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1997-11-21

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PHOTO BY GINA KELLEY Parking proposal
• Law students propose alternate
transportation options
by Angela Nusom
The Lewis & Clark Law School Student Bar Association (SBA), the law
school's equivalent of ASLC, decided to formally oppose the parking lot pro­
posal central to the Master Plan last Sunday night.
Environmental issues, as well as a concern regarding the procedural manner
by which the parking lot proposal was created, spurred law students to form the
Coalition Advocating
Transportation Sensi­
bility (CATS). After
CATS presented a for­
mal alternate plan to
SBA a couple of
weeks ago, the two
groups have been
working together to
raise awareness of is­
sues surrounding the
formation and execu­
tion of the parking lot
proposal.
SBA President Ajit
Phadke explained the
law school's two pri­
mary reasons for de-Primary Source
Possible transportation solutions
Goals:
• Decrease the number of cars which
park on the Lewis & Clark campus
• Decrease single occupancy vehicle
trips to campus
• Allow reduction of parking spaces in
some areas on the main campus
• Be cost effective and minimize costs
to students
• Avoid impacts to environmentally
sensitive areas
s; Ie . .
• Utilization of existing parking areas
for a greater number of spaces
Letting his sitar do the to/kin' t e
plan. First, he pointed
to what he felt were
procedural problems
which led to a general
lack of awareness on
the part of faculty and
students. "The law
school has a procedure
in place to get student
opinion on issues," he
said. • Considerations regarding a fee
system
• Possible expansion of the shuttle bus
The music department has been conducting interviews to re­
place Professor of Music Vincent McDermott, who is retiring from
Lewis & Clark at the end of the year.
The department will replace McDermott, a composition-based
professor, with an ethnomusicologist, whose education is based in
music history. He felt this policy
was violated, and ex­
plained that students
and faculty were not
aware of the decision
to include a new park­
ing lot surrounding the program
• Creating a new carpool emphasis
• Encourag ing students to live near
campus
• Creating more opportunities to live
near campus
• Encouraging bus transit
information courtesy of Coalition
Advocating Transportat ion Sensibility (CATS) One candidate, Gernot Blume, pictured above, gave a guest
lecture on Nov. 17 in Evans Auditorium to Gil Seeley's Sound and
Sense class and a panel of departmental officials. Blume, who is
from Germany, spoke about the history of jazz from ragtime to
contemporary jazz. He also played two examples on the piano.
More candidates are still slated to give guest lectures. field as part of the Master Plan. "The system broke down somehow," Phadke
said. "We got left out of the loop."
See Parking, Page 2
Representative Furse attends hunger, h.omeless banquet
by Daniel Ruprecht
As part of the 1997 National Hunger and Homeless­
ness Awareness Week, U.S. Representative Elizabeth
Furse (D-OR) addressed OSPIRG 's Hunger Awareness
Banquet Wednesday night.
About 70 students and staff
gathered in Stamm West for din-Furse largely blames the "militarization of society and
the economy" for hunger and homelessness in the U.S.
The annual defense budget of 278 billion dollars is about
five times as much as is spent on education and six times
the housing budget, she said. Furse was the only member
of Congress to introduce a bill to cut Pentagon spending
for four years in a row.
Banquet attendees were divided
ner, speeches, and music by Lewis
& Clark's own Chocolate Thunder.
The Banquet was the highlight of
OSPIRO's efforts to raise aware­
ness about the problem and solu­
tions to hunger and homelessness
issues and to generate food, money,
and clothing for those in need. HIt's powerful to see kids
who pay 26,000 dollars for
college sitting on the ground
eating rice with their
hands." into three groups to represent the
different levels of wealth among
the world's people. About half sat
on the floor eating rice with their
hands to represent the 55 percent
of the global population who eat
only one meal a day. A third sat on
chairs to eat rice and beans with
utensils, like those who eat twice a Rep. Furse related her personal
experience of growing up in South Rachel George, student
Africa to the issues OSPIRG is tackling. She frequently
referred to the courage of Nelson Mandela and encour­
aged student activists to follow his example. "You don't
need to be in Congress or positions of power to make a
difference," she said. day. Seven lucky students were
treated to a catered Bon meal by candlelight to represent
the 15 percent of world people who eat three or more
meals a day.
In addition to the banquet, OSPIRG is organizing a
clothing and blanket drive and a visit to a local shelter on Sunday. LC students also donated over 250 Bon meals to
SI. Vincent de Paul this week, and money saved by skip­
ping meals will go to Oxfam America.
Rachel George was one of several students who fasted
Wednesday in support of the hunger awareness week.
"Fasting gives reople with so many advantages a taste of
what people in other parts of the world feel like," she
said. "It's powerful to' see kids who pay 26,000 dollars
for college sitting on the ground eating rice with their
hands."
The banquet was organized and sponsored by OSPIRG,
ASLC, Faith in Action, Amnesty International, Student
Community Outreach Project and Bon Appetit.
Students at over 400 other colleges nationwide also
participated in education and action events as part of the
Week.
"For many students this may be the first time they have
been made aware of this very real problem. The purpose
of the week is not for students to become involved for a
short period of time and then return to their everyday lives,
but for them to take a first step toward a lifetime of ser­
vice and action," said Monique Radman, who organized
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News
. Unclaimed scholarships Crime Beat by Alicia Gilbert and Ryan Wise d L'k . .. d .. /
......... awar s. 1 eWlse, JUniors an seniors In
the lOp ten percent of their class are eli­
gible to apply for the Junior/Senior
Cheney. There are five of these awards at
$1,000.00 each.
(From Nov 9th to Nov /5)
Nov9
Unknown person(s) damaged a men's
bathroom wall in TCC with paint and
marking pens.
Nov 10
Unknown person(s) broke a drivers 'side
window of a students vehicle which was
parked in Copeland Hall.
Nov 10
Unknown person(s) broke a passenger
wing window of a Toyota 4-runner which
was parked in the Hartzfeld Lot. There
were several items stolen from the vehicle.
Nov 11
Unknown person(s) stole a lap top com­
puter and other items from a locked office
located in the Pamplin Sports Center. courtesy of Julie Couch, Campus Safety
Nov 11
A report was filed with Campus Safety
that a window was broke out of a 1988
Chevrolet Suburban that was parked in
Copeland Hall.
Nov 12
Campus Safety received a complaint of
Marijuana smell in Copeland Hall. A Bong
was turned over to Campus Safety and was
placed in the evidence locker. A report
was filed and a copy sent to Residence
Life.
Nov 14
A Trespass warning was issued to a
former student who had been involved in
a case earlier in the month.
Nov 14
Unknown person(s) stole a hand held
tape recorder from a desk drawer in the
Pamplin Sports Center. There is a fear in the Financial Aid Of­
fice that last year's scholarship troubles
will repeat themselves again this year.
For example, out of the 22 scholarships
offered last year to freshman through se­
niors, only 67 completed applications were
turned in. The significant number is that
more than 427 students were eligible for
at least one of the scholarships offered.
What is the trouble in trying to find
money? In the past, students said it was
due to a lack of information . This year the
Financial Aid Office and the Admission s,
Awards, and Academic Standing Commit­
tee (AAAS) would like to see this prob­
lem change.
There are three types of scholarships
given out every year which many students
do not know about. The first is the Fresh­
man Cheney scholarship.
Freshmen in the top ten percent of their
class can apply for one of five $1,000.00 The Sophomor e Corporation offers two
awards at $2,500.00 each for sophomores.
They will receive letters of invite, indicat­
ing their eligibility .
The Mary Stuart Rogers Scholarship is
awarding approximately eight scholarships
each worth $5,000.00 to sophomore s and
juniors. The requirement s are to have a 3.2
GPA, a demonstrated financial need, and
certain upstanding community character­
istics. There is no application process for
this scholarship. There must be a letter
submitted to the Director of Student Fi­
nancial Services summarizing significant
extracurricular activities and explaining
how candidates' experiences and achieve­
ments exemplify the identified character­
istics of a Rogers Scholar, and one faculty
letter of recommendation.
Olds strongly endorses role of U.N. in the future
by Jeremy Brown
Former Ambassador to the United Na­
tions Glen Olds charmed and questioned
a crowd of more than 30 in Tamarack
Lounge Monday in his talk about the im­
portance of strengthening the U.N.'s role.
With a sharp wit and a penchant for
whimsical storytelling and brash solilo­
quies, Olds outlined the goals and suc­
cesses of the U.N. since its conception and
stressed the need to transform the U.N. into
a true federal authority over the 186 na­
tions of the world.
