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Volume 98, No. 2

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2022-02-25

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By IHSAAN MOHAMED
ON THE EVENING of Feb. 15,
a large group of Lewis & Clark
students physically picked up
the bus shelter previously located across
from the graduate campus entrance and
carried it from Gate 3, lower Griswold,
where it had been moved, back to Gate
6. Campus Safety drove alongside the
students, but did not intervene.
Students felt urged to mobilize after
a video of the bus shelter being moved
by Facilities was posted on social
media. The shelter had reportedly
served as a hub of student life for the LC
community.
“It felt like they had robbed us a
little bit,” Liv Ladaire ’24 said. “It felt
like an invasion of our cultural center.”
Ladaire and her friends decided
to organize an 8:30 p.m. vigil where
attendees were instructed to wear all
black and bring candles. Ladaire posted
a flier on her story advertising the vigil.
That evening, around 20 students
gathered at the bus shelter’s original
location and told “sweet stories” and
memories about the bus stop. They
ended the gathering with a game of
“down by the banks.”
“We were just reminiscing and
making lighthearted fun of the situation,
even though underlying, we did feel
really sad,” Ladaire said. “In that sense,
it was a very wholesome gathering.”
At 10 p.m., another wave of LC
students showed up at the bus stop.
Various other LC students had shared
Ladaire’s idea to organize, and a second
event had been scheduled for that
evening. This group, however, had
different goals.
According to Ladaire, a student
with a megaphone showed up and
immediately took charge. The student,
along with around 20 others, went on
a mission to find the location of the bus shelter. They returned with a call
to action: The bus shelter had been
relocated at lower Griswold, but they
needed help moving it.
A large group of students marched
towards the shelter, physically picked it
up and began carrying it uphill. While
the group took turns, only around 15
students were carrying it at a time.
Ladaire was not surprised that
students mobilized for this issue.
“It was a very clear injustice, they
took our bus stop and we want it back,”
Ladaire said. “It was a very easy entry
point into protesting what people were
upset about … it was an easy way to
mobilize.”
The bus shelter was placed back
in its original location, and students
began celebrating, both on social
media and in-person. One LC student
climbed and stood on the domed roof
of the structure. The group eventually
dispersed later that night. The structure
was removed once again by Facilities
the next morning.
Both on social media and in-person,
the reaction to the evening’s actions
remained mixed. A number of students
were dismayed that LC students rallied
so quickly for this issue, but have failed
to do the same for other causes in the
past.
Adelle Kelly ’23, a member of the
Prison Abolition Club and Feminist
Student Union, believed that the energy
displayed that evening could have been
re-directed towards more important
issues in need of a large student voice,
such as the strike organized by the Bon
Worker’s Union.
“My perspective began being very,
very upset and feeling embarrassed to
even be part of a campus that the largest
gathering that we’ve had is because
of the structure of a bus stop being
moved,” Kelly said.
“ Holmes” continued on page 3FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 www.piolog.com
Bus shelter relocation sparks student action
Sarah Lind-MacMillan ’22 receives Rangel FellowshipPeople gather in memory of the “cultural center,” later crowd returns structure to spot near gate 6
PHOTO COURTESY OF SIPOWSKA
LC students gathered to hold a vigil for the bus stop located across the graduate campus, which had served as a student hub.
Today’s Weather
Chilly, sunny day. High of 49 degrees
and a low of 29 degrees. Sunset at
5:52 p.m. and a third quarter moon.
Happy Black History Month from
The Pioneer Log! OPINION
Mental Health Awareness
Center for Social Change and Community
Involvement makes a great step toward
mental health awareness
PAGE 4FEATURES
Sellwood Stop II
A stroll through Sellwood stop, SE 13th
and Tacoma includes bagels, boba,
books and vintage finds.
PAGE 7ARTS
Platteau grand reopening
The Platteau held their grand reopening
event on February 11, providing various
activities for students.
PAGE 9SPORTS
Since his arrival in 2014, Locey has taken
the football program to new heights.

PAGE 10
By AMELIA DOYLE
ASSOCIATED STUDENT Body
(ASB) President Sarah Lind-
MacMillan ’22 was recently named a Rangel Fellowship winner.
Lind-MacMillan is excited to begin this
new chapter of her life.
The Charles B. Rangel International
Affairs scholarship program aims to attract and prepare outstanding young
people for careers in the Foreign Service
of the United States Department of
State in which they can help formulate,
represent and implement U.S. foreign
policy.
According to the program’s website,
the Rangel Fellowship awards 45
fellowships of up to $42,000 annually
for the completion of a two-year
master’s degree. This includes up
to $24,000 per year for tuition and
mandatory fees and an academic year
stipend of $18,000. At the conclusion
of two years of study, the Rangel Fellow
is expected to have obtained a degree
in international affairs or another area
of relevance to the work of the Foreign
Service at an approved graduate school.
According to the LC website, Lind-
MacMillan will intern with a member
of Congress and the State Department
will send her overseas to intern in
a U.S. Embassy or Consulate. Upon
completion of the program, Lind-
MacMillan will become a U.S. diplomat
in the summer of 2024.
Lind-MacMillan was inspired by
Mikah Bertelmann ’21, who was the
previous ASB president. “I’m very proud of Sarah for
becoming LC’s third Rangel Fellow.
She is immensely qualified and
well equipped to succeed in this
fellowship, at grad school and in her
career as a diplomat.”Bertelmann
said via email. “I know she will
be a great addition to the Rangel
family and I look forward to working
alongside her in the U.S. Foreign
Service, promoting diversity and
giving underrepresented groups a
voice in foreign policy.”
According to Lind-MacMillan,
Bertelmann was very encouraging
and supportive of her decision to
apply to the program and was a great
mentor throughout the process.
“I am really excited to go to
grad school, it is something that I
know that I have always wanted to
do, but with how expensive it is, it
was pretty daunting to think about
having to find a way to pay for it.”
Lind-Macmillan said.
Lind-Macmillan wants to pursue
a master’s in public policy or
international affairs and she applied
to a number of schools with both
programs. “I really love IA, I am an IA major,
and I am excited to spend at least
five years in a career abroad,” Lind-
Macmillan said. “I never got to go abroad
at LC, just because of the pandemic, so I
think it will be cool to just go someplace
and try it out.”
Lind-Macmillan said that her
professor, Assistant Professor of
International Affairs Laura Vinson, was
very supportive during the process and
she wrote her letters of recommendation.
Lind-MacMillan was also happy to
see people extend their support across
campus when she was announced as a
finalist.
Rocky Campbell, vice president of
student life and executive director of the
career center, professors across the IA
department and friends at LC conducted
mock interviews with Lind-MacMillan.
She is both excited and nervous about
the possibilities after winning the Rangel
scholarship.
“Hopefully, I will get to be in DC for
the summer,” Lind-Macmillan said. “I
have never been to Washington, DC. I am
really looking forward to that and looking
forward to launching my career. I am
really proud of my accomplishments.”
Jay Locey leaves LC
Associated student body president will intern in the U.S. Embassy, become diplomat in summer 2024
COURSTEY OF NINA JOHNSON
Sarah Lin-Macmillian ’22 is the most recent LC winner of the Rangel Fellowship.By VENUS EDLIN
Lewis & Clark is in the search
process for eight different
undergraduate faculty positions,
with new hires planning to start
during the Fall 2023 semester.
The sociology/anthropology (SOAN),
psychology and mathematical
sciences (data science concentration)
departments are searching for
candidates to fulfill assistant
professor positions. Other searches
include visiting professor spots
for economics, public health and
entrepreneurship and leadership, as
well as a position for a postdoctoral
teaching fellow in Korean studies.
The results of these searches will
likely conclude near the end of the
spring semester.
The process to start a search begins
with applications from departments
in the fall, which is earlier than in
past years according to Associate
Dean/Professor of Rhetoric and
Media Studies Daena Goldsmith who
is in charge of faculty development.
The college assesses enrollment data,
trends in fields and vacancies in
order to approve searches.
Associate Professor of Computer
Science Peter Drake is the head of the
search for a data science professor.
“Since the college’s budget is
finite, and a tenure-track faculty
member is a long-term commitment,
only some requests are approved,”
Drake said via email.The number of searches per year
fluctuates, with some years in the recent
past having none. However, this year’s
number is slightly elevated and the
college expects to conduct even more.
“Next year we anticipate having
more (searches),” Goldsmith said.
“It’s mostly about the demand and
the enrollment pressures, but also the
revenue that brings. It’s that balancing
act of what is the appropriate size
faculty for the size of school we are, in
the size of student body we are. It’s also
influenced by the needs of particular
departments and faculty retiring or
leaving for other reasons.”
According to Drake, the search
committees are composed of two faculty
members from the department that is
hiring, two faculty members from other
departments and one student. After
training conducted by Goldsmith, one
of the first tasks of these committees is
to create a search ad.
“What that process is about is I help
the committees write advertisements
that will cast a really broad net so that
we get a deep pool and a really diverse
pool,” Goldsmith said. “Diverse in terms
of the kinds of things they could bring
to the college, diverse in terms of who
they are and their backgrounds, diverse
in terms of where they’re coming
from, and their graduate programs or
programs of study.”
After finding a pool of candidates,
search committees hold interviews,
dinners and other meetings to assess
the candidates and gauge student input. At the end of the process, they
make a recommendation of one or
several people to the dean’s office, who
then approve the request. Afterwards,
the president must also approve the
request before the dean’s office makes
an offer to a candidate and negotiates
salary and other details.
Associate Professor Diana Leonard
said she was approached to be part
of the psychology search committee
because she is the most junior member
of the department as she was hired in
2012. She said experiences like this
prepare her to lead in the future.
“For me personally it was an honor
to take part in shaping the future of this
department,” Leonard said via email.
“I love working with my colleagues and
am looking forward to having another
one join us hopefully this Fall! I think
I brought a unique perspective to the
committee as a fairly junior faculty
member and a teacher-scholar of color
whose discipline examines unconscious
bias and its impacts on hiring.”
For Goldsmith, implicit bias is a
large part of the training process that
members of all search committees
are required to undergo. She said this
helps to expand search pools, which is
important since the search process is
intensive.
“There’s a lot riding on finding
someone who is going to be happy
here and successful here, finding
someone who resonates with our
students, someone who will fit into
the intellectual needs (and) the larger
configuration of what’s going on, on
campus,” Goldsmith said. “Again, not
only now, but looking forward, so it’s a
really complicated process.”
Mei Bailey ’22 is the student on
the SOAN search committee. The
department’s previous search failed,
so this year’s has extra importance.
Bailey, in part, wanted to learn about
the department’s innerworkings and
gain work experience for the future.
“I was interested in being on the
committee because I felt like it was
a way to create lasting change in
the department,” Bailey said. “I’m
graduating this semester, so I was
thinking it’d be really cool if I could
have … this lasting impact, like in the
future of the department, more than
just my thesis presentation.”
Being on the committee, Bailey
found out how unique her position is.
“I learned that not all institutions
have students on their committees
through this process, because some of
our applicants were very surprised that I was on the interviewing committee,”
Bailey said. “But I think at a liberal arts
school, like Lewis & Clark, teaching
is the priority for professors and
that’s not the case, especially at big
R1 universities where professors are
mainly, honestly, there to do research.”
Goldsmith said LC’s “teacher-
scholar” model, where professors focus
on teaching primarily, but use their
research to inform their pedagogical
methods, lends itself to student search
committee positions.
“Because that’s so central to what we
do in comparison to some other places
… in my mind, it makes a lot of sense
to have students (on committees),”
Goldsmith said. “The other thing is the
caliber of Lewis & Clark students is that
they can fulfill that role. They have a lot
of important insight on the committee
and they are a connection then to the
other students.”
However, research does play a role
in the selection process. Goldsmith
mentioned that one advantage of
search processes, whether they end
up in a new hire or not, is that they
allow the college to see the cutting-
edge research of young professionals in
their fields. For students and professors
involved in the searches, research also
piques interest.
Leonard, in particular, said she was
searching for a mixed-method, liberal
arts approach from candidates, as well
as an identity-inclusive approach.
“For me, the ideal candidate
pairs strong teaching ability with
a promising program of research,”
Leonard said. “They also share
our department’s enthusiasm for
training undergraduates in evidence-
based inquiry using an inclusive and
accessible teaching style, and they excel
at mentoring students with diverse
backgrounds and identities.”
Bailey echoed similar sentiments
for the SOAN search, emphasizing that
students are looking for professors
with an investment in decolonial
anthropology. She also mentioned the
role of mentorship.
“One thing we’re looking for is
someone who we (think) would be a
good mentor to students, not just in
terms of research, but what are you
going to do for post graduation?” Bailey
said. “How do I apply this research to
the real world, even if I’m not going
into academia?”
The results of the eight searches will
be made available at their completion,
sometime before the start of the Fall
2023 semester.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
NEWS 2
Undergraduate faculty search begins
for SOAN, psychology, mathematics
When I first joined The Pioneer
Log, I was the only Black editor
on the board. As a Portlander,
this was not a new phenomenon for
me, but it still came as a shock. Still, I
was determined to pursue my love of
student journalism. The warmth and
encouragement I received from the
former senior editors solidified my belief
that The Pioneer Log was a student
media organization that I wanted to be a
part of. Our newspaper holds ourselves to
the highest of journalistic standards and
integrity, and that includes ensuring that
our coverage is as equitable as possible.
As Black History Month comes to an
end, I have spent a long time reflecting on
my time at Lewis & Clark. It is not easy
navigating a primarily white institution
as a Black student, and especially as a
Black student leader. But, our college has
had many historic firsts this year, and I
sincerely hope these improvements do
not cease. But the work, the important,
gritty work, is not done yet.
The truth is, every month is Black
History Month. Our celebration of the
Black diaspora, in all of the forms and
identities that they come in, should not
be relegated to a single month out of
the calendar year. Black joy and Black
success and even everyday Black actions
deserve to be celebrated. After all, Black
people do not need to be extraordinary
in order to be recognized or deemed as
valuable members of society.
The representation of Black people in
the media often comes in two extremes:
the coverage of exceptional Black
accomplishments or coverage of our
pain and suffering. This dichotomy begs
the question: why must we be deemed
as extraordinary in order to be worth
recognizing?
And perhaps most importantly, how
can we start telling our own stories?
My wonderful parents taught me
a valuable lesson when I was younger:
He who holds the pen, holds the power.
When it comes to the media, truer words
have not been spoken.
Accurately representing the myriad
of Black experiences in the world begins
with representative reporting.
This year, The Pioneer Log has made
significant strides towards diversifying
our editorial board, staff and sourcing.
In our next issue, we will even be printing
our first article in a foreign language.
Still, I am not satisfied with this.
I want more.
When I look out at the students who
gather for our weekly staff meeting, I
want to see more Black, Asian, Latine,
Middle Eastern and Native American
students joining our staff. I also want to
see more religious diversity. You all have
so many brilliant experiences, interests
and hobbies that should be illuminated
in our paper. I want you all to write about
your joy, your experiences, your anger
and your passions. I want The Pioneer
Log to be a place where the entire LC
community gets the opportunity to share
their voice.
So, to our wonderful readers who
have supported us thus far, we are
listening. And we encourage you all to
join and engage with us as a community.
The Pioneer Log is a student newspaper
for the students but most importantly, by
the students. Help us to make this a space
for all of you. We are always available to
contact by email at piolog@lclark.edu.
And, from The Pioneer Log, Happy
Black History Month.
Sincerely, Letter from
the editor:
Happy Black
History
Month
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVE
Faculty meet on campus in Gordon H. Smith Hall at an event held before COVID-19.Ihsaan Mohamed
Editor-in-Chief Continued from page 1.
On Feb. 18, Vice President of
Student Life Robin Holmes-Sullivan
held a public forum at 4 p.m. in J.R.
Howard Hall regarding the bus shelter
removal. Associated Student Body
(ASB) President Sarah Lind-MacMillan
sent out an email inviting students to
attend, also reposting a screenshot of it
to the ASB Instagram story.
“This is an opportunity for students
to engage in a dialogue with Robin about
the bus stop and student community
spaces,” the email stated. “Robin hopes
to work together with students to find
a solution that will work for the entire
LC community (students, faculty, staff,
neighbors, etc.). We hope this will be
a productive space and allow student
voices to be heard and start finding
solutions.”
A number of international students
were present at the forum, including
Lila Khammash ’23. The shelter had
served as a hub for the international
community on campus, many of whom
reported meeting close friends at the
shelter.
Khammash opened the conversation
by expressing a desire for a structure to
replace the bus shelter.
“We don’t want much, the only thing
we need is a covered structure where we
can actually sit, right where the bus stop
was,” Khammash said. “I don’t think it
needs much planning.”
Holmes-Sullivan responded to the
request with a resounding “Done.”
During the hour-long forum,
students expressed a variety of feelings
with Holmes-Sullivan and Assistant
Dean of Student Engagement and
Executive Director of Career Center
Rocky Campbell. One common
sentiment was that students were
frustrated that administration had not
communicated with them regarding the
bus stop removal.
Holmes-Sullivan said she chalked
the night’s actions to “students taking
some control back.”
According to Holmes-Sullivan,
both she and Rocky were unaware of
Facilities’ plan to remove the shelter.
The bus stop had reportedly been
decommissioned a long time ago, and
a work order had been filed for it to be
removed months ago.While not explicitly stated, student
behavior at the bus stop had been a
source of concern for LC. Students
often gathered at the shelter to drink
and smoke marijuana or cigarettes.
According to Holmes-Sullivan, members
of the Palatine Hill neighborhood had
been complaining about the noise and
student behavior for years.
However, Holmes-Sullivan remained
open to finding a student space on
campus. The VPSL proposed forming
a small committee with student
representatives, dedicated to solving the
issue. The committee would work with
Campbell.
In addition, she revealed that
Student Rights & Responsibilities
would be reviewing the actions that
took place on the evening of Feb. 15
and subsequently determine if the
LC’s Student Code of Conduct had
been violated.
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON FEB. 23, Campus Activities
Board (CAB) announced a
Spring Ball set to take place
March 11 at 8 p.m. at Castaway
Portland. The event will be “The Great
Gatsby” themed and include a live DJ,
food and alcohol for students over 21.
Tickets are $10 for Lewis & Clark
students and $15 for other guests.
CAB also plans to offer free tickets for
students who cannot afford the cost,
but have yet to sort out the details.
Transportation from campus to the
dance will be available for students for
no additional cost.
Campus Activities Board Chair
Macarena Vives ’22 said that it was difficult to decide whether to host the
ball on- or off-campus due to heightened
COVID-19 restrictions at Lewis & Clark,
and students’ level of comfort. Student
Engagement Office Assistant Ezra Hart
’25, who also helped plan the event,
held similar concerns.
“Above all else, we wanted to
create an environment that would not
compromise the safety of our student
body,” Hart said via email. “So with that
in mind, we knew that to hold an event
of this scale safely we would need to take
into account many more factors than in
previous years for similar events.”
However, the organization
of this event has not been super
straightforward. Typically similar
events have a $30,000 budget. However, this year’s budget was reduced. The
vice president of student life office also
contributed some funding.
“It was harder because things are
more expensive,” Vives said. “We were
given a much lower budget than last
year, even though this (first year) class is
the largest class in history, even though
it’s when things are starting to open up
a little bit more here on campus.”
Nevertheless, Vives said she is
very happy that the event will happen
because turnout for events is usually
very low. In the first three days of
promoting the event, over 380 students
reserved or purchased tickets. CAB is
hoping to reach the event’s capacity.
Additionally, the fact that many
first-year students missed proms
or graduation parties fueled event
planning. This is why the event is
formal, even though balls traditionally
only occur in the fall with a more casual
dance in the spring.
“That’s why we leaned towards the
“Great Gatsby” (theme) and made it
more formal, but not making it like a
prom … because we also want to make
sure seniors and juniors also want to
come to the event because it’s an event
for everyone,” Vives said.
Many guests anticipate dressing up,
since opportunities to do so since the
start of the pandemic have drastically
reduced.
“My favorite part of the event I think
will be seeing all of the guests dressed
up,” Hart said. “It is always fun when
we have a chance to dress fancy for an
event.”
According to Hart, in order to attend
the event students will need to bring
their student IDs for admission and
non-LC guests will need to bring proof
of vaccination, submit a contact tracing
form and be on the official guest list.
For guests 21 and over, they will need to
show legal IDs to receive alcohol.
Tickets for the Spring Ball will be
sold in front of J.R. Howard Hall from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 25 and Feb. 28.
They will also be available outside of the
Student Engagement Office in Akin Hall
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on March 1-4
and March 7. All students have swipe
access to Akin during these hours.
Additional reporting by Venus Edlin.
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON FEB. 16, the Office of Spiritual
Life and Office of Inclusion
& Multicultural Engagement
(IME) held a Martin Luther King Jr.
Week keynote event featuring Cameron
Whitten from Brown Hope, a Portland-
based organization.
Cameron Whitten founded Brown
Hope in 2018. The non-profit is
dedicated to the prospect of a world of
racial healing and hope.
“Inspired by the words and legacy of
Dr. King, Brown Hope’s wild dream is
that the seeds we plant will flourish to
the fruits of justice, healing and love for
every person, every community in the
entire world,” Whitten said.
Brown Hope launched their first
program, called Reparations Happy
Hour, in May 2018. This made headlines
all over the United States and sparked
national conversation.
The Reparations Happy Hour started
as a small $5,000 fund, but within 29
days became a million dollar fund and
up to this date has raised and distributed
up to $3 million dollars for Black
Portlanders.
Later, Brown Hope launched their
second program Black Street Bakery,
partnering with Black bakeries in
Northeast Portland. Northeast Portland
has historically been a central place
to the Black community, but due to
gentrification of Northeast Portland in
recent years, the Black community is at
risk of displacement.
“Blackstreet Bakery was created
in 2018 to serve as a jobs program that provides extensive training, creates
good jobs, and combats poverty for
Black Portlanders through plant based
baking,” the Brown Hope website states.
Brown Hope also started the Black
Resilience Fund (BRF) which, since its
launch in June 2020, has raised over $2.5
million for Black Portlanders. Brown
Hope believes BRF
demonstrates the
power of hope and
action by building
community
and spurring
reparations-inspired
action, which gives
directly to Black
Portlanders.
Whitten
emphasized that
the mission of
Brown Hope is to
foster community
beginning with
the individual and
culminating in systemic change.
Brown Hope aims to act as a
bridge between people from different
backgrounds to inspire action and a
world of healing and justice. This is
reflected in Brown Hope’s core values
Healing Justice and planting seeds of
change.
Gabirel Huerta ’22, who is the
volunteer project leader for the Center
of Social Change and Community
Involvement, has worked with the
office since fall 2019, when it was called
Student Leadership and Service. He
worked with Brown Hope over this past
summer through their Racial Justice Internship and suggested that Whitten
be this year’s MLK keynote speaker.
Huerta appreciated how many people
came to the event, especially since
the event was over Zoom. Huerta also
said he was happy that students asked
Whitten how they could get involved
with Brown Hope.
“The best way
to get involved
is just go to the
brownhope.org
website and do
the volunteering
because they will
really put you
wherever they
need you, they are
always in need
of volunteering,”
Huerta said.
The
Center started
partnering with
Brown Hope at
the beginning of this year, but have
yet to work with them in person.
Huerta also encouraged attendees to
get involved with the Center and start
attending more of their events.
Towards the end of the event,
Whitten encouraged Lewis & Clark to
make their own reparations.
“We should celebrate everything that
we have done as progressive people,”
Whitten said. “All of the positive steps
forward that we’ve done with the arc fit
towards justice. We also need to look
in the mirror and acknowledge that the
benefits of our progress have not been
equitably shared.”NEWS 3FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
IME, Spiritual Life host Cameron Whitten for MLK Jr. event
Founder of Brown Hope talks about Black Resilience Fund, Blackstreet Bakery, Reparations Happy Hour
SOFIA REEVES/ THE PIONEER LOGCAB announces Spring Ball
with “Great Gatsby” theme
AMELIA MADARANG/ THE PIONEER LOGHolmes-Sullivan hosts
forum about bus stop
PHOTO COURTESY OF JINJU HURLEY
Students carried the bus stop on Feb. 15.PHOTO EDITED BY THE PIONEER LOG
The Reparations Happy
Hour started as a small
$5,000 fund, but within
29 days became a
million dollar fund and
up to this date has raised
and distributed up to $3
million dollars for Black
Portlanders. By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
LEWIS & CLARK students
gathered the night of Feb. 15 to
move a bus stop back to its home
on S Palatine Hill Road between the
undergraduate and graduate campuses.
Some critics of the event on Instagram
have claimed LC students have never
mobilized more quickly over an issue.
While there are critiques of the event,
I want to focus on our potential as a
student body.
This event is proof that LC students
can enact change and unite together.
What gives me goose bumps is that
the administration of our community
gave in. Robin Holmes-Sullivan, vice
president of student life and dean of
students, held a forum on Feb. 18 in J.R.
Howard Hall in which Holmes-Sullivan
and students discussed alternative
solutions and more communication with the LC administration. We did
not want a meeting held for a small
percentage of our population: We want
change.
I am a white, male-raised student
from Georgia. By no means am I
an authority on this event or what
issues future activism should focus
on. However, I do see this as an
opportunity for us as a student body to
enact changes.
This change does not have to be
surrounded by suffering and struggle.
As the theme for the 2021 Ray Warren
Symposium on Race and Ethnic
Studies, now is the time for joy and
justice. The bus stop action was a great
start, and now is the time to continue
it. We have the power to make rebellion
a pastime. Instagram and Snapchat
stories documented LC students
coming together. Why should we limit
ourselves to just the bust stop? It is
time to make it to The Oregonian. It is time to see workers at Fields Dining
Hall paid well. There is no reason to
stop short of what could happen at LC
right now.
I am ready to see die-ins, where
participants simulate being dead, and
other forms of protest so that, at the
bare minimum, 1% of LC’s income will
be donated to tribes affected by our
continued occupation of their land.
With the excitement seen on the night
of the bus stop action, I would say there
is great opportunity to mobilize for
larger goals like this.
The critiques surrounding the
event are obscuring us from real work.
