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Volume 74, Number 13 Friday, January 29, 2010 Quoth the Piolog, “Welcome back.”
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College receives $750,000
ILLUSTRATION BY KELLY KUYKENDALLPHOTOS BY KARL BERGERTwo donations totaling three-quarters of
a million dollars have been presented to the
Lewis & Clark College of Arts and Sciences. One is from Fred W. Fields; the other is from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Fields donated $500,000 without stipula-
tions; these funds can be used for anything on the College of Arts and Sciences campus. Julio de Paula, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that this money will be used for the “2010 calendar year.” It will go toward general college operations, “nothing in particular,” said de Paula. “In these times of /f_i nancial trouble, this donation will be es-pecially helpful.”
Fred W. Fields is a Life Trustee and a Port-
land resident. /T_h e Fields Dining Hall and the Fred W. Fields Center for the Visual Arts are both named after him.
He has been, as Julio de Paula said, “an
incredible supporter. Although retired, he is still involved.”
His wife is on the University of Portland
Board of Trustees. /T_h ey are both “all about Portland… and supporting higher educa-tion.”
In addition to Fields’ gift, the W.M. Keck
Foundation awarded the College a $250,000
grant toward
developing a curriculum in the /f_i eld of nano-
science.
Over a year
ago, former LC
President /T_h omas Hochstettler, Vice Presi-dent for Institutional Advancement Gregory
Volk, and Dean of the College of Arts and
Science Julio de Paula pitched the idea for a
nanoscience program to the foundation.
Proposals were written and the idea ad-
vanced through a series of steps. One step
was a visit by representatives of the Foun-
dation. /T_h ey had lunch with a group of
students, faculty and administrators, questioning them about the College. Eventually the project was approved and
the grant awarded./T_h e professors involved in the nanosci-
ence program will be Kellar Autumn, profes-
sor of biology, Anne Bentley, assistant profes-sor of chemistry, and Julio de Paula, who will continue to be a member of the chemistry department after he has stepped down from his present position as Dean. /T_h is lineup may change and/or gain members through-out the process.
/T_h e /f_i rst step in this process will be de-
veloping a new course for non-majors called “Technology for the Future.” According to de Paula this course will deal with the eff ects that technology has on society, the pros and cons of technology and in learning the sci-ence that is involved.
De Paula said that he /f_i nds the idea of
multiple professors teaching the course “very intriguing.” “Origins of Life in the Uni-verse,” new this semester, is taught in this way and has been a very popular course with a long waiting list.
/T_h e new course will probably not be of-
fered until the 2011-12 school year, and the professors are looking toward off ering “Tech-nology for the Future” and “Origins of Life in the Universe” on alternating years.
Besides the development of this course,
the Keck Foundation grant will be used to integrate nanoscience into the present cur-riculum of science courses—both general ed-
ucation requirements and advanced
courses.
Nanoscience is not on the
path to becoming a major or a
minor at the moment, but if there is enough student
interest, that could happen
in the future. De Paula said that the College is “making approaches to other founda-tions as well.”
In response to the recent
fundraising success, De Pau-la said that he is “ecstatic.”
“[/T_h ese donations] are
a testament to the quality of what we do at Lewis &
Clark. If we weren’t
doing things right
we wouldn’t be
blessed with these donations
right now.”Wilkens tells tales of Rwanda
Carl Wilkens, the only American to remain in Rwanda during the 1994
genocide, shared his experiences with students Thursday, Jan. 21. The lecture, “Rwanda Yesterday and Today, Darfur Tomorrow,” was hosted by the Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (STAND).by Laura Nash
Neighbors stop LC building plans
Neighborhood organizing has blocked
some of LC’s development plans proposed in
the Master Plan that must be passed through the city every 10 years. /T_h e plans for new Law School housing, as well as for extended lighting at Griswold stadium and renova-tions to the Huston baseball /f_i eld, failed in a decision that was released Dec. 3.
“/T_h ere’s some disappointment, but it’s
not a surprise,” said Associate Dean of Stu-dents Jeff rey Feld-Gore, referencing the situ-ation with the neighborhood at present.
While most of the plan, including plans
for a new student center, passed, the failure of the border-pushing proposals has created pressure for LC administrators to improve the College’s relations with its neighbors.
/T_h e College’s Conditional Use Master
Plan began ruffl ing feathers in the fall when members of the Collin’s View Neighborhood Association were surprised by a proposal that would put new law student housing in the middle of their neighborhood. Marshall Park Neighborhood Association Land Use Chair John De Lance described the College’s atti-tude as seeming like “they wouldn’t take no for an answer.” He said the College “didn’t seem to understand the impacts that could happen as a result of the development.”
/T_h e hearing process was extended and
contentious, and when the Pioneer Log spoke
with David Ellis, LC’s Vice President, Sec-retary and General Counsel, in October, he expressed that the College would pursue an appeal if the plan was not passed completely. Now the administration has decided not to seek that appeal, as arguments made by the neighbors have made it impossible to pass. LC looks forward now to improving rela-tions with those who surround the campus.
“/T_h ere has been some trust that has been
lost between the neighborhood and the Col-lege,” said De Lance, due to this lack of com-munication. “/T_h ere was a lot of information [about the College’s plan] that it was diffi cult to get until it was almost too late.”
“/T_h ere is an underlying narrative here
about what happens when relationships aren’t cultivated,” said Dean of Students Ce-lestino Limas, who added that “there’s a lot of work to do” to improve this relationship.
Limas and Feld-Gore described plans to
make eff orts toward a better relationship with neighbors. Feld-Gore mentioned a hopeful cooperation with local landlords to advertise on campus, programs to encour-age community service in the areas close to the LC campus, and more usage of LC fa-cilities by neighbors. Limas emphasized that the College and neighborhood needed to develop a relationship that exists outside of “just talking to each other when they need something.”
De Lance said that the neighbors’ “hand
is extended and we’re hopeful.” However, he said that the neighborhood’s trust of LC is not complete. /T_h e neighborhoods, who are now strengthened and uni/f_i ed after the “Da-vid and Goliath confrontation” with LC over the Master Plan, intend to “keep an eye” on the College. /T_h ey also have their suspicions about some aspects of the plan that did pass. “/T_h ere’s a lot of development for not having any plans to grow the College,” he said, em-phasizing a continuing concern about traffi c, an issue that strained the Plan negotiations.
by Angela Webber
Volume 73, Number 1 News 2 the Pioneer Log, January 29. 2010
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t / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat / Crime Beat /School year sees a decline in write-ups
by Nichole CarnellILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONASExploring the various paths of the
question, “Is the Election of Barack
Obama the Fulfillment of Dr. King’s
Dream?” Professor Randall Kennedy
from Harvard Law School delivered a
speech at Lewis & Clark Law School.
T wo alumni and a law firm sponsored
the January 19 event, which was the
third annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day address.
Kennedy, who has studied at Princ -
eton, Oxford and Yale School of Law,
quoted Martin Luther King’s aspira -
tion for a world where people “will not
be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.”
While calling the Obama presiden -
cy a “remarkable step forward,” Ken -
nedy said that, “the race line is very
much with us.” He provided two main
pieces of evidence: Senator Reid’s
comment on Obama’s election and
Obama’s political maneuvering.
Kennedy said that he didn’t find
Senator Reid’s comment offensive.
Reid’s comment expressed the opin -
ion that voters favored Obama despite
his being African-American, because
Obama is “light-skinned” and lacks a
“Negro dialect, unless he wanted to
have one.”
Kennedy went on to explain that
he believes Senator Reid’s comment
is accurate, and that it shows that an
African-American candidate must ap -
pear “less black.” He described Ameri -
ca as a “pigmentocracy,” where lighter-
skinned blacks are more acceptable. 
Moving on to his main supporting
point, Kennedy said that Obama had,
and still has, to constantly remain self-
consciously aware of his race.
One of his examples of Obama’s ra -
cial self-consciousness was that Obama
rarely discusses racial issues such as af -
firmative action, and avoided them
altogether during his campaign in de -
bates with then prospective-president
John McCain. Obama only tackled
race when he had to, as in his speech
on race spurred by the provocative
comments made by Reverend Wright.
Despite continued racial inequality,
Kennedy still views Obama’s presiden -
cy as remarkable for two reasons that
he listed: The President of the United
States of America is widely considered
to be the most powerful position in
America, and African-Americans have
a “thin history” of holding high-level
political offices.
Regarding this, Kennedy said that
only three African-Americans have
been elected to the senate and that
only two African-Americans have been
elected to be state governors.
After Kennedy’s speech, one ques -
tion that he answered was: What can
regular people do to promote racial
equality? One small tactic he suggested
is that people should consider correct -
ing family and friends when they do or
say something racially intolerant.
He later added that people should
always observe Martin Luther King, Jr.
day, as, he said, history that is not re -
membered becomes useless. Kennedy
used an example of the bus boycott
during the Civil Rights Movement in
Montgomery, Alabama. Apparently,
he said, there had been a much earlier
boycott in Montgomery that had been
much stronger, but was forgotten. 
That’s why the more recent one was
more effective, Kennedy said—it was
remembered.by Joshua Kaplan
A push in New Student Orientation and
student leader training may have paid off:
Data provided by Campus Living shows that
last semester saw fewer students were found
breaking College policy. Though results from
last semester indicated seven hospital visits
for alcohol and drug related issues, an ex -
traordinarily high number, the number of
overall incidents (which include parties and
other beer- and drug- consuming incidents
on campus) revealed decreasing trends from
previous years.
During Fall 2007, 267 cases that resulted
in a hearing were reported by Resident Ad -
visors and Campus Safety. Those numbers
dropped to 208 in Fall 2008. Numbers fell
by nearly 50 percent in Fall 2009, in which
Campus Living only reported 108 incidents.
Data showing deterrence from becoming a
repeat offender also proved to be staggering.
