolvetch begins during the night when a
group of camp counselors were hanging out
on a field under the light of the full moon.
Brockman began running on all fours and
tackled his fellow counselor, who was thor -
oughly surprised, “and that is how it all be -
gan.”
Brockman believes the sport has the po -
tential for a growing influence on campus.
“As players cultivate strength, skill and en -
durance, the game will naturally become
even more fast-paced and exciting. I imag -
ine that other kinds of athletes will see Wol -
vetch as an effective off-season conditioning
exercise, particularly soccer players, football
players and wrestlers,” he said. Brockman
hopes to eventually take Wolvetch off cam -
pus as well, making it more official in the
world of sports.
For more information e-mail Brockman at
wolvetch@gmail.com.time of the day.
“With people spread out across time
zones it means that whenever you log on
there is probably will be someone else there,”
Rosengard said.
The Pirates of Palatine Hill was started in
2004 by Diana and David Rosengard and
LC alum Andrew Kugler (’07).
The guild started as a way to enrich the
gaming experience by playing with larger
groups at LC and it has blossomed in the last
five years.
The Pirates invite any and all interested in
WoW to join, and emphasize that no gaming
experience is necessary to join to the guild.
“With WoW you actually have this so -
cial aspect,” Stone said. “Not that you have a
commitment to it, but that [the guild mem -
bers] enjoy the social aspect as well. I think
it’s a social thing we happen to play.”Volume 73, Number 1 Arts 8 the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
It is very rare to see or hear Samuel Beck-
ett much anymore these days, and this rare
performance is a world-class treat. /T_h e con-
tinuous performances of eight short plays
before the main stage Endgame sets the audi-
ence up for Beckett’s organic theme of ennui interspersed by moments of vitality. /T_h e /f_i nal mime, Act Without Words, reinforces Beck-
ett’s obsession with the pregnancy of silence. Having the audience moving from station to station at random while the plays are station-ary captures Beckett’s exquisite sense of in-terplay between beginnings and endings and the interminable continuation of existence and nonexistence. In our post-apocalyptic age, we have much to learn about endings. Even millennia have futures.
As May morphs into Amy, stoically
played by Alison Stake (’11) in Footfalls, the
imaginary line between one individual and another melts. Each member of the audience and the cast connects to all life, and perhaps
to all phenomena, dead or alive. It is a cliché
to say that everything is connected, but this
Beckett extravaganza makes it new again. /T_h e character played magically by Petra Lamberson (’11) in Cascando begins and be-
gins again her lines and memories. /T_h e two
other characters, played by Kat Morrison
(’11) and Jon Wash (’10), could be a facet of her character, an unholy trinity searching for a beginning and end. Each character watches
each other, and perhaps the audience watch-
ing and listening to them. /T_h e videos, the
black box staging, the rambling in and out of the backstage—among empty shoes, cos-tumes without actors, hats without heads,
lights and production materials both on and
off —all mingle into a single performance
that makes it simply true that all the stage is a world.
Kudos to Director Stephen Weeks for
his blessed audacity and to all the crew and players for their teamwork. Beckett reads like hindsight now. /T_h e holocaust and the Stephen Weeks introduced Beckett(s) to
his audience by comparing Samuel Beckett’s
work to “a dramatic poem.” /T_h is perspective
became more important as I learned that all
my other expectations of theatre must be put aside in order to fully enjoy my viewing of
Beckett(s). I was originally unsure of how
to approach the show from
how it had been described
to me. /T_h e au-
dience moves
around inde-
pendently
in the /f_i rst half, free
to see any of
the small Beck-
ett plays that are
running at that
time. I was
concerned
about get-
ting lost
or acci-
dentally inter-
rupting a perfor-
mance.
Not only
were the
ushers ex-
t r e m e l y
helpful in
helping
me to
n a v i -
g a t e
around the
theatre building,
but I also found that
interrupting a performance was nearly im-
possible.
Often, the audience is a main part of the
experience, in whatever stage or state they show up in. /T_h e actors are frequently in the same lighting as the audience, connecting
An unusual crowd sipped three-dollar
coff ee in the lobby of downtown’s Keller Au-ditorium Friday evening as artsy young Port-
landers turned out in droves for the opening
performance of Philip Glass’s opera Orphée.
While it’s often lamented that opera’s
typical audience is aging fast, the one-two
punch of Glass and Jean Cocteau seemed to be a powerful draw for a sizeable chunk of adventurous hipsters.
Glass set to his own music the script of
Cocteau’s 1949 /f_i lm of the same name, which in turn was an exceedingly free riff on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eu-rydice.
In this version the middle-aged poet Or-
phée loses his wife to the underworld, only to fall in love with a Princess who turns out to be Death; a mysterious tribunal restores Orphée and Eurydice on the condition that he will not look at her.
