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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

He's your
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page 7
Friday, October 17, 1997
Volume 62, Issue 4
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Parking
lot plan
discussed Kenya group weighs travel
change, bonds in sweat-lodge
by Colin Ryono
A public forum was held in Stamm
in Templeton Student Center to dis­
cuss the proposal for a new parking
lot near the Lewis & Clark Law
School. This proposal created a stir
of controversy and a forum was nec­
essary to acknowledge the possible
problem and to educate students on
what the plans currently are.
This forum, held on Tuesday, Oc­
tober 7, was organized by Students
Engaged in Eco-Defense (SEED),
and ASLC. Attending were several
LC and Law students, members of the
ASLC executive council, Dean of
Students Michael Ford, Transporta­
tion & Parking Manager Michael Sur­
face, Facilities Planner Michael
Sestric, and professor Evan Williams .
The forum was to present the facts
about the proposal, give the students
a chance to meet and discuss this
project with those involved , address
concerns, and discuss possible alter­
natives to the proposal.
The meeting started with an intro­
duction by sophomore Kristin
Casper, SEED representative. She
said that SEED wants the proposal for
this parking lot to be withdrawn, as
it is an embarrassment to a school
known for its environmental focus. by Kayla Boyce
A volatile and potentially dangerous political situation
in Kenya is forcing the Lewis & Clark Spring Kenya trip to
consider changing part of their trip itinerary to Tanzania.
The group, led by professor of history Stephen Dow
Beckham, took a retreat to Camp Baldwin on the eastern
slope of Mount Hood last weekend to discuss this and other
issues.
Traditionally one of the more peaceful African nations,
Kenya has been racked by protests and government crack­
downs since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi delayed
calling an election past the constitutional deadline. The
Kenyan constitution requires Moi to call an election every
five years.
The LC group has activities planned on Kenya's coast as
well as inland. Because most unrest has been in coastal ar-,
eas, the group is still planning to carry throlLlgh the inland
portion of the trip. The trip leaders are discussing the possi­
bility of going to Tanzania and even Uganda. to replace the
coastal portion of the itinerary.
Trip participant Christina Westerlund said that no one
really knew whether they would end up going to Kenya or
Tanzania yet, but Arap Moi 's procra,.stination on the election
issue made Tanzania seem like a definite poss:ibility. "I don't
mind that we might have to change the trip; I find the
uncertainity kind of exciting," sophomore Aaron Blackwell
said.
Either trip would be exciting to Westerlund . "According
to Beckham we'll have a pretty comparable trip ... I'd rather
go to Tanzania than die in Kenya," she said. She added that
she did not really think it likely that she would die if they
went to Kenya. Pamplin Profes­
sor of history
Stephen Dow
Beckham will
lead 25 lC stu­
dents to East Af­
rica this spring.
The current plan to expand the
parking facilities ofLe is one part of
the very extensive Master Plan, to be
executed over the next ten years. If
the plan is approved, the current park­
ing lot alongside the baseball and
softball fields will be expanded.
However, this lot will also encroach
about 45 feet into the Environmental
Conservation zone, an allowable
tance into the buffer bordering the
adjoining Tryon State Park. Beckham outlined the goals of the Mount: Hood retreat:
"to foster a sense of group, to permit the students to get to
know each other better, to identify expectations, to layout
and assess fears, to play Ultimate Frisbee, and to consume a
purely vegetarian cuisine."
The future travelers watched slide shows and talked to
people who had been to Kenya before. "It was really excit­
ing to see all the pictures and know I'm going to see over
there .. .it made me want to see it for myself," junior Tina
Westerlund said. secret vote on whether anyone felt uncomfortable with the
sweat-lodge nudity. No hands were raised.
"It wasn't really noticeable . I didn't worry about it," se­
nior Brian Kitzerow said. The question of professors sitting
naked with students also seemed, as Kitzerow put it, "not
newsworthy ." Senior Eric)ohnson agreed.
A total of 175 spaces will be added
continued, page 2 ... The group also bonded by building a sW€lat-lodge with
tarps; they heated it with extremely hot rocks. The uninhib­
ited participants disrobed completely, while others wore
swimwear . The nudity did not seem to be an issue for the
participants. Before any clothes came off, the group took a "It was dark so I can't personally say if Beckham was
nude," said Kitzerow.
Blackwell described the weekend's open nature in more
overtly positive terms. "The retreat brought us together as a
group, it brought down a lot of barriers," he said.
Crew van loses control on Interstate 5
by Michael Folland
A Lewis & Clark student driving the crew team to
practice Oct. 5, lost control of the van, fish-tailed back
and forth, spun around into the direction of oncoming
traffic, and crashed into a guardrail on Interstate 5. The
damage to the front left side of the\ van disabled it, and
it had to be towed. Nobody was injured.
After the accident, a driver immediately pulled over
to help members of the crew team, Jonathan Barret, a
freshman rower on the advanced team, called Campus
Safety on the man's cellular phone.
After Jonathan explained what happened, the Cam­
pus Safety officer said he could not leave the office
because he was the only one there.
Campus Safety agreed to pick them up when Nina
Gonzales, another rower, called Campus Safety again, saying the team was in an unsafe situation and that
they had no way to get back to school.
This incident raised the issue of whether Campus
Safety should be responsible for students who are in­
volved in off campus situations, according to mem­
bers of the crew team.
Olivia Foulkrod, on the advanced team, said she
feels that unless a student is driving his own car, Cam­
pus Safety should be responsible for picking the per­
son up, especially in the case of a team being trans­
ported by a school vehicle.
Many students and parents became angry about the
incident because they said van needed to be fixed sev­
eral months prior to the accident.
Only the driver and one other passenger were wear­
ing seat belts because some of the seat belts did not
work. The steering also needed to be fixed and may have caused the loss of control. Lewis & Clark Col­
lege recently purchased new vans.
"There were some unhappy people. We were driv­
ing an old van when there were new vans available,"
Barret said. Members of the crew team said they. did
not understand why the school had them drive an old
van when a new van was accessible.
The question of whether students should drive the
college vans also remains unanswered. A student cur­
rently needs a good driving record in order to qualify
to be a van driver; no driving test is required.
Foulkrod and Barret said that driving a large van
containing up to 14 other people, in the rain and heavy
traffic of downtown Portland, is extremely different
from driving a private vehicle.
"I don't feel students should be responsible fordriv­
ing," Foulkrod said. , .. · ·
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courtesy of Julie Layton, Campus Safety Pamplin Society Room on the 3rd floor. Seven years ago,
October 7
Unknown subjects stole one directional parking sign
and damaged another at the Manor House Circle.
It was reported to this office that between October 6
and October 7, unknown subjects stole a computer key­
board out of a locked supply room in Miller.
A hit and run occurred to a student's vehicle who
parked his vehicle in the Tennis Bubble gravel lot.
October 9
A trespass notice was issued to a non student who
was caught sneaking into Fields Dining Hall without
paying for his meal.
Officers while on patrol found a non-student who
appeared to be suffering from alcohol poisoning. Para­
medics were called and the individual was taken to the
hospital. Further investigations revealed that he had been
drinking in a room in Platt. Two non students were tres­
passed. A report was taken for drug violations and cop­
ies were sent to Residence Life.
A window was broken out of a hallway door by a
student who was upset in Copeland .
October 10
Unknown suspects vandalized the bathroom wall and
equipment in the men's bathroom in Watzek Library.
Graffiti was found on the gate 3 sign at gate 3 road.
Housekeeping was informed .
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with two other co-founders. A year ago, he became chair
of the national organization, which New York business­
man Eugene M. Lang-the only chair until Lewis- ini­
tiated in East Harlem in 1981.
The foundation strives to assure that each child has a
genuine opportunity to reach hislher potential, beginning
with children in the fourth or fifth grade, with the prom­
ise of college scholars:hips or training to participants who
earn high school diplomas. Today, it anchors over 160
"I Have a Dream" projects in 59 cities in 27 states and
"Dreamers" number over 12,000.
In 1963, Lewis fonmed Portland's only shipping com­
pany, Lasco (named for his two sons, Larry & Scott),
built the fleet to 18 bulk carriers hauling cargoes world­
wide, served on the Port of Portland Commission and as
its president, and retir<ed from Lasco's presidency nearly
four years ago. He wanted more time to devote to the I
Have a Dream Foundation and his social action agenda.
Lewis was a delegate to the President's "Summit for
America's Future," chaired by General Colin Powell. He
has chaired Temple Beth Israel's social action commit­
tee and served as president of the congregation, he shoul­
dered the presidency of the Oregon Ballet Theatre for
four years that included a tumultous merger, and he has
been a trustee of the Oregon Community Foundation .
His passion for the: politics of social justice and his
leadership for social change stem from his days at
Princeton University and Harvard Law School, keeping
fond company with reform-minded Ralph Nader and
future US Senator Paul Sarbanes.
The monthly Mentors for Leadership Series was
launched last January by the Pamplin Society of Fel­
lows to give the entire college community , especially
students, the opportunity to hear a range of individuals
who have been active in community service share their
experiences in developing leadership and their perspec­
tives on social action.