In Fall 2008, 59 percent of students involved
in incidents were involved in multiple inci -
dents in the same semester; only 24 percent
of students who were involved in situations
were involved in more than one last fall.
Though the beginning of this semester
has seen a spike in incidents, members of
Campus Life staff are positive about the new
trend, especially the recidivism (repeat of -
fender) rate. “We want to see the recidivism
rate go down because that means learning
has happened,” said Administrative Coordi -
nator for Campus Living Jenn Crowder.
“Whether it’s the conversations that are
being had, or the relationships with their
RAs or with their peers, we’re not sure, but
[the repeat offender] numbers are down
35% from two years ago,” said Crowder. “It’s just mindboggling, and awesome.”
Staff that deals with College conduct
are attempting to open up the information
pathways to maximize communication and
knowledge. A student conduct website has
been created with student conduct data, as
well as the Pathfinder , the document con -
taining College Code of Conduct and poli -
cies, and the Pio to Pio , a student guide to
“How things really work at LC.”
“We wanted a place for students to be able
to go if they had questions,” said Crowder.
“We don’t want it to be a big mystery.”
The goals for the conduct system ex -
pressed by Dean of Students Celestino Limas
were that, “Students understand exactly why
the rules exist,” and to develop “partnership
between students and Campus Living.”
“We want the focus of student conduct
to be an educational process. If a student
is involved in a case and they go to a hear -
ing, they should leave that hearing with a
better understanding of what the policy is,
what their role in the violation might have
been, and how to make better decisions…
so that they don’t come back through,” said
Crowder.
One aspect of Lewis & Clark’s conduct
system that differs from other schools is the
lack of a “matrix” of conduct outcomes. This
leads to a number of questions to RAs and
Campus Living staff. “It’s really hard to say:
‘if drug policy violation 2, then x’… it really
depends on the conversation we have with
that student,” said Crowder.
“We don’t want students to be afraid or
think that the outcomes are punitive,” said
Crowder. America as “Pigmentocracy”MLK day speech:
Once upon a CrimeBeat dreary, while I
pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and dubious volume
of forgotten crime,
While I liquored, lazily lapping, suddenly
there came a tapping,
As of someone forcibly rapping, rapping at
my dorm room door –
“’Tis Campus Safety,” I muttered,
“tapping at my dorm room door –
Only this, and nothing more.”
u An employee reported that their
department club car had been tam -
pered with on January 4.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was on the
fourth of January-ember,
And each and every stolen hubcap
wrought its shine upon my wall.
Using only the prongs of a rusty rake, vainly I had sought to take
From the club car a set of brakes – brakes
for my new go-kart –
For the sleek and shiny cart whom I had
named The Brass Bart –
A name that stays within my heart.
v An employee reported a burglary
from Templeton Student Center on
January 7.
And the giant pile of hot cross buns stolen
from the kitchen of T empleton
Thrilled me – filled me with doughy
goodness never felt before;
So that now, to still the panting of my
belly, I stood chanting
“’Tis Campus Safety to write me up at my
dorm room door –
Some safety officer to write me up at
my dorm room door; -
That it is, and nothing more.”Write for the Pioneer Log.
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3Forum the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
Jane Jacobs once wrote,
“Only prosperity has causes.
Analogically, heat is a result
of active processes; it has
causes. But cold is not the
result of any processes; it is
only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty
and economic stagnation is
merely the absence of eco-
nomic development. It can
be overcome only if the rel-
evant economic processes
are in motion.” Many of us
who were born in the United
States don’t even know what
exactly modern prosperity is,
much less how we attained
it.
For those in Haiti, the
last two weeks have been
more than trying. Aside from the staggering death
toll, millions are now home-
less, starving, and facing
daily violence. To attribute the deaths in Haiti to faulty building codes and the like
is a mistake. Even if such
measures were in place, it
is doubtful that they would have been eff ective; wide-spread poverty cannot be
pushed aside by mere legis-
lation.
Although the proximate
cause of the most recent natural disaster is an earth-
quake, the ultimate cause of
this, and other disasters, is poverty.
For example, Fukuoka,
a metropolitan area with 5
million people, was hit by a
7.0 earthquake in 2005. /T_h e
result? Millions of dollars in
damage, but only one fatal-
ity. /T_h e 1994 earthquake in
LA registered a 6.7 on the
Richter scale, left 72 dead,
and caused $20 billion in
damage. /T_h e Bay Area quake
in the fall of 1989 was also
7.0 and killed 63 people. /T_h us, at its core, the disaster in Haiti, as with elsewhere,
is the lack of power over the
“natural world.”
Even over a century ago,
the US was wealthier than
contemporary Haitians.
When San Francisco was
struck by its major earth-
quake in 1906, the average per capita income was just over $6,000 in 2006 dollars.
Last year, the same statistic
for Haitians was still below $1,500. What these num-
bers mean is that the quality
and amount of things pro-
vided for human use were
considerably greater in San Francisco of yesteryear than
it is in modern Haiti. Our
buildings are safer and stur-
dier, our environment clean-
er, our homes better insu-
lated and cooled, and we are
aff orded the luxury of burn-
ing clean fossil fuels instead
of resorting to deforestation.
Wrenching poverty makes
life frail during the whims
of nature. /T_h e 150,000 dead
are, sadly, testament to this
fact.
Absolute control and vic-
tory over death are impossi-
bilities, yet it is still admira-
ble and desirable to delay the
inevitable. Charity and com-passion are surely called for in the Haitian aftermath, but
they should also be extended
to those who regularly face
repressive governments. /T_h e citizens of Myanmar, Soma-lia and Zimbabwe, to name
only a few countries, are in
similar situations and should not be far from thought.
Writing about Haiti, /T_h e
Onion published an article
this week entitled, “Massive
Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called
‘Haiti’.” It’d be nice to think
that this was an absurdity.
But natural disasters in poor
places mainly arouse sympa-
thy only after the fact, when
it is too late. After all, it
was not that long ago when
Myanmar was struck by Cy-
clone Nargis, killing nearly
150,000 people and China,
a scant ten days later, saw
90,000 die after the Sichuan
earthquake.
It is not coincidence that
the poor are most aff ected by
disaster. Solving this issue,
which is undoubtedly easier
said than done, would not only save thousands of lives from potential disaster, it
would also save thousands of
lives from the daily torments
of poverty. /T_h e real disaster in Haiti is the poverty
Freshmen, think before going all the way with that sexy 300-level class
Before I begin, I want to make it
clear that I am not writing out of malice or frustration, I am simply concerned about the regularity with which fresh-man Lewis & Clark students attempt to take three hundred level classes.
Now you may ask: Shouldn’t we
be fostering an environment in which those who want to go above and be-yond are encouraged and appreciated? /T_h e simple answer is yes – we should promote intellectual rigor and struggle. But the problem with jumping ahead is much more subtle and frustrating. If I may, let me argue by analogy.
Simply put – taking three hundred
level classes as a freshman is like having sex with someone within the /f_i rst week of meeting them. It’s just not going to promote a healthy relationship between two people, or in this case between the student and the major. DON’T DO IT. Or do, who am I to say? I mean, let’s be honest here: three hundred level classes are in/f_i nitely more exciting than intro courses. But before you go leap-ing head/f_i rst into scholastic bliss, let’s go over the two very possible outcomes of skipping the introduction.
When you sleep with someone
within a week of meeting them, you in-variably end up in one of two camps. Either you’re 1) the person who just wanted to hook-up and ends up getting bored by the next week, or 2) the per-son who really thought that giving it up easy would foster a healthy relationship based on trust and mutual understand-ing of this cruel, cruel world.
/T_h is is exactly what happens when
you skip ahead; you miss the relation-ship building stage. /T_h ink of intro courses as the watching movies at mid-night while sharing a blanket with your crush phase. /T_h e /f_l irtation is sweet and frustrating and after a while you start to wonder if it’s EVER going to happen. Just wait – you’ll get to Middle-East Politics (284) and Abnormal Psychol-ogy (240) soon enough.
When you skip the /f_l irting and just
start getting down with the major, the same thing happens. Either 1) you’re awesome. You ace the course. It blew your mind and was so amazing that you become completely disillusioned at the fact that you have to go back and com-plete the required courses. You won-der, “Why do I have to /f_l irt with you Anthropology?! I already got the good stuff from Anthropology of Violence (324). Going back would be a sham to both of us.” You then break up with the discipline and feel somehow cheated out of satisfaction. Or 2) you like the class – it’s fun and exciting. Maybe Dr. Asher even brought dessert one day be-cause you all formatted your in-text ci-tations correctly in Shakespeare (332). You give it an honest eff ort but inevi-tably /f_i nd yourself waking up on your birthday with a bad case of mono af-ter being dumped with a C+ grade of “Let’s be friends.” You’re still interested and /f_i nish the major requirements, but somewhere buried in the deep recesses of your mind, the rejection lingers and you always feel a little inferior to the rest of your peers who patiently waited for “the moment.”
Marley Badolati
College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2010by Garik Asplund
Letters to the Editor
A sampling from the voices of the Lewis & Clark community“I campaigned on the promise of change – change we can
believe in, the slogan went. And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure that they still believe we can change – or at least, that I can deliver it,” President Barack Obama stated during his /f_i rst State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night.
/T_h ese words were particularly poignant for a president
who, many argued leading up to the speech, was making the case for the viability of his administration. With support for his signature health care reform initiative sinking both on Capital Hill and with the public, national unemployment still hovering at ten percent, the unful/f_i lled promise to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, and last week’s upset in Massachusetts that ended the Democrats’ Senate superma-jority, Obama off ered an unusually frank acknowledgement that 2009 did not turn out as he and his supporters expected. While many voters are having doubts about his leadership and his ability to bring an end to the partisan gridlock in Washington, Obama was quick to remind all who were lis-tening that, “Democracy in a nation of three hundred mil-lion people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try and do big things and make big changes, it stirs
passions and controversy. /T_h at’s just how it is.”