To many, this event highlights how, if
the bus stop protesters had not been
a group of majority white students,
authorities would have been called and
violence would have occurred. This was
not a movement, but rather a party, an
opportunity for revelry, debauchery
and drunkenness. In as many words as I can put it, this was a manifestation of
white privilege.
On the other side of this, the bus stop
was a hub for international students.
For a group that often remains on
campus when many leave, the bus stop
acted as a water cooler. Those who are
angry that people came together to save
a “smoke spot” fail to understand the
significance of the space.
These critiques are valid from both
sides, but we can not limit ourselves
to simply identifying problems. We
need to recognize this as a solution.
This is not an event to fracture our
community, this is a jumping off
point to make future Sacagawea and
York College a better place for all, and
become a model for other colleges to
follow.
Or, we could forget this even
happened. We could go back to class like
we are powerless, like students are not
the majority at this institution. We can dissipate only to unite again if the
water tower is removed. I hope that my
fellow LC students are as interested in
mobilizing as I am.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
OPINION 4
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Mental Health Month supports
community, students’ well-being Students in silent section
deserve quiet study space
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy AIDAN D’ANNA
IN 2022 THE CENTER for Social
Change and Community Involvement
is launching a series of events from
Feb. 21 to March 18 that they are branding
as Mental Health Month in order to
provide resources, awareness and a space
to talk about important mental health
issues.
Nationally, the month of May is
considered Mental Health Awareness
Month. However, since the Lewis & Clark
academic year ends in the first week
of May, this important issue often gets
overlooked by the very people who would
likely benefit from it the most: college
students.
Mental Health Month is full of events,
talks and workshops that every LC
student should take advantage of. Though
officially one of the Center’s newest
signature programs, the month is actually
a collaborative effort between almost a
dozen campus organizations including
Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
(IME), Queer Student Union and the
newest student-run mental health
organization, Pioneer Support Network.
Organizations that usually might not
work together, like College Outdoors
and the Office of Spiritual Life, are also
teaming up to work on this project.
This means that Mental Health
Month has something for everyone. Spiritual Que(e)ry is taking students
on a peaceful meditation walk through
Tryon Creek State Natural Area and
IME is sponsoring a community circle
for students to talk about marginalized
identities and mental health. The office
is also providing self-care packages for
students to pick up and use on their
own time. There is a different event
sponsored by a different organization
almost every day, which means the
broad topic of mental health is being
looked at from every angle.
The best thing about this
interdisciplinary approach is that
it highlights the intersectionality of
LC students and college students in
general. Black and brown students have
a different experience with the mental
healthcare system, and there is an
event for that. LGBTQ+ students have a
different experience than their peers, and
there is space to talk about that as well.
The month does overlap with the 41st
annual LC Gender Studies Symposium,
but no events are held during the actual
activities associated with the symposium.
The events culminate the next week
with a volunteer event entitled Letters
Against Depression. The only event
during the month officially put on by
the Center, Letters Against Depression
is part of the office’s “Lunch n’ Lead”
series and affords students the chance
to write thoughtful, upbeat and positive letters to people struggling against
depression. In my view, this event is a
fitting culminating activity to a month
filled with mental health awareness: It
teaches students that their hope and
support matters, while giving them the
opportunity to pay forward what the past
month has just taught them.
I think every month should be
mental health month, seeing as college
students are one of the most at-risk
groups for suicide and internalizing
disorders such as depression and
anxiety. However, this program is
definitely a move in the right direction
by the Center, and an amazing
collaboration between LC organizations
during a time in which I think we could
all use a little bit more community. By FRANKIE SPURBECK
THE SILENT section of the Aubrey
R. Watzek Library occupies
the southernmost part of the
second and third floors of the library,
overlooking the reflecting pool. As
the name suggests, that section of
the library is intended to be silent, or,
at the very least, free of speech. Yet,
when I study there, I consistently hear
whispers, and even full volume speech.
This frustrates me. The silent section
should be silent, and there are very few
reasons to talk while studying there.
I sit in the silent section because I
work best in a quiet, still environment
where I can focus exclusively on my
work. Not everyone works well in this
environment, and that is fine. The
library offers spaces with a variety
of noise levels for that exact reason.
However, out of courtesy to those who
work best in a silent, emotionless cube,
people should not talk in the silent or
quiet sections.
Some people seem to think that
it is okay to talk in the silent section,
as long as you whisper or keep the
conversation short. However, I am of
the opinion that the volume of your
speech does not matter. Whispering is
just as distracting as full volume speech,
because it activates my eavesdropping
instincts. Though a short conversation
may be better than a long one, the vast
majority of things people say in the
silent section can be mimed (a wave
to your friend), sent as a text (dinner
plans) or postponed (complimenting
your friend’s hat).
I am aware that people sometimes
sit in the silent section when they want
to study with their friends, but also
want to get work done. They reason
that if they sit in the silent section,
it will force them to be quiet and not talk to their friends, thereby allowing
them to stay focused. This may work
for some people, but it certainly does
not work for everyone. Before you sit
with a friend in the silent section, check
in with yourself: Are you really going
to be silent? Or should you head to a
study room or one of the talking study
sections of the library? If, mid-silent
section study session, you realize that
you and your friend are chatting, there
is nothing wrong with packing up and
moving to a section where talking is
allowed.
Maybe people talking in the
silent section does not seem like a
problem, since I can put headphones
in. However, I should not be forced
to put in my headphones to block out
background noise in the silent section.
Beyond that, some people cannot focus
while listening to music. When I am
reading something especially dense, I
do not like to listen to music, because I
find it hard to focus completely. Since I
am in the silent section, you should not
be whispering in the first place.
Now, I do not mean to say that there
are no instances where one can talk in
the silent section. For instance, if you
are bitten by a venomous snake and
have only seconds to cry out for the
antidote before you lose consciousness,
by all means, cry away. Likewise, if
you witness a hate crime, break your
leg or see a plane crashing outside the
window, that warrants speech. Possibly,
you did not know where the silent
section is, and you talking was a result
of an honest mistake. However, in all
other instances, if you see something,
do not say something.
There are plenty of spots in the
library where talking is not only
allowed, but welcomed. If you are a
social studier, go there, and leave us
grumps in our peaceful silent section.
LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE PIONEER LOG
The Watzek silent section provides students with an area for uninterrupted study time.
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.
By MAX ALLEN
PORTLAND IS AN infamously
rainy city. Before people move
here, they may often think, “I do
not mind a drizzle every now and then,
as long as I have my trusty umbrella.”
It is not until they actually make the
move that they discover something
horrific: the only thing more severe
than Portland’s rain is its anti-umbrella
culture.
Portland residents will vehemently
deny that they would ever be caught
holding an umbrella, and are responsible
for the city’s anti-umbrella culture. They
are quick to pass judgment onto anyone
who is holding, has ever held or has ever
so much as pondered the possession
of an umbrella. It can be shocking at
first to see such radical views against
a seemingly useful day-to-day object.
However, as a Washingtonian and an
anti-umbrella conspirator myself, I hope
to explain why using umbrellas is the
wrong move when it comes to protecting
yourself against Pacific Northwest rain.
The first aspect of umbrellas that I
(and my fellow Pacific Northwesterners)
take issue with is their cumbersome
unwieldiness. “Oh, just let me take out
my umbrella,” you say. Now you are
holding a gigantic dome of material,
which is just waiting to snag on a string
of low-hanging lights or a tree branch,
which will cause it to tear. Umbrellas
are sinister beasts: they will destroy
themselves just to sabotage your day.
Furthermore, in order to use an
umbrella, you have to surrender at least
one of your hands. The moment you
unfurl the umbrella, you resign yourself
to a life of single-handedness, with all
of the associated inconveniences and
agonies. Want to eat a cheese Danish?
You will have to let go of your dog.
Want to open a door? You will have
to abandon the cheese Danish. The
indignities never end. Furthermore, the
hand that is supporting the umbrella
turns frigid in the rainy winter air.
You may be willing to sacrifice your
hand’s livelihood for the greater cause of your dryness. However, imagine
that the day is not only rainy, but also
gusty. An unpredictable breeze is liable
to grip your umbrella and yank it from
your hand, leaving you to run helplessly
after it as the rain cascades down on
your unprotected body. Even if you
do manage to hold on to the umbrella,
your arm will be wrenched about at the
wind’s mercy.
In all fairness, umbrellas do
have some advantages. What is
more intimate than offering a friend
or a partner to join you under the
umbrella so you can both stay dry?
This kind of experience can certainly
create fond memories. However, this
does not work when you are with
two friends. If you offer for one of
your friends to join you, the other is
left shivering and alone, as the rain
runs off your umbrella and onto their
face, mingling with their tears. To
avoid subjecting your dear friend to
this tragic fate, you must hunch your
shoulders and draw the umbrella
close to your head, an obvious gesture
that shows you are unwilling to share
with either friend. The umbrella
forces you to choose between third
wheeling someone and being selfish.
Either way, you will feel bad about
yourself in the end.
Another pro-umbrella argument
is that umbrellas can be fun and
expressive. I will not challenge this
argument, as I have seen some
umbrellas in the past that have made
me smile. However, why limit yourself
to an umbrella? Parasols are just as
expressive without any of the hassles of
umbrellas.
When you wield an umbrella in
the Portland rain, you may prevent
yourself from wearing moisture, but
you instead wear a badge of shame; you
jeopardize your hand’s wellbeing and
you alienate your friends. Just wear a
rain jacket, I say. Better yet, wear no
rain protection at all, fling your arms
open and cry out to the heavens as
sweet life-giving water soars down and
imbibe pure jollity.By GRETA BURTON
TIME MANAGEMENT is one
of the most critical aspects
of being a reliable, dutiful
denizen in society. However, as all
humans are different, it is only fitting
that time management strategies
vary too. It is a highly individualistic
experience, and I believe, one of the
few ways we retain some semblance
of autonomy in a world that demands
so much of us already.
If I had a dollar for every time
a professor advised me not to wait
until the last minute to complete
an assignment, I could cover daily
coffee from the Dovecote for the
remainder of the semester.
Do not misinterpret me, I
understand why professors make this
general suggestion: Accomplished
work requires consideration, diligent
planning and the sufficient resources
to execute it. When everything in
your world requires these, as is the
case with many tasks in academia, it
is difficult to find time for anything
else. Fulfilling yourself and academic
expectation requires flexibility.
What professors fail to consider
is that waiting until the day an
assignment is due can be careful
planning on the student’s part. This
all may sound like a deluded excuse
to justify my nearly-late work.
However, I genuinely do not view it
that way.
For nearly all of my assignments,
I read the project descriptions as
soon as they are published. I prepare
mentally by brainstorming, allowing
my daily experience to both inform and inspire the final result. Then, I
schedule blocks of time dedicated to
specific assignments and classes. By
scheduling all my days using time
blocks, I have been able to remind
myself that I can only complete
one task at a
time. This
lesson has
taken me
years to
learn, and
is one that
I often need
to remind
myself of.
In short, this
strategy means
that sometimes
I have to plan
to wait until the
last minute. What
I would like my
professors to know
is that this approach
does not mean I
do not value my
academics, nor does
it mean that I wish
to disrespect them or
dismiss their efforts.
In fact, it often means
the opposite.
I have tried to
work ahead. I have
tried to plan for
assignments weeks
ahead of time by
plotting out each day
with the objective
of getting ahead.
The result of these
experiments was not an improvement in the quality of my
work, but rather utter exhaustion.
I personally work better when
I can dedicate several hours at a
time to one assignment. This is
how I find my flow and feel
the warmth.
Writing for an
approaching deadline
ensures that I am
able to focus for longer. The sense of urgency keeps
me zeroed in on the task at hand. The
deeper sense of focus, I believe, also
allows me to think more critically
and comprehensively. The need
to complete the assignment
feels more important,
which in turn, yields
more meaningful
results. My thoughts are
able to unravel naturally
and I find myself uncovering
nuances that I might have
overlooked if I had worked
on it in smaller increments.
So why do I feel guilty when
I tell professors that I will be
working on something and
completing it the day it is
due?
As I previously noted,
I believe my guilt is
rooted in the fear that
my professors will
think I do not respect
them, our
professional
relationship
or my own
academic
success
if I wait
until the
deadline
to turn in
an assignment.
Of course, many professors
care and are willing to
extend deadlines if
necessary, but what if we
do not need an extension
in this circumstance?
What if waiting until the last minute has less to do with our
ability to complete a project, and
more to do with our bodies telling
us to take a break on a Tuesday at 3
p.m. before our next class begins at 4
p.m.? What if they are telling us we
need to shower, eat, sleep, stretch,
walk or just not think about being
evaluated for a second?
Sure, I could go to the library and
work on that assignment for that
hour in between classes— and trust
me, I have — but if you want my
best work, professor, I recommend
treating me with respect and
kindness when I tell you on a Friday
that I still have to draft my essay due
at midnight.
The professorial guilt does not
make students start assignments
sooner, it stigmatizes prioritizing
our individual mental and physical
needs. This will subsequently lead
to worse performance.
As for any given assignment: I
have had it written in my planner
since syllabus day. I have had
my plan to draft it booked on my
calendar all week. I have had the
exact allocation of hours for it
outlined all day. I did not forget
about it.
I do not wait until the last day to
disrespect you. I wait until the last
moment to better respect myself. I
value my academic growth greatly,
but I also value warm, unhurried
showers, the slow stirring of my
$1 box of Kroger brand pasta and
giving myself grace to absorb all
of the lessons you have taught me,
so I might have a better chance of
retaining them. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 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.Professors do not understand that some students’ time management habits include everyday self-careWaiting until deadlines is a sign of dedication
NFTs receive unwarranted pushback
owing to environmental damage
By TOR PARSONS
IF YOU HAVE been living on
Earth for the past year, you have
doubtlessly encountered people
getting angry about things called
NFTs. Searching “NFTs” on Google
returns “NFTs are stupid” as the third
suggestion. Gizmodo, a technology
news site, recently published a video
headlined “The Celebs We’ve Lost to
NFTs,” treating the careers of stars
like Brie Larson, Tony Hawk and Tom
Brady as permanently ruined by their
embrace of NFTs. Unless you inhabit
a very specific corner of the internet,
the people hating on NFTs probably
outnumber those who support them
by great odds. Yet, amid all this furor,
it seems as though few people know
what NFT stands for, and even fewer
know what they actually are.
NFT stands for “non-fungible
token.” Fungibility, in economics,
means that one unit of a commodity
can be traded for any other. All
currencies are fungible, as are most
other things used for investment. If
you have one dollar, one Bitcoin or one
cow, for instance, you can exchange it
for another dollar, Bitcoin or cow of
the same value without any functional
change in what you own. Art, however,
is non-fungible. Owning the Mona Lisa
is not the same as owning The Scream,
even if their values are similar.
In practice, this means that an
NFT is a digital file with monetary
value, often equivalent to a large sum
of cryptocurrency. While it is usually
an image, songs, games and anything
else digital can also be sold as an NFT.
Just like buying cryptocurrency, or
anything else people invest in, people
buy NFTs with the hope that they
can later sell it for more than they
bought it for. Among the most popular
NFTs for investment are the range of
“Bored Ape” files, which depict apes
in various combinations of sunglasses
and beanie hats. The files generally
resemble concept art for a rejected
“Adult Swim” show. However, this is not always the
case. The “original” versions of memes
including Bad Luck Brian and Nyan
Cat have been sold as NFTs for large
eye-popping sums, largely so that
someone somewhere could brag that
they have the original file of the Bad
Luck Brian image. Is that ridiculous?
Absolutely, but it is no different from
buying a painting when one could get
a print of it for a fraction of the price.
Ethereum, the cryptocurrency most
commonly tied to NFTs, uses a system
known as “proof-of-work mining.”
In a nutshell, proof-of-work mining
requires cryptocurrency producers
to solve complicated cryptographic
problems using computers in order to
generate cryptocurrency. This process
is often done in vast server farms,
which consume huge quantities of
energy.
This is one of the reasons NFTs are
controversial. In the more enlightened
circles of anti-NFT discourse, the
NFT craze is blamed for increased
greenhouse gas emissions and
computer chip shortages due to the
massive computing volume required
to generate them. The NFT artist
Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann estimates
it would cost $5,000 to offset the
carbon emissions of his largest piece.
Nevertheless, claims that NFTs are
hastening climate disaster often
seem to be exaggerated. Artist Memo
Akten’s website was used to mistakenly
attribute the energy consumption of
an entire online NFT marketplace to a
single item.
Besides, there are ways to
create NFTs without doing as much
ecological harm. Ethereum plans to
switch from a proof-of-work system
to a proof-of-stake system, which
“mines,” i.e. generates, cryptocurrency
by awarding “blocks,” or set amounts
of cryptocurrency, randomly to owners
based on how many blocks other
owners hold. This will require less
computational power and will lower
the energy cost of miners. If Ethereum
switches over, it will decrease the environmental impact of their NFTs,
and other cryptocurrencies are likely
to follow suit.
The NFT moral panic is just that: a
moral panic. NFTs represent a perfect
storm of things social media loves to
hate: tech bros, environmental impacts
and money. Of course they were going
to cause backlash. It is easy and fun
to say that idiotic Elon Musk fanboys
are spending thousands of dollars
on pictures of cartoon monkeys,
especially if you do not understand
why. The anti-NFT bandwagon is
every bit as much a meaningless fad as
NFTs are.
Is this an endorsement of NFTs?
Not really. While there are some
sources report that NFTs are still
growing in their popularity, they are
a speculative bubble bound to burst.
NFTs have gotten so much flak that
they probably have little future outside
of a shrinking circle of crypto geeks,
and that is probably for the better.
However, at least now you understand
why somebody paid $30,000 for the
original Bad Luck Brian photo. Portlanders exclude
umbrella as rain gear
ALEX NASH/THE PIONEER LOGAMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy PHILIP STEFFEN
SELLWOOD Union Vintage, a
crown jewel of the Sellwood
scene, is located a short two
blocks up 13th Avenue from the
Pioneer Express’s 13th and Tacoma
stop.
Compared to many of the flashy
boutique storefronts of 13th Avenue,
Sellwood Union is somewhat
unassuming. The branding in the
windows is limited to white block
letters announcing both “Modern
Clothing” and “Vintage Clothing,”
and aside from a small placard with
the store’s Instagram account in the
window, there is no indication of the store’s name.
Sellwood Union’s owner Corey
Guidry said this laid back approach to
storefront setup is by design.
“It’s about keeping Portland
the way it was,” Guidry said, also
emphasizing the store’s commitment
to sustainability. “The way things
were before everything became pop,
Urban Outfitters.”
Indeed, Sellwood Union’s sparse
advertising does it no disservice: The
dense racks of t-shirts, flannels, jackets
and sweatshirts that fill the windows
and overflow out onto the street
do more than enough to draw the
intrigued passerby into the packed old
building, which used to house a coffee shop and hair salon.
Once inside the historic 13th
Avenue storefront, which Sellwood
Union has operated out of since
October 2019, visitors are greeted
by a wide array of clothing. While
technically a vintage store rather
than pure thrift, Sellwood Union
offers a wide variety of options for
any budget. Merchandise ranges from
high quality vintage leather apparel,
which sells for the requisite price,
all the way down to collected t-shirt
oddities on the $10 rack.
While appearing outwardly as
a single store, Sellwood Union is
in actuality more of a marketplace,
composed of 15 separately curated
and operated vendors, which Guidry
refers to as “micro-businesses.”
Largely independent, these vendors
are bound by a simple set of rules that
Guidry describes: “No brand stuff, no
racial stereotypes, no hate symbols.”
Despite the large constellation
of vendors inside, Sellwood Union
manages to convey a coherent
atmosphere, and the various
sections in the front two rooms
seem to flow in and out of each other
seamlessly, producing a generalized
’90s alternative ambiance between
chunky sweaters, baggy jeans and
bright streetwear windbreakers.
Further into the store a short
set of stairs leads up into the back.
Here, the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1993
single “Today” played on speakers to
a room full of baseball caps, flannels
and novelties. On one side of the
back room there’s a small vendor
selling a curated collection of old
books and video tapes ranging from
Shakespeare to Nabokov to L. Ron
Hubbard’s “Dianetics,” with a great selection of 1950s pulp science fiction
to round things off. On the opposite
side of the room, a vendor is selling
a collection of art prints with various
levels of esoteric appeal, all of which
seem purpose made for dorm room
decoration.
As with many stores in Sellwood, a
large portion of the clientele is college
students from Lewis & Clark, as well
as Reed College. This demographic
pattern is part of the larger dynamic
of gentrification and redevelopment
currently taking place in Sellwood, a
situation which Guidry and Sellwood
Union are very conscious of. Standing
on the sidewalk in front of his store
dressed in a large camo jacket with
a sling bag over its shoulder, Guidry
gestures across the avenue to a
recently constructed building with
garish metal siding.
“The same company that built that
monstrosity built another one up there”
Guidry said, pointing up the road.
Guidry takes pride in choosing and
protecting authentic neighborhood
buildings when he chooses his
locations, which currently include
the Sellwood Union and a location
in the Nob Hill neighborhood north
of Downtown Portland known as
Northwest Union. “I look for cool old buildings,”
Guidry said.
The final rooms in Sellwood Union
are two small ones adjoining the
main back room. In these rooms the
racks are less packed, and their more
limited contents are strictly organized
by color and style in a fashion that
begs the shopper to compose an outfit.
Both rooms have old windows
which face the noon sun to the south,
and the white sunlight striking the
bright color coded racks fills both
rooms with a pleasant glow. Such
curation does, of course, come at a
price, and items in these rooms carry
a slight mark up, with most prices
between $30-40.
While checking out, the environment
is relaxed, and the cashier makes
small talk with the passing customers.
There is no register, since the store is
fashionably cash-Free, although all
forms of payment apps are supported.
Stepping out of Sellwood Union
Vintage, shoppers are transported
back into the increasingly corporatized,
financialized and gentrified
environment of Sellwood.
Even then, though, the alternative
model of apparel trading that exists
inside the microcosm of Sellwood Union
is unlikely to leave visitors quickly.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
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Another weekend, another thrift store gem
The Sellwood Union storefront often highlights specific selections of their inventory. Local clothing vendor Sellwood Union embraces modern, vintage clothes to promote sustainability
There are several sources of flat-rate discount racks spread among vendor booths. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOGPHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOG
A thrifted jacket for sale dons several colorful buttons, a favorite vintage accessory. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOG
One of the several vintage booths sports a painted neon sign with a groovy feel. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOGADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBy AUBREY ROCHÉ
After a year of cancelations and
delays, several study abroad
programs successfully took
place during the Fall 2021 semester,
the first programs to happen since
Spring 2020. Students who went on
these trips to South Korea, Germany
and Spain detailed their experiences
studying abroad during COVID-19.
Olivia Olson ’22 spent the semester
studying in Seoul, South Korea. She
lived in an on-campus dorm at Yonsei
University and took classes online.
“COVID wasn’t really a concern
of mine, because I really felt like
everybody was doing their best,” Olson
said. “And honestly, health care was $5
or something like that. So if I did get
COVID, I didn’t feel that concerned
about it. I knew what I was supposed
to do. I knew what the quarantine
rules were for both my school and for
the country.”
Regulations from the South
Korean government impacted Olson’s
time abroad during the pandemic
the most. However, she felt their
handling of the pandemic was more
systematic than the United States.
“There’s an app called Kakao
Talk and you could register your
alien registration number and your
vaccination records and all that,”
Olson said. “And it would spit out a
QR code once you registered with the
government. And then every time you
went into a restaurant, or anything,
you would scan the QR code, so contact
tracing was super easy. You just get a
text if you were exposed in any way.”
Everyone in Seoul wore masks, and
public places like restaurants were
all open and required visitors to be
vaccinated. If there was any exposure
to COVID-19, people could get tested for free. Olson only needed to get
tested once during the semester. In
general, South Korea’s handling of the
pandemic felt orderly anf effective.
“Everyone followed the rules,”
Olson said. “It was crazy.”
Olson had initially been abroad in
Strasbourg, France in Spring 2020,
when the emergence of the pandemic
sent her, and most other students
overseas, home early. Olson had
hoped to study
abroad in India or Italy, but those
programs ultimately fell through.
She expressed that the LC Overseas
and Off-Campus programs office was
extremely helpful in assisting her to
find viable programs, even if it involved
applying at the last minute.
Gila Winefeld ’23, who spent the
semester abroad in Berlin, was initially unsure about going overseas due to
the pandemic and potential travel
restrictions. However, she decided to
go ahead with the program and make
the most of the opportunity.
Students lived in studio apartments
instead of with host families and
were not able to travel outside of
Germany. The program consisted of
14 LC students who lived in the same
apartment building and took classes
together as a cohort. Germany also
uses a QR code system that reflects
a person’s vaccination status, and
restaurants require visitors to be
vaccinated.
“There (was) a lot of flexibility in
what we could do, there (was) a lot of
downtime too,” Winefeld said. “After
classes and after exploring the city or whatnot during lunch, we’d take the
tram back. And it was nice that we were
all in the same apartment complex,
because it was easy to meet up with
people to study or just to do something
in the evening to hang out.”
The students on the program also
enjoyed exploring Germany, taking
weekend trips on the train throughout
the country.
Coming back to LC, Winefeld
explained that
the social
transition has been one of the most
surprising changes, be it running into
people on campus or making small
talk.
“I feel like with going abroad, we kind
of prolonged that phase of being away
from everything,” Winefeld said. “And
that prolonged that phase of isolation,
in a way and now coming back, it’s like everyone had this adjustment period
in the fall, probably when people came
back to in-person, and I feel like we’re
having this adjustment period now.”
Sonya Arnis ’22 spent the semester
in Grenada, Spain. She also initially felt
apprehensive after seeing friends get
stuck in Morocco when the pandemic
began during the Spring 2020 program.
Still, she felt like the opportunity was
worth it.
“People were not that concerned
about COVID,” Arnis said. “But you
never saw people inside at the grocery
store without masks on. But if you were
in a club or a bar or something, people
would not wear masks.”
Students were required to wear
masks in classrooms, and most indoor
spaces focused on ventilation and open
windows as one of the main barriers
against the spread of COVID-19. Arnis
was able to travel freely throughout
Europe during her program. However,
toward the end of the program, the
increase in COVID-19 cases due
to the Omicron variant did pose
difficulties.
