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Volume 99, No. 1

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2022-09-16

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By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
THIS FALL, t h e L e w i s &
Clark Graduate School of
Education and Counseling,
along with the TransActive Gender
Project, is launching a Gender
Diversity Certificate Program, the
first of its kind.The TransActive Gender Project
is a nonprofit organization that has
been serving the Portland metro
area for 15 years. Three years ago the
TransActive Center moved their home
base to the LC Graduate School of
Education and Counseling and have
been developing the program since.
The Gender Diversity Certificate
Program is a four-course, online process that takes place over a nine
month period. Each year, 20 students
will be accepted into a collaborative
cohort. It aims to teach the history
and socioeconomic circumstances of
gender, as well as practical training
for those planning careers in youth-
serving professions to support,
affirm and empower trans-spectrum
individuals.
Jenn Burleton and Cari Zall are
co-directors of the Gender Diversity
Certificate Program. Zall is an
Associate Professor in the Teacher
Education Department in addition
to their role as co-director. Burleton,
a nationally-recognized expert on
gender-diverse youth, also serves as
the TransActive Program Director.
Zall credits Burleton with helping to
spearhead the program.
“This program was born out of
her desire to provide the background
and tools to people who want to dive
into the work of justice and care for
young people and children,” Zall said
via email.
A unique aspect is that it is
available to everyone, regardless
of whether they hold a bachelor’s
degree. For example, undergraduate
students may take the course and receive a certificate of completion in
lieu of graduate class credits.
“We wanted it to be a program that
acknowledges the intersectionality
and variety of spaces where young
people are supported.” Zall said.
The program is connected to the
Center for Community Engagement
to ensure that this opportunity is
accessible to whomever may benefit
from it.
The courses offered in the Gender
Diversity Certificate Program are
Patriarchy, Transmisogyny and the
Science of Human Diversity, Child
and Adolescent Gender Development:
Society, Healthcare, Education
and Maturation, Intersectional
Discrimination and Disinformation in
the U.S. and From Policy to Practice:
Protecting Student/Staff Rights
and Implementing Policy Change in
Schools and Communities.
“The courses will include a deep
dive into the history of gender itself,
the social, political, and economic
cultures and contexts in which gender
exists today, the ways transgender,
nonbinary, and gender expansive kids
are experiencing policy that impacts
them, and finally, how to effect
substantive and systemic change in our work to support youth,” Zall
remarked.
With this kind of comprehensive,
intersectional gender diversity
education available for future
teachers, administrators, counselors,
childcare providers and attorneys,
the support for gender non-
conforming and transgender youth in
public spaces can be vastly improved.
Already, the visibility given to gender
identity development has come a long
way in the past few years.
“I was drawn to this work because
I am the parent of a transgender child
and have long hoped to be part of
Jenn’s incredible work to educate and
support the transgender and gender-
expansive community,” Zall said.
Driven by a deep passion for
inclusive gender practices, Zall and
Burleton are paving a critical road
that many other schools are likely
to follow. It is an honor that LC
Graduate School is the home of this
program.
Zall is thrilled to welcome the
first cohort of students this October.
Applications are due on Sept. 30. Any
questions regarding the certification
program may be directed to
transactive@lclark.edu.By VENUS EDLIN
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day of the Fall 2022 semester
resulting in a death and two
injuries, the Lewis & Clark community
still has many questions.
On Aug. 29 at approximately
8:15 p.m., emergency services were
called to the historic grape Arbor in
the historic gardens on campus. Six
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using several free-standing brick
columns to support three hammocks
in a Z-formation when one column fell
inward. Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R)
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the column.
At the scene, bystanders performed
CPR on a 19-year-old male student
who died before emergency responders
could arrive and two 18-year-old women
were taken to a nearby hospital.
Many community members heard
about the incident from local news
outlets before a bulletin was sent out
via email at 12:35 a.m. on Aug. 30. That
afternoon, President Robin Holmes-
Sullivan sent out a follow up bulletin.
“I am a parent myself and I,
along with the entire Lewis & Clark
community, are devastated by this
loss,” Holmes-Sullivan said via email.
“My heart goes out to his family and
friends. We will do everything we can to
support our students recovering in the
hospital and those on campus who have
been impacted by this tragedy.”
In an email sent out the evening of
Aug. 30, Associated Student Body (ASB)
President Madeleine MacWilliamson
echoed many of Holmes-Sullivan’s sentiments.
“I am distraught that this devastating
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day of classes,” MacWilliamson said.
“Please take time to care for yourselves
mentally and emotionally. If you have
the emotional capacity, reach out to
friends, peers, and loved ones.”
Despite two weeks passing since
the incident, many details are still
unknown to the public, as well as
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Communications, Holmes-Sullivan
will soon be sending out an email with
additional details to address common concerns such as the stability of
structures on campus.
One missing detail includes the
names of the students involved, which
comes at the request of the families.
Vice President for Student Life and
Dean of Students Evette Castillo Clark
urges the community to keep the name
private.
“I’m appreciative that our campus
community is respecting the family’s
wishes to not disclose the name of
their student and allow them to grieve
in private,” Castillo Clark said via
email. “It says a great deal about how understanding, compassionate, and
caring LC students are.”
While Castillo Clark wishes to
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and foremost, she recognizes that it is
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these circumstances.
“I don’t pretend to have the solution
for everyone, but here are a couple
of suggestions: Perhaps some of you
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by respecting the family’s wishes, you
are also honoring the memory of the
student,” Castillo Clark said. “Others
may feel more comforted by getting together with friends to share your
feelings of loss and any memories you
have of the student.”
MacWilliamson also felt for students
who were frustrated by the lack of
information, but encouraged caution.
“We hear that students feel in the
dark about what went on last night; this
feeling can be frightening, especially to
new students in an unfamiliar place,”
MacWilliamson said. “We understand
the outrage many students feel about
the tragic event. However, we must
give the family, friends, and peers time
to grieve and process what happened:
it has been less than 24 hours since
the tragedy. To the impacted families,
anger may read as disrespectful to our
lost peer and those injured at this time,
so please be mindful and compassionate
with your words.”
However, a few days after the
incident a self-published article
written by a current student circulated
social media evoking the same anger
MacWilliamson asked students to
avoid. The since deleted article blamed
“LC’s greed” for the death of the
student, citing negligence. The article
also brought up other complaints the
student had with LC, such as sexual
harassment case management.
While the incident raises questions
about LC’s legal liability, no fault of
the college can be substantiated at this
point in time. While some students
supported the message of the self-
published article, many others criticized
it for making assumptions about the
college’s responsibility in an absence of
information.
“Grief” continued on paGe 3 VENUS EDLIN/THE MOSSY LOG
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OPINION
The Mossy Log
The Editor in Chief reveals the
reasoning behind the newspaper’s
recent name change.
PAGE 4FEATURES
Mourning Maggie’s Cafe
Students adapt to the removal of an
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dining replacements.
PAGE 7ARTS
Ken Carson’s show
Ken Carson is an up-and-coming rapper
signed to Playboi Carti’s OPIUM label,
but none that matters. What matters is
the crowd his music draws. PAGE 8SPORTS
NCAA adjusts THC policy
In order to lose eligibility, student-
athletes will need to test positive at least
two times.
PAGE 10Grief touches students weeks after accident
THE MOSSY POD
Return of our podcast
Read a Letter from the Editors, a letter
from the faculty advisor and explore a
curated selection from the archives.
PAGE 3
Gender Diversity Program debuts on LC campus
Hammocking incident leaves community with questions, campus leaders urge respect of family’s wishes
Cari Zall, Jenn Burleton spearhead first-of-its-kind graduate certification program this October
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South Chapel and classrooms at the Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
NEWS /gid00484
By PAIGE ANDERSON
THE NEW s e x u a l h a r a s s m e n t
and Title IX training program,
“Get Inclusive,” was introduced
to Lewis & Clark faculty staff via
email on June 9.
The new training requires LC
employees to complete two online
modules, each one estimated to take
between one and two hours. The
training includes information on
assault prevention and substance
abuse, as well as mental health and
well-being support.
Along with the implementation
of this program, LC also took on two
new staff members: Interim Title
IX Coordinator Lori Makin-Byrd,
and Dean of Equity and Inclusion
Danielle Torres. Makin-Byrd
began the interim position on Aug. 8
after former Title IX dean
Casey Bieberich
left the college.
The training
modules were
chosen before both
Makin-Byrd and
Torres arrived.
“The change
was made by
several different
offices,” Torres
said. “It was a
collaborative
decision that
included the
offices of Health
and Wellbeing,
HR, the legal
counsel, Student
Life and the Title
IX office.”
Torres has taken on the role of
dean of equity and inclusion, the
umbrella that includes Title IX.
She works to engage and educate
the community in equity and anti-
racism and to foster an environment
where open communication and
collaboration is supported. As
Interim Title IX coordinator, Makin-
Byrd works with students who either
wish to report a Title IX related-issue
or who have questions and concerns.
“It’s a specialized role,” Makin-
Byrd said. “It requires some
specialized attention and training and so they wanted to bring in someone
who’s done that, and I’ve been a Title
IX coordinator for quite a period of
time at this point.” Makin-Byrd has
a background in clinical psychology
and has worked as the Title IX
coordinator at the College of Wooster,
where she worked as the main point
of contact for students and staff
seeking support in terms of gender-
based discrimination, harassment or
interpersonal violence. Additionally,
she has worked on risk assessment
efforts on multiple college campuses
and has worked closely with students
and staff alike.
I f s t u d e n t s w a n t t o r e p o r t a n
issue, a form is available on the Title
IX webpage, but Makin-Byrd is also
accessible by email at c22-1376@
lclark.edu and meets with students
over Zoom regularly.
“My first inclination
when people
reach out with
questions or
concerns is to
ask them if we
can find a time
to talk about
it,” Makin-
Byrd said. “My
goal is not to
force people to
report to Title
IX, my purpose
is as a resource
and being
able to talk to
people about
options.”
In order to
stay current
and ensure
a safe and welcoming campus
environment, both Makin-Byrd and
Torres have been in contact with
students and are building off of the
reporting system established by
Bieberich.
“Casey built a really solid system
of not just her, but an interlocking
support system,” Makin-Byrd said.
“I’ve been super impressed moving
into the system and seeing that the
integrated team is already there.
