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Volume 96, No. 3

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2021-03-05

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Vol. 96 No. 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021 www.piolog.com
This Week on The PioPod
In today’s episode, we hear about
psychologist Philip Zimbardo’s lecture
for the Psych Club, the Third Culture
Kid Symposium and the upcoming
Gender Studies Symposium.
OPINION
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has a dark past of harming Indigenous
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FEATURES
Life of Gov. Dixy Lee Ray
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cuisine and is only 10 minutes from
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SPORTS
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Student Life
debuts new
recognitionsSymposium
links TCKs
to careers
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AFTE R MONTHS o f p l a n n i n g ,
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launched their Awards and Recognition
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The awards are chosen by
submitting nomination forms on the
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for three of the awards, while the other
two awards only take nominations
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nominations are vetted by an awards
committee, chaired by admissions
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announces the winners. Flaherty could
not be reached for comment.
Jessica Sweeney, the executive assistant
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of Students Robin Holmes-Sullivan, credits
Holmes-Sullivan with the idea for the
awards.
“She went over some things that
she wanted to do in order to build
community and bring people closer
together,” Sweeney said. “One of the
things that she wanted to have created
was an awards program.”
“Career” continued on page 3By ISABEL REKOW

T+( 1,17+ $118$/ Third
Culture Kid (TCK) Symposium,
which took place on Feb. 24,
featured Amanda Bates presenting
on “Creating a Career Out of the
International Pieces.” A panel
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and student TCKs followed Bates’
presentation.
The symposium had originally been
slated for Feb. 17, but was rescheduled
due to the winter storms and power
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upbringing in a culture that is not their
parents’. Their own culture is a mix of
their parents’ culture and the cultures of
the locations where they grow up. Many
TCKs are the children of diplomats,
teachers or members of the military,
and often attend international schools.
TCK Intern Brenna Ketchum ’23
opened the symposium and introduced
Bates, the director of veterinary
career services and professional
development at the North Carolina
State College of Veterinary Medicine.
She is also the founder and creative
director of The Black Expat and host
of the Global Chatter podcast.
The TCK board, made up entirely
of TCK students, chose Bates to be the
speaker this year because they wanted
to learn about finding careers and
“TCKs” continued on page 2By VENUS EDLIN
IN A FEB. 17 e m a i l t o g r a d u a t i n g
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that the College of Arts and Sciences
(CAS) commencement will be entirely
virtual.
The 148th Annual Commencement
will be held on May 8 at 2 p.m. The
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though many previous commencements
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commencement programs will also
likely be virtual.
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commencement speaker. At the
February Board of Trustees meeting,
an honorary degree was approved for
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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CAS commencement speaker, though
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arrangement. A formal announcement
will be made at a later date.
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have “the same celebratory tone as our
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safety. Director of Student Engagement
and Special Events Tamara Ko is head
of the Commencement Committee and
was part of the decision to make the
event virtual.
“Presently, there are at least 380
seniors who are slated to graduate and
commencement is a time consuming
process,” Ko said. “It requires down
deposits to be made to plan anything,
really. With commencement being on
May 8, the likelihood of our governor
letting us have a big in-person event in
Multnomah County is very slim.”
Ko is working with the rest of
the Commencement Committee to coordinate optional, small in-person
elements to celebrate graduation,
including a photo booth for seniors and
their pods.
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Commencement Committee is also
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an in-person gathering later in the
summer.
“As we try to move forward with
this option, that might not be the
best option — but it’s currently the
best in terms of where we are with health measures,” Ko said. “We were
also working with Alumni and Parent
programs for when we’re able to
celebrate again in person, to somehow
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Sam Helms-Galbraith ’21 was
surprised by the announcement to
make commencement virtual and had
the idea to write a petition opposing the
decision.
“Over four years, you just imagine
graduation as a monumental event in
your life, it means something,” Helms-Galbraith said. “The decision felt just a
little bit premature.”
Helms-Galbraith discussed the idea
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writing the petition. So far, it has garnered
248 signatures and multiple comments of
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the ultimate goal of the petition is to start
a conversation with administrators about
the decision to make the ceremony virtual.
“Of course we will not have an in-person
graduation ceremony like we have in the
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President Wim Wiewel waits to begin his opening remarks at the 2020 virtual commencement, which was livestreamed last May.
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weeks, the Associated Students
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reconvened on Feb. 23 for their third
Senate meeting of the semester.
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incident in January. According to
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ultimately decided that the incident
should be handled through means other
than student government. Feminist
Student Union Representative Caroline
Arnis ’22 invited those who wanted
further discussion to a meeting with Prison Abolition Club — which has been
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A special election was also conducted
at the Feb. 23 meeting for the position
of student resources coordinator. Katie
Kruger ’21, who previously served as
vice-coordinator, was unanimously
elected by senators and representatives.
The meeting quickly moved to the
most contentious agenda topic: issues
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Bertelmann ’21, Koshy, Olivia Weiss
’23, Jacques Parker ’23, Mateo Telles
’21, Ela Pencl ’21 and Madisyn Taylor
’21 — received a letter from SAAB Chair
Arunima Jamwal ’21 titled “Workplace
Malpractice.” In the letter, Jamwal
outlined what they perceived to be an
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members.
Jamwal declined to comment on this
story.
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agreements that classify them as
independent contractors, which removes liability from the college for
paying them an hourly wage. Those
that sign these contracts often receive a
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Jamwal calculated all the hours
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member since Spring 2020. Using
Oregon’s minimum wage as a
benchmark, Jamwal calculated that
they should have been compensated
over $11,000 since April 2020. In the
letter, Jamwal announced that they
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all the responsibilities, tasks and
commitments” of their position and
asked for a “monetary redressal” of the
alleged compensation due to them.
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Cabinet was forwarded Jamwal’s letter
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(SOC) Quentin Gaul ’21 — the student
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— were not initially included among
the letter’s recipients. A petition soon
circulated among SAAB members in
support of Jamwal’s letter.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021
NEWS 2
By MACKENZIE HERRING
ON FEB. 23, Lewis & Clark’s Psych
Club hosted Philip Zimbardo,
a psychologist best known for
leading the infamous Stanford Prison
Experiment.
The event was set up by one of the
leaders of the Psych Club, Andrew
Steinberg ’21.
“We were brainstorming some big
ideas for events, and I realized that
a connection of mine had previously
worked with Philip Zimbardo and was
in contact with him,” Steinberg said via
email. “I emailed him with high hopes
and low expectations, and sure enough
... within a day or two, I was alarmed to
see an email from the legend himself!”
The Stanford Prison Experiment
turns 50 this year and is widely taught
across academia for the debate it
sparked on the ethics of experimental
design and the insights it gave into the
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behavior.
Professor of Psychology Jerusha
Detweiler-Bedell knew Zimbardo
from when she was an undergraduate
student at Stanford University.
“I was a student in Dr. Z’s
introductory psychology class in my
sophomore year, and that experience
led me to abandon plans to be an
international relations or journalism
major and to instead pursue
psychology,” Detweiler-Bedell said via
email.
The event was open to the entire
LC community, and began with
Zimbardo’s lecture followed by a Q&A portion. There was relatively high
attendance, with several pages of Zoom
attendees.
“His generosity in sharing his
time and insights with undergraduate
students continues to inspire me,”
Detweiler-Bedell said via email.
Zimbardo’s experience growing
up poor in the South Bronx and the
gang violence he saw around him
inspired the experiment and shaped
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Zimbardo described his childhood
as similar to “Lord of the Flies,” the
disturbing allegorical novel by William
Golding.
“So that set me on the pace of
wanting to understand why good
people do bad, evil things,” Zimbardo
said. “And so I did some early research
on what was called deindividuation —
what happens when you take away your
identity in a social situation.”
The Stanford Prison Experiment,
conducted in 1971, aimed at examining
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student volunteers were randomly
selected to be either guards or
prisoners, and were tasked with
acting in their roles for 1-2 weeks.
Prisoners had to act in their roles 24/7,
while guards only had to act for the
duration of their shifts. The study was
terminated on the sixth day due to the
hostility and authoritarian mentality
adopted by the guard, and the mental
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on the prisoners.
Due to the around-the-clock nature
of the study, resources were running
low and threatened the longevity of the experiment. Christina Maslach,
his girlfriend at the time and later his
wife, visited Zimbardo and witnessed
a particularly upsetting scene where
prisoners were forced to urinate on
themselves in an elevator. Maslach
criticized the study, emphasizing
the mistreatment of the students,
which convinced Zimbardo to end the
experiment. He believes that one of
his mistakes was tasking himself as
“superintendent” of the prison, making
him both a participant and an observer.
After the experiment ended,
Zimbardo wrote academic articles
about it, not believing the experiment
to be a big deal at the time.
“After I did the prison study in 1971,
I wrote a few articles about it, mostly
to give to my graduate students,”
Zimbardo said. “It was simply a
demonstration of the power situation
and role playing. So, honestly, I
thought it was a nice study but nothing
I want to hang my hat on.”
Much of Zimbardo’s previous
research focused on what makes an
average person turn evil. Since his
experiment ended, he has shifted
to studying the circumstances that
cause an ordinary person to act
heroically. After giving a TED talk on
the psychology of evil, someone had
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San Francisco and developed lessons
on transforming ordinary people into
situational heroes through instruction.
When asked about Zimbardo’s
importance in the psychology community, Steinberg commented
on Zimbardo’s work researching
heroism and his connection to the LC
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Imagination Project is very successful,
and has involved dozens of LC
students,” Steinberg said via email.MAYA WINSHELL/THE PIONEER LOGHead of Stanford Prison Experiment visits LC
COVID-19 updates: no positive
tests on campus this February
By AUBREY ROCH É
DURING THE month of
February, no positive corona-
virus tests were reported
out of 1,089 on-campus tests. Two
tests conducted off campus returned
positive results in February: an
employee and an off-campus student,
for a total of two positive tests with
on-campus impact.
“After a small number of positive
cases identified in January, we
have had no positive tests so far in
February, and there are currently no
students in isolation or quarantine
on campus,”
President Wim
Wiewel said in a
Feb. 25 email.
Effluent
testing samples
taken on Feb.
23 returned all
negative results.
Lewis &
Clark is holding weekly testing clinics
for asymptomatic individuals on Tuesdays, pulling from a random
sample of students. Participation in
this clinic is mandatory if selected,
and students who
fail to get tested
will be unable to
attend in-person
classes and will
have to either pay
to get tested at the
next clinic or take
a molecular test
off-campus. If a
student does not
get tested by the following week, they
will face disciplinary action from Stu-
dent Rights and
Responsibilities,
which can in-
clude being
asked to move
to a fully-remote
format for the
remainder of the
semester.