“So it was a really stressful travel
experience getting back because …
COVID cases were spiking,” Arnis
said. “Leaving Spain, I knew that
they were probably gonna have
more intense restrictions, maybe
in like two weeks. So I left knowing
that in two weeks, it would
probably be worse like, maybe we’re
going to go into lockdown.”
Returning to LC, Arnis felt that
starting the spring semester remotely
felt similar to the 2020-21 academic
year, with hybrid classes and more
rigid restrictions on campus. Olson also
expressed the difference between being
in South Korea versus the U.S.
“It just definitely doesn’t feel secure
(or) as taken care of,” Olson said.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
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Students discuss study abroad in COVID-19 era
Pio stop offers day of tasty bites, study spots, thriftingSouth Korea, Germany, Spain among international locations LC students returned from in 2022
By ASIYA KAMAWAL &
ASHLYN KELLY
THE SE 13TH and Tacoma bus stop
is the first stop on the Pioneer
Express weekend route, and the
surrounding area has many attractions
for students. It is situated right in the
heart of Sellwood, an area home to many
family homes, apartments, boutiques,
food spots and fun shops. Follow along
for an adventure.
To start off the day with fresh coffee
and a boiled bagel, come to the Starbucks
and Henry Higgins Boiled Bagel shop
right across from the stop. Just to the
left of the stop, there is New Seasons
Market, which has a wide variety of food
options including a bakery and delicious
made-to-order sandwiches. Outside of
the market, there is a heated and covered
seating area where you can enjoy your
meal.
Then turn to SE 13th Ave, where as
you walk along the street, you will find
a diverse array of antique and vintage
stores, some with amazing prices. The vintage stores include Fat
Baby, Sellwood Union and R. Spencers
Antiques. Fat Baby is a small resale
boutique with a variety of jewelry, clothing
and accessories. Next to Fat Baby is
Sellwood Union, a large vintage shop that
houses numerous independent resellers
and vendors, where you can thrift and find
almost anything. With great prices, color-
coordinated items and different style
sections, Sellwood Union has everything
an LC student could want. R. Spencers
Antiques is a small antique store that buys
and sells vintage items, mainly furniture
and decor. The items may be costly, but
everything has a story to tell, so even
browsing is entertaining. It seemed that
the customer base was largely made up of
seniors, some browsing for certain pieces,
others lounging on the antique chairs
for sale, having conversations about the
weather. It makes for a comforting, laid-
back ambiance.
A little further down the street, there
is the Sellwood branch of the Multnomah
County Library. If students want a break
from the classic Aubrey R. Watzek Library experience, this is a great place to study in
a peaceful place, surrounded by books.
As for food, there is an eclectic mix
of restaurants and food trucks catering to all tastes and preferences. There are
many other food carts available, but our
top choice is Taqueria Luna, a Mexican
food cart. There are also excellent vegan food options at Supernova Vegan and
Nama Ramen. Nama Ramen’s menu
also features delicious poke bowls,
including our recommendation the
fresh, mouth-watering Ahi Tuna bowl,
paired with kimchi on the side.
Last but not least, for the boba
lovers out there, there are two spots
you should definitely check out. The
first is Bobablastic, a food truck at the
Sellwood food truck lot. Our personal
favorite was the mango milk tea with
boba. The second spot, Tea Chai Té,
is not only a great place to enjoy200
hot teas and boba drinks, but is also a
great study spot. There are nooks and
crannies filled with several different
seating options and a nice fireplace in
the main lobby. Our favorite hot tea is
the coconut chai, and our favorite iced
tea is the lavender milk tea with boba.
This is a great place to work on school
projects, cozy up with a book or catch
up with friends.
These are just a few places we
wanted to highlight, but we encourage
you to explore the many things SE 13th
and Tacoma have to offer.AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Antique chairs, vintage newspapers and more can be found at Spencer’s Antiques.ASHLYN KELLY/THE PIONEER LOG
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Sellwood Union has an extensive collection of vintage clothing; read more on page 7. By NATALIE PARKHURST
SPREAD throughout the city, the
Portland Winter Light Festival
returned this year for another
spectacular display of light installations
and community. From Feb. 4 to Feb.
12, the nine-day festival offered dozens
of luminous works of art for people
of all ages to enjoy, as well as music,
scheduled events and food to brighten
the night.
The Light Festival has become an
annual attraction in Portland, growing
each year to encompass more of the
city. Started by the Willamette Light
Brigade (WLB) in 2016, the festival
has always been targeted toward
bringing people together through art.
WLB is a non-profit dedicated towards
lighting Portland’s most iconic bridges
that span the Willamette River, and
continued their pursuit of providing
people with dazzling lights through the
festival.
According to their website,
their mission in delivering such a
spectacular event every year is to
“provide significant economic and
cultural stimulation to Portland during
the darkest time of year.”
The free festival has slowly
expanded over the years, and was
forced to adapt due to the COVID-19
pandemic. Not one to shy away from
a challenge, WLB changed the format
of the festival in 2021 to promote social
distancing, expanding the areas covered
by light installations and increasing the
duration of the event. Normally held over two days and in one or two central
spots, the 2021 celebration was instead
offered over the course of two weekends
and was spread across different areas of
the city. Marketed as a “non festival,”
the event offered a safe way to celebrate
art and the Portland community.
This COVID-19-safe mentality
carried over to this year’s event, as
over 100 light installations were spread
on either side of the river, covering
six areas of Portland to decrease large
gatherings. The widespread nature
of this year’s festival was also for
accessibility purposes, as the organizers
wanted to place an emphasis that the
event is for everyone.
As this year’s theme was “Within the
Ecosystem,” the focus of the festival
was exploring the city through nature
inspired art. Organizers accomplished
this by involving local businesses and
placing lights in their storefronts, such
as Planet x Vintage at Southeast 35th
and Belmont, or Revolutions Bookshop
just a couple blocks away from
Cathedral Park in North Portland. With
installations located in both metro
and suburban locations, festival goers
were encouraged to traverse Portland
at their own pace, exploring parts that
might otherwise be overlooked.
The light festival showcased a range
of attractions for people of all ages,
and offerings varied from location to
location. The three main anchor spots
— Pioneer Courthouse Square, World
Trade Center downtown and Electric
Blocks at Southeast Second Avenue and
Clay Street — offered food carts and
interactive events to entertain visitors
throughout the night. The festival also
provided scheduled events, such as
silent discos and an illuminated bike
ride through the city.
The Portland Winter Light Festival is
a free, fun event that encourages people
to explore the city while interacting
with art and community members.
A now established institution that
adds to Portland’s bright and colorful
atmosphere, make sure to mark your
calendars for next year’s exposition of
art, music and community.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
ARTS 8
By AMELIA DOYLE
IN THE BACK OF the Fir Acres Theatre
is a small room called the costume
shop. In this shop, students work to
design and create all the costumes for
theatre productions at Lewis & Clark. On the far end of the room is a large
window that covers the entire back
wall. Along the window are desks with
sewing machines lined up. On the wall
opposite to the window are cabinets
filled with fabrics. Jenny Ampersand,
costume shop manager, uses many of these fabrics to make the outfits for the
LC theatre department. She also goes to
fabric stores and secondhand shops in
order to find more materials.
LC students who work in the theatre
department also assist in making the
costumes. They often design different patterns or try various stitching styles.
The theatre department will then
select their favorites, and the students
will make the costumes based on their
selection.
Located above the costume shop is
the stockroom, where students work to
organize all of the costumes. Students
in LC theatre classes, or those involved
in LC productions, are able to rent
costumes from the stockroom. First,
interested students must either make
an appointment or visit during drop-
in hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays
between 3:30-5:30 p.m. Costume Shop
Manager Sanaa Green ’23 will assist
them in finding costumes and provide
them with a return date and instructions
on how to properly wash the costume.
Lizeth Gaxiola ’22 has been working
in the costume shop since her freshman
year. Gaxiola has been sewing for a long
time and loves working in the shop.
“I really like that we get different
tasks, we don’t have to focus on a single
thing,” she said.
Lauren Arriola ’24 does not have
much experience sewing, but they
have enjoyed learning new skills such
as sewing, braiding admiral braids,
working in the dye shop and making
patterns. They really enjoy the creative
aspect that comes with the job.
“I think that the learning opportunity
is the greatest thing ever,” Arriola said.
“I really got the job without knowing
how to sew, and was surprised I got the
job.”
Another student that has enjoyed
the creativity that takes place in the
costume shop is Jens Martin ’22. The
senior has been sewing since middle
school and has been working in the
costume shop since his freshman year,
along with Gaxiola.“I really like that it is just a place
that you can work at, in between classes,
only for a couple of hours, and take your
mind off of everything,” Martin said.
Ampersand has been the costume
shop manager for about three years and
many of the student workers said they
adore the work that she does to keep
the shop running smoothly. Ampersand
enjoys overseeing the projects and
problem solving on how to bring
students’ ideas and designs to life.
Recently, Ampersand has been
working with Amber Adamski ’22, a
theatre major, with a focus in design.
For Adamski’s senior thesis project, she
is designing all the costumes for LC’s
Main Stage production of “Medea,”
which is almost entirely student-led.
“It’s pretty exciting because most
of the design team is senior thesis
students,” Ampersand said. “It’s a rare
occurrence in that department that
many of the students will be designers
for one show.”
Adamski has been working in the
costume shop since her sophomore
year. She started to sew in middle
school because she could not find any
clothes she liked in stores. The theatre
major is really excited about the
upcoming performance of ”Medea”
because of her love for historical
fashion.
“I think that the best feeling in
the world is either wearing or seeing
someone else wear something that you
made, it’s just really cool,” Adamski
said.
The LC Theatre department will
open the spring main stage production
of Ancient Greek playwright Euripides’
“Medea” on March 11. “Medea” will be
using the original text, but will be set
in the 1950s. Fir Acres costume shop encourages creativity
Student workers enjoy learning new skills, making costumes for theatre department’s productions
By SOFIA REEVES
BOOKTIQUE II, A hidden gem
sure to pique the interest of any
book lover, is less than three miles
away from campus at 4 Monroe Pkwy.,
Lake Oswego. This used bookstore has
all the classic charms of an independent
bookseller, with tall bookshelves that
require stools to reach the top and books
stacked and displayed on every available
surface. The atmosphere is calm and cozy,
and it seems easy to get lost among the
stacks or strike up a conversation with
any of the friendly and helpful volunteers.
Booktique II was founded by the
Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library
in 1991. All items in the store are donated
by the Lake Oswego Library, or by anyone
else looking to offload extra books. It is
also a great place to find relatively recent
releases, because you can find copies of
books that are library overflow. Booktique
II is run entirely by volunteers, who can
be seen working the cash register, keeping
the shelves tidy and cataloging new
donations. Thanks to these donations and
volunteer work, Booktique II is able to
keep its book prices incredibly low.
Susan Bailey, a volunteer employee,
vouches for Booktique II’s affordability.
“Especially if it’s an ex-library book, it
might be five bucks,” Bailey said, “whereas
you would have been paying 25 for it as a
new book.”
Booktique II is also a good spot to
look for fiction, classics, cookbooks
and even science books. In addition to
books, Booktique II sells CDs, DVDs and
gently used puzzles. The largest section
of the store is fiction, but there are also
large collections of other genres, such as
biography and art.
“We have a lot of really beautiful
art books,” Bailey said. “If someone is
interested in a book of paintings by Van
Gogh, we probably have that.”
On multiple trips to the store, I have
purchased an illustrated book of conifers,
a small book about feminism and several
paperback classics, all for a total of less
than ten dollars.
I feel even better about my purchases
knowing that all the money made by Booktique goes directly back to the
Lake Oswego Public Library to fund
library services, such as summer reading
programs. Booktique II is a valuable
resource for the surrounding area, and
volunteers and shoppers alike take pride
in the positive impact the store has on the
community.
Additionally, Booktique II seeks to be
accessible to as many people as possible.
“Part of our goal is to make (Booktique)
available to students,” Bailey said.
Booktique II has recently updated
their hours so that they are open until 6
p.m. on Wednesdays so that students
from elementary school to college have
time to browse for books after a day of class. The store also accommodates
curbside pickup, as well as shipping
orders made online.
Booktique II is less than a ten minute
drive from LC. It is also easily accessible
via a short trip on the 38 bus line. They
are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Friday (and until 6 p.m. on
Wednesdays), as well as from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. on Saturdays. They also have a
second, smaller location in downtown
Lake Oswego, simply named Booktique.
Booktique II is a great place to check
out if you are interested in a large range
of books at great prices. If you decide to
drop by, plan to leave some room in your
schedule to get lost in the stacks. Lake Oswego bookstore provides
great selection, affordable prices AMELIA DOYLE/THE PIONEER LOG
Students work in the costume shop located in Fir Acres Theatre, where they are currently preparing for the production of “Medea.”
AUBREY ROCHÉ/THE PIONEER LOG
Booktique II sells inexpensive books donated by the Lake Oswego Public Library.
A whale is among the illuminated displays.NATALIE PARKHURST/THE PIONEER LOGAnnual festival lights
up Portland communityFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
ARTS 9
By AIDAN D’ANNA
REALITY TELEVISION often
gets a bad rap. Shows like “The
Bachelor” and “Keeping up with
the Kardashians” have soiled the genre
with their contrived plot lines and
overdone drama. However, there is a
subsection of this genre that your favorite
streaming service might tag as “feel-good”
or “inspiring” that is underappreciated
and overlooked. I am talking, of course,
about home and garden reality television.
Home and garden TV had its moment in
the sun in the early 2000s with the airing
of classic shows such as “House Hunters”
and “Fixer Upper,” but has since taken
a downward turn as people move away
from cable and toward streaming services.
I love this subgenre of television;
it is the pinnacle of escapist media,
it feeds me endless bucket list travel
destinations and it actually often
produces surprisingly good characters.
I am here to say that HGTV does not
have a monopoly over the genre, and
there are tons of hidden home and
garden gems among the flood of limited
series and true crime content currently
on streaming platforms. Also, for all its
faults, Netflix has been almost single
handedly keeping the genre alive in the
streaming realm. Without further ado,
here are my top five home and garden
reality TV picks available right now on
Netflix.
P.S.: Food and eating shows do not
count, and I am not accepting opposing
opinions.
5. My number five pick is a toss-up.
There is another small subgenre in the
world of home and garden television,
what I call the organizational shows,
with two stand-outs who are big fish
in this very small pool. “Tidying Up
with Marie Kondo” and “Get Organized
with the Home Edit” are both shows in
which the hosts visit people and help
them clean up their lives, literally.
Similar to “Hoarders,” but without all
the judgment and crying, both of these
shows are inspiring, showcase beautiful,
aesthetically pleasing displays when
each project is finished and best of
all teach the viewer techniques they
can apply to their own lives. I am not
ashamed to admit that Kondo taught
me how to fold both my shirts and my
pants, and I will never go back.
4. Netflix recently dropped a second
season of my next pick, “The World’s
Most Extraordinary Homes.” Hosted
by architect Piers Taylor and actress
Caroline Quentin, this show takes
the viewer on a worldwide search for
architectural marvels and domestic
oddities. From a house built out of
an old airplane, to an invisible desert
house made entirely of glass, this show
is escapism at its best. As an added
bonus, Taylor and Quentin have a fun dynamic, and intermittent talking heads
allow some personality to make its way
in. The show is at its peak when Taylor
sees something he loves architecturally;
he draws at least one floor plan for us in
every episode.
3. This next one ventures into what
I consider a sub-subgenre, competition
home and garden television. “Instant
Hotel” is an example of the rare
Australian reality show, and it
introduces more drama into the genre.
Five couples who all own vacation
rentals each spend a night in each
other’s rental, and grade the owners
on metrics such as price, location and
activities. The celebrity guest judge
Juliet Ashworth, famed British interior
designer and hospitality expert, also
weighs in to influence the couples’
final scores. Alliances, snobbery and
mayhem ensue as the couples compete
for an all expenses paid trip to Palm
Springs, California.
2. Though you might have seen the
HGTV program “Tiny House Hunters,”
I would argue that the Netflix version,
“Tiny House Nation,” is even better.
Hosted by actor John Weisbarth and
former professional skier-turned
handyman Zach Giffin, “Tiny House
Nation” is wholesome and inspiring,
with just the right amount of cringe.
Weisbarth is the host and Giffin is
the builder, and together they create
completely customized tiny houses for
people who often have no other option.
We see a firefighter whose home burned
down, a couple who were priced out of
their home after nearly two decades
and parents who are downsizing their
home in order to send their kid to
college. Though it always comes down
to the wire, Weisbarth and Giffin always
come through in time to welcome
the homeowners to the “Tiny House
Nation.”
1. Though these are all masterpieces
in my opinion, my favorite Netflix home
and garden show has to be “The World’s
Most Amazing Vacation Rentals.” The
show’s three hosts, Meghan, Joanna and
Luis, travel all around the world, staying
at other people’s rental properties. There
is something for everyone in this show:
Meghan is a designer and searches for
budget properties, Joanna is a travel
blogger who likes a unique stay and Luis
is a Manhattan real estate agent who
only stays in luxury. Another great thing
about this show is the structure, because
you know in each episode you will see
three different properties with different
locations, meal options and activities. They
also usually meet the property owner. The
characters are charismatic, the properties
are beautiful and best of all, the viewer can
visit these properties themselves, although
Meghan’s budget options are probably
your best bet, as some of Luis and Joanna’s
properties are crazy expensive.
By LINDEN WARLING
FLOWERS, FABRIC scraps and
a fabulous array of music set
the scene for the Platteau’s
grand reopening on Feb. 11. Students
congregated in the welcoming aura and
bright lights of the fantastic art and
community space on the bottom floor of
Platt West.
According to one of the Platteau
managers, Lauren Arriola ’24, the event
went off without a hitch.
“So much happened that I didn’t
expect to happen, and that’s the
beauty of the Platteau, that’s what
happens here,” Arriola said. “It’s really
special. People are just so real, and
themselves, and their art transforms
(the Platteau).”
The night’s activities included live
figure drawing, patch sewing and clay
modeling. However, the highlight of the
event was the performances by various
students, which included a sneak
preview of Ezri Reyes’ ’22 theatre thesis
and two singers, Wy Deshong ’22 and
Blaise Harrison ’25. Events like this are the reason that
Matea Carlin ’24 became a manager for
the Platteau.
“It’s just another instance of when
things are kind of chaotic in life,” Carlin
said. “Then we come here and then
figure it all out, it all works out…it often
exceeds expectations.”
Reyes, another manager, was equally
enthusiastic about how the night played
out.
“I think it was magical that we ended
up meeting that exact max capacity of
30,” Reyes said. “And the assortment of
showcasing that we had and the amount
of people who showed up.”
The student performances were the
highlight of the event, which had an
overall theme of body positivity.
“It’s totally inspiring,” Carlin said.
“I enjoy watching the performances so
much and it makes me so happy to see
people be happy.”
If you missed the event, never fear:
The Platteau plans to hold more soon,
including monthly open mic nights, live
drawings, themed drawing nights and
shows with campus radio station KPH.“We have the drawing workshop
we talked about, (a) still life workshop
in combination with Fruit Party,” Arriola
said. “We get a bunch of fruit and fun
foods, and everyone draws and has a good
time, then we cut (the fruit) up and eat it
and go bananas.”
They also plan to host more movie
nights during the semester, and make
use of the new art materials they were
able to pick up recently.
“We’re hoping to get a projector,”
Reyes said. “Last semester we did Rocky
Horror.”
However, the Platteau is not just
about new events — for years now it has
been the home of artists and non-artists
alike, a place where lasting memories
and friendships are made.
“We want more traditions to start out
of here, and continue the ones we already
have, and we want the place to be more
colorful, more loud than it already is, and I
want people to feel more welcome,” Arriola
said. “A goal is to have so many materials
that people can do whatever they want.”
The Platteau is a unique space on
campus and it is free for everyone since the swipe access charge has been removed.
There are a huge variety of materials to
work with, rehearsal spaces to use and
instruments to play.
This space gives every student the
chance, the room and the audacity to
create something magical.
“You see people become friends,”
Reyes said. “People will just come and use the space for their own event, or
their own community, that’s what it’s
for — community building.”
The Platteau is open for students
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weeknights
and midnight on weekends. Sign up
through their Google form, accessible
through the link in their Instagram bio,
to gain free swipe access.By GRETA BURTON
PDX JAZZ Festival showcased the
prominent all-female mariachi band,
Flor de Toloache, on Sunday Feb. 19
at the Newmark Theater. Traditionally
a male-dominated style, the Grammy-
winning band exemplifies that mariachi
not only survives when it expands
beyond its traditional network, it thrives.
Based in New York City, Flor de
Toloache was founded by lead singers
Mireya I. Ramos & Shae Fiol in 2008
and boasts several other rotating female
performers. Collectively, the band refers to
themselves as “Las Flores.” The band rose
in popularity following their highly praised
NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” in 2016.
Part of Toloache’s attraction is their
blend of intoxicating, vulnerable, seductive,
bold and empowering arrangements.
According to their website, mariachinyc.
com, the artists “coalesce as would a band
of sisters, with a grace and vibrant beauty
that casts a spell over their audiences not
unlike the legendary Toloache flower still
being used in Mexico as a love potion.”
“Mariachi” refers to the repertoire of
folk-derived music, according to Folkways,
the Smithsonian Institute’s non-profit
record label. The genre originates from
Spanish and African slaves during
Mexico’s colonial era, spanning three
centuries. Mariachi’s signature sound
established itself in Western Mexico,
but has dominated the majority of Latin
America since the dawn of the radio in
the 1930s. By 1950, the standard band
consisted of a number of trumpets, violins,
small guitars (vihuela) and a big bass
guitar (guitarrón).
During the performance, the group
honored the roots of mariachi with
participatory workshops on “gritos,”
the variety of vocal interjections used to
express emotions in mariachi music. Each
member shared a style of grito ranging
from sounds of laughter to weeping, and
the audience calls back in a cathartic
release. Another way Las Flores pay
tribute to the cultural origin of the genre
is through their impeccable showmanship.
Several numbers involved traditional
Latin rhythms, such as Cumbia, which
were paired with the appropriate dances.
Humor was also a central component of
the performance, contrasting some of the
slower or more emotional numbers in the
set.
The group’s unique sound results from
their complex feminine harmonies and
impeccable intonation. The group enhances
mariachi’s folk style by incorporating
many other genres. Drawing upon several
seemingly unconventional inspirations,
their repertoire stands at the intersection
of folk, jazz, R&B, rock and pop traditions.
Selections in the performance included
both originals and Latin-infused covers,
including Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” and
the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black.” While on stage, Fiol explained their
original song “Our Love” was originally
written to describe the bittersweet
experience of being on tour with their
children while being separated from
their partners. The video for the single,
released in February 2020, demonstrates
this complex intersection of emotion in a
candid compilation of clips from the tour.
Now, Fiol stated, “Our Love” not only
speaks to the hardships they experience
while on tour, but also foreshadowed the
heartache of being unable to connect with
others during the pandemic.
In fact, the Jazz Festival was a type of
homecoming for Fiol who stated that she
grew up in Lake Oswego prior to going to
college in New Mexico and later moving to
New Jersey.
Despite the evident talent of Toloache,
perhaps the most compelling and
memorable aspect of the performance was
the opener, Forest Grove High School’s
Mariachi Tradición. The 22-student
ensemble performed a 40-minute set that
had the audience cheering, laughing and
singing along. According to an interview
with reporter Dillon Mullan of the Forest
Grove News Times, the event was the
group’s first performance in Portland
since the start of COVID-19.
The group performed several
traditional mariachi standards, featuring
several vocal and instrumental soloists.
The dedication to and pride of both
community and culture was palpable.
The three brass musicians sported
all black ensembles, while the other
musicians embraced a more traditional
style with plum colored pants with silver
sequins and matching boots.
Parent Rosa Bran Cervantes said in
Spanish to the Forest Grove News that
the mariachi suit and sombrero are a
point of pride for Mexicans. For her child
to be part of this band is meaningful.
“To play and sing and dance, this is what
we pass on to our kids, so to see the school district have this space for a class — not just
an elective, a class with a teacher — even
though we’re in foreign land, it’s a little piece
of Mexico,” Cervantes said.
Director Lesslie Nuñez said the
students volunteered several of their
weekends in order to perfect their
performance. Looking to the future
Nuñez stated, “I hope that my students
continue paving the way for the younger
generations,” and “continue to inspire
the youth to explore the rich culture and
tradition of mariachi music.”
Younger siblings of Mariachi
Tradición members are now beginning
their own mariachi journey at Forest
Grove High School.
“It has truly been a privilege to
witness this tradition continue to evolve
in our school district,” Nuñez said. “None
of this could’ve been possible without the
support of our students’ parents and
administrators.”
Nuñez also extended her thanks to the
Festival for inviting the group to perform
and said they are available for other live
performances and special events.
At the end of the set, the theater
echoed, split between calls for “encore”
and “otra.” After a handful of chants,
“otra” prevailed. Las Flores reentered the
stage and invited Mariachi Tradición to
join them for the final song.
The PDX Jazz Festival will take
place through Feb. 26, but the Portland
jazz scene is lively year-round. Festival
Marketing and Membership director
Jonathan Rudnick, expressed a deep
enthusiasm for Lewis & Clark students to
become more involved with the festival
in the future, including internships and
potentially selling tickets to students at
discounted rates.
You can find more information
about the PDX Jazz Festival at
PDXJazz.org and hear the latest news
about Mariachi Tradición on their
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SPORTS 10
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
A HEAD-TO-HEAD affair between
the best football team each
conference has to offer, a massive,
collaborative concert featuring household
names both old and new, and humorous,
indulgent advertisements with numerous,
celebrity cameos — this cocktail describes
arguably the most American sporting
event we have: the Super Bowl. This year’s
game delivered on all fronts, making an
entertaining three hours for viewers of
varying tastes.
The game itself featured two teams
that, at the beginning of the season,
were not expected to make it this far
and entered the playoffs as four-seeds.
The Los Angeles Rams, however, were
considered a dark horse to make the
championship. Mid-season, the Rams
added two stars, trading for former
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and
picking up Odell Beckham Jr. after he
was released by the Cleveland Browns.
