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Volume 98, No. 3

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2022-03-11

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By VENUS EDLIN

Content warning: This article discusses
policy and events surrounding war
and displacement.
ON THE MORNING of Feb. 24,
Chaplain and Director of Spiritual
Life Hilary Martin Himan set up a
table scattered with candles in the foyer
of the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine had just started
hours before in the largest escalation of
the Russo-Ukrainian War since it began
in 2014. The invasion was also the most
significant military attack in Europe since
World War II.
Himan said it was important to provide
a space on campus for the community
to reckon with the historic and tragic
event. The opportunity for community
members to light candles is still available.
“For some, lighting a candle is a sacred
act of remembering those affected, not
only the Ukrainians, but also for (the)
many Russians who do not support
this military action, and for whom they
may have family members living in
Ukraine,” Himan said via email. “For
others, the act of lighting a candle is
a ritual of prayer, a moment to pause
and ask a higher power to intercede.”
Many community members woke
up to the news and later that day posters
supporting Ukraine were put up across
campus. That same evening, President
Wim Wiewel sent out an email to faculty,
staff and students calling for support
of those who are affected by the war.
“Along with the rest of the world, I am shocked and distressed by
the Russian invasion of Ukraine,”
Wiewel said via email. “I am writing
to ask you to join me in supporting
our students and other community
members with close ties to that region.”
Both Wiewel and Vice President
of Student Life and Dean of Students
Robin Holmes-Sullivan pointed to
counseling resources for those in need,
as well as details for a panel called “The
Russia-Ukraine Crisis” which took place
on March 2 over Zoom. In a separate
correspondence, Holmes-Sullivan
emphasized the role of community
in “difficult times” such as these.
“We are all quite concerned for our
international students and their families who have been directly impacted by the
recent invasion by Russia on Ukraine,”
Holmes-Sullivan said via email.
Kaylee-Anna Jayaweera ’22 is one
of the students who has been directly
affected. Though Jayaweera was born
in Claremont, Calif., she identifies as
a Third Culture Kid. Directly before
coming to LC in Fall 2018, she had
attended high school in Russia in a
small city in the Volga river region.
Jayaweera also worked for ScrumLaunch,
a Ukrainian-based company, from
2020 up until the end of January 2022,
two weeks before the invasion started.
Jayaweera traveled every two to
three months to one of the company’s
headquarters in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The city is now one of the main
targets of the Russian military.
“I was getting very live into the
updates of literally my friends’ apartments
being bombed or having shrapnel coming
through the window,” Jayaweera said.
“Them having to pick up everything
and leave at a moment’s notice driving,
nonstop for 17 hours to try and get to the
countryside where they feel it was safer.”
Jayaweera described one
particular story that stuck out to her.
“It’s really tearing these unions apart,
which is very hard to see,” Jayaweera said.
“I’m friends with this family. They have a
little girl and she actually just turned three
two days ago and the dad was very adamant
that he would get her birthday cake. He literally risked getting shot or caught in
crossfire to go outside and find a cake.”
Another LC community member who
has been directly affected by the escalation
in the war is Instructor of Russian
Tatiana Likhacheva. Her husband left to
visit family in Russia shortly before the
invasion and is now stuck in the country.
Russian Club President Feya Dawkins is
currently in one of Likhacheva’s classes.
“He was just visiting his parents,
and then the war broke out,” Dawkins
said. “He’s just trying to get back home.
It’s a little bit of a sensitive topic for her
because she’s really stressed about that.”
For those who do not have direct
ties to either countries, the Russia-
Ukraine panel served as a key point of
information and historical context. The
event reached a cap of 300 participants,
including panelists. Assistant Professor
of International Affairs Kyle Lascurettes
was on the panel and discussed the
role of The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) in the conflict.
He was inspired by the turn out.
“While what’s going on in Ukraine
is horrible, it’s heartening to see so
many people in our community here
interested in the topic, as it’s heartening
to see so much the country and indeed
the world paying attention to what’s
going on in Ukraine,” Lascurettes said.
Assistant Professor of Russian Maria
Hristova also spoke on the panel from her
own personal viewpoint and conveyed how
deeply affecting the invasion has been.
“I want to start with a brief
personal note that, together with most
of my colleagues and friends in the
Continued on page 3In the Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Himan provided community members a space to light candles for the people in the war in Ukraine. Vol. 98 No. 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Pronouns Matter
Using the correct pronouns is only
the tip of the iceberg required for the
unlearning of gendered assumptions.
PAGE 5FEATURES
The Dovecote Duo
The untold stories of beloved campus
baristas, Kelsey and Jessee.

PAGE 7ARTS
Nikky Finney visits LC
The National Book Award winning
poet kicked off her book tour for “Love
Child” with a visit to Palatine Hill.
PAGE 12SPORTS
Brad Johnson takes over
Brad Johnson named new head coach of
the Lewis & Clark’s Golf team.

PAGE 1441st Gender Studies Symposium
offers exploration of “Fantasy” Administrators remove
masking requirementsStudents, faculty, staff describe personal stories, reflect on historical connections, feel helpless for future
VENUS EDLIN/THE PIONEER LOGRussian invasion of Ukraine reaches campus
By TOR PARSONS
ON MARCH 8, Lewis & Clark
announced that masks would
no longer be required in indoor
spaces starting March 12. Most of the
college’s other COVID-19 regulations,
including the vaccine mandate and
mandatory quarantine periods for people
who test positive, will continue to remain
in effect.
“Places where mask-wearing
continues to be required, such as
particular classes or labs, will be clearly
communicated by the relevant dean,
vice president, office, or faculty member.
Otherwise, masking will be optional,” an
email released by LC’s administration
office on March 8 said.
They also noted that cloth or surgical
masks will likely fulfill such masking
requirements.
This decision is in line with the state
of Oregon’s decision to remove its mask
mandate for indoor spaces and schools.
This is the first time Oregonians have
been allowed to take off their mask in
indoor public places since mid-August
2021. LC joins many of Oregon’s other
colleges and universities, in removing
their mask mandates in response to the
state mandate changing.
The state mandate was originally
scheduled to end on March 31, but
COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Oregon dropped below 400, which the
Oregon Health Authority considers a safe
threshold for relaxing regulations, and the
mandate was lifted sooner than expected.
“My first reaction was, there’s going to
be quite a bit of time for us to work this
through,” Vice President of Student Life
and Dean of Students Robin Holmes-
Sullivan said. “Then it moved to March
19, and then it moved to March 12. So
there’s a little bit of, ‘Oh, we’re going to
have to move a little bit more quickly than
what we were thinking.’”
Many students thought the
announcement seemed to have come out
of the blue.
“I kind of wasn’t expecting the school
to go all-out mask-optional,” Noam Jacobs
’22 said. “I guess I would have expected to
hear more about the consideration of it,
like from professors.”
He also noted that the email to the
community announcing the end of the
mask mandate seemed to contradict
itself by emphasizing the importance
of community-wide measures but also
saying masks are now a matter of personal
choice. However, Cas Mulford ’23 thinks
that the lifting of the mask mandate allows
for new conversation between students
and faculty, and is a step in a direction
back towards normalcy.
“I think that what the college is trying
to do is facilitate conversations between
Continued on page 3By GRETA BURTON
LEWIS & CLARK’S 41st Annual
Gender Studies Symposium
began on March 9 and will
conclude this evening, March 11. The
symposium is one of the longest-running
gender symposia in the country. This
year’s symposium is being run by
student co-chairs Iyanah Fuller ’22,
Carley LaPlaca ’22 and Hazel McGraw
’22, under the direction of Associate
Professor Kimberly Brodkin.
The co-chairs and Brodkin believe
that the symposium offers something
for everyone, regardless of previous
experience or interest in gender studies.
According to Brodkin, the fundamentally
intersectional nature of gender
studies makes it widely applicable and
meaningful. This will be Brodkin’s 19th
Gender Studies Symposium.
Fuller describes the mission of
the symposium as very inclusive with
events meant to “touch everybody.”
“I think even if certain events call
for certain identities, we shouldn’t close
each other off to anything,” Fuller said.
“There are ways to engage through
difference. I would encourage people
to go to something that might not feel
totally applicable to them or what they
are studying.”
In an effort to dispel misconceptions
about attending the symposium, McGraw explained that all events are
designed to appeal to people across
levels of engagement.
This year’s theme, “Fantasy,” aims to
examine the intersection of “intimacy,
pleasure, and politics,” according to
the symposium’s website. The event
description notes that fantasy is not only an act of individual imagination but
can also be a powerful form of political
resistance. Transformative action begins
with transformative thinking.
“This year’s symposium is about
thinking of what we could be,” Fuller
said.
Continued on page 3
SPECIAL EDITION
80 Years of PioLog
Read a Letter from the Editors, a letter
from the faculty advisor and explore a
curated selection from the archives.
CENTER By GRETA BURTON
THE TEMPLETON Campus
Center remodel has led to
the closure of both the lower
Templeton parking lot and the
parking circle in front of Stewart
Hall. This closure further limits the
parking options for students, staff
and visitors, increasing congestion
despite previous complaints of a
parking shortage.
Parking & Transportation Service
Manager Gabriel Montez oversees
all parking and Pioneer Express-
related matters. Montez stated that
the closure reduced approximately
62 parking spaces on campus, 50 of
which were reserved for staff.
In an effort to reduce the number
of commuters to campus, several
departments have transitioned to partial
or fully remote work while Templeton is
undergoing construction.
According to Montez, the
construction’s overall impact on
parking and traffic at LC has been
minimal so far.
The most significant impact has
been the efforts to route it away from
the construction zone.
“The TriMet stop has moved to
Huddleston and the Pio Express is not
able to safely exit from Service Drive,
forcing us to move it to Griswold
Stadium,” Montez said via email.
Montez notes there have been
two central obstacles for the transportation department because of
the closures. Firstly, many have been
forced to adjust their usual routes
due to the closure of Temple drive to
regular traffic. The street is currently
reserved solely for construction
vehicles.
“Large equipment and deliveries
are frequent, and maintaining a
construction roadway is important
for safety and completing a project on
time,” Montez said.
Secondly, Montez said that
changing the “false narrative around
parking availability” has been a
“major obstacle” for the Parking
and Transportation Office this
semester.
“We have seen an increase in
fire lane, reserve space, and no
parking zone violations since (the)
start of spring semester,” Montez
said. “During peak hours, between
9 a.m. and 2 p.m., the popular areas
fill up first which leads many on the
undergrad campus to believe that we
are short of available spaces. This is
not true. According to our occupancy
data, the grad campus, Huston field,
and St. Mark’s all have spaces on a
consistent basis.”
St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, a
suggested alternate parking option, is
located at 9750 Southwest Terwilliger
Blvd, near the intersection of Terwilliger
Blvd and Boones Ferry Rd.
In order to minimize the time
wasted and temptation to park illegally, Montez suggests driving
directly to one of the suggested areas,
rather than circling the undergraduate
parking lots.
“Our campus is vast and beautiful,
your walk may introduce you to new
areas on campus that you weren’t
aware of previously,” Montez said.
According to the Lewis & Clark
website, the LC community is
permitted to use the paved upper
tier of the St. Mark’s lot, Monday
through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6
p.m. The parking department does
not require permits in this lot, but
requests that all vehicles be registered
online through the parking portal for
identification purposes.
Despite plans to upgrade the
overflow parking area on the graduate
campus, Montez believes the biggest
change on campus will come, not from
the closure of parking lots but instead
how people react to that change.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Bruce Podobnik frequently parks at
St. Mark’s. According to Podobnik,
the lot is never crowded.
“I timed it today, ironically. It
is a 14-minute walk from the car to
this office right here,” Podobnik said,
gesturing to his office on the third
floor of J.R. Howard Hall.
Podobnik believes that members
of the LC community should
increase their efforts to utilize public
transportation, instead of relying
solely on cars. “I actually am more of a proponent
of more mass transit than anything,”
Podobnik said.
Montez and Podobnik also
agree that individual action makes
a significant difference for the
community as a whole.
“Once behavior changes, parking
demand spreads across all three campuses, which will give us a far
better understanding of the true
parking impacts to our campus,”
Montez said.
The construction on the new
student center and the reopening of
the closed parking lots is predicted
to be finished by the start of the Fall
2022 semester.By PHILIP STEFFEN
ON FEB. 18, THE Lewis & Clark
Board of Trustees approved a
measure to renovate the Stewart
and Odell Residence Halls during the
2022-23 academic year.
This decision was made public to the
student body in a Feb. 22 email from
Director of Campus Living Benjamin
Meoz. The renovation of Stewart and
Odell has been under consideration
since 2019, as a part of the 2019
Facilities Master Plan. However, the
Master Plan originally indicated a total
demolition of Stewart, Odell and Akin
(SOA).
The SOA Area Director (AD)
Brendan Brunner described the challenges and quirks of the older
buildings, citing thin walls, poor water
sealing and difficulties with bug screens
as particular issues. According to a
statement from the Campus Living
Office, these issues will be addressed
during the renovations. The project will
involve the construction of brand new
all-gender restrooms, updated lounge
and kitchen facilities, new windows
and insulation, and updated climate
control features that include cooling
and improved air quality.
Another critical area of improvement
will be to bring the dated halls up
to Americans with Disabilities Act
standards.
Brunner emphasized the central role
of accessibility in the planning of the new construction. Along with updated
student amenities, the renovated
Stewart and Odell are also set to include
new street-level office space for the
Office of Campus Living, improving
on the previous basement office
arrangement.
Although the renovations are
effectively set in stone by the Board’s
February decision, the actual
completion of the modernization is
still a while out: Construction is set to
begin over the 2022-23 winter break,
with completion scheduled by the end
of summer 2023.
According to Meoz, Stewart and
Odell represent around 10% of beds on
campus.
Several measures will be taken to address the issues associated with the
decrease in capacity. First, the practice
of turning double rooms into triples
in residence halls will be continued
through the 2022-23 academic year.
Second, those traveling abroad during
the Spring 2023 semester, or otherwise
seeking fall-only on-campus housing,
will be housed in Stewart and Odell to
minimize disruption.
Despite the unusual circumstances,
both Brunner and Assistant Director
of Overseas & Off-Campus Programs
Kaitlin Sommerfeld expressed
enthusiasm about the opportunities
provided by the housing of study abroad
students in Stewart and Odell. One
particular area of excitement surrounds
the establishment of the Travel Lounge Living Learning Community (LLC)
in the hall, which will seek to prepare
students for their upcoming travels by
building community bonds.
“We are really excited about the
Travel Lounger LLC,” Sommerfeld said
via email. “We think it will give overseas
students opportunities to build
connections with other study abroad
students in ways we haven’t been able
to facilitate before.”
According to Brunner, the
implementation of the new LLC will
coincide with an effort to revamp RA
involvement and student engagement
with LLCs during the coming academic
year, an effort that will also impact the
Holistic Wellness LLC, which will be
relocated from Stewart to Copeland
Hall during renovations.
“You’ll get to know the people
you’re traveling with before you leave,”
Brunner said.
While most of the displacements
and disruptions resulting from the
renovations will be temporary, the
Overseas Office hopes that some
changes will continue after construction
wraps up.
“We hope (the LLC) is something
we can continue beyond the Fall 2022
Semester,” Sommerfeld said.
However, not everyone is excited
about this arrangement. Julia Heidke
’24 expressed concern about being
housed in SOA next year due to her
studying abroad in Ireland during spring
2023. Heidke was looking forward to
living in Juniper Hall next year, and is
now worried about her living situation
if her spring study abroad is canceled.
“The idea of living in a construction
zone, trying to do classes that I have to
pass and have to do well on to still go on
this trip,” Heidke said. “It’s stressful, it’s
a daunting prospect.”
Heidke feels both unaware and
unprepared on what to expect when she
moves into SOA.
“I was so mad,” Heidke said. “I
waited so long and I feel like I did my
time in dorms. I was here for COVID
all of freshman year in Manzi, I was
here all of sophomore year in Alder,
I went through it. I earned that nicer,
quieter, and cleaner, upperclassman
and student housing, like Juniper and
Holmes.”
Heidke reportedly feels
shortchanged by these plans as she, and
other LC students, were not consulted
on these living requirements. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
NEWS 2
Campus construction continues with SOA halls
Parking closures provide stress during renovationsLC students have lived in the Stewart and Odell Residence halls nearly as long as the school itself has been around; former students can be seen leaving for class here.THE PIONEER LOG ARCHIVESRenovations promise better quality of life for future students, while current students fear short-term issues
LC community members seek solutions to new transportation issues facing students, staff, faculty
GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG
The space around Templeton Campus Center is reserved for construction vehicles.Continued from page 1
“Thinking about what we want
to be and … giving each other the
space to think intellectually about
what fantasizing is and how … it
can translate into tangible things
and tangible action. I think it is an
interesting way to think of not only
our activism, but our identities.”
The organizers wish to reframe
the tension that is often perceived
between an ideal world and the
current reality.
“There’s a piece that invites a little
bit of escape,” Brodkin said. “And yet
there’s also a piece that is entirely
present in the realities of our moment
that is committed to transforming
things and making things better.
There is always that idea of contrast
and yet it invites us to dream about
something being better and different
about the world we are in. It is not
entirely a detachment or escape, it’s
a way of engaging in transformative
ways with our present.”
LaPlaca notes that the planning
committee was very mindful that this
symposium comes at a historic time
for the world, the country and the
school.
“Everything has been serious
recently with the pandemic, and since
this is our first symposium back in
person, I think it is really great we are
doing something that is fun and it can
be anything you want,” LaPlaca said.
Due to the Templeton Campus
Center construction and COVID-19
precautions, the symposium has faced
challenges with finding spaces to hold
the events. Brodkin gives credit to the
co-chairs for executing the symposium
despite these disruptions.
With regard to planning, LaPlaca noted they were surprised by how
student driven it really is.
Planning for the symposium begins
nearly a full year before the event takes
place. In fact, the theme for this year
emerged out of the meeting held in
April 2021 to reflect on the outcomes
and execution of the previous
symposium. Brodkin explained that
this is not very unusual because they
often discusses topics that tend to
resonate with the community. In last
year’s case, intimacy was proposed as
a popular topic of inquiry.
Brodkin emphasizes that the
planning committee meetings are
open to any and all who want to be
involved, including this year’s debrief
in April.
“The new co-chairs will not
have been chosen yet, but it will be
a chance for committee members,
newcomers, as well as people who
have been involved all year long, to
come together for a sort of debrief and
forecasting, brainstorming meeting
given this year’s symposium,” Brodkin
stated.
The committee meetings take place
every other week in the fall and spring
leading up to the symposium. The
group brainstorms about potential
events, publicity, and community
engagement.
While the meetings allow for
community members and those who
wish to be involved with the planning
of the symposium to offer their input,
the co-chairs ultimately select the
theme and keynote speakers during
the summer. The co-chairs are also
responsible for social media, email
campaigns, volunteer coordination,
event space scouting and the
formation of panels and workshops based on applications.
The application to be a co-chair
also opens in April, followed by an
interview and selection process.
Brodkin notes that the selection
is generally a competitive process,
but that does not mean people should
be deterred from applying, including
those who have not been previously
involved in the planning process
or even with the Gender Studies
department.
Other ways to be involved is with
the art show, in which students apply
and are selected to curate pieces
submitted by students and other
artists of interest, or by participating
in musical and theater performances.