The format is informal: you can attend whatever por­
tion of the hour you have free, given evening class and
work schedules. The talks conclude with refreshments. I Have a Dream Foundation Chair Ken lewis.
OSPIRG turns up heat on
global warming
by Kate Pham
Three weeks after Bruce Babbitt came to Lewis &
Clark to call for student activism against global warm­
ing, OSPIRG students set up a table on Tuesday, Octo­
ber 14 to gather signatures to send to President Clinton.
On the table stood a large scale balancing the earth on
one side and a polluting factory on the other. Student
volunteers asked passersby to sign the backs of "Global
Warming Greenbacks." These postcards would then be
sent to President Clinton as a sign of student support for
the reduction of greenhouse pollution .
Students, officials discuss parking In two months, Clinton will be meeting in Kyoto
for international negotiations on reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. The OSPIRG tabling is part of a nationwide
action to convince Clinton to take a firm stand on cli­
mate change by adopting binding targets for reductions
in greenhouse gases and increased efficiency from the
industrial, utility, and transportations sectors.
... from page 1
to the current parking lot. Many current spaces from
on-campus are to be relocated to this expanded parking
lot to make the campus more pedestrian-friendly in the
future, "pushing the cars to the edges of campus, rather
than in the center." Questioned about the possible runoff
of harmful chemicals from the cars, Sestric mentioned
that a system will be created to take the oils and other
deposits from the lot to a treatment pond, where it can
settle.
Sestric stressed that he is willing to listen, create and
contemplate alternatives. The plan has not yet been ap­
proved by the City; it still may be amended and improved .
Sestric said that he believes that the alternatives will
work, but will be difficult to achieve.
Topics discussed at the forum included the possible
improving of the Tri-Met bus service, and the cost of the
parking lot. The expense of building the lot will come
from parking fees, not from additional fund-raising or
tuition. Peer Review Board Chief Justice Bonnie
Tompkins mentioned the stricter enforcement of the
freshman car policy, as evidently many first-year stu­
dents find ways to have their cars on campus, despite
the current rule, thereby increasing the total number of
parked cars at LC. '
Casper, when asked about the quality of the first fo­
rum, commented that it was "informative, but the next
forums need to be more directed and focused toward
whether the lot will be built or not." Casper also men­
tioned the importance of getting the community educated
and involved in the subject of the parking lot.
A petition, addressed to Dean of the College Jane
Atkinson, is circulating . It reads in part: "We appreciate
the parking problems the school faces: after all, we the
students, staff and faculty are the ones who deal with
them. We also appreciate the irony that a law school fa-
2 Pioneer Log October 1 7, 1997 mous for its environmental integrity and a college known
for its progressive thinking are about to pave over part
of a cherished forest without notice to the campus com­
munity, and without dt:bate over the project or alterna­
tives to it." The petition goes on to ask for the with­
drawal of the application to the city of Portland. "President Clinton and Vice-President Gore could
easily put the earth back in balance this fall," said
Monique Radman, OSPIRG Chapter Chair at Lewis &
Clark. "All we ask President Clinton to do is listen to
the majority of living Nobel laureate scientists instead
of his campaign funders."
The plans for the parking lot and the
entire "Master Plan" proposal are
available at Watzek Library upon re­
quest. The next forum will be held on
Wednesday, October 22 in the Coun­
cil Chamber at 4:00 pm.
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LC language waiver spawns controversy
by Jeremy Brown
Junior Sara Ford really wanted to go on an overseas
trip to France. She was accepted to the Lewis & Clark
program and just needed to get a "B" in her French class
last spring. Ford had always done well in school but was
having so much trouble in her French class that she sched­
uled a meeting with Student Support Services. For the
first time it was suggested that she might have a lan-"It's a moral and ethical judgment ," professor of hu­
manities John Callahan said. "It seems if there's a re­
quirement, everybody ought to have to do it. Of course,
there should be some 'allowances for disabilities, that's
decency and common selllse." memory. If a student simply falters on all aspects of the
test, Holloway said, "Maybe you're just not college ma­
terial."
guage learning disability .
Like a good number of other LC
students who end up in the Student
Support Services office, Ford under­
went a battery of twelve to fifteen
tests to discover that she did in fact
qualify as language learning dis­
abled.
These nationally standardized
tests, administered by a
psychoeducational specialist outside
LC, include IQ, auditory processing,
short term memory, reading and
math exams. Director of Student
Support Services Dale Holloway in­
terprets the results and decides on the
next step: whether to grant a waiver
of the foreign language requirement
to the student. Students who have the Instructor of Spanish Cecilia Benenati said, "I'm glad
there is a waiver but some people use it as an excuse, if
they have some minimal problem they can get out of the
requirement. If [a studenlt] doesn't study very much and According to associate professor of Chinese Chiu­
Mi Lai, some language learning problems can be attrib­
uted to personal problems , not a disability . Lai told of
one student who wanted to be tested for a disability and
wanted her support: "I saw inhibition and nervousne ss,
not a learning disability, " she said. "Everyone has diffi-
culty learning something . Some people
just need to work harder." Lai said she
schedules additional individual ses­
sions with students who may have dis­
abilities and encourages them to stick
with Chinese. "However , it is nice to
have the waiver as a safety net for cer­
tain students," she said.
Ford also said she thinks the waiver
is nece'ssary for some even though she
chose to pursue French. She finished
her language requirement in spite of
her difficultie s, even though she didn't
get her "B" and thus couldn't go on
the LC trip. Instead, she went to France
separately this summer and discovered
that she is capable of speaking the lan­
guage well. "My style of learning just
doesn't fit into the institutional sys­
three-semester requirement waived must substitute their
language classes with international studies courses. doesn't pay attention, maybe it will pass as a disability ."
Besides the concern that some students graduate from
LC without wholly compl.eting curriculum requirements,
there are questions aboUlt the diagnosis process itself.
Testing for disabilities h,as changed over the years and
does not solely rely on quantitative results. tem," she said. "College moves at such a fast pace that
most people would be capable of learning languages if
things didn't move so quickly." While Ford tested as language learning disabled, she
declined to take the waiver because she was determined
to go on her overseas trip. "I just know [learning lan­
guages] takes me extra time, that's fine," she said.
Not all learning disabled students are like Ford,
though. Last year twenty students requested a language
requirement waiver. Their decision is not one that is uni­
versally accepted or supported . According to an August
25 article in the New York Times, recently Boston Uni­
versity refused to exempt learning disabled students from
foreign language requirements. However a federal judge
ordered the school to re-assess its policy and to stop
making students take extra certification tests. "Giving and interpreting these tests is both a science
and an art," Holloway said. "Scientific rigidity is scary,
if we do it totally scientifically we're doing students a
disservice." Instead, she said, testers take their personal
observations of the testing process into account. The foreign language waiver practice, criticized by
Robert Sternberg, professor of psychology and educa­
tion at Yale, as "extra credit for doing poorly," and praised
by Holloway as a device to "level the playing field,"
will doubtless remain a controversial topic at LC and
across the country.
"It's such an individual issue," Ford said. "I'm for
completing the requirements but it's got to depend on
the individual. Learning differences should be respected
and not looked down upon." Disability certification testers look for telltale patterns
of language learning disabilities rather than overall poor
performance. Holloway :said "lethal combinations " in­
clude auditory processing problems and lax short term
Stop complaining about
Oregon drivers the dev'il's advocate
W SERIES Hello Oregon drivers,
try using turn signal
commentary by Jessica Tanner
When I venture out in my car with an
out-of-state passenger, I usually become
the victim of vicious and stereotypical
remarks regarding the other Oregon
drivers on the road. Yes, I have lived
most of my life in this state, however, I
refuse to accept responsibility and
harassment for every Oregonian driver
who lacks driving abilities.
Again and again, friends and
acquaintances have assumed that I know
why "that damn Oregon" driver pulls
into the fast lane of 1-5 going 55 mph. I
usually explain that although I am only
one voter in this state, past governors
have always asked me to dictate driving
skills to all other Oregon drivers. Being
an Oregon driver is part of a threatening
vocabulary meant to degrade as is
evident by a remark that a friend made
to me: "The merging lane is there for a
reason you Oregon driver!" As if this
really hits home and will cause me to
strive and dream of becoming a sophis­
ticated Californian driver.
I have a couple explan ations as to
why Oregon drivers drive in the fast
lane at 55 mph. First of all, the major
route through Oregon is Interstate 5.
Many out-of-staters travel through
Oregon on 1-5 for business or vacation.
On the other hand, in rural Oregon,
many drivers must take 1-5 on their way
to work or to the mall. I've witnessed
this phenomenon when traveling with
my Mom to the mall in Southern Oregon (where I'm from). My mom is
driving the 15 miles ina Sunday
afternoon speed because it is Sunday
afternoon. The other drivers are driving
through the area on their way to some
other destination, which is further away.
My other explanation is that the
population has grown too quickly for
the road resources . Or rather, the
number of drivers has overgrown the
available road space. Much of 1-5 is two
lanes in each direction. There are many
trucks transporting goods through and
beyond the state. Thus, there is one lane
free for all of the other drivers. Some
cars are not physically able to travel
much beyond the speed limit. And,
some drivers do not want to exceed the
speed limit. Perhaps this is because
speeding violations in Oregon are often
several hundred dollars, higher than
most states.
