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Volume 98, No. 1

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2022-02-14

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Vol. 98 No. 1 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022 www.piolog.com
By IHSAAN MOHAMED
ON JAN. 26, IN a historic move,
Lewis & Clark’s Board of
Trustees announced that they
had selected Vice-President of Student
Life (VPSL) Robin Holmes-Sullivan as
the institution’s 26th president.
Holmes-Sullivan is LC’s first Black,
female and LGBTQ+ president.
The announcement came after an
extensive year-long search headed
by search committee chairs Paula
Hayes ’92 and Patrick Mahaffy ’85.
Holmes-Sullivan will replace current
President Wim Wiewel, who is set to
retire at the end of the Spring 2022
academic semester.
According to a statement to The
Pioneer Log, Holmes-Sullivan decided
to go forward with the presidential
application after a substantial career
in student affairs in both California
and Oregon.
“As a professional who has spent
the past three decades working with
students, I feel well-positioned to help
ensure our college does the best possible
job of helping students to navigate these
difficult times and achieve their full
potential,” Holmes-Sullivan said in a
statement via email.
According to Holmes-Sullivan, her
first job as president is to maintain the
positive trajectory that LC has been on
recently, academically and in regards
to community.
“We must ensure that faculty
and staff have the resources and
opportunities to innovate, improve
and expand our already excellent
academic offerings,” Holmes-Sullivan
said. “We also must ensure that we
offer students a campus experience
where there is an even greater sense
of belonging and community, and
one where we communicate through
both words and action our firm
commitment to equity and inclusion
for all.”
Holmes-Sullivan’s appointment
marks a notable moment for LC, which is a Predominately White
Institution (PWI). While LC has
been strengthening its efforts to
increase numbers of BIPOC students
on Palatine Hill, the faculty and
staff remain largely white.
Iyanah Fuller ’22 currently serves
as a peer educator for the Office of
Multicultural Engagement (IME).
In the past, she has served as a co-
president for the Black Student Union
(BSU) and as BSU’s representative to
the Associated Student Body. In all
her time as a student leader, Fuller
did not have the opportunity to work
with a Black faculty or staff member.
“I have not been able to work with anybody in a leadership or
professional capacity at the school
who identifies as Black,” Fuller said.
“Going into a PWI, you have to have
certain expectations about who you’re
going to see. And I didn’t anticipate
being exposed to a lot of Black
leadership.”
Director of IME Joanne Zhang
believes that having BIPOC faculty
and staff members positively impacts
students of color on campus.
“From my personal experience in an
educational setting, having someone
who may look like you or have had
similar lived experiences can be a
game-changer in helping others make meaning of their own experience.”
Zhang said via email.
Holmes-Sullivan agrees with this
sentiment.
“Seeing me in this role will
influence a generation of young
people to see that they can also dream
big; that when they speak, people
will listen; and that when they lead,
people will follow,” Holmes-Sullivan
said.
Through IME, Zhang regularly
engages with and aids in supporting
BIPOC students.
“I’m so thrilled to have her
represent us to the larger, external
community,” Zhang said. “I think her representation is very much needed
for our BIPOC community and will
inspire all, and in particular, our Black
community and womxn of color to
achieve true greatness.”
According to Fuller, she knows
that Holmes-Sullivan is dedicated to
improving this campus for BIPOC
students, and is capable of doing so.
“I hope that in the future black
students, when they do the work that
they do here, they’re getting paid
fairly. They’re getting the support
they need,” Fuller said. “And they’re
seeing people in leadership positions
who look like them.”
Fuller is also glad that Holmes-
Sullivan will get to play a larger role
in the college, one that Fuller believes
she deserves.
“We just have to give her all the
support, all the good, all her roses
(and) all her flowers,” Fuller said.
Zhang believes Holmes-Sullivan’s
past is indicative of the type of
change the president can enact on
Palatine Hill.
“I have so much hope for LC’s
future under Robin’s leadership.”
Zhang said, “Robin has a proven
track record of getting things done in
a mindful way and thus, I’m excited
for what the future holds.”
Going forward, Holmes-Sullivan
pictures a bright future for the
college. She foresees LC to be not
only an exemplar for academic
scholarship, but also as an institution
committed to enacting social change.
“I also want us to become known
as an institution that not only
supports exploring for the global
good, but also changing the world for
good: a college that never forgets its
history, that is always learning from
the past, and that is moving forward
purposefully and with integrity into
the future,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
Holmes-Sullivan is slated to
begin her tenure as president on July
1. She hopes to hire a new VPSL by
that date.LC names Robin Holmes-Sullivan as president
Omicron variant prompts new safety protocols on campus Former Vice President of Student Life is college’s first Black woman president, inspires community
PHOTO COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Robin Holmes-Sullivan makes history as Lewis & Clark’s first Black, queer woman to be named president of the institution.
Today’s Weather
Cloudy, rainy day. High of 45 degrees
and a low of 37 degrees. Sunset at
5:37 p.m. and a waxing gibbous
moon. Happy Valentine’s Day from
The Pioneer Log!OPINION
Templeton Construction
Construction to remodel Templeton
Student Center is an inconvenient step
on the way to a better campus hub.
PAGE 5FEATURES
Thrift Store Beat
Hawthorne’s trendy 2nd Street Thrift
shop offers cottagecore, Y2K, dark
academia and more.
PAGE 7ARTS
Samia Concert Review
Aminé and Samia shows mark a return to
live music in Portland.

PAGE 8SPORTS
Sports teams and individual athletes
at LC have taken up the call for social
justice.
PAGE 10
By AMELIA DOYLE
DUE TO THE new Omicron
variant, Lewis & Clark held the
first three weeks of the Spring
2022 semester completely online.
Now, the college is back to in-person
instruction and focused on navigating
the highly contagious variant in
different ways.
“As of this week, all classes have
returned to in-person instruction,
and we return to the guidelines for
accommodations and absences already
in place from last semester,” Dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences Bruce
Suttmeier said via email.
According to Suttmeier, LC intends
to balance their commitment to in-
person education and ensuring the safest
campus environment possible.
In order to help combat the Omicron
variant, LC consulted the Associated
Student Body (ASB), members of faculty
and the Office of Health Promotion and
Wellness about possible COVID-19
management solutions. The protocols also function to address any sub-variants
that might emerge in the future.
“It’s kind of an awkward situation
when we’re going from zoom to in person,
and I just want to clarify that COVID
will be treated as it was last semester,”
Associate Dean of Students for Health
and Wellness John Hancock said.
Last year, LC tested students through
the effluent dorm testing and the random
campus tests.
This semester, asymptomatic students
that have been exposed will be able to
get a free test from the Office of Health
Promotion and Wellness, per Hancock.
Only symptomatic students should get
tested through the Health Center.
On Jan. 14, President Joe Biden
announced that the federal government
would be providing every household
with free antigen tests. Hancock hopes
that eventually, everyone will be able to
procure them. According to Hancock,
students who are unable to apply for
the program because LC’s address is a
business address can consult the college
about how to access the free federal testing.
ASB also has a fund for testing that
LC does not cover. Student Resources
Coordinator Orion Whitcher ’24, said
that the Student Resources Committee’s
funds help subsidize the test of costing
that students can often be burdened
with.
In addition to these changes, the
college is now requiring the use of
KN95 or higher quality masks on
campus. However, many students have
unknowingly bought counterfeit masks,
and some students may not have the
financial resources to purchase large
quantities of KN95 masks.
“For people who don’t have financial
resources, then all they have to do is
email the COVID email account, and my
staff has access to stashes of masks, and
we will be sure that students get some
masks and then students can re-supply
when they need them,” Hancock said.
Hancock also mentioned that if some
people have concerns with masks being
too small or too big for their faces, the
Office of Health Promotion and Wellness staff can assist them in looking for masks
that fit properly.
In terms of dining, Fields Dining Hall
will be open for both in-person dining
service, with proper masking etiquette,
and grab-and-go dining. In-person
dining will remain open, despite the
ongoing Templeton Center remodel. Within the resident halls, there
will no longer be designated COVID
restrooms for residential students with
COVID-19. Residents may also resume
having off-campus overnight guests.
All COVID-19 related questions and
inquiries should be directed to Email
covid19info@lclark.edu.
Advocacy in Sports
Changes include updated mask requirements, testing and isolation procedures, campus dining options
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIEVES
By ASMAA ZAIDAN
ON JAN. 1, 2022, a number
of new Oregon laws went
into effect. Laws on policing,
hate crimes, racial discrimination
in employment and the theft of
catalytic converters are among the
hundreds of new laws passed in 2021.
Compared to other states, Oregon was remarkably active in passing new
legislation throughout the last year.
Laws tend to go into effect one
year after their adoption date. The
Legislative session which closed July
26, 2021, yielded 719 new laws, which
are now enforceable.
Notably, the House passed “The
CROWN Act” in 2021 which has
received national headlines in recent months. The Crown Act was created in
2019 by Dove and CROWN Coalition
in California and has been introduced
in numerous state legislatures. In
Oregon, the law prohibits employers
and public school districts from
discriminating against people for
race-based and protective hairstyles.
It also defines the category of race-
based hairstyles. “A hairstyle, hair color or manner
of wearing hair that includes, but is
not limited to, braids, regardless of
whether the braids are created with
extensions or styled with adornments,
locs and twists,” the law states.
Lewis & Clark falls under the
employer category. While LC has its
own variation of anti-discrimination
policies in the hiring process, none
make mention of race-based hair
styles.
In Oregon, police reform was at
the center of changes in policy. As
a result, more than 20 legislation
addressing changes in policing passed
between the House and the Senate.
For example, HB 2936, sets a
few different standards. First, it
dictates that the Department of
Public Safety Standards must create
a comprehensive statewide and
uniform background check process
to use when hiring police officers. It
prohibits racist behavior and requires
agencies to report instances of racist
behavior to the District Attorney.
Finally, it allows employers to access
the social media accounts of law
enforcement employees, exempting
them from laws prohibiting employers
from doing so. Such laws are aimed
at holding police officers to higher
standards and preventing people with
a history of racism and abuse from
joining the force.
While HB 2936 sets internal
standards for the police force,
other laws aim to increase civilian
oversight. SB 204 promotes civilian
access to police reports, by allowing
citizen oversight boards in charge
of overseeing police misconduct to
access the Law Enforcement Data
System, which has records of arrests,
encounters.
Portland formed its own civilian oversight board. In 2020, Portland
voted in favor of measure 26-217,
which created the ReThink Police
Accountability Commission in 2021.
The chair of the House Committee
on Equitable Policing, Rep. Janelle
Bynaum, who is also Oregon’s only
black woman lawmaker, has led the
charge to increase more accountability
for police.
“They’re longstanding problems
that for whatever political reasons
haven’t been resolved, and here we
are in this moment, with a great
opportunity to take bolder steps
forward,” she said in a statement to
the OPB.
However, she explained that the
new legislation is only “laying the
groundwork to reimagine public
safety.”
Other new and relevant legislation
includes SB 803 which is aimed at
disincentivizing the sale of stolen
catalytic converters by barring scrap
metal businesses from the purchase
of the car part from non legitimate
sellers. The theft of catalytic converters
has been on the rise nationwide. This
particular legislation has an effect
on the LC student population. Some
LC students have reported that their
catalytic converters have been stolen.
However, campus security reports
there has been a total of 3 catalytic
converter thefts in the past 3-4
months.
The Oregon State legislature has
passed and is expected to amend
several other pieces of legislation on
affordable housing, teaching unions,
and election day ballot counting. The
Oregon legislature’s 2022 session
began Feb. 1.
The next General Election for the
Governor of Oregon will take place
Nov. 8, 2022. By AUBREY ROCHÉ

AS A RESUL T of the Templeton
Campus Center remodel, the
second floor of Templeton, which
housed the mailroom, Dubach Mac
and PC computer labs, meeting rooms
and a number of offices and student
organizations, is closed to the public for
construction.
The process of relocating organizations
in Templeton began in Spring 2021.
Facilities and Student Engagement
began by inventorying available spaces
across campus that would be able to
accommodate student organizations.
“The analysis of available space on
campus revealed that we did not have
enough space on campus for all impacted
departments and student organizations
to receive an equivalent space to what
they had in Templeton,” Assistant Dean
of Student Engagement and Executive
Director of Career Center Rocky
Campbell said via email. “As a result, it
was determined that some departments
and organizations would need to function
in a virtual or hybrid setup during the
remodel.”
Campbell then met with every student
organization impacted by the Templeton
remodel in order to determine the
organizations’ needs for the semester
regarding a physical office space.