Olds' speech was the inaugural event
in the Pamplin Society'S Dirty Hands Lec­
ture Series.
Olds, once the president of three uni­
versities and special assistant to four U.S.
presidents , said Americans today take for
News Briefs
Lecturers discuss EI Salvador granted accomplishments of the U.N. such
as improving the rights of women world­
wide, helping colonies to become indepen­
dent nations, improving global financial
stability, increasing environmental aware­
ness and stressing population control.
He said these and other problems in the
future cannot be solved at the nation-state
level. "I'm advocating a federation that
holds in balance the individual liberties of
competing parties," he said.
Several students expressed skepticism
that the nations of the world would will­
ingly sacrifice their sovereignty for the
sake of the U.N., especially when even the
U.S. refuses to pay its U.N. dues. First,
Olds insisted that the U.S. pay its dues and
said the attitudes of people such as Senate
Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms
have led to a depressing decrease in com-mitment to foreign aid. "It's scary to hear
someone arguing with such sanctimonious
religiosity ," Olds said of Helms.
Next, Olds addressed concerns of prac­
ticality by comparing the world today to
America under the Articles of Confedera­
tion over 200 years ago. He insisted that
just as the separate colonies needed a fed­
eral system, the 186 separate countries of
the world today, linked by information
technolog} and global understanding, re­
quire a stronger U.N.
"The Articles of Confederation didn't
work," he said. "The 186 nations won't
work without a sovereign,strengthened
U.N."
Old s
suggested
several av­
enues to-
Pioneers debate at tournament
Two South American speakers spoke about
women maquilador a workers and youth
struggles in EI Salvador on Nov. 18. Several Pioneer debaters and speakers
strick were quite successfu l at the Linfield
Mahaffey Memorial Forensics Tournament,
Nov. 14-16.
Marina Rios spoke officially about how
"Women Confront the Global Economy in EI
Salvador" and David Hernandez , a member of
the National Council ofFMLN Youth, lectured
on the struggling youth of the same country.
History professor Elliott Young and his wife
Isabella Toledo-Silvestre acted as translators
for the two Spanish speakers.
NOW FEATURING
"COLLEGE NIGHT"
THURSDAYS!! Juniors Jared Ellis and Nick Hesterberg
won policy debate. Ellis was the top debater
at the tournament out of more than 100 de­
baters entered.
Senior Mary Lynn Veden and Junior Terry
James placed I st in duo interpretation .. Veden
also placed 2nd in Dramatic Interpretat ion.
Aimee Sands, freshman, won Junior Prose.
o Highly trained, expert teachers who
know the tests inside and out. ward this change, including the simple
implementation of the current U.N. char­
ter, an actual charter change or a parlia­
ment of the people. He encouraged Lewis
& Clark students to pressure their elected
representatives to pay the U.N. dues, to
work on reforms and to fight ignorance
among citizens about the U.N.
"I don't know how long our stupidity
can continue without it trapping us," he
said.
He left the students with a charge to
make a difference . "Make your university
education come through as an instrument
of insight into the world you're able to cre­
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www.kaplan.com 239·8544 Phillips brings discrimination up front
by Jeremy Brown
Robert Phillips, Equal Opportu­
nity Officer for Multnomah County,
strongly endorsed affirmative action
in a Nov. 13 speech in Agnes
Flanagan Chapel.
Phillips' visit was co-tutional racism that exists in our so­
ciety."
Phillips, who has served as as­
sistant to the governor and was in­
strumental in establishing Northeast
Portland's House District 18, admit-with praise for Phillips' remarks.
"This issue is scary to America
because it might cause a little ten­
sion," James said.
Phillips told a more personal and
inspirational story to those as­
sembled in Tamarack
Lounge eartier in the
sponsored by the
Black Student Union
and the Pamplin
Society's Dirty Hands
Lecture Series.
Phillips, both in
his speech and in an
informal potluck with
the Black Student HI find the argument about reverse dis­
crimination to be the most non-logical
argument I have ever hear. It's taking us
away from looking at the true institutional
racism that exists in our society." evening. He recounted his
experience as the first Af­
rican-American student
out of Northeast Portland
to graduate from a racist
Oregon State University in
1973.
Phillips graduated
against formidable odds­
he said his room was
bombed, flooded and set Union in Tamarack
Lounge, criticized the
recent trends of opin-Robert Phillips,
Equal Opportunity Officer
ion against affirmative action. He
said that loud foes of affirmative
action are garnering disproportion­
ate attention and charges of "reverse
discrimination " are misleading. ted that affirmative action was im­
perfect but said, "It's the best thing
we have."
"It's a tool to move us toward di­
versity and a more color-blind so­
ciety that truly looks at the skills of
people," he said. on fire.
He then told the group that the
legacy of such seminal figures as
Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner,
Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and
Martin Luther King, Jr., was theirs
to carryon. "I find the argument about re­
verse discrimination to be the most
non-logical argument I have ever
heard," Phillips said. "It's taking us
away from looking at the true insti-Sophomore Terry James, Black
Student Union President , works for
Phillips. He concluded the evening "Their voices are the same voice
that, if we are receptive to the vi­
sion, is speaking to us," he said. PHOTO BY JORDAN THOMPSON
Robert Phillips discusses affirmative action.
Students support alternative parking options
... Parking, from Page 7
As a result, Phadke and his SBA representatives , as
well as the CATS group, are asking the school to reevalu­
ate their decision and examine alternate possibilities as a
solution to the parking problem.
"(The) Student Bar Association voted that we want
the school to take the plan the administration to inform students of the change in the
parking lot proposal. "One phone call, one email would
have been really easy to do," he said.
As of last year, the Master Plan included a section on
creating a parking lot located on the baseball field, which
would be paved over with cement. However, during the
summer, the plan progressed and the administration made
the decision to have the parking
off the table for a year and
give the other options a
chance," he explained .
The second issue
which concerned SBA re­
garding the parking lot
was its detriment to envi­
ronmental areas. "Give it a chance. Think it over. We as
a school can be a lot more proud of
alternative transportation methods
rather than creating a parking lot"
Kristen Casper, lot surrounding instead of cover­
ing the field.
"What they're really doing is
shifting parking from campus to
Tryon Creek and they're going to
charge students 1.2 million dollars
to do it," Foster said.
Despite Foster's frustration
with students and faculty being
unaware of the plan, Dean of the
Law School Jim Huffman said he "For some of us the
process issue was the
largest, but for others it SEED representative
was environmental," Phadke said. "A school that prides
itself on environmental consciousness ought to look at
other options for transportation ," he explained.
Indeed, environmental awareness and concern led to
the development of CATS. believes the administration made an appropriate effort at
informing students.
He attributes student ignorance of the current plan to
the fact that it evolved through the summer, and pointed
to the difficulty involved with students ploration of the real issue which lies behind it: transpor­
tation. Among others, their suggestions include better uti­
lizing the space already available in parking lots by re­
painting lines, and the expansion of the LC shuttle to in­
crease daily transportation of students from other parts
of Portland into school.
Foster's main concern is that the plan will overlook
the impact of building a parking lot so close to Tryon
Creek. While the "school says they will mitigate, the re­
ality is that significant impact to the area will occur," he
said. "That's what got everyone's attention. "
By emphasizing transportation needs instead of park­
ing, Foster said he feels environmental issues receive just
consideration , taking into account the stance of the school
on being environmentally friendly.
Their plan also emphasizes students ' option of
carpooling, living nearer to campus and bus transit as
being more valid and environmentally conscious.
"It's a positive stand," said Kristin Casper, SEED rep­
resentative and affiliated with law school CATS group.
"We're working with the school and not against it. We're
all in it together; students, faculty, and staff."
Huffman agrees with Casper, and said some of the
ideas, others had
Brent Foster, one of the organizers of CATS, is frus­
trated by what he views as a large oversight on the part of keeping aware of every change made
within plans.
WANT TO HACII IN
WASH I NGTC)N? "We did go through
the normal process,"
he explained . "The
changes in the plan are
the nature of the way
things work. It's inher­
ent that in a planning
process it's hard for 'They've raised some questions that
we ought to look at I wouldn't be
surprised to see some
alterations [to the plan]." merit worth con­
sidering.
"They've raised
some questions
that we ought to
look at," he said.
"I wouldn't be
surprised to see
some alterations
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people to keep in touch ... especially
with such a shift in populations.
Nevertheless , Huffman admitted
administration could have made a bet­
ter attempt to informstudents . "We
could have done it better, but I think
we followed the basic procedure ."