They’re well trained, and they’re
really excited and involved with their
individual constituents.” Makin-Byrd and Torres are
making it a priority to be accessible
to students and provide access to
reputable information.
“I think there was a consensus
that it needed to be updated,” Torres said. “The previous curriculum maybe
wasn’t as student-centered and
that the one they selected was more
student-centered. They felt that this
was just better training with a better
message and more helpful information than what was there before.”
In order to get in contact with
either Torres or Makin-Byrd, their
information can be found on the Title
IX webpage. Torres also has an office
in the McAfee building.Title IX changes prioritize student accessibility
SOFIA REEVES/ THE MOSSY LOG
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON JULY 29, Associate Dean
of Students for Health
and Wellness and Chief
Psychologist John Hancock resigned
from Lewis & Clark.
Hancock accepted a position
as the inaugural Assistant Vice
President for Wellness and Support
at the University of Northern
Colorado (UNC). According to the LC
website, Hancock said that he felt it
was the right time for a change, and
he is looking forward to being closer
to his family again.
“It is bittersweet to announce that
Dr. John Hancock, former Associate
Dean for Health and Wellness, has
left LC after 15 years of service to the college,” Robin Holmes-Sullivan
said via email. “Although John
made many contributions to the
college, he was most recently known
as one of the key campus leaders
responsible for overseeing our
successful response to the COVID-19
pandemic.”
Hancock was one of the first
faculty at LC to receive the Mark
Duntley Award, this award is given
for excellent administrative and
professional performance that
enhances the functioning of the
department and creates a lasting,
positive impact in the Division of
Student Life. Director of Health
Promotion and Wellness Michelle
Callahan recalls her positive working
experience with John Hancock. “I only got to work with John
for a very short time but within the
Health Promotion and Wellness
Office, I think John was a true
leader and champion of our COVID
response,” Callahan said.
Along with having a large impact
on the COVID response, Hancock
also co-founded the Oregon
College and University Suicide
Prevention Project, a consortium
of colleges working to implement
best practice in student suicide
prevention. Something that the
Graduate Assistant for the Office
of Health Promotion and Wellness
Stephanie Hawk is really interested
in promoting.
“During my interview with him,
we talked a lot about before COVID,
a lot of his work was around suicide
prevention,” Stephanie Hawk said.
“Which, to me, was very interesting
because that’s where I’m coming
from.”
Hawk’s role has been to hold
confidential advocate space for any
survivors that want or need support,
but she also works with students
who are struggling with alcohol or
drug use. Hawk hopes to normalize
conversations around suicide
prevention and to provide support to
resident advisors and other student
advocates.
As the Associate Dean of Students
for Health and Wellness, Hancock
was the head of all health promotion
and wellness, overseeing Health
Services, Counseling Services and
the Office of Health Promotion and
Wellness. Now Callahan, Interim Director of Counseling Services
Robin Kyler and the Interim
Directors of Health Services Julie
Radostitz and Jess Kingsbury
are having to operate without an
associate dean of students for Health
and Wellness.
“It is an interesting time in
wellness services to not have an
associate dean, we are still operating
as if we have an associate dean
and ensuring we’re all talking and
working collaboratively because we
all understand at the end of the day,
we’re trying to approach student
health from a holistic lens,” Callahan
said.
Callahan wants to encourage
students to come and talk to her
about the problems that they are
seeing on campus. She quoted
disability activists, saying “nothing
about us without us.” She wants to
promote the proactive response to
students’ needs on campus.
This upcoming semester, Hawk
and the Feminist Student Union are
working to spread awareness and
knowledge on how to be a supportive
advocate for a student who has
experienced sexual assault through
the Sexual Assault Peer Advocacy
training. Hawk is also working
on Lead the Change: Bystander
Intervention training.
“It’s being led by students who
were trained specifically to facilitate
it,” Hawk said. “Which I think is
really cool because that information
coming from peers I feel like is
more digestible. Also the power
differential, different relationship and energy in the room, I think can
be very different.”
Students can get into contact
with Health Promotion and Wellness
either by calling 503-768-8225 or
by emailing healthed@lclark.edu.
The Health Promotion and Wellness
office is currently located in Lower
Odell Hall. New training program focuses on sexual harassment prevention, transparency, mental health support
John Hancock bids farewell to campus after 15 years
Hancock has resigned after 15 years at LC.In his absence, Stephanie Hawk and Michelle Callahan step up with new ideas about student wellness
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKThe entrance door to the Counseling Center and Health Services in lower Templeton.AUBREY ROCHÉ/ THE MOSSY LOG“The previous curriculum
maybe wasn’t as student-
centered and that the one
they selected was more
student-centered. They felt
that this was just better
training with a better
message and more helpful
information than what was
there before.” NEWS /gid00485FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Dr. Danielle Torres named Dean of Equity and Inclusion and Title IX CoordinatorCOURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
By VENUS EDLIN
DANIELLE Torres, previously
an associate professor at
the Lewis & Clark graduate
campus, became dean of diversity,
equity and inclusion (DEI) on Aug.
15.
Torres came to the college in
2004 as faculty and served as school
counseling program co-director from
2005 to 2012. LC announced she
would become the new dean of DEI on
May 23. Moving into her new position,
Torres is bringing knowledge from
her background as part of a working
class Mexican American family in
a small agricultural community in
Southern California.
“I’m really looking for a new and
challenging new step in my career,”
Torres said. “I was excited when this
job opening presented itself, because
I think it really marries what my
professional and personal identity
brings.”
Additionally, Torres has spent
most of her time in higher education
in predominantly white institutions,
such as LC. She has been concious
of this during her academic career,
focusing her research in these spaces
on school supports for BIPOC and
undocumented students, as well as
dismantling barriers in women’s
careers.
At the time of her appointment,
former President Wim Wiewel
acknowledged her professional
experience and its relation to her
upcoming role.
“I am delighted that Dr. Torres
has agreed to take on this new role,”
Wiewel said to the Source. “She has
a long history of dedication to equity
and social justice — and to the people
and core values of Lewis & Clark.”
Previously, Title IX Coordinator
Casey Bieberich served as the
Interim DEI dean in addition to her
other responsibilities. Bieberich
was initially intended to resume her
coordinator role, however on Aug.
5 President Robin Holmes-Sullivan
announced Bieberich would be
leaving on Aug. 8.
“Nothing is more important than
the work we do here at Lewis & Clark
to ensure everyone feels included and
valued,” Homes-Sullivan said to the
Source. “Casey has been a leader in
that work and I am very grateful for that. We wish her the very best in
her future endeavors.”
Mark Figueroa, who left LC in
November 2021, was the last permanent
dean of equity and inclusion. The
position has since been expanded from
part-time to full-time with the hiring
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full time dean just for DEI work,” Cale
said. “I believe that we really can take
a system-wide look at some of our
policies and procedures and make sure
that everything we’re doing on campus
— all three of them — have an equity
lens.”
Cale said she was disappointed that
LC did not choose to do an external
search for the DEI dean, only looking
internally for candidates. However,
Cale is ultimately happy with the choice.
“Danielle exudes kindness and
empathy,” Cale said. “… I haven’t
had a ton of time with her, but you
can just tell she’s very empathetic and
compassionate.”
During the Spring 2022 semester
Torres was on sabbatical while pursuing
this job opportunity. She also was on
the search committee for the president.
According to Torres, the rest she got
on sabbatical and the inside from the
search committee primed her for her
current position.
Torres said the role requires coming
in rested because of its demands.
“DEI work has always been
challenging,” Torres said. “Because I
think in some ways, you are the person
within any institution – whether that’s an
organization, a company, a community
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Black woman as president. Additionally,
the new Vice President for Student Life
and Dean of Students Evette Castillo
Clark is also a woman of color who has
over 30 years of DEI experience.
“When I started here 17 years ago,
I could only wish that this is what the
leadership of Lewis & Clark looked like,”
Torres said. “I just smile when I wake up
every day now to know that this is the
reality.”Vice President of Student Life
Clark Castillo shares sympathies
Continued from page 3
Several days later, ASB invited
the community to hold space in
J.R. Howard 202 on Sep. 1. Before
this event, they had canceled their
previously planned Open House event
and extended the deadline to run for
Senate in order to accommodate the
time students may have needed to
cope with the events.
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up credits for a degree at Bowdoin
died in a white river rafting accident
in November 2021.
Castillo Clark sympathizes with
students who have witnessed so many
of their peers die while they have
attended college.
“My heart goes out to all of
you,” Castillo Clark said. “I can
only imagine the deep sadness and
additional emotional burden you
and other upperclass students are
carrying having lost friends and
classmates. My advice to you and
your peers is the same as it is to those
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most recent event: take care of each
other and yourselves.”
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Castillo Clark shared that she endured
something similar while she attended
college.
“When I was a sophomore in
college, a friend of mine died in a
small plane crash,” Castillo Clark
said. “I was deeply saddened and
shocked at hearing the news. We were
supposed to be orientation leaders
together that summer. I remember
the last conversation we had was
about collaborating on some events
with our respective fraternity and sorority organizations. I was so sad
that I wouldn’t see him again, but I
was grateful that I would always have
the memories of how he made people
feel through his kind and caring ways as a friend.”
Though it is unknown at this time
what details will be released to the
public about the Aug. 29 incident,
more information is forthcoming.
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Campus Resources
Counseling:
503-768-7160
counsel@lclark.edu
Urgent Counseling
(24/7):
503-265-7804
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503-768-7082
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health@lclark.eduDr.Danielle Torres
becomes new DEI
Exclusive look at the Mossy Log’s
new podcast: The Mossy Pod
By EMMA FORD &
ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
FOR THE FIRST time since April
2021, Lewis & Clark students are
taking to the 21st century airwaves
to reboot and revamp former Log podcast
into the re-imagined Mossy Pod.
We at the Mossy Log are proud to
welcome our newest creators, Negasi
Brown and DJ Smith, as co-hosts of
the biweekly podcast, whose airing will
accompany each issue of our newspaper.
Smith, a Rhetoric and Media Studies
major and proud Virgo, is a senior at
LC who brings production cred to the
podcast from original beats and video
essays on wide-ranging topics. Joining
him is fellow senior Virgo, Negasi Brown.
Brown is a theater major and aspiring
voice actor. The duo bring a strong
enthusiasm and charisma to their shows,
and create a welcoming space for the
underrepresented voices at LC.