“Based on the available space on
campus, we knew that most student
organizations with spaces in Templeton
would need to operate in a virtual or
hybrid setup, so we attempted to address
these needs by offering both long-term
storage for items that would not be
needed until Templeton was available
again and short-term storage for items
that student organizations would need in
the spring semester,” Campbell said.
Additionally, Student Engagement
worked with the Dean’s Office in order
to arrange schedules for evening classes
that would leave classrooms available in
J. R. Howard Hall for organizations that
are operating remotely to host in-person meetings.
For the duration of construction
during Spring 2022, the following offices
and organizations have been relocated.
Their new locations can be found below.
Office of Student Engagement
is now located in Akin Hall, Room 132.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion is now
located in McAfee, rooms 116-118.
Office of Sustainability is
operating remotely.
The Associated Student Body
(ASB) is operating remotely. The
Undergraduate Registrar is operating
remotely.
Mail Services is now located in the
lower level of McAfee, and can be found
by following the paw prints painted on
the ground beginning in front of the stairs
leading to Maggie’s.
Bon Appétit Office is now located
in Stamm Dining Room.
College Outdoors is now located
in Sequoia on the Graduate campus.
Information about signing up for trips can
be found in the Vice President for Student
Life Office in East Hall.
Black Student Union is operating
remotely.
Feminist Student Union is now
located in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel,
room 111.
Queer Student Union is operating
remotely and hosting meetings in person.
Asian Student Union is operating
remotely and hosting meetings in J. R.
Howard, room 115.
Gente Latina Unida is operating
remotely.
International Students of Lewis
& Clark is operating remotely.
KPH Radio is now located in
Facilities, Room 104.
The Pioneer Log is now located in
Odell Hall, Room 008.
Student affinity groups, including
Black Student Union, Gente Latina
Unida, Hawaii Club, Adoptee Club and
Mixed LC are working with the Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
in order to coordinate spaces for in-
person meetings. According to Director
of IME Joanne Zhang, IME did not have
any say in the relocation process, but she
is working to advocate for the needs of
these groups.
According to “Top Ten Templeton
Construction Tips” on the LC website,
the following offices, organizations and
spaces remain accessible in the upper or
lower levels of Templeton:
Bookstore , Campus Living , Career
Center , Fields Dining Hall , Center for Social Change and Community
Involvement , Counseling Services ,
Office of Financial Aid , Health
Services , The Center for Inclusion
and Multicultural Engagement ,
International Students & Scholars ,
New Student Orientation , Student &
Departmental Account Services , and
Student Rights & Responsibilities .
The following spaces are now closed
and not accessible to students during the
remodel: Monteith Meeting Room,
Trail Room , Stamm Dining Room ,
Thayer Conference Room , Dubach Mac and PC Labs , Gray Meeting
Room , and Council Chamber .
Construction on the Templeton
Campus Center is expected to be
complete by the start of the Fall 2022
semester.
The full extent of the construction
on existing and prospective students
and student life will be monitored and
reported on by the Pioneer Log as the
remodel continues to be underway.
Additional Reporting by Ihsaan
MohamedMONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
NEWS 2
Students at the Mail Services, which has been relocated to the lower level of McAfee, picking up their mail and letters.
HANNAH KORN/THE PIONEER LOG Templeton relocations include mail services, College Outdoors, Student Engagement, student media Construction shifts offices, student organizations
Oregon State Capitol building is located at 900 court Street Northeast, Salem, Oregon, where new legislation was passed. COURTESY OF THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONVENUS EDLIN/THE PIONEER LOG
Oregon passes 719 new laws to go into effect this year
Legislation addressing discrimination, teaching unions, elections, theft of catalytic converters enacted
By KAMRYN FORD
THE START OF the Spring 2022
semester has presented itself
with many challenges for Lewis
& Clark’s Associated Student Body
(ASB). While online learning has
impacted students campus-wide,
ASB wanted to remain as productive
as possible during those first three
weeks. In addition to hiring new
directors and organizing upcoming
elections, ASB has moved to extend
equity and justice programs for LC
students.
ASB President Sarah Lind-
MacMillan ’22 is optimistic about
the progress the organization has
made during what could have been a
stagnant three weeks.
“So far this semester, ASB has
elected two new Senators to fill the
spots of Senators who have gone
abroad,” Lind-MacMillan said.
“The Senate also recently voted
and selected the new Director of
Allocations, who in collaboration with
the treasurer, will run the allocation
process for clubs this spring to set
them up with their 2022-23 budgets.”
In addition, ASB hopes to
expand the projects in their smaller
committees in order to establish a
broader outreach on campus. Anna
Graff ’22, an ASB cabinet member and
the head of the Equity Inclusion and
Justice Committee (EIJC), explained
her plans for the EIJC to expand their outreach on campus and highlighted
their audit program as a beneficial
resource many students know little
about.
“For EIJC specifically, one
thing that I think we will be able to
continue is increasing our visibility
on campus,” Graff said. “I am just
very excited that more people know
who we are personally, and that they
are excited to get involved.”
The EIJC primarily runs a grant
program for diversity, equity and
inclusion-related projects. This
month, they received a large grant
that would allow them to increase
the number of events they held.
In addition, while this does not
strictly fall under the purview of
their committee, EIJC has been
conducting equity audits on campus
for the benefit of students.
“An office at LC will reach out to
us, normally an administrative office,
and ask us to audit either a specific
policy that they have or a practice
that they do,” Graff said. “For
example, we audited the housing and
roommate pairing so that it no longer
presumed same-gender pairings.”
Currently, the EIJC is working
with the Office of Health and Wellness
to audit their plan for diversity and
equity, in the hopes of creating
a more inclusive and supportive
environment for marginalized
students.
While a lack of permanent office space has caused some difficulties
due to the Templeton remodel, ASB
has continued to push forward with
its duties; one, in particular, being
the upcoming elections.
“We are preparing to release the
applications for the 2022-23 ASB Cabinet positions very soon and
encourage all eligible students to
consider applying,” Lind-MacMillan
said. “A goal in Cabinet is to better
train and support the transition to
the new Cabinet once they are elected
in March.”Applications for cabinet positions
close on Feb. 25. If students have
any further questions regarding ASB
cabinet or committee activities and
upcoming elections, contact them at
their email, aslc@lclark.edu, or visit
their page on the LC website.NEWS 3MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG ASB elects senators, expands outreach committees
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON JAN. 7, Lewis & Clark College
announced their decision to
move the first three weeks of the
Spring 2022 semester online.
“All three campuses (CAS, law, grad)
determined that a fully-remote start
best allowed us to provide full access
to classes while maintaining the health
and safety needs of the campus,” Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences,
Bruce Suttmeier said via email.
LC had to adapt to going fully online
for the first time since March 2020.
First-year Jodi Fallas ’25 remarked
that she was not “unused to the online
experience.” However, she observed
that beginning the second semester of
her freshman year online made her feel
“a little isolated” in her room, and that
she was waiting for any opportunity to
get out of it.
Professor of International Affairs
and Department Chair Bob Mandel,
echoed Fallas’ excitement at the
prospect of having in-person classes.
“I was really yearning for the day
when we could be back in person,”
Mandel said. “And now that I’ve had
two days in each class where that’s the case, it’s like I’m in heaven. That kind
of fast paced, contentious, informative
discussion is thriving.”
One notable difference between
the remote and in-person experience,
according to Fallas, is the ability to
connect with her peers.
“I do enjoy the in-person experience
more than online, because I thrive
better in group settings where I get to
talk to other people,” Fallas said.
Many students and faculty members
also expressed both frustration and
appreciation for the hybrid model,
which enables campus life to exist by
minimizing the risk of an all-campus
return.
Mandel explained the technical
limitations of remote learning,
particularly for students who are
exclusively remote.
“No matter what system is used,
the students who are virtual get kind of
disadvantaged and it’s not because the
teachers aren’t doing the right things,”
Mandel said. “It’s that there are issues
of hearing everything that’s being
communicated properly, you know,
(due to) settings in the microphones.”
Fallas, on the other hand, advocated
for the cognitive relief that hybrid classes provide. A blend of in-person
and remote classes helped remedy
some of the loneliness and screen
fatigue that exclusively remote learning
causes.
Despite her enthusiasm for in-
person learning, Fallas noted that
the return to in-person felt rushed
and awkward. She described that the
transition back to on-campus living
and in-person classes were moving
very quickly, leaving little time to feel
prepared.
Regardless, a return to some form of
online seems unlikely due to LC’s case
positivity being at 2.35 percent overall,
and February having a 1 percent overall
positivity rate. Some credit the delayed
in-person start for the low positivity
rate. During the three week delay,
approximately 3,000 Covid tests were
administered on campus between Jan.
1 and Feb. 11, making the ability to
return to campus safer.
“We don’t expect to have to return to
online modality,” Suttmeier said. “Our
positivity rates on campus have been
well below our peer institutions, and
we’re confident that the conscientious
work of students, staff, and faculty
alike will continue these trends.”Dialogue about campus safety is
ongoing and will likely continue as both
state and federal COVID-19 guidelines
change. On Feb. 7, Oregon Governor
Kate Brown announced that the indoor
mask mandate would be lifted no later
than March 31.
Mandel is excited for the prospect
of the possibility of one day having
classes, fully in-person with no masks.
“I keep hoping for full freedom because I think that’s where education
works best,” Mandel said.
Fallas believes that slowly
moving forward to reduce COVID-19
restrictions is positive, but
“I believe in protecting the safety
and well-being of others first,” She
said. “But if Oregon deems it safe to
lift the mask mandate, then I think that
the decision was made with informed
reasoning.” Spring semester begins remotely to curb COVID cases
Over winter break, LC’s administration announced decision to move online for the first three weeksDespite initial move to remote learning, student government committed to remaining active, productive
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES
Two LC students study in the Aubrey R. Watzek Library during the fall semester.By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE FIRST YEAR of Joe Biden’s
presidency has come and gone,
and Biden has not done enough
to end of mass incarceration. This is
not to say that Biden has not made
progress in other realms. However,
mass incarceration and the system
that supports it is one of the most
glaring domestic problems in the
United States and must be addressed.
Almost 2% of the U.S. population
are under correctional supervision.
This includes those in prison, jail,
parole or probation. While 2% may
not sound like a large number, it
represents over six million people. Of
that group, an estimated two million
are made up of imprisoned people.
People tend to focus on the
two million imprisoned. However,
including those on probation and
parole paints a more accurate picture.
Recidivism rates in the U.S. are
overwhelming. A report from the
Bureau of Justice Statistics examining
released prisoners from the years 2012
to 2017 found that out of the 34 states
that were monitored, 70% of released
imprisoned people would later be sent
to prison again.Mass incarceration is not just
affecting the two million people that
the Biden administration cites. It is
ruining the lives of three times that
when accounting for all those trapped
within the system. This also does
not even begin to look at how many
homes, families and communities are
actively harmed from this complex
network of dehumanization.
Stemming from systemic racist
policies like redlining and the war on
drugs Black and Brown communities
have historically been targeted by
the U.S. government for correctional
supervision.
According to a Pew Research report
in 2018 it is estimated that over a third
of the imprisoned population are
Black Americans, which comes to over
660,000 people. Out of the estimated
10 million people imprisoned in the
world, 6.6% are Black Americans. In
comparison, Black Americans make
up 0.025% of the world’s population.
The Biden administration claims
to fight for racial equity, yet it is
overlooking some of the grossest
human rights violations perpetrated
on racial grounds. While I may have
focused on statistics representing
Black Americans, the problem of mass
incarceration extends far beyond one
race.
Unfortunately, Biden has only
managed to stop renewing the
Department of Justice (DOJ) contracts
with private prisons. Do not get me
wrong, this is a victory, but it is small
compared to the work that needs to
be done. This executive order could
affect private federal prisons, which
only hold about 14,000 Americans.
An estimated 100,000 Americans
are currently incarcerated in private
state prisons. The imprisoned are
often not paid for any work that they may do, and when they are, 80%
of the $0.50-$2.00 per hour wages
can be deducted. These are not
people imprisoned, these are people
enslaved, which is unconstitutional
since the implementation of the 13th
amendment.
These prisons remain untouched
by the Biden administration and will
continue to profit off of an enslaved
workforce that is responsible for
work of all kinds: farming, furniture,
balloons and fishing boots, among
many other things.
Apart from taking public stances
and endorsing organizations that are
trying to raise awareness of this issue,
Biden has the power to change this. As
the president, Biden has the clemency
power to release those convicted of
charges related to marijuana.
Enacting this change would limit
the incarcerations caused by the
war on drugs. This would also most
likely be a favorable decision by the
public, because according to the Pew
Research Center 91% of adults say
marijuana should be legal.