He does, of course, and she disappears
while he is mobbed and killed by devotees of the younger, dead poet Cégeste.
Orphée is reunited with the Princess,
but she reverses time, insisting that “a poet’s death must sacri/f_i ce herself to make him im-mortal.”
/T_h e audience is left with this puzzling
statement as the forgetful glaze of reality again descends on Orphée and Eurydice.
In a lecture at the Portland Art Museum
on T uesday, Glass himself said he had con-cluded that Orphée was Cocteau’s most au-tobiographical work. It explores the diffi cul-ty of an artist’s later life; a possible interpretation of the story’s Death extends beyond the body to post-humous recognition.
In that sense, the Prin-
cess’s statement could im-ply that one’s own desire
for death and one’s poten-
tial remembrance are at odds with each other.
Friday’s performance
was a landmark for the
Portland Opera—not
only was it Orphée’s West
Coast premiere, but it was also the /f_i rst time the company had been pro-fessionally recorded. A dry but probably heartfelt applause greeted this an-nouncement before the lights came up.
/T_h e impeccable set, along with the cos-
tumes, was rented from New York’s Glim-merglass Opera, which produced Orphée in
2007. It was a dully beige, contemporary interior, but the symmetrical furniture and four suspended clusters of chain ingeniously created the illusion of two wall-sized panes of glass hanging parallel to the audience’s view-point.
At certain points cleverly staged doubles
moved away from each other, truly appear-ing to be re/f_l ections of each other. Mirrors recur as both portals and barriers in Orphée,
T wo perspectives on theatre department’s Beckett(s)
nuclear winter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not bad dreams. /T_h e war to end all wars
and the Cold War only augur the recent be-
ginnings of global collapse. When the cur-
tain rises on Endgame, only four players, all
disabled, remain on the chessboard of the living. Ro Haan (’11) inscrutably interprets his character, Hamm, who says, “It’s time it ended...and yet I hesitate, I hesitate to...to end.” /T_h e set, a hovel crafted from shutters, duct tape, and de-bris, and furnished with a gaff , the tool used in vaudeville to ex-tricate a player from the stage, says it all. Yet, even as the play ends, Clov may see a child on the hori-zon. Beckett’s characters can neither end nor begin, and their lives and their deaths go on too long. Al-though birth pangs by Loretta Johnson, guest writer by Marissa Fenley
by Chris KeadyPhilip Glass’s spare, haunting Orphée from Portland Opera
and Glimmerglass’s set worked perfectly.
I’ll admit to generally lukewarm feelings
toward what I’ve heard of Glass’s work; I’ve enjoyed it most in /f_i lm scores such as those of Koyaanisqatsi or /T_h e Hours, where its hyp-
notic and often mind-numbing patterns ac-quire feeling from accompanying visuals.
But Orphée was surprisingly varied and
expressive, only occasionally falling back onto irritatingly naked, burbling arpeggio. Melodic lines /f_l oating above the familiar se-quencing lent the score continuity, and the sensitive instrumentation enhanced the mu-sic’s wide emotional range.
Roughly the /f_i rst quarter of the perfor-
mance was undercut by a severe balance problem between the orchestra and actors, but it was soon corrected, revealing tasteful and expressive performances from all of the actors, with whom this opera novice could hardly /f_i nd fault.
/T_h e /f_i nal performance of Orphée is tomorrow
at 7:30 p.m. $10 rush tickets with student ID
one hour before curtain. $20 to $135. Call 503-241-1802 or go to ticketmaster.com.PHOTO COURTESY PORTLAND OPERA/CORY WEAVER
my other expectations of theatre must be put
aside in order to fully enjoy my viewing of
Beckett(s)
. I was originally unsure of how
to approach the show from
how it had been described
to me. /T_h e au-
dience moves
around inde-
pendently
in the /f_i rst
half, free
to see any of
the small Beck-
ett plays that are
running at that
time. I was
concerned
about get-
ting lost
or acci-
dentally inter-
rupting a perfor-
mance.
Not only
were the
ushers ex-
t r e m e l y
helpful in
helping
me to
around the
theatre building,
living. Ro Haan (’11) inscrutably interprets
his character, Hamm, who says, “It’s time it
ended...and yet I hesitate, I hesitate
to...to end.” /T_h e set, a hovel crafted
from shutters, duct tape, and de-
bris, and furnished with a gaff ,
the tool used in vaudeville to ex-
tricate a player from the stage, says
it all. Yet, even as the play ends,
Clov may see a child on the hori-
zon. Beckett’s characters can
neither end nor begin, and
their lives and their deaths
go on too long. Al-
though birth pangs
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKA professor and a staff writer each review the fall mainstage production, an innovative retrospective of Samuel Beckett’s works
the two environments; others are running on /f_i lm loops ready to be viewed at any point in
which viewers show up.