Regardless of how procedures were
or were not followed, students are now
speaking out, and the CATS groups is
spreading student and faculty aware­
ness by presenting alternative options.
In their formal proposal, CATS
asks students and LC to trade its evalu­
ation of the parking situation to an ex-
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CATS and SBA have also received a positive response.
'The feedback has been mainly from students and its been
great. It's something that to the students really makes
sense," Foster said.
Casper reiterates Foster's ideas, and adds her request
for students and faculty "to gi ve it a chance. Think it over.
We as a school can be a lot more proud of alternative
transportation methods rather than creating a parking lot."
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Put a cork in throwing bottles at bikes
commentary by Jeremy Brown
Two weeks ago, I was riding
my bicycle home from school like
I do every day. I turned right from
Primrose on to Terwilliger and a
few seconds later a bottle thrown
from a passing car shattered right
next to me.
The bottle exploded like a
bomb and shards of glass flew in every direction. I wasn't
injured, but I was scared and angry. In my anger I ped­
aled quickly to catch the guilty car. I caught up with the
car at the Taylor's Ferry stoplight, it was full of teenagers
pointing and laughing at me.
Instead of calmly remember ing their license plate num­
ber, I shook my fist at them and swore. They laughed louder. The light changed and they sped away.
Now I'm more sad than enraged that somebody would
choose to throw a bottle at a cyclist. I prefer bicycling to
any other mode of transportation and plan to continue
riding to campus, but the bottle-throwing incident is a
sad reminder of the vulnerability of bicyclists .
It is unfortunate that citizens committed to a healthy,
environmentally positive commuting choice are at the
mercy of pollutant-belching two-ton steel beasts. Not only
have I had bottles thrown at me on two separate occa­
sions, I have been cut off and rudely honked at too many
times to count.
Portland is called a bicycle-friendly city; Lewis &
Clark publicly encourages bicycle commuti ng. But the
city and the college have a long way to go before bicy­
cling becomes a viable option for greater numbers of
people. LC has too few bicycle racks sheltered from the rain.
Uncovered racks do little good during the rainy months.
And in a new policy instituted this fall, athletes and physi­
cal education students have first dibs on the large lockers
in Pamplin Sports Center, bumping out bicycle commut­
ers who wish to shower and store belonging s in the locker
room.
The College must give locker priority to bicycle com­
muters and add more covered racks near PSC if it truly
wants to increase bicyclists and decrease motor traffic.
In the meantime , I'll keep riding. There are few things
worse than having a bottle thrown at you from a moving
car, but there are few things more satisfying than speed­
ing by long lines of waiting cars during rush hour and
hooting with joy at the fuming drivers. Leave your cars
at home, people.
Professors should stop deluding themselves
commentary by Sam Stone so she has alienated a
large percentage of her
class and ensured that
most of her victims
will never willingly
take a class with her
again.
Some keys for
teachers who would
rather avoid earning
this dubious status: paper coming due this week, it would be
all right to assign an additional 500 or so
pages of reading and an in-class presenta­
tion to the schedule. Wrong! In terms of
learning, the end of the semester is always
the juicy part of the schedule. By this time,
most students have a solid base of knowl­
edge from the course and can draw on a
much greater depth of learning-so it's
tempting for teachers to pile on work now
when they can best evaluate student
progress. It's still not right. God doesn't
extend the day to 30 hours just for finals. In the two years since I transferred to
Lewis & Clark, I've begun to notice an
ever-widening gap between student real­
ity and teacher fantasy. Somehow , many
teachers have deluded themselves into
thinking they have the right to assign any
amount of work without consideration for
the needs and/or time constraints of their
students. Pretty much everyone I know has
had to deal with one of these violators, and
lately it seems like they're multiplying like
zits on a teenager. They can steal your life,
cause hideous amounts of pain and suffer­
ing, and inflict debilitating wounds on your
G.P'A.-without restraint or fear of retri­
bution.
Generally , these professors have earned
their designation as vicious taskmasters by
unloading unfair amounts of work on their
students throughout the semester, but they
seem to take special joy in doing so at the
end of the semester. It's like kicking a per­
son when they're already on the ground. I) Don't fall victim
to the LC adage that
students should do
three hours of home­
work for every hour of
class time. For the
standard 16 hour class
schedule, that means 1'\
ART BY AUBREY LYON 3) Remember what course you are
teaching. A 200-level course is not a se­
nior thesis class. Each semester I try to
balance my schedule carefully, taking at
least one lower-level course to help lighten
my workload. But when one work-crazed
professor turned a 200-1evel course into a
400-level course, my balancing act was
obliterated. It's important for teachers to
realize that the amount of work required
by a course needs to correspond to its level.
Now, I understand that this is LC, not
some starnp-yo ur-students-out-on-a-pro­
duction-line state college, and not high
school. Teachers, however, need to be
aware of the time constraints that face their
students, of their colleagues ' tendencies to
also want to cram extra work into the last
few weeks of each semester, and of the
course level they are teaching. I have one
professor who is consistently guilty of ig­
noring all of these factors-and in doing over 64 hours a week of school work,
which is not acceptable . Sure, school
should be the equivalent of a full-time
job--40 hours a week, not 64. Sixty-four
hours a week of schoolwork is like having
a full-time job during the day and then
putting in three nights a week somewhere
else. Add to that the fact that many of us
are financially required to hold jobs on the
side and you can see where I'm getting
with this. I work two to three nights a week,
probably averaging 20 hours. Total, that
means 84 hours a week between school
and homework . off my schedule. Figure another couple of
hours driving to school, running errands,
etc., and you're left with, what, 25 hours a
week of free time? Less than four hours a
day, including meals? Ha! Ha, ha ha! What
kind of cruel joke is that? I'd be willing to
bet that most professors at this school plan
more than four hours of free time each day
for themselves . Teachers need to under­
stand that most of us can't do 64 hours of The key may be for teachers to realize
that we all take more than one class. One
class cannot a schedule make, nor should
it a schedule take.
school work each week.
I'm one of those people who doesn't
function well without eight hours of
sleep-so cross another 56 hours a week 2) Stick to the sylla­
bus, especially at the
end of the semester .
One of my professors
has decided that in ad­
dition to an enormous
Students live distorted reality
commentary by
Linsel Greene
In the two years since I
transferred to Lewis & Clark,
I've begun to notice an ever­
widening gap between reality
and student fantasy. Somehow,
students have deluded them­
selves into thinking they have
way too much work. They con­
sider their wants above and
beyond the need for education.
Pretty much all teachers have to deal with one of these
violators, and lately it seems like they're multiplying
like rabbits in a warren.
Generally, these students have earned their labels as
overcomplaining apathetic waste by unloading repeated
attempts to get out of work, delay test dates, tum in late
papers, and to generally slow down the progress of class.
They really only kick in here at the end of the semester
though, just when the work load approaches appropri­
ate.
Perhaps these people understand that this is College,
not high school. I know one fellow student who is con­
sistently guilty of ignoring assignments till the end of a
4 Pioneer Log November 21, 1997 semester, when he whines pitifully about how massive
his workload is.
Some keys for students who would rather avoid earn­
ing this dubious status:
I) Don't fall behind in your work. Putting off as­
signments till later is a doomed endeavor . Avoid meals
and quit your jobs if you have to, but keep on top of
your assignments.
2) Plan ahead. The syllabus is your friend. By look­
ing ahead, you can spend your free time working on
future assignments . Don't waste your free time reading
old Hardy Boys novels. Pick up the Foreign Policy read­
ing for December and get started. You are here to learn,
damnit!
3) Remember course descriptions arc generally
wrong. A 200-level course is more often than not more
work than an upper divisjon course. Each semester, try
to balance your schedule, talking to professors and get­
ting a solid idea of what to expect from the course.
Finally, remember, you are here to learn, not to com­
plain. Close your trap and get to work. EorroRS-IN-CHIEF: Jeremy Brown, Katy Davidson
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http://www.lclark .edu/ -piolog Surreal cereal gives writer psuedo-high
commentary by Judy Zawatzky
Small dots of blue, green, orange and hot
pink colors swim before my eyes. The
swirling colors float on a sea of milky white.
Am I high? Could this be some sort of out-of­
body experience, maybe even extraterrestrial­
induced visions?
Nah, it's just another meal at the Bon.
Brought to us by our friends Snap, Crackle,
and Pop, Rice Krispies has created a bizarre
new cereal complete with hyper-colors.
