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Volume 94, No. 2

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2020-02-21

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LC students launch The Bridge, a new
app for sharing events on campus
By LEXIE BOREN
AFTER MONTHS of coding and
planning, a new app for Lewis
& Clark students was officially
launched on Feb. 10. The Bridge, an
app that allows users within the LC
community to post and view events,
has gone from a user base of around 40
people, who used it during beta testing,
to nearly 300. It is now available on
Apple and Android devices.
The app was created by students
Ochuko Akpovbovbo ’21, Stephen Baker
’21 and Quinn Vinlove ’21. Vinlove and
Baker participated in the LC Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)
student chapter’s first hackathon
in the fall of 2018, a 24-hour-long
coding competition. Participants were
given the prompt, “Social Good and
Accessibility and Lewis & Clark,” which
sparked the idea for the app. Vinlove is
a computer science/math major, and
Baker is a computer science/math and
physics double major.
LC’s only previous events calendar
was a general calendar located on
the school’s website. Typically, this
calendar includes larger events and
academic talks, but clubs are told to
email the head of Student Activities
to post their events.
Vinlove and Baker, frustrated with
what they viewed as a bottleneck,
created the first version of the Bridge
app during the hackathon.
“We made what we call ‘Version
one,’ which was just scraping events
from where Lewis & Clark currently
stores them,” Vinlove said. “We ended
up winning that hackathon, and everyone
was like, ‘You should continue with this,
this is great.’”
After the hackathon, Vinlove brought the idea to the Bates Center for
Entrepreneurship and Leadership’s Idea
Hour, hoping to receive funding and
support. There he met Akpovbovbo, an
Economics major, who loved his idea
and decided to work with him to make it
a reality.
“I think it was one of those things
where it was enough of a problem that people were starting to think about it
in their own individual little pockets,”
Akpovbovbo said. “Stephen was thinking
about it, Quinn was thinking about it, and
I was thinking about it, so we all put our
abilities together.”
Vinlove and Baker continued to work
on developing the app on their own time,
devoting much of the summer 2019 break to coding.
“We started working on it and
put just a ton of time into it over the
summer,” Baker said. “We came up
with something pretty good, and we got
a grant from the Bates Center, which
helped a ton in getting this off the
ground.”
“Bridge” continued on pg. 3
Vol. 94 No.2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020 www.piolog.com
Christianity at LC
Alex Barr ’21 recalls how she found God and her
experiences being a Christian at LC.
See page 5Bon Appétit’s excess food donation program resumes
after a hiatus.Bon donates food
See page 7Transgender Lewis & Clark student athletes share
their experience in the athletic community.Trans athletes at LC
See page 11Tune in to this week’s episode of The
PioPod to learn about developments in
sustainability at LC, including new course
offerings and divestment from fossil fuels.Sustainability at LC
Exhibition at Japanese Garden takes a poignant
look into the items left behind after the bombing of
Hiroshima.Japanese Garden Exhibit
See page 8
BLAKE ASHBY/PIONEER LOG
A student holds up their phone with the new app pulled up, displaying the homepage, on which events are listed by date. US Census
recruits LC
students
By WILL TOPPIN
OVER THE PAST few weeks,
Census recruiters canvassed
heavily on Lewis & Clark’s
campus in an effort to recruit workers
for the 2020 U.S. Census. April 1 is
National Census Day, marking the
deadline for people across the U.S. to
answer 10 census questions, with the
goal of accurately counting every person
living in the country and collecting
demographic data. The census has
traditionally been taken via paper
forms, but the 2020 Census will be
the first to allow online and telephone
responses.
Over the last two weeks, workers
from the U.S. Census Bureau have tabled
between classes in the J.R. Howard
academic building and on Feb. 18 in
J.R. Howard 124 gave a presentation
on the expansive impacts of the census
on our system of democracy as well as
hosted multiple events. This is all in an
effort to recruit enumerators (census-
takers) to work for the Bureau from
mid-March to late July.
As the recruiters have emphasized
in various forms around campus, the
job would pay $18 to 20 dollars an
hour for about thirty hours a week,
with flexible hours. The Census Bureau
makes the case that workers play an
important part in history, as the census
is key to allocating federal funding
and congressional seats. Oregon is
predicted to gain a new seat in the
House of Representatives, moving from
five to six congressional seats, according
to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Each person counted in Oregon
is expected to net the state $3,200 in
federal funding, according to Census
Bureau statistics. Federal dollars are
used to fund Oregon Medicaid, federal
student loans, highway construction
and a number or other public service
projects.
The census asks 10 questions of
respondents: address, phone number,
count of each person at the address,
name, gender, age and date of birth,
race, hispanic, latino or spanish origin,
whether the respondant lives elsewhere
and relationship status.
There is not a citizenship question
on the census. Though the Trump
administration had pushed for the
question, they abandoned this effort on
July 2, 2019, a week after a Supreme
Court ruling blocking the question and
previous protests using the hashtag
#CountMeIn.
“Census” continued on pg. 3LC to offer new Health Studies minor as
part of Strategic Enrollment Managment
By GRACE MARK
COMING TO CAMPUS in fall
2020, Lewis & Clark students
may have the opportunity to
enroll in a new Health Studies minor.
Headed by Professor of Psychology
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell, this new
offering aims to incorporate courses
from a variety of academic departments,
connect students with Portland-based
internships and build international
connections in health-related fields.
The minor includes a statistics
requirement, as well as a foundational
requirement fulfilled by either
Detweiler-Bedell’s Health Psychology
course (PSY 375) or a new Introduction
to Public Health course. The third
requirement is a health studies
internship capstone, a curricular
opportunity for students to get hands-
on experience in health-oriented fields.
“In departments (at LC), there’s not
one person who is the ‘health’ person,
but many of us teach something that’s
health-related,” Detweiler-Bedell said.There are three categories of
electives with multidisciplinary course
offerings, most of which are already
regularly offered at LC by professors
specializing in various health-
related topics. The three categories
are mechanisms of wellness and
disease, psychological and narrative
representations of wellness and disease,
and global and cultural approaches to
wellness and disease.
Electives are comprised of
courses from the Biology, Chemistry,
Psychology, English, Rhetoric and
Media Studies, Economics, Sociology
and Anthropology and Religious
Studies departments, ranging from
Perspectives in Nutrition (CHEM 105)
to Medicine, Healing, & Culture (SOAN
255). Students will also be able to
apply credits from overseas study, with
the possibility of expanded overseas
opportunities focusing on public health
in locations like Mexico, Ecuador,
Ireland and South Africa.
The Health Studies minor is one
element of an initiative to promote health studies at LC and part of the
Strategic Enrollment Management
(SEM) plan, an effort to attract and
retain students at LC. After SEM
called for proposals in 2018, it
became clear that there was a high
demand for initiatives to support
students interested in going into
health-related fields, including health-
related internships, volunteer work
and advanced advising for students
interested in going down healthcare
paths.
Many health-related programs
already exist at LC, including the
Pre-Health Professionals Club and
pre-health advising from Professor
of Chemistry Julio C. de Paula and
Associate Director of the Career Center
Adonica De Vault. The aim of the
health studies initiative is to combine
the resources already offered into a
coherent pathway for students.
“It has been done, and done very
well, but in pockets,” Detweiler-Bedell
said. “We built on strengths that we
already have, but with the goal of better coordinating them.”
Coordination of health-centered
offerings would occur within a health
studies center, a curricular and co-curricular
home for students, faculty and other
community members interested in
health. The center would be a source
for alumni connections, internships,
advising, graduate and research
application guidance and speaker series.
The center is expected to be named
sometime in March.
“This would be not only a name but a
place on campus ... a place that students
could come, a place where faculty could
gather ... a place to exchange ideas
and capitalize on the ways a liberal
arts education prepares you for being
an important part of the world of
healthcare,” Detweiler-Bedell said.
In addition to putting together
the minor and a vision for the center,
Detweiler-Bedell networked with
alumni who have gone on to health-
related fields and used their input to
help shape the minor.
“New Health” continued on pg. 3
WILL TOPPIN/PIONEER LOG
A sign promoting census jobs on campus.Students created new app from ground up, with help and funding from Bates CenterFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
NEWS 2
By AMELIA EICHEL
THE DEPARTMENT of Student
Activities held the semesterly
meeting for recognized student
organizations on Feb. 12. Director of
the Career Center Rocky Campbell and
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Angela Gintz relayed
the relevant findings from last semester’s
student engagement surveys and focus
groups to the students in attendance. They
also announced a new event happening on
Feb. 22: Spring Fling, a dance party from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Fields Dining Hall with
a beer garden and food trucks. This event
is organized by IME, the Black Student
Union (BSU) and the Senior Experience
Committee which aims to develop a more
robust nightlife at LC.
According to Gintz and Campbell, the
data from the student surveys showed a
desire among LC students for more campus-
wide events where they can socialize more
freely. The surveys also identified Watzek
Library as the most commonly used space
on the undergraduate campus for students
to gather and socialize
“We were like, is that defeating the
purpose of trying to be academically-
focused in the library?” Gintz said. “You
can definitely blend both, but there’s
definitely a need for a social space that’s
pretty unstructured.”
The data is primarily being used to
inform Vice President of Student Life
Robin Holmes-Sullivan’s plans to renovate
Templeton Student Center and other
spaces around campus. However, Holmes-
Sullivan, Gintz and other stakeholders
wanted to address the gaps that the surveys
identified right away. This inspired the
creation of Spring Fling.
“The information that we gathered
from the campus engagement survey was quite clear across all three campuses
and constituents: we should encourage
our students to cultivate more late-night
activities that attract community members
from all age groups in order to build a
more vibrant campus atmosphere and a
stronger sense of community,” Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “The spring fling
activities will hopefully demonstrate the
ways in which students can conceive
and plan activities that are fun, edgy and
exciting while also demonstrating that our
students are fully capable of engaging with
one another in responsible ways.”
During the student organizations
meeting, Mikah Bertelmann ’21, the
student organizations coordinator,
announced new changes to the Student
Organizations Committee (which operates
within the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark) budget allocation process for Fall
2020.
“The major changes were the
supplementary questions and the process
by which organizations’ applications will
be reviewed,” Bertelmann said via email.
“There are more focused questions that
aim at getting organizations to be more
intentional in their requests for funds,
and in particular, how their organization
reflects the values ASLC SOC finds
important.”
These values are listed in a rubric
that was sent to all student organizations.
According to the rubric, excellent
organizations “demonstrate a clear effort
to create opportunities for members to
participate in quality, enriching activities”
and “make a clearly intentional effort to
create an inclusive L&C community by
creating inclusive spaces for its members.”
ASLC and the department of Student
Life are demonstrating increased financial
support for organizations to plan events
that foster a greater sense of community. By MACKENZIE HERRING
PRESIDENTS’ DAY weekend
marked an influx of prospective
students on campus, with
about 140 prospective students and
more than 330 people in attendance
including their families. Admitted
Students Day, Feb. 14, was an
opportunity for prospective students
who have already been accepted to
Lewis & Clark to visit campus and
participate in events put on by the
Admissions Office.
Vice President of Admissions
and Financial Aid Eric Staab said via
email that there was a 30% increase in
attendance since last year.
“The program on Friday had 131
students in attendance. Last year we
had 103 attend the same program,”
Staab said via email.
The prospective students that
came over the weekend were part of
the Early Action subset, meaning they
applied before Nov. 1. Faculty and staff
were notified that many prospective
students would be on campus affecting
parking availability. According to
Serena Frisina, senior assistant dean
in Admissions, the Admissions Office
is providing more opportunities than
usual for students to visit LC. Later
in the semester, there are events for
prospective students who applied
during Regular Decision as they will get
their admittance letters later on.
The program during Presidents’ Day weekend is typically popular. Many
high school students are encouraged
to apply Early Action. This is a non-
binding alternative to Early Decision,
which requires the applicant to drop
all other applications to other schools,
but still improves a students’ chance of
getting into their preferred school.
“We’ve only reached out to about
half of our applicant pool so far,”
Frisina said. “We have Regular
Decision applications and we will notify them in March so we don’t know what
the registrations look like for future
events.”
Outreach, follow-up and admitted
students campaigns are essential to
colleges who aim to increase or maintain
their incoming class sizes. Catlin Peel,
associate director of marketing at
Public Affairs and Communications,
mentioned an email campaign where
current LC students reach out to talk
with prospective students and answer any questions they may have.
“We chose some students, some
seniors and juniors, to include their
photo and then also just have a quick
email that talks about like ‘I’m big on
going overseas. I went on two programs’
and ‘this is what Lewis & Clark can
offer’,” Peel said. “Having these emails
come from the students in their voice
(is better than) us just saying, ‘It’s cool
here, we promise.’”
Student ambassadors are tasked with helping prospective students
navigate tours and events. Ary Hashim
’20, an LC student leader within the
Admissions department, elaborated on
the role of student ambassadors.
“The student ambassadors serve
as, kind of, the gateway to the college
for prospective students,” Hashim
said.
According to Hashim the large
number of prospective students was
unexpected.
“I can only really speak to my
portion of the day’s events ... we were
all understaffed for that because we
weren’t expecting such big numbers,”
Hashim said. “But in the end, we
managed to accommodate every
student and I would argue that was the
case for the wider (group).”
Despite these increased numbers,
enrollment numbers for the next
academic year are not set in stone.
Until Decision Day, Admissions will not
know for certain which percentage of
applicants are committing to LC.
“Our target for enrolling first year
students this fall is 525 students,” Staab
said. “This is slightly higher than the
507 that matriculated this past fall, but
I don’t think this is a drastic increase
in enrollment.Important to remember,
however, is that we have no idea how
many students will matriculate this
coming fall until students respond by
the May 1 reply deadline. Until mid-
May, I will have no idea how large the
new class will be.”Admitted Students Day grows by 30% this year
Student Life supports
nightlife on campus
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A group of prospective students take a campus tour as part of Admitted Students Day, events and activities are planned later on.
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In the fall of 2019, the app was
released for beta testing within the LC
community. The beta was open to the
general public, though it required an
LC username to log in, and accessible
through Test Flight, a beta testing app.
“We used this previous fall to do
beta testing,” Baker said. “We sent out
test versions of the app, and then from
the stuff we gathered from those tests
we made a final
version over
winter break,
and we’re in full
deployment stage
right now.”
Throughout
the week of Feb.
10, a team of marketing staff worked
to promote the app to the general LC
community. Alex Barr ’21, the Bridge’s
social media manager (and a sports
editor for The Pioneer Log), created @
the_bridge_lc and has been following
members of the LC community and
posting to raise awareness about the
app. Several tabling events have been
held throughout the week as well,
including giveaways of yerba mate and
donuts in J.R. Howard and outside of
Fields Dining Hall.
Vinlove discussed the impact he
hopes the app will have on fellow students.
“I think why this is so cool and why
I’m so excited to share this with everyone
is that it’s very much a for students, by
students thing,” Vinlove said. “I think
we’re going to be able to bring something
unique to the table by saying, ‘We’re not
coming to you from the administration,
and we’re not coming to you from
some company. We’re helping you as
fellow students to have a better time on
campus.’”
Baker
described the
experience of
launching the app
and seeing fellow
students start to
use it.
“We were tabling and people would
come up, and we would say, ‘Have you
heard of the Bridge?’” Baker said. “And
they would answer, ‘Yes, I’m using it,’
and that was so amazing, because this
started as just talk.”
Akpovbovbo discussed how LC as a
community benefits student innovation.
“I know people say that Lewis &
Clark doesn’t have a lot of things,”
Akpovbovbo said. “But I think you can
decide to be like, ‘It doesn’t have a lot of
things, so I’m going to make this thing.’
With enough support, if you push for it,
you can do some really cool things.”Continued from pg. 1
According to The New York Times,
“The decision was a victory for critics
who said the question was part of
an administration effort to skew the
census results in favor of Republicans.”
The census data can be self-
reported online, by phone, on paper or
in-person. April 1 is used as a reference
day for the census, but self-response
begins March 12. The U.S. Census
Bureau will initiate “non-response
follow-ups” beginning in April, by
sending workers to addresses that have
not yet reported in. Follow-ups will
continue until July 24.
“(Enumerators are) going to get a
device, maybe a smartphone, maybe
a tablet — that’s where you’re going
to get all your assignments,” Beth
Federici, a recruiting assistant for the
2020 Census, said. “They’re going to
say, ‘Go here, these are the houses on
this street that people did not fill the
census out. You will bring (the census
up) on the tablet and ... they’ll answer
the questions.”
Historically, the census has faced
issues reaching certain communities.
Jon Coney is a partnership
specialist at the Census Bureau. He
and his team do outreach to various
communities — as part of this effort,
he gave a presentation on the effects of
the census and how to get involved on
Feb. 18.
“There’s some fear out there in a lot of Hispanic communities about what’s
going on in national politics right
now,” Coney said, also identifying a
problem in counting migrant laborers.
“People are moving around a lot, and
just not staying in one place.”
“Renters tend to be hard to count,”
Coney said. “They tend to be a little
bit more transitory, maybe not tied
to their community as much as a
homeowner is, for instance.”
Coney explained that language
barriers and several other obstacles
make gathering census data difficult.
“There’s a lot of fear of law
enforcement — immigration status and
that kind of thing,” Coney said. “To a
lot of people, a census worker showing
up is no different from an ICE agent
showing up or something like that.”
Coney explained that none of the
census data is tied to individuals when
reported.
“The information that the bureau
gathers is all only recorded in aggregate
form,” Coney said. “Only some of that
general (aggregate) information is
actually released publicly or made
available publicly or to other agencies,
etc. All the personally identifiable
information — your name, age, sex and
all that kind of stuff — is under lock
and key. That’s something that’s very,
very important — especially in today’s
world.”
Census records are confidential
until 72 years after each census day.LC students who live on campus
will not individually take the census.
College residence halls are classified as
“group quarters.”
“Someone from the Census Bureau
will come here to Lewis & Clark, talk
to the (head of Campus Living or the
dean of students). All of the families
and students have reported all of their
information to the college when they
enroll here ... and that information will
all be turned over in bulk, so you guys
don’t have to do anything at all.”Students living off campus will have
to respond themselves.
“Five notices will go to them to
invite them to respond and go online,”
Coney said. “And if they don’t, for
whatever reason, that’ll then get an
enumerator visit probably.”
Notices will only be sent to physical
addresses, not post office boxes.
Students living off-campus with P.O.
boxes will be required to self-report in
another manner, such as online or by
telephone.
Continued from pg. 1
Alumni who Detweiler-Bedell
networked with were enthusiastic
about the initiative’s potential.
Tess Gilbert ’08, who works in
epidemiologic and health services
research, expressed that she would
have been involved in the department
if it had existed during her time at LC.
“Being able to minor in Health
Studies and take classes like
epidemiology, which isn’t commonly
taught at the undergraduate level,
will set students up well for future
careers and schooling,” Gilbert said
via email. “It will help future health
care workers have more well-rounded
perspectives of ‘health’ and ‘health care.’”
Detweiler-Bedell clarified that the
minor is not only oriented towards
students looking to fulfill pre-med
requirements.
“This is more a minor for students
who are looking at health from an
... interdisciplinary perspective,”
Detweiler-Bedell said.
The curriculum committee voted
unanimously in favor of the minor,
but faculty have not yet approved it.
The curriculum committee formerly
introduced the initiative as a motion
on Feb. 3. The earliest it will be voted
on is in March. Until then, Detweiler-
Bedell will be available to answer
faculty and student questions.By MATTHEW FELDMAN
BEGINNING MARCH 19, SW
Boones Ferry Road will be
closed for an estimated seven
months between SW Comus Court and
SW Arnold Street, affecting vehicle,
bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The City
of Portland Environmental Services
will construct a bridge over Tryon
Creek, which currently runs under the
road via a culvert (a tunnel carrying a
stream or open drain under a road).
SW Boones Ferry Road is an
essential road for the Lewis & Clark
community and the local area. It is the
fastest way to get to certain areas of
Lake Oswego from campus, and many
students, staff and faculty who live off-
campus take SW Boones Ferry Road to
get to and from campus.
Conner Ayers ’20, an LC student
who regularly uses SW Boones Ferry
Road to commute to campus, says the
closure will be a challenge.
“Oh really?” Ayers said. “That’s
kind of annoying. It’ll add traffic. But
I’ll get to listen to more podcasts.”
According to the City of Portland’s
website, the current culvert cannot
handle large flows of water, which
is detrimental to fish and wildlife
that live in and around Tryon Creek.
Additionally, the culvert does not allow
sufficient access to fish. During the
construction, efforts to reduce erosion
and improve wildlife habitat will also be undertaken. The bridge will include
a trail parallel to the creek.
The culvert is currently one of two
major barriers to fish that exist on
Tryon Creek. Currently, there are plans
to replace the other culvert, located
under Highway 43, with a bridge
as well. This would open up Tryon
Creek to endangered Willamette River
salmon and steelhead.
Mike Jordan, the environmental
services director for the City of
Portland, commented on the project.
“The culvert was a barrier, the
bridge will be a connector,” Jordan
said on the City of Portland website.
“Instead of squeezing the creek into
a dark corrugated pipe, the bridge
will allow one of Portland’s healthiest
streams to flow freely, unlocking
upstream and downstream habitat for
fish. For people and wildlife, the trail
alongside the creek will create a safe
pathway that connects to Southwest
Portland’s extensive trail network.”
A detour is being set up by the
City of Portland (see map), which
will utilize SW Taylors Ferry Road,
SW Stephenson Street and SW
35th Avenue. The detour adds
approximately 10 minutes driving time
to campus. However, this estimate
does not include the likely increased
traffic on the detour due to the traffic.
Portland Bureau of Transportation will
be monitoring the detour to make sure
no traffic issues occur.Census comes to campus, offers
jobs, information to LC students
WILL TOPPIN/PIONEER LOG
A census employee hands out informational flyers about the census on campus.
JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
Detweiler-Bedell, head of health minor.New Health Studies minor will
promote well-rounded perspectives
SW Boones Ferry Rd
to close for construction
COURTESY OF CITY OF PORTLAND
A map showing the upcoming road closure, and the detour suggested by the city.Bridge app facilitates
student participation
“It’s very much a for the
students, by the students
thing.”
Quinn Vinlove ’21FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
OPINION 4
A note of gratitude to Senator Mitt Romney
A thank you to the senator who made history by voting against party lines and on the right side of history
By BELLA MET
IF YOU WERE to tell me anytime
between 2012 and 2016 that I
would be writing an article thanking
Senator Mitt Romney for his courage,
I would have called you insane. As I
am a staunch liberal, Republican Mitt
Romney is a symbol of all that I disagree
with politically. I would never vote for
him because we differ so strongly on
fundamental beliefs. However, I can now
say in 2020 that I agree with him on two
things: President Trump is unlikeable,
and he has committed crimes that warrant
impeachment.
Ever since watching Romney’s
interview with Jimmy Kimmel back
in March of 2016, I knew that he was
someone to pay attention to in a country
divided by politics. He gave witty remarks
like, “Got zero? Got zero. The only people
who got zero are the ones who paid 25
grand to be at Trump University.” This
individual greatly contrasted the bland
2012 presidential nominee I remember.
Instead, I saw a man I could admire
because he was a Republican speaking out
against Trump.
Even after this, I still felt conflicted
about the concept of agreeing with him.
Romney does not support a woman’s full
right to choice. He did not vote to have a
constitutional ban on same-sex marriage,
but has stated that he believes marriage
is an act between a man and a woman.
These are only a few of his political stances
that I disagree with. Personal values are
incredibly relevant because they play a
large role in how we express ourselves
politically. Yet circumstances like the
impeachment should be apolitical, as they are about the core of what is right and
wrong in America.
As impeachment and the election of
2020 have been underway my mind has
been returning to Romney. Although I
thought it would never happen, I had a
strange fantasy that he would run against
Trump. I was hoping for a dash of drama
in a party that is boiling over in delusion.
Little did I know that he would go against
the party, not by running for president,
but by speaking out in something far
more historic: the impeachment trial of
President Trump.
On Feb. 5, Romney gave a speech that
moved many to tears. He stated that he
would be the lone voter of his party to vote
against the president in the impeachment
proceedings. He said, “With my vote, I
will tell my children and their children
that I did my duty to the best of my ability.
Believing that my country expected it of
me. I will only be one name among many.
No more, no less. To future generations
of Americans who’ll look at the record
for this trial. They will note merely that I
was among the senators who determined
that what the president did was wrong.
Grievously wrong.”
Politicians often spew out nonsense
people wish to hear so that they will be
voted for. What Romney declared was
truth in spoken word and action. No
matter where I disagree with the senator,
his action cannot be downplayed. He
elected to vote based on his morals,
rather than playing it safe to secure his
re-election. He voted in favor of what will
be seen as the right side of history. He
voted for justice, and this aspiring lawyer
is relieved that someone in the Republican
party still believes in the true rule of law.
Naturalism: ushering in a radical new era for the world
By GABE KORER
THE ORGAN PIPE National
Monument, which contains
indigenous burial sites and
historically important areas, is under
threat from Trump’s border wall.
Located in the heart of the Sonoran
Desert in Arizona, the monument has
long been a conservatory of sensitive
wildlife habitats and plant-based
ecosystems. Environmental laws were
put in place after its establishment in
1937 to ensure its continued survival
and success, and since then, it has
been a staple of sustainability for the
Southwest.
The current administration has
decided to disrupt that sentiment by
putting policies in place that directly
interfere with it, undermining the
significance of protected areas
all across the U.S. in the process.
Multiple safeguards had previously
been instituted to ensure that the
Organ Pipe National Monument
would exist apart from destructive
human influence, though in retrospect
it is evident that those safeguards were
more symbolic than proponents may
have realized.
This circumstance is indicative
of an overall failure of “naturalist
measures”-measures, whether legal or
rhetorical, concerned with protecting
the natural world. It is clear that a
greater force is necessary to save the
environment from human expansion
and capitalism. Ideally, the force
would be swift yet deliberate, infallible
and all-encompassing. No, I am not talking about divine
providence. Rather, I bring tidings
of a new kind of providence, one that
functions as a sort of leech on the mind,
replacing that which is humanist with
that which is opposed to consumption.
