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Volume 96, No. 2

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2021-02-23

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By NICHOLAS NERLI
AFTER SEVERAL days of heavy
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historic ice storm the night before. The
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snow and ice.
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weight of snow and ice. Roof damage
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heating. According to a bulletin sent by
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to thirty-minute increments to allow for
use by other students, and be mindful of
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services were not discontinued due to
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storm and seemed to deteriorate as
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weather and students are discouraged
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friend. He, like many students, did not
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The Feb. 16 Senate meeting would
have been attended by President Wim
Wiewel, Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences Bruce Suttmeier, and Vice
President of Student Life and Dean of
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crisis-related emergencies.
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This Week on The PioPod
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FEATURES
Student is City Councilor
Rory Bialostosky ’22 aims to bring
change to the city of West Linn, Oregon
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collaboration with activism.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
NEWS 2
By ISABEL REKOW
THE UPCOMING s p r i n g V i r t u a l
Career Fair set to take place on Feb.
24 from noon to 4 p.m. will provide
students the opportunity to connect with
over 70 different employers. The event is
free and students do not have to attend for
the full four hours. Links to register for the
fair and accompanying prep sessions are
available in Handshake.
Lewis & Clark will co-host the fair in
conjunction with St. Martin’s University,
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University of Puget Sound. The fair will
offer a mix of positions ranging from
internships to part-time and full-time
jobs.
Assistant Dean of Student Engagement
and Executive Director of the Career
Center Rocky Campbell said the fair is a
great opportunity to practice and explore,
whether or not students are actively
seeking employment.
“Anyone is nervous about going to
meet with a prospective future employer,”
he said. “One of the best ways to deal with
that nervousness is to actually do it — and
this is a place where you get to practice
that.”
The Career Center is offering
45-minute prep sessions with career
advisors in order to help students make
the most of their time at the fair. Students
who attend both a prep session and the fair
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card.
According to Amanda Wheaton, the
employer relations coordinator at the
Career Center, Handshake data from
previous career fairs shows that students
generally do not RSVP until three days
before the event, and most students sign
up the night before. The Career Center
accordingly scheduled two of the prep
sessions less than three days before the
spring fair.
Students do not have to bring any
materials to the prep sessions. Advisors
will teach students how to navigate the fair,
including providing guidance on how to
create a professional appearance virtually
and how to stand out. Most importantly,
Wheaton said, advisors will coach students
on how to follow up with employers after
the fair in order to maintain relationships.In Fall 2020, LC piloted a virtual
career fair in conjunction with Reed
College. The Career Center wanted to
test the virtual format and see how
many students would attend. Wheaton
said that roughly 65 students registered
for the fair, with about half actually
attending.The numbers encouraged the
Career Center to launch a larger fair this
spring.
Participating employers will include
Target, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and the
OHSU Foundation, among many others.
Residential Career Advisor Ciara
Orness ’22 said many of the employers
at the spring fair will return to LC in the
future, so this year’s virtual fair will allow
students to make connections that might
pay off later.
“It’s a great way to explore and make
those connections in a situation that
maybe isn’t as intense as an interview,
or even as a normal career fair where
you have to go up to a person yourself,” Orness said. “You can join a group
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question or two and follow up later, so
it’s not as intimidating.”
Not only can the virtual format
make the fair less stressful and remove
barriers to access, but it also allows
many more employers to participate.
In-person events are constrained by
their physical setting, which limits
the number of people who can attend.
Virtual fairs are not limited by event
space, so more employers can visit LC
students than in years past. Additionally,
more companies are able to participate
since recruitment costs are essentially
eliminated.
The virtual format also makes it
easier for students to schedule a time
to meet individually with employers. At
in-person events, students might have
to stand in line for 20 minutes just to
speak to an employer for two minutes,
according to Wheaton. However, a Zoom fair does have its
drawbacks. Campbell acknowledged that
many people are suffering from Zoom
fatigue and often do not want to spend
more time virtually than they have to.
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connections virtually, he said, and
students need to be more intentional
in how they engage with the fair since
they cannot rely on walking around to
discover new opportunities.
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that can happen by walking into a room
and just walking down the aisleways and
pathways is different in a virtual setting,”
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bit equipped to deal with this, but it was
still kind of nerve-racking.”
On Feb. 15 and 16, all campus
activities, remote and in-person, were
canceled. Only essential personnel were
permitted to travel to campus. While
Palatine Hill regained electricity on Feb.
15, hundreds of off-campus students,
staff and faculty were without power
for days longer. The Pioneer Express
resumed operations on Feb. 15 once ice
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for travel.Many community members were
stunned to see the felled Tennis Dome,
one of the most visible casualties of the
ice storm. According to the athletic de -
partment, a hurricane resistant founda -
tion housed the Tennis Dome. However,
the support structure of the exterior fabric
could not withstand a fallen tree and days’
worth of heavy precipitation. In an email
statement, Head Men’s & Women’s Tennis
Coach Jimmy Chau expressed dismay over
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weather has damaged the dome along with the power outage that is impacting the
whole community,” Chau said. “Tennis
means so much to our student-athletes
and campus as a whole, and we have that
top of mind as we focus on what we can
do over the coming weeks and months.
Our community’s safety is paramount
and we will do our best to move forward
with an experience that we’re all proud
to be a part of.”
For several days, employees of
A&A Maintenance, Bon Appétit,
Campus Safety, College Outdoors
and the Division of Student Life
tirelessly worked to address the many
emergencies that these storms caused.
After clearing roads of ice, snow and
debris, the college announced that the
undergraduate and law campuses would
reopen to community members on Feb. 17. The Graduate School of Education
and Counseling remained without power
at the time of publication. Much of the
damage will require ongoing repair as
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record-breaking winter weather.
In an email statement, Director of
Public Relations Roy Kaufmann, acting
as a spokesperson, described the damage
and the efforts of LC’s support staff.
“It is clear that there is extensive
damage to campus trees and to the
tennis dome,” Kaufmann said. “We
have also noted damage to various
roofs. A full assessment, including
estimate of remediation costs will take
at least several weeks. Facilities staff
did a phenomenal job prepping for the
weather forecast and responding to the
various issues that arose.”By BELLA MET
THE LEWIS & C l a r k L a w S c h o o l
is commemorating 50 years
of environmental law with
moderated panels and guest speakers.
The anniversary celebrations will
include the yearly environmental
conference on March 13, which will
focus on the connection between food
and climate change. The college began
its celebrations early with events last
year.
In 1970, at the start of the
environmental movement, LC published
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dedicated to environmental law. The
publication is attributed to being the
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now ranked number one in the nation.
The program continuously expands
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number one ranking legal education,
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future of the planet.
“We need to make sure we remain
active; use our talents whether that’s
in law or science to be advocates for
the environment, and for the people,
animals, and plants who live in those
environments,” said Professor of Law
and Counsel Christopher Wold. “We
can’t just wash our hands and say maybe
Greta (Thunberg) will take care of it for
us.”
Wold graduated from the law
school in 1990 and returned in 1994 as
a professor, creating the international
Environmental law component of the
program. He is the founder of the law
school’s International Environmental
Law Project and teaches Ocean and
Coastal Law.
Janice Weis is the associate dean and
director of the environmental, natural
resources and energy law program at
LC. She has been at the law school for
26 years after practicing environmental
law in California. Weis attributes the
program’s success to the faculty, as well
as to LC’s location.
“Portland and Lewis & Clark have
a special place-based relationship that
I think really enhances environmental
studies at all levels,” She said.
Portland is considered one of the
greenest cities in the United States.
Oregon itself is ecologically diverse.
The state’s unique ecosystems
inspire a culture centered around the
environment.
Last week, to kick off events this
semester, a panel with Professor of
Laws and Director of the Centre on
International Courts and Tribunals
at the University College London
Phillipe Sands was held on Zoom.
The presentation was on Feb. 3 and
moderated by Wold.
In the panel, Sands discussed his
new book, “The Ratline: Lies and
Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive,”
released on Feb. 4. Sands’ book focuses
on Otto Wächter, an Austrian politician
and member the Nazi Party, who
famously disappeared for four years and
reappeared dead. It also details Sands’
legal experience with genocide and
crimes against humanity.
He is also taking strides to advance
environmental issues into the legal
sphere.
“You can see the (environmental)
connection in the two books I’ve written
and another activity I’m engaged in
right now,” Sands said. “I’m chairing an
international working group developing
a new crime called ecocide.”
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of destruction of nature. As part of the
Stop Ecocide Foundation, Sands hopes
to follow in the footsteps of Hersch
Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, the
lawyers who developed the term “crimes
against humanity.”
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and is becoming more relevant given the
developments brought about by climate
change and globalization. Because of
this, Weis looks forward to the program
developing.
“We’re really calling this the next 50
years,” Weis said. “That’s the best way
to look at an anniversary. ‘Well that 50
years was great! What’s next?’”
VENUS EDLIN/THE PIONEER LOG
Tree limbs fell on top of a car and broke its window in front of Platt-Howard Hall.LC to host spring Virtual Career Fair,
signups available through Handshake
Snow, ice storms cause widespread power
outages, knock down trees across campuses
AUBREY ROCHÉ/THE PIONEER LOG
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other challenges.
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HAROLD MCNARON , director of
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from Atlanta, enrolling at PSU and
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leadership and practice service.”At LC, McNaron harnessed his desire
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learning from BIPOC groups. Another
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trips to Atlanta. These trips offered
LC students an opportunity to explore
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through various projects.
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successor or the future of SLS are
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Graduate Assistant Delfine DeFrank.
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the United Front and ASLC.
