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Volume 99, No. 3

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2022-10-14

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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

Vol. 99 No. 3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 www.piolog.com
OPINION
OCD awareness
A student with Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder explains why we are not all “a
little OCD” for OCD Awareness Week.
PAGE 4FEATURES
Arthropods thrive at LC
Arthropods and arachnids alike can be
found around LC’s wooded campus,
including residential buildings.
PAGE 7ARTS
“Rent” housing nightmares
Does the message of “Rent” still ring
true to the current generation, and the
LC community?
PAGE 9SPORTS
The art of recruiting
Learn what recruitment for athletes
looks like at a Division III school.

PAGE 10THE MOSSY POD
Listen to our podcast
Tune into this week’s episode of the
Mossy Pod, which focuses on how
liberal arts education influenced one
student’s world perspective.By AMELIA DOYLE & LEO
BERNSTEIN NEWMAN
ON TUESDAY evening, several
buildings on the Lewis & Clark
undergraduate and graduate
campuses were vandalized. The tags
came in response to Indigenous Peoples’
Day, which is a holiday that occurs on
Oct. 10 and is recognized by the state of
Oregon.
LC students and staff awoke the
following morning to find various
buildings tagged with large messages
written in graffiti. This is not the first
time campus buildings have been tagged
with similar messaging and iconography
on Indigenous People’s Day, previously
known in Oregon as Columbus Day.
Previous instances have occurred on
Jan. 25, 2021 and Oct. 11, 2021.
Across the front facade of J.R.
Howard Hall read “CHANGE NAME”
in spattered white paint that reached
approximately a story tall. Multiple
smaller messages written in red spray
paint located on a front-facing windowsill
and on the inner walls of the front doors
read “DAY OF RAGE,” “LAND BACK”
and “NO PRIDE IN PIONEERS.”
Along the side of BoDine Hall that
faces the academic quad, “FUCK L+C”
was written in the same tall white paint.
According to an email sent out
to students and staff on Wednesday
afternoon by Vice President of Student
Life and Dean of Students Evette Castillo
Clark, the York Graduate Center located
on the graduate campus was also tagged.
The school has not yet identified the
persons responsible for the tags.
Dozens of students stood in front
of the Howard steps during passing
periods. Among them was Fabian
Guerrero ’22, who said that he is not as
upset about the tags as others seem to
be.
“I support the name change,”
Guerrero said. “The means to do so
will never be completed through the
avenues this college has taken.” Guerrero was part of the committee
that wrote the bill changing the name
of the Associated Students of Lewis &
Clark (ASLC) to the Associated Student
Body (ASB), after which KPH, the
school’s radio station and The Mossy
Log followed suit. As he remembers,
students responded by dropping
‘Lewis & Clark’ and ‘pioneer’ from
the names of their own independent
organizations, but the college’s name
still remains.
“We were only able to do things
that we could change, but that kind of
voice only goes so far,’’ Guerrero said.
“And then every year, all of a sudden
this comes to life in a very physical and
inconvenient way.”
Kaya Tsabari ’24 has seen three tags
during her time at LC. She feels that
the message of the tags gets bigger and
bigger every year, but she cannot trace
any effectual change among students or administrators.
“This has happened multiple times
before,” Tsabari said. According to Tsabari, the tags have divided students
into three camps...
“Native ” coNtiNued oN page 3LC honors
president
emeritus
By AMELIA DOyLE
DURING THE LEWIS & Clark
Board of Trustees (BoT)
meeting in early May, the
board appointed former LC President
Wim Wiewel to president emeritus.
On July 1, in Resolution NO. 28
(2021-2022), this position went into
effect. An endowed scholarship was
also created in his name.
Wiewel was appointed the
president of LC in 2017 and retired
in 2022 after 43 years working in
higher education. In the resolution,
the BoT recognized Wiewel’s five
years of service and called him “a
true talent for inspirational and
transformational leadership.”
In the resolution that was adopted
by the BoT, the board thanked Wiewel
for his commitment to the college.
They emphasized that Wiewel’s
direction over the past several years
was crucial to overcome adversity.
“A global pandemic forced
us to rethink everything we do,”
Resolution NO. 28 stated. “Wildfires
and ice storms tested our resilience.
But Wiewel - working closely with his
leadership team - never faltered, and
Lewis & Clark emerged even stronger
than before. Few other colleges can
make such a claim.”
Wiewel is succeeded by President
Robin Holmes-Sullivan, who will be
inaugurated on Oct. 26, 2022.
“I’m thrilled with Robin’s
appointment as my successor,”
Wiewel said. “When we hired her
three years ago, we knew she was
a star, and she has exceeded our
expectations. Her vision of the
importance of students’ sense of
belonging will be key to Lewis &
Clark’s success in the years to come.”
Holmes-Sullivan is excited about
the establishment of an endowed
scholarship, especially since Wiewel
is a first-generation college student.
“Lc starts ” coNtiNued oN page 3 In congressional election race, McLeod-Skinner
prioritizes youth, acts as LGBTQ+ inspiration
By VENUS EDLIN
JAMIE McLeod-Skinner attended
Lewis & Clark for a year in the
’90s; now she is running for
Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.
After the 2020 Census, the
district that LC resides in changed
from District 3 to District 5, which
also includes Bend, Oregon’s central
coast and areas further inland. Most
of Portland is still located in District
3 which has been represented by Earl
Blumenauer BA ’70, JD ’76 since
1996.
McLeod-Skinner hopes to appeal
to this newly-mixed district with her
rural background and the fact that if
elected, she would be Oregon’s first
LGBTQ+ congress member. She is running against Republican Lori
Chavez-DeRemer after beating out
incumbent Democrat Kurt Schrader
in the May Primary Elections.
However, this is not McLeod-
Skinner’s first campaign. She gained
press coverage in 2018 for traveling
35,000 miles through District 2’s
rural areas, talking to some of the
state’s most conservative voters.