The revamped show takes the reins
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episode aired in early 2020. Formerly
hosted by Charlotte Powers ’21, the show
focused on covering campus news in fun
and engaging ways that busy students
could keep up with on the go. However,
without a new host after Powers’
graduation, the Pio Pod went silent.
Now, reflecting the new direction
of the newspaper, the change is
intended to go beyond the surface-
level name change.
“We’re here to uplift. We’re here to
educate. And we’re also here to have
fun.” Smith says in the first episode.
“We’re here to save the day by
bringing conversation, dialogue, love,
peace, prosperity, all of the things that
you probably need to hear throughout
your day.”Episodes will shift focus from relaying
campus news to celebrations of campus
life — uplifting the under appreciated
and overlooked pieces of the student
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a conversation on the appointment
of Robin Holmes-Sullivan and Yvette
Castillo Clark . The positivity represented
by these women of color in positions of
power on campus is highlighted for its
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Inspired by their excitement over the
changes in the administration, Smith
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campus and express how the subsequent
years have changed both their school and
them.
As the pair discuss the incoming
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of spaces for BIPOC students during their
early college years. Additionally, in the
aftermath of quarantine, the return to
these spaces has seen a welcome growth
of the communities who prosper in them.
As the new hosts begin their tenure,
the Mossy Pod is making its entry into LC
life as a platform for these voices.
“Our goal here is to create a space
in which people can talk to people from
marginalized communities, people who
feel underrepresented, or if you like, their
voice is just not heard on campus. This is
the space for you. So if you feel like you’re
a person who wants to talk, who wants
to have a voice, please let us know. And
we’d love to bring you in for some sort of
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introduction.
We at the Mossy Log are thrilled that
podcasting is back and better than ever at
LC. Welcome to a new era — and what a
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OPINION /gid00486
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:
A new leaf for an old log
By VENUS EDLIN
WELCOME TO The Mossy Log.
Last academic year we had
many discussions about our name and the
legacy of the word “pioneer.” Our former
Editor-in-Chief Ihsaan Mohamed led
many of these conversations. After much
community input from our survey, our
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Luncheon we hosted, the decision was
clear.
“Pioneer” had to go as it upholds the
colonial legacy that led to the genocide of
indigenous groups that continues today.
Instead, The Mossy Log honors the
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Northwest. We questioned many options,
but decided to choose a fan favorite choice.
Afterall, if you have ever seen the moss
petting zoo during Lewis & Clark Natural
History Club’s Moss week, you know how
much the campus loves moss.
With this name change, we do not
intend to move past the harms our news
organization has done, but instead
continually commit to doing better
moving forward. At a predominantly white
institution, with a current white editor-in-
chief, this is especially important. I know I
will not be perfect and that my whiteness
has aided me to get to the position I
am. However, this year I commit to
highlighting the voices of people of color on
campus, especially Black and indigenous
people, and continuing to racially diversify
RXUVWD̆DQGHGLWRULDOERDUGWhile the shift from The Pioneer
Log to The Mossy Log is critical in
signaling our intentions, simplifying
stopping at a name change is shallow.
We must continue to challenge the white
supremacist norms of our institutions
and put in the work to undo the barriers
that prevent fair coverage and inclusion
of people of color.
For anyone who has ideas on how we
can do better, please let us know. Email
anyone on our editorial board, come
to our meetings every 5 p.m. in J.R.
Howard 135 or submit an anonymous
tip on our website. If you would like to celebrate our
name change as well as the release of
this issue, please attend our Tiny Desk
Concert featuring Mr. Beautiful, Kith &
Kin, Adelaide Kaiser and others. The NPR-
style concert will be hosted in the Co-Op
from 5-7 p.m. on Sept. 16, the day this
issue comes out.
By ISABEL REKOW
IF COLLEGE IS A setting meant to
prepare people for their lives as adults,
then urban campuses are vastly more
suited to this task than suburban ones.
As a student who transferred to Lewis
& Clark from Portland State University
(PSU), I have had the pleasure of
experiencing both types of campus and
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me are how students’ days are structured
by their environment and how they
formulate their self-image.
I will add, as a caveat, that I never
lived on the LC ca.mpus. It will always
feel alien to me in a way that downtown
Portland never will. My intention is not to
bash our campus. After all, it has gorgeous
scenery. The campus attracts and nutures
a student body that is hearteningly kind,
queer and enthusiastic about mushrooms
and moss. I wish only to point out certain
downsides that may not be apparent to
those who have not experienced any other
form of college.
LC is very much a bubble. It is not
completely a “total institution,” a term
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to describe places like prisons and
monasteries where people live, work
and play, secluded from the wider world,
under strict rules prescribed by the
authority of the institution. However,
being a private college, it certainly has
aspects of one. The “inmates” here eat
together, study together, work, play and
sleep together. Schedules are not all the
same, but they share many commonalities
and take place within the same small,
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There is a regrettable and much-
lamented dearth of food options on LC’s
campus, where students’ only options
are cooking something for themselves or
buying food through the school. It is a
sad comparison to the lively mishmash
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and bars sprinkled on and around PSU’s
campus.
As for transportation, it is easy to be
green when you are traveling in a city:
You can use your own bike, a cheap eBike
or scooter, the streetcar, the MAX Light
Rail Service or a humble bus. Suburbs,
on the other hand, are only possible
because of the existence of cars. They
are notoriously unwalkable. Students at
LC can not take the pleasant 15-minute
walk to the downtown Safeway to buy
groceries, as I had the luxury of doing
when living close to PSU. Instead, they
are reliant — as always — on the school
to provide for them. In this case, it
provides transportation services via the
Pio Express.
After a few years, students may get
bored. A friend of mine, who as a senior has spent multiple years on campus,
expressed that “I feel like I’ve done
everything there is to do here.”
There is a greater variety of things to
do and places to go when your campus is
situated in a city. That city can continue
to be your home even after your college
days are over. For students of suburban
campuses, though, college will remain
separated from the rest of their lives,
inaccessible except in memory.
Students of secluded suburban
campuses are constantly surrounded
by other students in a very narrow age
range, often sharing similar viewpoints.
In contrast, going to college in a city
vastly increases the likelihood that
students will interact with people
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their roommates and co-workers are
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background.
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it can also be a source of autonomy.
Crucially, that very sense of autonomy
can feel rather cramped on a suburban
campus, where every activity takes place
under the oversight of the university.
Becoming an adult in Western
society means growing into an
autonomous individual. How are people
supposed to learn how to do that when
every choice — where to study, where to
work, where to sleep, where to eat every
meal — is laid out in front of them?
Removing these worries can make
it easier for some students to focus on
their studies. Learning how to juggle
all the competing priorities in life can
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especially for young people who are still
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in general. Students in cities have the
choice of whether to look to school to
provide for their needs, or to seek out
solutions elsewhere. They have greater
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structure their lives. Suburban students,
on the other hand, have no option but to
rely on their college.
It is easy to be engaged in so many
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when on a suburban campus. There is
not much else to do. This ease can allow
for plenty of growth in students who are
engaged on campus, and many years
later they may look back on college
as the best time in their life, a bucolic
slice of spacetime where it was easy to
be social and feel like they were making
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to lose that. What really matters in the
end is the hard work of learning how to
create that after college, when all people
you meet and all choices you make are
not structured according to college life.College life blooms in
dense urban jungles
Maggie’s cafe leaves vacant spot
in heart of campus, student’s lives
BY EMMA FORD
WELCOME BACK t o c a m p u s
everybody! At least, what is left
of it.
Look, I understand how I sound — and
to be honest, you are going to have to get
used to it because there is a new Opinions
editor in town — but I am not exaggerating
when I tell you I almost choked upon
reading a certain Campus Living update
email this summer. Bon Appétit and the
administration have killed Maggie’s Cafe!
I was excited to live in Platt-Howard
Hall last year, my freshman year, in no
small part because of the proximity
to Maggie’s. I ate there constantly.
I grabbed food for my friends and
roommate, I met people to study and
hang out. That warm, loud cafe was so
comfortable and inviting I could almost
forget it was decorated with basically
the same furniture as my dorm common
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which everyone knows is not real money)
to buy a quart of milk, but $2 to buy a 16
oz. Monster energy drink. Maggie’s played a huge part of my
freshman experience. It saw the birth of
friendships and the end of them too. It
saw tough truths as much as it saw easy
laughter. Now it is gone, and I really am
having a hard time coping.
One of the key issues here, as I see it,
has to do with the campus community.
At least half of the student body lives on
campus for at least two years, and with
high gas prices and no parking many of
us are often stuck on campus. At such a
small school, there are understandably
limited options for social spaces. With the
shutdown of Templeton Student Center
and the COVID-19 restrictions on dorm
common rooms (or their conversion into
student living spaces), Maggie’s was a
bastion of community and a constant in
our lives.
Every friend I have made at this
school has spent an hour or two with me
there. My predictive text on my phone
still helpfully suggests “Maggie’s” when
I type “Meet me at …” Now I feel like
it should be suggesting “the building
formerly known as Maggie’s” or “the corpse of Maggie’s.” I may be coming
across as hyperbolic, but this was a pillar
of our social life on campus. To get rid of
it with no real alternative is a gut blow to
students.
My other concern is much less
abstract. With the failure of the Trail
Room to open on schedule and the
extremely limited Dovecote Café hours,
I truly do not know whether to level
my anger at the administration or the
company that supplies our campus food
options, Bon Appétit. The management
of their on-campus facilities is impaired
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one cannot help but wonder why, on a
campus full of students looking for the
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workers. What does that say about the
conditions that hardworking, dedicated
Bon workers are facing right now?
In my opinion, neither party has
shown much concern for the satisfaction
of students in recent months — and
why should they? The administration
admitted a record number of students
to a school with astronomical tuition
and required 14-meal-a-week meal
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all but unusable. There is no situation
here in which they lose money even
if they are providing a lower level of
service than what we all had to agree to
pay for as a condition of attending this
school. Meal plan alone is not enough
to change entire academic plans, but it
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the pursuit of those goals. Do you
honestly think any of that money will
ever be seen by us again if we go a whole
semester or even a whole year with only
limited Bon and Dovecote hours?
I miss our cafe. I will miss midnight
snack runs and meal swipe sandwiches.
I am truly just sad, and while I know that
the administration’s main incentive is
money, I wish they would change their
minds. They are beginning to move past
the point of no return regarding the
happiness of their student population
— and they would do well to remember
that without happy students, money
starts to disappear.