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study by adding an additional minor
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graduate from college,” Staab said. “We,
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intended graduation date.
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THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVETUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
OPINION 4
By ELI BRICKNELL
I CHOSE TO ATTEND L e w i s &
Clark for a variety of reasons, but
the main reason was that I felt that
I actually belonged to the community
and would be included and accepted.
Or at least this is what I thought.
LC prides itself on inclusivity,
acceptance and diversity, but do
these traits actually represent the
experiences of minority students on
campus? From my own experience, I
would say that support for minority
students is at the bare minimum,
and I know that several of my peers
agree. I personally believe that the
transgender community is treated
poorly on campus, and it seems that
some of the college’s actions are to our
detriment.
I arrived at LC unsure of who I was
and who I wanted to be. I was using
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non-binary when I began my academic
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transphobia at LC was on my New
Student Trip. I was in a cabin with
four women and one cis man. When I
was talking with one of the people in that cabin about how there was only
one boy there, that person commented
on how it must be weird for him to
be in a cabin with a bunch of girls. I
responded “I’m not a girl,” to which
they said “well you’re basically a girl.”
I am no longer friends with that
person. Although this anecdote
is about my interaction with an
individual student, LC creates and
supports an atmosphere where people
believe that these comments are
acceptable.
Additionally, it is wrong that we
are subject to trainings about sexual
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but not about respecting people’s
identities. Without these kinds of
seminars, people are not able to
be educated on the correct way to
approach conversations about identity
coming into college.
When I changed my name at the
beginning of spring semester my
freshman year, I had no idea where to
even begin the process of changing it
within the institution. The professors
I had at the time were helpful and
provided links to where I could begin
changing my name. I would not have EHHQDEOHWR¿QGWKRVHOLQNVZLWKRXW
their help, as it remains quite hidden
on the LC website. Sadly, until I get my
name changed legally, I will continue
to receive emails from the college with
my deadname on them.
Being trans in the pandemic has
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to essentially shout my deadname to
the person giving me my little spit
tube when I take a COVID-19 test on
campus. I took one recently for my
testing pool and I asked the person
handing out the tube what name
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deadname and the name I use now.
There are a few demands I would
like to make because I feel that
without doing so, no change will come
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education and training of the larger
LC community on respecting LGBTQ+
people is provided. If the training is
outsourced, the organization holding
the training must be pre-approved
by student-led organizations,
such as the Queer Student Union.
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also be required to attend seminars
or training on respecting people’s pronouns and identities. In order to
normalize the use of gender pronouns,
faculty members should be strongly
encouraged to include their pronouns
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order to increase accessibility and
comfort for students, name-changing
forms should be easily available and
students should be allowed to change
their email usernames.
It is truly disappointing to see how poorly the institution treats
its students, especially its minority
students. I came to this school
because of the promises of inclusion,
equity and acceptance. I have seen
and experienced those things from
certain groups on campus, but the
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administration have been minimal
and from certain demographics. Trans
people deserve better from LC.The college’s policies contribute to an environment that mistreats the school’s transgender communityLC’s lack of action is harmful to trans students
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log and its editorial board.By ADELAIDE KAISER
I WILL NEVER f o r g e t s i t t i n g i n m y
Washington, D.C. history class
during my senior year of high school,
listening to my teacher talk about
statehood. Our teacher was trying to
ingrain in us, a class of D.C. residents,
how important it was to understand this
issue.
“When you go to college, and you
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your job to tell them about what it really
means to be from D.C.,” he said. “It’s
your responsibility to tell them about the
statehood movement.”
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and I do try to educate others about the
movement. And I truly believe that it is
a national issue, not one only relevant
to a small city on the East Coast. Many
Lewis & Clark students pride themselves
on being activists, and D.C. statehood
is essential to racial activism. If made
a state, D.C. would have the highest
percentage of Black residents of any
state; at 45%, Black Washingtonians are
the racial plurality.
Considering this, the fact that D.C.
has no voting members in Congress
is a blatant act of racialized voter
suppression. D.C. would bring two
Democratic senators that would solidify
a Democratic majority for years to come,
and it is no coincidence that it is mostly
Republicans who oppose statehood. My
D.C. residency aside, as someone who
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the statehood movement is incredibly
important to me.
When I came to college, I was
forced to make a choice about my voter
registration, since it would now be
possible for me to vote in Oregon. This
would have allowed me to have a say in
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in my life. However, I felt that the local D.C. elections were too important to me
to change my registration, forcing me
to make a choice between congressional
representation and the incredibly
important local politics. This is not a
choice anyone should have to make.
Additionally, pertaining to college,
D.C. residents do not get in-state tuition
at any college or university besides one
D.C. community college that does not
have a great reputation. In order to
“bridge the gap” between in-state and
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a year towards any public college or
university. While this scholarship is great,
it does not do much to actually reduce the
cost of college. My scholarship to attend
LC made it just slightly more expensive
than the public colleges I applied to.
I think it is important to put into
perspective what D.C.’s lack of statehood
means. D.C.’s population is just slightly
higher than Portland’s. Imagine if being
a Portland resident meant that you could
not have representation in Congress;
Portland’s mayor could not call the
National Guard in case of an emergency;
the federal government had to approve
its budget; all its residents paid federal
taxes but lacked federal representation.
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against taxation without representation
when they formed the United States.
Now, the default license plate in its
capital city read “End Taxation Without
Representation.” This is what it means
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Both Vermont and Wyoming have fewer
residents than D.C. does.
D.C. statehood is more important
now than it has ever been before; with
a Democratic president and Senate,
many activists think that it is now or
never. D.C.’s statehood bill, H.R. 51,
was re-introduced in late January with
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but if the Senate ends in a tie vote, Vice
President Kamala Harris could break
the tie needed for it to pass. Local
organizations, such as DC Vote, have
been working on this for a long time in
collaboration with D.C.’s non-voting Rep.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the present
moment could be the tipping point.
Statehood promises the freedom and
representation that our country claims to
be its backbone. D.C.’s statehood could
be the catalyst for other non-voting
territories, such as Puerto Rico, to receive
statehood and decrease the unjust lack of
congressional representation. I urge you
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them to support statehood. It is a simple
way to make our country better and more
equal.
Your activism should
include DC statehoodLC should prioritize vaccinating
members of the college community
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MADELINE COX/THE PIONEER LOG AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy CHARLOTTE POWERS
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the worst year many of us have
ever endured. And while there is
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grand start so far. With the COVID-19
vaccine rollout slowly underway, the
Biden administration says opening
schools and vaccinating teachers
are important priorities in reviving
America’s education system. Yet,
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not prioritized despite falling into such
categories. Last month, Dr. Anthony
Fauci, director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and
President Joe Biden’s chief medical
advisor, said that the vaccine will be
available for the general public in April.
However, given the country’s current
struggle to distribute the vaccine swiftly
and college communities not being high on the priority list, it is probable we will
not receive the vaccine until mid to late
summer. This decision, in my opinion, is
a big mistake.
While the majority of college
students are relatively healthy, this
population poses great risks to those
who are not. Teenagers and young
adults suck at quarantining. Despite
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s instructions to stay home,
socially distance from those outside of
the home and wear a mask, many young
adults behave as if these regulations do
not apply to them. Whether they are
unafraid of contracting the virus or have
perhaps already had it, many college-
aged students feel that putting their frat
parties and tailgates on hold is too big
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pandemic.
I should note that Lewis & Clark does
not fall under this description; in fact, I have been very impressed with the way
LC students have navigated and adhered
to COVID-19 protocols while living on
campus. However, LC students’ fervent
dedication to minimizing the spread of
the virus is more an anomaly than it is a
norm. Brown University is one of many
schools that began their fall semester
with a hybrid learning model but
quickly moved to online after seeing a
steady rise in COVID-19 cases amongst
students. With this in mind, college
students should receive the vaccine
earlier so that others do not have to
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recklessness and self-indulgence.
Like LC, other colleges have kept
their doors and campuses open, and
because of this, college dormitories
are epicenters for contagion. Much
like elderly living facilities, whose
occupants are labeled a high priority
for vaccination, college dorms, which
consist of communal bathrooms,
kitchens and lounges, enable the virus
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demographic residing in elderly living
facilities bears little resemblance
to those living in dorms, the layout
and physical construction of these
buildings do.
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have not already received the
vaccine deserve to be vaccinated
alongside primary and secondary
educators. A handful of LC faculty
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are not considered a priority. Just
as primary and secondary teachers
are considered essential for early
education, college professors play
a fundamental role in shaping the
college’s name, experience and values.
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facilitating a hybrid educational
model since August, LC faculty’s
incredible dedication in adapting
and teaching during these turbulent
semesters is deemed minuscule by the
Oregon Health Authority.
The LC administration says it
is unlikely the vaccine will arrive
at Palatine Hill this semester.
Considering we, students, have
poured hundreds of thousands of
dollars into this school while receiving
an abnormal and compromised
educational and social experience, the
administration should be bending over
backward and going the extra mile to
get vaccines for students, faculty and
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Wiewel works regularly with Gov.
Kate Brown, maybe putting in a good
word to ensure the safety of LC and
other Oregon colleges would not be
such a bad idea.
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there were many people who began to
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built up cults of personality around
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LEWIS & CLARK’S Chinese Club
has been planning a week of
festivities for the Chinese Lunar
New Year, which occurred this year on
Friday, Feb. 12.
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to do events leading up to Chinese New
Year,” Chinese Club Co-President Jacob
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very early on, was paper crafts — some
traditional Chinese paper cutting.”