For McLeod-Skinner, this trip
exemplified many common goals
for voters, despite the perception of
rural/urban or partisan divisions.
“As I like to say, regardless of
party affiliation, we all want to be
able to have a roof overhead and
food on our table,” Mcleod-Skinner
said. “We want opportunities for
our kids – I’m a proud stepmom. We want health care for families that are
sick, we want our communities to be
safe. We don’t want our homes to
burn down. We don’t want our family
farms going under.”
When she first started out, there
were times that she was nervous about
running as an out woman. However,
the experiences McLeod-Skinner has
had since only solidify the reasons
why she chose to campaign.
“What I used to say four years
ago, even in the most conservative
parts of the state, my opening spiel
would be, ‘I finished high school in
Southern Oregon, I live in Central
Oregon and my wife’s family has been
ranching in Eastern Oregon for over
100 years.’…” McLeod Skinner said.
“There would be some places that I thought I literally did not feel safe
saying that, but I thought somebody
needs to hear it.”
McLeod-Skinner recalled a
woman who thanked her for running
as openly LGBTQ+ because the
woman’s daughter felt comfortable
coming out as a lesbian after seeing
her mother support McLeod-Skinner.
Additionally, a conservative man was
talking policy with McLeod-Skinner
before asking her what he should do
after his son had come out as gay
Besides unifying rural and urban
Oregon, as well as running as an
openly LGBTQ+ candidate, one of
McLeod-Skinner’s focuses is young
voters.
“Former ” coNtiNued oN page 3Students observe graffiti painted on Bodine Hall, one of two large pieces of vandalism pushing the school to change its name.LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
Anti-pioneer sentiments cover walls at the south entrance to JR Howard Hall. NOAH REESE-CLAUSON/THE MOSSY LOG
Wiewel was named president emeritus.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
On Indigenous People’s Day, campus
vandalized in protest of colonialism
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
NEWS 2
By NATALIE CONELLY
THE ENVIRONMENTAL
Studies (ENVS) program is
sponsoring the upcoming Environment Across Boundaries
(ENVX) Symposium “Deconstructing
the Apocalypse: Holistic Evaluations
of Climate Futures” from Oct. 16 to
Oct. 20. ENVX is an intersectional approach
to environmental studies that
represents the goals of the program,
which include inclusivity, equity,
environmental justice, communication and reflection. According to the
ENVS’s page statement, “ENVX is a
commitment to equip students with
skills to cross, intellectual, geographic,
and communication boundaries.”
The symposium was planned by
Co-Chairs Umi Fulgencio ’23, Oskar
Kohlbrenner ’23, Elizabeth McCarthy
’24, Francisco Perzo ’23, Keilani
Vega ’22, Associate Professor of
Environmental Studies Jessica Kleiss
and ENVS Administrative Specialist
Laura Mundt. The panel discussions,
workshops and activities will explore
how current and future climates are
conceptualized, reflecting on both
the theoretical and the practical. The
symposium will examine climate
anxiety in the past, present and future,
as well as how that influences everyday
decisions and the impact of recent
natural disasters.
ENVS major and Entrepreneurship
and Leadership Innovation minor
Fulgencio explained why the theme
Apocalypse was chosen.
“Our approach was to make this
message as accessible as possible
where, after hearing from diversified
viewpoints and expertise, one can
make their own decisions and
actions toward climate anxiety-
induced fear,” Fulgencio said. “Our
two keynote speakers demonstrate
that interdisciplinary approach in
communicating that message”.
The event’s keynote speakers are
Julia Baum and Alex Trembath. Baum
is a professor of ocean ecology and
global change at the University of
Victoria, and will give an address titled
“From Climate Despair to Action: A
Personal Journal of Corals, COVID,
and Kids.” Trembath is a director
at the Breakthrough Institute doing
research on the role of technology
in solving environmental issues. He
is also a published author, with an
address titled “Why Ecomodernism?”
Both Trembath and Baum’s addresses
will take place on Oct. 18 from 7 to 8:45
p.m. in the Council Chamber, and will
have a reception in the foyer afterward. Other speakers include Brook
Thompson a water rights and Native
American advocate, prominent
climate dataset researcher Katherine
Hegewisch and Dr. Thomas Doherty,
a clinical and environmental
psychologist who previously taught at
LC.
Kicking off the symposium is a
screening and discussion of the film
“The Ants and The Grasshopper”
in the Council Chamber within
Templeton Student Center from
7 to 9 p.m. The following day is a
mindfulness workshop called “Active
Hope for Apocalyptic Anxiety,” held
in the Gregg Pavilion from 6 to7 p.m.
Students can sign up for lunch
with the keynote speakers on Oct. 19
from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in the Gregg
Pavilion, as well as a map and graph
data story workshop in J.R. Howard
Hall room 102 from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
That evening from 7 to 8 p.m. in
the Council Chamber another panel
discussion will take place.
The event ends on Oct. 20 with an
RSVP-only art workshop from 1:30
to 3 p.m. in Fields Dining Room, a
virtual career fair from 3:30 to 6:30
p.m. hosted by the Career Center
and the Sustainability in Portland
Networking Event from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
in Corbett House.
The organizers invite all LC
students, and outside community
members to attend and participate.
“Non-major, or major, we hope
to communicate a message that is
clear to all students and individuals,”
Fulgencio said. “That is a message
of hope and optimism for our
climate future, through your own
understanding from distinguished
areas of psychology, science, and even
storytelling.”
Proof of vaccination will be
required for all in-person events.
Any questions can be directed to
envs@lclark.edu. To find more
information visit @lcenvs on
Instagram and RVSP for events on
LC’s ENVX Symposium webpage. Environment Across Boundaries co-chairs pose with bicycle statue outside of Olin Center for Physics and Chemistry.Keynote speakers Julia Baum, Alex Trembath will address fears, concerns about planet’s fragile futureENVX symposium focuses on climate change
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
CAITLIN PEEL, the previous
associate director of marketing
since 2019, was recently
promoted to director of marketing. She
took over the role of Stacey Kim, who
is now working as the assistant vice
president of communications.
