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Volume 97, No. 3

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2021-10-15

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By GEORGE STEENE
DISPROPORTIONAL representation
in publicity materials has led
some BIPOC students to question
whether they are being tokenized:
chosen to represent the school only as
symbols of efforts to diversify Lewis &
Clark.
Mark Figueroa, dean of equity and
inclusion and associate vice president
for institutional research and planning,
noted that this is not an issue isolated
to LC.
According to Figueroa, a number of
institutions utilize what is referred to
as a “standard diversity picture.” This
often consists of students who represent
a variety of different ethnicities or have
physical limitations.
He admits that the issue is
challenging.
“How do you balance wanting to
let students who may not think of this
institution as being diverse or welcoming
to see a version or representations of
themselves while, at the same time, not
trying to overrepresent who we are as
a college?” Figueroa said. “I have had
some students in the past who have
come to me and said ‘you know, the
pictures that I see don’t look like what
our student body looks like.’”
Figueroa’s sentiment was echoed by
Robin Homes-Sullivan, vice president
for student life and dean of students.“I know that for underrepresented
groups when there’s been traditionally
or historically a lack of access or
affordability or representation, if you
don’t necessarily feel as though you
were represented ... or welcomed, then it
might lead a person to think that that’s not the place for them,” Holmes-Sullivan
said.
According to Holmes-Sullivan,
representation is not only valued, but is
also imperative, “so that individuals who
have traditionally been underrepresented
feel and experience the fact that they are welcomed and included.”
This issue of statistical
underrepresentation remains a looming
problem for institutions across the
country. The Lewis & Clark Common
Data Set, an annual online report
published by the Office of Institutional Research, displays the representative
rates of minority groups at LC.
According to the most recent report
from October 2020, Black or African
American students were one of the most
underrepresented student groups. Of
the 1,814 degree-seeking students at the
College of Arts and Sciences, only 45
identified as Black or African American.
Proportional to U.S. Census Bureau
data on race, that number should have
been over 220.
Breanna Leal ’24, community
outreach leader of Gente Latina Unida,
said a discussion on tokenism is
important to have at LC.
According to Leal, it is expected that
LC would want to promote diversity
within the student body, particularly
due to the large number of BIPOC
students within the class of 2025.
“(But) if you look around, it’s still
very much white,” Leal said.
Many students of color have voiced
incidents where they were sought out
to be photographed in ways their non-
BIPOC counterparts were not, likely
for promotional material published by
LC. In that way, predominantly white
institutions may benefit from the images
of BIPOC students.
Erin Fails ’25 recalled being
approached by a photographer eager to
have Fails and her friend, also a woman
of color, pose for a picture. Fails was
Tokenism” continued on page 3By AMELIA DOYLE
& ASMAA ZAIDAN
IN THE EARLY morning of Oct. 11,
several Lewis & Clark buildings
were spray-painted with graffiti
regarding the legacy of LC’s name in
conjunction with Indigenous Peoples’
Day.
The spray-painted messages
were spread throughout all three LC
campuses. One message at the law
school read “Laws justify oppression.”
Another message reading “Wim Killed
J. Washington,” left in the lower
Griswold parking lot, referenced
a similar incident that occurred
in January 2021, in which graffiti
messages and flyers were posted
criticizing President Wim Wiewel’s
role in Portland State University
campus police’s killing of Jason
Washington.
Many of the messages reiterated
a common theme of returning the
land back to Indigenous peoples.
Others called out the legacy left by
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s
expedition, stating “Lewis+Clark
Committed Genocide” and “Change
the Name.” These statements reflected
an ongoing discussion regarding a
possible renaming of the institution.
The spray-painted messages also
gained the attention of the public
outside of LC. The Instagram account
@radicalgraffiti, which has over
96,000 followers, posted pictures of
the graffiti on campus, with the caption
“Anti-colonial graff(iti) seen on Lewis
& Clark College in Portland, Oregon.” In an email statement sent to the
LC community later that day, Wiewel
reflected on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
“It is important to acknowledge the
ancestors of this place, and to honor
their legacy, their lives, and their
descendants,” Wiewel said.
He also addressed the graffiti
that had confronted the “challenging
nature” of LC’s history. “I acknowledge the depth of
anger and pain this issue engenders,”
Wiewel said. “We might disagree
about how to deliver the message, but
it is imperative that all of us, as critical
thinkers and as lifelong learners,
reflect on the dynamics of power that
have shaped our community and
commit ourselves to do better.”
Vice President of Student Life and Dean of Students Robin Holmes-
Sullivan also provided a statement on
the graffiti in The Bark.
“Today is Indigenous People’s
Day. Our institution was founded on
indigenous land and is named for
white colonizers, which makes today
especially weighty, and for many,
painful,” Holmes-Sullivan said. “Very
early this morning, this pain and anger about the legacy of colonization was
expressed in multiple acts of graffiti
across all three of our schools. Please
be extra attentive today to caring for
one another as we grapple with the
trauma that can result from systems
of power and oppression.”
Professor of History and Director
of Ethnic Studies Elliot Young voiced
his support for a potential future LC
name change, a sentiment expressed
by some of the graffiti.
“I am in favor of changing the name
of the college from Lewis & Clark
because of these explorers’ role in the
colonization of the Pacific Northwest
and the destruction of Indigenous
communities,” Young said in an
email statement. “A name change can
be an opportunity for the college to
create stronger ties to Indigenous
communities in the region and figure
out ways that we can serve them.”
Young also warned of changing
the name of the college without
creating stronger ties to Indigenous
communities.
“There is no way to undo the
damage done by colonialism, but we
can attempt to repair past harm as
the college moves forward into the
twenty-first century,” Young said. “In
the end, new letterhead is cheap and
doing the right thing is invaluable.”
LC is located on the ancestral
homelands of the Multnomah,
Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater and
Watalala bands of the Chinook, the
Tualatin Kalapuya and many other
Indigenous nations of the Columbia
River. Vol. 97 No. 3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021 www.piolog.com
Today’s Weather
A mix of sun and clouds with a high
of 66 degrees and a low of 46 degrees.
10% chance of precipitation. Sunset
at 6:24 p.m. and a waxing gibbous
moon.OPINION
Meal swipes not worth enough
LC students deserve to receive equal
amounts of food for a meal swipe at all
campus dining locations.
PAGE 5FEATURES
Haben Girma ’10
The distinguished LC Alum was
responsible for increasing accessibility
in Fields Dining Hall.
PAGE 7ARTS
STUCK!
The LC Theatre department kicked of
the 2021-2022 season with the One Act
Festival.
PAGE 8SPORTS
LC student NWC Athlete
After winning the Wildcat Invitational
on Sept. 26 Kamryn Ford was NWC
athlete of the week.
PAGE 10
LC community addresses tokenization of BIPOC students
Students express dismay at being utilized as symbols of diversity in LC marketing campaigns
Members of LC administration and faculty respond to messages left across campuses on “Day of Rage”
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGGraffiti outside of Pamplin Sports Center reads “rage” in large red letters, with Frank Manor House in the background. AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Campus graffiti marks Indigenous Peoples’ DayBy AMELIA DOYLE &
ASMAA ZAIDAN
DURING FALL Break, The
Center for Social Change and
Community Involvement
painted a rainbow crosswalk to mark
National Coming Out Day, which was
on Oct. 11.
“This crosswalk was actually
inspired by my wedding trip to
Iceland, where they have a rainbow
road there,” said Kayleigh McCauley-
Sayer, associate dean of students and
executive director of The Center.
The Center partnered with Queer
Student Union (QSU), the Office
of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME) and Spiritual
Que(e)ry to host a ribbon-cutting
ceremony to unveil the new crosswalk.
Representatives from each group gave
speeches to celebrate the occasion.
Local businesses Etta and James
Junction and Almond Ave pottery
also attended, selling LGBTQ-related
merchandise and handcrafted pottery.
Partnering with local businesses is
something that The Center hopes to
continue doing in the future.
McCauley-Sayer spoke about
the significance of National Coming
Out Day, as well as how she hopes to
support LGBTQ+ students on campus.
“Personally, I came out 20 years
ago as a lesbian, and being out in my
personal life and professionally is a
really important part of my identity,
and … I do everything in my power to
support our LGBTQ+ students in our
community, so this is just one way that I can use my position at the college to
help influence our community here,”
McCauley-Sayer said.
Erin Khong ’21, graduate assistant
for The Center, echoed this idea.
“(Coming Out Day) is special to
me because not everyone has the
opportunity to be in the space to come
out, and for me personally coming
to Lewis & Clark was my journey to
coming out and feeling like myself, and
I think (LC) provided a very safe space
for me to do that,” Khong said.
Luca Sax ’22, who spoke for QSU
and IME, had the honor of cutting the
ribbon during the ceremony. He spoke
about the importance of the sidewalk.
“This crosswalk is a very visual
representation of the fact that we
have this very vibrant and supportive
community here,” Sax said.
National Coming Out Day was
first celebrated in 1988, and this
year marks its 33rd anniversary. The
holiday’s purpose was initially to
encourage the act of coming out as a
political action, in which being openly
gay or lesbian was a form of activism
that could combat homophobia. Since
then, however, there has been a shift
in attitudes regarding coming out.
Critics have pointed to the fact that
coming out relies on the assumption
of heterosexuality. There are also
concerns about the danger coming out
presents, especially to more vulnerable
populations. To many, the day has
taken on a new meaning.
“(National Coming Out Day) is
a hard day, but also a special day for
folks who are in the process of coming out, thinking about coming out, are
coming out (or) have come out,” Khong
said.
National Coming Out Day also
provided an opportunity for the LC
community to connect and provide
support to students on campus.
“It’s really nice to see people out
in the community,” Joann Zhang,
director of IME, said. “I think there’s so
much intersectionality and celebration
to be shared, especially with today
being Indigenous People’s day as well.
So I just love being in the community and seeing and being able to connect,
laugh, share, and it’s a great event. I
wish we would do things like this more
often,”
This was the first event that The
Center has held this fall, and the
rainbow crosswalk is now a permanent
fixture outside of Maggie’s for students
to walk by and enjoy.
“I hope this crosswalk inspires
hope, brings joy and strength to
those who see it, who walk upon it,
who dream of walking this road,”
McCauley-Sayer said.By AMELIA DOYLE

THE FIR ACRES Theatre is
currently undergoing major
roof reconstruction. The roof
replacement at Fir Acres is one of
Lewis & Clark’s 2022 capital projects,
which also include replacing the roofs
of Stewart, Odell and Akin Halls and
Stamm Dining Hall in Templeton
Campus Center.
Senior Lecturer in Theatre and
Dance Program Head Susan Davis said
that the roof has always been damaged.
“It’s always had problems and I
think it was at the point where it could
have collapsed, basically, if enough
water had accumulated in some areas,”
Davis said.
Sylvia Jane Krueger ’22, who is a
theatre major, echoed her statement.
“There’s been a hole in the roof since
I have been here,” Krueger said. “There
have always been little leaks backstage.”
According to Davis, the roof has
been leaking for years and was deemed
unsafe by the college. However, she
noticed a major lack of communication
between the professors and the
construction being done on the roof.
“No one knew,” Davis said. “We
were not told that it was happening,
right before classes started. We were not
given any accommodation for alternate
spaces. I mean ... there was such a lack
of communication between whoever
organized (the construction) and the
trickle down (from) people in charge.”
Professor of Theatre and Department
Head Štěpán Šimek also pointed out the
major lack of communication between
the college and the theater department.
“As a Department, we’d have liked to
have been informed about it a bit earlier
- it sort of came as a surprise,” Šimek
said via email.
Since the reconstruction began, both
students and staff have had to adjust to
new spaces to work in.
“We basically just had to change
spaces because of the noise,” Davis said.
Since the noise is particularly bad
in the black box theatre, some of the
classes have been moved to Smith Hall.
Others are still being held in Fir Acres,
which has created new challenges for
students and staff.
“So outside of the entrance, they
have a bunch of wood and construction
materials and trash cans set up that
block the entire front of the theater,”
Dylan Blanchard ’24 said. “So there’s
only one door into the theater. One
exit and one entrance, besides the
emergency exits, that entire front
space is blocked off because of the
construction.”
Krueger mentioned that there
are also tiles still missing from the
classroom roof inside Fir Acres. Šimek
also commented on the classroom
disruptions caused by the construction
on the roof.
“We had some ‘interesting’ classes
where lectures were accompanied by
the rhythmic sound of electrical drills,
saws and other instruments of aural
torture,” Šimek said . “I once had to run
out of the Black Box Theatre during an
acting class to shoo the workers away,
because they were hellishly loud.”
While the construction has caused
changes in the building’s facilities and
classes, students seem to be happy
about the prospect of a roof that does
not leak.
“I’m glad that we are getting a new
roof,” Krueger said. “I feel like we
deserve it.”FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
NEWS 2
Construction blocks the Fir Acres doorway.HANNAH KORN/THE PIONEER LOG LC theatre
roof under
renovation
The Center paints rainbow crosswalk
in honor of National Coming Out Day
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Students pass the rainbow sidewalk displayed outside of Maggies on their way to class.
By BELLA ROOT
TEMPLETON Campus Center is
set to be renamed the Stephanie
J. Fowler Student Center after
undergoing major renovations during
the upcoming year. The changes
were unveiled to students at a Zoom
information session on Sept. 30.
The hosts of the information session
included Vice President of Student Life
and Dean of Students Robin Holmes-
Sullivan, Assistant Dean of Student
Engagement and Executive Director
of Career Center Rocky Campbell
and Chief Financial Officer and Vice
President of Operations Andrea
Dooley.
Upon completion of the renovation,
the building will be named after Fowler,
the chair of Lewis & Clark’s board
of trustees, in honor of her husband
Irving Levin’s generous donation.