They also boasted a three-time Defensive
Player of the Year recipient in Aaron
Donald, a record-setting wide receiver in
Cooper Kupp, an elite cornerback in Jalen
Ramsey and an experienced quarterback
in Matthew Stafford, all of which made
the Rams’ regular-season record a soft
indicator of their playoff potential.
The Cincinnati Bengals, by contrast,
were composed of sophomore, superstar
quarterback Joe Burrow, a good defense,
a trio of talented wide receivers and a
historically bad offensive line. Joe Burrow
was sacked seventy times between the
regular season and postseason, and still
brought his team to the Super Bowl,
getting the Bengals their first playoff win
in more than thirty years in the process.
Despite their underdog appearance, the
Bengals were no slouches. They started their run by besting the Las Vegas Raiders,
before toppling the one-seed Tennessee
Titans and the reigning AFC Champion
Kansas City Chiefs. After the Rams
obliterated the Arizona Cardinals, ended
Tom Brady’s career with a loss and edged
out the San Francisco 49ers to take the
NFC Championship, anticipation built for
an exciting Super Bowl.
The first half picked up quickly, with
Matthew Stafford finding Beckham Jr. in
the endzone for the first score of the game
just six minutes in. After a Bengals field
goal and a second Rams touchdown, the
ball slipped from punter Johnny Hekker’s
nervous grasp during the extra point
attempt, and they failed to convert it. The
score would not remain 13-3 for long, as
Joe Mixon threw a touchdown pass to
Tee Higgins on a trick play. Stafford soon
added to his league-leading interception
total, giving the Bengals an opportunity
to take the lead. However, after a punt a
piece, the first half came to an end.
The historic halftime show featured
a large cast of hip-hop artists, including
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick
Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent. Despite
the popularity of hip-hop in the United
States, this marks the first rap-dominated
halftime show in Super Bowl history, and
it did not disappoint. Dr. Dre and Snoop
Dogg opened the show by performing
a portion of Dre’s song “Next Episode,”
followed by a rendition of Tupac’s song
“California Love.” This preceded a
variety of amazing performances, such
as Blige’s pop inflected remix of “Family
Affair,” Lamar’s energetic performance of
“Alright,” and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”
After the show, the Bengals quickly
took the lead, with Burrow finding Tee
Higgins for a 75-yard touchdown. The
teams later traded field goals, leaving the
Bengals with a 20-16 advantage headed into the fourth quarter. Burrow proceeded
to go down with an apparent injury, in what
was later confirmed as an MCL sprain.
Thankfully, the young star returned to the
field. Eventually, the Rams stampeded
into the Cincinnati Red Zone with only
a few minutes remaining. The Bengals
attempted to make a defensive stand, but a
series of defensive holding calls upset their
chances. With a minute and twenty-five
left in the game, Stafford flicked it to Kupp
to give the Rams a twenty-three to twenty
lead, which Donald, Miller and Ramsey
easily closed out.
The final component of the super
bowl was also the weakest — this year’s
commercials seemed to rely more
heavily on excessive cameos than
quality advertising. A few personal
favorites included Larry David criticizing
revolutionary inventions and implying
that crypto is next in line, and Paul Rudd
and Seth Rogen recounting a series of
wacky journeys they went on involving
Lay’s chips. I also enjoyed Matthew
McConaughey advocating for planetary
investment over the Metaverse and space
travel for Salesforce, and the Austin
Powers’ reunion where Dr. Evil promoted
General Motors’ new electric initiative.
Additionally, there was a minute-long,
$13 million commercial that featured
a QR code bouncing off the edges of
the screen, that crashed the website of
Coinspace (its sponsor).By VENUS EDLIN
HEAD FOOTBALL Coach Jay
Locey retired from Lewis & Clark
at the start of February and has
since accepted an offer to coach as part of
the United States Football League (USFL),
a professional league with a spring season.
Locey first came to LC in 2014. Under
his leadership, the Pioneers began to win
multiple games in back-to-back seasons,
beginning in 2017 with a win against
Pomona-Pitzer that snapped a 33-game
losing streak. Two weeks later, the team
won the Wagon Wheel traveling trophy
against Willamette University for the
first time since 2000, and have defended
it every year since then, marking four
consecutive seasons with the distinction.
According to Director of Physical
Education and Athletics Mark Pietrok,
Locey has made a lasting impact on the
football program. Pietrok is also excited
for Interim Head Football Coach Joseph
Bushman to take the helm next fall.
“Coach Locey has created a new era
of Lewis & Clark football and followed
through on his commitment to building
our program,” Pietrok said to the Source.
“We are thankful to Jay for leading our
student-athletes over the last seven
seasons, and excited that Coach Bushman
and the current staff will provide a seamless
transition to sustain that success.”
Locey was not ready to give up
coaching, as he is continually inspired by
the people he gets to encounter through
the process.
“You get to work with some beautiful
people is what you do,” Locey said. “And
the unique part about football or a lot of
other sports, is you get to work with people
that are enjoying what they’re doing. Then
there’s the relationships you build and
then working collaboratively together on
trying to accomplish the same goal.”
Beyond his impact at LC, Locey has
evolved to be a key figure in the Oregon
football community.
He won a state championship at
Corvallis High School in 1970 as a reserve
linebacker and special teams player. Locey
went on to play at Oregon State University (OSU) under a football scholarship, where
he was named to the Pacific-8 Conference
First-Team as a defensive back in 1976 and
was twice OSU’s top student-athlete.
As head coach, between 1996 and
2005, Locey guided the Linfield Wildcats
to three national titles and 12 conference
championships. In 2005, The Oregonian
listed Locey as one of Oregon’s top 25 most
influential people in sports. He has also
received five Northwest Conference Coach
of the Year awards in his career.
This fifty-year history seems to keep
following Locey throughout his career.
While a sophomore at Corvallis, he made
the varsity team with Mike Riley as the
starting quarterback. Locey later replaced
Riley as the defensive coordinator at
Linfield University in 1983. Riley is
currently the head coach and general
manager for the USFL New Jersey Generals, the same team Locey is joining
for the upcoming season as the running
backs and tight ends coach.
Bushman came to know about Locey
through his prominence in the football
community before they started working
together. Later, the two interacted more
because Locey often recruited the high
school athletes Bushman was coaching.
Bushman’s daughter also went to Linfield,
where she met Locey and was impressed
with his kindness.
“He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever
meet,” Bushman said. “You know, when I
was at Clackamas, he would come by and
recruit our athletes and so I really got to
know him and just hit it off.”
Bushman also got to know Locey when
he recruited his son, Jake Bushman ’23. At
the time, Joseph Bushman was his son’s
high school coach, and now has served as his college coach as well. He was hired as
the recruiting coordinator and assistant
head coach in 2018.
Both coaches have had a great impact
on Jake Bushman.
“One thing I realized about him after
(him) being my head coach for the past
three seasons is he’s more than a head
football coach,” Jake Bushman said. “He’s
one of the greatest people I’ve ever met,
the kind of unselfish person who puts
other people before himself.”
After the 2020 season was canceled
due to the pandemic, the Pios started the
2021 season off strong under the guidance
of both coaches. In the home opener, the
team scored their third most points of any
game in LC history and totaled 316 rushing
yards, the most since 2011. Locey credits
part of this success to Joseph Bushman,
who he knows is ready to take charge of the team for the next season.
“I believe he is very well equipped,
and in a great position to help push this
forward,” Locey said. “So I feel really good
about that.”
As a head coach, Joe Bushman guided
Clackamas High School to the first
championship in school history in 2017.
Later that year, he was named Oregon 6A
Coach of the Year.
Bushman sees his position as
continuing the legacy Locey has advanced
at LC.
“We’re not where we want to be yet,
but we’ve definitely taken a jump out of
the bottom of the league to more (in) the
middle of the pack,” Joe Bushman said.
“We’re competing now against some of
the better teams, we’re giving them good
games, (although) we’re not finishing those
games yet. It’s been a privilege for me to be
part of that as taking it to the next step, and
now that the job is to go even further.”
Jake Bushman is proud of his father’s
next step in his career as LC’s head coach.
“I know it’s something he’s wanted
and that he really worked hard to change
his program around it, put it in a good
direction,” Jake Bushman said. “I think it’s
something our program needs.”
With the smallest roster in the league
and despite a recent positive change in
league standing, the Pios still face many
challenges for the upcoming season.
However, Locey is excited to watch the
team take these obstacles head on from
the sidelines.
“There’s some very special players in
the program right now, so it’s going to be
fun to see as they push forward and take
things on,” Locey said. “And again, I think
our staff will do a superb job of continuing
to get their mindset, keep it strong and keep
their work ethic and accountability strong.”
Though Locey will coach in the
USFL, he also plans to spend more time
in Arizona with his family in the coming
years. However, Locey maintains that he
is still just a phone call away.
“I think we’ll just miss his easy-going
way, his friendship more than anything
and just kind of his guidance,” Joe
Bushman said. “But he knows I got him on
speed dial.”
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
ON FEB. 14, French ice dance
team Gabriella Papadakis and
Guillaume Cizeron won the gold
medal for ice dance at the 2022 Winter
Olympics in Beijing with 226.98 points.
Their win followed on the heels of their
silver medal performance at the 2018
Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South
Korea, where Canada’s Tessa Virtue and
Scott Moir, who have since
stepped away from ice
skating, won gold.
When I watched the
2018 ice dance finals, I was
captivated by Virtue and Moir, and
found myself hooked on ice dancing.
I eagerly awaited the 2022 Winter
Olympics for ice dance alone.
Ice dance is a sport that incorporates
elements of figure skating and ballroom
dancing. Scores consist of a combination
of rhythm dance and free dance scores.
During this year’s Olympics, the
rhythm dance competition took place
on Feb. 12, and the rankings determined
the running order for the free dance on
Feb. 14.
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita
Katsalapov, representing the Russian
Olympic Committee, won silver with
220.51 points. American
pair Madison Hubbell and
Zachary Donohue won bronze with
218.02 points, and fellow United States ice
skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates
finished in fourth place with 214.77 points.
Papadakis and Cizeron stood out
to the judges due to their perfectly-
synchronized twizzles, straight line
lift, curve lift and combination spin,
according to ESPN. With their total of
226.98 points, Papadakis and Cizeron
broke their own world record for ice dance, beating their 2019 NHK Trophy
record of 226.61 points.
According to NBC’s Olympics website,
the pair’s bronze medal makes this year’s
games the fifth Olympics in a row where
the U.S. has medaled in ice dance.
Hubbell and Donohue were my
personal favorite pair from the event. In
coordinating outfits decked out in glitter,
with Hubbell in lilac and Donohue in
deep, sheer purple, they skated to the song
“Drowning” by Anne Sila with palpable
energy, chemistry and poise.
“They bring you to center ice with
them,” Johnny Weir,
commentator and former
U.S. figure skater, said.
“Their performances
feel like you’re watching
something behind closed
doors; an incredibly personal,
authentic moment.”
They executed bold, exciting
moves while almost perfectly in
sync, and their effortless grace
and intriguing skills prominently
displayed their technical prowess.
At one particularly thrilling
moment in their routine, Donohue
lifted Hubbell from behind,
pulling her legs over his head
and holding her entire body
in the air in a move
reminiscent of the lift
in “Dirty Dancing.”
Just moments later, Hubbell wrapped
both of her hands behind Donohue’s neck,
holding on tightly as Donohue spun both
of them around for five solid seconds.
ESPN reports that Hubbell and
Donohue have already announced plans
to retire, making this the last time they
will compete in the Olympics. Gold
medalists Papadakis and Cizeron have yet
to announce any plans for their future.Beloved coach departs LC football program
Ice dancing electrifies
at Beijing OlympicsJay Locey, head coach since 2014, had profound impact on players, staff while leading team to success
Super Bowl LVI features thrilling
game amid stellar halftime showUnder Locey’s leadership, the Pios have rolled on to four straight multi-win seasons and four Wagon Wheel trophy defenses. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAY LOCEY
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AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
SPORTS 11
By ALEXANDRA FLORY
ON FEB. 4 , Lewis & Clark’s
Women’s Basketball team
played their 21st game of
the season against rival University
of Puget Sound, where the lead
went back-and-forth throughout
the entire first half. The court was
full of nervous, yet excited, energy.
During this game, Delsie Johnson ’22
had the opportunity to reach 1,000
career points and 600 rebounds — a
milestone that would place her in the
top three in both categories in school
history.
When Johnson stepped up to
make two free throws early in the
second half, she would reach her
1,000th career point if she made
both shots. Any free throw is nerve
racking, but Johnson handled both
shots with composure. She dribbled
the ball a few times, took a breath
and nailed both free throws. What
had previously been nervous energy
exploded into a celebration of joy
from the stands, court and bench. She
did it, 1,000 points.
Johnson’s journey to become a
collegiate basketball player had been
a long time in the making. The biology
major from Fort Collins, Colorado
has been playing basketball for as
long as she can remember, beginning
in a recreational league when she
was about five years old. Her ties to
basketball extend back to her mother
who played Division 1 basketball
for the University of Vermont.
Throughout Johnson’s basketball
career, her mother has remained by
her side, and even flew in to hold up
a sign celebrating her 1,000th point.
Johnson ultimately found herself
at LC because the team and coaches
were so supportive.
Being on the basketball team
has meant a lot to Johnson. She
experienced playing basketball at LC
as not just being a member of a sports
team, but being a part of a family.
“I consider the basketball team
like my family, and that’s one of our
values,” Johnson said. “Everyday I
look forward to going to practice,
seeing my team, seeing my coaches
and then playing games. It’s just been
amazing.”
However, it is not just Johnson that feels this sense of closeness. In
fact, both of her coaches attribute it
partly to Johnson, due to her ability
to lead and be a great teammate.
These two qualities help make the
team into the family that Johnson
describes. Johnson’s coaches greatly
appreciate her both as a player and a
person.
Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Ann Dorris explained how Johnson is
able to create that sense of community
on and off the court.
“She is really good at motivating
her teammates,” Dorris said. “Even
off the court as well. It’s never
negative, it’s never condescending, or
anything of that sort. And that’s what
she is just really, really good at.”
Assistant Women’s Basketball
Coach Scott Pisapia has had the
opportunity to watch Johnson play
since she was a freshman.
“Having Delsie in the program for
the past four years has been a huge
sense of stability,” Pisapia said. From a statistical standpoint,
Johnson’s 1,000-point and
600-rebound milestone is significant.
Few players are able to reach 1,000
points in their basketball careers, let
alone in only 3 seasons like Johnson
was able to do. Due to COVID-19,
Johnson’s junior season was canceled.
However, she did not let that setback
stop her. In fact, Johnson averaged
14.4 points per game and 9 rebounds
per game throughout her time at LC,
which are 3rd and 2nd greatest of
all time, respectively. Of her 1,044
career points, Johnson’s field goal
percentage was 48.8%. She has been
nominated for and received numerous
awards during her basketball career.
Most recently, Johnson was named
to the All-Northwest Conference First
Team as LC’s first recipient since
2017. In previous years, she was
named the Northwest Conference
Freshman of the Year and Awarded
the Female Rookie of the Year Award
at the 2019 Excellence in Lewis & Clark’s Year of Sports.
Due to her history of great play,
it seemed that no one was surprised
when Johnson reached her milestone.
Pisapia said this moment filled him
with a sense of pride.
“She’s gonna end up somewhere
in the top three for Lewis & Clark
history in points and rebounds per
game for her career,” Pisapia said. “So
we’re looking at a player that doesn’t
come around often. This is a once in
a decade type player, once in an even
20-year span type player.”
In the Puget Sound game, there
was a shared, confident feeling
among the coaches and team that
Johnson would score the 20 points
and 6 rebounds that she needed.
At the end of the first half, Johnson
had already scored 18 points and 5
rebounds. When it came the time to
reach the milestone, she was ready.
“It was on a free throw, so I had
two free throws to get to 1,000,”
Johnson said. “I was like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s going to be embarrassing if
I miss these free throws.’ When I hit
the second one, I thought ‘there it is.
1,000. Let’s go.’”
Johnson’s coaches shared the
same feelings of joy, including Pisapia
who said that the moment made him
choke up.
“You love to see someone who
has put in so much time and effort,
and is just a rock solid person inside
and out, you love to see them find
success,” Pisapia said. “But the even
cooler part, to me, was how excited
her teammates were for her to reach
that goal. And that’s the part that
probably got me a little more choked
up. It shows how loved she is by how
the school celebrated her when she
got that mark.”
After the point was over, her
teammates stood up from the bench
and swallowed Johnson into a
communal hug, while the stadium
exploded into a raucous cheer. The
student section was deafening, and
Johnson’s smile spread throughout
the stadium.
Moving forward, Johnson plans
to continue playing for the rest of
the season, graduate and leave her
basketball days behind her. Despite
being deprived of her junior season,
Johnson does not plan to utilize the
NCAA’s added year of eligibility
granted to athletes who missed a
collegiate season due to COVID-19.
However, that is not to say that she
will stop impacting the lives of those
around her. Coach Dorris described
how Johnson is not only someone who
should be respected for her basketball
skills, but for the person she is.
“She’s above and beyond in every
category and what’s really special
to me about that is that she is so
committed to basketball and works so
hard at it and at the exact same time
has that same level of commitment
to being a great teammate, to being a
great friend, to being a great student,”
Dorris said. “She is so passionate
about everything and it’s so genuine
and with the best intentions always.
That’s something you don’t see a lot.
She’s a special one for sure.”
Not only does she excel on the
court, but in every space she fills.
In the words of Pisapia, “Delsie is a
rockstar and a Pio legend.” Delsie Johnson shatters 1,000 point threshold
MLB lockout perseveres as spring season approaches After only three seasons, Pio legend Johnson finishes on LC Basketball’s all-time scoring leaderboard
By NATHAN OAKLEY
MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball (MLB)
fans may have to wait longer
than expected for the 2022
season, as team owners and the players
union remain deadlocked in tense labor negotiations that have gone unresolved
for months. Based on the two sides’
latest meeting, a delay to spring training
looks increasingly likely, which also puts
Opening Day (March 31) and the start of
the regular season in jeopardy.The conflict started in August
2021, when the MLB team owners
and the players association began
negotiations for a new Collective
Bargaining Agreement (CBA), a
legal agreement between the two
groups setting the league’s rules of
employment and financial structure.
Chicago Cubs outfielder and players’
union representative Ian Happ told
670 The Score that the league “didn’t
make one economic proposal” during
negotiations over a three-day period
in Dallas. Happ called it a “horrible
way to negotiate.”
As a result of the failed
negotiations, MLB owners voted
to institute a lockout ahead of the
2022 season. An MLB lockout
essentially halts all business relating
to professional baseball in the United
States. All transactions are frozen,
meaning teams cannot sign or trade
players, conduct practice or games
or pay players their base salary. As a
result, top free agents such as Carlos
Correa, Trevor Story, Kris Bryant
and Freddie Freeman all remain
unsigned. While owners claimed that
such a measure was intended to move
negotiations forward, the players
union recently released a statement
detailing their frustration.
“It is not required by law or for any
other reason,” the union’s statement
reads. “It was the owners’ choice, plain
and simple, specifically calculated to
pressure Players into relinquishing rights and benefits, and abandoning
good faith bargaining proposals that
will benefit not just Players, but the
game and industry as a whole.”
Critics have inaccurately described
this lockout as nothing more than the
quarrellings of multi-millionaire MLB
players and multi-billionaire owners,
each looking to maximize the share
of league revenue going into their
pockets. However, the players union
also represents minor league players,
who consistently earn below-poverty
wages and are among the most
impoverished professional athletes in
North America.
In 2019, the average Single A
player at baseball’s lowest tier took
home just $6,000. Double A and
Triple A players earned similarly low
wages, taking home
around $9,500 and
$15,000 respectively.
Many players work
hard at these rates for
years, holding two or
three jobs and spend
large chunks of the
year living in motels
without stable housing,
only to reach the MLB’s
highest level and not
have enough years of
health left to earn their
fair share in order to compete for a
shot on the roster. The players union
says the time for change is now.
While the top players in the world earn several hundred million dollars
in largely guaranteed contracts, the
players union has made it clear that
this lockout is about the players
trying to keep their dream of playing
in the big leagues alive.
With spring training just around
the corner, the chances of the MLB
season proceeding as planned
are remote. 2021 was a year of
needed growth for professional
baseball, as revenue increased and
younger generations of fans took an
unprecedented interest in the sport.
Many, however, are worried about
growth in the upcoming season.
Players need weeks to get in shape to
play 162 games, and teams also need
time to prepare their stadiums for
fans and get employees back to work.
At this point, many are
making comparisons
to the 1994-1995 MLB
season, which was
fully canceled due to a
lockout that ended only
after the intervention
of federal judge Sonia
Sotomayor, who
ruled that owners had
engaged in exploitative
labor practices.
MLB baseball fans
around the world hope
the owners and players union can end
this impasse hastily, so that America’s
favorite pastime can deliver another
memorable season.
In her last games as an LC Pio, Delsie Johnson ’22 sits atop the Women’s Basketball leaderboard in scoring and rebounds.
2022 season halted as team owners, players’ union struggle over league’s financial, employment structure
ALEXANDRA FLORY/THE PIONEER LOG
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOGIn 2019, the average
Single A player at
baseball’s lowest
tier took home just
$6,000. Double A
and Triple A players
earned similarly
low wages.12FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The Backdoor is a work of humor and fiction.
By ROSALIE
ZUCKERMANN
IN A DEPARTURE from what has
become standard campus etiquette,
the Lewis & Clark administration
announced that they will be banning all
individualized listening mechanisms,
such as headphones, in order to
promote more interaction among the
student body.
In an Instagram post on Monday,
the user @notswimswievel illustrated
the antisocial campus conditions
which prompted the decision.
“Picture this: It is eight in the
morning at LC and you are trudging
through the Portland fog. You see the
rush of students in a silent, mindless
stream. They are all so caught up in
their playlists that they completely
ignore each other and the world around
them. It is our duty to help rehab the
ability of students to socialize if we
have any hope to provide the world
with socially-capable denizens.”
Hundreds of students pushed
back on the post and its deterministic
assertion about how one is meant to exist in society. Deci Boll ’23 is
one student in favor of the listening
device ban.
“The lack of social interaction might
be harmless during a walk to class, but
in other situations things are getting
out of hand,” Boll said. “In residence
hall bathrooms, students stare absently
into the mirror, nearly unreactive
to their surroundings. It is like their
headphones keep them in a perpetual
state of internal crisis.” According to
several students, their peers have even
stopped dying their hair together, once
a common sight in LC restrooms.
Professors have complained about
the uptick in emails being signed
without “Best” or even “Thanks.”
Perhaps the most concerning side
effect of the decline in socialization
for professors is that students
allegedly no longer know how to
make small talk in office hours. When
surveyed, most students could not
even name their professor’s third
cat or identify their professor’s least
favorite household chore.
A similar study conducted in 2007
revealed that nearly 82% of all students at that time could name at least one of
the two.
Previous attempts have been made
by administration to foster interaction
on campus. Faculty has handed out
t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan,
“Size matters: Small talk makes a Big
difference.” In February 2020, the Moss
Petting Zoo in Watzek Library provided
a brief glimmer of hope for spontaneous
socializing when students bonded over
their fuzzy friends. While this event may
have sparked hope for breaching the
isolation, the additional social setbacks
posed by physical distancing decidedly
wiped out any progress that was made.
With different music blasting all over
campus, students will have to choose
between accepting others’ music tastes
or shutting them out completely. Some
fear this will prompt starker divisions
along generic lines.
By the second week of the headphone
ban, Mitski fans established strongholds
in the ravine, causing communal
complaints about groaning and crying
echoing from the space. Swifties
painted Agnes Flanagan Chapel red to
symbolically and physically occupy the
space for nondenominational Tworship
(“Taylor Worship”). The Kanye die-
hards have begun digging trenches
beneath Templeton to fundamentally
destabilize the foundation of the new
construction through seismic bass
activity. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans
were unavailable for comment.
Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and
Media Studies Cass Ettape hypothesized
that the exposure to other music will
ultimately squash the genre divisions
over time.
“Eventually, these dark days will
pass,” Ettape said. “Through continuous
exposure to different tastes, students
will become more accepting, and by the
next Spotify Wrapped they will even
have more than two different colors in
their Audio Aura. Maybe, just maybe,
instead of trudging to class alone in a
plugged-in world, students will share a
smile, a chat.”
This new rule may just be the most
successful administrative undertaking
at LC since Fields Dining Hall began
serving quesadillas. Some students
even reported feeling confident enough
to look their professor in the eye and
ask how Felix’s vet visit went.
President bans headphones
to promote peer interaction
By EMMA FORD
THESE DAYS, it seems like
no one with a podcast is
safe from the ire of the
public. Inciting rage in some of
folk music’s most legendary stars,
however, is a different level of
public outrage. For podcaster and
comedian Joe Rogan, it is all in a
day’s work.
Rogan sparked controversy
in his Spotify-exclusive podcast
when he publicly questioned the
efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
In response to Rogan’s spread of
misinformation, folk megastars
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
have pulled their music from the
streaming service. To appease fans,
Rogan announced he will record
the beloved folk tunes himself.
“I want to honor my fans who
are caught in the crossfire,” Rogan
said. “If the people want this music
so badly, I figure it can’t be that
hard to cover. So, who am I to keep
the people from what they want?”
To avoid copyright violations,
Rogan’s legal team advised him
to alter the songs slightly. Rogan
decided to sing about what he
knows best: Cannabis.
Young's hits such as “Harvest
Moon” and “Heart of Gold” are
now “Harvest (that Flower under
the) Moon” and “Heart of Green.”
Mitchell’s hits will also be reworked
in this style, including “Urge for
Smoking” and “Cannabis Tree.” “I will not be another comedian
brought down by cancel culture,”
Rogan said from his ergonomic
gaming chair.
To his immediate right sits the
George Foreman grill that still
sizzles with the greasy residue of
MorningStar Xtra Meat Sausage
Links, the floor to his left is littered
with dated bottles of his own urine.
“My father and his father did
not employ people to work for
them just so my first amendment
right to free speech could be
diminished by some decrepit
lyrical cowboy and a lady who
looks like she gets lost in the Fred
Meyer produce aisle,” Rogan said.
His recording booth has
been equipped with a bed and
hamster-style drip bottles for
water. Personal decor touches
include family photos, a “Don’t
Tread on Me” mug and a framed
so-called “N-Word pass.”