While Obama made good use of the time-honored presi-
dential privilege of blaming all of his problems on his pre-
decessor (without naming him, of course), he was willing to shoulder some of the responsibility for the failings of his
administration thus far. He threw out speci/f_i c proposals for
/f_i scal restraint and job promotion. /T_h e rookie president went
to great lengths throughout the speech to show the American people that he understands the suff ering that has occurred over the last two years and that he shares their anger at both
Wall Street and Washington. In other words, he has read the
tea leaves from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, and
he knows his political capital is not what it once was.
With this in mind, Obama seemed as though he was try-
ing to hit the “reset button” with the American people, at-tempting to remind them of the graceful and soaring orator who inspired them so greatly just less then two years ago. /T_h roughout much of the speech, in fact, Obama seemed to turn back the clock, hearkening back to momentous lines from the campaign.
In outlining his plans for spurring job growth and stimu-
lating the economy to the continued /f_i ght to /f_i nish health care reform, Obama tried to summon a sense of national
purpose to confront pressing problems, claiming that the
values that built America “aren’t Republican or Democratic
values…they’re American values.” /T_h is renewed appeal to bipartisanship – a hallmark of his presidential campaign but something that has been markedly absent in his time in the
White House – is a clear attempt to reassure independent
voters who supported him in the 2008 election and stave off
the shifting political winds marked by Scott Brown’s upset last week.
In this vein, Obama railed against congressional Repub-
licans, reminding them that, “If…sixty votes in the Senate
are required to do any business at all in this town, then the
responsibility to govern is now yours as well. Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership.”
While this line may have simply been good politics,
Obama’s address reminded a nervous nation why they elect-ed him in the /f_i rst place: his leadership.President on
the President
Our ASLC commander-in-chief Brad Elkins
covers the State of the Union Address
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my fieldILLUSTRATION BY ALINA LARSONVolume 73, Number 1 Forum 4 the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
“Every comedian dreams of
hosting The Tonight Show and,
for seven months, I got to do it!
I did it my way, with people I
love. I do not regret one second.”
Thus spoke Conan O’Brien, the
beloved late night talk show host
who will take at least a six month
hiatus from television thanks
to a contractual buy-out from
NBC worth $45 million.
The joke, apparently, is on
Conan, but not many people
are laughing. After signing a
contract to take over The To -
night Show an unprecedented
five years in advance - in order
to avoid a late night battle simi -
lar to Leno versus Letterman in
the early ‘90s - Conan has been ousted from his short stint as
host, which lasted all of seven
months.
Other parts of the contract
limit his speech towards NBC in
the future and also make some
of his most popular sketches sole
property of the network. Intel -
lectual property is being used
to take successful skits, like the
Masturbating Bear and In The
Year 2000/3000, and keep them
off the air. This gives ownership
to NBC over an idea, which is
not property at all.
Property rights arose in the
first place because of scarcity. In
the intellectual world, ideas are
not scarce, nor are they physi -
cal. They should be compen -
sated, but not guarded against,
copyrighted, and sold to cor -porations. Effectively, NBC has
taken what was a funny idea
from the writers of Late Night
and turned it into “property” so
that Conan can no longer ben -
efit from his creations. This con -
tractual concession shows just
how bad relations were between
Conan and NBC. If Conan con -
tinues to produce like he has for
the last 16 years, this will be but
a bump in the road and he will
get the last laugh.
Anyway, Conan is probably
correct when he said in his de -
parture letter, “People of Earth,”
that most of the blame goes to -
wards NBC for not having a suf -
ficient base of quality primetime
TV leading into his show:
“It was my mistaken be -
lief that, like my predecessor, I
would have the benefit of some
time and, just as important,
some degree of ratings support
from the prime-time sched -
ule. Building a lasting audience
at 11:30 is impossible without
both.”
In a world where newspapers
are dying and TV ratings are
hurting, does it come as a sur -
prise that a show geared towards
Gen-Xers suffered from poor
television ratings? Hulu and
other websites, even NBC.com,
offer the material for free on de -
mand. For a host who was once
renewing 14-week contracts on
a regular basis when beginning
Late Night, it seems capricious
of the network to cancel a show that barely got off the ground.
Even so, the $3 million dol -
lars his show was supposed to
lose this year pales in compari -
son with the $200 million that
NBC has already lost on the
Vancouver Olympics. The finger
pointing within the network is
definitely ugly, and now the late
night line-up is becoming out -
dated and banal.
Conan was the one comic
who could make people genu -
inely laugh. His bits were hi -
larious and unpredictable. The
revival of Andy Richter - who
had been missing since his
daparture in 2000 - was inge -
nious, too. Leno, despite his rat -
ings, has been on a comedic pla -
teau for quite some time. Most
of his viewers were old and get -
ting older. In contrast, the senior
citizen crowd was shocked by
Conan’s enthusiasm and goofi -
ness, as one famous bit from
Late Night emphasized. But this
was a good thing and not simply
an affront to our nation’s AARP
card carrying members.
The humility, awkwardness,
overall character, even hairstyle,
of Conan were, and are, far supe -
rior than Leno’s. Conan’s shows
took more risks, had more hits,
a more loyal following, and an
overall better staff. Plus, creepy
Max Weinberg, and his seven,
are more talented and funnier
than Jay’s lead guitarist Kevin
and his respective band.
I’m with Team CoCo. by Garik Lawson AsplundConan The Late Night Barbarian ExitsA new column on relationships &
sex by your ASLC Chief Justice
Dear Hamslam,
How can I change my boyfriend?
Dear Reader - let me tell you -
Ladies, there are two possible an -
swers to this question, which I am
sure is on your mind. The first answer
is simply, “No.” There is no chance in
hell that you can change a man that
does not want to be changed, even if it
is for the best. In fact, I have read that
some men even show the worst parts
of themselves in order to ward off the
girl wanting to change them later. The
thought process there is: If she can deal
with this, she can deal with anything.
And if she can deal with anything then
she won’t try to change me. Guys: This
totally works.
On the other hand, if a man wants
to change, he will. Recently a friend
of mine had a girlfriend for the first
time in his life; for him, that was a big
change. In such an arrangement this
friend realized that he would need to
change in order to adapt to the sed -
entary lifestyle of having a girlfriend.
He was like a cute lonely dog at the
pound: As soon as he found the right
home he was willing to never chase the
neighborhood cats again, as long as you
fed the little guy. My friend, the hu -
man, not the rescued puppy, realized he
would have to give up the chase, which
all men love, and settle for monogamy.
In order for his girlfriend to change
him, she did not need to ask or nag, she
simply had to realize and recognize that
he was ready to change. Once she did,
she subtly took advantage of that and
voila, change occurred. Women, fear
not, there is hope.
But enough of that, and of the bi -
zarre dog analogy. After taking a quick
poll of involved women at LC I have
realized that some seek physical change,
others emotional, and most, hygienic. I
mean, seriously, take a shower.
For these concerns I would recom -
mend communication. No matter
what, ladies, it is important to com -
municate your thoughts and feelings to
your man. Even if he might not want to
hear them, that’s what a relationship is
based on, and overall that is what will
get you the desired effect. Because if he
cares and wants to change for you, he
will, but if he doesn’t then you might
want to consider what is really impor -
tant about your relationship and what
you are willing to live with.
To the men out there—fuck change,
stay dirty, and just be you—these LC
hunnies will adjust. They have to with
a 70/30 split!
Submit questions for Hamslam to:
piolog@lclark.eduBon-goers were greeted with a surprise
upon entering Fields this semester – a stock -
pile of boxes. “Why?” some surely thought
as they gazed at this mountain of cardboard.
The reason, as printed by the bottom right
of the boxes in a small font, was that it rep -
resented the amount of waste we as Lewis
& Clark students with meal plans commit
to the garbage each week. According to the
sheet, 1200 pounds of food are wasted every
day. Certainly a staggering number put in
comparison with the amount that one per -
son eats every day.
In a way, it could be worse: All the food
that is put in the compost is handed over to
the city of Portland to compost. So is all of
the food that is prepared but not eaten by
students. This is better than the excess CO2
that would enter the atmosphere had all
the food been chucked at the dump (which
many restaurants still do). Nevertheless, a
problem remains when in one day over 1400 pounds of waste were reported.
The event itself is Bon-wide. The Bon
Appétit runs the annual shindig, which hap -
pened last year at around the same time as
well, and they tell people like Fields Manager
Landis Jurd more or less how to run it.
Among Jurd’s duties of overseeing staff
and stock in the dining hall, he also has the
responsibility of acting as a liaison to the stu -
dent body. He was responsible for a lot of the
decisions that went into the campaign: “The
boxes provide a great representation of how
much food is actually being wasted in one
day,” said Jurd. The other aspect of this pro -
motion is that students are now responsible
for putting their waste into these compost
bins. This exists to put another slab of guilt
on the students, who take another step into
realizing how much they’re contributing to
the pile of litter.
Jurd describes the campaign as a “culmi -
nation of awareness. You’d be surprised of
how little students know about how much
is wasted.” The result seems to be positive: “We
are reducing waste,” reported Jurd. A total
of 132 pounds were taken off the average,
but over this week he wants to double the
amount saved.
Look, I hate wasting food. I’m sure that
you, kind reader, agree. Nobody really enjoys
throwing away perfectly good food. T rue, ev -
ery so often if we don’t like something or we
couldn’t possibly eat another bite, some food
must go to waste; but like a kid who picks a
flower and sees nothing wrong with it, stu -
dents don’t realize that the little bit of rice or
vegetables that they don’t eat can and does
add up to a massive amount of wasted food.
Is this system perfect? Absolutely not.
Jurd confirms that there is a problem in
counting things that must go into waste like
banana and orange peels, apple cores, bones
and napkins, among other things.