What I speak of is called naturalism.
Naturalism is a philosophy that can be juxtaposed with solipsism, in
which the only real thing is that which
exists in the mind. Naturalism, on the
other hand, believes in the natural
world as the sole source of reality.
It is a common psychoanalytic
understanding that a sense of reality
is of great significance to the human individual. Without it, they can not
hope to exist at all. Instead, they would
be resigned to a liminal state; neither
here nor there, nor really belonging
anywhere. Thus, the human individual
protects their sense of reality at all
costs, recognizing that its absence
would result in a living incubus impossible to escape from.
With that said, the human
individual goes further than mere
protection of their reality. They will
often attempt to enhance it as well,
going so far as to base their entire
life on that one goal. It makes sense
considering that their reality is,
essentially, the only thing that they
know to be true. Why not try to make
it better?
This aspect of human nature has
the unbridled potential to completely
change humankind’s relationship with
the environment. If the fundamentals
of naturalism were to be instilled
in each person-so that their reality
became attuned to it-people would
start to conduct themselves as if the
natural world actually mattered.
Many people today have a distorted
sense of reality (centered around
money, drugs, sex, etc.), which makes
the switch to naturalistic ideals that
much more crucial. The hope is that, by
doing so, we can rid the natural world
of borders and harbor in a new era
of sustainability, values, and change.
Valuable, eco-friendly places such as
the Organ Pipe National Monument
are the areas that would directly stand
to benefit.
The failure of Trump’s Border Wall
to respect the monument is just one
component of a flawed mindset that
places political gain above the natural
world. Only by embracing a mindset of
conservation through limitation can
we curb the disease that afflicts the
environment: humanity.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
OPINION 5
By ALEX BARR
I AM WHAT YOU might call a “bad”
Christian. I drink, swear and take
the Lord’s name in vain so often
you might think He was a close friend.
According to the Old Testament, many of
my extracurriculars would swiftly chuck
me into the fiery pits below. Yet, I have
faith that I am unconditionally saved.
My grandfather was the head minister
at a Presbyterian church for 22 years,
but I rarely attended services when I was
younger. Although I did not meet God
underneath the colored lights of stained
glass windows, I still loved and knew Him
well. I saw God in nature and sunlight, in
the smiles of strangers and in the stories
of loved ones. But where I first saw God
clearly was in my mom’s Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) meetings.
I was a seasoned member of AA
meetings by the time I was 10, even
though I had never had a drink. The
smoke filled clubhouse looked more
like an office space than a church. It was
eclectically decorated, mismatched chairs
and couches left by members throughout
the years. I would sit at a folding table
and color while the recovering addicts
discussed their tragedies and triumphs
of the week. The meetings ended with the
Lord’s prayer, which I would always join. I
laugh at this now. I am the granddaughter
of a well-known minister, but I learned my first prayer through sinners.
When I tell Lewis & Clark students that
I am Christian, I see a flash of fear in their
eyes. Unfortunately, Christians have used
faith as an instrument to spread their own
hate. Despite our shared faith, I myself
was ostracized by the “good” Christians
who knew all of the biblical stories, went
to church camp and put “WWJD” (what
would Jesus do) in their Instagram bio.
Thankfully, for me especially, Jesus does
not care about how many times you go to
church or how many times you take His
name in vain. Unconditional love is not
something you can earn. If you could, it
would cheapen it. His love is given freely,
and there is nothing we can do to earn it
or lose it. Avoiding sin is not a law, simply
advice for living a better life. You cannot
win the title “Christian,” and anyone who
tells you otherwise is misguided.
I believe a lot of LC students would
agree with Jesus’ teachings. Jesus was
a fighter for socialism and a protester
against oppression, especially oppression
of women. Jesus often pointed to women
as models of faith. He protected and
praised adulterous women, sex workers
and poor women. Jesus fought for class
equality. In Matthew 19:24, He said, “It
is easier for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God.” There are so
many stories about Jesus confronting
corrupt rulers that I cannot even think of a specific one to list.
My favorite bible verse, 1 John 4:18
says, “There is no fear in love, but perfect
love casts out fear. For fear has to do
with punishment, and whoever fears
has not been perfected in love.” Jesus is
radically loving, not judging. I know that
I am an imperfect and flawed sinner, but
I also know that I am saved, and nothing
can take that away from me. I know
Christianity has been used to spread
hate, and I see how so many have been
ostracized by Christians for living as they
were created (Jeremiah 1:5). However,
this was done by Christians, not Christ. I
was introduced to Jesus by the ones most
deserving of his message: sinners (Mark
2:17, Luke 7:47). Every Christian is a
sinner, and there is nothing we can do to
change that. We can, however, spread the
love and message of Jesus, to give peace
and hope to others. That is what I want to
do on our campus.
I know many will not agree with me,
nor would I want that. Spirituality is like
a cube with different colored faces. From
my perspective, I see green, but another
person may see purple. It is especially
important on a campus such as LC to
foster a culture of openness and extend
that courtesy to Christianity. Simply
sweeping the whole religion aside seems
to be against the very values that are at
the core of LC: respect, compassion and
expanding our boundaries.How I found Jesus in the company of sinners
LIV NICKS-TURNEY/PIONEER LOG
By ERIKA ANDERSON
ON FEB 3., caucus-goers across the
state of Iowa made a decision that
could determine the outcome of
the Democratic primary. At least that
is what history tells us. In every caucus
since 1992, the Democratic winner has
gone on to secure the party’s nomination.
The results of the caucuses can usually
show who is going to rise to the top, but
in this instance, voters are more unsure
about the process than ever.
On Monday night, people across the
nation settled in and waited for results
to roll in. To everyone’s surprise, the
results would not be released until the
following day, with Democratic Party
officials citing problems with an app used
to count the choices of caucus-goers. The
app, developed by Shadow Incorporated,
was said to have been inadequately tested
before it was used during the caucuses.
An extensive recounting process took
place, but failed to clarify what really
happened and who truly won. As of now,
Pete Buttigieg has been declared the
winner, with 26.2% of the vote and 13
delegates. In an extremely close second
was Bernie Sanders, with 26.1% of the
vote and receiving 12 delegates.
Despite these being the official
delegate counts, many people have
expressed their doubt with the validity
of the results. The Associated Press has
said that it is unable to declare a winner
and one look at social media will present
numerous suspicions about Buttigieg’s
victory. It is safe to say that this
experience highlighted the numerous
problems that I and many people have
with the caucus process.
My primary issue with the Iowa
Caucus is the concept of caucusing
itself. Caucusing is an outdated,
inefficient and inherently problematic
way of determining the popularity of
various candidates. A caucus involves
members of a community congregating
at a community center like a gymnasium.
Caucus-goers will go to a corner that
represents their favored candidate.
In order to be considered viable, the
candidate must have at least 15% of
participants in their corner. If their
first pick does not reach this viability threshold, the voters must go to the
corner of their second choice. After the
re-caucusing process, the number of
participants in each area is counted.
As one can tell from this description,
the caucus process can take hours from a
citizen’s day. The time commitment of a
caucus has the potential to exclude many
eligible participants, especially those
who work lengthy hours and those with
children. The New Hampshire primary
that occurred Feb. 11 demonstrated
that there is a way to determine voters’
candidate preferences while still being
time efficient. The results of the primary
were relayed shortly after the polls
closed.
I also took issue with the use of an
app to tally results. There has been a lot
of speculation about the motivations of
the app developers and their connections
to the Buttigieg campaign. The Buttigieg
campaign reportedly paid the company
$42,500 for their texting services. A
founder of the corporation that created
Shadow Inc. is married to a senior
strategist on the Buttigieg campaign.
These connections are concerning, and
while I am not saying they changed the
results to give Buttigieg an advantage,
they are still important to note. Apart
from this, the app complicated the
process even more because of its
shortcomings in reporting the results.
The final qualm I have will the Iowa
Caucus is its lack of representation. The
United States Census Bureau reports that
Iowa is approximately 90.7% white. A
Gallup Poll suggests that the Democratic
Party is about 60% white. Iowa simply
does not contain the demographic
diversity needed for adequate
representation. The Iowa Caucus holds
so much significance when determining
the Democratic nominee, but because
of its lack of diversity it cannot be a true
representation of the party as a whole.
This year’s Iowa Caucus highlighted
why caucusing is so problematic. It is
a long process that has a difficult time
yielding significant results. An alternative
to this could be switching exclusively to
primaries in key states, or updating the
way caucus results are counted. If this
moment taught us anything, it is that
something has to change.
By GABE KORER
IN AUGUST 2019, a social media
account that advocated for
open-carry weapon policies on
Lewis & Clark’s campus was created.
While this account was admittedly
made in jest, it seems pertinent to
give a response. The initial
impulse for some might
be to dismiss the notion of
an open-carry campus as
merely a politicized talking
point, but it remains a
legitimate argument that has
been made in a variety of
different settings, including
state legislatures and online
forums.
In this instance, the central
argument gun rights advocates
would likely make is that not having
an open-carry campus infringes on
the rights guaranteed by the Second
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
as well as the commitment LC has
made toward keeping the student
body safe. There are a couple of
relevant counterpoints here.
First, LC is not a publicly-
funded institution. Rather, it is a
private institution, which means
that the executive or ruling body
can determine its own set of rules
in regard to safety. The Second
Amendment exists as a protective
instrument of the state, which
primarily operates as a public
resource; when a citizen resides
within the private sphere, it is
the surrounding institutions’
responsibility to ensure the safety of
the citizen.
Additionally, the legal validity of
a measure depends on precedence
and necessity. There is little
precedence when it comes to
enforcing open-carry policies on
educational institutions, particularly
private ones. The fact remains that,
historically speaking, entities like
LC have been free to regulate their
security affairs without government
intervention.
In terms of necessity, I would
argue that a lack of conceivable
threats makes the need for an open-
carry policy difficult to discern.
Violent crimes, especially those
involving weapons, rarely happen
on campus or in the surrounding
neighborhood. Suffice it to say, on-
campus cougars present the greatest
threat to the LC community at the
present moment.
LC has also effectively fulfilled its safety commitment to the student
body already. Data indicates that
threats of a violent nature are
seldom found on campus, making
the presence of weaponry pointless.
On the off chance that one was to
arise, LC employs a campus police
force that are equipped to deal with
the emergence of a threat.
Moreover, it is conceivable that
implementing an open-carry policy
runs the risk of degrading the very
area it seeks to enhance: security.
Not only would armed students and teachers give LC campus police an
added, unnecessary worry, but it
could also lead directly to violence.
It is logical that when you allow
someone to have something, the
odds of them using it increase
substantially; when it comes to
firearms, this is exactly what people
do not want.
Irrespective of how you
personally feel about this
issue, it is important that
we collectively address it
as a community through
civil discourse. The open-
carry social media account,
though satirical in nature,
represents the emergence
of a running dialogue that
will make progress toward reaching
common ground between open-
carry advocates and dissenters. Gun
control is a multi-faceted topic with
many sides to discuss; let’s make
sure that we cover them all. Open-carry policies on campuses
offer little safety or practicality
RAYA DEUSSEN/PIONEER LOGNot only would armed students and
teachers give LC campus police an
added, unnecessary worry, but it
could also lead directly to violence.Satirical Instagram account sparks concern over open-carry
LIV NICKS-TURNEY/PIONEER LOGIowa Caucuses proves
system is inefficientFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
FEATURES 6
E&D colloquium series concludes with musical finale
By VENUS EDLIN
LEWIS & CLARK invited the
Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) to
perform at the final Exploration &
Discovery (E&D) Colloquium “Sounds
Without Borders” on Feb. 12.
The ASQ, comprised of Zakarias
Grafilo as first violin, Frederick Lifsitz as
second violin, Paul Yarbrough on viola
and Sandy Wilson on cello, is a world-
renowned group that started in 1981.
The ASQ frequently plays at student
events and has visited LC as guests in
music classes in the past.
This is the only colloquium, or
academic seminar, that has featured live
music, which was something Director of
E&D and Professor of Music Eleonora
Beck felt passionate about including.
Next year, E&D will be replaced by
Words and Numbers.
“This is E&D’s last hurrah, and so
we wanted a party atmosphere,” Beck
said. “I wanted to celebrate, and I’m a
musician, so what I celebrate most with
is music.”
Though the program centered around
music, Beck hoped that all first-years got
something out of the experience. She
encourages students who may not be
musically oriented to challenge how they
think about music.
“I would like (the students) to
understand the hard work that goes into
being a professional musician,” Beck
said. “I don’t think a lot of students these
days get the opportunity to say they want
to be an artist, a musician.”
The quartet kept in mind that not
all students are involved in music. To
supplement the different movements,
or isolated parts of a musical piece,
the quartet guided the audience with
questions to provoke thought. They also
provided background information about
the composers and pieces played.
Liftsitz said that communicating
with students is a vital aspect of their
performance.
“We as musicians aim to be accessible
to (students),” Liftsitz said. “We want to
let them know we’re there as a resource.”
To open the program, the ASQ discussed the theme “Sounds Without
Borders,” mentioning that all of the
pieces they played were written by
composers influenced by cultures
other than their own. The group told
the crowd they wanted to inspire the
younger generation to “make bridges,
not walls.” They played movements from
four different composers and, due to
extra time, played some selections from
Mozart.
Leo Bernstein Newman ’23 is in
Associate Professor of History Susan
Glosser’s E&D, “The Asian American
experience” and views the colloquium
as an opportunity to challenge himself
to think from a different cultural
perspective through music. He finds
this not only useful for his particular
E&D class, but for studying history and
modern-day culture in general.
“A lot of modern American history
is really about globalization as a result
of imperial strength and the waves of
immigration that come subsequently,”
Bernstein Newman said. “A lot of the
music we heard reflected that same
historical pattern.”
The ASQ opened with the first
movement from French composer
Maurice Ravel’s “String Quartet in F
Major.” The composer was inspired by
Balinese Gamelan music.
Liftsitz said that this was Ravel’s
only string quartet and that it marked
a historical event as it was played at the
opening of the Eiffel Tower in 1887.
“People came from all over the
French-speaking imperial world to first
experience high quality rhythmic and
colorful music,” Liftsitz said.
The second piece was composed
by Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi
in 2017. “Daughters of Sol” is strongly
influenced by Farsi poetry, as well as by
musicians like Ravel and others from
Holland, where Darvishi has spent a lot
of her life. This was the first time the
ASQ played this piece.
Darvishi’s piece stuck out to
Bernstein Newman, who is a musician
himself.
“The way she employed dissonance
in the notes ... I was trying to understand why there’s so much friction when
everything sounded, and everything
appeared to be one note,” Bernstein
Newman said.
The quartet then moved on to play
the second movement from “String
Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94” from
English composer Benjamin Britton.
This piece has Russian, Hungarian and
Bulgarian influences. It was composed
a few weeks before Britton died in 1976.
The last planned piece was the
fourth movement from Czech composer
Antonin Dvorak’s “String Quartet No.
12 in F major, Op. 96.” Dvorak moved
to New York with his wife to be part of a
conservatory after spending the majority of his life in Prague.
Dvorak was inspired by Native
American traditional music and African
American spirituals while living in the
U.S., both of which were influences on
the piece that the ASQ played. The piece
is also nicknamed “The American.”
This piece also interested Bernstein
Newman.
“It was this really strange,
otherworldly blend of Czech classical
music, which sounds like itself was
heavily folk influenced, and American
music of the early 1880s,” Bernstein
Newman said. “It’s amazing he was able
to capture early Ragtime modalities in
the music.”The performers were impressed
by LC students’ engagement with the
program.
“LC students are receptive and not
afraid to discuss and add on to what we
think of as a conversation, rather than a
lecture,” Liftsitz said.
This was the desired effect Beck
wanted the event to have, calling it her
“swan song.” In her eyes, it was a fitting
way to close the E&D program in a way
that centers around the musical aspect of
the liberal arts curriculum.
“This is just a culmination of a lot of
hard work and dedication,” Beck said.
“I’m very happy about it as we move
forward.”The Alexander String Quartet performed for the final E&D colloquium, “Sounds Without Borders”
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Members of the Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) perform in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel for the final E&D colloquium of the year.A celebration of all things moss: a symposium
By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE NATURAL History Club’s
second annual symposium
about moss biology, fondly
referred to as Moss Appreciation
Week, kicked off on Feb. 9. This year,
the symposium included workshops, a
moss petting zoo, a keynote lecture and
the opportunity for attendees to meet
a tardigrade, a micro-animal found in
moss known colloquially as the “water
bear.” Alongside all of these events,
a moss portrait contest encouraged
interaction and participation between
students and faculty.
The week began with a moss
identification workshop led by
Portland State University’s Herbarium
Manager John Christy. He delivered
an hour long presentation, followed
by a chance to look at micro-animals
Christy had caught from his own
moss samples. Chemistry major Ellie
Draves ’20 attended the workshop.
“I have gone to some of their
workshops in the past that have been
less moss related, however I love
mycology (the study of mushrooms),
and this seemed like a cool tangent off
of that, so I decided to give this a try,”
Draves said. “It is always fun to do
something that’s sort of related to your
major in STEM but also very different
and something that I wouldn’t be able
to study because I don’t have room in
my schedule to take a bunch of classes
about natural history.”
Along with its workshops and
keynote lecture, the Natural History
Club held a pop-up moss petting zoo
on the second floor of the Watzek. 19
different species of moss were present.
Alongside note cards displaying
their scientific names, there were magnifying glasses to better explore
these furry non-vascular plants. In
addition to petting, attendees were
able to pick up a few moss week and
Natural History Club stickers.
Unlike last year, moss identification
was not the only moss week workshop.
On Feb. 11, a macro-photography
workshop merged STEM fields with
the arts. Educational Technology
Specialist Justin Counts led this workshop. Alex Olson ’20 and Hannah
Machiorlete ’20, both biology majors,
were studying abroad for the first time
the Natural History Club put on moss
week. This did not stop them from
becoming co-organizers this year.
“This is one of the first natural
history symposiums Lewis & Clark
has ever had,” Machiorlete said. “The
biology department doesn’t really
put on symposia. They have a biology seminar, but that’s about the extent of
the celebration.”
The Natural History Club has
similar events like a plant pressing
workshop but none that are as
intensive and thorough as moss week.
“There is more of an artistic
extension in the program this year
because last year only included the
identification workshop and the
keynote lecture,” Olson said. “We were able to make this happen through the
connections we have made as curators
of the natural history collection or as
members of the natural history club.”
Two days after the macro-
photography workshop, Sophie
Dimont ’20, a biology major hosted
the tardigrade meet-and-greet.
Attendees saw these extremophilic
invertebrates through microscopes
that were set up in the Watzek Library
Classroom. Following the meeting,
Professor of Biology Bianca Breland
delivered a keynote lecture focusing
on moss’s proximity to the base of the
phylogenetic tree.
“It has been such a treat to connect
with the community in so many
different ways like the moss petting
zoo,” Olson said. “I think we reached a
lot of people with moss that wouldn’t
normally have been exposed to this
kind of information. I would love to
see moss week continue after I leave.”
Since both Olson and Machiolete
are seniors, moss week requires new
leadership if it is to continue next
year.
“I would love to see some event
looking at the ethnobotanical uses of
moss,” Machiolete said. “I think there
is a deficit in (the) cultural knowledge
of plants. At Lewis & Clark, I think
there would be a lot of people who
would be interested in that.”
The Natural History Club will be
putting on a weekend-long scientific
illustration workshop led by a
scientific illustrator this March. Along
with a plant pressing workshop, the
club will also soon start to host regular
meetings that community members
are welcome to attend. Those
interested in joining or learning more
can email the Natural History Club at
naturalhistoryclub@lclark.edu.LC’s student-run Natural History Club brings moss experts and microscopic organisms to campus
GABRIEL MANTIONE-HOLMES/PIONEER LOG
Professors and student alike observe and inspect various specimens during the moss identification workshop in Watzek Library.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
FEATURES 7
BY AIDAN D’ANNA
ON FEB . 11 a small group of
students gathered under
the string lights of the
Multicultural Resource Center
(MRC) in Templeton to discuss
health inequity at Lewis & Clark and
in the world. This was the second
workshop in a series put on by the
Office of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Wokeshop Series.
Luca Sax ’22 is one of the IME’s
peer educators who helped design
and facilitate the Wokeshops.
“We can pick whatever topic is
interesting to us, and (one that) we
think our community needs to have
more of a conversation around ... it’s
a discussion space, but also a space to
share resources and get involved on
campus,” Sax said.
The Wokeshop began with a brief
icebreaker, orienting people to the
space and the topic to ensure that
everyone was comfortable and willing
to speak freely. Sax then handed
out worksheets to the participants,
and asked them an open-ended
question: what does health mean to
you? Participants were given a few
minutes to collect their thoughts, and
then the conversation began to flow.
Sheyla Dorantes ’22, another
IME peer educator, was the first
person to share their thoughts on the
complexities of health.
“To me ... physical health just
means not being sick ... but mental
health is different,” Dorantes said.
“There are more factors.”
This led to a discussion of not
just what health is, but the factors
that informed each person’s answers.
Upbringing played a large role in
many answers. Participants talked
about how some households have a more medically conservative mindset
where you can only go to the doctor if
you absolutely need it, while in some
families doctor visits are far more frequent.
Subsequently, the group began
discussing inequity in healthcare
across the country. The group covered the issues of lack of LGBTQ+
representation in school sexual
education classes, the dominance of
white men in healthcare professions and the dismissal of Eastern
(“alternative”) medicine. Dorantes
said that capitalism contributes
to “poor people diseases” such as
diabetes by driving prices for healthy
foods up and unhealthy foods down.
For the second half of the
Wokeshop, Sax and Dorantes turned
the conversation to health education
specifically at LC.
“We felt like there wasn’t much
of a discussion going on around
(health disparities and intersectional
identities) on this campus, and
we wanted to bring that topic up
again and provide space for people
to exchange how they engage with
health in their personal lives,” Sax
said.
The group discussed mental
health on campus, LC’s Pioneer
Success Institute “Sexual Health and
Wellness” section and shortcomings
of the LC Counseling Center.
“The counseling or health centers
have the potential to help students
but are either not staffed, funded or
advertised well enough to make them
as useful as they can be,” Sax said.
Sax then asked participants to
share one thing they do every day
to maintain their health as a way to
conclude the Wokeshop. Participants
brought up everything from UV light
to playing music and singing along.
“I hope that the students who
come to our Wokeshops gain a
sense of confidence, validation and
community ... to know that there
are other students who share the
same experience or sentiment as you
can mean so much for a minoritized
student who thought they were
alone,” Dorantes said via email.
IME’s next Wokeshop is on Feb.
25 in the MRC and is entitled “Post-
Black Art in Racialized America.”
BY WILL TOPPIN
OVER ITS 153 year tenure as
an institution, Lewis & Clark
College has had a grand total of
26 presidents, interim presidents and
acting presidents. Some of their names
are likely familiar to current students, as
they live on in the names of buildings on
campus: for example Morgan S. Odell
of Odell dormitory and Rev. William J.
Monteith of the Monteith meeting room
in Templeton, named for the College’s
first president. (The Odell dormitory
was actually named for the college’s
then-first lady, Ruth Odell.)
Rev. William J. Monteith was
Albany College’s first president, serving
a one-year term from 1867 to 1868.
(Albany College was renamed to Lewis
& Clark College in 1942 when it moved
to its current campus on the Fir Acres
estate.) The institution was originally
founded on land gifted by Monteith’s
brother. The college was established
through a partnership of Linn County
and the Presbytery of Oregon, under
the direction of Monteith and another
pastor. Monteith’s term was short: he
resigned during the next summer so he
could dedicate himself to being a pastor
at the Albany Presbyterian Church.
Wallace Howe Lee was president
from 1895 to 1905, and again from
1915 to 1920. Lee worked as an English
professor, a professor of Ancient and
Modern Languages, the director of the
music and the president of the college
over his many years at the school.
During his first nineteen years, he
was heavily involved with local choir
programs.
At the time, the institution was
working to pay off the debt from the
mortgage on its property, so Lee’s
salary was reduced to whatever was left
in the budget after all other salaries and
expenses were paid. Due to the tight
budget, Lee taught all of the college
classes with three assistants, and
some at the academy (which fed into
the college). The college also offered scholarships for the first time under
Lee’s presidency. Lee himself chose
students worthy of aid, and paid for
their scholarships out of his own salary.
In 1905, Lee resigned, going on
to spend six years as an assistant
pastor at Seattle’s First Presbyterian
Church, and then three years as the
Dean of Whitworth College. In 1914,
he returned to LC for another 22 years,
“during which time he occupied every
administrative position,” according to
the LC Archives. He taught classes on
literature, education and religion and
remained a large influence on campus
musical life.
President Morgan S. Odell served
from 1942 to 1960. His term began at a
critical juncture: the college’s transition
to Fir Acres Estates in 1942. Odell had
served in the Italian Army during WWI
and had earned his doctorate from the
Divinity School of the University of
Chicago. Odell met with Aaron Frank,
the man who sold Fir Acre Estates to
LC, while he was being considered as
a candidate. “Aaron Frank advised the
trustees, ‘He is your man. Don’t let
him get away from us. We need him in
Portland,’” according to LC Archives.
After a stall in his selection due to
the start of WWII, Odell was officially
invited to the presidency. Under his
leadership, the college prospered in its
new location. In 1943, Odell reported,
“The college is better off financially
than it has been for twenty years. The
new campus is debt-free. With growing
church and individual support, we can
carry on through the present academic
year, without undue financial strain,”
according to LC Archives.
Odell retired in 1960, after an
accomplished career as president. He
was much beloved by students.
“To the students, Dr. Odell is the
fortress of decision; to the faculty, he is
the citadel of resolution,” Ann Granning
at the Pioneer Log said in 1952. “He does
not walk or talk or act like a man placed
high above others, but as a man placed
among others to work with them.”BY TOBY BAZELEY
UPON WALKING into Fields
Dining Hall, one of the first
things you might see is a
sign advertising Bon Appétit’s food
donation partnership with Urban
Gleaners, a food donation and
assistance non-profit. A similar sign
can be found at the dish bin, and
the program is promoted on their
website.