Biden could take a stance on
monetary bail, which keeps an
estimated 500,000 poor Americans
in pretrial detention facilities. These
are imprisoned people who are legally
presumed innocent.
Mass incarceration is harming
the lives of millions in our country.
It can be considered one of the
greatest issues of racial inequity in
our country. If you are interested
in staging a protest outside FCI
Sheridan, a federal prison in Yamhill
county, email me at gabriel@lclark.
edu. If you are interested in learning
more or connecting with others that
seek to promote change in this area,
contact Prison Abolition club at
prisonabolitionlc@lclark.edu. By SOFIA REEVES
IMPROPERLY WORN face masks
are an unfortunately common sight,
everywhere from the Lewis & Clark
residence halls to grocery stores to
various modes of transportation. It is not
at all unusual to see a person wearing
their mask below their nose, or even
pulled below their chin, while indoors.
Whether masks being worn wrong are a
misunderstanding of how masks work, a
genuine mistake or a deliberate attempt
to rebel against mask mandates, it always
creates a health hazard when people do
not wear their masks properly.
LC has recognized the importance of
masks being worn properly since their
first mask mandates were introduced.
From email reminders to posters in
the residence hall bathrooms, the
importance of masks in reducing the
spread of COVID-19 has been clearly
communicated. This semester, mask
mandates have even changed to require
that LC students, faculty and staff
must wear KN95, N95 or better masks
in order to prevent the spread of the
highly contagious Omicron variant.
The college is not alone in continuing to
enforce mask-wearing either; Oregon
law requires masks in all indoor spaces
regardless of vaccination status. So why
are we still seeing people with masks
below their noses, both on campus and
off?
I have tried to grapple with why this
phenomenon has persisted since the
beginning of the pandemic. When mask
mandates began to be enforced, it was
both frustrating and concerning to see
people wearing their masks improperly.
However, at that stage, it was somewhat
understandable; most people had never
worn a face mask before. I could give
them the benefit of the doubt that they
really did not know how to wear them. I feel no such charity now. If people do not
know how to cover their nose and mouth
completely with a face covering two
years into this pandemic, then I do not
think they ever will, and that is seriously
concerning.
At this point, I find it hard to believe
that anyone does not realize that because
COVID-19 is spread through respiratory
droplets, the nose being exposed is just as
dangerous as the mouth. In order to keep
all those potentially infectious droplets
away from others, the mask has to cover
the mouth and nose completely.
Some mask slip ups must be chalked
up to genuine mistakes. Perhaps some
people do not feel or notice that their
masks have fallen below their noses.
People are not always thinking about their
masks, especially when they are busy with
other tasks. Additionally, some people are
more likely to have mask slips when they
are wearing masks of the wrong size for
their face. These accidents must remind
people to try to check in more often on their mask status, making sure they have
full coverage, as well as try to find masks
that fit them properly.
Mistakes and misunderstandings
cannot account for all masking problems,
though. I think at least some of the
most improper mask techniques are
exhibited by people who are deliberately
going against masking policies. Though
perhaps not entirely actively defiant in
their approach, people who wear their
masks improperly are demonstrating
clear disrespect for the people around
them. It is clear that many people, LC
students included, are tired of strict
masking policies. But when some people
wear their masks improperly, they only
make COVID-19 problems worse.
Good masking techniques are as
important now as they ever have been to
help keep people safe from COVID-19.
Those who wear their masks improperly,
whether intentionally or unintentionally,
create an unhealthy, unsafe environment
for the people around them. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
OPINION 4
Wearing masks improperly
increases risk of COVID-19
Biden should take a stand against
mass incarceration, systemic injustice
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVEAMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOGFires can be a tool to
promote forest health
By COPELAND BURCHENAL
HOT SUMMER days full of
wildfire smoke may still be
months away, but their absence
should not let us forget. I can picture
it now: a fire getting sparked up in
Northern California, engulfing forests
and towns alike. Despite thousands
of personnel, and a large amount of
engines and aircraft, human measures
will not be able to stop the inevitable
spread. While this may sound bleak, it
is the sad reality we live in today.
Wildfires have become much worse
in the past three decades, and the past
five years are an even clearer testament
to that. However, we do not have to
search too far back in history to see a
time when fires of this size or ferocity
were not nearly as common. Thus,
in order to protect ourselves from
high-intensity fires, we need to restore
natural fire regimes to the western
forests.
This idea is not exactly new. In fact,
fires have been used by humanity for
quite some time to cultivate the world
around us. Indigenous tribes across
North America and, most notably,
Australia utilized fire as a tool to
promote the growth of certain plants
for food and medicine, create forests
passages and to promote game for
hunting. Beyond just humanity, fire has
also been a part of life for millennia:
Without death, new life cannot grow.
If we look to eastern Washington
and Oregon, low-temperature burns
were frequent, and because of that
frequency, the forests came to depend
on them.
Fire has a number of significant
benefits. It removes excess fuels (dead
wood and plant matter) from the forest
floor, reinjects vital nutrients into the
soil and removes invasive species and
for some trees, such as the tall, lanky
Lodgepole pine. They are intrinsic
to signaling for their serotinous pine
cones to open and spread new seeds.
However, what happens if we remove
fire from a fire-dependent ecosystem?
Nothing good. Dead debris that
serves as fire fuel build up on the forest
floor. If there is too much fuel to be
consumed, the fires get significantly
hotter. When a fire gets hotter, the situation starts to get dicey: The
fire-resistant bark of trees cannot
withstand the heat and trees die,
root systems are cooked beneath the
ground and nutrients are destroyed.
Fire can also creep up through the
branches and into the canopy of the
forest, where it will annihilate any
chance the tree, and many times the
entire forest, had at recovering or
even surviving.
In many ways, the policies of the
United States Forest Service, logging
barons and state governments at the
turn of the 20th century led us to where
we are now. When profit became the
priority for forests, fire was villainized
as the antithesis of economic growth.
The infamous Devil’s Broom fire of
1910 in northern Idaho and western
Montana frightened America. These
attitudes led to a century of anti-fire
policy which has thrown the fire-
dependent ecosystems into disarray.
Although prescribed and low-
temperature burns never truly went
away, their presence was diminished
significantly. Now, I am not bashing
on fire-prevention methods, like
Smokey the Bear. As stated by the
Congressional Research Service from
2016 to 2020, 88% of forest fires in
America were caused by humans, and
we need to solve that problem as soon
as possible. That being said, the only
way to prevent a charred future is by
embracing, not rejecting, fires. Blanket
statements which villainize entire
systems are not a solution.
At this point in time, I doubt that
prescribed burns could fix all the
problems we have caused. 100 years is
a long time to let a crisis fester. It may,
however, give us a fighting chance to
protect forests across the American west
and even repair some damage that has
already been done to afflicted regions.
In the face of worsening droughts,
longer summers and more severe heat
waves, we do not have the luxury of
ignoring solutions. Many Lewis & Clark
students are from regions with forest
fires, and may be on the front line of
coming fire seasons. By becoming better
informed about possible solutions to
these problems, we will have a better
chance at affecting change on both the
forests and our institutions.
By AIDAN D’ANNA
THE TEMPLETON Campus
Center remodel is the main topic
of conversation around campus
these days, and understandably so.
Student activities are displaced, the
only entrance to Fields Dining Hall is
now a rickety wooden ramp and the
sounds of construction permeate the
quiet Portland winter air. The only
upshot is the appearance of the nicest
portable toilets I have ever seen outside
of the Bon. However, even those are a
massive eye sore, and I have noticed
that because of the construction, they
are now a stop on our admissions
tours.
“Welcome to Lewis & Clark, where
you get to witness a demolished building
while standing next to a port-a-potty,” is
the message this seems to send.
However, for all the annoyances this
project brings, as the LC facilities website
puts it, “with any construction project
of this magnitude, there will be some
growing pains.” Once it is complete, it will truly draw more students to the college,
and become a better, more engaging
space for current students as well.
Although I graduate at the end of this
semester and will not get to experience
the new and improved student center, it
amazes me that a project this large can be
completed in under a year.
This is LC’s biggest capital project
since Holmes Hall was constructed ten
years ago, and it needed to be done.
Templeton was once confusing,
dark and not conducive to studying or
socializing. The Pioneer Log even ran
an article in The Backdoor last semester
comparing the building to the labyrinth
from Greek mythology. No matter
which way you turned, you were hit
with multiple walls, signs pointing in
all different directions and no clear way
out.
The amount of times I heard parents
on tours ask students how to get to the
bookstore, and the student responding
with a shake of their head and the words
“It’s too hard to explain, I’ll just take
you,” was astounding. The old Templeton had a courtyard
that had six doors and no way to get
inside. Many of its doors were locked,
one was inside Thayer Conference Room
(a chronically underused classroom that
mainly seemed to just be in the way) and
the others required swiping into one of
the computer labs, then walking behind
and across people using the computers.
The new Stephanie J. Fowler
Student Center will feature its courtyard
prominently, requiring anyone who
wants to pass from one side to the other
to simply walk through it.
I will miss the mailroom, but with
any luck we will get new mailboxes
that do not require a ten-page owner’s
manual to open them. Part of New Student Orientation should not be a
fifteen-minute demonstration of how
to use elbow grease and spit in just the
right way so as to trick your mailbox into
opening.
Another huge complaint students
had about Templeton was its lack of
coherence in terms of the placement
of student organizations. Why was
the Feminist Student Union near the
bookstore while the Black Student
Union was over in the corner by the
Office of Sustainability? Why was the
Asian Student Union located inside
the KPH studio? Nothing made sense,
and it made it difficult for student
organizations and affinity groups to
collaborate. Not to mention the lack of space to do
so. So much of Templeton was consumed
by the maze of walls that not much space
was left to socialize or hold student events.
The Fowler Student Center will clump
student organizations together to make
this ease of collaboration easier and help
new members find where they are going.
This last bit should go without saying,
but the Trail Room will serve alcohol
in the new Fowler Student Center, and
while I will not be present nor interested
in partaking, that fact alone should be
reason enough to stick out one year of
displacement. It is out with Templeton,
in with Fowler, and I for one am excited
to watch LC student life be literally gutted
and rebuilt from the inside out.By AMELIA MADARANG
LESS THAN ONE year ago, in April
of 2021, I helped contribute to the
letter to the editor that Lewis &
Clark’s Asian Student Union wrote for
The Pioneer Log. The letter condemned
Anti-Asian American Pacific Islander
(AAPI) hate and called on the larger LC
community to make lasting changes. Yet,
not much has happened to prevent these
crimes in the past year. Violence against
AAPI women in the United States needs
to be recognized not only as an issue of
misogyny but also racism.
Michelle Go was murdered on Jan. 15.
Originally from California, Go had been
living in New York for a few years where
she worked on mergers and acquisitions
for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.
Go was known for volunteering with the
New York Junior League, a 120-year-
old women’s volunteer organization, for
several years. That morning, Go left her
apartment to catch the subway to get to
work. It was on that subway platform
that Martial Simon pushed her onto the
tracks from behind, into the path of the
oncoming R train. Go and Simon were
strangers. When asked about this crime,
Simon responded by saying he was “God.”
Go’s death was a tragic loss. In the
interviews after her death, she was
described as caring and thoughtful,
with a passion for helping others. Her
volunteer work helped many low-income
New Yorkers, seniors, immigrants and
underperforming elementary and middle
school students, as well as their parents.
The police reported that the event
is not being investigated as a hate
crime. For Sung Yeon Choimorrow,
executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum it is
impossible to separate Go’s killing from
what Asian Americans have been through
in the last two years.
“The frustrating part for me is that
people want it to be a single issue,”
Choimorrow said. “It’s like, ‘Oh, it’s the
person that’s broken, not our system.’ ”
Go is one of the many Asian American
women who lost their lives as Anti-AAPI
sentiments have
been on the
rise since
the start
of the
COVID-19
pandemic. It is estimated that nearly
one in five Asian Americans (21.2%) and
Pacific Islanders (20.0%) have experienced
a hate incident in the past year, according
to a nationally-representative survey
conducted by Stop AAPI Hate and the
Edelman Data & Intelligence Team.In May of 2021, the country
heaved a sigh of relief when Biden
signed the anti-Asian hate crime bill.
It was applauded for a rare moment
of bipartisanship in a gridlocked
Washington. Biden said he hoped the
signing
ceremony, which took place during
AAPI Heritage Month, would convey
a message to the Asian American
community: “we see you.” As if being
seen would solve all our problems.Biden’s actions came in the wake of
the Atlanta Spa shooting where Robert
Aaron Long killed eight individuals, six of
whom were Asian women, and one other
person was wounded. The perpetrator
told investigators
that sex addiction drove him to commit
these killings. The news went back and
forth on whether he was really racist, or
even a bad guy. Captain Jay Baker of the
Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department reported these women were “a temptation
for him that he wanted to eliminate.”