The total cost of the renovation is
estimated to be around $16.5 million.
As of May 2021, the sources are as
follows: $6 million from donor gifts
and other commitments, $9 million
from debt proceeds and $2 million
from an additional capital budget
spending allowance.
According to Holmes-Sullivan, LC’s
retention of freshman students is not
as high as a school of its merit should
be. A 2019 survey conducted by LC
found that while students were content
academically, they were not as satisfied
with social activity on campus.
The survey also revealed that
students want Templeton to have an
inviting and accessible atmosphere.
Many students have repeatedly
expressed their concerns about the lack
of accessibility in Templeton, which is
a key focus of the renovation. Holmes-
Sullivan also cited creating a fun and
lively atmosphere, multiple entrances
and exits, transparent exteriors,
establishing Templeton as the social
center on campus and creating better
spaces to host events, as primary
factors for the renovation.
“(We’re) missing a central place
that people could go when they were
looking to have fun,” Holmes-Sullivan
said. In August 2019, LC hired a
national firm, Brailsford & Dunlavey,
to complete a Student Experience
Master plan. The purpose of this plan
was to answer the question: “How can
Student Life facilities maximize the
student experience, enhance student
satisfaction and sense of belonging
and improve retention?”
The recommendations of the plan
included centralizing student life
spaces and creating an inviting and
accessible atmosphere. Some goals for
the renovation include creating a main
entry, adding outdoor covered spaces,
making student spaces visible and
improving navigation.
“In front of the Fields Dining Hall...
we have the large gable roof that right
now is currently a little bit covered by
some landscaping and the food cart
vehicle which, as Robin mentioned,
will be extended over and enhanced
and made into covered seating and
will be brought out towards the curb,”
Campbell said.
The road in front of Templeton
will become a walkway reserved for
pedestrians and The Pioneer Express
Shuttle. Templeton will be extended
into the street that runs in front of
Odell Hall. Parking by the residence
halls in this area will be removed.
The second floor will have a new
covered walkway that runs from the bookstore and the Career Center
through to the atrium. Additional
seating and a fire pit will also be added
to the atrium.
The meeting rooms in Templeton
will receive a makeover as well. The
spaces that are now computer labs will
be converted into additional meeting
spaces for clubs and student unions.
However, the loss of the computer
labs will not go unnoticed. Adam
Schwarz ’23, a frequent user of the lab,
expressed concerns regarding future
plans.
“I don’t like that they removed
the computer labs and don’t seem to
have a solution as to what they will do
about having computers and printers,”
Schwarz said.
In order to make Templeton more
inviting and visually active, most
meeting rooms will be visible from
the outside. However, some meeting
rooms will be left as private spaces,
which may cause competition. This
has raised concerns among student
organizations that wish to protect the
privacy of their members.
The Trail Room will see a major
renovation, with the addition of a bar.
In the mornings, the bar will serve
coffee and other drinks while in the
evening it will offer alcohol to students
and staff of legal drinking age. This
decision was driven by a desire to make the Trail Room more inviting
to both students and staff, potentially
attracting graduate and law students
to the undergraduate campus. The
Trail Room will be closed in Spring
2022, temporarily leaving Fields
Dining Hall as the only dining facility
in Templeton.
After the renovation, students will
no longer have their own mailbox.
Instead, there will be a single station
with a machine where students will
enter their student ID and receive their
mail.
There are many concerns about
how student life will change while the
construction is underway. One concern
brought up during the meeting is where
students will get their mail during
construction. According to Dooley, the
mailroom will be temporarily moving
to the basement of McAfee. The
permanent home of the mailroom will
remain as is.
Students have also pointed out that
by making Templeton open and bright,
it may cause sensory overload issues
for neurodivergent students. This
concern was brought up in the meeting
and the solutions offered were carpet
and lighting fixtures being selected
with consideration to the issue.
Construction is set to begin in
December 2021 and is scheduled to
end before the Fall 2022 semester. Templeton scheduled to undergo remodel,
Zoom information session reveals details
PHOTO COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
The Templeton Campus Center remodel design depicts a modern, inviting space that aims to improve the student experience.By JILLIAN JACKSON
IN AUGUST OF 2021 , Hilary Martin
Himan made Lewis & Clark history
when she became the first woman
and publicly LGBTQ+ clergy member
to serve as chaplain and director of
Spiritual Life.
Her predecessor, Dean Emeritus
Mark Duntley, retired after almost 32
years of service. Himan remembers
meeting Duntley while she was
attending graduate school at Oregon
State University.
“When Mark hired me on, I was
first an intern and had approached him
to try to do this project around LGBTQ
spirituality,” Himan said.
The project would become Spiritual
Que(e)ry, an organization that seeks
to provide safe spiritual opportunities
for queer, questioning and curious
students.
“(Mark) was always looking for
new avenues of how we can continue
to encourage students in particular to
have experiential learning in changing
the world, in addressing issues of
injustice,” Himan said. “I’m really
looking forward to building on the
legacy that (he) started, as well as
moving this office into the future and
evolving an Office of Spiritual Life to
address our particular community.”
Under Himan’s leadership, the
Office of Spiritual Life is seeking ways
to better serve students with secular
identities.
“If a number of our students are
atheist or agnostic, how do we make
this a welcoming place?” Himan said.
“How do we still engage in those
existential questions of ‘who am I?’
‘Why am I here?’”
Characterizing this move as “a
culture shift,” Himan is planning
programming that defies stereotypes
about what role the Office of Spiritual
Life can play on campus.
Last year, she facilitated “On
Being: Discussions on Race & Healing”
over Zoom, an event she hopes will
continue in-person. Based on Krista
Tippett’s podcast, the discussions
explored topics often treated outside
the purview of spirituality, such as
how Civil Rights elders deal with
exhaustion and rest.When asked about Indigenous
Peoples’ Day, Himan spoke about
possible projects she might undertake
to decolonize Christianity.
“I would just love to collaborate with
the Native Student Union and Art for
Social Change out of the grad school,
and come up with a performance piece
that offers some critical reflection on
(Christopher Columbus),” she said.
Himan also has a professional
relationship with Eloheh Indigenous
Center for Earth Justice,
a farm and
learning center
dedicated to
teaching Native
and non-Native
people alike to
take better care
of the planet.
On campus,
Himan has
joined a multi-year effort to change
LC’s academic calendar, which
currently does not accommodate Jewish and Muslim students trying to
observe their spiritual holidays.
“I had a Jewish student raise the
topic that, ‘hey, did you notice that we
have fall finals that happen on a Friday
and Saturday? It skips Sunday,’”
Himan said. “This (finals schedule)
is an example of Christian hegemony
that needs to be addressed.”
In Judaism, Shabbat takes place
from sunset to Friday to sunset on
Saturday, while the Islamic holy day is
on Friday.
“If there
are students
who want to
work with me
on this project,
please have
them reach out
to me,” Himan
said. “The more
we hear from
students about the impact, the better
it will be to try and build empathy
among faculty.” Students of any denomination with
comments on reforming the academic
calendar should email Himan at
hmhiman@lclark.edu. For Himan, the
need for this reform is emblematic of a
larger issue.
“Religious identity is under the
umbrella of diversity and equity,
and yet, it feels like in the Pacific
Northwest — and maybe at Lewis &
Clark in particular — it’s still one of
those identities that isn’t honored or
lifted up,” Himan said. “For students
who do hold those identities, it’s really
important to them, and they want to be
seen.”
Given that the reforms efforts
could lengthen the semester, Himan
recognizes that they could be
controversial among students, faculty
and staff.
“With privilege, you always have to
be willing to lose something,” Himan
said. “That’s the question, right: What
are people willing to give up to gain a
sense of justice?” By VENUS EDLIN
THE CENTER for Community
and Global Health launched
its inaugural Intent to Apply
program for medical school after its
registration period closed on Sept.
24.
Carolyn Zook began serving as the
associate director of the center for
community and global health in Fall
2020. Zook created the program to
guide pre-health upperclassmen and
alumni in addition to one-on-one pre-
health advising, which was previously
offered. The Intent to Apply program
is yet another addition to Lewis &
Clark’s recent pre-health expansion.
Other additions include the health
studies minor and $750,000 Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Grant.
This year’s cohort, made up of
three alumni and two undergraduate
students, plans to apply for medical
school in June of 2022 and attend
their respective schools starting in
the Fall 2023 term. The process to
apply for medical school typically
takes a full year. Registration for the
next cohort will begin in August of
2022.
For Zook, the Intent to Apply
program is a key component in
making medical school more
accessible for students. The program
is divided into monthly hour-long
meetings that address different parts
of the application process.
“The reason why we plan the
program to meet only once a month
is so it’s a little bit less overwhelming for the students,” Zook said. “We
know a lot of the students have very
heavy course loads, are involved in
extracurriculars, athletics (or) have
jobs, so we thought we’d start earlier
to make it a little less cumbersome.”
According to Professor of Psychology Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell,
who also heads the center, another
one of the program’s key assets
is creating a sense of community
amongst pre-health peers.
“I think often that the process
of getting your application together feels very isolated, lonely and
stressful,” Detweiler-Bedell said.
“So not only is Carolyn an amazing
resource in terms of one-on-one
mentoring — but to come together in
a group setting with others who are
going through the same thing, getting
feedback from them with more
concrete guidance makes you feel less
alone in the process.”
Lucas Heilbroner ’19 graduated
from LC not initially planning to
apply to medical school. He decided
to pursue the opportunity after doing
an internship with an environmental
law organization that had a public
health focus. Heilbroner got in touch
with Zook, who later sent him a
personal invitation to register for the
Intent to Apply program.
So far, Heilbroner said the
program has been helpful in the
application process.
“It’s nice to have some formality to
it,” Heilbroner said. “It’s easy to burn
out doing the individual research
and self education you have to do,
so having some structure is really
nice. Having some communities is
nice, particularly for me as a post-
(baccalaureate) student and even just
in general, my social scene has never
been a bunch of other pre-med kids.”
The program’s September
meeting provided an overview of the
application process and budgeting
for application expenses, including
financial aid options. Zook described
the experience as an “eye-opener” for
the program members. Heilbroner’s
experience at the first meeting resonates with this account.
“Getting financial aid in the way
that Carolyn detailed, it felt like a
load off for me because I’ve been
trying to save up basically a war
chest to apply for medical school,”
Heilbroner said. “But knowing that if
I meet these specific criterias, I can
save money, that’s super helpful.”
The upcoming session will address
the Medical College Admission Test
(MCAT) process. MCAT registration
for the 2021-22 testing year opened
Oct. 13 to 14. Other sessions will
cover writing personal statements,
mock interviews and prepping other
application materials.
Detweiler-Bedell and Zook both
spoke on the importance of extending
the program to alumni.
“I try to make it very clear to any
student regardless of if they’re going
into medical school, or any other
program, that we are available as a
resource for them,” Zook said. “Even
after they graduate, they get the
same access to me as their pre-health
advisor.”
Zook views this year’s five-
person cohort as a success and said
she would be “thrilled” to have 10
members in the next cohort. For
now, Zook is focusing on this year’s
group of applicants.
“It’s exciting to be here in-person,
to be able to finally launch something
that’s been in my head for a year now
and to see it come to fruition,” Zook
said. “We’re very excited, and I hope
the students get everything that they
want out of it.”NEWS 3
The new program will guide students and alumni through the year-long medical school application process
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preparing to oblige the photographer’s
request when the friend she was with
declined.
“I realized my friend said no because
she knows that that picture is going
to be used to show how diverse LC is,
even though we were some of the only
students of color in that space,” Fails
said.
According to Figueroa, LC has
undertaken recent efforts, such as
the five-year partnership with the
Posse Foundation, in order to increase
the population of underrepresented
students on campus. This large-
scale advance in diversity will bring
approximately 50 students from diverse
backgrounds to LC.
“Our African American student
population is relatively low given that
we’re on the West Coast and there’s
a strong representation of African
Americans in California — not so much
in Oregon or Washington,” Figueroa
said. “So our engagement within the
Metro D.C. area with Posse was a reason
two-fold: one because we have a pretty
significant alumni base in Washington,
D.C., but also because we know there is
a large population of African American
students there.”
For Fails, a Posse scholar, being part
of the advancement of diversification at
LC is exciting but feels like tokenism in
its own right.
“I can’t speak to the normal
experience of a student of color just
trying to live their life, because my life
has already sort of been dedicated to
basically just being a token,” Fails said.
Despite feeling additional pressure
because of her scholarship, Fails said
the issue of tokenism is not limited to
students of color who are part of specific
programs.
“I think feeling the pressures of
being a token is something that a lot of
students of color can definitely resonate
with,” Fails said. “So ... if they didn’t
sign up for it then they shouldn’t have
to experience it.”
Additional reporting by Asmaa Zaidan.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
Students register for “intent to apply” program
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG
PHOTO COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
“That’s the question, right:
What are people willing to
give up to gain a sense of
justice?”
- Hilary Martin HimanStudents
speak on
tokenism
Lewis & Clark’s new Chaplain and Director of Spiritual Life Hilary Martin Himan plans to make a number of changes.Hilary Martin Himan, LC’s new Director of
Spiritual Life, hints at potential “culture shift”By EMMA KRALL
AS I SCROLLED through my
Instagram feed one early
September day, my screen lit
up with posts about a beautiful blonde
wanderlust gone missing. Each picture
was delicately captioned with a kind
message to her family and friends,
wishing luck to all those engaged in her
search. It was eerily similar to stories I
had heard of Indigenous women going
missing across the American west. But
unlike in their cases, news of this was
everywhere. From that moment on, it
was abundantly clear: We cared more
about this case than we did theirs. I had
no idea what it all meant.
