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Volume 96, No. 4

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2021-03-19

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Vol. 96 No. 4 FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 www.piolog.com
This Week on The PioPod
Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Nerli
discusses LC’s tax forms, News Editor
Venus Edlin interviews Matt Wuerker
’79 and Nathan Oakley discusses faculty
salary freezes.
OPINION
Missing Spring Break
This semester’s long weekends do not
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students get during a normal year’s
spring break. PAGE 6
FEATURES
Matt Wuerker ’79
Wuerker served as the chief editorial
cartoonist for The Pioneer Log during his
time at LC. He has now been a political
cartoonist for over 40 years. PAGE 10ARTS
“The Secretaries”
The theatre department’s spring
play creatively adapts to COVID-19
restrictions, hosting both livestreamed
and in-person performances. PAGE 11
SPORTS
LC Swim Is Back
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LC mourns
loss of Roan
Mulholland
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VENUS EDLIN
LEWIS & CLARK mourns the death
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student from New Mexico who
passed away from unknown causes on
campus on March 5.
Roan’s mother, Kirste Plunket, said
her daughter had been thrilled to be a
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school to attend.
“She loved the campus and the
friendliness and openness of its people,”
Plunket said via email. “More than
anything, she was a gentle soul, a kind
soul, a giving soul.”
Roan’s father Mark Mulholland
said that Roan loved the academic
environment of school, where she
thrived even while facing the challenge of
attending college during a pandemic. He
recalled her connections to others.
“In the joyous moments of
remembering Roan I think of her great
connection to her sister, Sophia; her
strong love and compassion for all her
family and friends; her wonderful writing
and how everything Roan did had the
immense feeling of not just being done,
but curated,” Mark Mulholland said via
email.
Dean of Spiritual Life Mark Duntley
said that words could not express the
community’s grief.
“Roan’s death is a tragic loss to our
community, and my heart goes out to her
family and friends in this time of deep
sadness,” Duntley said via email. “Each
student here brings their own gifts which
add greatly to our campus community,
and to lose Roan so suddenly and at such a
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Roan’s loss reverberated through
LC and her home community. Her high
school friends who studied with her at the
Academy for Technology and the Classics
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid tribute to
her with a tree planting.
“Family” continued on page 4Tax forms reveal financial history of
LC, peculiar payments to employees
NICHOLAS NERLI/THE PIONEER LOG
Faculty salaries uncertain amid pandemic-related cuts
By CASSIDY HARRIS &
NATHAN OAKLEY
FACULTY AND staff salaries, one
of the college’s highest expenses,
have faced adjustments in
previous years and continue to be a
significant source of anxiety for some
LC employees.
Professor of History Elliott
Young serves as one of two faculty
representatives to the Board of
Trustees. Young emailed faculty in
February to ask whether they would
prefer cuts to their salaries or cuts to
their retirement benefits, and if they
would prefer a flat percentage rate
cut or progressive rate cuts.
According to both Young and
Associate Professor of Economics Cliff Bekar, a member of the faculty-
led Budget Advisory Committee, the
survey caused panic and concern
among some faculty members.
Faculty were already faced with
salary freezes, despite no known
plans of the Board to pursue cuts.
Although there are no plans for
broad layoffs of non-tenure track
faculty, the college is planning to
offer retirement incentives at the
end of this school year, according to
Bruce Suttmeier, dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences (CAS).
Suttmeier also noted the uneven
impact of pandemic-related cuts,
saying that employees across the
college have experienced cuts to
compensation.
“It’s important to note that most staff, including administrators, took
a 20-40% furlough (salary cut) this
summer, as part of our efforts to save
money during the early part of the
pandemic,” Suttmeier said via email.
“It has been staff, at all levels, that
have been much more impacted to
date.”
Associate Professor of Sociology
Bruce Podobnik sent a series of
emails the week of Feb. 18 to the CAS
faculty listserv that said that former
executive employees of the college
were still paid after they departed,
according to the publicly available
Internal Revenue Service Form 990.
Faculty members expressed their
frustration with the news that former
President Barry Glassner received at
least $898,132 since resigning from his position in 2017. Young voiced
his concerns on how this revelation,
combined with budgetary dilemmas
that the COVID-19 pandemic poses,
will affect employees at the bottom
end of LC’s payroll, such as janitorial
contractors, adjunct professors and
student workers.
Although some faculty have
expressed frustration, there is no
organized plan among them to
address these concerns. Faculty
members do not have union
representation and unionization
of faculty in private colleges is not
protected by law.
“I think a lot of faculty are like,
what should we do?” Podobnik said.
“I think that we hope that students
“Salary” continued on page 3
NICHOLAS NERLI/THE PIONEER LOG
ALEX BARR/THE PIONEER LOGProfessors express concerns about pay cuts as administrators warn of need to cheapen operating costsTotal Revenue and Expenses: Between FY2010 and FY2018, LC has seen
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By NICHOLAS NERLI
SINCE JANUARY, The Pioneer
Log has analyzed nine years
of Form 990s filed by Lewis &
Clark. The Form 990 is an Internal
Revenue Service document that most
tax-exempt organizations, including
nonprofit colleges and universities,
must file annually. Often, these
documents are the only source of
a nonprofit’s financial information
available to the general public.
LC’s fiscal year (FY) runs from
June 1 to May 31. FY2018, for
example, began on June 1, 2018
and ended on May 31, 2019. The
Pioneer Log examined Form 990s
from FY2010 to FY2018, the most
recent year filed by the college. All
Form 990s were accessed through
ProPublica, a news organization that
specializes in investigative journalism
and maintains a massive public
information database.
To view Form 990s from FY2000
to FY2018, visit www.propublica.org
and search “Lewis & Clark College.”Part I: Revenue Trends and the
Endowment
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rising costs amid decreasing revenue. This
problem is not unique to Palatine Hill,
and according to many administrators,
LC has a long and well-established plan
to boost revenue without compromising
the quality of education. Yet, the past
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for LC. Between FY2010 and FY2015,
three of six Form 990s recorded budget
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spike in revenue from $164.9 million
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increase coincides with the arrival of
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was the largest in the college’s history.
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consecutively increasing revenue,
peaking at just over $200 million in
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from tuition and fees, higher enrollment
typically translates to a budget surplus.
When the class of 2019 graduated,
community members anticipated
negative repercussions on revenue.
Between FY2010 and FY2016, annual
costs rose from $146.9 million to $178.7
million. In FY2018, the year Classzilla
graduated, costs were $184.2 million,
though the college reported net revenue
of $15.8 million that year. According to
prior reporting by The Pioneer Log, LC
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year after Classzilla’s departure. Because
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budget is unclear.
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long discussed strategies to attract more
students, whose tuition is LC’s primary
source of revenue. In recent years, LC has
implemented new academic programs,
such as the data science, entrepreneurial
leadership and innovation, and health
studies minors, to attract more students.
For several years, faculty have expressed
mixed opinions on this approach in faculty meetings and forums as it
requires more work during a period of
compensation stasis. Additionally, a
common argument is that an increase
in STEM education detracts from the
liberal arts experience, and there is a
concern that department cuts will hit
the humanities as new science and
technology programs are implemented.
Boosting enrollment will require
substantial improvements to
residential infrastructure. According
to past reporting by The Pioneer
Log, LC aims to retain at least 550
students per graduating class. While
more residential rooms will likely
be needed to accommodate a higher
student population, there is also a
will among college stakeholders to
refurbish existing rooms. In fact,
though the 2019 Master Plan outlines
the construction of new dormitories
near Templeton Campus Center, recent
cost estimates of such projects were
outside of the college’s budget. Now,
trustees are considering remodeling
existing dormitories near Templeton
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NEWS 2
Revenue fluctuations threaten LC programs
Despite feared cuts to overseas and humanities, capital campaign on track to meet 2024 end date
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NICHOLAS NERLI/THE PIONEER LOG
Salary freezes persist, fear of further deductions loom
Lewis & Clark faculty, staff raise concerns about cost of living, inflation amid financial insecurity
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will get really pissed. You know, it’s
your money. That $898,000 that was
paid to a president that is no longer
working here, and that came from
students and their families. I don’t
know how students or families can be
comfortable with that. It’s completely
irresponsible.”
Podobnik also said in an email
to faculty that “it has long been
recognized that entry level faculty,
and even Associate and Professor-
level faculty salaries at LC, are lower
than comparable institutions,” which
harms LC’s ability to attract and retain
high-quality faculty.
Concern over non competitive
salaries has led some faculty, such
as former Associate Professor of
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Chair Heather Smith-Cannoy, to leave
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opportunities. Smith-Cannoy — who
departed the college in 2019 — stated
that the college was not making
faculty salaries a priority during the
budget crisis.Suttmeier disagreed with Podobnik
and Smith-Cannoy’s assertion that
LC does not pay faculty competitive
salaries.
“Lewis & Clark competes with much
more resourced institutions than ours
for those faculty members, schools like
Grinnell, and Williams, and Pomona,”
Suttmeier said. “When faculty are hired,
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they won’t come.”
Faculty members
have been subject
to salary freezes
this year due to the
college’s existing
budget crisis being
exacerbated by the
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yet faced any cuts, according to Young.
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cost of living continue to rise.
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possible that there will be a freeze next
year,” Young said via email. “In real terms, a freeze is a cut because the cost
of Kombucha isn’t going down. I hope
that there will be no cuts to faculty
compensation in the long-term, but
it wouldn’t be responsible for budget
managers not to have a plan if the
college was suddenly faced with a 20
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Bekar said that while faculty were
well aware of possible cuts due to LC’s
continual budget
issues and larger
market conditions
harming college
revenues, that does
not make them
easier to accept.
“I would say over
the past decade or
so, there has been
an understanding among faculty
that cuts may be coming,” Bekar
said. “Salary freezes have been more
and more frequent for faculty, and
those are hard enough to deal with.
A cut would be an entirely different
creature. I think cuts would be quite
dispiriting and demoralizing.” Bekar stated that the Budget
Advisory Committee frequently
conducts broad, empirical data
analyses on faculty compensation,
which compare faculty salaries both
externally to other colleges within the
current market context and internally
between different departments. The
committee is currently working to
ensure that compensation is equitable
and faculty concerns are addressed.
However, in the face of possible
cuts, Bekar echoed Podobnik’s
concerns about LC’s ability to
maintain competitive salaries, which
may disincentivize current or future
faculty from working for the college.
“I think that it is close to an
existential threat to the college,”
Bekar said. “The core mission of
the college is the teacher-scholar
model, in which we expose students
in small classrooms to people who
care about teaching and do research,
and we expose students to research
opportunities. I think cutting
compensation jeopardizes that and if
that is jeopardized, I think the entire mission of the college is potentially
jeopardized.”
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expressed hope for the financial future
of the college and its employees. LC
has maintained relatively normal
operations during the budget crisis
and the pandemic, while other similar
colleges have cut entire programs and
departments, as well as implemented
layoffs and compensation cuts. Young
expressed similar sentiments and
said that the emergency preparations
that were considered, such as cutting
faculty compensation or retirement,
are unlikely to be implemented.
“We have a college president
who has started a successful capital
campaign, already raised over 80
million dollars, a Board who are
donating generously and committed to
diversity and equity, and a competent
leadership team that is planning for the
future,” Young said. “Like all colleges,
Lewis & Clark faces serious structural
challenges ahead, but we will survive
and prosper by coming together
and not tearing each other down.”“In real terms, a
freeze is a cut because
the cost of Kombucha
isn’t going down.”
— Elliott YoungFormer administrators paid after departing LC
Financial documents divulge information surrounding ex-President Barry Glassner, ex-VP Gregory Volk
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things like testing, extra custodial,
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Editor’s Note: Occasionally, a data-
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the editorial board, The Pioneer Log
decided to publish the compensation of
administrators between FY2010 and
FY2018. Each of the listed individuals
held a high-ranking administrative
post during this time period. Some still
work at the college, while others have
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The Pioneer Log’s Code of Ethics at www.
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employees. At Lewis & Clark, like most
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not compensated. Each year, the college
records over one dozen employees that fall
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to an occasional former employee that
still receives compensation.
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FY2018, The Pioneer Log has chosen not
to report on their compensation.
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several administrators received annual
compensation increases in the thousands
of dollars. The president is responsible for
hiring and determining the compensation
of deans and vice presidents. Other
administrators are hired by the
supervisors of their departments who,
along with Human Resources, decide
their compensation.
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period), that employee may receive a
stipend for a certain limited period of
time.”
LC’s president is hired by the Board
of Trustees. Each year, the Board’s
Compensation Committee evaluates the
president’s performance and determines
whether or not changes to compensation
are appropriate.
Additionally, the president is required
to reside at Cooley House, a grand Tudor-style mansion that was gifted to LC in
2002. The house serves as a venue for
many college events, in addition to its role
as the president’s home. According to the
agreement between the college and the
Cooley family, if the president does not
reside in the home, the property will be
re-gifted to Reed College.
The college pays for social club
memberships for the president, vice
president for institutional advancement
and dean of the law school. Current
membership dues
are paid to the
Waverley Country
Club, Multnomah
Athletic Club and
Arlington Club.
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are intended to
promote networking
and fundraising.
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related expenses
are covered by the
college. Personal
expenses such
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lunches are not paid for by LC.
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compensation occurred after he resigned
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whether Glassner is still being paid by the
college or when compensation ceased.
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a tenured professor after resigning
as president, he did not maintain a
traditional academic relationship with
the college. He did not teach classes, work
with the department of sociology and
anthropology, or keep a physical presence
on Palatine Hill.
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leadership anonymously discussed Volk
and Glassner’s departures. According
to them, neither of the two former
administrators left their positions
willingly.