“We had a difficult time finding
session musicians,” Rogan said.
“So we’ve employed middle school
rock band The Weenuses."
Rogan plans to release his
version of Young's discography
as early as April 1 and Mitchell’s
in July. Mitchell, known for her
effervescent vocals, has tunes
that span quite a large range,
posing a challenge to even the
most accomplished musicians.
Rogan disagrees.
“Honestly, I don’t find her
vocals a challenge,” Rogan said. “I
rarely find things that are high to
be a problem for me.”
Rogan has found inspiration
in the cover work. "Both Sides,
Now (When Convenient for Me),"
he explained, is his new motto
when interviewing.
As fans around the world call
for Rogan’s removal, the podcaster
hopes to win them over.
“Well, if (the releases) are not
what they want, it is something
they never knew they needed,”
Rogan said. “I suppose I am a little
bit like Jesus. He was really a man
of the people.”
Baby-rap track teased by Kanye
expected to drop in early March
By GRETA BURTON
THE MUSIC industry’s rumor
mills are churning this week
after Kanye West leaked an
album cover on Twitter.
According to a trusted source, it is
the debut single of dynamic baby-rap
duo Wolf Webster and the unnamed
fetus of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky.
Both babies made waves in
February following their birth and
gestation announcements.
Their new single “Nepotism”
is speculated to reflect on their
newfound stardom. The track will
be exclusively available on Jay-Z’s
streaming platform Tidal under the
management and promotion of PR-
maven Blue Ivy Carter.
Following in the inspired
footsteps of bedroom pop, Baby-
rap has skyrocketed in popularity
on platforms such as SoundCloud
and Twitch. Top producers for the
genre have accumulated millions of
followers.
The genre’s defining sound is
created by mixing infant gibberish
into beats, along with other rhythmic
instruments such as rattles and
wooden blocks falling over.
According to an anonymous source, the single will be
accompanied by a line of Skims-
branded diapers and Kylie Cosmetics
x Fenty diaper cream.
“It really is a family affair,” the
source said. “Kris (Jenner) even
drops some bars on it.”
The matriarch’s participation
comes after sources close to her
speculated that she is fearing a
decline in income as her oldest
child, Kourtney Kardashian, nears
43. Jenner is setting her sights on
managing the next Jenner-ation.
North West, the daughter of
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West,
recently received major attention
on the video platform Tik Tok by
flaming her mom for hating on her
lizard and participating in trends
with her cousin Penelope Disick.
Our source also revealed that
negotiations are underway for the
baby-rap duo to perform during
the 2023 Super Bowl Pepsi Half
Time Show, along with other major
names in music like Billie Eilish
and Jojo Siwa. The two stars were
the preferred guest performers
nominated by the Kardashian family
because they have recent babysitting
experience.
The single’s leak comes amidst West’s recent rampage against
Pete Davidson for looking like a
half-smoked cigarette, damp from
the rain and discarded outside the
recently moved Lewis & Clark bus
stop.
A recent tweet from West on the
matter is reminiscent of his attempts
to slander Kylie’s first child in July
2020 when he tweeted, “I LOWKEY
DONT [explicative] WITH THAT
[explicative] STORMI.” The latest
tweet reads: “BABY RAP? TRAVIS
SHOULDA WRAPPED IT UP FIRST.”
Representatives for both West
and Scott declined to comment.
GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG God's gift to Earth,
Rogan, makes music
HAYDEN WILKINS/THE PIONEER LOG
SOFIA REEVES & GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG
By VENUS EDLIN
Lewis & Clark is in the search
process for eight different
undergraduate faculty positions,
with new hires planning to start
during the Fall 2023 semester.
The sociology/anthropology (SOAN),
psychology and mathematical
sciences (data science concentration)
departments are searching for
candidates to fulfill assistant
professor positions. Other searches
include visiting professor spots
for economics, public health and
entrepreneurship and leadership, as
well as a position for a postdoctoral
teaching fellow in Korean studies.
The results of these searches will
likely conclude near the end of the
spring semester.
The process to start a search begins
with applications from departments
in the fall, which is earlier than in
past years according to Associate
Dean/Professor of Rhetoric and
Media Studies Daena Goldsmith who
is in charge of faculty development.
The college assesses enrollment data,
trends in fields and vacancies in
order to approve searches.
Associate Professor of Computer
Science Peter Drake is the head of the
search for a data science professor.
“Since the college’s budget is
finite, and a tenure-track faculty
member is a long-term commitment,
only some requests are approved,”
Drake said via email.The number of searches per year
fluctuates, with some years in the recent
past having none. However, this year’s
number is slightly elevated and the
college expects to conduct even more.
“Next year we anticipate having
more (searches),” Goldsmith said.
“It’s mostly about the demand and
the enrollment pressures, but also the
revenue that brings. It’s that balancing
act of what is the appropriate size
faculty for the size of school we are, in
the size of student body we are. It’s also
influenced by the needs of particular
departments and faculty retiring or
leaving for other reasons.”
According to Drake, the search
committees are composed of two faculty
members from the department that is
hiring, two faculty members from other
departments and one student. After
training conducted by Goldsmith, one
of the first tasks of these committees is
to create a search ad.
“What that process is about is I help
the committees write advertisements
that will cast a really broad net so that
we get a deep pool and a really diverse
pool,” Goldsmith said. “Diverse in terms
of the kinds of things they could bring
to the college, diverse in terms of who
they are and their backgrounds, diverse
in terms of where they’re coming
from, and their graduate programs or
programs of study.”
After finding a pool of candidates,
search committees hold interviews,
dinners and other meetings to assess
the candidates and gauge student input. At the end of the process, they
make a recommendation of one or
several people to the dean’s office, who
then approve the request. Afterwards,
the president must also approve the
request before the dean’s office makes
an offer to a candidate and negotiates
salary and other details.
Associate Professor Diana Leonard
said she was approached to be part
of the psychology search committee
because she is the most junior member
of the department as she was hired in
2012. She said experiences like this
prepare her to lead in the future.
“For me personally it was an honor
to take part in shaping the future of this
department,” Leonard said via email.
“I love working with my colleagues and
am looking forward to having another
one join us hopefully this Fall! I think
I brought a unique perspective to the
committee as a fairly junior faculty
member and a teacher-scholar of color
whose discipline examines unconscious
bias and its impacts on hiring.”
For Goldsmith, implicit bias is a
large part of the training process that
members of all search committees
are required to undergo. She said this
helps to expand search pools, which is
important since the search process is
intensive.
“There’s a lot riding on finding
someone who is going to be happy
here and successful here, finding
someone who resonates with our
students, someone who will fit into
the intellectual needs (and) the larger
configuration of what’s going on, on
campus,” Goldsmith said. “Again, not
only now, but looking forward, so it’s a
really complicated process.”
Mei Bailey ’22 is the student on
the SOAN search committee. The
department’s previous search failed,
so this year’s has extra importance.
Bailey, in part, wanted to learn about
the department’s innerworkings and
gain work experience for the future.
“I was interested in being on the
committee because I felt like it was
a way to create lasting change in
the department,” Bailey said. “I’m
graduating this semester, so I was
thinking it’d be really cool if I could
have … this lasting impact, like in the
future of the department, more than
just my thesis presentation.”
Being on the committee, Bailey
found out how unique her position is.
“I learned that not all institutions
have students on their committees
through this process, because some of
our applicants were very surprised that I was on the interviewing committee,”
Bailey said. “But I think at a liberal arts
school, like Lewis & Clark, teaching
is the priority for professors and
that’s not the case, especially at big
R1 universities where professors are
mainly, honestly, there to do research.”
Goldsmith said LC’s “teacher-
scholar” model, where professors focus
on teaching primarily, but use their
research to inform their pedagogical
methods, lends itself to student search
committee positions.
“Because that’s so central to what we
do in comparison to some other places
… in my mind, it makes a lot of sense
to have students (on committees),”
Goldsmith said. “The other thing is the
caliber of Lewis & Clark students is that
they can fulfill that role. They have a lot
of important insight on the committee
and they are a connection then to the
other students.”
However, research does play a role
in the selection process. Goldsmith
mentioned that one advantage of
search processes, whether they end
up in a new hire or not, is that they
allow the college to see the cutting-
edge research of young professionals in
their fields. For students and professors
involved in the searches, research also
piques interest.
Leonard, in particular, said she was
searching for a mixed-method, liberal
arts approach from candidates, as well
as an identity-inclusive approach.
“For me, the ideal candidate
pairs strong teaching ability with
a promising program of research,”
Leonard said. “They also share
our department’s enthusiasm for
training undergraduates in evidence-
based inquiry using an inclusive and
accessible teaching style, and they excel
at mentoring students with diverse
backgrounds and identities.”
Bailey echoed similar sentiments
for the SOAN search, emphasizing that
students are looking for professors
with an investment in decolonial
anthropology. She also mentioned the
role of mentorship.
“One thing we’re looking for is
someone who we (think) would be a
good mentor to students, not just in
terms of research, but what are you
going to do for post graduation?” Bailey
said. “How do I apply this research to
the real world, even if I’m not going
into academia?”
The results of the eight searches will
be made available at their completion,
sometime before the start of the Fall
2023 semester.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
NEWS 2
Undergraduate faculty search begins
for SOAN, psychology, mathematics
When I first joined The Pioneer
Log, I was the only Black editor
on the board. As a Portlander,
this was not a new phenomenon for
me, but it still came as a shock. Still, I
was determined to pursue my love of
student journalism. The warmth and
encouragement I received from the
former senior editors solidified my belief
that The Pioneer Log was a student
media organization that I wanted to be a
part of. Our newspaper holds ourselves to
the highest of journalistic standards and
integrity, and that includes ensuring that
our coverage is as equitable as possible.
As Black History Month comes to an
end, I have spent a long time reflecting on
my time at Lewis & Clark. It is not easy
navigating a primarily white institution
as a Black student, and especially as a
Black student leader. But, our college has
had many historic firsts this year, and I
sincerely hope these improvements do
not cease. But the work, the important,
gritty work, is not done yet.
The truth is, every month is Black
History Month. Our celebration of the
Black diaspora, in all of the forms and
identities that they come in, should not
be relegated to a single month out of
the calendar year. Black joy and Black
success and even everyday Black actions
deserve to be celebrated. After all, Black
people do not need to be extraordinary
in order to be recognized or deemed as
valuable members of society.
The representation of Black people in
the media often comes in two extremes:
the coverage of exceptional Black
accomplishments or coverage of our
pain and suffering. This dichotomy begs
the question: why must we be deemed
as extraordinary in order to be worth
recognizing?
And perhaps most importantly, how
can we start telling our own stories?
My wonderful parents taught me
a valuable lesson when I was younger:
He who holds the pen, holds the power.
When it comes to the media, truer words
have not been spoken.
Accurately representing the myriad
of Black experiences in the world begins
with representative reporting.
This year, The Pioneer Log has made
significant strides towards diversifying
our editorial board, staff and sourcing.
In our next issue, we will even be printing
our first article in a foreign language.
Still, I am not satisfied with this.
I want more.
When I look out at the students who
gather for our weekly staff meeting, I
want to see more Black, Asian, Latine,
Middle Eastern and Native American
students joining our staff. I also want to
see more religious diversity. You all have
so many brilliant experiences, interests
and hobbies that should be illuminated
in our paper. I want you all to write about
your joy, your experiences, your anger
and your passions. I want The Pioneer
Log to be a place where the entire LC
community gets the opportunity to share
their voice.
So, to our wonderful readers who
have supported us thus far, we are
listening. And we encourage you all to
join and engage with us as a community.
The Pioneer Log is a student newspaper
for the students but most importantly, by
the students. Help us to make this a space
for all of you. We are always available to
contact by email at piolog@lclark.edu.
And, from The Pioneer Log, Happy
Black History Month.
Sincerely, Letter from
the editor:
Happy Black
History
Month
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THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVE
Faculty meet on campus in Gordon H. Smith Hall at an event held before COVID-19.Ihsaan Mohamed
Editor-in-Chief Continued from page 1.
On Feb. 18, Vice President of
Student Life Robin Holmes-Sullivan
held a public forum at 4 p.m. in J.R.
Howard Hall regarding the bus shelter
removal. Associated Student Body
(ASB) President Sarah Lind-MacMillan
sent out an email inviting students to
attend, also reposting a screenshot of it
to the ASB Instagram story.
“This is an opportunity for students
to engage in a dialogue with Robin about
the bus stop and student community
spaces,” the email stated. “Robin hopes
to work together with students to find
a solution that will work for the entire
LC community (students, faculty, staff,
neighbors, etc.). We hope this will be
a productive space and allow student
voices to be heard and start finding
solutions.”
A number of international students
were present at the forum, including
Lila Khammash ’23. The shelter had
served as a hub for the international
community on campus, many of whom
reported meeting close friends at the
shelter.
Khammash opened the conversation
by expressing a desire for a structure to
replace the bus shelter.
“We don’t want much, the only thing
we need is a covered structure where we
can actually sit, right where the bus stop
was,” Khammash said. “I don’t think it
needs much planning.”
Holmes-Sullivan responded to the
request with a resounding “Done.”
During the hour-long forum,
students expressed a variety of feelings
with Holmes-Sullivan and Assistant
Dean of Student Engagement and
Executive Director of Career Center
Rocky Campbell. One common
sentiment was that students were
frustrated that administration had not
communicated with them regarding the
bus stop removal.
Holmes-Sullivan said she chalked
the night’s actions to “students taking
some control back.”
According to Holmes-Sullivan,
both she and Rocky were unaware of
Facilities’ plan to remove the shelter.
The bus stop had reportedly been
decommissioned a long time ago, and
a work order had been filed for it to be
removed months ago.While not explicitly stated, student
behavior at the bus stop had been a
source of concern for LC. Students
often gathered at the shelter to drink
and smoke marijuana or cigarettes.
According to Holmes-Sullivan, members
of the Palatine Hill neighborhood had
been complaining about the noise and
student behavior for years.
However, Holmes-Sullivan remained
open to finding a student space on
campus. The VPSL proposed forming
a small committee with student
representatives, dedicated to solving the
issue. The committee would work with
Campbell.
In addition, she revealed that
Student Rights & Responsibilities
would be reviewing the actions that
took place on the evening of Feb. 15
and subsequently determine if the
LC’s Student Code of Conduct had
been violated.
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON FEB. 23, Campus Activities
Board (CAB) announced a
Spring Ball set to take place
March 11 at 8 p.m. at Castaway
Portland. The event will be “The Great
Gatsby” themed and include a live DJ,
food and alcohol for students over 21.
Tickets are $10 for Lewis & Clark
students and $15 for other guests.
CAB also plans to offer free tickets for
students who cannot afford the cost,
but have yet to sort out the details.
Transportation from campus to the
dance will be available for students for
no additional cost.
Campus Activities Board Chair
Macarena Vives ’22 said that it was difficult to decide whether to host the
ball on- or off-campus due to heightened
COVID-19 restrictions at Lewis & Clark,
and students’ level of comfort. Student
Engagement Office Assistant Ezra Hart
’25, who also helped plan the event,
held similar concerns.
“Above all else, we wanted to
create an environment that would not
compromise the safety of our student
body,” Hart said via email. “So with that
in mind, we knew that to hold an event
of this scale safely we would need to take
into account many more factors than in
previous years for similar events.”
However, the organization
of this event has not been super
straightforward. Typically similar
events have a $30,000 budget. However, this year’s budget was reduced. The
vice president of student life office also
contributed some funding.
“It was harder because things are
more expensive,” Vives said. “We were
given a much lower budget than last
year, even though this (first year) class is
the largest class in history, even though
it’s when things are starting to open up
a little bit more here on campus.”
Nevertheless, Vives said she is
very happy that the event will happen
because turnout for events is usually
very low. In the first three days of
promoting the event, over 380 students
reserved or purchased tickets. CAB is
hoping to reach the event’s capacity.
Additionally, the fact that many
first-year students missed proms
or graduation parties fueled event
planning. This is why the event is
formal, even though balls traditionally
only occur in the fall with a more casual
dance in the spring.
“That’s why we leaned towards the
“Great Gatsby” (theme) and made it
more formal, but not making it like a
prom … because we also want to make
sure seniors and juniors also want to
come to the event because it’s an event
for everyone,” Vives said.
Many guests anticipate dressing up,
since opportunities to do so since the
start of the pandemic have drastically
reduced.
“My favorite part of the event I think
will be seeing all of the guests dressed
up,” Hart said. “It is always fun when
we have a chance to dress fancy for an
event.”
According to Hart, in order to attend
the event students will need to bring
their student IDs for admission and
non-LC guests will need to bring proof
of vaccination, submit a contact tracing
form and be on the official guest list.
For guests 21 and over, they will need to
show legal IDs to receive alcohol.
Tickets for the Spring Ball will be
sold in front of J.R. Howard Hall from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 25 and Feb. 28.
They will also be available outside of the
Student Engagement Office in Akin Hall
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on March 1-4
and March 7. All students have swipe
access to Akin during these hours.
Additional reporting by Venus Edlin.
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON FEB. 16, the Office of Spiritual
Life and Office of Inclusion
& Multicultural Engagement
(IME) held a Martin Luther King Jr.
Week keynote event featuring Cameron
Whitten from Brown Hope, a Portland-
based organization.
Cameron Whitten founded Brown
Hope in 2018. The non-profit is
dedicated to the prospect of a world of
racial healing and hope.
“Inspired by the words and legacy of
Dr. King, Brown Hope’s wild dream is
that the seeds we plant will flourish to
the fruits of justice, healing and love for
every person, every community in the
entire world,” Whitten said.
Brown Hope launched their first
program, called Reparations Happy
Hour, in May 2018. This made headlines
all over the United States and sparked
national conversation.
The Reparations Happy Hour started
as a small $5,000 fund, but within 29
days became a million dollar fund and
up to this date has raised and distributed
up to $3 million dollars for Black
Portlanders.
Later, Brown Hope launched their
second program Black Street Bakery,
partnering with Black bakeries in
Northeast Portland. Northeast Portland
has historically been a central place
to the Black community, but due to
gentrification of Northeast Portland in
recent years, the Black community is at
risk of displacement.
“Blackstreet Bakery was created
in 2018 to serve as a jobs program that provides extensive training, creates
good jobs, and combats poverty for
Black Portlanders through plant based
baking,” the Brown Hope website states.
Brown Hope also started the Black
Resilience Fund (BRF) which, since its
launch in June 2020, has raised over $2.5
million for Black Portlanders. Brown
Hope believes BRF
demonstrates the
power of hope and
action by building
community
and spurring
reparations-inspired
action, which gives
directly to Black
Portlanders.
Whitten
emphasized that
the mission of
Brown Hope is to
foster community
beginning with
the individual and
culminating in systemic change.
Brown Hope aims to act as a
bridge between people from different
backgrounds to inspire action and a
world of healing and justice. This is
reflected in Brown Hope’s core values
Healing Justice and planting seeds of
change.
Gabirel Huerta ’22, who is the
volunteer project leader for the Center
of Social Change and Community
Involvement, has worked with the
office since fall 2019, when it was called
Student Leadership and Service. He
worked with Brown Hope over this past
summer through their Racial Justice Internship and suggested that Whitten
be this year’s MLK keynote speaker.
Huerta appreciated how many people
came to the event, especially since
the event was over Zoom. Huerta also
said he was happy that students asked
Whitten how they could get involved
with Brown Hope.
“The best way
to get involved
is just go to the
brownhope.org
website and do
the volunteering
because they will
really put you
wherever they
need you, they are
always in need
of volunteering,”
Huerta said.
The
Center started
partnering with
Brown Hope at
the beginning of this year, but have
yet to work with them in person.
Huerta also encouraged attendees to
get involved with the Center and start
attending more of their events.
Towards the end of the event,
Whitten encouraged Lewis & Clark to
make their own reparations.
“We should celebrate everything that
we have done as progressive people,”
Whitten said. “All of the positive steps
forward that we’ve done with the arc fit
towards justice. We also need to look
in the mirror and acknowledge that the
benefits of our progress have not been
equitably shared.”NEWS 3FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
IME, Spiritual Life host Cameron Whitten for MLK Jr. event
Founder of Brown Hope talks about Black Resilience Fund, Blackstreet Bakery, Reparations Happy Hour
SOFIA REEVES/ THE PIONEER LOGCAB announces Spring Ball
with “Great Gatsby” theme
AMELIA MADARANG/ THE PIONEER LOGHolmes-Sullivan hosts
forum about bus stop
PHOTO COURTESY OF JINJU HURLEY
Students carried the bus stop on Feb. 15.PHOTO EDITED BY THE PIONEER LOG
The Reparations Happy
Hour started as a small
$5,000 fund, but within
29 days became a
million dollar fund and
up to this date has raised
and distributed up to $3
million dollars for Black
Portlanders. By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
LEWIS & CLARK students
gathered the night of Feb. 15 to
move a bus stop back to its home
on S Palatine Hill Road between the
undergraduate and graduate campuses.
Some critics of the event on Instagram
have claimed LC students have never
mobilized more quickly over an issue.
While there are critiques of the event,
I want to focus on our potential as a
student body.
This event is proof that LC students
can enact change and unite together.
What gives me goose bumps is that
the administration of our community
gave in. Robin Holmes-Sullivan, vice
president of student life and dean of
students, held a forum on Feb. 18 in J.R.
Howard Hall in which Holmes-Sullivan
and students discussed alternative
solutions and more communication with the LC administration. We did
not want a meeting held for a small
percentage of our population: We want
change.
I am a white, male-raised student
from Georgia. By no means am I
an authority on this event or what
issues future activism should focus
on. However, I do see this as an
opportunity for us as a student body to
enact changes.
This change does not have to be
surrounded by suffering and struggle.
As the theme for the 2021 Ray Warren
Symposium on Race and Ethnic
Studies, now is the time for joy and
justice. The bus stop action was a great
start, and now is the time to continue
it. We have the power to make rebellion
a pastime. Instagram and Snapchat
stories documented LC students
coming together. Why should we limit
ourselves to just the bust stop? It is
time to make it to The Oregonian. It is time to see workers at Fields Dining
Hall paid well. There is no reason to
stop short of what could happen at LC
right now.
I am ready to see die-ins, where
participants simulate being dead, and
other forms of protest so that, at the
bare minimum, 1% of LC’s income will
be donated to tribes affected by our
continued occupation of their land.
With the excitement seen on the night
of the bus stop action, I would say there
is great opportunity to mobilize for
larger goals like this.
The critiques surrounding the
event are obscuring us from real work.
To many, this event highlights how, if
the bus stop protesters had not been
a group of majority white students,
authorities would have been called and
violence would have occurred. This was
not a movement, but rather a party, an
opportunity for revelry, debauchery
and drunkenness. In as many words as I can put it, this was a manifestation of
white privilege.
On the other side of this, the bus stop
was a hub for international students.
For a group that often remains on
campus when many leave, the bus stop
acted as a water cooler. Those who are
angry that people came together to save
a “smoke spot” fail to understand the
significance of the space.
These critiques are valid from both
sides, but we can not limit ourselves
to simply identifying problems. We
need to recognize this as a solution.
This is not an event to fracture our
community, this is a jumping off
point to make future Sacagawea and
York College a better place for all, and
become a model for other colleges to
follow.
Or, we could forget this even
happened. We could go back to class like
we are powerless, like students are not
the majority at this institution. We can dissipate only to unite again if the
water tower is removed. I hope that my
fellow LC students are as interested in
mobilizing as I am.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
OPINION 4
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Mental Health Month supports
community, students’ well-being Students in silent section
deserve quiet study space
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy AIDAN D’ANNA
IN 2022 THE CENTER for Social
Change and Community Involvement
is launching a series of events from
Feb. 21 to March 18 that they are branding
as Mental Health Month in order to
provide resources, awareness and a space
to talk about important mental health
issues.
Nationally, the month of May is
considered Mental Health Awareness
Month. However, since the Lewis & Clark
academic year ends in the first week
of May, this important issue often gets
overlooked by the very people who would
likely benefit from it the most: college
students.
Mental Health Month is full of events,
talks and workshops that every LC
student should take advantage of. Though
officially one of the Center’s newest
signature programs, the month is actually
a collaborative effort between almost a
dozen campus organizations including
Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
(IME), Queer Student Union and the
newest student-run mental health
organization, Pioneer Support Network.
Organizations that usually might not
work together, like College Outdoors
and the Office of Spiritual Life, are also
teaming up to work on this project.
This means that Mental Health
Month has something for everyone. Spiritual Que(e)ry is taking students
on a peaceful meditation walk through
Tryon Creek State Natural Area and
IME is sponsoring a community circle
for students to talk about marginalized
identities and mental health. The office
is also providing self-care packages for
students to pick up and use on their
own time. There is a different event
sponsored by a different organization
almost every day, which means the
broad topic of mental health is being
looked at from every angle.
The best thing about this
interdisciplinary approach is that
it highlights the intersectionality of
LC students and college students in
general. Black and brown students have
a different experience with the mental
healthcare system, and there is an
event for that. LGBTQ+ students have a
different experience than their peers, and
there is space to talk about that as well.
The month does overlap with the 41st
annual LC Gender Studies Symposium,
but no events are held during the actual
activities associated with the symposium.
The events culminate the next week
with a volunteer event entitled Letters
Against Depression. The only event
during the month officially put on by
the Center, Letters Against Depression
is part of the office’s “Lunch n’ Lead”
series and affords students the chance
to write thoughtful, upbeat and positive letters to people struggling against
depression. In my view, this event is a
fitting culminating activity to a month
filled with mental health awareness: It
teaches students that their hope and
support matters, while giving them the
opportunity to pay forward what the past
month has just taught them.
I think every month should be
mental health month, seeing as college
students are one of the most at-risk
groups for suicide and internalizing
disorders such as depression and
anxiety. However, this program is
definitely a move in the right direction
by the Center, and an amazing
collaboration between LC organizations
during a time in which I think we could
all use a little bit more community. By FRANKIE SPURBECK
THE SILENT section of the Aubrey
R. Watzek Library occupies
the southernmost part of the
second and third floors of the library,
overlooking the reflecting pool. As
the name suggests, that section of
the library is intended to be silent, or,
at the very least, free of speech. Yet,
when I study there, I consistently hear
whispers, and even full volume speech.