According to Fuller, the
symposium serves as a way to
supplement intersectional discussions
about gender, sexuality and race that
the syllabi sometimes aim to facilitate,
but lack the opportunity to do so
meaningfully.
“My hope is that this theme helps
gender studies or what the speakers
are talking about feels both relevant
and fun,” McGraw said. “I want people
to come away thinking about how
academic pursuits can overlap with
creative pursuits and joy.”
Proposals for next year’s
symposium are accepted at the
beginning of the fall semester. The
symposium attracts submissions
in the academic, professional and
creative realms from both LC and non-
LC affiliated participants. Alumni are
invited to submit proposals as well.
Additional information can
be found at the Gender Studies
Symposium’s website: https://college.
lclark.edu/departments/gender_
studies/symposium/.NEWS 3FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
Despite challenges, chairs focus
on liberation, intimacy, growth LC community engages with
impacts of global conflict
Continued from page 1
classrooms and communities about how
they want to be together and meet,”
Mulford said.
Others have commented on the
relationship between the end of the
mandate and the upcoming spring break.
“They’re getting rid of the mandates
at a really dumb time,” Kinley Lefevre-
Trigg ’24 said. “If people come back from
the break having caught COVID, and
they’re not wearing masks, even in the
best-case scenario it’ll be a mess.”
Nonetheless, students have also
voiced support for the mandate’s end.
Within minutes of the email announcing
the change in regulations, screenshots
of the message were widely circulating
on students’ Instagram stories, often
accompanied with enthusiastic
comments. However, many students also
used Instagram to voice disagreement.
Holmes-Sullivan acknowledges that
deciding to make masks optional has
been difficult.
“The more we talk about it, the more
we see we’re no different from the rest of
the country,” she said. “Everyone has a
bit of a different idea, and it’s a little bit
more complex than just on or off.”
Holmes-Sullivan made the decision
with the college’s Executive Council,
which includes President Wim Wiewel,
the four other vice presidents, the three
deans and Senior Advisor to the President
for Communications Lois Davis. The
group is responsible for all the policies
and procedures on campus, including
COVID-19 regulations. Members of the
Executive Council also sought outside
opinion on the mask mandates from
students, staff and faculty at LC before
making their decision.
“We often rely on our outside
constituents to give us feedback,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “So, I consult
with the student body president, for
example.”
She has also been meeting with the
Associated Student Body’s COVID-19
Task Force, a group of students who act
as a helpline between the student body and the administration on COVID-19-
related issues.
At the moment, the administration
believes they can weather any future
challenge the pandemic may bring.
“We have a highly vaccinated
population and a pretty compliant
community,” Holmes-Sullivan said. “Our
cases have been very, very manageable.”
Associate Dean of Students for
Health and Wellness John Hancock
agrees, adding that he is proud of the
students for adhering to the sometimes
burdensome restrictions.
“There has been a lot to be compliant
with!’’ Hancock said via email. “Entry
testing, masking, vaccine mandates,
completing SCARF forms, and self-
isolating when symptomatic, to name
a few. I do believe that students by and
large have been compliant.”
All 50 states have now either
ended their indoor mask mandates or
announced that they will end within this
month. The federal mandate requiring
masks in healthcare settings and on
public transportation (including our own
Pioneer Express) remains in effect until
March 18, but analysts believe it will be
extended.
“It is our hope that by transitioning
to mask-optional, everyone will feel
comfortable making their individual
choice while keeping the wellbeing of
our community in mind–and trusting
that others are doing the same. It
is important that we all respect and
support the decisions made by each
other in this regard,”an email released
by LC’s administration office on March
8 said.
The email also noted that, “Places
where mask-wearing continues to be
required, such as particular classes or
labs, will be clearly communicated by
the relevant dean, vice president, office,
or faculty member.” The administration
office further clarified that fabric and
surgical masks should fulfill these
requirements.
Additional reporting by Venus Edlin.Protocol change draws
mixed student reaction
Ambassador Yun visits
LC, discusses North KoreaContinued from page 1
Slavic and Russian studies fields, I feel
completely distraught and crushed by
these events,” Hristova said. “I know
I speak for many of us when I say that
we all feel anger and helplessness
and dread for the future. Many of us
have friends and relatives in Ukraine.
Many of us are from mixed Ukrainian-
Russian families and this war will have
long term devastating consequences
professionally and personally for all of us.”
Other panelists included Associate
Professor of Political Science Leah Gilbert
and Associate Professor of History and
Department Chair Mo Healy. Alumnus
Lucas Lyons ’20 served as the moderator.
After the panel concluded, there was
space for comments and questions.
Professor of Theatre and Department
Chair Štĕpán Šimek was the first to
take the floor and discussed his early
life in Czechoslovakia, now the Czech
Republic, which was part of the Soviet
bloc in the ’60s until the communist
party began implementing reforms
to increase freedoms within the
state. In August of 1968, the Soviet
Union decided to invade the county.
“I was six years old at that time,” Šimek
said. “I remember it very, very vividly, how
it was. I remember tanks in the streets. I
remember the main square in Prague
being bombarded by Soviet tanks. I
remember people arguing with the Soviet
soldiers, trying to send them home.”
Šimek drew parallels to the early
stage of Russian occupation of Ukraine,
though the war has since progressed
further than it did in Czechoslovakia
which had no armed combat. Still, the
memories have haunted Šimek in the
weeks following the invasion of Ukraine.
“I remember my father who was
declared on a list, supposedly of the enemies
of the Republic Revolution and had to
go into hiding for two months,” Šimek
said. “I still remember as I was standing
in front of our house and my father was
getting into his little Fiat 600. We were
all hugging him, and then he disappeared
for two months. We didn’t know where he was. Unlike in the Ukraine, of course
in Czechoslovakia, there was no war.”
As the community turns to the future
and the actions they can take to aid in
the war, many have described the same
helpless feeling both Hristova and Šimek
pointed to. For Jayaweera, she has asked
those who she is in touch with how to help,
but the options seem few. Sending money
is not feasible due to economic collapse
and sponsorship is ineffective for any men
who are not allowed to leave Ukraine due
to gendered legal restrictions. Because of
this, Jayaweera has deleted social media to
cease the constant exposure to these events.
“I was afraid that I was becoming
desensitized to it,” Jayaweera said.
“Waking up first thing in the morning
and seeing just places that I literally
recognize, places like hotels that I’ve
stayed at, city centers, places that I
have literal photos of on my phone, just
completely destroyed and demolished.”
Russian Language Assistant
Aleksandr Veselkov has also described
a similar feeling despite wanting
to change the political situation.
“I’m here with the Fulbright grant,
which basically means that I’m a Russian
ambassador,” Veselkov said. “I’m here to
bring the culture and show how rich it is.
I feel so helpless, that I want to change it,
I want to change the political situation.”
Veselkov has been approached by
students to discuss the topic in class
and he felt the need to address the topic.
He also felt equipped to do so in his
class since it is a conversational level
course. Though he insists he “cannot
be silent,” he also sees the risks he may
face as a Russian citizen. Veselkov was
living in Moscow as recently as last year.
“(It) made me also realize that I want
to focus more right now on positive things
you know, because I’m kind of helpless,”
Veselkov said. “I can’t do anything. If I
send some money right, I will be put in
danger for treason if I send anything.”
Hristova also spoke about the
risks for Russian citizens, especially
those who remain in the country,
for speaking out. Russians also face propaganda from the government, are
restricted from independent media
and are facing mandatory conscription.
“Of course, there are people who
are aware of and say they are against
the war, they are actively protesting
and let me tell you that this is incredibly
difficult,” Hristova said. “If you go
out on the street, there is a very good
chance you will be detained, probably
face police brutality, debilitating fines
and sometimes even prison time.”
For Dawkins, who is half Russian, these
times have also been difficult as she said it
is painful to see her culture being attached
to violent aggression. She is disheartened
by the events, but also views the war as
part of Putin’s agenda, rather than actions
supported by Russians. Despite the war,
Dawkins is committed to still celebrating
the positive aspects of Russian culture.
“We’ve truly tried to separate our
club from the political aspect of Russia,”
Dawkins said. “Really, it’s about the
culture. We recently had a blinchiki
event, which was like crepes and eating
breakfast, and we really made sure that
it didn’t seem like we’re celebrating,
because we are not celebrating the war.”
Other members of the LC community
have also been involved in war efforts or
have connections to the warring countries.
Professor of History Elliot Young wrote an
article for the Washington Post drawing
parallels between the conquest of the
western region United States during the
19th century and Russia’s current siege
on Ukraine. Hanna Tereshko is a current
law student from Ukraine, who also
currently serves as a committee member
of the Ukrainian Bar Association. Luke
Rodeheffer ‘11 received a Fulbright
grant to study in Ukraine in 2011.
Going forward, many community
leaders continue to call for support
as Russian aggression increases.
“Regardless of affiliation, I would
love to see the Lewis & Clark community
really claim our hearts as well as
our heads and recognize the moral
imperative to stand up for our fellow
humans who are suffering,” Himan said.
By IHSAAN MOHAMED
ON FEB. 25, former U.S.
Ambassador to North Korea
Joseph Yun visited Lewis &
Clark as part of the second annual
Ambassador Edward J. Perkins
Distinguished Speaker Series. The
program was established by LC’s
current Diplomat in Residence, Niels
Marquardt ’75, in July of 2020.
A number of senior diplomats,
former ambassadors, United Nations
representatives and LC faculty and
staff were present at the lecture. The
evening began with opening remarks
by both Marquardt and current
President Wim Wiewel.
Yun began his career in the world
of finance, working for an economic
consulting company. His main job
was to analyze and forecast economic
trends. The monotony of the job
eventually encouraged him to change
career paths.
“I said…there’s got to be a better
way to make a living,” Yun said. “I’ve
always wanted to work overseas,
(and was) interested in international
relations.”
In 1985, Yun formally joined the
foreign service as a visa officer in the
U.S. State Department in Hong Kong.
He remained there for two years.
Throughout his 33-year career,
Yun specialized in the region of Asia,
spearheading a number of historic
events. Under former U.S. President
Barack Obama’s administration, Yun
historically led the efforts to normalize
diplomatic relations with Myanmar.
The U.S. had formally cut ties after a
military coup took place in 1988.
In 2016, at the tail end of Obama’s final term, Yun was selected to serve as
the ambassador to North Korea due to
his extensive experience in the Korean
peninsula, in addition to his mastery
of several foreign languages, including
Korean.
The diplomat accepted the position
because he believed he would be
serving under Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton.
“I thought in taking up the position,
that I would have good access to
the president, who would be Hillary
Clinton,” Yun said.
The Obama administration had
practiced strategic patience, which
increased the difficulty of Yun’s job. In
2016, Donald J. Trump was elected as
the 45th president of the U.S. Despite
this, Yun was hesitant to leave his post.
He believed that he could utilize his
position to help improve U.S. relations
with North Korea
Under Trump’s tumultuous
leadership, Yun strived to ensure a
line of communication between North
Korea and Washington D.C. remained
open, and negotiated the release of
U.S. citizens detained in North Korea.
“I’m generally happy with what I
did in the foreign service and the kind
of assignments I’ve had,” Yun said. “I
was fortunate… to have assignments in
places I wanted to be.”
At the conclusion of the lecture,
Assistant Professor of International
Affairs Suparna Chaudhry moderated
a question and answer session with
Yun. The ambassador’s appearance
at LC coincided with Russia’s official
invasion of Ukraine. As such, a
number of attendees asked questions
regarding a diplomat’s perspective
on whether nations should consider
denuclearizing. By SOFIA REEVES
ALL OF THE symposia hosted
throughout the year provide
amazing opportunities for
Lewis & Clark students to attend events
that provide a range of fascinating
perspectives and new information.
These events usually take place over
a few days and feature student panels
and outside speakers, typically with a
specific topic or theme. Symposia are
an important way in which students
can achieve the goals of a liberal arts
education: to learn new information
outside of their fields of focus and
round out their education.
The problem is that professors
often do not cancel class during
symposium events, meaning students
either have to cut class or miss
out. More professors should cancel
classes during symposia events and
encourage students to attend in order
to make sure no LC student misses
out on the opportunity to enrich their
minds.
As the Gender Studies Symposium
draws to a close, attendance of
symposia has been on the forefront
of many students’ minds. As a Gender
Studies minor, I always look forward
to this symposium in particular. As I looked over the list of events, I found
myself wanting to attend a majority
of them, including student panels
and speakers that pertain to my
specific interests. However, as I began
penciling events into my planner, I
realized I was unfortunately unable to
attend many of the events I wanted to
go to.
By far, the biggest barrier was that
only half of my professors canceled
classes for the symposium. I am
forced into an uncomfortable choice:
miss a panel I will probably never be
able to see again, or skip class and risk
falling behind on material and having
to make it up in my already limited
free time.
This is not the first time I have
felt compelled to pick between class
and symposia events. My clearest
memory from last year’s Ray Warren
Symposium on Race and Ethnic
Studies was the embarrassment I felt
slinking out of an event 15 minutes
before it was set to end just so I could
speed-walk across campus to a class
that had not been canceled. Trying
to do both at once is a logistical
nightmare. With that in mind, why
do more professors not cancel classes
that overlap with the symposia? To
go a step further, why does LC as an institution not cancel these conflicting
classes?
I understand the concerns of
stopping all classes for a few days
just for a symposium. Professors
are already under pressure to cram
as much material as possible into
instruction time, and likely are not
in a big hurry to cancel classes,
especially if the symposia does not
relate to the content of their course.
However, taking a look at the big
picture, LC only has four major
symposia every year. Canceling
classes to make sure students can
attend would take up three to four
days a semester, just a drop in
the bucket. These symposia are
planned very far in advance, leaving
professors plenty of time to leave a
few days off in their syllabi.
My two classes that are being
canceled for the Gender Studies
Symposium are unsurprisingly
both gender studies classes, where
attending symposium events is
embedded in the class by design. It
is wonderful to see that symposium
attendance is being encouraged in
these classes. However, what about
students who are not in gender studies
classes? They should have just as
much incentive to attend. LC is supposed to be giving
every student a liberal arts education,
which means we should take in many
viewpoints and learn about various
topics. If anything, students not taking
gender studies courses, for example,
should be encouraged to attend the
Gender Studies Symposium even
more in order to expand the kinds of
knowledge they are taking in.
This is especially true for students
who are STEM majors. As of right
now only one symposium, ENVX, is
geared towards STEM fields. Even
ENVX is focused on environmental
studies, which is already a bridge
between STEM and humanities. The
rest are based almost entirely in the humanities. As a biology major, I often
feel like my peers and I could really
benefit from attending symposia that
are not directly related to what we
are studying. Yet STEM classes are
least likely to cancel for humanities
symposia, simply because they are
not perceived as relevant to the course
material.
No student should have to make
the choice between the opportunity to
attend an exciting educational event
and attending their classes. All classes
should be canceled during symposium
events, giving students from all
educational backgrounds the chance
to learn something new and round out
their education. OUR STUDENT body is
relatively small compared to
the standard non-liberal arts
college. That being said, just looking
at our student organizations we are
incredibly diverse, while not in skin
color, in interests and passions.
However when I open The Pioneer
Log every other Friday I see the
same writers, the same perspectives
and the same visual styles. A student
newspaper should be representative
of our community, and when we
fail to meet this goal, it becomes an
antiquated echo-chamber.
To breathe life back into the
PioLog, I want to see students, staff
and faculty engaging with us in ways
they previously have not. Whether
you think the PioLog is fine as it is or
that it only reflects a niche portion of
the student body the fact remains the
same: The PioLog is not an accurate
representation of the student body
and it can only to be fixed with your
help.
Lewis & Clark is a small school,
so it is easy to think that news would
travel quickly and we would all be in
each other’s business. To some extent
this is true: Certain events do travel
through the grapevine. However, the
pandemic really did a number on an
already fairly introverted student
body. I know that there are stories
people want to see written, but due
to a deficit of contributors, we can
not get anybody to write them.
The PioLog, as all local papers,
should act as a public forum for our community. We had 13 staff writers
for the last issue. I would love to
see our paper reflecting the issues,
opinions and news of our school, but
there is no way we can do that goal
justice with how few people show up.
You might not consider yourself
a writer or visual person. I can not
stress this enough, but ability level
is not an issue. We would love to
showcase your work and give you
edits.
The PioLog is not just about
the content we produce. We have
a website that needs managing.
We have social media that needs
to foster engagement. We have ad
space that needs to be filled, and
there are plenty of places that would
love to partner with us.
Not only will your work be
published, but taking visuals or
stories for the PioLog gives you the
opportunity to engage with parts
of LC you were previously unaware
of. This is a great opportunity to
make connections with students and
faculty from a wide array of majors
and minors. This is your way to make
inroads with administration and
community members that could lead
to much more than just an interview.
Writing for the PioLog benefits
the student body as they will get to
engage with alternative perspectives,
but it also helps you. Any writing
practice is good writing practice.
There is no avoiding it. You are
going to have to write something
important later in life if you are not right now. Whether it is in academia,
your job, a wedding speech or a
funeral somewhere, you are going to
be writing.
Get ready for this though, you
do not have to write or contribute
visuals to still be a vital asset to
the PioLog and, in turn, your LC
community. I know it sounds crazy
but we have an email, piolog@lclark.
edu, you all have access to and we
would love to hear what stories you
wanted cooked up. We also have a
website, piolog.com, and if an article
really rubs you the wrong way, you
can give us comments.
I like to think of the people
who contribute to the PioLog as
enjoyable people, and at the very
least entertaining. Maybe you find
out that truly the PioLog is not for
you, but I really encourage you to try
it out.
Take it for a test drive;
contributing is a soft commitment
and you can write as much or as little
as you want. No matter what your
opinions of the PioLog are, taking
the time to engage with us will only
make our school paper stronger, and
through that, will strengthen our
community.
Roll Pios,FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
OPINION 4
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are those of the authors and are not held by The Pioneer Log.LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
PioLog wants engagement Bathrooms need bidets
to promote cleanliness
By ASMAA ZAIDAN
I AM A SIMPLE woman. I listen to
Mitski, I miss Trail Room fries and I
believe a clean posterior is of utmost
importance. I am advocating for the
widespread installation and use of bidets
at Lewis & Clark, effective immediately.
For those unaware, a bidet is an add-
on fixture to a toilet intended to clean
users by spraying water at their behind.
Most modern versions are electric with
switches controlling water pressure.
After using the bidet, the user may pat
themselves dry with toilet paper.
In my home, there is a bidet in every
restroom. It was a life-changing moment
when I first used a bidet years ago. Due
to cultural and religious norms, I have
always cleaned with water, but a bidet is
something else. What follows is an analysis
of the three main benefits of bidets.
Bidets are simply cleaner. They can
limit germ spread and are considerably
more hygienic than toilet paper.
Bidets are also environmentally
friendly. This holds true for a multitude
of reasons. First, they are infinitely
more sustainable and soluble than their
counterpart, the wet wipe. As a substitute
for toilet paper, they also reign supreme.
According to Justin Thomas, editor of the
website metaefficient.com, Americans use
36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year
equivalent to around 15 million trees. Each
roll of toilet paper takes around six gallons
of water to produce. Because of this, bidets
save water. As counterintuitive as this
sounds, it is because it uses less water than
the production of toilet paper, even that of
the recycled variety.
Finally, using a bidet is great for health
and well-being. As someone with a period,
I found that a bidet is indispensable. A
friend who I recently converted to using
a bidet, described it as “life-changing.”