Peel joined the Lewis & Clark
community in 2015 when she was
hired as the assistant director
of marketing. After six years of
working for Renewable Northwest,
a sustainable energy advocacy
nonprofit, Peel felt that she needed
a change. When she saw the 2015
job posting at LC, something
clicked. Since then, she has become
a key member of the Office of
Communications.
“I love getting to know our
students, alumni and faculty through
the profiles that we create together,”
Peel said via email. “I learn about
so many amazing things that are
happening on our campuses, and
I am continually inspired by what
our students are working on or are
passionate about. As a professional
communicator, I love talking with
people and getting to know their
stories!”
Project Manager for Marketing
and Publications Janna Hecker Clark
now works closely with Peel, but their
connection goes further back: Hecker
Clark was also on the search team
that first hired Peel.
“She had a wide range of
applicable skills and had worked in
the nonprofit world, but that job was
her introduction to working in higher
ed,” Clark said. “It didn’t take her
long at all to immerse herself fully in
that world.”
Peel’s primary duties involve managing
LC’s brand identity, gathering student and
alumni profiles for recruitment, providing communications expertise to the
institution’s clients and maintaining
the undergraduate website based on
the admissions cycle. She also writes
and edits copy for undergraduate,
graduate and law recruitment, along
with overseeing digital and print
communications projects.
The significant difference between
Peel’s previous role as associate director
of marketing and her current role as
director of marketing — aside from
increased leadership responsibility — is
that she has more creative freedom to
manage the direction and voice of LC’s
brand.
“One of my long-term goals is
to expand equity, inclusion and
accessibility in all marketing and
communications at L&C,” Peel
said. “Our office works hard to be
sure we review and assess all of our
communications through a DEI
(diversity, equity and inclusion) and
accessibility lens, but I also know
we can do more and will continue to
prioritize educating ourselves and
others on best practices.”
With freshman class sizes increasing
and housing and parking concerns
rising, students might wonder how the
Office of Communications influences
the admissions process.
“Higher education recruitment,
enrollment, and retention efforts are
evolving, and the tailoring of these
efforts is more critical than ever,”
Peel said. “We don’t simply want
larger and larger applicant pools, we
want to find the right students who
are the right fit for Lewis & Clark.”
Aside from crafting material that
showcases what makes LC distinct, the
Office of Communications is currently
working on tracking 359 live projects
using their project management app
according to Hecker Clark. These
include the LC Magazine, website,
admissions materials, event programs, TikToks, invitations, newsroom stories,
posters, dedication plaques, maps and
more. They are also focused on Robin
Holmes-Sullivan’s inauguration events,
as well as the ENVX Symposium and
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and
Ethnic Studies.
Part of Peel’s new role involves
supervising some of her coworkers,
such as Digital Media Manager Devan Freeman. Freeman is excited to have
Peel step up as a leader.
“She is a fantastic supervisor and
has an incredible eye for strategy and
detail in our marketing efforts, which
is exactly what the role requires,”
Freeman said. “We’re set up for success
with her in this role.”
The communications staff work in
a highly collaborative setting and make efforts to cross-train each other when
their work overlaps. As the crafters of
the comprehensive narrative LC tells to
the world, their creativity and teamwork
is important in storytelling.
“It is really great to be on a team
where everyone is so supportive of each
other and willing to work together to
best serve our campus community,”
Freeman said.
“Deconstructing the Apocalypse” symposium planners prepare for event, thankful for knowledgable keynote speakers.COURTESY OF ENVX CO-CHAIRSCOURTESY OF ENVX CO-CHAIRS
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
New Director of Marketing plans to keep up with evolving collegiate recruitment processes, helping students find right fit for them.Under new leadership higher education recruitment focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibilityCaitlin Peel named new director of marketingNEWS 3FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
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In fact, one of her campaign staff
members is a current student at
Oregon State University. Additionally,
Marissa Sandgren ’17 also currently
works on her staff, and Erin Keoppen
’17 worked on her 2018 campaign.
Placing an emphasis on recent
college graduates and current students
is important for McLeod-Skinner
because she said it is primarily young
people’s futures who are at stake.
“Some of the things that were
available to me when I attended Lewis
& Clark are not available to you, or to
my kids, my stepmom with four kids,”
McLeod-Skinner said. “So making sure
that those programs are in place, so
that you have a chance to get ahead
and have a chance to invest in yourself
that education, it’s good for you, it’s
also good for our economy.”
McLeod-Skinner graduated high
school in southern Oregon and comes
from a lower-income background.
For these reasons, she empathizes with young students, especially those
who may feel out of place at a private
institution such as LC.
“When I went off to school, my
mom gave me 1,000 bucks,” McLeod-
Skinner said. “That’s all she had, so
I had to rely on scholarships and Pell
grants and loans to go to school. I know
what that burden looks like and we
must address it if we’re going to really
invest in a future.”
While attending LC, McLeod-
Skinner said she was profoundly
influenced by former Provost Jane
Atkinson who retired in 2018. Atkinson
started her over 30 year career as an
associate anthropology teacher, not
long before McLeod-Skinner took one
of her classes.
“I wanted to do good in the world,
but I probably saw myself as small,”
McLeod-Skinner said. “She taught me
not to think of myself as small.”
McLeod-Skinner wanted to study
engineering, so she transferred out of
LC to finish her degree. However, she
stayed in touch with Atkinson over the years and spoke at her retirement
ceremony.
“My mom’s a retired teacher, K
through 12, and she always said that
a seed cannot grow on rock,” McLeod-
Skinner said. “There are some people
who create soil so seeds can grow.