Although a 2018 Pioneer Log
article revealed that Bon Appétit had
not consistently donated food for
the previous two years, the donation
system has now been restored.
According to Ryan Jensen, the Bon
Appétit general manager at Lewis &
Clark, the program was restarted the
day the article was published. Jensen
said he had left to work at another
college in the area during the period
that the “gleaning,” their term for
collecting and donating food, had
stopped.
“When I left, we were gleaning,”
Jensen said. “And when I came back
... I was not aware until
that news article
came out at the
end of that
week that
it had been
disrupted.
So we were
on the phone,
by eight
o’clock in the
morning ...
and got (Urban
Gleaners) set back
up to come back
out.”
Jensen said he was
disappointed to find out
about the lack of gleaning
when he returned, and he said
Bon Appétit tries to waste as little
food as possible. “We try to minimize the food
that we donate,” Jensen said, “not
because we don’t want to donate
food, but we would like to not have
the waste in the first place so we can
put those resources back into the
food programs for our guests.”
Cas Mulford ’23, a student worker
at Fields Dining Hall, confirmed that
workers donate food, but pointed
out that there are limitations on how
much is donated.
“We have a system to donate
the food, but it doesn’t always get
donated,” Mulford said. “Right now,
how it works is we have one cart that
we reserve just for Urban Gleaners
food, and once that cart is full we
can’t donate anymore beyond that, so
we just compost (the rest).”
Mulford said that there are
limitations as to what Urban Gleaners
will accept, such as food from the
salad bar can not be donated, but
proteins can. Jensen mentioned these
same limitations. Mulford also said
that how much gets sorted on a given
night can depend on how strict the
managers are, but that gleaning is
something that is emphasized
to workers.“When I was trained they put a
pretty heavy emphasis on it,” Mulford
said.
Despite the limitations on what
can be donated, Clare Stager,
Program Director at Urban Gleaners,
stated that Bon Appétit at LC was
one of the non-profit’s largest food
donors in 2019.
“We pick up a giant amount
of food from them every Tuesday
morning, and I actually just pulled
up the weight ... from 2019,” Stager
said. “It’s 27,716 pounds (12,571
kilograms).”
According to Urban Gleaners,
approximately one in five children in
the state of Oregon are food insecure,
and their mission is to help feed those
children and low-income families.
The non-profit sets up markets at
elementary schools where families
can take food when picking up their
kids.
“We’re getting all the food from
your cafeterias,” Stager said. “And
then we repackage (it) into meals
for what we like to say is a family
of four, approximately, and then
we redistribute all that food to low-
income families and kids.” IME “Wokeshop” discusses health inequity
Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement sponsors dialogue around inequality on campus
Historic LC: timeline
of three LC Presidents Bon Appétit restarts food donation
program after unplanned hiatusAIDAN D’ANNA/PIONEER LOG
Students gather in the Multicultural Resource Center to discuss inequities in mental and physical health on campus.
ADA BARBEE/PIONEER LOGUrban Gleaners collects 14 tons of food from LC annuallyFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS 8
Japanese Garden honors Hiroshima victims
New exhibition features photographs of artifacts donated by families of those killed in WWII bombing
By HANNA MERZBACH
IN COMMEMORATION of the 75th
anniversary of the end of WWII,
the Portland Japanese Garden is
recognizing 2020 as the “Year of Peace.”
The garden has started the year with
an exhibit called “Spirits Rising: ひろ
しま / hiroshima” by Ishiuchi Miyako,
open from Jan. 18 until March 15 in
the Pavilion and Tanabe Galleries. The
exhibit features photos of items and
clothing left behind by the victims of the
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at
the close of WWII.
The artifacts themselves are
all housed in the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum, which receives
donations and artifacts from the family
members of those that died. The
museum invited Miyako to document
the items, after seeing her photography
series documenting her late mother’s
belongings. After her mother died in
2000, Miyako took pictures of her
mother’s possessions, like her lingerie
and lipsticks, as a means of coping with
the death.
Like her “Mother’s” series, Miyako’s
Hiroshima seeks to connect the past
and present, focusing on memorializing
the human touch. According to Lead
Gallery Attendant Mona Ozaki, prior to
Miyako, mostly men had documented
the Hiroshima artifacts, taking photos in
black and white in a forensic-like style.
Ozaki described how Miyako’s style
differed from this.
“When she went in and started
interacting with the items, she began
to feel a sense of the spirit of the people
and wanted to convey that,” Ozaki said.
“So she is working in color, and she’s working in this large format.”
Many of the pieces — like a photo
of a women’s dress and a tarnished
blouse — are near life-size. Yet unlike
most exhibits, the pieces do not have
descriptions. According to the gallery
attendants, Miyako wanted viewers to
focus less on reading descriptions and
more on connecting with the items and
the people who wore them.
Julia Marshall, the other lead gallery
attendant, further described Miyako’s
intent behind not including descriptors.
“The artist wanted everything to be
left to interpretation,” Marshall said.
“In the Hiroshima Peace Memorial,
there are the artifacts and then there are
descriptions, and is a very documentary-
like approach. (Miyako) didn’t want
that. She wanted these artifacts to be
recognized as they were, not just for
their history, but as beautiful items of
clothing and accessories because each of
those items touched human skin.”
The photographs are laid out
asymmetrically within the gallery.
Marshall explained that Miyako wanted
to give an illusion of the Hiroshima
spirits being present in the gallery
through this dynamic arrangement.
“So as you can see, they’re all
floating,” she said. “So in a way, they’re
all moving. Even the way they’re laid out,
shows movement with all the folds and
wrinkles and clothing ... that’s why some
photographs are higher than the other,
and then some of these are also lit from
a lightbox or shot on top of a lightbox, to
show the intricacy of the textiles.”
The doors of the Pavilion Gallery, the
main location of the exhibit, are open
behind some of the photographs to give
an impression of a spiritual glow. The walls of the gallery are made of shoji, or
translucent paper panels, intended to
integrate the space with the surrounding
garden. The veranda outside of the
Pavilion offers a view of the outside flat
garden, which is meant to be viewed
from this single point like a landscape
painting.
The Portland Japanese Garden
was founded in the late 1950s to give
Portlanders an opportunity to connect
with the serene cultural landscape, as
well as to build a greater cross-cultural
understanding with Japan post-WWII.
Ozaki explained that the garden decided
to recognize 2020 as the Year of Peace
and feature this exhibit because it was
founded upon a desire to repair relations
with Japan.
“We need to face what we did—this
is the effect of what we did,” Ozaki said.
“People are still donating things to the
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum).
So they’re still grieving or dealing with
the aftereffects.”
Throughout the year, the garden
will hold exhibits featuring Japanese
calligraphy, architecture and glass
sculptures mimicking water patterns.
The Year of Peace will conclude with
a photography exhibit exploring the
healing power of Japanese gardens for
internees at Manzanar Relocation Camp
during WWII.
“There’s so much to WWII,” Ozaki
said. “There’s the whole internment of
Japanese Americans, which we will deal
with in our last exhibit this year. But it’s
fraught. There’s so much that we could
do wrong and that we could do right. It’s
not going to be the easiest year in the
gallery ... but it’s an opportunity to have
these conversations.”HANNA MERZBACH/PIONEER LOG
Tattered blouse among other victims’ belongings are displayed at the exhibition.
Thoughts and reflections on the 92nd Academy Awards
By WILL LEWIS
THE 92ND ACADEMY Awards,
which aired on Feb. 9, made
history in multiple ways. To
begin, it had the lowest ratings and
viewing of any Academy Award show
in history. On a more positive note,
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” took home
the Best Picture award, making it the
first ever foreign film to accomplish
that feat. Yet, despite what appears
to be a win for diversity, the award
show largely followed tradition,
as it was just as white-washed as
previous years with very few films
made by directors of color receiving
nominations.
The Oscar winners are chosen by
members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, a group
of unknown individuals who have
watched these films and judged
them accordingly. They typically
choose specific types of films for
Oscar nominations, generally period
pieces or films including themes
of overcoming struggle, such as
“Birdman,” “12 Years a Slave” and
“The King’s Speech.” Their narrow
focus on what constitutes an Oscar-
worthy film has led to the term
“Oscar bait,” a film solely produced
to win Oscars. In other words, certain
directors may choose to create a film
that they believe will win awards as
opposed to producing something of
significant artistic merit.
It is safe to say that the nominees
for the 2020 Academy Awards
strayed from the standard material
of previous Oscar winners. For
starters, “Parasite” swept the award
show, taking home numerous awards
including Best Picture. The film won
additional awards for Best Director,
Best Foreign Language Film and Best
Original Screenplay.
“Parasite” has a different
tone than the rest of the films
nominated, as it occupies the space
between experimental arthouse
and popular blockbuster with a mix
of heavy dialogue and action. The film alternates between mundane
moments and action until it
culminates in a chaotic, unexpected
shift, falling into the genres of
comedy, thriller and mystery
simultaneously.
The film’s plot focuses on a lower-
class family in South Korea who
infiltrates an upper-class family’s
home through luck and ingenuity.
Through showing the dichotomy
existing between wealth and
poverty, the film undoubtedly serves
as a commentary on our current
sociopolitical climate and the vast
wealth discrepancies thought the
world.
Notably, despite its popularity at
the Academy Awards, the film has not
been seen by many viewers in the U.S.
Due to its status as a foreign language
film, certain people in the US did not
bother to see it because it requires
the audience to read subtitles for over
two hours.
Similar to “Parasite,” a common
theme uniting many of the
nominations was opposites unifying
in unexpected ways. As today’s society
has become increasingly polarized
politically, socially and economically,
many of the nominated films work to
transcend this divisiveness through
showcasing how very different people
are able to work as a unit toward a
common goal.
The two main characters in
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
exemplify this theme, as one is a well
off movie star living in the Hollywood
hills and one is a stuntman who lives
in a trailer. Similarly, “1917” tells
the story of two soldiers fighting
together in World War I, one of
whom is proud to be a soldier and
the other does not want to go to war.
“Ford v. Ferrari,” which took home
the award for Best Cinematography,
additionally demonstrates this theme
through featuring the partnership of
a no-games mechanic and race car
driver Ken Miles and smooth-talking
salesman Carol Shelby.
While quite often the popular hashtag #oscarssowhite rings true,
the traditionally white-centric
Academy Awards culture was
disrupted by its new appreciation for
the work of foreign filmmakers. In
previous years impressive films made
by people of color and/or surrounding
the stories of people of color have
been overlooked. That being said, the
Oscars failed to recognize numerous
other films showcasing the African
American experience such as “Us,”
“Queen & Slim” and “Dolemite Is
My Name.” Aside from “Parasite,”
the bulk of the films nominated
exclusively portrayed the experiences
of white men and women.
The Academy Awards have
great potential to be a platform
for honoring the stories of diverse
perspectives and should strive to
amplify usually overlooked and
silenced voices in both the Hollywood
and global environment. While this
year’s awards made progress in
becoming more inclusive, there is still
much work to be done in the future. Academy Awards makes history giving foreign language film
“Parasite” Best Picture, still has a long way to go for diversityExclusivity of streaming services hinders
accessibility of Oscar nominated films
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
WHILE WATCHING the 92nd
Academy Awards, I began
reflecting on the issues
plaguing the Oscars. In the past few
years, the awards show has been called
out multiple times for its celebration
of the mainstream, honoring films
created almost entirely by white men.
As I was viewing, I thought to myself,
how much longer can presenters keep
joking about not enough women and
people of color being nominated before
they are actually nominated?
I was glad to see that the Korean
film “Parasite” won Best Picture. For
once, it seemed as if the Academy had
finally made the right choice in picking
a film that garnered not only critical
but popular acclaim. It was something
new, different and diverse, rather than
the award going to a type of film that
has been nominated several times
before: another film about war, another
superhero related story or a film I have
somehow never even heard of.
A much less talked about disparity
within awards shows lies in the fact
that many of the films and TV series
nominated for both the Oscars and the
Golden Globes can only be watched
on certain online streaming services.
One must subscribe to several different
streaming services to simply stay
caught up with critically acclaimed
media. This is something most people
cannot afford to pay for, which makes
the Academy Awards even more elitist
and exclusive.
“The Irishman,” which was
nominated for Best Picture, premiered
with a limited theatrical release, which
excluded more accessible theaters
such as Regal Movies and Cinemark.
“The Irishman” was then released
exclusively on Netflix, making it only
available to subscribers and even
further limiting how many people can
watch it. “Marriage Story” followed
a near identical path, with a limited
theatrical release and a subsequent
release to Netflix only. You cannot
see two out of the nine Best Picture nominees unless you subscribe to
Netflix, something that the Academy
evidently assumes that everyone has
the ability to do.
To put it into perspective, Netflix’s
cheapest plan starts at $8.99 per
month, Amazon Prime for students
costs $59.00 per year and HBO costs
$14.99 per month. While a ticket for
seeing a movie in theaters can cost
about as much as a Netflix subscription,
staying up to date with media across all
streaming services means these prices
get stacked, and one can end up paying
over a hundred dollars per year to
access current media.
While two films do not seem like a
whole lot, it adds up as this happens
across different years and varying
award shows. Take 2018’s Oscar-
winning “Roma,” another Netflix
original. Another example is from
the 2019 Golden Globes, as award-
winning series such as “Fleabag” and
“Chernobyl” are exclusive to Amazon
Prime and HBO, respectively.
Streaming-exclusive shows and
movies seem to be on the rise as
these services continue to create
their own content. Should these films
even be eligible for awards if they
are only available to subscribers of
each streaming service? I believe they
still should be considered; however,
streaming services and theaters should
make accessibility a priority so more of
the general population can see these
films. This could happen more easily
through wider releases in mainstream
theaters, which would create more
revenue and benefit the creators,
companies and a film goers with
varying income levels.
Not everyone can afford the luxury
of subscribing to every streaming
service just to stay up to date on
popular media. And while this
tendency to nominate Netflix and
Amazon Prime-exclusive films and
series for prestigious awards seems
to be increasing, I can only hope that
someday this disparity is addressed
either by the Academy or fans of these
awards shows.ADA BARBEE/PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS
By JULIA SALOMONE
ACTIVISTS AND art fanatics alike
will enjoy the unique fusion of
industry and nature in Mike
Vos’ new environmentally-charged
photography exhibit. Open from
Feb. 7 to March 27 at PushDot Studio
in Southeast Portland, the exhibit
“Someday This Will All Be Gone” leaves
viewers with an unsettling mix of hope
and sadness.
Using double exposure, or shooting
two separate photographs on the same
piece of film, Vos blends images of
industrial and natural landscapes, all
shot on a four by five film camera from
1916. Since the photos are produced
without external computer work, Vos
shoots based on an initial idea, with the
end result unknown until the second
photo is taken.
One image that stands out when I
walk into the exhibit is a photograph of the abandoned Olympia Nuclear Power
Plant located in Washington state.
Vos overlays the image of the power
plant onto an image
of a forested area
in Washington. The
beauty of the image
lies in how viewers
perceive the blending
of the two photos.
Vos’ goal of removing
people from their
reality and immersing
them into his vision
of the world is fully
realized as you walk from photograph
to photograph within the studio.
These dual-images showcase a post-
human world, displaying the resurgence
of nature in the wake of humanity’s
end. Through his photography, Vos
explores and brings to life the following
question: when humans are gone, what
will the world look like? “The photos fall into this idea
of humans creating this industrial
landscape that they consider too big to
fail — like the idea that
this is so large that it
can’t possibly run out
of money or interest
because we’ve invested
this much time and
energy into it,” Vos
said. “But, in reality,
there is nothing
permanent about this
landscape.”
Vos was awarded
a grant from the Regional Arts and
Culture Council to build this project,
which led him to drive across the U.S.
three times to capture photos of natural
spaces and declining landscapes. The
exhibition is the product of this project
with fourteen photographs taken in
over ten states.
Vos explains that this project
stemmed from strong feelings he had
concerning the state of the world and
the environment. Although his creative
pursuits began in music, four years
ago Vos started experimenting with
photography and entered into the world
of visual art. It was when he was gifted a
camera by a friend for the first time that
he was able to begin bringing his strong
environmentally focused ideas to life.
“This project is a way for me to
cope with the anxiety and the guilt I
felt about my tacit involvement in a lot
of the things that go wrong with our
ecosystem,” Vos said. “It was a way for
me to mentally escape but also create
something based around a subject I feel
very strongly about.”
In the future, Vos plans to continue
this project of conveying a world without
humans through visual art. Leaving
the exhibit, I felt a strange melancholy
feeling over these photographs of
abandoned places and untouched
landscapes. Each photograph holds a
sort of quiet hopefulness about the state
of the environment, and what the future
might hold for it. Vos photography exhibit blends
natural and developed sceneryHispanic Studies professor publishes book exploring underground literary movements in Latin America
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
FOR THOSE who feel discouraged
when an interesting show requires
the commitment of watching
dozens of 20-episode-long seasons, a
little something called the “miniseries”
offers a less time-intensive form of
entertainment. Some of miniseries from
the last couple of years include “Big
Little Lies” and “Chernobyl,” both of
which received both critical and popular
acclaim.
A miniseries, officially defined in
the Oxford English Dictionary as “a
television drama presented as a small
number of feature-length episodes,”
tells a story in a limited amount of time.
This keeps the plot concise and relevant
while also preventing the companies
and writers from excessively drawing
out the content for multiple seasons due
to viewer demand.
Take pretty much any book series
that was adapted into a film series,
such as “Harry Potter” or “The Hunger
Games.” Both popular series have
sparked the following question from
fans online: what if these stories were
someday remade as miniseries? While
it seems unnecessary, as popular and
well-liked film adaptations have already
been made for these two particular
series, the idea behind the miniseries
can be beneficial for other adaptations
of books.
Breaking out of the two-hour time
restriction that comes with a film
adaptation, the miniseries allows for
deeper character and plot development,
which are the central components that
most fans feel movie adaptations fail to
accomplish. A longer timeline allows
for a much more accurate and direct
adaptation, and separate episodes let
creators maintain suspense without
extending the story too far beyond the
original source material.
Yet, the question remains: is a
miniseries always the best option?
After Stephen King was dissatisfied
with Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his book “The Shining,” he went on to write
the script for a miniseries adaptation of
his novel in 1997. Despite the author’s
direct relation to the production of the
miniseries, it is largely disregarded
by fans of the original film version of
the “The Shining.” While this is likely
because Kubrick’s film maintains such
a large cult following, it still leaves one
to question whether or not a book is
always best suited to a miniseries over
a film.
On a different note, a miniseries
might be something you can easily
forget about. Once it is done, it is done,
and fans do not have the opportunity
to wait in suspense for new content.
Therefore, the hype surrounding it is
typically short-lived, which can render
it less successful than a potential serial
program.
No matter your thoughts on a
miniseries versus a film or TV show, the
miniseries is indisputably on the rise.
“Chernobyl” (2019) won two Golden
Globe awards, and less recent but still
notable “Big Little Lies” (2017) received
widespread praise. While “Big Little
Lies” strayed from the novel in the
second season, it was still created under
a limited run with short, seven-episode
seasons.
Miniseries have won awards and
sometimes been just as popular as
regular TV programs. This newly
popularized media form will surely
continue to be relevant and can
hopefully change the way that book
adaptations are made for the screen.Bookwarming presents professor’s new book
By CASPER PIERCE
ASSISTANT Professor of Hispanic
Studies Magalí Rabasa’s new
book, “The Book in Movement:
Autonomous Politics and the Lettered
City Underground” was featured in
a bookwarming hosted by Assistant
Professor of English Jerry Harp. The
book investigates the world of political
underground publishing in Latin
America.
The bookwarming is an event
designed to introduce a book to a
community.
“Bookwarmings are in the spirit of
liberal arts ... it is absolutely crucial
that we have as many different voices
here as possible,” Harp said.
This is Harp’s 16th year hosting
them, and he has moved from doing
simple introductions of the books to
interviewing the authors in front of
the audience about their process in
making the book.
Harp has interviewed a variety of
faculty about their books, in subjects
ranging from math to chemistry to
bookmaking.
“It is important to discuss research
because so much time went into
these books,” Harp said. “I think it is
really good for students to see us in
this other mode. We do not just give
the (students) writing and research
assignments — we engage in it.”
Rabasa certainly did her research
— around 10 years of it. She began in
2009 in Mexico City, a place she had
lived in and had contacts in, then
went on to investigate underground
publishing in Bolivia and Argentina,
which were less familiar to her.
“When I started in Mexico City,
I was there as a researcher, but also
working as ... an active member of
their publishing project,” Rabasa said. “In Bolivia and Argentina, I really
relied on the connections that the folks
in Mexico helped facilitate for me.”
Mixing her academic life with
her activism helped further her
research. She established connections
for her book by actively helping
with the production of books in
the underground book publishing
community.
“There were certainly moments
where I was nervous,” Rabasa said. “Activists are rightfully skeptical of
academics ... I emphasized that yes, I
was doing a research project, but I was
also doing it as a participant in these
projects.”
Throughout her text, Rabasa uses
the term “organic book.” According to
Rabasa, this term describes when “the
relationship between the content of
the book and its materiality are being
brought together intentionally.” To
give an example of this, she showed two different copies of the same book
she found during her research about
migrants in the textile industry in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. The “organic”
edition had a handmade cover of
cardboard and recovered fabric scraps
from textile workshops, while the
other was printed more traditionally.
“It was really exciting to me to see
how the actual crafting of the object
was taken as a part of the political
imagination of these movements,” Rabasa said. “The makers really were
taking seriously the importance of the
tools, the technology and the materials
that accompany them in the perhaps
more abstract, or less tangible,
political endeavors.”
Rabasa also has an interest in the
copyright page, enough so that it takes
up an entire chapter of her book. Things
such as the absence of a copyright page
and the inclusion of a creative commons
license indicate a distaste for complete
ownership of intellectual property.
On a whim, she created a miniature
“zine” version of her book to distribute
in Argentina to show her progress
to the people she had worked with.
Within them, she placed a large
backward C, which symbolizes the
“copyleft” symbol.
Rabasa explained the meaning and
implications of this symbol.
“Copyleft is one of the ways people
renegotiate intellectual property,”
Rabasa said. “It essentially means: do
whatever you want with this.”
Though “The Book in Movement”
came out in the spring of 2019,
Rabasa was on parental leave and
unable to do a bookwarming until
now. Her book, then, is new to the
community of LC to which it was
showcased. Rabasa commented on
the feeling that comes alongside
publishing and being able to promote
a finished product that has been so
long in the making.
“There is something about
celebrating a momentous point in
the research project, which is its
publication,” Rabasa said. “There is
something worth marking when you
get the result in your hand.”
“The Book in Movement” can be
purchased in hardcover at the LC
bookstore or checked out from Watzek
library.JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
Professor Jerry Harp interviews Professor Magalí Rabasa about her new book, “The Book In Movement,” at the bookwarming.9
JULIA SALOMONE/PIONEER LOG
Mike Vos displays his over 100-year-old film camera at his new photography exhibit.Miniseries offer closer
adaptation of novels
EVA SZOBOSZLAY/PIONEER LOG... Vos explores and
brings to life the
following question:
when humans are
gone, what will the
world look like?FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS 10
PAM exhibit explores St. Helens eruption
Artists featured in this exhibition examine the significance of this cataclysmic event 40 years later
JUSTIN HOWERTON /PIONEER LOG
By GABRIEL MANTIONE-
HOLMES
MAY 18, 1980 will go down in
history as the day that saw
Mount St. Helens erupt.
The sheer intensity of its destruction
inspired many artists to record and
capture its beauty and power in
various forms. To commemorate the
40th anniversary of the eruption, the
Portland Art Museum is presenting
their newest exhibition “Volcano!”
until May 17, 2020. The exhibition
shows pieces from 1845 to the present,
displaying the savagery and tranquility
of St. Helens.
The front of the exhibition
features a wall with the exhibition’s
title and an acknowledgement to
indigenous communities of the past,
present and future. This introduction
is immediately followed by an
informational panel on Lawetlat’la,
the name given to the mountain by the
Cowlitz tribe and the Confederated
tribes and bands of the Yakama
Nation.
Placed after the acknowledgement
stands a massive photograph of St.
Helens that spans two stories. The
wall to the immediate left displays
three acrylic paintings by Ryan
Molenkamp inspired by a series of
time lapse photos of the eruption
from the photographer Vern Hodgson.
The piece is entitled “Vancouver,
Vancouver, This is it,” which was the
last transmission from geologist David
A. Johnston before being killed by the
blast.
Across from this wall is Lucinda
Parker’s large painting entitled “The
Seething Saint,” paired alongside her
poem “Eruption.” The poem bookends a pleasant trip to the mountain with
its cataclysmic eruption. The painting
mirrors this sentiment by surrounding
the mountain in an angelic yellow.
Even before entering the first room of
the exhibition, attendees are already
overtaken by these large, beautiful
pieces in cheerfully bright colors
depicting the St. Helens eruption. The
pieces portray the eruption as a child
having a colorful tantrum.
The first room of the exhibition
is filled with oil-painted landscapes
depicting the previously conical shape
of this great Pacific Northwestern
peak. This peaceful room is strikingly
followed by paintings of the eruption
itself, from eyewitness accounts in
Seattle and Portland. These pieces
inspire emotions of fear, chaos and
fragility through the use of vivid colors,
creating eye-catching images that
demand the attention of attendees.
The walls are painted a dark gray,
which makes the pieces stand out and
simultaneously creates a very somber
tone to this part of the exhibition.
This room is followed by a series of
lighter rooms filled with photography
and other pieces displaying the
aftermath of the eruption and the
land it decimated. However, even
though the white walls and bright
lights that surround this part of the
exhibition make it visually brighter,
the pieces depict the leveling effects
of the eruption. Cameron Martin’s
11-foot-wide painting “Remission”
stands at the end of the exhibition in
the last of the series of light rooms.
This large work shows the instability
of the volcano and leaves attendees to
ponder if and when another eruption
will happen.
Outside the exhibition there is a community partner in residency
gallery organized in collaboration
with the Mount St. Helens Institute.
The community space is filled with
lounge chairs, sofas, books, maps,
scientific equipment and geological
materials for attendees to further their
exploration of Mount St. Helens.