That was the day that Gabby Petito’s
missing persons case went public. As
news of her absence spread across the
nation, hordes of people rallied behind
the case. At just 22 years old, Petito
had become a poster child for the
treacherous nature of being female in
America. Despite feeling protected by
Lewis & Clark’s quiet and safe campus,
it made me wonder which of us could be
subject to such a devastating fate. The
story shook me to the core.
Her boyfriend, Bryan Laundrie, was
a person of interest, and they found her
sprinter van at his Florida home soon
after her disappearance. When her body
was discovered in Wyoming later in
September, I cannot say I was surprised.
News had come out about a domestic
dispute between Petito and Laundrie
just days before her disappearance,
something I have grown accustomed
to recognizing as a potentially lethal
situation for a woman. I was so
thoroughly informed on the case that it
was not until recently that I stopped to
wonder why.
There is a detail crucial to the Petito
case that often goes unreported in
attempting to understand why her story
was so well-circulated: Petito was a white
woman. The color of her skin defined the
extent to which society cared about her
disappearance, influencing everything
from the amount of media coverage her
case received to the light in which her
character was portrayed.
Growing up in rural Montana less
than 50 miles from the Crow Indian
Reservation, I had become accustomed
to hearing about the epidemic of Missing
and Murdered Indigenous Women and
Children (MMIWC). Almost monthly,
I would see a post or two circulating
through my social media feed about
yet another “stolen sister.” However,
unlike Petito’s case, there was never
more than a nod to the situation from
politically active Instagram accounts or
Indigenous folks themselves. Despite
some significant efforts from journalists, organizers, BIPOC and allies, the public
continuously neglects to advocate for
Indigenous lives the way it does for white
women.
According to Wyoming’s MMIWC
Task Force, more than 710 Indigenous
women have been reported missing
since 2011, and these are just the cases
for which a formal report was filed. Of
these, 57% were female and 85% were
children. In Montana, according to a
Justice Department report from May
2020, Indigenous women are four times
more likely to go missing than white
women.
So why are our Instagram feeds not
brimming with childhood pictures of the
Indigenous women and children who go
missing every day? The answer is simple:
We exist in a society where the comfort of
white people is prioritized over the safety
of people of color. Talking about the racial
factors playing into the disappearance of
Indigenous folks is uncomfortable, so we
do not. In discovering the Petito case,
we all came down with a case of Missing
White Woman Syndrome, amplifying
her story over those of Indigenous folks.As a white woman, it sickens me
to know that if I were to disappear
tomorrow, the media would likely swarm
my case like they did Petito’s. My heart
aches for the Indigenous women and
children who are not as safe as me; for
those who have lost a sister or child; for
those fearful of leaving their homes. In a
country built on the brutal treatment of
the Indigenous communities here before
us, we should be ashamed.
As members of LC’s social justice-
driven, yet predominantly white student
body, it is our responsibility to speak
out against all injustices, not just those
we find most digestible. We must work
to amplify Native voices and reallocate
resources back into Indigenous
communities. As students, that could
mean signing petitions, volunteering
for and contributing to Indigenous-lead
nonprofits, being loud about inequities
and, most importantly, having difficult
conversations in order to put our
privilege in check.
Indigenous women and children
deserve the energy we so willingly give to
white women. They deserve better.By VENUS EDLIN
WITH LEWIS & Clark’s alleged
“return to normal” it seems
that many professors have not
retained insights from the beginning of
the pandemic. For example, reinstituting
strict attendance policies places an undue
burden on students, especially those who
are disabled.
I understand why many professors
have returned to pre-pandemic
attendance policies. On the surface it
seems like a gentle nudge for students to
get the most out of their tuition money.
However, this pressure has always been
applied unevenly to disadvantaged
students, especially those who are
disabled or dealing with health issues.
On top of that, we are still in a pandemic
where it is more important than ever
to stay home when exhibiting any
symptoms, even if that surpasses a five
absence total.
To be clear, attendance is important
to be successful in a class and adequately
learn a subject. When a student must
miss a class, no matter the reason, it disadvantages them. However, the
initial reason for the absence, missing
instruction time and playing catch-up are
punishment enough. Having your grade
docked arbitrarily on top of that, the
most common attendance policy, is cruel.
That being said, the Office of
Student Accessibility (OSA) does have
attendance flexibility accommodations
for students with documented
disabilities. However, many students
like myself may not yet have a diagnosis
or access to the documentation process.
My neurodivergence and severe mental
health issues often directly impact my
ability to go to class, but I am often
forced to harm my health by going to
class because I feel like I have no choice if
I want to succeed in college.
However, whether such a disabled
student-specific policy existed or not,
there would still be inequity. When
the classroom is an inaccessible place
where individual accommodations need
to be provided to bridge the gap, many
students’ needs go unmet or they have
the burden to create equal access placed
on themselves. This is why the concept of Universal
Design for Learning (UDL) exists, a
concept that the OSA also endorses.
UDL focuses on creating the most
accessible learning environment from
the get go, which benefits all students
instead of just those who actively seek
out accommodations. This could look
like including multiple formats for an
assignment, offering different seating
options and including both digital and
audio text for materials.
I believe professors should use
UDL as a framework to determine their
attendance policies. Additionally, I ask
professors to simply consider if their
attendance policies are achieving the
desired effect. I know that this will vary
by class, but I think it is important to do
so regardless of the result.
During hybrid classes, having the
option to attend online prevented many
of my own personal absences and eased
the burden. I know that this is no longer
an option for professors, but recording
and uploading lectures certainly still is.
There are also a number of alternatives
to explore, and there is no better time to get creative. Perhaps a required
appointment could be triggered after a
student surpasses a certain number of
absences.
I am no expert in pedagogy, and I will
not pretend to know the perfect solution
to the attendance policy conundrum for every class. I also acknowledge that
revising and creating a well thought out
policy is more work for professors who are
already burdened. However, reinstating
rigid attendance policies harms students,
and the work to reimagine attendance
would certainly be worth it in the end.
By REBECCA HANSON
LEWIS & CLARK’S expansion of
in-person dining options this
semester has been able to provide
a much-needed sense of community,
as well as relief from the limitations of
last year. As such, students have been
quick to embrace these options, from
the quesadillas at Fields Dining Hall to
the burgers at the Trail Room.
Unfortunately, this transition
from limited to full operation has
created stumbling blocks for students.
Confusing hours, meal swipes and
the convoluted flex point economy
make dining require patience, grit and
knowing the exact hours that Maggie’s
will take your swipe. One Saturday, I
went down to Maggie’s and selected
my sandwich, chips and drink. When I
asked to use a meal swipe, the worker
(whom I shall never blame; Maggie’s
workers are the backbone of LC) then
informed me that Maggie’s does not
take meal swipes on Saturdays.
Face flushing under my mask,
I returned my chips and fruit and
instead chose frozen pizza bites.
Perhaps this incident was my own
fault for not reading the sign carefully
(they have since added a much larger
sign). But with flex points to save and
meal swipes to burn, unclear swipe
guidelines throw a wrench into an
otherwise smooth dining experience.
Another frustrating aspect of
LC dining is how the swipe value
drastically changes based on where you
are eating. Why is it that at the Bon,
one could hypothetically eat infinite
slices of pizza on one swipe, but at the
Trail Room, you can only get one slice?
Even if that is the point of the Trail
Room, it still does not answer why it is
sold at the same value as a Bon swipe. This makes it hard to avoid the feeling
that I am losing money.
My financial concerns about
campus dining also extend to the meal
plan options. Simply put, the current
options are absurd. The weekly meal
plans that are available to all students
are the 19-meal plan, the 14-meal
plan and the 14-meal plan with 200
flex points per semester. According
to the Hechinger Report, a newsroom
focused on education, the national
average cost for a college meal plan is
$4,500. With the cheapest meal plan
(the 14) sitting at $5,670 a year, LC’s
cost far exceeds that average. To LC’s
credit, this plan is still cheaper than
comparable plans at other private
institutions, such as Reed College,
where the cheapest option is $6,690 a
year.
Exacerbating matters, the costs of
retail food items on campus exceed,
sometimes near-doubling, the retail
price. When students select the 200
Flex plan, they are buying their own
money back at a diminished price.
I appreciate the Flex option for the
ease of having them loaded on to my
student ID card, which I have with me
at all times, even if I forget my wallet
in my room. I will keep using Flex, as
it is a sunk cost. But every time I buy
something, I can still feel the bitter
regret of having wasted hundreds of
dollars.
My suggestion to remedy these
problems, specifically regarding the
financial aspects, is to add cheaper
meal plan options for students. Let
students withdraw funds from their
Flex accounts, instead of making
them spend all of their points or risk
completely losing their money. Finally,
let us use Maggie’s swipes on Fridays
and Saturdays.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
OPINION 4
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.Now is the time to improve attendance policies
Due to the pandemic, it is evident that students’ needs can better be accommodated when missing class
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Meal options should
better serve studentsMissing Indigenous women deserve
the same treatment as Petito case
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
HANNAH KORN/THE PIONEER LOG
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SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG
By PHILIP STEFFEN
AS AN EDUCATIONAL institution
Lewis & Clark has a number of
significant responsibilities and
obligations. It has a responsibility to its
students and faculty to create a safe and
effective learning environment. It also
has a responsibility to provide student
housing that is safe, affordable and
ecologically sustainable. Most of all, LC
has an obligation, both as an institution
and a collective body, to act in the
interests of the environment and life on Earth as a whole. The recent Facilities
Master Plan, and the course of action it
recommends for future campus housing
development, has lost sight of these
principles. If this plan is to go forward
as currently laid out, it will be necessary
for the LC community as a whole to
remind those in charge of where their
responsibilities lie.
In 2019, LC released a Facilities
Master Plan produced by the campus
design firm Sasaki, which describes
the long term strategy for campus
development. This report is available online, but the highlights are as follows.
First, LC has accrued $250 million in
deferred campus maintenance, which
is the necessary building upkeep that
LC is legally allowed to put off to a later
date as per building codes. Second, both
the Stewart-Odell-Akin and Hartzfeld
housing complexes are slated for
demolition and replacement.
Both of these concepts are
immediate environmental and
economic red flags for a number
of reasons. Contrary to what any
developer might tell you, the process of constructing a new building will
always be ecologically brutal, as well as
expensive. When a new building is built,
every piece of wood must be cut out of
a living forest, every brick heated in an
energy intensive furnace, every piece of
plywood made with petrochemical glue
extracted from oil. Even in cases where
“environmentally friendly” building
practices are employed, significant
energy use and ecological disruption
are still required. At a very basic level,
the act of building requires razing an
environment and paying a large crew of
workers to rebuild it, with vehicles and
tools that themselves release carbon
and particulate emissions into the
atmosphere.
So why is a supposedly eco-friendly
school like LC embarking on such a
process? One might assume that buildings
need to be replaced because they are
falling down. If this were true it would
in itself be an ecological catastrophe on
the part of LC’s administration. Failing
to maintain the campus by deferring
maintenance is in itself an ecological
failure which should be condemned by
the student body. A basic expectation of
any student should be that the housing
costs they pay be used to maintain the
buildings they live in.
Unfortunately, the truth may be even
worse. The language used to describe
the condemned buildings in the master
plan is “not worth significant further
investment” which suggests that LC
may simply want to demolish the older
buildings in favor of new ones that look
better on brochures. If the buildings
are at all salvageable, it is absolutely
necessary that they be ‘reused’ instead
of thrown away. An ecological and cost-
friendly solution would be to retrofit
the buildings in question up to present
day safety, energy and living standards.
I say this with particular attention to
Hartzfeld, a low-lying concrete and
brick structure surrounded by trees.
Hartzfeld would, with proper refitting,
almost certainly maintain better energy
efficiency than the wooden apartment
block that would replace it.
Finally, if buildings do actually
need to be replaced, LC must do so in a responsible manner. Existing
buildings need to be replaced with
new environmentally friendly ones
of durable construction. If LC cannot
prove that their new buildings will be
sustainable, and if they cannot prove
that the buildings will go to waste
once again through corner-cutting and
deferred maintenance, they have no
business erecting new structures at all.
When it comes to housing, the
primary concern must be students and
the environment. Students deserve
affordable, functional housing, not
housing that exists to draw in new
students at exorbitant costs. Students
deserve housing that is ecologically
friendly, so that they are not made
complicit with the brutalization and
destruction of ecosystems, whether
directly through new construction or
indirectly through energy and resource
misuse. Lastly, LC has a responsibility
to life on earth and the environment: An
obligation to do its part in combating
the accelerating ecological crisis.
If LC cannot, or chooses not to meet
these necessary requirements, it will in
turn become the obligation of the LC
student body and community to uphold
their responsibility to the college as
an institution and to the environment
as a whole. This means canvassing,
pressuring, petitioning, agitating,
organizing and demonstrating. When
it comes to the environment, all
available means of resistance, defense
and activism must be placed on the
table.ZACH REINKER/THE PIONEER LOGBy OWEN WOLFF
THERE ARE MANY different
seats around the Lewis & Clark
campus. So many, in fact, that it
seems a Herculean task to review them
all. One might even be inclined to ask
why I attempted such a thing. When
confronted with the same question about his plan to summit Everest,
George Leigh Mallory only had one
simple reason: “Because it’s there.”
With those words resonating through
my psyche, I trudge on.
In the spirit of serialization, let us
pick up where we left off: Aubrey R.
Watzek Library. Watzek, in addition
to some standard chair options, is also home to some oddities. These offer
lounging experiences which, if not
comfortable, are indeed one of a kind.
To start off with one of the more
tame examples, we must venture to the
back of the study area in the atrium.
This is where we will discover a love seat
that has been split into two pieces and
has a table spliced into the middle. This mutual-respect seat or love-as-a-friend
seat only gets stranger the more I think
about it. What purpose does it serve?
