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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

President
Pia Gilgen,
Page 9
September 19, 1997
Volume 62, Issue I
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Babbitt and Nader to ~speak at LC next week b by Katy Davidson
ruce BabbItt, the U.S. Secretary of the Inte­
rior, and Ralph Nader, consumer-rights advocate and
former presidential candidate, will each speak at Lewis
& Clark College early next week at separate times and
venues.
Babbitt, who was appointed his secretarial position
in 1993 by President Clinton, has been a life-long en­
vironmental activist. He attended Notre Dame Univer­
sity, University of Newcastle in England, and Harvard
Law School, and held the positions of attorney general
and governor of Arizona during the 1970s and 80s.
Recently, he has initiated "the development of large­
scale, consensus-based environmental restoration
projects," according to the Department of the Interior.
These projects include his work on the Endanger ed Spe­
cies Act and the President's Forest Plan, which has se­
cured hope for many of the Pacific Northwest's old
growth forests.
However, in his address at LC, "Babbitt will em­
phasize that concerted public activism directed at busi­
ness and government is needed to help reduce the like­
lihood of severe climate impacts in the next century," Amy Carlson, the new OSPIRG campus organizer,
said she received a call this summer from Babbitt's
office saying he Was planning a tour of the Northwest.
Carlson said Babbitt's office chose Lewis & Clark's
campus for the event because "[Babbitt] wanted to give
an academic speech in an academic atmosphere."
Babbitt will speak Sunday, Sept. 21, in the Council
Chamber at 3: 15 pm. The event is free and open to the
public. Afterwa rd there will be a question and answer
period.
Three days later, Ralph Nader is slated to make a
short appearance at the LC law school on his way to
the Oregon Bar Convention in Seaside.
Nader has devoted much of his life to the protec­
tion of the American consumer; his career has been
called a "crusade for social justice." Always a critic of
the two major political parties, he ran for U.S. presi­
dent last year under the Green Party, using a
"grassroot s" campaign.
Nader's visit to the law school will be brief, but the
general public has been invited. He is scheduled to
speak Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the law school amphi­
theater at 12 pm, unless it rains. In that case, Nader
will speak inside the student lounge.
according to the Department of the Interior. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt.
Student grievance rebuffed
Source: The Lewis & Clark Student
Disability and Grievance Policy by Jeremy Brown
A committee has decided in favor of
Lewis & Clark College in a grievance
case filed by a male learning-disabled
student. A hearing on the case was held
in the Pamplin Society room in Watzek
library days on September 3 and a deci­
sion was made against the student soon
thereafte r. The student, whose name was
not disclosed because of confidentiality
laws, filed a grievance against the col­
lege alleging that his learning disability
was not properly accommodated in a
Lewis & Clark class.
Sources said that the student, his par­
ents and their lawyer met with school
officials, witnesses and legal counsel.
Witnesses included John Callahan , who
confirmed his presence at the meeting
but declined to comment on the case, cit­
ing reasons of confidentiality. Dale Holloway, Coordinator of Stu­
dent Support Services, also declined to
comment on the particulars of the case
but acknowledged that a grievance had
been filed by a student with a learning
disability and that normal school proce­
dures were followed.
According to Holloway, grievance
procedure for students with learning dis­
abilities who feel they have not been
properly accommodated begins with the
student meeting with Holloway . "I can
try to intervene or negotiate with the fac­
ulty member, " she said. "Or if I don't
agree and I don't think the accommoda­
tion is warranted given the disability ,
then [the student] can file a grievance."
The grievance, in this case, then went
to Dean of the College Jane Atkinson,
who formed a committee including two
faculty members unfamiliar with the stu­
dent and an expert on the issue at hand. Evidence was gathered on all sides and
the decision was made that the College
had properly accommodat ed the student.
If the committee had decided in favor of
the student, efforts would have been
made to redress the error.
"If the student is not satisfied with the
internal grievance policy then they can
go ahead to the office of civil rights with
the federal government and they can do
an investigation ," Holloway said. It is
unclear whether the student wants to pur­
sue further action in this case.
Holloway added that she feels it's un­
fortunate that a case involving a com­
plaint about accommodating learning
disabilities receives publicity while most
successful accommodations go unno­
ticed. Nonetheless, she said the current
grievance procedure s are necessary.
"I'm glad that we do have these systems
in place, it would be unfair if we didn't." "The institution will make rea­
sonable accommodations to
documented disabilities .
These accommodations may
include course load modifi­
cations, exam accommoda­
tions, readers, interpreters,
notetakers, taped textbooks ,
and additional time to com­
plete assignments. Such ac­
commodations will not be
provided if they fundamen ­
tally alter the nature of the
program or if they would be
unduly burdensome either fi­
nancially or administra ­
tively. "
Ne\Y enviro.nmental stlJdies major blasts off
by Kate Pham
The faculty of Lewis & Clark College voted to ap­
prove the proposal for a new Environmental Studies ma­
jor on April 30. 1997. The new major is the result of over
two years of planning by chemistry professor Evan Will­
iams and international affairs professor Bob Mandel.
Previously, students interested in studying environmen­
tal studies would have to self-design a major and find three
professors to serve as advisors. A large percentage of sel f­
designed majors actually dealt with environmental and
ecological issues. "It seemed natural," said Williams, "to
put together existing environmentally-oriented classes that
were already being taught by Lewis & Clark faculty."
Environmental studies is an interdisciplinary major that
includes a core of courses in the mathematical and natural
sciences and the social sciences. "A professional in the
environmental area," according to the proposal, "must have
background knowledge in both areas in order to deal ef­
fectively with complex environmental problems at the Sponsoring (acuity: Charles R. Ault, Jr., Associate
Professor of Education ; Barbaro A. Balko, Assistant Professor
of Chemistry ; Donald G. Balmier, Dubach Professor of Political
Science; Stephen Dow Beckh(]m , Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.,
Professor of History; Paulette F. Elierzychudek, William Swindells ,
Sr., Professor of Natural Sciences; Eban S. Goodstein , Associ·
ate Professor of Economics; James L. Huffman, Professor of Low
and Dean of the law school; Bob Mandel, Professor of Interna·
tional Affairs; David L. Martinsen, Professor of Biology; Daniel
1. Rohlf, Instructor in Low; Willi.am A. Rottschaefer , Professor of
Philosophy ; Gregory A. Smith, Associate Professor of Educa·
tion; Herschel B. Snodgrass, Professor of Physics; Evan T. Will·
iams, Professor of Chemistry .
local, regional, and global levels and these core courses
link and relate to each other effective ly."
Seven of the nine core courses are drawn from the bi­
ology, chemistry, physics, economics, political science,
international affairs, and mathematics departments. Two
new seminars, Introduction to Environmental Studies and
Senior Seminar, are also required for the major.
In addition, students must take at least four more courses related to environmental issues, two of which must
be upper-division classes. These four classes are included
to provide depth in a single discipline.
Rooted firmly in the arts and sciences, the environ­
mental studies major does not provide vocational training
for any specific career. The major would, however, pro­
vide a strong general background for a career in environ­
mental law and policy issues.
Accordin g to Professor Kip Ault of the Lewis & Clark
Teacher Education program, this broad, multidisciplinary
program is ideal for prospective elementary and middle
school teachers. "We need science teachers," said Ault,
"who can show how to put science in a social context at
the same time as they maintain the integrity of disciplin­
ary knowledge." Echoing this idea, Williams said, "En­
vironmental studies is not just scientific because there are
lots of ethical and social issues involved . These environ­
mental issues probe how we want to live on this earth and
what kind of world we want to leave our children, so en­
vironmental studies must go beyond just science." Use of morning-after pin increases
by Judy Zawatzky . . ___________________ ..:.. The two maIO SIde effects of the MAPs are nausea recently has the level of demand for the pills changed.
If the condom breaks, a birth control pill is missed
or no contraception is used, the risk of pregnancy can
be nearly eliminated even after sexual intercourse . and vomiting. "It's only in the last few years that it has been more
The Morning After Pills (MAPs), offered for free at
the student health center, act as a form of emergency
contraception. These larger-than-usual dosages of birth
control pills must be taken within 72 hours of inter-"After the second dose I didn't feel anything for used. As the information has gotten out, people are
like four hours, and then I threw up. [Afterwards] I aware of it," said Ann Whiting, director of the health
went back to bed," said one student who used the MAP center.
last year. The MAP should not be used as a regular form of
Choosing whether or 1I10t to use the MAP is an indi-contraception, says Whiting. It is an emergency con-
vidual morality question for every woman. traception which provides a back up to other forms of
course. "It was really tough. I couldn't decide. There was birth control.
"In life, people aren't perfect. We can't offer a con­
traceptive that is 100% effective without any risk at
all. People should know that if a mistake is made, that
you do have a choice," said nurse practitioner Nancy
Kalvelage. no way I could have a child now," said a student under To obtain the MAP, a student must consult with one
anonymity. of the health professionals in the health center. The stu-
The MAP, depending on where a woman is in her
menstrual cycle, can prevent ovulation, disrupt fertili­
zation by sperm, or prevent a fertilized egg from im­
planting in the uterine wall. Each year there are 3.5 million unintended preg-dent must read and sign a consent form. The form ad­
nancies in the United Staltes and 1.5 million abortions. vises that should a pregnancy occur, it should be
The MAP has the potential to greatly reduce these num-aborted. Once the form is signed, written instructions
bers. It is estimated that these pills could reduce unin-are given to take home along with the pills.
tended pregnancies and abortions by half. If a student has unprotected sex on a Friday night,
The first dose of the MAP must be taken within 72
hours of having sex. A second dose is tal'!n 12 hours
later. After taking these two doses, the next menstrual
period should begin within two or three weeks. If it
does not, an examination and pregnancy test should be
done. One reason the MAP is not more widely used is the 72 hour margin may be pushed to the limit. In this
that no US pharmaceutic:al companies have applied to situation, the MAP can be obtained on the weekend.
the FDA to market and advertise it for postcoital use. The Downtown Women's Center at 224-3435 is open
However, health professionals can legally prescribe any on Saturdays. The student health center, extension
labeled drug for unlabeled purposes if they believe it 7165, is open from 8 am to 4 pm on weekdays.
is necessary, which applies to birth control pill being "Women need to be informed," said Kalvelage. "All
used as emergency contraception after sex. women should know that [the MAP] is on their list of
MAPs have been avaiilable at LC since 1978. Only choices, and that we're here to help, unconditionally.
ASLC revamps its image
by Lauren Bocanegra
As the new year begins, ASLC
Student Council is also gearing up
for a strong year. With diverse
members and strong goals in mind,
Student Council is ready to reshape
the past images of ASLC and cre­
ate a new image for itself. The
Council members come from a wide
variety of backgrounds . ASLC rep­
resents freshmen through. One
member is a transfer student.