This frustrates me. The silent section
should be silent, and there are very few
reasons to talk while studying there.
I sit in the silent section because I
work best in a quiet, still environment
where I can focus exclusively on my
work. Not everyone works well in this
environment, and that is fine. The
library offers spaces with a variety
of noise levels for that exact reason.
However, out of courtesy to those who
work best in a silent, emotionless cube,
people should not talk in the silent or
quiet sections.
Some people seem to think that
it is okay to talk in the silent section,
as long as you whisper or keep the
conversation short. However, I am of
the opinion that the volume of your
speech does not matter. Whispering is
just as distracting as full volume speech,
because it activates my eavesdropping
instincts. Though a short conversation
may be better than a long one, the vast
majority of things people say in the
silent section can be mimed (a wave
to your friend), sent as a text (dinner
plans) or postponed (complimenting
your friend’s hat).
I am aware that people sometimes
sit in the silent section when they want
to study with their friends, but also
want to get work done. They reason
that if they sit in the silent section,
it will force them to be quiet and not talk to their friends, thereby allowing
them to stay focused. This may work
for some people, but it certainly does
not work for everyone. Before you sit
with a friend in the silent section, check
in with yourself: Are you really going
to be silent? Or should you head to a
study room or one of the talking study
sections of the library? If, mid-silent
section study session, you realize that
you and your friend are chatting, there
is nothing wrong with packing up and
moving to a section where talking is
allowed.
Maybe people talking in the
silent section does not seem like a
problem, since I can put headphones
in. However, I should not be forced
to put in my headphones to block out
background noise in the silent section.
Beyond that, some people cannot focus
while listening to music. When I am
reading something especially dense, I
do not like to listen to music, because I
find it hard to focus completely. Since I
am in the silent section, you should not
be whispering in the first place.
Now, I do not mean to say that there
are no instances where one can talk in
the silent section. For instance, if you
are bitten by a venomous snake and
have only seconds to cry out for the
antidote before you lose consciousness,
by all means, cry away. Likewise, if
you witness a hate crime, break your
leg or see a plane crashing outside the
window, that warrants speech. Possibly,
you did not know where the silent
section is, and you talking was a result
of an honest mistake. However, in all
other instances, if you see something,
do not say something.
There are plenty of spots in the
library where talking is not only
allowed, but welcomed. If you are a
social studier, go there, and leave us
grumps in our peaceful silent section.
LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE PIONEER LOG
The Watzek silent section provides students with an area for uninterrupted study time.
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.
By MAX ALLEN
PORTLAND IS AN infamously
rainy city. Before people move
here, they may often think, “I do
not mind a drizzle every now and then,
as long as I have my trusty umbrella.”
It is not until they actually make the
move that they discover something
horrific: the only thing more severe
than Portland’s rain is its anti-umbrella
culture.
Portland residents will vehemently
deny that they would ever be caught
holding an umbrella, and are responsible
for the city’s anti-umbrella culture. They
are quick to pass judgment onto anyone
who is holding, has ever held or has ever
so much as pondered the possession
of an umbrella. It can be shocking at
first to see such radical views against
a seemingly useful day-to-day object.
However, as a Washingtonian and an
anti-umbrella conspirator myself, I hope
to explain why using umbrellas is the
wrong move when it comes to protecting
yourself against Pacific Northwest rain.
The first aspect of umbrellas that I
(and my fellow Pacific Northwesterners)
take issue with is their cumbersome
unwieldiness. “Oh, just let me take out
my umbrella,” you say. Now you are
holding a gigantic dome of material,
which is just waiting to snag on a string
of low-hanging lights or a tree branch,
which will cause it to tear. Umbrellas
are sinister beasts: they will destroy
themselves just to sabotage your day.
Furthermore, in order to use an
umbrella, you have to surrender at least
one of your hands. The moment you
unfurl the umbrella, you resign yourself
to a life of single-handedness, with all
of the associated inconveniences and
agonies. Want to eat a cheese Danish?
You will have to let go of your dog.
Want to open a door? You will have
to abandon the cheese Danish. The
indignities never end. Furthermore, the
hand that is supporting the umbrella
turns frigid in the rainy winter air.
You may be willing to sacrifice your
hand’s livelihood for the greater cause of your dryness. However, imagine
that the day is not only rainy, but also
gusty. An unpredictable breeze is liable
to grip your umbrella and yank it from
your hand, leaving you to run helplessly
after it as the rain cascades down on
your unprotected body. Even if you
do manage to hold on to the umbrella,
your arm will be wrenched about at the
wind’s mercy.
In all fairness, umbrellas do
have some advantages. What is
more intimate than offering a friend
or a partner to join you under the
umbrella so you can both stay dry?
This kind of experience can certainly
create fond memories. However, this
does not work when you are with
two friends. If you offer for one of
your friends to join you, the other is
left shivering and alone, as the rain
runs off your umbrella and onto their
face, mingling with their tears. To
avoid subjecting your dear friend to
this tragic fate, you must hunch your
shoulders and draw the umbrella
close to your head, an obvious gesture
that shows you are unwilling to share
with either friend. The umbrella
forces you to choose between third
wheeling someone and being selfish.
Either way, you will feel bad about
yourself in the end.
Another pro-umbrella argument
is that umbrellas can be fun and
expressive. I will not challenge this
argument, as I have seen some
umbrellas in the past that have made
me smile. However, why limit yourself
to an umbrella? Parasols are just as
expressive without any of the hassles of
umbrellas.
When you wield an umbrella in
the Portland rain, you may prevent
yourself from wearing moisture, but
you instead wear a badge of shame; you
jeopardize your hand’s wellbeing and
you alienate your friends. Just wear a
rain jacket, I say. Better yet, wear no
rain protection at all, fling your arms
open and cry out to the heavens as
sweet life-giving water soars down and
imbibe pure jollity.By GRETA BURTON
TIME MANAGEMENT is one
of the most critical aspects
of being a reliable, dutiful
denizen in society. However, as all
humans are different, it is only fitting
that time management strategies
vary too. It is a highly individualistic
experience, and I believe, one of the
few ways we retain some semblance
of autonomy in a world that demands
so much of us already.
If I had a dollar for every time
a professor advised me not to wait
until the last minute to complete
an assignment, I could cover daily
coffee from the Dovecote for the
remainder of the semester.
Do not misinterpret me, I
understand why professors make this
general suggestion: Accomplished
work requires consideration, diligent
planning and the sufficient resources
to execute it. When everything in
your world requires these, as is the
case with many tasks in academia, it
is difficult to find time for anything
else. Fulfilling yourself and academic
expectation requires flexibility.
What professors fail to consider
is that waiting until the day an
assignment is due can be careful
planning on the student’s part. This
all may sound like a deluded excuse
to justify my nearly-late work.
However, I genuinely do not view it
that way.
For nearly all of my assignments,
I read the project descriptions as
soon as they are published. I prepare
mentally by brainstorming, allowing
my daily experience to both inform and inspire the final result. Then, I
schedule blocks of time dedicated to
specific assignments and classes. By
scheduling all my days using time
blocks, I have been able to remind
myself that I can only complete
one task at a
time. This
lesson has
taken me
years to
learn, and
is one that
I often need
to remind
myself of.
In short, this
strategy means
that sometimes
I have to plan
to wait until the
last minute. What
I would like my
professors to know
is that this approach
does not mean I
do not value my
academics, nor does
it mean that I wish
to disrespect them or
dismiss their efforts.
In fact, it often means
the opposite.
I have tried to
work ahead. I have
tried to plan for
assignments weeks
ahead of time by
plotting out each day
with the objective
of getting ahead.
The result of these
experiments was not an improvement in the quality of my
work, but rather utter exhaustion.
I personally work better when
I can dedicate several hours at a
time to one assignment. This is
how I find my flow and feel
the warmth.
Writing for an
approaching deadline
ensures that I am
able to focus for longer. The sense of urgency keeps
me zeroed in on the task at hand. The
deeper sense of focus, I believe, also
allows me to think more critically
and comprehensively. The need
to complete the assignment
feels more important,
which in turn, yields
more meaningful
results. My thoughts are
able to unravel naturally
and I find myself uncovering
nuances that I might have
overlooked if I had worked
on it in smaller increments.
So why do I feel guilty when
I tell professors that I will be
working on something and
completing it the day it is
due?
As I previously noted,
I believe my guilt is
rooted in the fear that
my professors will
think I do not respect
them, our
professional
relationship
or my own
academic
success
if I wait
until the
deadline
to turn in
an assignment.
Of course, many professors
care and are willing to
extend deadlines if
necessary, but what if we
do not need an extension
in this circumstance?
What if waiting until the last minute has less to do with our
ability to complete a project, and
more to do with our bodies telling
us to take a break on a Tuesday at 3
p.m. before our next class begins at 4
p.m.? What if they are telling us we
need to shower, eat, sleep, stretch,
walk or just not think about being
evaluated for a second?
Sure, I could go to the library and
work on that assignment for that
hour in between classes— and trust
me, I have — but if you want my
best work, professor, I recommend
treating me with respect and
kindness when I tell you on a Friday
that I still have to draft my essay due
at midnight.
The professorial guilt does not
make students start assignments
sooner, it stigmatizes prioritizing
our individual mental and physical
needs. This will subsequently lead
to worse performance.
As for any given assignment: I
have had it written in my planner
since syllabus day. I have had
my plan to draft it booked on my
calendar all week. I have had the
exact allocation of hours for it
outlined all day. I did not forget
about it.
I do not wait until the last day to
disrespect you. I wait until the last
moment to better respect myself. I
value my academic growth greatly,
but I also value warm, unhurried
showers, the slow stirring of my
$1 box of Kroger brand pasta and
giving myself grace to absorb all
of the lessons you have taught me,
so I might have a better chance of
retaining them. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 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.Professors do not understand that some students’ time management habits include everyday self-careWaiting until deadlines is a sign of dedication
NFTs receive unwarranted pushback
owing to environmental damage
By TOR PARSONS
IF YOU HAVE been living on
Earth for the past year, you have
doubtlessly encountered people
getting angry about things called
NFTs. Searching “NFTs” on Google
returns “NFTs are stupid” as the third
suggestion. Gizmodo, a technology
news site, recently published a video
headlined “The Celebs We’ve Lost to
NFTs,” treating the careers of stars
like Brie Larson, Tony Hawk and Tom
Brady as permanently ruined by their
embrace of NFTs. Unless you inhabit
a very specific corner of the internet,
the people hating on NFTs probably
outnumber those who support them
by great odds. Yet, amid all this furor,
it seems as though few people know
what NFT stands for, and even fewer
know what they actually are.
NFT stands for “non-fungible
token.” Fungibility, in economics,
means that one unit of a commodity
can be traded for any other. All
currencies are fungible, as are most
other things used for investment. If
you have one dollar, one Bitcoin or one
cow, for instance, you can exchange it
for another dollar, Bitcoin or cow of
the same value without any functional
change in what you own. Art, however,
is non-fungible. Owning the Mona Lisa
is not the same as owning The Scream,
even if their values are similar.
In practice, this means that an
NFT is a digital file with monetary
value, often equivalent to a large sum
of cryptocurrency. While it is usually
an image, songs, games and anything
else digital can also be sold as an NFT.
Just like buying cryptocurrency, or
anything else people invest in, people
buy NFTs with the hope that they
can later sell it for more than they
bought it for. Among the most popular
NFTs for investment are the range of
“Bored Ape” files, which depict apes
in various combinations of sunglasses
and beanie hats. The files generally
resemble concept art for a rejected
“Adult Swim” show. However, this is not always the
case. The “original” versions of memes
including Bad Luck Brian and Nyan
Cat have been sold as NFTs for large
eye-popping sums, largely so that
someone somewhere could brag that
they have the original file of the Bad
Luck Brian image. Is that ridiculous?
Absolutely, but it is no different from
buying a painting when one could get
a print of it for a fraction of the price.
Ethereum, the cryptocurrency most
commonly tied to NFTs, uses a system
known as “proof-of-work mining.”
In a nutshell, proof-of-work mining
requires cryptocurrency producers
to solve complicated cryptographic
problems using computers in order to
generate cryptocurrency. This process
is often done in vast server farms,
which consume huge quantities of
energy.
This is one of the reasons NFTs are
controversial. In the more enlightened
circles of anti-NFT discourse, the
NFT craze is blamed for increased
greenhouse gas emissions and
computer chip shortages due to the
massive computing volume required
to generate them. The NFT artist
Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann estimates
it would cost $5,000 to offset the
carbon emissions of his largest piece.
Nevertheless, claims that NFTs are
hastening climate disaster often
seem to be exaggerated. Artist Memo
Akten’s website was used to mistakenly
attribute the energy consumption of
an entire online NFT marketplace to a
single item.
Besides, there are ways to
create NFTs without doing as much
ecological harm. Ethereum plans to
switch from a proof-of-work system
to a proof-of-stake system, which
“mines,” i.e. generates, cryptocurrency
by awarding “blocks,” or set amounts
of cryptocurrency, randomly to owners
based on how many blocks other
owners hold. This will require less
computational power and will lower
the energy cost of miners. If Ethereum
switches over, it will decrease the environmental impact of their NFTs,
and other cryptocurrencies are likely
to follow suit.
The NFT moral panic is just that: a
moral panic. NFTs represent a perfect
storm of things social media loves to
hate: tech bros, environmental impacts
and money. Of course they were going
to cause backlash. It is easy and fun
to say that idiotic Elon Musk fanboys
are spending thousands of dollars
on pictures of cartoon monkeys,
especially if you do not understand
why. The anti-NFT bandwagon is
every bit as much a meaningless fad as
NFTs are.
Is this an endorsement of NFTs?
Not really. While there are some
sources report that NFTs are still
growing in their popularity, they are
a speculative bubble bound to burst.
NFTs have gotten so much flak that
they probably have little future outside
of a shrinking circle of crypto geeks,
and that is probably for the better.
However, at least now you understand
why somebody paid $30,000 for the
original Bad Luck Brian photo. Portlanders exclude
umbrella as rain gear
ALEX NASH/THE PIONEER LOGAMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy PHILIP STEFFEN
SELLWOOD Union Vintage, a
crown jewel of the Sellwood
scene, is located a short two
blocks up 13th Avenue from the
Pioneer Express’s 13th and Tacoma
stop.
Compared to many of the flashy
boutique storefronts of 13th Avenue,
Sellwood Union is somewhat
unassuming. The branding in the
windows is limited to white block
letters announcing both “Modern
Clothing” and “Vintage Clothing,”
and aside from a small placard with
the store’s Instagram account in the
window, there is no indication of the store’s name.
Sellwood Union’s owner Corey
Guidry said this laid back approach to
storefront setup is by design.
“It’s about keeping Portland
the way it was,” Guidry said, also
emphasizing the store’s commitment
to sustainability. “The way things
were before everything became pop,
Urban Outfitters.”
Indeed, Sellwood Union’s sparse
advertising does it no disservice: The
dense racks of t-shirts, flannels, jackets
and sweatshirts that fill the windows
and overflow out onto the street
do more than enough to draw the
intrigued passerby into the packed old
building, which used to house a coffee shop and hair salon.
Once inside the historic 13th
Avenue storefront, which Sellwood
Union has operated out of since
October 2019, visitors are greeted
by a wide array of clothing. While
technically a vintage store rather
than pure thrift, Sellwood Union
offers a wide variety of options for
any budget. Merchandise ranges from
high quality vintage leather apparel,
which sells for the requisite price,
all the way down to collected t-shirt
oddities on the $10 rack.
While appearing outwardly as
a single store, Sellwood Union is
in actuality more of a marketplace,
composed of 15 separately curated
and operated vendors, which Guidry
refers to as “micro-businesses.”
Largely independent, these vendors
are bound by a simple set of rules that
Guidry describes: “No brand stuff, no
racial stereotypes, no hate symbols.”
Despite the large constellation
of vendors inside, Sellwood Union
manages to convey a coherent
atmosphere, and the various
sections in the front two rooms
seem to flow in and out of each other
seamlessly, producing a generalized
’90s alternative ambiance between
chunky sweaters, baggy jeans and
bright streetwear windbreakers.
Further into the store a short
set of stairs leads up into the back.
Here, the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1993
single “Today” played on speakers to
a room full of baseball caps, flannels
and novelties. On one side of the
back room there’s a small vendor
selling a curated collection of old
books and video tapes ranging from
Shakespeare to Nabokov to L. Ron
Hubbard’s “Dianetics,” with a great selection of 1950s pulp science fiction
to round things off. On the opposite
side of the room, a vendor is selling
a collection of art prints with various
levels of esoteric appeal, all of which
seem purpose made for dorm room
decoration.
As with many stores in Sellwood, a
large portion of the clientele is college
students from Lewis & Clark, as well
as Reed College. This demographic
pattern is part of the larger dynamic
of gentrification and redevelopment
currently taking place in Sellwood, a
situation which Guidry and Sellwood
Union are very conscious of. Standing
on the sidewalk in front of his store
dressed in a large camo jacket with
a sling bag over its shoulder, Guidry
gestures across the avenue to a
recently constructed building with
garish metal siding.
“The same company that built that
monstrosity built another one up there”
Guidry said, pointing up the road.
Guidry takes pride in choosing and
protecting authentic neighborhood
buildings when he chooses his
locations, which currently include
the Sellwood Union and a location
in the Nob Hill neighborhood north
of Downtown Portland known as
Northwest Union. “I look for cool old buildings,”
Guidry said.
The final rooms in Sellwood Union
are two small ones adjoining the
main back room. In these rooms the
racks are less packed, and their more
limited contents are strictly organized
by color and style in a fashion that
begs the shopper to compose an outfit.
Both rooms have old windows
which face the noon sun to the south,
and the white sunlight striking the
bright color coded racks fills both
rooms with a pleasant glow. Such
curation does, of course, come at a
price, and items in these rooms carry
a slight mark up, with most prices
between $30-40.
While checking out, the environment
is relaxed, and the cashier makes
small talk with the passing customers.
There is no register, since the store is
fashionably cash-Free, although all
forms of payment apps are supported.
Stepping out of Sellwood Union
Vintage, shoppers are transported
back into the increasingly corporatized,
financialized and gentrified
environment of Sellwood.
Even then, though, the alternative
model of apparel trading that exists
inside the microcosm of Sellwood Union
is unlikely to leave visitors quickly.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
FEATURES 6
Another weekend, another thrift store gem
The Sellwood Union storefront often highlights specific selections of their inventory. Local clothing vendor Sellwood Union embraces modern, vintage clothes to promote sustainability
There are several sources of flat-rate discount racks spread among vendor booths. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOGPHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOG
A thrifted jacket for sale dons several colorful buttons, a favorite vintage accessory. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOG
One of the several vintage booths sports a painted neon sign with a groovy feel. PHILIP STEFFEN/THE PIONEER LOGADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBy AUBREY ROCHÉ
After a year of cancelations and
delays, several study abroad
programs successfully took
place during the Fall 2021 semester,
the first programs to happen since
Spring 2020. Students who went on
these trips to South Korea, Germany
and Spain detailed their experiences
studying abroad during COVID-19.
Olivia Olson ’22 spent the semester
studying in Seoul, South Korea. She
lived in an on-campus dorm at Yonsei
University and took classes online.
“COVID wasn’t really a concern
of mine, because I really felt like
everybody was doing their best,” Olson
said. “And honestly, health care was $5
or something like that. So if I did get
COVID, I didn’t feel that concerned
about it. I knew what I was supposed
to do. I knew what the quarantine
rules were for both my school and for
the country.”
Regulations from the South
Korean government impacted Olson’s
time abroad during the pandemic
the most. However, she felt their
handling of the pandemic was more
systematic than the United States.
“There’s an app called Kakao
Talk and you could register your
alien registration number and your
vaccination records and all that,”
Olson said. “And it would spit out a
QR code once you registered with the
government. And then every time you
went into a restaurant, or anything,
you would scan the QR code, so contact
tracing was super easy. You just get a
text if you were exposed in any way.”
Everyone in Seoul wore masks, and
public places like restaurants were
all open and required visitors to be
vaccinated. If there was any exposure
to COVID-19, people could get tested for free. Olson only needed to get
tested once during the semester. In
general, South Korea’s handling of the
pandemic felt orderly anf effective.
“Everyone followed the rules,”
Olson said. “It was crazy.”
Olson had initially been abroad in
Strasbourg, France in Spring 2020,
when the emergence of the pandemic
sent her, and most other students
overseas, home early. Olson had
hoped to study
abroad in India or Italy, but those
programs ultimately fell through.
She expressed that the LC Overseas
and Off-Campus programs office was
extremely helpful in assisting her to
find viable programs, even if it involved
applying at the last minute.
Gila Winefeld ’23, who spent the
semester abroad in Berlin, was initially unsure about going overseas due to
the pandemic and potential travel
restrictions. However, she decided to
go ahead with the program and make
the most of the opportunity.
Students lived in studio apartments
instead of with host families and
were not able to travel outside of
Germany. The program consisted of
14 LC students who lived in the same
apartment building and took classes
together as a cohort. Germany also
uses a QR code system that reflects
a person’s vaccination status, and
restaurants require visitors to be
vaccinated.
“There (was) a lot of flexibility in
what we could do, there (was) a lot of
downtime too,” Winefeld said. “After
classes and after exploring the city or whatnot during lunch, we’d take the
tram back. And it was nice that we were
all in the same apartment complex,
because it was easy to meet up with
people to study or just to do something
in the evening to hang out.”
The students on the program also
enjoyed exploring Germany, taking
weekend trips on the train throughout
the country.
Coming back to LC, Winefeld
explained that
the social
transition has been one of the most
surprising changes, be it running into
people on campus or making small
talk.
“I feel like with going abroad, we kind
of prolonged that phase of being away
from everything,” Winefeld said. “And
that prolonged that phase of isolation,
in a way and now coming back, it’s like everyone had this adjustment period
in the fall, probably when people came
back to in-person, and I feel like we’re
having this adjustment period now.”
Sonya Arnis ’22 spent the semester
in Grenada, Spain. She also initially felt
apprehensive after seeing friends get
stuck in Morocco when the pandemic
began during the Spring 2020 program.
Still, she felt like the opportunity was
worth it.
“People were not that concerned
about COVID,” Arnis said. “But you
never saw people inside at the grocery
store without masks on. But if you were
in a club or a bar or something, people
would not wear masks.”
Students were required to wear
masks in classrooms, and most indoor
spaces focused on ventilation and open
windows as one of the main barriers
against the spread of COVID-19. Arnis
was able to travel freely throughout
Europe during her program. However,
toward the end of the program, the
increase in COVID-19 cases due
to the Omicron variant did pose
difficulties.
“So it was a really stressful travel
experience getting back because …
COVID cases were spiking,” Arnis
said. “Leaving Spain, I knew that
they were probably gonna have
more intense restrictions, maybe
in like two weeks. So I left knowing
that in two weeks, it would
probably be worse like, maybe we’re
going to go into lockdown.”
Returning to LC, Arnis felt that
starting the spring semester remotely
felt similar to the 2020-21 academic
year, with hybrid classes and more
rigid restrictions on campus. Olson also
expressed the difference between being
in South Korea versus the U.S.
“It just definitely doesn’t feel secure
(or) as taken care of,” Olson said.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
FEATURES 7
Students discuss study abroad in COVID-19 era
Pio stop offers day of tasty bites, study spots, thriftingSouth Korea, Germany, Spain among international locations LC students returned from in 2022
By ASIYA KAMAWAL &
ASHLYN KELLY
THE SE 13TH and Tacoma bus stop
is the first stop on the Pioneer
Express weekend route, and the
surrounding area has many attractions
for students. It is situated right in the
heart of Sellwood, an area home to many
family homes, apartments, boutiques,
food spots and fun shops. Follow along
for an adventure.
To start off the day with fresh coffee
and a boiled bagel, come to the Starbucks
and Henry Higgins Boiled Bagel shop
right across from the stop. Just to the
left of the stop, there is New Seasons
Market, which has a wide variety of food
options including a bakery and delicious
made-to-order sandwiches. Outside of
the market, there is a heated and covered
seating area where you can enjoy your
meal.
Then turn to SE 13th Ave, where as
you walk along the street, you will find
a diverse array of antique and vintage
stores, some with amazing prices. The vintage stores include Fat
Baby, Sellwood Union and R. Spencers
Antiques. Fat Baby is a small resale
boutique with a variety of jewelry, clothing
and accessories. Next to Fat Baby is
Sellwood Union, a large vintage shop that
houses numerous independent resellers
and vendors, where you can thrift and find
almost anything. With great prices, color-
coordinated items and different style
sections, Sellwood Union has everything
an LC student could want. R. Spencers
Antiques is a small antique store that buys
and sells vintage items, mainly furniture
and decor. The items may be costly, but
everything has a story to tell, so even
browsing is entertaining. It seemed that
the customer base was largely made up of
seniors, some browsing for certain pieces,
others lounging on the antique chairs
for sale, having conversations about the
weather. It makes for a comforting, laid-
back ambiance.
A little further down the street, there
is the Sellwood branch of the Multnomah
County Library. If students want a break
from the classic Aubrey R. Watzek Library experience, this is a great place to study in
a peaceful place, surrounded by books.
As for food, there is an eclectic mix
of restaurants and food trucks catering to all tastes and preferences. There are
many other food carts available, but our
top choice is Taqueria Luna, a Mexican
food cart. There are also excellent vegan food options at Supernova Vegan and
Nama Ramen. Nama Ramen’s menu
also features delicious poke bowls,
including our recommendation the
fresh, mouth-watering Ahi Tuna bowl,
paired with kimchi on the side.
Last but not least, for the boba
lovers out there, there are two spots
you should definitely check out. The
first is Bobablastic, a food truck at the
Sellwood food truck lot. Our personal
favorite was the mango milk tea with
boba. The second spot, Tea Chai Té,
is not only a great place to enjoy200
hot teas and boba drinks, but is also a
great study spot. There are nooks and
crannies filled with several different
seating options and a nice fireplace in
the main lobby. Our favorite hot tea is
the coconut chai, and our favorite iced
tea is the lavender milk tea with boba.
This is a great place to work on school
projects, cozy up with a book or catch
up with friends.