Moreover, the reported weight is always
off, as they don’t put the bins on scales; what
they do instead is count how many topped
off bins there are. Each bin, according to
Jurd, weighs about 287 pounds. He sug -
gests that there is probably a 20-30 pound
discrepancy.
Nevertheless, the drop of 132 pounds
talks, and the prospect of bringing the week -
ly average down to less than 1000 sings.
Are there ways of bringing the amount of
waste even lower besides simply not wasting
food? Jurd believes that losing the “all you
can eat” buffet scheme, as done at Reed,
“would significantly reduce waste.” Could
this work for the student body? Assuming
that the amount of flex-points was increased,
there are some liberating ideas behind the
pay-as-you-eat plan. Perhaps that should
be reserved for another article. For now,
though, just remember how even the little
bit that you put in those green bins adds up
to another box that Jurd and staff will have
to put up on the pile of projected, symbolic
waste. Waste measure isn’t perfect, but point is clear
by Robin Aubry
PHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUS
A new display of boxes at Fields Dining Hall showcases Lewis & Clarks’ waste.
Conan O’Brien left NBC last week amid a hilarious late night battle.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. ILLUSTRATION BY ALINA LARSONFeatures 5 the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
Style Source by Sam Margevicius and Catherine Grella

friday saturday sunday
monday tuesday wednesday
thursday friday saturday29 30 31
1 2 3
4 5 6January 29 to February 6
Senior Soiree
Kick off the countdown to graduation!
Stamm, 4 – 6 p.m.Catholic Eucharist
Off-campus celebration at University of Portland
Meet at Maggies, 10 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Growing Up Black in America
Lewis & Clark’s Black History Month programs
Stamm, 3:30 p.m.Film Screening: Papers
Graduate School of Education and Counseling’s Continuing Education
Council Chamber, 3 and 7 p.m.
Overseas & Off-campus Applications Due
Submit to the Office of Overseas & Off-campus Programs
Albany Men’s & Women’s Basketball v. Pacific Lutheran
Lewis & Clark Athletic Dept.
Pamplin Sports Center, 6 p.m. PioLog Writing Workshop
Hosted by the Pioneer Log
Thayer, 5:30 p.m. Glowdeo Dance Party
Featuring a mechanical bull
Stamm, 10 p.m.
Red. Black. White.That time in the ’60s when
everyone was trying to
look nice. Motown. Matthew Rugamba
(’13)
International Affairs
Born in England, Matthew moved to Rwanda at age seven. In
Rwanda he had to look old enough to get into clubs, so a nice
dress code became his fake ID. He returned to England last
summer and worked in the glorious “Hamley’s” shop: a seven
floor children’s paradise where you could try out any toy. Matthew
was one of the toy demonstrators; his job was to play with the
toys, then make them look simple enough for a child to do. The
inflatable UFO ranked among his favorites at the toy store, but
Matthew would rather shop at “Top Man” boutique in London.
Lewis Hyde: “The Gift and the Commons: Creativity
and the Public Good”
Miller, 4 p.m.Volume 73, Number 1 Features 6 the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
by Margaret Adams

This past Sunday, the former sand volley -
ball court located next to Juniper was the re-
cipient of an Extreme Makeover and is now
home to the second Lewis & Clark commu -
nity garden. Around 40 students attended
the first work party for the new garden, de-
spite rain showers and cold temperatures.
Grace Zalenski (’11), director of the
South Campus garden, was excited about the
turnout.
“We expected the freezing rain to damp -
en people’s enthusiasm for gardening, but it
didn’t at all,” Zalenski said.
Chelsea Gilmore (’12) attended and was
pleased with the amount of support shown
by the number of students in attendance.
“To have that many people show up in
the pouring rain for the sake of the plants
is pretty sweet,” she said. Gilmore made the
most of the wet weather by dancing in the
rain barefoot.
The students planted celery, leeks, onions,
lupines, lettuce, broccoli, beets and a per-
simmon tree named Priscilla. The plans and
plants for the garden continue: at the next
work party (still to be announced) carrots,
cabbage, spinach and more herbs will be
added to the garden. So far, all of the plants
have been donated and have arrived by way
of a 19-hour train ride.
The idea for the garden was presented last
semester by two students to Nicola Warmuth
(’11), Resident Advisor of Juniper, and came
to fruition (or, more appropriately, vegeta -
tion) after what Warmuth described as “mas-
sive amounts of proposals to both Facilities
and to the Sustainability Council.”
The community garden will be run on
the honor system: those who put work into
the garden are also encouraged to harvest the
produce. Warmuth, whose window looks
out over the garden, expects that people will
be respectful.
Tara Brown (’11), who described the first
work party as “beautiful, beautiful chaos,” wrote many of the grants and initially talked
to the administration about the possibility of
a second garden.
Since the proposal for the garden was ap-
proved, Facilities has also put many work
hours and money into the project.
A major accomplishment that made a
year-round plan for both gardens more plau-
sible was the approval of funding for a stu-
dent to be employed as garden keeper over
the summer.
The position will entail 15 hours of gar-
den care a week between May and August
and has yet to be filled.
This maintenance will prevent the gar-
dens from deteriorating over summer, which
has previously been a setback in the preserva -
tion of the garden on South Campus.
The patch of land on the Graduate School
Campus has technically been a garden for at
least the last few years, according to Zalen -
ski. She explained that the approximately 45
feet by 45 feet garden was previously allotted
into small, individual student patches and
that there hadn’t really been a comprehensive
plan.
The individual plots are now combined
and have become a habitat to bigger crops.
“We want to grow some stuff to sell to
Bon Appetit, hopefully to the Co-op and
also donate some of what we grow to the Or-
egon Food Bank,” said Zalenski.
LC is home to a garden club, aptly named
The Garden Club, as well as a garden coali-
tion, just as aptly named The Garden Coali -
tion. The two decided to join forces halfway
through the fall semester and were reborn as
the Bucolic Farmers Society.
Members of the Bucolic Farmers Society
are responsible for both community gardens
and have plans to expand residential hall ver-
miculture composting.
T o learn more about helping with the gar -
den, contact Volunteer Coordinator Adrian
Guerrero at adriang@lclark.edu. Green thumbs be jubilant
New LC community garden draws large crowd despite downpour
by Megan Quint
Each year, Jeopardy ! hosts 15 college stu-
dents from around the country for the Jeop-
ardy! College Championship.
Until now, Lewis & Clark had never
made an appearance in this highly anticipat -
ed tournament.
On August 25 Lyndsey Romick (’10)
took the college qualifying test on the Jeop-
ardy! website.
Though the test is rumored to be high-
intensity, with challenging trivia questions
popping up one after the other for an entire
hour, she thought she did pretty well.
“The online test wasn’t that stressful. It
was actually kind of fun,” Romick said.
Competing on College Jeopardy! had been
a dream of Romick’s since high school in
Grants Pass, Oregon, where she competed
on two quiz teams, Brain Bowl and Academ -
ic Challenge.
“They were hosted by a crazy local weath -
erman, who unsuccessfully tried to be Alex
T rebek,” she said.
Romick’s score on the online test was high
enough to qualify her for the second round
of the selection process. It was a chance that
she couldn’t pass up.
One weekend in November Romick flew
to Los Angeles, where she was given an in-
person interview, played a mock game of
Jeopardy! and took another test. However,
knowing that there were many groups audi-
tioning in several cities, she didn’t think her
chances were too great.
“I was satisfied with my audition but it
didn’t seem like I had done any better than
anyone else. There were some people there
who’d tried out multiple times and knew
what was going on, but it was my first time.
In that sense there was really no pressure.
Plus, I got a really cool, cheesy Jeopardy wa-
ter bottle,” said Romick.
In early December Romick recieved a
phone call from Maggie Speak, Jeopardy! ’s
Contestant Search Coordinator. First Speak
asked Romick if she had ever been convicted
of a felony. Then she was invited to be one of the 15 college championship contestants.
She was surprised and ecstatic.
Jeopardy! flew her down to L.A. again in
early January, and the rest of her family drove
down from Southern Oregon for the event.
In addition to learning that the episodes
are taped nearly a month in advance and that
a full week’s worth of episodes are taped in a
single day, Romick was also surprised to learn
about the “magic boxes” that are raised and
lowered to make everyone appear the same
height on television, and that Alex T rebek,
host of the show since 1983, is not perfect.
“He fumbles words and sometimes reads
the wrong clue and they re-tape it. He also
told us he wants to be an Avatar and be eight
feet tall with a tail. Apparently he likes to
drink chardonnay, but I think he seems more
like a scotch drinker.”
T rebek wasn’t the only odd character on
the set; Romick says some of the other con-
testants were “a little over the top” in regards
to the competition. But Romick’s real nem-
esis wasn’t another contestant—it was Final
Jeopardy! .
“It’s terrifying. You get really wrapped up
in listening to the music, because you know
when it’s going to stop but you can’t do any -
thing about it.”
Overall, she describes the experience as
“super fab.”
“It’s really fun to say things like ‘I’ll take
Streaking for 200, Alex’ on national televi -
sion.”
Does Romick have advice for anyone who
wants to be on Jeopardy! ?
“Don’t be intimidated. It doesn’t hurt to
take the online test, and if you watch the full
two weeks of shows you’ll see me in commer -
cials telling you to take it.” The online test
will take place February 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Want to know how she did? Romick is bound
to secrecy until the show’s airdate on February 1
at 7 p.m. on Channel 2. ASLC will be hosting
a Jeopardy! viewing party in Council Cham -
bers that evening. Food and drinks will be pro -
vided. Come and cheer for Lyndsey!Student reps on Jeopardy!
PHOTOS BY HANNAH PRINCE
PHOTOS COURTESY OF LYNDSEY ROMICK
Top: Lyndsey Romick (’12) poses at Alex Trebek’s podium on the set.
Romick beat out thousands of applicants to be on the show. Bottom: The
crew prepares to film a segment of the Jeopardy! College Championship.