My belief is that these factors
contribute to some bad Oregon driving.
Oregon is a much more rural state than
California and many drivers aren't as
used to urban driving. I'm tired of
hearing remarks about ALL Oregon
drivers. Most of all, I'm tired of people
expecting me to be personally respon­
sible because I am from the same state,
as if I share blood with all other
Oregonians . At the same time that I'm
tired of hearing these comments, I don'lt
really care if I piss off other drivers and
maybe that is an attitude that is exclu­
sive to Oregonians . commentary by
Linsel Greene
Every time I
venture out in my
car, no matter who I
have with me, some
Oregonian moron
cuts me off. Sure, I
have only lived here
for a mere four
years, and the knowledge of the nuances
of Oregon driving might be lost on me. I
still maintain, however, that there isn't a
single Oregon native on the road in this
state who knows what a turn signal is
really for.
Over and over again, idiots and
uneducated freaks assume I know
exactly what they are planning in regard
to their right turn from the left lane, all
without a signal. I try to explain to them
by yelling obscenities out the window,
but my commentary is usually badly
received, often causing these Oregon
drivers to swerve and veer while they
attempt to roll down the window to hear
my comment s. It makes me glad to be a
sophisticated California-trained driver.
I have few explanations as to why
these drivers are so incapable of
indicating their intention to turn and
also where their incredible ineptitude
for acceleration comes from. The first
which comes to mind is the lack of
decent driver training in schools here. In
Los Angeles, drivers are trained from a
young age. Attendance to showings of
"Red Asphalt" and "Blood on the Pavement" are not only enjoyable, but
mandatory for elementary students in
public schools in Southern California .
This training, in addition to watching
the 8 o'clock news, is a sure way to
make youngsters respect good driving.
The only other thing which springs
to mind, besides the ever-present
possibility of bad breeding, is the
absence of a threat in Oregon. Rarely
are accidents bad enough here to present
a problem. The main reason for this
phenomenon is that everyone is
traveling at 30 miles per hour. No one
gets hurt badly enough to facilitate
learning. Additionally, I find that the
threat of getting a high-speed projectile
lodged somewhere painful for commit­
ting a moving violation does wonders
for improving the skills of motorists .
This deplorable situation concerning
Oregonians ' lack of automotive
capabilities is getting better all the time.
More Californian s are moving in and
their high velocities will do wonders to
improve the average Oregon driver's
ability. I am tired of seeing ALL Oregon
drivers wander aimlessly on the
highways, unable to communicate their
intentions to even their fellow natives.
Most of all, I tire of hearing Califor­
nians complain to me about this issue.
There is nothing I can personally do
about it other than what all Californian
visitors do. Speed! Drive like you are
getting somewhere! Show 'em how it's
done! It doesn't really matter if you piss
the Oregon drivers off. You are doing it
for their own good!
Odober I 7, 1997 Pioneer Log 3 commentary by Ben Eichenberg
The Trail Room recently raised the
price of rice and beans, a shocking and
disturbing act. In an act of profit-monger­
ing depravity almost unknown to the in­
nocent students of Lewis & Clark Col­
lege, Bon Appetit has tacked on an extra
25 cents. Less important was a general
price hike that affected just about all of
the items for sale in the Trail Room.
When Mary Ortez, the manager at the
Trail Room, was consulted, she pointed
out that prices have remained steady for
quite a long time, several years in fact.
Obviously, the bottom line has to be
preserved and the Trail Room has to sup­
port itself, something that it is having
trouble doing these days. She said that rice
and beans are still a very good value at
just $1.25. Ortez thinks that it is impor­
tant for students to have a staple like that. Forum
the Trail Room doesn't
mind charging these rich
kids a little more. Witness
the inflated prices ofluxury
items such as Ben & Jerry's
ice cream and Odwalla
juices. Bon management
wants to cash in on the "trust
fund hippies."
Sure, there are some kids
who are just barely scraping
by, but they'll figure out
some other way to eat. The Bon extension in the Northwest
School of Law, known as the Homestead
Cafe, has not felt the profit-driven need
to raise the price of rice and beans. Even
though they have experienced the same
general price hike that was seen at the
Trail Room, the manager, Betty Patton,
felt that it was not necessary to raise the
price of an item she feels is vitally impor­
tant to her students.
"This way they can come in and get
something hot and it still doesn't cost them
an arm and a leg," Patton said. She feels
that many of her students are just barely
scraping by, raising a family and going to
school, and she will do anything she can
to help. While the price of rice and beans went up to $1 .25 at the
Trail Room, it remained $1.00 at the law school. PHOTOS BY BIBI TUCKER While we're at it, why
don't we just boost the price
of a meal plan too and then
make the rich brats pay for
it for two years? Tack on a
shoe box of a room for
around $350 a month and
you get a nice little package.
The main cost of rice and beans for the
Trail Room is supposedly the salsa and
sour cream that go with it. Also contrib­
uting to the price hike was a "well-de­
served" raise i':l Bon wages. According to Ortez, this hasn't been the
case at all.
Apparently there was quite a battle
between the powers that be up here on
campus and the Homestead Cafe. Patton
put her foot down and saved her integ­
rity. Theft can also be a problem for the Bon
management , but Ortez asserted that
"most students seem to be very positive
and upbeat. When I came here they said
that the students would just take every­
thing that they could get their hands on." In spite of these very rational-sound­
ing reasons, the main cause of the price
hike was another factor entirely, some­
thing that the Bon management would not
actually admit to, but it is clear how they
feel. Both at the Trail Room and the
Homestead Cafe there is the feeling that
LC students are, in large part, spoiled rich
kids living off their parents. Of course,
Herzegovina recovers while
Bosnia suffers from war
commentary by Tea Franich
The Bosnian war is supposed
to be finally over. The Dayton
peace agreement has been imple­
mented. Even a free election has
been held. Alija Izetbegovic,
,president of Bosnia during the
43-month war, won that election.
However, the war and the in­
equalities are still not resolved.
A large economic gulf is
building between the peoples of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH).
Thus, for those in BH the first
question asked of them pertains
to their nationality. I am talking
from personal experience.
While Bosnia is completely
destroyed and still hasn't recov­
ered from the war, Herzegovina
is moving on. Its destroyed
buildings are rebuilt and new
businesses are being opened.
This summer, while visiting
Croatia, I saw that many cool
brand new European cars were
from Herzegovina. Also, people
from Herzegovina were common
tourists in the Mediterranean,
while Bosnians were still suffer­
ing the effects of war.
Thanks to the tax-free zone, many non-Bosnian people go to
Herzegovina to shop for cars,
food, and clothes. It is hard to
believe that this "shopping cen­
ter" was, not so long ago, one of
the territories brutally attacked
by the war. One of the reasons
that the recovery was so rapid in
Herzegovina, but slow in Bosnia
is that Bosnia has more than one
ethnic group, while Herzegovina
consists mainly of Bosnian
Croats.
It doesn't seem right to see
Herzegovinan people with
golden chains and Italian clothes,
spending a nice .summer in the
4 Pioneer Log October 17, 1997 Mediterranean and then seeing the
way that the Bosnians live.
I know many Bosnian teenag­
ers who had to quit school due to
the war and are now unable to at­
tend !iChool, lost their homes. and
have no future.
One of the Bosnian refugees
who stayed with my family during
the war said, "Zivimo na rubu
Evrolr>e gdje se nesto pretvara u
nista." That is, "We live on the Eu­
ropean Edge where something be­
comes nothing." He was close to
the truth. While other European
countries are uniting, BH is getting
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without cars
I'm glad to see that the transportation
problem is being covered in the Pioneer
Log. Ijust wanted to correct a minor point
in Sarah Moselle Brown's commentary.
She says, "It is anticipated that when the
new parking lot has been completed that
freshmen will be allowed to have cars on
campus." She has received false infor­
mation.
The school currently has 1475 spaces
campus-wide. The city of Portland has
suggested that the school needs approxi­
mately 1750 spaces. One of the school's
intentions in proposing the lot was to ease
the high volume of traffic currently criss­
crossing the interior of the undergraduate
campus by shifting parking spaces to the
periphery of campus.
The proposed lot would have 175
spaces. As part of the plan, the school
would eliminate about 100 spaces in the
undergraduate campus's interior. So the
net gain would only be about 75 spaces.
This will not have the slightest effect on
the 475 freshmen, and is a poor remedy
to the overall problem.
This will only fan the flames of auto­
mobile addiction. It is not part of a pru­
dent, sustainable solution to the transpor­
tation problem our college is clearly fac­
ing. And we would lose the peaceful con­
tinuum of Tryon Creek Forest.
Dean Huffman of the Law School says
that he supports the proposed lot, and one
of his major reasons is safety (i.e. law stu-
. Jo.Son
~ON£ Letters to the editor------
dents currently having to cross busy
Terwilliger and Palatine Hill). However ,
building the new lot would not eliminate
this concern. First, more law students
would drive their cars. Second, some of
the law students who drive would still
have to park at Griswold, but woulld be
much fewer in number. Third, physically
redirecting the law students to "their side"
of Terwilliger would enhance and even so­
lidify the clear lack of solidarity between
the two portions of campus.