Beyond that, it is gentler on the skin than
the dry wipe of toilet paper.
The features that bidets can have
are endless and wonderful. Some are temperature-controlled or blow warm air
to dry the user after washing, others have
heated seats, wireless remote controls,
night lights or built-in deodorizers and
air filters. Others even have Bluetooth
speakers. A bidet is not simply a functional
tool, it is an experience.
The bidet is not new. All over the world,
bidets are in common use. It is well known
that they are popular in Japan, with some
60-70% of households owning bidets. In
some European countries such as Italy,
it is mandated by law that every house
must have a bidet, a law I deeply respect
and would like to see passed in the United
States in the near future.
In the Middle East, South Asia and
Africa, it has been common practice for
centuries to clean with water (interestingly,
though, the British that sought to “civilize”
peoples in these regions via colonialism do
not have similar hygiene standards). Why
is it that the U.S. lags behind in the hygiene
department?
A critic may claim that bidets are
expensive. After a five-second Amazon
search, I found a bidet for $30. Of course,
if you would like to listen to Mitski while
on the toilet, it might run you up a few
hundred dollars. However, as I said, I am a
simple woman. All I need is a jet stream of
water, preferably temperature-controlled,
and I am content.
Quite frankly, I am disgusted. I am
disgusted that people walk around after
defecating and only wipe with dry toilet
paper afterward with absolutely no care
in the world. If I appear judgmental, it
is because I am. LC students must have
higher hygiene standards.
I have seen the evidence: students
exiting the restroom with unwashed hands
after dropping a deuce. Even so, how can
someone walk around unwashed? Do not
try to deny it, because no amount of dry
toilet paper can get you as right as a bidet
does.
My demands are simple, really: A bidet
in every single stall on campus, effective
immediately. Save the trees, buy a bidet.
Teachers should cancel classes for symposia attendence
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGGabriel Mantione-Holmes
Editorial Board MemberThe modern bidet provides a stream of water and a variety of comforts for its user. ASMAA ZAIDAN/THE PIONEER LOG
Students should not have to choose between skipping an important class and missing enriching eventsBy ISABELLE ATHA
CRITICAL RACE Theory (CRT)
has been a frequent news topic
in recent years. In 2020, former
President Donald Trump issued an
executive order that would ban CRT
in classrooms, in addition to racial
sensitivity training for teachers. The
order has since been overturned by
President Joe Biden, but many states
across the country have introduced,
or will introduce, legislation that
prevents teaching CRT in schools. I
strongly disagree with this legislation
and believe that it is of the utmost
importance for CRT to be taught and to
be more widespread and well known.
Before I begin to talk about the
benefits of teaching CRT in schools,
let me first clarify what it is and
why it is so important. CRT was first
introduced as an academic orientation
in the 1970s by lawyer Derrick Bell. It
asserts that United States institutions
and laws have racism embedded in
them, whether intentional or not.
This country was founded on the
backs of enslaved people and CRT is
an acknowledgment of our country’s
racist history and its lasting effects.
Yet, people continue to perceive
critiquing any U.S. institution as an
attack on the country’s image and a
tarnishing of their proud nation. This,
in combination with Fox News talking
heads demonizing CRT, makes it so
that many would rather ignore it.
Opponents of CRT will often
mischaracterize it as an attack on
white people. In reality, CRT does
not find fault with white people for
racism, but defines systems such as
job markets, universities and the legal
system as inherently flawed due to
racism.
People also claim that they want
to keep CRT out of schools because
they desire a “colorblind” approach
to learning that claims to not focus
on race. The idea of “not seeing race”
automatically erases the experiences
of marginalized groups, and reinforces
and strengthens institutions that have
been built to benefit white people. It
completely denies that there are other
groups of people who have struggled
because of these roadblocks that keep
them from benefiting from institutions
such as universities and jobs the same
way a white person would. To be honest, I did not have a clear
idea of what CRT was until very recently.
I asked many of my friends, and they
said the same thing. I am white, and
I grew up in a predominantly white
community. I recognize the privilege
that gives me in benefitting from U.S.
institutions that were designed in a
way that makes things more difficult for
people of color. Younger generations
should not be sheltered. People of color
are forced to learn about the harsh
realities of the racist country they live
in at a very young age, so why should
white people not? By making people
more knowledgeable about racism
from a younger age, they can be more
effective at confronting and fighting
against racism in the future.
Oregon does not currently have
any anti-CRT legislation, but it is not
a curriculum that is widely taught.
Basic concepts could be taught at lower
levels of education, and then built upon
through the years until college, where
it can be taught in a more detailed
sense. Teaching future generations
to acknowledge the historical and
contemporary experiences of racialized
communities in this country will allow
all of us to become more sympathetic
towards each others’ struggles, and
increases our tolerance and acceptance.
If we could find a way to teach
CRT in a more broad sense in
middle school or high school, college
students would be more informed and
ready to become open-minded and
compassionate citizens of the world.
For now, I encourage LC students to
take a class related to CRT, or to do
their own research to become more
knowledgeable about the topic. CRT
is essential to make a better future for
our country, and should absolutely not
be banned.By VENUS EDLIN
NEARLY EVERY class or event
at Lewis & Clark begins with
quick introductions which often
include sharing pronouns. In addition, I
frequently wear my they/them earrings
and speak openly about being nonbinary.
Why then, do people use the wrong
pronouns for me in academic and social
situations at LC? The answer is simple:
Cisgender people usually do not put the
work in to undo their assumptions about
the transgender people they interact with
on a daily basis.
In fact, it was just last week that a
peer in one of my classes referred to me
as “she.” This was ironic, as they were
someone I had known for years who had
just heard me discuss a rhetorical concept
in conjunction with my lived experience
as a nonbinary person. The topic at hand
was hermeneutical injustice: the absence
of language to describe the experiences of
those in marginal positions.
I have gone through much of my
life without the literal words to describe
my experiences, and though I have
come across the word nonbinary and
singular they pronoun, I still suffer from
this deficit. Yet, even when I do have
the language to begin addressing my
experiences, people refuse to use it. I also
understand that familiarity with language
for nonbinary people is something many people are still learning, especially as it
continues to develop. However, the large
majority of cis people use singular they
pronouns all the time in the abstract.
They just struggle when it applies to
a specific person. The scripts exist for
such usage, so the disconnect must be
stemming from somewhere else. To me, the fact that people will only slip into she/
her rather than he/him when referring is
telling of their assumptions, something
that many people are evidently not
willing to challenge.
I get it. I have breasts and curves. My
name is Venus, an ode to the Western
ideal of femininity. I wear glitter, crop tops and tall shoes. Many things about me
and the choices I make are things people
have been conditioned to associate with
femininity, womanhood and she/her
pronouns. However, why should I have to
change these parts of myself to be taken
seriously? The burden of work should not
be on me, especially when at every turn I
make my identity and pronouns clear.
We are all socialized to conjoin these
concepts, and it is something I have had
to work through myself. That is why I
do not blame people for holding these
associations, but I do insist that cis
people put in the work for this ideological
delinking.
Your support of trans people can not
stop at artificially using their pronouns.
When people slip up, I can tell if it is done
innocently or more perniciously because
they refuse to unlink womanhood from
their conception of me. You need to
constantly be challenging your gendered
assumptions, especially when you know
they are categorically false. This can be
shown through practicing the pronouns
of others in private, not assuming the
gender of strangers or correcting others’
pronoun usage.
Honestly, I do not care what this
unlearning looks like, as long as cis
people are dedicated to doing the work to
understand others. Using my pronouns is
the bare minimum, and many of you fail
to even do that.FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 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.Advocacy from cisgender people must
not stop with correct pronoun usage
Self-advocacy, confidence
are crucial for job seekingBy LINDEN WARLING
THE PARKING situation at
Lewis & Clark is extremely
mishandled. There are a scarcity
of spots and the parking passes are
incredibly expensive. But, based on
the word around campus, the amount
of parking tickets that students are
receiving has risen abundantly in the
past few weeks.
Student passes are very pricey and
have only risen in cost in the past few
years. The current price for a pass is
$187 for a semester and $374 for the
year, while daily permits run around
$4 per day and $60 f0r the semester
(if you are coming to campus two or
fewer times per week). You can also
purchase a shared carpool pass for
$173 for the semester or $346 for the
year.
If you add these costs to the
expenses that students are already
paying for college, books and
rent or housing, the total price is
astronomical. The costs that come
with being a student are constantly
rising. An LC meal plan alone is
already $5,670 or more (depending
on which plan you have) per year. We
do not need the extra stress of fines
for incorrectly parking because there
are no open spots if we are already
running late to class.
It was confirmed last September
by the Office of Transportation and
Parking that “many of the things
we all love about the LC campus are
also what limits our ability to quickly
fix parking issues … as the city and
college have grown, so have the traffic
and congestion in the neighborhoods.
To help mitigate this impact, LC
has agreed to a traffic demand
management plan with the city of
Portland.” According to this report,
we are understandably not allowed
to park in the neighborhoods next to
campus, nor are we allowed to park
without a permit.
The Office goes on to give students
suggestions for other places to park,
many of which are a relatively long
walk from campus, like the Mt.
Carmel Lutheran Church or the
graduate campus. Due to the fragile
nature of the flora on campus and in
the surrounding area, there are no
plans for new parking lots.
However, this should not be the
students’ problem. Apart from the
“normal” parking, there is limited
parking available for students with
disabled person parking permits,
and if they are unable to find a spot,
are they expected to park 10 minutes
away too? Additionally, taking the bus
to campus time consuming, especially
early in the morning, which only adds
to the problem.
As students who often have a
job, schoolwork and other outside
activities on their plate, we do not
have the time to worry about leaving
earlier for school in case there are not
enough spots, or have to be nervous
about being late to class because
we cannot find a spot. If the school
is going to expect students to be on
time to class and only sell permits at
exorbitant prices because of the lack
of available spots, yet not offer a truly
viable alternative, they have no right
to be ticketing us all the time.Teaching critical race
theory must be protected
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By GRETA BURTON
DO YOU WANT a job? Just ask.
It really is that simple. Now,
this does not mean you will get
the job, but it often yields a lot more
beneficial results than one might
expect.
Several studies have shown that
men are more assertive than other
genders when it comes to applying
for jobs. For example, the Harvard
Business Review features a study
from the Hewlett Packard internal
report which states men apply for a
job when they meet only 60% of the
listed qualifications, while women
only apply if they meet 100% of them.
Men look at the job description and
if only a portion of their experience
is relevant, they apply. We should all
follow their lead. The rule of thumb
should be that if at least half of your
experience applies to a job, you should
apply.
To apply does not always mean
submitting an application. Sometimes
it does, but I use the term more
liberally, in the sense that one should
apply themselves in order to achieve a
goal. To apply, in this case, can mean
writing an email, making a phone call,
asking for an informational meeting or
stopping by an office for a memorable
face-to-face introduction. The goal is
to express interest and demonstrate
you are qualified.
The worst case scenario is that
after all of that, they say no. But
what is really so bad about that? If
the outcome is rejection, then the
worst-case scenario is that you have
an updated resume, made a new
professional connection, exercised
your interview skills and hopefully
allowed yourself to zero in on the life-
long challenge of deciding what it is
you want to do on this Earth.
I would argue that many times, this
outcome is far from the worst-case
scenario in the employment world.
Much like any other pursuit in life, it
may feel fruitless now, but that email
you sent may yield substantial results
later on. Employment should not be
viewed as the selection of one job at
one time. It should be viewed as the
continual cultivation of opportunities
to give yourself professional flexibility
and affirm your sense of autonomy.
This reframing is not an excuse to perform sub-par work. Poor
craftsmanship often limits your
options, rather than increasing them.
This continual cultivation method
only works if you maintain the utmost
sense of professionalism. This can be
done in three steps: be transparent
in your communication and about
your commitments, always be on
time or early and work until the job is
meaningfully completed rather than
“done.”
Perhaps the biggest takeaway is
the importance of asking questions.
During the interview process, many
focus on trying to have the “right”
answer, but few give credit to the
power of the right question. The right
question demonstrates that you are
engaged and that you care about the
outcome. The right question shows
that you are willing to invest a portion
of your time and mental energy in
order to create the best outcome
possible.
The same is true for finding one’s
“perfect” life path or career. Too
many people focus on the answer,
rather than asking themselves the
right questions. What do I need to be
content? What do I value most in life?
What gives me energy? How close
do I want to be with my co-workers?
How important is having a boss that
inspires me? Do I function better in
project-based environments or do I
prefer work that has habitual duties?
Do I work better in individual or
collaborative environments?
I do not mean this to sound
privileged or ableist; there are several
valid reasons to feel constrained by
this daunting task. My hope, however,
is that you feel encouraged to step up
for yourself when you feel you can.
No one will do this work for you.
It is time to step up, be your own best
advocate and apply.
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role in classroom debatesAmerica played a role
in Russia-Ukraine war
By BLAISE HARRISON
THE DEVIL’S advocate: someone
to give voice to the overlooked,
or a person with a penchant for
chaos? According to the Merriam-
Webster dictionary, a devil’s advocate
is, “a person who champions the
less accepted cause for the sake of
an argument.” According to Urban
Dictionary, it is “one who takes up
the opposite argument to another
person’s statement or position, just to
cause a problem for them.”
Here is my definition of a devil’s
advocate: someone who calls attention
to a point that has been overlooked in
order to open up a conversation. A
good devil’s advocate will advance the
conversation in order to encourage
growth in mindset.
I invite you to reconsider a devil’s
advocate in this way as well. A person
with a penchant for chaos is someone
totally different. Many people have
endured that one person who raises
their hand to contradict the teacher
on a point, or who will viciously attack
another’s argument and then claim that
they were never wrong. Those people are
not devil’s advocates. They are people
seeking to create conflict for the sake of
arguing, or just to cause a problem.
Do not hate on the good devil’s
advocate. The person who plays
this role in a conversation is often
demonized because the points they
bring up cause other speakers to
realize their own close-mindedness.
I often hear conversations
around the Lewis & Clark campus in which people disparage and disgrace
others with the justification that
the people they are criticizing have
broken a moral code. This is a flawed
justification because it implies that
the criticizers have unbreakable
morals and are without fault, which is
impossible.
We are all humans who make
mistakes, we are not omniscient.
We can be ignorant at times. Most
people do not wake up thinking, “I
want to make someone feel bad about
themselves today.” We have reasons
for our actions and opinions, and
taking time to consider someone else’s
point of view creates a mindset set
towards growth.
A good devil’s advocate advocates
for the humanity in everyone and the
complexity of actions and events in
order to open minds.
For example, consider a group of
people talking about canceling the
singer Cavetown due to a past tweet
from 2014 that was possibly anti-
semitic. These people judge him and
begin to differentiate themselves from
‘the bad person’ (Cavetown) by talking
about other things that make him bad
“oooh I knew those lyrics were sus” or
“I never liked how they interacted with
audiences anyways,” drawing together
points to demonize Cavetown.
The group of people use the tweets
to justify their scorn and hatred and
emphasize that Cavetown is inherently
a bad person. By bashing Cavetown
this way, the group implies that they
know better and are better people.
In this situation a good devil’s advocate would challenge the
separation of good vs. bad people and
ask why our former selves’ ignorance
anticipates total cancelation and
vilification. Would anyone want to be
known for the views of their 14-year-
old self?
Is that not part of stereotyping,
something that these self-proclaimed
“open-minded” people like to avoid?
Granted, there is a possibility that
Cavetown is actually problematic. But
there is also a possibility that they are
not.
I think that discussing possibility
is worth the attempt to understand
another person’s point of view. There
is always something to be learned:
That there is some part of their
viewpoint that you can understand,
or that they truly are bad and you do
not have to spend energy on them
anymore.
People have reasons for what they
do, and a devil’s advocate can draw
attention to this to help people reflect
on their own judgments or develop
an empathetic ear. We should not
wonder why people act the way they
do, and assume that there is always a
reason.
Maybe people demonize ‘devil’s
advocates’ because they themselves
are not as open-minded as they
claim to be, and they do not want to
confront that. Bashing someone for
a single mistake is not open-minded.
So, rethink the definition of devil’s
advocate, and consider investigating
and discussing the humanity that lays
within each of us. By PHILIP STEFFEN
AT THE TIME of writing,
Ukraine is soaked in blood.
Civilians in Ukraine lie dead
by the hundreds, along with hundreds
of Russian soldiers. While casualty
numbers for the Ukrainian Army
remain largely unreported, the figures
are likely equally high at minimum.
Even larger is the scope of the human
tragedy: At least one million Ukrainian
refugees have fled the country, and
countless more are displaced internally.
While President Vladimir Putin
and his government bear immediate
responsibility for this invasion,
it must be remembered, even as
English-speaking media has become
increasingly consumed by nationalistic
and interventionist fervor, that all
this bloodshed is the product of three
decades of criminality and butchery
on the part of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) and the
capitalist West.
What must first be addressed is the
role of the United States and its allies in
producing the current Russian political
situation. While NATO and the West
are responsible for the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the relationships involved
call for a degree of critical analysis not
possible in this limited format. The U.S.
and allies’ actions that connect to the
current tragedy lie after the fall of the
Soviet Union.
First, in 1991 the democratically
elected Parliament of the Russian
Republic granted President Boris
Yeltsin extraordinary powers to reform
the Russian economy. This was done
following pressure from the U.S. and
the International Monetary Fund to
enact sweeping neoliberal economic
reforms on the Russian economy,
drastically cutting regulations.
The alternative to accepting was a
shut-off of foreign currency and the
cessation of foreign loans: effectively
starving the Russian people. By 1993
the economic reforms had taken a
huge toll. The removal of fixed prices
increased inflation and plummeted the
standard of living.
Yeltsin insisted the only remedy
was further action in the form of mass
privatization of the Russian economy.
When Parliament rejected these reforms
and suspended Yeltsin’s emergency
powers, Yeltsin granted unlimited
powers to himself unilaterally.
When Parliament attempted to
suspend Yeltsin’s presidency for
this unconstitutional action, Yeltsin
launched a military coup. Soldiers
butchered protesters attempting to
defend parliament. Foreign television
stations were bombed to prevent their
broadcasting to the outside world.
On Oct. 4, 1993, Yeltsin’s tanks
shelled the Russian Parliament with
full Western support. The coup left an
estimated 145 dead by official accounts,
with realistic numbers being far higher. Members of Parliament were carted off
to secret detention facilities in a manner
reminiscent of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973
coup, backed by the U.S., in Chile.
The U.S. supported the swift killing of
newborn Russian democracy.
Following the coup, Yeltsin imposed
his own constitution, which allowed him
to privatize huge sections of the Russian
economy unilaterally. Unemployment
skyrocketed, Russian society was taken
over by a small number of capitalists,
thus forming an oligarchy, and Russian
life expectancy collapsed. In a very real
sense, Yeltsin’s reforms amounted to
mass murder.
In 1996 with the support of
the U.S. State Department, Boris
Yeltsin conducted massive electoral
manipulation to ensure his reelection.
In 2000, the Russian people, who
were fed up with a decade of misery and
foreign plunder, elected Putin, Yeltsin’s
chosen successor, by a slim margin.
Putin was, of course, supported by the
West against his left wing competitors.
When Putin invaded the breakaway
republic of Chechnya in 2000, with
a scale of brutality and murder still
unseen in Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe
ignored the incursion. Following
September 11, this butchery on Putin’s
part became an asset to the U.S. as
Chechnya was a Muslim republic which
sheltered certain Islamist groups with
alleged connections to Al-Qaeda.