Respect the calls of the people who
expected they were paying for a certain
level of on-campus services. Bring back
Maggie’s, please.
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG SOPHIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
VENUS EDLIN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEFFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
OPINION /gid00487
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.Current media practices obscure anti-trans violence, need balance with more stories about trans joyNews coverage of trans people must improve
By ISABEL REKOW
NEWS OUTLETS need to cover
anti-trans violence more
often and with a focus on
humanizing survivors and victims
in order to better reflect the reality
of being transgender and to bring
attention to the fatal consequences
of discrimination. They also
need to make room for covering
trans successes and joy, thereby
providing balanced coverage and
not feeding into cycles of violence.
In a May 17 “them” article, James
Factora analyzed coverage of anti-trans violence in five major American
news networks. Collectively, they
aired 19 news segments and spent
only 43 minutes on the topic during
the entirety of 2021. Fewer than half
the news segments featured trans
guests, and the vast majority did not
even name a trans person who was
killed. This erasure in individual news
stories exemplifies the trends in news
coverage as a whole, which rarely
provides a platform for trans voices.
It is a profound act of silencing.
While coverage of anti-trans
violence was paltry at best for all
the networks studied, Fox News
featured 170 segments about trans
people over the course of only
three weeks. Unfortunately and
unsurprisingly, this coverage focused
on dehumanizing trans people. It
coded trans women as abnormal
and threatening when it reported
on women’s sports and accused
Disney of “grooming” children when
the company objected to Florida’s
discriminatory “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Historically, powerful social groups
often justify their violence against
groups they oppress by portraying the
victims as violent and their sexuality
as dangerous. One example of this
societal-wide victim-blaming is in the
violence exerted by white American
plantation owners against the Black people they enslaved, and its current
continuation in police violence.
Although news networks do not
always stoop to explicit victim-blaming,
more subtle forms of discrimination
can prove equally detrimental. By
creating a narrative in which trans
people are “othered” and viewed as a
dangerous threat to societal cohesion,
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audiences’ worldviews and behavior.
The rate of attacks against trans
people — whether microaggressions,
assault or even murder — will
only rise so long as perpetrators
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coverage of anti-trans violence look
like? First, it would mean simply
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Second, the focus should be on
humanizing survivors and victims.
News networks can hire more trans and
gender-nonconforming reporters to
reduce the likelihood of unintentional
(or frankly, intentional) negative bias
in reporting. Lastly, although coverage
of violence is important, reducing trans
people and especially trans women to
hate crime statistics feeds into a cycle
of violence. Balanced coverage must
include articles and videos on trans joy.
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Burning,” the 1990 documentary about
New York City’s ballroom culture of WKH¶VR̆HUVDQRWKHUZD\WRWKLQN
about what coverage could look like.
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diverse personalities who created
a rich culture in the face of intense
discrimination from family members
and the wider society. The vogueing
and costumes are incredible. So
much of modern slang — “shade,”
“queen,” “yas,” “werk it” — comes from
transgender communities. Viewers
who were previously not aware of the
debt they owe to drag culture may
end the movie feeling like they found
commonalities of experience that they
did not expect. Against this backdrop
of irrepressible creativity, Venus
Xtravaganza’s murder, a strangling
likely due to her being a trans
woman, is especially heartbreaking
since the audience is invested in
her life and tight-knit community.
Livingston, who is a white lesbian
and an outsider to the ball scene,
has since been criticized for creating
a documentary about a community
formed mostly of people of color, and
for not adequately compensating the
people she interviewed and recorded.
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within its historical context and
recognize that it was groundbreaking
in providing visibility and positive
coverage for trans people. Current
news coverage can build and improve on these gains by centering the voices
and perspectives of people of color.
I think reporting more on violence
in trans communities will not only bring
much-needed awareness to a problem
that is not discussed often enough,
but will also go a long ways towards
helping people who are currently
transphobic see genderqueer people as
a vulnerable population rather than a
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way of changing peoples’ worldviews.
I remember having a conversation
with a conservative couple who told
me they thought that trans people
have it easy nowadays and that too
much attention is paid to them. In
their minds, maybe there had been
some discrimination in the past, but
it is gone now. They communicated
implicitly but clearly that trans people
made them uncomfortable and that
they wanted anyone who was remotely
genderqueer to be as quiet as possible
about it so as not to disturb them. I
brought up the sky-high murder rates
against trans people and said that the
discrimination was still ongoing and
that silence would only enable the
violence to continue. They were quiet a
moment, and then changed the subject.
Had I changed their minds?
No. But I had gotten my foot in
the door. News outlets, with their
further reach, can do much more.
By HELEN TRACZYK
IT IS 9:49 A.M. and I have circled all
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my steering wheel as I lean forward to
keep my eyes peeled for a spot. If you are
a student who commutes by car, this is a
familiar story.
Every year as more and more
students commit to Lewis & Clark,
the empty spaces in the parking
lots become fewer and far between.
What is going on with parking? More
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in anyway? Parking permits are too
expensive and unforgiving to students.
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the inner workings of the Department
of Transportation & Parking, there are
two important points to note about
parking permits that I will discuss. The
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dissuade students from driving their cars
to campus, thus creating an economic
disincentive and allowing more spots to
remain available. This is basic economics.
However, in an institution like LC, which
prides itself on its liberal environment
and community-building, perhaps those
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ought to look at their main clientele
(students) as more than just pieces of
an economic puzzle. They should create
a system that is forgiving and adaptable.
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– in economic terms – it has a major
“market failure:” many students do not
actually pay for this parking permit,
and park illegally on campus, thus
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Students need to get to class, and they
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cost of a permit. If they chose to pay by
the day, they would pay a hefty sum of
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There are a few recommendations
I would make here. First, there should
be a system to request an exemption. If a student is on scholarship or can show
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they should get a free permit (or at least a
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then why not allow students to put the
permit costs into their tuition, or even
pay the sum over the three months so
as to lessen the load of an up-front cost?
Students who work and go to school often
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their bank account in one fell swoop.
This predicament is indicative of a
more pervasive issue in Portland: Public
transportation is a far cry from its full
potential, even more so in Southwest.
Your choices for commuting to LC are
to carpool,take the bus or ride a bicycle.
While these are feasible options for some
students, they certainly are not for all.
There are hardly enough bus routes
to the school, and the buses only run
about once an hour on some routes. My
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commute that includes a 20 minute walk
directly uphill. Disabled students and less
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impossible to bike up to Palatine Hill.
Commuters coming from even farther
might have a travel time of upwards of
an hour. Maybe if there were actually
choices that worked and encouraged
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rather than punishing them for choosing
the only practical option they have, we
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with this issue at all.
The second important point is that
parking permits allegedly pay for the
Pioneer Express. According to some
inside sources in the Department of
Transportation & Parking, the Pio is
very expensive to upkeep – though it is
unclear exactly how much. If money from
permits is going towards the Pio, it would
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to commuters as well. If the Pio ran to
neighborhoods heavily populated by
students, like Sellwood, Lake Oswego and
South Burlingame , it would encourage
and allow for non-car commuting.
However, it is not clear if the
numbers add up on this endeavor, and
I would be interested to hear what the
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of it. Building a new parking lot might
alleviate the growing pains of the college,
but just like building a new expressway
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natural areas of campus to create more
space for parked cars will not make
commuters disappear. By ALEX STUKERT
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A FTER THREE years of staying
safe in a global pandemic you
get COVID-19 at Lewis &Clark.
What happened? What happens next?
Generously, our school provides
you with two masks and a little one-
page pamphlet when you submit the
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roommate tested positive — the line on
the test as bright and clear as it could
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asked to sleep with their mask on, as
if that would truly keep any of us safe.
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sort of resource online instead of
catching COVID myself, I discovered
what LC would like me to do.
I could “talk with a friend” to move
into their dorm, thus putting them at risk.
I could stay in my own room with my
sick roommate, putting myself at risk.
I could spend a ridiculous amount
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room or Airbnb, plus the added
costs of transportation to and from
campus, for which I, an international
student on a scholarship, simply
do not have the resources for.
Bottom line, I was screwed.
Accepting my fate, I stayed in with
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had COVID too. The lack of resources
for me to keep myself safe led to a 103
degree fever, not to mention some of
the worst fever dreams I have ever had.
But hey, most people with COVID had
to go through that, it is inevitable, right?
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Health Services were in cooperation to
take care of isolating students, giving
them their own quarantined facilities.
Yet this year, communal bathrooms
are okay to go in even with a positive
case — just wear a mask! Sick (and
comorbidly exhausted) students
should just stay up late, because it is
on them to protect their peers, hoping
no one goes into the shower stall after
them and pretend that this is doing
enough to keep anyone safe. When
asked, our hall made a quarantined
single restroom. Our dorm room was
becoming unsafe. But I guess the
biohazard of the mold growing on
our dirty dishes was an acceptable
risk factor too, since we had no
access to a kitchen. Even the piles of
laundry grew, leaving us we just had
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inevitable too. Because even though
our household was able to submit meal
requests to the Fields Dining Rall, and
we were lucky enough to have lovely
friends to bring the meals to us, any
and all dietary restrictions simply did
not matter enough to be considered.
It is inevitable that Bon Appétit will
give you days straight of chicken and
steamed vegetables. And it is always
cold. It will be harder to get better
quickly without healthy food that is
easy and helpful to eat for a sick person.
After having experienced the sheer
lack of support from the school, and
having to rely on my peers to be taken
care of, I feel for any freshman falling
sick, and in a worst-case scenario,
having truly no one to turn to in their
time of need. Being sick, and having
my equally sick roommate bring me
towels soaked in cold water so that I would not faint from my fever, makes
one wonder where it all went wrong.
We are endlessly grateful for our
friends, who day-by-day picked out
the best (i.e. actually edible) food for
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us. Our community showed up and
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for something that our school should
have had plans and measurements for.
More students will feel the disabling
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Perhaps next year the administration
can accept fewer new freshmen,
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halls like sardines in a can, and forcing
us to fend for ourselves when they are
supposed to take care of us. Perhaps
next year they can prove they care
about the quality of students’ lives
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punishes commuters
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LC’s vague COVID policy does not
support sick students on campus
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Open parking spots are rare as unicorns.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
FEATURES 6
Recent alum emerges as popular tattoo artist
By GABRIEL
MANTIONE-HOLMES
CAL SRERE ’ 2 0 d i d n o t a t t e n d
Lewis & Clark with the plan
of becoming a tattoo artist.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in
psychology while he was involved with
Palatine Hill Radio (KPH) and LC’s
music scene. Now Srere spends 60-
70 hours a week honing his craft at
Powell Tattoos in Southeast Portland.