Furthermore, the space for the pro­
posed lot (next to the softball field) is not
exactly next to the law school campus.
Tryon Creek closes at dusk. LC has been
visited by two "flashers" in the past two
weeks.
How does the school plan on ensuring
the safety of those students who would
have to walk through the area after dark?
Ostensibly, the school would install addi­
tional lighting in the area, which would
only disrupt the area's wildlife and natu­
ral qualities further.
I am a first-year law student. I have a
rental house in the neighborhood so I
could walk and bike to school when nec­
essary and feel like part of a "campus
community." As a result, I walk through
the area in question almost every day. I
am opposed to the leveling of that por­
tion of the forest simply for the sake of
"convenience." I am not alone.
The administration knows of the «;on­
siderable opposition to the parking lot
from several community groups. They are
just beginning to get a feel for tantamount
/ opposition by the students. They say that
they wish to do what the students want.
If so, why are they ignoring our request
that they withdraw the transportation sec­
tion of the master plan that has been sub­
mitted to the city?
LC's current master plan dates back to
1992, and the transportation and environ­
mental studies aspects of the plan were
not submitted as "complete" until very
recently. The city has been aware of other
aspects of the plan all along, and I believe
that the school is misleading its students
by claiming that LC will be denied timely
consideration of other aspects of the plan
if they wish to change the transportation
portions now.
Either the administration has unilater­
ally decided what's best for the school,
and has no intention of changing its plan,
or is willing to take the risk of having to
start again from scratch once it discovers
that the students have solutions of their
own, and (God forbid) are even willing
to sacrifice if it means not constructing
the lot. Either way, allowing the city to
proceed on a plan whose support is al­
ready in serious jeopardy by the students
is a big mistake. I oppose the plan as both
a student and a neighborhood resident
Nathan Baker
LC law student
Comment in Piolog
unwarranted
I don't know WHO was responsible for
the Publick Occurrences this week, but I
am incredibly angry at what the announce­
ment for the SOFA Movie of the Week
reads. After the movie's title, time, etc., it
reads "I heard this movie is terrible."
For one thing, who is "IT' There is no
byline for PubOccs, nor is there a citation
in the staff box for an editor or writer. If
one feels so compelled to give an opin­
ion, even on something so insignificant
as the Saturday night SOFA movie, one
should at least put their name on their "re-
view."
I find this to be not only bad editorial
practice, but also very petty. No other
event in the PubOccs received this kind
of shoddy treatment. I find it indefensible
to single out one event for editorializa­
tion (if you can call it that). People read
the PubOccs to find out what's going on
on campus, not to find out what films an
anonymous staff member believes to be
"terrible."
Being the SOFA Movie Director, I am
responsible for providing entertainment to
the campus, and this reflects poorly on me,
my movie choice, SOFA, and most im­
portantly (because I want this letter pub­
lished) on you and whoever was involved
in letting this blatant indignity get to press.
This could very easily hurt the attendance
at this and other movie nights.
I was offended and somewhat hurt that
someone would have the audacity and
lack of foresight to put such a thing into
the Log.
You may remember last year, when
Matt Harrington (previous PubOccs edi-tor) was roundly criticized for making fun
of an event in several PubOccs entries. I
know the Log is doing everything it can
to distinguish itself from previous years'
incarnations, but I think the campus com­
munity still believes that opinions (even
, those as trivial or worthless as the one this
week) belong on the forum page, with all
the other opinions, such as they are.
Colin Ryono
SOFA Movie Director
Endangered species
are under attack
Proposals that threaten to gut the
Endangered Species Act moved forward
in September with the support of the
Clinton Administration . These proposals
threaten to roll back 25 years of
progress on Endangered Species
protections. To make matters worse, our
own Senator Wyden is introducing
amendments to weaken the existing
proposals even further.
This is not a time to be considering
weakened protections for species.
Species today are being lost at a rate
that we haven't seen since the disap­
pearance of dinosaurs 65 million years
ago. We are losing 50,000 species a
year, due to massive destruction of
habitat.
Not only are they losing habitat with
90% of the ancient forests cut, 96% of
the coastal rain forests in Oregon clear­
cut, and 50% of the wetlands in this
country gone, but these habitats are also
polluted. The Columbia and the
Willamette are two of the most polluted
rivers in the country, which is one of
many factors pushing our native salmon
to the brink of extinction.
Many of our political leaders are
working hand-in-hand with developers
and other special interests to dismantle
one of our most important environmen-
tal laws. -
The Endangered Species Act was
passed in 1973 to protect species and
their habitats. It is responsible for
saving a number of vanishing species,
including the bald eagle and the red
wolf. The Act is under attack in the U.S.
Congress and by the Clinton Adminis­
tration. In response, a national effort is
taking place to defend and strengthen
protections for species and their
habitats.
As Bruce Babbitt reminded us last
month, students need to act. We need to
show the decision makers our concern
and support for species protection. We
are at a critical crossroads and there are
several ways that students can drive the
effort to defend species.
Ten thousand postcards have been
generated recently across the country to
pressure Congress on this issue. As part
of that effort , OSPIRG volunteers have
collected 600 postcards from students
on campus and plan to regularly get out
into the community at large to generate
hundreds more.
We can work to educate the public
on the severity of the issue and do
hands-on service work to restore
native habitats. Several restoration
and educational events are planned
this semester. For more information
about how to get involved in this or
other OSPIRG campaigns, contact
OSPIRG at x7128 or stop by the
office across from the Information
Desk.
Matt Hanawalt
OSPIRG Endangered Species
Progject Leader
Oaobe, 17, 1997 Pioneer Log 5 ,. Features~~~~~
Art cars decorate campus parking lots
by Jessica Tanner
Have you ever wondered what freak
owns that creative vehicle parked next to
yours on campus? There are several stu­
dents who own such "art cars," which are
becoming more common around the na­
tion.
Sara Tesorieri, senior International
Affairs major, did several months of re­
search before hand painting her teal and
white colored car and matching seat cov­
ers. Her design is based on Northwest
coastal Totem art and has several repre­
sentative animals and symbols. The ac-
HI painted my car because
before I could never
remember which
one was mine
and I got tired of spending
so much time looking
for it in parking lots."
Sara Tesorieri
senior PHOTO COURTESY OF SARA TESORIERI
Sara Tesorieri's 'Totem Car' took several months of research and physical labor to complete.
tual painting time took two months.
Tesorieri painted her car two years ago
. for reasons of identification . "I painted my
car because before I could never remem­
ber which one was mine and I got tired of
spending so much time looking for it in
the parking lot."
Tesorieri receives a lot of responses to
her car. People leave notes all the time,
some with requests: offers to paint other
cars, inquiries to as to where her art is lo­
cated, and offers to participate in shows.
The only negative responses she has re­
ceived have taken place right on the LC
campus where on several occasions,
people have yelled "f-kin' hippie."
Another art car owner is Kate Molony,
a senior English major. Molony owns a
'77 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme , which
she purchased for $1000 with only 65,000
miles. Molony esti-(Great Little Car). She received t!he car
free from an acquaintance and spent $300
to get the car running. Lewis has plans to
put astro turf on the bumpers as well be­
cause she believes that grass, blue skies,
and clouds make "a good combo."
"I'm a big fan of not having a clone
car that looks like everyone else. I think
it's much cooler to buy and old car and
fix it up. An old funky car that has char­
acter is cool," said Lewis.
Lewis had thought of having
a rainbow racing stripe painted
on her car, but unlike Molony,
doesn't like to use her car to
make a political statement. Some
would argue that she is making
a political statement whether she
intends to or not.
Art cars
mates that she has spent
$50-75 on car decora­
tions. HI think that I would not are gaining
nationwide
coverage
and popu­
I a r i t Y .
Harrod
B I a n k ,
based In
California, Molony recently
changed the appearance
of her car. It used to be
teal and covered with
many bumper stickers
and various toys. The
hood ornament was a have been so happy
if my whole car were
a rainbow."
Kate Molony
senior
plastic Hulk Hogan figure. There are still
army men glued onto the dashboard and
under the back window. Molony pur­
chased about $30 in bumper stickers from
a political catalog.
She says that she hates cars with only
one bumper sticker because "when you
drive around, that's all you represent." So,
she thought that more bumper stickers
would be better.
Molony's motivations for her design­
ing an art car are pure enjoyment and the
response from other people. "The most
important thing about the car is that it's a
lot of fun. I love the responses: a honk, a
little wave, the gathering of people who
laugh and point." Molony also mentioned
that "it is therapeutic to go crazy with the
car." Molony removed many of the out­
side items and painted her car "unicorn
blue" with clouds.
Senior biology major Sara Lewis also
painted her car blue with clouds. Lewis
owns a 1984 Mazda Hatchback GLC formed a
nationwide art car club. His cam­
era covered car was recently fea­
tured on CNN. Blank organizes
art car shows and he makes a liv­
ing by selling videos, movies,
calendars, and post cards about
these automotive art pieces. Ac­
cording to Tesorieri, Blank is an
art car snob because he believes
that simply going crazy with
spray paint does not constitute an
art car.