Jane very much created soil, rich soil,
so that seeds can grow. That was a
great legacy and I’m sure thousands
of people could probably tell the same
story about her.”
McLeod-Skinner has her mother
to thank for many of her unique life
experiences. Though she was born
in Milwaukee, she spent time being
schooled in Tanzania after her mother
was offered a teaching job in the
country. With only 5% of the school’s
population being white, McLeod-
Skinner felt she was on someone else’s
turf. She views this as a sometimes
intimidating, but very rewarding
process.
McLeod-Skinner connected this
feeling of “being on someone else’s
turf” to being LGBTQ, as well as sympathizing with other voters.
“As a white woman, I don’t know
what it’s like to be a person of color,”
McLeod-Skinner said. “But I do
know that visceral feeling in your
stomach where someone looks at
you, sometimes with hatred in their
eyes, who knows nothing about you
… Part of what I bring to my role
in public service is to try to make
sure I’m creating safe spaces so
that people don’t have that visceral
feeling.”
The upcoming election will take
place on Nov. 8, and many LC
community members qualify to vote.
“You can still register to vote even
if folks are out of state students and
vote in this election because Lewis
& Clark is in the district,” McLeod-
Skinner said. “When they go back
home later, they can re-register back
in their home place, but being able
to have an impact in this critical
time is so important. I ask my fellow
Pios, my sister Pios to help me out
so we can carry this vision forward.”LC Students go about their day in front of the graffiti located on front side of J. R. Howard building in the undergraduate campus the morning after Indigenous Peoples Day.LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
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those who do not support or are
indifferent to changing the school’s
name, those that support changing it
and those that, while supporting the
name change, would rather see effort
and money spent toward creating
scholarships or new programs for
Indigenous students. Tsabari aligns
herself with the third camp.
“I think that would be more
beneficial than changing the name,”
Tsabari said.
A team of workers from an
independent contracting firm
already working on-site, Technical
Waterproofing, Inc., arrived at J.R.
Howard Hall with a power washer
around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Tim
Rea, the firm’s superintendent, said
the taggers likely used a Super Soaker
to spray the white paint, which would
explain the tags’ size and splattered
lettering.
According to Rea, the contractors
will be using “nontoxic biodegradable
removers made with soy” to remove
the tags.
Around 4 p.m. on Wednesday,
Clark sent out an email to the LC
community. Clark said that the graffiti
ran counter to “our institutional
commitment to collaborate, engage,
and dialogue as ways to advance our
equity and inclusion goals.” Clark’s
email also suggested that the tags
may be shocking and “particularly
retraumatizing for our Indigenous
community members.” Director of the Indian Law Program Dr. Carma
Corcoran is part of the Chippewa-
Cree Tribe. She said that she was not
surprised by the tags and understands
that it is a form of protest where people
feel as though they are not being
heard.
“The statement that seeing the
tags may be emotional and shocking,
particularly re-traumatizing for
indigenous community members, I
as a Native American, as somebody
who knows and uses trauma informed
care, I don’t think that statement itself
really speaks to indigenous people,”
Corcoran said. “I would argue that it
may be traumatizing for those that are
not indigenous because truth telling is
hard in this country.”
Clark’s email also received
blowback from students online.
“So, harmless, frustrated,
WARRANTED graffiti,” Caitlin Chow-
Ise ’23 said in an Instagram story. “I
think the white student body and us
other POC will survive.”
The Native Student Union (NSU)
Co-Leaders Annabelle Rousseau ’23
and Jenn Sosa Ramírez ’23 said that
they do believe in the message of Land
Back and changing the name of the
school. However, they want to focus
their attention on supporting the
Indigenous community on campus.
They also said that they do not
hold all the answers or speak for all
Indigenous people, and they also did
not feel comfortable speaking for the
native tribes of Oregon, as they are not
descendants of those tribes. On Oct. 10 before the graffiti
was done, President Robin Holmes-
Sullivan sent out an email to
the student body addressing the
recognition of Indigenous People’s
Day.
“At Lewis & Clark we honor this
day by recognizing the rich diaspora of
Indigenous communities throughout
the U.S., in Oregon, and locally that
are diverse in history, culture, and
pride,” Holmes-Sullivan said. “We
owe First Peoples a great debt of
gratitude for the countless social,
historical, cultural, technological,
and industrial contributions they
have made to our country and the
world. We also owe them an open
acknowledgment of the generational
harm done to their communities when
the U.S. government forcibly removed
their ancestors from their traditional
lands.”
Holmes-Sullivan also announced
that she met with a group of
Indigenous alumni from diverse
tribal backgrounds to discuss helpful
and meaningful actions. The group
wanted to start developing a formal
relationship between LC and the nine
federally recognized confederated
tribes of Oregon as well as establish
an educational program focused on
studying the history of Indigenous
peoples who originally occupied the
United States.
They also want to create programs
for new students to learn about LC’s
history, focusing on the contributions
and impact on Indigenous communities, as well as establish a
scholarship program for students from
Oregon’s federally recognized tribes.
Co-leaders Emi Olson ’23, Liese
Baker ’23, Alaryx Tenzer ’23 and
Gwenn Jergens ’23 of Students for
Transformative Action, Abolition
and Resilience (STAAR, previously
known as the Prison Abolition Club)
released a statement late Wednesday
night urging students to not report the
persons responsible for the tags.
“The discussion should be around
the meaning behind the action and
not who did it,” the statement said.
“Please remember that protest can
take many forms, including graffiti.”
In the past couple of years, LC
students have taken a stance on
changing the name of the school.
Many different associations on LC’s
campus have changed their own
names to reflect their solidarity with
the request.
“We appreciate that the admin
is actively working towards creating
scholarships for future indigenous
students. However, a name change
would go a long way,” Rousseau and
Ramírez said via email.