People often question why one
would choose to be on ASLC. It is
a lot of work, and highly underpaid .
Bonnie Tompkins, Chief Justice,
said, "I love being at LC and
thought this would be a great way
to serve my school and get more
involved."
Bianca Miyata, Vice President
for Student Academic Affairs, said,
"1 think that ASLC has great poten­
tial to provide information and ser­
vices to students on campus. I think
that as Lewis and Clark students, we
should be aware and concerned of
issues and decisions on campus that
affect us, and make our opinions
known in positive ways, instead of
watching choices be made about LC
that we do not agree with." to make the judicial process
more student friendly and more
consistent and streamlined,"
said Tompkins .
Before the goals for the po­
sitions and the Council can be
achieved it is necessary to de­
fine ASLC's role. Many ques­
tion what ASLC actually does,
and what they can actually do.
"ASLC is a group of stu­
dents helping other students.
ASLC is the students' voice,
their access to getting what
they want out of the school,"
said Hill.
"I see ASLC as the umbrella or­
ganization that coordinates stu­
dent groups and offers an out­
let for student opinions and is­
sues," said Heather Beaman,
Student Representative.
The members seem to agree
that ASLC is supposed to rep­
resent students, and be a chan­
nel for our voice. However ,
how will they know what we
want?
Student Council has plans to
increase communication . "I
hope to institute regular meet­
ings with Hall Council Presi­
dents, work to increase student
participation in ASLC, and cre­
ate a dialogue among ASLC repre­PHOTOS BY LAUREN BOCANEGRA
Ashlee Hill
Jason Smith Though the reasons for becom­
ing involved are important, what is
even more important is what are our
representatives going to do now that
they are in office. "My goals are sentatives on how to deal this issue. tatives face-how to know what to
In my mind, it is one of the biggest represent, " said Jason Smith, Stu­
problems that the student represen- dent Representative.
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2 Bianca Miyata
Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 Bonnie Tompkins Pathfinder
seeks neVI
route online
by Katy Davidson
In an effort to eliminate the number of neglected
Lewis & Clark student handbooks , the Dean of Stu­
dents Office distributed the "Pathfinder" this year on
the world wide web.
In the past, the Dean of Students Office and the stu­
dent government (ASLC) printed 2,000 physical cop­
ies of the Pathfinder , which contains information about
student conduct and discipline, college resources and
programs, judicial procedures , policies, and a calen­
dar, and distributed them to every student.
Michael Ford, Dean of Students, said the idea for
change originated as he watched "what was happening
at many other national colleges and universities." He
said the trend for student handbook s has been geared
toward the Internet at other schools. He also said the
Pathfinder cost about $10,000 a year to print in the past
and he wanted that money to go to something more
students could use.
"Some Pathfinders ended up on the floor, in recy­
cling containers, or simply gathered dust on shelves
around campus. Quite a few were thrown away," Ford
said.
Ford created the Pathfinder home page himself this
summer using the Clans Home Page program. He said
the content stayed essentially the same; most of the
changes were minor and were meant to clarify any­
thing potentially confusing.
One of the only major changes in the Pathfinder,
according to ASLC chief justice Bonnie Tompkins, is
the new "conduct matrix." The matrix is a more
"streamlined" version of the student conduct code; cre­
ated to make conduct cases more efficient.
Ford also linked the Pathfinder Online to other stu­
dent group home pages to make it a "gateway to the
LC community."
Ford said he has not heard much response to the
new online Pathfinder yet, but he will access records
that show how many people have visited the page soon.
Ford demonstrated how to reach the Pathfinder home
page during Parents' Preview in late August and he
plans to post directions on "notices," a service of LC's
computer network.
He also printed about 100 reference copies of the
handbook for Watzek library and the residence life of­
fice, so it would not be absolutely necessary for people
to go online to receive information .
Ford said the main goal of putting the Pa,thfinder on
the Internet was to make it more available.
"We're on the cutting edge," he said. "The trick is
getting people to use it." ASLC brings in new school year New houses
bought for
LC faculty by Colin Ryono
New 1997-1998 Council
For a point of refe~ence, the ASLC
Council for the 1997-1998 Lewis &
Clark College are: Pia Gilgen, Council
President; Bonnie Tompkins , Chief Jus­
tice; Matt Engebretson , Student Repre­
sentative; Bianca Miyata, Vice-President
of SAAB; Ashlee Hill, VP of Budget &
Finance; and Eli Madrone, Student
Representive/Office Manager. At the
meeting Thursday, the council was in the
middle of interviewing the applicants for
these positions , having received several
for each position.
The positions were filled earlier this
week: Jason Smith is the new Hall Coun­
cil Liasion/Student Representive;
Heather Beaman is the fourth Student
Representive; and Shannon Benfield­
Blankenship is the new Vice President
of Student Organizations.
Peer Review Board
Chief Justice Bonnie Tompkins (not
able to make motions herself) suggested
that ASLC approve the six temporary members of the Peer Review Board, their
first hearing was on this past Monday.
After Tompkins read off the names in-,
volved, VP of SAAB Bianca Miyata
motioned that ASLC approve Tompkins'
temporary board, Student Representive
Matt Engebretson seconded. Hearing no
opposition, the motion passed.
Dubach Lounge
It has been suggested that Dubach
should be reserved for student group
meetings from 5 pm to 8 pm nightly. The
reaction to this by ASLC was, for the
most part, negative. It was felt by some
that as Dubach is a student lounge and
public space, it is not entirely fair for it
to be reserved for specific groups at any
time.
Money Issues from Last Year
Bianca Miyata, last year's VP of Stu­
dent Organizations, mentioned that two
student groups, Polyglot and KLC, need
ASLC to approve the payment of their
bills from last year. It was motioned and
seconded that ASLC should pay these
bills for these groups from ASLC Re­
serves. Hearing no opposition, the mo-
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Weekly Reports/MisceUaneous
In her weekly report, ASLC President
Pia Gilgen mentioned her meeting with
Dean Jane Atkinson about choosing this
year's commencement speaker. Gilgen
also discussed the Bravo! dinner, a semi­
formal event to which the Board of Trust­
ees, donors, and important campus fig­
ures are invited. Gilgen has also been
involved in collecting applications for
the open positions on Council.
The question of whether or not ASLC
would be constantly moving from room
to room in Templeton Student Center for
every meeting was brought up.
It was suggested that perhaps once a
month ASLC hold their meeting in a resi­
dence hall, publicizing it with the Resi­
dent Assistants , in order to bring ASLC
closer to the students and possibly get­
ting opinions from non-Council mem­
bers attending.
The International Students of Lewis
& Clark still had some new positions
open on Sept.18. The new officers will
be announced Monday, Sept. 22.
gBANK.
Without you, there~ no us." by Kala Boyce
During the summer, Lewis & Clark
bought two houses directly across from
Griswold Stadium parking area. The
houses are a small experimental part of
the college's desire to realize an aca­
demic village here at LC.
Wayne Pederson , VP of business, said
that the houses weJ:e designed to bring
teachers into a closer relationship with
the college.
"A proposal was made to the Board
of Trustees in May to begin to develop
opportunities for faculty to live in an en­
vironment that is close to the college, to
hopefully expand the living and learn­
ing environment," Pederson said.
The college has no intentions of buy­
ing more houses until the results of this
two-house trial are clear. Pederson said
that faculty has expressed interest in the
dwellings, which are to be sold to inter­
ested parties for at least the amount
which the college paid to obtain them.
"When we sell them we need to get our
investment back," said Pederson .
The idea of a LC academic village
includes not only faculty and staff liv­
ing nearby, but also more upperclassmen
living on campus. LC is considering
building additional residences which will
be so attractive that upperclassmen will
not want to leave the campus.
"The living and learning relationship
is complementary, and a higher percent­
age of students in residence is part and
parcel of that goal ... We are in the very
early stages of this program," Pederson
said .
Campus Safety
purchases
new Explorer
by Sage Adams
Using saved funds,Carnpus Safety
was able to purchase a new 1997 Ford
Explorer this year.
Last year, Campus Safety officers
used Chevrolet Blazers for transporta­
tion and patrol. Blazers have been their
primary mode of mobility since 1991,
when they were first purchased .
Why the change in model? Bill Cur­
tain, director of Campus Safety, said one
of the old Blazers was severely overheat­
ing, the batteries went dead, and the po­
lice lights on top of the car were unreli­
able. Curtain said they needed a vehicle
that was efficient and trustworthy. He
said they need to be able to respond to
emergencies on time.
The new truck reportedly "runs well,"
and is equipped better than the Blazers.
Curtain said the truck was purchased at
special rate through a collective state bid.
The new truck alone will not help
them access new areas of campus, it just
makes the old routes more reliable, ac­
cording to Curtain.
Campus Safety also started having
some officers patrol on bicycles. On
bikes, Campus Safety officers gain
greater access to areas of the Lewis &
Clark campus that before the change,
were inaccessible.
The change also allows the officers
to converse with the students directly.
"It's a friendlier type of control," said
Curtain.
September 19, 1997 Pioneer Log 3
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',-., -~---,--Ticked, tardy and .1tired ...
Parking frustrations running rampant ,.
'commentary by Sam Stone
was driving around pounding on
my steering wheel," said Senior Matt
Ehrmann of one recent parking experi­
ence. "There'll probably be a ticket on
my car when I get back there." Luckily
for him, Ehrmann managed to get to his
car before Campus Safety did.
The simple fact is that we don't have
enough parking here at Lewis & Clark
to accomodate the ever increasing num­
ber of drivers. After 9:30 am you have a
better chance of seeing an extraterres­
trial than you do an open parking spot.
Okay, so that may be an exaggeration­
but not by much.
Between the main campus, law
school and the satellite lots we have 1450
parking spaces. For each of those spaces
the school issues about 1.3 parking per­
mits, or a total of approximately 1885
permits. It isn't unusual for off-campus
students arriving for their midmorning
or afternoon classes to have to spend
anywhere from ten to twenty minutes
looking for a parking spot.
Most students I know try to arrive on
campus about five to ten minutes before
their first class. If your class is in Miller,
and you have to drive all over campus
before finding a spot somewhere behind
the Hartzfeld dormitories, you're going
to be late. Been there, done that-we
all have.
The basic problem is space-LC sim­
ply doesn't have any. Although school
planning and development officials are
aware of the parking problem, their
hands are tied by city zoning ordinances
and geography . The steep terrain sur­
rounding much of campus prohibits ex­
pansion into those areas, and city zon­
ing laws are making it tough to put more
parking in anywhere .
To bring the issue into focus, the
school hired Michael Surface for the
newly created position of Parking and
Transportation Program Manager. His
job, and that of Planning and Develop­
ment Committee Chairman Michael
Sestric, will be to lessen existing park­
ing problems while protecting the aes­
thetic beauty and pedestrian accessibil­
ity of our campus.