These are just a few places we
wanted to highlight, but we encourage
you to explore the many things SE 13th
and Tacoma have to offer.AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
Antique chairs, vintage newspapers and more can be found at Spencer’s Antiques.ASHLYN KELLY/THE PIONEER LOG
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Sellwood Union has an extensive collection of vintage clothing; read more on page 7. By NATALIE PARKHURST
SPREAD throughout the city, the
Portland Winter Light Festival
returned this year for another
spectacular display of light installations
and community. From Feb. 4 to Feb.
12, the nine-day festival offered dozens
of luminous works of art for people
of all ages to enjoy, as well as music,
scheduled events and food to brighten
the night.
The Light Festival has become an
annual attraction in Portland, growing
each year to encompass more of the
city. Started by the Willamette Light
Brigade (WLB) in 2016, the festival
has always been targeted toward
bringing people together through art.
WLB is a non-profit dedicated towards
lighting Portland’s most iconic bridges
that span the Willamette River, and
continued their pursuit of providing
people with dazzling lights through the
festival.
According to their website,
their mission in delivering such a
spectacular event every year is to
“provide significant economic and
cultural stimulation to Portland during
the darkest time of year.”
The free festival has slowly
expanded over the years, and was
forced to adapt due to the COVID-19
pandemic. Not one to shy away from
a challenge, WLB changed the format
of the festival in 2021 to promote social
distancing, expanding the areas covered
by light installations and increasing the
duration of the event. Normally held over two days and in one or two central
spots, the 2021 celebration was instead
offered over the course of two weekends
and was spread across different areas of
the city. Marketed as a “non festival,”
the event offered a safe way to celebrate
art and the Portland community.
This COVID-19-safe mentality
carried over to this year’s event, as
over 100 light installations were spread
on either side of the river, covering
six areas of Portland to decrease large
gatherings. The widespread nature
of this year’s festival was also for
accessibility purposes, as the organizers
wanted to place an emphasis that the
event is for everyone.
As this year’s theme was “Within the
Ecosystem,” the focus of the festival
was exploring the city through nature
inspired art. Organizers accomplished
this by involving local businesses and
placing lights in their storefronts, such
as Planet x Vintage at Southeast 35th
and Belmont, or Revolutions Bookshop
just a couple blocks away from
Cathedral Park in North Portland. With
installations located in both metro
and suburban locations, festival goers
were encouraged to traverse Portland
at their own pace, exploring parts that
might otherwise be overlooked.
The light festival showcased a range
of attractions for people of all ages,
and offerings varied from location to
location. The three main anchor spots
— Pioneer Courthouse Square, World
Trade Center downtown and Electric
Blocks at Southeast Second Avenue and
Clay Street — offered food carts and
interactive events to entertain visitors
throughout the night. The festival also
provided scheduled events, such as
silent discos and an illuminated bike
ride through the city.
The Portland Winter Light Festival is
a free, fun event that encourages people
to explore the city while interacting
with art and community members.
A now established institution that
adds to Portland’s bright and colorful
atmosphere, make sure to mark your
calendars for next year’s exposition of
art, music and community.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
ARTS 8
By AMELIA DOYLE
IN THE BACK OF the Fir Acres Theatre
is a small room called the costume
shop. In this shop, students work to
design and create all the costumes for
theatre productions at Lewis & Clark. On the far end of the room is a large
window that covers the entire back
wall. Along the window are desks with
sewing machines lined up. On the wall
opposite to the window are cabinets
filled with fabrics. Jenny Ampersand,
costume shop manager, uses many of these fabrics to make the outfits for the
LC theatre department. She also goes to
fabric stores and secondhand shops in
order to find more materials.
LC students who work in the theatre
department also assist in making the
costumes. They often design different patterns or try various stitching styles.
The theatre department will then
select their favorites, and the students
will make the costumes based on their
selection.
Located above the costume shop is
the stockroom, where students work to
organize all of the costumes. Students
in LC theatre classes, or those involved
in LC productions, are able to rent
costumes from the stockroom. First,
interested students must either make
an appointment or visit during drop-
in hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays
between 3:30-5:30 p.m. Costume Shop
Manager Sanaa Green ’23 will assist
them in finding costumes and provide
them with a return date and instructions
on how to properly wash the costume.
Lizeth Gaxiola ’22 has been working
in the costume shop since her freshman
year. Gaxiola has been sewing for a long
time and loves working in the shop.
“I really like that we get different
tasks, we don’t have to focus on a single
thing,” she said.
Lauren Arriola ’24 does not have
much experience sewing, but they
have enjoyed learning new skills such
as sewing, braiding admiral braids,
working in the dye shop and making
patterns. They really enjoy the creative
aspect that comes with the job.
“I think that the learning opportunity
is the greatest thing ever,” Arriola said.
“I really got the job without knowing
how to sew, and was surprised I got the
job.”
Another student that has enjoyed
the creativity that takes place in the
costume shop is Jens Martin ’22. The
senior has been sewing since middle
school and has been working in the
costume shop since his freshman year,
along with Gaxiola.“I really like that it is just a place
that you can work at, in between classes,
only for a couple of hours, and take your
mind off of everything,” Martin said.
Ampersand has been the costume
shop manager for about three years and
many of the student workers said they
adore the work that she does to keep
the shop running smoothly. Ampersand
enjoys overseeing the projects and
problem solving on how to bring
students’ ideas and designs to life.
Recently, Ampersand has been
working with Amber Adamski ’22, a
theatre major, with a focus in design.
For Adamski’s senior thesis project, she
is designing all the costumes for LC’s
Main Stage production of “Medea,”
which is almost entirely student-led.
“It’s pretty exciting because most
of the design team is senior thesis
students,” Ampersand said. “It’s a rare
occurrence in that department that
many of the students will be designers
for one show.”
Adamski has been working in the
costume shop since her sophomore
year. She started to sew in middle
school because she could not find any
clothes she liked in stores. The theatre
major is really excited about the
upcoming performance of ”Medea”
because of her love for historical
fashion.
“I think that the best feeling in
the world is either wearing or seeing
someone else wear something that you
made, it’s just really cool,” Adamski
said.
The LC Theatre department will
open the spring main stage production
of Ancient Greek playwright Euripides’
“Medea” on March 11. “Medea” will be
using the original text, but will be set
in the 1950s. Fir Acres costume shop encourages creativity
Student workers enjoy learning new skills, making costumes for theatre department’s productions
By SOFIA REEVES
BOOKTIQUE II, A hidden gem
sure to pique the interest of any
book lover, is less than three miles
away from campus at 4 Monroe Pkwy.,
Lake Oswego. This used bookstore has
all the classic charms of an independent
bookseller, with tall bookshelves that
require stools to reach the top and books
stacked and displayed on every available
surface. The atmosphere is calm and cozy,
and it seems easy to get lost among the
stacks or strike up a conversation with
any of the friendly and helpful volunteers.
Booktique II was founded by the
Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library
in 1991. All items in the store are donated
by the Lake Oswego Library, or by anyone
else looking to offload extra books. It is
also a great place to find relatively recent
releases, because you can find copies of
books that are library overflow. Booktique
II is run entirely by volunteers, who can
be seen working the cash register, keeping
the shelves tidy and cataloging new
donations. Thanks to these donations and
volunteer work, Booktique II is able to
keep its book prices incredibly low.
Susan Bailey, a volunteer employee,
vouches for Booktique II’s affordability.
“Especially if it’s an ex-library book, it
might be five bucks,” Bailey said, “whereas
you would have been paying 25 for it as a
new book.”
Booktique II is also a good spot to
look for fiction, classics, cookbooks
and even science books. In addition to
books, Booktique II sells CDs, DVDs and
gently used puzzles. The largest section
of the store is fiction, but there are also
large collections of other genres, such as
biography and art.
“We have a lot of really beautiful
art books,” Bailey said. “If someone is
interested in a book of paintings by Van
Gogh, we probably have that.”
On multiple trips to the store, I have
purchased an illustrated book of conifers,
a small book about feminism and several
paperback classics, all for a total of less
than ten dollars.
I feel even better about my purchases
knowing that all the money made by Booktique goes directly back to the
Lake Oswego Public Library to fund
library services, such as summer reading
programs. Booktique II is a valuable
resource for the surrounding area, and
volunteers and shoppers alike take pride
in the positive impact the store has on the
community.
Additionally, Booktique II seeks to be
accessible to as many people as possible.
“Part of our goal is to make (Booktique)
available to students,” Bailey said.
Booktique II has recently updated
their hours so that they are open until 6
p.m. on Wednesdays so that students
from elementary school to college have
time to browse for books after a day of class. The store also accommodates
curbside pickup, as well as shipping
orders made online.
Booktique II is less than a ten minute
drive from LC. It is also easily accessible
via a short trip on the 38 bus line. They
are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Friday (and until 6 p.m. on
Wednesdays), as well as from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. on Saturdays. They also have a
second, smaller location in downtown
Lake Oswego, simply named Booktique.
Booktique II is a great place to check
out if you are interested in a large range
of books at great prices. If you decide to
drop by, plan to leave some room in your
schedule to get lost in the stacks. Lake Oswego bookstore provides
great selection, affordable prices AMELIA DOYLE/THE PIONEER LOG
Students work in the costume shop located in Fir Acres Theatre, where they are currently preparing for the production of “Medea.”
AUBREY ROCHÉ/THE PIONEER LOG
Booktique II sells inexpensive books donated by the Lake Oswego Public Library.
A whale is among the illuminated displays.NATALIE PARKHURST/THE PIONEER LOGAnnual festival lights
up Portland communityFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
ARTS 9
By AIDAN D’ANNA
REALITY TELEVISION often
gets a bad rap. Shows like “The
Bachelor” and “Keeping up with
the Kardashians” have soiled the genre
with their contrived plot lines and
overdone drama. However, there is a
subsection of this genre that your favorite
streaming service might tag as “feel-good”
or “inspiring” that is underappreciated
and overlooked. I am talking, of course,
about home and garden reality television.
Home and garden TV had its moment in
the sun in the early 2000s with the airing
of classic shows such as “House Hunters”
and “Fixer Upper,” but has since taken
a downward turn as people move away
from cable and toward streaming services.
I love this subgenre of television;
it is the pinnacle of escapist media,
it feeds me endless bucket list travel
destinations and it actually often
produces surprisingly good characters.
I am here to say that HGTV does not
have a monopoly over the genre, and
there are tons of hidden home and
garden gems among the flood of limited
series and true crime content currently
on streaming platforms. Also, for all its
faults, Netflix has been almost single
handedly keeping the genre alive in the
streaming realm. Without further ado,
here are my top five home and garden
reality TV picks available right now on
Netflix.
P.S.: Food and eating shows do not
count, and I am not accepting opposing
opinions.
5. My number five pick is a toss-up.
There is another small subgenre in the
world of home and garden television,
what I call the organizational shows,
with two stand-outs who are big fish
in this very small pool. “Tidying Up
with Marie Kondo” and “Get Organized
with the Home Edit” are both shows in
which the hosts visit people and help
them clean up their lives, literally.
Similar to “Hoarders,” but without all
the judgment and crying, both of these
shows are inspiring, showcase beautiful,
aesthetically pleasing displays when
each project is finished and best of
all teach the viewer techniques they
can apply to their own lives. I am not
ashamed to admit that Kondo taught
me how to fold both my shirts and my
pants, and I will never go back.
4. Netflix recently dropped a second
season of my next pick, “The World’s
Most Extraordinary Homes.” Hosted
by architect Piers Taylor and actress
Caroline Quentin, this show takes
the viewer on a worldwide search for
architectural marvels and domestic
oddities. From a house built out of
an old airplane, to an invisible desert
house made entirely of glass, this show
is escapism at its best. As an added
bonus, Taylor and Quentin have a fun dynamic, and intermittent talking heads
allow some personality to make its way
in. The show is at its peak when Taylor
sees something he loves architecturally;
he draws at least one floor plan for us in
every episode.
3. This next one ventures into what
I consider a sub-subgenre, competition
home and garden television. “Instant
Hotel” is an example of the rare
Australian reality show, and it
introduces more drama into the genre.
Five couples who all own vacation
rentals each spend a night in each
other’s rental, and grade the owners
on metrics such as price, location and
activities. The celebrity guest judge
Juliet Ashworth, famed British interior
designer and hospitality expert, also
weighs in to influence the couples’
final scores. Alliances, snobbery and
mayhem ensue as the couples compete
for an all expenses paid trip to Palm
Springs, California.
2. Though you might have seen the
HGTV program “Tiny House Hunters,”
I would argue that the Netflix version,
“Tiny House Nation,” is even better.
Hosted by actor John Weisbarth and
former professional skier-turned
handyman Zach Giffin, “Tiny House
Nation” is wholesome and inspiring,
with just the right amount of cringe.
Weisbarth is the host and Giffin is
the builder, and together they create
completely customized tiny houses for
people who often have no other option.
We see a firefighter whose home burned
down, a couple who were priced out of
their home after nearly two decades
and parents who are downsizing their
home in order to send their kid to
college. Though it always comes down
to the wire, Weisbarth and Giffin always
come through in time to welcome
the homeowners to the “Tiny House
Nation.”
1. Though these are all masterpieces
in my opinion, my favorite Netflix home
and garden show has to be “The World’s
Most Amazing Vacation Rentals.” The
show’s three hosts, Meghan, Joanna and
Luis, travel all around the world, staying
at other people’s rental properties. There
is something for everyone in this show:
Meghan is a designer and searches for
budget properties, Joanna is a travel
blogger who likes a unique stay and Luis
is a Manhattan real estate agent who
only stays in luxury. Another great thing
about this show is the structure, because
you know in each episode you will see
three different properties with different
locations, meal options and activities. They
also usually meet the property owner. The
characters are charismatic, the properties
are beautiful and best of all, the viewer can
visit these properties themselves, although
Meghan’s budget options are probably
your best bet, as some of Luis and Joanna’s
properties are crazy expensive.
By LINDEN WARLING
FLOWERS, FABRIC scraps and
a fabulous array of music set
the scene for the Platteau’s
grand reopening on Feb. 11. Students
congregated in the welcoming aura and
bright lights of the fantastic art and
community space on the bottom floor of
Platt West.
According to one of the Platteau
managers, Lauren Arriola ’24, the event
went off without a hitch.
“So much happened that I didn’t
expect to happen, and that’s the
beauty of the Platteau, that’s what
happens here,” Arriola said. “It’s really
special. People are just so real, and
themselves, and their art transforms
(the Platteau).”
The night’s activities included live
figure drawing, patch sewing and clay
modeling. However, the highlight of the
event was the performances by various
students, which included a sneak
preview of Ezri Reyes’ ’22 theatre thesis
and two singers, Wy Deshong ’22 and
Blaise Harrison ’25. Events like this are the reason that
Matea Carlin ’24 became a manager for
the Platteau.
“It’s just another instance of when
things are kind of chaotic in life,” Carlin
said. “Then we come here and then
figure it all out, it all works out…it often
exceeds expectations.”
Reyes, another manager, was equally
enthusiastic about how the night played
out.
“I think it was magical that we ended
up meeting that exact max capacity of
30,” Reyes said. “And the assortment of
showcasing that we had and the amount
of people who showed up.”
The student performances were the
highlight of the event, which had an
overall theme of body positivity.
“It’s totally inspiring,” Carlin said.
“I enjoy watching the performances so
much and it makes me so happy to see
people be happy.”
If you missed the event, never fear:
The Platteau plans to hold more soon,
including monthly open mic nights, live
drawings, themed drawing nights and
shows with campus radio station KPH.“We have the drawing workshop
we talked about, (a) still life workshop
in combination with Fruit Party,” Arriola
said. “We get a bunch of fruit and fun
foods, and everyone draws and has a good
time, then we cut (the fruit) up and eat it
and go bananas.”
They also plan to host more movie
nights during the semester, and make
use of the new art materials they were
able to pick up recently.
“We’re hoping to get a projector,”
Reyes said. “Last semester we did Rocky
Horror.”
However, the Platteau is not just
about new events — for years now it has
been the home of artists and non-artists
alike, a place where lasting memories
and friendships are made.
“We want more traditions to start out
of here, and continue the ones we already
have, and we want the place to be more
colorful, more loud than it already is, and I
want people to feel more welcome,” Arriola
said. “A goal is to have so many materials
that people can do whatever they want.”
The Platteau is a unique space on
campus and it is free for everyone since the swipe access charge has been removed.
There are a huge variety of materials to
work with, rehearsal spaces to use and
instruments to play.
This space gives every student the
chance, the room and the audacity to
create something magical.
“You see people become friends,”
Reyes said. “People will just come and use the space for their own event, or
their own community, that’s what it’s
for — community building.”
The Platteau is open for students
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weeknights
and midnight on weekends. Sign up
through their Google form, accessible
through the link in their Instagram bio,
to gain free swipe access.By GRETA BURTON
PDX JAZZ Festival showcased the
prominent all-female mariachi band,
Flor de Toloache, on Sunday Feb. 19
at the Newmark Theater. Traditionally
a male-dominated style, the Grammy-
winning band exemplifies that mariachi
not only survives when it expands
beyond its traditional network, it thrives.
Based in New York City, Flor de
Toloache was founded by lead singers
Mireya I. Ramos & Shae Fiol in 2008
and boasts several other rotating female
performers. Collectively, the band refers to
themselves as “Las Flores.” The band rose
in popularity following their highly praised
NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” in 2016.
Part of Toloache’s attraction is their
blend of intoxicating, vulnerable, seductive,
bold and empowering arrangements.
According to their website, mariachinyc.
com, the artists “coalesce as would a band
of sisters, with a grace and vibrant beauty
that casts a spell over their audiences not
unlike the legendary Toloache flower still
being used in Mexico as a love potion.”
“Mariachi” refers to the repertoire of
folk-derived music, according to Folkways,
the Smithsonian Institute’s non-profit
record label. The genre originates from
Spanish and African slaves during
Mexico’s colonial era, spanning three
centuries. Mariachi’s signature sound
established itself in Western Mexico,
but has dominated the majority of Latin
America since the dawn of the radio in
the 1930s. By 1950, the standard band
consisted of a number of trumpets, violins,
small guitars (vihuela) and a big bass
guitar (guitarrón).
During the performance, the group
honored the roots of mariachi with
participatory workshops on “gritos,”
the variety of vocal interjections used to
express emotions in mariachi music. Each
member shared a style of grito ranging
from sounds of laughter to weeping, and
the audience calls back in a cathartic
release. Another way Las Flores pay
tribute to the cultural origin of the genre
is through their impeccable showmanship.
Several numbers involved traditional
Latin rhythms, such as Cumbia, which
were paired with the appropriate dances.
Humor was also a central component of
the performance, contrasting some of the
slower or more emotional numbers in the
set.
The group’s unique sound results from
their complex feminine harmonies and
impeccable intonation. The group enhances
mariachi’s folk style by incorporating
many other genres. Drawing upon several
seemingly unconventional inspirations,
their repertoire stands at the intersection
of folk, jazz, R&B, rock and pop traditions.
Selections in the performance included
both originals and Latin-infused covers,
including Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” and
the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black.” While on stage, Fiol explained their
original song “Our Love” was originally
written to describe the bittersweet
experience of being on tour with their
children while being separated from
their partners. The video for the single,
released in February 2020, demonstrates
this complex intersection of emotion in a
candid compilation of clips from the tour.
Now, Fiol stated, “Our Love” not only
speaks to the hardships they experience
while on tour, but also foreshadowed the
heartache of being unable to connect with
others during the pandemic.
In fact, the Jazz Festival was a type of
homecoming for Fiol who stated that she
grew up in Lake Oswego prior to going to
college in New Mexico and later moving to
New Jersey.
Despite the evident talent of Toloache,
perhaps the most compelling and
memorable aspect of the performance was
the opener, Forest Grove High School’s
Mariachi Tradición. The 22-student
ensemble performed a 40-minute set that
had the audience cheering, laughing and
singing along. According to an interview
with reporter Dillon Mullan of the Forest
Grove News Times, the event was the
group’s first performance in Portland
since the start of COVID-19.
The group performed several
traditional mariachi standards, featuring
several vocal and instrumental soloists.
The dedication to and pride of both
community and culture was palpable.
The three brass musicians sported
all black ensembles, while the other
musicians embraced a more traditional
style with plum colored pants with silver
sequins and matching boots.
Parent Rosa Bran Cervantes said in
Spanish to the Forest Grove News that
the mariachi suit and sombrero are a
point of pride for Mexicans. For her child
to be part of this band is meaningful.
“To play and sing and dance, this is what
we pass on to our kids, so to see the school district have this space for a class — not just
an elective, a class with a teacher — even
though we’re in foreign land, it’s a little piece
of Mexico,” Cervantes said.
Director Lesslie Nuñez said the
students volunteered several of their
weekends in order to perfect their
performance. Looking to the future
Nuñez stated, “I hope that my students
continue paving the way for the younger
generations,” and “continue to inspire
the youth to explore the rich culture and
tradition of mariachi music.”
Younger siblings of Mariachi
Tradición members are now beginning
their own mariachi journey at Forest
Grove High School.
“It has truly been a privilege to
witness this tradition continue to evolve
in our school district,” Nuñez said. “None
of this could’ve been possible without the
support of our students’ parents and
administrators.”
Nuñez also extended her thanks to the
Festival for inviting the group to perform
and said they are available for other live
performances and special events.
At the end of the set, the theater
echoed, split between calls for “encore”
and “otra.” After a handful of chants,
“otra” prevailed. Las Flores reentered the
stage and invited Mariachi Tradición to
join them for the final song.
The PDX Jazz Festival will take
place through Feb. 26, but the Portland
jazz scene is lively year-round. Festival
Marketing and Membership director
Jonathan Rudnick, expressed a deep
enthusiasm for Lewis & Clark students to
become more involved with the festival
in the future, including internships and
potentially selling tickets to students at
discounted rates.
You can find more information
about the PDX Jazz Festival at
PDXJazz.org and hear the latest news
about Mariachi Tradición on their
social media @mariachi_tradicion.Top five home, garden
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Forest Grove High School’s Mariachi Tradición opened for Las Flores with a 40-minute set.GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG
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Platteau co-managers introduce the grand reopening event as attendees listen.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
SPORTS 10
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
A HEAD-TO-HEAD affair between
the best football team each
conference has to offer, a massive,
collaborative concert featuring household
names both old and new, and humorous,
indulgent advertisements with numerous,
celebrity cameos — this cocktail describes
arguably the most American sporting
event we have: the Super Bowl. This year’s
game delivered on all fronts, making an
entertaining three hours for viewers of
varying tastes.
The game itself featured two teams
that, at the beginning of the season,
were not expected to make it this far
and entered the playoffs as four-seeds.
The Los Angeles Rams, however, were
considered a dark horse to make the
championship. Mid-season, the Rams
added two stars, trading for former
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and
picking up Odell Beckham Jr. after he
was released by the Cleveland Browns.
They also boasted a three-time Defensive
Player of the Year recipient in Aaron
Donald, a record-setting wide receiver in
Cooper Kupp, an elite cornerback in Jalen
Ramsey and an experienced quarterback
in Matthew Stafford, all of which made
the Rams’ regular-season record a soft
indicator of their playoff potential.
The Cincinnati Bengals, by contrast,
were composed of sophomore, superstar
quarterback Joe Burrow, a good defense,
a trio of talented wide receivers and a
historically bad offensive line. Joe Burrow
was sacked seventy times between the
regular season and postseason, and still
brought his team to the Super Bowl,
getting the Bengals their first playoff win
in more than thirty years in the process.
Despite their underdog appearance, the
Bengals were no slouches. They started their run by besting the Las Vegas Raiders,
before toppling the one-seed Tennessee
Titans and the reigning AFC Champion
Kansas City Chiefs. After the Rams
obliterated the Arizona Cardinals, ended
Tom Brady’s career with a loss and edged
out the San Francisco 49ers to take the
NFC Championship, anticipation built for
an exciting Super Bowl.
The first half picked up quickly, with
Matthew Stafford finding Beckham Jr. in
the endzone for the first score of the game
just six minutes in. After a Bengals field
goal and a second Rams touchdown, the
ball slipped from punter Johnny Hekker’s
nervous grasp during the extra point
attempt, and they failed to convert it. The
score would not remain 13-3 for long, as
Joe Mixon threw a touchdown pass to
Tee Higgins on a trick play. Stafford soon
added to his league-leading interception
total, giving the Bengals an opportunity
to take the lead. However, after a punt a
piece, the first half came to an end.
The historic halftime show featured
a large cast of hip-hop artists, including
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick
Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent. Despite
the popularity of hip-hop in the United
States, this marks the first rap-dominated
halftime show in Super Bowl history, and
it did not disappoint. Dr. Dre and Snoop
Dogg opened the show by performing
a portion of Dre’s song “Next Episode,”
followed by a rendition of Tupac’s song
“California Love.” This preceded a
variety of amazing performances, such
as Blige’s pop inflected remix of “Family
Affair,” Lamar’s energetic performance of
“Alright,” and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”
After the show, the Bengals quickly
took the lead, with Burrow finding Tee
Higgins for a 75-yard touchdown. The
teams later traded field goals, leaving the
Bengals with a 20-16 advantage headed into the fourth quarter. Burrow proceeded
to go down with an apparent injury, in what
was later confirmed as an MCL sprain.
Thankfully, the young star returned to the
field. Eventually, the Rams stampeded
into the Cincinnati Red Zone with only
a few minutes remaining. The Bengals
attempted to make a defensive stand, but a
series of defensive holding calls upset their
chances. With a minute and twenty-five
left in the game, Stafford flicked it to Kupp
to give the Rams a twenty-three to twenty
lead, which Donald, Miller and Ramsey
easily closed out.
The final component of the super
bowl was also the weakest — this year’s
commercials seemed to rely more
heavily on excessive cameos than
quality advertising. A few personal
favorites included Larry David criticizing
revolutionary inventions and implying
that crypto is next in line, and Paul Rudd
and Seth Rogen recounting a series of
wacky journeys they went on involving
Lay’s chips. I also enjoyed Matthew
McConaughey advocating for planetary
investment over the Metaverse and space
travel for Salesforce, and the Austin
Powers’ reunion where Dr. Evil promoted
General Motors’ new electric initiative.