Long’s blatant hypersexualization of
Asian women was pushed aside as the
investigation proceeded. His actions were
seen as disconnected from the race of
the women he targeted. To this day, that
shooter has not been charged with a hate
crime.
In the past year, people have
forgotten the names of Delaina Ashley
Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie
Tan, Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant,
Yong Ae Yue, Suncha Kim and Soon
Chung Park. I have seen my AAPI
friends face microaggressions and
harassment. I stay on the phone with
my younger sibling as they walk home
at night. I always make sure to leave
my location on. I cringe at every “well
my girlfriend’s Asian” joke. I hear
my classmates talk about how some
presenters in race monologues are
“being over-dramatic” or “do not have
it that bad.”
I want to see better from the LC
community. It seems as though we
have to wait for lives to be lost in order
for our warnings about harassment
to be taken seriously. Even then,
these stories are seen and not acted
upon. It seems even more cruel that
AAPI victims of harassment have to
worry not only about death but also
about disappearing. That once a
story is no longer sensationalized, it
will be archived into silence and the
perpetrator never gets fully charged.
I am not sure what could have been
done to prevent Michelle Go’s murder,
but a good place to start would be by
acknowledging that they are acts of both
sexism and racism.MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
OPINION 5
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
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Qwynci BowmanLives are being lost as racist sentiment continues to rise, even with the passing of the anti-Asian hate crime billAAPI hate persists after Biden takes office
The new Stephanie J. Fowler Student Center will offer new opportunities for student engagementTempleton makeover ushers in new era of student life
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VPSL Robin Holmes-Sullivan strolls around the Templeton Construction project. Photographers & Illustrators
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Natalie ParkhurstMONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
FEATURES 6
Pio stop connects with charming neighborhood
By PHILIP STEFFEN
THE PIONEER Express stop at
Southeast Powell and Milwaukie
is likely the most obscure stop on
the current weekend route. Located three
miles and two Pio stops to the north of
Sellwood, the stop is overshadowed by
the denser attractions to its south. As a
result, it is not uncommon on any given
ride to see no passengers riding to the
stop. Similarly, it is safe to say that most
riders’ experience with the bus stop is
limited to seeing it pass by while they
ride the Pio back across the Willamette
River to Fred Meyer and campus.
Despite this lack of attention,
however, it can be argued that this
northernmost stop still has much to
offer.
Coinciding with a bus stop on
the TriMet 19 bus route, Southeast
Powell and Milwaukie is situated
at the confluence of three distinct
neighborhoods. To the south sits
Brooklyn, a primarily residential
neighborhood, and to the north is
East Portland, a collection of largely
industrial and commercial buildings.
The greatest attraction of the stop,
however, is Ladd’s Addition, located
immediately to the northeast and
distinguished by its eclectic geometrical
road layout, historical houses and dense
rose garden.
A quick jaunt up Southeast 12th
Avenue and across the tracks of the
Orange MAX line will lead up the
western boundary of Ladd’s Addition
and towards a number of coffee shops,
restaurants and bookstores. Like the rest
of Ladd’s Addition, 12th Ave is home to
a number of architecturally significant
houses in various states of repair, some
dating back as far as 1905. On sunny
days, the uniquely painted houses are
illuminated in bright contrast to the
green ivy that grows up their facades
and garden trellises.
Towards the northwest corner of
Ladd’s Addition sits Junior’s Cafe,
a breakfast restaurant patronized
primarily by locals. Next to the cafe is a
dance studio, which spills classical music
onto the sidewalk, and across the street
is a transmission shop freshly painted
in yellow and red. Inside the cafe, the Grateful Dead play on the speakers and
the atmosphere is laid back. The food is
traditional breakfast, with hash browns,
eggs and drip coffee as standard fare,
though not without the inclusion of a
number of vegan and gluten-free dietary
options. As in many small restaurants,
things pick up around lunch, making it
advisable to come closer to 10:00 a.m.
or after 1:00 p.m. to dodge long wait
times.
Moving back through Ladd’s
Addition and to the neighborhood’s
southern edge on Southeast Division,
one can find My Vinyl Underground,
a record store in the basement of
Books with Pictures, a store selling
graphic novels. My Vinyl Underground
specializes in recent and local indie
releases, and is a great place to seek out
newer and lesser known bands. Besides
indie records, the store also sells a large
variety of other merchandise, including
a collection of used R&B records, t-shirts
and a number of CDs.
On the north east corner of Ladd’s
Addition sits Magpie, a vintage clothing
store. Very much vintage rather than
thrift, the store carries a large selection
of high quality formal wear, as well as
the standard array of estate sale trinkets
and accessories, all sold in an ambiance
of ’70s funk and incense.
Anyone who has had enough of
shopping, eating and house spotting in
Ladd’s Addition can walk several blocks
north to Colonel Summers Park. This
small neighborhood park is centered
around a historical home converted into
a community garden, and is surrounded
on all sides by a number of vibrant street
art installations and murals spilling
over from Burnside to the north. Far
more of a bustling urban park than the
forested parks characteristic of Portland
in general and Southwest in particular,
Colonel Summers Park offers a pleasant
change of speed.
About a half an hour’s walk north
of the SE Powell and Milwaukie stop,
Colonel Summers Park could be
considered a reasonable endpoint for
a day’s travel from the Pio. Even then,
the more determined urban hiker could
easily reach Burnside from the stop, and
the large number of TriMet routes in the
surrounding neighborhoods makes SE Powell and Milwaukie an ideal jumping-
off point for further exploration into the
more distant parks and neighborhoods of Northeast Portland. All in all, SE
Powell and Milwaukie provides a unique
opportunity for riders to get off the beaten path and explore communities
often left unseen by students of Lewis &
Clark.The Pioneer Express runs to Sellwood on the weekends, from Friday evening through 2 a.m. until Sunday evening at 10 p.m.
LC students use social media to satirize campus culture
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
GOING TO college during the
golden age of social media has
created an entirely different and unique social experience. Instead of
bonding and sharing ideas with other
students only in person, we can do so
from the tap of a device.
The fact that classes at Lewis & Clark returned to Zoom for the beginning of
the semester has only pushed more
students to revel in their shared
experiences online. New Instagram
accounts giving humorous commentary
of various aspects of the school have
been popping up left and right, mingling
with more established ones. They give a
semblance of a unified experience in an
isolating time.
These Instagram accounts are all
student-created and run, and they
make it clear that they are unaffiliated
with the school administration. They
can be divided into three subcategories:
memes, cursed images and text-based
posts, with some overlap.
Although there are multiple
general meme accounts, such as @
memes4lewisandclark and @
lewisandclarkcollegememes , one
of the most prominent meme accounts
is @thepioofficial . I am sure many
of us have felt wild panic as we run to
catch the Pioneer Express Shuttle as
it starts to depart. This account taps
into these feelings and portrays them
in iconic memes that encapsulate the
bus experience, some of which have
even debuted as stickers which the
Associated Student Body distributed.
One popular sticker you may have seen
stuck on laptops features an inverted
color picture of the Pio with the text,
“Evil Pio be like: I am leaving.”
Cursed images are a more chaotic
form of humor, funny due to their
odd nature. Again, there is an account
for general LC cursed images, but @
cursedbonimages provides more
specific content. It is a reliable source
for painfully funny content. This
account posts images of silly, weird or even downright alarming things (such
as a hair in a pan of eggs) found in
Fields Dining Hall as light mockery of
the food quality.
What sets them apart, though, are
their captions. Without any text in the
image, captions are vital for context.
While other accounts
simply state the
location in which the
photo was taken, this
one often adds short,
but punchy lines that
add emphasis, such as
an image of a cup on
the ground captioned
“troom fry sauce on
da curb.”
Text-based posts are a more
miscellaneous category. One of
these accounts is @justthebontip ,
which is just getting off the ground
but provides helpful hacks for
dining, such as unfolding to-go
boxes to make a plate. There is
also @humansoflewisandclark ,
inspired by the wildly popular @
humansofnewyork account, which
features different students who discuss
interests, challenges and stories. These
accounts are a great way to connect
with others and learn new things,
whether it is how to make quick Bon
recipes or what other students think
about life at LC.
In the realm of funny textual
accounts, there is @lcaffirmations ,
a great source for some motivation
and reiteration of shared struggles.
However, I think that the best account
is @over_heard_lc . With 1,079
followers, the highest following of any
of the mentioned accounts, it is clearly widely popular and it has 99 posts — a
respectable number that shows their
dedication.
The basis of this account is to
post funny things students have
been overheard saying. Anyone can
submit via direct message, so do not
be afraid to throw
your eavesdropping
tidbits into the ring.
They also post missed
connections, similar
to the Lewis & Clark
Missed Connections
page on Facebook.
This account is great
for finding consistently
funny, relatable and
well-organized content.
Oftentimes, the people behind these
accounts are shrouded in mystery.
However, @over_heard_lc , who
preferred to remain anonymous, was
willing to give a sneak peak behind the
scenes.
“People say the most hilarious
things and see absolutely no irony in
what they’re saying,” the creator said.
One example of this is their post
which states, “Sunday would work
better for me, I’m doing shrooms
tomorrow.” According to the creator,
LC quite often reflects the stereotypes
associated with liberal arts colleges.
Whatever kind of humor or type of
content you enjoy, you will probably
find it on one of these ingenious
accounts. Even a simple thing like
a college-specific meme page can
demonstrate how adaptable students
are to changing circumstances and how
even when confined to dorms, they find
ways to share commonalities. Part of the new Sellwood weekend route, the stop provides an ideal jumping-off point for Ladd’s Addition
Vegetables, flowers and spiky foliage thrive in a community garden within walking distance from the SE Powell Pio stop. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOGTHE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES
These Instagram accounts provide students with a unique sense of community during trying times
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES“Sunday would
work better for me,
I’m doing shrooms
tomorrow.”
-@over_heard_lc
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
FEATURES 7
By LEO
BERNSTEIN-NEWMAN
AFTER A YEAR-LONG search,
the Board of Trustees has
selected Vice President of
Student Life and Dean of Students
Robin Holmes-Sullivan the 26th
president of Lewis & Clark. Holmes-
Sullivan will replace current President
of Student Life Wim Wiewel, who
will step down in July. This makes
Holmes-Sullivan the first Black,
female and openly LGBTQ+ president
in the school’s 155 year history.
After receiving her doctorate in
clinical psychology in 1992, Holmes-
Sullivan worked for the counseling
center at the University of Oregon.
She then went on to become the
dean of students and eventually vice
president of student life, the same
position she currently holds at LC.
In 2016, Holmes-Sullivan left the
University of Oregon to work as the Vice President of Student Affairs for
the University of California system.
This position found her traveling
across the state of California and
presiding over upwards of a quarter
million students. Holmes-Sullivan
became Vice President of Student
Affairs at LC (VPSL) in February 2019.
The current VPSL grew up a few
miles west of Irvine, California in the
Orange County town of Lake Forest.
While attending El Toro High School,
she immersed herself in her first
love: basketball.
“For a while, I
didn’t like going to
school,” the president
admitted. “All I did
was play basketball. I
really walked around
with the ball on my
hip all the time.”
In 1982, the
new president went
on to play division
one basketball as a
starting player for
California State
University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 1982.
She once held the record as the team’s
leading scorer, and nearly forty years
later, Holmes-Sullivan still holds the
record for most minutes on the court
in the history of CSUF’s women’s
basketball team. Holmes-Sullivan
was a starting player for all four years.
Academically, Holmes-Sullivan
pursued her second love: psychology,
a field that first piqued her
interest as a junior in high school.
“From then on, that’s when
I decided I wanted to major in
psychology,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
“I majored from the day I stepped on
campus and never, never changed.”
Though she does not recall her
psychology major particularly aiding
her performance on the court,
she remembers her teammates
often coming to her for counsel.
“Friends would always come and
talk to me about their problems,’’
Holmes-Sullivan said. “‘Why am I
not doing this forever?’” she asked
herself. “I seem to be pretty good at it.”
After college, Holmes-Sullivan
pursued a master’s degree and
later a doctorate at the California
School of Professional Psychology in
Fresno. A year before receiving her PhD, she completed her residency
at University of California Davis.
Holmes-Sullivan did not find
mentors who reflected her identity in
her college faculty. That is, professors
who were Black, female and queer.