Why is the table level to the seat and
not the armrest? Do people actually use
it? This could easily be converted into a
perfectly comfortable couch and coffee
table combo, but instead it is forced to
live out an accursed half-life, not quite
usable and not quite novel.
4/10 - Strikes the perfect
balance between pedestrian and
impractical.
Next up, situated not ten feet away,
is the Watzek log bench. The log bench
is only a bench in the most technical of
definitions, where, yes, with significant
effort one could sit on it, but even
then not without a great amount of
discomfort. The seat itself is very
shallow, at a slight incline and varnished
from top to bottom. The backrest is far
too low, which puts undue strain on the
middle of your spine. Sitting on this is a
constant battle to not slide off and/or get
a wedgie. In addition, the butt grooves
in the bench only ever really insinuate
the shape of the human posterior,
which lends itself to an unpleasant and
alienating experience.
6/10 - Novel but uncomfortable,
appreciate from a distance.
The oddest of oddities that one
might come across in Watzek is officially
entitled “Stump Roost.” This large
bronze sculpture of a bird flying over
a log is situated snugly against the left
side of the main stairs in the atrium. It
is difficult to put into words what sitting
on this entity is like. These are the only
notes that I was able to take on this seat
as I was sitting in it, but they capture the
spirit of it.
Stump Roost: Not particularly
comfortable. Bird over my head. I do not think I am supposed to sit here.
What/10 - Occupies a significant
portion of my waking
consciousness.
In keeping with the enigmatic,
let me now take you outside of the
Fir Acres Theatre. Here you will find
Václav Havel’s Place. Václav Havel’s
Place at LC is one of many worldwide
memorials to former Czech president
Václav Havel. Havel places are areas
designated for mutual dialogue and
meaningful discussion, central to the
former president’s values. The seat
itself, “Democratic Bench” by Bořek
Šípek, is a round table pierced through
the center by a linden tree, the national
tree of the Czech Republic. On either
side of the tree, there are two metal
chairs who each share a leg with the
table, creating one large interconnected
organism.
Conceptually, this is a very cool
spot to sit. However, my own personal
experience with “Democratic Bench”
was slightly traumatic. I visited the
bench on a moonless fall evening. The
vague chlorine smell that veiled Havel’s
place was equal parts off-putting and
unexplained. Definitely the strangest
aspect of my visit though, was the third
chair placed three feet away, shrouded
in shadow, and facing away from
“Democratic Bench.”
I cannot say for certain but I believe
that Havel’s place at LC is haunted.
9/10 - Would recommend.
Once again, we have reached the
end of a chair review, and once again
this is only a drop in the bucket of chairs
around campus. In case there is no part
three to this saga, the chair review must
live on through you, the reader. If you
see a seat, I implore you to sit in it for
no other reason than because it is there.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
FEATURES 6
Try out these pastimes perfect for the season of fright, from the ghoulish and eerie to the downright delightfulFour festive haunts to visit before Halloween
By TOR PARSONS

FALL IS IN THE AIR. The wind
has a bite to it, corporations have
added pumpkin and ghost emojis
to their Twitter bios and your dad has
inevitably begun forwarding you and all
your family members that humor piece
about autumn from McSweeney’s. And
as the world emerges from an event far
scarier than any haunted house, plenty of
fun Halloween opportunities have started
opening up. For your reading pleasure,
I have compiled a list of four of the best
things to do in Portland this October.
1. Check out The Fear PDX
No Halloween activity can rival a
good haunted house. Billing itself as “the
scariest haunted house in the Pacific
Northwest,” The Fear PDX sprawls out
over a shopping center in east Portland,
where visitors can nervously tiptoe
(or run screaming) through a series
of four themed haunted houses: first,
a haunted factory full of shrieking,
maimed workers; the obligatory Victorian
mansion with creepy twins reminiscent of
“The Shining;” next, a circus patrolled
by evil clowns; and finally, a labyrinth of
blinding lights, checkered patterns and tilted floors, which, while more surreal
than scary, is also the most unsettling of
the four themes.
An extreme haunted house called
Layers of Darkness is also a part of the site,
whose guests are given latex gloves “due to
the nature of the attraction.” The Pioneer
Log is too afraid to investigate further.
Know before you go: Tickets cost
$29.99 per person for the main attraction,
though the Layers of Darkness house
costs less, at $10 for a ticket. Please do
not attempt any of these haunted houses
if you have a sensitivity to flashing lights.
2. Get pumpkins on Sauvie Island
If you are in search of a less heart-
pounding fall activity, look no further
than The Pumpkin Patch located on
Sauvie Island. Visitors can pick their own
pumpkins, shop for produce grown on-site
at the Farm-Fresh Market and attempt
the massive corn maze. This year the
MAiZE, as it is punningly known, has the
theme of “Bridgetown” and incorporates
footbridges into its design.
Know before you go: Transportation
is limited. TriMet bus line #16 connects
downtown to Sauvie Island, but the
pumpkin patch is still a substantial walk
from there and taking a pumpkin on a bus may be logistically challenging. Lewis
& Clark’s Campus Activities Board is
running a bus trip to the MAiZE on Oct 16
and tickets are $7-12.
3. Eat at the “Rimsky” House
A Portland staple since 1980, the
Rimsky-Korsakoffee House is not exactly
a Halloween-themed attraction, but
it does have a similar aesthetic to the
holiday. Even if Halloween did not exist,
this café, located in a former Victorian
mansion, would still be every bit as
deliciously spooky. In the dimly-lit dining
rooms, tables sometimes rattle or rotate
without anyone touching them. You
can convince yourself it was just your
imagination while sipping elaborate coffee
concoctions or choosing from an array of
outrageously rich cakes and pies. Some
nights, a live string quartet or classical
pianist adds to the atmosphere. In all,
it feels like being invited into the parlor
of a mad noblewoman in a 19th-century
Gothic novel, or perhaps stepping into
the set of a Laika or Tim Burton movie.
Know before you go: The Rimsky, as
locals call it, is only open for a few hours
in the late evening, and hours tend to
be erratic. Make sure to check its hours
before you go and bring cash since they do not accept credit cards. Also, beware of the
surprise in the bathroom.
4. Discover underground tunnels
Lastly, there is a spooky adventure
to be had on our very own campus.
If you have been at LC for a year or
more, chances are you have heard
the rumor about mysterious tunnels
winding under the campus. A few
students I talked to doubted their
existence, but popular wisdom holds that a door near the IT service desk
in the Aubrey R. Watzek Library,
with signs warning that an alarm will
sound if it is opened, leads down into
their depths.
Know before you go: Unfortunately
I have to warn you that the tunnels are
off-limits. With that out of the way,
bring a flashlight.
Happy Halloween from The
Pioneer Log.
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WONDERFIL, A new startup
based in Santa Cruz, CA,
is on a mission to reduce
single-use plastics by providing refill
stations for consumer packaged
goods (CPGs) such as shampoo and
liquid soap. The company intends to
help decrease fracking and single-use
plastic consumption while allowing
consumers to save money. Former
Pioneer Log editor Amelia Eichel ’20
is one of its co-founders.
Eichel conceived the initial idea for
Wonderfil by examining the systemic
problem of single-use plastics.
Companies such as ExxonMobil and
Shell were contributing to the issue
by making plastics and selling them to
distributors for packaging. After Eichel
realized that these large oil companies
are the ones producing plastics, she
followed that thread and discovered
that big plastic corporations had
been spreading misinformation about
recycling to keep their products in the
public’s hearts as a sustainable option.
Even though plastics are technically
recyclable, the scale necessary to make
them a sustainable resource is simply
not possible.
“The chasing arrows symbol
on plastic packaging is the biggest
greenwashing campaign in history,”
Eichel said.
Plastics pollute the areas they
are manufactured in by releasing pollutants that can lead to cancer
and other health issues. This
disproportionately impacts BIPOC
and immigrants, who often make up
the majority of the population of these
areas. Eichel had her problem, now
she needed to create a solution.
Eichel invented Wonderfil as a way
to foster more efficient transportation
of CPGs. By bringing them straight
from the manufacturing source to
the store in a reusable container,
the CPGs can then be dispensed
through a refill station. This allows for
decreased transportation, packaging,
environmental costs and humanitarian
costs associated with the process.
When Eichel expressed this idea
to her childhood friend and engineer
Shiloh Sacks, Sacks said she could
easily help design the equipment
necessary to make Wonderfil come
to life. She also found Eichel a team
of engineers who were crucial to the
company’s conception.
Eichel moved in with Sacks in
Santa Cruz in September 2020, and
they applied to the Portland Incubator
Experiment (PIE) with their idea. PIE
helps entrepreneurs build connections
and obtain materials, and allowed
Wonderfil to get in contact with CPG
suppliers and universities. With
funding from the LC Bates Center,
the Center of Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society
and the Carbon Fund at University of
California Santa Cruz (UCSC), they developed the necessary technology
to start a partnership with UCSC this
October.
At UCSC students swipe their card,
select whatever product they want
and fill a reusable container with it.
Once they contain a sufficient amount
of the product, the contents are
weighed and the students are charged
the appropriate amount. Eichel says
that there have been talks with LC
about getting a Wonderfil station
in Templeton Campus Center or
Maggie’s, and barring some logistical
challenges, both parties want it to
happen.
While Wonderfil is a brilliant,
practical solution to a very important
systemic issue, Eichel believes
everyone has the ability to come up
with that sort of solution on their own
as well.
“If you are going to be an
entrepreneur, pick a problem that has
to do with a social or environmental
cause,” Eichel said. “You have the
knowledge and skills to solve what you
are learning about in your classes.”
In addition, Eichel explained that
it takes time for an idea to develop,
and that careful attention needs to
be paid whether you are looking at
the big picture or your short-term
goals. Most of all, Eichel wanted to
underscore the potential everyone has
to make a difference. The world has a
surplus of problems; we can all be part
of the solution.
By AIDAN D’ANNA
PRIOR TO THE Fall 2021 semester,
Joann Zhang became the director
for the office of Inclusion and
Multicultural Engagement (IME). Zhang
graduated from the University of Oregon
(UO) in 2012 with her B.S. in Education,
and started her professional career there
at the Center for Multicultural Academic
Excellence (CMAE).
Zhang felt so strongly about CMAE
and the services it provided UO students
that she wanted to continue fostering that
connection in a professional capacity.
“CMAE served me once as a student,”
Zhang said. “I had a lot of my ‘aha’
moments, a lot of my identity growth and
exploration in that office.”
This focus on identity exploration
and student growth is something
Zhang intends to bring to Lewis &
Clark through her work in the IME.
As the first member of her family to go
to college, she also has a passion for
helping other first-generation students
find a community at their institutions.
“I hope to be able to provide (a place
for identity development) for students
here as well,” Zhang said. “Especially our
first-generation students, who may not
feel like they have a sense of belonging
here ... I’m here to support them.”
Although she intends to bring some of
what she learned at UO to her new role,
Zhang understands that what may have
worked at a large university might not
have the same impact at a small liberal
arts college.
“If there are things that I can tap into
from my experience there and bring it
here, great,” Zhang said. “But what works
for them isn’t going to necessarily work for
us, and I’m very mindful of that.”
Zhang is still trying to get her
bearings after having been on campus for
just over a month, but she is attempting
to do most of her learning from current
students. She is leaning on her student
peer educators to show her the ropes, and has been inviting students she meets on
campus to her office just to chat.
“For me to really do my job well I have
to get to know the students,” Zhang said.
“Having conversations with them and
figuring out what their needs are will help
me determine my goals.”
One of Zhang’s first big steps is
initiating the hiring of a new program
manager. While the position description
has yet to be finalized, the job of the
program manager will be to examine
some of IME’s core programming to
make sure the office is running smoothly
and fulfilling their goals.
Great Expectations is one of these
signature programs. This mentorship
program pairs first-year students from
underrepresented groups with an
upperclassman mentor who checks in
periodically to ensure their transition
is going smoothly. Zhang believes this
program is important but lacks the same
structure and support for upperclassmen
that it provides to first-years.
“In the future I’d like to create more
structure for our continuing students,”
Zhang said. “Whether it’s a mentorship
program, where we connect them to
community members outside of LC, I
would love to do something like that.”
Another big change Zhang has
made in her first month as director is
revamping the Multicultural Resource
Center (MRC). While the MRC houses
IME’s Wokeshops and other events
throughout the year, it has also become
a place for students to just relax and feel
comfortable on campus.
“Right now we have open doors,”
Zhang said. “The space is open from
about 8:30 to 5, Monday through Friday,
and students can reserve the space after
hours if they just email us. So if you
need a place to study ... or you just want
to switch up your routine please come
utilize the Multicultural Resource Center.
It’s just a space for underrepresented
students, marginalized students to come
and be in a community.”AIDAN D’ANNA/THE PIONEER LOG
A scarecrow looms above the MAiZE, an eight acre corn maze on Sauvie Island.
AIDAN D’ANNA/THE PIONEER LOG
Director Joann Zhang shows off the newly renovated Multicultural Resource Center.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WONDERFIL
Amelia Eichel ’20 collects Lewis & Clark students’ opinions on a Wonderfil refill station at this year’s New Student Orientation.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
FEATURES 7
By BELLA ROOT
LEWIS & CLARK alumna Haben
Girma ’10 is widely known as the
first deafblind person to graduate
from Harvard Law School.
Deafblindness is a relatively rare
disability that affects 2% of the global
population and exists on a spectrum. In
her own life, Girma can only hear some
high frequencies and has a very limited
amount of sight.
In an interview conducted via email,
Girma reflected on her time at LC. She also
expanded on educational institutions that
need to change how they interact with and
accommodate persons with disabilities.