·Every August, Portland hosts
its own art car show entitled "The
Hawthorne Street Parade."
Approximately 50-100 car
owners participate. The largest
show of this type in the country
takes place every spring in Aus­
tin, TX.
If one is interested in jump­
ing on the art car bandwagon, the
infamous "Magic Bus" is for
sale.
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by Angela Nusom
Third grade dreams of Africa turned
into reality for Sierra Huff, who has trav­
eled to Zaire, Kenya, and Malawi
three times within the last several
years.
Her dreams of going to Africa
went far beyond an interest in trav­
eling. Huff had a vision. In 1994
when she heard about the Rwandan
crisis she was determined to travel
to the former Zaire (now the Demo­
cratic Republic of the Congo) to aid
in the relief effort. patiently for the morning light to come.
"It was pitch dark. It didn't feel real. It
was a really weird feeling. Intense," Huff
said.
After her first night alone in her room, anything without having to use words,"
Huff said smiling at the memory. "With
adults I felt frustrated. I'd want to say
something and couldn't. With kids it was
fun, you could be dramatic and kids got
Despite her determination, Huff
faced many obstacles in her attempt
to travel overseas. Every agency she
contacted said she was too young.
Nevertheless, Huff knew that she
needed to go to Africa. Eventually
her ardent persistence persuaded the
Adventist Development Relief
Agency (ADRA) in the former Zaire
of her earnest desire to help. A week
later, as a senior in high school, Huff
landed in Goma, Congo, the young­
est relief worker in the agency. COURTESY
Sierra Huff plays with a child while volunteering in Africa.
Huff credits her long-standing
interest in Africa to her father. A doctor,
he traveled to several different countries
giving medical treatment and health in­
formation. She recalls most vividly his
return from Sudan, Africa and the impact
of the pictures he showed her.
"For some reason I saw the pictures of
Africa and Ijust knew I had to be there,"
said Huff. The third grader's dream be­
came a reality when, at 17, she stepped
off the plane into Goma, across the bor­
der from the Rwandan crisis.
As she lay in bed the first night, she
remembers looking out the window and
seeing only darkness, wondering what her
surroundings looked like and waiting im-Huff was thrown right into the center of
activity, working at a children's center.
She said the children initially responded
to her with fear.
"At first they were scared of me. I was
the first white person they had ever seen.
Some little children bid behind bushes. I
don't know how they looked at me. With
curiosity? After a while they saw that I
cared," she said.
Not knowing any of the language,
Huff relied upon physical and visual ex­
pression instead. This was especially ap­
parent in her relationships to children.
"With kids [communication was]
hands and visual. A kid could tell you so excited."
Although she could communicate
somewhat through visual language, Huff
also attempted to learn what she could of
their language to aid in communication.
"It was intimidating, but me trying to
speak the language took down a big wall,"
said Huff.
Huff's month at the children's center
proved very rewarding and successful. In
addition to working with the children who
were separated from their families during
the strife in Rwanda, Huff did computer
slearches for records on the whereabouts
of their parents.
Her influence and effort had far reach-ing effects. Huff feels her most reward­
ing accomplishment was reuiniting 27
children with their families.
After a month, her first visit to Africa
concluded, though the images and expe­
riences she shared with the people re­
mained vividly in her mind.
"I don't know what I expected, but I
got a lot more. It was life-changing," Huff
said.
Although she returned home to the
everyday activities of a 17-year-old in
America, Huff wholeheartedly knew that
one day she would need to return, and her
moments at home never abated her desire
for Africa, only emphasized it.
"I went the first time and got addicted,"
she said. "I missed the kids. It was really
hard to leave."
When Huff returned to Africa in July
of '95, she spent three weeks in Kenya
with Project Contact, and then resumed
her role with the same children in Congo.
She aided in education , craft-making, as
well as providing support and loving arms
for the children.
Huff feels that she succeeds if she can
share a sense of hope with a person.
"Someone cannot be educated if they
don't have hope. I also carry the hope that
I can make a difference," she said. It is
this drive that lies behind all her work with
the children in Africa.
Her second effort in Africa was inter­
rupted by an evacuation of the children's
center in response to uprisings within the
country. Refugees were being forced out
everywhere. Huff herself was shipped to
back to Kenya where she stayed for the
remaining month of her second journey
to Africa.
Upon her returns home, Huff spent
every spare moment doing what she could
to help. She organized fundraising,
See Africa, pg. 12
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Have you seen this man before? Chances
are, the answer to that question is, "Yes, of
course," whether you know it or not. Bud
Henderson has been a member of the Lewis
& Clark family for twelve years.
In the mid '80's, Bud's younger son,
Brian, was a student here at Lewis & Clark
College. Bud had recently been laid off from
Ormet Metal Manufacturing, his place of
employment for the previous three years.
Brian, aware of his father's predicament , took
special note of a job opportunity at Physical
Plant Bud investigated the job and was hired
as a temporary employee. The initial terms
of his contract claimed for him a mere two
weeks of LC employment.
The two weeks passed and Ormet called
back, requesting Bud's return. Fortunately for
all parties involved, LC liked Bud and Bud
liked Le. Bud was hired as a permanent em­
ploYI~e ofLC marking the beginning of a long
and prosperous relationship. Bud said the
decision was easy, "I enjoyed working with
the students."
Today Bud is the Events and Preparations
Leadler. His duties range across the campus.
You may see him setting the scene in Stamm,
Pamplin, Watzek, or even at a football game.
Bud doesn't hesitate to express his feel­
ings for the friendly work environment at LC.
"Tha.t's what makes the job easy. Everyone
is very understanding and great to work
with,," he said.
Prior to his career at LC, Bud spent 13
years working in a sawmill followed by six
years at a meat packing plant in Albany where
he was a meat cutter. Then he moved on to
Ormet, which was also in Albany. He has PHOTO BY GINA KELLEY
certainly seen a lot of physically demand­
ing work in his years.
Bud is single, and has two sons and a
daughter. His sons Brian and Duane, are
ages 36 and 38 respectivelyand his daugh­
ter Laurie is 26.
You would be hard-pressed to find
something that turns Bud's soul to fire like
sports. A rabid Dodgers and 4gers fan, he
recounted for me his experience of the
famed first game of the 1989 World Se­
ries between the LA Dodgers and the
Oakland Athletics. He spoke of the con­
test as if it happened yesterday .
When Kirk Gibson stepped to the plate
in the bottom of the ninth after Eckersley
walked Mike Davis, Bud had to wait it
out in the garage. After several minutes
of nervous pacing, he asked others in the
household of the result and was thrilled
See Bud, pg. 12
Odober 17, 1997 Pioneer Log 7 ~~Arts
Boogie Nights has in fashion what it lacks in style
by Ann Rivinus
ProducerlDirector Paul Thomas Anderson took on an
immense task in trying to legitimize the porn industry
through this film and he failed miserably. From the first
_ scene right through the last thrill, Boogie Nights is noth­
ing more than one cliche and stereotype after another.
Mark Wahlberg , perhaps better known as rapper
Marky Mark, plays Eddie Adams, a young man who
becomes intoxicated by the adult film industry and uses
it as his avenue out of an abusive family situation. While
these motives sound legitimate , they are quickly over­
shadowed by Eddie's other defining character trait: his
gigantic penis. As eyes widen every time Eddie drops
his drawers, all depth of character is lost, and Eddie be­
comes no more than a troubled kid with a big dick.
Eddie's introduction to the adult film industry is made
possible by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), an old timer
in the industry whose dream is to incorporate a plot into
one of his movies. Along with Jack comes an entire ar­
ray of characters who have banded together to form a
kind of makeshift family. Upon entering this family,
Eddie changes his name to Dirk Diggler, an on-screen
persona which becomes a new lifestyle.
It is at this point in the movie where the plot begins
its inevitable downward spiral into the abyss. With so
many different characters, each with his·or her own prob­
lems, it becomes difficult to take anyone of them seri­
ously. The moviegoer finds him or herself wishing that
the pain of attempting to do so would end.
It does not end, however. For the next hour and a half
one finds oneself sifting through an onslaught of bad
sex, excessive drug use, and incredibly authentic cos­
tume design. Just when one of the character 's dilemmas
becomes the least bit entertaining, the set changes and
the carpet of interest is ripped out from under one's feet,
leaving audience members hanging in oblivion, wonder­
ing why someone else is snorting lines for the umpteenth
Zookeepers
tend cages
of simplicity
by Mike Skrzynski
From the beginning of The Zookeepers' al­
bum Leaving LA., it's plain to see that they are a
pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps kind of band.
They have a grassroots quality of rock-n-roll
which makes one think they from the Pacific
Northwest rather than Los Angeles.
The Zookeeper s don't force their music, it just
seems to flow out of their instruments and Patrick
Vernon's throat. Their roots quality is comparable
to that of Big Head Todd and the Monsters , though
without the unique voice. Still, The Zookeepers
have a certain something that makes you listen.
Along with the basic music, there is a work­
ing man connection in the lyrics. There is also
some tongue-in-cheek humor which is subtle, yet
obvious and intuitive. Lyrics like "feel like I'm
caught in a circle jerk" get to the lowest common
denominator and express a great deal (for those
who don't know what a circle jerk is, ask your
friends).