When asked if the school has any
plans to add parking in the near future,
Sestric responded with a question of his
own: "Which practice field, which gar-den would you like us to pave?"
Surface's job will be to alleviate the
most immediate parking problems, es­
sentially giving Sestric and the develop­
ment committee time to create and
implement a long-range plan for park­
ing development. Surface also has the
difficult task of trying to convince LC's
car-loving students to give up their rides
once a week and find alternate ways of
getting to school. Oregon large business
laws are going to require Ithe school to
find a way to reduce its automobile traf­
fic by ten percent over the next few
years.
"There are people that bicycle, walk,
carpool or ride the bus everyday . We
need (everyone else) to dlo something
one day a week. That's do-able," said
Surface, who is putting together a trans­
portation and parking advisory commit­
tee made up of students, staff, faculty and
others in the community.
Still, there's only so millch the com­
mittee will be able to do and resting their
hopes on reduced use will likely not
solve the parking problem. Simply put,
too many people need and/or love their
cars.
"We're isolated from the rest of the
city," notes Sestric, "so I certainly
wouldn't argue with peoplle about their
need to have a car."
Plans are in the works to add 175
parking spaces between the: softball field
and the law school. That !project, how­
ever, still faces some difficult hurdles in
overcoming environmental concerns and
city zoning laws. Furthermore, although
the school would be adding 175 spaces
below the law school, they IPlan on elimi­
nating some 100 spaces of main campus
parking. The theory here is that the new
contruction would eliminate law school
overflow into the main campus parking
lots, but are there really 100 law student
vehicles parked in the main lot each day?
Another aspect of the development
plan is to consolidate all the available
parking around the margins of campus,
thus eliminating what Sestric refers to
as the "spaghetti parking" which cur­
rently infests campus. Part of the prob­
lem, he points out, is that drivers often
have to scour the school's smaller lots
looking for space.
"We have 30 places on campus to
park. (Students) have a big problem with
knowing where to go to find a space."
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4 Pioneer log September 19, 1997 It's clear that the administration is
aware of the parking problem. Their
answers, however, may be coming up a
little short. Plans are currently under
way to build an 850 space parking struc­
ture over the space currently occupied
by the tennis dome and the football prac­
tice field. That project, however, is still
in its earliest phases and construction is
not likely to begin for several years. Like
many of the changes here at LC it may
be too little, and it's already too late. a spot. What's so unfair about first come,
first served?
Carpooling and increased use of the
Tri-Met system are not likely to be the
whole answer. In fact, it doesn't look
like many of us will be around to see the
answer. There doesn't appear to be
enough room available to build adequate
parking anytime soon and convincing
students to give up their beloved auto­
mobiles, even one day a week, may be a
far more difficult task than anyone in the
administration is willing to admit.. One way to ease parking tensions
would be to eliminate the designated
staff parking areas. True, staff and teach­
ers provide an invaluable service to this
community, but so do students. Often,
after all the Editor's note: If you have creative park­
ing ideas or wish to be considered for the
transportation and parking advisory commit­
tee please contact Michael Surface at x7794
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Noisy and lengthy class endings bug
Rustling needs to s~op I got things to do
commentary by Jeremy Brown
It's 10:05 a.m., a good 55 minutes into
my hour-long Principles of Economics
course. At precisely this moment, five
minutes before the close of this or any
other class, anytime, any day, the class­
room atmosphere becomes volatile, the
air electric. A number of seemingiy
simple elements can combine to ignite
this dangerous situation.
Sometimes all it takes is a few words
from the professor , such as "Okay, next
time ... ," or "Your assignment is .... "
More than one person walking by the
classroom window at the same time will
do the trick as well. Even two students
simultaneously shifting in their seats can
unwittingly trigger the eruption.
Inevitably , the explosion occurs with
the force of a fairly fierce bomb. One
student, then another and then another
slam books shut, ruffle and rustle papers
and folders, rock back and forth in desks,
zip and unzip and zip and unzip coats
and backpacks and the irreversible chain
reaction is well underway. The profes­
sor continues his or her futile attempt to
wrap up class but it is impossible to be
heard over the exponentially
crescendoing cacophony . Class is effec­
tively over-the students, victorious,
rush out of the classroom toward their
next class or a cigarette and the profes­
sor slumps in defeat.
I didn't notice this phenomenon until
I returned to Lewis & Clark after spend-ing last semester in China. In China,
no bomb goes off before class is
over, students simply sit and are
engaged until the professor indi­
cates that class is over. Profes­
sor and students leave the room
together.
Interestingly enough, unsci­
entific observation shows that
most international students at
Lewis & Clark refrain from
contributing to the conflagra­
tion. They remain seated,
immune to the infection
racking the bodies of their
classmates . Once again,
we must learn from other
cultures and work toward
a better situation.
How can this matter
be solved? Both sides
have some work to do.
Students must respect
their professors and
professors must
command that re­
spect. Students should not
rustle, unzip, slam, shift or stand until
the professor indicates that it is time to
leave. Professors must work to extin­
guish the explosion as soon as it begins
rather than shrug their shoulders and give
in. The current situation is unacceptable.
Classes are rudely cut short and our edu­
cational integrity is compromised. Let
us work together to remedy this wide­
spread illness. commentary by
Linsel Greene
There is a plague on
campus. The symp­
toms: an inability to re­
alize when class has
ended and a propensity to
talk when the allotted class
time has ended.
Here I am yet again, sit­
ting in Miller 105, it's 1:42,
a full 2 minutes after class is
supposed to have been let out,
and I am listening to some
dull-witted colleague of mine
blather on about Hegel. The
time to talk about German phi­
losophy ended 2 minutes ago .
Is it not enough that I have to
sit through an hour of this stuff?
But no, class is five minutes past,
and someone still feels the need to
ask questions! What the heck?!
Some of us have other classes to go
to, or perhaps would like to catch a
spot of lunch before the grill is turned
off in the Trail Room.
Who are these people? Have they
nothing better to do than sit around when
classes are through and ask questions?
Do they not realize that they are forcing the rest of us who are perfectly capable
of grasping these concepts on our own
to sit and listen to their moronic inquir­
ies?
And what is with these professor s
who haven't any idea of time? They lec­
ture endlessly about something or other,
and then look up at a clock for the first
time that day and say, "Are we through
already? Where did our time go?"
I want to turn to them as I pack my
bags and reply, "We spent it listening to
you ranting about the genius of Thomas
Jefferson, remember?"
Unfortunately I am usually cut off by
some ignoramus who has nothing better
to do than get the professor started all
over again.
"B ut Professor , I don't understand.
What does Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
symbolize? Could you explain it
again?" Of course, these people are
unaware of other students' exagger­
ated hand gestures, in efforts to make
them cease following their foolish
train of thought.
So here I sit, with 2 minutes till my
next class begins, and the dolt next to
me has just raised his hand. Looks like
I'll be late to chern lab again and I won't
even be able to grab that Mr. Pibb call­
ing my name from the Student Lounge.
Live up private time International students stuck
with job-hunting blues
commentary by Tea Franich ism is a true theory. There are no jobs
for you this late, only jobs for work
study students. commentary by Alyson Smith
I am a quite fond of acting strangely
when I am by myself. Being alone
doesn't'really necessitate acting weird,
it just comes unpredictably as an im­
pulse.
I've just sat down after a quick dance
to my Flashdan ce! disc. The spinning,
kicking and singing has made me feel
happy and light.
Tonight, though, I have a more per­
sonal reason for enjoying being alone­
farting with unabashed abandon. It's just
never the same with someone around.
People always find the need to make a
joke or laugh when I fart, sometimes they
even fart back. I can't say that either
one of those things is particularly appeal­
ing, so I relish trying to squeeze my
cheeks against the chair as hard as I can
in order to get a really sick, amplified
sound just for my ears alone, just for me.
On a silly note I ask myself what it
could be that is torturing my colon?
It's probably the same thing that
caused the early morning barf, today.
For the third time in my life I experi­
enced a spontaneous vomit. After a
clammy sweat and a feeling of general
crap at 4: 10 a.m. this morning, I jumped
out of my seven-foot-high loft and ran
to the bathroom .
Am I pregnant? Not a chance, just
having the possibility would mean that
my life is more interesting than it actu­
ally is.
Was I drunk? The real question is
whether or not I remember finishing that
one beer I cracked around 8 pm.
Maybe I was a little stressed? If so,
how can I formulate this experience into
an anecdote I can share with my profes-" ••• one of my
roomates and I locked
eyes, and in mutual
schock bordering on
h II . orror •••
0',
sors to get some sort of relief (read:
shortened) reading schedule? I think
anything less than convincing them that
I was actually dead for a good portion
of the evening just wouldn't cut it.
So for now I will just be very, very
happy that I didn't barf again today and
aside from feeling like
I was in a serious bout
of detox, I was about
65% all here today
(which is a positive
sign. I don't even
identify with myself
when I'm at 100%).
I also am thankful
that the upstairs bath­
room had toilet paper
in it. I can't say that
the events leading me
to go up there and get
it were all that fun, but
I am grateful for the
t.p. You are a freshman at Lewis and
Clark and also an international student.
At first you figure that it will be easy
to get a job on this "huge" campus
since you can't work on the outside
and you wait a while. Suddenly you
realize that your pocket is empty and
you really need money, and of course
ajob!
"No problem, I can deal with this,"
you think. So you wander around, try­
ing to get an interesting job in the li­
brary, mail office, international student
office, info desk, nurse's office and
many others.
Suddenly , you realize that Darwin-International students on campus
have a screwed up deal. We can't do
work study jobs. Even the International
Students Office, which isn't work study,
is off limits to the international stu­
dents .
After all the frustration you come
to the conclusion that maybe there will
be hope next semester. You'll type up
your resume right away and annoy em­
ployers until they say you got the job
you want.
Or of course, you can still live in
frustration and hope ...
Just now I had a bit
of a shocking experi­
ence.
The realization that
the downstairs bath­
room had no toilet pa­
per in it came too late.
After I realized my II. Travel
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September 19, 1997 Pioneer Log 5 Decline of journalistic integrity increasingly evident
commentary by Jessica Tanner
After being bombarded with
the poor quality of media cov­
erage of Princess Diana and
Mother Teresa, I am becoming
more aware of something I re­
alized before: American media
is a disgrace.
I had realized this even be­
fore OJ. that American media
... Dealing, from page 5
situation, on the pot with no toi­
let paper, I breathed a sigh of
relief remembering that I was
home alone. I did not try to yell
to anyone to bring me some t.p.,
I just tried a little shake and a
mad dash to the upstairs com­
mode holding my pants up
around my knees.
Just at the point when I
tripped over the bottom of my
pant legs and pee was making
little rivulets down my legs, one
of my roommates and I locked
eyes, and in mutual shock bor­
dering on horror, I actually
tripped and fell while trying to
quickly explain why I was half
naked and running through the
house.