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to comment on Volk and Glassner’s
post-employment compensation and
the details of their departures, citing
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College.By RUBY SCHAEFFER
OVER THE LAST two weeks,
the Associated Students of
Lewis & Clark (ASLC) held
elections for its 2021-22 Cabinet,
continued a diversity, equity and
inclusion training and worked to
resolve the recent internal conflict
regarding compensation.
After an initial lack of candidate
applications, Director of Elections
Ariel McGee ’21 granted a week-long
extension on the application deadline
and waived the usual signature
requirement to encourage more
students to run.
Still, just two positions were
contested. Alaryx Tenzer ’23
defeated Frances Haase ’23 for
the role of student organizations
coordinator. Macarena Vives ’22
was elected Campus Activities Board
(CAB) Chair, winning over Annabelle
Rousseau ’23.
For the first time, candidates for
president and vice president were
required to run on a joint ticket.
Sarah Lind-MacMillan ’22 and Olivia
Weiss ’23 were elected president and
vice president respectively. Their
campaign’s platform emphasized
open communication with the
administration as well as equity and
inclusion at LC.
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better connect the ASLC Cabinet and
Senate, restructure the distributions
of stipends to student leaders and
create and run a multi-day conference
on transformative justice. Weiss’
goals include promoting a better
understanding of ASLC’s functions to the student body, educating ASLC
members about their roles and how
they connect to one another and
creating space for the public to get
involved in Senate meetings via a
“public comment” feature.
There were no candidates for
the Student Academic Affairs
Board (SAAB) chair. McGee plans to
hold a special
election in the
coming weeks.
Senators and
representatives will
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next year’s SAAB
chair. All other
Cabinet positions
have been filled.
McGee remarked on the special
effort to hold this election during
COVID-19.
“A lot of people’s minds are
elsewhere and a lot of people are
unwilling or unable to take on
leadership positions right now,”
McGee said.
According to McGee, 21% of the
student body voted in the Cabinet
elections. This was a higher turnout
than past elections.
At the March 16 Senate meeting,
members of ASLC spent the first
hour discussing diversity, equity and
inclusion within the organization.
The second hour saw Vice President
Jeremiah Koshy ’21 update ASLC
on the recent compensation conflict
among some Cabinet members.
On Feb. 21, then SAAB Chair
Arunima Jamwal ’21 began
boycotting their position in
response to percieved pay inequities within ASLC. Since then, college
administrators have been involved
in better explaining the way student
leaders are compensated. Vice
President, Chief of Staff, General
Counsel and Board Secretary David
Reese plans to circulate a memo that
clarifies the compensation rights
of volunteer contractors, according
to Koshy. Most
student leaders that
receive stipends
are classified as
volunteers.
The college
may change the
term used to
describe payments
to student leaders.
Rather than “stipend,” “award” or
“honorarium” may be written into
future volunteer agreements
between student leaders and
the college. According to Koshy,
administrators feel that these
alternative words better define the
structure of compensation given to
students.
Recently, Jamwal resigned as
SAAB chair. According to Koshy, they
did not respond to multiple emails
requesting further details of their
boycott and a conflict resolution
meeting with Ombudsperson Valerie
White. Due to contractual obligations,
Jamwal will likely receive the entirety
of their stipend through the end of
the academic year.
For the remainder of the semester,
SAAB Grants Director Ela Pencl
’21, along with other members of
SAAB, plan to split the chair’s many
responsibilities among themselves.FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
NEWS /gid00486
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
HYBRID AND online instruction,
a necessary aspect of attending
school during the coronavirus
pandemic, has garnered a variety of
reactions and experiences from faculty
members.
As Lewis & Clark was preparing for
the Fall 2020 semester, the need for
a hybrid style of instruction became
apparent. Given that not everyone
would be able to return to campus or
feel safe doing so, fully-remote options
were made available to both students
and faculty members who needed to
work or study from home.
Students were required to submit
a form requesting to access all courses
remotely and agreeing to not come
to campus at all during the semester.
Faculty had to report how they planned
to build community and mirror aspects
of in-person education in online
classes. Around one-third of classes this
semester are being taught fully remote.
“We recognized early in the summer
that many faculty with underlying
health conditions would need to teach
remotely to stay safe,” Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences Bruce
Suttmeier said via email. “We also saw
that some students, similarly, would
need remote options to feel safe. But we
also felt strongly that we could, through
masking, social distancing, etc., conduct
in-person classes, and we wanted to
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who wished to be on campus.”
During the summer of 2020, the
Adaptive Teaching for the Liberal Arts (ATLA) committee was formed in order
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like during a pandemic. This involved
developing the hybrid form of teaching
that is currently being used. For
example, ATLA tested where computers
and cameras should be placed in
classrooms in order for online students to best be able to see the professor and
class.
“We did a series of workshops over
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things,” said Maryann Bylander,
associate professor of sociology. “Part
of it was to just give faculty a sense of
what these environments might be like, so it included us actually giving hybrid
lectures.”
About her own hybrid classes,
Bylander described both pros and
cons. Hybrid classes pose unique
challenges, especially since they are
so new, including setting up activities
correctly so that all students can access them and fostering discussions with
some students in the room and others
online.
For online classes, Bylander said
that there are “real wins to being able
to engage in other kinds of ways.”
“On the days where I do fully-remote
teaching, there are really interesting
ways of getting participation from
students you wouldn’t otherwise hear
from,” Bylander said. “Sometimes the
students who are a little bit more shy,
less likely to participate in an in-person
class, are really vocal in the chat.”
Associate Professor of Economics
Eric Tymoigne, along with the rest of
the economics department, is teaching
all of his courses remotely this year. He
chose this option because it allowed
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order to stay home and take care of his
children. About teaching remotely, he
said, “you have to get into the rhythm
of it.”
“For me, it has gone very well,”
Tymoigne said. “I was able to recreate
a good part of the things going on in
the classroom, buying a whiteboard,
basically setting up a room as a video
conference room.”
Although he is looking forward to
teaching in person again next school
year, he has enjoyed his remote classes
and is comfortable with the teaching
style.
Despite being our current sense
of “normal,” hybrid and online
classes are an experience unique
to this school year, as classes
will return to the fully in-person,
pre-pandemic style in Fall 2021.Faculty reflect on Spring 2021 virtual options
ASLC announces election results,
discusses compensation tensionFamily, friends honor
undergraduate student
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“They hung origami cranes from the
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little scraps of paper, twist them into
cranes, and then give them away to her
friends,” Plunket said.
Mark Mulholland expressed
appreciation for Roan’s roommate
at LC, Halli Nguyen ’24. The two
roommates shared their freshman year
together and Nguyen was with Roan on
her last day.
“I am forever grateful to Roan’s
roommate Halli who helped Roan on
her last day with us. It means so much
to us that Roan had her friend nearby;
caring for her and calling for help,”
Mark Mulholland said.
Nguyen thought of her as not just
a friend, but her “platonic soulmate.”
Nguyen said that she would continue
living her life not just for herself, but
for Roan.
“Roan had many dreams for her
future,” Nguyen said via email. “She
wanted to be a history major and
possibly work in a museum. She wanted
to travel the world and visit places like
Japan and Korea. She wanted to be
someday able to experience LC when
Covid passed entirely.”
Nguyen said that though she was
shy, Roan still connected with many
people, often through classwork. Greta
Burton ’22, who met Roan through
RHMS 100 this semester, described her
as a “gentle heart.”“Roan recognized the opportunity
in every moment to make someone
feel seen, appreciated, celebrated and
even loved,” Burton said via email.
“Roan used every opportunity to
communicate with joy and spread
light.”
Burton remembered Roan as an
enthusiastic and diligent student who
led group projects and tried to do more
than her fair share of the work.
“Her passion and hunger for
knowledge were a force to be reckoned
with,” Burton said.
Nguyen recalled many fond
memories with Roan, including
introducing her to Spam musubi,
listening to K-Pop together and their
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out to Nguyen was how Roan would
notice the small parts of the world and
be compelled to photograph them.
“There were always so many times
where I’d accidentally run into her
because she’d stopped only to realize
there was a pretty plant that she just
had to capture in a photo,” Nguyen said.
“Together, we would always say hello to
all the birds, spiders, and squirrels that
would cross our path.”
The kindness and joy many
recognized within Roan extends to
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
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condolences to her family and friends.
“Roan was a kind, thoughtful, and
generous presence on campus and will
be profoundly missed,” Suttmeier said
via email.
The college is planning a celebration
of life to honor Roan. It remains
undecided whether the memorial will
be in person or remote, and when it
will take place. Duntley encouraged
community members who are interested
in helping plan the event to email him.
Vice President of Student Life
and Dean of Students Robin Holmes-
Sullivan acknowledged Roan’s passing
“with a heavy heart.” Holmes-Sullivan
is involved in planning the memorial.
“We are currently discussing
the best way to honor the impact
that Roan had on our community,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “We are asking
her friends, professors and other
LC community members to send in
remembrances that will potentially be
shared with the family at a later date.”
Adaptive Teaching for Liberal Arts Committee workshopped methods for teaching during pandemic
PHOTO COURTE SY OF KIRSTE PLUNKETMAYA WINSHELL/THE PIONEER LOG
LC plans to honor Roan with a memorial.
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOG
2021-22 ASLC CABINET
President: Sarah Lind-MacMillan ’22
Vice President: Olivia Weiss ’23
Treasurer: Sam Daer ’21
Engagement & Outreach Coordinator: Madeleine MacWilliamson ’24
Student Organizations Coordinator: Alaryx Tenzer ’23
Student Resources Coordinator: Phoenix Cox ’24
Campus Activities Board Chair: Macarena Vives ’22
Chief Justice: Michael Harper ’23
Equity, Inclusion, & Justice Committee Chair: $QQD*UD̆¶
6WXGHQW$FDGHPLF$̆DLUV%RDUG&KDLU VacantAccording to McGee, 21%
of the student body voted
in the Cabinet elections.
This was a higher turn -
out than past elections.FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
OPINION /gid00487
Keep your cameras on to
improve Zoom experience
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 AIDAN D’ANNA
SINCE LEWIS & CLARK adopted its
current hybrid teaching model last
fall, I have only been in one class in
which the professor required all students
to keep their cameras on at all times. If
someone had a particularly compelling
reason why they needed to keep their
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requests because
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class session with
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professor will call their names to ask if
they have a question and they never do.
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still on the Zoom is that they did not hear
everyone say goodbye, because they are
not there or are not paying attention.
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to let other people
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why people are
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responsibility
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concept in psychology, anonymity and
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idea that people are much more likely
to engage in immoral or disinhibited
behavior when they know people cannot
see their faces. Purdue University
psychologists Franklin Miller and Kathleen Rowald conducted a study
in 1979 that examined the behavior of
children who wore Halloween costumes
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context, people who keep their
cameras off are much more
comfortable not participating or
freeloading off of their classmates
than they would be if they had their
cameras on. It is frustrating to see
these participation moochers present
in class when some of us are there to
engage, with the material as well as
our fellow classmates.
I have heard from a few people
that they keep their cameras off
because they get anxious when they
feel like people are looking directly at
them. I fully understand that anxiety
can become this severe, and I suggest
that people in this position should
consider asking their professors
to pin their video during class, or
getting a note or email from a doctor
or mental health professional at the
LC counseling center that qualifies
your anxiety as one of the extenuating
circumstances I mentioned earlier. If
you are embarrassed about your living
situation, consider using a virtual
background. We should normalize
that anyway.
But if this does not sound like you,
turn your camera on during class.
It makes for a much more engaging
experience for everyone, and we are
not paying $70,000 a year to stare at
rows of gray boxes.
We have all been in the
breakout room where
three of us have our
cameras on and one
person does not. That
person hardly ever
participates, if at all.
Lewis & Clark must better support Holmes and Hartzfeld Hall residents due to a lack of effluent testingEffluent testing gaps create an unsafe living environment
By ADELAIDE KAISER
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semester off due to safety
concerns regarding COVID-19,
many factors influenced my decision
to come back to campus. For the fall,
I had been hesitant to return due to
so many unknowns about college
in general during the pandemic;
however, after seeing how well Lewis
& Clark fared in the fall, I felt safe
returning to school.
LC boasts quite a few COVID-19
safety measures that they have
enacted to keep the community safe.
Weekly testing clinics, campus being
closed to the public and effluent
testing of residence hall wastewater
are just a few of these policies.
Returning to campus, I was under
the impression that all residence
halls were being effluent tested.
However, I soon learned that my
dorm, Hartzfeld Hall, actually was
not being effluent tested, with hardly
any additional testing to make up for
this gap. Since Hartzfeld A, B and C
dorms are all set aside for isolating
students after testing positive for or coming into contact with someone
with COVID-19, Hartzfeld D, where
I live, is not eligible for effluent
testing, according to Associate Dean
for Health & Wellness, Director and
Chief Psychologist John Hancock.
Additionally, Holmes Hall, due to its
close proximity to Hartzfeld, is not
being effluent tested either.
Students living in other dorms
have the safety net of knowing that
if the virus causing COVID-19 is
detected in the wastewater, they will
be informed early; I do not have that
safety net. If there is an outbreak in
Hartzfeld, we might not know until it
is too late, and the virus has already
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and uncertainty about my own safety.
Additionally, this was not
adequately communicated to me
before moving in. LC was happy to
assuage our fears about being on
campus during a pandemic because
of their effluent testing system. Still, I
did not get confirmation that my dorm
was not being effluent tested until I
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this semester. I had been on campus
for multiple weeks before learning the true state of my COVID-19 safety.
In order to ensure the safety of
students in Hartzfeld and Holmes,
the college is including students from
those dorms more regularly in their
weekly surveillance testing clinics,
according to Hancock. However,
at the time of print, I have only
been tested twice since returning
to campus, on Feb. 9 and March 9.