There are a
number of exemptions for the testing
clinic, such as experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or having had COVID-19 in
the last 90 days.
On Feb. 21, the United States sur-
passed 500,000 total deaths from
coronavirus. Nationwide coronavirus
cases are averaging around 70,000
cases each day, which are the
lowest case numbers since October,
according to The New York Times.
However, despite largely decreasing
numbers since January, daily cases
are beginning to level out. Multnomah
County is averaging around 50 cases
per day.
The following on-campus changes
were announced in a Feb. 11 email
from Vice President of Student
Life Robin Holmes-Sullivan, and
implemented on Feb. 12:
In-person dining: Fields Dining
Hall, the Trail Room and Stamm
Dining Room are open for limited in-
person dining, with a cap of 25 people
in each space. Tables continue to have
plexiglass dividers.
Moving between residence
halls: S t u d e n t s l i v i n g o n c a m p u s
can now visit other residence halls,
and must sign in using a QR code
in order to keep track of names for
contact tracing. However, in order
to maintain accurate effluent testing
results, students are not allowed to
use the restrooms
in residence halls
other than their
own for solid
waste. Students
living off-campus
are still not
permitted to visit
residence halls.
In-person
events: Students
can apply to hold in-person events
in J.R. Howard Hall and the Miller
Center for the Humanities. Students
applying must provide thorough
details about the event, including
the anticipated number of people,
whether or not food will be served
and how the host will keep track of
participants. Events will re-quire at
least one person to act as an event
safety monitor, who will ensure that
participants wear masks, wash their
hands frequently and maintain social
distancing.TCKs exchange career
advice at symposium
Continued from page 1
making plans for after college. Since one
of her jobs is a career counselor, Bates
was a natural choice.
Martin Lopez ’23 said that Bates’
being a person of color was a further
plus. Bates used her international
experience to launch the website The
Black Expat, which aims to create a
greater representation of Black people
abroad.
Bates spoke about her personal
experience as a TCK and Black expatriate,
and how these identities shaped her
search for a career.
“When you look at my entire life, and
you look at my entire career, a lot of it
started because I was that awkward TCK
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I wanted to do,” Bates said. “But instead
of leaning into that awkwardness, I was
able to take the things that were struggles
for me and craft a career out of it.”
Bates was born in Washington, D.C.
to Anglophone Cameroonian parents. As
a child, she moved with her family to the
Francophone part of Cameroon. Bates
said that, in the United States, she had
been an ethnic and racial minority who
spoke the majority language, while in
Francophone Cameroon she was part of
the racial majority, but was a linguistic
minority.
“I also struggled with identity because
I didn’t feel African enough and I didn’t
feel American enough,” Bates said.
Before earning her master’s degrees
in business administration and counselor
education, Bates worked at a series of
internships and jobs, including a year
teaching with AmeriCorps. Through trial
and error, she learned that she disliked
teaching, but loved working with people,
especially those from underrepresented
groups.
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if you didn’t learn anything from it.”
During the panel discussion,
Associate Director of Counseling
Michelle Kirton expanded on Bates’
presentation. Kirton said that her own
experience as a TCK helped her develop
her values.
“One of the things that my TCK
background did for me is it really, on an
emotional level and a psychological level, concretized my values, or highlighted
what those values were, at a very young
age,” Kirton said.
Kirton said her TCK experience
heightened her curiosity about the world
and the diverse cultural environments in
which people live. These qualities helped
her in her career as a psychologist since
they make her sensitive to the larger
contexts in which her clients act.
Bates emphasized that not all
TCKs will have the same strengths and
weaknesses.
“My own TCK experience did bring
out all these other characteristics about
me that I was able to kind of craft a
career out of,” Bates said.
Lopez expressed his appreciation
of the symposium, saying that the TCK
community at LC validates the identity
struggles many members experience as
they grow up in between cultures.
“It makes me really happy to have
the TCK Symposium every year because
before coming here, I didn’t know I was a
TCK and I did not understand my place.
It was kind of hard to not know,” Lopez
said. “Finding a TCK group here has been
great … it makes me feel like a part of a
community, it makes me feel welcome.”
According to Ketchum, many
students do not realize they are TCKs,
and LC can connect them to resources
and a community of TCK students.
“Even though not all of them
consciously choose to make that a larger
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on that experience more, I hope they
know that there’s this community here
for them and there are resources to help
them and tons of other TCKs to relate
to,” Ketchum said.
Students can reach Ketchum at
tck@lclark.edu and follow the LC TCK
Instagram at @lewisandclark
college_tck.
Philip Zimbardo spoke to the Psych Club about his controversial study of the effects of incarceration
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Students can apply to
hold in-person events in
J.R. Howard Hall and
the Miller Center for the
Humanities.
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weekly testing clinics for
asymptomatic individuals
on Tuesdays.By AIDAN D’ANNA
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OPINION 4
By CAS MULFORD
RECENTLY, c o l l e g i a t e i n s t i t u t i o n s
across the United States have
been coming to terms with their
historical connections to racism and their
complacency therein. Brown University’s
Steering Committee on Slavery and
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of a university seeking to seriously accept
blame and strive towards amending its
historical harm. The violence brought
by Lewis & Clark’s third president and founding stakeholder, Rev. Edward R.
Geary, demands that we begin a path of
conciliation of our own.
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Oregon, and later moved to Palatine
Hill in 1942), was sent to Oregon to
establish an educational institution in
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“was compelled by the necessity that
knows no law, to support his growing
family by secular pursuits,” which he
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the negotiating and signing of treaties
with the northern tribes of Oregon while
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following the removal of many tribes in
the Willamette Valley, he helped run and
manage a reservation that held removed
people. Geary’s obituary says that “he had
much to do with shaping the policy of the
government towards these Indians and
providing for their future education and
improvement.”
In 1859, Geary was appointed
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Oregon and Washington. Soon after, the
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Geary had been a signatory to four years
prior. In this way, Geary helped craft and
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Indigenous tribes from their land. In it,
he says, “as a means of mutual safety to
the races, and for preventing the horrors
of savage warfare, no scheme commends
itself so strongly as that, now become the
policy of the government, the collection
of the Indians on properly located
reservations.”
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for Indigenous cultures to be eradicated.
He espoused that “roaming unrestrained
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risen high in the intellectual and moral
scale.” Geary believed it was destined
that the Indigenous people on this coast
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He believed that “this destiny can only
be ... sustained and protected by the
resources of the government.” Geary sums his beliefs as such: “There is neither
respite nor escape. They must rise with
the billows or sink beneath them. The
alternative is civilization or annihilation.”
Geary also advocated for the use of
schools to bring about cultural genocide.
In his 1860 annual report, he says, “The
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is wholly counteracted by the associations
of their savage homes. Industrial schools,
where ... children may be placed, boarded
and brought under proper discipline,
away from their homes and savage
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the only feasible plan for ... results.” The
assimilative possibilities of education that
Geary believed in were abhorrent. Rather
than remembering him for striving to
develop educational enterprises that
could “one day be a beacon light to the
whole Northwest,” we should remember
him for maintaining “the civilizing
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empty words written in some bygone
era. They had power and led to real
consequences, manifesting in the removal
and killing of Indigenous people. The
money and prestige Geary obtained while
removing these people from their homes
is what allowed him to contribute so much
to our college. These impacts are felt by
the descendants of these tribes every day.
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that we stole.
LC should act quickly, but not to
issue a lengthy apology about the growth
we have made since Geary’s time. This
history calls for more than a mere letter.
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with blissful ignorance, the tribes who
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with the memory of the depravities carried out by one of our founders. It is
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LC conducted biographical research into
many of the key players of our institution,
including Geary, but omitted details
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far from hidden; most of the quotations
and information in this piece come from
Geary’s obituary, a copy of which is in our
school’s special reserves and available for
free online.
Our community has the ethical
obligation to advocate for change. Due to
the atrocities outlined above, LC should
conduct an investigation into the harms
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with recommendations on how to rectify
his damage. LC students should do more
to support the Indigenous students on
campus by attending and supporting
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conversations about the past violence that
now allows us to receive our education.
The best path forward is one where we
reach out to harmed tribes and seek to
have continual dialogues about their
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support; refusing to do so is morally
indefensible. This process of creating
legitimate ties must start with direct
outreach from our college leadership. With
our college planning large infrastructural
spending through the Strategic Plan, we
should consider building a space that
is open to Indigenous people and their
needs, a place of gathering where students
and tribes can learn from each other.
People at Geary’s funeral regarded
him as a “pioneer of enlightened
civilization” for the colonizing force he
helped herald throughout Oregon “like a
bugle-call;” it would be wise to remember
this before we howl “Roll Pios!”Edward R. Geary’s harm toward Pacific Northwest’s Indigenous peoples has impacted generationsIt is time to acknowledge our founders’ flaws
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weather, Portland once again
proved that it values property
over people.
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news outlets, multiple people reported
employees guarding thrown-out food
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location. When bystanders started
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food that had been disposed of shortly
after the power
went out, police
were called to
the scene. This
was a decision
made by the local
franchise.
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alone illustrates
the problem.
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employees
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to protect the
property that a company gave up,
simply because they could no longer
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the store, they planned to redistribute
the food in community fridges, but were
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function as an arm of the state, a state
that serves private property rather than
people in need.
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the store and the police involved due
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Meyer’s parent company, responded
to a tweet criticizing the store’s actions
saying, “Our store team became
concerned that area residents would
consume the food and risk foodborne
illness, and they engaged local law
enforcement out of an abundance of
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not as stringent as Kroger suggests.
Once the power went out, the backup generator at the location activated, so
the food’s temperature likely did not
rise above the 41-degree temperature
threshold that is used as a guideline.
Even if the food did increase to the
threshold, the fact sheet recommends
an assessment of the food products at
this point, rather than simply throwing
them out. It was also below freezing
outside for the duration that the food
was in the dumpster.
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it makes perfect sense to throw out all
of the risky food
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replace them is
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their statement,
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unable to do so given hazardous driving
conditions.