Above: Trevor Bloom (’12) speads woodchips to create a path through the
center of the garden. Below: Kelsey White-Davis (’13) and Chelsea Gilm -
ore (’13) smile while planting vegetables at the semester’s first work day.7Features the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
If you are looking for high quality, cheap
eats then happy hour in Portland is just the
thing for you.  You should know going in
that, in our fair city, happy hour is not neces -
sarily booze-centric. 
At a Portland happy hour you can just as
easily unwind with some truffle oil french
fries as you can with a martini or beer.  Al -
most every restaurant, bar and cafe has some
sort of early evening special on small bites
with big flavor.  I have here just 3 of thou -
sands, but this should be enough to get you
hooked.
Three blocks down Broadway from the
RAZ stop is Saucebox . “Sexy, delicious,
swanky, saucebox.”  For me, this pan-asian
restaurant is the king of the happy hour. 
They have an extensive menu ranging from
$1-$5 which includes delights such as taro
chips ($1), sweet potato spring rolls ($3),
and the bah mi Vietnamese sandwich with
braised pork ($4).  Don’t leave without try -
ing one of their $4 burgers, which are inven -
tive, filling and delicious.  Their bartender
did some ass kicking in bartender school
and the cocktail list is immense with lots of
infused liquors.  Happy hour is Monday-
Friday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and Saturday
5-6:30 p.m.
Just up the street on Morrison on the 8th
floor of the Nines Hotel is Urban Farmer . 
The Information Technology (IT) depart -
ment is considering the option of outsourc -
ing Lewis & Clark’s e-mail service to a ser -
vice such as Google Apps for Education.
In an e-mail sent to the LC community
on January 4, Chief Technology Officer Dan
Terrio said that the Information Technol -
ogy Strategic Advisory Council has charged
IT with the possibility of outsourcing email
“given the current economic realities and
Lewis & Clark’s strong interest in identifying
cost savings.”
“Over the past year or so we have had
some complaints about the performance of
Webmail,” said Terrio. Currently, there is an -
other e-mail interface available for use on the
LC website at wm.lclark.edu. The interface is
part of the SUN suite of software.
“We made that available for people to
try and provide us feedback as an option to
move away from Webmail,” said Terrio.
“Outsourcing e-mail is not a deci -
sion to be made lightly. It is not a deci -
sion to be made by Information Technol -
ogy or the Chief Technology Officer,” said by Simone Wren
Be prepared to enter this steakhouse, which
takes chic to a whole new level of strange. 
It’s something you have to see for yourself. 
During dinner hours Urban Farmer is nor -
mally extremely pricey, but from 3-6 p.m.
they serve a very affordable array of treats. 
Their $2 oyster shooters go down smooth
and their lemon pimenton seasoned farm
fries are crunchy and zingy.  For dessert they
by Deanna HortonThe Thrifty Gourmet: Happy hour in Portland
IT may outsource e-mailhave $3 mini milkshakes with cookies, fro -
zen lemon meringue pie with lemon sorbet
and buttery shortbread or, my personal fa -
vorite, mud pie−a four-layered decadence of
rocky road ice cream, heavy whipped cream,
chocolate mousse and hot fudge topped with
two chewy chocolate crackle cookies. 
By the time I had made my way through
the food I was crossed-eyed with pleasure
Terrio. “If the decision is made to outsource
e-mail, we need to know the concerns that
are out there and be able to address them to
alleviate those concerns.”
“There are operating cost savings, but in
the grand scheme of the overall institutional
budget, the annual savings are quite small,”
said Terrio. “There are other expenses that
could be saved as the hardware on which
this equipment runs would not need to be
replaced. There would be the opportunity
to reallocate human resources time to other
technology activities and projects.”
The IT department received 450 respons -
es to the online survey they sent out asking
for the comments and concerns of the LC
community. Ninety percent of these re -
sponses were in support of outsourcing but
a few concerns arose.
The four major concerns voiced by com -
munity members fell into the categories of
privacy and security, reliability, functional -
ity and support. Some voiced concern about
the possible result of a workforce reduction
in the IT department, thus putting someone
out of a job.
“What I hope to do is take the comments
we have received and create something like
an FAQ that tries to respond to the com -
ments and concerns collected,” said Terrio.
“As part of the ongoing decision-
making process, I envision
making that available to
the community to review
and provide us with ad -
ditional feedback.”
If the decision to out -
source e-mail is made,
the transition should
be fairly simple for stu -
dents, staff and fac -
ulty. Each user
would likely be
allotted more
storage space
than current -
ly provided by
Webmail. For
example, Google
Apps for Edu -
cation provides
each user with
10MB of space.
and didn’t even consider a drink (although I
did notice they offer house made moonshine
and absinthe served in the traditional foun -
tain method or bohemian Czech style). 
Last but not least, Blue Hour , the sister
to Saucebox, is located on NW 13th near
Everett.  At happy hour there you can really
get into the fine dining feel without paying
fine dining prices. They have killer ambiance
with fresh flower arrangements, dimly lit
chandeliers, and gauzy black curtains hang -
ing from high ceilings above white leather
couches. 
The waiters were extremely attentive and
offered us the highest quality service.  I or -
dered crispy chickpeas in smoked paprika
oil, which were like nothing else I have ever
tasted; crunchy, salty and so good we ordered
seconds (not a problem at only $1 a bowl). 
I also tried the grilled vegetable slider with
yellow squash, zucchini, sweet peppers and
pesto ($2), and the herbed goat cheese fon -
duta ($2) which turned out to be a refreshing
mix of creamy goat cheese with freshly made
tomato sauce. 
When someone at the table ordered the
artisanal cheese plate, our waiter served her
out of a glass case filled with perfectly melt -
ed, creamy cheeses. 
The only stain on an otherwise perfect
evening was buying a delicious $20 bottle
of wine that we later found for $10 at Fred
Meyer.  Live and learn.  PHOTO BY SIMONE WREN
$2 Happy hour oyster shooters at Urban Farmer on Morrison.
by Nichole CarnellLC students raise money
for Haiti relief efforts
ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONAS
ILLUSTRATION BY ALINA LARSONEavesdropping
“I wonder what fried woman egg tastes like!”
“He’s all heaving chest and she throws herself on him
...and then there’s hair.”
“You’ve never gotten the pee shivers?!
They’re my favorite!”Lewis & Clark students are showing their
support for those struck by tragedy in Haiti
by giving not only their time, but also their
money.
The student group LC Haiti began ta -
bling outside the Bon and in Howard when
classes started this semester. Jars were also
placed in the Dovecote, Maggie’s, the book -
store, the mailroom, and the library.
As of Wednesday, the group had col -
lected nearly $925 and donated the funds
to the What If? Foundation; $800 of which
was raised from the Penny Drive efforts last
Thursday and Friday.
According to Melissa Sweet (’12), an or -ganizer of LC Haiti, the group will continue
to plan events for the remainder of the se -
mester although nothing has been solidified
yet.
Sweet added that some of the events the
group may feature include a Haitian film fes -
tival, which she hopes will happen within the
next month, an art sale, and a benefit dinner.
In addition to LC Haiti’s efforts, the Lewis
& Clark Department of Physical Education
and Athletics, along with the Student Athlet -
ic Advisory Committee, hosted “Hoops for
Haiti” during their PAC(K) Pamplin event
last week. Proceeds from tickets sales, as well
as contributions collected during the game
by student-athletes, were donated to benefit
Haiti. Volume 73, Number 1 Arts 8 the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
After lunch I was sitting at one of the large round tables
in the Fields Dining Hall, surrounded by white-coated chefs
and prep cooks. As I asked about the kitchen crew’s pastimes,
the cook that had just sat down spoke up, “Oh, I play music
in a band.” And so I met Jordan Miceli and Nate Larsen, two
chefs who are in the band Quixotic. As the weeks passed by,
the band’s story surprised me, one of pure sacrifice to live
and survive while driving so passionately towards that yon -
der goal.
Quixotic began in a small-town high school, stayed to -
gether and gained members through music school and then
lived to make music. Portland is just the newest place for
them to experience and explore what will surely be a lifelong
pursuit of musical liberation.
Quixotic has been talking about coming up to the hill
for a show at the Co-op, but they could easily rock the floor -
boards in Evan’s Auditorium. The dee-jay spinning, fluid
pianist playing, unrepressed vocals penetrating, snare drums
slashing—whatever this music is, it comes from the hip-hop
and comes from the people.
the Pioneer Log : How would you define your music?
Jordan Miceli: One of the hardest questions to answer, I think
for a lot of musicians, is to define their style of music. When
people ask what type of music Quixotic plays, I typically
classify it as progressive rock and hip-hop, with some funk,
blues, jazz and a little classical thrown in the mix. Everyone
brings something different to the table, and we try to incor -
porate that into our songs.
PL: What’s your recording process like?
JM: When we are preparing for the studio we fine-tune the
songs ahead of time as much as possible. Professional musi -
cians are able to go into a studio on the record label’s tab, but
studio time is very expensive and when you have a five-piece
band who’s fronting their own bill, you have to be very well-
rehearsed and have a good idea of what you want to accom -
plish in the studio and what you want to walk away with at
the end of the day.
PL: You guys are from New Mexico—how did it all begin
back in the desert?
JM: We all grew up in the small northern New Mexican town
of Taos. Like many small towns there wasn’t too many things
for kids to do. So we turned to music. Our guitarist Mike
[Bearden] really got our drummer Cole [Burns], and me into
playing. We would go up to his house, where he had a com -
plete setup of instruments, teach us how to play a few covers
and we would do our best at getting through them. We met
Nate and Hayes in high school and soon after began playing
together and writing our own music.
PL: What are some of the most apparent differences between
the music scene in New Mexico and here?
JM: It’s hard to compare because in New Mexico we were in
a small town that really lacked in a local music scene, com -
pared to a big city that has every genre of music you can
think of.