While “Volcano!” is a huge
exhibition, it wastes no time whatsoever drawing attendees into
its packed and filled walls. It still
provides ample space and opportunity
to collectively unpack and further
discover Mount St. Helens in a low-
stress environment.
“Volcano!” does a great job at
showing the horrific yet captivating
power of a natural disaster that claimed
57 lives. It manages to keep the horror alive and intense despite how much
time has elapsed from the time of the
event to now. The impact of Mount
St. Helens did not merely influence
the operations of humans. The land
after the eruption looked apocalyptic
and greatly affected the environment;
however, there is a certain beauty in
entropy and “Volcano!” successfully
captures it.
Final Fantasy VII remake hopes to update original
By JUSTIN HOWERTON
THE REPUTABLE video game
development company Square
Enix will finally revive the
story of the enigmatic and influential
JRPG Final Fantasy VII on April 10.
The original game was released in
1997 for the PlayStation console and
quickly became hailed as one of the
best video games ever produced, in
part because of its sprawling world,
turn-based fighting mechanics and
utterly captivating story.
Final Fantasy VII fans have
clamored for an update of the game
for some time now. That being said,
many skeptics have claimed that a
remake could never compare to the
ingenuity present in the original.
Video game remakes have a tendency
to polarize critics. For example, in the
past decade Nintendo has remastered
and formatted some of the games
from the Legend of Zelda franchise
for the Nintendo 3DS. Some claimed
that this remake successfully updated
the game within the parameters of
a modern, handheld console while
others criticized the game-makers
for not updating enough elements
or adding new material. Despite
people’s mixed responses to remakes,
updates such as these exemplify how
games created two decades prior can
continue to capture the imagination
and intrigue of contemporary video
game players.
The remake scheduled to arrive in
stores this year will be the first game
in a series that chronicles the story
of the original; the next game will
begin where the first one concluded
although it is unclear at which point
in the game’s plot this transition will
occur. This decision has also sparked
criticism, as some have attacked
Square Enix for spreading out the
game over an undecided number of
individual games, claiming that this
decision was an obvious ploy for
more profit. That being said, Square
Enix has added new content, such as additional abilities and cutscenes,
that was not in the original.
The overall plot of Final Fantasy
VII could not be more relevant in our
current political and social climate.
Essentially, the story begins with a
radical eco-terrorist group infiltrating
a corrupt megacorporation that has
monopolized the world’s power.
In an effort to disrupt their
operations, the group plants and
subsequently detonates a rigged
explosion. Much of the first half
of the story involves this violent
organization dubbed AVALANCHE
and their attempts to thwart the
actions of the Shinra Electric
Power Company. Tension between
radical environmentalists and
big business is obviously
present in the world
outside of the
game, and this
characteristic
helps maintain
the game’s
contemporary
spirit. . Furthermore,
the fact that the story
so heavily concerns itself
with the environment and the
ramifications of Shinra’s abuse
of the planet perhaps illustrates
why it still maintains such
an active following in today’s
context.
Its gameplay remains some
of the most enjoyable in
recent memory, especially
for those who appreciate
the turn-based genre. Its
surplus of weapons,
accessories, armor
and Materia,
which allow
the playable
characters to
cast elemental
spells, summon
others to fight
on their behalf
or increase
certain stats,
prevents
enemy
encounters
from stagnating
or losing their appeal. Moreover,
the game continually rewards the
curious player. Secret items appear
in various locations throughout the Final Fantasy VII world; players can
even unlock two optional playable
characters over the course of their
journeys.
Because of its immense amount
of content, the game was released on
three separate discs. Over the course
of the game, the player’s progression
through the virtual world becomes
less linear with an abundance of
optional side quests and minigames
in the latter portion of the story. This
feature in particular contributes to
the game’s near endless replayability.
Each playthrough reveals new items,
elements and quests that a player
may have previously missed. Its
sheer expanse impresses newcomers
nearly two decades later.
The story slowly evolves into
something much larger than a
single eco-terrorist attack, as the
protagonist, Cloud Strife, finds
himself torn between his fractured
past and his reluctance to participate
in the organization for altruism’s
sake. That said, Strife’s struggles
with memory and his past may even
resonate with our current culture
that is generally more open towards
mental illness. The character
development, specifically Cloud’s,
serves as one of the game’s defining
characteristics. Final Fantasy VII
is one of the few games that allows
the player to become invested in the
emotions and lives of the characters
so naturally.
With its shattering tragedies
and soaring yet fleeting moments of
triumph, this is the perfect game for
anyone interested in science fiction,
fantasy or our own contemporary
climate crisis. Folks who are
interested can purchase the game
on Steam for about twelve dollars.
As enthusiastic as I am to play the
remake upon its release, I understand
that it can in no way outpace the
original in terms of its ingenuity and
impact; no amount of high-definition
graphics will make me think any
differently.The plot of the critically acclaimed original could not be more relevant in our current political climate
JUSTIN HOWERTON/PIONEER LOGGABRIEL MANTIONE-HOLMES/PIONEER LOG
This painting featured in the “Volcano!” exhibition captures the spectacular yet horrific power displayed in this eruption.11FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 21, 2020
SPORTS
LC inclusive for many trans
athletes, challenges remain
By VENUS EDLIN
FOR TRANSGENDER students,
athletics can be a sore spot, and
many Lewis & Clark students
have mixed experiences. In the sports
world, travel accommodations, trans-
specific medical care, competition
eligibility and gendered language can
prove challenging, but with the right
policies and coaching, sports can affirm
the genders of trans students.
Transgender refers to people who
are a different gender than the one
they were assigned at birth, which can
include both binary and nonbinary
trans people.
LC follows the guidelines set by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) and allows trans students to
compete on teams that match their
gender, as long as they fulfill the
hormone regulations outlined by the
NCAA.
Interim Director of Athletics
Mark Pietrok said these policies are
constantly improving at LC.
“We regularly
consider all the
identities of our
student-athletes
and take this into
consideration
as we have
conversations, work
on initiatives, and
plan for our athletic
programing,”
Pietrok said via
email.
Anya Upson ’23 joined the
women’s rugby team last semester and
eventually decided to quit. Upson, who
is nonbinary and was assigned male
at birth (AMAB), struggled to be part
of a team that were mostly cisgender
women. They qualified to be a part of
the women’s team according to NCAA
guidelines that state trans athletes who
were AMAB can compete on women’s
teams after they have completed one
year of hormone replacement therapy
(HRT).
At first Upson looked forward to
attending practices, despite initial
doubts.
“I was worried about feeling ousted
from the group, because it is a women’s
rugby (team) and I don’t identify as a
woman,” Upson said. “It was scary,
but when I got on the team, I realized
it wasn’t that bad, and there were other
nonbinary people on the team.”
After accidentally hurting one of
their peers during practice, Upson was
afraid of harming another one of their
teammates. They also said that they felt
like an outsider in the team because
they had been made fun of for doing
drag, which is a part of their gender
expression. They had stayed back on
campus for a drag show instead of
going to a game in Seattle in December.
“I felt like I was either cheating in some sort of way or underequipped,
which is a strange dichotomy,” Upson
said. “I stopped doing rugby because
it just got uncomfortable for me to be
there.”
Alex Duquette ’23 is another trans
athlete but has found his experiences as
a part of the crew team to be affirming.
“There are other people on the team
who are nonbinary, or somewhere on
the trans spectrum and everyone’s
super respectful about that,” Duquette
said. “The coaches are always using
their pronouns and everyone’s just very
aware and knowledgeable.”
Duquette’s experiences at LC
contrast greatly to his high school
athletic career, where he remained
closeted in order to compete as part
of the girls’ team. He came out to his
parents the summer before his junior
year, started testosterone in December
of his senior year and had chest
reconstruction surgery three months
later. He came out before coming to LC.
Duquette wanted to have both
affirmation of his gender and to
participate
in athletics.
He’s had an
affirming
experience
as the
coxswain, or
steerer, of
the men’s
crew team at
LC.
“I’d
rather start
fresh in college—no one’s going to know
(I’m trans) and that’s fine,” Duquette
said. “But, when I was thinking about
the future, my life was absent without
some sort of sport to do.”
Lindsay Woodward ’22 is also
part of crew, but is on the women’s
team, though he does not identify as
a woman. Woodward started rowing
his freshman year and has found the
environment to be trans friendly, with
mixed gender practices and coaches
referring to the rowers as members of
the women’s or men’s team, rather than
women or men.
“My friends and I have all accepted
that we’re on the women’s team and
that’s OK,” Woodward said. “We get
to compete with these amazing women
and that doesn’t invalidate us at all.”
Woodward said that the NCAA
guidelines are “very cut and dry.”
Woodward would no longer be able
to compete on the women’s team if he
started HRT, but would want to wait
on joining the men’s team until his
testosterone levels stabilized.
Woodward decided to hold off on
taking testosterone even though this
would allow him to compete on the
men’s team.
“(Being on the crew team has)
become such an overall good experience
for my mental health that I think that when it’s being weighed out, being part
of that team and part of that community
for me is more beneficial,” Woodward
said. “I (would) have to wait two extra
years (for hormone levels to stabilize) if
I want to go on testosterone. I’ve been
waiting 20 years already so I can wait
more.”
Mal Spicer ’23 went to Casady,
a private Episcopal high school in
Oklahoma. When he came out as trans
his sophomore year, the school changed
their policies to ban trans students
from participating in athletics. All the
policies that the administration enacted
about trans students were a direct
result of him coming out, and they all
had to go through the school’s bishop.
Unsurprisingly, it was difficult
for Spicer to be the first openly trans
student at his high school.
“I felt like they were looking to me
to have all the answers,” Spicer said.
“It was hard because in a way I had
to speak on behalf of all trans people,
and I know everyone has different
experiences in their transition.”
He did not participate in sports
until his senior year when he pushed
back against the policy, and the school
allowed him to join the men’s baseball
team.
“It was really affirming, but also
felt really alienating at the same time,”
Spicer said. “I didn’t want people to
view me differently as a player, as an
athlete just because I’m trans.”
Spicer has not had any interest
pursuing organized sports in college so
far.
The stories of these trans students
show the challenges trans people can
face in athletics. Though many of
these students believe LC policies are
inclusive, Pietrok thinks the college can
continue improving policies.
“I think we can always improve,”
Pietrok said via email. “It is our goal to
try to provide an excellent experience
for all our student-athletes. In that
regard, we continually strive to make
progress toward those goals.”
Upson believes that the college
can do more to educate the campus
about transphobia and improve the
experiences that trans students have in
athletics.
“I don’t really think that it’s the
college’s fault,” Upson said. “I think
they’re doing what they can, but it’s
more of a deeper rooted stigma against
trans people that does not originate at
this college.”
Woodward said that LC policies are
inclusive and encourages more trans
students to participate in athletics.
“I think more trans people should
compete in sports,” Woodward said. “A
lot of people are turned away because
they think ‘I won’t be on the team I
want, or maybe there’s going to be some
sort of issue,’ but I think especially at
Lewis & Clark there’s a lot of people
who are willing to make it work.”CASPER PIERCE/ PIONEER LOG
Gymshark: a hidden
gem in athletic wear
By ALEX BARR
GYMSHARK has branded itself
as the official attire of the
Instagram fitness influencer.
Although I hate certain aspects of
Gymshark’s image (think of the
videos of women flipping tires in a
montage of dizzying edits and men
squatting several plates while Imagine
Dragons plays), I find myself buying
their products again and again.
The types of routines I have
followed over the years have evolved
and changed significantly, and my
taste in athletic wear has changed
with it. Before I started lifting, I
modeled and therefore had to do a lot
of cardio. Between the stair master,
yoga and spin class I was working out
for about ten hours a week. Lululemon
leggings quickly became a staple in my
wardrobe.
While I still love Lululemon, the
brand definitely has some downsides.
The pieces have stood the test of time,
but at $100 or more for a single pair
of leggings, the clothes should be
doing the workout for me. When I
started lifting and gaining a significant
amount of weight, I knew I needed a
wardrobe change. I was resistant to liking Gymshark, and tried to find
alternatives, but my goodness, their
leggings, sports bras and shirts are
second to none in the athletic wear
industry.
Right off the bat, their product
is aesthetically pleasing. With a
mix of classic styles and innovative
design, Gymshark has something for
everyone. There are two qualities of
their clothing that I have not been
able to find in other brands: the price
and the experience they sell with
their clothes.The price, relative to
other brands, is inexpensive. A pair of
leggings costs about $40. Admittedly,
my Gymshark leggings do begin to
show signs of wear much quicker than
Lululemon leggings, but at less than
half the price I cannot complain. The
most significant appeal of Gymshark
is the way I feel wearing their clothes.
For me, the reason I became so
addicted to lifting was because of how
strong I felt while going through my
workouts, and Gymshark’s clothes
accentuated areas of my body I did not
appreciate before. Gymshark clothes
are rebellious yet flattering. Add a
good playlist into the equation and
you have a recipe for an excellent gym
session.
LC men’s basketball
hires a student coach
By ANNIE ERICKSON
THE LEWIS & Clark men’s
basketball team coaching staff
added a unique position when
Nate Peterson ’22 joined the program last
year. After spending time watching tapes
and sharing his basketball knowledge
with the team, the organization created
the student assistant coaching position
for Peterson to fill.
Peterson first developed a love of
basketball when he joined his sixth-
grade team. Even then, he had a unique
understanding of both the game as a
whole and how he could maximize his
own skills to succeed within that game.
“In middle school, I was not very
good at all so I had to figure out how
to make it work,” Peterson said. “Even
though I wasn’t very big and skilled. I
guess that is what really sparked (my love
of coaching). I wasn’t a six-foot scorer
with a killer jumper or anything so I had
to use what I had.”
He was attracted to coaching because
of his understanding of how to put
players in positions where they can help
the team succeed. In order to succeed on
the court, Peterson had to learn how to
outsmart people who possessed more
natural talent. This playing style was
earned him a spot on his high school
varsity basketball team where he was
coached by Bill Treseler of Albany High
School in San Francisco, his first role
model in the profession.
“He had a very distinct leadership
style ... just watching how intentional he
was, taught me a lot,” Peterson said.
Even though Peterson was not playing
on the LC basketball team when he first
arrived on campus, he knew that he still
wanted to be involved with basketball.
Tim Mccrory, had just been hired to be
the head coach of the team which gave
Peterson an opening to include himself in the new leadership direction of the team.
With the encouragement of members
of the team he already knew, Peterson
showed up at Mccroy’s office to share
his basketball knowledge and ask for a
role on the team. Mccrory agreed to let
Peterson come to practice and he quickly
started to establish himself as a valuable
part of the coaching process.
Peterson’s responsibilities on the
team quickly grew and range from
creating play animations to send out
to the team to participating in coaches
meetings to build strategies. This year,
Peterson has even helped design the
sideline and baseline out-of-bounds
plays for the team. Another primary
role of his job is working with individual
players on development.
“His role is just going to keep growing
in his next two years and he has just
been a great fit with me personally and
fantastic for us as a team” McCrory said.
Peterson is appreciative of the
community basketball has given him and
the way the team has supported him.
“Just being around and being able
to be a part of the team, it’s great,’’
Peterson said. “All the coaches are great.
I think we’re close as a coaching staff
and then all the players are great and
super welcoming to like what I do, even
though it’s sort of a not really traditional
position.”
Peterson hopes that his position here
will one day translate into a coaching
career. His ultimate goal is to coach for
a Division I program which he believes
would be perfect for his personal
development passion.
“I think the job of a great coach is
to put players in positions to win and to
be successful,” Peterson said. “You can’t
make anybody be successful but you
should aim to give them every resource
they need to improve as players and in a
broader way as people.”
VENUS EDLIN/PIONEER LOG“There are other people on
the team who are nonbinary,
or somewhere on the trans
spectrum and everyone’s
super respectful ...”

Nate Peterson ’23 is a student assistant coach for the LC men’s basketball team. Alex Duquette ’23 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
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By SOFIA REEVES
EVERY STUDENT knows that
college life will lead to tears. We
all cry, but for Lewis & Clark
students it can be hard to find the
perfect spot for a private breakdown.
Worry no more with this handy guide to
the best places to cry at LC, showcasing
the most scenic locations in academic
buildings, residence halls, around
campus and even on the go!
Academic Buildings
Did you mess up that important
paper? Did you run screaming from
the classroom when it was your turn
to give a presentation? Did you fail
the exam that was inexplicably worth
75% of your final grade? That is okay.
We have all been there. Take comfort
with this little-known fact: during the
construction of the academic buildings,
architects who remembered the strife
of their own college days planned for
an extra closet in every building. These
secret closets are equipped with pillows, blankets and copious boxes of tissues.
To ward off nosy interlopers, they are
usually labeled “storage” or “electrical:
danger, keep out.” These are the perfect
private spaces for your next emotional
meltdown.
Residence Halls
For those of you who call a residence
hall your home, the creaking stairs and
prison-esque mazes of the LC dorms
are often your first choice when looking
for the best places to have a good sob.
Some great locations to try without
leaving your room include shutting
yourself in your own closet, curling up
in the fetal position under your desk or
bed or laying in the center of the floor
with your limbs spread out as far as you
can, weeping loudly. Bonus points if you
force your roommate(s) to step around
you.
Looking to get out of your room
for a bit? Look no further than the
nearest inconveniently placed lounge or
kitchen. Sure it smells funny, but if you sit in the corner and cry facing the wall,
you can be sure no one will bother you!
Around Campus
Are you at the Bon but you just
cannot seem to keep the tears inside?
You could go cry alone at one of the
tables, but that is pretty overdone. No
need to be cliché! Try out this simple
hack instead: simply approach the
nearest Bon student worker and let
them know how you are feeling. If they
take pity on you, they might let you go
sit behind the counter and cry it out. If
they turn you down, do not worry. Save
the waterworks until you can squeeze
into the cabinet beneath the juice
dispenser for some real privacy.
Other spots that are perfect for
crying: the trees, bushes and plants
that adorn our beautiful campus. This
is premium real estate if you need to
hide in plain sight. Sitting in the dirt
completely obscured by various foliage
is the perfect spot to let it all out. Your
clothes will be soaked from all of the
rainwater dripping from the plants,
so you can explain this and your tears
away by telling your friends that you
were caught in a downpour between
classes.
On the Go
If you have the time for a cinematic
cry, hop on the Pio and take one of the
window seats toward the back. With a
little practice, you will be able to master
the art of staring out the window at an
angle where no one else on board can
see the tears, and you can gaze wistfully
at Fred Meyer as you drive by. Pretend
you are in a music video by playing the
saddest music you can think of and
ride the Pio on a full loop without ever
getting off.
Above all else, remember that it is
better to let it out than keep it in.Best places to cry on campus By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE FOLLOWING excerpt
comes from minutes taken
from the Jan. 30 Committee
to Contemplate the Curriculum
(CCC) meeting. The portion below
looks at the decision process of the
CCC sub-committee, Reimagining
and Addressing General
Education (RAGE) committee, in
choosing the new title to replace
Exploration & Discovery (now
“Phrases and Equations”) for the
Fall 2020 semester
New Business, renaming of
First-Year Seminar:
Sim Wiesle (henceforth SW),
president of the college, joined
RAGE to discuss the naming of the
first-year seminar at the request of
RAGE chair Stu Schitz (henceforth
Schitz).
Overview:
The name “Exploration
& Discovery” will no longer
accurately describe the first-
year seminar and the changes
made to it. Along with the new
curriculum changes (like the
additional handstand and finger
extension component), the first-
year seminar needs its name to be
changed as well.
Q&A:
CCC: What are the names that you
have spent two months coming up
with?
SW: We wanted the names to go
back to square one. We wanted
to take a look at what the heart of
learning revolves around. That is
why the names the sub-committee
RAGE found are as follows: “Bits
and Pieces,” “Letters and Figures,”
“Words and Numbers,” “Phrases
and Equations” and “Books and
Proofs.”
CCC: Do we have confirmation that
students react well to these op -
tions?
SW: Yes. We received 100% support
from our single survey taker. They
checked the “no” box for all names.CCC: What was the question they
were responding to?
SW: The question was, “Would you
mind if the first-year seminar had
one of these names?”
CCC: Do you think asking, “do you
mind” could confuse survey takers
if they did not read it carefully?
SW: No, I think the student who
responded would have been able
to understand perfectly fine.
CCC: Your answer implies you
only had one survey response. Did
you only have one response?
SW: Yes.
CCC: Very well. Do you really think
that “Words and Numbers” belong
on this list of otherwise acceptable
names? The committee only brings
the question up because it seems
like a placeholder, at best, in
comparison to the other fine ones.
Schitz: The sub-committee has
unanimously agreed that it is
by far our worst choice so far.
Like the list of orders that led
to the assassination of General
Soleimani, it was largely included
to make the other answers look
better.
CCC: To confirm what RAGE chair
Schitz said, the sub-committee
does not believe that “Words and
Numbers” should be used to name
our first-year seminar, and it was
included only to make the other
options seem more viable.
SW & Schitz: Yes.
There were no further
questions.

Discussion:
Following the Q&A, the
CCC Chair Gighels asked if
any members had any disputes
or questions regarding the
names. Some bureaucrat from
the Registar’s Office asked if
the names had been found met
all formatting conventions
for BadAdvisor. Chair Gighels
confirmed that all formatting
conventions for BadAdvisor had
been met. The CCC held a vote and
passed “Phrases and Equations”
to be the name of the first-year
seminar.By MACKENZIE HERRING
TODAY WE ARE going to talk
about those people you ignore
profusely unless they are handing
out free donuts or Yerba Mate. Tabling
is a familiar concept to college students,
and especially popular at activist centric
schools like Lewis & Clark. Whether it
is the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark (ASLC) and their fun-size candies
or an off-campus group trying to get you
to sign up for something sketchy like
the Peace Corps, tabling is part of our
everyday lives.
What you may not know about
tabling, like many things on this
campus, is that some people take it
more seriously than others. Legend has
it alumnus Richard (Dick) Billiards ’08
sustained himself for an entire week off
of tabling snacks and tidbits. The thrifty
icon ended up developing a sensitivity
to maple donuts and having to go off of
his South Bastendorff Beach diet, but
became an LC legend in the process. The
Pioneer Log reached out to Billiards,
now 33, for comment.
“It started to get to the point where
the tablers would hang up a photo of me
that said ‘do not engage with this man,’”
Billiards said. “Yeah I guess they got a
little fed up with me walking in and out
of J.R. Howard with different hats on
each time.”
Despite the life-sustaining haul one
can gather from the consistent current
of tablers at LC, not all bait is created
equal. Below is a guide to the value and
importance of various tabling hot goods.
Tablers, take note.
A RANKING OF TABLING SPOILS:
1) Caffeine
2) PioLog Hats ;)
3) Census? (I think it’s kind of really im -
portant, maybe).
4) Donuts/Candy
5) Stickers6) Job opportunities
7) Pamphlets
8) Thank you notes to rich benefactors
probably named Archibald
9) Emails you cannot unsubscribe to
10) Getting your crap opinion heard
11) Insurmountable guilt for ignoring the
person tabling despite being the only one
walking by and them calling out to you. I
am sorry. Not sorry enough to stop and
talk to you, but still.
12) Religion
Now is time to ask: why do people
table? Is it for a deserving charity? A
student organization? A world-class
college newspaper with incredibly
attractive and talented writers? No.
Most of the time, it is because the tablers
like to feel important and like to see the
discomfort on people’s faces when they get handed things.
We talked to two frequent tablers,
Elena Coffee ’21 and Theresa Tennis ’20
about why they table.
“I just had to email someone in events
about how I was starting a petition to
provide those frogs in the reflecting pool
with little hats and I was set,” Coffee said.
Her acquaintance had a different
idea.
“Actually, I hate frogs. I am just really
good at guilting people into caring about
things,” Tennis said.
“Yeah, I am Catholic,” Tennis said
in a later statement. “Why do you ask?”
Despite some nefarious tablers,
many are organized by good people who
support good causes. And on that note,
The Pioneer Log will be tabling from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
LEXIE BOREN/PIONEER LOG
WILL TOPPIN/PIONEER LOG
LIV NICKS-TURNLEY/PIONEER LOGA tender tableau of tabling:
how to survive on samplesHello to the new E&D:
“Phrases & Equations”FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
NEWS 2
By AMELIA EICHEL
THE DEPARTMENT of Student
Activities held the semesterly
meeting for recognized student
organizations on Feb. 12. Director of
the Career Center Rocky Campbell and
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Angela Gintz relayed
the relevant findings from last semester’s
student engagement surveys and focus
groups to the students in attendance. They
also announced a new event happening on
Feb. 22: Spring Fling, a dance party from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Fields Dining Hall with
a beer garden and food trucks. This event
is organized by IME, the Black Student
Union (BSU) and the Senior Experience
Committee which aims to develop a more
robust nightlife at LC.
According to Gintz and Campbell, the
data from the student surveys showed a
desire among LC students for more campus-
wide events where they can socialize more
freely. The surveys also identified Watzek
Library as the most commonly used space
on the undergraduate campus for students
to gather and socialize
“We were like, is that defeating the
purpose of trying to be academically-
focused in the library?” Gintz said. “You
can definitely blend both, but there’s
definitely a need for a social space that’s
pretty unstructured.”
The data is primarily being used to
inform Vice President of Student Life
Robin Holmes-Sullivan’s plans to renovate
Templeton Student Center and other
spaces around campus. However, Holmes-
Sullivan, Gintz and other stakeholders
wanted to address the gaps that the surveys
identified right away. This inspired the
creation of Spring Fling.
“The information that we gathered
from the campus engagement survey was quite clear across all three campuses
and constituents: we should encourage
our students to cultivate more late-night
activities that attract community members
from all age groups in order to build a
more vibrant campus atmosphere and a
stronger sense of community,” Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “The spring fling
activities will hopefully demonstrate the
ways in which students can conceive
and plan activities that are fun, edgy and
exciting while also demonstrating that our
students are fully capable of engaging with
one another in responsible ways.”
During the student organizations
meeting, Mikah Bertelmann ’21, the
student organizations coordinator,
announced new changes to the Student
Organizations Committee (which operates
within the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark) budget allocation process for Fall
2020.