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going to do much to accurately track
the spread of the virus in my residence
hall, and does not assure me that my
safety is a priority of the college.
Hancock indicated that a fraction of
the students living in Holmes and
Hartzfeld are being tested every week.
However, randomized surveillance
testing does not replace the security
of weekly, residence-hall wide
effluent testing.
I understand that testing LC
students is a great financial and
logistical challenge. However, I
believe that the students of Hartzfeld
and Holmes deserve better. All
students living in these buildings
should be tested at least every two
weeks, if not more, in order to ensure RXU VDIHW\ 7HVWLQJ VWXGHQWV IURP
these buildings at higher rates than
students living in effluent-tested halls
is the best way to create an evenly
tested campus. Additionally, if there
have not been students in the isolation
dorms for a number of days, effluent testing should resume for Holmes and
Hartzfeld. During times like these, it
is the least that LC can do to support
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students who are unable to be effluent
tested in order to keep all students
and community members safe.
Dems must hold Gov.
Cuomo accountable
By ALEX BARR
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Cuomo’s once-illustrious
image has been brought to its
knees amid several sexual harassment
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scandal, Cuomo has also faced
severe criticism and scrutiny for his
mismanagement of COVID-19 in
nursing homes across New York.
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seemingly as quickly as it was built.
I imagine I am not the only Lewis
& Clark student who took comfort
in Cuomo’s level-headed demeanor
throughout the earlier months of the
COVID-19 pandemic. As of late, that
cool exterior has melted as Cuomo
faces calls to resign.
Democrats, however, vary in their
responses to the allegations against
Cuomo. Several New York Democrats
— including Sens. Chuck Schumer and
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Ocasio-Cortez — have pushed for
Cuomo’s resignation. Speaker Nancy
Pelosi urged people to believe and
respect the women who stepped
forward, but neglected to comment
on whether or not she thought Cuomo
should resign. President Joe Biden
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Cuomo should resign if there is any
truth to the allegations made against
him.
All the same, Cuomo insists that he
will not bow to the pressures of
cancel culture and refuses to
resign.
In many ways,
Cuomo represents
the conservative
nepotism-drenched
legacy of American
politics. As the son
of former New York
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it appears that the
current New York
governor had an easier
time getting a foot in
the door than most
other politicians.
But now that he
is in, he has
chosen to
barricade
himself
inside.
Until Democrats can unify towards one
common aim of accountability and
justice, Cuomo will remain a dark spot
on the Democratic Party.
After reading article after article
reporting on the women who have
stepped forward, I found myself
perusing the comments on each article.
Assuredly, Cuomo’s actions were far
less blunt than those of men like former
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admit to sexual assault on camera. But
in many ways, that makes Cuomo’s
sexual advances even more dangerous.
Many commenters declared Cuomo’s
behavior much milder in comparison
to the backlash he received. However,
these misogynistic microaggressions
often belittle, demean and place undue
burden on women in the workplace,
while also isolating them in the fear of
being overdramatic. Women like Anita
Hill and Monica Lewinsky ’95 prove
the Democratic Party’s tendency to
silence women in order to allow male
politicians to save face.
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address these issues of sexism not
as outliers, but as symptomatic of
the inherent injustices within the
American political system, and U.S.
society as a whole. Especially at LC,
where most students lean left, we
must hold all politicians accountable,
even Democratic ones that we tend
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ground to be found across either side
of the aisle when the structure that
creates inequality still stands, and
we must hold all politicians to
the same standard. While I
found comfort in Cuomo’s
stoic facade throughout
the summer, it does
not mean that I, or any
other Democrat, can
justify or try to explain
away his intolerable
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politicians, need to bring
empathy back into
politics by putting
people before
party.
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OPINION /gid00488
By JILLIAN JACKSON
AS WE TRANSITION t o a n
environment of in-person
learning after the COVID-19
pandemic, Lewis & Clark should
prioritize making free period products
available, especially in academic
buildings.
Currently, access to period
products on LC’s undergraduate
campus is inconsistent and sorely
lacking. In academic buildings like
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menstrual product dispenser in some
of the gender-neutral bathrooms, but
are required to pay $0.50 for a pad or
a tampon. In dorms like Platt-Howard
Hall, none of the bathrooms include a
menstrual product dispenser. It is only
in Watzek Library and in the Feminist
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Templeton Student Center where you
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by LC students.
Common dismissive responses
to concerns about access to period
products include that most people
bring their own pads, tampons,
menstrual cups or period underwear
to campus with them. This is true,
but it ignores a common scenario that
those who experience periods, myself
included, know all too well: when “that
time of the month” catches you by
surprise in class.
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how stressful this experience feels in
the moment, especially if you are in
the middle of an in-person exam or
about to make a presentation. You
panic about the possibility of having
bled through your clothes. You scan
the class for someone you might ask
to borrow a pad or tampon from.
When I was in middle school, feelings of shame and embarrassment about
my own body kept me from asking
for help. Instead, I would fashion a
makeshift temporary pad out of toilet
paper, taking away from valuable time
that I could have spent in class.
We are taught to understand periods
as the regular, predictable culmination
of a 28-day cycle. However, too much
exercise, taking hormonal birth
control and having polycystic ovary
syndrome or endometriosis can cause inconsistencies that lead to these
period emergencies.
For transgender men, undergoing
testosterone hormone therapy can
also lead to irregular spotting. As a
cisgender woman, I can only imagine
the stigma that comes with asking
to borrow a pad or tampon from
classmates when you are a man or a
non-binary individual.
Much of the anxiety that accompanies
unexpected periods can be prevented with access to free pads and tampons
in campus buildings. Unfortunately, the
responsibility to provide these products
has fallen on resident advisors (RAs)
and the FSU.
RA Gabe Huerta ’22 has chosen
to put out pads and tampons for
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of Howard Hall, but his decision is far
from the standard at LC.
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products were not expected to be put out by each RA, nor are they now,”
Huerta said via email.
Pads and tampons are purchased
through the Campus Living budget.
However, “the all-hall supply of
products depends on if that year’s
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products,” Huerta said.
Huerta explained the reasoning
behind his decision to distribute the
products.
“I do this both in case of unexpected
period emergencies, as well as for the
safety and comfort of my residents in
knowing that they have access to these
products through me,” he said.
At liberal arts colleges across the
nation, those who advocate for access
to period products often criticize the
relative availability of free condoms,
which at LC are provided by RAs. To me,
this stance is counterproductive because
shifting focus entirely from condoms
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student body’s sexual health to promote
its menstrual health. Free condoms are
a matter of equity, so that no Pioneer
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unwanted pregnancy or the spread of
sexually-transmitted infections.
It is not only possible, but
necessary, to hold space for both
menstruating and sexually active
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resources. While the RAs who provide
both products already should be
commended, it is unfair to expect
them to solve a problem that requires a
comprehensive response from Campus
Living and the LC administration.
By making free period products
available at LC, the college can take
another step toward upholding
its institutional promise to create
a nurturing environment for a
community of scholars. Providing adequate support for menstruating students would strengthen and support our communityLC should expand access to period products
Long weekend blues: a year without a spring break
By NATHAN OAKLEY
MOVING INTO t h e s p r i n g o f
2021, this year seems to be
another year of communal
strife. I, for one, was a wide-eyed
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case of COVID-19 swept throughout
the United States. “Only two weeks of
quarantine,” they said. “We have this
under control,” they said. Now, in the
middle of March, I am just days from
my 21st birthday. This pandemic is
still ravaging the United States, and
the resulting mental health crisis
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millions, with college students among
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Students have looked to
spring break as an escape from the daily
stress of academic life for decades. But
now, with the long weekend approach
adopted by Lewis & Clark during the
pandemic in an attempt to reduce
student travel and keep the campus
bubble intact, that escape has been
made all but a pre-pandemic relic.
The stress of this academic year is
unlike anything most of us have ever
experienced. Coursework seems to
be of a much greater quantity, while
motivation and mental health are at
all-time lows. Naturally, I was looking
forward to the break. But myself, most
of my friends and my classmates had
spent the entire long weekend during
late February catching up on homework and working on assignments due
shortly after the break. Some even
spent it stressed in their dorm rooms,
studying for midterms. The reason that
academic breaks exist is for students
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from school, an escape from the
endless pages of reading and
writing, a time for self-care
and to recharge for the last
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Where has that gone
this year, a year when
we need it the most?
Furthermore, the
stress and frustration
we all have been feeling
was exacerbated by the historic
ice storm that crippled Portland in late February. The college was quick
to support students when power was
out on campus, but that ceased almost
immediately
after

campus power
was restored.
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campus had no
choice but to attend
class. Some crammed
into Templeton Campus Center to
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power outages, damage to their homes
and cars, and unsafe travel conditions.
Some professors who had been teaching
remotely from home all year due to
the pandemic even had to make the
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Given the nature of the shortened
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adequate time to recover and refocus.
In regards to these shorter breaks
during the COVID-19 era, students
around the country are also at odds
with another dilemma. We can
either minimize risk and prioritize
community safety — accepting another
year of social, academic and physical
isolation — or take risks that could have
dangerous implications on travel and
quality time with family and friends in
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normalcy amidst the chaos. Either way,
WKHUHDUHVWDUNUDPL¿FDWLRQVThe motive for not proceeding
with a normal week-long spring break
this year was clearly to minimize
unsanctioned student travel off
campus. But while this sounds great in
theory, compliance and enforcement
are entirely different ball games. The
number of students who traveled,
either sanctioned or unsanctioned,
during the long weekend in late
February was significant. Many
students who had already chosen
to take these risks were never
going to be deterred from
traveling home or elsewhere,
as they had been permitted
to during the massive surge
in COVID-19 cases and deaths
at the height of the pandemic
during winter break.
F u r t h e r m o r e ,
the full forces of
LC’s testing and
contract-tracing
apparatuses were
deployed as students
returned from winter
break in January.
But after all of the travel that took
place during the first long weekend
in February, the same COVID-19
mitigation procedures were far less
apparent.
Luckily, all hope for a real break is
not lost. This next weekend is another
four-day break, and this time I hope it
actually feels like a break. Professors,
this is a chance for you to put your
students first and to understand and
sympathize with the struggles all of us
have faced this year. Students, make
the conscious effort to get those extra
few hours of sleep, watch some Netflix
or relax and destress in the presence
of your pod. Administrators, continue
to synchronize your actions with your
words. Put yourselves in the shoes of
students, faculty and staff and ask
yourselves the question, “What would
I want my four-day break to be like?”
We are in this together. Afford us the
tools we need to take care of each
other and ourselves.
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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An empty menstrual products dispenser is symptomatic of a regular lack of free period products for menstruating students.
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOGRelaxation associated with a normal semester’s week-long break is absent amid COVID-19 pandemic
ADVERTISEMENTFRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
OPINION /gid00489
By MADELINE COX
ON MARCH 1 0 , L e w i s & C l a r k
announced that this year’s
commencement ceremony would
be fully virtual. When I heard this, I was
disappointed and confused. This school
year, LC allowed students to participate
in New Student Orientation (NSO),
live on campus and attend classes in
person. So why could we not have
graduation in person as well? When I
later received another email concerning
commencement, I was hopeful that
the college had reversed their decision
and would hold the ceremony in
person. Instead, LC announced that
while the college had decided to hold
events in person throughout the week
of graduation, commencement would
still be held entirely virtually. This
announcement was merely a conciliation
for LC students and community
members who had complained, and it
was not a satisfactory response.
LC deciding to hold commencement
virtually is hypocritical, as the college
has continued to lift restrictions on
student activity throughout the semester.
Starting Feb. 12, in-person dining for
the Trail Room, Fields Dining Hall and
Stamm was opened, students could apply
to host in-person events and residential
students could move between residence
halls. Not only have restrictions eased,
but at the beginning of the year, students
attended NSO in person. A large portion
of the events were held outside and
socially distanced — and masks were required — but it still gave new students
the opportunity to meet each other and
celebrate the start of their time at LC.
Can graduating students not receive the
same opportunity to celebrate the end of
our time at LC? The college has had almost an
entire year since the COVID-19
pandemic began to prepare for 2021
commencement, they could have found
a way to hold graduation in person
during that time. This past June, my former high school was able to plan
and host an in-person graduation
ceremony for seniors in a matter of
months. Students were driven up to
the graduation stage by their families,
where they could receive their diploma and pose for a photo. They then got
back into their car and drove through
campus past cheering faculty and
community members. The ceremony
felt just as celebratory and memorable
as my own high school graduation.
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was wearing a mask. Although my
high school is about half the size of LC,
colleges of similar or even larger sizes
are holding in-person commencement
ceremonies this year.
Reed College is holding its
commencement ceremony in person
this May with a plan that LC could easily
mimic, as they are colleges of a similar
size in the same area. Only students
and faculty will be allowed to attend
the event in person, but the ceremony
will be livestreamed and recorded for
families and friends to watch. In order
to follow Oregon’s current guidelines
for hosting in-person outdoor events,
Reed will rotate groups of students
organized by major through the
commencement stage to receive their
diplomas. All graduates will be required
to participate in COVID-19 testing
before the ceremony as well.
LC’s graduation should be held in
person and operate in a similar way
to Reed’s current commencement
plan. The least that our college could
do is give seniors one last memorable
experience at LC. I have spent almost
a year and half sitting in my bedroom
staring at Zoom, and that is not how
I want to celebrate the end of my
college journey.High schools and local liberal arts colleges show that some form of in-person commencement is possibleSeniors deserve more than a virtual ceremony
We need more on-campus options for a daily cup of Joe
A greater variety of milks, syrups and roasts could make a world of difference for coffee drinkers at LC
By RUBY SCHAEFFER
I DO NOT KNOW about other Lewis
& Clark students, but my favorite
time to get a cup of coffee is
around 3 p.m., or even better 10 p.m.