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a social impact plan which donates
meals to food banks. Despite the good
intentions of the program, it seems to
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has made recent headlines on its union
busting. Most recently, the Washington
Post reported that Kroger would close
more stores when Seattle mandated
$4 per hour hazard pay for pandemic
workers. Clearly, the company’s priority
is capital, despite its claims to care
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dumpster, those standing by took a
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community fridges across the city. But
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Clark students shop somewhere else,
so as to not support the company, after
this incident? Unfortunately, many
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company Kroger. While I know many
students, including myself, would
appreciate increased variety in grocery
store options, as long as these chains
are the only options, these problems
will persist.
That is not to say we should do
nothing. Rather, this means that even
more action needs to take place. I
encourage my fellow students to donate
to community fridges when they can
and engage in as many alternative food
sourcing practices as possible, such as
gardening.
While this does not eliminate the
structural issues of capitalism, mutual
aid and learning to rely on processes
outside of capitalism are two ways to
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simultaneously allow preparation for
more radical change. In order to move
beyond capitalism, we need to establish
alternative community-based living to
both envision a post-capitalist future
and provide support during transition.
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.
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have changed many of the daily
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dining services. This new development
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accordance with state laws, students
may not bring reusable cups. On its own,
this creates some waste from cups and
causes frustration for students who are
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utensils provided by the school rather
than metal ones. This point is a bit more
frustrating considering the fact that
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on campus, not to mention reusable
utensils are fairly easy to get a hold of.
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contention about increased waste
on campus is the large amount of
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Dining Hall up to three times a day, the
math of how much waste is produced
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terms with. To make matters worse,
the trash receptacles used to throw
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in certain spots on campus, resulting in
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were not designed to hold.
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problem and is attempting to combat
it by adding solar-powered trash
compactors around campus. These can
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trash cans, reducing the frequency of
trash collection by 80%. While this
is a good start, there are simply not
enough of these compactors to make a
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we need more. The compactors also
do not decrease the amount of overall
waste that is actually produced. $QRWKHU SUREOHP WKDW KDV EHHQ
ongoing is food portions. One morning,
I had the pleasure of attending
breakfast at the same time as the LC
football team after a morning practice.
I was surprised to have been given the
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intense workout.
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creates predetermined serving sizes
for every meal. However, not everyone
needs the same amount of food to feel
full. In general, the portions are too big.
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being thrown away because students
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plastic ones, reducing the frequency of
getting beverages, keeping leftovers in
the fridge and simply asking for smaller
portions are some small steps that could
reduce the amount of waste on campus.
But even these come with some caveats.
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for students to specify how much food
they want and gives plastic utensils
with every order. These solutions also
fail to address the waste produced by
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as leftovers may lessen food waste, but
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recycled paper, but are only recyclable
in a few areas that accept polylined
food service packaging. Unfortunately
Portland is not one of them. We cannot
“Boycott the Bon” because people need
to eat and do not have any other meal
options. We cannot share food in to-go
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dangerous.
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encompassing solution. But the upside
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part of LC. We are starting to see change
made both by the college in adding
trash compactors as well as individuals
making more environmentally
conscious decisions. Together, we can
begin solving this environmental issue
as a community.To-go dining creates
massive waste at LC
NICOLE OLIVER/THE PIONEER LOGEdward R. Geary was a key founder of what would become Lewis & Clark College.
While I know many
students, including myself,
would appreciate increased
variety in grocery store
options, as long as these
chains are the only options,
these problems will persist.FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021
OPINION 5
By CHARLOTTE POWERS
I RECENTLY WROTE a letter to Vice
President of Student Life and Dean
of Students Robin Holmes-Sullivan
expressing my deep frustration with
the administration’s decision to resume
academic classes on Wednesday, Feb. 17.
As we all know, over 150,000 Portland
homes were left without electricity, heat,
WiFi and warm water beginning Feb. 14,
and many did not regain these necessities
until the following weekend.
While Lewis & Clark’s undergraduate
campus was fortunate enough to lose
power for less than 24 hours, many
off-campus students, including myself,
did not have such luck. My housemates
and I spent four nights without heat, WiFi
and warm water; our house temperature
dropped to 45 degrees Fahrenheit. It
was not until Thursday, Feb. 18 when
we decided to book hotels and AirBnBs
because we felt stressed about falling
behind in school and yearned for a warm
shower. Luckily, the gods and goddesses
heard our shivering prayers and restored power to our house the morning of
Friday, Feb. 19. With this experience,
the administration made it very clear
that when natural disasters occur, LC
prioritizes on-campus students at the
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The decision to reopen the college
demonstrated that on-campus students
were more of a priority than those living
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students put at an extreme disadvantage,
but they were forced to prioritize
academics over mental health and
general safety. A number of students
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variety of reasons. Many underclassmen
elected to do this at the college’s request
in order to mitigate the spread of
COVID-19. Reopening the college amid
a widespread power outage is no way to
thank these students for alleviating the
administration’s stresses. The college
advertises the LC community as a
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two weeks ago in their decision to look
after on-campus students while leaving
everyone else behind. The administration’s idea to share
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these students were facing at home. In an
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could go to Templeton Student Center,
Watzek Library or Pamplin Sports Center
to use their facilities. As well-intentioned
as these suggestions may have been, they
appeared as an attempt to strengthen the
administration’s reasons for reopening
while dampening the numerous stresses
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campus. With most roads being left in
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students did not feel comfortable or safe
driving to campus. And to expect that
students to fork out $50 for a round-trip
Uber ride is nothing short of ignorant. In
the future, I suggest classes be canceled
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students in need.
This is the second time this year
that the administration made an
inappropriate decision to continue
classes during a natural disaster. Last
IDOO ZLOG¿UHV UDJHG DFURVV 2UHJRQcompromising the air quality and
temperature in students’ homes. Instead
of canceling classes so that students
could manage their health and mental
well-being or prepare to evacuate,
students felt immense pressure to
attend Zoom classes in fear of falling
behind. Being expected to attend school
amid a natural disaster, whether virtual
or in-person, is not normal and should
not be deemed as such.
I understand that the college is
required to facilitate classes for a
certain number of hours each semester.
However, forcing students to attend
school during two natural disasters
generates more harm than good. When
Portland undergoes its next natural
disaster, I and many other students
suggest pausing classes until the situation
has been resolved and reassessing how
those lost hours in the classroom will
be made up. Perhaps adding additional
days at the end of the semester is a viable
option. Given my lack of expertise in
running a college, I am not certain if this
is the most productive solution, but any alternative is exponentially better than
the choices the administration executed
this past year.
The intention of this article is not
to assign blame, but to formulate a
comprehensive solution ensuring that
LC students will not experience these
tribulations again. If administrators are
still looking for ways to listen to students
and improve the workings of the college,
pausing classes and and reassessing after
the fact would be one way to successfully
do that.The college’s decision to hold classes after historic storm disadvantaged students that live off-campusAdmin leaves off-campus students stranded
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Relaxing COVID-19
policies is a mistake
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 GABE KORER

IN RESPONSE TO K R Z H ̆ H F W L Y H 
contract tracing has been in minimizing
COVID-19 cases on campus, the
Division of Student Life recently decided
to remove three safety measures that have
helped students stay socially distanced
and largely mitigated the potential for
widespread infection. This decision went
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restrictions related to dining, residence
hall movement and in-person events being
swiftly removed to reward the student
body for keeping the infection rate low at
Lewis & Clark.
Unfortunately, this decision
complicates the contract tracing that has
helped our community stay safe over
the past month. While students can still
be accounted for in dining areas and
throughout in-person events, there is
no way to ensure that students moving
between residence halls will use the QR
codes posted on the front doors to assist in
contract tracing, which is what the Student
Life is depending on. Furthermore, there
is no conceivable way to enforce the ban
on students using the bathroom while
they are in another residence hall,
meaning that the regulation of such
activity is self-monitored — an old
school, honors-based approach.
On its surface, this decision is
problematic because giving young adults a
tremendous amount of disease-preventing
responsibility is a recipe for disaster.
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less receptive to COVID-19 prevention
measures than their older counterparts
throughout the course of the pandemic.
Although the LC student body is strongly
committed to keeping each other safe, it
is simply too idealistic to trust us when
a lapse in judgment from one individual
could potentially result in widespread
infection.
When looking at the lifted restrictions
for dining and in-person events, it
becomes apparent that there is a right
way to go about self-regulation for young SHRSOH WKDW LV QRW UHÀHFWHG LQ WKH QHZ
residence hall policy. To see this, we have
to consider what is being asked of students
and who is around to witness it.
In a dining or in-person event setting,
LC students are asked to do two things:
socially distance and wipe down surfaces.
These requests are simple enough, and
most students can follow the logic behind
such measures for preventing the spread
of COVID-19.
These settings also foster shared
accountability because they allow people
to monitor each other’s behavior. Without
such social pressure, people are more
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violate existing protocols.
The new residence hall policy does
itself no favors in that regard. Social
pressure is practically nonexistent,
seeing as students are expected to fully
monitor themselves without outside
reinforcement. We have already seen the
pitfalls of this self-regulatory method in
LC’s policy against leaving campus, which,
as a student with eyes and ears, I have seen
violated more times than I can count due
to a lack of community oversight.
Additionally, there is a possibility
that the new residence hall policy will not
resonate with most students. While what
is being asked (QR sign-ins and following
the bathroom protocol) is simple enough
to follow, the purpose behind it (contract
tracing) is more complex as it relates
to COVID-19 prevention. Students are
unable to fully understand its necessity
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fact that contract tracing apps used by
other colleges typically have some sort
of mechanism for ensuring students’
compliance, such as mandatory check-ins
on the app.
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lifting restrictions on dining and in-person
events and lifting restrictions on residence
hall movement. The latter presents unique
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tracing that our community has worked so
hard to preserve, making it essential that
the Division of Student Life reconsiders.
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Charlotte PowersPerformative activism is prevalent
in criticism of Sia’s “Music” movie
By TOR PARSONS
NOT LONG AFTER returning
home from Lewis & Clark for
winter break, I found myself
deluged with messages from friends and
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school acquaintances were reaching
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time in years. I got calls from numbers
I did not recognize. A few older family
members emailed me. The whole world,
it seemed, wanted to let me know
that the pop star Sia was directing a
movie called “Music,” which featured
neurotypical child actress Maddie Ziegler as a nonverbal autistic girl.
Like Ziegler’s character, I am
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speech therapy in elementary and
middle school, and though I can speak
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organization and social interaction.
Ziegler is not autistic. She never had
to deal with any of these things. And
everybody who contacted me assumed
that I, being the only autistic person they
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bother me that she and Sia are bringing
much-needed representation to the
big screen, especially since Ziegler is a
major celebrity and a heroine to many
young girls. “Music” would have a far
lesser impact if its lead were an unknown
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What does bother me is the outrageous
heights the backlash against Sia and
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Sia’s casting choice, but I am troubled by
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by it, and how few of those people are
autistic.