/T_h e body of the audience itself is al-
ways changing, as people move around at
their own pace. Because of this, each audi-ence member receives a personal experience with each viewing. Beckett wrote most of his characters and their dialogue in stream-of-consciousness style, and an individual may interpret Beckett’s words diff erently. Each of the small plays blended together, giving a cohesive feeling to the overall production. T rue, I was not able to see every show all the way through, but this didn’t hinder my expe-rience. It instead encouraged me to return, knowing that my second viewing would be entirely diff erent than the /f_i rst.
/T_h e second part of Beckett(s) is stationary.
First, the audience sees Endgame, a play that
takes place in a falling-down shack, cluttered with newspapers and trashcans. /T_h e char-
acters have clearer objectives than those of
the shorter plays, and the plot is more un-
derstandable. Nevertheless, the language still implies a certain leniency between various interpretations. /T_h e actors, however, clearly
portrayed Beckett’s language even while con-
structing their relationships within the play.
While Endgame is separated from Beckett’s
short plays, much of what one gathers in the /f_i rst half could be applied to one’s viewing
of Endgame. Act Without Words follows End-
game and involves all but one of the charac-
ters in the performances. It is a mime piece and provides a nice conclusion to the cohe-sive themes that run throughout many of
Beckett’s plays. While I will never have a full
understanding of Beckett, the cast put on
a wonderful compilation of his work, and provided me a with a rare experience that I would be unlikely to encounter again.
/T_h e last two shows of Beckett(s) are tonight and
tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at Fir Acres /T_h e-
atre. $10 general, $7 faculty and staff , $5 stu-
dents. Box offi ce is open 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.are unbearable, they
are borne. /T_h e con-trapuntal intersec-tion of individual lives, even the riff s within one indi-vidual life, mesh with the language and penetrate the space as well as everything and everyone oc-cupying that space. /T_h ere is much to be learned about
the humor of suf-
fering and the banality of pleasure, and there is a long way to go before the world ends, which, if Beckett is right, will never happen, at least not forever. To see Beckett(s) is to know what it means to blow the whistle.
Loretta Johnson is Adjunct Professor in the
Humanities.9Arts the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
With the new release of his first album on
the record giant Warner Brothers Records,
the once-indie folk rocker Devendra Banhart
is now officially famous. So what does this
mean for the man whose music is often re -
ferred to as psychedelic folk? Not much: He’s
still walking straight down his own path.
What Will We Be shows no signs of major
record label corruption and Banhart’s mu -
sic has become something of a documentary
about setting. Some of his earliest songs were
left on answering machines, but with his al -
bums he covers a place and its entire atmo -
sphere. Nino Rojo and Rejoicing in the Hands
(2004) were recorded as complements at a
farmhouse in the South. Smokey Rolls Down
Thunder Mountain (2007) was recorded in a sunny bungalow lost in the forest of Topanga
Canyon, where friends stopped by to collab -
orate. Now with WB, Banhart moved up to
“a small northern California town,” which is
most likely the self-proclaimed “secret” hip -
pie town of Bolinas, CA.
What Will We Be has more of an upbeat
feel than his last album, but continues show -
casing his staples: the humming, the trance-
like finger picking, Spanish songs, a song in a
random language (the Pit River dialect), and
the childhood sexuality song (“Chin Chin &
Muck Muck”).
“Rats” is one of the greatest tracks on the
album, with heavy base and drums, culmi -
nating in full-out screaming similar to the
glory days of Robert Plant. Banhart plays
with the well-loved song title “Goin’ Back”;
both Neil Young and The Byrds also have songs of this title and sentiment.
Banhart has exercised absolute artistic
control over the record and its appearance,
revealing that a Devendra Banhart album
is more than just a collection of music files.
Banhart is a fine artist who studied at the San
Francisco Art Institute, and has had exhib -
its side-by-side with the likes of Paul Klee.
He hand-designed the whole album cover
and its sleeve, which resemble an LP record’s
packaging. His delicate lettering of the lyr -
ics presents added emotional ties to the songs
and their truest understandings. Comple -
mentary drawings cover half the booklet and
take you inside Banhart’s head.
The accompanying book of drawings
opens and closes with a simple depiction of a
drum with lines above it. This could be a ref -
erence to the Grateful Dead’s “Box of Rain,” or even to a synesthetic perception of music.
Banhart is a collaborator; he has helped
introduce countless friends to the art world
and deserves the label shift. He has consis -
tently followed in the footsteps of the great
musicians, in their lifestyle and business ven -
tures, but his music is still something new.