Always drawn to the artform,
Srere started tattooing in 2019 to
experiment with professions outside of
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his tablet while taking notes in class.
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at a residential treatment center for
underage girls in the custody of the
state. “I worked there full-time for
eight months or so and this was while I
was getting my undergrad,” Srere said.
“I liked it a lot, but it was really heavy
and I found myself getting burnt out.
Srere found tattooing to be
a more sustainable long-term
career goal than social work.
“I do like the field (of social
work) and I think it’s a good field,
but I do think it’s a little heavy,
career-wise,” Srere said. “I was
doing both of them at the same time
for six months, but I have since
transitioned to fully tattooing.”
Srere started his tattooing career on his own, something he would
not recommend to new tattooers.“If I could go back and do it
again I would have made an effort to find a mentor,” Srere said. “It’s
a lot of responsibility because you are marking people permanently.”
While Srere hates the pain
attached to tattooing, he loves the
craft for its ability to foster self-love.
“The coolest part of tattooing
is that you get to make people feel
more at home in their bodies,”
Srere said. “I think it’s a privilege.
That’s why I was saying tattooing
should be taken seriously.”
While Srere started with
contemporary illustrative designs,
over time he has been drawn
towards American traditional style.
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Srere said. “But the more I do it, the
more I am coming to believe that it’ll
last forever, it’ll look good forever
and it will never go out of style.”
Srere is looking to take his tattooing
on the road in the spring or next summer.
“After tattooing for three years
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own voice,” Srere said. “I’ve never
traveled to tattoo, but the people who
I’ve talked to about traveling say that
they learn a ton when they travel.”
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of tattooing, he recognizes that his
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“I think that like any sort of
artistic scene, it’s really easy for
ego to get wrapped up in it,” Srere
said. “It’s cool when I get to have
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does not exist without my clients.”Srere’s early work in his private studio focused more on contemporary illustrative designs rather than American traditional sty le.
SEED introduces new
low-waste detergent
By AUBREY ROCHÉ
STUDENTS ENGAGED w i t h E c o
Defense (SEED) is partnering
with hygiene-focused initiative
Generation Conscious to bring plastic
and liquid-free laundry detergent sheets
to campus. Students who sign up for the
program through SEED can access 10
laundry detergent sheets at a time for no
cost from a small machine they plan to
have in Templeton Student Center by the
end of September.
According to Generation Conscious’
website, the initiative aims to “eliminate
hygiene insecurity,” “reduce plastic
and water-waste” and “disengagement
from harmful structures of product
distribution.” The
initiative focuses
mainly on producing
low-waste hygiene
products and working
with colleges and
universities to have
laundry detergent
sheets available.
Most laundry
detergents sold in
stores contain mostly
water, and come in large plastic
bottles or boxes. Overall, they have a large
carbon footprint, from both manufacture
and transportation. Laundry detergent
sheets work similarly to laundry pods,
where you put the sheet in the barrel of
the washing machine with the clothes.
According to Generation Conscious’
website, detergent sheets use “95% Less
Carbon and 97% Less Water than leading
pod detergents.”Mateo Kaiser ’23 has been
involved with moving this initiative
forward on campus as a part of
SEED, and explained how this new
partnership will impact LC’s eco-
friendliness.
“The sheets are super, super
concentrated detergent, (and)
they’re wrapped in paper packages,”
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concentrated sheet of detergent and
it dissolves and becomes the soap
in the machine. You save emissions
in the transport and in the plastic
packaging.”
Kaiser expressed the importance of
having the detergent refills available
at the beginning of the academic
year, so that students can
build using them
into their college
routines. He also
explained that
distribution of
detergent sheets
helps to offset the
carbon footprint of
the machine itself.
“I think we have
to first dispense
4,000 sheets, and then we
basically paid off the carbon debt of
the machine,” Kaiser said. “We’re
hoping that with enthusiastic use,
we reach that very quickly. And
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savings over buying regular regular
detergent.”
Generation Conscious is in the
process of hiring student workers
to help promote and maintain the
machine. Kaiser said there has
already been a high number of
applicants from LC.
SEED is largely funding the
machine through their own student
organization budget and some
financial support from the Queer
Student Union. They will have
enough money to fund upkeep of
the machine for the next several
years, and Kaiser hopes it will
soon be built into SEED’s regular
operating budget.
Community members can
sign up using the link in SEED’s
Instagram bio, @lcseed. The
form requires the applicant’s LC
email address, phone number and
indication of either class year or
faculty/staff status.
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG Trends point to high voter turnout
in pivotal Oregon midterm election
By GABE KORER
THE OREGON Midterm Election,
set to take place on Nov. 8, will
decide the fates of numerous
political candidates who managed to
survive the state’s primary election last
May.
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60 seats in the Oregon House of
Representatives, as well as 15 of the
30 seats in the Oregon State Senate,
will be decided upon by Oregon’s
voting bloc. The state’s six seats in the
U.S. House of Representatives and
its lone vacant senate seat are also up
for grabs, making this election cycle,
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Oregon politics.
Although midterm elections
generally receive less turnout than
presidential elections, Oregon has
consistently kept well above the
national average due to its vote-by
mail (VBM) system. Since VBM was
made permanent in 1987, the state’s
number of registered voters in both
presidential and midterm elections
has experienced a growth of roughly 10
percentage points, according to a study
conducted by political scientist Sean
Richey.
Associate Professor of Political
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multiple trends which indicate a high
turnout, which could help Democrat
candidates.
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said via email. “In this state, high
turnout would generally favor the
Democratic party.”
In 2018, Oregon received its greatest
voter turnout in a midterm election in
more than 25 years, with 63 percent
of the population casting a ballot.
This year, Oregon’s voter turnout
may decrease by a small margin, but
there is cause for optimism: The 2022
primaries achieved one of the highest
ballot totals in the state’s history.
There are a number of key factors
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this year’s vote for the Democrats,
including Oregon’s automatic voter
registration and the recent political
outrage caused by the U.S. Supreme
Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Despite conventional wisdom being
that a president’s political party will
lose plenty of seats during a midterm
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helps too. Second, Democrats had
control over the redistricting process
last year,
drawing maps that overall give that
party a slight edge.”
Eeshani Thomas ’25, who as a
resident of Oregon is following all the
candidates closely this year, similarly
believes that this year’s midterm could
represent a modest reversal of past
trends. “I do not think it’s going to be a
red wave, not in Oregon,” Thomas said.
“Oregon is moving more blue,
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moving here. So I think that even
if politically there is a red wave
happening, Oregon is not part of that.”
As for the elections themselves, a
variety of headlines leave ample room
for intrigue. Kate Brown’s departure,
for one, has left a vacancy in the state’s
governorship. While republicans
have not claimed the governorship
in Oregon since 1982, Politico notes that a couple trends — including,
independent Betsy Johnson’s
candidacy and state redistricting —
could swing the election in the GOP’s
favor.
Additionally, the Oregon State
Legislature will see an unusual
amount of turnover next year, with
20 members of the House freshmen
the midst of their first full term.
The Oregon State Senate will also
be missing its most senior member,
Democrat Peter Courtney, after his
retirement. He spent 34 years working
in the state legislature.
In light of this potential for change,
Thomas views voting as an
essential component of having
an American citizenship, and as a
privilege that should be exercised by
anyone with the means to do so.
“I am going to vote in this upcoming
election,” Thomas said. “I think that
votingis very important…it’s part of
your civic duty.”
More information on the
individual candidates can be found
on Vote Smart’s website, which is a
nonpartisan group that collects and
distributes formation on political
candidates.
You can also find more information
on registering to vote or your state’s
election process through USA.gov.
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information, and to explore our Overseas Advising options!Maggie’s Cafe transforms into new study space
By GABE KORER
THIS FALL, students have
grappled with the absence
of the popular Maggie’s
cafe, often used by students as a
destination for meal swipes, study
sessions and late night rendezvous.
Due to renovations of the Templeton
Student Center, which have ushered
in a number of changes to student
life, school administrators decided
to reallocate Maggie’s espresso
machines and deli coolers to the Trail
Room, which has been expanded
into a brand new “Pio Pub.”
Although students have been
able to purchase individual snack
and beverage items since Sept. 2,
the Trail Room did not offer dining
services until Sept. 13, when it served
lunch for the first time. According
to Bon Appétit General Manager
Ryan Jensen, they are hoping to
be at full-capacity by next week.
“We are working on stress testing
the Trail Room (today at lunch in
fact) with hours to increase through
this week as we continue to fill in staff
and get them trained,” Jensen said
via email. “The market is on the same
timetable and we hope to be close
to full regular hours by next week.”
Jensen notes that meal
equivalencies will be an option
for students who are not able to
come during the typical dining
hours. Aside from that, there will
be no major changes to how meal
plans and flex points are used.
In the past few months, students
have had time to reflect on the
significance of Maggie’s to campus
life. One such student is Olive Savoie
’23, who worked at Maggie’s through much of 2021. Having spent months
taking order and chatting with the
customers, the cafe will always
hold a special place in their heart.
“Working at Maggie’s was great,
it’s my favorite place I’ve worked!”
Savoie said. “I loved getting to know
my co-workers behind the bar. We
got to play our own music, and chat
in between taking peoples’ orders.
According to Savoie, Maggie’s was
a place where students could freely
come together, enjoying the quaint
atmosphere and tasty beverages.
“Maggie’s was special for a lot of
reasons,” Savoie said. “It was cozy and
comfortable, with couches and warm
lighting which made for a safe and
soothing place for students to study,
hang out with friends or just enjoy a
nice warm drink. It was an important
place on campus where we could find
late night snacks, cafe drinks and
sandwiches. To me, it was special
because it fostered community.”
Maggie’s will make its return
this fall as a student study area.
Later in the semester, it will
be used for campus staff that were
relocated due to the Stewart-Odell
renovation. To honor its namesake,
Margaret “Maggie” Murdy, Lewis &
Clark will name the plaza between East
and Roberts halls Maggie’s Courtyard.