Performative activism has gotten a
lot of attention in these protest-driven
times, but just as pernicious is blind
extremism. Well-meaning but clueless
people, often white and wealthy, take
the most extreme position possible on D VRFLDO LVVXH D̆HFWLQJ D PDUJLQDOL]HG
group. They truly believe they are doing
the right thing, mainly because they are
not as familiar with the group in question
as they would like to believe. It is largely
because of privileged individuals on social
media that ideas like community-based
policing reforms (a popular proposal) are
warped into the abolition of the police
(an unpopular one), and calls for a $15
minimum wage (widely popular) become
calls for a socialist revolution (unpopular,
though it may not seem so at LC). The
biggest threat to a movement is often not
its opponents, but its own extremists.
The common response to people
misunderstanding a social movement
is that ubiquitous, ever-so-patronizing
phrase: “educate yourself.” But I would
suggest an alternative: stand down. The
world does not end if you do not speak
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their voices, you may listen, but do not
think of yourself as a terrible person
if you do not publicly voice how much
you care. Too often, what neurotypical
allies see as caring, we autistic folks see
as condescending, and the same is likely
true in other social justice movements.
I am fully capable of making my
own decisions about political causes. I
do not want to be told that I should be
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FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOG
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021
FEATURES 6
By TOR PARSONS

DIXY LEE RAY reveled in
contradictions. She had a
Trumpian temper and ego, yet
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Thoreau-esque life of rural seclusion in
the last decades of her life, although she
was also pro-nuclear power. She was a
high-ranking political leader, but her
political beliefs belonged to neither party.
She was a female scientist and politician
at a time when women in either role were
vanishingly rare.
Ray served as governor of Washington
state from 1977 to 1981 at the height of a
long career spent connecting science and
politics. Born Marguerite Ray in Tacoma,
Washington, in 1914, Ray was energetic
and driven from a young age: At age 12,
she became the youngest girl ever to climb
Mount Rainier. Her parents called her
“little dickens,” an expression meaning
mischievous child. As a teenager, Ray
adopted an abbreviation of this nickname,
Dixy, as her legal name, believing her
birth name to be “too feminine.”
Ray graduated from Mills College
as valedictorian, and by the mid-1950s
she was a professor of marine biology
at the University of Washington. One of
the university’s only female scientists,
she turned heads for more than her
gender. She would arrive to work in
a sports car, with one of her many
dogs riding shotgun. She wore athletic
clothes to formal events. She lived in
a hostel-like boarding house above a
restaurant — which was probably how
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a professor’s salary.
In 1964, Ray served as chief scientist
on a research ship in the Indian Ocean,
aboard which, according to her niece
Carolyn Strong, she led a mutiny because
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“She took control and locked the
captain in his quarters, as I understand,
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said.
After leading a mutiny on the high
seas, Ray returned to Seattle and created
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Center in 1962 as part of her lifetime
goal to improve the average person’s
understanding of science. Disappointed
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exhibits, she took control of the museum and replaced the exhibits with interactive
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Center by hosting a popular science show
for children on Seattle’s KCTS-TV — the
network that would later create “Bill Nye
the Science Guy.”
In 1973, in a ham-handed attempt
at increasing his cabinet’s diversity,
President Richard Nixon requested a
female scientist to chair the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC), which regulated
and designed nuclear power plants.
Washington Sen. Warren Magnuson
recommended Ray, and she was
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a mobile home across the United States to
Washington, D.C., stopping along the way
at every nuclear power plant and research
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the changes in leadership they wanted to
see at the AEC.
Upon arriving in D.C., Ray found that
the government wanted her role to be
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Ray proceeded to run the AEC with an
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leadership, and she advocated the
reorganization of the AEC on the grounds
that no organization can be trusted to
regulate the same thing it produces. On
her advice, Congress passed the Energy
Reorganization Act of 1974, dividing the
AEC into two agencies. Ray’s role shifted
to the State Department, where she was in
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U.S. embassies.
Even then, Ray refused to stay in her
lane. According to Strong, through her job
at the State Department, Ray befriended
nuclear scientists from all over the world
and eventually worked out a nuclear
disarmament plan between scientists
in the United States, France, Germany
and the Soviet Union. Scientists were
not supposed to be working on anything
without the knowledge of their superiors,
and when Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger got wind of Ray’s machinations,
she was forced out. The plan was never
implemented, and Ray drove back to
Seattle in her mobile home, where she
and her dogs had been living for her entire
span of federal service.
Ray quickly returned to politics, this
time in her home state. Inspired by her
trek across the nation visiting power plant
workers, she crisscrossed Washington,
asking people in every county what they wanted from the government. In
Washington’s 1976 gubernatorial election,
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massive opposition from the state’s
political class, and prognostications that
no state was ready to elect an unmarried,
trailer-dwelling female scientist to its
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woman in American history to be elected
as a governor without having relatives in
politics. Though she balanced the state’s
budget and increased education funding,
her eccentricity and sharp tongue made
her deeply unpopular with voters, and she
was defeated in the Democratic primary
when she ran for re-election. In 1991, she
described her single term as governor as
“moments of exhilaration, hours of sheer
boredom, and seconds of absolute ... I
think that word shouldn’t be used on air.”
Ray’s most famous political
accomplishment surrounded the 1980
eruption of Mount St. Helens. Long
before the public was aware of the
volcano’s dangers, Ray had been in
contact with scientists who warned
that an eruption was imminent. She
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circling the mountain in the governor’s
private plane. On April 30, 1980, she
declared a “red zone” surrounding
Mount St. Helens in which all people
were excluded. When the mountain blew
on May 18, the Forest Service estimated
her restrictions saved up to 30,000 lives,
but the praise Ray received was not
enough to win her re-election.
Ray was not done reinventing herself.
After politics, she became an acclaimed
artist. Strong says she took up wood
carving to release stress during her term
as governor, inspired by the totem poles
carved by members of the Kwakiutl
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Science Center. She received numerous
commissions for large pieces of art,
including a carving in the Weyerhaeuser
forestry company headquarters. Ray
became so recognized for her carvings,
the Kwakiutl named her an honorary
tribal member, conferring on her the title
of “Umah,” or “respected lady”.
Strong’s anecdotes of Ray paint a
picture of a woman who was profoundly
eccentric, but friendly and altruistic.
When Strong was in college, Ray
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her farm on Fox Island in Puget Sound,
where Ray’s mobile home had been
permanently parked. There, Strong says, Ray would cook extravagant meals for
her, and they would discuss religion and
philosophy late into the night.
As governor, though, Ray’s temper
was central to her reputation. After
hundreds of employees of the previous
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Kleenex boxes. In response to constant
negative media coverage, Ray named pigs
at her Fox Island farm after reporters in
her press corps, then made the pigs into
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same reporters.
Ray even divided her fellow
scientists. Though physicist Edmund
Teller attempted to recruit her to run
for president in 1980, at her death in
1994 several conservationists went
as far as to label her “unscientific,”
largely due to a pair of books she
had written in her last years in
which she appeared to cast doubt
on climate change. Most who knew
Ray, including Strong, argue this is a
misunderstanding.
“She said, ‘We don’t have to go back
to the 1600s to solve environmental
problems,’” Strong said.
Science historian Erik Ellis agrees,
saying in a 2006 essay on Ray that she was
not denying climate change, but trying to
increase public understanding of it, as
people associated living environmentally
with a lower standard of living. Her strong
faith in the power of science to solve
problems, Ellis says, was unfashionable in
the pessimistic ’90s.
Ray never married, wore her hair short and had masculine hobbies. Her sexual
orientation will probably remain lost to
history, but Ellis argues that her “tomboy”
identity was essential to her success in
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politics. As a masculine woman, men saw
her not as a sex object, but as one of them.
Perhaps the best way of
understanding Ray is as a woman
jarringly ahead of her time. Long
before today’s partisan polarization,
she advocated for the abolition of
political parties — Ray claimed she
ran for governor on the Democratic
ticket because the Republican primary
was already too crowded, caring little
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recognized that nuclear power was
safe at a time when the environmental
movement was vehemently against
it. The greatest irony of Ray’s life is
that, despite her perceived opposition
to environmentalism, if more people
had listened to her on nuclear power,
climate change would be less of an issue
today.
To this day, even as women have
made gains in politics, America
has yet to produce another female
politician with Ray’s willingness to
take a blowtorch to political and
social norms. And as rare as it was to
be a woman in politics at the time, it
was, and still is, rarer to be a scientist
in politics. As we face compounding
global crises, maybe what we need is
another Dixy Lee Ray — a pragmatist
who recognizes that truth does not
belong to a political party.Former governor of Washington Dixy Lee Ray merged science and politics throughout her extensive career Remembering Dixy Lee Ray, PNW political icon
By JASON KOWALSKI
LEWIS & CLARK is fortunate to
have an abundance of natural
beauty. With gardens, forests,
water and Tryon State Park within
walking distance of the dorms, the LC
campus provides especially wonderful
opportunities for birdwatching.
Birds may seem mundane due
to their commonness, but they are
remarkable creatures. They can have
personalities, likes and dislikes, and
be extremely emotive.
The crows on campus exemplify
this. They can be seen playing and
talking to each other and have
happily adapted to cohabitating with
students. They can even be befriended
with enough commitment and food
offerings.
Ravens, on the other hand, tend to
be more solitary. They are larger than
crows, have a deeper croaking call
and are rarer in the Portland area.
American kestrels can also be
seen year-round near campus and
are often found on telephone wires.
As the smallest birds of prey in North
America, they have clear features
distinct to falcons, including a
sharp beak and talons. Males have
patriotic red, white and blue plumage
with black spots, while females
have a more camouflaged plumage.
American kestrels have a vertical
black line under their eyes, which
contrasts against their white feathers
and blue-grey heads. They are also
one of the few birds that can be used
for falconry in Oregon.Just north across the river in
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Wildlife Refuge. Nicholas Dill ’24, a local
remote student, recently went there to
visit and photograph birds. During the
visit, he saw a huge population of swans.
“In general, I’m pro-bird,” Dill
said. “(The refuge is) basically a big
swamp with a ring road you drive
on. I went there to take pictures of
birds and have a relaxing break from
studying.”
The recent ice storm saw the
damage and loss of many trees on
campus, which may impact the
amount of birds that come to nest
and perch as they pass through.