He is new in the best way—a new embodi -
ment of the same old great. “All stories of
creation come from the same flame,” he says
in his new track “Foolin.’”
Yes, Banhart’s songs seem like they have
lived in us forever, like the best art that
brings to the conscience such truths of the
“omniverse.” Banhart has tapped into the
eternal flame, and now with WB backing, it
appears that the flame will continue giving
to this talented young man. Banhart is here
to stay—so history books beware. by Sam Margevicius
ADVERTISMENTDevendra Banhart pays homage to rock pantheon on new albumVolume 73, Number 1 Sports 10 the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
Brandon Roy scored merely two points
in the T rail Blazers’ win against the Timber-
wolves on Sunday, and I couldn’t be happier
about it. Sure, I probably wouldn’t be so full
of glee if Portland hadn’t scored 116 points altogether, beating Minnesota by 23 points; but the point is, if the Blazers are going to be as formidable a team as broadcasters from E to shining SPN predict, it’s going to start with them becoming better rounded.
Last year, Roy averaged 22.6 points per
game (PPG). He was named an NBA All-Star for the second consecutive time in his career, and was arguably the reason why the Blazers made it to the playoff s last year. /T_h is was all /f_i ne, and the extremely young Port-land team did quite well last season. Roy did great, and I think he was often better than King James (but I think I might be alone in believing that).
Even if nothing had changed over this
summer, the Blazers would probably still be
playing great. /T_h eir powerful (yet slow) mo-
mentum on off ense would be as formidable
as last year. Still, to not do something about the Roy Eff ect would have been shooting themselves in the foot. /T_h e unspoken rule
in competition is that if you don’t improve,
you’re falling behind.
Take a look around in the NBA West:
/T_h e Nuggets are still hot, and the Spurs and
Mavericks also added to their rosters, and each of those teams is playing a helluva lot better.
Variations of the Roy Eff ect are known
throughout numerous basketball teams. /T_h ere was a Kobe Eff ect for a while on the Lakers, and there’s also the James Eff ect, which is a great example of the Eff ect in ac-tion: While journalists challenge LeBron James to average a triple-double season, the rest of the team matters little. Because King James is busy dribbling the ball in place for ten seconds at a time, he leaves no time to pass—just to drive the ball himself. Maybe it was for good reason too: the rest of the team was not so threatening.
However, the diff erence between the Roy
Eff ect and the James Eff ect is that the Blazers are not the Cavs. Rip City’s raw, young tal-ent, shared among Aldridge, Oden, Fernan-dez, Batum and Blake was not to be under-estimated.
In a previous article in the Pioneer Log,
Michael G. Richman pointed out that Rip
City is searching for an identity. Now, I
know I’m not the only one who believes that if this team is going to change its identity from last year, it’s going to have to become
less Roy-Centric.
With that in mind, this summer the Blaz-
ers sought out guard Andre Miller, who shot
for 21 points on Sunday. /T_h e team also add-ed Juwon Howard and welcomed back Mar-
tell Webster to compliment its extremely
deep rotation.
And, with two victories over Minnesota
and a win over Memphis in the past week
it seems as if the team is starting to func-
tion, well, like a team. Roy got 20 points
on against Memphis, but more importantly,
Aldridge, Oden and Blake all scored in the teens. On Wednesday against Minnesota /f_i ve diff erent Blazers scored in double digits and yet again Roy did was not the leading scorer. As the season progress all signs are pointing to the Blazer’s regrouping and /f_i nding a new
identity for this year’s squad. Some nights
Roy may have to care the load, but the more
that he doesn’t have to for the team to win the better off they will be. It might not be Roy’s /f_i rst choice or his instinct, but it is what’s
best for this year’s edition of the T railblazers.
Soon enough, the press might be right—and
the Blazers’ new identity may simply be the
Northwest Division Champion./T_h e Roy Eff ect
/T_h is fall, Lewis & Clark’s
men’s club soccer team started off its season un-defeated. Now the team faces one big chal-lenge at the end of its solid season. Although the team is techni-cally “young,” the LC boys pulled a h a r d - earned 1-1 tie with P o r t l a n d State, the gi-ant in the region, as opposed to its
8-1 defeat last year.
Fitz Ryland (’12) sheds some light on
what has changed this year. “/T_h e team’s young, we have about eight freshmen in the starting line-up. /T_h ey are all good players too,” Ryland said, refusing to rate one team-mate over another. Ryland plays sweeper, the
deepest defensive position, and from this
unique view of his entire
team he sees the unity and energy of a winning
group.