PL: In one song, Nate [Larsen] says “It’s one thing when the kids take the drugs, it’s another thing when the drugs take
the kids.” Can you elaborate?
JM: It’s hard for me to answer because they’re not my lyrics,
but growing up in a small town, as well as anywhere I’m sure,
you lose people you’ve grown close with over the years to
drugs and the effects they can have.
PL: “This country’s hilarious, this is America we are the ter -
rorist”: Are there any political ideas that follow or is it more
of a moral belief against capitalism and economic power?
Anything changed with Obama?
JM: Once again hard for me to answer because they’re not
my lyrics, but I would say it has something to do with how
everyone seems like the good guy in their own eyes.
PL: How did you guys find yourselves uprooted from New
Mexico to this rainy city of Portland?
JM: Well, we didn’t come straight to Portland. We began
playing together in 2000 while we were still in high school.
In the spring of 2004, Mike decided to further his education
of music and I followed him to Saint Paul, Minn. where we attended McNally Smith School of Music. There we learned
the theory behind our instruments as well as met our future
keyboardist, Brandon. In the fall of 2005 the rest of the band
moved up to Minneapolis and we began playing togeth -
er again around the T win Cities. There, we learned what it
would take to be an active, gigging band. We moved our way
through the T win Cities hip-hop scene playing many notable
shows. However, the time came in fall 2008 where we needed
a change of scenery and decided on Portland. We had some
friends out here and had heard good things about the music
scene, so we packed up our gear and made the move. So far
we’ve accomplished a lot since being out here as far as mak -
ing connections and playing shows with accomplished and
well known groups.
PL: The Portland music scene seems like it’s blowing up, with
lots of bands moving here. Has that been helping you, by
bringing more consciousness to bands on the rise, or has it
brought more competition and made it more difficult to find
an audience?
JM: There’s always going to be lots of different bands in any
city you go to, but that’s what’s
great about Portland—you can
find any style of music you’re
looking for. We don’t look at it
as competition; we look at it as a
way to build with other groups.
We’ve made some great connec -
tions out here, and for the most
part groups and musicians work
together to build and put on the
best show they can. It’s a very
tight-knit community, at least
what we’ve experienced so far in
the hip-hop scene.
PL: What is in store for the future
of Quixotic?
JM: We’re working on finishing
up the writing of our second al -
bum now. We also just purchased
a tour van so we’ll start spanning
out around the Northwest and
down to New Mexico soon. We’re
in the early planning stages of a
small northwest tour with Josh
Martinez of Camobear Records,
which I think will really help with
getting our name and music out
there.
ADVERTISEMENTby Sam MargeviciusBon Appétit chefs Miceli and Larsen
moonlight in hip-hop, prog rock band Quixotic
Above: Quixotic, featuring
Larsen at the mic and Miceli
on bass (center), Vocalist
Larsen on the job.PHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUSPHOTO COURTESY QUIXOTIC
See Quixotic Feb. 19 at the Twi -
light Room (5242 N Lombard)
and March 6 at Ash St. Saloon
(225 SW Ash Street); both shows
free. See www.quixoticgrooves.com.9Arts the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
Bugs are everywhere in our lives,
whether we spot them or not; they are
also everywhere in Simple Machine /T_h e-atre’s bugged, and they are exactly what
we’re looking at. It helps, though, that they’re in shadow puppet form, slithering around only on a projection screen, im-parting a novelty and cuddliness to these creepy crawlies. But this isn’t your little sister’s sixth grade puppet show: Port-land puppeteers Rollin Carlson and Tony Fuemmeler have carefully constructed a disjointed, plagued world where humans and insects not only collide but intersect; it is mainly dark and almost apocalyptic, at times amusing or nonsensical, but nev-er is it child’s play. /T_h e eff ort and care it takes to organize a show on this scale, in a form that is the very de/f_i nition of hands-on, is evident not in its seamlessness, but because the seams (puppet strings, and Carlson and Fuemmeler’s shadows as they
change scenes) are there. Jason Miranda’s
pulsing, engaging soundtrack—alternate-
ly evoking buzzing bees and Euro-trash nightclubs—is the perfect accompani-ment to a live performance showcasing
the weird and wily imaginations of the
two men behind the screen. T omorrow
at Black/f_i sh Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave) at
8 and 10 p.m. $12; call 800-494-TIXS.
/T_h e world premiere of Northwest
Children’s /T_h eater & School’s Pinoc-
chio begins in Fertile Ground, and runs through February. In this musical adap-tation set in the Industrial age, Gepetto does not carve Pinocchio out of wood but cobbles him together from scrap metal: “Look at that! What do you know? It is gears and wheels that make me go!” Will he be swallowed by a whale, or a turbine engine? /T_h ere’s only one way to /f_i nd out.T omorrow at 2 and 7 p.m., Jan. 31 at 2 p.m.; through Feb. 21 at North-west Neighborhood Cultural Center (1819 NW Everett). $18-22, see www.nwcts.org.
What if the world of Dungeons &
Dragons was a bit too real? For one thing, D&D players would cease being the butt of the populace’s jokes and in-stead be its one chance of survival. Set in a small Washington town, Willow
Jade, by Portland’s Hunt Holman, ex-plores this scenario, replete with hordes of orcs and mysterious babes new to town. It’s a comedy, obviously, and sure to be a treat for nerds and citizens alike. T onight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. at Portland Playhouse (602 NE Prescott). $10-19; call 800-494-TIXS. The second annual Fertile Ground focuses on new and local
works, featuring theatre, dance, comedy, staged readings, panels and more. See below and fertilegroundpdx.org for what to catch as the festival wraps up. —Caitlin McCarthy
Donald Fels explores global trade
by Liam O’Connor
Watzek
Rocked!
PHOTOS BY KATHRYN WLODARCZYK
Last Thursday, Watzek’s sixth annual Watzek Rocks! saw LC bands Israel
Putnam el Americano, Brainstorm (with senior Patrick Philips on tuba, left) and alum band Metal Shakespeare Company (above) play the atrium.Donald Fels knows how to /f_i ll a space. In
his most recent show, What is Trade? Don-
ald Fels and Signboard Painters of South In-
dia, which opened /T_h ursday in the Hoff man
Gallery, he explores the impact of global
trade in 16 large billboard style paintings.
What is Trade? shows the way that region-
al artists interact with a larger global com-
munity. /T_h e imagery and text of this show
force the viewer to consider alternative per-
spectives and accounts for the same stories.
Fels uses Portugese explorer Vasco de
Gama’s 1498 “discovery” of India as the
point of departure for his extensive explo-
ration of the eff ects of global trade on the
country of India.
In 2004 and 2005, Fels studied and
worked in southern India as a Fulbright Se-
nior Research Scholar examining the role
that the global economy plays in India. Fels
enlisted three local artists—Indian billboard painters—to help realize the project.
Fels’s interaction with these artists repre-
sents a similar east/west encounter to that of
de Gama, but Fels makes an important dis-
tinction: He tells the story from both points of view in an active visual dialogue.
/T_h e art of commercial billboard painting
is almost completely gone from the streets of India. /T_h e advent of large-scale inkjet print-ing provides a cheaper alternative to hand-painted signs, leaving most sign painters without work.
In this exhibition, Fels embraces the
bright colors and graphic styles of traditional Indian commercial advertising. Ranging in size from 8’x 4’ to 16’x 12’, these paintings are smaller than full sized billboards. How-ever, they were created in the traditional Bol-lywood style of enamel house paint on large aluminum sheets.
Appetite (pictured above) depicts a human
mouth ready to devour a small map of India.
/T_h e gapings jaws are imposing and scary. /T_h e
face looks less like a young bearded man and more like the fur of a forest beast. In fact, the
paining is actually based on a photograph that Fels took of his son.
A typeface meant to evoke the curves of
Hindi script reads, “/T_h e West has an appe-tite for the taste of the East.” For all its heavy handed rhetoric and grotesque imagery, the painting is above all an ambiguous challenge
to the viewer.
Is this a statement about consumption?
Exploitative trade practices? Cultural im-
perialism? Curry? /T_h e real purpose of this painting is to facilitate dialogue, to get the
community involved, to be inserted into the
ongoing conversation about trade.
Fels designed the paintings and his three
Indian counterparts, Surya, Raju and Paul,
produced them (sign painters establish
themselves with a single name).
/T_h e painters interpreted Fels’s sketches
and added their own character to the paint-
ings. /T_h e painters improvised, embellished
and exaggerated upon the initial sketches;
discussions and arguments were common.
/T_h e team worked together each day in an
old warehouse near the trading area on the waterfront. /T_h e project was more than just a
conversation between Fels and the painters,
but an ongoing and evolving exhibition.
Fels explained that locals from the town
would come to the studio to watch the pro-
cess and on occasion off er their opinions
(solicited or not). One chai-wallah (tea de-
livery-man) became a regular /f_i xture in the
warehouse, nodding in approval or frowning in dissatisfaction.
/T_h is exchange of ideas and perspectives
is central to the work. /T_h is community in-
volvement is what the work is meant to ex-
press. /T_h e process of painting is an ongoing exchange of parallel histories, and the paint-ings a visual record of the process.
/T_h is exhibition runs from now until March
14. /T_h e exhibit is free and open to the public;
the gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m.PHOTO BY CATHY GRELLAbugged Pinocchio
Willow Jade
LC’s theatre prof Stepan Simek in Fertile Ground’s “Making Makers:
Training the Next Generation of Theatre Artists,” with Beth Harper.
PHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUSNot a lot has gone right for the Blazers this season. And
yet the team is right there in the thick of a fierce Western
Conference battle for the playoffs.
Nicolas Batum was out before the season started. That
was all well and good until T ravis Outlaw broke his foot step -
ping backwards on the defensive end 23 seconds after step -
ping out on the floor.