Eating such an extremely artificial "food" is
truly repellent. Yet, even the bizarre invites
inspection . The day-glow cereal can be heard
quietly whispering "Eat me. Come on, you
can't resist."
Sure enough, resistance is futile. (please
make the Borg connection here.) The sad part oddity of the situation. We sit and let the words travel
to our brains, much like listening to a second grade
teacher launching into James and the Giant Peach, yet
the professor's tale contains more overtly sexual
undertones. Maybe things don't really change much.
The next level of the surreal could truly come out of
the mind of sci-fi great Rod Sterling. Walking past the
entrance to an empty dorm hallway, I glimpse into its
depths. Suddenly, the hallway seems to shrink in size.
Yet the other end of the hallway moves further and
further away. Would I even fit inside the corridor
should I risk stepping within its boundaries? Can I
reach the other end or does the hallway go on into
infinity? Every late night I walk by the corridor, this
Twilight Zone-esque event inevitably manifests itself.
(Note to self: get more sleep.)
is that the cereal really is disgusting. No flavor known
to man tastes quite like hyper-color Rice Krispies.
Traditional Rice Krispies taste ten times better. So, why
eat it at all? It's part of that bizarre phenomenon known
as the surreal (surreal cereal-bad pun intended) . beyond. The classically surreal occurs almost daily
during class. Truly disturbing ways in which the psyche can
manifest itself set the basis for the final level of the
surreal. One morning at 3 am I look into the mirror. It
looks like me, but I can only recognize the face. Who is
peering back at me from behind those eyes? Whoever it
is begins to frighten me. I can't make the other go
away. What if the eyes start glowing red?
The surreal looms around every comer of Lewis &
Clark, sometimes literally. Rice Krispies with intensely
artificial colors constitute only one example of the
surreal, and a fairly tame incident at that. The eerie,
mildly disturbing , and horrific are only one step I go to a religions/cultures of East Asia class
expecting to discuss what the course title succinctly
indicates. Once there, the students kick back to hear the
professor read the tale of a horny young man who
unknowingly has sex with a fox, although it be in spirit
form. Oddly enough, the tale teaches us a little some­
thing about Buddhism. Looking around the class as the
tale is being woven by our prof, I am struck by the Calm. Stay calm. Everything will be fine, just don't
look in the mirror. If I'm not looking it's not looking
either. What if it doesn't go away? Must leave closet.
Around every bend of LC the surreal may be lying
in wait. Watch out for the Rice Krispies and beware of
the eyes behind the face.
Most recent Devil's
Advocate out of hand
It isn't often that I read something in
the Pioneer Log and get so angered that I
feel the need to speak out. This past week's
"Devil's Advocate" was the exception.
First, I question if Mr. Greene has read
the Oregon statute. Mr. Greene says "it is
legal for doctors to kill patients who don't
want to live." Untrue, not every patient
who doesn't wish to live will be "killed."
There are very strict guidelines in place,
and only patients who have a terminal ill­
ness may make this request. Section 3.03
of the law has specific guidelines for the
physician , including a mandatory referral
to a consulting physician , and optional re­
ferral to a counselor, if there is any remote
question of the patient's psychological
state. The consulting physician must verify
not only the temlinal diagnosis, but also
that tr.e patient is capable and is making
an informed decision.
All this comes after an oral and written
request by the patient and a second oral
request. The patient and doctor both must
be convinced this decision is the correct
one for the patient.
Secondly, I wonder if Mr. Greene has
ever seen a terminally ill patient in per­
son, or visited a nursing home. These pa­
tients either are in. severe pain, or have
reached the point of being unaware of his/
her surroundings and life. A good number
of nursing home patients who are in veg­
etative states, would not wish to remain
alive. They are awake, yes, but there is no
real quality of life. Who are we to damn a
person to a short life of'intense pain?
Unless we are willing to allow certain
medications to be legalized to control pain,
then we should be willing to allow patients
to end the pain. Perhaps the base issue here
is what is truly defined as human life. Is a
life of unawareness and pain a human life?
I would submit, having seen what I speak
of in real life, that it is not.
Lastly, all this law really does is legal­
ize what long has been occurring in hos­
pitals, nursing homes and other health care
facilities. Many doctors will order extra
large doses of drugs, or substances that
cannot be detected in an autopsy, know­
ing full well it is likely to kill the patient.
But now, instead of facing egal and civil
ramifications, the doctor can assist with­
out hiding. Letters to the editor------
So, move to Utah, Mr. Greene, but be
aware, what so terrifies you occurs there
also.
Sanna L. Wellington
Funding not deserved
by Polyglot
This letter is in response to the edito­
rial submitted by representatives of Poly­
glot printed on Nov. 14. This piercing af­
front regarding the integrity of the Gen­
eral Allocations Board was unwarranted .
The history of Polyglot funding was inac­
curate as were the accounts of all events
that transpired after the GAB decision.
Last fall the former editor of Polyglot
decided to quit before the spring semes­
ter. Ms. Lazarescu stated in the editorial
that the former editor had quit during a
critical phase in the production of the jour­
nal. This may be the case. However , there
was ample time to proceed with the char­
tering process which takes place during
spring semester. The decision not to apply
for funding rested in the hands of the cur­
rent student coordinator and editor Ruxy
Lazarescu. Her failure to comply with the
approved process of funding is the sole
reason Polyglot was not included in the
Lewis & Clark budget. An application was
not submitted by Polyglot so the issue was
not missed deadlines, as claimed in the
editorial, rather it was lack of initiative .
The General Allocations Board (GAB)
was established to ensure groups that were
not included in the budget would have ac­
cess to resources . (The money is gener­
ated from students fees.) These monies are
reserved, in large part, for non-chartered
groups that wish to organize an event. The
board is not a place for groups which were
complacent in the chartering process to
receive funding. GAB takes into consid­
eration mitigating circumstances, however
in this case the circumstance did not war­
rant funding. GAB felt allocating a signifi­
cant portion of the budget to Polyglot may
result in the lack of funds for more deserv­
\ng applicants.
As to the allegation that GAB, specifi­
cally the chairman, Vice President of Bud­
get and Finance, Ashlee Hill, did not give
an explanation as to the reason for denial,
we categorically deny this claim. Sugges­
tions for funding were also included in the
letter, and at no time did any Polyglot rep­
resentatives try to contact Hill to discuss
the situation. Polyglot did not receive funding as a
result of their own negligence. We sin­
cerely hope that Polyglot will find some
means of funding to continue production
of this "colorful component."
Justin Duling, General Allocations
Board member
Ashlee HiD, Vice President of Budget
and Finance and GAB chair
Overseas group offers
views on Master plan
Greetings from Guilin, China! The re­
curring theme of the proposed parking lot
in the Pioneer Log concerns us.
Since being here, our group has wit­
nessed the environmental atrocities of a
rapidly developing country. The Three
Gorges Dam Project is going to flood thou­
sands of acres of pristine forest to provide
Western China. People litter everywhere­
while all over the streets there are garbage
cans saying "let's protect the environmen ."
Coal is the source of fuel used by much of
China- being in Beijing is like smoking
three packs of cigarettes a day.
China is a huge country and tackling
its environmental issues during develop­
ment is a phenomenal task. After reading
these issues of the Pioneer Log, we can
see the proposed development of LC is a
manageable feat. We r. I
have thought about alter-Lkro..(\d i n
natives to the current
Master Plan proposal:
I) A parking ramp
behind Fir Acres Theater
2) More efficient
shuttle system (i.e. one
that ~,ould run to
Sellwood where many
off-campus students re-
side).
3) Improve the cur­
rent dorms as opposed to
tearing them down to
build new ones. If LC
claims to be environ­
mentally aware, conser­
vation should be an ac­
tive component of the
Master Plan. The college
then could drastically re­
duce the amount of
waste involved in con­
struction and limit the
destruction of land.
We understand that ,..... just as China needs to change for the fu­
ture, LC needs to change from the small
school it once was. China has an outstand­
ing history of using things to their poten­
tial (i.e. eating all of an animal, refilling
glass soda bottles, reusing clothes). Their
culture does not utilize nearly the amount
of paper our culture does (babies do not
wear diapers, teachers do not give hand­
outs).
Although China has an outstanding his­
tory of reusing such things, currently we
can not say the same for the reuse of bui Id­
ings (i.e. newly constructed buildings are
being built all over China, while the pre­
vious ones are being tom down or left to
rot). When we think of LC's proposed
Master Plan, we fear the consequences of
environmental destruction .