“The absence of it meant that
it was much more difficult to have
strong confidence in what I wanted
to do,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
It was not until the second year
of her PhD program that she studied
under an instructor who was also
a Black woman.
Holmes-Sullivan
remembers this time
as a highly impactful
period in her life.
“I found myself
being very emotional
and wanting to
ask her lots of
questions,” the new
president said. “She
was good enough
to allow me to do
that because she
knew how important
it was … because I was one of only
a few Black clinical psychology
students in the program.”
Studying under such a successful
and well respected woman of color
helped Holmes-Sullivan realize that
she too, as a Black woman, could
work in this field and be successful.
Holmes-Sullivan could ask her
instructor things that she could
not ask white professors, such as
the ins and outs of navigating the
academic world as a Black woman.
“I wish it had come sooner,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “It felt …
somewhat lonely to not have those
kinds of role models that you could
call on earlier in your career.”
Her own experience is part of
the reason why she insists that LC
continue to make strides to diversify
its faculty and staff as much as
possible, so that, in her own words,
“others won’t have to wait until they
are in a PhD program until they
have their first professor of color.”
Additionally, the new president
maintains that the importance of
representation has motivated her
to be outward and open about her
various identities throughout her
lengthy career in higher education. She explained that important
conversations about navigating the
world as a person of color, or as a
member of the LGBTQ+ community,
are not had in any place without
role models that aptly reflect the
diversity of the student body. This is
one change she hopes to implement.As the President of Student Life,
Holmes-Sullivan’s scope of responsibility
will soon expand to include the Law
School and Graduate Campus. Though
her new administrative role will center
more towards fundraising than student
matters, Holmes-Sullivan intends to
remain a visible presence on campus.New president talks life, career, basketball
Hawthorne’s 2nd Street thrift shop boasts unique findsRobin Holmes-Sullivan reflects on her background as athlete, psychology student, professional
By EMMA KRALL
PORTLAND’S MOST curated
secondhand shop draws visitors
from across the city for its
genuine brands and signature looks.
Centrally located in the vibrant
Hawthorne District, 2nd Street
offers an authenticated collection of
secondhand apparel at a range of prices.
With locations in California and
New York, 2nd Street first graced the
Pacific Northwest in October 2020
with the opening of its Hawthorne
location. The Japanese brand is known
for its on-trend and environmentally
friendly business model. Buying and
selling secondhand goods from its
customer base, each location boasts a
unique collection specific to the region.
Hidden in the shelves are a
multitude of great finds: a pair of
Vivienne Westwood Vans sit next
to a pair of vintage Dr. Martens
as a ’90s era Gucci watch gleams
in its display case. Organized by
color, brand, size and style, 2nd
Street has something for everyone.
2nd Street employee Ava Smith
loves thrift for its individuality.
“Most of these collections
are curated and thought of by
employees, and each of our stores
has a different vibe,” Smith said.
The style-specific sections offer
high quality garments for any niche.
Whether in search of cottagecore, dark
academia, rock and roll, or Y2K styles,
one is sure to get lost in the aisles. With a younger employee base
of stylish Portlanders, the store
is embraces the latest trends.
Boasting an expansive workwear
section, 2nd Street showcases an
impressive array of Carhartt pants,
jackets, overalls and coveralls.
Additionally, in true Portland fashion,
their outdoors section offers all the
Patagonia, North Face, Columbia and
Arc’teryx any adventurer could desire.
“Since we are in the Pacific
Northwest, we get a lot more outdoorsy
people in here looking for big brands,”
employee Ryley Richards said.
The brand names come with a
2nd cost, though: Most outerwear
goes for 50-70% of its original retail
price. A lightly used Patagonia
Synchilla fleece retailed in store for
$69, compared to $119 to buy it new.Though 2nd Street brims
with brand names, the shop also
exhibits a lineup of on-trend and
affordable attire. A patterned wool
sweater retailed for $23 and an
irresistible graphic tee listed at $8.
Sweater-obsessed Lewis & Clark
students should feel right at home in the
wool aisle. Though the store includes a
range of sizes, it should be noted that
the plus size collection is a bit lacking.
Employees said they are limited by what gets donated, especially as
larger stores face supply-chain issues.
Just an eight minute TriMet
bus ride from the Pioneer Express’
Southeast Powell & Milwaukie
stop, this shop is definitely worth
the trip. Boutiques, restaurants
and coffee shops line Southeast
Hawthorne Blvd., making for a
perfect Saturday trip into the city.
Open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every
day, an after-class thrift run is always a possiblity, too. Additionally, the
shop has a 14-day return policy.
The authenticated, secondhand-
chic collection sets 2nd Street apart
from other thrift and consignment
stores. With both affordability
and quality at the forefront of its
mission, the shop is a worthwhile
stop during a visit to Hawthorne.
The one downfall? Time seems
to slip away in 2nd Street, so be
prepared to make an afternoon of it. “It felt … somewhat
lonely to not have
those kinds of role
models that you
could call on earlier
in your career”
- Robin Holmes-SullivanCOURTESY OF CSU INTERNET ARCHIVE
Employees curate style-based sections.DAVID ALLEN/THE PIONEER LOG
Located on Hawthorne, next t0 Powell’s Books and The Fresh Pot Cafe, 2nd Street provides a unique, curated thrifting experience.DAVID ALLEN/THE PIONEER LOG
The Japanese chain store’s first branch in the Pacific Northwest curates a variety of popular trends
Holmes-Sullivan, second from left, front pictured with the CSUF basketball team.
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Holmes-Sullivan set records at CSUF.COURTESY OF CSU INTERNET ARCHIVEHolmes-Sullivan will replace Wim Wiewel as Lewis & Clark’s president in 2022. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
ARTS 8
By AIDAN D’ANNA
FOR THE FIRST time since
December 2018, rapper Aminé
returned to Portland on Jan.
29 for a sold-out show at the Moda
Center’s Theater of the Clouds.
Hailing from the Woodlawn
neighborhood of Northeast Portland,
Aminé (born Adam Daniel) graduated
from Benson Polytechnic High School
and briefly attended Portland State
University before dropping out to
pursue his music career full time.
Aminé released his first two
projects, “Odyssey to Me” and “En
Vogue” in 2014, when he was 20 years
old. In March 2016, the rapper released
his debut single “Caroline,” and while it
debuted at number 96 on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, it eventually rose to
number 11 and skyrocketed him towards
fame. Within the next year he had
signed to Republic Records,
been named one of
the 2017 XXL
Magazine’s
Freshman
Class,
released
his first
LP “Good
for You,”
and went
on his first
tour which he
called “Tour for
You.”
In the four years since
this debut project Aminé
has released three more
bodies of work: one additional
studio album and the first two
installments of his “PointFive” series.
These mixtapes, titled “OnePointFive”
and “TwoPointFive” respectively, are
somewhere between an album and
a mixtape in terms of preparation,
production quality and support from
his record label.
“After ‘Good For You,’ I felt a lot of
pressure from the industry to release
another ‘album,’” Aminé said in a
November 2021 interview with Complex
magazine. “It was my first time ever
having this many people care about
what I put out into the world. With
‘OnePointFive,’ I just didn’t want to
prepare for an album. I just wanted to
make a bunch of fun music and put it out,
and that’s what ‘OnePointFive’ was.” This spirit held true once again in
2021, when the rapper felt that amid
the chaos, confusion and turmoil of
the past two years of the COVID-19
pandemic it was time to make music
just for fun again. This was the impetus
behind “TwoPointFive,” the 12-song
project Aminé released in November
2021 and now is bringing all across the
country on “The Best Tour Ever Tour.”
Jan. 29’s show was the first of the
tour, and Aminé made it clear on stage
that kicking the tour off back home in
Portland,
especially at the Moda Center, was
extremely important to him.
“I used to drive past this building
every day on my way to classes that I
never wanted to take,” Aminé said on
stage.
Two days before the tour started,
the artist posted a statement on Twitter
expressing excitement that the tour was
beginning in this sentimental venue.
“My first concert I ever went to was
at this arena … from then I frequently
grew up coming to Blazer games … I
went to many of my family’s graduation
ceremonies at this arena and I would’ve
had mine here too if I didn’t drop out,
so I never really thought I’d be walking
on this stage again,” Aminé tweeted.Following four openers, three of
whom were local Portland artists,
stagehands transformed the plain
rectangular platform in the middle of
the floor into a microcosm of Portland
culture. After about twenty minutes, a
giant backdrop of Mt. Hood began to
take shape, followed by a scale model
of the Broadway Bridge – which the
rapper later sat on to perform the song
“Dr. Whoever” – and a façade of Alberta
Market, a convenience store located on
Alberta Street a few minutes away from
where Aminé grew up.
The artist used the functioning
door on this “Alberta Market” to
make several entrances and exits
throughout his performance. Finally,
the stagehands brought in a small
sign displaying “Woodlawn Park,”
a reference to Aminé’s childhood
stomping grounds.
“You all must think this
set is very Portland,”
Aminé commented to
the crowd at the Moda
Center. “Well I have
news for you, this
set is coming with
me on tour, I’m
bringing Portland
with me all
across the United
States.”
With this the
crowd erupted in
cheers, and he was
free to continue
through his 31-song
setlist, which included
nine songs from
“TwoPointFive,”
eight from his
2020 album “Limbo,” six from
“OnePointFive” and five from “Good
For You.” Vince Staples made a guest
appearance to perform his verse on
“Pressure in My Palms,” and Vine star
Rickey Thompson, who also narrates
several interludes on both “PointFive”
projects, also surprised the crowd by
appearing on stage to introduce the
main event.
All things considered, Jan 29’s
show was a huge success for the
27-year-old. The next day, he tweeted
that he feels like “a little kid on a field
trip for this tour.” With 27 shows left,
it remains to be seen whether this
tour will live up to its name, but it has
absolutely started out strong.Portland music scene makes pandemic comeback
Hometown hero Aminé kicks off “Best Tour Ever Tour” with
his first show ever at the Moda Center’s Theater of the Clouds
ADELAIDE KAISER/THE PIONEER LOG
Samia’s sold-out Portland show drew hundreds of music fans to the small venue.ADELAIDE KAISER/THE PIONEER LOG
Samia belts out “Big Wheel” for her crowd at the Holocene in Southeast Portland.
By ADELAIDE KAISER
S INGER-SONGWRITER Samia,
born Samia Finnerty, brought
her “Loving U Thanking U” tour
to Portland on Feb. 8. The tour, which
is stopping in over 20 cities across the
U.S., comes off of the success of her
2020 album “The Baby” and her 2021
EP “Scout.”
Alongside opener Charlie Hickey,
Samia played Holocene in Southeast
Portland. A delightfully small venue,
her ethereal presence filled
the room. Opening with
“Pool,” the first song
on her album
“The Baby,” the
audience was
captivated by
her beautiful
voice. Followed
by “Fit n Full”
and “Big Wheel,”
more upbeat songs,
people were able
to dance and have a
ball. After these two
songs, Samia remarked
that “things were about
to get sad.” Although
that was true, it was
not boring; the artist combined her
impressive vocal control and beautiful
energy, gracing the concert’s attendees
with a truly wonderful listening
experience. Samia’s songs are often
technically challenging, and yet she
killed it all night. The show felt personal and intimate
due to the subject matter of the
music and the way Samia was able to
connect with the audience. She was
constantly responding to the audience
members’ comments, and it felt like
a friend performing for a group of
close companions. Samia even
debuted a
new
song, “Pour Some Sugar,” that she had
written just a few weeks prior.
“Thanks for letting us do that,” she
said, before adding, “Well, I guess how
would you have stopped me?” Samia also told the audience that
we should message her co-writer on
Instagram if we liked the song.
One of the sweetest parts of the show
was that it seemed as though the tour was
one big musical family. Hickey brought
Samia out for a duet during his set, and
Samia brought him out to sing
her final song of the night.
Her band also brought great
energy to the stage. During a
number of the songs, Samia
and her drummer had
choreographed movements
that they did together.
During one song, she laid
down on the stage while
the band, especially the
drummer, made as much
noise as possible. You
could almost feel the
catharsis in the air as
she lay there with her
eyes closed.
My favorite songs of
the night were “Triptych,”
“Is There Something in
the Movies?,” “Big Wheel,”
and “Show Up.” This was my
first concert since Jan. 2020, and
there was something so magical to be
in a room full of people experiencing
live music – even if we were all wearing
masks. “Show Up” was a perfect song to
hear at my first show back; the chorus
goes “nothing could ever stop my ass
from showing up to sing another song
for the people I love.” This was a fitting
end to my first show back.