Putin’s strangulation of democracy
in the years that followed was hardly
surprising considering the foundations
that had been laid by Western
influence in the 1990s, with Yeltsin’s
authoritarian constitution allowing
Putin to act unhindered.
Even as recently as 2021, Western
media has continued to ignore the
left-wing opposition, which has always
made up the bulk of opposition to
Russian authoritarianism. Instead they
focus on far right figures such as Alexei
Navalny, whose primary reservation
with Putin being that the leader was not
nationalistic and right wing enough.
Besides Russia, NATO has insisted
on increased military presence
in former-Soviet republics in the
years following the 2014 Crimea
Crisis, measures which the Russian
government has continually warned
would lead to conflict.
Even in 2022, with conflict
appearing increasingly imminent,
NATO and the West pressured President
Zelensky into refusing the Minsk
accords, which would have provided
for the independence of the breakaway
republics and the withdrawal of foreign
militaries in exchange for peace.
The result was that Putin’s
authoritarian nationalistic government,
which the U.S. is itself responsible for,
was faced with two alternatives: invade
or see a rapid military buildup of NATO
forces on its doorstep in Ukraine. Putin,
leading the nationalistic and militaristic
regime that the West put in place to
defend capitalistic economic reforms,
chose to invade.
Now as the fruits of our foreign anti-
democratic interventions and crimes
have come to bear, we in the West
must not only recognize the criminality
and brutality of Putin: We must also
recognize that the responsibility for
these events, to say nothing of the blood
of countless Ukrainians, is pooling in
our hands.
SOFIA REEVES/THE PIONEER LOG
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www.piolog.comBy GRETA BURTON
THEY KNOW all of our coffee
orders, but what do we really
know about the two baristas at
the Dovecote? I stopped in while they
were shutting down the Dovecote for
the day to find out.
Among the most notable aspects of
the Dovecote duo is their mutual love
of animals, healthy sense of humor and
ability to make everyone feel welcome
within only a few seconds of interaction.
Co-workers Kelsey Johnson and
Jessee Sisk have not always worked
together at the Dovecote. In fact, they
nearly did not work with each other
at all. They first met when Sisk was
training Johnson as her replacement.
Sisk had planned to move to Bon
Appétit’s catering department, while
Johnson was looking to switch from
her role working in the front of house in
Fields Dining Hall.
That was at the end of 2019, shortly
before the COVID-19 pandemic forced
campus to shutter its windows for the
spring semester. After life resumed on
campus in September 2020, there was
no need for a catering department,
so Sisk asked to return to her former
position at the beloved campus coffee
joint.
Sisk and Johnson shared a laugh
while remembering the timeline.
“When we got thrown down here, it
was super, super slow because not that
many people were on campus, not that
many people were allowed in here, and
that is when Kelsey and I became one
brain,” Sisk recounted.
Both baristas are local to Oregon.
While growing up in the Tigard area,
Johnson had visited campus a handful
of times. This familiarity, and her other
barista experience, she said, is why
she accepted the job. Sisk was born in
California, but spent most of her life in
Eastern Oregon near the Idaho border.
Johnson is an alumnus of the
University of Oregon, and holds a degree
in environmental studies with a minor
in food studies. Prior to the pandemic,
Johnson spent two years in Montana
with Foodcorps, a sect of Americorps, in which she was responsible for educating
children about the importance of eating
healthy and developing critical life
skills, such as how to grow vegetables
and cook.
Sisk attended Western Oregon
University where she got a degree in
theater arts with a focus on technical
theater, stage management and
costume construction. She jokingly
described herself as the “mother hen of
the costume shop.”
“My hands were on some piece of
clothing for every show in college,” Sisk
said. “I would do all the measurements
for all the actors, I would call them and
make appointments for them, and I was
tasked with keeping an eye on student
workers, especially in my last couple of
years.”
Sisk’s favorite show she has ever
seen was a high school production of
“Sweeney Todd.”
“Getting to see our regulars is
probably the best part throughout the
day,” Johnson said. “There are a couple
of people we know so well that we make
their drinks when we see them coming.”
Sisk agreed, pointing to how
this dynamic highlights their
synchronization.
“I can write their name on the cup
and Kelsey will know what the drink is,”
Sisk said. “That is the most satisfying
thing.”
The pair often hang out outside
of work and enjoy chatting, spending
time with their pets and doing their
individual hobbies in each other’s
company. Sisk said the two recently
hung out and had a pet playdate with
their dogs. Sisk has a 10-year-old rescue
dachshund named Honey, and Boone,
a 9 month old Vizsla. Boone plays with
Johnson’s dog, Harper.
“They are good buddies, they love
to run circles around my house and
wrestle,” Sisk said.
Johnson also enjoys crafting,
drawing and playing video games on
her Nintendo Switch. Recently, she also
plays the guitar and ukulele.
Sisk enjoys reading fantasy novels.
Her long-time favorite author is Tamora
Pierce. In particular, Sisk admires Pierce’s strong, female lead characters.
“I own almost every single book she has
ever written,” Sisk said. “I have been in
love with her books since I was in high
school.”
The duo’s individual talents often
transfer to enhancing their home at
the Dovecote. For instance, Johnson
learned how to make little shrimp out of
plastic straws as a way to keep her “antsy
hands” busy. As a gift to Johnson, Sisk
sewed two pouches to house Johnson’s
Copic pen collection and straw stash to
take her shrimp-making skills on-the-
go. Johnson enjoys drawing on the back
of Bon Appétit punch cards, as well.
“We have a couple of students who,
when they fill out their punch card, they
will come to me and ask me to draw
them a new one,” Johnson said. “We cut
off the stamp part so it registers as being
a punch card but they will get to keep
the art. I have a couple people who have
shown me their wall with three or four
of my drawings on it. It is really cute.”
The baristas said the vast majority of
their time at the Dovecote has been very
positive.
“It is a really cool little environment,”
Johnson said. “I guess I am kind
of surprised with how much of a
connection I have made with some of
the students.”
This sentiment was returned by
several students who reached out
to share their experiences with the
baristas. Many students spoke to the
inviting environment that the duo
consistently create through friendly
interactions and chill indie music.
Newton Arbogast ’23 said that he is
one of the students with a collection of
Johnson’s custom drawings.
“I love the energy they bring to the
Dovecote,” Arbogast said. “They are
such an important part of my experience
at LC. I try to get coffee every day so I
can hang out and chat with them for a
bit.”
Elias Guerrero-Reach ’25 constantly
looks forward to encountering the duo.
“I love Jessee and Kelsey,”
Guerrero-Reach said. “They are both such upstanding workers and are
the backbone of this campus. Not to
mention how amazing and kind they are
to everyone they serve; my interactions
with them after work are what I look
forward to every week.”
Lyssa Kemble ’24 commented on the
kindness both Sisk and Johnson have
shown them.
“Both of them are incredibly kind
and cordial people,” Kemble said. “I’ve
never seen either of them act unkindly
or lose their patience. I have had short
but sweet and memorable conversations
with both of them. Jessee and I chatted
about the experience of growing up
in Oregon and Western Idaho a while
back, and I just complimented Kelsey on
their tattoos today (they took the time to
explain to me that they are of a fig and a
fig wasp, which is super cool!).”
One student, Zoë Steele ’25, said
Johnson gifted her a hand-painted
Garfield magnet.
“Jessee and I can talk forever,” Steele
said. “Today we chatted about tattoo art
and the stories of all her tattoos. She has
some really cool tattoos.”
Madeline MacWilliamson ’24
described the baristas as “two peas in a
pod.”
A lesser known fact that Thora
Kastbauer ’24 shared, which Johnson
later confirmed, is that she has a “very
impressive” Furby collection.
The Dovecote is not only a major hub
for students on campus. Professors and
the occasional neighbor also appreciate
the Dovecote for its sense of community.
Associate Professor of History and
Department Chair Mo Healy stops by
the Dovecote several times per week.
“I love them,” Healy said. “They are so
friendly. Sometimes (I) show up early
in the morning and they give love to my
dog.”
While the majority of their job is
positive, the duo agreed that there are
a few pet peeves that can get under
their skin. Tips to keep the baristas
happy include, but are not limited to,
making sure you clean up your garbage,
checking the pastry case to see what is available before you order and closing
the microwave after you are done using
it. This last one seemed particularly
reaction-inducing to the duo. When
Johnson first said it, Sisk interjected,
“I was going to say that!” followed by a
hearty, mutual laugh.
When asked who they would want to
have coffee with, dead or alive, Johnson
was stumped but Sisk knew her answer
almost immediately.
“It would actually be my
grandmother,” Sisk said. “She passed
away while I was in college, so when I
was 21. It has now been 11 years since
she passed away, so I would have coffee
with her.”
Sisk’s grandmother Mary Jo,
lived in Eugene, only an hour from
Sisk’s college. Sisk recalls going to her
grandmother’s house to spend the
weekend there.
“I have always felt close to her but I
have some really good memories of her
in that time during college before she
passed away,” Sisk reflected.
Johnson and Sisk agreed that their
college experience was particularly
difficult at times, which is why they
really appreciate it when they can make
the lives of students better in any way
that they can.
At the moment, Kelsey is enjoying
an Americano with soy milk, a pump of
white chocolate, a pump of vanilla and
a dash of cinnamon. Jessee prefers drip
coffee with vanilla, cream and any left FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
FEATURES 7
Beloved Dovecote duo spill the beans, tell all
Baristas Jessee Sisk, Kelsey Johnson share their perspective about coffee, faculty, staff, students
Jessee Sisk, left, assists Kelsey Johnson, right, as they pour steamed milk for a large London Fog, a favorite order on campus.MIRO ENRIQUEZ/THE PIONEER LOG
ADELAIDE KAISER/THE PIONEER LOGKelsey Johnson draws custom punch cards to enhance the customer experience. GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG A straw shrimp oversees transactions. GRETA BURTON/THE PIONEER LOG
By ADELAIDE KAISER
JUST 19 MINUTES from campus,
a not-so-hidden gem appears:
Oregon’s only Value Village,
located in Tigard. Situated in a strip
mall next to a Rite Aid and down the
street from Symposium coffee shop,
this Value Village, or VV, as I like
to call it, has become a staple in my
college thrifting experience.
As you walk in, you are greeted
with that signature, stale thrift store
smell and the sight of dozens of racks.
The store is massive, with hundreds
of clothing pieces, household items,
jewelry, shoes and more. Aisles of
holiday-centric decor indicate which
celebration or season is just around
the corner.
This is not the thrift store for
someone looking for a curated collection; VV requires a meticulous
search through the hangers. But
honestly, that is what makes it fun.
You must put in work to find
something you like. After looking at
sweater after sweater, finally finding
one you love is an unspeakably
rewarding experience.
Do not neglect the non-clothing
items. I have found adorable mugs,
plates, shoes, earrings and even
an awesome pin that says “soccer
mom.” Even vintage Pyrex fans, who
frequent the location, can find their
beloved collectible ceramics hidden
among the kitchenware items. Their
bundles of plastic-wrapped assorted
goods are always a surprise to open.
Another thing that makes Value
Village great is the prices. Most items
fall between $3 and $12, with certain
items, brands and materials stretching that price range–coats, for example,
tend to be priced higher. It is also
pretty easy to get coupons to save even
further. When you donate a bag of
clothes or other items you get a 20%
off coupon, and there are often sales
on certain colored tags, usually 50% off
the tag of the week.
Value Village is also a part of
Savers, which operates over 300 stores
in the United States and Canada under
the names Savers, Value Village and
Unique, depending on where the store
is located.
You have the option to join the
Super Savers Club when you check
out, with every $100 spent resulting
in 20% off your next purchase, as well
as special days where members can get
even more discounts.
I discovered some of my most
prized possessions at Value Village. These include a pair of vintage Lee
jeans, a t-shirt that says “Men fish,
Women actually catch,” my favorite
pair of black corduroys and the pink
cropped sweater I am wearing while
writing this article.
Although the store is huge and
contains a generous amount of
merchandise, I do think it has been
discovered by the Portland youth
thrifters, adding a competitive edge to
the whole experience.
Going to Value Village on a weekend
day might mean that the clothes are
a little more picked over, and if you
can swing it, a weekday might bring
you more good finds. However, I have
found great things any day of the week,
so if you are in the mood for a weekend
thrift you will still have a ball looking
through the abundance of finds hidden
within the Value Village racks.Tigard’s Value Village is a new thrift favorite
A woman strolls outside of the main front entrance.
ADELAIDE KAISER/THE PIONEER LOG
The store has an expansive inventory of clothing.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
By MOLLY ROBINSON
I JOINED THE STAFF of The Pioneer
Log as Faculty Advisor in Fall 2013,
making this 2021-2022 academic
year my ninth in this role. At that time,
the PioLog came out weekly. I remember
getting an email from then Dean of the
College, Tuajuanda Jordan, asking me
to consider the position. Before receiving
this email, I knew of the PioLog of course,
but had no notion of it having a Faculty
Advisor. The subject line for Dean
Jordan’s email was, “A Service (of sorts)
Opportunity.”
I appreciate now as I could not have
then the ambivalence of that phrasing;
from the beginning, my work with PioLog
has been difficult to categorize. Dean
Jordan described the position thus: “The
students want someone who can be a
sounding board for ideas/stories and
someone who can provide guidance.”
Before this new sort-of-service
opportunity could become official, my
appointment had to be approved by the
then Editor-in-Chief, Zibby Pillote. Then,
as now and always, the PioLog was a
student-run newspaper. Everyone back
then, several deans and Zibby herself,
impressed upon me that I would not
have editorial oversight of the paper, and
indeed that I had no real power in my
role at all. I was Faculty Advisor, and my
role was no more than advisory.
While I gathered that this lack of
power was an issue of contention for
past advisors, I did not mind it – in
fact, I preferred it. I voiced my main
concern at the time in my email reply
to Dean Jordan: “For example, if a
piece were published that was highly
controversial, or problematic in some
way, would the responsibility for it be
partially mine?” “The faculty advisor is not held
responsible for the Pioneer Log. She is
just to advise,” replied Dean Jordan. “It
is important to note, as I mentioned in
my original email, that the students do
not want someone who they perceive to
be bossy/overbearing.”
The students got to lead, I got to
follow. Sounded ideal to me.
Zibby, a senior Rhetoric and Media
Studies major, came to my office in
Miller on a warm day in August. Our
conversation was reserved, cordial. I
learned then that it was her third year
as Editor-in-Chief; she had taken on
the position in the second semester of
her sophomore year, and never left it.
Knowing as I know now how grueling
the position of Editor-in-Chief is, I still
look back and marvel at Zibby doing it
for 2 and ½ years, all the more so since
it was a weekly paper.
Since Zibby’s time, I have worked
with 9 Editors-in-Chief: Caleb Diehl,
Guadalupe Triana, Allie McRaith,
Drake MacFarlane, Peter Kranitz,
Althea Billings, Hanna Merzbach, Nic
Nerli and our current Editor-in-Chief,
Ihsaan Mohamed.
A recent search of my email inbox
for emails labeled “PioLog” yielded
1002 emails. When I think of each
Editor-in-Chief, I have clear memories
of the time we worked together, as if
little to no time had elapsed. In my
18 years at Lewis and Clark, these are
among the students I have felt closest
to. It is hard for me to imagine my job
now without PioLog in it. It is a treat of
my week to attend our Monday editors
and staff meetings, when I get to sit
down at a desk in one of the Howard
classrooms and watch these amazing
students laugh and debate and support
each other as they create one issue after another. I feel like it is a party I
was cool enough to be asked to attend
(or at least not get kicked out of).
People have asked me what my role
with the PioLog consists of, and it is a
hard question for me to answer. The role
varies year to year, and always adapts to
circumstances. A simple answer would
be, I do what they need me to do.
But there are some consistent
elements. I help writers identify who to
contact as sources for a story; I suggest
stories; if invited, I help edit stories. I
advise and assist in planning for coverage
of thorny issues. I field complaints and
meet with administrators, faculty, and
staff when an article causes consternation.
I take emergency phone calls from
Editors-in-Chief; I make emergency
phone calls to IT (sorry, Chris Stecher!).
I buy huge vats of Red Vines or Goldfish
crackers at Costco; I find chairs for the
office; I line up Adobe licenses (thanks,
Chris Stecher!); I troubleshoot an
overheated office. Occasionally, but only
very, I find myself going mama bear on
someone who treats us poorly.
I see my most central role as that of
supporting and advising the Editor-in-
Chief and Managing Editor as they navigate
the dozens and dozens of decisions they
must make day after day. As I tell anyone
who will listen, you would be amazed by
all that these students do, week after week,
to create this paper and make it the best
representation of what is happening in
our community that they can – and they
do it on their own, with no journalism
department, and an advisor trained as a
French medievalist (that is me).
Congratulations on 80 years, PioLog!
And thanks for inviting me to the party.
Molly Robinson is the faculty advisor to
The Pioneer Log.T HIS ISSUE honors The Pioneer Log ’s 80th year in publication.
Since 1942, PioLog has sought to not only meet, but exceed the
standards of student journalism. To celebrate, we have chosen to
feature highlights from our archive, which can be explored online via our
website, www.piolog.com, or through Watzek Library’s Digital Collections.
By IHSAAN MOHAMED &
AUBREY ROCHÉ
EIGHTY YEARS ago, a group
of Lewis & Clark students
gathered for one reason:
to start a campus publication.
Almost a full century later, The
Pioneer Log is a bustling student
newspaper that has informed,
challenged, entertained and engaged
the Palatine Hill community.
Our newspaper has undergone
a number of transformations,
but throughout it all, we have
remained dedicated to producing
the highest quality content while
remaining dedicated to our
journalistic ethics.
From the foundations built
by these very first students,
our newspaper has come to
cover eighty years of events and
speakers on campus, as well as
in the Portland area. The articles
that you see on these pages report
on some of the most significant
occurrences at LC, providing a
brief snapshot into life on Palatine
Hill. It is clear that many of
the same issues that currently
plague us have impacted the LC
community members before our
time — history repeats itself in
nearly uncanny ways.
The Pioneer Log has been
built upon decades of shared
knowledge. Each new generation
is educated in the journalistic
process through information
and advice handed down from
Editor-in-Chief to Editor-in-
Chief. The Pioneer Log would
not be the reckoning force that
it is today without all of the hard
work from the editors who came
before us. We are grateful for
their guidance. Every organization has parts
that it would cease to exist
without. For us, it is our editors
and contributors. Week after
week, our editorial board toils
tirelessly to brainstorm potential
story ideas, edit content and. The
editors gather every other week
to create each newspaper page
manually using Adobe InDesign,
a process that regularly lasts late
into the morning hours. And
every semester, our newspaper is
lucky enough to attract a variety
of writers, photographers and
illustrators whose contributions
allow The Pioneer Log to
represent a variety of voices. All
of the articles and visuals that
we publish are produced by these
wonderful members of the LC
community.
However, our newspaper
is always striving for the most
accurate, widespread coverage
possible. Anyone is welcome to
join our newspaper, regardless
of journalistic experience or
background. If you are at all
interested in writing articles or
contributing visuals, there is a
space in the PioLog for you.
More than anything, this
newspaper is a labor of love.
None of us would be here today
if we did not hold a special place
for student journalism in our
hearts. Here is to 80 more years
of student journalism. We hope
you will come along for the ride.