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stymied by the snow and ensuing ice
storm that hit Portland last Thursday,
and the later events are now being
rescheduled. Chinese Club Treasurer
Savannah Myers ’23 said she is unsure of
when the remaining events will happen
because they may have to reapply with
Student Engagement for permission to
hold an event.
When it does happen, their main
Lunar New Year event will include a
paper fan-painting and tea night in
addition to a red envelope-making
table. Red envelopes containing money,
sometimes known in China as “money
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given as a gift on Lunar New Year. Since
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envelopes will contain chocolate coins
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set number of members, other than the
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which varying numbers of students show
up.
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very consistently, but then there are other
people who maybe are like, ‘Oh, Chinese
Club is putting on an event,’” Myers said.
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in forms of Chinese, while the rest are
learning.
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night, they screened the Taiwanese
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about a gay Taiwanese man who legally
marries a mainland Chinese woman
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capacity for an in-person event. Myers
and Hidalgo are already planning more
movie nights in the future.
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resumption of Lunar New Year
celebrations, Hidalgo said the club was
considering a lantern-making event
for the Lantern Festival, which begins
on Feb. 26.
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Zodiac animals vary, The Japan Times
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“soft, slow, and passive.” Joanna Lee,
author of “Pocket Chinese Almanac,”
interprets this to mean that 2021
should be a year of transition between
the upheaval of the dramatic Year of
the Rat in 2020 and the coming Year
of the Tiger in 2022, which signifies
new beginnings.
The LC Chinese Club can be found
on Instagram at @chinclub_lc and
contacted via email at clclub@lclark.edu.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
FEATURES 6
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AFTER MONTHS of passionate
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was welcomed with almost unanimous
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person was able to do it,” he said. “They
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come together and work as a decisive
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going to do my best to do a good job,” he
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council members have made an immense
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previously led to a lack of progress.
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so dysfunctional, struggling to make
decisions,” he said. “I ran and said let’s
work together, let’s move the city forward
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credit internship just to make sure that
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naysayers to delay his political goals. For
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his most immediate plan to enact positive
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the Waterfront Project with hopes of
establishing a new space for businesses
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sees it as a prime economic opportunity
for the town. He also mentioned his
hopes of rebuilding the reputation of the
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level.
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GABE KORER
WINTER HAS arrived in full
force in Portland, with multiple
inches of snow covering the
Willamette Valley since Feb. 12. Lewis &
Clark was not spared from the storm, and
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the attention of the LC community and
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writer Tor Parson’s article about the
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seen gathering around the Lily Pond
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article has also garnered over 21,000
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possibly froze over during the storm.
Adelaide Kaiser ’23, an editor for The
Pioneer Log, inspected the pond during
a recent winter walk.
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snow, and I went to go see if I could see
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like it wasn’t totally frozen over, but there
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well-being.
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can survive cold weather even when their
pond freezes over. They developed a
special gene that allows them to convert
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last spring. With the beginning of the
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companions.
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of the snow,” Ramirez said. “Just seeing
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temperatures, as she enjoyed their
company throughout the coronavirus
pandemic.
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COVID in the U.S. is coming up, I’ve
been thinking about going back to that
side of campus and just sitting there
like I did a year ago,” Ramirez said. “It
would it be nice to still have them as my
companions, as they were with me a year
ago, when I did not know how my life was
going to turn out.”
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people have faced during the COVID-19
pandemic, Ramirez was reminded that
being able to attend college during this
time is a privilege.
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and we’re college students, we do have a
privilege and being here and being able to
continue with our studies,” Ramirez said.
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and work to provide for their families. So
I think it’s just a reminder that just like
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we’re out here at LC in our little bubble.”
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students that while we are struggling
to push through this difficult time, it
is possible to not only survive but to
thrive (just like the goldfish).
“I think if you just think about
it, they’re surviving and persevering
through this weather, (so) we can
get through the semester,” Ramirez
said. “It’s hard, I’m stressed, and I’m
sure everyone else is stressed with
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AFTER TAKING the new Numbers
course taught by Associate
Professor of Sociology Maryann
Bylander entitled American Inequality,
Zoe Sanderson ’24 was inspired to start
a podcast.
“One of our assignments was to do
a mini-podcast for our midterm, so
we took a statistic, found out if it was
good or not and did a podcast on that
statistic,” Sanderson said. “I thought,
‘oh my god that was so fun, I just did a
midterm and it was really fun.’”
Afterward, Sanderson decided to
start her own podcast, unrelated to academics. The podcast, titled “Cup of
Zo,” debuted in November 2020. As an
avid podcast listener herself, Sanderson
wanted to make a podcast that was
applicable to the college experience.
“Out of all the podcasts I listened
to, none of (them had) college students
talking about college student things,”
Sanderson said. “If there is not a podcast
that I am looking for, I thought I might
as well make it myself.”
The hour-long “Cup of Zo” episodes
cover a wide range of topics, including
relationships, school and mental health.
“I did not want the podcast to be
niche because I have so many interests
and so many things I want to talk about,” Sanderson said.
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called “COVID College” and goes into
detail about attending college during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanderson
answers questions and gives advice
about managing time, making friends
and learning remotely during the
unusual Fall 2020 semester. The episode
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how COVID-19 changed the college
experience at LC.
The third “Cup of Zo” episode has
a more lighthearted tone as friend of
Sanderson and LC student Sawyer Mauk
’24 is featured. The episode recounts
Mauk’s story of becoming a licensed
wine importer when he lived in Bolivia
and his other business endeavors, while
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theory.
Another episode from the podcast
takes a more serious route. The second
episode, called “ADHtea,” features
Sanderson’s experience with attention
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to have ADD. In the episode, Sanderson discusses her diagnosis, the challenges of
being a college student with ADD and the
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with the disorder.
“It is kind of like therapy,” Sanderson
said. “I really wanted to make those
episodes and talk about those things.
And now that I have, I just want to do
the next episode.”
Sanderson credits the LC social
environment for giving her the freedom
to be herself and create the podcast.
“Being at LC and exposed to so
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made me feel comfortable blossoming,”
Sanderson said. “In high school, I felt
pretty constrained to the social norms of
my school.”
The podcast has had a successful
beginning. On average, she receives 300
listeners. Sanderson hopes the “Cup
of Zo” community will grow and bring
solace to its listeners.
“If it does not give any traction, it
will just be a time capsule for myself
because it is such a crucial time of my
life,” Sanderson said. “If it is more than WKDW,ZRXOGORYHIRUSHRSOHWR¿QGD
little community and I would hope that
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Currently, “Cup of Zo” has four
episodes. Sanderson hopes to make
more episodes throughout this semester
that examine other topics and feature
interviews with more people.
“Some of my parents’ friends are
so interesting and I want to have them
on the podcast to talk about their
life,” Sanderson said. “I have so many
interesting friends and I want a format to
interview people and have their stories
be told in other ways.”
Sanderson hopes “Cup of Zo” will
encourage other young college students
to start their own podcasts.
“Students should start a podcast
because every person brings a unique
perspective on the world,” Sanderson
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audience. There really is no reason not to
start a podcast knowing how easy it is.”
“Cup of Zo” is available to listen to for
free on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
FEATURES 7
LC’s Career Center staff offer advice on networking, resumes, cover letters, Zoom interviews and moreHow to successfully get an internship or job
Podcast “Cup of Zo” highlights college experience at LC
Zoe Sanderson ’24 began her podcast in November 2020, and hopes to inspire others to do the same
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By AMELIA DOYLE

DURING THEIR college careers,
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struggling with resumes, cover
letters and interviews. While the
process can be confusing, there are a
couple of things that students should
keep in mind when beginning to look
for internships or jobs, according to
Associate Director of the Career Center
Nina Olken.
“Anywhere that has open-advertised
positions, anything that seems
interesting to you,” Olken said. “I
encourage you to apply for it even if you
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Another strategy that students can
use when looking for a job is to build
their professional network.
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alumni who are out there ready and
willing to help you,” Olken said.
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alumni, all a student has to do is sign
up on LinkedIn or Handshake through
the college website. There, they can
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them build their professional network.
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open positions and building your
professional network, doing those two
things in tandem can yield the best
results,” Olken said.
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they would like to apply for, they need
to take the next step of building their resume and writing their cover letter.
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do a resume,” Olken said. “There are
just things that we know to be more
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suggestions on.”
One of the strategies that both
Olken and Lila Khammash ’23, a
peer career advisor, suggest is to have
a comprehensive resume. This is a
resume with all of your experiences and
accomplishments in one document.
Depending on the application you apply
for, you can remove parts of this larger
resume and only include information
UHOHYDQWWRWKDWVSHFL¿FSRVLWLRQ“The way to make anything stand
out is that you are going to have a
unique resume and cover letter for
every single position you apply to,”
Olken said.
All resumes should be one page
and should list work experience in
reverse chronological order. It should
include a heading that has your name
and contact information, an education
section and a section for relevant skills
and information. Even if you have not
graduated from college, you should
put your future degree next to the
date you plan to graduate. At the end
of your resume you will also need to LQFOXGHVSHFL¿FVNLOOV²WU\WRIRFXV
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languages, computer skills and lab
skills. All other skills should be in the
bullet point format on your resume.
“I think that one thing that is
very important is always showing the
results of your work,” Khammash
said. “It’s not enough to talk about the
position you had or the experience that
you were involved in.”
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submitted with a resume is a cover
letter. The cover letter should list
more than what is on your resume.
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through your own experiences.
Although resumes and cover letters
are important, they are only part of the
process of successfully getting a job or
internship.
“Rarely are people hired based on
their resume and cover letter,” Olken
said. “The resume and cover letter is to
get you the interview.”