Thankfully, plans have already been
made by some of LC’s outdoor-
oriented clubs to continue attracting
birds to campus.
“There’s been a lot of nice (birds),”
Garden Club Co-President and SEED
Vice President Mateo Kaiser ’23
said. “Garden Club puts out feeders.
(SEED) also (wants) to build some
birdhouses with Tiny House Club.”
One of the smaller birds that
feeders would help to attract are
hummingbirds. Anna’s hummingbirds
are the only kind that can be found in
Portland year-round. The species is
easily identifiable by their iridescent
green feathers and bright pink heads
on males. Though it would be more
rare, it is also possible to spot a
Rufous hummingbird near campus,
which are mostly brownish-red with
some white on their neck.
Dark-eyed juncos, song sparrows,
spotted towhees and northern flickers are all fairly commonplace in the
bushes and lawns near buildings.
Identifying these birds can be
difficult, but there are tools to make
it easier. One such tool is Merlin Bird
ID by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
This app gives you all the birds in
your area and can give some options
to identify birds by photos. On top
of detailed descriptions, the app also
provides different bird calls and has
a way for you to keep track of bird
sightings.
Located on the other side of the city
from campus is the Portland Audubon
Society. Not only do they have a large
trail system, but they also have birds
used for educational purposes which
for one reason or another cannot be
returned to the wild.
Aristophanes the raven and Ruby
the turkey vulture can be visited
at their enclosures. According to
a staff member of the Audubon,
Aristophanes can speak but usually
chooses not to and Ruby is scared of
the mail truck and projectile vomits
as a defense response. The trails
surrounding the Audubon Society are
a fantastic place to easily make your
way into the heart of a forest to look
for birds, and their center provides
plentiful resources for education and
volunteer work related to ornithology
and caring for injured birds.
Birdwatching is a fun and
unobtrusive activity that can easily be
practiced socially-distant. By going
to Tryon or just a bit further, you can
see dozens of species of birds. All you
need is some time and attention.
Birdwatching is an enjoyable activity for any LC student
Palatine Hill is home to a wide array of interesting birds that can be spotted all around campus
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FEATURES 7
Oregon’s adult care homes
lack COVID-19 vaccinations
Lunch with a Leader events connect
LC students with new role models40th Gender Studies
Symposium preview
LC theatre department
continues performancesBy GABE KORER

DUE TO A communication error
between the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA),
adult care homes in Oregon have largely
gone unvaccinated for COVID-19. These
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personalized care to older adults and
people with disabilities.
The error occurred because the
OHA was led to believe that adult care
homes would be covered under the
Federal Pharmacy Partnership
Program, yet there were not.
Now, they are scrambling to
cover the facilities themselves
by working with various in-state
providers, such as Safeway.
According to Polina Orlova ’21,
who is an employee at A Place To
Call Home in Tigard, this situation
could have been avoided if the OHA
had allowed adult care home nurses
to distribute the vaccine to their own
residents.
“I think that the whole vaccination
process has been handled incorrectly
... because every single one of these
facilities has nurses who can give the
vaccinations themselves,” Orlova
said. “We know how to give
vaccines, we know the whole
procedure and it just makes
no sense for (the OHA) to
complicate the process so much.”
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Brown, J.D. ’85 put out a statement
that doubled down on her decision to
prioritize educators throughout the
early vaccination process. Nowhere did
it mention older adults who, up until
recently, did not even have the option
of receiving a vaccine.
Orlova believes that Brown’s
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Oregon’s 1A group vaccination process,
which has consistently failed to ensure
adult care home vaccinations.
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have been left out by the system ... it’s
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country, which is to make it look like
we’re making progress when we’re not,”
Orlova says.
The rollout of 1A group vaccinations
in Oregon began on Dec. 21. Since then,
residents in only 300 adult care homes
have been vaccinated according to
DHS. Oregon has 1,400 licensed homes,
meaning thousands of residents have
been left waiting for their vaccinations
despite being considered high-risk for
COVID-19.
Orlova believes that the lack
of communication between adult
care homeowners and those who are
responsible for distributing the vaccine
is indicative of a larger problem within
the system.
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regular communication between the
doctors we’re involved with and the
coordinator,” Orlova said. “And they
have full trust in us that we are going to
be able to distribute it with no issue.”
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wait until Feb. 19 to receive a clarifying
statement from OHA. It came after
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work with the Oregon Department of
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People with Disabilities to
cover adult care home
residents, Orlova expressed
dissatisfaction regarding the
lack of direct action.
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most we got was the Oregon Health
Authority blaming it on the CDC,”
Orlova said. “How does that help us? I
don’t care who’s to blame. I don’t know
why they think an answer to anything is
blaming somebody. Now our residents
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(get the vaccine themselves).”
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throughout this whole process. It’s
a big thing to have to break that
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get the vaccine outside of the
facility means the possible
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is one of extreme frustration. They are
still waiting to be contacted by OHA or
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as quickly as possible.
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forgotten, angry — also saddened and
confused,” Orlova said. “It’s an angry,
emotional situation there because what
it all says to them is that they don’t
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Studies Symposium, set to be held
from March 10-12, will focus on
questions of absence and lack in relation
to gender and sexuality. All of the events
are accessible through Zoom and require
pre-registration on the event website.
Director of the symposium and
Associate Professor with Term of
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events for students.
“I think there’s something for everyone
in this year’s program,” Brodkin said via
email. “In addition to presentations by
our two distinguished keynote speakers,
we’re hosting workshops, performances,
and ten multidisciplinary panels. Plus
there’s a virtual art gallery, as well as
two student-curated historical exhibits
(also virtual) organized through Watzek
Special Collections and Archives.”
The keynote speakers this year are
Jennifer C. Nash and Carmen Maria
Machado. Nash is the Jean Fox O’Barr
professor of gender, sexuality and
feminist studies at Duke University and
Machado is the writer in residence for
the Creative Writing Program at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Brodkin believes that these speakers,
alongside the symposium’s other events,
will allow the LC community to interact
with the theme of absence and lack.
“We’re hopeful that this will help all of
us to think expansively and in new ways
about issues of gender and sexuality,”
Brodkin said.
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and Phoenix Bruner ’21, in an interview
for the PioPod, talked about how this
year’s symposium is meant to highlight
what has been missing in conversations
surrounding gender and sexuality.
“When we started talking about what
does lack and absence actually mean, I
think the point was that we don’t really
have the answer,” Bruner said. “And so
when we were thinking about it, I know
we talked a lot about posing questions for
people to answer — what’s lacking, what’s missing, what does that mean ... we didn’t
want to limit people in what they could
say.”
According to Arlasky, one of the goals
of the symposium is to feature as much
student work as possible. In doing so,
they hope to bring the LC community
closer together in a time when many
students feel disconnected.
“We have so many amazing proposals
from students at LC and students from
across the country,” Arlasky said. “We’re
really excited to be able to have a platform
for them to share their work.”
As part of the symposium, a virtual art
exhibit will be shared online through the
event website. Student Co-Chair Caroline
Spence ’22 believes that the online format
will make the exhibit more accessible
than in years past.
“We can have alumni look at the
gallery, we can have non-LC students look
at the gallery, which wasn’t previously an
option to us at all,” Spence said. “Now
we have the opportunity to keep the
gallery going even past the date of the
symposium and now there’s a record of it
which is really wonderful.”
In curating the art, Spence and fellow
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Zoey Norling ’21 tried to include works
from a wide array of LC artists.
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artists in the exhibit, whether it’s people
who are art majors and really adept in
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Each of the co-chairs expressed
excitement knowing that all of the artists
that contributed were able to connect
their artwork to the theme of lack and
absence.
“Speaking somewhat broadly ... what
is lacking and what is absent right now in
identity and gender and care is really at
the forefront of all of our lives,” Norling
said. “What was so emotional about going
through these pieces is that they really
speak to (that idea).”
If you would like to attend the virtual
art exhibit or any of the symposium’s other
events, you can sign up for them through
the events page on Lewis & Clark’s website.
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Lunch with a Leader program,
hosted by Lewis & Clark’s
Entrepreneurship Club, shows no signs
of losing momentum. The program
was founded to assist LC students in
establishing personal connections with
potential role models. Each Lunch with
a Leader event consists of a round-table
discussion between up to 20 students
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such as cancer researcher Brian
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known scientist, and Portland’s
most prominent Black business
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been invited to speak.
Lunch with a Leader was
co-founded by the Bates
Center for Entrepreneurship’s
Associate Director Chrys
Hutchings and Associate
Director of Operations
Catarina Hunter.
“We have no shortage of
people who want to speak to our
students,” Hutchings said via email.
In total, Hutchings has held
60 Lunch with a Leader events,
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she or other LC faculty members
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online (she sarcastically refers to it as
“stalking” them) and then invites them
to speak to LC students.
Up until the COVID-19 pandemic,
Lunch with a Leader took place in
person, with a hot lunch being provided
for free by Hutchings and Hunter.
Entrepreneurship Club Co-President
5DPH]$WWLD¶SUHIHUUHGWKLVVHWXS“You talked about their story and
asked questions,” Attia said. “It was not
really a lecture, but a conversation.”
This dynamic has disappeared,
Attia said, now that the events are
held on Zoom. However, there are
advantages to the remote format,
chiefly being that speakers can come
from all over the world.
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pandemic,” Attia said.
The club has also taken this time
to work on improving the diversity of
the guests they invite. Over the past
year, Hutchings says, the number of
speakers who are white and male has
declined from 32% to just 17%.
“Entrepreneurship funding has a
record of excluding underrepresented
populations (so) there is a lot of ground
to make up,” Hutchings said.
She noted that despite the
lack of funding, many successful
entrepreneurs in America are
immigrants.Everybody who has organized
Lunch with a Leader agrees that the
guests impart valuable knowledge.
Hutchings recounts stories of speakers
breaking down in tears when they
described past setbacks and how they
overcame them. Entrepreneurship
Club Co-President Matthew Brown ’21
said that no two stories from leaders
are the same.
“They’re telling their story not to
say, ‘Hey, follow my footsteps,’ but to
show that when you get to a similar
crossroads that they did, you go with
your gut,” Brown said.
According to Hutchings,
students who associate
entrepreneurship with
money-making and ruthless
capitalism are pleasantly
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Lunch with a Leader series is
nothing like what they expect.
Students often come out of the
lunches startled at how friendly
and accessible the leaders are.