On top of the out-
standing play from veteran Pios, such
as Ryland, Reed Lewis (’11) and Ben Osborn (’11), the team has also added freshman stars like Eduardo “Eddy” Mondland and Lutfo Dlamini. Monroe Isenberg is reportedly the “freshman hottie,” according to teammates. Isenberg also stands out to Ryland, who
sees him as a crucial player for his skills and game experience.
LC’s top competitors, according to Ry-land, are PSU and University of Port-
land. /T_h us far this fall, the Pios have
not backed down to either. In fact, they
haven’t backed down
to anyone yet.
With only a
few more season
games this February
before playoff s, the team may likely boast a full slate of wins. Not only has the level of play in-creased this season, but record fan turnout has also kept the sidelines in-teresting. A highlight Ry-land remembers is when a passionate fan started chatting up a ref with a little too much Pio pride. The Weekly Wheelhouse with Robin Aubry
Brandon Roy runs the show, but is it the best bet for the Blazers?
by Robin Aubry
LC men’s soccer club /f_i nishes fall season undefeated
by Haley Brill
Lutfo Dlamini (’13) is one of the many freshmen
making a big impact this season for LC soccer. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS MILLARD
In the end, both the ref and the proud Pio
were expelled from the /f_i eld.
Last year they came in third, but with the
improvements we have seen so far this sea-son alone there seems to be nothing stopping them from the reaching the top.
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKIn their second-to-last game this sea-
son, the Pioneers were unable to /f_i ght off
the Whitworth Pirates (5-5, 3-3), falling
34-7. /T_h e Pios could not hold off the Pi-
rates past the /f_i rst minute, as Whitworth got points on the board during their /f_i rst possession.
Lewis & Clark amassed only 161 to-
tal yards, including just 22 that picked up in the air. On the other side, Whitman racked up almost 200 yards rushing and controlled the game from the get go.
/T_h e Pirates kept the Pios in their own
territory, forcing a punt into the second quarter. /T_h e Pirates held their lead late
into the second quarter. /T_h e Pios were
unable to get numbers on the board in
the /f_i rst half and the Pirates took the long lead 20-0 going into the break.
/T_h e Pios’ defense held off Whitworth
in the third quarter, but the off ense was unable to get the job done. Both teams remained scoreless in the quarter.
/T_h e fourth quarter saw a little more
action from both teams. Although the Pirates picked up another quick score in the early minutes of the quarter, the Pios were able to answer back. With less than
/f_i ve minutes on the clock, a 9-yard quar-
terback keeper by T ucker Laurence (’12),
followed with a kick by Andrew Foote (’12), put the Pios on the board. Lau-rence’s score capped off a three and a half
minute, six play, 60-yard drive following
a Whitman fumble. /T_h is touchdown was
too little, too late for the Pios. /T_h e Pirates added salt to the wound as they scored in Pirates pillage Pioneers
by Nichole Carnell
just six seconds. Whitman ran two plays the second of which was a 30-yard pass
connection for a touchdown, bringing
the score to 34-7.
With only one game remaining the
Pios’ hopes for a winning record have long gone, but their improvements have
been noticed in the community. Off en-
sive lineman Curtis Smith (’10) has been
named to the ESPN /T_h e Magazine/CoSI-
DA Academic All-America District VIII
Team.
/T_h e Pios have one more very legiti-
mate chance to add a conference win to
the list of their season accomplishments,
tomorrow, against the University of Puget
Sound Loggers. UPS (0-8, 0-5) has yet to
win a game this season. /T_h e Loggers have
scored more than 20 points only once
this year and have given up 50 points two
weeks in a row.
In an attempt to bring out the crowd
for the last game of the season, the ath-
letics department is off ering any student
with an LC ID a chance to win $5,000.
According to the LC athletics website,
students can sign up for the contest by
presenting their student ID at the box of-
/f_i ce before the kick-off . /T_h ree contestants
will be drawn at random in the second
quarter. During half-time after the dance
team performs, each of the three contes-
tants will have one chance to kick a 45-
yard /f_i eld goal to win the cash prize.
Kick-off for the /f_i nal game of the season
against UPS is at 1 p.m. Saturday at Gris-wold Stadium.
ILLUSTRATION BY LINDSEY BOSSE
The Pioneers have one last shot at winning a conference game
when they face the winless Puget Sound Loggers Sat. at 1 p.m.
Roy likes to control the action for the Blazers, but that’s not neces-sarily what they need this season.PHOTO COURTESY OF OREGONLIVE.COM11 Sports the Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
It’s not often that a team would be happy
with a loss, but after hanging tough on the
road against Division I University of Oregon
the Lewis & Clark men’s basketball team has
plenty to be proud of.