By now, though, he had al­
ready heard me singing and
dancing around, so my excuse
pretty much went unheard,
blocked by his utter shock and
worry about my sanity.
As he looked away from my
sprawled body as I desperately
struggled to get back on my feet,
the look on his face was an un­
mistakable combination of dis­
gust and pity. It was at this
point, with my cheeks flam­
ing-as red as the cranberry
juice I drank for breakfast-that
I eked out a quiet, "I thought no
one was here," and he didn't
reply as I retreated up the stairs
cursing my weirdness, but se­
cretly enjoying that I got to
share it with a friend. takes one event, such as a hur­
ricane, and escalates it into the
major focus of our lives. After
a few days the subject is
dropped entirely (OJ. being the
exception). However , I lost
faith when entire wars such as
Bosnia or tribal conflicts in Af­
rica were ignored because of
Marcia Clark's new haircut.
It is clear that Americans are fascinated by beauty, glamour,
and wealth more than with com­
plete altruistic humanitarianism
when one observes the way in
which Mother Teresa's death
has been completely shadowed
by Princess Diana's death. Both
of them contributed to world
causes through their lives'
work, however, when the death
of Mother Teresa is introduced
on one news program as, "An­
other friend of Diana's, Mother Teresa, has passed away as
well...", I must comment 'on the
callousness.
Media, like any other busi­
ness, responds to the demand of
customers. Americans , in gen­
eral, demand bite sized pieces
of entertainment as their source
of information. Like the child
who won't eat his or her
applesauce unless it is an air­
plane flying into the hangar,
most Americans apparently can't handle the news unless it
is presented in an entertaining
format.
This theory is demonstrated
by a disgusting piece I saw pre­
sented by Tom Brokaw on the
NBC World Nightly News last
week. One of the headlining sto­
ries was, "Now that Princess
Diana is dead, what is happen­
ing to the other woman in Prince
see Do not, page 76
Less in mailbox means
more for the masses
commentary by
Katy Davidson
The inevitable layer of paper
coated the clogged cells of the
Lewis & Clark mailroom at the
beginning of school this fall, but
returning students noticed one
missing element.
This year, Michael Ford and
the Dean of Students Office
published the Pathfinder, LC's
student handbook, on the
internet instead of in a booklet
format. Usually, 2,000 copies of
the Pathfinder are printed and
distributed to every LC
student's mailbox for free.
Inside the handbook, anyone
can find a guide to student
groups and organizations, infor­
mation about LC's student gov-
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student conduct "matrix." The
handbook also contained an
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printed version.
Though some students con­
sider the Pathfinder's move "in­
convenient" and "unnecessary ,"
Ford's decision to go the online
route with the handbook truly
benefits LC economically and
environmentally .
According to Ford, the Path­
finder cost approximately
$ 10,000 a year to print in the
past. Now that the handbook is
published on the Internet, Ford
said the money may be used for
things that will benefit more stu­
dents. On a campus where eco­
nomically-concerned com­
ments fall faster than raindrops, news of saved money is like a
break in the clouds.
The introductory remarks in
the new Pathfinder's primer
state that many copies of the
handbook were neglected last
year. "All to many of the publi­
cations ended up on the floor,
recycling containers, or simply
gathered dust on shelves around
campus," it says. Re-worded,
this essentially says, "All too
many trees from old growth for­
ests were plowed from the earth,
stuffed into mailboxes, then ig­
nored forever."
Ford sent the Pathfinder in
the right direction by putting it
on the web. The home page con­
siders both nature and the pock­
etbook, and acts more as a com­
munity handbook.
6 Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 Jones returns to West Coast from D.C.
by Jessica Tanner
new associate dean of the college,
June Jones, is pleased to be back in Or­
egon and starting a job at a college of
arts and sciences. .
Jones is coming from the Federal Ju-'
dicial Center in Washington, D.C. where
she was a senior judicial education at­
torney for 7 years. Prior to that, she
served as an assistant dean at
Georgetown University Law School.
Jones grew up on the Oregon coast in
Brook i~gs and received a bachelor's
degree in mathematics from the Univer­
sity of Oregon. She also received an associate's degree in legal assistant train­
ing from Edmonds Community College
in Edmonds , WA. In 1986, she receivt:d
her juris doctorate from Georgetown
University .
Thus far, Jones has been impressed
with the competence of her new co­
workers.
"I've noticed a very positive differ­
ence in the administration. They are
wonderful people personally and profes­
sionally, I've never seen so much
handled with so much grace and effi­
ciency by so few."
Jones had a little bit of experience
with the college in the past as a partic:i-pant in a music camp in high school and
through a program she did with the law
school in 1992. She has been impressed
with LC students. "The students seem
like very open, good people who are
open to new ideas. I think the faculty
believe the students come here with an
openness to new ideas in both an educa­
tional and intellectual sense and in a per­
sonal way as well. I think that the stu­
dents grow here a lot as people."
As an associate dean, Jones role will
be to help with budgeting , help out fac­
ulty and other deans, and to find her role
among the many responsibilities of the
different deans, such as Jane Atkinson . PHOTO BY BIBI TUCKER
Koestner returns to discuss date rape
by Angela Nusom
From childhood dreams of being a
prima ballerina, to a college ambition of
a Chemistry and Japanese major char­
acterized Katie Koestner's first year of
college at William and Mary. Koestner
had no idea that seven years later she
would be touring college campuses
around the country sharing her story of
date rape with students. September 8,
Koestner spoke to a group of Lewis and
Clark students about date rape and how
it affected her, how it affects everyone,
and what we can do.
"It's not my favorite thing to talk
about, the worst night of my life. I only talk about it because I don't want it Ito
avoided the situation of him being in her
room. "I thought maybe I had mislead
him," she said of that night, "so I thought
I would make myself more clear." How­
ever, all her protestations and reasons for
not having sex with him proved to be
spoken to unhearing ears and he became
even angrier and more aggressive.
Although she can look back at that
night and wonder about all the things she
could have done differently , nothing
changes what happened .
"Hindsight is perfect," Koestner said,
"but I said no more than 12 times in one
night. How many times unril no realily
means no?" "People can sit here and say 'that
would never happen to me, I would not
do what Katie did,' "she said, but the
truth is rape is most often perpetrated by
someone you love and trust Koestner
added. This is why she devotes herself
to creating an awareness of the reality
of rape.
"I want to make a difference with y~u
all," she said. "I'll always wonder if
someone had talked at my college would
I need to be speaking?"
The most important thing Koestner
advocates is the uniting of both men and
women to fighting against rape. "Women
alone are never going to end rape -it's
going to take the men too."
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September j 9, 1997 Pioneer Log 7 Diversity emphasized in class of 200 I
by Wendy Clark
ooks,classes,lunch,
backpacks .. Jall semester is in full swing.
The class of 200 I brings in all the fa­
miliar elements of college, but some of
the statistics may be surprising. For ex­
ample, what happened to all the guys?
This year's freshman class does not
win as the largest class at Lewis & Clark
College as some rumors have suggested,
but it does receive an honorable men­
tion for being chosen from the largest
applicant pool in history. Out of 3,529
applications, 475 first year and 96 trans­
fer students are roaming campus; the best
and the brightest of 1997. From those
figures, a full 59% are female and only
41 % are male.
According to the admissions office, those numbers reflect a national trend,
indicating that more females choose to
pursue a higher education than males do.
LC is not alone in the academic world
to be overwhelmed by career-oriented
women. There has also been a general
increase around the nation of students
interested in attending co:llege. This
year's applicant pool was up 7% from
last year's 3,290, and up 60% from 1991.
There is great diversity within the
freshman class. It represents 18 coun­
tries and 41 states, including the District
of Columbia. The top five states repre­
sented are Oregon, California, Washing­
ton, Colorado, and Minnesota , however,
students can learn about foreign meth­
ods and ideologies without ,ever leaving
campus.
Students chose LC for a variety of reasons, but the number one response
was for its solid overseas program. Ap­
proximately half of the incoming class
has previous travel experience, and an
equal number would either prefer to con­
tinue or to begin traveling with LC. De­
spite this, international affairs was not
the number one major suggested on ap­
plications. The top three were unde­
cided, international affairs, and biology.
The class of 200 I has an excellent
scholastic record, with average SAT
scores between 1150 and 1310, average
ACT scores between 25 and 29, and a
grade point average fluctuating between
3.3 and 3.9. More than 75% placed
within the top quarter of their graduat­
ing classes. Despite criticism against the
public school system, 75% achieved in
public schools and only 25% came from
New tenured professors
by Tea Franlch and Amy Sands several Latin American countries includ- ronmental SOCIOlogy.
Elizabeth C. Zahrt-Geib is one of ing Nicaragua, Ecuador and Paraguay. Goldman feels that the students are
the new faculty members in the Econom- The time that he spent in Latin America remarkably sharp, and that the profes­
ics department. She is an adventurer and shaped his life in many ways. sors are extremely dedicated to teach­
has been her whole life. She was raised Young's interests focus on the rela- ing and to learning how to teach. "So
on the American Indian Reservation in tionships between the U.S. and Latin far, I love it," he remarked.
Colorado and earned her undergraduate American countries, especially concern- William Kinsella joins the Commu­
degree at a small liberal arts school, ing the U.S.-Mexico Border, Latinos in nications Department from Ocean
Benedictine College. She later went on the US, and the economic and political County Community College in New Jer­
to receive an M.A. and Ph.D. from Uni-ties that join the US with Latin America . sey, where he taught and was an admin­
versity of California, Riverside where He worked for a pro-Zapatista Civil So-istrator while pursuing a doctorate de­
the Economics of Native American Res-ciety in Mexico City in 1995 and par-gree at Rutgers University . He focused
ervations was a theme for her disserta- ticipated in conferences such as the on organizational communication, look­
tion. In between her undergraduate de-"Encuentro Intercontinentall for Human- ing at how people interact, how under­
gree and master's degree she dedicated ity and Against Neoliberalism" . Young standings are created, and at the impact
herself to teaching in the "Teach for likes Latino music and even has a dog of communication on society.
America" program which uses the Peace with a Spanish name: "Perdido". Kinsella grew up with an interest in
Corps as its model. Teaching eighth the natural sciences, and went to gradu-Michael Goldman is a new profes-
grade math and working as a Teaching / hid ate school to study astronomy. He be-
sor in the Sociology Ant £'Opo ogy e-came interested in communication when Assistant while getting her M.A. and artm t (SOAN) H b t h p en . . e can Ie seen eac - he then worked at a Ph.D. at Riverside
gave her some prac­
tical experience in
connecting with stu­
dents.
In addition to her
work as a professor,
Zahrt is interested in
hiking and camping.
She is also a certi­
fied aerobics in­
structor which al­
lowed her to pay her
way through gradu­
ate school by teach­
ing classes. She has
visited Calcutta
where she actually
met Mother Teresa.