People may say "It's just twenty-five
feet," but that is where trouble begins. Ei­
ther LC can maintain its environmental
integrity and start producing alternative
plans, or face the consequences of being
labeled a hypocritical institution with a
reputation of furthering its own "develop­
ment" at the expense of its "protected "
surroundings.
Angela Rosen, Amy Okerman, Kei
Okajima, Melissa Federico, Emily Birr,
Stephanie Kimber, Thuy Nguyen
Lewis & Clark China Trip
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November 21, 1997 Pioneer Log 5 Features
Lighting up smokes with reckless abandon
by Mike Folland
Whether you are walking behind some­
one who is smoking on the way to class,
breathing in the second-hand smoke that
rises up into your room through your win­
dow while you are studying, walking
through the cloud of smoke that accumu­
lates in front of the library, or having a con­
versation with someone who blows their
smoke right into your face, cigarettes are
rank and reprehensible .
What is worse than the unpleasant at­
mosphere that cigarettes create is that they
are the main cause of pulmonary diseases
such as bronchitis, emphysema, and
asthma. These are not new facts to any
one, so why do so many people continue
to smoke?
After talking to many smokers, I
learned that people do it for the social ben­
efits more than any other reason. One
smoker said, "You'd be surprised by how
many conversations are started by asking,
'Do you have a lighter?'"
Another smoker said, "Being social is
the only reason to start smoking."
Many students start smoking when they
are studying abroad or visiting another
country. A smoker who lived in Chile for
a summer picked up the habit there be­
cause, "It's a big part of the culture." biting their finger­
nails or pencils dur­
ing class, smokers
seem to enjoy the
feeling of the ciga­
rette between their
fingers, the light,
thin, cylindrical ,
rolled-up paper in
their mouths, and
the act of blowing
smoke out of their
mouth.
As Carrie
Rosenberg , a fresh­
man who smokes,
said, "It's an oral
fixation."
Smoking is also
used as a motiva­
tion fac(or to get
work done.
Rosenberg said, "I
use it as a reward
system. Its kind of
like, 'If I finish the
paragraph of this
essay, then I'll get
a cigarette.'''
BY JORDAN THOMPSON Another student started smoking after
only spending two weeks in Japan because
smoking is so common there.
Smoking is not only popular in other
countries, but is prominent on the Lewis
& Clark campus. Just as the
amount of papers
and work load have
increased upon en­
tering college, so
has the number of
cigarette s that are
lit up. The familiar LC site of students smoking between classes.
Paul Grosfield, a social smoker, said,
""Everyone else was doing it so I figured
I might as well give it a try. I've been kind
of hooked ever since. "
Another anonymous smoker, after be­
ing asked why slhe started, answered, "It
was more of a social scene, but then I dis­
covered that the nicotine was an enjoyable
substance."
Not only is the nicotine addicting , but
the act of smoking is mentally addicting .
Just like some people have the habit of A couple students said that the most
number of cigarettes they smoked was
during the first week that they arrived on
campus. They said that cigarettes help
them relax when they are under a lot of
stress.
Another common answer as to why
people smoke was simply, "It's fun!"
Leah Bass, who is a nonsmoker, said,
"I don't think it's fun. I think it's stupid.
It's a personal choice, but it's a waste of
money."
Most students plan on quitting before they get out of college.
Fortunately, some students have taken
the wamings and side effects of smoking
seriously and have taken the personal re­
sponsibility to quit smoking.
Ellie Lochridge, who quit smoking af­
ter high school, said, "I realized that it's
very unhealthy. My Grandma's stroke was
a reality check.
She smoked most of her life and her
smoking probably contributed to her
stroke."
While people will continue to fill their lungs with tar, hopefully there will be more
people who will realize that their life will
be shortened if they continue to smoke
cigarettes .
Some people take a different approach
in their effort to quit smoking cigarettes ,
such as a smoker who said, "I'm going to
quit [cigarettes] and start smoking a cigar.
It's much more stylish." (See related ar­
ticle on cigars below.)
Yesterday, November 21, marked the
GreatAmerican Smoke-out, which encour­
ages smokers to quit for a 24 hour period.
A cigar in the mouth is worth two in the hand
by Mike Skrzynski
They can be smelly, obnoxious, and
disgusting, but they can also be tasteful,
fragrant, and a wonderful complement to
a good meal. Whichever way you feel
about it, the cigar is back in a big way.
Cigars have been around for quite a
while, but gained popularity in the early
19OOs, in part due to such prominent fig­
ures as Winston Churchill and FOR. Yet,
the number of smokers were still minimal
and limited mostly to the upper crust of
society.
People's reasons for smoking cigars
were varied. They were often smoked for
the statement of in-
dividuality. For think of cigarettes you probably think of
common, garden-variety smokes.
When you think of cigars, you think
slightly more upper-class and unique. This
is true on the most part, though even ci­
gars are also manufactured. Still, the main
basic difference between cigarettes and
cigars, beyond how they make you feel, is
the way they are made.
Cigarette s are made with processed to­
bacco treated with chemicals which make
them bum without smoking. Then they roll
them and normally stick a filter on the end.
Cigars are made entirely differently. It
is more of a craft than a process. They take
tobacco leaves grown organically in select
soil (such as that of
Cuba and the Do­
some it was a mat­
ter of stature and
pride.
Even another
explanation is that
it was an alterna­
tive to cigarettes ,
which were really UYou normally don't smoke
them very often anyway,
unless you're
George Burns. minican Republic)
and process it with­
out adding any
chemicals. This
means it will go out
if you don't keep
puffing, but you can
hyped up way back then by the influence
of Hollywood. It occurred to some people
that while cigarettes were cool, cigars were
high-minded and regal and they preferred
that. always light it
again.
The next step in the cigar process comes
when a skilled cigar maker rolls the to­
bacco individually in whole tobacco
leaves. If it's well-made, smoke does not
Today, most people think about things escape from random cracks in the cigar.
slightly differently . Unless you've been It's a simple idea, but an important one
brain-washed by cigarette ads, when you that's really easy to screw up.
6 Pioneer Log November 21, 1997 Appreciation for
the art of cigar mak­
ing, as well as cigar
A SPECIAL smoking, has welled
EDITION up once again in re-Smoking
atLC:
cent years. In fact, it
is very much the hype in smoking these
days. Cigarettes may be more affordable
and plentiful, but many more people are
finding satisfaction in the form of a cigar.
It's coming out of traditional men's
clubs and into the mainstream. Hype has
been initiated greatly by the media. New
publications such as Cigar Aficionado
have launched into the marketplace fea­
turing the likes of Demi Moore and Pierce
Brosnan.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. even capitalized
on the rage by founding a magazine which
focuses on cigars. It is entitled George.
Kennedy is also the current editor of the
magazine.
They're bringing Hollywood back into
the game and they're stressing the indi­
viduality of cigar and smoker. Actual afi­
cionados might find the hype all a little
too much and are happy to say that the rave
is in the smoke.
As far as puffing on fire goes, cigars
are probably the safest among the bunch.
You don't inhale and sear your lungs as
with cigarettes and you have a lower
chance of mouth cancer than with pipes.
A cigar is simply puffed and the nico-tine is absorbed through the cheeks. The
cigar also acts as its own filter. Remember
this when you get down to the last of the
cigar. If it tastes funny then throw it out
because that's the tar talking.
There are many things to learn about
cigar smoking, as well as cigar making.
That is part of the fun of cigars and why
they have become so popular. People are
finding out what makes cigars so special.
There are, of course, the connoisseurs
and collectors who makes up the bulk of
smokers, but that doesn't mean that cigars
are out of the price range of the average
college student. You normally don't smoke
them vt?ry often anyway, unless you're
George Bums.
If you want just cheap manufactured
cigars, then Tobacco Town is right on the
39 bus route across from Safeway. If you
feel you want something more substantial,
then Rich's Cigar Shop is the place to go
in downtown Portland . If you want it,
they've probably got it.
Go prepared to ask them about three
names: Montecristo , Dunnhill, and
Maduro, though they might not have Cu­
ban cigars because of that little embargo
the U.S. has going.
A quick tip to remember : if you want
Cuban cigars, then go to Canada. However ,
they're a harsher smoke than the ones from
the Dominican Republic. Some Leers find dates off'the Bubble'
by Beth Bonady
'Relationships in the real world are hard
enough to maintain, but at LC they seem
to be particularly difficult. According to
sophomores Aisha Machtinger and Beth
Loewen, relationships at LC present prob­
lems that other relationships don't.