Alternative pop artist Samia brings new music to intimate
Southeast Portland venue, showcases varied vocal talent
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGAMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
By VENUS EDLIN
NUMEROUS ARTISTS whose work
appears on Spotify decided to pull
their content from the streaming
platform in response to COVID-19
misinformation perpetuated by “The Joe
Rogan Experience.” Others followed suit,
especially when a video of Rogan repeatedly
saying the n-word circulated online.
This action is long overdue as Rogan is a
notorious misogynist, racist, transphobe —
you get the idea. Regardless, little material
change will result from this reckoning and
conservatives will have more fodder for
their “cancel culture” crusade.
While I commend artists like Neil
Young for standing against misinformation
during a pandemic that is killing thousands
daily in the United States, I also question
why no similar threats to Spotify were
made earlier. When Rogan was offered a
reported $100 million dollars by Spotify
to feature “The Joe Rogan Experience” as
an exclusive, why was his deadly rhetoric
against transgender people and people of
color not taken as seriously?
Clearly, there is an impetus to stand
against Rogan’s bigotry that fuels hate
crimes. 2021 marked the deadliest year
on record for transgender and gender
nonconforming people in the U.S. with 54
deaths, according to a report by the Human
Rights Campaign. In just the first week of
2022, two Black trans women, Amariey Lej
and Duval Princess, were killed. According
to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s 2021 statistics, there
were 5,227 reported incidents where Race/
Ethnicity/Ancestry was a motivating factor.
However, the worst part of the situation
is that regardless of whether Spotify caved
in to demands to drop Rogan’s podcasts,
other distributors would readily host the
podcast and its many devoted fans would
follow. He has already been offered $100
million by right-wing video site Rumble
to switch platforms. Unsurprisingly, such
platforms are ready to support pandemic
pseudo-science, comparing trans people to
animals and the usage of slurs. At this point
it is clear that Rogan will never actually be
deplatformed, even if Spotify reverts its
decision not to “cancel” the creator.
However, Spotify has now made
their content guidelines public. In future
situations, artists on the platform can
theoretically be held accountable. This has
resulted in over 100 episodes of the podcast
being pulled from Spotify, according to
JREmissing.com. Hopefully, Spotify plans
to keep enforcing such guidelines, though
this means much else of its catalog may
face similar backlash.
This situation has brought the irony
of “cancel culture” to light. Rogan has
yet to face any significant repercussions
for his actions, he continues to profit and
dominate the news cycle. At the same time,
conservative pundits can set the terms of
cultural conversations. Moral of the story:
We need to deplatform harmful internet
celebrities before they become celebrities,
before they become too big to fail.Joe Rogan backlash
necessary but overdueMONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
ARTS 9
By AMELIA DOYLE
LAST DECEMBER, construction
for the remodel of Templeton
Campus Center, soon to be
renamed Stephanie J. Fowler Student
Center, began. The construction has
been an adjustment for Lewis & Clark
students, but the design of the new
building will include features such as a
tech room, an outside elevator, twelve
private gender neutral bathrooms,
an outdoor dining space and new
meeting and conference rooms.
LC has partnered with ZGF
Architecture and Bremik Construction
company to complete the redesign.
Jennifer Russina and Tyler Short are
the lead architects on the project and
have been working on the design for
the last couple of summers.
“We wanted to make students’
spaces that are visible and engender
a sense of ownership and initiative,
and that fosters as much community
as possible,” Russina said.
In order to do this both of the
architects focused on creating “a
spine” down Templeton, so students
can walk straight through the
building. In order to do this, they
are going to open up the courtyard,
making it the most efficient way to
get through the building. There will
be an awning over the doors, so that
students will be able to walk under it
during the rainy season. In addition,
there will be a built-in bench outside
and a fire pit.
“One of the main goals on this
project is making the courtyard an
active space, not only something that
you look out at but something that you
inhabit,” Short said.
One major factor that Russina and
Short both really focused on when
creating the new design was a survey
conducted by LC in 2019 Templeton’s
current design.
“We wanted to borrow elements
from each of them (different
architectural styles of Templeton)
and create an architecture that unifies
the rest of the building and actually
improve some of the elements,” Short
said.
In the survey, students responded
to a number of questions about what
they would like to see in the Templeton
remodel. According to the survey, one
of the things that more students wanted
to see was a tech-room, with printers,
and a gaming console. The tech room
will be added near the twelve new
gender-neutral bathrooms.
“It’s a good step in the right
direction for accessibility when it comes to restrooms and all-gender
restrooms,” Ryan Gardner, capital
project coordinator, said. “I know
we’ve made some strides on that
recently, but there’s still a way to go so
this is a major step in that direction.”
The redesign will also include a
covered space with outdoor dining
seating located just outside of the
Fields Dining Hall. There will also be
two TVs added to the Trail Room and
a small stage. It is important to note
that the design pictures of Templeton
are just a glimpse of what it will
actually look like.
“Whenever you see renderings
they are just initially sort of paintings
there’s a lot of decisions about certain
things, like the furniture, the color,
of the space still get decided along
the way,” Rocky Campbell, Assistant
Dean of Student Engagement and
Executive Director of the Career
Center, said.
They also mentioned that the
new building will have opportunities
for new student art to be displayed
and that benches will be added in
and around the stairs. Currently,
they are working on a whole new
furniture arrangement throughout
the building, with a focus on creating
“little pockets” of furniture.
“We wanted to create a space
that fosters a sense of belonging you
know, and make students feel more
connected to each other.” Russina
said.
The construction is due to be
completed in January of 2023.Templeton’s new design
keeps students in mindIndie bookstore Rose City Book
Pub provides unique ambiance
By NATALIE PARKHURST
LOCATED ACROSS the river
in Northeast Portland the
Rose City Book Pub has been
a community staple since it opened
three and a half years ago. Previously
an Irish pub, the green building with
gold trim pays homage to the business
before it, as does the bar that is
central to its current operation.
When you walk in, you are greeted
by an amalgamation of colorful art
for sale, dark wooden furniture and
Ricky Nelson’s “It’s Up To You”
playing in the background. The decor,
books and bar mesh together in a
combination of aesthetics that seem
as though they should not work.
However, everything blends together
seamlessly on the corner of Northeast
14th and Fremont.
Bartender and cook John has
been working at Rose City Book Pub
since its opening in 2018. According
to John, owner Elise Schumock had a
specific vision for the Book Pub.
“She used to be a schoolteacher,”
John said. “She would frequent bars
and think ‘I wish I had a place I could just go read.’ This was her concept,
she quit teaching to open this bar.”
Like any good used bookstore,
sorting through the shelves and
stacks of books is a treasure hunt.
Exploring the different reading nooks
leads to discovering an eclectic mix
of plush chairs, stuffed animals and
genres ranging from science fiction to
social justice.
The employees of Book Pub
embrace its unique business model
and, being the first book bar to open
in Portland, they offer a variety
of literature alongside wine, beer,
cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks.
This is accompanied by a cafe-esque
food menu, all of which you can enjoy
at one of the tables or reading nooks
found in the dining space.
The pub places an emphasis
on community, made clear by its
events schedule and the familiarity
expressed by their patrons. One table
even called out to John by his first
name, asking him to turn up Sherman
Kelly’s “Dancing in the Moonlight”
(which he did with a grin). Their
calendar is full of live music, film
screenings and trivia nights.“Elise is pretty much open to
anyone’s idea,” John said. “They just
have to approach her.”
They also hold book talks and have
a section dedicated to local authors
that frequent their space for readings.
Open from noon to midnight, the
establishment switches over to a 21+
bar at 9 p.m. This results in a large
variety of patrons, from families in
the afternoon discovering books and
businessmen working at laptops,
to the turnover of young people
looking for a fun spot to hang out.
Most importantly, John makes a
point to say that everyone is and feels
welcome.
“Everyone who comes in here feels
a sense of community,” John said.
Rose City Book Pub is a friendly,
unique space that offers something
for everyone. While a bit of a trek
from campus, it is worth it to discover
the well worn stacks and nooks
that the establishment has to offer.
Whether you are looking for a quiet
place to study or somewhere to drink
and hang out with friends, this book
bar welcomes everyone with open
arms and food to give.Readers and patrons alike can enjoy the used bookstore combined with pub and eatery on Fremont Street in Northeast Portland.By AIDAN D’ANNA
DUE TO the COVID-19 pandemic,
galleries and museums have
wrestled with intermittent
closures and restrictions, largely
reducing an experience that was once
collaborative to individual interactions
through a screen. Lewis & Clark alumnus
Andrea Lewis ’20 is seeking to flip this
narrative by opening Plural, an online
art gallery. Co-founded by Habiba
Hopson, an emerging art professional
who Lewis met during an internship
in New York, Plural is seeking to bring
artists together through the elusive, but
rewarding, online art world.
“As people, if we’re really embodying
the pedagogy of plurality, we’re always
moving and transitioning and growing
and evolving,” Lewis said. “And so that
means the gallery is going to occupy
different spaces and look different and
find itself within different cultures and
languages.”
Plurality, as Lewis and Hopson
see it, is the idea that artists are never
just artists, they never just work in
one medium and not enough credit is
given to their depth as people. They
believe that artists are too often treated
like machines who are expected to
churn out pieces for the sole purpose of making money, which not only
devalues the work, but disrespects the
artist’s integrity as well.
“Artists are often limited to one
aesthetic or one style or one medium,
when at the same time they are a lot
more plural than that,” Lewis said.
“They also are activists, professors, they
occupy many positions and many titles
in society … and so Plural came into
being because of that idea that we’re
all distinct, but there are also so many
points of connection, where someone
like me from Berkeley, California
can connect to someone from Lagos,
Nigeria, and we have very different
backgrounds, but at the same time
there’s a knowing between us.”
Another reason why Hopson and
Lewis opened the gallery was to combat
the practice of art flipping, which is
all too common in the art world. Art
flipping occurs when a collector buys
the work (or sometimes entire catalog)
of an emerging artist at a low price, then
resells it without the artist’s knowledge
or consent. Sometimes the pieces go
for upwards of triple or quadruple the
original price.
In an effort to cut down on this
practice, Plural asks that all of their
buyers sign the Plural Sales Agreement.
“In order to combat money-driven investments and introduce conscious
resell practices, we ask that our
collectors invest in the sustaining of
artists’ legacies,” the agreement states.
“This contract ensures that collectors
may not resell works sold through
Plural Gallery within 2 years from the
time of purchase. If the buyer decides
to sell the work after 2 years, the buyer
then agrees to provide the artist with
20% of the retail price.”
Though Plural is currently operating
solely in an online space, they do plan
to open up pop-ups in the near future.
In the meantime, the gallery is focusing
its efforts on marketing their artists,
finding grants and awards for them
to apply for and getting their work
showcased in museums.
Finally, it was extremely important
to Lewis and Hopson that their
gallery represent artists of color,
and specifically those from around
the world. Both co-founders value
travel immensely (Lewis moved to
Mexico just after graduating from
LC, and is now living in France) and
it was important for them to connect
global communities they have had the
privilege of entering.
“We have a pool of collectors in
New York and (L.A.) (from when we
worked there), now I’m living here in France, and (Hopson is) in New York,
and we lived in Mexico for several
years,” Lewis said. “So we’re using this
community of artists and of collectors
and our relationships to give exposure
to our artists, and eventually to help
them have a community that supports
them both financially and artistically.”
Right now the gallery represents six
artists, who are based in a variety of
places, from here in the United States to Ghana and Nigeria. Though the website
has only been live for a little over a
month, Plural has already been gaining
traction through a partnership with a
museum that is yet to be announced,
and it is hoping to attract many more
artists to join its movement towards
a more ethical and artist-forward
industry. To check out what the gallery
is up to and read more about Lewis and
Hopson’s story, visit artisplural.com.LC alumnus co-founds creative online art gallery
Plural combats art flipping by investing in artists of color, connecting creators around the world
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NATALIE PARKHURST/THE PIONEER LOG
Andrea Lewis ’20 and Habiba Hopson run Plural, an online artist-focused gallery.PHOTO COURTESY OF PLURALMONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021
SPORTS 10
NFL faced with legal action after equity complaints
By NATHAN OAKLEY
FORMER MIAMI Dolphins coach
Brian Flores filed a class-action
lawsuit against the National
Football League (NFL) and its teams
this week, bringing forth accusations
of sham interviews, incentivized losses
and systemic racism. Flores said in a
statement to NFL Network that he hopes
others will join his lawsuit to share stories
of “systemic racism in the NFL.”
However, league officials, as well as
executives from the three biggest culprits
named in the lawsuit — the Miami
Dolphins, New York Giants and Denver
Broncos — have all vehemently denied
Flores’ claims, leading some to question
whether Flores will be able to prove
the allegations of systemic racism and
corruption in court.