Additionally, there was a minute-long,
$13 million commercial that featured
a QR code bouncing off the edges of
the screen, that crashed the website of
Coinspace (its sponsor).By VENUS EDLIN
HEAD FOOTBALL Coach Jay
Locey retired from Lewis & Clark
at the start of February and has
since accepted an offer to coach as part of
the United States Football League (USFL),
a professional league with a spring season.
Locey first came to LC in 2014. Under
his leadership, the Pioneers began to win
multiple games in back-to-back seasons,
beginning in 2017 with a win against
Pomona-Pitzer that snapped a 33-game
losing streak. Two weeks later, the team
won the Wagon Wheel traveling trophy
against Willamette University for the
first time since 2000, and have defended
it every year since then, marking four
consecutive seasons with the distinction.
According to Director of Physical
Education and Athletics Mark Pietrok,
Locey has made a lasting impact on the
football program. Pietrok is also excited
for Interim Head Football Coach Joseph
Bushman to take the helm next fall.
“Coach Locey has created a new era
of Lewis & Clark football and followed
through on his commitment to building
our program,” Pietrok said to the Source.
“We are thankful to Jay for leading our
student-athletes over the last seven
seasons, and excited that Coach Bushman
and the current staff will provide a seamless
transition to sustain that success.”
Locey was not ready to give up
coaching, as he is continually inspired by
the people he gets to encounter through
the process.
“You get to work with some beautiful
people is what you do,” Locey said. “And
the unique part about football or a lot of
other sports, is you get to work with people
that are enjoying what they’re doing. Then
there’s the relationships you build and
then working collaboratively together on
trying to accomplish the same goal.”
Beyond his impact at LC, Locey has
evolved to be a key figure in the Oregon
football community.
He won a state championship at
Corvallis High School in 1970 as a reserve
linebacker and special teams player. Locey
went on to play at Oregon State University (OSU) under a football scholarship, where
he was named to the Pacific-8 Conference
First-Team as a defensive back in 1976 and
was twice OSU’s top student-athlete.
As head coach, between 1996 and
2005, Locey guided the Linfield Wildcats
to three national titles and 12 conference
championships. In 2005, The Oregonian
listed Locey as one of Oregon’s top 25 most
influential people in sports. He has also
received five Northwest Conference Coach
of the Year awards in his career.
This fifty-year history seems to keep
following Locey throughout his career.
While a sophomore at Corvallis, he made
the varsity team with Mike Riley as the
starting quarterback. Locey later replaced
Riley as the defensive coordinator at
Linfield University in 1983. Riley is
currently the head coach and general
manager for the USFL New Jersey Generals, the same team Locey is joining
for the upcoming season as the running
backs and tight ends coach.
Bushman came to know about Locey
through his prominence in the football
community before they started working
together. Later, the two interacted more
because Locey often recruited the high
school athletes Bushman was coaching.
Bushman’s daughter also went to Linfield,
where she met Locey and was impressed
with his kindness.
“He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever
meet,” Bushman said. “You know, when I
was at Clackamas, he would come by and
recruit our athletes and so I really got to
know him and just hit it off.”
Bushman also got to know Locey when
he recruited his son, Jake Bushman ’23. At
the time, Joseph Bushman was his son’s
high school coach, and now has served as his college coach as well. He was hired as
the recruiting coordinator and assistant
head coach in 2018.
Both coaches have had a great impact
on Jake Bushman.
“One thing I realized about him after
(him) being my head coach for the past
three seasons is he’s more than a head
football coach,” Jake Bushman said. “He’s
one of the greatest people I’ve ever met,
the kind of unselfish person who puts
other people before himself.”
After the 2020 season was canceled
due to the pandemic, the Pios started the
2021 season off strong under the guidance
of both coaches. In the home opener, the
team scored their third most points of any
game in LC history and totaled 316 rushing
yards, the most since 2011. Locey credits
part of this success to Joseph Bushman,
who he knows is ready to take charge of the team for the next season.
“I believe he is very well equipped,
and in a great position to help push this
forward,” Locey said. “So I feel really good
about that.”
As a head coach, Joe Bushman guided
Clackamas High School to the first
championship in school history in 2017.
Later that year, he was named Oregon 6A
Coach of the Year.
Bushman sees his position as
continuing the legacy Locey has advanced
at LC.
“We’re not where we want to be yet,
but we’ve definitely taken a jump out of
the bottom of the league to more (in) the
middle of the pack,” Joe Bushman said.
“We’re competing now against some of
the better teams, we’re giving them good
games, (although) we’re not finishing those
games yet. It’s been a privilege for me to be
part of that as taking it to the next step, and
now that the job is to go even further.”
Jake Bushman is proud of his father’s
next step in his career as LC’s head coach.
“I know it’s something he’s wanted
and that he really worked hard to change
his program around it, put it in a good
direction,” Jake Bushman said. “I think it’s
something our program needs.”
With the smallest roster in the league
and despite a recent positive change in
league standing, the Pios still face many
challenges for the upcoming season.
However, Locey is excited to watch the
team take these obstacles head on from
the sidelines.
“There’s some very special players in
the program right now, so it’s going to be
fun to see as they push forward and take
things on,” Locey said. “And again, I think
our staff will do a superb job of continuing
to get their mindset, keep it strong and keep
their work ethic and accountability strong.”
Though Locey will coach in the
USFL, he also plans to spend more time
in Arizona with his family in the coming
years. However, Locey maintains that he
is still just a phone call away.
“I think we’ll just miss his easy-going
way, his friendship more than anything
and just kind of his guidance,” Joe
Bushman said. “But he knows I got him on
speed dial.”
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
ON FEB. 14, French ice dance
team Gabriella Papadakis and
Guillaume Cizeron won the gold
medal for ice dance at the 2022 Winter
Olympics in Beijing with 226.98 points.
Their win followed on the heels of their
silver medal performance at the 2018
Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South
Korea, where Canada’s Tessa Virtue and
Scott Moir, who have since
stepped away from ice
skating, won gold.
When I watched the
2018 ice dance finals, I was
captivated by Virtue and Moir, and
found myself hooked on ice dancing.
I eagerly awaited the 2022 Winter
Olympics for ice dance alone.
Ice dance is a sport that incorporates
elements of figure skating and ballroom
dancing. Scores consist of a combination
of rhythm dance and free dance scores.
During this year’s Olympics, the
rhythm dance competition took place
on Feb. 12, and the rankings determined
the running order for the free dance on
Feb. 14.
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita
Katsalapov, representing the Russian
Olympic Committee, won silver with
220.51 points. American
pair Madison Hubbell and
Zachary Donohue won bronze with
218.02 points, and fellow United States ice
skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates
finished in fourth place with 214.77 points.
Papadakis and Cizeron stood out
to the judges due to their perfectly-
synchronized twizzles, straight line
lift, curve lift and combination spin,
according to ESPN. With their total of
226.98 points, Papadakis and Cizeron
broke their own world record for ice dance, beating their 2019 NHK Trophy
record of 226.61 points.
According to NBC’s Olympics website,
the pair’s bronze medal makes this year’s
games the fifth Olympics in a row where
the U.S. has medaled in ice dance.
Hubbell and Donohue were my
personal favorite pair from the event. In
coordinating outfits decked out in glitter,
with Hubbell in lilac and Donohue in
deep, sheer purple, they skated to the song
“Drowning” by Anne Sila with palpable
energy, chemistry and poise.
“They bring you to center ice with
them,” Johnny Weir,
commentator and former
U.S. figure skater, said.
“Their performances
feel like you’re watching
something behind closed
doors; an incredibly personal,
authentic moment.”
They executed bold, exciting
moves while almost perfectly in
sync, and their effortless grace
and intriguing skills prominently
displayed their technical prowess.
At one particularly thrilling
moment in their routine, Donohue
lifted Hubbell from behind,
pulling her legs over his head
and holding her entire body
in the air in a move
reminiscent of the lift
in “Dirty Dancing.”
Just moments later, Hubbell wrapped
both of her hands behind Donohue’s neck,
holding on tightly as Donohue spun both
of them around for five solid seconds.
ESPN reports that Hubbell and
Donohue have already announced plans
to retire, making this the last time they
will compete in the Olympics. Gold
medalists Papadakis and Cizeron have yet
to announce any plans for their future.Beloved coach departs LC football program
Ice dancing electrifies
at Beijing OlympicsJay Locey, head coach since 2014, had profound impact on players, staff while leading team to success
Super Bowl LVI features thrilling
game amid stellar halftime showUnder Locey’s leadership, the Pios have rolled on to four straight multi-win seasons and four Wagon Wheel trophy defenses. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAY LOCEY
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
SPORTS 11
By ALEXANDRA FLORY
ON FEB. 4 , Lewis & Clark’s
Women’s Basketball team
played their 21st game of
the season against rival University
of Puget Sound, where the lead
went back-and-forth throughout
the entire first half. The court was
full of nervous, yet excited, energy.
During this game, Delsie Johnson ’22
had the opportunity to reach 1,000
career points and 600 rebounds — a
milestone that would place her in the
top three in both categories in school
history.
When Johnson stepped up to
make two free throws early in the
second half, she would reach her
1,000th career point if she made
both shots. Any free throw is nerve
racking, but Johnson handled both
shots with composure. She dribbled
the ball a few times, took a breath
and nailed both free throws. What
had previously been nervous energy
exploded into a celebration of joy
from the stands, court and bench. She
did it, 1,000 points.
Johnson’s journey to become a
collegiate basketball player had been
a long time in the making. The biology
major from Fort Collins, Colorado
has been playing basketball for as
long as she can remember, beginning
in a recreational league when she
was about five years old. Her ties to
basketball extend back to her mother
who played Division 1 basketball
for the University of Vermont.
Throughout Johnson’s basketball
career, her mother has remained by
her side, and even flew in to hold up
a sign celebrating her 1,000th point.
Johnson ultimately found herself
at LC because the team and coaches
were so supportive.
Being on the basketball team
has meant a lot to Johnson. She
experienced playing basketball at LC
as not just being a member of a sports
team, but being a part of a family.
“I consider the basketball team
like my family, and that’s one of our
values,” Johnson said. “Everyday I
look forward to going to practice,
seeing my team, seeing my coaches
and then playing games. It’s just been
amazing.”
However, it is not just Johnson that feels this sense of closeness. In
fact, both of her coaches attribute it
partly to Johnson, due to her ability
to lead and be a great teammate.
These two qualities help make the
team into the family that Johnson
describes. Johnson’s coaches greatly
appreciate her both as a player and a
person.
Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Ann Dorris explained how Johnson is
able to create that sense of community
on and off the court.
“She is really good at motivating
her teammates,” Dorris said. “Even
off the court as well. It’s never
negative, it’s never condescending, or
anything of that sort. And that’s what
she is just really, really good at.”
Assistant Women’s Basketball
Coach Scott Pisapia has had the
opportunity to watch Johnson play
since she was a freshman.
“Having Delsie in the program for
the past four years has been a huge
sense of stability,” Pisapia said. From a statistical standpoint,
Johnson’s 1,000-point and
600-rebound milestone is significant.
Few players are able to reach 1,000
points in their basketball careers, let
alone in only 3 seasons like Johnson
was able to do. Due to COVID-19,
Johnson’s junior season was canceled.
However, she did not let that setback
stop her. In fact, Johnson averaged
14.4 points per game and 9 rebounds
per game throughout her time at LC,
which are 3rd and 2nd greatest of
all time, respectively. Of her 1,044
career points, Johnson’s field goal
percentage was 48.8%. She has been
nominated for and received numerous
awards during her basketball career.
Most recently, Johnson was named
to the All-Northwest Conference First
Team as LC’s first recipient since
2017. In previous years, she was
named the Northwest Conference
Freshman of the Year and Awarded
the Female Rookie of the Year Award
at the 2019 Excellence in Lewis & Clark’s Year of Sports.
Due to her history of great play,
it seemed that no one was surprised
when Johnson reached her milestone.
Pisapia said this moment filled him
with a sense of pride.
“She’s gonna end up somewhere
in the top three for Lewis & Clark
history in points and rebounds per
game for her career,” Pisapia said. “So
we’re looking at a player that doesn’t
come around often. This is a once in
a decade type player, once in an even
20-year span type player.”
In the Puget Sound game, there
was a shared, confident feeling
among the coaches and team that
Johnson would score the 20 points
and 6 rebounds that she needed.
At the end of the first half, Johnson
had already scored 18 points and 5
rebounds. When it came the time to
reach the milestone, she was ready.
“It was on a free throw, so I had
two free throws to get to 1,000,”
Johnson said. “I was like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s going to be embarrassing if
I miss these free throws.’ When I hit
the second one, I thought ‘there it is.
1,000. Let’s go.’”
Johnson’s coaches shared the
same feelings of joy, including Pisapia
who said that the moment made him
choke up.
“You love to see someone who
has put in so much time and effort,
and is just a rock solid person inside
and out, you love to see them find
success,” Pisapia said. “But the even
cooler part, to me, was how excited
her teammates were for her to reach
that goal. And that’s the part that
probably got me a little more choked
up. It shows how loved she is by how
the school celebrated her when she
got that mark.”
After the point was over, her
teammates stood up from the bench
and swallowed Johnson into a
communal hug, while the stadium
exploded into a raucous cheer. The
student section was deafening, and
Johnson’s smile spread throughout
the stadium.
Moving forward, Johnson plans
to continue playing for the rest of
the season, graduate and leave her
basketball days behind her. Despite
being deprived of her junior season,
Johnson does not plan to utilize the
NCAA’s added year of eligibility
granted to athletes who missed a
collegiate season due to COVID-19.
However, that is not to say that she
will stop impacting the lives of those
around her. Coach Dorris described
how Johnson is not only someone who
should be respected for her basketball
skills, but for the person she is.
“She’s above and beyond in every
category and what’s really special
to me about that is that she is so
committed to basketball and works so
hard at it and at the exact same time
has that same level of commitment
to being a great teammate, to being a
great friend, to being a great student,”
Dorris said. “She is so passionate
about everything and it’s so genuine
and with the best intentions always.
That’s something you don’t see a lot.
She’s a special one for sure.”
Not only does she excel on the
court, but in every space she fills.
In the words of Pisapia, “Delsie is a
rockstar and a Pio legend.” Delsie Johnson shatters 1,000 point threshold
MLB lockout perseveres as spring season approaches After only three seasons, Pio legend Johnson finishes on LC Basketball’s all-time scoring leaderboard
By NATHAN OAKLEY
MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball (MLB)
fans may have to wait longer
than expected for the 2022
season, as team owners and the players
union remain deadlocked in tense labor negotiations that have gone unresolved
for months. Based on the two sides’
latest meeting, a delay to spring training
looks increasingly likely, which also puts
Opening Day (March 31) and the start of
the regular season in jeopardy.The conflict started in August
2021, when the MLB team owners
and the players association began
negotiations for a new Collective
Bargaining Agreement (CBA), a
legal agreement between the two
groups setting the league’s rules of
employment and financial structure.
Chicago Cubs outfielder and players’
union representative Ian Happ told
670 The Score that the league “didn’t
make one economic proposal” during
negotiations over a three-day period
in Dallas. Happ called it a “horrible
way to negotiate.”
As a result of the failed
negotiations, MLB owners voted
to institute a lockout ahead of the
2022 season. An MLB lockout
essentially halts all business relating
to professional baseball in the United
States. All transactions are frozen,
meaning teams cannot sign or trade
players, conduct practice or games
or pay players their base salary. As a
result, top free agents such as Carlos
Correa, Trevor Story, Kris Bryant
and Freddie Freeman all remain
unsigned. While owners claimed that
such a measure was intended to move
negotiations forward, the players
union recently released a statement
detailing their frustration.
“It is not required by law or for any
other reason,” the union’s statement
reads. “It was the owners’ choice, plain
and simple, specifically calculated to
pressure Players into relinquishing rights and benefits, and abandoning
good faith bargaining proposals that
will benefit not just Players, but the
game and industry as a whole.”
Critics have inaccurately described
this lockout as nothing more than the
quarrellings of multi-millionaire MLB
players and multi-billionaire owners,
each looking to maximize the share
of league revenue going into their
pockets. However, the players union
also represents minor league players,
who consistently earn below-poverty
wages and are among the most
impoverished professional athletes in
North America.
In 2019, the average Single A
player at baseball’s lowest tier took
home just $6,000. Double A and
Triple A players earned similarly low
wages, taking home
around $9,500 and
$15,000 respectively.
Many players work
hard at these rates for
years, holding two or
three jobs and spend
large chunks of the
year living in motels
without stable housing,
only to reach the MLB’s
highest level and not
have enough years of
health left to earn their
fair share in order to compete for a
shot on the roster. The players union
says the time for change is now.
While the top players in the world earn several hundred million dollars
in largely guaranteed contracts, the
players union has made it clear that
this lockout is about the players
trying to keep their dream of playing
in the big leagues alive.
With spring training just around
the corner, the chances of the MLB
season proceeding as planned
are remote. 2021 was a year of
needed growth for professional
baseball, as revenue increased and
younger generations of fans took an
unprecedented interest in the sport.
Many, however, are worried about
growth in the upcoming season.
Players need weeks to get in shape to
play 162 games, and teams also need
time to prepare their stadiums for
fans and get employees back to work.
At this point, many are
making comparisons
to the 1994-1995 MLB
season, which was
fully canceled due to a
lockout that ended only
after the intervention
of federal judge Sonia
Sotomayor, who
ruled that owners had
engaged in exploitative
labor practices.
MLB baseball fans
around the world hope
the owners and players union can end
this impasse hastily, so that America’s
favorite pastime can deliver another
memorable season.
In her last games as an LC Pio, Delsie Johnson ’22 sits atop the Women’s Basketball leaderboard in scoring and rebounds.
2022 season halted as team owners, players’ union struggle over league’s financial, employment structure
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SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOGIn 2019, the average
Single A player at
baseball’s lowest
tier took home just
$6,000. Double A
and Triple A players
earned similarly
low wages.12FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The Backdoor is a work of humor and fiction.
By ROSALIE
ZUCKERMANN
IN A DEPARTURE from what has
become standard campus etiquette,
the Lewis & Clark administration
announced that they will be banning all
individualized listening mechanisms,
such as headphones, in order to
promote more interaction among the
student body.
In an Instagram post on Monday,
the user @notswimswievel illustrated
the antisocial campus conditions
which prompted the decision.
“Picture this: It is eight in the
morning at LC and you are trudging
through the Portland fog. You see the
rush of students in a silent, mindless
stream. They are all so caught up in
their playlists that they completely
ignore each other and the world around
them. It is our duty to help rehab the
ability of students to socialize if we
have any hope to provide the world
with socially-capable denizens.”
Hundreds of students pushed
back on the post and its deterministic
assertion about how one is meant to exist in society. Deci Boll ’23 is
one student in favor of the listening
device ban.
“The lack of social interaction might
be harmless during a walk to class, but
in other situations things are getting
out of hand,” Boll said. “In residence
hall bathrooms, students stare absently
into the mirror, nearly unreactive
to their surroundings. It is like their
headphones keep them in a perpetual
state of internal crisis.” According to
several students, their peers have even
stopped dying their hair together, once
a common sight in LC restrooms.
Professors have complained about
the uptick in emails being signed
without “Best” or even “Thanks.”
Perhaps the most concerning side
effect of the decline in socialization
for professors is that students
allegedly no longer know how to
make small talk in office hours. When
surveyed, most students could not
even name their professor’s third
cat or identify their professor’s least
favorite household chore.
A similar study conducted in 2007
revealed that nearly 82% of all students at that time could name at least one of
the two.
Previous attempts have been made
by administration to foster interaction
on campus. Faculty has handed out
t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan,
“Size matters: Small talk makes a Big
difference.” In February 2020, the Moss
Petting Zoo in Watzek Library provided
a brief glimmer of hope for spontaneous
socializing when students bonded over
their fuzzy friends. While this event may
have sparked hope for breaching the
isolation, the additional social setbacks
posed by physical distancing decidedly
wiped out any progress that was made.
With different music blasting all over
campus, students will have to choose
between accepting others’ music tastes
or shutting them out completely. Some
fear this will prompt starker divisions
along generic lines.
By the second week of the headphone
ban, Mitski fans established strongholds
in the ravine, causing communal
complaints about groaning and crying
echoing from the space. Swifties
painted Agnes Flanagan Chapel red to
symbolically and physically occupy the
space for nondenominational Tworship
(“Taylor Worship”). The Kanye die-
hards have begun digging trenches
beneath Templeton to fundamentally
destabilize the foundation of the new
construction through seismic bass
activity. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans
were unavailable for comment.
Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and
Media Studies Cass Ettape hypothesized
that the exposure to other music will
ultimately squash the genre divisions
over time.
“Eventually, these dark days will
pass,” Ettape said. “Through continuous
exposure to different tastes, students
will become more accepting, and by the
next Spotify Wrapped they will even
have more than two different colors in
their Audio Aura. Maybe, just maybe,
instead of trudging to class alone in a
plugged-in world, students will share a
smile, a chat.”
This new rule may just be the most
successful administrative undertaking
at LC since Fields Dining Hall began
serving quesadillas. Some students
even reported feeling confident enough
to look their professor in the eye and
ask how Felix’s vet visit went.
President bans headphones
to promote peer interaction
By EMMA FORD
THESE DAYS, it seems like
no one with a podcast is
safe from the ire of the
public. Inciting rage in some of
folk music’s most legendary stars,
however, is a different level of
public outrage. For podcaster and
comedian Joe Rogan, it is all in a
day’s work.
Rogan sparked controversy
in his Spotify-exclusive podcast
when he publicly questioned the
efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
In response to Rogan’s spread of
misinformation, folk megastars
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
have pulled their music from the
streaming service. To appease fans,
Rogan announced he will record
the beloved folk tunes himself.
“I want to honor my fans who
are caught in the crossfire,” Rogan
said. “If the people want this music
so badly, I figure it can’t be that
hard to cover. So, who am I to keep
the people from what they want?”
To avoid copyright violations,
Rogan’s legal team advised him
to alter the songs slightly. Rogan
decided to sing about what he
knows best: Cannabis.
Young's hits such as “Harvest
Moon” and “Heart of Gold” are
now “Harvest (that Flower under
the) Moon” and “Heart of Green.”
Mitchell’s hits will also be reworked
in this style, including “Urge for
Smoking” and “Cannabis Tree.” “I will not be another comedian
brought down by cancel culture,”
Rogan said from his ergonomic
gaming chair.
To his immediate right sits the
George Foreman grill that still
sizzles with the greasy residue of
MorningStar Xtra Meat Sausage
Links, the floor to his left is littered
with dated bottles of his own urine.
“My father and his father did
not employ people to work for
them just so my first amendment
right to free speech could be
diminished by some decrepit
lyrical cowboy and a lady who
looks like she gets lost in the Fred
Meyer produce aisle,” Rogan said.
His recording booth has
been equipped with a bed and
hamster-style drip bottles for
water. Personal decor touches
include family photos, a “Don’t
Tread on Me” mug and a framed
so-called “N-Word pass.”
“We had a difficult time finding
session musicians,” Rogan said.
“So we’ve employed middle school
rock band The Weenuses."
Rogan plans to release his
version of Young's discography
as early as April 1 and Mitchell’s
in July. Mitchell, known for her
effervescent vocals, has tunes
that span quite a large range,
posing a challenge to even the
most accomplished musicians.
Rogan disagrees.
“Honestly, I don’t find her
vocals a challenge,” Rogan said. “I
rarely find things that are high to
be a problem for me.”
Rogan has found inspiration
in the cover work. "Both Sides,
Now (When Convenient for Me),"
he explained, is his new motto
when interviewing.
As fans around the world call
for Rogan’s removal, the podcaster
hopes to win them over.
“Well, if (the releases) are not
what they want, it is something
they never knew they needed,”
Rogan said. “I suppose I am a little
bit like Jesus. He was really a man
of the people.”
Baby-rap track teased by Kanye
expected to drop in early March
By GRETA BURTON
THE MUSIC industry’s rumor
mills are churning this week
after Kanye West leaked an
album cover on Twitter.
According to a trusted source, it is
the debut single of dynamic baby-rap
duo Wolf Webster and the unnamed
fetus of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky.
Both babies made waves in
February following their birth and
gestation announcements.
Their new single “Nepotism”
is speculated to reflect on their
newfound stardom. The track will
be exclusively available on Jay-Z’s
streaming platform Tidal under the
management and promotion of PR-
maven Blue Ivy Carter.
Following in the inspired
footsteps of bedroom pop, Baby-
rap has skyrocketed in popularity
on platforms such as SoundCloud
and Twitch. Top producers for the
genre have accumulated millions of
followers.
The genre’s defining sound is
created by mixing infant gibberish
into beats, along with other rhythmic
instruments such as rattles and
wooden blocks falling over.
According to an anonymous source, the single will be
accompanied by a line of Skims-
branded diapers and Kylie Cosmetics
x Fenty diaper cream.
“It really is a family affair,” the
source said. “Kris (Jenner) even
drops some bars on it.”
The matriarch’s participation
comes after sources close to her
speculated that she is fearing a
decline in income as her oldest
child, Kourtney Kardashian, nears
43. Jenner is setting her sights on
managing the next Jenner-ation.
North West, the daughter of
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West,
recently received major attention
on the video platform Tik Tok by
flaming her mom for hating on her
lizard and participating in trends
with her cousin Penelope Disick.
Our source also revealed that
negotiations are underway for the
baby-rap duo to perform during
the 2023 Super Bowl Pepsi Half
Time Show, along with other major
names in music like Billie Eilish
and Jojo Siwa. The two stars were
the preferred guest performers
nominated by the Kardashian family
because they have recent babysitting
experience.
The single’s leak comes amidst West’s recent rampage against
Pete Davidson for looking like a
half-smoked cigarette, damp from
the rain and discarded outside the
recently moved Lewis & Clark bus
stop.
A recent tweet from West on the
matter is reminiscent of his attempts
to slander Kylie’s first child in July
2020 when he tweeted, “I LOWKEY
DONT [explicative] WITH THAT
[explicative] STORMI.” The latest
tweet reads: “BABY RAP? TRAVIS
SHOULDA WRAPPED IT UP FIRST.”
Representatives for both West
and Scott declined to comment.
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Rogan, makes music
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