“The major changes were the
supplementary questions and the process
by which organizations’ applications will
be reviewed,” Bertelmann said via email.
“There are more focused questions that
aim at getting organizations to be more
intentional in their requests for funds,
and in particular, how their organization
reflects the values ASLC SOC finds
important.”
These values are listed in a rubric
that was sent to all student organizations.
According to the rubric, excellent
organizations “demonstrate a clear effort
to create opportunities for members to
participate in quality, enriching activities”
and “make a clearly intentional effort to
create an inclusive L&C community by
creating inclusive spaces for its members.”
ASLC and the department of Student
Life are demonstrating increased financial
support for organizations to plan events
that foster a greater sense of community. By MACKENZIE HERRING
PRESIDENTS’ DAY weekend
marked an influx of prospective
students on campus, with
about 140 prospective students and
more than 330 people in attendance
including their families. Admitted
Students Day, Feb. 14, was an
opportunity for prospective students
who have already been accepted to
Lewis & Clark to visit campus and
participate in events put on by the
Admissions Office.
Vice President of Admissions
and Financial Aid Eric Staab said via
email that there was a 30% increase in
attendance since last year.
“The program on Friday had 131
students in attendance. Last year we
had 103 attend the same program,”
Staab said via email.
The prospective students that
came over the weekend were part of
the Early Action subset, meaning they
applied before Nov. 1. Faculty and staff
were notified that many prospective
students would be on campus affecting
parking availability. According to
Serena Frisina, senior assistant dean
in Admissions, the Admissions Office
is providing more opportunities than
usual for students to visit LC. Later
in the semester, there are events for
prospective students who applied
during Regular Decision as they will get
their admittance letters later on.
The program during Presidents’ Day weekend is typically popular. Many
high school students are encouraged
to apply Early Action. This is a non-
binding alternative to Early Decision,
which requires the applicant to drop
all other applications to other schools,
but still improves a students’ chance of
getting into their preferred school.
“We’ve only reached out to about
half of our applicant pool so far,”
Frisina said. “We have Regular
Decision applications and we will notify them in March so we don’t know what
the registrations look like for future
events.”
Outreach, follow-up and admitted
students campaigns are essential to
colleges who aim to increase or maintain
their incoming class sizes. Catlin Peel,
associate director of marketing at
Public Affairs and Communications,
mentioned an email campaign where
current LC students reach out to talk
with prospective students and answer any questions they may have.
“We chose some students, some
seniors and juniors, to include their
photo and then also just have a quick
email that talks about like ‘I’m big on
going overseas. I went on two programs’
and ‘this is what Lewis & Clark can
offer’,” Peel said. “Having these emails
come from the students in their voice
(is better than) us just saying, ‘It’s cool
here, we promise.’”
Student ambassadors are tasked with helping prospective students
navigate tours and events. Ary Hashim
’20, an LC student leader within the
Admissions department, elaborated on
the role of student ambassadors.
“The student ambassadors serve
as, kind of, the gateway to the college
for prospective students,” Hashim
said.
According to Hashim the large
number of prospective students was
unexpected.
“I can only really speak to my
portion of the day’s events ... we were
all understaffed for that because we
weren’t expecting such big numbers,”
Hashim said. “But in the end, we
managed to accommodate every
student and I would argue that was the
case for the wider (group).”
Despite these increased numbers,
enrollment numbers for the next
academic year are not set in stone.
Until Decision Day, Admissions will not
know for certain which percentage of
applicants are committing to LC.
“Our target for enrolling first year
students this fall is 525 students,” Staab
said. “This is slightly higher than the
507 that matriculated this past fall, but
I don’t think this is a drastic increase
in enrollment.Important to remember,
however, is that we have no idea how
many students will matriculate this
coming fall until students respond by
the May 1 reply deadline. Until mid-
May, I will have no idea how large the
new class will be.”Admitted Students Day grows by 30% this year
Student Life supports
nightlife on campus
JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
VENUS EDLIN/PIONEER LOG
A group of prospective students take a campus tour as part of Admitted Students Day, events and activities are planned later on.
The Activities Fair is an opportunity for students to sign up for clubs that interest them.ADVERTISEMENTFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
NEWS 2
By AMELIA EICHEL
THE DEPARTMENT of Student
Activities held the semesterly
meeting for recognized student
organizations on Feb. 12. Director of
the Career Center Rocky Campbell and
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Angela Gintz relayed
the relevant findings from last semester’s
student engagement surveys and focus
groups to the students in attendance. They
also announced a new event happening on
Feb. 22: Spring Fling, a dance party from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Fields Dining Hall with
a beer garden and food trucks. This event
is organized by IME, the Black Student
Union (BSU) and the Senior Experience
Committee which aims to develop a more
robust nightlife at LC.
According to Gintz and Campbell, the
data from the student surveys showed a
desire among LC students for more campus-
wide events where they can socialize more
freely. The surveys also identified Watzek
Library as the most commonly used space
on the undergraduate campus for students
to gather and socialize
“We were like, is that defeating the
purpose of trying to be academically-
focused in the library?” Gintz said. “You
can definitely blend both, but there’s
definitely a need for a social space that’s
pretty unstructured.”
The data is primarily being used to
inform Vice President of Student Life
Robin Holmes-Sullivan’s plans to renovate
Templeton Student Center and other
spaces around campus. However, Holmes-
Sullivan, Gintz and other stakeholders
wanted to address the gaps that the surveys
identified right away. This inspired the
creation of Spring Fling.
“The information that we gathered
from the campus engagement survey was quite clear across all three campuses
and constituents: we should encourage
our students to cultivate more late-night
activities that attract community members
from all age groups in order to build a
more vibrant campus atmosphere and a
stronger sense of community,” Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “The spring fling
activities will hopefully demonstrate the
ways in which students can conceive
and plan activities that are fun, edgy and
exciting while also demonstrating that our
students are fully capable of engaging with
one another in responsible ways.”
During the student organizations
meeting, Mikah Bertelmann ’21, the
student organizations coordinator,
announced new changes to the Student
Organizations Committee (which operates
within the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark) budget allocation process for Fall
2020.
“The major changes were the
supplementary questions and the process
by which organizations’ applications will
be reviewed,” Bertelmann said via email.
“There are more focused questions that
aim at getting organizations to be more
intentional in their requests for funds,
and in particular, how their organization
reflects the values ASLC SOC finds
important.”
These values are listed in a rubric
that was sent to all student organizations.
According to the rubric, excellent
organizations “demonstrate a clear effort
to create opportunities for members to
participate in quality, enriching activities”
and “make a clearly intentional effort to
create an inclusive L&C community by
creating inclusive spaces for its members.”
ASLC and the department of Student
Life are demonstrating increased financial
support for organizations to plan events
that foster a greater sense of community. By MACKENZIE HERRING
PRESIDENTS’ DAY weekend
marked an influx of prospective
students on campus, with
about 140 prospective students and
more than 330 people in attendance
including their families. Admitted
Students Day, Feb. 14, was an
opportunity for prospective students
who have already been accepted to
Lewis & Clark to visit campus and
participate in events put on by the
Admissions Office.
Vice President of Admissions
and Financial Aid Eric Staab said via
email that there was a 30% increase in
attendance since last year.
“The program on Friday had 131
students in attendance. Last year we
had 103 attend the same program,”
Staab said via email.
The prospective students that
came over the weekend were part of
the Early Action subset, meaning they
applied before Nov. 1. Faculty and staff
were notified that many prospective
students would be on campus affecting
parking availability. According to
Serena Frisina, senior assistant dean
in Admissions, the Admissions Office
is providing more opportunities than
usual for students to visit LC. Later
in the semester, there are events for
prospective students who applied
during Regular Decision as they will get
their admittance letters later on.
The program during Presidents’ Day weekend is typically popular. Many
high school students are encouraged
to apply Early Action. This is a non-
binding alternative to Early Decision,
which requires the applicant to drop
all other applications to other schools,
but still improves a students’ chance of
getting into their preferred school.
“We’ve only reached out to about
half of our applicant pool so far,”
Frisina said. “We have Regular
Decision applications and we will notify them in March so we don’t know what
the registrations look like for future
events.”
Outreach, follow-up and admitted
students campaigns are essential to
colleges who aim to increase or maintain
their incoming class sizes. Catlin Peel,
associate director of marketing at
Public Affairs and Communications,
mentioned an email campaign where
current LC students reach out to talk
with prospective students and answer any questions they may have.
“We chose some students, some
seniors and juniors, to include their
photo and then also just have a quick
email that talks about like ‘I’m big on
going overseas. I went on two programs’
and ‘this is what Lewis & Clark can
offer’,” Peel said. “Having these emails
come from the students in their voice
(is better than) us just saying, ‘It’s cool
here, we promise.’”
Student ambassadors are tasked with helping prospective students
navigate tours and events. Ary Hashim
’20, an LC student leader within the
Admissions department, elaborated on
the role of student ambassadors.
“The student ambassadors serve
as, kind of, the gateway to the college
for prospective students,” Hashim
said.
According to Hashim the large
number of prospective students was
unexpected.
“I can only really speak to my
portion of the day’s events ... we were
all understaffed for that because we
weren’t expecting such big numbers,”
Hashim said. “But in the end, we
managed to accommodate every
student and I would argue that was the
case for the wider (group).”
Despite these increased numbers,
enrollment numbers for the next
academic year are not set in stone.
Until Decision Day, Admissions will not
know for certain which percentage of
applicants are committing to LC.
“Our target for enrolling first year
students this fall is 525 students,” Staab
said. “This is slightly higher than the
507 that matriculated this past fall, but
I don’t think this is a drastic increase
in enrollment.Important to remember,
however, is that we have no idea how
many students will matriculate this
coming fall until students respond by
the May 1 reply deadline. Until mid-
May, I will have no idea how large the
new class will be.”Admitted Students Day grows by 30% this year
Student Life supports
nightlife on campus
JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
COURTESY OF MICHAEL MANNHEIMER
A group of prospective students take a campus tour as part of Admitted Students Day, events and activities are planned later on.
The Activities Fair is an opportunity for students to sign up for clubs that interest them.ADVERTISEMENTFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
NEWS 2
By AMELIA EICHEL
THE DEPARTMENT of Student
Activities held the semesterly
meeting for recognized student
organizations on Feb. 12. Director of
the Career Center Rocky Campbell and
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Angela Gintz relayed
the relevant findings from last semester’s
student engagement surveys and focus
groups to the students in attendance. They
also announced a new event happening on
Feb. 22: Spring Fling, a dance party from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Fields Dining Hall with
a beer garden and food trucks. This event
is organized by IME, the Black Student
Union (BSU) and the Senior Experience
Committee which aims to develop a more
robust nightlife at LC.
According to Gintz and Campbell, the
data from the student surveys showed a
desire among LC students for more campus-
wide events where they can socialize more
freely. The surveys also identified Watzek
Library as the most commonly used space
on the undergraduate campus for students
to gather and socialize
“We were like, is that defeating the
purpose of trying to be academically-
focused in the library?” Gintz said. “You
can definitely blend both, but there’s
definitely a need for a social space that’s
pretty unstructured.”
The data is primarily being used to
inform Vice President of Student Life
Robin Holmes-Sullivan’s plans to renovate
Templeton Student Center and other
spaces around campus. However, Holmes-
Sullivan, Gintz and other stakeholders
wanted to address the gaps that the surveys
identified right away. This inspired the
creation of Spring Fling.
“The information that we gathered
from the campus engagement survey was quite clear across all three campuses
and constituents: we should encourage
our students to cultivate more late-night
activities that attract community members
from all age groups in order to build a
more vibrant campus atmosphere and a
stronger sense of community,” Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “The spring fling
activities will hopefully demonstrate the
ways in which students can conceive
and plan activities that are fun, edgy and
exciting while also demonstrating that our
students are fully capable of engaging with
one another in responsible ways.”
During the student organizations
meeting, Mikah Bertelmann ’21, the
student organizations coordinator,
announced new changes to the Student
Organizations Committee (which operates
within the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark) budget allocation process for Fall
2020.
“The major changes were the
supplementary questions and the process
by which organizations’ applications will
be reviewed,” Bertelmann said via email.
“There are more focused questions that
aim at getting organizations to be more
intentional in their requests for funds,
and in particular, how their organization
reflects the values ASLC SOC finds
important.”
These values are listed in a rubric
that was sent to all student organizations.
According to the rubric, excellent
organizations “demonstrate a clear effort
to create opportunities for members to
participate in quality, enriching activities”
and “make a clearly intentional effort to
create an inclusive L&C community by
creating inclusive spaces for its members.”
ASLC and the department of Student
Life are demonstrating increased financial
support for organizations to plan events
that foster a greater sense of community. By MACKENZIE HERRING
PRESIDENTS’ DAY weekend
marked an influx of prospective
students on campus, with
about 140 prospective students and
more than 330 people in attendance
including their families. Admitted
Students Day, Feb. 14, was an
opportunity for prospective students
who have already been accepted to
Lewis & Clark to visit campus and
participate in events put on by the
Admissions Office.
Vice President of Admissions
and Financial Aid Eric Staab said via
email that there was a 30% increase in
attendance since last year.
“The program on Friday had 131
students in attendance. Last year we
had 103 attend the same program,”
Staab said via email.
The prospective students that
came over the weekend were part of
the Early Action subset, meaning they
applied before Nov. 1. Faculty and staff
were notified that many prospective
students would be on campus affecting
parking availability. According to
Serena Frisina, senior assistant dean
in Admissions, the Admissions Office
is providing more opportunities than
usual for students to visit LC. Later
in the semester, there are events for
prospective students who applied
during Regular Decision as they will get
their admittance letters later on.
The program during Presidents’ Day weekend is typically popular. Many
high school students are encouraged
to apply Early Action. This is a non-
binding alternative to Early Decision,
which requires the applicant to drop
all other applications to other schools,
but still improves a students’ chance of
getting into their preferred school.
“We’ve only reached out to about
half of our applicant pool so far,”
Frisina said. “We have Regular
Decision applications and we will notify them in March so we don’t know what
the registrations look like for future
events.”
Outreach, follow-up and admitted
students campaigns are essential to
colleges who aim to increase or maintain
their incoming class sizes. Catlin Peel,
associate director of marketing at
Public Affairs and Communications,
mentioned an email campaign where
current LC students reach out to talk
with prospective students and answer any questions they may have.
“We chose some students, some
seniors and juniors, to include their
photo and then also just have a quick
email that talks about like ‘I’m big on
going overseas. I went on two programs’
and ‘this is what Lewis & Clark can
offer’,” Peel said. “Having these emails
come from the students in their voice
(is better than) us just saying, ‘It’s cool
here, we promise.’”
Student ambassadors are tasked with helping prospective students
navigate tours and events. Ary Hashim
’20, an LC student leader within the
Admissions department, elaborated on
the role of student ambassadors.
“The student ambassadors serve
as, kind of, the gateway to the college
for prospective students,” Hashim
said.
According to Hashim the large
number of prospective students was
unexpected.
“I can only really speak to my
portion of the day’s events ... we were
all understaffed for that because we
weren’t expecting such big numbers,”
Hashim said. “But in the end, we
managed to accommodate every
student and I would argue that was the
case for the wider (group).”
Despite these increased numbers,
enrollment numbers for the next
academic year are not set in stone.
Until Decision Day, Admissions will not
know for certain which percentage of
applicants are committing to LC.
“Our target for enrolling first year
students this fall is 525 students,” Staab
said. “This is slightly higher than the
507 that matriculated this past fall, but
I don’t think this is a drastic increase
in enrollment.Important to remember,
however, is that we have no idea how
many students will matriculate this
coming fall until students respond by
the May 1 reply deadline. Until mid-
May, I will have no idea how large the
new class will be.”Admitted Students Day grows by 30% this year
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In the fall of 2019, the app was
released for beta testing within the LC
community. The beta was open to the
general public, though it required an
LC username to log in, and accessible
through Test Flight, a beta testing app.
“We used this previous fall to do
beta testing,” Baker said. “We sent out
test versions of the app, and then from
the stuff we gathered from those tests
we made a final
version over
winter break,
and we’re in full
deployment stage
right now.”
Throughout
the week of Feb.
10, a team of marketing staff worked
to promote the app to the general LC
community. Alex Barr ’21, the Bridge’s
social media manager (and a sports
editor for The Pioneer Log), created @
the_bridge_lc and has been following
members of the LC community and
posting to raise awareness about the
app. Several tabling events have been
held throughout the week as well,
including giveaways of yerba mate and
donuts in J.R. Howard and outside of
Fields Dining Hall.
Vinlove discussed the impact he
hopes the app will have on fellow students.
“I think why this is so cool and why
I’m so excited to share this with everyone
is that it’s very much a for students, by
students thing,” Vinlove said. “I think
we’re going to be able to bring something
unique to the table by saying, ‘We’re not
coming to you from the administration,
and we’re not coming to you from
some company. We’re helping you as
fellow students to have a better time on
campus.’”
Baker
described the
experience of
launching the app
and seeing fellow
students start to
use it.
“We were tabling and people would
come up, and we would say, ‘Have you
heard of the Bridge?’” Baker said. “And
they would answer, ‘Yes, I’m using it,’
and that was so amazing, because this
started as just talk.”
Akpovbovbo discussed how LC as a
community benefits student innovation.
“I know people say that Lewis &
Clark doesn’t have a lot of things,”
Akpovbovbo said. “But I think you can
decide to be like, ‘It doesn’t have a lot of
things, so I’m going to make this thing.’
With enough support, if you push for it,
you can do some really cool things.”Continued from pg. 1
According to The New York Times,
“The decision was a victory for critics
who said the question was part of
an administration effort to skew the
census results in favor of Republicans.”
The census data can be self-
reported online, by phone, on paper or
in-person. April 1 is used as a reference
day for the census, but self-response
begins March 12. The U.S. Census
Bureau will initiate “non-response
follow-ups” beginning in April, by
sending workers to addresses that have
not yet reported in. Follow-ups will
continue until July 24.
“(Enumerators are) going to get a
device, maybe a smartphone, maybe
a tablet — that’s where you’re going
to get all your assignments,” Beth
Federici, a recruiting assistant for the
2020 Census, said. “They’re going to
say, ‘Go here, these are the houses on
this street that people did not fill the
census out. You will bring (the census
up) on the tablet and ... they’ll answer
the questions.”
Historically, the census has faced
issues reaching certain communities.
Jon Coney is a partnership
specialist at the Census Bureau. He
and his team do outreach to various
communities — as part of this effort,
he gave a presentation on the effects of
the census and how to get involved on
Feb. 18.
“There’s some fear out there in a lot of Hispanic communities about what’s
going on in national politics right
now,” Coney said, also identifying a
problem in counting migrant laborers.
“People are moving around a lot, and
just not staying in one place.”
“Renters tend to be hard to count,”
Coney said. “They tend to be a little
bit more transitory, maybe not tied
to their community as much as a
homeowner is, for instance.”
Coney explained that language
barriers and several other obstacles
make gathering census data difficult.
“There’s a lot of fear of law
enforcement — immigration status and
that kind of thing,” Coney said. “To a
lot of people, a census worker showing
up is no different from an ICE agent
showing up or something like that.”
Coney explained that none of the
census data is tied to individuals when
reported.
“The information that the bureau
gathers is all only recorded in aggregate
form,” Coney said. “Only some of that
general (aggregate) information is
actually released publicly or made
available publicly or to other agencies,
etc. All the personally identifiable
information — your name, age, sex and
all that kind of stuff — is under lock
and key. That’s something that’s very,
very important — especially in today’s
world.”
Census records are confidential
until 72 years after each census day.LC students who live on campus
will not individually take the census.
College residence halls are classified as
“group quarters.”
“Someone from the Census Bureau
will come here to Lewis & Clark, talk
to the (head of Campus Living or the
dean of students). All of the families
and students have reported all of their
information to the college when they
enroll here ... and that information will
all be turned over in bulk, so you guys
don’t have to do anything at all.”Students living off campus will have
to respond themselves.
“Five notices will go to them to
invite them to respond and go online,”
Coney said. “And if they don’t, for
whatever reason, that’ll then get an
enumerator visit probably.”
Notices will only be sent to physical
addresses, not post office boxes.
Students living off-campus with P.O.
boxes will be required to self-report in
another manner, such as online or by
telephone.
Continued from pg. 1
Alumni who Detweiler-Bedell
networked with were enthusiastic
about the initiative’s potential.
Tess Gilbert ’08, who works in
epidemiologic and health services
research, expressed that she would
have been involved in the department
if it had existed during her time at LC.
“Being able to minor in Health
Studies and take classes like
epidemiology, which isn’t commonly
taught at the undergraduate level,
will set students up well for future
careers and schooling,” Gilbert said
via email. “It will help future health
care workers have more well-rounded
perspectives of ‘health’ and ‘health care.’”
Detweiler-Bedell clarified that the
minor is not only oriented towards
students looking to fulfill pre-med
requirements.
“This is more a minor for students
who are looking at health from an
... interdisciplinary perspective,”
Detweiler-Bedell said.
The curriculum committee voted
unanimously in favor of the minor,
but faculty have not yet approved it.
The curriculum committee formerly
introduced the initiative as a motion
on Feb. 3. The earliest it will be voted
on is in March. Until then, Detweiler-
Bedell will be available to answer
faculty and student questions.By MATTHEW FELDMAN
BEGINNING MARCH 19, SW
Boones Ferry Road will be
closed for an estimated seven
months between SW Comus Court and
SW Arnold Street, affecting vehicle,
bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The City
of Portland Environmental Services
will construct a bridge over Tryon
Creek, which currently runs under the
road via a culvert (a tunnel carrying a
stream or open drain under a road).
SW Boones Ferry Road is an
essential road for the Lewis & Clark
community and the local area. It is the
fastest way to get to certain areas of
Lake Oswego from campus, and many
students, staff and faculty who live off-
campus take SW Boones Ferry Road to
get to and from campus.
Conner Ayers ’20, an LC student
who regularly uses SW Boones Ferry
Road to commute to campus, says the
closure will be a challenge.
“Oh really?” Ayers said. “That’s
kind of annoying. It’ll add traffic. But
I’ll get to listen to more podcasts.”
According to the City of Portland’s
website, the current culvert cannot
handle large flows of water, which
is detrimental to fish and wildlife
that live in and around Tryon Creek.
Additionally, the culvert does not allow
sufficient access to fish. During the
construction, efforts to reduce erosion
and improve wildlife habitat will also be undertaken. The bridge will include
a trail parallel to the creek.
The culvert is currently one of two
major barriers to fish that exist on
Tryon Creek. Currently, there are plans
to replace the other culvert, located
under Highway 43, with a bridge
as well. This would open up Tryon
Creek to endangered Willamette River
salmon and steelhead.
Mike Jordan, the environmental
services director for the City of
Portland, commented on the project.
“The culvert was a barrier, the
bridge will be a connector,” Jordan
said on the City of Portland website.
“Instead of squeezing the creek into
a dark corrugated pipe, the bridge
will allow one of Portland’s healthiest
streams to flow freely, unlocking
upstream and downstream habitat for
fish. For people and wildlife, the trail
alongside the creek will create a safe
pathway that connects to Southwest
Portland’s extensive trail network.”
A detour is being set up by the
City of Portland (see map), which
will utilize SW Taylors Ferry Road,
SW Stephenson Street and SW
35th Avenue. The detour adds
approximately 10 minutes driving time
to campus. However, this estimate
does not include the likely increased
traffic on the detour due to the traffic.
Portland Bureau of Transportation will
be monitoring the detour to make sure
no traffic issues occur.Census comes to campus, offers
jobs, information to LC students
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A census employee hands out informational flyers about the census on campus.
JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
Detweiler-Bedell, head of health minor.New Health Studies minor will
promote well-rounded perspectives
SW Boones Ferry Rd
to close for construction
COURTESY OF CITY OF PORTLAND
A map showing the upcoming road closure, and the detour suggested by the city.Bridge app facilitates
student participation
“It’s very much a for the
students, by the students
thing.”
Quinn Vinlove ’21FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
OPINION 4
A note of gratitude to Senator Mitt Romney
A thank you to the senator who made history by voting against party lines and on the right side of history
By BELLA MET
IF YOU WERE to tell me anytime
between 2012 and 2016 that I
would be writing an article thanking
Senator Mitt Romney for his courage,
I would have called you insane. As I
am a staunch liberal, Republican Mitt
Romney is a symbol of all that I disagree
with politically. I would never vote for
him because we differ so strongly on
fundamental beliefs. However, I can now
say in 2020 that I agree with him on two
things: President Trump is unlikeable,
and he has committed crimes that warrant
impeachment.
Ever since watching Romney’s
interview with Jimmy Kimmel back
in March of 2016, I knew that he was
someone to pay attention to in a country
divided by politics. He gave witty remarks
like, “Got zero? Got zero. The only people
who got zero are the ones who paid 25
grand to be at Trump University.” This
individual greatly contrasted the bland
2012 presidential nominee I remember.
Instead, I saw a man I could admire
because he was a Republican speaking out
against Trump.
Even after this, I still felt conflicted
about the concept of agreeing with him.
Romney does not support a woman’s full
right to choice. He did not vote to have a
constitutional ban on same-sex marriage,
but has stated that he believes marriage
is an act between a man and a woman.
These are only a few of his political stances
that I disagree with. Personal values are
incredibly relevant because they play a
large role in how we express ourselves
politically. Yet circumstances like the
impeachment should be apolitical, as they are about the core of what is right and
wrong in America.
As impeachment and the election of
2020 have been underway my mind has
been returning to Romney. Although I
thought it would never happen, I had a
strange fantasy that he would run against
Trump. I was hoping for a dash of drama
in a party that is boiling over in delusion.
Little did I know that he would go against
the party, not by running for president,
but by speaking out in something far
more historic: the impeachment trial of
President Trump.
On Feb. 5, Romney gave a speech that
moved many to tears. He stated that he
would be the lone voter of his party to vote
against the president in the impeachment
proceedings. He said, “With my vote, I
will tell my children and their children
that I did my duty to the best of my ability.
Believing that my country expected it of
me. I will only be one name among many.