“It’s really easy to see things as
good or bad, legal or illegal and I
acknowledge that the graffiti is an
illegal act under the law.” Corcoran
said. “But I think we have to take into
consideration the human factor of it is
an act of being heard. It is an act of
protest. While we don’t have to agree
with it, I think we acknowledge it as
such, it is really important.”
Continued from page 1.
“Establishment of a scholarship
that will help provide students the
funds they need to attend Lewis
& Clark is a particularly fitting
tribute to President Emeritus Wim
Wiewel,” President Robin Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “Wim was
the first in his family to go to college
– and was keenly aware of the
difference that opportunity made in
the trajectory of his life. The desire
that other students would have
that same opportunity is one of the
reasons Wim worked so hard during
his 5 years at LC to raise tens of
millions of dollars for scholarships,
as well as tens of millions more
to renovate the student center,
upgrade student housing and fund
a holistic First-Year experience.”
In addition to the scholarship,
the board also discussed LC’s
environmental actions, approved
the appointment of Assistant
Professor with Term of Psychology
Amelia Wilcox to faculty emeritus
status and adopted a resolution of
tribute to life trustee Mary Maletis.
“I look forward to the day when
the fundraising is complete and the
money becomes available to help
make college possible for future
students,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
COURTESY OF MCLEOD-SKINNERNative community members respond
to calls for name change, vandalismLC starts
endowed
scholarship
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Former LC student, Oregon transplant campaigns for 5th district
McLeod-Skinner running for congressional office with focus on non-partisan values, young votersEmeritus Wim Wiewel smiles on campus.
A teacher at LC inspired McLeod-Skinner. By JILLIAN JACKSON
OCT. 9 - 15 marks the fourteenth
annual Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder (OCD) Awareness
Week. Sponsored by the International
OCD Foundation, this week’s online and
in-person programming seeks to dispel
misinformation about the mental disorder.
OCD is what it sounds like: a mental
illness wherein “obsessions,” intrusive
thoughts or images, cause someone to
engage in “compulsions,” repetitive rituals
they know are irrational. This chronic, life-
long disorder affects approximately 1.2%
of the U.S. population. Assuming national
statistics are applicable to the Lewis &
Clark student body, that is around 26
undergraduates with OCD.
I am one of them. I was eight years
old when I told my mother I was hearing
voices. If I did not touch the doorway to
my third grade portable three times, Miss
Williams was going to drop dead. I knew
the life of my favorite elementary school
teacher did not really rest in my tiny,
Magic Marker-stained hands, but that did
not matter.
While my peers rushed home after
school to watch “Wizards of Waverly Place”
reruns, I was whisked away to therapy.
It took three mental health professionals and six years for me to get an official
diagnosis — one I immediately rejected.
I did not fit in with the neurotic
hand-washing crowd. What could I
possibly have in common with Monica
Geller, that label-making OCD neat
freak on “Friends?” Monica was a
punchline, her ultra-organized “ribbon
drawer” antics the target of an incessant
’90s sitcom laugh track. I did not want
anyone to laugh at me.
Many people — even well-informed,
socially conscious students at LC — confuse
OCD with a preference for keeping things
neat and tidy. I do not blame them.
Generation Z grew up with “Glee’s” Miss
Pillsbury, a cutesy, doe-eyed guidance
counselor polishing her grapes before
every meal. Between Monica and Miss
Pillsbury, I only ever saw one version of
myself on TV: a quirky cleaner whose
symptoms were never so severe as to make
her undesirable.
It is true that people with OCD can
develop intensely distressing fears about
germs and contamination. The COVID-19
pandemic has not done my community
any favors in that regard.
But having OCD is like spinning an
unpredictable game show wheel of what
ifs — and you don’t get commercial breaks.
What if I skipped a bubble on my midterm scantron? What if I cheated on a boyfriend
and just forgot about it? What if I slice
myself open while chopping tomatoes?
I do not know what it is like to feel
alone in my own head. Before I turned
twenty, I committed to donating my brain
after I die, in the hopes that doctors will
develop more targeted treatment for OCD.
This mental disorder not only impacts
every facet of my life, but whatever comes
afterward, too.
When I tell someone at LC that I
have OCD, there is something I dread
more than jokes about handwashing and
Monica Geller: a well-intentioned, pithy
response that “everyone’s a little OCD.”
I want to make it clear that I am not here
to gatekeep who can and cannot relate to
this article, nor am I against self-diagnosis.
The previously mentioned therapy and
medications cost my family tens of
thousands of dollars, and not everyone has
access to that kind of life-affirming care.
However, I do take issue with LC students
trying so hard to relate to me that they end
up trivializing severe mental illness.
When I came to LC three and a half
years ago, my diagnosis was a fiercely
kept secret, but today, I decided to trust
our entire campus community with who
I really am. Urgently, my brain is turning
over just one question: What if you listen?FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
OPINION 4
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.Lewis & Clark, we are not all “a little OCD”
Mental illness seriously affects every facet of life, goes beyond TV depictions of handwashing, neatness
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
System upgrade fails to address
common dorm laundry problemsBe real? Social media
still lacks authenticity
By DANIEL NESHyBA-ROWE
WHEN I SAW Campus Living’s
email about the laundry system
upgrade over the summer, I
could not help but put quotes around
the word “upgrade” in my head. I hate
having to download new apps; finding
the right app, making sure it works on
my (admittedly old) phone, making an
account and worrying about permissions
and data collection. Now that I have had
time to thoroughly test the new system,
I can confidently reaffirm my negativity.
First, I feel obligated to
acknowledge my own biases. I am
decidedly an anti-smartphone luddite
who usually hates change. That said,
when the advantages are obvious, I
sometimes reconsider. Early in the
semester, you could have heard me
complaining loudly about the new tap
card system, berating the university
for spending undoubtedly large sums
of money to “fix” a system that worked
perfectly. Now, however, I spend my
days joyously beeping into my dorm
through my pocket.