Both Machtinger and Loewen are in
long-term, committed relationships with
guys who are not LC students. They see
special benefits in dating non-LC students:
''I'm able to get off campus more often and
have a life off campus," said Machtinger.
However, Loewen adds that having an off­
campus boyfriend isn't always easy: "It's
hard having a relationship with someone
who doesn't go here because it's hard to
integrate him into LC society. He enjoys
being here sometimes but doesn't like to
be here all the time." Machting er's boy­
friend Terry Houghton also sees the LC
community as difficult to get along with:
"A lot of the people I'm around are very
disrespectful and unwilling to compro­
mise." Machtinger also noted that she thinks it is
hard to maintain a relationship here be­
cause "a lot of people on this campus don't
know what being in a committed relation­
ship is like." Loewen adds that "it is hard
to be in a relationship here because of the
roommate factor."
Katie Piper, a freshman, is single and
feels the LC dating scene can be confus­
ing. "It surprises me how fast freshman
couples get together," she observed. "It
would be hard to have a relationship here
because it's such a small school." Kaya
Stone, a sophomore, feels that it is hard to
get into a relationship at LC. "Everyone
here already knows everything about you
and they have presuppositions about who
you are. Relationships here seem like
they're based on what social group or
clique you're in." Loewen agrees:
"Maybe that's why there's not such a big
dating scene. Because if you're seen with
two different guys, even if you haven't
done anything, people talk about you and
think you're a slut."
PHOTO BY JORDAN THOMPSON Machtinger and Loewen also agree that
there are difficulties in having boyfriends
that have nothing to do with LC. "The
main difficulty is balancing time between
friends and my boyfriend ," said
Machtinger . "I don't feel like he's drag­
ging me away from my studies, though." Despite the difficulties of having a re­
lationship here, several couples are pull­
ing it off and see the benefits of compan­
ionship. "It's hard to separate yourself
from the LC community if you live on
campus. But if you have a boyfriend who
doesn't go here, you get to see what the
outside is like" said Machtinger. "I'm sorry ... she didn't mean anything to me."
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THE CAN DO SPIRIT IS BACK New feminist
group forms
by Angela Nusom
Hoping to combat misperceptions of
modem feminism, Adam's Rib, a group
supporting women's equality, has big
plans to spread awareness and support
concerning women's issues.
Begun this year by Kirsten Foley and
Nikki Reynolds , Adam's Rib now sup­
ports 10-15 active members .
"It's still pretty small, but those who
are involved are active and want to make
a difference, " said Foley.
At the end of last year she was in­
spired to create a women's club after
witnessing how the 'Take Back the
Night' program motivated students. The
fact that Lewis & Clark did not have a
women's feminist group became dis­
turbing to her, so she set out to formu­
late one, and asked for Reynolds' help.
In their weekly meetings, Adam's
Rib members discuss women's issues
such as date rape, women's health and
work equality. The rotating leader is re­
sponsible for presenting an article to the
group, which they proceed to discuss.
"Our focus is to promote awareness
on LC campus and in the general world
that lives beyond this hill," she said.
So far this year, the group has been
successful in drawing Frances Driscoll
to campus to raise student awareness of
the impact of rape. Furthermore, the
group plans on promoting more dale­
rape awareness by working with Resi­
dence Hall Staff.
"One of our on-going projects is
date-rape awareness. We are trying to
get that set up, and eventually to do a
workshop," said Foley. The workshop
would inform women of their option and
freedoms when victims of sexual vio­
lence, as well as spread awareness on
prevention and understanding.
"A lot of them don 'I report it because
there's no where for them to go where
the feel safe," added Reynolds, sharing
her motivation s behind wanting to cre­
ate more awareness .
In addition, Adam's Rib has the am-
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Seven Years worth two hours in the theater
by Marianna Ritchey
Okay. This movie only has one obliga­
tory Brad Pitt naked torso shot. But you
shouldn't let that tum you off. Nor should
you let the over two hours of 90 mph plot
or Pitt's utterly hideous German accent
keep you from seeing this movie. Because
if you're like me, you know absolutely
nothing about anything that happened be­
fore about 1995. Especially anything that
might have happened in some other coun­
try. And I think it's important to branch
out and learn about things, even if it's from
a glamorous ly biased Hollywood point of
view. Let me extrapolate:
PHOTO BY DAVID APPLEBY, COURTESY OF TRISTAR PICTURES AND MANDALAY ENTERTAINMENT Tibet was a peace-loving nation, ruled
only by the spiritual leadership of the Dalai
Lama, then a small boy with bright eyes
and an endearing habit of asking approxi­
mately 153 questions per minute. He was
interested in all things Western. He wanted
to know about movie houses, Paris, and
Jack the Ripper. He also wanted to know
about geography, astronomy, and just why
the hell Brad Pitt is so afraid of being a
father to his small son, Rolfe, who is back
home in Austria being told some guy
named Horst is actually his Papa. Brad Pitt stars as Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber in Seven Years in Tibet.
Brad Pitt plays the famous mountain
climber Heinrich Harrer, whose fame is
topped only by the size of his monstrous
ego and the toes he is willing to step on to
get to the top. Some of those toes include
those of his pregnant wife, Ingrid. She
thinks he shouldn't leave her to climb a
mountain in Nepal. Nonetheless, he gets
on his train, waving a Nazi flag and glar­
ing daggers at his weeping wife.
Aside from the fact that Pitt's accent is
literally horrendous , it is interesting to
watch a movie in which one remains to­
tally unsympathetic to the main character
until the last five minutes of the film.
Within the first two scenes, Heinrich has
jeopardized the lives of the rest of the
climbing team, told a sherpa that Tibetan
religion "means nothing" to him and ac­
cused his superior of being a coward. And
that's all before they get taken priS'oner and
put in a P.O.W. camp in India. See, at that
point nobody loved a Nazi, and though
Heinrich shrieks brokenly, "I am a c1imba,
not one of zees politeecians ," the Nepalese
government still doesn't trust him. It's hard
to believe, considering when they first con­
front him he laughs like a maniac for about
thirty seconds, waving his hands like
Yeltsin.
At this point the movie has only been running about 15 or 20 minutes. The next
ten span four years. The escape from the
camp, the letter from Ingrid informing him
of her divorce proceedings, the birth of his
son, and various escapades involving try­
ing to get back to Austria take place in a
matter of moments . And the whole time I
was thinking, "Hey, the preview had a cute
little boy in it. What's all this footage of
Brad Pitt vomiting in the mountains?"
Over the next few minutes of breakneck
plot speed, we catch glimpses of Heinrich
befriending the superior he accused of
cowardice, Heinrich tricking the wacky
Tibetan guards charged with escorting him
out of Tibet, and Heinrich with a disturb­
ingly disheveled beard, squatting in the
snow eating raw horse meat.
Finally, after a bunch of stuff happens
that doesn't make much sense, they get to
the holy city where the Dalai Lama lives.
And that's when it gets TRULY wacky!
Together the young reincarnation of Bud­
dha and the unintelligible Austrian jerk
forge a friendship that was to last until the
present day. Heinrich teaches the boy about
automobiles, radios and mountain climb­
ing, and in return the young priest shows
Heinrich a little something about infinite
compassion .
The Dalai Lama is played by a delight-
8 Pioneer Log November 21, 1997 ful B.D. Wong. He is definitely the best
part of the movie, aside from the excellent
cinematography. The chemistry between
he and Pitt is exceptional.
But back to my history lesson. So here
is this peace-loving nation ruled by this
awesome kid who is the reincarnation of
Buddha and all the other Dalai Lamas be­
fore him. I think. The movie didn't really
get into that, but it did get into the fact that
Tibet was extremely peaceful. So mean­
while all this stuff is going on in the out­
side world, including World War II and the
Communist overthrow of China, which
messed up a lot of things. One of those
things was Tibet. China decided it wanted
to govern Tibet, and enough of these silly
monks. So the army started entering and
conquering each small, peaceful, unpro­
tected village. Thousands of monasteries
were burned and the monks butchered .
During one scene showing the Chinese
army invading the jury-rigged Tibetan
military camp like so many glorified ants,
I turned to my friend Dave and said "Wait,
did this actually happen?" It was then that
I started to make sense out of all those
"Free Tibet" stickers I always see on the
backs of VW buses and Nalgene water
bottles. I mean, really, it was pretty nasty.
The Dalai Lama tries to talk to a Chi-nese general sent to bargain with him, but
after a beautiful speech about brotherly
love and the way things should be, all the
general has to say is "religion is poison,"
which, even if sometimes true, is a pretty
mean thing to say to such an articulate kid.