“Many schools still treat access for
disabled students as special, separate
and extra,” Girma said via email. “The
charity model is the wrong model. Schools
need to adapt the physical, digital, and
social environment to create an inclusive
community for disabled students.”
Girma described some of the
influences in her life that inspired her
to become a speaker and educator on
disability justice.
“As a Deafblind student in college, I
witnessed advocates using the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) to change
social attitudes… Impressed by the
success of these advocates, I felt inspired
to join them,” Girma said. “Back then, and
even now, I encountered many barriers
in the digital world. Not because of my
disability, but because of attitudes among
tech developers that trivialize access for
disabled people.”
While at LC, Girma had an experience
that fueled her desire to become a lawyer.
Girma discusses this incident in her TED Talk, “Why I work to remove access
barriers for students with disabilities.”
When Girma attended LC, Fields Dining
Hall had about five different food stations
that each served a different meal. The
cafeteria visibly displayed a menu for
each station, but these menus were not
accessible for blind students. The cafeteria
staff offered to read her the menus at each
station, but even if they did, she would not
be able to hear it.
After reaching out to the dining hall’s
general manager about accommodating
her access to the menu,
they agreed to email
her a copy of the
menu at the
beginning of each
week. From
there, Girma
was able to
use a screen
reader to
access the
menu. However, the staff frequently forgot to
send her the menu. This left her unable to
choose what she was going to eat. Instead,
she would pick a line at random and take
whatever was served to her by the staff.
She would then take it back to a table and
discover what she was going to eat.
On the occasions when the cafeteria
staff would send her the menu, “life was
delicious.” However, even though she was
sent the menu infrequently, she decided
to put up with it for a few months. “This
would just be another thing I would have
to deal with,” Girma said. Then,
something in her shifted.
“Those menus at that
cafeteria was a pivotal
moment for me, when I
decided that I should
do something,” Girma
said. “For myself
and for future blind
students.”
Girma went
back to the dining
hall manager and explained that she deserved access to the
menus like all the other students. The
manager told her that the cafeteria was
very busy and he was doing her a big
favor by sending her the menus, so she
should stop complaining and be more
appreciative.
This confrontation did not solve
Girma’s problem, so she tried something
new: She researched her rights as a person
with disabilities. Girma found that the
ADA, which was passed by the United
States Congress in 1990, protected the
rights of people with disabilities against
this form of discrimination. The ADA
maintains that businesses are required
to make reasonable accommodations for
people with disabilities, and the school
cafeteria emailing Girma a menu fell
under this protection.
With this knowledge, Girma went
back to the cafeteria manager and
informed him that providing her
access to the menu was not a favor,
but a requirement by law. She told
him that if he would not send her
the menu consistently, she would
sue them. Girma later admitted that
she did not actually know how to sue
someone nor did she have the funds
to hire a lawyer.
Girma recalls being scared
that others would find her trouble
accessing a menu too trivial.
“Lewis & Clark had done an
excellent job at giving me my course
materials and textbooks, my exams
in braille ... Blind students in other
colleges struggle to get basic access to
books, even today,” Girma said. “So
who was I to complain?”
However, she was excited by the possibility of making the school a
better place.
“I had a vision of helping other
people,” Girma said. “I had a vision
of joining the civil rights movement,
maybe even becoming a lawyer.”
The cafeteria’s attitude changed
after the ADA policies were brought
to their attention. Girma’s actions
“changed the culture in the cafeteria”
as well as the trajectory of her own life.
This culture shift can be seen
in Fields Dining Hall today. Since
Girma’s experience, the Bon’s
menu has become available online.
According to Ryan Jensen, the general
manager of Bon Appétit Food Service,
this development was made with
accessibility in mind.
“I know that Bon Appétit’s
corporate team worked with the Office
of Civil Rights – U.S. Department
of Education to audit our custom
cafebonappetit.com websites to ensure
they are accessible.” Jensen said in an
email interview.
According to Jensen, the Bon
currently works directly with the Office
of Student Accessibility to ensure that
their services are accessible to students
with disabilities.
Girma went on to work at Disability
Rights Advocates, a nonprofit
organization in Berkeley, California.
She was named a White House
Champion of Change by President
Obama, and published a memoir in
2020 titled, “Haben: The Deafblind
Woman Who Conquered Harvard
Law.” Girma now works as a consultant
and educator on accessibility,
leadership and diversity.LC alum created change in Fields Dining Hall
Abdo Al Rayyis ’22 debuts new
season of popular comedy showAs a student, Haben Girma ’10 helped promote greater accessibility for disabled students around campus
By TOR PARSONS
ABDO AL RAYYIS ’22 has
always thrived in front of an
audience.
“In high school, I was probably
the only weird kid who wanted to do
presentations,” Al Rayyis said.
This enthusiasm was what led Al
Rayyis, a sixteen-year-old who had
recently immigrated from Iraq, to
start hosting a live show focusing on
Middle Eastern affairs at his new high
school, the United World College
of the American West (UWC-USA)
located in Montezuma, New Mexico.
He characterized the initial tone of
his show as “very serious and kind of
intense,” but he later pivoted to more
of a late-night comic-news format
after his classmates praised him
for his sense of humor, which was
inspired by his favorite comedian, Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef.
Al Rayyis, who is half Arab and half
Kurdish, was born in Baghdad, Iraq
not long before the events of Sept. 11,
2001. After the U.S. invasion of the
region in 2003 decimated Baghdad,
Al Rayyis’ family moved to Erbil,
the capital of the semi-autonomous
Kurdish region in northern Iraq,
which was relatively undamaged by
the war. After spending time in the
U.S. during a high school exchange
program, Al Rayyis won a scholarship
to the prestigious UWC-USA for his
junior and senior years. He was the
only Iraqi student on campus.
All these years later, after bringing
his show to Lewis & Clark and having
to face an 18-month pandemic-
induced hiatus, “Abdo’s Late Show”
is still going strong. The newest
season began on Tuesday, Oct. 12,
with a show at 7:30 pm in the Council Chamber. Al Rayyis wants these
shows to occur on a roughly monthly
basis and be under an hour, but also
says the show tends to run longer
than an hour no matter what he does.
While previous episodes of
“Abdo’s Late Show” have limited
documentation online, Al Rayyis says
he plans to fix this. He has at least
six episodes taped from the 2019-20
season and intends to edit and upload
the footage to his YouTube account.
As of now, there is a single episode
of “Abdo’s Late Show” on YouTube,
recorded on Feb. 24, 2020. In the
episode, Al Rayyis interviews several
international students from Bosnia,
monologues about his first American
girlfriend and plays satirical videos of
himself interviewing random Portland
residents about a fictional African
country suffering from an “essential
oils crisis.” Musical accompaniment
was provided by Queen Shit and the
Island Turd Jazz Band.
The Oct. 12 show consisted of
a performance by LC band Mr.
Beautiful followed by Al Rayyis’
humorous opening monologue on
Lebanon, his own health struggles,
LC meme pages and white guilt. Free
pizza was also served to the audience
during the show. Al Rayyis’ friend
Rocco Weyer ’22 performed a stand-
up routine, after which Al Rayyis and
Weyer performed a skit lampooning
Middle Eastern stereotypes. Al
Rayyis then introduced the night’s
main topic: the ongoing political
crisis in Afghanistan. After a break,
Al Rayyis interviewed a refugee from
Afghanistan over Zoom. Another
song by Mr. Beautiful closed out the
evening.
Al Rayyis says that the
administration at LC has been very
supportive and helpful in bringing his
dream of running a late-night satire
show to life. The road to becoming a
star on campus has not been without
hiccups, however.
“When I did my very first episode
I didn’t know what I was doing, and
I still don’t know what I’m doing,” Al
Rayyis said. “But I can work it out.”UMI CALDWELL/THE PIONEER LOG
Al Rayyis has hosted his politically-charged late show since his freshman year.ADAM KARP/THE PIONEER LOG Philosophy club hosts
existential coffee hour
By PHILIP STEFFEN
EVERY WEEK, A group of
students meet in J.R. Howard
214 for an hour of relaxed, but
impassioned, discussion about any
number of subjects. From nihilism,
stoicism and ethical choice theory
to personal greetings and small talk,
anything is on the table. This is Lewis
& Clark philosophy club’s weekly
coffee hour.
The meetings often start out
slowly, with a trickle of students,
and the occasional faculty member,
who gather and speak to each other
around tables, in chairs arranged in
circles or by simply standing. The
events really start to heat up when
the caffeine begins to flow. And
despite the name “Coffee Hour,” all
kinds of warm beverages are served.
This includes black and green tea, as
well as coffee with ample options of
creamer and sugar. There is even a
package of decaf grounds on the table,
although no one seems particularly
interested in it.
Once this diverse collection
of drinks is served in a chaotic
assortment of logoed mugs and
dining hall cups, the small groups
gather into larger combinations
and conversations as eclectic as the
lounge’s drinking vessels ensue. This
free-flowing nature of the meetings
reflects what Tobey Bazeley ’23 hopes
the club can be.
“We want (Philosophy Club) to
be a space where people can show up
and have the discussion they want,”
Bazeley said.
While the club eschews traditional
leadership roles in favor of a more
relaxed management style, Bazeley
and Al Levin ’24 were the ranking
members at the day’s coffee hour. When
describing her goal for the club this year,
Levin described how she “would like to
create an environment where people can
talk about philosophical ideas without
previous philosophical knowledge.”
This ethos is carried out in how
discussions are organized.
“Philosophy majors especially tend to get off topic very easily,” Levin said.
“We’d like to allow people to do that a
little more because they can’t really do
that in a classroom setting.”
Sure enough, the day’s conversation
explores a number of “off-topics,”
from morality and criminal justice
to psychoanalysis. As the hour draws
to a close, there is even a discussion
concerning nature’s ability to
communicate with humans, led by
Associate Professor of Philosophy and
Philosophy Department Chair Joel
Martinez.
Philosophy Club hosts more
than the coffee hour. According
to Levin and Bazeley, the club is
in the process of organizing more
structured events for their attendees,
including philosophy day hikes,
movie nights and even two reading
clubs concerning existentialism and
queer theory. These two book clubs,
led by Rosalee Hayes ’23 and Liam
Krutschek ’24, will place an emphasis
on literature, personal experience
and discussion, and intend to provide
a suitable alternative to the more
stringent academic nature of the
traditional philosophy course.
When it comes to joining the
Philosophy Club, their invitation is
inclusive and wide open to students
of any major, experience or attitude
towards caffeine.
“Anybody can come to the coffee
hours or hikes when they start to
happen,” Levin said. “This is a club
for the people.”
NICOLE NAGAMATSU/THE PIONEER LOG FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
ARTS 8
By CASPER JAMES PIERCE
Content warning : This article
discusses sexual assault and
reproductive trauma.
Thespians and theater buffs
rejoice, for Lewis & Clark’s theatre
program is back in full swing for
the 2021-22 school year. “STUCK!,” this
year’s annual one-act festival, kicked off
the season with three plays: “Sasha &
Carlyle Make a TikTok” by LC student
Niels Truman ’22, “Great Falls” by Lee
Blessing and “Play” by Samuel Beckett.
“Sasha & Carlyle Make a TikTok” is
set in 2020 at the start of quarantine.
The two main characters, Sasha and
Carlyle, are sent home from their
semester abroad in London. Carlyle’s
father falls ill, so they stay at Sasha’s
house, where the rest of the play is set.
The two friends have vastly different
needs and ways of coping with the
pandemic. This dissonance ends up
creating a rift between them.
The idea for the play came from
Truman’s similar experience. He went
to London in Spring 2020 for a study
abroad trip through Oberlin College,
which is where he was enrolled before
transferring to LC. Much like his
characters, he was sent home mid-
trip and he wrote the play as a class
assignment and reaction to his situation.
Last semester, when the time came
for students to propose plays for the
one-act festival, Truman revisited his
work.
“I remembered I had this one-act
just sitting around, and I dug it out,” Truman said. “It felt so right, because
live theatre was starting back up again,
to have a play about the past year and a
half in which there was no live theatre,
and to represent this time period where
we were not able to have community in
a communal setting.”
Blessing’s “Great Falls” is a standard-
length play from 2009. Director Gabe
Reyes ’23 had to cut and streamline the
work into one-act form.
The play features a 17-year-old girl
and her estranged stepfather on an
impromptu road trip to Montana during
the summer before college. The girl is
prickly, distrusts men and is mad at
her ex-stepfather (nicknamed “Monkey
Man”) for his unexplained betrayal of
her and her mother.
The girl also has moments of
vulnerability; she reveals that she was
raped and is pregnant, and gets an
abortion during their trip. By the end of
the play, Monkey Man is changed by the
experience and realizes he cannot play a
helpful role in her life if he continues to
force himself into it.
This work required tactful
discussion during production meetings
due to its sensitive topics.
“Working with the director and
actors was an incredible experience
because I felt like they were all so
professional and willing and ready to
be vulnerable with each other,” Mia
Webster ’23, stage manager for “Great
Falls” and production manager for the
entire festival, said. “If they had not
been like that, I do not think the show
could have been what it was.”
Beckett’s “Play” is the most avant-garde of the three works. Beckett is famous for
playing with the “theatre of the absurd”
and creating thought-provoking stories in
disorienting settings.
The three unnamed characters of the
play appeared with their heads popping
out from urns and spoke in fast, monotone
voices about their relationships with each
other.
“I will not tell you what it is about …
we all have our own interpretations,”
Alexandra Gische ’25, the actor who
played Woman 2, said. “Every time we
did it I realized something else. Even on
closing night, I realized things about the
show I hadn’t considered before then.”
“Play” presented technical challenges;
each character had a spotlight that only
shone on them when they were speaking,
and was turned off when they were not.