On one of their songs, "Making a Machine,"
The Zookeepers make a slight departure . Essen­
tially, it has the same basic rock sound, but it is
angrier in its attempt to describe frustrations with
the surrounding world. The lyrics "She said the
world is full of vermin! It's just one big asshole,
one big ass/ And right now you and II Should
change it if we could.! So we're making a ma­
chine that kills everything. " It gets to the nitty­
gritty of what everyone may feel sometimes , be­
ing sick of it all.
In the vein of relationships, the song "Muddy
Colored Water" makes it clear that men are still
the inept ones between a man and a woman. The
best way to sum it up is the line, "She has her
insights, I have confusion ."
Confused as they may be, their sound is clear
and well-craft ed. They have sculpted their talents
into a personal rock sound that can touch people.
8 Pioneer Log October 17, 1997 time this hour.
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of these topics a favor by bringing them into the public
light, they are, for the most part, only treaded upon lightly
and then thrown aside or even worse, used as the object
of some attempt at humor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plays the colorful
Scotty J., described Boogie Nights as, "a film about
people who are outside the realm of society, who are
trying their best to fit in." It is truly a tragic state of af­
fairs that this film does such individuals a great disser­
vIce.
So why exactly would one benefit from two and a
half hours of witnessing Mark Wahlberg attempt to act?
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ideas for a Halloween costume, and second, it guaran­
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MUM creates art Olut of menstruation
by Meegan Thompson
Menstruation ... as art? One look at the
Museum of Menstruation (a.k.a. MUM),
and it's a fact. Harry Finley is the founder
and director of this Maryland gem, which
happens to be located in his basement.
Since 1994 he has been adding to his col­
lection of menstrual memorabilia and
sharing it with hundreds of curious pa­
trons.
"Why?!" is the typical initial reaction
upon the discovery that such a place ex­
ists. And as if that weren't enough, it's
run by a man, no less.
"There wasn't such a museum in 1994
when I started it, and apparently there
never had been. When I requested infor­
mation about their companies from the
public relation s folks at Kotex and
Tampax, and asked if there was such a
thing as a museum for menstruation, they
appeared stunned by the latter question,
and couldn't, or wouldn't, supply the com­
pany information. It was then, my moment
of epiphany , that I figured I had to do it."
There was reasoning behind this par­
ticular topic as well: "As the inexperi­
enced-and male-art director of a little
magazine for the U.S. government in
Frankfurt, Germany, I was collecting
magazine layouts, illustrations, and adver-PHOTO COURTESY OF MUM
Ann Wass designed this model of
an early twentieth century men­
struation apron. tising in order to get ideas for designs. Part
of the thousands of tear sheets from pub­
lications around the world that I collected
were ads for menstrual hygiene. Taboo
subject that it was and is, people in dif­
ferent cultures approached the subject
with vastly different degrees of circum­
spection. This intrigued me. I find the sub~
ject interesting because of its great breadth
and depth, touching medicine , anthropol-
Finley has a B.A. in philosophy
from Johns Hopkins. What
can someone in this circum­
stance do but start a museum
of menstruation?'
ogy, sociology , history, and even art. [I
have] a B.A. in philosophy from Johns
Hopkins. What can someone in this cir­
cumstance do but start a museum of men­
struation?"
With an obvious passion for his spe­
cialty, he continues to educate the public,
a few (often) nervous and giggling patrons
at a time. A government employee in
Washington , D.C. during the week,
Finley's museum is open on the weekends
forOthose interested in both the historical
and contemporary aspects of menstruation
Full-blown release onl)r half blown
by Katy Davidson
It's easy to fall in love with a Grifters al­
bum only to realize that you only actually like
half of the songs.
A year after Ain't My Wokout, the Grifters
have entered the record store scene again by
releasing Full-Blown Possession, an album PHOTO COURTESY OF SUB POP
that is 100% Grifters (50% good). FuLL-Blow~1
is another spacious and soaring ode to Mem··
phis blues altemo-rock. However, it catches
itself halfway through on sluggish songs.
The only way the Grifters pull off releas··
ing half-good records is by sticking to theilf
highly unique sound. Their albums alway!.
• move full circle; the slow songs complement
the faster ones.
FuLL-Blown opens with three strong tracks.
"Re-entry Blues" begins with a driving acous­
tic guitar riff, then breaks open with electric
guitar and drums. The song feeds off of ten­
sion and release; it moves from sticky to
smooth like peanut butter to jelly.
"Fireflies" and "Spaced Out" are two mid­
tempo songs that thrive on spunky attitudes
and variations . Sticking to a long-time Grifter
theme, the singer blasts, "Yeah, the games
people play when they're spaced out are
okay .....
The album hits a lull after this; the next
three songs are slower and seem less inspired.
The opening bars of "Centuries" sound like
Stevie Wonder's song "Superstition, " but the
song fizzles out after the first minute. The next
song, "Sweetest Thing," proves to the world
that the Grifters are obsessed with beginning
songs with fog horns. "Happy" is decent, but
the lyrics seem contrived and corny.
The album speeds up again with "Wicked
Thing," where the singer slices through a sec­
tion like Layne Staley from Alice in Chains,
and "Blood Thirsty Lovers."
"You Be the Stranger," a Grifter instru­
mental, is the best song on Full-Blown Pos­
session. It begins with a loop­
ing guitar riff, then throws the
listener off balance with an
unexpected drum beat This
song embodies espionage; it
could be the real James Bond
theme of the 1990s.
The last two songs,
L / ;
<J..~Df {~~ts. <7"'~A( AclVl(~. Wl(~ /,~O/,(~, "Cigarette" and ''Contact Me
Now," are decent, but they
leave no lasting impression .
They play around with
tempo, distortion, and loose
drum beats, but the songs are
too long.
The Grifters have always
created albums to listen to all
the way through. They do not
rely on hit singles and forced
hipness. Full-Blown Posses­
sion follows the Grifter tra­
dition of making solid al­
bums, but if a listener were
to pinpoint each song one by
one, he would· inevitably find
some duds. ~~~Tl~ro~v~d~ __________ ~~ __ ~
CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange
1430 SW Park Ave.
Portland and women's health. For those unable to
rendezvous to the east coast for the plea­
sure of experiencing MUM firsthand, an
extensive web site is maintained by Finley
at http://www.mum.org. When Finley
claims "there is a fascinating history be­
hind menstruation that is worldwide," he's
not kidding. The embarrassment and un­
believable shame that has been, and still
is, associated with "that time of the
month" is incredibly sad. Finley hopes
that the answer lies in the education of
both sexes. "Women would profit im­
mensely [in a culture more accepting of
menstruation] , both by accepting them­
selves better and by being able to chal­
lenge the menstrual hygiene companies
more directly, in order to get better prod­
·ucts. People don't talk about things they're
ashamed of. The director of a menstrual
disorders clinic told me that every woman
who walks into her clinic is ashamed of
herself. That's awful."
With the help of Finley, the veil of mys­
tery surrounding menstruation is slowly
rising for those open-minded enough to
want to discover the reasoning behind it.
As he is struggling to prove, no one ben­
efits from ignorance : "Shame about the
body has caused so much grief in this
world," he said.
Plumb fumbles
into realm of
awareness
by Mike Skrzynski
Initially, it's difficult not to think that
Plumb sounds like an upbeat version
of Portishead. As the album moves on
with slow yet well-paced drums, the
sweet voice of lead singer Tiffany
Arbuckle floats through each song like
Sarah McLachlan at her best. At these
crossroads, Plumb makes their stand
with some well-shaped and good­
sounding results.
So, here we have another hybrid
band evolved out of a dead alternative
movement. Self-aware music can still
make it on a label nowadays.
The primary songwriter is Tiffany
Arbuckle . Through her words, one can
hear what typical twenty-somethings in
the music industry sound like now.
Many of the songs are about disillu­
sionment and losing what you may not
have known you had until it was gone.
There is also the sense of Arbuckle be­
ing unable to cope with a world out­
side her own.
As brooding as the lyrics are, there
is a sense of hope when it comes to the
music itself. All the songs are listen­
able and well-crafted, though not nec­
essarily daring. Basically, there is the
sense that the band gave an excellent
effort and made an album worthy of it.
However, othey probably won't lead the
next music revolution. This even shows
up in their lyrics. In the first song the
lyrics "Don't tum around! Don't walk
away/ Don't try to lead! When you
don't know."
In the swill of it all, Plumb is a good
band with a good singer who would be
more interesting if she sang about
something other than her feelings. Yet,
this should not be held against her be­
cause in this day and age it seems as if ~~
all the good subjects are taken and all
we have is our feelings. For being so ,.
in touch with deep-seated, gut-wrench­
ing thought, Plumb deserves some
credit, but they're going to need some-
thing else to take them the rest of the
way.
October 1 7, 1997 Pioneer Log 9 (
( ) Sports
Football loses two straight
PHOTO BY ERIK KNIGHT
The Pioneers could find no breaks this past weekend against Willamette University
-Football loses first two league games
to undeafeted squads PLU and WU
by David Kolek
It has been a tough couple of weeks for the Lewis
& Clark College football team. They began their NCIC
league play against two difficult and undefeated op­
ponents.