Eventually, the school hopes that
the Pio Pub, like Maggie’s, can be a
social hub of sorts for students. Its
reopening will see the space being
used as a “cafe or lounge space by day
and a poetry lounge or concert venue
by night,” according to the Fall 2021
issue of the L&C Magazine. A coffee bar
will also be available every single day,
as well as late-night services from 8 to
10 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. Jensen said that the Bon Appétit
is encouraging all students to apply
for a position in the Trail Room
or Templeton market, which will
be located just around the corner
from the LC Bookstore. They are
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whether the Bon Appetit can serve
alcoholic beverages in the Trail Room.“We are waiting for the OLCC
to review our application and grant
approval for full beer and wine service
in the Trail Room,” Jensen said.
“There is still a delay in processing
requests due to COVID, but they have
estimated some time in October.”
When the Pio Pub eventually
opens full-time, its dining hours will range from 11:30 a.m. to 2
p.m. for lunch, and 5 to 8 p.m. for
dinner. For students in need of
more immediate food options, the
Dovecote, which is attached to the
Albany Quadrangle, is currently
open from 7:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m.
on weekdays. A grocery market
will also open in Templeton.
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The Dahlia Festival runs until September, for fresh cut dahlias and a variety of activities.Swan Island farm hosts
annual Dahlia Festival
By RACHELLE BINDER
PORTLAND’S CLOSE and easy
access to the countryside provides
a great escape to those who enjoy
the rural landscape. In a half hour
drive from Lewis & Clark on I-5 South
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yourself in Swan Island’s immersive
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Island plants over 500,000 dahlias
and cuts over 10,000 blooms daily
during the blooming season, with over
10,000 bunches going out every week.
The farm, found among farmland
reminiscent of the Land of Oz, is hard
to miss. Entering the festival you are
greeted by the farm’s gift store with
an array of knick knacks, jewelry and
gardening supplies. The aroma from
food trucks – including Chop Chop
Chicken Sundaes and Creperie Le
Bon Temp – is tempting. You can also
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neighboring Copper & Honey truck.
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painting and photography classes, a
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and a Sunday farmers market. Fresh cut
dahlias are available for purchase from
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from all over the globe make their way to
see the dahlias in person. The Swan Island
Dahlia festival is active until Sept. 19
and sometimes into October depending
on the weather. The free parking and
admission to the festival makes for an
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Swan Island Dahlias is the largest
dahlia farm in the United States and ships tubers all over the country and
internationally including Canada,
Germany, England, Norway and Brazil.
The farm, which has been in operation
for over 96 years, was originally located
in Swan Island in North Portland until
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to Canby, Ore. The farm used to have
a roadside stand in Sellwood called
Portland Dahlia Gardens. In 1953, twenty
acres of farmland were purchased in
Canby and the business relocated to
its present location on 22nd Avenue.
The Willamette Valley’s nutrient rich
soil allows the farmers to hybridize their
own varieties and plant over 15,000
seedlings each year. All the Dahlia plants
have been given eccentric names such as
Boogie Nites, Dancin’ Queen and Unicorn
Dreams, to name a few. The names
are inspired by each plant’s intricate
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in the wonderland of plants and spend
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Nick and Margaret Gitts, former
dairy farm owners from Laurel, Wash.,
purchased the farm in 1963. In 1975,
their two sons, Nicholas and Ted, joined
the business as partners and eventually
purchased the business from their
parents following their retirement in
1991. Nick Sr. lost his battle with cancer
in 2007. In 2013, Ted and his wife
Debbie Gitts passed away following
a car accident. The family business is
currently owned by Nicholas and Linda
Gitts. Nicholas and his daughter Heather
take care of daily operations on the farm.
Iconic undergraduate campus landmark no more due to renovation, Trail Room services expandedFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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By ROSALIND MARGUILES
BEFORE WE BEGIN, I feel I must
inform you: This is a review not
of Ken Carson’s performance,
but of the experience of attending a
Ken Carson concert; more specifically,
attending a Ken Carson concert as a
woman.
In broadly male spaces, there is a
sense in entering them as a woman or
nonbinary person of intruding upon
something. It is easy for you to forget
the specifications of the body you
occupy, less so for others. At times,
it is frightening; my concert partner,
disturbed as they were by the general
atmosphere cultivated in the theater,
left before a single note of music was
played. However, I find that to be
present in these spaces, even as an
other, is not charmless.
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arriving at the Ken Carson show is
the homogeneity of the concert-goers:
skinny white frames covered in T-shirts
and topped with shaggy brown hair
parted in the middle. The average age
here can not be over 17. I do not see a
single woman.
The second thing I notice about
the line for the Ken Carson show is
how long it is. It spans two blocks,
and Hawthorne Theatre employees
patrol its boundaries, yelling at us to
stay on the sidewalk and stop spilling
into the street. Once the doors open,
the line moves fast, and soon I am
inside the venue. Near the entrance,
a booth sells shirts emblazoned with
the slogan “BAD BITCH PUSSY FOR
LUNCH” for $50. Regrettably, I do
not buy one.I make my way through the crowd.
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but right now the crowd is easily
maneuverable, and I achieve a spot
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Somewhere ahead of me, a man holds
his phone high above the crowd,
displaying his Bumble queue.
“Left or right?” he yells, waving
a picture of a pretty, brown-haired
woman.
Boos erupt from the crowd around
me. Nevertheless, he swipes right,
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for several minutes as he works his way
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their opinion each time. Usually, the
crowd tells him not to swipe right,
but usually, he swipes right anyway. I
notice that he receives no matches, but
it does not seem to matter to anyone
else. Here, this crowd of men, mostly
unknown to one another, are judge,
jury and executioner over the women
of Portland Bumble, or at least, they
can convince each other that they are.
They are the ultimate arbitrator of the
worth and desirability of these women,
and it does not matter at all if the
women care about their opinions in the
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crowd pushes forward, closing the
small gaps that separate us, and
suddenly there are bodies pressing up
against me from all sides. I lock my
arms in a defensive position in front
of me to ensure that I will continue to
have at least a few inches of breathing
room. A pair of boys in front of me
joke about the crowd surging at Travis
Scott’s Astroworld Festival, and I hope
their words are not premonitory. We jump asynchronously to the
sounds of rage music. Occasionally, I
am pushed forward or sent back along
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in any direction. We are the crowd and
yet we are at the whims of the crowd. It
is more than the sum of its parts: We
have made something.
Among the shortest in the crowd,
I only know Lil88 has begun his set
by the opening of the mosh pits. My
compatriots instantly begin sprinting
at one another with all the pent-up rage
you would expect from high school boys.
I throw myself into the fray. I can not
explain the thrill of moshing, of hitting
and being hit, catching your breath and
then losing it again the next second. We
are all completely at the mercy of each
other.
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then redirect myself, feeling like a
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within a solid mass of people. At these
times, the temperature and humidity
level of my immediate surroundings
mimic the conditions of the Amazon
Rainforest. I am at the edge of a pit,
catching my breath, when I feel a hand
on my elbow.
I turn to see who it is. A short, curly
haired girl smiles up at me.
“Do you want to be mosh buddies?”
she yells over the music. “Sure!” I yell
back.
I ask her if she is here alone, and
she tells me no, she is not, but her sister
(who she came with) refuses to mosh.
She slips her hand into mine, and we
will barely let go for the duration of the
concert. There are many downsides to
existing in our society as women, but there are upsides too, and this is one of
them. There is an unspoken but inherent
comradery between women, particularly
in male-dominated spaces. We are on
the same team. We trust one another
and assume implicitly that we have each
other's best interests at heart.
Emboldened by the presence of my
new friend, I grow bolder. I am shoving,
jumping and (dare I say) raging with
the best of them. I am liberal with my
elbows. Destroylonely begins his set, and
the crowd becomes wilder and wetter.
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begin to shine with perspiration in the
dim lights of the stage: It is as if the
population of the venue has been caught
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Eventually, my new friend and I grow
tired, and retreat to the foyer for water
bottles and unpolluted air. We stand by
the entrance, sipping water and making
conversation, when people begin to
troop out of the concert hall. I wonder if
the show is over, though I can still hear
music playing, until I hear one boy tell
another that someone threw up.
We return to the hall. Finally, it is Ken
Carson’s turn on stage. He is wearing
his very own “BAD BITCH PUSSY FOR
LUNCH” tee.
“Are you tired?” he asked the crowd.
(I am.)
The crowd responds with a nebulous
mass of sound, and he launches into his
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My newfound friend and I once again
enter the mosh pit, but soon leave; it
has only grown hotter and more humid,
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ourselves unable to catch our breath. We
retreat to the edge of the crowd, where
my friend’s sister has taken up residency, perched on a ledge built into the wall.
We exchange introductions, and I take
some footage of the performance, but I
am too far away and far too short for it
to be any good.
So I return to the crowd. This time,
I avoid the mosh pits, and instead work
my way up as close to the front of the
stage as I can. The closer you get to
the stage, the thicker and more closely
packed the crowd becomes, and I am
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no longer easily move forward. I snap
some pictures and turn to leave when
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assailant: a tall, shirtless boy. I ask him
what his problem is. He shrugs.
“Stay out of the pit if you can’t
handle it,” he says, which would be sage
advice if either of us were anywhere
near the pit.
Soon, the show is over. I bid my new
friend goodbye.
“Maybe we’ll see each other again
sometime,” she says, though I know
neither of us believes it.
I am damp with sweat, and I shiver
when I step outside, even though it is
not that cold. I call my Uber and wait
for it to arrive, surrounded by throngs
of teenage boys. We all look like we have
just climbed out of a swimming pool,
and I wonder what the people driving
by in their cars think. I realize that I feel
a strange tenderness for these boys, for
the PG-13 rated haven of masculinity
they created in the concert hall. Violent,
but not bloody; crass, but not vulgar.
Exhilarating, yet never scary.
Overall, I enjoyed my time at the
Ken Carson show. I wonder if the music
was any good.Ken Carson appears on stage at the Hawthorne Theater wearing his own merch.Concert highlights comradery between women in male-dominated spaces, bonding through moshing
ROSALIND MARGUILES/THE MOSSY LOGAmong boys: Living, dying at Ken Carson's show
A swell of concert goers rush the Hawthorne theater's tage and start moshing before the opening acts of Ken Carson's show.ROSALIND MARGUILES/THE MOSSY LOG
Horror created by, for transgender people represents industry shift away from stigmatizing depictionsRise of trans slashers marks important step in media
By VENUS EDLIN
T HE HORROR genre
has always been near
and dear to queer
people, however the queer
transgender slasher is on the
rise. This is the result of trans
people starting to gain control
over media representations.