You can get involved by
emailing piolog@lclark.edu or
by coming to one of our staff
meetings, held every Monday at
5 p.m. in J. R. Howard 133.
Ihsaan Mohamed is the Editor-
in-Chief and Aubrey Roché is the
Managing Editor of The Pioneer Log.LETTER FROM
THE EDITORS:
The Spring 2022 Editorial Board poses in the newspaper office, which is temporarily located in Odell Hall.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
By ASMAA ZAIDAN
IN JANUARY, two Lewis &
Clark students were announced
as Planned Parenthood’s new
legislative and electoral Fellows.
Star Burton ’23 and Georgia Langer
’23 will be working to promote the
organization’s agenda in their 2-part
fellowship in 2022.
Planned Parenthood Oregon
introduced the duo, along with two
other new fellows, in an Instagram
post.
“Our Legislative and Electoral
fellows will be supporting our
legislative agenda and helping us to
elect reproductive health champions
throughout the state of Oregon,” the
caption said.
Burton and Langer both had
interest and experience in reproductive
justice and sexual health prior to
applying. Langer worked with Planned
Parenthood as a teen and with LC
as a sex educator, and Burton was
active in women’s history, education
reform and once even presented at the
National Women’s Studies Association
(NWSA) annual conference. These
past experiences, they explained, have
motivated their work with Planned
Parenthood.
“This is really exciting because
we’re both political science majors and
I wanted to be able to take my passion
in sex education and teaching it into
policy work and see how that looked,”
Langer said.
The fellowship typically receives
hundreds of applicants, so receiving
the fellowship was a welcome surprise
for the pair, who were close friends
prior to working together.
“I think something that’s really
funny is so many people applied, and
Star and I were literally roommates last
year, and we got the position,” Langer
said. “So not only are we both from Lewis & Clark, we both are very tight.”
Their work involves interviewing
legislators about their agendas
to inform the organization’s
endorsements, tracking bill support
and lobbying.
“We’ve been super focused on
tracking bills that are related to
universal representation, and trying
to get undocumented people legal
representation when they’re in court,”
Burton said.
Langer also expressed enthusiasm
with the legislative and electoral work
they do.
“I never thought I would ever talk to
senators and legislators and be able to
decide whether or not I like them and I
want to support them, and want to give
them the endorsement for Planned
Parenthood,” Langer said. “And that just is so amazing.”
Fair Shot is one bill that the two are
working on. It is aimed at transforming
justice, promoting universal legal
representation and ensuring fair
compensation for farmworkers.
“We’re tracking a bill called Fair
Shot, which is about giving farmworker
overtime and making sure that people
who are producing our food and
feeding everyone in Oregon are getting
compensated for working more than
40 hours a week, which isn’t happening
right now,” Burton said.
Currently, the fellowship is entirely
virtual. While they do hope to do some
in-person lobbying or attend Pride
with Planned Parenthood in the future,
the fellowship being virtual has made
it more accessible and more “career
development based.” An in-person fellowship would require frequent trips
to Salem and other locations. Although
being online for hours was initially
draining given that LC classes were
online at the start of spring semester,
they explain that the organization’s
leadership has been very supportive
and welcoming.
“When we were starting the job
online and then also doing Zoom
schooling, it was just a lot of sensory
overload or just like screen overload,
because there was no differentiation,”
Burton said. “And then you have
to go to these two and a half-hour
meetings. Then by the end of the day,
you just don’t even want to look at
a screen anymore … everything is at
your capacity. They’re always like, get
a blanket, get a snack, go get water, do
what you need.”The majority conservative Supreme
Court has indicated that it may roll
back abortion rights and repeal Roe v.
Wade. Planned Parenthood services
would be put at risk if abortion rights
are threatened. Although they can
not share specifics regarding Planned
Parenthood Oregon plans, Burton
explained that the organization has
been preparing what to do in the event
that the landmark decision does get
overturned.
“We’ve been asking different
representatives, different candidates,
what their values and priorities are for
a post-Roe world and we’re just hoping
that there’s still going to be people
in office that are going to continue
lobbying for it or continue to try and
combat any oppression even when it
gets overturned,”Burton said. “no one’s
fully prepared to know what it’s gonna
look like once abortion is banned, but
everyone’s trying to mentally prep
themselves.”
The pair anticipate that this
fellowship will aid in future career
aspirations. Many of their current
coworkers and bosses were once
fellows as well.
“There’s huge retention right out
of the fellowship position, and most
of the people that graduate go on to
work higher positions at Planned
Parenthood,” Burton said.
Regardless of what they plan to
do, the fellowship is a window into
various career trajectories for the pair.
Langer, for example, hopes to merge
her experience and knowledge with
education.
“I would love to be able to design
sex ed curriculums and figure out what
kind of things we can pass that need to
be addressed in public schools,” Langer
said.
Follow @ppaoregon on Instagram
and @PPAdvocatesOR on Twitter for
updates on bills to support.FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
FEATURES 10
Planned Parenthood selects LC student fellows
Sneakerheads find community, investment opportunityGeorgia Langer ’23, Star Burton ’23 will work with Oregon branch of organization through 2022
By AMELIA MADARANG
IN ORDER TO understand the
sneaker culture of Lewis & Clark,
we can start by looking at the
impact of the Oregon start-up Nike.
Having previously catered
primarily to runners and track and
field competitors, Nike struck an
endorsement deal with a young
Michael Jordan in 1984. Jordan not
only earned the largest endorsement
deal of any rookie athlete at $500,000
per year for five years, but he also got
his own sneaker: the Air Jordan.
Nike had aimed to make roughly
$3 million off the Air Jordans in
their first year, but instead made
$126 million. They later surpassed Converse, which was the NBA’s
official shoe from the early to mid-
1980s. The small shoe firm that took
a chance on a rookie NBA player
revolutionized the sneaker industry
and set it on a new path.
Naturally, other endorsements
followed for Jordan, but it was the Air
Jordans that solidified his standing
as a cultural icon. Sneakers would
no longer be merely for athletic
performance, it would later lead to
a fashion subculture of people who
collect, trade, or admire sneakers as
a hobby.
Adrian Aliwarga ’22 identifies with
the term Sneakerhead. Currently,
his favorite pair of shoes are the
Jordan 4 Retro Sashiko, which did
not release in the United States. The
Japanese model copied the silhouette
of a traditional Jordan but also
incorporated Japanese textiles and
prints. The retail price is around
$200, but on some resale websites
such as StockX, they go for closer to
$700.
Aliwarga has always been into
sneakers, but it was not until he
came to the U.S. from Indonesia that
he started collecting as a hobby. His
sophomore year he bought a pair of
Off-White Vapormax for $400 with
the plan of selling them to make a
profit, but he ended up losing a lot of
money. Since then his mentality has
changed.
“Last year when I came back into
the States after my gap year I got
back into it,” Aliwarga said “It grew
on me as I thought ‘yeah if I want to
get nicer stuff I have to sell the stuff
I have already’ That resulted in me
buying a $20 shoe and flipping it for
$40 then using that money to buy
another shoe.”
For Aliwarga, the main point
of collecting shoes is not to make
a profit, but rather to have a good
time. Although he used to only wear his sneakers for special occasions, he
now wears the shoes he is not selling
out and about. He even wears some of
his shoes in the rain and to the gym.
His philosophy is “if I like it, I’m just
going to wear it”
As an entrepreneurship minor,
Aliwarga’s LC education provided
support for him to establish a stall
at the Portland Vintage Market. It
was there that he met a number of
other LC students who shared his
love of sneakers. Right now, the LC
sneakerhead community is all word
of mouth, and to become involved
you must seek it out. It is also hard
to find a community when there
are no sneaker conventions in the
Portland metro area. This is partly
what inspired Aliwarga to start
designing Rose City Sneaker Fest
with Cameron Stewart (Co-Founder),
Maya Rutherford (Creative Director),
Noah Myers (Head of IT) and Abdo Al
Rayyis ’23 (Data Analyst).
“Portland is the capital of Nike,
Adidas, and Underarmour,” Aliwarga
said. “We have all the big sports
brands here and there is no sneaker
convention. There is a really strong
love for the sneaker community
here. I just don’t understand why it’s
so underrepresented amongst the
United States.”
Although they do not have a
location yet, they have garnered
interest from LC, Portland Gear,
Chosen Wines, BurnCycle and various
other PNW stores. Aliwarga and the
other organizers will be making an
announcement at the end of this
month when they have more details
secured. As of right now, they plan on
launching their website in April and
holding the convention during the
summer.
Aliwarga understands that there
is a price barrier to participating in
sneaker culture and he does not want
Rose City Sneaker Fest to reflect that.“We are trying to build a community
and we want to provide a place where
students, people can gather and just
talk about sneakers,” he said. “Doesn’t
mean that they are going to buy or sell
a shoe but it’s more of a ‘hey I like your
shoes let’s talk about it’ and talk about other shoes. We just want to provide a
place where people can just socialize
and talk about the things they love”
Stay tuned for news and updates on
Rose City Sneaker Fest Summer 2022
by following @rosecity_sneakerfest
on Instagram.COURTESY OF ADRIAN ALIWARGA
Star Burton ’23 and Georgia Langer ’23 were roommates prior to applying and being selected as Planned Parenthood Fellows.GABRIEL MANTIONE-HOLMES/THE PIONEER LOG
Adrian Aliwarga ’22, self-identified shoe connoisseur, brings fresh ideas to local sneaker community
Aliwarga’s shoe collection was on display at the Portland Vintage Market in 2021.
Adrian Aliwarga ’22 is a sneakerhead.AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGFRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
FEATURES 11
By TOR PARSONS
ON MARCH 3 , the Lewis & Clark
history department hosted
the annual Historical Project
Runway, marking the eighth year of
this quirky fashion show. A history-
themed riff on the reality show “Project
Runway,” the event pits teams of
three students against each other in a
competition to design, build and model
costumes based on historical events
according to a theme decided by the
organizers.
The competition began at 5:30 p.m.
and the costumes had to be finished
by 7 p.m. The history department
provided a zany assortment of clothes
and accessories out of which to build
costumes. Students had signed up,
formed teams and chosen topics for
their costumes beforehand. Associate
Professor of History Andy Bernstein
oversaw the costume-making, filling the
role of Tim Gunn on “Project Runway.”
Contestants had to justify the
historical significance of the fashion
choices they made to a judging panel
made up of Professor of English and
Director of Gender Studies Rishona
Zimring, Head of Watzek Library
Special Collections and College Archivist
Hannah Crummé, Administrative
Coordinator Amy Baskin and Ryo
Hillyer, the five-year-old daughter of
Associate Professor of History and
Director of Ethnic Studies Reiko Hillyer
and Professor of History Elliot Young.
When asked why she was called on to
be a judge, Ryo said “because I was old
enough.”
Historical Project Runway was
Reiko Hillyer’s brainchild, combining
her interests in fashion and history, and
she has been an organizer of the event
each year since it started.
“This is about how we can think
abstractly and materially, and unleash
creative juices that don’t always have
the chance to come out in our classes,”
Hillyer said at the beginning of the
event. “But mostly, it’s because we
wanted to have fun.”
Five teams vied for the show’s grand
prize. Each team’s costume was based
on a historical hoax, myth, or moral
panic, in keeping with the night’s theme
of “Fake News: Hoaxes in History.”
First to face the judges was Team
Skull, composed of Ferdinand Sawyer
’22, Ben Warner ’22 and Gil Odgers ’23,
who served as the team’s model. Their
inspiration was phrenology, a 19th-
century pseudoscience that purported
to reveal information about people’s
behavior and intelligence based on the
shape of their skulls.
Odgers wore a black-and-white
referee’s shirt, sweatpants and a leopard print scarf, with several tape measures
draped around their body. Slung around
Odgers’ waist was a purse in the shape
of a deformed baby. Explaining the
team’s choices to the judges, Warner
said the contrast between the stripes
and the leopard print was intended
to symbolize phrenology’s attempt
at neatly classifying types of humans
versus humanity’s wild, unclassifiable
true nature. The baby-purse was
meant as a comment on phrenology’s
connection to eugenics.
Crummé criticized the lack of
Victorian fashion in Odgers’ outfit,
given that phrenology was most popular
in the Victorian era. In response,
Odgers drew applause by announcing
that while phrenology itself is a thing
of the past, its racist and ableist legacy
lives on today.
The next team to be judged was The
Slough, comprising Anthi Sklavenitis
’24, Lucy Clifford ’24 and model Lauren
Arriola ’24. Arriola’s costume was based
on Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio
broadcast of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion
novel “The War of
the Worlds,” which
was so realistic
that thousands of
Americans tuning in
believed Martians
really had invaded
Earth.
Arriola’s outfit
drew on some
creatively repurposed
materials: It was
covered in pictures
of rocket ships cut
out of a children’s
blanket, while the costume’s lower half
was a hoop skirt made out of a collapsible
crawl tube for toddlers. Arriola wore a
large plastic daisy on her back, which
she said symbolized the explosions and
bombings in “The War of the Worlds,”
but also hope in the unification the alien
invasion brings to Earth. When Baskin
asked why the costume did not include
any references to the tripod shape of the
Martians’ fighting machines, Arriola
pointed out that her hair was in three
ponytails.
After The Slough were the Bush Bois,
consisting of Peter Smith ’24, Jeremy
Kregar ’24 and Timothy Stolp ’24. Stolp
wore a getup inspired by U.S. President
George W. Bush’s false claims that Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein possessed
weapons of mass destruction, which
Bush used as a pretext to invade Iraq.
Stolp’s outfit included a long
overcoat, signifying “business as usual,”
over a shirt patterned with hypnotic
black-and-white zigzags, indicating
the confusion of the post-9/11 days.
He also wore a bandana over his face, symbolizing Bush’s jingoistic “cowboy
diplomacy,” and a wire halo above his
head, for American exceptionalism.
Crummé compared the patchwork outfit
to a harlequin, which she said fit Bush’s
image as a clown-like leader.
Team Score was next, with Spencer
Koonce ’23 modeling a torn, many-
layered androgynous outfit loosely
influenced by the Salem witch trials,
flanked by his teammates Corinne Sears
’23 and Alex Knutsen ’23.
“We really wanted to take the
Salem witch trials and elevate it to a
high-fashion ’90s grunge revival, à la
Courtney Love,” Sears said.
When Zimring asked why they went
for an androgynous aesthetic, Knutsen
said “Magic can be found in all genders,”
to murmurs of agreement from the
crowd.
Lastly, The Cult, consisting of Kathy
Zhang ’22, Lizeth Gaxiola ’22 and
model Gabriel Huerta ’22, showed off
their entry inspired by the 1995 hoax
film “Alien Autopsy,” which purported
to show scientists examining an
extraterrestrial that
had crash-landed
near Roswell, New
Mexico.
Zhang joked that
the team chose aliens
as their topic because
the three of them are
psychology majors,
not history majors,
so they felt like they
came from another
world. Huerta’s
costume had a
retrofuturistic style,
with loosely draped beige shawls and
a round hat with fabric around it that
could be closed like curtains.
“We initially went the alien
coming-out-of-the-stomach route, but
(Bernstein) told us that was too obvious,”
Huerta explained. The costume they
settled on was inspired by the desert
landscape of New Mexico as well as
classic sci-fi films like “Star Wars”
and “Dune.”
The judges deliberated for five
minutes, then made their decision. The
Slough won first place for Arriola’s “War of
the Worlds” inspired costume, with each
team member winning $30 gift cards to
the resale retailer Buffalo Exchange. Team
Skull’s phrenology costume took home
second place. They won three “historical
artifacts” including a rare children’s novel
from 1910 titled “The Automobile Boys of
Lakeport,” the card game “Guillotine” and
a hilariously politically incorrect board
game called “Battle of the Sexes: Who Is
The Superior Sex, Male or Female?” from
the 1980s. The remaining teams received
honorable mentions.History department presents
inventive annual fashion show
يقدم املقهى الجديد ارابيال كنافة نابلسية طازجة، قهوة تركية، والعديد من الحلويات األردنية التقليدية مقهى ارابيال يوفر نكهة الوطن
يف طبق كنافة وفنجان قهوة
رائحة الكنافة األردنية الشهية التي تقدم
بطريقتها التقليدية يف (السدر) التي
تحرض فيه و توقد تحتها نار هادئة
. لتحافظ عليها ساخنة و طازجة
سُعدت جداً ألنها املرة األوىل التي أرى بها
هذا املقهى العريب، االردين الذي علمت
بعد سؤايل انه افتتح حديثا، يف سبتمرب
رحب بنا شخص لطيف و عرف لنا
نفسه انه صاحب مقهى ارابيال. قررت
انا وزوجي طلب طبقني من الكنافة
و فنجانني من القهوة الرتكية الشهية
املعروفة برائحتها القوية، مل ننتظر
سوى بضعة دقائق حتى وصلت أطباق
الكنافة، طعم رائع من طبقات الكنافة
املمزوجة بالسمن و القطر و الجبنة
الساخنة الطرية. حرضت بعناية و
اتقان، فكان مذاقها مطابقا للكنافة التي
نتناولها يف أعرق محالت الكنافة و أكرثها
شهرةً يف موطنها األصيل ومع القهوة
الرتكية برائحتها الساحرة زادت التجربة
روعة و استدعت اجمل الذكريات.
قضينا وقتا رائعا يف ارابيال و امتعنا
املكان باجوائه العربية، و سعدنا بسامع
املوسيقى العربية و تناول واحدة من الذ
انواع الحلوى عىل قامئة الحلويات التي
يقدمها املقهى، غادرنا املكان وكلنا عزم
اننا سنعود مرة اخرى لنجرب صنفا آخر
من األصناف املتنوعة التي يقدمها ارابيال
ASMAA ZAIDAN/THE PIONEER LOG
TOR PARSONS/THE PIONEER LOG
Timothy Stolp ’24, Lauren Arriola ’24 and Gil Odgers ’24 were the models for the teams Bush Bois, The Slough and Team Skull.
بقلم رهف الخليفي
يف الغربة تشتاق للوطن و تفتقد دفء
االرسة و ينتابك الحنني لالجتامع مع
االحبة عىل موائد الطعام العامرة مبا
لذ وطاب من اصناف الطعام الذي
حرضته األيادي الحانية بحب و شغف
هنا يف الغربة و مع االنشغال املتواصل
بالدراسة و العمل قد ال يجد الطالب
وقتا إضافيا لتحضري ما اعتاد عليه من
أصناف الطعام التقليدي، لذا يبدأ برحلة
البحث الشاقة عن أنواع األطعمة املتوفرة،
أو املطاعم، أو محالت املخبوزات و
الحلويات التي تشبه ما اعتاد عليه و تريض
ذوقه و تالئم هواه و ما أكرث التنوع يف
أمزجة الناس يف األطعمة و االرشبة .