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due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as
many of them are conducted through
Zoom.
Khammash explains that being
prepared for your interview is very
important, and that you should have a
clean, organized background and wear
professional clothes when Zooming in.
“Talking to career counselors or
to peer career advisors to conduct an
interview would probably be super
helpful because they know what they
are doing and they know what type of
questions might come up,” Khammash
said.
The most important thing,
according to Khammash, is to not
get discouraged if you do not get the
position you apply for. Just keep putting
yourself out there. Furthermore, there
are many resources and people at LC
that are willing to help you along the
way.
“Not all jobs are made for everyone,
and if a door closes then another one is
going to open,” Khammash said.
Zoe Sanderson ’24 began her own podcast, titled “Cup of Zo,” in November 2020.RACHELLE BINDER/THE PIONEER LOGAMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy JILLIAN JACKSON
Content warning: This article discusses
sexual misconduct and assault.
THE 2020 FILM “Promising Young
Woman,” which received four
Golden Globe nominations on
Feb. 3, begins with gratuitous shots of
male extras’ crotches as they dance in a
club. Brutally uncomfortable, the shot
encapsulates what made this feminist
thriller a hit: its squirm-worthy inversion
of the male gaze.
It was this wicked cold opening scene
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Fennell the green light from producers to
make “Promising Young Woman.”After
the introductory shot, Cassie (Carey
Mulligan), too drunk to stand, catches the
attention of a group of men in a club.
“If she’s not careful,” one of them
says, “someone’s gonna take advantage,
especially the kinda guys in this club.”
Enter Jerry (Adam Brody), ostensibly
the “nice guy” of the group, who offers
to escort her home. The escort becomes
a cab ride to his apartment, their driver
sparing only a glance back at Cassie in
the rearview mirror when Jerry asks to
change destinations from her apartment
to his.
Just as Jerry’s about to rape Cassie,
she repeatedly asks what he is doing. Her
drunken haze sharpens, until she sits
up and demands with disarming eyes, “I said, what are you doing?” She glares
right into the camera with a malicious
grin.
For all her smudged make-up and
stumbling, Cassie is sober. She — not
Jerry — is in full control. Viewers realize
quickly that Cassie hunts predators,
keeping meticulous score in her notebook.
With each man, her threats shatter
their illusions that they are “nice guys”
who would never take advantage of a
woman who wasn’t “asking for it.”
Cassie never comes across as a black
spandex-wearing superhero beating up
the patriarchy. Rather, she is a 30-year-
old woman who braids her hair with
pastel bows. A medical school dropout,
she lives at home with her parents and
works a dead-end job at a coffee shop.
Fennell even makes the unorthodox
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hyperfeminine pinks and purples. Well
timed covers of Paris Hilton and Britney
Spears songs are the soundtrack to
Cassie’s adrenaline-pumping escapades.
When a chance encounter at the coffee
shop reunites her with a medical school
alum, Cassie decides to start dating Ryan
(Bo Burnham, in a bizarre casting choice
that works better than it should).
In conversations with Ryan about
Cassie’s potential as a doctor, viewers
learn why she dropped out — and why
she remains so committed to catching
would be rapists. Her childhood best
friend Nina had attended medical school with her, until Nina was raped by a fellow
student.
Neither Fennell nor Mulligan shy
away from delving into Cassie’s trauma.
Her wary attitudes toward intimacy and
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in a particularly hard-to-watch scene.
When Cassie learns from Ryan
that Nina’s rapist lives unbothered and
happily engaged, it sends her into a
spiral. She hunts down the friend who did
not believe Nina, the disbelieving dean of
her medical school and the lawyer who
bullied Nina into dropping the case. The
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barred attack not only on college rapists,
but on the institutions that enable them.
However, not all of Fennell’s writing
and direction works. Laverne Cox, a Black
transgender woman, plays Gail, Cassie’s
boss at the coffee shop. Fennell fails to
give Cox much to do besides stand behind
the cash register, deliver well-timed quips
about Cassie’s sex life and give her stamp
of approval on Ryan. As is too often the
case, a Black woman in a supporting role
is given no character arc other than to
support her white best friend.
It is necessary to see Black and
transgender people in plotlines that
do not focus on their oppression. Yet,
according to the 2015 U.S. Transgender
Survey, one in two transgender people
are sexually assaulted at some point
in their lifetime. The National Sexual
Violence Resource Center has found that Black trans people are at an even
higher risk of being sexually assaulted
than their white counterparts.
The omission of even a passing
acknowledgment of this disparity in a
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That said, Fennell manages to deliver
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of being predictable or preachy. In its last
15 minutes, “Promising Young Woman”
delivers a disturbing yet satisfying end.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ARTS 8
By RACHELLE BINDER
I NEVER THOUGHT writing in the
past tense about a musician would be
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musician and record producer Sophie
Xeon, commonly known as SOPHIE,
tragically passed away on Jan. 30 in
Athens, Greece. SOPHIE was only
34 years old. According to a tweet
from SOPHIE’s management team,
Transgressive, the musician fell in an
accident and died. As a trans woman,
SOPHIE generally chose not to use
gendered pronouns.
“True to her spirituality she had
climbed up to watch the full moon and
accidentally slipped and fell. She will
always be here with us,” read the tweet.
SOPHIE’s musical inspiration
grew from attending rave dances and
listening to cassette tapes of electronic
music at a young age. SOPHIE began
creating music after receiving a
piano for a birthday gift. Throughout
adolescence, SOPHIE learned how to
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by SOPHIE, “Nothing More to Say,” was
released in February 2013.
Then, in March 2015, singer-
songwriter Charli XCX announced that
she would collaborate with SOPHIE.
The collaboration
soon blossomed into
friendship. Charli
XCX released her
EP, “Vroom Vroom,”
with production
done by SOPHIE.
Subsequently, SOPHIE
toured with Charli XCX
to promote new music.
Other artists that
SOPHIE collaborated with on various
projects include Kim Petras, Le1f,
Flume and Lady Gaga. It is likely that
those who are unfamiliar to SOPHIE
may have unknowingly heard the many
works of the collaborator and producer.
My introduction to SOPHIE’s work
was rather delayed. I unknowingly
encountered SOPHIE’s work when
Long Beach rapper Vince Staples’
album, “Big Fish Theory,” came out in
2017. Indeed, “Big Fish Theory” has
earned a spot on my top ten favorites.
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of Eurodance intertwined with Staples’
hip-hop roots gave an appealing,
carefree twist to rap music.
Prior to 2017, SOPHIE kept
anonymity during live performances by
covering up in dark attire and hiding
away in a DJ booth. In June 2018, SOPHIE released the album “Oil Of
Every Pearl’s Un-Insides.” The album’s
cover has the artist posed in a cellophane
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single from the album, “It’s Okay to
Cry,” is an intimate
track complemented
with ’80s synthesizer
arrangements. The
rest of the songs
from the album are
hyperactive tracks
that maintain a
consistent trend of
hodgepodging the
sounds of elastic,
plastic, metal and
balloons.
One cannot
acknowledge
SOPHIE without
recognizing SOPHIE’s legacy within
the LGBTQ+ community. SOPHIE’s
transitioning journey gave other
artists hope of a world unrestrained
by the boundaries of binaries. In
an interview with Paper magazine,
SOPHIE described “transness as
taking control to bring your body
more in line with your soul and spirit,
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each other and struggling to survive.”The “Okay to Cry” music video
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appearance.
Thereafter, SOPHIE opened up in
a TeenVogue interview about being a
trans woman. After
the face reveal,
SOPHIE then
moved front and
center stage during
live performances.
SOPHIE
worked alongside
A.G. Cook of the
London-based
record label PC
Music in the early
2010s. PC Music
has been attributed
with consumer
and corporate
branding aesthetics on the background
of heavily synthesized music. Today,
their musical experiment has come
to be associated with the young,
maximalist subgenre known as
hyperpop. Hyperpop is a hardcore,
glitchy concoction of techno, emo
and cloud rap rooted in cyberculture.
Other up-and-coming hyperpop artists
include 100 Gecs, Cowgirl Clue and
Rina Sawayama.
SOPHIE’s influence on
mainstream pop music is
only just beginning.
The experimental
nature of SOPHIE
advocated for a
universe free of
standards and
demands.
The art -
ist’s pro -
ductions
brought
the fu -
ture to
pop music. It
is heartbreaking
that we must see
the same moon
that SOPHIE last
saw before the
fall. Yet, SO -
PHIE is now
part of the
heavens
above
us. SOPHIE, hyperpop pioneer,
praised after sudden death
By AUBREY ROCH É
LEWIS & CLARK’S student art
center, the Platteau, is located in
Platt-Howard Hall and is home
to a plethora of art supplies, a ceramics
studio, music practice rooms and more.
Like everything else this year, the
Platteau has had to reorganize in order to
accommodate LC’s COVID-19 restrictions
on room capacities.
The student managers of the Platteau
this year are Nico Flores ’22, Sam Flores
’23 and Millie Robson ’21. Each manager
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found on their Google Calendar, during
which students can come in to work on art
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just hang out.
Last fall, the student managers worked
on revamping the Platteau’s presence on
social media and cleaning up the space.
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in there, a lot of junk,” Robson said. “I
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Platteau, and we were like alright, let’s
start working on this space, put up signs,
bring it up to date a bit.”
In previous years, the Platteau has
been free to residents of Platt Hall living
in the Visual and Performing Arts Living
Learning Community. Students living
in other dorms could pay $10 for swipe
access to the Platteau, and this fee went
towards paying for materials. This
year, access to the Platteau is free to all
students. They now receive funding from
SAAB, which goes toward supplies and
allows access to the space to be free.