This was tough on the crew in the booth, as it had to be timed perfectly.
Skylar Vayda ’24 was the stage
manager for “Play” as well as the actor
for the character Carlyle in “Sasha and
Carlyle Make a TikTok.”
Vayda’s copy of the script for “Play”
was annotated with markings placed
at certain syllables to indicate when
she needed to call for a light to switch.
“We decided early on that the
characters essentially did not exist
unless the light was on them, so if
I called the cue early or late, they
just would not speak,” Vayda said.
“Developing trust with the cast, and
them knowing that I would do my job
well, was very important.”
All of these plays, with their
detail, commitment and passion were
produced within four weeks.
Webster is a sociology-anthropology major and joined the theater program
last year. They value it as a way to
get involved without requiring the
commitment of a major.
“When it comes to behind-the-
scenes work, the majors and minors are
limited,” Webster said. “People want
to get involved with that … It is hard
to get the word out about the theater
program because it feels so niche.”
This festival is just the start of this
season’s productions, and there are a
few upcoming shows this October to
look out for. “Once Upon a Weekend,”
the beloved annual show featuring
student-written comedic plays with
one whole day of rehearsal, will take
place on Oct. 16. “Passion Play,” the
fall Main Stage production, will be
performed in three acts from Oct. 27
to Nov. 6.
By SAM STARKS
WHEN “SHANG-CHI and the
Legend of the Ten Rings”
premiered on Sept. 3, the
media was in disarray about Marvel’s
intentions. Was the studio’s recent
promotion of female characters and
characters of color just an attempt to
market to the younger generation, or
was it an honest effort at inclusion and
diversity?
After watching this movie, it seems
Marvel is genuinely trying to have more
movies portray diversity. This movie
adds to Marvel’s inclusive superheroes
in their lineup. With “Black Panther”
from 2018, “Captain Marvel” from
2019 and “Eternals” set to come out
on Nov. 5, Marvel has brought in quite
the diverse cast of heroes to the Marvel
Cinematic Universe in a short
amount of time.
In the past, Marvel has
used tokenism in movies
like “The Avengers”
with Black Widow
being the only female
of the group and
James Rhodes being
typecast as Iron Man’s
Black best friend in the
first “Iron Man.” These
characters are written
as if the Marvel writers’
room had to fill a diversity
quota and simply spun
a wheel of stereotypical
characters.
As this issue has become more
prevalent in the mainstream media,
and not just superhero movies, Marvel
has slowly turned in the right direction.
They are not only releasing movies with
more diverse casts, but with diverse
writers and directors. By employing
more women and people of color on the
crew, it makes movies like “Shang-Chi
and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and
“Black Widow” feel more genuine and
well-rounded.
The film was able to move past
stereotyping Asians as quiet and smart:
All of the characters were fleshed out
and exciting. However, it fell into
some bigger stereotypes relating to
Chinese culture. Shang’s sister, Xialing,
is overlooked by her father due to his traditionalist values, implying Chinese
culture is inherently sexist. Xialing is
clearly a very powerful and skilled
fighter, yet she is used very sparingly
throughout the movie.
When it came to audience
reactions, “Shang-Chi” was a mixed
bag. Most were enthusiastic about the
new representation while others were
more critical about the portrayal of
Chinese culture in the movie.
Online, Chinese Americans have
voiced their opinions.
Walter Chaw from the Washington
Post claims the movie is presenting
“the same old tropes but slightly
updated” and the representation is
simply not enough.
Michael Shi, a student who studies
martial arts at the University of Florida,
thinks the accurate
portrayal of martial
arts and “the proper
techniques (were)
really inspiring
for me.”
Many view
this movie as
a step towards
inclusivity in the
media and not as
the end product.
This act of
inclusion already
sets the tone for
Marvel’s future projects.
The upcoming
“Eternals” is being
directed by Chloé
Zhao, the first Asian American woman to
win an Oscar for her movie “Nomadland.”
Hype is already building around how
she will present the characters and how
her directing style will translate into a
Marvel movie.
The new representation Marvel is
bringing to superhero movies is great.
Nevertheless, it is still important to
critique what they put out and look at
what they lack in terms of diversity.
Not only does the cast matter, the story,
writers and crew members do as well.
As Marvel continues to create more
diverse stories, they not only need
to focus on breaking stereotypes and
inclusion within their cast, but must
also continue to have people of color in
the writers room and crew. By SOLEINA ROBINSON
SINCE OPENING its doors in
1982, 2nd Avenue Records has
been located at the intersection
of Southwest 2nd Ave. and Southwest
Harvey Milk St. The store was
originally located in a 600-square-foot
storefront in the Governor Building,
but expanded into a more spacious
storefront of the same historic
building.
2nd Avenue Records was once
named Lost Highway after the Hank
Williams song and was more focused
on used vinyl. The store now sells a
mix of new and used vinyl, CDs and
cassette tapes.
The open doors at the entrance are
plastered with stickers and numerous
T-shirts hang from the ceiling. This is
a place where one can be exposed to
new shirt designs and new music. A
sign asks customers to leave their bags
and backpacks behind the counter.
The floorspace is jam packed with
music. Regulars and tourists alike
wander through rows of vinyl to find
that one Elton John record they have
been searching for or that Death Cab
for Cutie album they have always
wanted on vinyl.
2nd Avenue Records has vinyl
from a variety of genres including rap,
rock, soul, blues, funk, decades, heavy
metal, punk rock, jazz and reggae.
The store also has a selection of CDs and a small cassette tape collection.
Behind the counter, there are also
towering piles of boxes full of music
that customers can request to see.
Tod Mason, known as Mr. T in the
store, helps customers navigate the
maze of countless musical options.
“People seem to think it is a punk
rock store,” Mason said.
Mason explains that the original
store did have a lot of punk rock and
hip hop from independent labels, but
the store has seen an increase in the
demand for vinyl, making it necessary for 2nd Avenue Records to expand its
collection of music.
This interest is not only for the
vinyl itself, but also for the experience
of visiting the store.
“(People) get the social experience,
the authentic feeling,” Mason said
The environment that this Portland
staple provides is one that cannot
be found when shopping behind a
computer screen. Few things can
compare to walking into 2nd Avenue
Records with its vast collection of
tunes and tees.
2nd Avenue Records boasts large
vinyl collection, fun environmentSTUCK! kicks off theatre performance season
The One Act Festival was the LC Theatre Department’s first major production of the 2021 school year
Marvel makes strides
toward representation
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROCCO WEYER JOHNSON
Nathaniel Panitch-Daughton ’ 24 and Evelyn Wohlbier ’23 starred in Gabe Reyes’ ’23 adaptation of Lee Blessing’s “Great Falls”.
ISABELLE ATHA/THE PIONEER LOG
2nd Avenue records’ eclectic atmosphere attracts tourists and regulars alike.
CASPER JAMES PIERCE/THE PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
ARTS 9
Concerts remain risky despite venue policies
39th annual Banned Books Week
combats censorship in literatureBy JILLIAN JACKSON
ON NOV. 8, Harry Styles will
bring his Gucci bell-bottoms
and arena-shaking energy to the
Rose Quarter’s MODA Center during his
American leg of “Love on Tour.” Arguably
the hottest ticket in town, with seats
starting at $150, Styles’ Portland stop
could bring in as many as 19,000 fans.
Yet, as Multnomah County averages 144
new COVID-19 cases per day, Pioneers
could be chasing the watermelon sugar
high right into a superspreader event.
The MODA Center, which will also
host opera tenor Andrea Bocelli and
country-pop duo Dan + Shay this fall,
claims to have adapted well to pandemic
conditions. Masks are required, including
in parking garages, and attendees
can upload their Center for Disease
Control or World Health Organization-
approved vaccination card online at
rqcheckin.com. Visitors can also show
their vaccination card, or a picture of it,
at the door.
Still, the unvaccinated can enter the
arena, provided they have a negative
PCR or lab-based rapid test result
within 72 hours. Children under 12 can
attend sans documentation, but they
cannot sit within 15 feet of the court at
a Trail Blazers game without proof of a
negative test.
The MODA Center is located in the
97227 zip code, where a whopping 79%
of the population is vaccinated. That
does not mean, however, that 79% of
attendees are vaccinated, since MODA
attracts visitors from areas all over both
Washington and Oregon. At the time of
publication, vaccination averages for
both these states hovered around 62%. In January 2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was
cautiously optimistic.
“By the time we get to the early to
mid-fall, you can have people feeling
safe onstage as well as people in the
audience,” Fauci said to the Association
of Performing Arts Professionals. The Chief Medical Advisor to
President Biden has since changed his
tune, in part due to the Delta variant.
“We’ve got to concentrate on
continuing to get these numbers down,
and not try to jump ahead by weeks or
months and say what we’re going to do
at a particular time,” Fauci said on CBS
News Sunday Morning. Other medical experts, like Dr.
Evan Sylvester, Swedish Medical
Center’s regional director of infection
prevention, echoed Dr. Fauci’s note of
caution about large venues.
“Large gatherings indoors while we
experience this surge give me pause even
with these (mask and vaccine) policies
in place,” Sylvester said to the Seattle Times in late August. “Negative COVID
tests only capture a moment in time and
should not be relied on solely to keep
people safe.”
Like the MODA Center, McMenamins
Crystal Ballroom allows guests to bypass
the vaccination requirement with a
negative PCR COVID test within 72
hours. The venue on West Burnside
St., which will host indie rock sensation
beabadoobee and synth-pop band
Bleachers later this fall, also requires
guests to wear masks, except when
eating or drinking.
“Before you pull your mask down to
take a sip … step away if you’re in a large
crowd,” Sylvester said.
As COVID-19 spreads via aerosol
droplets, concert-goers can make their
own experience safer by pulling their
mask down as little as possible, which
might mean eating beforehand.
Another strategy for reducing
chances of transmission, only attending
outdoor events, unfortunately failed
this summer at Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest headlined by country
singer-songwriter Toby Keith. At least
62 COVID-19 cases were tied to the July
event in Oregon’s Umatilla County, with
a majority traced to the pit area.
“Any ‘surprise’ (about Pendleton)
shows we still need to educate that viral
aerosols can also easily infect at short
distances outdoors — esp. if you are
inches from another screaming concert-
goer!” tweeted University of Denver
aerosol scientist Alex Huffman.
As the Delta variant surges among
the unvaccinated and scientists discover
more about how the virus spreads, it
seems that Pioneers are still not, in the
words of Styles himself, “so golden.”
By EMMA FORD
FROM SEPT. 26 to Oct. 2, Portland
celebrated National Banned
Books Week. A commemoration
of literature that has faced censorship
and challenged its readers, the
theme this year was “Books Unite
Us, Censorship Divides Us.” Virtual
events from the Banned Book Week
Coalition featured speakers such as
Gene Luen Yang (“Shang-Chi,” “Avatar:
The Last Airbender”), Jason Reynolds
(“Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and
You,” “Miles Morales — Spiderman”)
and a Twitter chat with Laurie Halse
Anderson (“Speak,” “Chains”). Banned
Books Week Coalition also named New
York Times Bestseller Jason Reynolds
as their honorary chair, whose works
“All American Boys” and “Stamped:
Racism, Anti-Racism, And You,” were
among 2020’s most challenged books.
Books have long faced criticism
rooted in their ability to communicate
new ideas, especially to children.
Famous banned books include “1984”
by George Orwell, “The Hate U Give” by
Angie Thomas and “The Perks of Being
a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky.
Challenges to these books question
whether they are appropriate for young
readers and if their ideas could be
considered incendiary.
There are also books often banned
less for their social message and
more over whether they are worth
reading — “Captain Underpants” by
Dav Pilkey, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by
Jeff Kinney and “Bad Kitty” by Nick
Bruel are among this group (it is worth
noting that “Captain Underpants”
has also been critiqued as containing
potentially offensive imagery).
Historically, books considered
controversial have faced country-wide
bans. For example, “Brave New World”
by Aldous Huxley was banned in
Ireland for strong language, perceived
anti-religious comments and depictions
of non-traditional families. “Lolita”
by Vladimir Nabokov was banned
in France and the U.K. for its use of
pedophilia to satirize American values.
Books have even faced criminal charges,
such as the watershed obscenity trial
over the uncensored publication of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H.
Lawrence in 1960.
Book challenges happen every year
in public libraries and schools around
the country as books continue to defy
social norms. Prisons also see high
rates of book banning, limiting the
opportunities for prisoners to expand
their horizons like everyone else.
Lists of current disputes over banning
books in Oregon, as tracked by the
American Library Association (ALA),
were publicized by the Banned Book
Coalition, Multnomah County Library
and Powell’s Books Blog.
“When free people, through judicial
procedure, segregate some of their
own, they incur the responsibility
to provide humane treatment and
essential rights,” the ALA’s declaration
on A Prisoners’ Right to Read explains. “Among these is the right to read and
to access information. The right to
choose what to read is deeply important,
and the suppression of ideas is fatal
to a democratic society. The denial of
intellectual freedom — the right to read,
to write, and to think — diminishes the
human spirit of those segregated from
society.”
Since we have always been told not
to judge a book by its cover, why do our
schools and libraries continue to do so?
Books are often banned unfairly, or for
reasons we might not expect. Banned
Books Week may be over this year, but
next time you go to your local library
or bookstore, look closer. Many stores,
including Powell’s Books, have displays
year round of famous banned books.
Pick one up, you could be surprised by
what you learn. By ADELAIDE KAISER
WHILE MANY social media
platforms push consumers
towards virality, fame and
amassing the most followers, there
is one that is challenging its users to
do something different. It is called
BeReal, and its goal is to have its users
do exactly that.