يف عطلة نهاية األسبوع و بعد اسبوع
شاق، ذهبت برفقة زوجي للتسوق يف أحد
املجمعات ثم تناولنا الغداء كام اعتدنا كل
أسبوع. ما أن دخلنا مجمع التسوق حتى
انبثقت رائحة شهية من أحد املحالت. نعم،
إنني أعرف هذه الرائحة. إنها رائحة الكنافة
األردنية الشهية. قادتني الرائحة اىل مقهى
أنيق، شعرت مع أول خطوة داخله انني
انتقلت اىل مكان يعبق بالرتاث واألصالة،
و ينقلك اىل االردن بكل ما يف املكان من
حلويات، و أطعمة و أواين و زينة و
كل ذلك تلك الرائحة الحبيبة اىل قلبيفوق
ASMAA ZAIDAN/THE PIONEER LOG
Arabella is brimming with various traditional Jordanian imports for sale.This article is part of a series of non-English articles
English translation of this article is available on Piolog.com
“We really wanted to
take the Salem witch
trials and elevate it
to a high-fashion ’90s
grunge revival, à la
Courtney Love”
- Corinne Sears ’23 FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
ARTS 12
By GABE KORER
IN THE BASEMENT level of the
facilities building resides Palatine Hill
radio (KPH), which has been steadily
working to produce and promote student
media this semester. As one of very few
student organizations that have received a
secondary location due to the Templeton
reconstruction, KPH is looking forward to
continuing their efforts to bring exposure
to student radio shows and music.
Last semester, the organization
changed their name to KPH to reflect
the growing movement among clubs
and unions to disentangle themselves
from the harmful legacy of the Lewis &
Clark expedition. It is their hope that
this will incentivize other clubs to also
remove LC from their name.
Co-Chair Max Simon ’23 and Radio
Manager Lauren Arriola ’24 are two of KPH’s
board of directors for the semester, which
also includes General Manager John Wallent
’22, Studio Manager Eli Bolan ’24 and
Events Manager Jackson Pond ’22. Simon
and Arriola have both enjoyed managing
this semester despite the relocation, though
Simon says he is looking forward to getting
back to the usual KPH environment. “I think if everything goes well with
the Templeton construction, it can
breathe a lot of life into the general KPH
space,” Simon said.
After radio silence during the first
five weeks due to relocation difficulties,
KPH has returned to a pretty typical
semester of providing a platform of
student content. They have kept up with
their usual litany of productions and
events, most notably the nearly 50 radio
shows they are known for, but also with
a myriad of annual events. One such
event is the Sunburn Music Festival,
which Arriola said will take place on
April 9 and will feature both a daytime
and nighttime portion.
“During the day, we are going to
have an art market, which is something
we really wanted to do last year at
Sunburn,” Arriola said. “So we will
open out to student artists and vendors
who will be selling stuff, in addition to
student bands because we want more
student involvement.”
Weather permitting, this year’s
Sunburn festival will take place outside
in the Cobblestone Circle, which is the
circle situated between the Howard Bridge
and the Estate Gardens. The nighttime portion will include performances by
student bands and a main stage music
performance from either a headliner or
dual headliner, who Simon hints may be
“a more international act” that is on tour.
“It’s been a really nice way for us to kind
of bridge the gap between the students
and the scene, especially because so many
students here don’t come from Portland or
the Pacific Northwest,” Simon said.
Additionally, KPH is collaborating
with Feminist Student Union (FSU)
to ensure that Sexual Assault Peer
Advocates (SAPAs) will be available
at every event and show they host
moving forward, including the Sunburn
Festival. They believe that this will
allow students to feel safe and have
more trust in the overall environment.
In terms of radio programming, the
shows cover everything from politics to
conspiracy theories to music, all while
running at various time slots every day of
the week. The variety comes as a delight
to both Arriola and Simon, who have
seen radio take on an added value since
the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They have tried to cultivate a space where
students can feel comfortable discussing
whatever is on their minds, or simply jam
out to their favorite tunes.
“I am just amazed at peoples’ brains,”
Arriola said. “Some of the stuff people
have is so weird and out there, and is so
just true to themselves. I just love making
it accessible to be yourself and put that
out in the world.”
The radio show “Picture It,” hosted
by Alaura Diaczun ’24 on Tuesdays from
5 to 6 p.m., is an example of these unique
programs. Diaczun says the intro to her
show was inspired by the “Golden Girls”
character Rose Nylund, who would
start all of her long rambling stories
with “picture it.” Diaczun similarly sets
the scene for her audience, describing a
specific emotion, setting or time period,
before playing music that fits the “vibe”
of the experience. “One of my favorites was playing 1950s
R&B slow doo-wop songs, like the kind you
would have heard on the radio station at
night,” Diaczun said. “I actually looked up a
bunch of different famous radio DJs during
the time and took snippets of their voice
and wove them in between the songs.”
In the past, Diaczun has had shows
entirely in Spanish or French.
“It feels very natural for me to
categorize things into certain feelings or
genres,” Diaczun said.
Diaczun describes her time with
KPH as highly enjoyable and productive,
given the level of independence and
autonomy she has to produce the show.
Despite their hands-off approach,
the radio managers have always been
around to help when she has needed it.
Aside from radio shows, KPH’s
studio is regularly used by LC bands and
musicians. Historically, their space has
been used by students that went on to
pursue music after graduating, including
members of the Canary Room, who have
appeared on NPR Music.
KPH has also placed an emphasis on
providing access to instruments, audio
interfaces and a place to record — key
resources for students considering getting
into music. On occasion, they even hold
tutorials on occasion that teach people
how to run sound and do live mixing,
such as a “how to make your own synth
workshop” which will take place in the
coming months.
As a final note, KPH wants to remind
people to stay tuned in for updates and
to always consider contributing to their
blog, where they post an array of music
related opinions, album reviews and
playlists. In the coming weeks, they plan
on announcing an event that will take
place before Sunburn. For more details
of the event and other updates, sign up
for their mailing list klc@lclark.edu or
follow them at @kphradio. Additionally,
their shows are streamed on Mixlr, a link
to which is available on their LC webpage. By AIDAN D’ANNA
ON FEB. 28, the Lewis & Clark
English Department welcomed
National Book Award winner
Nikky Finney for a reading from her
latest book “Love Child’s Hotbed of
Occasional Poetry.” Finney is also a
John H. Bennett Jr. Endowed professor
of creative writing and southern letters
at the University of South Carolina.
Held in Smith Hall, the event was
standing room only and hosted over
120 attendees. Finney’s reading is the
first of the LC English Department’s
Spring Reading Series, all of which the
department expects to be well attended
after nearly two years of virtual events.
Finney was originally scheduled to
appear on March 17, 2020, just four
days after LC students received an email
from Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences Bruce Suttmeier announcing
that the rest of the year’s classes would
be virtual, and that all in-person events
were canceled, effective immediately.
Though Finney did deliver a virtual
reading in November 2020, attendees
and poet alike agreed that it was not the
same experience as reading in person.
Amy Baskin, administrative coordinator
for the English and History departments
and co-organizer for last week’s event, said
it was amazing to finally have Finney on
campus.
“To be able to commune and
experience the spoken word in person
is a really different experience than
reading it individually, or even reading it
in a book collectively,” Baskin said. “And
I think when we get together for events
like this, we remember our community
more. It feels more participatory, just
because it’s poetry and a speaker like
Nicky requires such deep listening, it
makes it a really connected experience.”
Associate Professor of English Mary
Szybist introduced Finney at the event, and
emphasized that this reading was special
because it was both LC and Finney’s first in-person poetry reading since the COVID-19
pandemic. This made Palatine Hill the first
in-person stop on her book tour for “Love
Child,” published in April 2020.
“This was the first in-person reading
we’ve been able to host since the
pandemic began, and it had that sense of
sacred listening and shared energy that is
very hard to approach via Zoom,” Szybist
said via email. “Part of what I loved about
the evening is that it felt like Nikky really
showed up for us — she was really present
to her poems and to us — and we showed
up for her too. We put our phones away.
Many of us closed our eyes. Many of us
cried, laughed, were moved, listened. It
was an experience we had together.”
Finney began the reading not with
one of her own poems, but one written
by Ukrainian author Taras Shevchenko in
1859 entitled “Calamity Again.” The poem
is about the cycle of never ending violence
plaguing the Eastern European country,
and Finney discussed how it remains true
in light of current events.
However, Finney cautioned the
audience against abdicating their role
in the conflict.
“Don’t let anyone tell you this is a
Russia-Ukraine issue,” Finney said.
“This is about humankind.”
This introduction was the perfect segue
into “Love Child,” which from the very
beginning embodies the concept of finding
beauty in pain. Though originally nothing
more than a book of poems, the concept
for “Love Child” became something more
when Finney returned home to South
Carolina in 2013 to take care of her father,
who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
disease. She found in her childhood home
a box of 400 letters she and her father had
exchanged over the years, and knew that
he had to be represented in the book.
The published version of “Love Child”
includes some of these letters, along with
photographs, journal entries and other
artifacts that help explain some of the
poems contained within. The publishers
also surprised Finney by including a memory of her father on the cover of
the book: the words “Love Child” are
scrawled in his handwriting.
According to Finney’s website,
the book also contains “hotbeds, a
horticulture term introducing Finney’s
readers to her journals, the place where
most of her poems have always found
their calcium and strong knees.”
Finney read only six poems at the
event, but due to her unique performance
style of engaging the audience, this took
nearly 30 minutes. Between each poem,
and sometimes in the middle of one,
Finney would stop to tell the story of one of
the hotbeds, or just an amusing anecdote.
For example, she described a man she saw
carrying a dead deer on his back on the
side of a highway, as well as the tongue in
cheek tale of why she no longer has any
problems because she “cried them all out.”
Lizzy Kolb ’23 attended and was
particularly moved by these behind the
scenes anecdotes.
“I think the parts for me that felt the
most special were the stories that she
told in between,” Kolb said. “About her
father and her experiences with him, or
just about any of the context leading up
to any of the poems. Because that is the
juicy fruit that you don’t necessarily get a
glimpse of when you just read the poem.” Baskin also felt drawn to Finney’s
reading style, and connected it to what
she believes to be the deeper meaning of
poetry.
“Nikky just channels her work and
manifests it through her core,” Baskins
said. “And watching her read, she made
the whole room electric. And that’s the
point of poetry, it really is, touching
people and connecting back and forth.”
Finney closed her reading with “Miss
Polly Is Akimbo Underneath the Mother
Emanuel Collection Table,” a poem about
a mass shooting that Finney turned into
art, and used it to speak about how she
sees the vocation of poetry.
“I have to say the things that CNN
won’t show, but are still human,” Finney
said. “My job is to make something
as beautiful as this building, that will
stand the test of time.”
Following a round of applause from
the crowd, Finney took four questions
and then moved to the back of the room
to sign copies of “Love Child,” as well as
her 2011 National Book Award winning
collection “Head Off & Split.”
The Spring Reading Series continues
on March 16 at 6 p.m. in the Gregg
Pavilion, with a poetry reading from
Stegner Fellows Jacques J. Rancourt
and Corey Van Landingham.By ADELAIDE KAISER
HBO MAX’S HIT show
“Euphoria” aired its season
two finale on Feb. 27. The
show, written, created and directed by
Sam Levinson, follows teenager Rue
Bennett (Zendaya), her classmates
and their families. “Euphoria”
grapples with issues such as addiction,
sexuality, dating, familial conflict
and friendship — a wild ride for any
viewer. If you have not finished this
season, do not keep reading: There
will be spoilers.
This season was fraught with
contentious discourse on social media.
I agree with some takes and disagree
with others, as you might expect. For
example I, like others, wished that
Kat (Barbie Ferreira) had an actual
substantial storyline. Kat had been
one of my favorite characters in the
first season, and her only storyline
this season was not being in love with
her boyfriend, and then gaslighting
him. For a character with so much
potential, I was saddened to see this
development. I felt similarly about
Jules’ (Hunter Schaefer) character this
season. She barely had any lines in the
last few episodes and acted completely
out of character by cheating on Rue
with Elliot (Dominic Fike).
I did enjoy seeing Lexi (Maude
Apatow), Fezco (Angus Cloud) and
Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) get to shine
this season. Sweeney’s acting was
particularly powerful, as her character
Cassie went through the ringer in
terms of both her friendships and her
romantic relationship with Nate. I also
enjoyed seeing Lexi, a self-described
“bystander” come out of the shadows
and speak her truth in a way that was
both powerful and funny.
Yes, I ship Fexi. No, I do not
want to talk about the finale. Despite
evidence in the show, in my heart I
still firmly believe he went to the play.
I stand by it.
Most importantly though, I think
that the way that “Euphoria” became
such a cultural phenomenon speaks
volumes about modern content
consumption. In the age of streaming,
entire seasons of shows will drop
in one day, leaving viewers to binge
the season in a week and then forget
about it for two years, whether it gets
renewed or not. However, week after
week, “Euphoria” would take over my
entire Twitter timeline and TikTok
“For You” page. Before the episode
even dropped, “#EuphoriaDay” would
be trending, and on Sundays at 6 p.m.
PST sharp TVs would turn on, laptops
would open and Fields Dining Hall
would be a little quieter than usual,
as everyone tuned into the latest
episode.
I know I am describing the
broadcast model, but drawing out
the release allows viewers the
opportunity to really dive into each
episode and pick apart the characters,
plotlines, symbolism and dialogue in
a way that is often lost when binge
watching a show. In my opinion, this
is a part of what makes “Euphoria”
such a successful show. Waiting in
suspense, predicting what will happen
next week and debriefing the episode
with friends and on social media made
me, as a viewer, feel more invested in
the show’s plot.
Despite some of my favorite
characters getting snubbed, I thought
this season of “Euphoria” was
thought-provoking. My favorite part
of the show’s content continues to
be the manner in which it addresses
difficult emotions and struggles,
allowing us to understand characters
in their full complexity. Rue says some
pretty hurtful things to her family this
season, but as viewers we do not hate
her; the show successfully humanizes
her and explores how and why she
acted the way that she did. I am
excited to see what happens to these
characters next, and I look forward
to tuning in to season three each
week when it eventually drops, likely
sometime in 2024.Nikky Finney brings “Love Child” to
Portland for first reading since 2020
Campus radio station relocates for Templeton
construction, revives student media, changes name
“Euphoria”
dominates
television
AIDAN D’ANNA/THE PIONEER LOG
Finney’s reading took place in Smith Hall and was the first of LC’s Spring Reading Series.
AIDAN D’ANNA/THE PIONEER LOG
The new KPH office is located in the basement of the facilities building next to McAfee.FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
ARTS 13
By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
THE PORTLAND Art Museum
(PAM) debuted the “Frida Kahlo,
Diego Rivera, and Mexican
Modernism” exhibit on Feb. 19. It is set
to be PAM’s featured exhibition running
until June 5. The Exhibition features
over 150 works documenting the iconic
and revolutionary lives of Mexican artists
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, placed in
context with their contemporaries.
This is not an exhibition that primarily
consists of Frida Kahlo’s work. While
Kahlo and Rivera are the focal point of
this exhibition, there are only 23 pieces
by Kahlo and 19 by Rivera. Through heavy
contextualization, the lives and influences
of two revolutionary artists are reimagined
to highlight how the Mexican modernist
movement has been overlooked despite
its influence on art, politics, philosophy
and anti-colonial perspectives.
As part of the exhibition, PAM has
partnered with two groups of artists
that will be painting live murals at the
suggestion of PAM collaborator and artist
Hector Hernandez.
“This is something that Orozco did
at the MoMA in New York in 1940 at
the exhibition of ‘Twenty Centuries
of Mexican art,’ and Orozco painted
on fresco, and it was well received,”
Hernandez said. “Because it was not only
you know, the display of finished products
so far. It was the creation itself in which
people were witnessing.”
Hernandez leads a team consisting
of local artists Angennette Escobar and
Christian Barrios to work on this live
mural, as well as Victor Hugo Garza who has created a digital mural which interacts
with the physical one. By morphing into
different images, the digital mural mimics
the transitions of the physical highlighting
the power of the creation process.
The exhibition draws the attendees’
attention to how Mexican modernism
subverts Western and European
modernism by placing modernist styles in
dialogue with pre-colonial art and culture.
This dialogue creates space to highlight
the beauty of a pre-Hispanic culture.
Mexican Modernism emerged in the
aftermath of the 1920 Mexican Revolution
and intended to create a unified Mexican
identity or Mexicanidad.
Hernandez is a veteran artist with
two masters degrees and several years of
collaboration with PAM. However, like
Mexican Modernism, he believes Mexican
artists are still significantly overlooked.
“My line of work is probably too
Brown for some taste in the Northwest,”
Hernandez said. “I have applied for Call
for Artists or RFQ and I have never been
selected … Even when I was doing my
Masters, I had to fight because they didn’t
know what Mexican art was. I had to
defend myself.”
Even though Hernandez and Brown
artists have been disregarded, Hernandez
identifies Mexican culture as having a
massive influence not only in the US but
across the world.
“It’s like, every 50 years, they have to
discover Mexico,” Hernandez said. “Who
proposed the use of acrylic paint as a
form for fine art pieces? It was Mexican
painters. Who proposed the explorations
of subjects like Frida did with sexuality?”
To showcase this movement the
exhibition has pieces from the “big three” of the Mexican muralist movement that
lead to the popularization of Mexican
modernism: Rivera, Jose Clemente
Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The
conversations between the muralist
movement, Kahlo’s “magical-realism”
and the historical political movements
occurring in Mexico, populism,
communism and anti-colonialism,
provide a rich historical context to view
the PAM exhibition.
Kahlo’s portrayal of her Mestiza
identity acts as an early call to the
Mexicayotl movement which sought
to revive Indigenous cultures that
were brutalized and fractured through
European colonization. Through the
embodiment of Tehuana culture, a cultural
descendant of the Zapotec civilization,
Kahlo questions gender identity and
Western superiority throughout her
works.
While Kahlo could be considered
white passing and affluent, her depiction
of indigeneity was a part of a growing
movement to celebrate pre-Hispanic
societies. According to Alberto McKelligan
Hernandez, assistant professor of art
history at Portland State University, “no
one in post-revolutionary Mexico would
have read the image as Kahlo presenting
herself as a Tehuana.” Kahlo was apart
of an artistic movement seeking to make
visible Indigenous cultures that had
previously been silenced by colonialism.
This exhibition acts as a celebration
of anti-colonial ideologies that erupted in
the wake of the Mexican Revolution. With
a student ID, a day pass is $22, a year pass
$25 and without ID it is $25 for a day pass.
LC students should take advantage of this
opportunity to visit the exhibit. By PATRICK LEE
ONE OF Ancient Greece’s most
notorious tragedies will be
painted in bright colors, dressed
in lavish gowns and set to bubbly love
songs in Fir Acres Theatre’s upcoming
production of “Medea.”
The play follows the titular Medea,
a woman who left both her family and
homeland behind to marry Jason, an
adventurer who soon marries another
woman. Betrayed and with few people
left to turn to, she plots one of the
most infamous revenges in theatrical
history — one that involves the murder
of her own children.
Director and Adjunct Faculty
Jenna Tamimi switches the play from
its original setting of Greece in the
5th century BCE to suburban America
in the 1950s. The production largely
takes place in a perfect, pristine mid
century home. The design is crafted
by a student team led by Amber
Adamski ’22, Abby Jacquin ’22, Ryann
St. Julien ’22 and Karen Wingard ’22.
The show’s stage manager, Mary-
Alice Perkins ’22, believes the change
in setting will help audiences better
connect to the story.
“I hope that when the audience
sees ‘Medea’ performed in this 1950s
kitchen, they will see the universality
of the show and be able to connect
to the story in a more modern light,”
Perkins said.
Using the idealized, saccharine
aesthetic of the 1950s in the context
of this painful story also serves as a
demonstration of the shallowness of
the era’s pleasantries. Suddenly, the
suffering hidden underneath simmers
to the surface.
Tamimi aimed to connect this
theme to current events in the U.S.,
hoping to reflect how “women today
are still trapped.”