So the situation is pretty hopeless, and the
Dalai Lama is eventually evacuated to a
safer place. As of right now, Tibet remains
in a state of Chinese dominance .
So all of that was very interesting and
enlightening. And I absolutely LOVED
B.D. Wong. He was great. And there was
another pretty good acting contribution by
David Thewlis, who plays Heinrich's su­
perior accused of cowardice. You'll re­
member Thewlis from the infinitely for­
gettable Island of Dr. Moreau staring an
extremely fat and bizarre Marlon Brando
as a doctor who genetically bonds human
and animal DNA to make an island full of
cat-people who end up killing everybody.
Man, that movie was terrible. So I was glad
to see Thewlis in something a little more
high-brow .
But don't get me wrong. Brad Pitt's
accent is unbelievably bad. It really de­
tracts from the whole plot, which is more
confusi~g than Annie to begin with. It's a
pretty movie and it'll help you out with
history, but seriously-go at your own risk.
Bradd Skubinna
received his BA in studio
art and art history from
Eastern
Washington University in
1989. His work will be on
display in LCs Gallery of
Contemporary Art until
Dec. 18. Gallery hours are
Tuesday through Saturday,
I I am to 4pm. For more
information, call 768-7687 .
PHOTO BY GINA KELLEY Hilarious Sedaris fills chapel with wit
by Katy Davidson
When was the last time Lewis & Clark
sponsored a "shrewd" and "wickedly
funny" speaker?
That is what I wondered as I passed the
ever-present Arts Alive! promotional post­
ers that were plastered all over campus last
week. After a little self-motivational prod­
ding, I decided to feed my intrigue by at­
tending the David Sedaris reading on Nov.
14 in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel.
Apparently Sedaris has become quite
well-known in the last couple of years. He
is a regular commentator on National Pub­
lic Radio and has written two best-selling
books. He has also been featured in People
magazine, a mark of dislinguishment that
captures the interest of many Americans .
He came to campus last week primarily to
promote his new book, Naked.
Sedaris began his reading with some·
funny introductory remarks. He spoke a
little about Naked, describing a few of the
scenes he created in his collection of short
commentaries. He highlighted his apple­
picking experiences in Oregon and his
regular visits to a nudist colony. of life on the death scene. He recounted
the stark image of autopsy workers taking
their lunch breaks in a glass room over­
looking all the bodies because it was the
"only place that had air conditioning," and
the top-to-bottom description of a teenage
suicide. (Shrewd? Wickedly funny?)
Though Sedaris' opening story did not
fulfill the expectations of much of the
laughter- seeking audience , his talent for
writing was apparent. Sedaris has the
power to lock the listener in with his heavy
sentences and hypnotic voice. His lan­
guage has hooks; just when you think you
are gliding along, he will snag you with
an ear-catching word or phrase.
Fortunately, Sedaris chose two humor­
ous pieces to round out the night. The first
one took place in a southern church where
an obviously condescending Northern er
was trying to convince "you people" to let
him build a high-tech church on top of the
original's ruins.
The funniest story of the night was the
final one. Sedaris introduced the piece by
describing a popular critic in New York
who made his fame by dogging nearly ev­
ery play he watched. Sedaris said he was
one of the critic's fans until the man cri­
tiqued one of Sedaris' own plays (which
he co-wrote with his sister under the name
of "The Talent Family") . Sedaris set the audience up for a hilari­
ous first piece with this introduction, then
surprisingly dropped a heavy weight in the
form of serious prose. The first sketch of
the night was something Sedaris had not
yet read before an audience . He described
his detailed account of observing autopsy
workers for a period of time in Phoenix. So Sedaris turned the whole story back
around again by writing a review of the
children's "Story of Christmas" play in the
voice of the ruthless critic. The character
attacked everything about the production,
including the over-eager parents and over­
weight kids. He questioned if the school
crossing guard had come up with the play's
blocking because he noticed the children
always seemed to travel in herds. PHOTO BY KAREN KUELlN, COURTESY OF WILlAMETTE WEEK
David Sedaris displays a head of cabbage .
whom probably had kids of the same age
at home.
The piece began with bite-size humor
when he poked fun at Arizona's capital
city, saying that everything in Phoenix was
a 45-minute drive away from everything
else. But after this light-hearted beginning,
Sedaris delved into graphic recollections This sketch received wild laughter from
the understanding audience, many of Sedaris used his final chance to shine
in the question and answer period after the
reading. He imitated the way he used to
speak to his family at the dinner table in
his "Elizabet han Phase," and did an im­
pression of Billie Holiday singing the Gen­
eral Foods International Coffee jingle. Judging from his reading, Sedaris de­
serves all the recent attention he has been
getting. He has a sharp tongue and still
manages to leave the listener provoked . To
the large group that assembled in the
chapel last week, he proved that a
"shrewd" and "wickedly funny" man did
not have to be completely heartless and
unaffected , too.
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Men's basketball leaps into new season with high hopes
by Evan Elken
The Pioneer men's basketball team is looking to add
another season to the run of excellence compiled over
the past four years.
The Lewis & Clark squad is one of only two in the
nation to qualify for the post-season NAIA champion­
ship tournament in each of those years.
Past success and the current crop of veterans playing
for their third and fourth seasons have earned the Pio­
neers a pre-season ranking of number four in the nation.
Pre-season rank, however, means very little in the grand
I
, scheme of things. Top-ranked teams begin the weekly
shuffle on day one of the pre-season . Any resemblance
between the initial top 25 and the final top 25 is entirely
coincidental.
For example, three years ago Willamette University
ranked number two in the nation at the beginning of the
season only to finish a dishonorable seventh in the North­
western Conference of Independent Colleges (NCIC).
Look for last year's standouts, seniors Brooks Meek
and Whitney Brake, who both received All-American
mention, to assume the leadership roles once again. ''They
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10 Pioneer Log November 21, 1997 need to be the same type of players that they have been,"
said Head Coach Bob Gaillard.
Gaillard said that at least four seniors will start. Se­
niors Jeff Flowers and Marc Puccioni will line up at cen­
ter court with Meek and Brake. Keep an eye on the two
transfer student-athletes, junior Justin Williams and
sophomore Josh Ulmer to add punch somewhere in the
lineup. Carl Shreck missed all of last season while over­
seas. He should playa major role in the scope of the team
See Basketball, Page 7 7 Great expectations
... Basketball, from Page 10
along with fellow juniors Chance
Gilford and Eric Kingma.
All of the experience vying for
court time equals depth in a power-
ful bench to accentuate the punch of
the starting lineup. Three newcom-
ers to the squad, Troy Burrows ,
Kuba Kuczewski , and Kyle Kiang
may have some difficulty finding a
niche in anything but the late min-
utes of blowouts , but do not ignore
them. Maybe there is a true standout
hiding among them.
LC is not without rivals in the
NCIC when it comes to national
prestige and high expectations . The
NCIC is arguably the most difficult
conference to win in the country
with four teams currently ranked in
the top twenty-five .
Unranked George Fox should be
a very tough team. According to
Gaillard, "They are one of a couple
schools in the conference that still
have scholarships ." The Univ.ersity
of Puget Sound, also not ranked, has
a 7-foot tall center whom was out
last year with an injury. Whatever
that seven footer has to offer, he will
at least give UPS an element of
height uncommon to this league.
Whitman was the national run-
ner-up two years ago and is in the
top twenty-five this year. Pacific
Lutheran University and Pacific
University round out the ranked
teams in the NCIC. PU rose as high
as number four in the nation last
year. No NCIC team to qualify for
the championship tournament last
year lost in the first round.
There are no teams taken lightly
in this league, not even Linfield.
Recall last year after LC had gone
undefeated in its first eleven games
to become the number one team in
the nation. Linfield, a sub-.500 team
at the time, upset LC convincingly .
There is a new team in the league
this year. Formerly a Division I
team, Seattle University joins the
NCIC this year and brings with them
a full roster of scholarship athletes.
Seattle will no longer be able to
dangle scholarships in front of new
recruits as a result of joining the con-
ference. However , the athletes pre-
viously signed to scholarships retain
their privileges.
LC is always at a possible disad-
vantage compared to colleges that
use scholarships as incentives for
talent.
This plays a factor .in the post-
season, especially with more teams
without the restrictions of a progres-
sive liberal institution. "Almost all
of the teams in the nationals have
scholarships," said Gaillard, "You
just hope they don't playas well
against you."