This increase is best
represented by the newly
released Blumhouse and John
Logan project. What is more
camp than (conversion)
camp? In an ode to the likes
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Cheerleader,” conversion
therapy has once again
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with the slasher “They/Them.”
If you are wondering, yes, the slash is
pronounced in the title.In Logan’s directorial debut, classic
themes of the queer “other” meet explicit
trans representation. Queer-coding and
explicit representation are commonly seen
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to not be the case. Students who have taken
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Media
Studies Melanie Kohnen’s Queer Film &
Television class, such as myself, know this
extremely well.
Representation paired with classic
comfort tropes resonates deeply for Logan.
“They/Them has been germinating
within me my whole life,” Logan said in
a statement. “I’ve loved horror movies as
long as I can remember, I think because
monsters represent ‘the other’ and as gay kid
I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those
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forbidden. I wanted to make a movie that
celebrates queerness, with characters that
I never saw when I was growing up. When
people walk away from the movie, I hope they’re going to remember the incredible
love that these kids have for each other and
how that love needs to be protected and
celebrated.”
However, not only does Logan’s work
combine nostalgia with trans characters,
but it also is backed by the star power of a
nonbinary actor: Theo Germaine playing
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cisgender actors. For example, think of
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the Lambs.”
According to a Tweet released by
Germaine, they also felt the queer impact
of this role.
“I’ve dreamed of getting to work in this
genre since I was a kid,” Germaine tweeted
in September 2021. “This is for 12-year-old
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and was the only kid in my school who
read @FANGORIA. This is also for my late uncle, who collected Friday the 13th merch
and also loved horror.”
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For more commentary on this trend,
check out “Queer for Fear: A History
of Queer Horror,” a four part Shudder-
exclusive documentary which analyses
the history of queerness within the horror
genre. Produced by Bryan Fuller, the series
will be released later this year and features
drag queen Alaska Thunderfuck recreating
the iconic “Carrie” imagery on the cover.
“Queer for Fear” is essential in making
explicit the history between queer people
and horror. I, for one, cannot wait to watch
as I love the media created by the people
involved. However, I will critically watch
with one question in mind: Are the histories
of trans horror being told as well?
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
ARTS /gid00491
LC’s popular Instagram page sheds light on college suffering, absurdity through positive online assertionsMemes with purpose: Q&A with LC Affirmations
By MO APP-SINGER
ONE INSTAGRAM account, @
lcaffirmations has brought
positive memes to the forefront
of Lewis & Clark’s online community.
Gen Z, a generation marred by social
struggle, mental illness and global
unrest, has adopted the self-help
affirmation as a means of satire. The
meme page @affirmations has nearly
a million followers on Instagram.
Some of the account’s most popular
recent posts include text reading “I am
Sexy Slug Season” over the backdrop
of a young woman clad in ankle boots
and skinny jeans sitting beneath an
red-leafed tree, as well as “I am not
always very depressed’’ overlaid on a
photo of Taylor Swift.
Many smaller accounts adopt
its blown out, surreal style to put a
positive spin on anxiety-inducing
events, including @lcaffirmations,.
I had a chance to speak with the
students behind this account, and
we discussed everything from
overcrowding at LC and COVID-19
policy, to silly submissions and memes
they still wish to make. The admins
wished to remain pseudonymous, and
will be referred to with letter-based
aliases. This interview is edited for
length and clarity.
App-Singer: I love your page so
much. I really like how you both
satirize and celebrate LC culture.
Most recently, I noticed that you
posted a COVID warning in the form
of a meme. Can you talk a little about
the process and ethics behind that
choice, and why you decided to do
that?
L: Someone from the Associated
Student Body (ASB) had reached out
and said, “Hey, we can’t really post
this information on a page that’s
affiliated with the school, since it was
an off-campus party and we don’t
really know what was going on.”
So they asked if we minded posting
something about it … I really don’t
know if this is the ethics behind it,
but the school is no longer sending out how many people got COVID
every week. Last year, they had it
changed to where they’re no longer
counting the at-home tests on (LC’s)
website. That’s kind of sus(pect). So I
was just like, “We’ll go ahead and post
something.” So that way, people are
aware that they should take a test and
that there is a superspreader event.
App-Singer: I know throughout
the memes that you all have created,
there’s been a lot of ones that are
sort of going against the grain of the
establishment, which I think is super
cool. What are your opinions on more
controversial aspects of the school
and aspects of student loving? And
how do you make these darker aspects
into memes?
M: I feel like there’s always going
to be issues at any institution. (Our
account is) a very honest review of the
school because people just kind of tell
us everything they’re feeling whether
it’s positive or negative. We do
tread lightly regarding the negative experiences and I feel like we talk to
each other about stuff we are curious
about posting. I feel like (the account)
is kind of a good way to deal with
things that are annoying us about the
institution. We can not only call out
and say, “Oh, this is annoying,” but
also, like, cope with it by making it
kind of a funny thing. It’s relatable to
be suffering in college. I feel like it’s
just another thing that we can make
commentary about.
App-Singer: What are some
of the less controversial, funny,
absurd requests you’ve gotten for
affirmations in recent times?
L: There was one time a professor
went barefoot in class, and someone
actually sent me a photo they took,
and sent the account the photo
and was like, you should make an
affirmation about this. And we were
like, sure.
M: I think one of the upcoming
things that might (come up in
submissions) might be a little bit controversial … But there is a
pub opening on campus and I’m
hoping that we don’t get too many
affirmations about getting absolutely
sloshed because I feel like that’s not
the point of the pub being open on
campus. It’s a safer alternative to
going off campus and having to get
an Uber back. But I feel like there’s
gonna be an onslaught of … ‘Oh, my
God, I will not throw up in Templeton
at the Temple Bar.’ I mean, that’s
good. I hope they don’t, but I feel like
(those submissions will) definitely
happen regardless.
App-Singer: Thank you all so much
for talking. I have one more question.
What aspects of your student life this
year so far have you wanted to make
affirmation memes about?
M: My partner is studying abroad.
(My affirmation is) “I won’t miss
them too much.”
L: “I will find my passion.”
S: I mean, I had a pretty difficult
year last year. Coming back, I was just kind of nervous, but also very
cautiously optimistic. My first few
weeks at college have been pretty
amazing. I love my classes, I enjoy
my room, I’m making more friends.
I’m just in a good place and have
a good relationship with school.
I would want to affirm that “my
cautious optimism was correct in
that I’ll continue to have a very good
year.”
After the interview, I was
thinking about how focusing on
the positive is often easier said
than done. I was reminded how
irony and humor can transform the
painful into entertainment. Satirical
memes can be a great tool for social
change, for better or worse. LC
is far from a perfect institution,
which is something the admins of
@lcaffirmations are clearly aware
of. At the end of the day, if we are
able to put an affirming spin on our
shortcomings instead of letting them
consume us, we will all be better off.
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forefront of the story, which centers
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entirely of queer characters. I went in
expecting a show about baseball with
maybe one or two queer characters —
what I found was a story about lesbians
in the 1940s, and also some baseball.
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with protagonist Carson Shaw (played
by executive producer and writer for
the show Abbi Jacobson) leaving her
hometown in Idaho for Chicago, where
she tries out for the All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League. Along
the way, she meets Greta Gill (D’Arcy
Carden from “The Good Place”) and
Jo De Luca (Melanie Field). A parallel
storyline follows Max Chapman
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they never fully converge.
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relationship. Simultaneously, Max is
revealed to be in a relationship with a
female client at her mother’s hair salon.
Together, these introductory queer
story-lines shed light on the reality
of being in a same-sex relationship in
1943.
At the forefront, the show
beautifully depicts elements of queer
community and kinship. The sixth episode, my personal favorite, centers
around Carson discovering a gay bar.
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not only be with Greta in public, but
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open up about their identities both to
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party hosted by her transmasculine
Uncle Bert, where she dresses in
masculine clothing and meets a woman
with whom she can dance openly.
These moments of queer love and joy
felt so meaningful and liberating after
several episodes full of secrecy and
sneaking around.
However, “A League of Their Own”
never romanticizes the 1940s, in
relation to both sexual orientation and
race. Greta expresses the importance
of staying safe as a queer woman,
explaining how every time she begins
a new relationship, she always makes
sure to be seen in public with a man.
Uncle Bert has a tense relationship with
his sister, Max’s mother, which has led
Bert to be largely estranged from his
family. Max is able to reconcile this
relationship in her own way, although
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at the beginning of her newfound
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that the characters would never be
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period without erasing the struggles
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meaningful and representative of the
queer community and people of color.Overall, “A League of Their Own”
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light pink baseball uniforms with
skirts. In this article only so much of
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one of the few shows I have seen
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SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGBy A RLEN SLAYMAKER
IF YOU HAVE ever heard people
talking excitedly about how “cross
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more colorful than last year’s or how
the mud stuck to their bike’s frame
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is the beginning of Portland’s cyclocross
season.
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one-to-two mile loop through grassy or
forested terrain, often with barriers such as deep mud or stairs waiting around
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winner. A combination of strength, bike
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all of these skills is almost impossible.
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race day, ready to pedal to exhaustion.
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category. The categories, one through
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more inclusive and relaxed racing
communities are rare. Everyone rides
their bike because they love it, not for
the unlikely winning of a six-pack of
craft brew.
Unlike the average road, gravel
or mountain bike race, costumes are
encouraged and celebrated. I have
found myself passing by a blow-up
dinosaur on a bike, and in the next turn
gotten passed by a man wearing jean
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out open beer cans for a quick thirst
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large portion of fans excited to watch
as the unlucky racer catches their toe
and takes a tumble in the mud.
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the course, the obstacles for race entry
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working on this problem by, in some
instances, allowing juniors up to 18
and women just starting the activity
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access remains an unsolved problem
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specialization required.
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Paige AndersonArts Editors
Mo App-Singer
Sports Editors
Noah Reese-Clauson
Ashlyn LittleOpinion Editors
Emma Ford
Isabel RekowFeatures Editors
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By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
AT A MEETING in February
on the 2022-23 season, the
National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) voted to adjust
the threshold of tetrahydrocannabinol
(THC) metabolites that can be found in
an athlete’s blood stream from 35 ng/ml
to 150 ng/ml. The adjustment applied
retroactively to the 2021-22 season.