“We decided we want to be free,
especially now, and open for anyone who
wants to come in,” Robson said. “But we also really care about COVID guidelines
so we were like, let’s have it only be open
when the managers are in the space, so we
can hold people accountable to cleaning
up, wearing masks.”
So far this year, the Platteau has
partnered with Gagged, LC’s student-
run drag group, to put on a virtual drag
show, and with the Feminist Student
Union to provide sanitary products in
the space. They have also created a form
where students can submit feedback or
suggestions for ways the Platteau could
use their budget.
“Something that I love about the
Platteau is that we have an ability through
our budget to access mediums that are
harder to access on your own,” Nico Flores
said. “I want people to know that we have
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do in this space, and if you have an idea
that you want to see and you reach out to
us, we can easily make things happen.”
Nico Flores is hoping to introduce
jewelry making and leather working to
the Platteau in the future. In addition,
they hope to host virtual events that are
inclusive of the entire LC community
and that support artists who are part
of marginalized groups. Sam Flores
described the Platteau as “both an
organization and a space.”
The managers emphasized that the
Platteau is an open, welcoming place
for all members of the LC community,
regardless of artistic ability.
“If you like art, this is your space,” Sam
Flores said. “If you don’t like art, come
learn about it and we’ll make you excited
about it.”
For more information email the
Platteau at theplatteau@lclark.edu. Platteau open for all
LC students to create
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“Promising Young Woman” seeks to challenge male gaze
KAYLA PLATER/THE PIONEER LOGFirst-time director Emerald Fennell explodes onto the scene with a new one-of-a-kind feminist thriller
In an interview with
Paper magazine,
SOPHIE described
“transness as taking
control to bring your
body more in line with
your soul and spirit,
so the two are not
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other and struggling
to survive.”
I never thought
writing in the
past tense about a
musician would be
this difficult.
KAYLA PLATER/THE PIONEER LOGTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ARTS 9
The collaborative that spans across all three LC campuses aims to raise critical consciousness through artArt for Social Change seeks to enact antiracism
By IHSAAN MOHAMED
EVERY TUESDAY at noon,
members of Art for Social Change
gather over Zoom. Membership
spans across all three campuses and is
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community guidelines. According
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Chair Lawrence Siulagi, this practice
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to providing a safe space for all
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father, Lawrence Siulagi, who was
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the arts.
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principles and transparency are strictly
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Solstice ceremony. Participants were
encouraged to submit responses on
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connections, Art for Social Change
participated in creating toe tags as part of the Ray Warren Symposium. They
also regularly attended art therapy
events hosted by prominent Black
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include collaborations with various art
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at artforsocialchange@lclark.edu or on
Instagram @lcartforsocialchange.
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Cicely Tyson’s stirring memoir
proves that personal is political
By JILLIAN JACKSON
Content warning: This article discusses
sexual assault.
ON JAN. 27, Cicely Tyson, an
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taking as a Black woman in
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honing her craft, Tyson received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian award in the United
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woman to win an honorary Academy
Award.
Two days before her death, Tyson
released her memoir, “Just As I Am,”
in collaboration with New York Times
bestselling author Michelle Burford.
Tyson takes a risk by devoting almost
a third of her memoir
to her childhood and
early adulthood before
fame. The daughter
of two immigrants
from Nevis, an island
in the West Indies,
Tyson grew up in East
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to her daughter, Joan.
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children to have children,” she wrote.
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christening circulating among the
student body. In order to graduate,
Tyson had to attend the night program.
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earn my diploma,” Tyson wrote, while
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was “devastating.”
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typist and secretary at the American Red
Cross. One day, while window shopping,
a man stopped her and asked if she
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led Tyson to seek representation with
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in Harlem. Her modeling work would
lead to an illustrious acting career,
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over it.”
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Black woman to wear her natural hair
on television on “East Side/West Side,”
a CBS drama about social workers
in New York. Tyson received letters
from hairstylists around the country,
who noted that the demand for female
barbers had soared, while requests for
chemical services to straighten Black
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that she had not planned to start a
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over the years of my career, it has had
nothing to do with me personally. It
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wear her natural hair
on TV and its impact
on Black women
nationwide provided
powerful testimony to the old adage
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of whom later said they had wanted
Tyson to wear her hair natural, but
never knew how to broach the subject.
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decisions about her hair on TV, Tyson
was selective about which roles she
chose to take, a form of protest that
severely limited her paycheck during
the early years of her career.
“Fifty years after I made a silent
pact with myself to play women whose
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still guides me,” Tyson wrote before her
passing.
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woman” stereotype, a trope that
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sexually, it does not simply haunt and
grieve you; it alters the very shape
of your soul,” she wrote. “Contrary
to mythologies surrounding the
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women, we too experience trauma.
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emotional intricacies, the indignities
we carry under our bones, are the most
deeply misunderstood human beings in
history.”
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I Am,” Tyson addressed young Black
women directly.
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fervor in your testimony, that ebullience
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constantly trying to diminish you, ever
attempting to dismiss your talents, even
as they mimic them, is proof of your
uniqueness.”
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observed that people often asked her
what legacy she wanted to leave behind.
“I want to be recalled as one who
squared her shoulders in the service
of Black women, as one who made us
walk taller and envision greater for
ourselves,” Tyson said.
KAYLA PLATER/THE PIONEER LOGPSU debuts charming,
if gimmicky, Toon Tour
By TOR PARSONS
IN AN EFFORT to draw people
back to their downtown Portland
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launched an art project known as the
“Toon Tour.” Described on the PSU
website as a “delightful treasure hunt,”
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cardboard cutouts scattered throughout
the campus. The cutouts, created by
local artist Mike Bennett, depict goofy,
often grinning caricatures of people,
animals and things related to Portland
and Oregon.
One of these caricatures, as would
be expected, is Bigfoot, lurking in the
window of the Academic and Student
Recreation Center. There are also
cartoons of salmon, bicycles, roses,
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streetcars. The tour even features a
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Kidd, also known as the Unipiper,
who has become a symbol of Portland
weirdness by performing popular movie
themes on a bagpipe while riding a
unicycle and wearing a Darth Vader
costume.
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each cartoon, as well as brief details
on why the subject of each cartoon
is quintessentially Oregonian. Corny
jokes attempt to tenuously connect the
cartoon to the building it is located in.
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is among the cartoons. They make
the seemingly serious observation,
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reported sightings of Bigfoot were within
hours of the Portland State campus,”
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a deliberately vague measurement of
distance. “Within hours of the campus?”
How many hours?
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Tour is not much of a treasure hunt. The cartoons are usually located in windows
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with a QR code next to them linking
to the guide. However, a few are more
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window at Shattuck Hall, the building
where the Pioneer Express stops
downtown, looking down at passersby
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online guide, though, is devoted to
the buildings themselves and their
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real reason for the Toon Tour: to
recruit new students to PSU. With
guided campus tours impacted by
the pandemic, PSU likely devised the
Toon Tour as an alternative method
of attracting prospective students to
visit campus and building interest in
the school. The QR code next to each
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to take a virtual tour of the building
where the cartoon stands, and also
invites anyone who scans the code to
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The Toon Tour is ultimately a
gimmick, rather than an activity, but
it is a fairly original gimmick. The
involvement of local Portland artists
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the cartoons certainly make the PSU
campus more colorful and interesting.
Where else can people see Bigfoot
standing across the street from a
bagpiper dressed as Darth Vader?
TOR PARSONS/THE PIONEER LOG
Shattuck Hall features a cartoonish hop.In 1963, Tyson
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Black woman to
wear her natural
hair on television...TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
SPORTS 10
By NATHAN OAKLEY
FOR YEARS, Portland has celebrated
Black History Month with vibrant
festivals such as the PDX Jazz Festival
and the Cascade Festival for African Films.
But this year, with the COVID-19 pandemic
shuttering many famous local celebrations,
the city’s professional sports teams have
decided to get creative and do their part to
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The Thorns, Portland’s two-time
National Women’s Soccer League
champions, and the Portland Timbers,
Major League Soccer’s 2015 champions,
can be seen wearing special edition
warm-up tees inspired by their mission to
“Educate, Elevate, Engage.”
The Thorns and Timbers are selling
their Black History Month tee in the
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KairosPDX, an award winning, Black-
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educational equity in early childhood and
beyond.
Timbers star forward Jeremy Ebobisse,
who also plays for the U.S. Men’s National
Team, has been heavily involved in the
Timbers’ Black History Month proceedings
for years. Ebobisse and his teammate Eryk
Williamson encourage fans to never stop
educating themselves on Black issues,
both current and past. In an interview with
Timbers.com, Williamson noted that any
dialogue about Black history and culture
should be focused on Black voices such
as Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King Jr. and James Baldwin. Both players
make it a personal tradition to get involved
in local Black History Month traditions
every year.
Ebobisse also advocates for the
centering of prominent women of the civil
rights movement, who all too often seem to
be left out of the discussion.
“That is the next progression in
broadening our understanding of
African American history in our country: empowering the female voices of the past,”
Ebobisse said. “Because they were at the
forefront of the civil rights movement, and
they continue to be at the forefront of Black
Lives Matter and all these movements that
are promoting equality and bringing black
people up.”
Both of Portland’s soccer clubs have
also come together to sponsor educational
programming designed for young kids to
critically engage with topics concerning
race and racism.
One such program is conducted by A
Kids Book About, a Black-owned media
company that is hosting a series of panels
with Black authors Kohen, Jelani Memory
and Jordan Thierry, on IGTV. These award-
winning children’s authors will be hosting
two programs, A Kid Asks About Racism
and A Kid Asks About Black History Month.