Good thing that is when Maggie’s Cafe
is open.
Just when LC students thought
there was nothing left to lose to
COVID-19, Campus Living announced
in January that the Dovecote would
be closed for the entire Spring
2021 semester. And just like that,
the possibility of getting a decent
cup of coffee at a reasonable hour
disappeared from campus.
Maggie’s does in fact have
additional hours this semester to
compensate for the Dovecote’s closure:
in addition to their afternoon hours,
they are now also open from 7:30 a.m.
to 9:30 a.m., Monday through Friday.
While I appreciate this effort, I think
that it is a poor replacement for the
Dovecote.
For one, these additional hours are
nowhere to be found on the Bon Appétit
website. I did not even know about
these hours until I decided to write
this article. But more importantly,
where are the late sleepers supposed
to get their caffeine?
The 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., midmorning
to early afternoon period is the
perfect time to enjoy a nice coffee, and Maggie’s is just not covering it.
I drank many delicious hazelnut iced
lattes last fall after my noon class
got out, and I am
personally quite
sad that I no
longer have that
luxury.
Of course,
there is coffee at
the Bon. This will
do in a pinch,
like if I feel like
I am going to fall
asleep in my next
Zoom class, but
overall it is a bit depressing. I would
not expect the Bon to offer lavender
or almond flavored lattes, but it seems
cruel that they do not even offer milk.
Even a simple 2% is nowhere to be
found, only creamer. All of this may
be disappointing, but what is truly
heartbreaking is that the Bon only
serves hot coffee, leaving iced coffee
lovers such as myself to suffer.
This coffee situation might seem
irrelevant, and I recognize that it
is certainly not the biggest issue of
student life. And there are still plenty
of ways to purchase caffeinated
drinks, so why does it matter?
Right now, a year into the
COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on
the small joys is important. There is
not much about current student life that sparks joy. So the cheerful little
moments that do, like winning an
intramural kickball game, riding the
Pio to Fred Meyer
during a Friday
afternoon or
sunbathing on the
Platt Lawn with
your friends, must
be protected.
To me, drinking
coffee is not so
much about a
need for caffeine,
but a morning
ritual, something
to look forward to as I get out of bed
and roll into another day of social distancing, hybrid classes and all the
stresses of the current world.
Of all the necessary restrictions
and changes to campus this year, this
one feels like something that could
easily have a better solution. For
starters, the Bon could offer dairy and
non-dairy milk options or iced coffee
to spice up the plain black roast they
currently offer. Or, Maggie’s could
have hours that better fit students
schedules. Perhaps Maggie’s could
even start selling ingredients to
make coffee in dorms, such as cold
brew concentrate or flavoring syrup.
I would love to see Campus Living
explore some of these options in the
future. This would most likely be in the school’s best interest. I do not
have the numbers but I am sure that
students are spending less money on
coffee this semester.
None of this is meant to express
any ungratefulness towards the Bon
Appétit employees. I am sure I speak
for the LC student body when I say
that I am thankful to them for being
here and providing meals for us,
especially during this crazy time.
Campus Living and the
administration, however, are failing
in some of their attempts to support
students. Coming up with better
coffee options on campus is a small
way to make a significant difference in
the happiness of LC students.
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log and its editorial board.News Editors
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The student union seeks to achieve greater visibility and recognition for Indigenous communities NSU advocates for Indigenous students at LC
By GABE KORER

LEWIS & CLARK’S Native Student
Union (NSU) strives to represent
the diversity, history and culture of
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on campus, they provide a safe space
for those that identify as Indigenous at
LC and spread awareness about what it
means to belong to that community today.
NSU Leader Annabelle Rousseau
’23 of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe,
alongside fellow NSU Leaders Jenn Sosa
Ramirez ’23 and Alberto Partida ’22, has
worked hard to represent the Indigenous
community on campus.
“As we all are in a predominantly
white institution, it’s incredibly important
that Indigenous perspectives are heard
and that we maintain a voice (for them)
on this campus,” Rousseau said.
With LC’s historical connections
to Indigenous harm — its formulation
came at the expense of Indigenous
peoples who were displaced from
their land — Sosa Ramirez believes
that representation is important
for acknowledging those harms and
strengthening the diversity of the
overall community.“I think it’s very important to have that
representation at an institution named
Lewis & Clark,” Sosa Ramirez said. “For
a long time, the names Lewis and Clark
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a lot of colonization and the killings of
Indigenous people.”
Sosa Ramirez also noted how
people often speak about Indigenous
communities as if they are not around
today, yet there are more than 5,000 of
them around the world and 574 in the
United States alone, which equates to 370
million people worldwide.
“Going into high school and hearing
about my own people being talked about
in the past tense was frustrating,” Sosa
Ramirez said. “This history of violence is
still happening today, and I think that’s
what a lot of people choose not to talk about.”
The NSU leaders hope that as
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LC’s history, it will lead to progressive
change around campus that can address
the mistreatment and discrimination
Indigenous communities have faced in
the past and still face today. The next
step in correcting the harm done by the
institution, according to Rousseau, is
through transformative justice initiatives that prioritize the needs of marginalized
groups.
“I think one of our broad hopes and
expectations from this type of information
being learned by the student body is that
there will be a lot of campus-wide support
to perhaps change the name of our
institution,” Rousseau said. “One of my
personal goals is also to hopefully by my
senior year have some kind of scholarship
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for the tribes (whose) land we occupy
today. Hopefully, that can address and
create some transformative justice in the
future for this campus especially.”
In their meetings, which take place
over Zoom on Wednesdays at 6 p.m., they
discuss their experiences as members of
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aspects of their cultures. This includes
beading — the practice of stringing
beads together to make jewelry or other
decorative items. Moving forward,
however, they would like to host more
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Indigenous peoples around the world.
Ultimately, they want to encourage
students around campus to learn
more about Indigenous groups so
that LC as a community can be more inclusive and understanding of their
perspectives.
“I know we’re not here to teach or
educate everyone — you should also be
educating yourself — but I think it’s also
important that people do have questions,”
Rousseau said. “And if they want to, we
can have meetings surrounding those and just have a discussion. I think that’s super
important. I think it’s just a matter of
showing up and showing that you do care,
essentially.”
If you are interested in attending one
of their meetings, you can reach out to
NSU at nsu@lclark.edu or follow them on
Instagram @lc_nsu for more information.
Parenting a plant can be perfect
pandemic pastime for students Shipwreck sightseeing
keeps adventure afloat
By NICOLE NAGAMATSU

W ITH THE UPCOMING four
day break arriving soon, many
Lewis & Clark students will
be looking for fun things to do. If you
are interested in some excitement amid
recharging from midterms, consider
checking out one of the iconic shipwrecks
along the Oregon coast. And if you are
already planning on traveling to the coast
this weekend, consider adding this eerie
sightseeing to your to-do list.
Since the 1800s, the Oregon coast has
been a deadly adversary for the maritime
industry. There have been thousands of
shipwrecks, many of them occurring at
the mouth of the Columbia River, a place
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Visitors can see small pieces of a ship’s
remains poking up through the sand,
unless the tides are high. Many of the
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rotting away or completely buried under
the sand.
However, there are a few wreckage
sites where the hull of the ship is above
water for most of the year. These sites are
protected by the Abandoned Shipwrecks
Act of 1988, meaning no part of the ship
can be taken or damaged by the public.
One such site is at Fort Stevens State
Park. Located two hours from campus in
Hammond, Oregon, Fort Stevens houses
the Peter Iredale, a former 275-foot sailing
ship that was wrecked in 1906. Near the
mouth of the Columbia, a strong southeast
wind pushed the ship into shallow water
with so much force that three of its masts
snapped upon impact with the ground. Even so, most of its hull was undamaged
so it was intended to be towed back out
to sea. However, it was weeks before the
weather improved and the sand quickly
embedded much of the ship.
The iconic steel hull can be seen at any
time of day, rising about 20 feet above the
sand. With a $5 parking pass, you can get
the chance to see, touch and climb the
rusted red remains, but be sure to call
ahead and verify the site’s availability
beforehand.
Only a 15-minute car ride from
the Peter Iredale wreckage site are the
remains of the T.J. Potter, a steamboat
once known for its impressive speed. After
running for 40 years, it was considered
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in Youngs Bay in 1920. Shortly after,
the ship was burned and salvaged for its
metal. All that remains now, peeking out
of the sand, are parts of its midsection and
backbone.
Other than the two mentioned above,
most shipwrecks are only visible after
extreme winter storms erode sand away
from the beach. Sometimes a previously
visible shipwreck is buried under sand
and decades may pass before it is seen
again. Particularly iconic shipwrecks
that are currently not visible but may
be in the future include the Bella in
the Siuslaw River, the Emily G. Reed
on Rockaway Beach and George L.
Olson on Horsfall Beach.
If you are interested in learning
more about these shipwrecks, check out
the Columbia River Maritime Museum
located in Astoria, OR or visit their
website at https://www.crmm.org/.
By CHARLOTTE POWERS
AMONG THE ROLLS of toilet
paper and disinfectant wipes
stacked in shoppers’ carts this
past year, many people, like myself,
stocked up on another essential in
the COVID-19 pandemic: plants. Last
March I only had five little succulents;
now, my house has 56 plants. I have
bought over 40 plants this year, and
while some have come and gone,
others have grown and become great
comforts in my life. I certainly have
felt better knowing that my house
has evolved into something like a
greenhouse, and that my new friends
depend on me to flourish. Whether
you live on or off campus, or think
you are cursed with a black thumb,
you may consider bringing home the
following plants, considering they
can reduce anxiety and improve
their owner’s mood.
If you are a newbie to the
plant world, I suggest you start
with succulents. Succulents are
mostly independent plants and can
thrive at any humidity level. These
green babies love direct sunlight and
should be watered every 2-3 weeks
depending on how much light they
receive. The most common way of
killing succulents is by overwatering;
I overwatered my first succulent so
much that it literally turned into
succulent soup. If you are an anxious
plant parent like me, buy a spray
bottle and spray the succulents once
per week. Common places for them
to live on are windowsills, desks or
coffee tables. So the next time you are
at Fred Meyer, consider purchasing
one or two of these leafy friends.
The second plant I would
recommend is the snake plant. This
plant literally thrives off of neglect, so
if you want a plant with no baggage,
this is the one for you. Snake plants
do best in bright light or low light
conditions. In the winter, they
should be watered every month, or
when the soil is dry to the touch. In
other seasons, I would recommend
watering them every 2-3 weeks.
Snake plants can be killed
by overwatering. Place
the plant away from
drafty spaces. Typically,
this arid plant thrives
between temperatures
of 70 and 90 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The third plant
on this list is the
ZZ plant. The ZZ
plant is a luscious,
beautiful green friend
that likes medium-to-low
indirect sunlight; they do not fare well in direct sunlight. This
plant prefers to be watered every 2-3
weeks, but it can be watered more
frequently if it receives more bright
light; if the plant receives less light,
it can be watered less often. Like
succulents and snake plants, the ZZ
plant will do fine amongst average
humidity in any home.
The last plant family I would
recommend for beginners comes from
the pothos family. Pothos come in a
variety of forms: the golden pothos,
the neon pothos, the marble queen,
the Manjula pothos and more. Pothos can take a fair share of neglect and are
relatively easy to look after. Pothos,
also known as Devil’s Ivy, grow fast,
so if you are looking to turn your
room into the Amazon rainforest, this
plant has your name on it. Pothos
tend to thrive in bright, indirect light
but can also handle medium-to-low
indirect light; do not place them in
direct sunlight or the leaves will turn
crispier than your bread in The Bon’s
toaster. Water your pothos every
week or two, but make sure to water
more frequently in brighter spaces.
Now, you are probably wondering:
where can I purchase these resilient
plants? Portland has a variety of plant
stores to choose from, ranging
from Fred Meyer’s nursery to
Arium Botanicals in Northeast
Portland. If you are on a budget
and do not want your wallet to
have a temper tantrum, I would
recommend shopping at Fred
Meyer, Lowe’s or Home Depot. These
stores typically have a good selection
for a cheaper price. If your budget
has some wiggle room and you wish
to support small businesses, I would
head on over to Arium Botanicals,
Pistils Nursery, Birds and Bees
Nursery or Arranged and Rooted.
Whether you prefer cheap and
corporate or aesthetic and
expensive shops, Portland
has a variety of places for you
to start your plant projects.
While jumping into
the plant fad might seem
overwhelming, there are some
easy tricks to prevent you from
watering your plants with your
own tears. To keep track of your
plants’ needs, create a plant log
where you write down when
a plant was last watered
and how much sunlight it
needs. With a plant log
and a frequent check-
in with your plants, you
will be sure to develop
a green thumb and a
greater appreciation
for your new leafy
roommates.
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AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG NICOLE NAGAMATSU/THE PIONEER LOGNSU Leaders Jenn Sosa Ramirez ’23, Alberto Partida ’22 and Annabelle Rousseau ’23.FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
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Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Wuerker ’79 served as chief editorial cartoonist for The Pioneer Log at LCLC alum details success with political cartoons
By MADELINE COX

DO YOU LIKE ROCKS? If so, you
might want to consider picking up
the hobby of rock tumbling, the
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bring out their color and shine. All you
need are some rocks, water, grit, a tumbler
and plenty of patience.
Marty Ree Zylstra ’24 began rock
tumbling during quarantine and brought
the hobby to Lewis & Clark.
“I really like it because it’s not hard
to do, it’s really easy and it’s really
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these things, you are tumbling them and
you are keeping the output.”
Zylstra originally picked up the
activity because she was interested in its
hippie subculture and enjoyed looking
at aesthetically pleasing rocks, but has
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and rewarding.
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something super good that you found in
nature yourself,” Zylstra said.