The fight for the league champi-
onship is sure to be nip and tuck
whichever way the chips may fall for
the Pioneers. "A couple injuries and
a couple calls against you can
change the course of a season," said
Coach Gaillard.
Perhaps the season will come
down to the home crowd that can
manage to chastise the referees
enough to receive that one favorable
call that breaks the game for the op-
position.
In the Next Issue:
An in-depth look at the
women's basketball squad. LC women take a jab at boxing
by Michael Folland
The musty smell of gloves. Sounds of
fists drilling into punching bags. A tem­
porary feeling of relief after the coach yells
out, "Ten more seconds!" A burning sen­
sation in the shoulders. The high-pitched
sound of the bell after one round. The sting
of sweat dripping into the eyes.
These are all sensations experienced by
Lewis & Clark students Annie Weiland and
Jessica Youngman who attend a boxing
class twice a week. Their boxing class,
called Knot Street Boxing club, is held at
Dishman Community Center.
Ironically , the sports center is located
in between a hospital and a mortuary.
The women begin warming up by do-
ing several sets of push-ups , sit-ups, and . Annie Weiland and Jessica Youngman mix it up.
jumping jacks. Then the real workout be-
gins.
They do circuits in which they move
from one exercise to the next after one
minute. The circuit consists of hitting the
punching bag, jumping rope, throwing a
heavy ball up against the wall, more sit­
ups, jumping exercises, and shadow box­
ing, which is throwing punches and com­
binations without a target in front of you.
The circuit also includes a double end
bag, which is a volleyball-sized punching
bag that is held up between two cords and
requires excellent hand and eye coordina­
tion in order to avoid getting hit in the head.
Towards the end of each minute, coach
Joe Caldira, who has been coaching for
five years and was a former boxer in Los
Angeles, yells out for the women, whose
muscles become exhausted towards the
end of the workout, to continue to push
themselves and work hard.
When the women get in the ring, they learn how to block, when to throw certain
punches, and technique. Sometimes the
coach wears mitts that they have to punch
at or he wears a helmet, in which case they
have to aim for his head. Youngman said
that sometimes he will smack one in the
head in order to get her to punch harder
and make her more aggressive .
They also do a drill in which they have
to chase someone around the ring for three
minutes, the length of time for each round.
Weiland said, "If you chase someone
around and throw punches for three min­
utes, it's a long time. I thought I was go­
ing to die!"
Weiland and Youngman do not box with
the intention of hurting someone they dis­
like, but do it mainly because it is fun and
a challenging workout. Weiland said, "It
gets me really energized. I don't think
about things that are making me mad. It's
not an aggression thing at all. I think exer-cise is a good friend for any frustration that
you might have."
Youngman likes it not only because it
is fun, but also because of the type of
people that come to the class. Youngman
said, "It's something in the community . It's
good to be around a diverse group of
people that isn't isolated to just Lewis &
Clark students."
Both Weiland and Youngman agreed
that the wide mix of women seem to bond
together even though they are all from dif­
ferent backgrounds . While some of the
women are young, others are mothers with
children. Weiland and Youngman both said
that it is good to see what other people are
doing with their lives.
Although Weiland and Youngman box
for the exercise, coach Caldira said that
women who want to can eventually box
as amateurs. Who knows, maybe we will
see these two box professionally one day.
If lOU are looking for stats, she's your woman
by David Kolek
Sports have always been a major part
of Julie Lapomarda's life, but now they
also represent her occupation.
Lapomarda was named the Sports In­
formation Director for Lewis & Clark
College over the summer and has been
spending this fall settling into her new
position.
As the SID, Lapomarda is responsible
for compiling statistics for all LC sports,
formulating media guides for the sports,
and acts as the contact for media concern­
ing any events within the program.
In her own words, "it was a strange
path" that led her to LC. Lapomarda, origi­
nally from the other Portland, in Maine,
went to Valdosta State College in Georgia
on a softball scholarship. While there,
Lapomarda played for the Division II
squad and came to her future profession
by chance.
"I ended up working at the Sports In­
formation office where I got a lot of expe­
rience. I learned from one of the best," she
said.
Her big thrill came in the summer of
1996 when Lapomarda was chosen to
work for Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting as
a free lance broadcaster during the Olym­
pic Games: "It was my first real life
experience ... 1 learned a lot and met a lot
of people."
Lapomarda completed her graduate
work in the summer of 1997 and that was
when the "real world" closed in. She at­
tended a conference held by College Sports
Information Directors of America with the
expectation of spending at least five years
working her way up through the competi­
tive field.
It is not uncommon for graduates to
spend the first few years as an assistant or
an intern, before a promotion becomes
available.
Lapomarda , relying on the characteris­
tic confidence that must have made her a terror on the diamond, "went to the con­
ference to find myself a job."
She did not interview with LC at that
time, and instead interviewed later that
summer over the phone. When the offer
was made for the position at LC,
Lapomarda did not hesitate. "I packed up
my stuff, shipped out my car, and flew out
here."
Lapomarda's position in life is reminis­
cent of the one many LC students will find
themselves in the not-too-di stant future.
She reflected on this recent transition in
life saying, "The hardest thing to get over is the fact that I don't have to study any­
more."
That's something for all of us to look
forward to.
Lapomarda looks forward to meeting
the deadlines that come with the "real
world" while still maintaining a fine bal­
ance in life.
This balance comes from enjoying the
work that she is doing.
"I really enjoy game day. The excite­
ment and hard work from the week comes
out. Whether we are winning or losing, I
really enjoy it."
Blooming Flowers, masterful powers
by Katy Davidson
Senior center Jeff Flowers, who tops
out at 6'7", wants to take the Pioneer
basketball team to new heights.
He says that this year, the team has
the capabilities to win the NCIC cham­
pionship. "I think we have a good
chance of going quite far," he said.
To accomplish this goal, Flowers
said he is putting in the time to become
a better player before the season starts,
primarily in the name of defense. ''I'm
trying to improve my footwork and fun­
damentals . I'm trying to work on being
smarter on defense," he said.
He said that his best game in high
school happened when his father had
just returned from six months at sea with
the Navy.
With his father cheering in the crowd,
Flowers scored 35 points. "My dad is
my role model," he said. "I've watched
him deal with adversity and raise a fam­
ily at the same time."
Flowers said his most memorable
team achievement happened at Lewis &
Clark College.
With two seconds left in a tie ball game against Pacific University last
spring, his teammate and best friend
Whitney Brake tipped in a two-pointer
to win. LC and Pacific were the two top
teams in the conference at the time.
When asked ifhe was the same per­
son on and off the court, Flowers said,
"I'd like to say 'no,' but unfortunately
I am. I've been trying to be more ag­
gressive, not such a nice guy."
Flowers' outlook on the game of
basketball is not quite so nice. "It's kind
of like a war. I hate losing. You do what­
ever you can not to lose. It's you' against
them and that's it," he said.
He describes his teammate s as a
family and says there is not one player
he clicks with more than another. "I
know the tendencies of everyone else.
I've learned everyone's playing style in
the last three years," he said.
He said he especially admires the te­
nacity and hard-working nature of
Brooks Meek, and also his friend
Brake's efforts.
"Everybody's friends with every­
body. There are no egos on the team ...
it's like a family," he said.
November 2 I, 1997 Pioneer Log I I La Soiree d'Automne. Boogie
with friends at the Oaks Park
Pavilion from 9 pm to 1 am.
Shuffle service provided.
Tickets $ 10.
Irish born Mary Black will be
performing her Celtic style at the
Aladdin Theater with guest
Andy White.
Feminism
explored
... Adam's Rib, from page 7
Foley also emphasized the importance of
gender integration in support of the women's
center. "It's not just for women, but for any­
one who wants access to resources regard­
ing issues ... issues that affect women's lives
... letting women know that it's her
perogative, that she has choices."
Right now, Adam's Rib members are fo­
cusing on spreading publicity about their
groups, and obtaining more student interest
and support in their cause. "Feminism is a
really big word, but we hope to dispel some
of its myths. It has a bad association with
radicals ... [our goal] is to make it not a bad
word," said Foley.
Reynolds echoes Foley's thoughts, "A lot
of people hear 'feminist' and equate it with
'male-bashing', but that's not what we're
about," she said.
What is feminism to Foley and support­
ers of Adam's Rib?
"Feminism is working toward an equal­
ity that affords her [woman] the ability to
make whatever choices she feels are best .. .
that society will not judge her in any way .. .
that her government is working to look out
for her interests, and that her value is just as
high as a man," concluded Foley. r-----------,
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