Flores was recently fired from his head
coach position with the Miami Dolphins
despite delivering a promising 2021
season in the middle of a team rebuild.
The lawsuit alleges that his firing was not
a result of his job performance, but rather
his private disagreements with Dolphins
owner Stephen Ross. Flores alleges that
Ross offered him $100,000 for each
game he purposely lost during the 2019
season, as the Dolphins organization
aimed to receive the coveted first pick in
the NFL Draft. Flores refused the offer,
stringing together wins and improving
the Dolphins record throughout the 2020
season, reportedly to the outrage of Ross.Additionally, Flores alleges that in a
2019 interview for the open head coach
position with the Denver Broncos, team
president Joe Ellis and then-general
manager John Elway showed up over an hour late while also heavily intoxicated.
In another instance, Flores claims he was
humiliated by the New York Giants by
not being given a fair shot in their hiring
process. The day before his interview with the Giants, New England Patriots
head coach Bill Belicheck accidentally
texted Flores a congratulatory message
intended for Buffalo Bills offensive
coordinator Brian Daboll, who had just received the Giants offer for the
open head coach position. The Giants
proceeded to interview Flores anyway,
asking him meaningless questions
before telling him he was not a qualified
candidate.
Flores alleges that these sham
interviews arise from the NFL’s Rooney
Rule, enacted in 2003 to increase the
number of minorities in top positions
with teams. The rule provides each NFL
team that interviews a minority for a
coaching or executive position with
a compensatory draft pick. Since its
enactment, the rule has led to a surge in
minorities involved in the hiring process
even though there has been a sharp
decline in the number of minorities to
actually receive an offer. While many
have criticized the rule, some players and
experts have come out in support, saying
that prior to the rule’s establishment,
minorities seldom received interviews at
all.
The NFL is no stranger to
misconduct allegations. The Washington
Commanders are currently under
investigation by the United States
House Oversight Committee for toxic
workplace, sexual harassment and
corruption allegations. The league is also
dealing with controversy surrounding its
alleged cover-up of the long-term health
effects players deal with, such as chronic
brain damage. Flores is one of the first
individuals to stand up to the NFL, and
many await what happens next.The league has to grapple with allegations of systemic racism, misconduct as public trial continuesLC embraces tradition of advocacy in sports
By AMELIA MADARANG
IN THE LAST TWO years, it has
become increasingly common
for Lewis & Clark sports teams to
make statements on various social and
political movements. On the @lcpiossfb
Instagram, there is an image of an LC
football player kneeling while wearing
a sign reading “protect Asian women”
below the back of their jersey. On the
@lcpiosswim Instagram, there is a post
about Black Lives Matter that starts with
“the first commitment we can make is to
LISTEN.” Individual athletes have made
posts about their own experiences and
advocated for change as well.
Point guard Bille Sheikh ’24
is one such athlete who supports
social justice. Sheikh is not currently
playing on LC’s basketball team
due to an injury, but he is still very
active with The Locker Room, the
Office of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement’s Men of Color Collective.
Sheikh sees that the transition to a
predominantly white institution can be rough for some athletes. He has been
working to create opportunities and a
sense of community for male athletes of
color on campus. Sheikh grew up living
in the United States and Japan and
experienced marginalization in both
places. In addition, his experiences
as an athlete influenced his views on
racial discrimination and the push for
equality.
“It just made me really passionate,”
Sheikh said. “We want to be treated
equally, and things are so different
everywhere around the world. When I
see my little brother who is in middle
school now, I don’t want him to go
through what I did. I just want to
educate everyone and do the best I
can.”
For almost as long as there have
been athletes in America, BIPOC
athletes have used their popularity to
call attention to social justice issues.
One well-known example is the
formation of the Olympic Project for
Human Rights, which led to the Black
Power Salute protest by two African American athletes. It is an iconic image,
with Tommie Smith and John Carlos
standing on the podium at the 1968
Summer Olympics in Mexico City, eyes
cast down, fists in the air, protesting
South African apartheid, racism in the
U.S. and the mistreatment of Black
people around the world.
This was partly orchestrated by Dr.
Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of
sociology at the University of California,
Berkeley. As a former student-athlete
and current activist-scholar, he spent
his career focusing on the experiences
of other African American athletes.
Edwards’ life and work indicate that
sports are a window into society,
illuminating a wide range of social
and political challenges that affect our
culture. However, Edwards has seen an
intolerance toward allowing athletes
to use sports as a platform to speak on
important issues.
“When you come up against the
media and are unwilling to play the
game, then you are essentially cast
aside, turned essentially into a non-person because they no longer have any
use for you,” Edwards said in an NPR
interview.
A number of the LC football
team’s Black players have replicated
the Black Power salute during the
national anthem for all four years that
Ariel Blemur ’22 has been a defensive
lineman on the team. It was reportedly
started by Marvin Pusung-Zita ’22,
whose high school made the news for
kneeling during the national anthem
before their games.
“I did it for every game of my
career mainly because, especially out
in Portland, people think the narrative
is different,” Blemur said. “They think
the fight is already over. They think
equality has already been achieved, but
there (are) still discrepancies that Black
people have to deal with all the time
that can often go ignored … The whole
point of keeping our fist in the air was
to make sure people knew there was a
fight going on, still, injustices that need
to be righted, still work to be done.”
This was inspired by Colin
Kaepernick, who began protesting
police violence against racial minorities
in the U.S. in 2016, first by sitting during
the national anthem and later kneeling.
It was an action that eventually cost
him his career in the National Football
League. At around the same time,
WNBA stars like Maya Moore and
Seimone Augustus spoke out against
police shootings of Black people. The
Minnesota Lynx wore T-shirts with the
names of Philando Castile and Alton
Sterling on the back and the words “change starts with us, justice, and
accountability” on the front.
Blemur has been thankful that his
coaches have supported their team’s
decision to engage in such protests.
“I feel like you can’t work for an
organization that doesn’t support you
as a person or support the struggle that
you are going through,” Blemur said.
In 2020, the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) Playing
Rules Oversight Panel approved rules
to “allow student-athletes in all sports
to wear patches on their uniforms
for commemorative and memorial
purposes, as well as to support social
justice issues.”
The NCAA does not have an
official policy on student activism,
nor do they have a policy on hate
speech. They acknowledge that
students athletes have a platform,
and in 2020 provided a list of tips
for students looking to promote their
messages. In the NCAA 2021-2022
Divison Manual, they state that “all
participating student-athletes shall
act with honesty and sportsmanship
at all times so that intercollegiate
athletics as a whole, their institutions
and they, as individuals, shall
represent the honor and dignity of
fair play and the generally recognized
high standards associated with
wholesome competitive sports.”
Whether advocating for social
justice or sharing the message of
hate groups, it is unclear what
consequences student athletes face
that post on social media.THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG Members of the Lewis & Clark football team raise their fists in protest of social injustice.
KATE MILNE/THE PIONEER LOG
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Student athletes regularly use their influence to affect change, campaign for key social justice issues MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
SPORTS 11
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
FOR DECADES , sports fans have
poured into sports bars, stuffed
stadiums and crammed couches
to watch the greatest athletes in the
world compete. Sports can serve as a
distraction from the mundanity of life.
Sports can unite us, but more frequently
divide us. Now, these divisions are more
controversial than ever, extending far
beyond the court or field. Although it
divided the audience, the politicization
of sports was not a bad thing in the
beginning. In the wake of George Floyd’s
murder, athletes like Lebron James,
Jaylen Brown, Eric Reid and many
more—following the example of Colin
Kaepernick—used their international
platforms to protest the injustices
experienced by Floyd and other Black
Americans. Sports teams and leagues,
including the National Basketball
Association (NBA) and Premier League,
modified warm-up jerseys and arenas to
protest systemic racism. In the midst of
the pandemic, when few sports leagues
were active, the NBA playoffs began
on courts furnished with “Black Lives
Matter,” allowing the message to reach
the politically-diverse sports audience in
a substantial way. Eventually, though, the
headlines shifted from Bradley Beal and
John Wall leading a march in Washington
to Jonathan Isaac and Marcos Alonso
refusing to kneel in protest of racism.
As the pandemic continues, a new
issue was given a national spotlight:
vaccine mandates. Athletes like Novak
Djokovic, Kyrie Irving and Aaron Rodgers
have had highly publicized battles against
the COVID-19 vaccine, and echoed anti-
vaccine rhetoric to millions.
Tennis superstar Djokovic has
recently received the most press. He was deported from Australia because
the Australian government feared he
would cause anti-vaccination sentiment
within the country, an action that gave
Djokovic an international audience and
the support of Aleksandar Vučić, the
president of his home country of Serbia.
Djokovic was meant to participate in
the Australian Open, where he would
have faced off against his rival, Rafael
Nadal. Both of them would have vied for a record-breaking twenty-first
men’s Grand Slam singles title. Without
Djokovic in attendance, Nadal handily
won the tournament, making his new
record naturally controversial and giving
Djokovic a sort of martyrdom.
Among the superstar athletes that have
voiced their opposition to the COVID-19
vaccine is NBA star Kyrie Irving, who
has had a long winding descent since his
days of sidekicking for LeBron James and cameoing on Nickelodeon. After playing
for the Boston Celtics and expressing his
flat earth theories, he joined superstar
Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets in the
offseason. Shortly after the pair recovered
from injury, the front office pulled off a
blockbuster trade for former MVP and
3-time scoring champ James Harden to
form a historic super team.
In January 2021, during the process
of seeking Harden, a video of Irving went viral at an unmasked family birthday
party; a controversy that some believe
allowed Brooklyn to trade for Harden
without giving up Irving. Whatever the
role, his carelessness around COVID-19
foreshadowed his current stance. Despite
New York’s indoor vaccine mandate,
Irving remains unvaccinated, which
causes him to be sidelined for all Brooklyn
Nets home games.
As a Green Bay Packers fan, this
past season has been the most difficult
season for me to watch, despite their
competitiveness. Aaron Rodgers is leading
the NFL MVP race yet again and could
become the fifth back-to-back NFL MVP
in history. Disregarding an embarrassing
playoff exit, Rodgers played splendidly,
but with every win, every historic
offensive performance, I was reminded
of the weight those wins carried, a weight
sinking our nation.
On an episode of the Joe Rogan
Experience, Rodgers and Rogan
criticized the COVID-19 vaccine, spoke
candidly about their decisions to remain
unvaccinated, and promoted herbal
alternatives. With every victory Rodgers
carried the Packers to, he carried
misinformation to a wider audience.
Despite my fandom, I was morally
relieved when my team lost in their first
playoff game of the season, as it finally
turned off his spotlight.
Many professional athletes are given
an international platform, even those
that are less than qualified to speak
on certain subjects. Athletes have an
incredible opportunity to reach the
public, but rarely have the expertise to
properly do so. As long as our country and
others grant sports a disproportionately
loud platform to science and academia,
our defenses against misinformation
will be insufficient.Vaccine mandates cause strife within athletics
Explore a variety of inclusive workouts for beginners
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, enhance mental health with different types of strength training Despite proven safety of coronavirus vaccines, top professional athletes voice opposition to league protocols
By GABE KORER
NOW MORE than ever, workouts
exist in a variety of flavors.
They can test your endurance,
build up your strength or introduce you
to true flexibility for the first time in
your life. If you are looking to improve
your mental health, they can help with
that too. Whatever your inspiration is,
these five workouts can be a breath of
fresh air for anyone’s exercise routine.
Pilates
Taking the name from its founder
Joseph Pilates, this exercise has
been used by both professional
athletes and regular folk alike to
achieve better strength, stability and
flexibility. Originating during World
War I, early versions of this workout
were used to help non-ambulatory
soldiers that were unable to walk on
their own. At the time, Pilates would
simply attach bed springs to their
hospital beds to help the soldiers with
their rehabilitation. Nowadays, the
equipment is much more advanced,
with innovative resistance machines
such as the Reformer being the
centerpiece of Pilates studios.
With that said, you can easily
practice Pilates at home if you have
access to dumbbells, resistance
bands, a foam roller or exercise balls.
There is even a specialized mat (not
to be confused with a yoga mat)
that can be used while watching or
attending classes, which you can find
plenty of on YouTube. All in all, the
activity’s core-strengthening benefits
are widely useful, and can be enjoyed
by anyone looking for a well-balanced
workout.