The Pioneers lost on the road to Pacific Lutheran
University on Oct. 4 by a final score of 53-16. LC
found no breaks this past weekend in their second
NCIC match, falling to undefeated Willamette Uni­
versity 34-14 on Oct. II.
LC vs. Pacific Lutheran: Oct. 4
This game started as a sibling rivalry . For the first
time in the recent history of the NCIC, the starting
quarterbacks for both squads were related. Drew and
Dak Jordan, brothers from the Portland area, met on
the field on opposing sides. Dak, the senior quarter­
back for PLU, faced off against Drew, the freshman
forLC.
The Pioneers jumped out to an early 3-0 lead on
their first drive when J. Miller made a field goal from
42 yards out. Things went downhill from there for the
Pioneers. Before the half ended, PLU scored four
touchdowns, and collected a safety to increase their
lead to a daunting 30-3.
Midway through the third quarter, the Pioneers
mustered an answer to the offensive onslaught. LC
quarterback Jeremy Vlach connected with freshman
wide receiver Benjamin Reim for a touchdown.
The Pioneers would get one more touchdown, a 7-
yard pass from quarterback Dan Degenhardt to Aaron
Schmidt, late in the fourth quarter.
-Oct. 10: LC vs. Whitman College
Match Score 1
LC 6
Whitman 15 2
6
15 3
4
15
-Oct. 11: LC vs. Whitworth College
LC
Whitworth 8
15 8
15 16
14 4
12
15
I 0 Pioneer Log October 1 7, 1997 It would not be nearly enough. PLU continued
to add to their lead. They added 23 points to what
would ultimately be a 53-16 victory margin.
LC vs. Wililamette: Oct. 11
This past weekend, while most LC students were
enjoying Fall Break, the Pioneers battled undefeated
Willamette University at Griswold Stadium.
The Bearcats found the end zone on their first
two drives against LC in this match-up. Quarter­
back Drew Jordan" found Schmidt for a 33-yard
touchdown pass on the ensuing drive, which cut the
Bearcat lead in half. The half came to a close with
the Bearcats leading 12-7.
In the third quarter, Willamette found the end
zone again to tak,e a 20-7 lead.
On the subsequent drive Jordan went to the air
again. He connected with both Schimdt and C~ey
Easterly for large gains.
It was Easterly who hauled in a 12-yard touch­
down pass from Jordan to bring the Pioneers to
within 20-14 just before the third quarter came to a
close. This was as close as LC could get in the game.
The Bearcats added two more touchdowns in the
fourth quarter, while the Pioneers could not come
up with an answler to this surge. The game ended
with the Bearcats on top, 34-14.
On the brighter side, LC linebacker Jeremy Cox
came up with 20 tackles for the Pioneer defense,
the team high for the season.
The Pioneers hope to tum their fortunes around
when they face tlhe University of Puget Sound on
Saturday, Oct. 18. The game, the centerpiece ofLC's
homecoming events, is at Griswold Stadium at 1:30
pm.
-Oct. 11 Pc]cjfic Lutheran Invitational
[Top three LC finishers]
Women's Results:
1. Marisa Quinn
2. Kelly Hayden
3. Christina Donehower
Men's Results:
1 . Chris May,er
2. Daniel Ruprecht
3. Chris Jensen 20:02.1
20:22.7
20:50.7
28:05.9
28.28.6
28.45.4 Who cares about
sports anyway?
-Sports Editorial: I was just
·wondering if I was the only one
by David Kolek
I can't figure out whether people love sports or de­
spise them on Palatine Hill.
One afternoon " in Fields Dining Hall I overheard an
animated conversation at one table about the starting line­
up for the 1986 California Angels.
In their enthusiasm, a bunch of guys were spitting
out names like Boone, Witt and Gritch with chunks of
their lunch time spaghetti .
The same day I was told by a well known LC icon
that "no one" reads the sports page of the Pioneer Log
because "people don't care about sports at LC."
There seems to be a divide here.
Now, I could care less if certain people avoid the sports
section. We all have our own interests. What I am inter­
ested in, however, is the second statement.
Do people really not care about sports at LC?
This is a difficult question for me to ponder because I
am an avowed sports"enthusiast. Yet, I was determined
to get to the bottom of this burning issue:
I spent the majority of this past week watching the
playoffs leading up to Major League Baseball's World
Series. I tried to watch that games from an impartial view­
point to gain a better understanding .
This worked, to a certain degree.
Personally, I was enthralled with the way a sport, a
mere child's game really, could captivate millions of
people. The joy of thousands hinged upon whether a guy
could make contact with a speeding blur of a ball with a
chunk of wood.
I was amazed to watch the players, mature men jf
you ran into them on the street, reduced to tears or cata­
pulted to reckless celebration dependent upon the result
of what is ultimately "just a game."
What's going on here, I wondered? Then, it hit me.
When everything is on the line, whether it's the World
Series or a lawn bowling match, a sporting event can
transcend its traditional boundaries and rocket into the
mythological stratosphere.
I doubt I have many takers on this theory now, but
stay with me.
We live in an era in which heroes are few and far
between. Even the heroes we do rely on eventually let
us down.
Yet, I would wager that at one time or another, every
student at Lewis & Clark has witnessed a sporting event
that created a hero they could truly believe in.
These heroes, regardless of sport or gender, succeed
where we assume they will fail. They expand our expec­
tations of what is possible.
In the process they carve out a memory that can never
be erased from the consciousness of those that witnessed
their heroic performance. They open pathways to suc­
cess that extend far beyond the confines of goal-lines ;
these heroes suggest ways we might find success in our
own lives.
LC may not be home to 2,000 die hard sports fans.
This section of the Pioneer Log may go unread by a cer­
tain slice of the population, but it seems that we all take
something tangible from the titanic sports battles that
take place on television and in our own backyards .
In the end we all want to win.
We all want to see our favorite girl or guy knock one
out of the park. We all live for the feeling that rushes
through the body when the three point bomb falls through
the net at the buzzer to win the big game.
In stark contrast, everyone shares in the intense pain
when the favorite team falls short. Human beings, ever
the social animal, long to share in the glorious success
and commiserate in the horrible tragedy.
It is this unifying principle, I think, that makes all of
us sports fans at the center of our being.
This is true even when we crumple up the sports sec­
tion and toss into the trash, because inevitably we cel­
ebrate making the shot just as Michael Jordan does when
he sinks a long one under pressure. Football
Pacific lutheran University
Willamette University
Linfield College
Whitworth College
University of Puget Sound
Lewis & Clark College
Results as of 10/15/97
Volleyball
University of Puget Sound
George Fox University
Linfield College
Whitman College
Pacific lutheran University
Willamette University
Pacific University
Lewis & Clark College
Whitworth College
Results as of 10/15/97 NCIC
1-0
1-0
1-0
1-1
0-1
0-2
9-0
6-1
4-4
5-3
3-5
5-8
1-6
1-8
2-6 Overall
5-0
5-0
2-2
2-3
2-2
1-4
14-2
14-3
7-4
9-7
8-10
5-11
5-10
7-10
4-12 Smith on the rebound
-Focus on the Athletes
by Beth Bonady
Among the many talented players in
Lewis & Clark women's volleyball, Am­
ber Smith has stood out as one of the best.
Smith, a sophomore left side, has per­
formed remarkably well this season de­
spite a devastating knee injury she sus­
tained last year.
She has already racked up im­
IPressive statistics. In the Sept.
24 game against George Fox
University, she collected
seven kills and 17 digs.
During an Oct. I match
against Willamette University
she powered through an
impressive 10 kills and
20 digs. "They were
tough losses because
the team played so
well," said Smith.
Smith has been
playing volleyball
for eight years, dat­
ing back to when
she was in seventh
grade. "It happened in the middle of a match,
right at the middle of the season," she said.
"The worst part was that they didn't know
it was torn. For a while, no one could tell
me when I'd be able to play again. It was
frustrating ." Smith later found out the bad
news: she was out for the rest of the sea­
son.
Despite her injury, Smith has bounded
back into this year's season with force.
The beginning of the season, however,
was hard. "My timing was off, I was
slower, and I didn't jump as high.
But within about 3 weeks I really
came around."
Smith's coach, Kathy Walker,
praised her improvement. "My
coach told me, 'You play like
you weren't even injured.'"
Walker's comment meant a
lot to Smith, especially
coming after only a few
weeks into the season.
When. asked what
strategy she used to
overcome her injury
Smith responded, "I
didn't let it get in my
head. I also did a lot
of physical therapy
in the off-season ."
Volleyball: @ Pacific Lutheran
vs. George Fox Oct. 18
Oct. 22 7pm
7pm She played all
four years at her
high school in
Gresham, Oregon.
"I was a starter, but
I wasn't one of the Whatever Smith
did to recover, it has
certainly paid off.
PHOTO BY BETH BONADY She also never let
the injury affect her love of the game.
"When I first started playing, it was the
thing to do. To be able to play volleyball,
it was like an honor. It's a fun, fun game.