The Portland Trail Blazers are also
frequently involved in social and racial justice in the local community. Blazers star
Damian Lillard was an active leader in this
summer’s Black Lives Matter protests in
Portland, leading marches from Revolution
Hall across the theMorrison Bridge.
Blazers Guard CJ McCollum hosts a talk
show series titled, “ReMaking America: A
Conversation with CJ McCollum,” that was
featured in a November 2020 Pioneer Log
article. McCollum aims to raise community
awareness for racial issues, while also
encouraging his fellow athletes to speak up
on inequality.
The Trail Blazers are hoping to support
the causes of their players, organizing
virtual celebrations of Black History Month
during their games against the Washington
Wizards on Feb. 12, and against the
Cleveland Cavaliers on Feb. 20. The game
against the Cavaliers will focus on Black
health issues in partnership with Moda
Health.By NICOLE NAGAMATSU
THERE IS A month left of winter
but, as Portlanders know, the
cold, rainy weather will last
well into the spring. There were
already limited activities to do in this
weather in a non-pandemic world, so
adding indoor restrictions leaves us
with even fewer options. However,
there is one classic activity suitable
for such cold weather — ice skating.
Ice skating in Portland may not be
as magical as our imaginations might
lead us to believe (that is, we are not
gliding across a small-town river while
the snow gently falls down). However,
it can still be an exciting and safe way
to spend a Saturday afternoon with
your pod.
There are two ice rinks in the
Portland area that currently offer
public sessions. Unfortunately,
neither of them are close to the
Pioneer Express routes, but Zipcars
are available through Student
Engagement. Zipcar is a car-sharing
service where a student can rent a car
by the hour any day of the week, once
they create an account and verify their
driver’s license. Directions for how
to rent one can be found on the LC
website. A Zipcar membership costs
$7 a month and the standard rate to
rent a car starts at $10.50 per hour.
The closest rink to campus is
at Lloyd Center, a 16-minute drive
without traffic. The mall’s ice rink is
located on the first level across from
Macy’s. The rink offers 45-minute
public skating sessions, full-rink,
for $20 per skater, rental skates
included. Pre-registration is required
and sessions are restricted to 16
people. They specify that masks must
cover the mouth and nose at all times
and that 15 feet of social distancing
must be followed on the ice. Many of
the stores in the mall are also open,
so you could make it a day trip of
shopping, skating and snacks.
The next closest rink is the
Winterhawks Skating Center in
Beaverton, a 20-minute drive from
campus. They offer public skating sessions that are also 45 minutes
and $20 per skater, but limited to
10 people per session for half of the
ice. Skate rental is also free. Pre-
registration is required, as are masks
and social distancing.
The Winterhawks Skating Center
is home to a few local hockey teams,
such as the Portland Winterhawks (as
the name of the center suggests) who
are in the Western Hockey League.
So, if you want to skate on the same
ice as professionals, the Winterhawks
Skating Center is a great option.
Both Lloyd Center and the
Winterhawks Skating Center offer
private and freestyle sessions, which
are meant for advanced skaters
wanting practice. If you are looking
to take up ice skating or hockey as a
new long-term hobby, Winterhawks
Skating Center currently offers group
classes through an 8-week program,
which costs $150 and includes 8 free
public skate sessions and classes 4
days a week with free rental skates.
They also offer private lessons for ice
skating and hockey at any level; prices
depend on the instructor.
Unfortunately, the potential cost
of transportation combined with the
cost of skating are limiting factors
for many, but this special excursion
could be planned for one of the spring
mini-breaks in late February and late
March. Both rinks are open year-
round, so keep this fun activity in
mind for future months to come.By RACHELLE BINDER
THE MONTH OF F e b r u a r y w i l l
mark the 20th annual national
eating disorder awareness
month and the past year has done
much to emphasize the cause. The
campaign’s mission is to change
the stigma and provide resources
about eating disorders. While eating
disorder awareness is important any
day, month or year, this particular
month holds great importance to
many.
Eating disorders are frequently
misunderstood and often go
undiagnosed. Anyone can have an
eating disorder, regardless of age,
gender, sexuality, weight, race or
socioeconomic status. The National
Association of Anorexia Nervosa and
Associated Disorders reports that
around 9%, or roughly 30 million,
Americans will have an eating disorder
in their lifetime. The most frequently
diagnosed eating disorders include
anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa
and binge eating disorder.
Throughout the COVID-19
pandemic, eating disorders have
been a concern for many. Lockdowns
have presented new challenges for
those who are struggling with eating
disorders or were in recovery prior
to the pandemic. The closed gyms,
change of routine and lack of activity
have all triggered a wave of worry
around body image.
Life under quarantine has
contributed to higher levels of stress,
depression and anxiety for many, and
those with eating disorders remain
highly vulnerable to relapsing or
worsening severity. Unfortunately,
resources for assistance, such as
counseling and rehabilitation, are
scarce during the pandemic. According
to a recent BioMed Central survey, four
out of five people who self-reported
an eating disorder experienced worsening
symptoms when the lockdowns
started.
Others may have started
experiencing eating disorder
symptoms during the pandemic. The
National Eating Disorders Association
reported a 78% increase in calls to its
helpline since March 2020.
This year, eating disorder
awareness advocacy groups have
not only emphasized the lack of
supply for treatment, but treatment
inaccessibility for BIPOC individuals.
There is a consistent yet false
stereotype that those struggling with
an eating disorder are white and
affluent. According to a National
Eating Disorder Association study,
members of the BIPOC community
are significantly less likely than white
people to have been asked about
eating disorder symptoms. The same
study also found that Black teenagers
are 50% more likely to exhibit bulimic
behavior than white teenagers.
If you are worried that a friend may
be struggling with an eating disorder,
Lewis & Clark’s Welfare Intervention
Network (WIN) can be consulted. The
network is a team of LC professionals who coordinate to get
students the help they need if their
well-being may face a potential health
risk.
There are also various resources
at LC’s Wellness Center for students
who think they may be struggling
with an eating disorder. For example,
the website offers an anonymous,
confidential online screening where
individuals who think they may be
struggling with eating or body image
issues can get the support they need.
LC’s Office of Case Management,
overseen by Amy Milne, also helps
students find off-campus therapists,
physicians and dietitians.
Eating disorder awareness month
is for everyone, regardless of if one
has struggled with an eating disorder
or not. The most important thing
anyone can do is educate themselves
about eating disorders. The more one
knows about these harmful illnesses,
the better prepared one will be to
recognize warning signs and assist
someone who is struggling. Due
to the current circumstances, we
live in a strange and isolated time.
Unfortunately, eating disorders thrive
in that same isolation.
BY GABE KORER
MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball
(MLB) announced their plans
for the 2021-22 season in an
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which further explained their decision
to proceed with no delays despite the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“In light of the (MLB Players
Association’s) rejection of our proposal,
and their refusal to counter our revised
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forward and instructing our Clubs to
report for an on-time start to Spring
Training and the Championship
Season,” the MLB said.
The MLBPA, who rejected the
MLB’s proposal, cited a lack of “salary
or service time protections,” signifying
that their rejection was due to concerns
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the rejection, the season will begin
approximately a month earlier than the
date targeted in the MLB’s proposal,
prompting concern over how the MLB
plans to safely transition fans back into
stadiums without a widely distributed
COVID-19 vaccine available.
As part of their COVID-19 protocol,
the MLB will not require proof of
vaccination or negative COVID-19 tests
from fans. Instead, they will delegate the
role of implementing safety measures
to the teams, which includes checking
the temperature of fans upon arrival.
The league is also expected to mandate
socially distanced “pods” that maintain
at least 6 feet of distance between the
fans. However, that could easily change
depending on whether state and local
authorities decide to enforce it.Additional measures include
mandatory mask-wearing — outside
of eating and drinking — and the
distribution of multiple hand-washing
stations across all stadiums. While
these steps indicate that the MLB is
preparing for renewed fan attendance,
professional sporting event restrictions
vary from state to state. This takes some
of the control out of the league’s hands.
Aside from health and safety
measures, some of last season’s game
related changes will be discontinued.
This includes the expanded postseason,
a popular measure that allowed six
additional teams to compete in the
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similarly to the 2019 season, with many
of the rules being reversed to what they
were pre-COVID in terms of scheduling
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From a revenue standpoint, the
MLB is expected to lose hundreds
of millions of dollars in 2021 due to
a lack of ticket sales. Although the
MLB is doing everything it can to
promote fans attending games, there
is not enough interest to make up for
the revenue losses of last season or to
meet current projections. With ticket
sales accounting for nearly 30% of
their annual revenue, the league will
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straight season.
With spring training games set
to begin on Feb. 28 and opening day
scheduled for April 1, the MLB is
anxious to get their fans back into the
stands to make up for the revenue
losses incurred last season. If they can
manage to do that while minimizing
the overall health risk, this season will
be a resounding success. Local rinks great
for winter exercise
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVESEating disorder awareness more
important now during pandemic
Portland teams celebrate Black
History Month through advocacyMLB season to proceed
as scheduled in AprilNICOLE NAGAMATSU/THE PIONEER LOG
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOGTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
SPORTS 11
Protocols sweep NWC to diminish raging virus
The pervasive coronavirus outbreak has forced LC athetic staff to accomodate infected student athletes
By NATHAN OAKLEY
WHEN THE National Basketball
Association (NBA) made plans
for the 2020-21 season, they
initially announced that the annual
All-Star Game weekend would not be
taking place, citing safety concerns amid
the COVID-19 pandemic. But in early
February, the NBA had a sudden change
of heart, deciding to hold the All-Star
Game in its usual format on Sunday,
March 7, in Atlanta.