The laundry room problems in years
past have always been the laundry
itself. People leave it in the machines. It can be extremely frustrating to go down
to the laundry room, and discover that
every washer is full of stagnant clean
clothes; you are left with the choice of
pulling out someone else’s laundry and
putting it on top of the machine, or
waiting an unknown amount of time
for them to arrive.
The new system utterly fails to
address this issue. Sure, it tells you which
machines are running (though this is
dubious as well — it once said that four
dryers were available when in fact all were
running), but it cannot help you if people
leave their laundry sitting. Just as before,
I enter the laundry room to find a row of
stopped yet full washers and dryers.
A much better solution would have
been to simply buy several laundry
hampers for each dorm. I estimate there
are between 100 and 200 washers and
dryers on campus. IKEA lists baskets at
around $10 a pop. Even buying a laundry
basket for every single machine would be
trivial by the college’s standards. Fear not,
however, as the app does not just fail to
solve old problems, it also creates brand
new ones.
Apps are increasingly becoming
a necessity in everyday life, which
comes with a host of issues. In addition to enabling the ever-growing
megacorporation spy networks, requiring
apps for essential needs has several more
direct issues. If your phone breaks, you
cannot do laundry until you get a new
one. This also increases the stress when
your phone breaks, as the dirty laundry
piles higher. There are inconveniences
for the college, too; since LC does not
charge students for laundry services,
they have to fill up each student’s account
with money. The old system was easier
to understand and created less work for
everyone involved.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find an
estimate on how much the upgrade to the
app ended up costing, but I feel certain
it was more than its failure to solve any
problem was worth. Especially because,
to my knowledge — and this is my most
important critique of the new laundry
system — the students were not asked
first. This goes for the new cards as well.
Even though I personally like the hands-
free tapping, it is unacceptable that the
college spent money making widespread
changes affecting the student body
without asking us first. Nothing makes
this more clear than the case of the new
laundry app, which creates work without
doing anything useful.
By CORRyN PETTINGILL
NOWADAYS, IT is very easy to
take out your phone or camera
to snap a photo to keep. Only
a short while ago photos were taken
on film and put in photo albums, but
in the new digital era, social media
profiles are the new album. Instagram
especially is a way for people to easily
post and share their favorite photos to
close friends or the entire world, but it
is changing the reasons why we take
pictures and share them online.
Social media has evolved from a
place where people can share photos
and videos that they have taken, into a
platform where people shape their lives
both consciously and subconsciously
around what they might be able to
upload online.
People do more
reckless things
when they know
they are on
camera, artists
curate their feeds
to posts that are
easy to make and
everyday people
only post when
they feel like they
have something
unique to share,
such as vacations.
Even though social media came
from a place of interest for other’s
activities and keeping up with friends,
it has turned into a competition on who
has the most interesting life, breeding
a toxic environment where all you do
is compare yourself to others. It is
common, now, for people to only post
things when they feel like they are equally as interesting as the things
that their friends are doing, such as
concerts, festivals, hanging out with
friends and traveling. Even when
we take a picture with the intention
of sharing it, it removes us from the
moment and consistently feeds our
sense of jealousy where we must prove
to everyone else that our lives are
more entertaining.
In order to fight this generation’s
tendency to be inauthentic on the
internet, an app called BeReal has
gained popularity. It encourages
users to post unfiltered photos of
themselves and what they are doing
at unknown and random times of the
day. Users receive a notification on
their phone, telling them that they
have two minutes to capture what they
are doing. Most people have a small
audience on this app, lowering the
need to falsely perform. Even though
what you post might be another picture
of you studying, your friends will
likely be posting something equally as
irrelevant. This is helping to dismantle
the idea that our lives on other social
media platforms are true.
However, even BeReal cannot break
the cycle of wanting to perform for the
internet. Despite the app’s intention
in trying to foster authenticity, it has
become a trend to capture the “craziest”
BeReal picture or fake it altogether.
Even within social media apps that aim
to destabilize the idea that we must
only post pictures of our vacations, our
generation has become so obsessed
with performance on all social media
platforms that it is impossible to engage
in social media
without an acute
awareness of the
lives of others. For
example, BeReal
still allows those
who can take
many vacations
an opportunity
to showcase their
wealth, despite its
good intentions.
Social media
has drastically
impacted our lives by the manner in
which we desperately seek validation
by hundreds, if not thousands, of
people we barely know. It is up to
individuals to recognize their own
subconscious beliefs that they must
always perform for a camera. It might
seem impossible to be authentic
online, but that does not mean we
should stop trying.
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
“Social media has evolved...
into a platform where
people shape their lives
both consciously and
subconsciously around
what they might be able to
capture and upload.”FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
OPINION 5
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.Stress, beauty standards, social pressure exacerbate struggles regarding body image, disordered eatingCollege dietary habits damage mental health
By SOFIA REEVES
AS A REGULAR TriMet rider who
relies on public transportation,
I was horrified to learn that
TriMet’s new draft plan, released on
Sept. 28, includes the removal of bus
lines 38 and 39.
The 38 Boones Ferry line runs
from Tualatin Park & Ride to the
downtown Portland area, with a stop
on Palatine Hill Road near the Lewis
& Clark Law School. The 39 Lewis &
Clark line runs directly to campus and
provides access to the Burlingame
and Hillsdale neighbor-hoods with
connections to many other bus lines.
These lines are the only two currently
servicing the area around LC, with
no planned changes to continue
bus service in the vicinity.
TriMet has noble intentions
for their plans, which involve
serious restructuring of transit
lines to much of the Portland metro
area. Their goal is to expand public
transit options to lower-income
areas. They are planning to fund
this by cutting service to wealthier
areas. Unfortunately, LC is situated
in a high-income area that TriMet has
decided no longer needs service due
to low ridership.