The Pioneers came out of the gate firing,
shooting 5-10 from three-point land and
hitting seven of their first 15 shots in the first
12 minutes. The game was deadlocked at 23-
19 until Oregon extended the lead over the
final eight minutes of the half using 20-7 run
to extend its lead to 43-26 at half time.
The Ducks controlled the game by domi -
nating the glass in the first half to the tune of
a 25-15 and holding LC to just 33% shoot -
ing after getting out to such a hot start. LC
shot just 1-9 over the final eight minutes of
the second half.
Despite the 17point halftime deficit LC
battled in the second half. Josh Kollasch (’10)
led the way for the Pios with a game high of
20 points and Kelly Edwards (’11) shook off
a tough 5-14 shooting night to finish with
16 points. Kyle Meeuwsen (’11) had eight Pioneers pace with Ducks
LC men’s basketball falls to Division I Oregon by mere 15 points.
by Michael G. Richman
points and seven boards and James Hollins
had eight and six of his own. LC earned 20
trips to the free throw line in the second half,
making 15 of the shots.
No Duck scored over 12 points, with Pac-
10 star Tajuan Porter and LeKendric Long -
mire leading the way for the home team.
Regardless of the final score, hanging
tough with a DI opponent on their home
floor is a laudable effort for the young Pio -
neers. Without an Oregon three-pointer
in the closing minutes of the game the fi -
nal margin would have been just 12 points.
LC won the second half 33-31, leading to
the 74-59 final score and a respectable loss
against a tough Duck team.
This certainly bodes well for LC’s upcom -
ing games against Evergreen St. on Nov. 19
and against William Jessup and Portland Bi -
ble on Nov. 20 and 21 at the Whitman Clas -
sic.
The Northwest Conference better be
wary; this Pioneer team is a force to be reck -
oned with and can compete with anyone in
the country.The men’s and women’s swim teams split
last Friday at Willamette, and now they’re
both ready to enjoy competing at their home
pool on Friday, against Pacific.
Last year, the Pioneer
swim team was inspiring. Its
members broke 10 school
records over the course of
the season. Six women on
the team were seniors, and
they finished off as the third
best team in the NWC.
The men’s side was
understaffed with
only nine mem -
bers, yet each of
its members
stood out.
This year
is guaran -
teed to be dif -
ferent. Three of
those record holders on
the women’s side were se -
niors, and have now grad -
uated along with three
other women seniors. The
men’s side has 16 team -
mates now and is the
third largest in LC history.
“We’re definitely go -
ing to do better than last
year; overall we’re much
stronger now,” said return -
ing swimmer Noah Boring
(’12).
The teams are also tem -
porarily without five mem -
bers, four girls and one
guy, all studying abroad
for the semester. Students
studying abroad include
Claire Jordan (’11) and
Susie T rexler (’11), both re -
cord holders, and backstroke confer -
ence finalist Cat Menkel-Lawrence (’11).
Chris Fantz, the head coach for both
teams, sees the programs as going through
a “building phase.” “One of our goals this
year is for everybody to improve, across the
board,” said Fantz.
The swim team has times to meet every
day for workouts both in and out of the
pool. “We’re spending a lot more time in the Swimming splits meet
by Robin Aubry
water…there’s no breaks,” said newcomer
Isaac Ekblad (’13). “In high school, we’d rest
before a meet; but here, we even go through
full practice the day before we compete.”
The swimmers don’t seem to consider that
much of a problem. Racers Josh Spegman
(’13), Steven Carreno (’12) and Isaac Ekblad
(’13) won two events each on Friday, con -
tributing to a 144-56 rout over Willamette.
The racers, though, had things on their
mind other than the final score. “When
you’re at a swim meet, the team
score is the
last thing
y o u ’ r e
t h i n k i n g
a b o u t , ”
said Boring.
He couldn’t
even recall
the team’s
record last
year. “Your
races, your
teammates, and
self-improve -
ment come
first.”
Still, with
the new line
of first years,
the teams are
definitely going
to see some im -
provement on
the team level.
“I’m looking
forward to
getting bet -
ter times and
getting as far
as I can in
competition,”
said Ekblad.
Thus far, Ekblad has won each of his
sprints. Shuichi Matsumoto (’13) was also
singled out by Fantz as a threat in a number
of events. Rachael Cazden (’13) is another
sprinter to watch, winning both the 50-yard
and the 100-yard freestyle.
Overall, after a strong split at Willamette
on Friday, Fantz expressed his excitement for
the swim teams this year: “There are a lot of
people to watch…they’re all swimming as a
team.”
In case you needed another reason to
catch the first few Lewis & Clark women’s
basketball home games, the athletic depart -
ment is giving you one more, or more like
17,500 more.
The department is holding a promo -
tion that gives LC students a chance to win
$17,500 simply by showing up at women’s
basketball games in November and entering
a shooting contest at halftime.