She remembers
bursting into tears
along with several
of her friends, all of
whom were deeply touched by the life
of this remarkable woman.
In addition to beginning a new job as
a professor in the Economics depart­
ment, Zahrt recently married. She is
excited to be here at LC and loves the
interaction with other professors, some­
thing that wasn't common at UC River­
side. What else to say ... except, welcome
to Lewis and Clark!
Elliott Young is a new Assistant Pro­
fessor in History. He is a New Yorker
who received his B.A. in 1989 at
Princeton University. He went on to earn
his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of
Texas in Austin and did much of the re­
search for his dissertation in Mexico City
and Monterey. Prof. Young has lived in planetarium , where
the results of sci­
ence were trans­
lated and.presented
to the public. To­
day, he is specifi­
cally interested in
learning more about
the role of science
and technology in
society.
Left: Elliott Young, Assis­
tant Professor of History.
Above: Elizabeth Zahrt­
Geib Lewis and Clark
was appealing to
Kinsella because of
its small, personal
size, and the great
emphasis that is put
on teaching and
quality classroom
time.
ing several SOAN courses, as well as the
freshman requirement Inventing
America.
Goldman received his Ph.D. at Uni­
versity of California at Santa Cruz,
where he focused on developmental so­
ciology. Specifically, Goldman studied
the ecological impacts of a large dam and
canal system in a dessert in India.
Previous to teaching at Lewis and
Clark, Goldman taught courses at uc
Santa Cruz, and at the University of Cali­
fornia at Berkeley, where he was a post­
doctoral fellow.
Outside of the classroom, Goldman
can be found shooting hoops on the bas­
ketbalJ.court, or oil painting. He is also
working on a book that focuses on envi-Music is one of
Kinsella's outside
passions. He is an avid listener, and a
self-proclaimed "drummer of sorts." He
has a full scale set of electric drums, as
well as an interest in exotic percussion
instruments. Kinsella claims to love
blues and rock and roll, and is always
looking for new people to play with.
With his free time, he enjoys being
in the great outdoors, hiking, canoeing,
"rock scrambling" or swimming. In ad­
dition, he holds a brown belt in
Shotokan, a form of karate.
Rachel Wheeler was recently hired
through the Religious Studies depart­
ment. She will not be arriving on cam­
pus until October or November. Thus,_
her personal information is unavailable
at this time.
8 Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 private institutions.
Financing higher education continues
to be increasingly difficult as the cost of
living rises and college tuit.ions rise in
response. Right now LC offers three
general merit scholarships: a full tuition
scholarship (Barbara Hirschi Neely), a
half tuition scholarship (Trustee) , and a
$2500-$5000 scholarship (Dean's). This
year, ten students on campus received the
Barbara Hirschi Neely scholarship, 17
students received the Trustee scholar­
ship, and approximately 100 received a
Dean's scholarship.
College is a time of expanding and
learning, both in and out of the class­
room. The next few years will illustrate
how the class of 200 I will change in re­
sponse to the variety presented on the
LC campus.
Koestner
talks about
date rape
. .. Koestner, from page 7
stopping it. "Rape is one of those
things we don't think about until it
hits us -by then it's too late," Beaman
asserted.
She continued, explaining that this
change must start on a personal level
in which people become more aware
of themselves, their safety and their
fallibility. "I've seen people treat
CD's better than we treat our safety,"
she said.
"At first I thought to myself, she's
[Koestner] so pretty, so soft-spoken
and seemed so nice how could this
happen to her?" Koestner's speech
reminded Beaman of the familiar ring
of the saying "bad things happen to
good people."
Realizing that rape is a reality in­
volves education, understanding and
effort. "Some people see it as some­
thing that happens, but not to them.
Until you think about it and acknowl­
edge rape -even when it doesn't af­
fect you directly is when fighting it
can begin," said junior Miel Davis.
Aaker agrees, voicing his thoughts
to men who may think rape does not
affect them. "Just because you are not
a rapist doesn't mean it doesn't con­
cern you. If you have friends who are
girls, it concerns you."
Beaman agreed and said however
that she was impressed with the num­
ber of men who attended the lecture.
She recalled, "There was one lone
man who started the clapping at the
end -he gave me hope."
Aaker stressed the importance of
Koestner's advocacy of communica­
tion. "In individual relationships you
must communicate and have trust.
You have to know what you're get­
ting into, and men need to be clear
about their intentions," Aaker said.
"Every single woman has to de­
cide for herself what you're going to
take and what you're not," Koestner
concluded . She then asked the audi­
ence to think about when people w~re
going to take action and refuse to al­
low rape to continue any longer. She
said, "At what point are you going to
stand up?" Pia Gilgen dives into ASLC presidency
by Colin Ryono
Upon talking to current ASLC President Pia Gilgen,
one is immediately struck by her genuine and natural
friendliness, her candor, and impressive intelligence .
She was elected last year, and upon the beginning of
this semester, has immediately dove into the intimi­
dating task.
Born and raised in Fresno, California , Pia is a se­
nior Political Science major, East Asian Studies mi­
nor. She fell in love with the subject, specifically po­
litical theory, after a pair of classes and discussing the
subject with the professors. Pia spent last fall on the
Washington D.C. off-campus study program, working
with John Nakamura , the Agriculture Head in Cali for-
-nia Governor Pete Wilson's D.C office.
In 1995, she co-founded the Student Advocacy
Group (SAG) with Erin Egan. Through her involve­
ment there, she found that campus figures such as
Meryn Brockett, Dean of Students Michael Ford, and
Bon Appetit's Denny Madson were more than happy
to speak to her. When deciding to run for President,
Pia was looking to take her involvement one step up
from SAG, having already gotten her foot in the door,
having already made contacts and knowing how things
work.
She affectionately describes this year's council as
"the oddest group of individuals to have been thrown
together, but it's working." According to Pia, ASLC's
wide diversity in character this year is a definite plus.
She continued to say that they all were very eager and
excited to start working this year. ASLC actually did
start earlier than they have in past years. Her colleagues describe her positively. Peer
Review Board Chief Justice Bonnie Tompkins
commented, "Pia is the most student-minded
ASLC President we've ever had." ASLC's fac­
ulty adviser, Professor Evan T. Williams said,
"She started out early as being an advocate for
students, and I think she will continue as ASLC
President." In addition, Williams described Pia
as "competent, enthusiastic and energetic" and
has high hopes for this year's council.
Indeed, it definitely appears that Pia's num­
ber-one priority this year is to get the student
body of LC more involved and educated about
whatASLC does. Pia stressed that ASLC hopes
to go to a "town council" format at times this
year, holding meetings where students, the non­
Council members, (and subsequently theiropin­
ions on matters) can be heard.
The ASLC President sees graduate school
in her future after she graduates this spring, but
not immediately. She would love a career in­
volving song or music, as singing is where her
other love lies. Another possibility she noted
was perhaps an internship in Japan working with
trade.
PHOTO BY BIBI TUCKER Il can honestly be said that Pia and the rest
Pia Gilgen is the new ASLC president
Pia describes herself as "not the classical president"
and at times, "kind of shy." She wasn't involved in
student government in high school, and honestly at­
tests that she's not the best public speaker. Yet, she is
confident, "scared and excited at the same time." of the ASLC council has aspirations to great­
ness this year. As with many student groups at LC this
year, ASLC is looking towards change for the better.
Pia "encourages the students of LC to learn what's
going on, whether in student government or other stu­
dent groups on campus."
New Resident Directors on campus
'PHOTO BY LETICIA CASTANEDA
Kelly Hoover is new Platt-Howard RD.
by John McCormick
Platt-Howard and Copeland Halls have new Resi­
dent Directors for this term. Kelly Hoover has assumed
the title of RD in Platt-Howard and Jay Friends has
taken on Copeland Hall.
Kelly Hoover a graduate of Towson State Univer­
sity in Maryland, where she majored in psychology,
moved to her position at Lewis and Clark after five
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September 24, from II :30am to 12:3Opm in Thayer
3. Justin Phillips, a senior economics major, is a
1997 Truman Scholar, among a total of 69 junior­
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last spring. Along with David Savage, Dean of the
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a former Truman Scholar, Justin will give you in­
formation on the criteria and competition process, years of residence directory work at two other schools.
Hoover, whose duties as RD include: forming effec­
tive networking and channels of communication among
the Resident Assistants, herself and the residents. She
also maintains an effective community.
"Because I really enjoy working with students alld
I really like programming," says Hoover.
She appreciates the level at which the students can
handle themselves and work to make the hall a better
place, rather than just complain . On the flip side, she
said that her worst experienoe so far had been trying to
handle the fact that you can't pi ease everyone in a com­
munity.
Jay Friends, who gradualted from LC in 1993, re­
turns to the college after working as a Crisis Counse­
lor in an institution in Bellingham , Washington. Eriends
says his primary motivation to become an RD came
from his friend who was a co-RD.
Friends brings a fresh approach to his first supervi­
sory position, and he says that his best experience as a
RD so far has been learning and remembering
everyones names. Friends also wants to change the
attitude of the RD as someone to be feared.
"I'd like to change the perception (that I'm to be
feared). I'm not mom or dad," says Friends.
He has his own unique philosophy on being an RD.
"When weird happens consistently, that's what normal
is,"
ADVIERTISEMENT
ways to prepare (before you are a junior) to become a
viable candidate, and the rewards of being a Truman
Scholar. The deadline for the 1998 competition is Janu­
ary 27, 1998. Justin wants LC to keep on advancing
winners! (Note: The Truman Scholarship Foundation
defines "public service" as: employment in govern­
ment at any level, uniformed services, public interest
organizations, nongovemme :ntal research and/or edu­
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nonprofit organizations whose primary purposes are
to help needy or disadvantaged persons or to protect
the environment.
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Jay Friends and hi~ dog rule in Copeland .
COMING SOON IN THE ALL-NEW
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PICA sponsors 'engaging' exhibit
by Mike S Skrzynski
howmg cur­
rently in the'
Watzek library gal­
lery is the work of
Canadian artist
Roland Brener.
This exhibition ,
sponsored by Port­
land Institute for
Contemporary Art,
runs from August
28 to September
20. Brener makes
potentially kinetic
sculptures which
are based in com­
puter aided digital
design. The result
is an interactive
fanfare of three di­
mensional art­
work. The art is
. both to be looked
at and to draw the
viewer in physi­
cally.
The title of the
exhibition is Dis­
coveries in DigitaL
Design, because
the computer is the
tool most greatly
used by the artist in his exploration to
find artistic solutions . There is even a
computer incorporated into one of the
installations . However, this exhibition
would not have been possible without
the effort of volunteers and a local group
known as PICA.
PICA is an extraordinary resource
upon which contemporary artists may
draw. It survives by donations and pub­
lic support rather than a government
fund. Its independence is solely depen­
dent upon the Portland community . En­
thusiasm and contributions enable PICA
to sponsor artists who, in turn, create an
experience for patrons of the arts to see,
hear and feel.