No more, no less. To future generations
of Americans who’ll look at the record
for this trial. They will note merely that I
was among the senators who determined
that what the president did was wrong.
Grievously wrong.”
Politicians often spew out nonsense
people wish to hear so that they will be
voted for. What Romney declared was
truth in spoken word and action. No
matter where I disagree with the senator,
his action cannot be downplayed. He
elected to vote based on his morals,
rather than playing it safe to secure his
re-election. He voted in favor of what will
be seen as the right side of history. He
voted for justice, and this aspiring lawyer
is relieved that someone in the Republican
party still believes in the true rule of law.
Naturalism: ushering in a radical new era for the world
By GABE KORER
THE ORGAN PIPE National
Monument, which contains
indigenous burial sites and
historically important areas, is under
threat from Trump’s border wall.
Located in the heart of the Sonoran
Desert in Arizona, the monument has
long been a conservatory of sensitive
wildlife habitats and plant-based
ecosystems. Environmental laws were
put in place after its establishment in
1937 to ensure its continued survival
and success, and since then, it has
been a staple of sustainability for the
Southwest.
The current administration has
decided to disrupt that sentiment by
putting policies in place that directly
interfere with it, undermining the
significance of protected areas
all across the U.S. in the process.
Multiple safeguards had previously
been instituted to ensure that the
Organ Pipe National Monument
would exist apart from destructive
human influence, though in retrospect
it is evident that those safeguards were
more symbolic than proponents may
have realized.
This circumstance is indicative
of an overall failure of “naturalist
measures”-measures, whether legal or
rhetorical, concerned with protecting
the natural world. It is clear that a
greater force is necessary to save the
environment from human expansion
and capitalism. Ideally, the force
would be swift yet deliberate, infallible
and all-encompassing. No, I am not talking about divine
providence. Rather, I bring tidings
of a new kind of providence, one that
functions as a sort of leech on the mind,
replacing that which is humanist with
that which is opposed to consumption.
What I speak of is called naturalism.
Naturalism is a philosophy that can be juxtaposed with solipsism, in
which the only real thing is that which
exists in the mind. Naturalism, on the
other hand, believes in the natural
world as the sole source of reality.
It is a common psychoanalytic
understanding that a sense of reality
is of great significance to the human individual. Without it, they can not
hope to exist at all. Instead, they would
be resigned to a liminal state; neither
here nor there, nor really belonging
anywhere. Thus, the human individual
protects their sense of reality at all
costs, recognizing that its absence
would result in a living incubus impossible to escape from.
With that said, the human
individual goes further than mere
protection of their reality. They will
often attempt to enhance it as well,
going so far as to base their entire
life on that one goal. It makes sense
considering that their reality is,
essentially, the only thing that they
know to be true. Why not try to make
it better?
This aspect of human nature has
the unbridled potential to completely
change humankind’s relationship with
the environment. If the fundamentals
of naturalism were to be instilled
in each person-so that their reality
became attuned to it-people would
start to conduct themselves as if the
natural world actually mattered.
Many people today have a distorted
sense of reality (centered around
money, drugs, sex, etc.), which makes
the switch to naturalistic ideals that
much more crucial. The hope is that, by
doing so, we can rid the natural world
of borders and harbor in a new era
of sustainability, values, and change.
Valuable, eco-friendly places such as
the Organ Pipe National Monument
are the areas that would directly stand
to benefit.
The failure of Trump’s Border Wall
to respect the monument is just one
component of a flawed mindset that
places political gain above the natural
world. Only by embracing a mindset of
conservation through limitation can
we curb the disease that afflicts the
environment: humanity.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
OPINION 5
By ALEX BARR
I AM WHAT YOU might call a “bad”
Christian. I drink, swear and take
the Lord’s name in vain so often
you might think He was a close friend.
According to the Old Testament, many of
my extracurriculars would swiftly chuck
me into the fiery pits below. Yet, I have
faith that I am unconditionally saved.
My grandfather was the head minister
at a Presbyterian church for 22 years,
but I rarely attended services when I was
younger. Although I did not meet God
underneath the colored lights of stained
glass windows, I still loved and knew Him
well. I saw God in nature and sunlight, in
the smiles of strangers and in the stories
of loved ones. But where I first saw God
clearly was in my mom’s Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) meetings.
I was a seasoned member of AA
meetings by the time I was 10, even
though I had never had a drink. The
smoke filled clubhouse looked more
like an office space than a church. It was
eclectically decorated, mismatched chairs
and couches left by members throughout
the years. I would sit at a folding table
and color while the recovering addicts
discussed their tragedies and triumphs
of the week. The meetings ended with the
Lord’s prayer, which I would always join. I
laugh at this now. I am the granddaughter
of a well-known minister, but I learned my first prayer through sinners.
When I tell Lewis & Clark students that
I am Christian, I see a flash of fear in their
eyes. Unfortunately, Christians have used
faith as an instrument to spread their own
hate. Despite our shared faith, I myself
was ostracized by the “good” Christians
who knew all of the biblical stories, went
to church camp and put “WWJD” (what
would Jesus do) in their Instagram bio.
Thankfully, for me especially, Jesus does
not care about how many times you go to
church or how many times you take His
name in vain. Unconditional love is not
something you can earn. If you could, it
would cheapen it. His love is given freely,
and there is nothing we can do to earn it
or lose it. Avoiding sin is not a law, simply
advice for living a better life. You cannot
win the title “Christian,” and anyone who
tells you otherwise is misguided.
I believe a lot of LC students would
agree with Jesus’ teachings. Jesus was
a fighter for socialism and a protester
against oppression, especially oppression
of women. Jesus often pointed to women
as models of faith. He protected and
praised adulterous women, sex workers
and poor women. Jesus fought for class
equality. In Matthew 19:24, He said, “It
is easier for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God.” There are so
many stories about Jesus confronting
corrupt rulers that I cannot even think of a specific one to list.
My favorite bible verse, 1 John 4:18
says, “There is no fear in love, but perfect
love casts out fear. For fear has to do
with punishment, and whoever fears
has not been perfected in love.” Jesus is
radically loving, not judging. I know that
I am an imperfect and flawed sinner, but
I also know that I am saved, and nothing
can take that away from me. I know
Christianity has been used to spread
hate, and I see how so many have been
ostracized by Christians for living as they
were created (Jeremiah 1:5). However,
this was done by Christians, not Christ. I
was introduced to Jesus by the ones most
deserving of his message: sinners (Mark
2:17, Luke 7:47). Every Christian is a
sinner, and there is nothing we can do to
change that. We can, however, spread the
love and message of Jesus, to give peace
and hope to others. That is what I want to
do on our campus.
I know many will not agree with me,
nor would I want that. Spirituality is like
a cube with different colored faces. From
my perspective, I see green, but another
person may see purple. It is especially
important on a campus such as LC to
foster a culture of openness and extend
that courtesy to Christianity. Simply
sweeping the whole religion aside seems
to be against the very values that are at
the core of LC: respect, compassion and
expanding our boundaries.How I found Jesus in the company of sinners
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By ERIKA ANDERSON
ON FEB 3., caucus-goers across the
state of Iowa made a decision that
could determine the outcome of
the Democratic primary. At least that
is what history tells us. In every caucus
since 1992, the Democratic winner has
gone on to secure the party’s nomination.
The results of the caucuses can usually
show who is going to rise to the top, but
in this instance, voters are more unsure
about the process than ever.
On Monday night, people across the
nation settled in and waited for results
to roll in. To everyone’s surprise, the
results would not be released until the
following day, with Democratic Party
officials citing problems with an app used
to count the choices of caucus-goers. The
app, developed by Shadow Incorporated,
was said to have been inadequately tested
before it was used during the caucuses.
An extensive recounting process took
place, but failed to clarify what really
happened and who truly won. As of now,
Pete Buttigieg has been declared the
winner, with 26.2% of the vote and 13
delegates. In an extremely close second
was Bernie Sanders, with 26.1% of the
vote and receiving 12 delegates.
Despite these being the official
delegate counts, many people have
expressed their doubt with the validity
of the results. The Associated Press has
said that it is unable to declare a winner
and one look at social media will present
numerous suspicions about Buttigieg’s
victory. It is safe to say that this
experience highlighted the numerous
problems that I and many people have
with the caucus process.
My primary issue with the Iowa
Caucus is the concept of caucusing
itself. Caucusing is an outdated,
inefficient and inherently problematic
way of determining the popularity of
various candidates. A caucus involves
members of a community congregating
at a community center like a gymnasium.
Caucus-goers will go to a corner that
represents their favored candidate.
In order to be considered viable, the
candidate must have at least 15% of
participants in their corner. If their
first pick does not reach this viability threshold, the voters must go to the
corner of their second choice. After the
re-caucusing process, the number of
participants in each area is counted.
As one can tell from this description,
the caucus process can take hours from a
citizen’s day. The time commitment of a
caucus has the potential to exclude many
eligible participants, especially those
who work lengthy hours and those with
children. The New Hampshire primary
that occurred Feb. 11 demonstrated
that there is a way to determine voters’
candidate preferences while still being
time efficient. The results of the primary
were relayed shortly after the polls
closed.
I also took issue with the use of an
app to tally results. There has been a lot
of speculation about the motivations of
the app developers and their connections
to the Buttigieg campaign. The Buttigieg
campaign reportedly paid the company
$42,500 for their texting services. A
founder of the corporation that created
Shadow Inc. is married to a senior
strategist on the Buttigieg campaign.
These connections are concerning, and
while I am not saying they changed the
results to give Buttigieg an advantage,
they are still important to note. Apart
from this, the app complicated the
process even more because of its
shortcomings in reporting the results.
The final qualm I have will the Iowa
Caucus is its lack of representation. The
United States Census Bureau reports that
Iowa is approximately 90.7% white. A
Gallup Poll suggests that the Democratic
Party is about 60% white. Iowa simply
does not contain the demographic
diversity needed for adequate
representation. The Iowa Caucus holds
so much significance when determining
the Democratic nominee, but because
of its lack of diversity it cannot be a true
representation of the party as a whole.
This year’s Iowa Caucus highlighted
why caucusing is so problematic. It is
a long process that has a difficult time
yielding significant results. An alternative
to this could be switching exclusively to
primaries in key states, or updating the
way caucus results are counted. If this
moment taught us anything, it is that
something has to change.
By GABE KORER
IN AUGUST 2019, a social media
account that advocated for
open-carry weapon policies on
Lewis & Clark’s campus was created.
While this account was admittedly
made in jest, it seems pertinent to
give a response. The initial
impulse for some might
be to dismiss the notion of
an open-carry campus as
merely a politicized talking
point, but it remains a
legitimate argument that has
been made in a variety of
different settings, including
state legislatures and online
forums.
In this instance, the central
argument gun rights advocates
would likely make is that not having
an open-carry campus infringes on
the rights guaranteed by the Second
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
as well as the commitment LC has
made toward keeping the student
body safe. There are a couple of
relevant counterpoints here.
First, LC is not a publicly-
funded institution. Rather, it is a
private institution, which means
that the executive or ruling body
can determine its own set of rules
in regard to safety. The Second
Amendment exists as a protective
instrument of the state, which
primarily operates as a public
resource; when a citizen resides
within the private sphere, it is
the surrounding institutions’
responsibility to ensure the safety of
the citizen.
Additionally, the legal validity of
a measure depends on precedence
and necessity. There is little
precedence when it comes to
enforcing open-carry policies on
educational institutions, particularly
private ones. The fact remains that,
historically speaking, entities like
LC have been free to regulate their
security affairs without government
intervention.
In terms of necessity, I would
argue that a lack of conceivable
threats makes the need for an open-
carry policy difficult to discern.
Violent crimes, especially those
involving weapons, rarely happen
on campus or in the surrounding
neighborhood. Suffice it to say, on-
campus cougars present the greatest
threat to the LC community at the
present moment.
LC has also effectively fulfilled its safety commitment to the student
body already. Data indicates that
threats of a violent nature are
seldom found on campus, making
the presence of weaponry pointless.
On the off chance that one was to
arise, LC employs a campus police
force that are equipped to deal with
the emergence of a threat.
Moreover, it is conceivable that
implementing an open-carry policy
runs the risk of degrading the very
area it seeks to enhance: security.
Not only would armed students and teachers give LC campus police an
added, unnecessary worry, but it
could also lead directly to violence.
It is logical that when you allow
someone to have something, the
odds of them using it increase
substantially; when it comes to
firearms, this is exactly what people
do not want.
Irrespective of how you
personally feel about this
issue, it is important that
we collectively address it
as a community through
civil discourse. The open-
carry social media account,
though satirical in nature,
represents the emergence
of a running dialogue that
will make progress toward reaching
common ground between open-
carry advocates and dissenters. Gun
control is a multi-faceted topic with
many sides to discuss; let’s make
sure that we cover them all. Open-carry policies on campuses
offer little safety or practicality
RAYA DEUSSEN/PIONEER LOGNot only would armed students and
teachers give LC campus police an
added, unnecessary worry, but it
could also lead directly to violence.Satirical Instagram account sparks concern over open-carry
LIV NICKS-TURNEY/PIONEER LOGIowa Caucuses proves
system is inefficientFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
FEATURES 6
E&D colloquium series concludes with musical finale
By VENUS EDLIN
LEWIS & CLARK invited the
Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) to
perform at the final Exploration &
Discovery (E&D) Colloquium “Sounds
Without Borders” on Feb. 12.
The ASQ, comprised of Zakarias
Grafilo as first violin, Frederick Lifsitz as
second violin, Paul Yarbrough on viola
and Sandy Wilson on cello, is a world-
renowned group that started in 1981.
The ASQ frequently plays at student
events and has visited LC as guests in
music classes in the past.
This is the only colloquium, or
academic seminar, that has featured live
music, which was something Director of
E&D and Professor of Music Eleonora
Beck felt passionate about including.
Next year, E&D will be replaced by
Words and Numbers.
“This is E&D’s last hurrah, and so
we wanted a party atmosphere,” Beck
said. “I wanted to celebrate, and I’m a
musician, so what I celebrate most with
is music.”
Though the program centered around
music, Beck hoped that all first-years got
something out of the experience. She
encourages students who may not be
musically oriented to challenge how they
think about music.
“I would like (the students) to
understand the hard work that goes into
being a professional musician,” Beck
said. “I don’t think a lot of students these
days get the opportunity to say they want
to be an artist, a musician.”
The quartet kept in mind that not
all students are involved in music. To
supplement the different movements,
or isolated parts of a musical piece,
the quartet guided the audience with
questions to provoke thought. They also
provided background information about
the composers and pieces played.
Liftsitz said that communicating
with students is a vital aspect of their
performance.
“We as musicians aim to be accessible
to (students),” Liftsitz said. “We want to
let them know we’re there as a resource.”
To open the program, the ASQ discussed the theme “Sounds Without
Borders,” mentioning that all of the
pieces they played were written by
composers influenced by cultures
other than their own. The group told
the crowd they wanted to inspire the
younger generation to “make bridges,
not walls.” They played movements from
four different composers and, due to
extra time, played some selections from
Mozart.
Leo Bernstein Newman ’23 is in
Associate Professor of History Susan
Glosser’s E&D, “The Asian American
experience” and views the colloquium
as an opportunity to challenge himself
to think from a different cultural
perspective through music. He finds
this not only useful for his particular
E&D class, but for studying history and
modern-day culture in general.
“A lot of modern American history
is really about globalization as a result
of imperial strength and the waves of
immigration that come subsequently,”
Bernstein Newman said. “A lot of the
music we heard reflected that same
historical pattern.”
The ASQ opened with the first
movement from French composer
Maurice Ravel’s “String Quartet in F
Major.” The composer was inspired by
Balinese Gamelan music.
Liftsitz said that this was Ravel’s
only string quartet and that it marked
a historical event as it was played at the
opening of the Eiffel Tower in 1887.
“People came from all over the
French-speaking imperial world to first
experience high quality rhythmic and
colorful music,” Liftsitz said.
The second piece was composed
by Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi
in 2017. “Daughters of Sol” is strongly
influenced by Farsi poetry, as well as by
musicians like Ravel and others from
Holland, where Darvishi has spent a lot
of her life. This was the first time the
ASQ played this piece.
Darvishi’s piece stuck out to
Bernstein Newman, who is a musician
himself.
“The way she employed dissonance
in the notes ... I was trying to understand why there’s so much friction when
everything sounded, and everything
appeared to be one note,” Bernstein
Newman said.
The quartet then moved on to play
the second movement from “String
Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94” from
English composer Benjamin Britton.
This piece has Russian, Hungarian and
Bulgarian influences. It was composed
a few weeks before Britton died in 1976.
The last planned piece was the
fourth movement from Czech composer
Antonin Dvorak’s “String Quartet No.
12 in F major, Op. 96.” Dvorak moved
to New York with his wife to be part of a
conservatory after spending the majority of his life in Prague.
Dvorak was inspired by Native
American traditional music and African
American spirituals while living in the
U.S., both of which were influences on
the piece that the ASQ played. The piece
is also nicknamed “The American.”
This piece also interested Bernstein
Newman.
“It was this really strange,
otherworldly blend of Czech classical
music, which sounds like itself was
heavily folk influenced, and American
music of the early 1880s,” Bernstein
Newman said. “It’s amazing he was able
to capture early Ragtime modalities in
the music.”The performers were impressed
by LC students’ engagement with the
program.
“LC students are receptive and not
afraid to discuss and add on to what we
think of as a conversation, rather than a
lecture,” Liftsitz said.
This was the desired effect Beck
wanted the event to have, calling it her
“swan song.” In her eyes, it was a fitting
way to close the E&D program in a way
that centers around the musical aspect of
the liberal arts curriculum.
“This is just a culmination of a lot of
hard work and dedication,” Beck said.
“I’m very happy about it as we move
forward.”The Alexander String Quartet performed for the final E&D colloquium, “Sounds Without Borders”
VENUS EDLIN/PIONEER LOG
Members of the Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) perform in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel for the final E&D colloquium of the year.A celebration of all things moss: a symposium
By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE NATURAL History Club’s
second annual symposium
about moss biology, fondly
referred to as Moss Appreciation
Week, kicked off on Feb. 9. This year,
the symposium included workshops, a
moss petting zoo, a keynote lecture and
the opportunity for attendees to meet
a tardigrade, a micro-animal found in
moss known colloquially as the “water
bear.” Alongside all of these events,
a moss portrait contest encouraged
interaction and participation between
students and faculty.
The week began with a moss
identification workshop led by
Portland State University’s Herbarium
Manager John Christy. He delivered
an hour long presentation, followed
by a chance to look at micro-animals
Christy had caught from his own
moss samples. Chemistry major Ellie
Draves ’20 attended the workshop.
“I have gone to some of their
workshops in the past that have been
less moss related, however I love
mycology (the study of mushrooms),
and this seemed like a cool tangent off
of that, so I decided to give this a try,”
Draves said. “It is always fun to do
something that’s sort of related to your
major in STEM but also very different
and something that I wouldn’t be able
to study because I don’t have room in
my schedule to take a bunch of classes
about natural history.”
Along with its workshops and
keynote lecture, the Natural History
Club held a pop-up moss petting zoo
on the second floor of the Watzek. 19
different species of moss were present.
Alongside note cards displaying
their scientific names, there were magnifying glasses to better explore
these furry non-vascular plants. In
addition to petting, attendees were
able to pick up a few moss week and
Natural History Club stickers.
Unlike last year, moss identification
was not the only moss week workshop.
On Feb. 11, a macro-photography
workshop merged STEM fields with
the arts. Educational Technology
Specialist Justin Counts led this workshop. Alex Olson ’20 and Hannah
Machiorlete ’20, both biology majors,
were studying abroad for the first time
the Natural History Club put on moss
week. This did not stop them from
becoming co-organizers this year.
“This is one of the first natural
history symposiums Lewis & Clark
has ever had,” Machiorlete said. “The
biology department doesn’t really
put on symposia. They have a biology seminar, but that’s about the extent of
the celebration.”
The Natural History Club has
similar events like a plant pressing
workshop but none that are as
intensive and thorough as moss week.
“There is more of an artistic
extension in the program this year
because last year only included the
identification workshop and the
keynote lecture,” Olson said. “We were able to make this happen through the
connections we have made as curators
of the natural history collection or as
members of the natural history club.”
Two days after the macro-
photography workshop, Sophie
Dimont ’20, a biology major hosted
the tardigrade meet-and-greet.
Attendees saw these extremophilic
invertebrates through microscopes
that were set up in the Watzek Library
Classroom. Following the meeting,
Professor of Biology Bianca Breland
delivered a keynote lecture focusing
on moss’s proximity to the base of the
phylogenetic tree.
“It has been such a treat to connect
with the community in so many
different ways like the moss petting
zoo,” Olson said. “I think we reached a
lot of people with moss that wouldn’t
normally have been exposed to this
kind of information. I would love to
see moss week continue after I leave.”
Since both Olson and Machiolete
are seniors, moss week requires new
leadership if it is to continue next
year.
“I would love to see some event
looking at the ethnobotanical uses of
moss,” Machiolete said. “I think there
is a deficit in (the) cultural knowledge
of plants. At Lewis & Clark, I think
there would be a lot of people who
would be interested in that.”
The Natural History Club will be
putting on a weekend-long scientific
illustration workshop led by a
scientific illustrator this March. Along
with a plant pressing workshop, the
club will also soon start to host regular
meetings that community members
are welcome to attend. Those
interested in joining or learning more
can email the Natural History Club at
naturalhistoryclub@lclark.edu.LC’s student-run Natural History Club brings moss experts and microscopic organisms to campus
GABRIEL MANTIONE-HOLMES/PIONEER LOG
Professors and student alike observe and inspect various specimens during the moss identification workshop in Watzek Library.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
FEATURES 7
BY AIDAN D’ANNA
ON FEB . 11 a small group of
students gathered under
the string lights of the
Multicultural Resource Center
(MRC) in Templeton to discuss
health inequity at Lewis & Clark and
in the world. This was the second
workshop in a series put on by the
Office of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) Wokeshop Series.
Luca Sax ’22 is one of the IME’s
peer educators who helped design
and facilitate the Wokeshops.
“We can pick whatever topic is
interesting to us, and (one that) we
think our community needs to have
more of a conversation around ... it’s
a discussion space, but also a space to
share resources and get involved on
campus,” Sax said.
The Wokeshop began with a brief
icebreaker, orienting people to the
space and the topic to ensure that
everyone was comfortable and willing
to speak freely. Sax then handed
out worksheets to the participants,
and asked them an open-ended
question: what does health mean to
you? Participants were given a few
minutes to collect their thoughts, and
then the conversation began to flow.
Sheyla Dorantes ’22, another
IME peer educator, was the first
person to share their thoughts on the
complexities of health.
“To me ... physical health just
means not being sick ... but mental
health is different,” Dorantes said.
“There are more factors.”
This led to a discussion of not
just what health is, but the factors
that informed each person’s answers.
Upbringing played a large role in
many answers. Participants talked
about how some households have a more medically conservative mindset
where you can only go to the doctor if
you absolutely need it, while in some
families doctor visits are far more frequent.
Subsequently, the group began
discussing inequity in healthcare
across the country. The group covered the issues of lack of LGBTQ+
representation in school sexual
education classes, the dominance of
white men in healthcare professions and the dismissal of Eastern
(“alternative”) medicine. Dorantes
said that capitalism contributes
to “poor people diseases” such as
diabetes by driving prices for healthy
foods up and unhealthy foods down.
For the second half of the
Wokeshop, Sax and Dorantes turned
the conversation to health education
specifically at LC.
“We felt like there wasn’t much
of a discussion going on around
(health disparities and intersectional
identities) on this campus, and
we wanted to bring that topic up
again and provide space for people
to exchange how they engage with
health in their personal lives,” Sax
said.
The group discussed mental
health on campus, LC’s Pioneer
Success Institute “Sexual Health and
Wellness” section and shortcomings
of the LC Counseling Center.
“The counseling or health centers
have the potential to help students
but are either not staffed, funded or
advertised well enough to make them
as useful as they can be,” Sax said.
Sax then asked participants to
share one thing they do every day
to maintain their health as a way to
conclude the Wokeshop. Participants
brought up everything from UV light
to playing music and singing along.
“I hope that the students who
come to our Wokeshops gain a
sense of confidence, validation and
community ... to know that there
are other students who share the
same experience or sentiment as you
can mean so much for a minoritized
student who thought they were
alone,” Dorantes said via email.
IME’s next Wokeshop is on Feb.
25 in the MRC and is entitled “Post-
Black Art in Racialized America.”
BY WILL TOPPIN
OVER ITS 153 year tenure as
an institution, Lewis & Clark
College has had a grand total of
26 presidents, interim presidents and
acting presidents. Some of their names
are likely familiar to current students, as
they live on in the names of buildings on
campus: for example Morgan S. Odell
of Odell dormitory and Rev. William J.
Monteith of the Monteith meeting room
in Templeton, named for the College’s
first president. (The Odell dormitory
was actually named for the college’s
then-first lady, Ruth Odell.)
Rev. William J. Monteith was
Albany College’s first president, serving
a one-year term from 1867 to 1868.
(Albany College was renamed to Lewis
& Clark College in 1942 when it moved
to its current campus on the Fir Acres
estate.) The institution was originally
founded on land gifted by Monteith’s
brother. The college was established
through a partnership of Linn County
and the Presbytery of Oregon, under
the direction of Monteith and another
pastor. Monteith’s term was short: he
resigned during the next summer so he
could dedicate himself to being a pastor
at the Albany Presbyterian Church.
Wallace Howe Lee was president
from 1895 to 1905, and again from
1915 to 1920. Lee worked as an English
professor, a professor of Ancient and
Modern Languages, the director of the
music and the president of the college
over his many years at the school.
During his first nineteen years, he
was heavily involved with local choir
programs.
At the time, the institution was
working to pay off the debt from the
mortgage on its property, so Lee’s
salary was reduced to whatever was left
in the budget after all other salaries and
expenses were paid. Due to the tight
budget, Lee taught all of the college
classes with three assistants, and
some at the academy (which fed into
the college). The college also offered scholarships for the first time under
Lee’s presidency. Lee himself chose
students worthy of aid, and paid for
their scholarships out of his own salary.