Then things got really bad. Greg Oden had a horrific in -
jury in which he fractured his left patella (knee cap) without
making any contact with anyone. Essentially he jumped up
to block a driving Aaron Brooks and came down with his
knee cap way the hell out of place and his season and perhaps
his career as a dominant big man over before they could re -
ally get started.
This is particularly tough because he was just starting to
put things together on a nightly basis and become a force on
the interior. I truly believed that with a full season he could
have blossomed into a consistent 16 and 10 guy every night.
But that may never happen. Ever. Another year of rehab for
a 22-year old who hasn’t played a full healthy season since he
was a senior in high school and has already had one major
knee surgery. He may play a full career, but the idea that his
massive body can really hold up to a grueling NBA schedule
seems a bit much to ask for; besides, based on his history you
would assume that at some point he will just spontaneously
turn into a kneeless jello blob. I was at the game where he got
hurt. It was like a funeral and one of the strangest/saddest
things I’ve ever seen inside a sports arena. Really bizarre and
really awful.
Then Coach Nate McMillan tore his Achilles while filling
in during a practice defensive drill because the team didn’t
have enough healthy bodies. He missed four games, and cur -
rently wears a cast and doesn’t stand on the sidelines. Rudy
Fernandez finally succumbed to the sciatic back pain that
had been nagging him since the preseason and had surgery
that sidelined him for six weeks. Then Oden’s replacement
and the NBA’s best rebounder (per minute, look it up) Joel
Pyzbilla ruptured and tore his right patella and had season-









ending surgery.
And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the
water….Brandon Roy aggravated his hamstring and will be
out for at least the rest of the week. Perfect.
Despite this unfathomable slew of injures the Blazers are
only three games worse than they were last season. It’s really
hard to believe. Juwon Howard at the ripe young age of 36 is
a starter. Jerryd Bayless is a crunch time go-to guy and both
Jeff Pendergraph and Dante Cunningham get meaningful
rotation minutes.
It’s not exactly an all-star line-up. And yet they are right
in the thick of the playoff race relying on a platoon of recov -
ering wings (Rudy Fernandez, Nicolas Batum) Andre Miller,
LaMarcus Aldridge and Martell Webster. If they can hang
around until B. Roy gets healthy then they will still have a
good shot at finishing with a miraculously similar record as
last year’s 54-win team.
It’s not pretty, it’s not conventional, but this team fights
and amazingly competes every night and with a ragtag line-
up. The silver lining here is that Bayless has had a few fantas -
tic games, Martell is now a legit 15 points a night contribu -
tor and Juwon Howard is playing his best basketball in ten
years. For those of you in Blazer nation who were hating on
Nate McMillan before this season what can you say now. He
turned a bunch of guys who really have no business starting
in the NBA into a top eight team in the absurdly deep West -
ern Conference. Now that Batum and Rudy are back this
team has athleticism on wings and can put in line ups where
there are amazingly more than two scoring options. Inexpli -
cably they remain relevant regardless of who is out there. It
isn’t what anyone would have thought, but it works.
Volume 73, Number 1 Sports 10 the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
The swim team is coming back to
school after some intense (and fun) win -
ter training this break down in Califor -
nia at Pomona College. They had a sev -
eral meets over the break and are coming
back this weekend from meets at Pacific
Lutheran and Puget Sound. Abbie He -
bein (’12) returned from the meets with
a smile on her face, and enthusiasm for
the upcoming weeks in her season. He -
bein has been a swimmer since she was
six years old, when she used to swim
for a summer swim team. She swam all
throughout high school, and then de -
cided to join the LC swim team as a last
minute thought as a freshman; she’s been
with it ever since. This year, she has tak -
en on longer distances like the 500 and
1000 Freestyle, which is new for her, but
she has readily accepted the challenge.
Overall the team has
been doing fairly well.
On Jan. 11 the team
swam against Occiden -
tal. The women’s team
pulled off a win with
108-78 score against
the Tigers. Several
freshmen on the team
won events at Occi -
dental. Josh Spegman
(’13) won the 500-me -
ter freestyle race, while
Shuichi Matsumoto
(’13) took victory in
the 100-meter breast -
stroke. Rachel Cazden
(’13) had strong wins in both the 50-me -
ter and 100 meter freestyles.
On Jan. 13 the team went to Cali -
fornia Lutheran for a multi-team relay
meet. Both the women and men took
fourth place out of five teams, appearing
on the podium three times.
Later on that week at Whitman, both
teams, fell with scores of 154-57 on the
men’s side and 125-80 for the women.
The women did, however, take three event wins: the 1000-meter freestyle by
Claire Jordan (’11), 50-meter freestyle by
Cazden and the 200-meter backstroke by
Cat Menkel-Lawrence (’11).
The next day, competing at home, the
Whitworth Pirates defeated both teams.
Jordan and Cazden took a couple more
individual wins, again in the 100-meter
freestyle for Jordan and the 100-meter
backstroke by Cazden.
The women were then given a single
day of rest from their two consecutive
conference meets and then swam against
the Oregon State Beavers on Jan. 18; the
Beavers won 133-67.
Both the men and women’s team were
beaten at the meet last weekend at Pacif -
ic Lutheran: the women lost 111 to 94,
and the men 120 to 84. The team then
traveled to Tacoma, once again walking
without a win, although individually
swimmers keep improving as the season
progresses. Hebein led the LC women
in the 800-meter freestyle with a time of
10:59.
Overall the team lost 183-75 on the
women’s side, and 177-77 on the men’s.
The team will have their final home
meet against Linfield on Jan. 29 at 6
p.m. and from there will take a two-week
competition break in preparation for
conference championships. Pioneer swimmers
lookin’ good for NWC
by Lindsey Bosse
The start of a men’s race during the meet against
Whitworth at home on Jan. 16.PHOTO FROM LC ATHLETICS
Mt Hood Meadows
Mt Hood Ski Bowl
TimberlineFriday: 3.6” new snow by nightfall
Saturday: 2.8” new snow by nightfall
Sunday: Partly cloudy by day; .8” over
the night for opening Monday morning
* * *
Meadows received 15’’ of dank powder
earlier in the week, so while the pow-pow
may be gone for the weekend, the pack
has softened up both high and low with
minimal icy patches! Base is supporting 81”
while midmountain and summit have 86”.
All runs are open, all parks are open and
lifts will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. all
weekend.Friday: Rain and snow showers, 80%
chance of precipitation
Saturday: Snow showers, 40% chance of
precipitation
Sunday: Few snow showers, 30% chance
of precipitation
* * *
Ski bowl recieved a skift less than a foot
of new snow this week with 11” at the begin -
ing of the week. The mountain is primar -
ily groomed with puddles of powder to be
found. The base is at 34”, middle elevations
have 26” and the top has 34”. 92% of the
mountain is open currently. Lifts will be
open this weekend from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Friday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 8
a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday. Parks are open.
Cross your fingers for a possible dump over
the weekend!Friday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain; snow above 5,550 feet.
Saturday: Snow from Friday night, and
chance of snow showers during the day.
Sunday: Snow from Saturday night, and
slight chance of snow above 4,000 feet.
* * *
Timberline also got 14” at the begining of
the week and is still reporting primary pow -
dery conditions. Base to summit measures
94” all around. The entirety of the moun -
tain is open, including all freestyle terrain.
Despite injuries, Blazers still seeking place in playoffs
by Michael G. Richman
ILLUSTRATION BY ALINA LARSONILLUSTRATION BY LINDSEY BOSSE
11 Sports the Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
by Michael G. Richman
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
Women’s Basketball Conference Standings
George Fox...........9-0
Puget Sound.........7-1Lewis & Clark........6-2Whitworth............4-4Pacific Lutheran...3-5Pacific (Ore.)........3-6Whitman..............2-6Lindfield...............2-6Williamette..........1-7Men’s Basketball Conference Standings
Whitworth...................9-0Linfield........................7-1Pacific Lutheran.........5-3George Fox.................5-4Lewis & Clark..............4-4Whitman.....................3-5Puget Sound...............3-5Williamette.................1-7Pacific (Ore.)...............1-8
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKAfter an 85-82 home victory over Puget
Sound Saturday, Lewis & Clark men’s bas-
ketball team /f_i nds itself right in the middle
of the pack, in /f_i fth place in the Northwest
Conference. /T_h e win was LC’s second home
victory and pushed the Pioneers’ conference
record to 4-4.
Kelly Edwards (’11) had an extremely ef-
/f_i cient game, making eight of nine shots and
leading the team in scoring for the second
straight night with a game-high 22. Four
other Pios scored in the double /f_i gures, in-
cluding PJ Taylor (’12) who came off the
bench and scored 14 points. /T_h e Pios took a
four-point lead into the locker room at half-
time, but could not pull away in the second
half.
/T_h ere were six changes in the second
twenty minutes, before LC pulled away in the last /f_i ve minutes. /T_h e Pios held off the
Loggers’ /f_i nal comeback attempt in the /f_i -nal minute as Edwards hit three of four free throws to secure the win.
“Kelly [Edwards] has been really impor-
tant for us. He is one of the most if not the most athletic kids in our league,” said Associ-ate Head Coach Dinari Foreman.
With both teams battling for sole pos-
session of /f_i fth place in the NWC, it was a
tight game throughout and neither team
led by more than seven points. LC is now just one game out of third place and despite some struggles in the /f_i rst half of the season
remains within striking distance of a top four
seed and a chance to play in the end of sea-son conference tournament.
“Right now we’re actually in a good
place,” Foreman said, “Not exactly where
we’re looking to be or expecting to be…but [we] can’t say we’re disappointed, it’s a tough conference.”
/T_h e team remains focused and con/f_i dent
it can earn a top four seed by season’s end in a highly competitive Northwest Conference.
“Goal number one is make it to the tour-
nament playoff s,” Josh Kollasch (’10) said, “A team with four, /f_i ve, six maybe even seven losses will make it to the playoff s.”