The premise of the app is that it
sends a notification to all users at
the same time. The time is different
each day, so you never know when
you are going to have to post. Once
you receive a notification, you have
exactly two minutes to capture a
picture with both your front and back
camera and post it to your feed. The
goal is to be able to see what you and
your friends are doing at the same
time. If you do not post your BeReal,
you cannot see what your friends have
posted. The app also tells you how
late you are.
BeReal challenges what social
media can and should look like. There
are no filters and you cannot upload
pictures from your camera roll, so
everything has to be authentic. You do
not get caught up in likes or followers.
Your friends can comment and like
your posts, but follower counts are
not visible and posts disappear after
the next day’s BeReal is posted.
As a college student, one of the
reasons I enjoy social media is because
it allows me to stay updated on what
my friends from home are up to
when we might not be in each other’s
presence day-to-day. However, there
is only so much that one can glean
from an Instagram story or Snapchat.
BeReal lets me have a sneak peek into
moments of my friends’ lives who are at
colleges all over the country in a way that
other social media platforms do not. It
is almost a way of making the mundane
exciting. Even if I am just sitting in my
room alone doing homework, seeing
what all my other friends are up to at
the same time is enjoyable. Sometimes,
some of us may even be doing the same
thing at the same time. This creates a
sense of real-time interconnectedness
that can be difficult to have with
traditional social media.When you download BeReal,
the description reads “WARNING:
BeReal is life, real life, and this life
is without filters.” It also says that
“BeReal won’t make you famous, if
you want to become an influencer you
can stay on TikTok and Instagram.”
I think this message is what makes
BeReal a great alternative to other
social media platforms, and achieves
the best part of social media, which
is staying connected with friends.
Social media can sometimes be toxic
and lead to unhealthy comparisons
as people are often subjected to
unattainable standards. BeReal, on
the other hand, prioritizes exactly
what is in the name: being real.
I hope that BeReal gains
recognition and popularity among
Lewis & Clark students, and if you
have made it to the end of this article
I hope you and your friends download
the app and enjoy the excitement of
being real.BeReal: the low-stakes
social media platform
NICOLE NAGAMATSU/THE PIONEER LOGDAVID ALLEN/THE PIONEER LOG
On Sept. 18, the artist Billy Strings performed in Redmond, WA; the venue required face masks and proof of vaccination.
EMMA FORD/THE PIONEER LOG
This display at Powell’s Books downtown showcases a variety of banned books.
With vaccination rates rising, fans gather to see artists live despite uncertainty about crowded eventsBy AUBREY ROCHÉ
ON SEPT. 26, Kamryn Ford ’22
won the Wildcat Invitational
in McMinnville, Oregon with a
two-day score of 77 and 79. According
to lcpioneers.com, her win is Lewis &
Clark’s first individual medalist honor
since Annie McCutchan ’19 won the
2019 Puget Sound Spring Invite.
Prior to that, Ford had earned
second-place at the Pacific Lutheran
University (PLU) Collegiate
Invitational tournament for women’s
golf in Tacoma, Washington on
Sept. 18 and 19. As a result of her
performance, Ford was named Golf
Student-Athlete of the Week by the
Northwest Conference on Sept. 24.
Her scores of 77 and 74 on Sept.
18 and 19, respectively, were Ford’s
best two-day score of her college golf
career. For Ford, the recognition of
her performance and representing LC
were the most important aspects of
being named athlete of the week.
“It means everything,” Ford said.
“(It’s) been a decade-long career of
golf for me at this point. Having such
an awesome team and coaches who
have stepped up amidst some crazy
coaching changes that we’ve had to
deal with this year, it definitely means
a lot.”
At the NWC Fall Classic
tournament, on Oct. 9 and 10, the final
tournament until the spring season,
Ford came in fifth place with a two-
day score of 73 and 74. Ford described
the NWC Fall Classic as “the biggest,
most important tournament of the
fall.”
Ford began playing golf
competitively at the age of 11, and
has been competing in Oregon for 11
years. When she was younger, Ford
would play with her dad, using her
“little kid clubs.” As a senior in high
school, Ford was recruited by former
Head Men’s and Women’s Golf Coach
James Yen to play for LC.
Ford recognizes collegiate athletics
as a meaningful opportunity, and she treats every round and practice
as a privilege. Ford explained that
COVID-19 took a toll on the women’s
golf team, as they had to practice off-
campus, and transportation was an
issue.
“I know that this season is kind of
a breath of fresh air for everyone, so,
so far we have really taken advantage
of those opportunities and I hope we
just get to continue to do so,” Ford
said.
By CASPER JAMES PIERCE
HISTORICALLY, Lewis & Clark
has always hosted a small
student body. However, with
the arrival of this year’s “Classzilla”,
of over 700 first-years are young
student athletes itching to stretch
their muscles after quarantine.
According to Mark Pietrok, LC’s
director of physical education and
athletics, this is the largest class of
student athletes the department has
ever had.
“This is my 33rd year at the college,”
Pietrok said. “We had big classes in 2010 and 2015 that created some
different issues we had to overcome,
but there has not been a class like this
one.”
Pietrok explained some of the
difficulties that a large class size creates
during both a pandemic and a period of
overall social and economic distress.
“There is a national shortage of
lifeguards, since lifeguard training has
been hard to do,” Pietrok said. “We
can’t let people use our swimming
pool without lifeguards, so how do we
manage that? There is a shortage of
bus drivers, too, and we have to get
students where they need to go.”Despite these problems, he remains
positive about the department’s
increased number of student athletes.
“Last fall we were not able to do
fall or winter sports, but we were here,
so we had to look for ways to manage
our kids’ desires to participate,”
Pietrok said. “I’m extremely pleased
that we have as many people as we do
this year.”
However, this increase in student
athletes has not been distributed
evenly among LC’s sports teams. Jay
Locey, head football coach, said that
despite this huge class, he has less
players than he had wished.“Usually we would like to get 25 to
30 freshmen,” Locey said. “This year we
ended up with 21, so we’re a little short. In
total we would like 85 to 90 kids, and we
have about 74.”
Ciara Orness ’22, a member of the
women’s swim team, reports far different
numbers for the members of LC’s swim
team.
“There are more
freshmen on the
team than any other
classes,” Orness
said. “I think there
are 11 new people
and 26 or 27 of us
total, which is a huge
percentage.”
Last year, the swim team held
socially-distanced practices, with one
person on each side of the pool and
another in the middle. This year, every
player is along the same wall again.
“It is a little overwhelming ... It just
feels like there are so many people,
even though it is not that different of a
number,” Orness said.
Recruitment practices do not suggest
any explanation for the growth difference
between the football and swim teams.
Last year, LC football coaches were
actively recruiting,
though with less
travel involved due
to the pandemic.
Conversely, the
swim team did
not organize any
recruiting trips.
While LC’s
swim team had
experienced a dip
in their incoming
class, that had
only been during
the 2020-21 school year. However, the
current comeback in numbers includes some of last year’s prospective
swimmers.
“We have had a couple sophomores ...
join the team now, which is crazy. I
have never heard of people joining after
freshman year,” Orness said.
This increase in first-years may also
lead to a shift in the culture of the team
themselves.
“Our coach,
Murilo Martins,
said that with this
many freshmen,
(seniors) may not be
the ones setting the
culture and tone of
the season,” Orness
said. “A little bit of
that may be true. It is hard to tell this early
on.”
After a full school year of confusion
and cancelled games and meets, players,
coaches and other LC athletic staff face the
need to readjust and accommodate new
student athletes among the largest first-
year class LC has ever seen. Some may
be eager to get back to their passions and
others may be simply out of practice as a
result of the past year.
“I can see how it would be daunting to
get back into it and remember what it is
like to be a student
and an athlete, and
to be tired,” Orness
said.
For those that
love sports, want
to socialize with
their teammates
or would just like
to stay active, LC’s
sports teams are
and have always
been the place to
do so. Whether the
fields are crowded or not, the activity
and heart of the sport remains the same.By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
AS DESCRIBED by Mayo
Clinic, chronic traumatic
encephalopathy (CTE), is the
brain degeneration likely caused by
repeated head traumas. Research
surrounding this disease is limited
because it can only be diagnosed
postmortem. While the research
suggests a connection between repeated
subconcussive hits which are hits that do
not show symptoms there is no answer
as to why these repeated hits cause CTE.
Director of Physical Education &
Athletics Mark Pietrok was the Director
of Sports Medicine for Lewis & Clark for
30 years. Pietrok has followed CTE in
medical journals, participated in CTE
preventative training and attended a talk
by the top researchers on CTE at Boston
University (BU).
“There is definitely anecdotal
evidence out there that repetitive head
injuries might have some causal effect
on CTE,” Pietrok said. “(It) hasn’t been
proven yet, but the top head scientists
think that there might be a possibility. So
in my mind, I think
it’s our job to make
our student athletes
aware of these
potential issues. I
am in the camp that
this is a potential
issue; something that
we’re seeing, trying
to understand it
better and make our
students aware of.
But do I tell them repeated head trauma
is going to give you CTE? No.”
Matt Casson ’23 has been playing
tackle football since he was 12 and now
plays as left offensive guard for LC.
During his football career Casson has
torn his MCL in his left knee, tore his
meniscus in his right knee, ruptured a
ligament in his thumb and suffered one
concussion.
“I have known the risks of playing
football,” Casson said. “Football is a very high risk sport ... Because we’re so close
to each other on the line we hit our head
and hands at the same time and then we
push off ... About
five to ten times per
game I get a little
head contact but not
too bad that it hurts
afterwards.”
All of the
student athletes
are required to go
through a concussion
education program
that goes along with
neurological and psychological baseline
training at the start of each season. If an
athlete gets hurt, their current neuro-
psyche analysis can be compared with
their baseline to determine if damage has
been sustained to warrant further help.
Rusty Nozoe ’24 has been playing
football for 11 years and plays on the
defensive line at LC.
“Players, coaches, athletic trainers
as well as the people who develop all of
our athletic gear, for our safety, (football safety is) definitely progressing,” Nozoe
said. “It’s never really stagnant at any
one point.”
While athletes are informed on
concussions and LC takes measures
to reduce concussions by decreasing
contact in practice and buying new
equipment, new research suggests a
stronger emphasis on the potential risks
of subconcussive hits. According to Dr.
Lee Goldstein, a researcher with the
CTE Center at BU, new helmets are not
necessarily a solution.
“It’s like developing a better cigarette
filter,” Goldstein said. “It’s smoother and
it might not give you a hacking cough.
But you still get lung cancer.”
While these subconcussive hits
are not proven to cause CTE, they are
strongly linked. However, these hits are
difficult to track due to their frequency
and even harder to interpret as a risk
due to the lack of immediate symptoms.
While the science is still relatively new,
research linking football as a risk factor
for developing CTE makes this an issue
LC athletes should be educated on. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
SPORTS 10
LC athletes may be at risk for
neurodegenerative disease
Record-breaking first-year class makes waves in sports teams
From administrative hurdles to new team dynamics, the overwhelming number of first-years create changeGolfer wins LC’s first
solo medal since 2019
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG“About five to ten
times per game I get
a little head contact
but not too bad that it
hurts afterwards.”
- Matt Casson ’23
Jay Locey, head football
coach, said that despite
this huge class, he has
less players than he had
wished.Ford ’22 tracks ball as she follows through.PHOTO COURTESY OF KAMRYN FORD
ALEX NASH/THE PIONEER LOG
“Our coach, Murilo
Martins, said that with
this many freshmen, we
(seniors) may not be the
ones setting the culture
and tone of the season,”
- Ciara Orness ’22By HENRY GOODIER
THIS FALL, Portland is set to
receive its newest small business.
Marshawn Lynch, the five-time Pro
Bowl running back notoriously known as
“Beast Mode” for his dominant running
style, will be opening a restaurant in the new downtown Hotel Vance on
Southwest Broadway. The restaurant
will be named BEAST after his nickname,
and the location is a six-minute walk
from the Shattuck Hall Pioneer Express
stop.
Lynch will be partnering with the
business owners Jun Park, owner of Pacific Northwest sushi chain Musashi’s
sushi and Kevin Yamada, owner of
Kama’aina Comfort Foods of Hawaii
in Forest Grove, Oregon and Two Zone
Korean Fried Chicken in Los Angeles,
California. The restaurant is set to serve
Hawaiian cuisine, a special tribute to
Lynch’s Filipino grandmother Lola who is one quarter Pinoy and raised him
most of his life. A number of meals on
the restaurant’s menu were inspired by
the food Lynch’s grandmother made him
growing up.
According to Lynch, the location of
the restaurant was vital to its launch and
Portland was the perfect fit for his newest
endeavor.
“BEAST is a great match for a city that
is on the move like Portland, where style,
quality and community commitment
matters,” Lynch said in an interview with
RipCity Sports Radio. “We are looking
forward to serving a BEAST menu that is
second to none that matches Portland’s
reputation for food, craft beverages and
hospitality.”
Community is very important to
Lynch. In 2018, Lynch was a nominee of
the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year
for all he has done for the marginalized
communities of Oakland, California. In
2011 Lynch began his non-profit, the
Family 1st Foundation, which aims to
provide opportunities to the youth of
Oakland, California through school and
sports.
According to the non-profit’s website,
“The Fam 1st Family Foundation saves
the lives of black and brown youth
on a daily basis and is raising the
consciousness of a broken community
to become more self-sustaining, more
accountable, and less dependent on outer
entities. Each philanthropic endeavor
strikes the unique balance of athletic
appeal and scholastic achievement in a
neutral, yet nurturing environment.”Due to COVID-19, a number of
small businesses in Oregon have been
negatively impacted. According to
the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging
Association, Oregon has lost over 200
restaurants since January 2021. Recently,
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe had to close their
Southeast Clinton Street location after
more than two decades of business due to
the ongoing pandemic.