Lewis & Clark College is one of these
patrons. Thanks to our own contribution of the Watzek gallery, we have given a
space to the arts that otherwise might
not have been available . Volunteers are
responsible for putting the exhibition to­
gether under the supervision of the art­
ist and the gallery curator, Kristy
Edmunds.
The combination of eVieryone's effort
has resulted in an engagin~: show brought
about by Roland Brener's creative sculp­
tures.
Brener is originally from Victoria and
is considered one of Canada's most im­
portant contemporary artists. His art re­
flects kinetic ideas and his curiosity in
finding those solutions .
One of the more dynamic pieces in
the first room is titled Ghost of Weeper.
This wooden sculpture has, somewhat the
KRS-ONE, 'worth it'
by Sage Adams
KRS-ONE has always been one of my favorite hip­
hop artists, but his newest venture brings inventive mean­
ing to the word 'rap.'
The album, entitled I Got Next, recently hit stores na­
tionwide and has been a huge success for the little-known
artist. Most people say it's worth every penny paid for it. appearance of an ergonomically correct
piece of furniture with a face. What
makes the piece so incredible, though,
is the fact that it actually cries. It is ki­
netic art, but it does not necessarily mean
fast art. "He reduces movement to its bar­
est element, that of a single tear."
The crowning jewel ofthe exhibition
is simply called Endsville. It is in the far
room and contains 45 small cardboard
houses in a suburb style grid pattern. The
kinetics involved in this installation in­
clude light, sound, and viewer partici­
pation. There are lights in every house
which dim and brighten as "neighbor­
hood" sounds play in the background .
The lights and sounds are both controlled
by a computer, though not restricted by
it. There is a microphone hanging down Roland Brener's kinetic
sculptures are on display
in Watzek Gallery until
Sept. 20.
which, when spoken into, will change
their pattern randomly . This viewer in­
volvement can be extremely fun, espe­
cially with some of the types of sounds
playing on the speakers.
Art is always in the eye of the be­
holder, but Roland Brener also brings in
the viewer's senses. Whether it is ana­
lyzing a sculpture mechanism or bring­
ing in sound effects, he tries to incorpo­
rate the viewer in some way. He brings
much of himself to the exhibition as well.
His own personal history is as much a
part of the show as the art itself.
With the help of groups such as PICA,
more artists such as Roland Brener can
show their work in the gallery and con­
tribute to our artistic sensibilities and
possibly enrich our lives.
MOVIES
presented by SOFA
With tracks like "I Got Next," "The MC," and "Step
Into A World," the rapper's masterful lyrics deliver mes­
sages of powerful, unconce~led optimism about life and
the prospects of African-Americans everywhere.
Messages include the witty "Stop the negativity and
control your creativity." KRS-ONE is truly an artist remi­
niscent of the '80s grandmasters of funk.
With rhythms that remind us of such masters as the
Wu-Tang Clan and the Lords of the Underground, KRS­
ONE delivers an array of intense bass funk and other har­
monious sounds that utilize both violins and guitars alike. v20 -People vs-L. Flynt
9/27 ,.., Secrets & Lies
10/4 Mars Attacks
I do not think it would be going too far to say that I
Got Next is one of the best new albums of the year, both
in terms of power and originality. Pick it up, you won't
regret it.
I 0 Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 7:30 & 10:00 pm
Council Chambers In & Out parodies
yet keeps integrity
by Colin Ryono
he 1995 film jeffrey strove to
parody and celebrate the homosexual
lifestyle, and was successful in doing so.
Frank Oz's new comedy In & Out, writ­
ten by the same man Paul Rudnick, nears
satire often, but although the general sub­
ject is the same, this movie strives to
parody the "coming out" of gays, rather
than focusing on the homosexual scene.
And thus, this excellent comedy can be
directed towards a wider audience than
jeffrey. Kevin Kline and the rest of the
cast pull off this comedy so well despite
the obvious fact that it's a controversial
and potentially heavy issue. But let's
face the facts: with all the infamous
"Ellen" hubbub, this was a subject that
was in dire need of some heavy-duty
satire.
Kline plays an engaged English
teacher, Howard Brackett, in the tiny
town of speech, Drake thanks
his old teacher for
helping him way back
then, and then adds,
"and he's gay!"
Some might re­
member the plot of this
movie seeming to echo
Tom Hanks' accep­
tance speech for Best
Actor in Philadelphia,
thanking a high school
teacher whom he
added was gay. Poor
Kevin Kline can't
shrug this off as some­
thing private and ca­
sual, it being the Acad­
emy Awards and all.
Within seconds, the whole small town
is in a frantic uproar, including his fian··
cee (Joan Cusack) and his confused par··
ents (Debbie
Greenleaf, Indi­
ana. Everyone
knows one an­
other, and each
others business
(or so it would
seem). A former
student of his. " the cast pulls off this comedy
so well, despite the obvious (ad
that it's a controversial Reynolds and
Wilford
Brimley, in an
odd but not ap··
prehensible bilt
of casting). He
honestly has and potentially heavy issue."
Cameron Drake (played with glazed per­
fection by Matt Dillion), is up for an
Oscar for playing a gay soldier in the
movie, To Serve & Protect. But upon
winning and giving his acceptance no idea where:
Drake would get that, although his cur··
rent students are more than happy to
point out some questionable aspects of
his character . And TV news magazine
host (Tom Selleck), openly gay himself"
POWE
OBILI is more than happy to share some things
with Kline,just in case. Kline falls into
a well of confusion, eventually becom­
ing privately frantic to keep his sexual­
ity and his sanity.
Kevin Kline is an actor of many tal­
ents, not the least of which is physical
comedy. More subtle than fellow com­
edy actors like Jim Carrey, Kline pulls
off little twitches and nuances while he
speaks that keep the audience laughing
even when he is just speaking normally.
Joan Cusack explodes shrilly near the
end of the movie. Her comedy, based
around restraint early on, becomes shrill
screaming later, and this gets tiring fast.
Selleck, never the greatest leading man
of Hollywood, has strangely
seemed to find his comic out­
let here, playing considerably
out-of-type .
The jokes come fast and
furious, establishing a good
comic rhythm and allotting PHOTO COURTESY PARAMOUN T PICTURES
the jokes to all characters. It does ap­
proach satire at times, true, but that bla­
tant silliness is rationed and limited when
appropriate . And as soon as it gets started,
we expect and embrace such low-key sat­
ire. But when we least expect it, a hard
blast of politically correct sentiment hits
us full on.
And of course, there is a good mix of
sight gags thrown in, hardly avoidable in
a somewhat satirical movie of this sub­
ject. Since the movie has the Hollywood­
slant, there are several funny cameos and
clever one-liners at the Academy Awards
(Paul Newman is nominated for Best
Actor for Codger). Oz and Rudnick use
the fact that the movie is set in a tiny town
to their full advantage, letting their
conversative characters suscribe to stereo­
types and be ignorant for the sake of com­
edy. This comedy, like Rudnick' s jeffery,
addresses serious gay issues in a light, co­
medic, somewhat satirical, and intelligent
manner, and still retains its integrity.
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September I 9, 1997 Pioneer Log I I La Buca: it's cheap, it's good, it's not the Bon
by Jeremy Brown
Northwest Portland, home to some of
the city's best and priciest restaurants,
is now home to one of the city's best and
cheapest eateries. definitely the best of the lot. The sauce
has a nice well-rounded snap to it with­
out being overbearing. and sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil
($5.50) is delicious. and the spinach, tomato, feta and olive
salad are direct and light.
La Buca, located at 2309 NW
Kearney Street, is a new Italian restau­
rant serving fresh and tasty fare at prices
cheaper than those offered by Lewis &
Clark's own Bon Appetit. Other entrees
are in the $5 range
and are excellent
as well. Penne
puttanesca with to­
mato, garlic, ol­
ives, capers and a
hint of anchovy
($4.75) is a victo-Thankfully, nothing is drowned in
"La Buca .. .is a new Italian
res:taurant serving fresh and
tasty fare at prices cheaper
than those offered at Lewis &
Clark's own Bon Appetit" creamy sauces and
most dishes are
vegetarian, al­
though spaghetti
with spicy Italian
sausage ($5.50)
and linguine with
basil pesto and
chicken ($5.50) are And slathering pureed olive (or ba­
sil, or sun dried tomato) spread over
good bread and its accompanying taste
are sensations unmatched in the Portland
area, let alone Fields Dining Room.
All of La Buca's entrees are simply
and amply presented. Spaghetti with
olive oil, garlic and chili flakes is the best
buy at $3.50. rious combination available for carni-With prices for a middling Bon
Appetit dinner hovering around $8.00
and chances to leave campus at a pre­
mium, the excellent and filling deals and
pleasant location of La Buca should not
be passed up.
However, the most expensive dish
(still reasonable at $7.50), a three cheese
basil garlic ravioli with basil pesto, is of tastes, even for those normally averse
to anchovies.
Daily specials are also winners-a
spaghetti with artichoke hearts, shallots vores.
La Buca's fresh salads and unique
bread spreads complement the entrees
perfectly. Both the mixed green salad From Lewis & Clark, take bus #39 to
Burlingame, bus #12 to downtown , and
bus #15 to NW 23rd Ave. and Kearney
St.
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Lecture: Shadia Drury
Friday, Sept. 19, I :50 pm
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Arts Alive: Crosspulse
Friday, Sept. 19, 7:30 pm
Evans
Swing Dancing Lessons
Friday, Sept. 19,8:00 pm
Stamm
SOFA Movie: Larry Flint
Saturday, Sept. 20, 7:30 and 10 pm
Council Chamber Bo Diddley
Saturday, Sept. 20, 9:00 pm
Chrystal Ballroom
Bruce Babbitt
Sunday, Sept. 21, 3: 15 pm
Council Chamber
Wolf Colonel & Navin R. Johnsons
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 9 pm
Plattform
Ralph Nader
WE!dnesday, Sept. 24, 12:00 pm
Law School Amphitheater Lecture: Lucia Maya
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 5:00 pm
Miller 105
Mentoring for Leadership:
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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 8:00 pm
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I 2 Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 by Evan Elken
reparation for the football season
begins nearly a year in advance in the
form of recruiting, which starts with the
names of about 3,500 prospective fresh­
men. The number drops to about 800
interested athletes and soon enough, af­
ter an unimaginable amount time spent
researching with questionnaires, phone­
calls, and home visits, 180 potential foot­
ball players applied for the fall term of
1997. Finally, twenty-one of the ninety
accepted prospects formally showed
their intent to become Lewis & Clark
student athletes by paying their depos­
its.
The twenty-one man freshman con­
tingent represent s a large portion of the
forty-nine man squad. The words "young
team" inspire worries of inexperience,
apprehensive play, a need for patience.