The process of rock tumbling begins
with selecting your rocks. Zylstra usually
searches the creek that runs across LC’s
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the Willamette River or buys them from
crystal stores.
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place with running water, let it rain really
well to wash up new rocks, and then let it
be dry for a couple days,” she said. “That’s
my favorite place to look.”
Although you can put any kind
of rock in the tumbler, Zylstra
recommends looking for ones that
are brilliant and colorful.
“You’re looking for brilliance and
you’re looking for rich color,” she
said. “Brilliance means shine or
multi-dimensional color.”
Once you have chosen
your rocks, you can begin the
tumbling process. First, you
will need to buy a rock tumbler,
which is a piece of machinery
that tumbles the rocks by constantly spinning. The barrel is usually made of
rubber to reduce the noise.
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be the tumbler, they can run a hundred
bucks,” Zylstra said. “Mine was only 60,
I have the National Geographic one. You
don’t need the technology to be advanced,
you just need it to spin (the rocks).”
Zylstra recommends the National
Geographic rock tumbler because it has
a lower price point, can be ordered via
Amazon and comes with grit, a starter set
of rocks and materials to make keychains
and jewelry.
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the tumbler with rocks, grit and then
water. There are four types of grit that
shape, sand, pre-polish and polish the
rocks. Each grit cycle spins for one week.
“Your beginning set is enough to
participate in the hobby for an entire
month because on each grit you have to
run your machine for a week and there are
four grits,” she said. “So you’ve got a whole
month of tumbling activities. And in that
time while your batch is tumbling, I hunt
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Zylstra has amassed an impressive
collection of rocks and geodes, and likes
to make jewelry with the smaller rocks.
Although Zylstra keeps all the pieces she
makes, she believes selling rock crafts
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aspiring rock tumbler.
“If you want to make crafts and sell
them, you can make a
lot of money even
as just a hobby,”
Zylstra said.Area director for Platt-Howard
Joseph Fastuca departs from LCBy VENUS EDLIN

MATT WUERKER ’79 has been a
political cartoonist for over 40
years and began freelancing
for newspapers and magazines while
attending Lewis & Clark.
Shortly after graduating with a
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in claymation at Will Vinton Studios, a
now famous Portland animation studio.
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commercial illustration while he was
there, but continued freelancing political
cartoons as well. In 2006, Politico
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member and he has been producing
cartoons and other content for the news
company ever since.
Wuerker’s interest in drawing
developed early on. In middle school, he
got involved in his school’s newspaper,
which sparked his curiosity about
political cartooning. He knew that he
could pursue it as a career after meeting
an inspiration of his.
“There was sort of a turning point for
me in high school, in that I got to meet
a very famous and successful political
cartoonist, who was the cartoonist at the
LA Times,” Wuerker said in an interview.
“Paul Conrad was his name — he won
three Pulitzer Prizes.”
In 2012, Wuerker won a Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning after
being nominated in 2009 and 2010,
following in the footsteps of Conrad.
Wuerker vividly remembers receiving
the award and the imposter syndrome
he felt at the time.
“It’s such a cliché thing to say, but
it was completely surreal,” Wuerker
said. “I never dreamed it would happen
to me, and when it did, it was sort of a
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Bob Mandel taught Wuerker at LC,
and they have maintained a friendship
over the decades. Mandel nominated
Wuerker for his 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award and refers to him as
one of his favorite students. He said
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successful.
“He really hasn’t changed much
since he was a student here,” Mandel
said. “He’s just been blessed enough
that he’s in a situation where he can
do the kind of political commentary
he wants. Doing so, he’s one of a kind.
I really, really feel special to have
known him.”While at LC, Wuerker served
as the chief editorial cartoonist at
The Pioneer Log. He recalled how
newspapers used to be laid out using
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paper. Wuerker has seen the industry
rapidly change as things have shifted
to a digital format.
“Technology kept sort of pushing
you along, and you just had to keep
up,” Wuerker said. “You had to just
embrace every little new thing.”Wuerker has had to adapt throughout
his career. As part of his current job with
Politico, he produces and edits a weekly
video series called “Weekend Wrap” that
includes a cartoon wrap-up and satire
from the week. Despite learning digital
technology over the years, Wuerker still
does his illustrations by hand.
“I work on paper with pen and ink,
and I’m an analog,” Wuerker said. “I’m
a bitmap guy in a crazy vector digital
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Wuerker comes up with the concepts
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given him the tools to develop multiple
ideas every week.
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“I actually, a lot of the time, will
dream up my cartoons,” Wuerker said.
“I wake up in the morning with an idea
and it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, there it is.’ My
subconscious works away for me at
night too.”
Most recently, Wuerker has been
working on an illustration for Mandel’s
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out in June. The collaboration came
about after the two recently caught up.
“I was talking to him about this
book I was writing and talking to him
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publisher, Stanford University Press, to
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the cover,” Mandel said. “On each of my
books there’s a visual image that relates
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said he would be interested in doing it
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with Mandel in a professional sense.
He credits his success to people like
Mandel, his mentors that have guided
him throughout his life.
“I owe it to people like Bob Mandel,
and Paul Conrad and a lot of people
who helped me along the way,”
Wuerker said.
Mandel said that students should
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is possible after graduation.
“He really is the kind of person,
and student and graduate that Lewis &
Clark should be proudest of,” Mandel
said. “I think he represents so many
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models for our current students.”
Wuerker has worked as a political cartoonist and illustrator for over 40 years, a passion that he developed early on in his life.PHOTO COURTESY OF MATT WUERKER
By AIDAN D’ANNA

PLATT-HOWARD Area Director
Joseph Fastuca will depart Lewis
& Clark on Sunday, March 21.
Fastuca arrived at LC in the fall of 2018
and has been the Platt-Howard area
director throughout his tenure.
Fastuca earned his master’s degree in
educational leadership studies - college
student development from Oklahoma
State University. He was attracted
to LC due to its emphasis on student
participation and commitment to the
liberal arts.
“I saw the position at LC, they
were talking a lot about community
engagement,” Fastuca said. “And
students being really involved in the
liberal arts and actually caring about
what’s going on in the world. And that
really attracted me.”
The shift in culture from a large
public university in the South to a
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change Fastuca was looking for.
According to Fastuca, the most
rewarding part of his job was getting to
know the students.
“That’s really fun and rewarding,”
Fastuca said. “Because I know how
much pressure you all put on yourselves
to create, change and do the best things,
which is amazing. But it also takes a lot
of work.”
Fastuca said he enjoyed working
in Platt-Howard because it attracts a
diverse group of students. Platt-Howard
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classmen, as well as two living-learning
communities.
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people,” Fastuca said. “The VAPA (Visual
and Performing Arts) kids rule these two
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languages hanging out there.”
As an area director, Fastuca’s main
goal was to build relationships with his residents. He appreciates that everyone
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and he enjoys sitting back and allowing
his resident advisors (RAs) to take
charge with little more than a nudge
from him.
However, this approach has been
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pandemic, as most of the college’s
operations have been shifted to an
online format.
“Before it would be natural, I’d see
people around the halls and be like,
‘How’s it going,’ a very normal person
to person conversation,” Fastuca said.
“So I think we all as area directors feel
drained at this point with trying to
engage over Zoom.”
These pandemic challenges, along
with factors related to his personal
life, ultimately impacted Fastuca’s
decision to leave LC. He intends to
continue his professional career in
educational leadership, but does not
have anything planned immediately
following his departure.
“I’ve tried to value taking some
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move,” Fastuca said.
He said what he would miss most
about LC was his team of RAs and
seeing his residents every day, as well as
the intimate nature of the school.
Campus Living has not yet found
a replacement for Fastuca, but they
intend to announce more information
in the coming days.
“Residents should know that Campus
Living is working on having a permanent
replacement for Joseph,” Campus Living
Interim Director of Housing Joe-Barry
Gardner said via email. “However, in
the meantime more information will
be coming shortly to Platt-Howard
residents about who their Professional
Area Director will be in the interim. ”
Fastuca will be missed by the LC
community.
“Again, we are going to miss Joseph
and all things he has contributed to the
Campus Living team,” Gardner said.
Fastuca came to LC in 2018, serving as area director for Platt-Howard for three years.PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSEPH FASTUCA
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOGFind a hidden gem in
hobby of rock tumblingBy MACKENZIE HERRING
FOR OVER four years, if you
tuned in to NBC on any given
Saturday night, you could expect
to see a cold open making fun of former
President Donald Trump. Saturday
Night Live (SNL) took the gift-wrapped
material the former president gave them
on a silver platter, and subsequently
milked it for all it was worth. And they
rightfully should have, as it is more or
less their job to produce commentary
on current events. However, SNL is
no stranger to the concept of declining
quality as their once-loved, successsful
star-of-the-show cast members leave
them for mediocre comedy movies. And
for many years, Trump was this star of
the show.
Comedy was forever changed when
Trump became president. Not only
did we get John Mulaney’s horse in a
hospital anecdote, but we also got stand-
up comedians
making thoughtful
and provoking
messages directly
to audiences. I
think people began
to tire of the usual
straight white
male comedy that
survived living in
a bubble detached
from any political
reality. For a
minute, I heard less
about how women were confusing,
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talk about their periods, than I did hear
about men’s role in perpetuating toxic
masculinity. We were already living
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to seek something else. I have never
seen less of the “I hate my wife” comedy
trope during the the Trump era. While
I was not expecting this shift it was
certainly refreshing. We got to see some
comedians use their platform to deliver
a hilarious show
while denouncing
the toxicity that
used to thrive in
comedy. If you
told someone
before the Trump
era that you
cried watching
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up special, they
would probably
ask if it was Joe Rogan, followed by “it
could not have been that bad.” Now,
you get comedians like Hannah Gadsby,
who is Australian but came into the
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American comedy.
In her “Nanette”
special, she was
poignant, told a
story we had never
heard before and
was able to reach
new audiences
with her thoughtful
and honest style of
comedy.
I love SNL. I
grew up watching
it completely
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many of the criticisms that “SNL is
not funny anymore” to be incorrect
and simply aimed at the concern that
most of America cannot recognize any cast members other than Keenan
Thompson. However, the show is
constantly going through growing
pains with cast transitions. And for
a long time, the show reveled in the
consistency of Trump mockery. Now
that they do not have that safety net,
how do they fare?
It is my
opinion that
the show could
not have been
more hysterical
under the Trump
presidency.
And while there
certainly were
high points —
Melissa McCarthy
as Sean Spicer and Kate McKinnon as
everyone — I found the Alec Baldwin
performances to be repetitive at a
certain point. And though it would
have felt wrong for current events to
go unaddressed, it became formulaic.
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beyond the tried and true techniques.
Sticking Kate McKinnon in a funny wig
and aged makeup does not a sketch
make. Although sometimes it does; it
is Kate McKinnon. However, it was this
resourcefulness that helped strengthen
the show.
Now that the Trump presidency has
come to an end, and his Twitter account
is no longer a shortcut on Colin Jost’s
iPhone, the show has had to get creative
and rely on its underutilized talent.
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utilizing Aidy Bryant and Bowen Yang,
two comedians who represent a great
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funny and topical. Bryant speaks to a female-centric experience and body
positivity, while Bowen has brought
more queer humor to the show, which
in the past was the butt of the joke at
SNL. Cast members like Ego Nwodim
have also been getting roles that do not
just facilitate the punchline, but rather
lead the sketch. The recent “Loco”
sketch was a great example. SNL is not
just sticking to Kate McKinnon playing
any wacky character, they are taking a
closer look at the talent they have. This
ultimately made the show better, and
while we can still expect frequent dips back into the political hellscape, it is not
the go-to that it once was.
Comedy is still the straight white
male’s game. But it is getting better,
slowly. After the 2016 election, I think
the country got tired of seeing the same
content in politics that they saw in
comedy. Racism, sexism, xenophobia,
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American politics, and now comedians
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Theatre department’s production
of “Secretaries” gets a promotionA TV app for even the
most organized student
By ALEXANDRA FLORY
CONSTRAINT CREATES a
new kind of innovation. This is
something the cast and crew of
Lewis & Clark’s spring production of
“The Secretaries”, performed March
12-14 and 17-19, know all too well.
With the continuation of COVID-19
restrictions, live theater has experienced
a new “normal.” However, those who
worked on “The Secretaries” used
these constraints as opportunities for
ingenuity rather than limits on their
performance.
The plot follows a cultish group
of secretaries who murder local
lumberjacks due to their frustrations
with the patriarchy. As the show goes on,
it becomes evident that the real violence
is not murder, but internalized sexism
and homophobia that manifests itself
in interactions between the women. It
fully embraces campiness and hyper-
femininity as themes of the play. Though
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in a COVID-19 world because they do
not require physical touch, other aspects
of the show were more challenging to
incorporate into a hybrid format.
For example, the play has a lot of physical intimacy among the characters
that could not be directly translated onto
the stage. This did not limit the creative
capacity of the play, but rather enhanced
it. To deal with the elimination of any
kind of physical touch, Postdoctoral
Fellow of the LC Theater Department
and Director of “The
Secretaries” Jenna
Tamimi proposed
incorporating a puppet
show into the play.
“The puppets enact
all of the physical
intimacy in the play
as a way to keep the
actors distanced and
safe but to still show
that element to the
audience,” Tamimi said.
The puppets, which are all Barbie
dolls, act as doubles to the human actors
in the play. The choice to use Barbies
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themes.
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show,” Puppet Master Karen Wingard
’22 said. “I pushed it hard because you
can buy (Barbies). You don’t have to originally make puppets and you can buy
clothing for them. Barbies are especially
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criticisms that they’re making.”
A fairly general consensus of the cast
and crew was that everyone had to learn
how to adapt. Other than adding a puppet
show to the play,
other changes such
as Zoom rehearsals,
face shields, plexiglass
stages and preset props
were made.