Lynch will certainly face competition
with his new restaurant. In Portland, a
city known for its unique and abundant
amount of independent restaurants,
Hawaiian cuisine is also not unfamiliar
here. There are at least 25 Hawaiian food
carts or restaurants within five miles of
Lewis & Clark. With a much anticipated
opening, “BEAST” will be a wonderful
addition to the Portland food scene.
*Correction (Oct. 1 2021) :
The Pioneer Log is revising a past
article to note this information:
The official names of the LC
Frisbee teams are Bacchus
Ultimate Frisbee and Artemis
Ultimate Frisbee. In addition,
while both teams compete in
relatively gendered divisions,
they are both open to everyone
and have no biological sex or
hormone level requirements. All
members are free to choose the
teams and divisions in which
they feel comfortable playing. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
SPORTS 11
Women’s soccer triumphs in first half of season
Marshawn Lynch launches Hawaiian eatery in Portland
Former Seattle Seahawks running back set to open restaurant “BEAST” in honor of his grandmother After being deprived a season due to COVID-19, the Pioneers are making strides on and off the field
By AIDAN D’ANNA
AFTER A shortened 2020 season
due to COVID-19, Lewis & Clark
Women’s Soccer is off to a solid
start in 2021. The Pios only got an eight
game season last year, and went 2-5-1
in conference. This year they are 5-4 in
conference, and have just passed the
midpoint of the season.
Head Coach Jim Tursi attributes
this change in performance to the
team’s defense.
“Defensively, we’ve been amazing,”
Tursi said. “Our defense is our strength
... we have two junior captains who have
been our starting center backs, and they
are the two best in the conference.”
Another strength for this year’s
team is their chemistry, both on and
off the field. Center midfielder Becca
McCullough ’21 links the heightened
team morale to winning games.
“I think scoring adds so much to the
team positivity,” McCullough said. “I
think we’re a special group, and winning
is really pulling us closer together.”
McCullough also described a team
culture in which the upperclassmen
serve as mentors for the underclassmen,
and there are no divisions between
the classes. Midfielder Ella Gouran
’25 accredits the upperclassmen with
doing an excellent job of modeling this
team culture.
“The upperclassmen, at least for me,
are really big role models,” Gouran said.
“They’re people I look up to, in soccer,
in school and just as people in general,
and I think that’s something that a lot
of the underclassmen feel, like these are
people that we want to be when we’re
older.”
This team dynamic contributes to
performance on the field, and is even
being noticed by the coaches.
“I think this is the most enjoyable
team we’ve had,” Tursi said. “And to be
honest, everyone that practices with us
contributes, which is rare to have a full
22 players that are able to contribute
in practice and make everybody else
better.”
The accountability and team
improvement has also trickled from the
upperclassmen down to the freshmen.
“We have expectations and
standards for each other and a
competitive nature,” Gouran said.
“What we do in practice definitely translates into games and the overall
feel of the season. It feels really
important to everyone … and so you feel
obligated and in a position to perform
well.”
After playing the majority of the first
half of the season at home, the Pios will
soon begin a five-game stretch on the
road, starting with Pacific University on
Oct. 23. Tursi knows away games can
be difficult, but he trusts that the team
will have a shot at maintaining their
winning record and positive morale.“It’s difficult to win on the road
here,” Tursi said. “Two of these away
games will be on grass, which we
never play on, and we’re going to play
a couple of the top teams on the road;
it will be a challenge but I’m looking
forward to it. I think this team has a
confidence that I have not seen in the
past.”
Some of the players find that the
most difficult part of playing on the
road is not the change in field surface,
but the lack of fan support. “I feel like a lot of times not a lot of
people show up to our games,” Gouran
said. “And I think going to different
schools that’s something I notice a lot
is that they have larger fan bases. That’s
what changes for me, not necessarily the
physical aspects of playing on a different
field, but the other team having a fan
base.”
Despite the tough conditions facing
the team in their second half, Tursi sees
this year as his chance to cement LC soccer
as a force in the Northwest Conference.“I would just love to imprint LC into
the conference for the first time in the 12
years since I’ve been here,” Tursi said.
“Usually we’re in the middle or bottom
half (of the standings) so basically by
this point our season is over. So to be in
a position to compete for the top two or
three spots right now is rare for us and
so I’m looking forward to seeing how far
we carry that.”
Before starting a five game stretch
on the road, the Pios play Linfield
University this Sunday, Oct. 17 at home.
Members of the LC Women’s Soccer team watch as a the Whitman University Women’s Soccer team brings the soccer ball towards midfield inside of Griswold Stadium. AIDAN D’ANNA/THE PIONEER LOG
AMELIA MADARANG /THE PIONEER LOG
By MAX ALLEN
LAST TUESDAY, in what has
been called a “freak accident,”
“disgraceful catastrophe” and “the
tragedy of our generation,” a WiFi crash
at Lewis & Clark killed four people and
left dozens injured. The severity of
injuries ranged from superficial to
mortal. Many reported minor nausea
and mood swings. Ashlyn Walter ’24
was not so lucky. She was rushed
to the emergency room after the
cataclysm, having lost a leg.
“It all happened so slowly,” Walter
said. “I was in the library, writing an
essay on my laptop, when my cursor
disappeared and the screen froze. I
frantically moved my mouse, feeling
the pressure of my unfinished thought
building up inside me. It kept building
until I felt like it was going to burst.
When it finally did, I felt this aura
of maliciousness, like the internet
pulled the thought out of my head
when it left. To be honest, I think it
took my sanity too.”
Walter said she remembered
screaming, as the agony of
forgetting what she was going
to say tore through her soul.
The world turned red, she
said, and she felt a sharp
pain in her right knee. Finally, everything
mysteriously disappeared, “like a light
switched off.”
Walter was the sole survivor of this
phenomenon, known as laggy-essay-
induced headexplodeosis. It is unclear
why she lost her leg while all of the
others suffering from this condition lost
their heads, but there has been much
speculation and a number of ill-timed
dad jokes. Essay writers were not the only
afflicted parties. Students and
faculty using technology across
campus experienced twitches of
annoyance, tremors of displeasure
and hellish infernos of eternal rage
as their respective devices went
offline.
Even those who were not participating
in internet-associated activities were
impacted. Valentina Ryan ’22 was
relaxing in a hammock when a series of
strange occurrences disturbed her peace. Ryan described swaying in the breeze
when feelings of dread and untraceable
fury suddenly crept over her. Several
people later reported a cacophony of cat
yowls punctuating the calm fall day at that
same moment. Others remembered
violent torrents of wind, fire and cats
careening about.
According to Ryan, she was
caught in the thick of it when
Satan himself descended from
the dark heavens, cackling
madly and kicking down
buildings like houses of cards.
Ryan was one of many students
who were able to flee campus. The
LC IT department later clarified
that Satan was just an external
mechanic hired to fix the problem.
To better understand how
the crash itself occurred,
expert Everett Odling, the
maintenance team leader, was
called in.
“Well, I mostly work on
buildings, plumbing, electrical,
that kind of thing,” Odling
said. “But yeah, I think what
happened is the wires of
the, uh, motherboard sorta
scrambled themselves. And we
have this common issue where kids
remove the batteries from the smoke
detectors so they can smoke weed, and
that’s probably why, um, the, uh, firewall
was able to spread… like wildfire,
y’know? Or — hey! — you know what it
really is? Sam must’ve forgot to take the
cookies out of the oven. Ah, Sam, Sam,
Sam. What do we do with Sam?”
At time of print, plans were being
made for a new WiFi network with
speeds “more relaxed and go-with-the-
flow than ever.”12FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
The Backdoor is a work of humor and fiction
Four killed, dozens injured
in tragic campus wifi crash
By OLIVIA WEAVER
THE STUDENT body
at Lewis & Clark can
be classified into two
categories: athletes or non-
athletes.
Non-athletes are also referred
to as Non-Athletic Regular
People, or NARPs. If you are
not on a sports team at LC, you
qualify as unathletic regardless of
the activities you do in your free
time. Running marathons every
weekend or participating in rock
climbing means nothing if you
are not on a team. Not all of us
can be born Division III collegiate
athletes.
The existence of NARPS also
implies the existence of Athletic
Irregular People, or AIPs. These
are the students who stand out on
campus, proudly flaunting their
coveted “chamPIOns” swag for all
the NARPs to see.
These social divisions are
a worsening issue at LC. One
student witnessed the AIPs
demanding that all NARPs be
sent to the back of the line at
Fields Dining Hall.
“Any contamination from
feeble, unathletic regular people
should be avoided at all costs,”
claimed one athlete who wished
to remain anonymous.
Seeing a NARP and an athlete
hanging out together might as
well be an episode of “Unlikely
Animal Friends,” more rare than
the chihuahua and the chicken
best friend duo in season 2. In
fact, in their efforts to separate
themselves from NARPs, most
on-campus athletes reside in the
safety of Copeland Hall.
Athletes can often be seen
walking around on campus in
packs of five or more, decked
out in their exclusively black
and orange attire, with ice packs
wrapped to different parts of
their body. After all, athletes
have hard days too. And those
ice packs serve as a reminder of
the blood, sweat and tears that
go into being a college athlete. As
if a NARP could ever understand
what it takes. The pack-mentality of the AIPs
has also resulted in structural
damages on campus. According
to Campus Maintenance, the
footpath between Pamplin Sports
Center and the Bon has needed
substantial repairs three to four
times per year due to excessive
travel. The path is also often
littered with discarded soggy
plastic wrap from melted ice
packs as their body temperature
rises with the excitement of all-
you-can-eat plates of protein and
a large glass of whole milk.
While LC does not have Greek
life on campus, the presence of
athletic teams make up for it.
Similar to Greek life, a hierarchy
exists among the sports teams
themselves. The golf team,
which consists of the most elite
athletes at LC, are at the top of
this food chain. Rumour has it,
they were recently banned from
a local country club for bullying
the elderly members. They are
the meanest, cruelest and most
exclusive team. I would avoid
them at all costs. Other teams
(I will not name names, but you
know who I am talking about)
are border-line intramurals and
are generally more welcoming to
non-athletes.
Specific teams have also begun
capitalizing on their athletic
status by charging up to $25 for
NARPs to be admitted into local
house parties. The golf team
alone has driven up these fees
by 250% since Fall 2018, due to
their elite collegiate status. Erin
Pinncacotti '22, a captain on the
golf team, admitted she views all
non-golfers as NARPs, regardless
of their other athletic affiliations.
The NARP-AIP hierarchy has
had clear impacts on the quality
of experience on the LC campus
as a whole. It is time to end this
slur, NARPs must rise up! There
is more to life than playing sports
at a liberal arts college. Instead
of letting our non-athletic status
divide us, let it unite us. Pamplin’s
doors are open to all. We are
Normal Adorable Real People.
#IamaNARPandIamproud.Supporting the sexiled: A closer
look inside the LC incel epidemic
By SOPHIE FLORES
THE SURPLUS of students at
Lewis & Clark this year has
posed countless challenges
to our community. Not only are the
lines at Field Dining Hall long and
the parking scarce, but students are
being crammed into makeshift triples
and quads. The unfortunate truth
of this new dorm living situation is
that many have found themselves
wandering into the darkness toward
nowhere in particular, wondering if
they will ever be allowed back into
their communal home. This provokes
the question that keeps many up at
night: What is one to do when they
are sexiled?
The banished incels of LC, lacking
an answer to this question, have
taken to the streets. I spoke with an
anonymous student from the class of
2024 about their perspective on this
issue.
“There’s nothing else for us to do.
Every night I find myself sitting under
the flickering lights of the common
room, falling asleep to the faint
creaking of my roommate getting
more action than I could ever dream
of. It’s time to fight. It’s time to stand
up as proud incels and take down the
Chads, Staceys, and They-ceys of our
school.”
Given this moving and all too
prevalent tale, it is no wonder that
some touch-deprived students have
taken action. Last Friday, a protest
was staged outside the Feminist
Student Union (FSU) office. Armed
with signs reading “Give me sexual
viability or give me death,” the
frustrated and neglected stormed
the FSU table. These frequently-
sexiled individuals decimated the free
condoms offered and then broke into the main office to consume all of the
free Plan B. After the contraceptive
was neutralized, the incels returned
to their respective dorms only to find
socks still on their doors.
To combat their loneliness, a
small group of sexileds created a
club this past Monday. It quickly
combusted, though, as femcels shed
their title and their clothes to begin
pairing off. Unfortunately, a few were
still left both without homes to return
to and without fellow incels. Their
rage, if left unchecked, could destroy
any number of sex-positive groups or
people on campus next.
We must offer options for our
poor ousted peers if we want to
avoid future uprisings. So, where can
the sexiled go to escape the pain?
Couple-magnets like Maggie’s are
out of the question as droves of
lovebirds sit around, flaunting
their fulfillment.
The Bon could
be a sound alternative to fill the hole left by a lack
of hole. It certainly is not a sexy spot
to bring a potential date and helps the
bang-banished forget so long as they
do not dwell on the hall’s name. After
finishing a lovely lone-Bon, there is
always the Pio Shuttle. If poor incels
really need to stay gone for a while, an
excellent strategy is getting on the Pio
and never getting off. By the time it
completes its full loop, there is a solid
chance their roommates will be done
with their rides as well.
Keep an eye out for updates on
this tragic quandary sweeping LC
and make sure to spread the word
regarding solutions to your sexiled
friends. Together, we can aid our
community in becoming a far
more supportive
place for incels.
CASPER JAMES PEIRCE/THE PIONEER LOG
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG
ISMAEL JARAMILLO/THE PIONEER LOG DEADLINE TO DROP OUT IS TODAY
STUDENT REMINDER!Inside the life of a
self-proclaimed NARP