“(Entrepreneurship) is about
making an impact and being an
advocate for an idea or a group
of people,” Hutchings said.
Attendance at a Lunch with
a Leader event is capped at 20
students, even on Zoom.
“It is small enough for students
to establish a personal connection,
yet large enough that they do not feel
forced to engage,” Hutchings said.
Students can contact the Bates
Center to sign up for an upcoming Lunch
with a Leader event or add their name to
a sign-up sheet published on the third
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New Zealand soccer player and shoe
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department has traditionally
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Palatine Hill community. However, as a
result of the pandemic, the department
has been forced to alter the way the theatre
program operates. Using innovative
methods, they have been able to move
forward with some exciting and fun events
this semester.
“Obviously, everything is necessarily
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reinvigorated every time I get to do
theatre with all the people who populate
the department or have come in to give it
a try,” Ava Schmidt ’23 said. “In this time,
it has been the most amazing reminder
of how human we are and how much
connection can come from this art.”
Every semester, the department hosts
“Once Upon a Weekend,” where according
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students get the chance to explore their
creative side by writing plays centered on
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Students write, act and audition for
these plays all at the beginning of the week
and then present them on the weekend, so
the turnaround is quick. “Once Upon a
Weekend” was live streamed on Feb. 26
with the theme “Sins Not Tragedies,” in a
showcase of inventive production.
This semester, the theatre department
will also present a mainstage production
of “The Secretaries,” a nine-student
play that will be performed for a small
theater audience and livestreamed on the
department’s website.
“This is a wild play,” Schmidt said. “It’s
unlike anything we’ve done here at LC,
and we’re even performing it in the Black
Box theatre space for a change.”
In April, the theatre department will
host its student theses. These student-led
productions will range from an original joint directing and acting production
to dance performances about a woman
chasing her shadow.
“I am working as a stage manager
for (theses),” Schmidt said. “And I can
tell you everyone is working so hard
and it’s a great chance to see how much
the students have learned and their own
amazing theatre visions.”
Finally, toward the end of the
semester, the department will host Dance
Y, a student-led production, entirely
online.
“It’s a great showcase of talent and of
courage, in my opinion, and you should all
tune in,” Schmidt said.
In conjunction with the rest of LC,
the theatre department has made large
adjustments due to the pandemic. This
includes moving traditionally in-person
events online, staying socially-distanced
and requiring individuals to wear masks
even when performing. However, they
have been able to overcome those
challenges through creativity and vision.
“It’s really important to note that
the theatre department, we just decided
at the beginning of the semester, at the
beginning of the year, that nothing will
stop us, we will just do it,” Šimek said. “We
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creating theatre and being creative.”
Students can access all of these
live performances through the theatre
department website.
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By MARCO DREGNI
THOUGH IT IS located in a
strip mall just 10 minutes from
campus, Zha Nan Taiwan Bistro
feels a world away from Lewis & Clark.
Soft Taiwanese pop plays over the
speakers inside and brightly lit bottles
of soda, sake and imported beer sit in
neat rows on long, wooden shelves. The
atmosphere is relaxed and choosing
what to order from the lengthy menu is
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of the experience.
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smattering of Taiwanese food alongside
other cuisines, Zha Nan Taiwan Bistro’s
menu focuses solely on Taiwan. While
this means there are dishes that might be
unfamiliar to non-Taiwanese customers,
Gloria, the chef and server, is quick to
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version of bao, a trip to Zha Nan Taiwan
Bistro is bao bun therapy. The pork belly
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and well-seasoned, along with crunchy
peanuts and fresh cilantro. The white,
pillowy buns themselves are not made
in-house, but I quickly forgave that after
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dry seasoning that is pleasant, but less
interesting than other dishes.
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salad, is a nice, light mix of cucumber,
minced garlic and herbs tossed in a
spicy dressing. It is good on its own, but
especially refreshing in between bites
of richer dishes. On the other hand, the
dou ya cai, or bean
sprout salad, is a
bit herbaceous and
bitter.
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interesting dish is the
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cake. Made by soaking
rice in pig blood, it is
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savory and oddly addictive. A less
exciting but still pleasant dish is the alluringly named “Hundred Layered
Bean-Curd,” or bai ye, that pairs chewy
and silky tofu with crisp greens and a
mellow sauce.
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small plates ($3-8), but Zha Nan Taiwan
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($20-25) for one to four people, or bento
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more Instagrammable — house specials
such as boba
(weekends only)
or mango rose
green tea ($5.50).
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sake and Taiwanese
beer rounds out
the menu ($5.50-
11.50).
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Taiwan Bistro
does not currently have dine-in seating,
although hungry customers can choose
to sit on run-down picnic tables next to
the parking lot. A better choice might
be getting takeout or delivery, both of
which have wait times that do not seem
to exceed 20 minutes, even during
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during a global pandemic to
the wildfires that ravaged
the West Coast, the Fall 2020
semester was peculiar and well-
documented by Lewis & Clark
students. To conclude this unusual
semester, students were asked
to submit images for Aubrey R.
Watzek Library’s “Alone Together:
Colors, Thoughts, and Feelings
of a Pandemic” exhibition. The
exhibition showcases 19 photos of
what the Fall 2020 semester looked
like within the LC community.
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conversation about how to utilize
the library’s atrium space. Library
staff wanted to welcome students
into the library, while following
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and energy about the library,”
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Abbaspour said. “We thought of
the project as a way of bringing
student voices together and sharing
perspectives on the walls to bring
that same spirit back.”
The exhibition is reflective of its
title, “Alone Together.” The pieces
that have been compiled together
aim to reflect the consequences of a
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“Some students reflect the
trappings of the pandemic with
face masks and Zoom,” Abbaspour
said. “One thing we noticed when
we were putting the photos together
is a couple of them have more than one person in them. A lot of them
are solitary and contemplative.”
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experience from the Curatorial
Affairs in the Arts course taught
by Adjunct Professor of Art
Yaelle Amir. The physical display
emphasizes symmetry and color
themes found in the photos.
“The way that you lay out (the
photos) is important because it
determines what scene is first or
last depending on where the viewer
is and how things are actually
perceived,” Gonzalez said.
While many of the submissions
conveyed a lingering theme of
gloom, others showed the day-to-
day lives of LC students in a global
pandemic.
“Red and orange hues that we
see when we think of apocalyptic
themes were really present in the
photos,” Gonzalez said. “There was
also a consistent theme (that) this is
life, it is a lot more simple than we
all think it is and it is not always so
bad. There are a lot of photos that
people submitted of people sitting at
their desk, on their computer, which
I think is a very true representation
of what life is like right now in a
pandemic as a student.”
The exhibition is currently being
showcased in the Watzek Library
atrium and a virtual display can be
found at the Watzek libray website.
The library is still accepting photo
submissions, and the link to submit
a photo can also be found on the
library website. Tawainese dishes are a hit as
student explores new eateriesBy RUBY SCHAEFFER
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7-8 p.m., a group of Lewis &
Clark students, professors,
faculty and alumni meet to discuss
novels over Zoom. Since the beginning
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alumni to participate.
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how the LC community is finding
ways to connect in the midst of the
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ways to connect during this time of
fragmentation,” Pritchard said.
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not want the group to be like a class.
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of the club wanted it to be a more
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the added stresses of class-work and
assignments. As a professor, Pritchard
enjoys the casual approach of the
group.
“I feel like it frees me up as a
teacher to be like more of a fan,”
Pritchard said. “Sometimes in a class, the students have the sort of naïve, or
enthusiastic, or personal reaction and
the teacher has to have the analytical,
more sophisticated thing.”
There is no hierarchy between
students and professors, only a
moderator that loosely leads the
discussion. A different member of the group acts as the moderator
each week, and each new moderator
brings a new style to the role. Since
everyone is there by choice, people
participate enthusiastically, making
the moderator’s job relatively easy.
Some members prepare extensively,
bringing notes, selected passages
and discussion questions, while
others simply let the conversation
flow and make sure people are heard.
According to O’Leary, this system has
been working well.
“In this day and age it’s hard to
establish a dynamic over Zoom, but
I think we’ve managed to do that,”
O’Leary said.
Hosting the book club over Zoom
has some benefits, such as allowing
alumni like Noah Foster-Koth ’17 to be
a part of the group. For Foster-Koth,
it has been the perfect way to stay
in touch with his former professors
and other alumni, as well as meet the
current students of his alma mater.
The book club has been a chance for
former LC students to once again
participate in a spirited academic
discussion.
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extension of what we would already do
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balance in academia of being both
low-stakes yet engaging.
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don’t want this to be a class and we
want to approach the text in a different
way while still being analytical and
bringing our academic interests,”
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installments of about 30 pages being
released over 20 months. The group
reads two monthly installments a
week. They are currently halfway
through the novel and plan to be done
before finals.
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so far,” O’Leary said.
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SPORTS 10
By AIDAN D’ANNA
EVERY SPRING, the student club
LC Dance Company hosts Dance
Y, a concert consisting of several
dance pieces performed in succession.
In contrast to Dance X, which is run
by the theatre department, Dance Y is
entirely student-produced. It features
a bill of student-choreographed pieces
performed by student dancers.
Gila Winefeld ’23 is the co-president
of the LC Dance Company. Winefeld was
a choreographer for Dance X this past fall
and performed as part of Dance Y this
past spring before transitioning into the
role of co-President. Winefeld appreciates
Dance Y for its inclusivity.
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experience levels,” Winefeld said.
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experience with and the kinds of dance
they’re interested in.”
Arielle Scena-Shifrin ’21 and Sunny
Broadhead ’22 are co-choreographing
one of the pieces this year. Broadhead
was scheduled to choreograph for Dance
Y last year before it was canceled due to
the COVID-19 pandemic, and this year
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to LC last fall. The two choreographers
are using their piece to deviate from the
norm, and tap into what they feel are
their personal strengths.
“I’ve noticed that people are very
into ballet contemporary at LC,” Scena-
Shifrin said. “But I like jazz and Fosse
and burlesque. So I wanted to do a Fosse-
inspired burlesque piece for myself and
others.”
While the event would usually be
staged in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel, it
has been forced to go fully virtual due to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
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it’s been in previous years in terms of
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the show: Makana Leboy ’21 and two
professional cinematographers from the
Portland area.
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mixed feelings among choreographers.
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dancers. Though rehearsals have yet to
begin, Dance Y does have a rough timeline
for when their show will be completed.
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... on YouTube stream or something for
the college by mid-April,” Winefeld
said.
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the next few weeks, they will most
likely be held outside with dancers
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performance will likely be held with the
same restrictions.