Yoga
The history of yoga is a rich one,
as it was conceived over 5,000 years
ago in Northern India, and is one of
the six orthodox schools of Hindu
philosophy. Yoga actually took off in
the Western world around the same
time that Pilates did, in the early-to-mid 20th century with the growth of
the first studios. Swami Vivekananda,
who brought the practice from India
in 1893, is credited with paving the
way for what is now the most popular
exercise activity in the United States
According to Healthline, yoga can
be incredibly beneficial for improving
joint mobility and flexibility, including
the spine, hips and wrists. It can also
improve relaxation and mindfulness
while contributing to heart health,
strength and arthritis relief. Due to
its many styles, it is amenable to a
wide variety of mental and physical
pursuits. Eventually, you could
become a Guru if you master the four
primary types – karma, bhakti, jnana
and raja.
HIIT
High intensity interval training
(HIIT) is a lively, calorie-burning
workout that can be applied to
any activity that involves cardio
(running, swimming, jumping jacks,
etc.). HIIT is a staple in sports such
as track, basketball and tennis which
involve short-bursts of speed amidst
periods of more consistent – though
still fairly high – activity. Beyond the
benefit of increased cardiovascular
endurance, HIIT allows you to make
the most of your time without even
having to pay for any equipment. It
is also shown to improve VO2 max, a
measure of endurance that, according
to a 2018 study from Barbara Strasser
and Martin Burtscher, is one of the
best predictors in how long you will
live.
Fortunately for Lewis & Clark
students, there is a recurring
HIIT fitness zoom event hosted by
Director of Alumni Relations Natasha
Richmond every Tuesday, which can
be attended from the comfort of your
own room. Where can students find
a link to this zoom?
CrossFit
CrossFit is similar to HIIT in that
it can be high-intensity and improve your endurance, but it places a greater
emphasis on improving strength.
Surprisingly, it has only been around
since 2000, yet has amassed a massive
cult following in part because of the
uniqueness of the workouts. Instead of
using normal machines, crossfit utilizes
barbells, weights and more traditional
exercises like push-ups and pull-ups,
to hit a variety of muscle groups.
Another unique feature of
CrossFit is that instead of having a
predetermined amount of reps to fulfill,
there is a prescribed length of time,
which contributes to the physically
grueling aspect of the workouts. As a
beginner, it is important to ease into
the activities gradually, otherwise you
run the risk of injury due to improper
form or fatigue. With that said, if you
are looking for something innovative
and fresh, then look no further than
CrossFit.
Zumba
Arguably the most entertaining
option on this list, Zumba incorporates
Latin and international music alongside
choreographed movements in its high-
energy workouts. With over 200,000
class locations in 180 countries, Zumba
is internationally recognized as an
engaging fitness routine to help burn
calories and relieve stress. Although
it is not one of the more effective
workouts out there, and there has been
discourse over whether the dances it
incorporates are truly Latin, it still
remains an extremely popular way to
get some exercise.
If you want to spice things up, you
could always add some lunges, squats
or arm curls into your zumba routine.
Alternatively, you could also just put
on some Marc Anthony, forget the
routine and dance like you normally do
when no one is watching - poorly and
erratically. Either way, prepare to get
your groove on and break a sweat.
In conclusion, for whatever
reason you are deciding to work out,
whether it be a New Year’s resolution
or your parents nagging you, it is important to find a routine that is
right for you. A workout is only as
effective as how consistently you can do it. Remember to not overdo it,
have fun and get those gains.
FAITH GALLEGOS/THE PIONEER LOGTHE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES By VENUS EDLIN
THE GO TO Wordle starter for
Flay Toulance ’22, founder of the
Wordle Enjoyers Engaged with
Devotion (WEED) club, is "FARTS."
“Statistically, ‘FARTS’ is not only a
high probability guess, but it also gives you
a quirky anecdote you can tell at a house
show, on a Bumble date or even at your
grandma’s birthday party,” Toulance said.
Wordle is a web-based game created
by Josh Wardle that gives players around
the world six chances to guess one five-
letter word every single day. The tiles will
turn green to tell you a letter is correct,
yellow to tell you the letter is right but
in the wrong place or dark gray to tell
you that you are a failure. The Wordle
craze has taken Lewis & Clark by storm,
no surprise given the prevalence of
dopamine-seeking students obsessed with
crocheting and walks.
According to Mary Ganya ’24, who
serves as treasurer, WEED is just as much
about seeking community as it is to play a
word game. Her starting word is “JOINT.”
“If I’m being honest, we wanted to
make it seem like we did more than just
go on our ‘nightly walks’ to the gazebo
to chill out and hang,” Ganya said. “Yes,
we play Wordle. But also, yes, we fudge our club funding a little to cover that
Oregon dispo tax.” When asked to clarify
what “dispo” refers to, all club members
declined to comment.
WEED meets every night to attempt
the daily puzzle together. During each
meeting, members try to get the elusive
five green letters and celebrate their
wins as a group.
“I was honestly very confused why
club meetings for a word game club
started at 8:00 p.m. by the Maggie’s
stairs,” Julie Newone ’23 said. “Now I
get it, and why this is the most popular
game on campus. Seeing everything
turn green with my club members by
my side puts me in high spirits every
time.”
The only other spot on campus that
is more popular at 8 p.m. is the bus stop
by the graduate campus. This is the
meeting place for the Celibacy to Inspire
God (CIG) club, which is the only other
club more popular than WEED.
The New York Times recently
purchased Wordle, promising to not
monetize the website for at least the
first hour. Toulance said the club is
prepared for this possible setback.
“We are fully prepared to reimburse
students' Wordle subscription fees,
if need be,” Toulance said. “Even if it comes down to selling extra brownies
at our monthly baked sales. WEED will
always be on campus.”
Ganya agrees and said that she
will use the complete authority that
she possesses as treasurer to ensure
students equitable access.
“Hey, it would not be the first time
I misrepresented financial documents,”
Ganya said. “I am prepared for the
worst. Also, we have full support from
our club advisor.”
Art Department Chair Sequoia
Cayenne Hope-Smith recently took
on the faculty advisor role for the
WEED club. Hope-Smith is a long time
Scrabble fan and Oregon Measure 91
proponent. Toulance asked if she would
advise the club after seeing Hope-
Smith share the wrong window during
Zoom class, disastrously spoiling that
day’s Wordle for the whole class.
“I deeply resonate with these kids
and their passion for word games,”
Hope-Smith said. “It feels as if I have
known WEED for decades.”
WEED is planning to collaborate
with the Co-Op later this month for
a Wordle-inspired improv poetry
night. All poems that night will be
improvised based on the Wordle for
that day. For more information, go to the SOA Lawn and just whisper
"weed." The appropriate club members will connect you to the Proactive
Legalization Union Group (PLUG).
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Word play game takes campus, world by storm
LC experiences renaissance in club membership as participation increases more than 420% since 1969
Palatine Hill debuts new name;
sparks space-based controversy
By MALCOLM
PARISI-MARCOUX
AS MANY Lewis & Clark students
know, the school has long been
the center of the Star Wars
fandom, a sort of sci-fi mecca to which
all fans must journey to at least once in
their lifetimes.
In the past couple of years, Disney has
seen great success with their Star Wars
projects, and there is great anticipation
for those releasing in the near future. In
a recent meeting of the U.S. Board on
Geographic Names, a member brought
forward a motion to rename our beloved
Palatine Hill to Palpatine Hill in honor of
the Dark Lord of the Sith.
The motion drew opposition from
those on the right not just within the
student body, but also at the national level.
Right-wing political commentator
Tucker Carlson took to Twitter to
announce his displeasure with this
proposition, tweeting: “This is just another
blatant attempt to push the liberal agenda.
#NotMySith #StarWaronChristianity.” When pressed for explanation, Carlson
responded: “My job is to make claims,
not explain my claims.” He has been
unavailable for further questioning.
Fox News commentator and well
known ‘Trekkie’ Laura Ingram tweeted
last night: “If we allow them to change
Palatine Hill to Palpatine Hill, where
does it end? Will Tryon become
Tatooine? Will Alder Residence Hall
become Alderaan Residence Hall?” She
later added: “Trekkies are being pushed
out of every space we occupy by the
Star Wars fandom. This is just another
example of forced inclusivity and I’m
taking a stand against it.”
Ingram alleged, in a press conference
she held, that LC's administration was
taking under-the-table payouts from
Disney to support the name change
and promote their new shows. Ingram
even calls the renovation of Templeton
Campus Center into question.
“Where exactly did they get the
money?” Ingram said. “We don’t know for
sure and I find that highly suspicious.”
The reaction from students was mixed.
“I’m concerned about the special
interests of our senators on this,”
Sharon Lucas ’22 said. “How do we
know it’ll be a fair election? After all,
it’s common knowledge that the Sith
control the senate, both U.S. and ASB.”
Many students turned out to
protest in favor of the name change,
taking to the parking lots and streets
around campus with signs showing
their support. One sign in particular
stated, “Stand with the Sith,” while
others were just photos of Adam
Driver shirtless and in those crazy
high-waisted pants, referred to within
the fandom as ‘Ben Swolo.’
“Changing the name is the only thing
that makes sense,” Ben Armitage ’23
said. “Who’s more culturally relevant? Chancellor Palpatine, Dark Lord of the
Sith and Master to Darth Vader or a
name that probably got chosen in like the
1700s or something?”
Eventually, a counter-protest emerged
consisting of students opposed to the
name change. We spoke to Claire Kumar
’25 who held a sign that said “Trekkies
against tyranny.”
“I no longer feel safe as a Star Trek
fan on campus; not with those Luke
and Leia incest-loving freaks roaming
around,” Kumar said. "It sickens me.
I don't understand how the college
could be affiliated with an organization
like this."
Dozens have already canceled their
Disney+ accounts, announcing a boycott
of all Star Wars-related media. Even
more are expected to terminate their
subscriptions in the coming days.
Although there have been no
reports of physical clashes between
rival groups as of yet, we have received
word that vandalized toy lightsabers
and inflammatory graffiti have been
left outside dormitories and buildings
considered Star Wars fandom territory,
possibly as a threat.
Campus police have also found
broken phazers outside “Trekkie”
territory. Concerns about physical
damage pale in comparison to fears
about emotional damage.
We spoke to a self-identified
“Trekkie” who requested to remain
anonymous. They assured us they did
not take part in the destruction.
“I’ll tell you what those broken
lightsabers are,” the student said. “They
are not a threat, they are a promise.”
The vote is set to be held on Feb 29.
While much is to be decided, one thing
is for sure: No matter what the result of
the vote, LC will have a war of galactic
proportions on its hands.New president leads to
satire content shortage
By EMMA FORD
TIM WEASEL. How dare you?!
Look, we had so many good
times together, you and I.
As a Backdoor writer, I so greatly
enjoyed your tenure as president of
Lewis & Clark. You gave us so much
rich material. Every time we as a
staff came together to pitch pieces,
you were one of our favorite topics!
We held you so fondly in our hearts.
Every chance we had to put you in
an article, we did. “Board Votes to
Euthanize LC President?” Classic.
So you must forgive me if I
thought we had a deal. We all knew
that you were stepping down. What
we did not know is you were going to
stab us in the back(door). Because
now, you have made your true colors
known. We need to talk about it.
Dr. Sparrow Houses-Gilbert has
been named the 26th president of
LC. She is our college’s first Black
president, first woman president and
first queer president. She has had 28
years in college administration and
is a licensed clinical psychologist.
Her jacket game is on point – we
have loved the plain neutrals, Tim,
but I must admit it is time for
texture and pattern.
This is all great, sure, but now
my fellow writers and I have a huge
problem: We do not know how to
make fun of her.
Yes, that is correct. A career
administrator that is so cool that I
really have no idea what I can say to mock her. She is outdoorsy, she
travels and she has been featured in
Ebony Magazine. She even rides a
Harley! Like, the motorcycle.
Gone are the days in which I
can bully out of touch bureaucrats
or take advantage of the school’s
hapless head in our gentle mocking.
What are we going to do? N o
out-of-touch school initiatives, no
more attempted infiltration of the
Backdoor editorial staff (the fake
mustache did not work as well as
you thought it did, Weasel), no more
diversity campaigns at the behest of
old white men. I cannot even quote
her defending Fields Dining Hall
food — she is a cook!
I thought, after how nice we
have been to you all these years,
you could have done us a solid, Tim.
Timmy. Timsy-boy. Is there no way
you could have appointed a bow-tie
wearing, 60-year-old, unseasoned
career administrator? I feel like they
are not hard to find.
I could have written articles
about this hypothetical, white
bread Boomer 26th president until
the proverbial cows came home.
Instead, I am going to … have to …
be creative. I did not come to write
for a satire section just to have to be
clever and deep! You infuriate me.
You have betrayed me! Worse — you
have betrayed the social institution
that has always had your back. I
trusted you, Tim. Shame on you.
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