“Theater is so much
about problem solving
and this is just another
problem solving that’s
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done in the past,”
costume designer Jenny Ampersand
said.
The main stage in the Fir Acres
Blackbox Theater was used only for
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used their own plexiglass box above the
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masks safely. The actors’ performaed
to two separate audiences: one viewing
from the comfort of their own homes,
while the other was a small in-person
audience of 15 people who viewed the
performance below the actors inside
the blackbox theater. The in-person
audience was able to watch the show
from swivel chairs that allowed them to
look at all six stages. Despite all these
changes, the integrity of the show was
upheld and even made “traditional”
live theater seem routine. Nowhere in a
non-COVID-19 world would six stages,
a puppet show and a full livestreamed
show happen in addition to all the other
elements typical of live theater.
“Together, I feel like we really made
some lemonade out of some pretty sour
lemons,” Tamimi said.
In seeing the show, it became clear
how sweet that “lemonade” turned
out to be. The cast and crew of LC’s
spring production proved not only how
theatrical creativity can persist during a
global pandemic, but how the arts can
be fostered in such conditions to create
something truly unique. By AIDAN D’ANNA
IF YOU ARE anything like me,
you spend most, if not all, of your
free time watching TV shows and
movies on your favorite streaming
services. And if you are even more
like me, you want to keep track of
exactly which TV shows and movies
you have watched and how much of
your life you have devoted (some
might even say wasted) to them.
The best way I have found to fulfill
these goals is the app TV Time. It is
available for free on the Apple App
Store and the Google Play store, and
it does everything I just described
and more. On the most basic level, it
lets you keep track of everything you
have watched.
The leftmost tab in the app
displays your “currently watching”
screen, with a widget representing
your most recent episode on
every series you have started but
not finished. When you watch an
episode, you press the checkmark on
the right side of the widget, and the
app will immediately populate the
space with the widget for the next
episode of that series. If that was
the show’s final episode, a satisfying
green “You’re finished!” widget will
pop up briefly in that show’s space.
You can also click at the top of
any of these widgets to see the show’s page. This page allows you to see how
many seasons a show ran for, how
many episodes are in a season, when
a show might be coming back— if it is
still airing— and so much more.
The “Upcoming” tab is also in
this portion of the app. This is one
of my favorite features, and one
that is underrated. The tab is fairly
self-explanatory; it displays when
shows you have added are airing
next. This is most helpful for shows
that have been on a break and have
just announced their next season’s
premiere date. For example, it
recently informed me that the first
three episodes of season four of “The
Handmaid’s Tale” will premiere on
April 28 on Hulu.
Another less practical yet more
fun aspect of TV Time is its social
media-esque features. For instance,
every user makes a profile, can follow
people, accumulate followers and
see everyone else’s recently watched
shows. Users can also comment on
specific episodes, react using emojis
and vote for who they thought the
best character in any given episode
was. There are also quizzes users can
take, which test your trivia knowledge
of the most popular shows. The app
then shows you where you ranked on
that quiz compared to your friends.
TV Time is constantly updating.
In June 2019, TV Time added a
movies tab to their app, meaning you
can now track every movie you have
watched in addition to TV shows.
You can create custom watch lists by
genre or any other category, and the
app also suggests movies you might
like, regardless of whether or not
you have set up these custom lists.
As it does for TV shows, TV Time
calculates how much time you have
spent watching movies.
Personally, I have watched 220
movies since the update, which
calculates to approximately 17 days
of my life. I would not wish for any
of that time back, and if you feel the
same way, TV Time might just be for
you.
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I think people began
to tire of the usual
straight white male
comedy that survived
living in a bubble
detached from any
political reality. ELI BRICKNELL/THE PIONEER LOG
ALEXANDRA FLORY /THE PIONEER LOG
Anna Campbell ’23 plays Patty in the COVID-safe production of this year’s play.A powerful message is displayed for all voters who followed Trump’s presidency.
They were able to
watch the show
from swivel chairs
that allowed them
to look at all six
stages. SNL is not just sticking to
Kate McKinnon playing
any wacky character,
they are taking a closer
look at the talent they
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By CHARLOTTE POWERS
FATHER, I HAVE a confession to
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through 13 of “Grey’s Anatomy”
more than a dozen times. And I know I
am not alone. So here is the question: why
do people binge watch shows, like “Grey’s
Anatomy,” repeatedly? What is the point
of rewatching the same series when new
shows and movies continue to be released?
I have found that people, particularly
college students, tend to rewatch the same
shows not because they enjoy the plot, but
for mental and emotional comfort.
Part of the reason I watch “Grey’s”
over and over again is because of my
favorite “comfort character,” Dr. Arizona
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one of the longest-running lesbian main
characters in TV history. When I started
watching the show when I was 15, I was
really drawn to Robbins due to her peppy
character and positive attitude; I wanted
to be her. Then, as I entered my awkward
teenage years, I came to the realization
that I did not want to be someone like
Robbins; I wanted to be with someone
like Robbins.
This story is not unique. Many TV
watchers across the globe have had their
sexuality awakened by the LGBTQ+
characters on their screens. For me,
watching Robbins not only helped me
come to terms with my sexuality, but her
character enabled me to recognize the
growing presence and acceptance of the
LGBTQ+ community, both on-screen
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how Robbins develops and prospers
throughout the seasons, makes me hopeful
about my own potential development and
prosperity, both as a bisexual woman
and a human being.
B-rated shows like “Grey’s Anatomy”
allow viewers to escape the brutal nature
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thousands of lives are lost every day, I
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with, we have an opportunity to escape it,
even for just a little while, in the comfort
of our living rooms. I think having a
distraction from the real world is okay,
and is sometimes necessary, but these
very outlets can remind us of the reality
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doctors save lives brought me back to the
beautiful real doctors and nurses saving
lives in the real world.
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like me, binge watch shows repeatedly is
because of the good old romance plot. As
much as I hate calling myself a romantic,
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makes me swoon. “Grey’s” consists of
numerous and complicated relationships,
some lasting longer than others. Watching
these relationships come to fruition
following a tumultuous journey gives me
hope for my own relationships. Like many
people this year, I have found it incredibly
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After spending far too much time doing
mental gymnastics on how to manage
my own romances, choosing to watch
romantic plots that persevere despite the
odds makes me a little more optimistic.
As college students, our brains are
hardwired in academic theory and
intellectual engagement. While this is
an incredible privilege, it gives us all the
more reason to consume media that is
easy to absorb. According to the article
“Binge watching and college students:
motivations and outcomes,” from
the University of North Texas, “social
interaction, escape from reality, easy accessibility to TV” incentivize college
students to pursue binge watching. A
considerable number of college students
struggle with anxiety, including myself,
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knowing how the stories in “Grey’s” will
end. Maybe rewatching repeatedly is not
setting me up for the real world. Maybe
I am instilling bad habits rather than
practical coping mechanisms. Regardless
of these critiques, if I have learned
anything from this past year, it is to do
what makes you happy and indulge in
the things that give you comfort, because
these very things might be the tools that
keep you together when your world is
falling apart. Growing true crime genre
excites, educates audiences
By ALEX BARR
THE FILM “Willy’s Wonderland”
is the kind of independent horror
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after viewing. However, most of these
thoughts concern the movie’s failings.
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Rodriguez of “Spy Kids” collaborated
on a movie while high on peyote, it
would look something like “Willy’s
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imbues a sense of whimsical horror,
yet declines to explain any of the
circumstances surrounding the central
story. While I struggled to see past
my inability to suspend my disbelief,
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prove refreshing in a genre plagued
by repetition. Most of these creative
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hopes: Nicolas Cage speeding in
a Chevrolet Camaro dressed in all
leather. While coded as a brooding
vagabond, Cage’s rendition looks more
like a freshly-divorced middle-aged
soccer dad who bought a Harley
Davidson leather jacket in lieu of the
motorcycle.
Beyond his fashion choices, Cage’s
unnamed character, “the janitor,”
fails to garner audience attention by
refusing to speak throughout the entire
story. The protagonist’s unexplained
insistence on staying completely
and utterly silent, coupled with his
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this podunk childrens’ party venue,
puts a substantial narrative strain on
the viewer. In order to get on board
with the turbulent meaning-making
processes of “Willy’s Wonderland,” I
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with a glass of vodka.
All the same, there is an undeniable
and elusive magic to the heavy-handed,
campy gore of “Willy’s Wonderland.” The entire movie follows almost the
exact same plotline as the mobile
video game “Five Nights at Freddy’s,”
except instead of hiding from the
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our protagonist mercilessly pummels
the creatures into heaps of electronic
junk. I felt a sincere sense of joy
while watching Cage rip the gizzards
from a mechanical singing ostrich.
All the same, these moments of
violently vindictive fun, while visually
stimulating, cannot save the rest of this
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Cage beat the living daylights out of
an animatronic children’s mascot
just as much as the next guy. But the
swift, unshaken justice our protagonist
imparts upon each animal-robot hybrid
falters in its too-easy delivery. How
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spots of the murderous animatronics?
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half hour? Why does Cage need to
drink so many energy drinks and play
a pinball machine? These are just a
few of the unanswered questions I still
have.
“Willy’s Wonderland” does more
wrong than it does right, but fails in
a way that is fun, fresh and exciting.
Although I thoroughly hated large
parts of the viewing experience, I
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enough. Any horror fan like myself will
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in forsaking all of the rules followed by
the standard studio scream.
“Willy’s Wonderland” is only
available to rent on platforms such as
Amazon. I admittedly spent $20 to rent
the movie for 48 hours, but I would do
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costs, both monetarily and morally,
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your social pod, and drinking every
time Cage bandages a life-threatening
wound with duct tape. “Willy’s Wonderland”
delights in tacky terror
By ELIZABETH COOK
THE CLASSIC format of the
family-friendly, feel-good sitcom
has competition in the form of
what Julia Heidtke ’24 describes as her
“morbid fascination”: true crime. This
genre has not only taken over the world
of television, with shows like “Making a
Murderer,” “Tiger King” and “American
Crime Story: The Assassination of
Gianni Versace” garnering high ratings,
but it has also monopolized a newer
form of media — podcasts.
With four of the top 10 podcast
channels on Spotify revolving around
true crime, this genre has undeniably
taken over the streaming platform.
Heidtke’s favorite podcast, “Crime
Junkie,” hosted by Ashley Flowers,
is the third most popular channel on
Spotify as of March 2021. Additionally,
popular news channels such as “This
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podcasts on their channel. This
includes “Serial,” hosted by Sarah
Koenig, which is dedicated entirely to
the retelling of horrendous true crime
stories.
There is no question that crime-
related media has been at the center
of pop culture for decades now,
but why exactly is this? What is the
appeal of intense stories featuring
gruesome accounts of murders and
missing persons cases? According
to Rasmussen University, the main
answer lies in our brain’s curiosity
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“our fascination with true crime
stories may be representative of our
curiosity about the inner workings of
the mind.”
But there is also something thrilling
about experiencing fear, something
almost addicting. Heidtke describes
it as “the full chills down my spine
feeling” she gets while listening. Forensic psychologist Paul G. Mattiuzzi
compares this feeling to a “fundamental
human impulse,” explaining that this is
due to true crime’s taboo nature.
Heidtke, a self-proclaimed crime
junkie, says that while at times the
stories are repulsing, it comes down
to the storytelling of the hosts and the
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“You need to come at it with a
perspective of respecting what (the
victims) went through and think ‘I’m
here to educate myself and listen
respectfully,’” Heidtke said.
Podcasts such as “Crime Junkie”
have also been able to solve a few
missing person cases due to the size
of their audience and reach across the
country. Heidtke recalls one “Jane
Doe” case in particular which resulted
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victim. The parents of the victim were
featured on the show in an episode that
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story. Heidtke said that episode moved
her, and that it was “emotional to listen
to these people being able to put their
daughter to rest.”
The format of the podcast is
also preferable to Heidtke due to its
accessibility, stating that she prefers
true crime podcasts over crime TV
because you are not required to see all
of the “gory details” and that it is “a lot
easier to consume.” Yet, despite her
love of the genre, Heidtke is conscious
of the problematic nature of true crime.
“Sometimes it does feel like you’re
exploiting other people’s trauma to
get a thrill as an audience member,”
Heidtke said.
However, she recognizes that the
educational benefits are tremendous.
Not only have they made her more
aware of her own safety, but of the
safety and importance of checking in
on her friends and family as well.
ALEX BARR/THE PIONEER LOG
ELIZABETH COOK/THE PIONEER LOG
Matea Carlin ’24 and Lila Dworsky-Hickey ’24 listen to a true crime podcast together.
Low-quality TV series prove perfect
for binge watching, finding comfort
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Beyoncé, Taylor Swift triumph on historic Grammys night
The awards show celebrated some musical standouts of 2020, and left others without nominations
By JILLIAN JACKSON
THE 63RD ANNUAL Grammy
Awards were a record-breaking
night for women in the music
industry. Hosted by comedian Trevor
Noah at the Los Angeles Convention
Center, the awards were televised on
March 14.
Adding four trophies to her
collection, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
became the most awarded singer at
the Grammys, with a career total
of 28 wins. During her acceptance
speech for Best R&B Performance,
Beyoncé paid tribute to her children
and to the accomplishments of Black
musicians this year.
“It’s been a difficult time, so I
wanted to uplift, encourage and
celebrate all the beautiful Black kings
and queens who continue to inspire
me and inspire the whole world,” she
said.
In a heartwarming moment
between mother and daughter,
Beyoncé and her daughter, Blue
Ivy Carter, won a Grammy together
for Best Music Video. At nine years
old, Blue Ivy is the second youngest
Grammy honoree of all time, winning
for her role in “Brown Skin Girl,” a
song that tackles the colorism Black
women and girls face.