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videos and met to decide who belonged
where.
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their own body and movements,”
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getting everything right, and more about
how willing they were to try.” Some of the choreographers are
dancing in one or more of the pieces,
and have found some major differences
in what is required of them.
“When I’m a choreographer, my
brain is really focused less on what
can I do and more about what can I
have other people do that brings the
mental image in my brain to life,” Broadhead said. “Versus when I’m
a dancer, I’m really focused on how
can I embody this thing that the
choreographer wants to the best of my
ability.”
For more information on the LC
Dance Company and for an eventual
link to the Dance Y stream follow them
on Instagram @Lc_dancecompany. LC Dance company forced to stream showcase
By AMELIA MADARANG
DESPITE THE number of people
experiencing mental health
issues, medication still remains
shrouded in stigma. According to
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that can help relieve symptoms of
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disorder, dysthymia (persistent
depressive disorder) and many other
conditions. Like many people, my
decision to go on antidepressants
was incredibly personal and
complex. Even after I decided that
antidepressants were something
that could help me, I remained
self-conscious. Despite the fact
antidepressants are one of the top-
ten prescribed drugs in Oregon,
there is still a lot of harmful
misinformation and stigma around
them.
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taking antidepressants will take away
your “sparkle” and your personality.
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being prescribed antidepressants is
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same results. These comments always
sucked to hear. They made me feel
as though I should keep my mental
health struggles to myself, tucked
away, only for long walks. In addition
to invalidating my feelings, it showed a
bias against medication.
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patients need to see a psychiatrist to
be prescribed antidepressants. Most
primary care physicians are also
trained to deal with depression and
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my depression became easier to
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when I realized the antidepressants
were helping was when I began to
genuinely laugh again. It was very
disconcerting to realize how long I
had gone without being able to do
that.
A year ago, I was so afraid of
the stigma of antidepressants that
I thought the only way out was
to wait until I felt better. I am not
here to sell you on medicine, or tell
you that this is the only way to get
happy or that I am never sad and I
barf rainbows and blah, blah, blah.
I am also not here to force-feed
you a classic “things will get better”
platitude. I know that, personally,
I became a lot less self-conscious
about taking antidepressants when
I knew there were other people
around me going through similar
things. I hope hearing about my
experience reassures you that you
do not have to keep your mental
health struggles to yourself, tucked
away, only for long walks.Take a walk: stigmas
about antidepressantsCollege Outdoors resumes open
houses after dire winter storm
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Dancers rehearse their piece in Smith Hall while six feet apart and wearing masks.
By WILL TOPPIN
AFTER POSTPONING i t s F e b .
16 Open House due to the
recent winter storms, College
Outdoors (CO) has resumed its
biweekly schedule. The second Open
House of the semester, held on Feb.
23, taught attendees about navigation
and how to use a compass.
Kori Rosenstiel, operations
manager at CO, led the event together
with Student Coordinator Abby
Jaquin ’22.
“Open House always has two
goals,” Rosenstiel said. “One
is community building and an
opportunity for people who want to
be involved with leadership to be
together in-person.”
The second goal of each Open
House is to teach a specific skill,
Rosensteil said. Past events have
taught attendees how to tie bowline
and trucker’s hitch knots, and how
to use a backpacking stove. Open
Houses take place socially distanced
in the Sequoia Vehicle Yard on the
graduate campus.
Rosenstiel and Jaquin began the
Feb. 23 event with a presentation.
They outlined the components of a
compass, such as the “direction of
travel” arrow, the rotating bezel,
“Red Fred” (the magnetic needle) and
its “moped” (a marker for magnetic
north on the bezel).
Every field compass has a plastic
baseplate with a travel arrow that points away from the user. The
compass itself — a rotating capsule
with the magnetic needle inside, filled
with a liquid that dampens motion is
embedded in this baseplate. The bezel
of the rotating compass is marked
with degrees, from 0 to 360, where
each cardinal direction is 90 degrees
from the last.
To navigate with
the compass, the
user rotates the dial
so that the correct
degree on the bezel
lines up with the
direction of travel
arrow. Then, they
spin their body while
holding the compass
until “Fred” is on its
“moped.”
Attendees then
moved to the South Lawn for some
real-world practice. Rosenstiel taught
a leapfrogging technique for low
visibility conditions, where the user
navigates to a partner rather than
to a particular direction. The event
wrapped up with a brief lesson on
how to use a compass to orient maps.
Will Gattiker ’22, whitewater
rafting trip specialist or “paddle
captain” for CO, attended the event.
“I think it was really well put-
together,” Gattiker said. “It was
good just for me to get a reminder
of how this actually works. And it
was cool just getting some hands-on
experience.”Attendees also learned how to
adjust for “declination” on a compass.
Declination is the angle between
magnetic north and true north, and
varies based on one’s location in
the world and the movement of the
Earth’s magnetic fields. In 2021, the
magnetic declination in Portland is
about 15 degrees east.
CO has been
severely impacted
by COVID-19, with
outings restricted to
“micro-adventures”
near campus to avoid
the use of confined
vans. Though some
longer-distance
outings resumed last
week, Open Houses
have been some
of the primary in-
person events.
Rosenstiel, however, had a
positive outlook.
“College Outdoors is really
fortunate to be able to be doing things
during COVID,” Rosenstiel said.
“We’ve had in-person events every
weekend. And it’s really been a lot of
fun, even though they’re all right here.”
Students interested in getting
involved with CO or attending future
Open Houses should visit the CO
website and sign up for the mailing
list. While it is possible to view the
events on the website, the link to
register is only sent out via email
before the Open House.
WILL TOPPIN/THE PIONEER LOG
Attendees practice using their compasses to find north on the Corbett House Lawn at the Lewis & Clark graduate campus.
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“We’ve had in-person
events every weekend.
And it’s really been a
lot of fun, even though
they’re all right here.”
— Kori Rosenstiel FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021
SPORTS 11
Mental health of college students
dependent upon proper sleep habits
By NICOLE NAGAMATSU
THESE DAYS , Lewis & Clark
students are spending far more
time sitting around. With hybrid
or all-remote classes and a limited
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channels, ranging from weightlifting
to meditation. The following channels
have workouts that can be done in a
dorm room or outside on the rare days
when the grass is dry. Nearly all of the
movements during these workouts can
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but a large bath towel can work as a
substitute.
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be sure to warm-up your body. Most of
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videos with a built-in warm-up or plenty
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each movement. Many of the workouts
on these channels do require weights of
some kind, so it may be worth investing
in a pair of dumbbells. You could also
use water bottles or a heavy backpack,
though using these items requires
more caution. On these channels, a
typical workout ranges from seven to 15
minutes.The following channels are perfect
for those who wish to tone their muscles
rather than bulk up. These include Toni
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workouts for all muscle groups, many
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dance workout channels perfect for
increasing your heart rate. Both have
follow-along dance videos that range
from three to 15 minutes, mainly with
pop songs, but MadFit also has regular
workouts with body weight and/or
minimal equipment.
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activity in between classes, here are
some yoga and meditation channels:
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videos as well as guided meditations,
and Headspace has many animated
meditation sessions, as well as restful
sleep-targeted videos.
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get your body moving. With these
recommendations, navigating the
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By W ILL TOPPIN
IT IS WELL KNOWN t h a t c o l l e g e
students need seven to nine hours of
sleep. But what is the big deal? What
is so important about sleep?
Sleep is closely linked to the health
of the human body, both mental and
physical. According to the Mayo Clinic,
sleep is tied to important processes such
as the regulation of hunger hormones
(which is why we feel hungrier when
we are tired), regulating blood pressure
and sorting through the events of the
day — hence one’s mood and ability to
focus.
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memories of the day, which is vital for
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Hopkins Medicine. This also means that
sleep is important to be able to clearly
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that vary from light to deep, and REM
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professor of psychology at Lewis &
Clark, studies how to promote positive
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being.
“One of the big challenges is, even
if you want to sleep, how do you create
good routines around that?” Detweiler-
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of a good night’s sleep and waking up
refreshed — it totally transforms your
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create a routine to go to bed and wake up
at similar times every day.
“That’s hard to do — I know a lot of
college students recoup sleep on the
weekends,” Detweiler-Bedell said. “I
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the time you have to sleep on the
weekends. But during the school week,
even if your classes start later on certain
days of the week, why not set the alarm
for the same or similar time?”
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close attention to one’s use of technology
around bedtime. According to SCL
Health, it is helpful to avoid looking at
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bed, as the blue light can disrupt the
production of melatonin.
During the day, Detweiler-Bedell
also recommends avoiding work in bed.
Doing so can cause the brain to create
an association between one’s bed and
the need to be alert and processing
information.
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when you’re in bed, then when you get
into that bed, you’re going to have less
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sleeping practices, Detweiler-Bedell
suggests collecting some data about your
own sleep habits, like when you go to bed
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helpful in order to try to make changes,”
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to switch away from punitive mindsets
around habit building. Instead of focusing
on what one wants to stop doing, she
recommends focusing on a new routine
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you’re focusing on the negative behavior
you want to get rid of, unless you have
something positive that you’re putting in
its place,” Detweiler-Bedell said.
Detweiler-Bedell has a bevy of
recommendations for such routines,
which she calls “calming rituals.” She
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stretching, drinking herbal tea or listening
to calming music. For her, reading a book
before bed has been the solution.
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sleep,” she said. “But I also look forward
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and read this thing that has nothing to do
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incremental goals.
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for themselves, and also all-or-nothing
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might as well study ‘til two,’” Detweiler-
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getting enough sleep.NWC enacts protocols leaving stadium fan-less
By HENRY GOODIER
THE LEWIS & CLARK s o f t b a l l
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season with a record of two-
and-two. They split the recent
home-opener series against Bushnell
University, each winning one game
apiece. The Pioneers’ upcoming series
on March 13 against Willamette
University will mark the one year
anniversary of the cancellation of
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The scene is far different now than it
was at this time last year. New social
distancing guidelines and safety
protocols have created an unfamiliar
atmosphere for the players.
The prohibition of fans is the
largest distinction from previous
seasons. Second-baseman Lily Moffitt
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had a subconscious effect on how the
team plays.
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field while I am playing...but when
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and gets the team more into the
game,” Moffitt said.
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that there was a piece of the game that
was missing.
“It is hard not having family there
and I feel for the seniors that are
playing without having their families
able to watch some of the last games
they will ever play,” Flegel said.