/T_h e team also recognizes it
has serious room for improve-ment, especially in regards to winning on its home court. /T_h e team is 2-1 on the road in con-ference, but just 2-3 at home.
“[We] have to get better at
taking care of our home court,” Foreman said. He also specu-lated that the tension of playing in front of a home crowd could possibly be the reason for the team’s struggle to win games in Pamplin. “[/T_h ere is] additional pressure to perform at home; on the road it’s just you and your team,” Foreman said.
Kollasch echoed some of
Foreman’s explanation but said the real reason may be because the team is perhaps too laid-back during home contests. “We get all tense and
tight, or we’re too relaxed. Probably the re-
laxation is the real reason,” he said.
/T_h e team will put its road warrior status
to the test this weekend in two tough con-
tests at Whitman and /f_i rst-place Whitworth.
Whitworth handed LC its worst conference
loss of the season when they beat the Pios
75-59 in Portland on Jan. 3. Playing them on the road won’t be any easier.“[Whitworth] is a tough place to play and
especially this year they’re really good,” Kol-
lasch said.
Kollasch and Foreman agree that getting
these tough wins starts on the defensive side
of the ball with getting big stops down the
stretch, but Foreman off ered another expla-
nation: “You just got to put the ball in the
basket. When you score more than the other guys, you win.”
James Hollins (’12) takes a long three over a George Fox defender in an LC loss on
Friday, Jan. 22. LC is currently in fi fth place and battling for a NWC playoff spot. Pioneer men’s basketball eyes playoff s, home victories
/T_h e Lewis & Clark women’s basketball
team (12-5, 6-2) faced its toughest competi-
tion of the season last weekend, losing back-to-back games for the /f_i rst time all year with losses to the top two teams in the Northwest Conference, George Fox and Puget Sound.
After racing out of the gate with a 6-0 re-
cord in conference, the women found them-selves tied for /f_i rst place in the conference and matched up against the number six team in the country, the reigning Division III Na-tional Champions George Fox University.
Despite putting up their best defensive ef-
fort of the year and holding George Fox to a season low of 40 points, more than 28 points below its scoring average in conference, LC lost 40-24 in a defensive slugfest.
In the /f_i rst four minutes each team had
only one bucket. /T_h e Pioneers did not make a second /f_i eld goal until less than /f_i ve min-
utes remained in the /f_i rst half, and /f_i nished the /f_i rst half with just seven points. Amaz-ingly, LC trailed George Fox just 17-7 head-ing into the break thanks in large part to a smothering defensive eff ort by the entire team.
“We played extremely well,” Paige Dinnie
(’10) said, “We just weren’t there off ensively.”
LC shot just 12 percent from the /f_i eld for
the game and snapped a six-game winning
streak in the loss.
On Saturday,
Jan. 23, the Pios faced the University of Puget Sound and again could not pull out a win against a top team, ending with a demoralizing 74-49 home loss.
“As for UPS, we
have to show up ev-ery night. Going 6-0 doesn’t mean any-thing if you don’t bring it every night,” Dinnie said.
Megan Spence
(’12) had 12 points and seven rebounds, After hot start, lady Pioneers drop two tough games
by Michael G. Richman
but no other Pio scored in double digits as
the team slipped from /f_i rst to third place
with their second loss in as many nights.
/T_h ey couldn’t overcome a terrible /f_i rst half in
which they shot only 26 percent and turned
the ball over 11 times. But the frustrating
loss could end being a postivie for the team.
“I think it was a little bit of a wake-up
call,” Dinnie said “A gauge of where we need
to be.” She added that, despite the poor
showing over the weekend, their game plan
will not change as the team moves forward.
LC travels to Whitworth and Whitman
this weekend for what Dinnie described as a
major test for her team.
“It’s tough, de/f_i nitely our toughest road
trip of the year. Whitworth and Whitman
are tough schools to play at,” Dinnie said.
/T_h e diff erence between a win and a loss
will come down to the team’s ability to move
past these frustrating games and get back to the type of execution on both ends of the /f_l oor that helped them open the conference
schedule with six straight wins.
Dinnie insists she and the rest of the team
won’t let a frustrating weekend aff ect them in
their upcoming road trip and for the rest of the season.
“We’re putting last weekend behind us,”
Dinnie said “It’s over and done.”
Pio women’s basketball was 6-0 before losing twice in a row to George Fox and Puget Sound.PHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVER
PHOTO BY ANNIE BOURKEBackdoor 12
You Caught My Eye
Please e-mail your“You Caught My Eye” to piolog@lclark.eduILLUSTRATION BY BRAD JONASthe Pioneer Log, January 29, 2010
The Backdoor is a work of humor and does not actually contain real news.
Most of the predictions found above probably have to be put on the 20 year plan due to budget constraints.Inside the Issue...Predictions for the year 2020
[pg. 9] Scientists
confi rm that breaking
up is hard to do. The Carpenters to receive the Nobel Prize.[pg. 6] “Avatar” sets box
offi ce records. James Cameron prepares to return to his cave for another ten years. [pg. 1] Student event
was hosted. It wasn’t advertised and no one showed. The usual.The Toast
Written by Rand McNally
Greetings Pioneers, and wel-
come back! /T_h is week’s toast goes
out to a particular group of indi-
viduals for whom I have a particu-
lar disdain. Who could this detest-ed collection of people be, you ask?
Could it be the Lewis & Clark
administration for all of their ef-
forts to keep us students down?
No.
Perhaps television “journalists”
like Glenn Beck or Keith Olber-mann, who are single-handedly destroying the fabric of American political discourse and proverbially pissing on the First Amendment?
Nay. Well then, you must be ask-
ing yourself, it certainly must be the cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore”, whose glori/f_i cation of promiscuous sex and abuse (both alcohol and
physical – I’m talkin’ about Snooki
gettin’ punched in the face, yo!), as
well as their “gym, tan, laundry” lifestyle has exposed how shallow and – for lack of a better word –
fucked up, our generation is?
No, dear readers.
In fact, I happen to think Jer-
sey Shore is perhaps the single most important cultural event of this
lifetime, and its cast demonstrates
why America has, and always will
be, the greatest country on Earth.
From the Ronnie’s Incred-
ible Hulk-like build, to Mike “/T_h e
Situation”’s unabashed vanity, to
Angelina’s sense of entitlement,
to Snooki’s desire to get into ev-eryone else’s business, to all of the cast members’ high-school level of education, the cast of Jersey Shore represents everything the United States stand for and everything it
has to off er.
USA! USA!
/T_h at said, who could this
loathsome lot be?
/T_h ese scumbags, dear
readers, are those people
who seem to lack any
sense of judgment, who waste space and time without regard for
others, who are so
self-absorbed that they
think the most unimport-ant and mundane details about their lives need to be shared with the rest of the world.
Now, I realize as I write this that
you must think I’m talking about people who use T witter.
While I /f_i nd the concept of
T witter utterly useless and those
who tweet (or should I say, twat)
to be annoying, at least you have
the ability to simply not view their feed.
Rather, readers, I am talking
about people who unnecessarily use “reply-all” in their emails.
/T_h ere is nothing more obnox-
ious or infuriating to see a new message in your inbox, only to /f_i nd that it’s some stupid person on your list-serv responding to a question that was supposed to be directly answered individually.
Do I need to know what you
want for lunch at the next meeting?
Do I really give two-shits about
what t-shirt size you’d prefer? Do I care about your opinion on an im-portant issue that a group of us are
discussion over email? Well, actu-
ally, yes to the last one, but you get
the idea.
Unless you follow it up with
your public RSVP to some event
that none of us wanted you to
come to anyway. /T_h en no, I really
just don’t give a fuck.
So this toast goes out to you,
excessive “reply-all”-er. Please stop
wasting my e-space and my real
time.
I hate you. USA!
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY BLOCKYou: Admissions tour guide, who called the PioLog “not serious.”
Us: We heard you.
...of the week
Q: Why did Stan at the orange
juice factory lose his job?
A1 (for kids): He couldn’t
concentrate!
A2 (for reals): He slept with
the boss’s wife twice and contaminated the orange juice. Seperate incidents, allegedly.Blue Blazer
2 parts Irish whiskey1 part lemon juice1 part light honey2 - 3 parts hot water
It’s cold outside. Winter’s still brewing and it’s still cold outside. And wet. Wet and cold. /T_h is weekend you should stay inside, cuddle up in your favorite business attire (I choose you, new blue blazer!) and sip on this. Or shoot it back. T ry not to burn yourself.
Drink Puppy Pics Fact
Robots will terrorize the Frank Manor grounds, forgetting their once peaceful mission to remove invasive English
/T_h e Hippie Flail Disaster of 2015
will forever be remembered as the day the rhythm died.
Ideas of opening a bar on campus
and starting a Men’s Club will be brought up every two years by a student that thinks he is clever and original.
/T_h e ASLC Senate will be forgotten
after ten long years of a Brad Elkins (’10) monarchy.
A large tower made of an ivory sub-
situte will be erected over campus so the administration can /f_i nally literally not hear the complaints from the students.
Following the FCC’s tighter regu-
lation of internet streaming, KLC
will have to /f_i nd another mode of
transmission. /T_h ey will ultimately
have to use megaphones at a cen-tralized location on campus.After a successful campaign by PETA to unveil a statue of Seaman on campus in 2012, the Equal Pro-tection for Victims of Unfortunate Deaths (EPVUD) will sponsor the building of a memorial for Sgt. Charles Floyd, the most famous fatality of the Corps. of Discovery./T_h e athletics department will be crushed in 2017 when Griswold Stadium is /f_l ooded due to over wa-tering. On an unrelated note, the grass around the Manor House will turn a shade of purple over the summer, much to the surprise of returning students.You: Sitka native.
Me: Broken in the ravine. You: Attractive senior with camo cane. Me: Wishing you would gimp all over me.