The league faces one critical setback,
however: Most of the star players have
no interest in participating.
Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron
James leads a star-studded lineup of
players who are speaking out against
the proposal. Notable dissenters include
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis
Antetokounmpo, Brooklyn Nets guard
James Harden, Los Angeles Clippers
forward Kawhi Leonard and even
Portland’s own Carmelo Anthony of the
Trail Blazers, all of whom are speaking
out alongside James.
James noted that players are
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and many had plans to visit family or get
some well-needed rest in lieu of the All-
Star Game.
“I have zero energy and zero
excitement about an All-Star Game
this year,” James said in a postgame
conference. “I don’t even understand
why we’re having an All-Star Game.”
The concerns were echoed by Bucks
forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, a
former NBA MVP.
“(James) says he has zero excitement,
zero energy for the All-Star Game, I’m
the same way,” Giannis said on a Zoom
call with reporters on Feb. 5. “I can’t
worry about the All-Star Game, I want to
see my family.”
Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi
Leonard added another layer of depth to
the controversy.
“We all know why we’re playing it
... just putting money over health right
now, pretty much,” Leonard said, calling
out the NBA directly in a recent press
conference after losing to the Boston
Celtics.
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to believe that this decision is not rooted
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with all NBA franchises existing within
a “bubble” for the entire NBA season to
this point. This usually allowed players
little to no contact with players from
other teams outside of gameday and
required further participation in daily COVID-19 mitigation procedures at team
facilities. With the All-Star Game taking
place in its normal format, players from
all teams will meet up for a showdown
in Atlanta and all safety protocols go out
the window. Things just do not seem to
add up for most.
From the perspective of the NBA
administration and the player’s union,
the All-Star Game is a way to raise
money for historically Black colleges and
universities and COVID-19 relief while
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felt due to the pandemic. While this
may sound like an admirable pursuit
by the NBA and the player’s union, it
is clearly more divisive than it seems.
Many players think there are better
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that do not involve the real possibility of
contracting COVID-19 or injury.
Many look to the National Football
League (NFL) and Major League
Baseball (MLB), which did not hold their
normal All-Star Games during the year.
Instead, the NFL and MLB found ways
to honor their top players that did not
involve risk of injury or illness, such as
video game tournaments or virtual Q&A
sessions. Both leagues also held virtual
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community service and COVID-19 relief
funds, all while players got to enjoy
much needed rest with their families.
Even players who are not slated to
play in the proposed All-Star Game are
speaking out.
“I don’t think it’s right,” Blazers
forward Carmelo Anthony said. “I don’t
think we need it.”
The concern was built upon by
Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox.
“I think it’s stupid,” Fox said in
a postgame interview with Bleacher
Report. “If we have to wear masks and
do all this for a regular game, what’s
the point of bringing the All-Star Game
back?”
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proposal, meaning that the 2021 All-
Star Game could still be postponed or
canceled. While the chorus of backlash
has the majority of support, several
players have spoken in favor of the
proposal. Players’ Union President
and Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul,
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic
and Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias
Harris have all stated they would
attend if voted in. With COVID-19
causing such division, the league is at
a crossroads and will have to make an
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choice of All-Star game By HENRY GOODIER
THE COVID-19 p a n d e m i c h a s
overwhelmed college communities
around the nation. Despite the
unwavering pandemic, many conferences
within the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) have pushed forward
with their Spring 2021 seasons, making
collegiate athletes, coaches and athletic
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team. With the high number of cases
across the United States, the inevitability
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contracting the virus is high.
Lewis & Clark has been a role model
of sorts among college campuses in
combating the coronavirus thus far.
According to Jeremy Loew, the head
athletic trainer at LC, only 25 student
athletes have been diagnosed with the
virus since April 2020, most of whom
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a New York Times article found over
6,600 cases of the virus among Division
I football players and people who work
in their athletic departments in the Fall
2020 season alone.
The app SWAY, a mobile symptom
tracking test, is cemented in the daily
routine of student athletes at LC. The
NCAA and Northwest Conference
(NWC) have mandated all colleges to
have a symptom self-screening test daily
before they access any athletic facilities on campus. Around half of the NWC has
chosen SWAY for their self-screening
platform.
Athletes are asked eight questions
to determine whether or not they
are experiencing any of the common
coronavirus symptoms.
“If a student indicates they have
symptoms, somebody from the athletic
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with them and try to assess if what’s going
on is normal or abnormal for them,”
Loew said.
Moreover, if a student has been
diagnosed with the coronavirus, they will
be treated as any other student on the
LC campus and put into isolation for a
minimum of 10 days.
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in their homes while on-campus students
are relocated to Hartzfeld Hall.
In order to be released from isolation,
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) requires “10 days since
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with no fever without fever-reducing
medication and other symptoms of
COVID-19 are improving.”
Additionally, the CDC has stated
that there should be no exercise within
that time frame. Once a student athlete
has completed isolation, they must meet
with the team doctor for an in-person
evaluation and have an electrocardiogram
done by the health center to ensure their heart is appropriately functioning.
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heart muscle, has become a severe issue
among athletes that have withstood the
virus. A study done at The Ohio State
University showed that 15% of collegiate
athletes with COVID-19 had evidence of
myocarditis. Therefore, proper recovery
is imperative for the safety of athletes.
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up an eight to 10 day return to athletics
programs for student athletes to get
healthy once again. The return process
entails a gradual increase of workout
intensity as time goes on. If a student
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then halt the training to order blood work
and continue to do more tests like an
echocardiogram.
“We start the athletes keeping it
at about 70 percent of their max heart
rate with limited activity for up to 15
minutes for two to three days,” Loew
said. “Gradually, it increases to about 80
percent of their heart rate for half an hour
and goes from there.”
As the Spring 2021 season approaches
quickly, the worry of close contact
between schools is daunting. All summer,
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to discover ways to combat the spread
of the virus and there has been a great
deal of coherence between schools in the NWC to guarantee the safety of student
athletes. In compliance with the new set
of conference-wide guidelines, schools
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athletes are virus-free.
“We are required to attest to the
health of our team before they leave our
campus,” Loew said. The diligence of every school to abide
by the protocols is crucial for a well-
functioning and complete season.
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at LC have taken great responsibility
to ensure the health and safety of not
only the athletic community, but the LC
community at large.
New Super Bowl LV commercials
juxtaposed to game performances
By GABE KORER
WITH SUPER BOWL LV over
and in the books, it is time
to remark on one of the
most celebrated aspects of Super Bowl
Sunday: the commercials. From moody
Jason Alexander hoodies to Big Bird,
let us catch you up on some of the most
memorable moments you may have
missed by comparing these comical ads
to their in-game counterparts.

Cheetos Commercial feat.
Shaggy (Tyreek Hill’s Overall
Performance)
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to a bit of a slow start. It opens with
Mila Kunis wrongfully eating Ashton
Kutcher’s Cheetos and then proceeds
into a musical number that has Kunis
exclaiming, “It wasn’t me!” Kutcher’s
singing in the beginning coupled with
some bad lip-syncing made me want to
quit this assignment and call it a day,
but I persevered until reggae musician
Shaggy began singing in the second
half of the commercial. When Shaggy
hit that dad joke at the end, I found
myself at Maggie’s scanning the aisles
for some Cheetos.
Scotts and Miracle-Grow Big
Game Commercial (Tyreek Hill’s
First-Quarter Performance)
This one was a missed opportunity
for one essential reason: How are you
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in this and have it not be funny? That
is the equivalent of Kansas City Chiefs
wide receiver Tyreek Hill dropping a
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Super Bowl. Unfortunately, as part of
their “Keep Growing” campaign, Scotts
and Miracle-Gro decided to pay half
a dozen celebrities to perform cliche
outdoor activities instead of using
their collective talent in a substantive
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Travolta’s bizarre dance routine for
his daughter’s TikTok certainly does
not save this commercial from how
forgettable it is.
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Remember that really bad Pepsi
commercial from a few years ago that
tried to solve racism? Well, this one
tries to solve our current political
divide through the sale of Jeeps. It
features a Bruce Springsteen voiceover
that is nothing more than a string of
platitudes intermingled with shots of him in a Jeep, a church and a diner (the
staples of American life, apparently).
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running for his life and it was still
better than this overcooked turkey.
Tide’s Jason Alexander
Commercial (The Ol’ Reliable
Tom Brady)
It is hard to say whether this
was a commercial for Tide or Jason
Alexander hoodies, but I will take
one of each, please. Throughout this
commercial, we follow the painful
journey of a Jason Alexander hoodie
as it gets beaten down by everyday life,
including being slobbered on by a dog
and left in a gym bag with some dirty
socks. Like Tom Brady, it is incredibly
durable and expressive and comes with
its fair share of complaints. Stay on the
safe side and treat them both with the
respect they deserve.
No Way Norway General Motors
feat. Will Ferell (Travis Kelce’s
Explosion)
Comedians Will Ferrell, Kenan
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to oppose Norway’s dominance in the
electric vehicle market in this General
Motors advertisement. Despite
mistakenly traveling to Finland and
Sweden, their initial opposition to an
entire country mirrored Travis Kelce’s
brilliant stand against Tampa Bay’s
nightmarish defense. Although their struggles were in vain, you might as
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Neighborhood Doordash feat. Big
Bird (Bucs’ Defense)
What a textbook performance.