In 1905, Lee resigned, going on
to spend six years as an assistant
pastor at Seattle’s First Presbyterian
Church, and then three years as the
Dean of Whitworth College. In 1914,
he returned to LC for another 22 years,
“during which time he occupied every
administrative position,” according to
the LC Archives. He taught classes on
literature, education and religion and
remained a large influence on campus
musical life.
President Morgan S. Odell served
from 1942 to 1960. His term began at a
critical juncture: the college’s transition
to Fir Acres Estates in 1942. Odell had
served in the Italian Army during WWI
and had earned his doctorate from the
Divinity School of the University of
Chicago. Odell met with Aaron Frank,
the man who sold Fir Acre Estates to
LC, while he was being considered as
a candidate. “Aaron Frank advised the
trustees, ‘He is your man. Don’t let
him get away from us. We need him in
Portland,’” according to LC Archives.
After a stall in his selection due to
the start of WWII, Odell was officially
invited to the presidency. Under his
leadership, the college prospered in its
new location. In 1943, Odell reported,
“The college is better off financially
than it has been for twenty years. The
new campus is debt-free. With growing
church and individual support, we can
carry on through the present academic
year, without undue financial strain,”
according to LC Archives.
Odell retired in 1960, after an
accomplished career as president. He
was much beloved by students.
“To the students, Dr. Odell is the
fortress of decision; to the faculty, he is
the citadel of resolution,” Ann Granning
at the Pioneer Log said in 1952. “He does
not walk or talk or act like a man placed
high above others, but as a man placed
among others to work with them.”BY TOBY BAZELEY
UPON WALKING into Fields
Dining Hall, one of the first
things you might see is a
sign advertising Bon Appétit’s food
donation partnership with Urban
Gleaners, a food donation and
assistance non-profit. A similar sign
can be found at the dish bin, and
the program is promoted on their
website.
Although a 2018 Pioneer Log
article revealed that Bon Appétit had
not consistently donated food for
the previous two years, the donation
system has now been restored.
According to Ryan Jensen, the Bon
Appétit general manager at Lewis &
Clark, the program was restarted the
day the article was published. Jensen
said he had left to work at another
college in the area during the period
that the “gleaning,” their term for
collecting and donating food, had
stopped.
“When I left, we were gleaning,”
Jensen said. “And when I came back
... I was not aware until
that news article
came out at the
end of that
week that
it had been
disrupted.
So we were
on the phone,
by eight
o’clock in the
morning ...
and got (Urban
Gleaners) set back
up to come back
out.”
Jensen said he was
disappointed to find out
about the lack of gleaning
when he returned, and he said
Bon Appétit tries to waste as little
food as possible. “We try to minimize the food
that we donate,” Jensen said, “not
because we don’t want to donate
food, but we would like to not have
the waste in the first place so we can
put those resources back into the
food programs for our guests.”
Cas Mulford ’23, a student worker
at Fields Dining Hall, confirmed that
workers donate food, but pointed
out that there are limitations on how
much is donated.
“We have a system to donate
the food, but it doesn’t always get
donated,” Mulford said. “Right now,
how it works is we have one cart that
we reserve just for Urban Gleaners
food, and once that cart is full we
can’t donate anymore beyond that, so
we just compost (the rest).”
Mulford said that there are
limitations as to what Urban Gleaners
will accept, such as food from the
salad bar can not be donated, but
proteins can. Jensen mentioned these
same limitations. Mulford also said
that how much gets sorted on a given
night can depend on how strict the
managers are, but that gleaning is
something that is emphasized
to workers.“When I was trained they put a
pretty heavy emphasis on it,” Mulford
said.
Despite the limitations on what
can be donated, Clare Stager,
Program Director at Urban Gleaners,
stated that Bon Appétit at LC was
one of the non-profit’s largest food
donors in 2019.
“We pick up a giant amount
of food from them every Tuesday
morning, and I actually just pulled
up the weight ... from 2019,” Stager
said. “It’s 27,716 pounds (12,571
kilograms).”
According to Urban Gleaners,
approximately one in five children in
the state of Oregon are food insecure,
and their mission is to help feed those
children and low-income families.
The non-profit sets up markets at
elementary schools where families
can take food when picking up their
kids.
“We’re getting all the food from
your cafeterias,” Stager said. “And
then we repackage (it) into meals
for what we like to say is a family
of four, approximately, and then
we redistribute all that food to low-
income families and kids.” IME “Wokeshop” discusses health inequity
Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement sponsors dialogue around inequality on campus
Historic LC: timeline
of three LC Presidents Bon Appétit restarts food donation
program after unplanned hiatusAIDAN D’ANNA/PIONEER LOG
Students gather in the Multicultural Resource Center to discuss inequities in mental and physical health on campus.
ADA BARBEE/PIONEER LOGUrban Gleaners collects 14 tons of food from LC annuallyFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS 8
Japanese Garden honors Hiroshima victims
New exhibition features photographs of artifacts donated by families of those killed in WWII bombing
By HANNA MERZBACH
IN COMMEMORATION of the 75th
anniversary of the end of WWII,
the Portland Japanese Garden is
recognizing 2020 as the “Year of Peace.”
The garden has started the year with
an exhibit called “Spirits Rising: ひろ
しま / hiroshima” by Ishiuchi Miyako,
open from Jan. 18 until March 15 in
the Pavilion and Tanabe Galleries. The
exhibit features photos of items and
clothing left behind by the victims of the
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at
the close of WWII.
The artifacts themselves are
all housed in the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum, which receives
donations and artifacts from the family
members of those that died. The
museum invited Miyako to document
the items, after seeing her photography
series documenting her late mother’s
belongings. After her mother died in
2000, Miyako took pictures of her
mother’s possessions, like her lingerie
and lipsticks, as a means of coping with
the death.
Like her “Mother’s” series, Miyako’s
Hiroshima seeks to connect the past
and present, focusing on memorializing
the human touch. According to Lead
Gallery Attendant Mona Ozaki, prior to
Miyako, mostly men had documented
the Hiroshima artifacts, taking photos in
black and white in a forensic-like style.
Ozaki described how Miyako’s style
differed from this.
“When she went in and started
interacting with the items, she began
to feel a sense of the spirit of the people
and wanted to convey that,” Ozaki said.
“So she is working in color, and she’s working in this large format.”
Many of the pieces — like a photo
of a women’s dress and a tarnished
blouse — are near life-size. Yet unlike
most exhibits, the pieces do not have
descriptions. According to the gallery
attendants, Miyako wanted viewers to
focus less on reading descriptions and
more on connecting with the items and
the people who wore them.
Julia Marshall, the other lead gallery
attendant, further described Miyako’s
intent behind not including descriptors.
“The artist wanted everything to be
left to interpretation,” Marshall said.
“In the Hiroshima Peace Memorial,
there are the artifacts and then there are
descriptions, and is a very documentary-
like approach. (Miyako) didn’t want
that. She wanted these artifacts to be
recognized as they were, not just for
their history, but as beautiful items of
clothing and accessories because each of
those items touched human skin.”
The photographs are laid out
asymmetrically within the gallery.
Marshall explained that Miyako wanted
to give an illusion of the Hiroshima
spirits being present in the gallery
through this dynamic arrangement.
“So as you can see, they’re all
floating,” she said. “So in a way, they’re
all moving. Even the way they’re laid out,
shows movement with all the folds and
wrinkles and clothing ... that’s why some
photographs are higher than the other,
and then some of these are also lit from
a lightbox or shot on top of a lightbox, to
show the intricacy of the textiles.”
The doors of the Pavilion Gallery, the
main location of the exhibit, are open
behind some of the photographs to give
an impression of a spiritual glow. The walls of the gallery are made of shoji, or
translucent paper panels, intended to
integrate the space with the surrounding
garden. The veranda outside of the
Pavilion offers a view of the outside flat
garden, which is meant to be viewed
from this single point like a landscape
painting.
The Portland Japanese Garden
was founded in the late 1950s to give
Portlanders an opportunity to connect
with the serene cultural landscape, as
well as to build a greater cross-cultural
understanding with Japan post-WWII.
Ozaki explained that the garden decided
to recognize 2020 as the Year of Peace
and feature this exhibit because it was
founded upon a desire to repair relations
with Japan.
“We need to face what we did—this
is the effect of what we did,” Ozaki said.
“People are still donating things to the
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum).
So they’re still grieving or dealing with
the aftereffects.”
Throughout the year, the garden
will hold exhibits featuring Japanese
calligraphy, architecture and glass
sculptures mimicking water patterns.
The Year of Peace will conclude with
a photography exhibit exploring the
healing power of Japanese gardens for
internees at Manzanar Relocation Camp
during WWII.
“There’s so much to WWII,” Ozaki
said. “There’s the whole internment of
Japanese Americans, which we will deal
with in our last exhibit this year. But it’s
fraught. There’s so much that we could
do wrong and that we could do right. It’s
not going to be the easiest year in the
gallery ... but it’s an opportunity to have
these conversations.”HANNA MERZBACH/PIONEER LOG
Tattered blouse among other victims’ belongings are displayed at the exhibition.
Thoughts and reflections on the 92nd Academy Awards
By WILL LEWIS
THE 92ND ACADEMY Awards,
which aired on Feb. 9, made
history in multiple ways. To
begin, it had the lowest ratings and
viewing of any Academy Award show
in history. On a more positive note,
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” took home
the Best Picture award, making it the
first ever foreign film to accomplish
that feat. Yet, despite what appears
to be a win for diversity, the award
show largely followed tradition,
as it was just as white-washed as
previous years with very few films
made by directors of color receiving
nominations.
The Oscar winners are chosen by
members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, a group
of unknown individuals who have
watched these films and judged
them accordingly. They typically
choose specific types of films for
Oscar nominations, generally period
pieces or films including themes
of overcoming struggle, such as
“Birdman,” “12 Years a Slave” and
“The King’s Speech.” Their narrow
focus on what constitutes an Oscar-
worthy film has led to the term
“Oscar bait,” a film solely produced
to win Oscars. In other words, certain
directors may choose to create a film
that they believe will win awards as
opposed to producing something of
significant artistic merit.
It is safe to say that the nominees
for the 2020 Academy Awards
strayed from the standard material
of previous Oscar winners. For
starters, “Parasite” swept the award
show, taking home numerous awards
including Best Picture. The film won
additional awards for Best Director,
Best Foreign Language Film and Best
Original Screenplay.
“Parasite” has a different
tone than the rest of the films
nominated, as it occupies the space
between experimental arthouse
and popular blockbuster with a mix
of heavy dialogue and action. The film alternates between mundane
moments and action until it
culminates in a chaotic, unexpected
shift, falling into the genres of
comedy, thriller and mystery
simultaneously.
The film’s plot focuses on a lower-
class family in South Korea who
infiltrates an upper-class family’s
home through luck and ingenuity.
Through showing the dichotomy
existing between wealth and
poverty, the film undoubtedly serves
as a commentary on our current
sociopolitical climate and the vast
wealth discrepancies thought the
world.
Notably, despite its popularity at
the Academy Awards, the film has not
been seen by many viewers in the U.S.
Due to its status as a foreign language
film, certain people in the US did not
bother to see it because it requires
the audience to read subtitles for over
two hours.
Similar to “Parasite,” a common
theme uniting many of the
nominations was opposites unifying
in unexpected ways. As today’s society
has become increasingly polarized
politically, socially and economically,
many of the nominated films work to
transcend this divisiveness through
showcasing how very different people
are able to work as a unit toward a
common goal.
The two main characters in
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
exemplify this theme, as one is a well
off movie star living in the Hollywood
hills and one is a stuntman who lives
in a trailer. Similarly, “1917” tells
the story of two soldiers fighting
together in World War I, one of
whom is proud to be a soldier and
the other does not want to go to war.
“Ford v. Ferrari,” which took home
the award for Best Cinematography,
additionally demonstrates this theme
through featuring the partnership of
a no-games mechanic and race car
driver Ken Miles and smooth-talking
salesman Carol Shelby.
While quite often the popular hashtag #oscarssowhite rings true,
the traditionally white-centric
Academy Awards culture was
disrupted by its new appreciation for
the work of foreign filmmakers. In
previous years impressive films made
by people of color and/or surrounding
the stories of people of color have
been overlooked. That being said, the
Oscars failed to recognize numerous
other films showcasing the African
American experience such as “Us,”
“Queen & Slim” and “Dolemite Is
My Name.” Aside from “Parasite,”
the bulk of the films nominated
exclusively portrayed the experiences
of white men and women.
The Academy Awards have
great potential to be a platform
for honoring the stories of diverse
perspectives and should strive to
amplify usually overlooked and
silenced voices in both the Hollywood
and global environment. While this
year’s awards made progress in
becoming more inclusive, there is still
much work to be done in the future. Academy Awards makes history giving foreign language film
“Parasite” Best Picture, still has a long way to go for diversityExclusivity of streaming services hinders
accessibility of Oscar nominated films
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
WHILE WATCHING the 92nd
Academy Awards, I began
reflecting on the issues
plaguing the Oscars. In the past few
years, the awards show has been called
out multiple times for its celebration
of the mainstream, honoring films
created almost entirely by white men.
As I was viewing, I thought to myself,
how much longer can presenters keep
joking about not enough women and
people of color being nominated before
they are actually nominated?
I was glad to see that the Korean
film “Parasite” won Best Picture. For
once, it seemed as if the Academy had
finally made the right choice in picking
a film that garnered not only critical
but popular acclaim. It was something
new, different and diverse, rather than
the award going to a type of film that
has been nominated several times
before: another film about war, another
superhero related story or a film I have
somehow never even heard of.
A much less talked about disparity
within awards shows lies in the fact
that many of the films and TV series
nominated for both the Oscars and the
Golden Globes can only be watched
on certain online streaming services.
One must subscribe to several different
streaming services to simply stay
caught up with critically acclaimed
media. This is something most people
cannot afford to pay for, which makes
the Academy Awards even more elitist
and exclusive.
“The Irishman,” which was
nominated for Best Picture, premiered
with a limited theatrical release, which
excluded more accessible theaters
such as Regal Movies and Cinemark.
“The Irishman” was then released
exclusively on Netflix, making it only
available to subscribers and even
further limiting how many people can
watch it. “Marriage Story” followed
a near identical path, with a limited
theatrical release and a subsequent
release to Netflix only. You cannot
see two out of the nine Best Picture nominees unless you subscribe to
Netflix, something that the Academy
evidently assumes that everyone has
the ability to do.
To put it into perspective, Netflix’s
cheapest plan starts at $8.99 per
month, Amazon Prime for students
costs $59.00 per year and HBO costs
$14.99 per month. While a ticket for
seeing a movie in theaters can cost
about as much as a Netflix subscription,
staying up to date with media across all
streaming services means these prices
get stacked, and one can end up paying
over a hundred dollars per year to
access current media.
While two films do not seem like a
whole lot, it adds up as this happens
across different years and varying
award shows. Take 2018’s Oscar-
winning “Roma,” another Netflix
original. Another example is from
the 2019 Golden Globes, as award-
winning series such as “Fleabag” and
“Chernobyl” are exclusive to Amazon
Prime and HBO, respectively.
Streaming-exclusive shows and
movies seem to be on the rise as
these services continue to create
their own content. Should these films
even be eligible for awards if they
are only available to subscribers of
each streaming service? I believe they
still should be considered; however,
streaming services and theaters should
make accessibility a priority so more of
the general population can see these
films. This could happen more easily
through wider releases in mainstream
theaters, which would create more
revenue and benefit the creators,
companies and a film goers with
varying income levels.
Not everyone can afford the luxury
of subscribing to every streaming
service just to stay up to date on
popular media. And while this
tendency to nominate Netflix and
Amazon Prime-exclusive films and
series for prestigious awards seems
to be increasing, I can only hope that
someday this disparity is addressed
either by the Academy or fans of these
awards shows.ADA BARBEE/PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS
By JULIA SALOMONE
ACTIVISTS AND art fanatics alike
will enjoy the unique fusion of
industry and nature in Mike
Vos’ new environmentally-charged
photography exhibit. Open from
Feb. 7 to March 27 at PushDot Studio
in Southeast Portland, the exhibit
“Someday This Will All Be Gone” leaves
viewers with an unsettling mix of hope
and sadness.
Using double exposure, or shooting
two separate photographs on the same
piece of film, Vos blends images of
industrial and natural landscapes, all
shot on a four by five film camera from
1916. Since the photos are produced
without external computer work, Vos
shoots based on an initial idea, with the
end result unknown until the second
photo is taken.
One image that stands out when I
walk into the exhibit is a photograph of the abandoned Olympia Nuclear Power
Plant located in Washington state.
Vos overlays the image of the power
plant onto an image
of a forested area
in Washington. The
beauty of the image
lies in how viewers
perceive the blending
of the two photos.
Vos’ goal of removing
people from their
reality and immersing
them into his vision
of the world is fully
realized as you walk from photograph
to photograph within the studio.
These dual-images showcase a post-
human world, displaying the resurgence
of nature in the wake of humanity’s
end. Through his photography, Vos
explores and brings to life the following
question: when humans are gone, what
will the world look like? “The photos fall into this idea
of humans creating this industrial
landscape that they consider too big to
fail — like the idea that
this is so large that it
can’t possibly run out
of money or interest
because we’ve invested
this much time and
energy into it,” Vos
said. “But, in reality,
there is nothing
permanent about this
landscape.”
Vos was awarded
a grant from the Regional Arts and
Culture Council to build this project,
which led him to drive across the U.S.
three times to capture photos of natural
spaces and declining landscapes. The
exhibition is the product of this project
with fourteen photographs taken in
over ten states.
Vos explains that this project
stemmed from strong feelings he had
concerning the state of the world and
the environment. Although his creative
pursuits began in music, four years
ago Vos started experimenting with
photography and entered into the world
of visual art. It was when he was gifted a
camera by a friend for the first time that
he was able to begin bringing his strong
environmentally focused ideas to life.
“This project is a way for me to
cope with the anxiety and the guilt I
felt about my tacit involvement in a lot
of the things that go wrong with our
ecosystem,” Vos said. “It was a way for
me to mentally escape but also create
something based around a subject I feel
very strongly about.”
In the future, Vos plans to continue
this project of conveying a world without
humans through visual art. Leaving
the exhibit, I felt a strange melancholy
feeling over these photographs of
abandoned places and untouched
landscapes. Each photograph holds a
sort of quiet hopefulness about the state
of the environment, and what the future
might hold for it. Vos photography exhibit blends
natural and developed sceneryHispanic Studies professor publishes book exploring underground literary movements in Latin America
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
FOR THOSE who feel discouraged
when an interesting show requires
the commitment of watching
dozens of 20-episode-long seasons, a
little something called the “miniseries”
offers a less time-intensive form of
entertainment. Some of miniseries from
the last couple of years include “Big
Little Lies” and “Chernobyl,” both of
which received both critical and popular
acclaim.
A miniseries, officially defined in
the Oxford English Dictionary as “a
television drama presented as a small
number of feature-length episodes,”
tells a story in a limited amount of time.
This keeps the plot concise and relevant
while also preventing the companies
and writers from excessively drawing
out the content for multiple seasons due
to viewer demand.
Take pretty much any book series
that was adapted into a film series,
such as “Harry Potter” or “The Hunger
Games.” Both popular series have
sparked the following question from
fans online: what if these stories were
someday remade as miniseries? While
it seems unnecessary, as popular and
well-liked film adaptations have already
been made for these two particular
series, the idea behind the miniseries
can be beneficial for other adaptations
of books.
Breaking out of the two-hour time
restriction that comes with a film
adaptation, the miniseries allows for
deeper character and plot development,
which are the central components that
most fans feel movie adaptations fail to
accomplish. A longer timeline allows
for a much more accurate and direct
adaptation, and separate episodes let
creators maintain suspense without
extending the story too far beyond the
original source material.
Yet, the question remains: is a
miniseries always the best option?
After Stephen King was dissatisfied
with Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his book “The Shining,” he went on to write
the script for a miniseries adaptation of
his novel in 1997. Despite the author’s
direct relation to the production of the
miniseries, it is largely disregarded
by fans of the original film version of
the “The Shining.” While this is likely
because Kubrick’s film maintains such
a large cult following, it still leaves one
to question whether or not a book is
always best suited to a miniseries over
a film.
On a different note, a miniseries
might be something you can easily
forget about. Once it is done, it is done,
and fans do not have the opportunity
to wait in suspense for new content.
Therefore, the hype surrounding it is
typically short-lived, which can render
it less successful than a potential serial
program.
No matter your thoughts on a
miniseries versus a film or TV show, the
miniseries is indisputably on the rise.
“Chernobyl” (2019) won two Golden
Globe awards, and less recent but still
notable “Big Little Lies” (2017) received
widespread praise. While “Big Little
Lies” strayed from the novel in the
second season, it was still created under
a limited run with short, seven-episode
seasons.
Miniseries have won awards and
sometimes been just as popular as
regular TV programs. This newly
popularized media form will surely
continue to be relevant and can
hopefully change the way that book
adaptations are made for the screen.Bookwarming presents professor’s new book
By CASPER PIERCE
ASSISTANT Professor of Hispanic
Studies Magalí Rabasa’s new
book, “The Book in Movement:
Autonomous Politics and the Lettered
City Underground” was featured in
a bookwarming hosted by Assistant
Professor of English Jerry Harp. The
book investigates the world of political
underground publishing in Latin
America.
The bookwarming is an event
designed to introduce a book to a
community.
“Bookwarmings are in the spirit of
liberal arts ... it is absolutely crucial
that we have as many different voices
here as possible,” Harp said.
This is Harp’s 16th year hosting
them, and he has moved from doing
simple introductions of the books to
interviewing the authors in front of
the audience about their process in
making the book.
Harp has interviewed a variety of
faculty about their books, in subjects
ranging from math to chemistry to
bookmaking.
“It is important to discuss research
because so much time went into
these books,” Harp said. “I think it is
really good for students to see us in
this other mode. We do not just give
the (students) writing and research
assignments — we engage in it.”
Rabasa certainly did her research
— around 10 years of it. She began in
2009 in Mexico City, a place she had
lived in and had contacts in, then
went on to investigate underground
publishing in Bolivia and Argentina,
which were less familiar to her.
“When I started in Mexico City,
I was there as a researcher, but also
working as ... an active member of
their publishing project,” Rabasa said. “In Bolivia and Argentina, I really
relied on the connections that the folks
in Mexico helped facilitate for me.”
Mixing her academic life with
her activism helped further her
research. She established connections
for her book by actively helping
with the production of books in
the underground book publishing
community.
“There were certainly moments
where I was nervous,” Rabasa said. “Activists are rightfully skeptical of
academics ... I emphasized that yes, I
was doing a research project, but I was
also doing it as a participant in these
projects.”
Throughout her text, Rabasa uses
the term “organic book.” According to
Rabasa, this term describes when “the
relationship between the content of
the book and its materiality are being
brought together intentionally.” To
give an example of this, she showed two different copies of the same book
she found during her research about
migrants in the textile industry in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. The “organic”
edition had a handmade cover of
cardboard and recovered fabric scraps
from textile workshops, while the
other was printed more traditionally.
“It was really exciting to me to see
how the actual crafting of the object
was taken as a part of the political
imagination of these movements,” Rabasa said. “The makers really were
taking seriously the importance of the
tools, the technology and the materials
that accompany them in the perhaps
more abstract, or less tangible,
political endeavors.”
Rabasa also has an interest in the
copyright page, enough so that it takes
up an entire chapter of her book. Things
such as the absence of a copyright page
and the inclusion of a creative commons
license indicate a distaste for complete
ownership of intellectual property.
On a whim, she created a miniature
“zine” version of her book to distribute
in Argentina to show her progress
to the people she had worked with.
Within them, she placed a large
backward C, which symbolizes the
“copyleft” symbol.
Rabasa explained the meaning and
implications of this symbol.
“Copyleft is one of the ways people
renegotiate intellectual property,”
Rabasa said. “It essentially means: do
whatever you want with this.”
Though “The Book in Movement”
came out in the spring of 2019,
Rabasa was on parental leave and
unable to do a bookwarming until
now. Her book, then, is new to the
community of LC to which it was
showcased. Rabasa commented on
the feeling that comes alongside
publishing and being able to promote
a finished product that has been so
long in the making.
“There is something about
celebrating a momentous point in
the research project, which is its
publication,” Rabasa said. “There is
something worth marking when you
get the result in your hand.”
“The Book in Movement” can be
purchased in hardcover at the LC
bookstore or checked out from Watzek
library.JO TABACEK/PIONEER LOG
Professor Jerry Harp interviews Professor Magalí Rabasa about her new book, “The Book In Movement,” at the bookwarming.9
JULIA SALOMONE/PIONEER LOG
Mike Vos displays his over 100-year-old film camera at his new photography exhibit.Miniseries offer closer
adaptation of novels
EVA SZOBOSZLAY/PIONEER LOG... Vos explores and
brings to life the
following question:
when humans are
gone, what will the
world look like?FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ARTS 10
PAM exhibit explores St. Helens eruption
Artists featured in this exhibition examine the significance of this cataclysmic event 40 years later
JUSTIN HOWERTON /PIONEER LOG
By GABRIEL MANTIONE-
HOLMES
MAY 18, 1980 will go down in
history as the day that saw
Mount St. Helens erupt.
The sheer intensity of its destruction
inspired many artists to record and
capture its beauty and power in
various forms. To commemorate the
40th anniversary of the eruption, the
Portland Art Museum is presenting
their newest exhibition “Volcano!”
until May 17, 2020. The exhibition
shows pieces from 1845 to the present,
displaying the savagery and tranquility
of St. Helens.
The front of the exhibition
features a wall with the exhibition’s
title and an acknowledgement to
indigenous communities of the past,
present and future. This introduction
is immediately followed by an
informational panel on Lawetlat’la,
the name given to the mountain by the
Cowlitz tribe and the Confederated
tribes and bands of the Yakama
Nation.
Placed after the acknowledgement
stands a massive photograph of St.
Helens that spans two stories. The
wall to the immediate left displays
three acrylic paintings by Ryan
Molenkamp inspired by a series of
time lapse photos of the eruption
from the photographer Vern Hodgson.