Indeed, the pessimist surely would have
reveled in these thoughts this past Sat­
urday at Ted Runner Stadium, home of
the University of Redlands football
squad in Redlands, California where the
Pioneers fell behind by a count of 27-3
early in the second quarter.
LC started the scoring with a field
goal, capitalizing on an interception of
a Damian Delfino pass attempt deep in
Redlands territory by Jeremy Cox, a se­
nior linebacker.
Redlands answered with an 80 yard
drive marked by a 25 yard pass from
Delfino to Brian Hayes and a 12 yard
rush by Delfino for the touchdown. The
extra point was blocked by LC.
The Pio's next three possessions re­
sulted in an interception, fumble, and an­
other interception respectively. The
Jesse Ortiz fumble at the LC 15 yard­
line was recovered by Tim Sikorski of
Redlands and returned for a touchdown.
The first interception was thrown by
starter Dan Dagenhardt, who had a rough
outing, and picked by Sikorski at the LC
36. Redlands needed only four plays to
find the end-zone. The second intercep­
tion was thrown by replacement quar­
terback Drew Jordan, setting up Delfino Senior
tight end
Casey
Easterly is
one of the
many
Pioneers
to keep
an eye
and the Cats for a single play drive in
the form of a 21 yard touchdown pass to
Danny Ragsdale, their leading receiver
for the day.
Ofthe shaky start for the Pios, Coach
Solberg said, "That's an indication of a
poor mental set. You're worrying more
about the fact that your turning [the ball]
over than you are about what you're go­
ing to do on the next play."
With 12 of the 22 starters having
never started in a college game before,
Solberg thought, "The team might have
been a little apprehensive about how they
were going to play." The sign of a good
team, however, is the ability to build!
momentum after a slow start. Travis Vlach entered the game as the
third quarterback for LC at 6:34 of the
third quarter and proceeded to lead the
team 79 yards in six plays with big re­
ceptions of 46 yards by Ilk, and 20 by
Ortiz. Vlach found Schmidt for the final
six yards to the end-zone.
After the Pio's next possession, a 12-
play, 57-yard drive that fell 9 yards short
of the end-zone, the LC defense sent
Redlands out in 3 plays setting up a quick
scoring strike. One pass from Vlach to
Ilk for 42 yards set up a three yard rush
for a touchdown by the veteran Ortiz.
Casey Easterly hauled in a reception for
a critical two-point conversion to bring
LC to within seven. LC would come no closer. They were
stopped on downs at the Redlands 14-
yard line with just over a minute to play,
marking the time that an unidentified ,
prodigious and corpulent , baritone made
her way onto the premises. Redlands ran
out the clock to end the game with a fi­
nal score of 33 to 25.
The bottom line behind the final score
of this game was turnovers. LC turned
over the ball four times and miscued on
a punt deep in their own territory .
Redlands converted four of these oppor­
tunities into touchdowns having to cover
a total of only 78 yards to do it.
The three main weapons of the LC
offense appear to be Ortiz, Ilk, and
Schmidt who accounted for the bulk of
yardage on Saturday. Schmidt caught 7
passes for 103 yards and Ilk caught 5 for
149 yards. Ortiz rushed for nearly 1400
yards last season earning him the honor
of 2nd team All-American .
He ranks second all-time for LC in
receptions in a single season and rush­
ing yards in a single season. "He is a
good player and we'd like to get him the
ball," comments Coach Solberg on Ortiz.
Ortiz rushed 20 times for gains of 62
yards and losses of 22 which reflects on
some blocking woes for the offensive
line. Of the seven main offensive line­
men from last season, six are gone, leav­
ing the line without much experience .
Tight end Casey Easterly caught four
passes for 45 yards and will surely be a
popular target this year.
The football team, picked to finish
fifth in the Northwest Conference of the
NAIA by a coaches poll because of a
perceived lack of experience on the ros­
ter, are looking to surprise a few people
this season.
Spirits are high after the tenacity
showed in the second-half comeback in
Redlands . Solemnly, Coach Solberg
confirms, "Nobody is gonna question the
size of the fight in the dog."
Student support appears promising .
Jake Longstreth Jr. said of the football
team, "They are just an amazing bunch
of athletes."
Cross-country races out of starting blocks at invitational
Sophomore
Theron Brown
will be a strong
runner for the
young lC team. by Jeremy BrOWn! -
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A young Lewis & Clark cross­
country team had an auspicious stal1t
to their season last weekend at the
L&C Invitational at McIver Park in
Estacada, Oregon. The women
placed second to Eastern Oregon,
posting their top finish ever at
the L&C Invitational. Th(~
men finished fourth out of
five teams.
The women were led by
an eighth-place finish from
Junior Marisa Quinn
(Ashland, OR). Quinn, who
came agonizingly close to quali-
fying for Nationals last year,
crossed the five-kilometer tape at
19:41.6. "I had a slow start because
Coach [David Fix] told me to not go
out too fast," Quinn said. "Then I
turned it on in the last mile and a half."
Freshman Kelly Hayden (Kalispell,
MT) finished in ninth place at 19:56.7,
followed by Freshmen Colleen McGraw
(Strum, WI), and Christina Donehowe:r
(Gig Harbor, WA) in fourteenth and fif-
teenth respectively.
Fix was pleased with th.e
women's collective perfolr-mance. "The race was encouraging not
only because of finishing second and
beating three conference rivals, but also
because having four young runners
within 57 seconds of Marisa, a proven
leader, is good," he said.
Quinn agrees. "It's nice to have a full
team," she said. "That puts a little extra
pressure on me." The addition of Se­
nior Brooke Pastorino (Glenn, CA), back
from a year away from LC, should boost
the women's chances tomorrow at the
Big Cross Invitational in Pasco, WA.
Freshman Chris Mayer (Ashland,
OR) led the men with a ninth-place fin­
ish in his first race as a Pioneer. Mayer
finished the eight kilometer run in
27:47.8 and was followed by sophomore
Daniel Ruprecht (Twin Falls, 10).
Ruprecht finished seventeenth overall
and achieved an 8K personal record,
clocking in at 28:21.
"Thanks to training in the high desert
of Idaho, I'm in the best shape of my
life," Ruprecht said.
The men were hampered by the mid­
race loss of Sophomore Theron Brown
(Bandon, OR), who withdrew because
of stomach problems. "That's just something you have to
deal with." Brown blamed his stomach
difficulties on his Bon Appetit meal the
night before the race.
The men wi II race tomorrow at the
Big Cross Invitational in Pasco as well.
The waking crew
by Kala Boyce
At 5:00 am, three days a week, ap­
proximately twenty Lewis & Clark stu­
dents abandon their pillows, throw on ex­
ercise clothing and congregate down­
town to row on the Willamette River.
They are the members of the experienced
crew team here at LC, and they train
during the early hours of Mondays ,
Wednesdays, and Fridays under the di­
rection of coaches Hilary Gehman and
Judah Sussman.
So, what are they doing out there at
that hour, anyway? Not many landlub­
bers have ever actually seen them row­
ing, because they do it so early, and their
races are usually upon distant bodies of
water.
see Crew, page 14
September 19. 1997 Pioneer Log I 3 "
t ... ," . \. by David Kolek
xperience is a key ingredient for the
Lewis & Clark volleyball team. When
practice began on Aug. 24 coach Kathy
Walker welcomed back ten returning play­
ers to her twelve person roster. whom Walker characterizes as "possibly
the toughest team in the league." The fol­
lowing afternoon the Pioneers fell to Pa­
cific Lutheran University in a hard fought
match also in Pamplin.
After a week of grueling practices,
twice a day, the Pioneers set their sights
on the new season with optimism . They
traveled down to Whittier, California on
Sept. 5 to open their season at the Whittier
College Tournament. The Pioneers got as
far as the championship bracket of the eight
team tournament before being defeated .
The squad returned to Palatine Hill with
added confidence and a third place finish
in the competitive tournament. Displaying an impressive amount of
confidence, the Pioneers shook off these
early disappointments and put together a
strong performance to defeat Northwest
College at home to round out their week­
end activity.
• The varsity
Pioneer volleyball
team faces its own
alumni in Pamplin
Sports Center
tonight at 7:00 pm. "The tournament was the best; to start
off the season so well is great," said Walker. The Pioneers have much to be pleased
with at this early stage of the season. "It
is the best start we've had since I've been
coaching," Walker said about this, her sixth
~ampaign as LC volleyball coach. Now,
the Pioneers must reach down even deeper
as they face several challenges in the near
future.
Their next home
game is against
Eastern Oregon
State College on
Saturday, Oct. 4. The glow of the early season success
was temporarily diminished when LC
opened league play against two challeng­
. ing opponents at Pamplin Sports Center
this past weekend. On Sept. 12 the Pio­
neers fell to the University ofPuget Sound, They have one more home date tonight,
before heading out on a tough four game
road trip with matches against George Fox
University, Pacific University, Willamette
University, and the talented squad from
University of Puget Sound.
Club soccer kicks off season
by Beth Bonady
Anyone walk­
ing past lower cam­
pus, on many
weekday after­
noons, can look
down on the small
field and see a
group of sweaty
Lewis & Clark
women playing
soccer in the mud,
without proper goal
posts, nets, or uni­
forms. This is LC's
Women's Club
Soccer, made up of
a group of tough
female athletes.
The men's team,
which was formed shortly after the
women's, joins the ranks of LC's dedi­
cated club organizations this week.
Both men's and women's club soc­
cer teams have formed this year, due to
the efforts of a few enthusiastic student
organizers . Unlike past seasons, this
year's club soccer program promises to
be strong. Much of the strength comes
from an incoming crop of talented fresh­
man players. "The future for the team
looks good," said Dre Hopkins, one of
the student organizers for the women's
team. "We have a good group," said
Sonja Peterson, another organizer.
"We're having a lot of fun, and have the
potential to become a really competitive
team if we were given the opportunity
to compete at the varsity level."
The student organizers of both teams
are experiencing frustration with the LC
administration. Club soccer currently
has no playing field, and the men's team
is not even officially funded this year.
Despite repeated inquiries by the student
organizers, the administration has-not
allowed the teams a decent playing field.
.~ whole club program is neglected,"
saiq Gabe Larson, men's team organizer.
"I think they've tried to accommodate
us, but they don't want to put time and
mol\ey into something that isn't varsity,"
noted Hopkins, concerning the soccer team
drills on lower
campus.
administration's lack of support.
Although most of the players and or­
ganizers have felt the sting of the admin­
istration, interest has remained high.
Roughly forty men and thirty-five
women have shown interest in playing
club soccer. Both teams are ordering
uniforms, and both teams have games
scheduled all over the state of Oregon.
On Sept. 13, the women's team trav­
eled to Concordia to play their first game.
Although LC lost 0 -6, they shut out
Concordia in the first half. The perfor­
mance on the part ofLC was impressive,
due to the fact that Concordia is a var­
sity team and already has five games
under its belt.