“The phrase ‘make America great
again’ is still reverberating in our ears,
and I think when people say that, often
what they have in mind is this idealized
image of the 1950s, the nuclear family,
the white picket fence, ‘traditional’
values,” Tamimi said. “We know
that beneath that, there’s this raging
misogyny, racism, homophobia.”Zoe Brouwer ’22, who is giving
their thesis performance in the role
of Medea, has been preparing to
play the part since the summer. It is
a demanding role, as Medea has the
majority of the play’s dialogue and
rarely leaves the stage. For Brouwer,
the two eras reflect each other well.
“The ’50s was so characterized by
that suburban, patriarchal family,
perfect paradise, and that perfect ideal
correlates really well with Athenian
society,” Brouwer said.
The play is also historic for being
one of the first Greek tragedies
to feature such a complex female
character.
“It is one of western drama’s first
exploration into a female character’s
interiority,” Tamimi said.
The character, as noted by Paul S.
Wright Professor of Christian Studies
Robert Kugler, has long been a point
of interest to those looking to explore
issues regarding gender and misogyny.
“She offers thinkers enormous
opportunity to address gender in their
literary or artistic compositions,”
Kugler said.
However, Tamimi acknowledges
that, when staged in the modern day,
the outdated language of such old
works can alienate audience members.
“One of the things that can often
turn people off to a kind of ancient
text is the language, and feeling
that it’s inaccessible,” Tamimi said.
“That’s been one of the big challenges,
to make that language accessible,
and to find the moments in the text
where it feels very colloquial and
conversational.”
The production does not change
the flowery dialogue of the original,
but makes it more accessible to
audiences by having the actors deliver
the lines in a natural, realistic fashion.
“I go line by line and I think about
how I would say that, rephrasing
it,” Brouwer said. “It’s just a lot of
bringing it down and trying to make it
more realistic.”
By adapting the story for a modern
audience, “Medea” displays the
importance of revisiting ancient work.
To Kugler, looking at works of the past
is needed to examine the present.
“We need (Greek tragedies),
alongside the classic works from
other times and places, to help us look
deeply at ourselves as individuals and
communities,” Kugler said.
“Medea” opens Friday, March 11,
and has shows on March 12, 13, 15, 16
and 17. Tickets are on sale at the Fir
Acres Box Office and on the Lewis &
Clark website.COURTESY OF ROCCO WEYER JOHNSON
“Medea” will be performed at Fir Acres.
By AMELIA MADARANG
MY ROOMMATE and I love
to watch movies that we can
brutally roast and reference
out of context. So, over winter break,
we dutifully watched all of Christopher
Nolan’s Batman movies and all of the
entire “Twilight” saga starring Robert
Pattinson. This was all in preparation for
the March 4 release of “The Batman” in
theaters.
“The Batman” director Matt Reeves
is best known for his work “Dawn of the
Planet of the Apes” (2014) and “War for
the Planet of the Apes” (2017). Whereas
Pattinson grew to notoriety from the
aforementioned “Twilight” saga and has
starred in smaller projects like “Robert
Pattinson Desperately Needs a New
York City Hot Dog.” He has only recently
come back to big-budget movies with
the release of Christopher Nolan’s
“Tenet” (2020). Reeves and his choice
of Pattinson were received skeptically
by fans, but some were excited about the
return of a darker, grittier Batman.
The movie trailer advertised that
Batman would be challenging his classic
nemesis the Riddler, a vicious criminal
who leaves clues and ciphers for the
police to solve. The trailer showed a darker version of both the Riddler (who
is reminiscent of the Zodiac Killer) and
Batman himself, who is shown beating
a man for what is maybe too long before
saying “I’m Vengeance.”
Now, fair warning, the rest of this
article will contain spoilers for “The
Batman.”
Those familiar with the DC Universe
know that the story of Batman is pretty
formulaic. A young Bruce Wayne loses
his parents in Gotham City, which
ultimately led him to craft the Batman
persona and seek justice against
criminals. He has a lot of money, a butler
named Alfred and a set of strict rules he
created and which he abides by.
“The Batman” stays true to all of
these tropes but turns away from the
“Bruce Wayne and his secret identity”
storyline. When this movie starts,
Batman is already established, so we
do not focus on his origin story. Unlike
Nolan’s playboy philanthropist Batman,
Reeves writes a Batman that is socially
awkward and takes lots of beatings. It
is more of a crime-fighting, detective
version of the masked vigilante.
The movie plays on a lot of the
anxieties of our current time. There are
widespread systems of corruption within
the police and local government. “Rich white men” are mentioned a few times as
being able to get away with anything that
they want. The corruptions also lead to
infrastructure problems that later result
in levies breaking and Gotham flooding.
A nod to New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina? Who is to say?
There are also references to other
true crime events. The Zodiac Killer’s
riddles and ciphers are emulated, as
well as the “collar bomb” from the death
of Brian Wells and the Unabomber’s
mail bombs. Like Elliott Rodgers and
many other mass murders, the Riddler
live streams his killings, posts videos
and creates a community online of like
minded people, who form an armed
militia and disrupt the mayoral election.
These events all show the dark and gritty
realities Batman is now dealing with.
Now this movie did have its faults. I
thought people were joking when they
said it was a three-hour movie. It was not
a joke. There were a few moments when
I thought the movie was going to end,
but it kept going. I also thought Batman
was going to die a few times, but he
kept going. I felt like there should have
been more women, and there were a lot
of deus ex machina tropes. However,
these are all the normal action movie
complaints. “The Batman” has a lot of the quality
we expect from superhero movies. There
is a good score, fantastic fight scenes, fun
redesigns of classic Batman gadgets and
a few good twists in the plotline. If you
do not like Batman or action movies this
might not be for you. But for Batman
fans? I have heard a few people say that
Pattinson can not be their Batman, but
honestly, I think this movie is worth
giving a try.
Also, if you are a fan of puzzles make
sure to stick around for the end credit
scene. Full disclosure, I did not and I
live with regret.Robert Pattinson crushes new role as Batman,
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SPORTS 14
Golf welcomes new head coach for 2022 season
With nearly a decade of experience, Brad Johnson has refined his approach to coaching student athletes
By GABE KORER

IN JANUARY, BRAD Johnson was
named as the new head coach
for the men’s and women’s golf
team. Johnson, who is from Colorado,
coached at the University of La Verne
during the 2019-20 season.
Having previously coached at New
York University (NYU) and Millsaps College, which he led to top national
rankings, Johnson said Lewis & Clark
drew his attention in part because of
its location and strong emphasis on
academics.
“It was a combination of being with
a great university at Lewis & Clark, and
then being in a situation where I think
my family and myself would be a little
happier,” Johnson said.Johnson described feeling passionate
about golf from the moment he first picked
up a set of clubs. As a maintenance crew
worker cutting grass at a golf course, he
would often play in the afternoons when
the work was done, and picked up the
sport quickly. He went on to play in high
school and in college for the University of
Colorado and Colorado State University.
As a head coach, Johnson earned
himself a reputation for improving
collegiate programs. He took NYU’s
men’s team from being 130th in the
nation for more than a decade to 8th in
the country, and coached their women’s
team to a national championship in
2019. At Millsaps, he experienced
similar team success.
Now at LC, Johnson’s aim is to build
up the program so that it can eventually
be successful on a national scale.
“We want to be a top program, and
that’s my goal,” Johnson said. “I really
feel like we can be successful on both the
men’s and women’s side.”
Johnson stresses the importance
of taking a holistic approach to
coaching student athletes, which
means caring about more than their
level of play. He always makes sure
to check up on the other aspects of
their lives, whether it be internships
or academics. To this day, he still gets calls from former players long after
he stopped coaching them.
Johnson has carried this mentality
with him to LC. Although he has not had
the opportunity to recruit yet, he is very
pleased with the student athletes currently
on his roster.
“To have the group that I have
here … I just feel really, really lucky,”
Johnson said. “They’re great, I mean
just great. I think what makes the
student athletes so amazing is they
appreciate what I’m trying to do, and
they let me know that. They’re caring
and they’re kind, and they’re gracious
and they’re smart, and I think that’s
what makes our group so fantastic.”
On March 5, the Pioneers competed
in the Spring Trilogy Number One
Tournament for their first official
competition of the spring season. Both
the men’s and women’s teams finished
in third place, shooting +26 and +115
respectively. Two LC players cracked the
top ten individually, with Kamryn Ford
’22 finishing sixth on the women’s team
and Alex Wong ’25 finishing third for the
men’s team.
All in all, Johnson sees this outing as
being a “benchmark” given the strong
performance of the team. The Pios will
look to carry this momentum into their
next matchup, where they will square off in the Pacific Dual meet on March 12 and
March 13 at the Quail Valley Golf Course.
Olivia Weaver ’22, who finished
thirteenth overall with a score of 99 in
the tournament, spoke very highly of her
teammates’ play, noting that Johnson’s
supportive demeanor set a positive tone
for the team.
“I think that this tournament went
pretty well, as far as our first one with
a new coach,” Weaver said. “I feel like
Brad really brings a good energy to the
team. He can be kind of silly sometimes
which is pretty fun and it kept everyone
lighthearted, which I definitely feel like we
needed for starting the season out.”
As a senior playing in her final season,
Weaver is excited to be playing under
Johnson, who has been highly supportive
of his players. When asked what ultimately
motivates him as a coach, Johnson insists
that the deeply rewarding part of the
experience are the connections he is able
to make with athletes like Weaver.
“The part of my job that is the hardest
is the recruiting, the paperwork, the
budgets - all the little nitty gritty stuff, the
small detail stuff that goes into my job,”
Johnson said. “You got to wear a lot of
hats as a head coach. But the one thing
that makes my job worth it is them …
It’s the relationships that I build with my
student athletes.”
Quirky sports infuse the world of
athletics with new and fresh fun
Johnson has placed an emphasis on building relationships with his student athletes.PHOTO COURTESY OF BRAD JOHNSON
By GRETA BURTON
THE PORTLAND Timbers began
their 2022 season on Feb.
26 at Providence Park in a
hard-fought match against the New
England Revolution. The drizzly match
resulted in a 2-2 draw.
During the match, the Timbers
debuted their new rose-patterned plum
and blush-colored kit, and were led by
former Major League Soccer (MLS)
forward and Head Coach Giovanni
Savarese. The possession was split evenly,
with the Timbers claiming 55% of action,
leaving 45% to the Revolution.
New England’s defender Brandon Bye
found a chance to score off of a header,
sneaking past two Portland defenders and
into the goal after finding the crossbar 41
minutes in. Early into the second half,
Timbers forward Dairon Asprilla, assisted
by midfielder Santiago Moreno, equalized
in the 60th minute and celebrated with his
trademark back flip. Midfielder Sebastian
Lletget quickly returned the goal and
restored the Revolution’s lead in the 63rd
minute.
Forward Yimmi Chará got Timbers
fans’ hopes up with a goal, until it was
recalled by the sideline referee due to an
offsides penalty. However, fans were not
disappointed for long. In the 78th minute
Chará bicycle-kicked the ball, placing it in
the upper left-hand corner of the goal for
the MLS-chosen Moment of the Match.
The Revolution nearly won due to a
shot in the 97th minute from striker Adam
Buska, but the Timbers’ goalkeeper Aljaž
Ivačič narrowly knocked the ball over the
top of the crossbar.
The Timbers Army was also out in
full-force during the season opener.
Rather than exhibit their usual eye-
catching tifo display to assert their
allegiance to the club, the fans donated
$5,000 to organizations that support
people experiencing domestic violence
for the banner materials. The support comes in the aftermath of domestic
violence allegations against former
player Andy Polo and allegations of
sexual coercion and misconduct by
former Portland Thorns coach Paul
Riley, as reported by The Oregonian.
During the 2022 opener, both teams
seemed anxious for a win after leaving
the 2021 season unsatisfied. During last
year’s playoffs, both teams’ seasons ended
surprisingly. The Timbers snuck up the
leaderboard in the Western Conference
after barely qualifying for the playoffs,
eventually beating Real Salt Lake 2-0 for
the Conference title and a chance for the
league championship. The Revolution
dominated the Eastern board during a
historic regular season only to lose to
New York City FC in free kicks after two
15-minute periods of overtime.
During the final match hosted at
Providence Park, NYC FC clinched the
MLS Cup in free kicks after the Timbers
leveled the score in the final minute of
regular time and sustained the tie through
overtime.
Despite the outcome, last season’s
championship match was historic for
several reasons for Portland. It was
Providence Park’s first time hosting the
MLS Cup, the Timbers’ second overall
appearance in the Cup, and midfielder
Diego Valeri’s last showing for the club,
who earned a spot on MLS’ list of the Top
25 Players of All-Time.
As the 2022 MLS season commences,
fans are witnessing the Timbers enter a
new era as a club. Players to watch are the
Chará siblings, Diego and Yimmi, Dairon
Aprilla, Sebastián Blanco, Santiago
Morena, Jarosław Niezgoda and Felipe
Mora.
During their second match of the
season, the Timbers reached a draw
against LAFC, 1-1.
The Timbers are scheduled to face
Austin FC at Providence Park in their
third match of the season on March 12 at
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By TOR PARSONS
YOU THINK YOU are not into
sports, smugly referring to them
as “sportsball.” You take great
pride in that time when a friend of yours
brought up LeBron James, and you said,
“Oh, is he a football player?” All this is
par for the course for a place like Lewis
& Clark, where some students have never
even been to a sporting event.
However, inside every sports hater
is a potential sports lover. The world
of sports is far broader than you might
think — indeed, some of the following
quirky sports push the boundaries of what
could be considered a sport. Who knows?
Perhaps one of them will be your calling.
Slapboxing - 7/10
Recently popular on Snapchat,
where a video of two Louisiana State
football players slapping each other
went viral, slapboxing is exactly what
it sounds like: boxing with open-hand
slaps instead of punches. Two people
step into the ring, and they slap each
other until one taps out. Although it has
been featured by the Ultimate Fighting
Championship, most slapboxing is
informal and used either as a training
routine or to settle small-time scores
among neighborhood kids. Despite
originating in Russia, slapboxing
is a time-honored tradition among
New York youth. In addition to being
mentioned in songs by Wu-Tang Clan
and Pharoahe Monch, slapboxing also
inspired the title of an award-winning
1999 collection of short stories set in
Queens, New York titled “Slapboxing
with Jesus.”Cheese-rolling - 9/10
With a name as innocuous as “cheese-
rolling,” it should come as a surprise
that this six-hundred-year tradition is
a dangerous and cutthroat sport. At the
annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling
and Wake in Gloucester, England, a
nine-pound wheel of Double Gloucester
cheese is rolled down a steep, grassy hill,
reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per
hour. After the cheese has gotten a one-
second head start (likely the only time I
will ever write that phrase), people are
released after it, tumbling down the
slope after the cheese. The first person
to catch the cheese wins. It is easy to
lose one’s control when running down a
steep hill, and paramedics are at the ready
every year for the inevitable injuries. In
1997, 33 people were injured during the
cheese-rolling. The cheese was replaced
with a foam replica in 2014, since a nine-
pound, 70-mph rolling wheel of cheese
was deemed too unsafe, but the cheesy
carnage lives on.
Competitive sauna - 1/10
Dubbed “quite possibly the
world’s dumbest sport” by ESPN, it
should perhaps not be surprising that
Finland, the land of the sauna, has
made an extreme sport out of sitting
in a 230 degree Fahrenheit sauna. The
rules are simple: Whoever stays in for
the longest wins. For a while, five-time
champion saunist Timo Kaukonen
was a Finnish national hero, until
disaster struck at the 2010 World
Sauna Championship in Heinola,
Finland. With millions of Finns
watching what was effectively their
Super Bowl, Kaukonen and Russian competitor Vladimir Ladyzhensky
passed out after six minutes in the
sauna, much longer than doctors say
is safe. Ladyzhensky later died, and
Kaukonen spent six weeks in a coma.
The World Sauna Championships
have not been held since.
Wife carrying - 4/10
A common complaint in today’s
sports world is that it is too gendered.
If you are an edgy contrarian who
believes the opposite, look no further
than the most heteronormative sport
in existence, wife carrying. The
sport is exactly what it says on the
tin: Burly, manly men race across a
field dotted with rocks, streams and
other obstacles, all while carrying
their wives on their backs. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, wife carrying also
comes to us from Finland. The
Wikipedia page for the United
Kingdom Wife Carrying Race includes
the following footnotes: For the 2015
race, “This race also saw Joel Hicks
carrying ‘Tiny Tina,’ a male friend
in drag who was 7’4” and 22 stone
(308 lbs).” Then a year later in 2016,
“This race saw Joel Hicks carrying
two wives simultaneously but coming
last.” Clearly, Hicks is a legend of
wife carrying. At the Wife Carrying
World Championship in Sonkajärvi,
Finland, wives can be carried in three
different ways: piggyback, fireman’s
carry or “Estonian-style,” where the
man holds the woman by her thighs,
with her head and torso dangling
upside-down on the man’s back. Oh,
those Estonians.
Bog snorkeling - 8/10
This is another fairly intuitive
sport. Wearing a snorkel and flippers,
participants paddle along a 60-yard
course cut through a slimy peat
bog, emerging covered in mud but
also (hopefully) glory. Conventional
swimming strokes are forbidden;
contestants must move themselves
with their flippers alone. There is
no protocol on what should happen
if preserved Neolithic mummies are
discovered in the bog during the event,
but there should be. Bog snorkeling is
most popular in countries with bogs,
including but not limited to, yes,
Finland. Finnish jack-of-all-trades
athlete Taisto Miettinen is believed to
be the only person to have ever won
a gold medal in both the World Bog
Snorkeling Championship and the
Wife Carrying World Championship.
We anxiously await his feel-good
blockbuster biopic, no doubt
featuring a cameo from Seth Rogen as
Joel Hicks. After falling short in the MLS Cup last season, the Timbers are hungry for success.FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
SPORTS 15
By TOR PARSONS
IN JUNE 2021 and Feb. 2022,
the Oregon State Senate passed
a pair of bills allowing student
athletes to profit off their public images.
Oregon became the ninth state to pass
bills like these in the past three years, with
California’s landmark 2019 bill serving as
the model. Known as NIL laws, these bills
explicitly allow students to profit from
their name, image and likeness.
In practice, that means the bills give
non-professional athletes the right to
make money through advertising deals.
Previously, most academic institutions
prohibited student athletes from
receiving compensation for endorsement
deals and appearance fees. Now, for
example, Oregon Ducks quarterback
Anthony Brown can appear on a cereal
box or in an energy drink commercial
without facing retribution. Under the
legislation, student athletes like Brown
would also be able to hire sports agents to
represent them. NIL laws are a direct challenge to
the authority of the National Collegiate
Athletics Administration (NCAA), which
has much control over pre-professional
sports in the United States. Formerly,
NCAA rules stated that players could
not be paid “to advertise, recommend
or promote directly the sale or use of a
commercial product or service of any
kind.” They were also prohibited from
being represented by agents. NIL laws
explicitly legalized these actions in
multiple states, preventing students from
being punished for appearing in ads or
hiring agents. In response to the wave
of NIL laws, the NCAA Division I board
of directors voted in June 2021, shortly
after the passage of Oregon’s first NIL
bill, to waive their rules surrounding
advertising and agents.