The Sesame Street gang checked all
the boxes in this positively thrilling
DoorDash musical, which featured
standout performances from Cookie
Monster and Big Bird as well as a
new take on their classic song “The
Neighborhood.” All things being equal,
I would say they are just as worthy
of our admiration as Tampa Bay’s
incredible defense is.
Wayne’s World feat. Cardi B
(Gronk’s Connection With Brady)
Not gonna lie — this one was a
bit of a surprise for me. But boy, that
connection between Wayne’s World
and Cardi B was exactly like that of
Brady and Gronk. Throughout their
promotion of UberEats as a means
to support local restaurants, they
satirized manipulative advertisement
techniques such as showing attractive
models (Garth) and the celebrity cameo
(Cardi B). Hopefully, this commercial
gets picked up as a series on Hulu
because the nostalgia and humor are
“party time, excellent!”
Honorable Mention: Sexy
Amazon feat. Michael B. Jordan
and Edgar Scissorhands
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOG AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG 12
By ISABEL REKOW
YOU WAKE UP on a pillow soaked
with all the phlegm your running
nose unleashed during the night.
Your throat stings raw as a wound, your
head pounds but you are not hungover
and you cannot smell your roommate’s
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But that is OK, because you
obviously do not have COVID.
You roll out of bed and feel
unexpectedly dizzy at the sudden
movement. Reeling, you ram your hip
painfully into the corner of your desk.
After wiping your nose with the back
of your hand, you stumble around the
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rags from your roommate’s. Whoops,
looks like you got some snot on their
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the end of your sleeve and hope they
will not notice.
Somehow you overslept, which is
really unusual. You hurry to the kitchen,
where Cameron, your roommate, is
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the French press.
“Morning,” they say. “Wow, your
eyes are really red. Still crying about
that girl? Is there anything I can do?”
“It is probably just allergies,” you
say automatically, and sneeze with
impeccable timing. Then you sneeze
again, spewing Cameron with invisible
droplets. “I tend to have respiratory
problems. I think all the dust in
Melissa’s basement irritated my lungs
when we went there last week.”
“Do not tell me you caught the
plague,” Cameron laughs. They sip
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mom yesterday, and she’s severely
immunocompromised. It would suck
if anything happened to her.”
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the fridge and take out the creamer,
grab a mug from the cupboard and
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an imperceptible, snail-like trail of
nasal mucus on everything you touch. Your throat tickles, and you cough into
the kitchen sink.
“It’s probably just strep throat,”
you say. “I got a note from Melissa last
night and she said she’d come down
with it again. She’s had it before, so she
knows what strep throat feels like. It is
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in a vain attempt to soothe your throat
and shore up your impressive psychic
defenses against reality.
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last night. Jose and Frances said they
are still down.”
“Yes!” Cameron says. “It should be
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staying within the pod.”
“Paragons of responsibility,” you
say, but your words are cut
short by another massive
sneeze.
Once at school,
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attention in class
because you feel
strangely hot,
but maybe it is
just an anxiety
attack. It is
going to be
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do not have
COVID. You
would totally
know if you
did. The
body
has ways of telling you these things.
You have lunch outside Templeton
with a couple of friends who are
not in your roommate pod nor in
your close-friend pod nor in your
party pod. The lunch pod is a chill
group. You are all responsible and
only hang out outdoors, spending 45
minutes without masks on as you eat
and chat with each other from two
full feet away.
It is true that the lunch pod still
smokes from the same joint from
time to time, but not very often, so
the statistical probability that one of
you is sick when you are all smoking
together is quite low.
Two days later, when the weekend
finally arrives, you cannot wait to
attend one of the larger gatherings
LC is finally allowing on campus.
You deserve a break. It is hard
work keeping up with classes
considering the toll the
pandemic-riddled winter
has taken on your
mental health.
You still feel a little
sick, but it is probably
just psychosomatic.
Stress will do that.
You go anyway and
infect 20 people. But
that is OK, because
you do not have
COVID. You just
have denial.Super-spreader develops
COVID Denial Syndrome
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AMONG ONGOING fears about
COVID-19 at Lewis & Clark
is a new phenomenon being
reported by students who eat at Fields
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“the Bon.” Numerous students have
been afraid that they had contracted
the virus that causes COVID-19 due to
a lost sense of taste, when, in fact, the
food is just completely tasteless.
Losing one’s ability to taste is a
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symptom of COVID-19, and Bon
dishes that are severely lacking in
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any student who eats there.
When asked about this
experience, multiple Bon
diners claimed that they
were convinced they
had COVID-19 after
macaroni and cheese
was served for dinner last
week.
“I never knew food could
be so tasteless, and that is why I
panicked,” Julian Fry ’24 said.
Reportedly, the dish consisted
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and just a hint of cheese.
“They somehow did not even taste
like noodles,” Fry added.
Fry attempted to test his ability to
taste further by eating his breadstick,
which turned out to be too tough to bite
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beginning to cry into his Bon takeout box out of fear of having contracted the
virus, Fry called the after-hours nurse
hotline in a panic.
Similar incidents are being reported
by concerned students all over campus.
Michelle Cho ’23 and her roommate
Ingrid Johnson ’23 both believed they
had been infected with COVID-19
when they ate a tofu
stir fry from the Bon. Cho
decided to forgo the sauce
on her tofu, which she blames for its
complete lack of taste. Johnson, having
had some of the sauce and reporting
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the meal whatsoever, does not think it
matters much. “It was mostly just salty,” Johnson
said.
The pair immediately Googled
common COVID-19 symptoms. Though
they had none but a loss of taste, they
quickly reported a potential infection
and went into quarantine. Two days
later, the roommates tested negative.
They also discovered that they were
indeed able to taste things after
choking down a few Emergen-C
packets in hopes of staving off the
virus.
The tasteless seasonal vegetable
medleys, complete with blackened
broccoli and limp,
collapsing zucchini
wheels, are
some of the
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for concerned
students. Sage
Patterson ’22,
who has doubted
their sense of
taste more than
once after eating
Bon vegetables,
proposes a simple
solution.
“I just dump a ton of hot
sauce on everything I eat from the
Bon. That way, I make sure my ability
to taste is fully intact,” Patterson
said.
Their strategy, though effective,
leaves the less spice-enthused diners
still searching for a way to make sure
the Bon’s lack of seasoning stops
giving them COVID-19 scares. Personal ad: single,
scientologist, non-furry
Bon food so tasteless students
are convinced they have COVIDBy NANDREW AOURIE
HOWDY Y’ALL! My name
is Nandrew Aourie, I am
a political science major
(ew right? I am one of the good
ones though I promise ;) and I am
currently looking for a girlfriend.
Right now it is incredibly hard
to meet new people, even using
dating apps. It usually goes one of
three ways on Tinder: I get told I
look like famous serial killer and
cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, they ask
to impregnate me (I did not think
it was possible to get womanized as
a man) or we have great chemistry
but they suddenly ghost me after I
tell them that I am a Scientologist.
I do not really understand
why I am single at the moment, I
have an absolutely stunning face
and wonderful personality so it is
obviously not my fault. I am also
super funny and I know that is a fact
because Backdoor editor Hackenzie
Merring ’21 said “Nandrew you are
literally the funniest person alive.”
I am also really not that picky
when it comes to women, I will
basically take anyone with a pulse
(not a dealbreaker).
Does that make me look
incredibly sad and also somewhat
insult the women I have dated in
the past? Yes.
Does that mean that you have
a very good shot with me if you
identify as a woman even just a tiny
bit? Yes!
Will our first date be a trip
to the local Scientologist church
where I will get you hooked up
to a strange machine, have you
emotionally probed and confess to
all the terrible things you have done
in your life? Will it be documented
on camera so we have blackmail
material, and indoctrinate, I mean
invite, you to my wonderful faith
that blends science and spirituality?
Of course it will!
I already have our first
anniversary all planned out. We
will take this wonderful cruise
trip called the Freewinds that is
absolutely free of charge! We will
be able to work hard to relieve
ourselves of the engrams and implant that lord Xenu cursed our
disgusting physical forms with.
If you still need convincing,
here are some reviews that my good
friends gave of me.
When I asked him for my most
redeeming quality, my good buddy
Cannibal Spectre ’23 replied, “big
butt.”
Charlotte Manson ’23 said,
“Nandrew, you are bad with
women, also please do not mention
that we are friends in your article
I do not want to be associated with
you.”
My (now ex) roommate Garth
Vaader ’23 confusingly stated
“Andrew seems to find (human)
women disappointing and would
rather date a rabbit person or
something.”
Classic Garth, this is so funny
because it makes no sense. I am not
a furry or anything. I do own the
collector’s edition for Zootopia but
that does not mean I am a furry. I
do not know why everyone thinks
I am a furry, that would be so
embarrassing. There are no furries
in Scientology. Please do not tell
my minister that I own Zootopia
and sometimes imagine myself with
a tail and paws, I do not want to end
up like Shelly Miscavige.
Now, hold your horses you
beautiful mare (not a furry thing,
I promise), I know that you are
rearing to get with this beautiful
stallion (again, not a furry thing),
but just like everyone else I have a
bit of baggage that you should hear
about: 1.) I am horribly addicted to
ketamine; 2.) I pissed myself in my
political science class once (this was
due, in some part, to the ketamine);
3.) I know that ketamine is a horse
tranquilizer. I did not start taking
it because I am a horse furry.
Stop thinking that I am a furry. I
am normal other than the whole
Scientology thing, I swear.
So if you can just look past
those three things and are alright
with me hooking you up to an
E-meter machine to find out your
electrodermal activity, then give
me a ring at my residence, the local
Church of Scientology 503-236-
8576.
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