"At the end ofthe game, Concordia's
coach told me he couldn't believe it was
Lewis and Clark's first game," said
Peterson.
Waking crew
.. , Crew, from page 13
The type of rowing they do, is called
sweeping. Each team member has one
oar which they move by eJ(erting their
legs, back, and arms. Four to eight
people sit in'a boat; their goal is to move
as one body. "No one is a s~1J' in rowing,
you have to do it as a boat, as a team ... we
have a very:close team; they are pulling '. . ....
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Gehman said.
The crew team has three rigorous
early morning practices as well as
weight training and other aerobic ac­
tivity. The hours and physical de­
mands leave many beginning rowers
overwhelmed, so that the next year not
many rowers return to row again.
Thus the LC team has been rather
small-numbered in the recent past.
Gehman said that it takes a special
sort of person to keep getting up to
row, morning after morning, year af­
ter year. "Anyone who gets up at five
in the morning, in the dark, to prac­
tice, and likes it-that says something
about their character."
In the last two years, however, the
LC team has been growing larger,
stronger, and more dedicated . At the
beginning of the season two years ago
there were no experienced rowers with
the team. This year there are more
than 20 experienced team members in
addition to 50 novices. "We've re­
tained a lot more [rowers] than we
ever have in the recent past. .. we al­
ways have a big turn out with novice
crews, but this year is bigger than any
other I know of," Gehman said.
Based on this growth, the coaches
are now attempting to obtain varsity
status for the crew team. Crew is cur­
rently a club sport, and as such it of­
ten has problems acquiring sufficient
funds. The team started trying to raise
money with a fund-raiser in conjunc­
tion with AT&T, but the money they
earned will probably be only enough
to pay for one race in Victoria.
The lack of funding has a large im­
pact on the team's ability to train well.
For example, during the first practice,
the launch that Gehman uses to fol~
low the rowers stopped working.
"We don't have the staff or the
equipment to handle this many row­
ers ... It's really hurting the program.
Which is why I'm so excited to go var­
sity, and get the equipment we need
to make this a quality sport for the
rowers, and not have to pinch,"
Gehman said.
The experienced rowers will be
rowing in Race for the Cure on Sun.
Sept. 21 on the Willamette River in
doWntown Portland.
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World Cup
comes to town
by Steve Schroeder
More than 28,000 people came to­
gether at Civic Stadium in downtown
Portland to witness one of the most
important sporting events of 1997, the
World Cup qualifying soccer match
between Costa Rica and the United
States on Sept. 7. This game had the
potential for ending America's hopes
of reaching World Cup 1998 in
France. When the action began, the
U.S. was tied with Costa Rica for the
final qualifying spot.
The atmosphere around the sta­
dium was electric. There were people
in costumes, and there were many ac­
cents to be heard. The costumes were
of U.S. and Costa Rican flags.
Civic Stadium was transformed
from a baseball stadium into a soccer
field. Real grass was laid in strips
over the artificial turf that the Port­
land Rockies and Portland State foot­
ball team use. Bleachers were added
at one end of the field. Walls were
painted and displays built in support
of U.S. Soccer and the World Cup.
All fans came ready to support
their team. Every fan was provided
with inflatable noise makers by Nike,
which made the noise in the stadium
almost deafening. The announcer was
not audible because of the ruckus cre­
ated by the fans. The noise was not a
problem; on the contrary, it lifted the
spirits of everyone in the stadium.
The game itself was remarkable.
The United States controlled play for
most of the ninety minutes, but were
unable to mount a serious offensive
threat until late in the second half.
Substitutions were made in the 74th
minute that brought in Cobi Jones and
Preki Radosavljevic, both major stars
in the American soccer league. In the
79th minute Marcelo Balboa passed
the ball to Tab Ramos who rifled the
ball to the back of the net.
The victory lifted the U.S. into
good position for qualifying. The
U.S. has three games left in which
they need to perform well. The final
game against EI Salv~or is not as-
signed to a city yet. .
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...~. '. Getting more bang from your tube
S by Jason Anderson
ummer. Four months of college
liberation. A time not only to relax and
make some money, but a wide open
venue for reflection and thought. myself, are turning to mother-Mother
Nature that is-for flesh and blood
sport of a higher breed. and sometimes uncomfortable, feeling
of near weightlessness as the tow boat
gains speed. on tricks. One such trick is known as
"slicing," a dramatic cut across the
waves. Another is known as "bobble
weave," a tuck which increases speed
and, if done correctly, reduces the
pressure placed on the forearms.
With the mighty bronze shackles of
homework cast aside, summer offers
an amazing potential of adventures to
have and places to see.
Putting that romantic view aside
for a second, what do 18, 19, 20-
year-old people do for fun
between May and
September? My friends, let me introduce you to
the intense, and often dangerous, world
of freshwater athletics.
Tubing
Pound for pound, tubing is without I thrive on that air of mystery and
vertigo, often commanding the driver
tlO accelerate unnaturally, in a jagged
manner of pushing and shaking the
throttle known as "quake waking."
Another hidden pleasure, one I
actually discovered by accident-and
this is something those big wig
tube hounds will not tell
you-is the raw glee of
tubing sans trunks.
That is to say, just as
God made me. Water skiing is a dish best served at
dawn or dusk, when the water is glassy
and calm. Midday will suffice,
although conditions may be choppy
and, depending on where you are, the
lake could be crowded.
And if I don't have a boat?
Heck, does the
word "fun" even
exist anymore in
the politically
correct nineties?
How many of us
spent what leisure
time we could "Fed up with computerized action
and televised thrills, more and more
young, strong Americans, including myself,
are turning to mother-Mother Nature,
that is-for flesh and blood sport Naked. No matter
what your style,
the unbridled
velocity is
guaranteed to
knock your socks
off and, if you are When access to a boat is not
available, fear not, for there are many
water games where the only motor
required is the tiny flesh-motor inside
of you, your brain.
If you were raised by anyone even
resembling decent parents, odds are
you are no stranger to the game of
Marco Polo.
It is even possible that you might be
extremely annoyed and bored with it,
just because it is so common, popping
up at beaches and in public swimming
pools across America. afford between
working and visiting of a higher breed." lucky, maybe your
jams will go, too.
Water Skiing relatives, in and around
arcades, movie theaters,
and factory outlets? Is this
shallow, quick-fix pleasure the
extent of modem-day tomfoolery?
It is downright embarrassing to
watch hard-earned money sink into Air
Bud, "Double Dragon," submarine
sandwiches , and that "last" game of
Skee Ball. But hey, "what else was
there to do," right? Wrong. Skiing on water, or
"water skiing" is not the
cake walk its name would have
you readily believe. Well, how about water tag? Water
volleyball? Water miming? These are
just a few of the simple aquatic
gaieties to be had when the heat starts
to hit. a doubt the most joyful and accessible
of lake-based activities. There is not
much that can compare with the
feeling of mounting a tube at upwards
of twenty kilometers an hour, skim­
ming the surface on a light cushion­
mist of air and foam. It is not uncom­
mon for one to acquire an uncanny, Balance, poise, physical prowess,
and confidence are all necessary
ingredients if you want to get up and,
more importantly, stay up. Sure, summer can be a drag, but it
does not have to be. Remember, you
will only get out what you put in.
Throw roses, and roses will come back
to you. Throw on a life jacket, and a
world of new found excitement awaits.
Now go get wet! Fed up with computerized action
and televised thrills, more and more
young, strong Americans, including Most people usually start on two
skis, eventually working up to one as
their skill progresses.
Once single slalom skiing is
mastered, then comes the time to work
Of all the crazy things
you memori.ze this
term, here~ is one
number you can
realily usel
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... Do not, from page 6
Charles life?" It was an expose on
Camila, or whatever her name is. This is
a story one would expect from Hard
Copy or American Journal, but not from
our national 'world news.'
The line between tabloid journalism
and hard news is becoming non-existent ,
if it still exists at aIL
What is most disheartening is the
news that is ignored. Apparently, starv­
ing people in North Korea, continued
civil disrest in Northern Ireland, and the
ongoing work to unite Europe into the
third superpower of the world are not
issues worthy of our attention. However ,
th
by Paul Bradley
Welcome to the Edge of
the Pioneer Log, iust a
little column to help you
to get to know your
college a little better.
A survey conducted the
evening of the 18th
showed that the average
withdrawal from the
USBank ATM in
Templeton was $32.
Average balance , $670.
Average withdrawal for
the Wells Fargo custom­
ers, $62, with an
average balance of
$1,798. You make the
connections . Just as a
side note, the same
evening the USBank ATM
on 17th in Sellwood was
surveyed as well;
average withdrawal was
$ 160 with dn average
balance of $90.
We attempted to survey
the Lake Oswego
USBank ATM, but they
lock up their trash
containers down there.
"Lewis &Clark" -it's a
beautiful name isn't it?
Ever wonder what
mystical sentences might
appear if you rearranged
the characters in the
name of our college.
What follows is a
conversation where the
answers are anagrams of
our school's name.
Q -/ sure am thirsty.
A -"/'11 ransack dew."
Q. Why can't we light
candals?(sic)
A -M. Ford -"Candal
law risk."
Q -Wow, look at 'er!
A -"I'd coWer swank."
Q -Damn, finding
parking here is a pain!
A . "We lack land, Sir."
Q. Hey there's the pipe!
A -"We call Sir Dank. "
and our personal
favorite:
Q -Who are we going
to get to play in the
Plattform next week?
A -"We'll ask Rancid." the consequences of the 1-5 bridge clo­
sure has been endlessly covered since
this summer because our world might
fall apart should traffic problems arise.
This unfortunately displays all too well
the stereotype of Americans as not know­
ing what happens beyond the borders.
Perhaps because veal that more and more Americans re­
ceive their news from television and not
from newspapers . USA Today is the
worst example. Although, the recent ad­
dition of color photos and a sports sec­
tion to the New York Times proves once
again that in order to sell, the news must
be entertain­
ment. the United States
is so large, events
that cause imme­
diate and direct
impact are much
more important. "Now that Princess Diana is
dead, what is happening to the
other woman in Prince Charles To be fair,
there are sti II a
handful of
quality sources
of world news
such as The
Christian Sci-Is print journalism
different?
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ence Monitor
16 Pioneer Log September 19, 1997 (which despite its name, is not religious
propaganda), The Economist, some CNN
programs, and many of the PBS pro­
grams. Also, making generalizations
about the average American ignores
those who are well informed.
In general, the journalistic expecta­
tions of Americans needs to increase. We
need to question our news sources and
not simply blindly accept. The integrity,
quality and focus of media needs to be
the catalyst of this change. I'm positive
and idealistic about almost everything,
but after the outcry for Diana and the
virtual dismissal of Mother Teresa, I find
those attributes increasingly difficult to
relate to the media at all.