Oregon’s 2021 NIL bill was co-
sponsored by Senate President Peter
Courtney (D-Salem) and President Pro
Tempore James Manning Jr. (D-Eugene).
Manning Jr., the highest-ranking Black
politician in Oregon, framed the bill as an act of economic justice, emphasizing that
college sports are a billion-dollar industry.
“The NCAA and universities are
profiting off our athletes, many of
whom are Black and from low-income
households, and preventing them from
making any money for themselves,”
Manning Jr. said to Oregon Public
Broadcasting.
Initially, Courtney intended for the
law to go further, requiring schools that
receive royalties for sports merchandising
agreements (e.g. to advertise sponsors
on athletes’ jerseys) to pay a cut of the
royalties directly to the student athletes.
This part of the bill was wider-ranging
and more impactful than any previous
state NIL laws. The provision was cut after
Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA,
threatened to sue the state of Oregon,
saying the provision would make the
athletes employees rather than students.
Despite the setback, Oregon’s major
universities hailed the 2021 NIL bill’s
passage on social media, as did prominent
Oregon collegiate athletes, including
Ducks women’s basketball star Sabrina
Ionescu. However, opposition remained
to the idea of allowing student athletes
to profit. Writing in the New Yorker in
2015, legal scholar Ekow Yankah argued
that top college athletes are already
paid in scholarships, medical care and
free travel, allowing them to live very
comfortable lives. He also contended that
sports should be part of a well-rounded
education, rather than something seen as
a job separate from peoples’ studies.
NIL laws are likely to continue to
grow in popularity. On Feb. 9 this year,
the Oregon State Senate passed a bill
expanding their previous NIL law,
allowing student athletes to profit off
jersey sales as well as appearances on
trading cards and in video games. Oregon
is the first state to expand their NIL law
to include these elements. Since Oregon’s
bill passed, 19 other states have passed
NIL laws, largely with bipartisan approval.NIL laws reshape structure
for NCAA student athletes
Student undertakes first-time sports wagering in Oregon
State expands laws to bet on sports, Amelia Madarang ’22 confers economics department on how to gamble COVID-19 pandemic
sparks surge in golf
By NATHAN OAKLEY
WHEN THE first wave of the
coronavirus reached the United
States about two years ago, it
took a massive toll on the sports industry,
from the professional level to youth
leagues. However, one unlikely benefactor
of the pandemic has been golf, which has
quickly become one of the fastest growing
sports in the U.S.
For the past two years, golfers found
that playing a weekend round or hitting
the driving range on a lunch break was
a safe way to gather both socially and
professionally during the pandemic. The
sport naturally allows social distancing,
given the large outdoor spaces that
constitute a golf course. It also provides
a refreshing escape from the anxiety of
work, political strife and the pandemic
in a relatively casual, non-competitive
environment.
For many, including World Golf
Foundation CEO Greg McLaughlin, the
pandemic has been a renaissance for
the sport, with people having newfound
interest in the history of golf, professional
tournaments and self-participation.
“It was one of the few sports that you
could do at the height of the pandemic
when indoor space was closed,” McLaughlin said in an interview with the
Philadelphia Inquirer. “I think the health
benefits as well as the mental well-being
contributed (to its increased popularity),
you could spend four hours of quality
time with family and friends in a safe
manner.”
In August 2020, the number of
rounds played nationally had increased
20.6% from the same time in 2019,
according to Inside Golf. The figure
increased further from 2020 into 2021.
Participation has also increased across
all racial, age, gender and economic
demographics. Millions of new golfers hit
courses across America for the first time
in 2021. Some states even designated
golf courses as essential businesses at
the beginning of the pandemic due to
the benefits such courses had on the
physical and mental health of residents.
The growth also extends to golf’s
market share of the sports industry.
McLaughlin stated in the same interview
that 2020 was the greatest year for the
golf industry in its history. In August
alone, consumers purchased $331
million worth of golf equipment, a 32%
increase over August 2019. July marked
an all-time record with $389 million
in equipment sales. 2021 saw similar
growth, with billions of dollars in revenue
pouring in for both golf courses and golf
retailers.
In Oregon, demand for tee time is
unprecedented. Small, public courses
like Rose City Golf Club continue to see
reservations booked far in advance during
the warmer months. Country clubs
across the Willamette Valley continue
to see similar activity. With the removal
of pandemic mandates nationwide,
many in the golf industry are eager to
see if this newfound participation and
high profitability sticks as other indoor
recreational activities reopen. Those who
are interested in taking up golf should
visit one of the many local courses that
offer golf lesson discounts for students.
By AMELIA MADARANG
SINCE THE United States Supreme
Court struck down a federal ban on
sports betting in 2018, it has grown
into a legal multibillion-dollar industry
for professionals and amateurs alike.
Sports betting is now legal in more than
30 states, with Oregon joining the list
in 2019.
Outside of purchasing a scratch-it
lottery ticket, I had never gambled
before this article and possessed
little sports knowledge. But I do love
podcasts and, earlier this year, NPR’s
show The Indicator did a show on
the economics behind betting on the
Superbowl. The host interviewed
a professional sports better and
placed a bet, which they lost. My
toxic personal trait is thinking I can
do better than professionals, and it
sounded like easy money, so I decided
to use my hard-earned Pioneer Log
money to place a $10 bet.
Grace Elkhal ’24, the Economics
Student Academic Affairs Board
representative, does not gamble, but
she does utilize larger trends and
economic theory to make choices in her
everyday life.
“Once you understand economic
theory, at the micro or even macro level,
it makes your decisions in life much
easier,” Elkhal said. “When you really
think about everything economically,
it boils our complexity as humans and
our behavior really down to a science.”
With my $10 in hand, the first step
in my sports betting journey was to
figure out what team to bet on. Betting
on collegiate games is not legal on the
Draftkings Sportsbook & Casino app,
so I could not bet on a Lewis & Clark
game. This led me to the Portland Trail
Blazers, or rather, to consider betting
against them. With most of their
current roster being either injured or
traded, the Trail Blazers have lost more
games than they have won in 2022. It seemed simple: All I would have to
do is bet against the Blazers to win big, but
I still had some questions.
So, I was off to learn some economic
theory. Cliff Bekar, associate professor
of economics, describes himself as being
“incredibly risk-averse.” While he himself
does not bet, he was able to give me some
general economics advice and explain to
me how sports betting works.
For the companies that facilitate the
bets, which Bekar refers to as “Vegas,” the
goal is to make money. They guarantee
this with a point spread where the
oddsmakers make a matchup, between
two unbalanced teams, more balanced by either giving points or taking them away
from each team. If the point spread is zero,
it implies that “Vegas” has determined
that the game is a 50-50 proposition,
meaning that each team has an equal
chance of winning. By setting the point
spread to zero, it ensures that they will
accept money on either side, either team
at even money: wager $1, winning $2.
According to Bekar, such companies
are able to maximize the number of bets
that are made by setting the betting line
such that the average person will believe
their team has an equal shot at winning.
“The important thing to remember
is Vegas doesn’t care who wins or loses,” Bekar said “Vegas gets paid as a fraction
of the number of bets that come in the
fraction of dollars that are actually made
… So there’s no such thing as Vegas
losing, they only lose when the number of
bets hasn’t been maximized. So there’s a
saying that it’s hard, if not impossible, to
beat Vegas.”
Typically the point spread is set early
in the week and then the odds are adjusted
until there is 50% of the money on each
side. According to Bekar, there was a 50%
chance of me winning or losing in the end.
With this advice in mind, I got
ready to place my bet. Most sports
wagering in Oregon takes place on the state-run DraftKings Oregon app. Run
by the Oregon Lottery, the app was
overwhelming to me as a newcomer.
The home page allows betters to search
through types of sports and then advertises
different types of bets to choose from. I
set my sights on the Trail Blazers’ game
against the Phoenix Suns on March 2.
Bekar and I had examined the game’s
spread beforehand and the Blazers were
expected to lose with a point spread of
+13.5.
I placed a $10 bet on the Trail Blazers
losing. Then, I waited.
The Blazers lost 90 to 120 against the
Phoenix Suns that night. What can I say,
I am a winner. Right now I have a check
being sent to me in the mail with $19.09
after the app’s premium. I will use it to
stimulate the economy by buying some
Classico brand pasta sauce. I love Classico
brand pasta sauce.
I do want to be clear when I started
this process, I was warned by Bekar that
gambling of any kind, whether in the stock
market, lotteries or sports betting, is highly
addictive. Because of this, I think that this
will be my last sports betting adventure.
However, for a one-time recreational
activity to write an article about, it was
very fun.
I really enjoy economics and for me,
this experience has been more exciting
than buying into the stock market or
cryptocurrency. Inspired by Elkhal and
Bekar, I want to learn more about how
economics influences other parts of
my life. Maybe in my next article, I will
try to only buy groceries products that
are women-owned and look into the
economics of that.
Bekar’s advice for first-time betters is
to understand how odds, moneyline and
point spreads are set before betting.
“Watch those evolve a couple of times
for a sport that you’re familiar with,” Bekar
said. “See how they move. In other words,
don’t bet blind with respect to how the
process works, because that’s the fastest
way to get into real trouble.”
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Amelia Madarang ’22 explores the exhilerating world of sports betting through her $10 bet on the Portland Trailblazers. AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOGBy MICHAEL MULRENNAN
THESE DAYS at Lewis & Clark,
I am often recognized by my
signature golden ringlets. Students
and professors alike call out to me in
the academic quad from hundreds of
yards away when they spot my luscious,
bountiful locks. Rumor has it that an
outbound LC administrator is having
a wig made to look just like my hair,
although I am not sure how legitimate
that is. I mean, I can not blame him for
wanting to look this good.
However, my hair has not always
been so noteworthy.
“The hair chooses the icon, Michael,”
my hairdresser Anita once told me. I was
19 years old and it was the first time my
hair fell below my eyes. Dry, damaged
and formless, each lock of hair soy-
curled down my face.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
The pitter-patter of rain was knocking
outside my Manzanita dorm. My favorite
indie song, “Dreams” by Fleetwood
Mac, was playing. As I sat at my desk,
pontificating to my roommates about
why I was easily the most liberal person
at LC, my friend Tara walked through
the door.
Her damp hair dripped onto the
vomit-infused turquoise carpet.
“Oh, I’m so glad I washed my hair,”
Tara said. “It was disgusting.”
My roommates and I nodded in
agreement. Tara had taken to showering
less than three times a week to conserve
water, mindlessly following the
environmental studies rhetoric like all of
the other sustainability-minded sheep.
“You mean you don’t wash your
hair every day?” To my surprise and
masculine dismay, they did not nod in
baseless agreement.“You have curly hair! Don’t you know
how bad that is for it?” Lindsay asked
incredulously.
“I bet he doesn’t even use
conditioner,” Colin muttered to Tara. I
shook my head and looked at the floor,
rubbing my withered mane.
As a white boy who had had a crew
cut all his life, I was embarrassingly
misguided. I saw the world through
my daily 6-in-1 shampoo and Axe body
wash colored glasses. The effortless,
disheveled look was in vogue for many
decades thanks to male leads who
embody white culture, such as Heath
Ledger and Chad Michael Murray.
However, it was only a matter of time
before the styles changed again.That fateful day, Tara introduced
me to the Curly Girl Method. Once I
learned to scrunch, plop and twist, my
curls were unstoppable.
Blinded by years of minimal upkeep
and mediocre personal grooming
habits, I was unable to see the truth
that the great Lorraine Massey, the
one and only prophet of the Curly Girl
Method Handbook, had been spreading
throughout this ever tangling world.
These methods were unprecedented.
No other group in society had passed
down generational knowledge
about how to preserve their hair’s
natural texture and beauty and faced
oppressive, hegemonic norms in order
to do so. It was not long before I grew
tired of the white, Christian females
that were bombarding my YouTube
recommendations. I became delirious
from getting up at 4 a.m. before work
to perform the intricate hair rituals
that these women promised would
bring me new-found confidence.
I found myself growing bitter over
the prices of the products she was
suggesting. Every week there seemed
to be a new “it” product that everyone
swore would solve all of my tangly
problems. I had never spent more than
three dollars on shampoo, conditioner
and body wash combined. Now I
was paying two hundred dollars per
quarter for specialized haircuts and hair
products alone. That is when I realized I
needed to share my story.
From that day on, the Curly Girl
Movement had a new face, a new
leader to look up to. Move over 1980
USA Olympic Hockey team, this is
the greatest underdog story in the
history of mankind. From being
systematically underrepresented in the
curly hair community, I found myself
transformed into the role models I had
always lacked growing up.
“Young boys regularly come up to
me on campus for my autograph and
a sample of my new 12-step program
of Furling Foreskin hair products,”
Mulrennan said. “Embracing my
identity as a Curly Hair man is how
I resist. It is how I make the world a
safer, more inclusive place for young,
pale boys that look just like me.
Several students gathered in protest
of my entrepreneurial efforts. One
picket sign held by a Black woman even
said: “I shouldn’t have to be holding up
this sign right now.”
No further comment. 16FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
The Backdoor is a work of humor and fiction
Local student makes waves as new
male face of curly-hair movement
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
I N STUDENTS' thrice-daily treks
to the remaining shell of Fields
Dining Hall, they lament the piles
of takeout boxes towering in the (few)
trash cans. Was there a Grubhub
Groupon? Did I miss Cardboard
Appreciation Day?
Alas, all those trees are sacrificed
simply so that we can enjoy this
night’s take on stir fry sloshed
together with a salad that is probably
even fruitier than you are. Luckily, this
mindless consumption will continue
no longer. Administration announced
that outdoor feeding troughs will be
integrated into campus beginning as
soon as this April.
Not only will the new troughs
minimize the paper waste from all of
the to-go boxes, they will also conserve
water and electricity usage, allowing
maximum funds to be allocated for
President Vim Vievel’s funeral — excuse
me — going away party.
Students need not worry about
utensils or napkins to eat tidily,
groundskeepers will simply hose
students off once they have eaten.
Consequently, showers will no longer
be needed. While some might be
concerned about a lost opportunity
for four-legged showers, troughs will
be free for four-legged baths after
dining hours. Trough baths will be
almost as sanitary and far less private.
Additionally, the empty shower stalls
will be repurposed into overflow
housing for the class of 2026 in line
with the eco-design philosophy of
permaculture.
The strain on electricity will drop
as well. The dining area will not need
to be lit, since students do not need to
see their food to eat it: Dipping one’s
head into a trough can be done day or
night. If students are concerned about
bumping heads with one another, fret
not. Following the example of United
States President Biden’s COVID-19
testing initiative, administrators will
be handing out four solar-powered
headlamps per friend group.
Another benefit of the feeding
trough adaptation is that Bon workers
will no longer have to undergo the
extra effort of cooking separate dishes,
as they can dump all the ingredients
together into only a few separate
troughs: meat, gluten free, Kosher,
and the new vegetarian and vegan
option of grass. With no dishes and
minimal prep, the staffing shortage
will also be solved. However, a more
radical transition is expected after
the initial adjustment period. Bon
Appétit catering will be done away
with altogether to embrace the truest
definition of farm-to-table, minus
the table.
Instead of having food prepared
on campus, farms will truck their
crops straight into the troughs. Say
“toodles” to tofu and “salutations” to
soybeans, say “cheerio” to chicken
and “ciao” to, well, chickens. The
Co-Op here on campus has agreed
to assist with that last one. Even the
dreaded soy curls will be reduced
to their simplistic, farm-fresh
alternative: soy lines.
This shift will not only create
sustainability that will rival that of
Environmental Design certified J. R.
Howard Hall, but it will also bring
students together once again in a
unified “boning” experience.
It has already been established
that it is impossible to transmit
COVID-19 while actively eating,
so get ready for the Bon Welcome
Orgy #2, folks. This time, with
biodegradable condoms to fit the
eco-friendly theme. After this
smashing success, Trojan will likely
be inclined to adopt the hottest
flavor yet: cellulose.
Get ready for a revolutionized
dining experience, folks. Lewis &
Clark will be saving the planet one
communal dining trough at a time.College radio station sparks fear of cult
on campus after moving to LC basement
By EMMA FORD
GLOWING CLOUDS have
converged over J.R. Howard
and some mysterious hooded
figures have been spotted on the
Frank Manor lawn.
These are certainly dark times.
Amid war, global warming and a
pandemic, we can all agree that life
truly feels bleak these days. This
wave of pessimism has engulfed
yet another time-honored and
celebrated beacon of sunniness and
optimism: college radio.
K Palatine Hill, Lewis & Clark’s
beloved radio station, has gone
underground. They have not lost their
license nor banned all mainstream
artists from their airwaves (they are
still playing enough Phoebe Bridgers,
Mitski and Dominic Fike to appease
their loyal fans), but they have actually
moved underground. Like, they are
literally in the basement.
Amid this transition, longtime
KPH listeners and new fans alike
have noticed a distinct change in
their programming.
With the release of the spring
radio show lineup, listeners have
noted new or altered offerings among
fan favorites. The time-honored true
crime shows and punk programs
have been interspersed with titles
such as “Oratio for the Old Ones,” “I
beg of thee to free me,” “rrHiLaye”
and “you WILL listen.”
Loyal KPH listeners who have
tuned in during these segments
report hearing wildly unconventional
musical selections. Some of the
stranger genres included rhythmic
chanting, ear-splitting hums and
1980s ska. I decided to investigate this
shift in programming myself. When I tuned in to the Monday
night show, “Sane Radio,” the folk
and punk I normally enjoy had
been replaced by a continuous and
frightening muttering about the
“unknowable evils of the pocket
dimension which exists behind
one’s eyes.” I awoke two hours later
covered in red liquid that, while it
was not mine, appeared to be blood.
As speculation on campus
reaches a fever pitch, not unlike the
undulating howls now present on
an unnamed segment (2:09 a.m. on
Wednesdays and Sundays), rumors
fly about the unexpected revamp of
this LC institution.
While conducting research
for this article, The Backdoor’s
reporters uncovered evidence that
the basement KPH has been moved
to was once a bomb shelter built by
a particularly Cold-War-obsessed
professor of International Affairs in
1995, who went missing along with
several Religious Studies majors two
years later.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions,
as well as being unable to locate
the entrance without experiencing
memory loss and persistent feelings
of doom, The Backdoor has been
unable to explore these claims at the
location of the basement itself.
An anonymous source, however,
has been leaving “dead-drop” notes
around campus describing the
situation behind the microphone.
As a condition of their
cooperation with the article, the
source wishes to clarify that they
are not maintaining anonymity
for their protection, but rather as
a reflection of KPH’s new belief in
“the unimportance of identity as
we transition to this post-capitalist, post-apocalyptic world set to fall into
the abyss of our own making.”
If the source is to be believed,
KPH members are using their new
headquarters to begin a catalog of
all human knowledge in preparation
for the end times. Radio show hosts
have been isolated for the past eight
weeks meditating and fasting to
perform what is rumored to be called
the “Ritual.”
Despite several hours of
research, the only material our
reporters could find describing it
is utterly incoherent and full of spelling mistakes that we have yet
to decipher.
According to one source from
the Office of Student Employment, a
subset of Human Resources, the KPH
members have applied to have their
official titles changed to the “immortal
guardians of humanity’s knowledge.”
Regardless, both Palatine Hill
and the world seem to be coping
with these times in odd ways.
Strange, unknowable beings are
slowly consuming radio slots as
more and more hosts undergo their
transformation.
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG
AMELIA MADARANG/THE PIONEER LOG Bon to use
eco-troughs