Students must be present at the game
before tip-off and show a valid LC ID. Stu -
dents get into the game for free, so it will
cost you nothing and could end up paying
off by way of a semester’s worth of tuition.
The first 40 students to arrive at the game
will also receive free “Pio Pound 6th Man LC athletics dept. offers
scholarship to attract fans
Club” t-shirts.
During first half timeouts and at the be -
ginning of halftime, 10 ticket numbers will
be called and the students with the selected
tickets will then compete in a shooting con -
test. There will be four separate shooting
contests on Nov. 15, 17, 21 and 24. One
winner will be selected from each of the four
contests.
The four winners will be entered in the
grand prize contest, which will take place at
halftime of the Nov. 30 game against Cor -
ban. Each of the shooting contest winners
will have a chance to compete in an undis -
closed contest for a chance to win $17,500.
Your first chance is this Sunday at 2 p.m.,
when the women face Evergreen State. by Michael G. Richman Lewis & Clark volleyball finished its sea -
son last week splitting their last two games.
The Pioneers finished the season 10-6 in
conference and 14-11 overall. On November
6, LC defeated Linfield (8-14, 4-10) in three
games, 25-21, 25-16 and 25-16. Katherine
Fiedler (’11) led the way for the Pios with
10 kills and the Pios dominated the net as
a team, amassing ten kills compared to just
two for Linfield.
On November 7, LC battled hard against
Pacific Lutheran (20-6, 16-0) before falling
in five games to the best team in the North -
west Conference. The Pios took the first
game 25-21 and then lost the second game
by the same margin. In game three, Pacif -
ic Lutheran showed why they hadn’t lost a
game in the NWC this season as they won
25-19 and seemingly had control of the
match. But LC came up with a gritty per -
formance in game four, evening the match at
two games apiece and forcing a decisive fifth
game with a 25-17 victory.
The Pioneers fought hard in the fifth
game, but came up short as the visiting Lutes
took the final game 15-12.
Jessamy Holland (’10) came up huge in
the final home game of her Pioneer career
with 17 kills and three blocks. Fiedler, who
was later named first-team all-Northwest
Conference, had yet another solid game with
13 kills and a block. The other Pioneer se -nior, Sarah Hall, also had a fine night; she
had 10 kills and a block to go along with 19
assists in her home court farewell.
The Pios finished the year tied for the
third best record in the Northwest Confer -
ence and welcome back a solid group for
next year’s team, which should again chal -
lenge for the top of NWC.Volleyball battles top seed
by Michael G. Richman
Sarah Hall (’10) put up 10 kills in
her final night as a Pioneer. PHOTO BY SAM DODSONILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK
Lewis & Clark Pioneers
Winter Sports Schedule
Women’s Basketball Home Schedule

Sun. 11/15 Evergreen State — 7 p.m.*
Tue. 11/17 Warner Pacific — 7 p.m.*
Sat. 11/21 Northwest (Wash.) — 7 p.m.*
Tue. 11/24 Concordia (Ore.) — 7 p.m.*
Mon. 11/30 Corbin — 7 p.m. Swimming Home Schedule

Fri. 11/13 Pacific — 6 p.m.
Sat. 11/21 Northwest Invitiational — All Day
Sun. 11/22 Northwest Invitiational — All Day
Sat. 12/5 College of Idaho — 10 a.m.
* games at which students can qualify for the half-tution
scholarship competition to be held on 11/30Football Home Schedule

Sat. 11/14 Puget Sound — 1 p.m.
($5,000 field goal contest at halftime)
Backdoor 12
You Caught My Eye
Please e-mail your“You Caught My Eye” to piolog@lclark.edu ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONASthe Pioneer Log, November 13, 2009
The Backdoor is a work of humor and does not actually contain real news.
And no, Roger Federer is not depressed or suicidal. He’s really a prick with a big ego. There, I said it.Y ou: Will Bullock.
Me: Call me Connie I’m your baby.
Y ou: Dense beard.Me: Dense beard below my rhinestone belt. Check it.
Y ou: The littlest teaspoon, tracing my contours.Me: P eeling back the layers of appeal.Y ou: Southwestern rhinestone cowboy.Me: Licking the sweat off your mustachioed upper lip.Y ou: Sexy sicky.Me: Wanting to catch what you’ve got.
Y ou: T all skinny guy opening for Joe Purdy.Me: Need you to know that carrots won’t do a damn thing, I’ll still weather your storm.PS: I love you.Y ou: Didn’t log off in the library.
Me: Just used your entire print balance.Y ou: Sexy Stevens in Bob’ s Sociology class...