The main issue is that although
much of the surrounding area is
high-income, many of the people who
attend LC and rely on the bus system
are not. The issue is not whether the
majority of this area needs the bus
lines, but how much those within our
community who do use the bus rely
on it. I am an off-campus student
without a car who needs the bus
system in order to reliably attend my classes and I am far from the only LC
student who needs these two lines.
Students who live on campus may also
rely on the bus transportation system
to access off-campus jobs, shopping,
healthcare and leisure
activities.
Additionally,
staff and faculty
members alike frequently
use public transportation for its
convenience and cost-effectiveness.
These staff members cannot be
penalized for not having the same
resources that those of the privileged
community that they work in. For
community members without cars
like myself, and even those with cars
who want to save money on gas, losing
the 38 and the 39 will be devastating.
The loss of these lines will be hardest
on disabled and low-income students
and staff, who are often the ones most reliant on public transportation.
We cannot assume that everyone
has the ability,
financially
and otherwise, to
have a car. There also cannot
be an assumption that with the loss of
the bus lines, we will be able to switch
to expensive rideshare apps or expect
to find the perfect reliable carpool
situation.
The main attitude from LC
regarding TriMet prior to this announcement was encouragement
for drivers to switch to public
transportation to alleviate the
problem of overflow
parking on campus. A campus already
growing its reliance on public resources
like buses is directly harmed by those
resources being taken away because
their need is seen as less important than
those who did not need or use these bus
lines in the first place. Even if the LC community who uses
the 38 and 39 lines could realistically
make the switch to cars, there would be
harm done to campus. With the loss of
the bus lines, the community can only
expect the parking issue to get worse.
A potential new influx of vehicles
could be disastrous for the already
precarious situation in LC’s parking
lots.
LC leadership, including Vice
President for Student Life Evette
Castillo Clark and Associated
Student Body President Madeleine
MacWilliamson ’24, have expressed
concern about the loss of the lines and
are working on solutions. However, the
response to this issue must be campus-
wide and persuasive. Even if we are able
to save the 38 and 39, we must maintain
a positive relationship with TriMet.
TriMet’s main line of reasoning for
discontinuing these lines is low
ridership. If more students knew
about the transportation options open
to them, perhaps we could avoid
issues like this in the future.
The LC community and
administration must rally
around saving these bus
lines for our community, now
and for years to come. If these
changes are enacted, students,
staff and faculty will suffer reduced
access to our already remote and
relatively inaccessible campus. Losing
these transportation options will
limit mobility to and from campus
indefinitely unless we take action now.
If you are interested in giving
feedback to TriMet about these
changes, please consider taking their
survey at https://www.surveymonkey.
com/r/FT_English. Removing routes 38, 39 cuts off riders who need them, impacting vulnerable students, faculty, staffCutting bus lines hurts commuters’ access on, off campus
By EMMA FORD
WHEN YOU left for college,
did anyone tell you to
“beware the freshman 15”?
I was told that.
I joked about it with family and
friends, I made sure to sign up for
PE classes, I laughed about how a
campus full of stairs and hills would
be great for built-in cardio. As much
as I am not proud of it, I was anxious
about weight gains that I viewed as
inevitable.
And I am not alone. The Child
Mind Institute reports that college
is a breeding ground for bulimia and
anorexia nervosa, as well as a host of
other disordered eating behaviors.
Multiple factors influence this,
worsening the desire for control that
is associated with the root of most
disordered eating patterns. It is not
uncommon for a teen with healthy
eating habits in high school to lose
that in college.
According to eating disorder
experts, triggering factors of
disordered eating in college include
the erosion of structure found at
home, the search for control in an
anxiety-producing environment and
the exposure to a social life with
strong emphasis on beauty standards
(which overwhelmingly reward
thinness) and romantic relationships.
As a response, teens in college begin
to restrict their eating, and it is
easy to hide these behaviors among
complaints about dining hall food,
being too busy to eat or social binge
eating.
There are even social rewards
for eating disorders. It has been a
longstanding undercurrent on social
media that teens can romanticize not
eating and body-checking (showing
off how skinny one has become).
Casually mentioning you forgot to eat
is not always met with the concern appropriate for disordered eating
patterns; it can be met with the
positive reinforcement of “Oh, I ate
so much today, I feel like a pig” or
similar comments.
Food is not the only area of
consumption that is affected by
disordered eating patterns. As for
drinking culture, who has not heard
the phrase “eating’s cheating?” If you
are lucky enough to be around people
who notice that not eating all day is
cause for worry and not jealousy, it can be easily explained away as
wanting an efficient way to get wasted
by drinking on an empty stomach.
Finally, a special (somewhat
ignominious) shoutout goes to college
athletic programs for being an area of
special concern for developing eating
disorders, particularly in cisgender
men. The focus on weight as a part
of athletics is a dangerous place
for eating disorders that manifest
as incredibly restrictive dieting,
intensive gym use and binge-purge cycles. While many athletics programs
are aware of these dangers, it is a very
real part of college athletics that is,
according to some studies, currently
on the rise.
Many behaviors that constitute
disordered eating are easily hidden,
even from the person practicing
them. While often I shy away from
self-diagnosis, I strongly encourage
everyone to be brutally honest with
themselves regarding how healthy
and sustainable their diets are. Do you constantly feel tired, irritable or
ill? Do you feel guilty about eating
until you are full? Do you eat regularly
and with an emphasis on balance
instead of portion size or calories? It
is nothing to be ashamed of — but it is
something to be aware of.
Between the relative ease of
concealing this behavior to the social
rewards of being skinny and never
eating, eating disorders on college
campuses are a real problem. We are so
concerned with how we are perceived
and how we are doing in our own lives
that we view perfectly normal processes
and fluctuations as something to be
controlled and mitigated.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, a
concentrated weight gain in one’s early
twenties in both assigned male and
female at birth bodies is healthy and
normal. Our bodies are not finished
growing and developing. But as puberty
(because yes, for many of us this is not
a done deal) finishes wrecking havoc at
different times, we end up comparing
ourselves not just to how we used to
look but to how our peers do. Here, the
trouble begins.