The piece is entitled “Vancouver,
Vancouver, This is it,” which was the
last transmission from geologist David
A. Johnston before being killed by the
blast.
Across from this wall is Lucinda
Parker’s large painting entitled “The
Seething Saint,” paired alongside her
poem “Eruption.” The poem bookends a pleasant trip to the mountain with
its cataclysmic eruption. The painting
mirrors this sentiment by surrounding
the mountain in an angelic yellow.
Even before entering the first room of
the exhibition, attendees are already
overtaken by these large, beautiful
pieces in cheerfully bright colors
depicting the St. Helens eruption. The
pieces portray the eruption as a child
having a colorful tantrum.
The first room of the exhibition
is filled with oil-painted landscapes
depicting the previously conical shape
of this great Pacific Northwestern
peak. This peaceful room is strikingly
followed by paintings of the eruption
itself, from eyewitness accounts in
Seattle and Portland. These pieces
inspire emotions of fear, chaos and
fragility through the use of vivid colors,
creating eye-catching images that
demand the attention of attendees.
The walls are painted a dark gray,
which makes the pieces stand out and
simultaneously creates a very somber
tone to this part of the exhibition.
This room is followed by a series of
lighter rooms filled with photography
and other pieces displaying the
aftermath of the eruption and the
land it decimated. However, even
though the white walls and bright
lights that surround this part of the
exhibition make it visually brighter,
the pieces depict the leveling effects
of the eruption. Cameron Martin’s
11-foot-wide painting “Remission”
stands at the end of the exhibition in
the last of the series of light rooms.
This large work shows the instability
of the volcano and leaves attendees to
ponder if and when another eruption
will happen.
Outside the exhibition there is a community partner in residency
gallery organized in collaboration
with the Mount St. Helens Institute.
The community space is filled with
lounge chairs, sofas, books, maps,
scientific equipment and geological
materials for attendees to further their
exploration of Mount St. Helens.
While “Volcano!” is a huge
exhibition, it wastes no time whatsoever drawing attendees into
its packed and filled walls. It still
provides ample space and opportunity
to collectively unpack and further
discover Mount St. Helens in a low-
stress environment.
“Volcano!” does a great job at
showing the horrific yet captivating
power of a natural disaster that claimed
57 lives. It manages to keep the horror alive and intense despite how much
time has elapsed from the time of the
event to now. The impact of Mount
St. Helens did not merely influence
the operations of humans. The land
after the eruption looked apocalyptic
and greatly affected the environment;
however, there is a certain beauty in
entropy and “Volcano!” successfully
captures it.
Final Fantasy VII remake hopes to update original
By JUSTIN HOWERTON
THE REPUTABLE video game
development company Square
Enix will finally revive the
story of the enigmatic and influential
JRPG Final Fantasy VII on April 10.
The original game was released in
1997 for the PlayStation console and
quickly became hailed as one of the
best video games ever produced, in
part because of its sprawling world,
turn-based fighting mechanics and
utterly captivating story.
Final Fantasy VII fans have
clamored for an update of the game
for some time now. That being said,
many skeptics have claimed that a
remake could never compare to the
ingenuity present in the original.
Video game remakes have a tendency
to polarize critics. For example, in the
past decade Nintendo has remastered
and formatted some of the games
from the Legend of Zelda franchise
for the Nintendo 3DS. Some claimed
that this remake successfully updated
the game within the parameters of
a modern, handheld console while
others criticized the game-makers
for not updating enough elements
or adding new material. Despite
people’s mixed responses to remakes,
updates such as these exemplify how
games created two decades prior can
continue to capture the imagination
and intrigue of contemporary video
game players.
The remake scheduled to arrive in
stores this year will be the first game
in a series that chronicles the story
of the original; the next game will
begin where the first one concluded
although it is unclear at which point
in the game’s plot this transition will
occur. This decision has also sparked
criticism, as some have attacked
Square Enix for spreading out the
game over an undecided number of
individual games, claiming that this
decision was an obvious ploy for
more profit. That being said, Square
Enix has added new content, such as additional abilities and cutscenes,
that was not in the original.
The overall plot of Final Fantasy
VII could not be more relevant in our
current political and social climate.
Essentially, the story begins with a
radical eco-terrorist group infiltrating
a corrupt megacorporation that has
monopolized the world’s power.
In an effort to disrupt their
operations, the group plants and
subsequently detonates a rigged
explosion. Much of the first half
of the story involves this violent
organization dubbed AVALANCHE
and their attempts to thwart the
actions of the Shinra Electric
Power Company. Tension between
radical environmentalists and
big business is obviously
present in the world
outside of the
game, and this
characteristic
helps maintain
the game’s
contemporary
spirit. . Furthermore,
the fact that the story
so heavily concerns itself
with the environment and the
ramifications of Shinra’s abuse
of the planet perhaps illustrates
why it still maintains such
an active following in today’s
context.
Its gameplay remains some
of the most enjoyable in
recent memory, especially
for those who appreciate
the turn-based genre. Its
surplus of weapons,
accessories, armor
and Materia,
which allow
the playable
characters to
cast elemental
spells, summon
others to fight
on their behalf
or increase
certain stats,
prevents
enemy
encounters
from stagnating
or losing their appeal. Moreover,
the game continually rewards the
curious player. Secret items appear
in various locations throughout the Final Fantasy VII world; players can
even unlock two optional playable
characters over the course of their
journeys.
Because of its immense amount
of content, the game was released on
three separate discs. Over the course
of the game, the player’s progression
through the virtual world becomes
less linear with an abundance of
optional side quests and minigames
in the latter portion of the story. This
feature in particular contributes to
the game’s near endless replayability.
Each playthrough reveals new items,
elements and quests that a player
may have previously missed. Its
sheer expanse impresses newcomers
nearly two decades later.
The story slowly evolves into
something much larger than a
single eco-terrorist attack, as the
protagonist, Cloud Strife, finds
himself torn between his fractured
past and his reluctance to participate
in the organization for altruism’s
sake. That said, Strife’s struggles
with memory and his past may even
resonate with our current culture
that is generally more open towards
mental illness. The character
development, specifically Cloud’s,
serves as one of the game’s defining
characteristics. Final Fantasy VII
is one of the few games that allows
the player to become invested in the
emotions and lives of the characters
so naturally.
With its shattering tragedies
and soaring yet fleeting moments of
triumph, this is the perfect game for
anyone interested in science fiction,
fantasy or our own contemporary
climate crisis. Folks who are
interested can purchase the game
on Steam for about twelve dollars.
As enthusiastic as I am to play the
remake upon its release, I understand
that it can in no way outpace the
original in terms of its ingenuity and
impact; no amount of high-definition
graphics will make me think any
differently.The plot of the critically acclaimed original could not be more relevant in our current political climate
JUSTIN HOWERTON/PIONEER LOGGABRIEL MANTIONE-HOLMES/PIONEER LOG
This painting featured in the “Volcano!” exhibition captures the spectacular yet horrific power displayed in this eruption.11FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 21, 2020
SPORTS
LC inclusive for many trans
athletes, challenges remain
By VENUS EDLIN
FOR TRANSGENDER students,
athletics can be a sore spot, and
many Lewis & Clark students
have mixed experiences. In the sports
world, travel accommodations, trans-
specific medical care, competition
eligibility and gendered language can
prove challenging, but with the right
policies and coaching, sports can affirm
the genders of trans students.
Transgender refers to people who
are a different gender than the one
they were assigned at birth, which can
include both binary and nonbinary
trans people.
LC follows the guidelines set by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) and allows trans students to
compete on teams that match their
gender, as long as they fulfill the
hormone regulations outlined by the
NCAA.
Interim Director of Athletics
Mark Pietrok said these policies are
constantly improving at LC.
“We regularly
consider all the
identities of our
student-athletes
and take this into
consideration
as we have
conversations, work
on initiatives, and
plan for our athletic
programing,”
Pietrok said via
email.
Anya Upson ’23 joined the
women’s rugby team last semester and
eventually decided to quit. Upson, who
is nonbinary and was assigned male
at birth (AMAB), struggled to be part
of a team that were mostly cisgender
women. They qualified to be a part of
the women’s team according to NCAA
guidelines that state trans athletes who
were AMAB can compete on women’s
teams after they have completed one
year of hormone replacement therapy
(HRT).
At first Upson looked forward to
attending practices, despite initial
doubts.
“I was worried about feeling ousted
from the group, because it is a women’s
rugby (team) and I don’t identify as a
woman,” Upson said. “It was scary,
but when I got on the team, I realized
it wasn’t that bad, and there were other
nonbinary people on the team.”
After accidentally hurting one of
their peers during practice, Upson was
afraid of harming another one of their
teammates. They also said that they felt
like an outsider in the team because
they had been made fun of for doing
drag, which is a part of their gender
expression. They had stayed back on
campus for a drag show instead of
going to a game in Seattle in December.
“I felt like I was either cheating in some sort of way or underequipped,
which is a strange dichotomy,” Upson
said. “I stopped doing rugby because
it just got uncomfortable for me to be
there.”
Alex Duquette ’23 is another trans
athlete but has found his experiences as
a part of the crew team to be affirming.
“There are other people on the team
who are nonbinary, or somewhere on
the trans spectrum and everyone’s
super respectful about that,” Duquette
said. “The coaches are always using
their pronouns and everyone’s just very
aware and knowledgeable.”
Duquette’s experiences at LC
contrast greatly to his high school
athletic career, where he remained
closeted in order to compete as part
of the girls’ team. He came out to his
parents the summer before his junior
year, started testosterone in December
of his senior year and had chest
reconstruction surgery three months
later. He came out before coming to LC.
Duquette wanted to have both
affirmation of his gender and to
participate
in athletics.
He’s had an
affirming
experience
as the
coxswain, or
steerer, of
the men’s
crew team at
LC.
“I’d
rather start
fresh in college—no one’s going to know
(I’m trans) and that’s fine,” Duquette
said. “But, when I was thinking about
the future, my life was absent without
some sort of sport to do.”
Lindsay Woodward ’22 is also
part of crew, but is on the women’s
team, though he does not identify as
a woman. Woodward started rowing
his freshman year and has found the
environment to be trans friendly, with
mixed gender practices and coaches
referring to the rowers as members of
the women’s or men’s team, rather than
women or men.
“My friends and I have all accepted
that we’re on the women’s team and
that’s OK,” Woodward said. “We get
to compete with these amazing women
and that doesn’t invalidate us at all.”
Woodward said that the NCAA
guidelines are “very cut and dry.”
Woodward would no longer be able
to compete on the women’s team if he
started HRT, but would want to wait
on joining the men’s team until his
testosterone levels stabilized.
Woodward decided to hold off on
taking testosterone even though this
would allow him to compete on the
men’s team.
“(Being on the crew team has)
become such an overall good experience
for my mental health that I think that when it’s being weighed out, being part
of that team and part of that community
for me is more beneficial,” Woodward
said. “I (would) have to wait two extra
years (for hormone levels to stabilize) if
I want to go on testosterone. I’ve been
waiting 20 years already so I can wait
more.”
Mal Spicer ’23 went to Casady,
a private Episcopal high school in
Oklahoma. When he came out as trans
his sophomore year, the school changed
their policies to ban trans students
from participating in athletics. All the
policies that the administration enacted
about trans students were a direct
result of him coming out, and they all
had to go through the school’s bishop.
Unsurprisingly, it was difficult
for Spicer to be the first openly trans
student at his high school.
“I felt like they were looking to me
to have all the answers,” Spicer said.
“It was hard because in a way I had
to speak on behalf of all trans people,
and I know everyone has different
experiences in their transition.”
He did not participate in sports
until his senior year when he pushed
back against the policy, and the school
allowed him to join the men’s baseball
team.
“It was really affirming, but also
felt really alienating at the same time,”
Spicer said. “I didn’t want people to
view me differently as a player, as an
athlete just because I’m trans.”
Spicer has not had any interest
pursuing organized sports in college so
far.
The stories of these trans students
show the challenges trans people can
face in athletics. Though many of
these students believe LC policies are
inclusive, Pietrok thinks the college can
continue improving policies.
“I think we can always improve,”
Pietrok said via email. “It is our goal to
try to provide an excellent experience
for all our student-athletes. In that
regard, we continually strive to make
progress toward those goals.”
Upson believes that the college
can do more to educate the campus
about transphobia and improve the
experiences that trans students have in
athletics.
“I don’t really think that it’s the
college’s fault,” Upson said. “I think
they’re doing what they can, but it’s
more of a deeper rooted stigma against
trans people that does not originate at
this college.”
Woodward said that LC policies are
inclusive and encourages more trans
students to participate in athletics.
“I think more trans people should
compete in sports,” Woodward said. “A
lot of people are turned away because
they think ‘I won’t be on the team I
want, or maybe there’s going to be some
sort of issue,’ but I think especially at
Lewis & Clark there’s a lot of people
who are willing to make it work.”CASPER PIERCE/ PIONEER LOG
Gymshark: a hidden
gem in athletic wear
By ALEX BARR
GYMSHARK has branded itself
as the official attire of the
Instagram fitness influencer.
Although I hate certain aspects of
Gymshark’s image (think of the
videos of women flipping tires in a
montage of dizzying edits and men
squatting several plates while Imagine
Dragons plays), I find myself buying
their products again and again.
The types of routines I have
followed over the years have evolved
and changed significantly, and my
taste in athletic wear has changed
with it. Before I started lifting, I
modeled and therefore had to do a lot
of cardio. Between the stair master,
yoga and spin class I was working out
for about ten hours a week. Lululemon
leggings quickly became a staple in my
wardrobe.
While I still love Lululemon, the
brand definitely has some downsides.
The pieces have stood the test of time,
but at $100 or more for a single pair
of leggings, the clothes should be
doing the workout for me. When I
started lifting and gaining a significant
amount of weight, I knew I needed a
wardrobe change. I was resistant to liking Gymshark, and tried to find
alternatives, but my goodness, their
leggings, sports bras and shirts are
second to none in the athletic wear
industry.
Right off the bat, their product
is aesthetically pleasing. With a
mix of classic styles and innovative
design, Gymshark has something for
everyone. There are two qualities of
their clothing that I have not been
able to find in other brands: the price
and the experience they sell with
their clothes.The price, relative to
other brands, is inexpensive. A pair of
leggings costs about $40. Admittedly,
my Gymshark leggings do begin to
show signs of wear much quicker than
Lululemon leggings, but at less than
half the price I cannot complain. The
most significant appeal of Gymshark
is the way I feel wearing their clothes.
For me, the reason I became so
addicted to lifting was because of how
strong I felt while going through my
workouts, and Gymshark’s clothes
accentuated areas of my body I did not
appreciate before. Gymshark clothes
are rebellious yet flattering. Add a
good playlist into the equation and
you have a recipe for an excellent gym
session.
LC men’s basketball
hires a student coach
By ANNIE ERICKSON
THE LEWIS & Clark men’s
basketball team coaching staff
added a unique position when
Nate Peterson ’22 joined the program last
year. After spending time watching tapes
and sharing his basketball knowledge
with the team, the organization created
the student assistant coaching position
for Peterson to fill.
Peterson first developed a love of
basketball when he joined his sixth-
grade team. Even then, he had a unique
understanding of both the game as a
whole and how he could maximize his
own skills to succeed within that game.
“In middle school, I was not very
good at all so I had to figure out how
to make it work,” Peterson said. “Even
though I wasn’t very big and skilled. I
guess that is what really sparked (my love
of coaching). I wasn’t a six-foot scorer
with a killer jumper or anything so I had
to use what I had.”
He was attracted to coaching because
of his understanding of how to put
players in positions where they can help
the team succeed. In order to succeed on
the court, Peterson had to learn how to
outsmart people who possessed more
natural talent. This playing style was
earned him a spot on his high school
varsity basketball team where he was
coached by Bill Treseler of Albany High
School in San Francisco, his first role
model in the profession.
“He had a very distinct leadership
style ... just watching how intentional he
was, taught me a lot,” Peterson said.
Even though Peterson was not playing
on the LC basketball team when he first
arrived on campus, he knew that he still
wanted to be involved with basketball.
Tim Mccrory, had just been hired to be
the head coach of the team which gave
Peterson an opening to include himself in the new leadership direction of the team.
With the encouragement of members
of the team he already knew, Peterson
showed up at Mccroy’s office to share
his basketball knowledge and ask for a
role on the team. Mccrory agreed to let
Peterson come to practice and he quickly
started to establish himself as a valuable
part of the coaching process.
Peterson’s responsibilities on the
team quickly grew and range from
creating play animations to send out
to the team to participating in coaches
meetings to build strategies. This year,
Peterson has even helped design the
sideline and baseline out-of-bounds
plays for the team. Another primary
role of his job is working with individual
players on development.
“His role is just going to keep growing
in his next two years and he has just
been a great fit with me personally and
fantastic for us as a team” McCrory said.
Peterson is appreciative of the
community basketball has given him and
the way the team has supported him.
“Just being around and being able
to be a part of the team, it’s great,’’
Peterson said. “All the coaches are great.
I think we’re close as a coaching staff
and then all the players are great and
super welcoming to like what I do, even
though it’s sort of a not really traditional
position.”
Peterson hopes that his position here
will one day translate into a coaching
career. His ultimate goal is to coach for
a Division I program which he believes
would be perfect for his personal
development passion.
“I think the job of a great coach is
to put players in positions to win and to
be successful,” Peterson said. “You can’t
make anybody be successful but you
should aim to give them every resource
they need to improve as players and in a
broader way as people.”
VENUS EDLIN/PIONEER LOG“There are other people on
the team who are nonbinary,
or somewhere on the trans
spectrum and everyone’s
super respectful ...”

Nate Peterson ’23 is a student assistant coach for the LC men’s basketball team. Alex Duquette ’23 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
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By SOFIA REEVES
EVERY STUDENT knows that
college life will lead to tears. We
all cry, but for Lewis & Clark
students it can be hard to find the
perfect spot for a private breakdown.
Worry no more with this handy guide to
the best places to cry at LC, showcasing
the most scenic locations in academic
buildings, residence halls, around
campus and even on the go!
Academic Buildings
Did you mess up that important
paper? Did you run screaming from
the classroom when it was your turn
to give a presentation? Did you fail
the exam that was inexplicably worth
75% of your final grade? That is okay.
We have all been there. Take comfort
with this little-known fact: during the
construction of the academic buildings,
architects who remembered the strife
of their own college days planned for
an extra closet in every building. These
secret closets are equipped with pillows, blankets and copious boxes of tissues.
To ward off nosy interlopers, they are
usually labeled “storage” or “electrical:
danger, keep out.” These are the perfect
private spaces for your next emotional
meltdown.
Residence Halls
For those of you who call a residence
hall your home, the creaking stairs and
prison-esque mazes of the LC dorms
are often your first choice when looking
for the best places to have a good sob.
Some great locations to try without
leaving your room include shutting
yourself in your own closet, curling up
in the fetal position under your desk or
bed or laying in the center of the floor
with your limbs spread out as far as you
can, weeping loudly. Bonus points if you
force your roommate(s) to step around
you.
Looking to get out of your room
for a bit? Look no further than the
nearest inconveniently placed lounge or
kitchen. Sure it smells funny, but if you sit in the corner and cry facing the wall,
you can be sure no one will bother you!
Around Campus
Are you at the Bon but you just
cannot seem to keep the tears inside?
You could go cry alone at one of the
tables, but that is pretty overdone. No
need to be cliché! Try out this simple
hack instead: simply approach the
nearest Bon student worker and let
them know how you are feeling. If they
take pity on you, they might let you go
sit behind the counter and cry it out. If
they turn you down, do not worry. Save
the waterworks until you can squeeze
into the cabinet beneath the juice
dispenser for some real privacy.
Other spots that are perfect for
crying: the trees, bushes and plants
that adorn our beautiful campus. This
is premium real estate if you need to
hide in plain sight. Sitting in the dirt
completely obscured by various foliage
is the perfect spot to let it all out. Your
clothes will be soaked from all of the
rainwater dripping from the plants,
so you can explain this and your tears
away by telling your friends that you
were caught in a downpour between
classes.
On the Go
If you have the time for a cinematic
cry, hop on the Pio and take one of the
window seats toward the back. With a
little practice, you will be able to master
the art of staring out the window at an
angle where no one else on board can
see the tears, and you can gaze wistfully
at Fred Meyer as you drive by. Pretend
you are in a music video by playing the
saddest music you can think of and
ride the Pio on a full loop without ever
getting off.
Above all else, remember that it is
better to let it out than keep it in.Best places to cry on campus By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE FOLLOWING excerpt
comes from minutes taken
from the Jan. 30 Committee
to Contemplate the Curriculum
(CCC) meeting. The portion below
looks at the decision process of the
CCC sub-committee, Reimagining
and Addressing General
Education (RAGE) committee, in
choosing the new title to replace
Exploration & Discovery (now
“Phrases and Equations”) for the
Fall 2020 semester
New Business, renaming of
First-Year Seminar:
Sim Wiesle (henceforth SW),
president of the college, joined
RAGE to discuss the naming of the
first-year seminar at the request of
RAGE chair Stu Schitz (henceforth
Schitz).
Overview:
The name “Exploration
& Discovery” will no longer
accurately describe the first-
year seminar and the changes
made to it. Along with the new
curriculum changes (like the
additional handstand and finger
extension component), the first-
year seminar needs its name to be
changed as well.
Q&A:
CCC: What are the names that you
have spent two months coming up
with?
SW: We wanted the names to go
back to square one. We wanted
to take a look at what the heart of
learning revolves around. That is
why the names the sub-committee
RAGE found are as follows: “Bits
and Pieces,” “Letters and Figures,”
“Words and Numbers,” “Phrases
and Equations” and “Books and
Proofs.”
CCC: Do we have confirmation that
students react well to these op -
tions?
SW: Yes. We received 100% support
from our single survey taker. They
checked the “no” box for all names.CCC: What was the question they
were responding to?
SW: The question was, “Would you
mind if the first-year seminar had
one of these names?”
CCC: Do you think asking, “do you
mind” could confuse survey takers
if they did not read it carefully?
SW: No, I think the student who
responded would have been able
to understand perfectly fine.
CCC: Your answer implies you
only had one survey response. Did
you only have one response?
SW: Yes.
CCC: Very well. Do you really think
that “Words and Numbers” belong
on this list of otherwise acceptable
names? The committee only brings
the question up because it seems
like a placeholder, at best, in
comparison to the other fine ones.
Schitz: The sub-committee has
unanimously agreed that it is
by far our worst choice so far.
Like the list of orders that led
to the assassination of General
Soleimani, it was largely included
to make the other answers look
better.
CCC: To confirm what RAGE chair
Schitz said, the sub-committee
does not believe that “Words and
Numbers” should be used to name
our first-year seminar, and it was
included only to make the other
options seem more viable.
SW & Schitz: Yes.
There were no further
questions.

Discussion:
Following the Q&A, the
CCC Chair Gighels asked if
any members had any disputes
or questions regarding the
names. Some bureaucrat from
the Registar’s Office asked if
the names had been found met
all formatting conventions
for BadAdvisor. Chair Gighels
confirmed that all formatting
conventions for BadAdvisor had
been met. The CCC held a vote and
passed “Phrases and Equations”
to be the name of the first-year
seminar.By MACKENZIE HERRING
TODAY WE ARE going to talk
about those people you ignore
profusely unless they are handing
out free donuts or Yerba Mate. Tabling
is a familiar concept to college students,
and especially popular at activist centric
schools like Lewis & Clark. Whether it
is the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark (ASLC) and their fun-size candies
or an off-campus group trying to get you
to sign up for something sketchy like
the Peace Corps, tabling is part of our
everyday lives.
What you may not know about
tabling, like many things on this
campus, is that some people take it
more seriously than others. Legend has
it alumnus Richard (Dick) Billiards ’08
sustained himself for an entire week off
of tabling snacks and tidbits. The thrifty
icon ended up developing a sensitivity
to maple donuts and having to go off of
his South Bastendorff Beach diet, but
became an LC legend in the process. The
Pioneer Log reached out to Billiards,
now 33, for comment.
“It started to get to the point where
the tablers would hang up a photo of me
that said ‘do not engage with this man,’”
Billiards said. “Yeah I guess they got a
little fed up with me walking in and out
of J.R. Howard with different hats on
each time.”
Despite the life-sustaining haul one
can gather from the consistent current
of tablers at LC, not all bait is created
equal. Below is a guide to the value and
importance of various tabling hot goods.
Tablers, take note.
A RANKING OF TABLING SPOILS:
1) Caffeine
2) PioLog Hats ;)
3) Census? (I think it’s kind of really im -
portant, maybe).
4) Donuts/Candy
5) Stickers6) Job opportunities
7) Pamphlets
8) Thank you notes to rich benefactors
probably named Archibald
9) Emails you cannot unsubscribe to
10) Getting your crap opinion heard
11) Insurmountable guilt for ignoring the
person tabling despite being the only one
walking by and them calling out to you. I
am sorry. Not sorry enough to stop and
talk to you, but still.
12) Religion
Now is time to ask: why do people
table? Is it for a deserving charity? A
student organization? A world-class
college newspaper with incredibly
attractive and talented writers? No.
Most of the time, it is because the tablers
like to feel important and like to see the
discomfort on people’s faces when they get handed things.
We talked to two frequent tablers,
Elena Coffee ’21 and Theresa Tennis ’20
about why they table.
“I just had to email someone in events
about how I was starting a petition to
provide those frogs in the reflecting pool
with little hats and I was set,” Coffee said.
Her acquaintance had a different
idea.
“Actually, I hate frogs. I am just really
good at guilting people into caring about
things,” Tennis said.
“Yeah, I am Catholic,” Tennis said
in a later statement. “Why do you ask?”
Despite some nefarious tablers,
many are organized by good people who
support good causes. And on that note,
The Pioneer Log will be tabling from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
LEXIE BOREN/PIONEER LOG
WILL TOPPIN/PIONEER LOG
LIV NICKS-TURNLEY/PIONEER LOGA tender tableau of tabling:
how to survive on samplesHello to the new E&D:
“Phrases & Equations”