Girls play it well. It's a sport where guys
can come out and watch, and don't nec-bitg guns," she said. "Back then, I was a
right side, and .our offense didn't use the
right side that much so I didn't get a
chance to hit that often." X-Country:
@ George Fox Invitational Oct. 18
Football: vs. Puget Sound Oct. 18
Lewis & Clark Homecoming llam
1 :30pm During her freshman year at LC, things
were going great for Smith's volleyball
career until she sustained a serious injury
to her anterior cruciate ligament in her
knee. essarily compare themselves. "
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projects including a homemade cal­
endar filled with her pictures and poetry
of Africa. Raising over $2000, Huff sent
the money to Zaire to help pay for
children's school books, uniforms, and
supplies. _
Huff's efforts went beyond
fundraising. She worked with Kermitt
Washington, a former Trail Blazer, in the
creation and design of the relief organi­
zation Project Contact. Huff explained
her limitless energy for giving her all to
the children as a natural response to the
experiences she shared with the people
in Zaire.
"It's in my blood or something," Huff
said. "Once you see it you can't forget
about it."
"There are a lot of people who go over
there just to say they went," Huff said.
. "They think 'I did my good deed and now
I'm a good person.' I have a problem with
this." Instead, Huff strives to show her
support and dedication through her will
to return and all efforts she can make of
assistance in the interim.
In May of 1996, Huff spent another
three months volunteering in Africa.
After staying for two weeks, she was sent
by Paul Bradley
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She vividly remembers the evening
she took one of the infants home with
her. "I had a taste of motherhood ," she
said of her long night. Every 20 minutes
she awoke to administer medic:ine to the
sick baby.
"The children mean something to me.
I love them. They aren't just objects.
They need to know someone cares about
them," she said emphatically .. "It's so
simple."
When she describes the power of her
several journeys ~ack to Africa, Huff's
thoughts always return to the children.
She commented on their strength and
appreciation for simple things. Huff ex­
pressed amazement at the resiliency of
these children who oftentimes were
found in ditches starving, either or­
phaned or abandoned by their parents .
And yet, Huff could feel the joy they
inspired. "As much as they suffer, they
are the strongest people I have ever
known. They are so happy."
Now, as she reflects back to her time
in Africa, she finds living hene a daily
challenge when a part of herself remains
with the children and people elsewhere.
She knows she will return. "It's not even
an obligation. It's something I want. Half
my heart is there and I can't just leave it
there. Something has to conlllect it to
here."
The most significant struggle Huff
faces living here is relating to people.
She cannot explain to anyone wlhat a pro­
found impact her experience iin Africa
had on her life.
"Relationships are really hard. I don't
think the way I used to. I've clhanged a
lot and many of the things I use:d to care
about don't mean anything anymore. I
need more alone time and space. It's so
hard being here and knowing what
people are going through over there," ex­
plained Huff.
Huff feels the distance between her­
self and others can only be bridged PHOTO COURTESY OF SIERRA HUFF
Sierra Huff has volunteered her time in Africa on three occasions.
through someone experiencing the par­
ticular people and children she devel­
oped relationships with.
"Sometimes I want to talk to some­
one about one specific child or some­
thing that happened and I can't," Huff
said.
Living in Africa has changed Huff's
perceptions of America. While in Africa
the people have so little but do not take
for granted what they have, she finds the
opposite here.
She sometimes feels a frustration at
herself and American society. "It's hard
to listen to people's complaints . It's hard
to hear my own complaints," she said.
"My studio apartment is full of things I
know I don't need. Then I think of people
who have only enough to put on their
back or in their pockets."
Nevertheless, Huff feels a blessing in
what she has and desires to use it to help
others. "America is fairyland. But, be­
cause I was born here, I feel like I've
been blessed with the ability to help
people," she said.
Huff has chosen to spread her com­
passion to the children in Africa and
plans to pursue development of children's centers after college. Never­
theless, she said sometimes people ques­
tion the integrity of her overseas ambi­
tion.
"A lot of people ask me 'Why don't
you help the people here?'" and Huff's
disbelieving reply is, "The children are
the same wherever you go. I can't see
how someone here could look at two
children and say one deserves something
and the other one doesn't."
Although she understands that there
is a need for relief efforts here, she feels
right now her call is to Africa.
"Everyone has a different role. I think
everyone is here on earth to contribute
in a positive way. I feel like I've found
my way. It may someday be in another
place, but right now it is there."
As she counts down the time until she
will again return to Africa, Huff carries
the memories of the children's faces and
laughter with her every day.
"I want them to know that I will al­
ways remember them. I always wonder
if they'll remember me and what they
will remember if they do," she said. "I
just miss them. They're so cute. I just
want to hold them." • Every year, college students spend
5.5 billion dollars on alcohol, mostly
beer. This is more than they spend on
books, soda pop, coffee, juice, and milk
combined, averaging $466 per student
per year .
• College students drink an estimated
4 billion cans of beer annually. Victoria a prime fall break spot
The total amount of alcohol con­
sumed by college students each year is
430 million gallons, enough for every
college and university in the United
States to fill an Olympic-size swimming
pool.
• As many as 360,000 of the nation's
12 million undergraduates will die from
alcohol-related causes while in school.
This is more than the number who will
receive M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. *
• Beer manufacturers spend an esti­
mated $15-20 million annually to pro­
mote their products to college students.
• Almost 4% of all college students
drink alcohol daily. (ed. note, let's hear
it for those of you doing more than your
fair share!)
• Interestingly enough, there is a small
but significant downward trend in alco­
hol use on by Mike Skrzynski
You could go to Hawaii, the Carib­
bean, or possibly Tahoe, but when plan­
ning future trips one should cOlllsider the
splendor of Victoria, British Columbia .
It is only a hop, skip, and a jump directly
north of Lewis & Clark College.
To get to Victoria, one must travel by
car or train to Port Angeles, WA, then
take a ferry the rest of the way. To get to
the 12:30 p.m. ferry you must le,ave early
in the day. Three of my friends and I
made this trip during fall break.
We headed out on the open road with
darkness above and trucks at our flanks;
the dark hours of the morning belong to
the trucker. While driving Intf:rstate 5,
we saw at least twenty trucks in ten min­
utes.
We reached Port Angeles at about
9:30 a.m.; way ahead of our 12:30 p.m. departure time. We hdd plenty of time to
bum around and catch up with ourselves .
The most affordable way to get to
Victoria is by ferry. It costs $13.50 for a
round-trip ticket if you go on foot as we
did, but the prices are as high as $27 one
way if you plan to take your car. The
ferry is fairly nice and comfortable . It
takes an hour and a half to go from the
mainland to the island. There is not much
time left to visit Victoria this year be­
cause the ferry closes up for the winter
soon.
The cityscape of Victoria is European,
yet modern. It has Old World style con­
struction, as well as its own Canadian
flavor. The harbor area is the most tour­
ist-oriented, containing a variety places
to shop, places to eat and drink, and
sights to see. One of the most famous of
these sights is Madame Tousou's Wax
Museum. There are a lot of statues of old European aristocratic leaders and fa­
mous people. The most startling wax
statue, aside from the ones in the Cham­
ber of Horrors, was the one of Princess
Diana.
Beyond the tourist hang-outs, there
are cool shops like Off the Cuff, which
is similar to our own O-Zone in down­
town Portland. If you want dancing and
fun, there are a bunch of clubs to visit. If
you go to a club like Uforia or The
Planet, you can expect a hip college
preppy crowd. There are also clubs like
The Wasteland where more rowdy
people go. All the clubs' minimum age
requirement is 19. Remember your ID,
as you won't be able to get through cus­
toms without one either.
Victoria, British Columbia, offers
vacation adventures . One may make new
friends and get fresh life experience
there.
America's campuses . In 1985 the per­
centage of college students who had con­
sumed alcohol in the previous 30 days
was 80.3%. By 1990 that number had
declined to 74.5%, and continues to de­
cline each year. Bud's'tYiO weeks aren't up yet'
* We at the PioLog don't buy this sta­
tistic but included it anyway. We find it
hard to believe that 3% of students die
while in college, let alone do so because
of alcohol.
Anyway, enjoy your weekend and
don't drink too much. You'll be tested
on this Monday morning. \
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to find that the injured Gibson had
slammed the ball out of the prurk to win
it.
The momentous event had its effect
on the seasoned Dodger faithful. "It can
still bring a tear to my eye," he: said.
Of his early exit he explains, "Some­
times I get too excited and I just can't
12 Pioneer Log Oaober 17, 1997 watch .. .1 get sick to my stomach." Don't
be ashamed, Bud. Many a die-hard fan
feels your intensity. We are right there
with you, praying to sports gods and
cursing the umpire .
How often do we actually take no­
tice of the hard-working individuals on
our island of academia?
An important aspect of this college's
character is derived from its maintenance
and cleaning crew. They rise very early every morning, striving to keep the ma­
chine running smoothly for the students,
and for their livelihood . They are taken
for granted. They shouldn't be. Introduce
yourself to a member of the staff whom
you see every now and then. Put a smile
on their face. They deserve it.
As for Bud, he is all smiles when it
comes to his life at Lewis & Clark, "I've
been so fortunate ... My two weeks is not
up yet."