Me: Wishing you would borrow my book more often...will you go on a date with me?Y ou: The piano I can’t wait to play again.Me: Snowfl ake.
Y ou: Smiling more with me yesterday and today.Me: Hoping it won’t hurt you tomorrow.
Y ou: Irritated about OMFG.Me: A fatty liar and sincerely just attracted to you.Y ou: Heinz 57.Me: Wanna Ketch-Up with you.
Y ou: Constantly leaving your dishes, soiled napkins and sculptural food towers on your table for ‘the help’ to clean.Me: The Bon worker considering immediate action. Oh, you thought the little worm in your salad greens was bad...
Historical Inaccuracies
that Vindicate your
Mismanagement of Time
Written by Eustacia Wylie
Famed mythologist, writer and lecturer Joseph Campbell updated his Facebook status every /f_i ve minutes, ending each entry with “...and following my bliss, muthafuckas.”
Anton Chekhov was a
writer, a playwright and the grandson of a serf. He regularly sat on the couch watching re-runs of Project Runway while eat-ing his roommate’s stale Cheetos.
Film director Francis Ford Coppo-
la, famous for, among other things, the Godfather trilogy and Apoca-
lypse Now, never actually existed.
Roger Federer, a Swiss professional
tennis player, has won 15 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other male player. When asked about the key to his success, he re-sponded, “I hate myself and I want to die.”Miles Davis, American jazz trum-peter, bandleader and composer, is
widely considered one of
the most in/f_l uential jazz
musicians in the 20th
century. His only ma-
jor in/f_l uences, he
said late in his life,
were the video
games Arkanoid
and Ms. Pacman.
He played late into
the evening until
he found his vision
was being aff ected.
“Everything sud-
denly had this strange, slightly blue tint to it.” His record, Kind of Blue,
went on to become the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met
at Stanford in 1995. Back then, if you wanted a website, you got it. So they got super, super high one
night and typed in “website
that compiles all of the in-
formation ever” into
their compu-boxes
and Google came out, and pro-ceeded to pour money all over their faces.Drink of the
Week
Inside the Issue...
[pg. 2] Something
topical.[pg. 11] Something CRAZZZY!!![pg. 4] Something
weird.The Toast
Written by Rand McNally
Greetings, dear readers! /T_h is
week I would like to propose a
toast to Craig Newmark. Now, I don’t usually like to single out indi-viduals in this forum, but since this is 2009 and we’re all about change these days, I /f_i gured it might be okay to relax my standards a bit.
So why Craig New-
mark, you ask? For those of you who don’t know, Mr. Newmark is the egoistic founder of a popular website that bears his own name: Craigslist. N o w , w h i l e this writer fully appreci-
ates a good nar-
cissistic self-reference
when he sees one (so long as it’s not as clever as his own self-aggrandize-ments), this is not the reason why
Mr. Newmark receives my praise.
Nay, this self-admiring nerd-god
amongst men receives this toast for the incredible gift he has bestowed upon all (wo)mankind: Casual En-counters.
When else in history has it been
possible to anonymously seek sex (or whatever physical…or virtu-al…act tickles your fancy)? /T_h anks to the incredible brainchild of Mr. Newmark, anyone with an Internet connection can get that “afternoon quicky” while roleplaying a “ca-bana boy” fantasy.
Now that 38-year-old hot and
horny milf next door [read: gro-tesquely overweight 50-plus virgin] can “quench her thirst” for a stud-
ly, well-built 20- to
24-year-old half-
Asian man [read:
pale, skinny thirty
two year old who
still lives with
his mom].
W h i l e
some out
there may
c r i t i c i z e
this virtual
sexual utopia
as “depraved,”
“perverse,” “im-
moral,” or “evidence that the American Empire is truly in de-cline and we as a society have hit
rock bottom and are a shameless
generation of heathens,” I say…
maybe you’re right. But without Casual Encounters, I would never get laid.
So fuck the haters, Mr. New-
mark, this toast goes out to you. Without you, I would never realize my dream of participating in a /f_i ve-man Pterodactyl.
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCK
Imitation Beer
2 oz rum
12 oz lemonade1/4 tsp sugar1 1/2 oz whipped cream
Are you tired of playing beer
pong with ordinary beer? Want to drink your sorrows away with more than just Miller High Life? /T_h ink that lemon-ade and rum sounds like a good idea? /T_h en try Imitation Beer, making you yearn for PBR.
Chaser of
the Week
Tickle Me Elmo
2 oz strawberry schnapps12 oz pineapple juice4 oz Everclear
All right, so the Imitation Beer
wasn’t good enough. Well, Black Friday’s coming up soon, so better get ready with this horrid reminder of the holiday toy that was a little bit cuddly, a lot creepy.