These changes are relevant as
marijuana has become a contested topic
with the arrests of Britney Griner, a
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Association champion and two-time
Olympic gold medalist, and retired
National Basketball Association player
Iman Shumpert. Both attempted to
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arrested in February at Sheremetyevo
International Airport on the way to play
in a Russian league over the summer.
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to Los Angeles.
Both of these cases emphasize the
factor of location in the legality of
marijuana, that makes the attainment
of cannabinoids easier and safer in the
vicinity of Lewis & Clark. Additionally,
both Griner and Shumpert are Black,
and thus 3.64 times more likely to
be arrested for marijuana possession
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indicator of usage. Lastly, many are
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usage and do not have the notoriety to
make headlines.
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for NCAA athletes disproportionately
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drug tests despite somewhat recent
consumption. Frequent users will still
test positive unless they are able to
break their habit for a longer period, as
THC metabolites are built up over time
and habitual consumption will keep urine concentrated well over the NCAA
threshold.
The policy also loosens the penalties
of positive tests, only putting eligibility
at stake in the event of two or more
positives. In that case, a student will be enrolled in an education and
management plan. For LC students,
this would be the Substance Abuse
Prevention and Education Services
which is run by Student Rights and
Responsibilities. An athlete will only be barred from
competing for use of cannabinoids if
they fail to comply with the school’s
program or the school refuses to attest
to the course’s completion. If a student
tests positive twice, and one of those situations occurs, they will be ineligible
for a quarter of their competitions. If
they test positive three or more times,
then they will be ineligible for half of
their competitions.
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the NCAA is the only body that would
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treat students and student-athletes
under the same guidelines as regular
students,” Pietrok said. “If there’s a
reason for the school to want to drug
test somebody then it shouldn’t matter
whether they are an athlete or not.”
Pietrok went on to explain that
student-athletes are only tested at
NCAA championships, even if they
have already tested positive once, and
as the revised guidelines state, would
only risk ineligibility if this happened
multiple times. This policy does,
however, open up inequities by sport.
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track championshipship, track
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championship, and let’s say you get
tested on day two, there’s probably no
ability for the NCAA to do a second test
to see if there’s ongoing use,” Pietrok
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place over a three-to-four week period.
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week and then week two or three (they
would test) again.”
The NCAA is not the anti-
marijuana juggernaut it once was,
as their regulations have loosened in
accordance with state laws. But, even
without NCAA intervention, the use of
marijuana is illicit on LC’s campus and
in the state of Oregon for those below
the age of 21. However, enforcement is
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the state it occupies have contradictory
guidelines and marijuana use is
common for LC students.SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGLC will defer to Student Rights and Responsibilities in event of two, more positive cannabinoid testsNCAA loosens THC rules for student-athletes
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Head Coach Lindsey Newman begins first year
Lacrosse team spearheads into their first ever season with high aspirations, clear goals set in mind
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HEAD WOMEN’S Lacrosse
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Lewis & Clark’s lacrosse program on
June 14. Assistant Women’s Lacrosse
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sports.
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time the team dedicates to practices
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LC v Whittier: L 0-1
LC v La Verne: L 0-2
LC v Cal Tech: T 0-0
LC v Everett CC: W 2-0
Overall: 3-2-1
Football
LC v Puget Sound: W 41-15
Overall: 1-0
Women’s Volleyball
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25-18, 15-25, 20-25, 18-25
LC v Hollins: W 3-0
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L 0-3
LC v North Park: L 0-3
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LC v Lin/f_ield Reserves: L 0-1
LC v Multnomah: L 0-2
LC v College of Idaho: L 0-6
LC v Edmonds CC: W 1-0
LC v Lin/f_ield: L 1-3
Overall: 1-5
Men’s and Women’s XC
Men’s placed: 4th
Women’s placed: 4th
Student-athletes of the week
Men’s: Jay’Den Dock ‘26
Football, Bakers/f_ield, CA
Women’s: Malia Heinen ‘26
Women’s X, Denver, CO
Men’s: Ben Tallent ‘26
Men’s Soccer, Seattle, W A
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YOU HAVE been to psychiatrists.
You downloaded BetterHelp for
a week. You even took shrooms
that one time, and yet you are
still mentally ill. Well, fear not: I, an
astrology bisexual who knows more
than any doctor, am here to tell you
exactly what psychiatric medication
you should be on based solely on your
zodiac sign.
Aries (March 21 – April 19)
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them, and all signs point to undiagnosed
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include agitation and irritability, so Aries
should feel right at home.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
Taurus is an earth sign known for
being stubborn, down-to-earth lovers
of their creature comforts. We all know
a Taurus on antidepressants, and that
antidepressant is almost certainly
Lexapro. Lexapro is perfect for Taurus:
It is a commonly prescribed selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)
loved by kids and moms alike. It is a
little basic, but it gets the job done, just
like a Taurus.Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
Sweet, unpredictable Gemini. Easily
bored and always gossiping, Gemini
is a controversial favorite in their
friend group. None other than Paxil
could do for this polarizing sign.
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other SSRIs due to its more
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issues with withdrawal, but nothing
says Gemini like leaving you
wanting more.
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norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor
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them something to complain about.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22)
Everyone’s favorite, the star of the
show, the belle of the ball. For Leo, the
equally ubiquitous Prozac is the only
appropriate choice. Prozac is one of
the most prescribed medications for
depression, and you either love it or
hate it. Leo loves to be loved, but loves the hate just as much. No such thing as
bad publicity, right?
Virgo
(Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)
Nothing less than
perfection will
do for Virgo, and
their medication
is no exception.
Only the best
will do, and the
gold standard of
antidepressants is
Zoloft. You know
it, I know it.

Old, reliable Zoloft. The pale, calming
blue of a sertraline 50mg, gracing the bathroom counters and bedroom
floors of teens across the country.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22)
Libra, I am not sure how to tell you
this, but there is not an antidepressant
that can help with what you are going
through. Try to leave your bed, call your
friends, and listen to less Phoebe Bridgers.
A lot less. There are other artists.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)
Oh, Scorpio, the sign we love to hate
and hate to love. An oft-misunderstood
sign, Scorpios are governed by
truth, ambition and a penchant towards
manipulation, but only
because they are
always right.
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the atypical
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and not prescribed for
depression very often,
and Scorpio’s not-like-other-
pills attitude will thrive with such
an underground medication.
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Sagittarians are the most intrepid
sign of the zodiac. They love to take risks,
explore new things and adventure. This
bold, all-in attitude makes Sagittarius a
sign who would likely do well on ketamine,
an illicit drug-turned experimental
depression treatment. Nothing says
Sagittarius like experimental, and
nothing says experimental like using your parent’s health insurance to start
taking ketamine.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)
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hard-workers who know what they want
and when they want it. Their focus can
make them a little uptight, but Celexa can
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other SSRIs, a little boost of serotonin
from Celexa may be all Capricorn needs to
develop a personality outside of their very
cool, self-designed major they won’t shut
up about.
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anxiety by ignoring it and watching “New
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Pisces is an old soul; a poetic,
intuitive water sign who is in tune with
their emotions. Even too in tune. The
monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
class of antidepressants will suit Pisces’
unique needs. MAOIs are the oldest
antidepressants that are still prescribed, as
well as being some of the strongest. A high
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thing that gets Pisces through the semester.
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landmarks and locales they discovered
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“My roommates and I were just out
walking in the city — Portland is so
walkable, did you know that? — and we
came across this really cool bookstore,”
Errea said. “I think it was called Howell’s
or something. Have you heard of it?”
I had not.
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Noobeigh and her friends explored a
number of restaurant spots in downtown
Portland.
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randomly craving donuts all of a sudden,
and we found this kinda creepy but
super cute little donut shop,” Noobeigh
said. “It was really quaint, and I got
these super quirky small business vibes
from it. You should check it out!”
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shop. She and Noobeigh began to
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earrings squished
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each other. “I’m not
sure what Baie was
doing. Her BeReal
was like three
hours late.”
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explained how
her BeReal post
was meant to serve as a
public service announcement and that other students should check
out the donut shop she had so bravely
pioneered.
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the donut shop, Errea went as far as
writing an article for The Mossy Log
in order to profess her excitement
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quirky place.
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perfect platform for sharing this with
other students,” Errea said. “After all,
I know everyone will read it!”
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large forest with a well-maintained
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by accident after getting hopelessly
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to ever find it,” Cook said. “I hope they
name it after me.”
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friend Stick we had to use the public
bus to get to the Japanese garden
and they had a
panic attack.”
(/($125%5$816$89$*(7+(0266</2*By EMMA FORD
IF YOU HAVE a certain beloved
newspaper section in mind, you
would be almost correct. This
columnist has just been informed that
an on-campus, award-winning, student-
run newspaper’s satire section has run
out of jokes. Again.
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on TikTok conducting “pitch research”
for jokes that will be dated by the print
deadline)., but. However, according
to student contributors, the section is
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of a dire humor shortage. What (few)
fans of the paper had hoped would be
a robust semester of cheap dirty jokes
and half-hearted pop culture references
is being called by insiders a “stale and
uninspired slate — like, even more than
usual.”
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said one sophomore who declined
to be named. “New President, lots of
construction, another huge freshmen
class … It was really promising. We
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has brought to campus.”
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like clockwork every September.
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of content has been scraped down to the
dregs. We get it, freshmen wear their
lanyards. You were one too, once! And if
your writing skills are any evidence, you
might very well still be. Even with such rich veins of shared
campus experience to mine, the writers
in question are at a loss. Sources
report silent, awkward meetings as the
shared realization of their own failures
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throats, and the contributors must
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jokes, all of their good jokes, all their
decent jokes and a half dozen more on
top of that last year.
Luckily, they will be able to pivot
gracefully. Right?One would think that humor
writers, historically so highly-paid and
alarmingly clever, would have foreseen
this coming. Perhaps spend a summer
participating in a “Rocky”-style training
montage learning to draw out complex
humor instead of forced puns and low
blows. Alas, this columnist’s dreams
of highbrow laughs were thwarted by
the shortcomings of college students.
Inconceivable. Having had no way to
see this coming, the devoted readers of
this satire section can only swallow our
disappointment, and hope that these
writers get their shit together.
What iconic LC satire section
has already run out of jokes?
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