As Beyoncé collected another
trophy, Taylor Swift clapped and
nodded with gleeful enthusiasm.
Swift took home the biggest award of
the night, winning Album of the Year (AOTY) for her surprise chamber pop
smash, “folklore.” She has become the
first woman ever to win AOTY three
times, joining the legendary ranks
of Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and
Paul Simon.
Written and recorded entirely over
four months of quarantine, “folklore”
arguably did the impossible in 2020:
it made us feel less alone. In my view,
its rich cast of characters — lovestruck
teenagers, exhausted frontline
workers, a ghost haunting her former
tormentor — set “folklore” apart from
its steep AOTY competition.
Aside from Beyoncé and Swift’s
historic wins, Megan Thee Stallion
and Cardi B brought the house down
with a medley celebrating Black
female sexuality. Megan Thee Stallion
began their joint performance with
a high-energy rendition of her hit,
“Body,” flanked by masked backup
dancers. With a giant purple stiletto
as her show-stopping prop, Cardi B
brought “WAP” to the Grammys in
one of the most fun moments of the
night.
The Recording Academy also
crowned Megan Thee Stallion “Best
New Artist.” Her bright orange gown,
complete with a matching mask,
made her one of the best dressed
performers of the evening as she
netted three wins.
Additionally, Lady Gaga and
Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” became
the first all-female collaboration
to win “Best Pop Duo / Group Performance,” while Dua Lipa, Billie
Eilish and H.E.R. rounded out the list
of female winners.
In a performance of Lil Baby’s
“The Big Picture,” actors portrayed an
all-too-common and harrowing scene
involving two white police officers
shooting a Black man in the street.
Women’s March and Black Lives
Matter activist Tamika D. Mallory
delivered an interlude addressed to
President Biden during the song.
“We demand justice, equity,
policy and everything else that
freedom encompasses,” Mallory
said. “We don’t need allies; we need
accomplices!”
Although the Recording
Academy’s acknowledgement of
female talent this year merits praise,
the Grammys continue to clumsily
navigate their own history of anti-
Blackness.
Noticeably absent from Sunday’s
festivities was The Weeknd and his
instant synth-pop classic, “Blinding
Lights,” the best-performing global
single of 2020.
One theory about the snub claims
that the refusal of “After Hours” to
conform to either the pop or R&B
genres unfairly cost The Weeknd.
Black artists are often pigeonholed
into the R&B genre categories,
keeping them from competing for the
televised and often more prestigious
pop categories.
The Weeknd has pledged to prevent
his record label from submitting his future music for Grammy
nominations, alleging that “secret
committees” prevented him from
getting his due. Other artists of color,
including Zayn Malik, Nicki Minaj and
Wiz Khalifa, have spoken out about
the need for more transparency from
the Recording Academy. While Sunday’s ceremony
offered some exciting evidence
of incremental progress, music’s
biggest night has a long way to
go before truly empowering all
deserving musicians.
A full list of winners can be found
at http://www.grammy.com.
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGEnglish major fashion stands out on campus
Will Hoard ’21 and Marc-Anthony Valle ’22 both have distinctive styles that are easy to spot on campus
By AMELIA MADARANG
WILL HOARD ’21 h a s a
reputation that precedes
him. He is known on campus
for being well-spoken, funny and
kind. Hoard can be found around the
English department wearing a white
t-shirt with fun colorful pants and a
beanie, around the theatre department
in a classic jacket and boot combo or
on his Instagram, @willjamesh.
Hoard is one of the best examples
of a distinct Lewis & Clark style. His
unique, thoughtful
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make him instantly
recognizable on campus.
Although he is very
confident in what he
likes, his style has
evolved over his time at
LC. As a freshman, his
style was described by
his peers as “cowboy chic” because
he wore a lot of flannels, boots and
turtlenecks.
“I still love all those things, but I’m
trying to be a little more like, I live in a
city now, I’m gonna mix it up,” Hoard
said.
Currently, his closet is full of
minimalist earth tones and white
T-shirts. While he has recently been
experimenting with more monochrome
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well-placed sweater. His favorite is a
green-blue striped cashmere sweater
that his grandfather wore when he
golfed. A majority of Hoard’s sweaters
are inherited from his grandfather,
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“He just passed away this last year,”
Hoard said. “I’ve been thinking about
it a lot lately. He dressed really cool
and I want to honor him in that way.”
Along with the clothing he has
gotten from his grandpa, a lot of
Hoard’s clothes are from thrift stores.
Hoard acknowledges that there is a lot
of privilege that goes into fashion and
buying clothing.“Ive been trying to think more
consciously about where my clothes
are coming from so it’s a little more
sustainable,” Hoard said.
For Hoard, the way he dresses
represents his grandpa and Hoard’s
own self-expression.
“That has been a meaningful part
of my experience, wearing clothes and
dressing nice, because it can also relate
to the queer experience and feeling
comfortable in my own skin,” Hoard
said.
Hoard’s message to other students
is to not be afraid of
their fashion choices.
His philosophy is, “99%
of the time if you feel
good about what you’re
wearing and what you
look like, other people
are gonna say you look
happy.”
Another fashionable,
sweater-wearing English major is
Marc-Anthony Valle ’22. Even if you
have not met Valle, you have probably
seen him around campus at improv
shows and poetry readings, wearing
a classic sweater, boots and Carhartt
jacket combo. Or maybe you have
seen him around the
English or psychology
departments, with his
hair in a bun, wearing a
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from his father.
Valle has a kind,
outgoing personality
that matches well
with his distinct, put-
together and steady
style.
“I like to dress
as if I were going to
interview at a coal
mine, but I wouldn’t get the job,” Valle
said.
It is a classy, trying — but in an
effortless way — type of fashion.
It sends the message that he is
approachable, and, in his words, “ready to interact.” He also credits his
fashionable nature to his housemate
Bobby Campbell ’22.
“He taught me the versatility of the
sweater,” Valle said.
Every day, Valle checks if it is
sweater weather when he gets dressed.
However, according to him, “It’s
always sweater weather.” He then goes
to his chest of sweaters that he has
collected from various thrift stores.
Valle likes that all of his sweaters have
a story behind them, and when he
no longer wears them, he gives them
away so the story can continue.
While most of us might be afraid of
overdressing, and risking overheating
and awkwardly holding the sweater,
Valle takes that risk. For him, there
is only one trick to wearing sweaters
year-round: layering. That way you
will have a shirt underneath if a
surprise heatwave comes.
“Bobby taught me that the weather
doesn’t matter: sweaters — if that’s
who you are, then you have to bring
that to the table,” Valle said.
Along with his reliable fashion
sense, Valle has long curly hair that
is recognizable from anywhere on
campus. He has not gotten a haircut
since his senior year
of high school. For
him, it symbolizes
his character arc
and how he has
changed in college.
Recently, he has been
experimenting with
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and, currently, he is
trying to learn how to
do Dutch braids.
Valle’s message to
other students is, “As
long as you think it
looks good, it probably looks good. And
if people don’t think it looks good, then
you don’t have to talk to those people.
You know?”
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goodreads.com/marc-anthony.
ALEX BARR/THE PIONEER LOG
Will Hoard ’21 likes to style white T-shirts with minimalistic neutral tones.
ALEX BARR/THE PIONEER LOG
According to Marc-Anthony Valle ’22, it is always the right weather for a sweater.“I live in a city
now, I’m gonna
mix it up.”
— Will Hoard ’21
“I like to dress as
if I were going
to interview at a
coal mine, but I
wouldn’t get the
job.”
— Marc-Anthony
Valle ’22
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Contact The Pioneer Log (piolog@lclark.edu) to learn more about
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By NICOLE NAGAMATSU
WITH THE stress from classes,
jobs, a pandemic and political
discourse, many Lewis &
Clark students may be overwhelmed.
There are a number of things students
can do to decrease stress, from going
on a walk in Tryon Creek State Natural
Area to getting more sleep; however, a
less practiced method is meditation.
Greg Asbury, the husband of LC
Law Assistant Dean of Communications
and External Relations Judy Asbury,
is currently teaching a six-week
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students, on practicing mindfulness and
meditation in our busy lives. The course
includes one 45-minute class every
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on March 3 and the last class will be on
April 7.
Asbury started practicing meditation
20 years ago when the stress from his
corporate job was making him sick. He primarily learned the techniques of the
Q’ero people in Peru, who are known
for engaging in meditation and mindful
healing.
So far, Asbury has held two sessions.
He began both with a dedication to
community building, before leading the
group through a couple of breathing
exercises. There were about 15
attendees, a group not too small where
you would feel uncomfortable closing
your eyes on Zoom, but also not too
big where you would miss out on the
connections.
The core purpose of this program
is to provide a safe space for people
to learn ways of managing stress and
anxiety.
“All we are looking for in our time
together (on) Zoom is to give you some
tools so you (can) create a pause, so
you don’t go automatically into (an)
activated state,” Asbury said.
This “activated state” is what most
students are in, going from class to class, class to work and work to homework.
This lack of a pause and the resulting
build-up of stress is why many of the
participants decided to sign up for this
program, including LC Graduate School
Registrar Courtney Whetstine.
“(The program) gives me time to
be more intentional about my day and
(with) what I want to accomplish,”
Whetstine said. “What kind of employee
I want to be, what kind of parent I want
to be, what kind of coworker, what kind
of person I want to be.”
Not only is this program a constructive
way to start the day, but it is also a great
way to connect with new people.
“It is not like meeting in person,
but I do still feel like this methodology
(Zoom) is valuable. We are able to feel
connected to each other,” Whetstine
said.
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participants, including Rachel Greben,
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operations specialist, feel it may be
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situation.
“(This program is) something right
now that seems very important to deal
with the kind of stress I am feeling,”
said Greben. “(I am) trying to use this
time as an opportunity to build some
new skills before going back out to the
real world.”
There are only three sessions left
in the course, to be held on Mar. 24,
Mar. 31 and April 7. While Asbury
encourages participants to attend
the full sessions — as he believes
that those who only drop in or begin
halfway through the course will not
develop the same skills — any person
dealing with stress would still benefit
from attending even one session. For
more information, go to the Human
Resources Events on the LC website
and click on “Mindfulness and
Meditation w/ Greg Asbury” or email
chau@lclark.edu to register.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
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By GABE KORER
THE PIONEER SUPPORT Network
(PSN) is a new student-led mental
health initiative for Lewis & Clark
students that will begin in Fall 2021.
Using a peer-to-peer support model, PSN
hopes to break down the stigma of seeking
professional help by facilitating weekly
support groups led by trained students.
According to PSN Directors Abby
Barnes ’21 and Millie Robson ’21, two of
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are meant to encourage students to have
open and honest conversations about their
mental health. They have partnered with
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Network to ensure that the conversations
will center around issues important to
students, such as stress prevention.
“I think what is so great is that this
program is being created in an open and
vulnerable way, which means that it’s
going to respond to the students, as it’s
student-led,” Barnes said. “And really, it’s
up to the students to decide what they want
to talk about, obviously in ways that we are
trained to tackle (those issues). But making
it as open and vulnerable as we can I think
actually accommodates the students much
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Robson recall struggling with their mental
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resources they needed on campus. Now,
as seniors, they want to ensure that every
student has an opportunity to receive the
support they need.
“Mental health is one of the number
one concerns for undergraduates and
for students in general, especially with
COVID now,” Barnes said. “It just seemed
like a time that this needed to happen and
something that both Millie and I could
actually achieve.”
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Boards Social Impact Grant, PSN was able
to hire Mental Health Counselor Kathy
Holmes Sullivan as an advisor. As part of her role, she will oversee student training,
which includes teaching a practicum
throughout the course of the semester
and supervising a leadership retreat in
September.
Barnes and Robson made note of
the fact that the training is not meant to
provide the student leaders with the skills
of a professional. Rather, it is designed to
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and leading conversations that address
serious mental health concerns.
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when there isn’t a focus on mental health,”
Robson said. “There’s stress reduction,
less feelings of isolation, better school
retention — so many things. Basically,
just feeling less lonely on campus.”She hopes that incoming students will
use PSN as a way to acclimate to college life
and look out for their mental health.
“I think a lot of people experience
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times,” Robson said. “And I think social
support alone is just such a wonderful thing
(to address that).”
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organizations on campus as well as the
counseling service in order to reach as many
students as possible. In doing so, they hope
to foster more conversations surrounding
mental health and promote healthy ideals
for the LC community.
If you would like to get involved, you can
reach out to PSN over email or follow their
page on Instagram @piosupportnetwork to
stay up to date on the launch of their website,
which will have director and leadership
applications as well as more information
regarding their Fall 2021 debut.By NATHAN OAKLEY
LAST NOVEMBER, K i m N g
shattered a major glass ceiling
in American sports when she
became the general manager of the
Miami Marlins. The feat made her the
first female and first Asian American
to hold the position in Major League
Baseball’s (MLB) 152-year history.
Some sports historians believe that it
is also the first time in the history of all
American men’s sports that a woman
has held the coveted position.
For as long as Ng can remember,
baseball has been an integral part
of her life. But being a woman in a
“man’s game” has brought more than
its fair share of struggles. From her
upbringing as a woman of color in the
Queens borough of New York City to
her inspiring rise to become a titan
of the baseball industry, Ng’s story is
nothing short of legendary and brings
baseball one step closer to being a
sport fit for the 21st century.
Ng grew up just blocks from Citi
Field, the home of the New York Mets,
but always rooted for the New York
Yankees, the cross-town rival, with
her father. When her father passed
away when she was 11-years-old, Ng
dedicated her life to baseball and
became a student of the game, even
playing on the sandlot with the local
boy’s team.
Ng recalled the comments she
would often receive from the boys at
the sandlot.