During the games at the Huston
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employee chaperoning the stands in
order to ensure the state’s guidelines
are being properly observed.
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recognized the large impact sports
render in the health and wellness of
students athletes. “School sports play an important
role in fostering students’ mental,
emotional and physical health,”
Brown said on Twitter.
Within the softball games,
modifications have been undertaken
to ensure the safety of the players.
Typically, the umpire holds the set
of game balls; unfortunately, with
the virus at large, each team now
holds its own set of game balls. It is
the responsibility of whichever team
is in the field to be in charge of and
supply the softballs being used. Each
team works hard to minimize cross
contamination. At home games, the
event staff retrieve the game balls.
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without consent from the umpire or
athletic director.
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team is still very optimistic about
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be a promising one.
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“The team as a whole has a very
positive outlook on the season, as far
as being able to play games and to
practice,” Vierra said. “We are so glad
to be together again and to play the
game we know and love,”
Kaui echoed her sentiments.
“The season so far is looking
strong as the team is starting to get
to know each other really well,” Kaui
said. “As games start to pick up, we
are coming together as a team and
producing wins, but most importantly
having fun.”
The COVID-19 outbreak has
shaken and reshaped the world of
sports; however, LC athletics are back
up and running. The LC softball team
is hopeful that once conference play
takes place, the COVID-19 protocols
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again.
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SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG12
By MACKENZIE HERRING
IN WAKE OF THE u n p r e c e d e n t e d
storm that hit Portland, fallen
trees lined the cobblestone streets
of the Lewis & Clark campus. While
students removed fallen logs from
the roofs of their Subaru Foresters,
an unfortunate name, they were too
distracted by freezing temperatures in
their electricity-lacking dorm rooms
to notice what had truly happened to
their campus. What the students did
not know was that a prolific Italian
raccoon syndicate infiltrated the
campus in its fragile state.
Luckily, a seasoned and very
attractive Pioneer Log reporter (me)
was able to track the mob of rancorous
raccoons and their exploits across
campus. I was able to penetrate the
ranks of the syndicate to varying
success. Below are my findings.
I began by singling out the weakest
link, a small and seemingly chaotic
raccoon named Rabiccio. He must
have been excited at the prospect of a
new recruit because he was foaming at
the mouth while telling me about the
dental benefits of joining the gang.Once I passed the initiation of
literally murdering someone and
stealing Bon food from the
trash, I was given my first task:
putting the severed head of a
squirrel in the bed of a first-
year student who kicked one of
the raccoon members. Revenge
is everything to raccoons.
On day two of the blackout,
the raccoons stormed Frank
Manor and set up their
HQ right in President
Vim Vievel’s office. To
keep the suspicions of
the Board of Trustees at
bay, three raccoons in a
trenchcoat stood in
for Vim at weekly
Zoom meetings.
There is no word
on whether
Vim survived
the takeover. He was last
seen getting into an unmarked
Uber headed for the docks
downtown.
Despite running a well-oiled
crime syndicate, much of the HQ
was designated strictly for cooking. At any given moment,
you could see one
raccoon in the corner cutting up garlic with
a discarded razor blade.
My undercover journey
was going smoothly, but my
contact, Rabbicio, was getting
suspicious. He was showing
signs of increased aggression,
fearfulness and excessive
drooling. He must have
been catching onto my
journalistic intentions. To
throw him off my trail, I
offered to take the blood
oath of the raccoons. This
meant ransacking the
garbage behind Holmes, and
sharing a glass of spoiled
fruit wine with the entire
gang. I drank right after
Rabbicio and began
to feel the effects
immediately.
I am still feeling
the effects. The wine
must have been
expired or something,
because as I write this my
vision is beginning to go
blurry, and I keep having
hallucinations of masked rodents killing Joe Pesci in multiple
Scorsese films.
Anyways, what was I doing? Oh
yeah, as a journalist for the Pioqueer
Smog I had to uphold my integrity
and push through to the end. Ethics
dictate that if you start an immersive
investigation with a gang of rodents
you must push through till the end. It
is in our Biosphere Hog handbook.
Unfortunately, I can no longer
see, smell or hear anything other than
the raccoon mantra, “Blood is thicker
than water, but raccoons are forever,”
repeating constantly in my head. It is
not a very good mantra, but what can
you expect? They are raccoons.
I would like to continue my rodent
investigation but the voices in my
head are telling me Rabbico cannot be
trusted. I think he gave me something,
perhaps a unique strain of raccoon
mouth herpes. Anyways, my Cryobeer
Gulag article must wait, as I am going
to visit the coyote doctor the mob
has on retainer. I wonder if I could
convince them to target Portland
General Electric next. Those fuckers
still have not responded to my Twitter
DMs. Italian raccoon syndicate takes over campusFRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021
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FOLLOWING THE results of
a recent poll, the Associated
Students of Lewis & Clark (ASLC)
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at Lewis & Clark had ever been to the
northwest corner of campus, where
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this was a bad look for a school named
after a couple of explorers, they quickly
organized an expedition to discover
what lay behind the Pamplin Sports
Center.
Almost immediately, they made a
shocking discovery: a gigantic white
dome, nearly as big as Pamplin itself,
sits behind the gym. It has no visible
entrance and no markings that might
suggest what it is for.
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about the dome’s purpose.
“The dome covers up the mutant
tofu-organism,” biology major Lisa
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“The tofu-organism is the reason LC
exists. In order to keep the tofu from
expanding and covering the world,
the Bon employees need to go chop
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day and feed it all to young people
with metabolisms strong enough to
neutralize the virulence of the
tofu. We are here to eat the tofu.
The professors are just here to
maintain the illusion.”
“Weed. The dome is for
weed,” one student, who asked
to remain anonymous, said.
“There must be millions of
grams of top-quality kush
under there.”
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evidence to support his
theory, merely stating
that it was obvious.
“Like, what else do
people try to hide?” he
speculated. “Money?”
Others suggested
the dome was a
secret meeting
place.
“It must
be where all
the centrists
and liberals on
campus hang
out,” expedition
member Sequoia
Greenberg ’22
said. “I mean,
they have to be somewhere, right? I see people making
fun of LC liberals all the time in The
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have never met anyone on this campus
who is to the right of Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez. Where are all the liberals that
people love to dump on? Under the
dome. Gotta be.”
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respond to an email requesting a
comment about the dome, although
about an hour after the request was
sent, Vim Viewel was spotted near
Pamplin in a catatonic state.
“The horror ... it is so large ... how
did it get on our campus ... the horror,”
Vim was overheard mumbling to
himself in Dutch.
But as soon as the dome was
discovered, it was gone. During the
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sparking even more rumors. Students
have been claiming that the dome
behind Pamplin is just a dry run for a
supervillain’s plans to enclose all of LC
under an impenetrable dome. Whether
this would change life at LC is unclear,
but the claims have not stopped
students from stockpiling weapons and
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probably nonexistent villain has even been given a name: The Lone Domer.
The prevailing narrative goes that once
the Lone Domer realized his dome had
been discovered, he geoengineered the
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chemtrails spread by commercial
airliners.
“I mean, I still see planes even
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pandemic. What other explanation can
there be?” Bud Ivancie ’24 asked.
Despite the near-collapse of society
brought on by the dome’s discovery,
ASLC has been citing the expedition as
a success.
“We are already organizing more
discovery expeditions,” ASLC Prime
Minister Josh Mendocino ’21 said.
“Next weekend we go to downtown
Portland. No LC student has ever been
there!”
Student athletes insist the dome is
just there to protect the tennis courts
from winter weather. But the general
public is skeptical.
“Anyone who says that is obviously
in cahoots with the Lone Domer,”
Sawyer Brandt ’23 said, expressing the
commonly held view among the student
body. “We all know LC has no sports
programs.”Doomsday clock could
mark the end of LCExpedition leads to discovery of
a mysterious dome on LC campus
By ANDREW NOURIE
TENSIONS ARE high at
Lewis & Clark with the newly
formed Count Registering
Approaching Privation (CRAP)
only three minutes away from
midnight. The CRAP Clock™ was
designed by unpaid computer
science (CS) majors, and modeled
after the Doomsday Clock. Its main
purpose is to show how close LC
is from going bankrupt. Because it
was developed by CS majors, it is
impossible to say whether or not it
is actually accurate. However, being
the main source of news for students
at LC, we here at The Pioneer Log
are going to uphold our journalistic
integrity and fearmonger like every
other reputable news outlet.
It seems like the CRAP Clock™
sped up substantially after the
administration announced their
plans to pump up the gardening
budget again. The Board of
Trustees immediately took action
after seeing the clock get so close
to midnight, and once again
raised tuition instead of lowering
spending. The Board said that this
was “to stay competitive” with
other colleges, but most people
understand that it is so they can
continue to drain the reflecting
pool during the school year, and
then refill it during the summer
and take pretty pictures. There
is something comforting about
knowing that your tuition is going to
fund important things like creating
scenic areas where newlywed
millennial couples can take their
pregnancy photos, instead of into
less important things like paying
our professors a fair amount or
finally demolishing
Copeland.
They also
decided
to stop heating the dorms as much, and
have advised students to start
fires in their dorms in order to
stay warm. Unsurprisingly, the
amount of times the fire alarm has
gone off in Copeland has remained
completely consistent, it just
changed from people burning their
pizzas at 3 a.m. to people starting
fires for survival.
The administration has even
tried to sell the CRAP Clock’s™
algorithm, but it has already been
patented by Geeves Gangor ’21, who
was the lead programmer behind
the creation of the clock.
“I just kinda made it up as I
went,” Gangor said. “It is all just
kinda random numbers but I
thought it would be funny to lie
to the administration about what
it does. The clock literally is not a
measure of anything.”
When Gangor explained to the
administration that the clock was
just nonsense it was already too
late. Copeland was soon stripped
for valuable materials and Holmes
was subleased to all four of the
acappella groups on campus who
are all currently using it to practice
at the same time The Forest dorms
were searched for drugs, not to get
students in trouble, just to sell the
drugs back to them.
Gangor is currently sitting in
timeout because the school did
not know how to properly punish
him. He is wearing a cap that says
“I put me before we,” because for
some reason administrators think
this will make people publicly scorn
him.
When asked about whether or not
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stated, “It is kinda chill, I just
get high every day and
sit in this corner,
I am kinda
enjoying
it.”Amidst the destruction caused by a historic storm, a prolific crime ring of raccoons sets up shop at LC
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STUART MYERS/THE PIONEER LOGMAYA WINSHELL/THE PIONEER LOG