“You know, ‘You can’t play because
you’re a girl,’” Ng said in an interview
with Rolling Stone. “I never really let
that stop me, because I was better than
some of the boys. I’ve just always had
that mentality.”
Ng went on to play Division III
softball at the University of Chicago.
“I just wanted to go to the best
school that I could get into,” she said
to Rolling Stone. “I also wanted to play
softball, and I wasn’t being recruited
by D-I schools. The University of
Chicago was a good fit because it was
a great school and because I could play
there.”
Shortly after graduating in 1990,
her softball coach put her in touch with
the Chicago White Sox organization,
thus beginning Ng’s 30-year career
in baseball. With the White Sox, Ng
helped pioneer the advanced statistics
and data analytics used across baseball
today.
“I think early on in my career
I was definitely a novelty,” she
said to Rolling Stone, recalling her
experience of being the only woman
in the entire front office. “People
were skeptical, but I gradually won
them over. I approached learning in a
very respectful way, and I think they
appreciated that.”
After long stints in the front offices of the New York Yankees,
where she helped organize a three-
time championship team, and the Los
Angeles Dodgers as assistant general
manager, Ng was hired in 2011 as
senior vice president for Baseball
Operations at the MLB Headquarters
in New York. Having never given up
on her lifelong dream of leading an
MLB franchise, she suddenly found
herself on the shortlist for the general
manager position of over 10 MLB
teams.
But the glass ceiling of baseball
started to chip away at Ng’s career. She
interviewed for the top job with the
Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres,
Los Angeles Angels and San Francisco
Giants, but all those positions
went to male applicants both with
shorter careers and less prestigious
experience. Ng suspected that the job
offers were not genuine and that teams
were just checking a box that would
look good on diversity and inclusion
reports. Still though, she believed that
it was only a matter of time.
“It just had to be somebody
who kept that notion of a woman
running a club alive,” Ng said in an
interview with Yahoo Sports. “It’s
pretty crushing when you get turned
down. To put myself through that was
not always fun. But I thought it was
necessary.”
After years of not giving up, Ng
received a call in November 2020
from an old friend from her days in
New York: former Yankees superstar
Derek Jeter who, after retiring as a
player in 2014, went on to become
CEO of the Miami Marlins and the first
Black CEO in MLB history. Ng thought
it was just another job interview. Like
so many times before, she launched
into her usual in-depth presentation
on her vision for the team before Jeter
quickly interrupted her after only a few
seconds, making it clear that he had
made his decision before the interview
even began. In the blink of an eye, the
Marlins were Ng’s team.
In the spirit of unity, Ng is a
member of a WhatsApp group of about
80 women in baseball. They were all
ecstatic when the news of Ng’s hiring
broke. Ng is now rated among the top
five most powerful women in sports
worldwide. Even with the outpouring
of support, Ng acknowledges there is
still some speculation on her future.
“I think there are degrees by which
I will be judged,” Ng said to Yahoo
Sports. “If the Marlins don’t make it to
the World Series, I don’t think people
are going to see it as a failure.”
Either way, she acknowledges she
has a common goal with every other
general manager in baseball — win a
world series. And with her newfound
support, Ng will surely be giving
people every reason to remember the
name.Ng breaks MLB glass
ceiling with Marlins
MADELINE COX/THE PIONEER LOGPioneer Support Network
tackles mental health stigma
Asbury teaches six week meditation
course, ways of coping with stress
MAYA WINSHELL/THE PIONEER LOG
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
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By JACOB MUSCARELLA
IF YOU ARE ONE of the countless
people I hear complaining when
their peers play devil’s advocate,
I completely understand where you
are coming from. But as a white, male
political science major, it is just part of
who I am, and I will not apologize for
that. And sometimes, the devil really
needs an advocate. If not I, then who?
For example, did I hear you talking
about the seven deadly sins? I totally
get why you think they are bad, but
let me walk you through each of them
so I can tell you why I think you are
thoroughly wrong.
1. Pride
Pride? Like Pride month? Right
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with some homophobia. Let me make
sure I understand your point. You think that annual parades full of
rainbow-clad performers, wigs and
glitter are manifestations of a deadly
sin? Celebrating love is a deadly sin?
The concept of Cher is a deadly sin?
Wow, and I thought Lewis & Clark
students were supposed to be open
and accepting of others. Sorry Diana
Ross fans, but apparently there will be
no “coming out” at this school without
serious social repercussions.
2. Greed
Hypothetically, if there were
two bags in front of you, and one of
them contained $1 million while the
other contained $2 million, which
would you choose? Oh, you said you
would pick the bag with $2 million?
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and therefore sinful by your own
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about you for the rest of the semester.
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I refuse to listen to anything you have to
say ever again.
3. Lust
What is a great sexual relationship
if not lust persevering? If you genuinely
believe that lust is a deadly sin, then
you must be quite prudish and boring.
You know, Marilyn Monroe once had an
almost-great quote related to this. She
said, “Sex is a part of nature. I go along
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part of life, and we should not try to go
against that. This might sound radical,
but I would even go as far as saying that
we should go along with nature. If you
agree with me, make sure you credit me
with that idea whenever you tell other
people about it.
4. Envy
Have you heard of the phrase “green
with envy”? If you have not, do not be
concerned, you probably just have not
read as many books as I have. Anyway,
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that envy is a deadly sin. By extension,
you must believe that being green is
sinful. Looking past the obvious hatred
you appear to hold toward people like
Kermit the Frog, Mike Wazowski and
the Geico gecko, the logical conclusion
of your argument is that “being green”
to protect the environment is a sin. I
hope you do not recycle anything, or
else I will apparently be seeing you in
hell.
5. Gluttony
Oh dear, it looks like you made a
vital mistake. Knowing LC students,
I think what you meant to say is that
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do not understand why everyone is so up in arms about gluten these days.
If it was good enough for your great-
great-grandparents, why can you not
eat it? Your doctor said that if you eat
gluten it will cause severe harm to your
body? Whatever happened to being
independent and not listening to “the
man”? Is that not what you young
socialists talk about all the time? My
advice for you is to pull yourself up by
your bootstraps and eat some bread.
6. Wrath
Ah, I knew this debate would
eventually lead us to cancel culture.
Your labeling of wrath as a deadly sin
is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to
cancel beloved American John Steinbeck,
the acclaimed author of “The Grapes of
Wrath.” First, you came for Dr. Seuss,
now you come for Steinbeck. Who is next
on the chopping block? Walt Disney? Vim Vievel? My ex-boyfriend? Nice try, woke
police, but you will have to try better
next time to convince me to hold people
accountable for their words and actions!
7. Sloth
Finally, we turn to the most
problematic deadly sin of all: sloth. What
I hear you saying is that sloths, by nature,
are sinful. I just cannot take seriously
anybody who looks at such a cute,
lethargic and peaceful creature and says
it deserves to burn in hell until the end
of time. At this rate, nobody is safe from
eternal damnation. If enough people
do not step up to play devil’s advocate,
society might decide that the eighth
deadly sin is wearing Birkenstocks in the
rain or having nature-related bumper
stickers on a Subaru, in which case a lot of
you will be joining Cher, bread-eaters and
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LET US FINALLY face it, Pios. It is
time for a new mascot.
I will start with the obvious:
what even is a “pio?” Is it short for
pioneer? Is it short for pioneer ... ing?
Is it an acronym for Pretty Interesting
Opinion, surely? Just kidding. I am
90% sure it is short for pioneer. And,
honestly, I am not sure we are calling
Merriwether Lewis and William Clark
pioneers anymore. Colonizers, maybe.
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“pioneer” to “pio” does not hide the fact
that we are still calling ourselves after a
few people who have very complicated
legacies. I do not mean to imply that an
act as simple as changing our mascot
can repair centuries of harm, but now
this paragraph is straying dangerously
far from the usual stupid Backdoor
territory, so I will move on from that
idea, and leave it for the Opinion
section.
Secondly, let us address the dog.
Visually, we are repped by a
friendly Newfoundland, who
represents the dog that Lewis
and Clark (the people, not
the school) took on their
expedition. Personally,
I love the dog. It has
a very kind face. Plus,
sometimes neighbors
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to school events and
they will drool all over
my foot, which really
makes me feel
loved. But there is
a clear disconnect
between the dog
and the pio. Simply
put, a pio is not a dog.
Still, she is a good dog,
yes she is!
Lastly, what is up
with the roll part of our slogan? Just kidding. Roll is funny. Like
weed. Ha. We should keep the roll part.
So, we can all agree that our current
mascot could use an upgrade. With that
in mind, I have graciously compiled
a list of viable alternatives, with some
reasoning behind each one.
1. The Seamen
Let us return to our current mascot,
the Newfoundland. Here is a fun fact
you may not have known: the real dog
who accompanied Lewis and Clark
(the people, not the school) on their
expedition was named Seaman. Since we
have established that the Newfoundland
is a good mascot, why not cut out the
middleman and name ourselves directly
after Seaman, who I can only assume
was a very good boy? Say it out loud:
roll seaman! Sounds great! To refer to
ourselves in the plural, we would call
ourselves the seamen. This has the added
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we can keep those super cute sweaters
with the dog and the tarot card. Those
slap. Admittedly, we are still referencing
Lewis and Clark (once again, the
dudes), but all records indicate
that the dog was actually quite
ahead of his time. Progressive
King!
2. Cougars
First-years may not
be aware of this, but
at the beginning of last
year, our campus recorded
several cougar sightings! I
do mean the big cat, although,
coincidentally, the sightings
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(and their mothers) were
on campus for move-in.
The cougar, who we
can only assume has
a fondness for soy
curls and an interest
in world languages, was
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Jane Fonda. So, why not call ourselves the Lewis & Clark Cougars?
Animal mascots are always a safe bet.
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enticing enough payment (read: an
unsuspecting Copelander) I am sure we
could get Jane Fonda herself (the cat) to
come back to campus for football games,
Board of Trustees meetings and other
events!
3. The Vim Vievels
I know, I know. Why replace two old
white men with another, even older white
man? But hear me out: Vim Vievel mascot
suit. We could make it dance, or do crude
gestures! Plus, it would be really funny to
have a hat with Vim on it. Roll Vievels!
4. The Pio(neer Express)
So, you are not sold on roll seamen?
You want to stick with roll pios? Fine. You
know what else is called the pio and rolls?
The Pioneer Express. Which rolls because
it has wheels. Because it is a bus. I will be
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doesn’t really move us away from the
whole “pioneers” thing, but people are
really dedicated to the bus, so roll pios I
guess? Right now, LCs only distinctions
are being the school with most vegans per
capita, and also the place where Monica
Lewinsky went I guess. What if we could
be known as the only school whose
mascot is a method of transportation?
And an eco-friendly method, at that!
5. The Pious
Okay, yes, it is weird for us to be
the pious, as we are not in any way
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according to one of my professors who
could not cite any source, the least
religious undergraduate college in the
United States. But, if we adopt this, all
our branding can stay the same! We
would just need to go around to every
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“pios” on it and squeeze a “u” between
the “o” and the “s.” No problem!
We have got a plethora of good, great
and mediocre options So, students formerly
known as the pios, what will it be?New conspiracy group
just dropped: PooAnonWe need to change our mascot,
it is time to talk about Seaman
By ANDREW NOURIE
WHAT OR WHO is PooAnon?
You have probably asked
yourself this question
a few times these past few weeks
as Lewis & Clark has fallen into
disarray over this ludicrous
conspiracy. PooAnon is a person or
group that spreads poop conspiracy
theories through the use of posters
and posts on famous internet
website Poop Chan. The posts and
posters mostly accuse LC’s upper
management of worshiping some
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popped up around the time when
covid restrictions were loosened
allowing students to travel between
dorms that they did not live in. This
mysterious riddle appeared on a
piece of paper attached to one of the
walls of Templeton, written in what
is currently thought to be feces. The
owner of said feces is unknown, but
it is currently being investigated by
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The contents of the message
described a dark truth, one that
could change LC students’ entire
perception of the school. According
to the poster, the reason that you
could not poop in other dorms
was not due to sewage testing, but
instead due to the administration
categorizing and selling student’s
poop on an app called Poopfair.
The poop collected by high-level
administrators and their squad of
almost microscopic gnome men
named “Stool Team 6” is categorized
by dorm because certain people
just have more valuable poop than
others.
Some dorms have better health
habits that lead to higher quality
poop. Every year, the main dorm
that ranks the lowest for poop pricing is Manzanita. The toxicology
reports coming from Manzi are
damning. The most expensive
poops are ones where the creator
of the stool experiences something
called “poo-phoria,” when you
experience a rush of pleasure after
excreting waste. The reason why
this is more expensive is because
the poop created from this pleasure
high contains tiny particles in it
that make it easier to create the
alternative medicine Scatterall,
which supposedly improves focus.
An evil shadow council called
the Illuminpoopy runs the college
... and you know what? I am not
writing this anymore. I just cannot
do it. I wanted to be a journalist,
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is sometimes a bit too hot. Did you
know that I want to be a teacher?
When I am applying for jobs I am
going to have to explain to hiring
agents why “PooAnon” is on the list
of articles that I wrote. How am I
going to look my future boss in the
face and say that yes, I did in fact
combine the words Adderall and
scat as a bit, and that I, with my
God given hands, typed out “Poop
Chan.” You know what, I am not
going to write anymore, they cannot
make me —
-pooanon Has been terrorizing
campus for weeks, to the dEtriment
of aLl community members. looking
back at the situation, it is easy
to become Paranoid and maybe
even start to believe the horrid
dark secrets that are shared here.
however, it is iMportant to note that
pooanon is not to be takEn seriously.
The Pioneer Log editing team is
not holding me hostage, everything
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0$'(/,1(&2; THE PIONEER LOGMale political science major takes on the thankless burden of defending the Devil and his cardinal sins