I certainly do not look the same
as I did at 16, and that is what is
supposed to happen. But combined
with the stresses of leaving home and
the expectations of success I have
for myself, it can feel like a personal
failure. It is not fair to me or to anyone
else to try and conform to a certain
standard. These standards have no
real-life bearing on our health or our
worth — except in our own minds.
We have to remember how toxic
the desire to stay skinny is, and how
completely arbitrary body ideals are.
It is trite to say, perhaps, but you are
beautiful just the way you are, even as
that “way you are” changes with age
and circumstance. Eat three meals a
day, and be kind to yourself when it is
hard. It is going to be just fine.
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGWINSLOW MORGAN/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
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FEATURES 7
Homelessness, gun control, abortion access, decriminalization weigh heavily on the November electionGuide to ’22 O regon Gubernatorial Candidates
By NOAH REESE CLAUSON
THE 2022 gubernatorial election is
being held on Nov. 8. In addition
to congressional candidates, state-
wide offices, judges of various bodies and
a handful of measures, there will be three
competitive mayoral candidates.
Betsy Johnson is an independent
candidate, unaffiliated with any party,
and an alum of the Lewis & Clark Law
School. Her primary goals are managing
Portland’s homeless and public safety
crisis, improving public schools, making
Oregon more affordable, legislatively
supporting jobs and job creators more,
holding the government accountable
and ending state COVID-19 mandates
for businesses, schools and government
workers.
She is very critical of Governor
Kate Brown, Mayor Ted Wheeler and
opponent Tina Kotek’s performances.
“Oregon is headed in the wrong
direction,” Johnson said. “We have
turned the southern part of the state into
cartel-run drug land.”
Johnson, the best funded candidate in
the race, has served in the Oregon State
Legislature for more than 20 years, her
most recent position being Joint Ways
and Means Committee Chair.
Johnson takes her independence from
being an advocate for bipartisanship and
said that it does not matter whether you voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump, her
only allegiance is to the state of Oregon.
Johnson said that the burden of
fighting against global warming should
not fall on rural Oregon. She has an A
rating with National Rifle Association
(NRA). With the help of some Portlanders,
she turned an abandoned jail into
housing for unhoused people and plans
to continue this crusade. She is willing to
expand developable land for housing and
commerce, but she is not willing to take
forest or farmland. Lastly, she thinks it
is important for the future of the state of
Oregon that it is recognized that mentally
ill and drug-addicted people do not make
good decisions for themselves.
Christine Drazen, the Republican
candidate, began her portion of the 2022
gubernatorial debate with a question.
“Are you happy with the way that
things are going?” Drazen said. “Is your
family better off, is your community better
off today than it was four years ago or eight
years ago? Now that you have heard from
my opponents on the stage, they are the
status quo.”
Drazen favors a new direction: stronger
schools, crime reduction and affordable
housing. Similarly to Johnson, she has an
A rating with the NRA.
Drazen says that Oregon should
declare a homelessness state of emergency,
and that climate protection should not be
prioritized when housing is a necessity. Two years earlier, Tina Kotek proposed
that the same measure be instated.
Drazen’s plan for the housing crisis
is connected to her plan for increased
policing and re-criminalizing drugs. She
is in support of building more structures,
but is in favor of loosening regulations on
developers to do so.
Drazen claimed that due to Governor
Kate Brown’s vote to close schools during
the pandemic, children suffered the most.
She says that state politics are different
from national politics and has not sought
President Donald Trump’s support
of her campaign, but was against his
impeachment. She is pro-life, but believes
in equal pay and says that companies
should be liable to prove it.
Drazen was elected to the Oregon State
House of Representatives in 2018 and
served as the minority leader from 2019 to
2022. During her tenure and well before it,
Tina Kotek was the house speaker, the first
out lesbian in her position. She started in
2013 and stepped down similarly in 2022
to run for governor.
“A lot of Oregonians are struggling
right now, and we have real challenges
facing us,” Kotek said. “We have a housing
and homelessness crisis, an addiction and
overdose epidemic, threats to our very
democracy here in our state.”
Homelessness is a significant issue
for the state and each candidate has been
able to recognize it. Similarly to Johnson, Kotek’s focus is on building more housing.
She has already brought $1.5 billion to
increased housing in the past 5 years.
Kotek also hopes to protect those on the
brink of homelessness and make race a less
predictive indicator of homelessness.
In contrast to the other candidates, she
mentions an upward trend in gun violence
and how she has lobbied for expanded
background checks, safe storage laws and
“common-sense” gun legislation. On Aug.
28 Donald Ray Surrett Jr. and Glen Edward
Bennett were killed in a Bend Safeway
parking lot by a 20 year-old shooter who
then took his own life. Kotek cites this
incident during the gubernatorial debate
and suggests a change in purchasing age
from 18 to 21.
Kotek’s additional priorities include
curbing climate change, supporting
veterans, protecting Oregon from wildfires,
supporting racial justice, improving
education and childcare and supporting
mentally ill people. She would like to reform
campaign finance so that less money can
come from a single source. Kotek would
also like to provide economic opportunity
to working families and protect women’s
reproductive rights.
All three candidates fit pretty cleanly
with the morals of their platforms of their
party, but defining candidates by party
spares the voter from investigating further.
This can be a harmful philosophy as most
want those voting differently to do just that. Additionally, despite the clear
party lines this is not a typical race
(by historical standards) as all three
candidates are women. Oregon politics
are no longer a boys club, and this
election is ensuring that. Lastly, in the
majority of polls Christine Drazen is
leading by a slim margin. Although
the accuracy of pre-election polls is
questionable, she could become the first
Republican Governor of Oregon since
Vic Atiyeh in the 1980’s.
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOG
Constituci ón de Chile
rechazada recentemente
POR DANIEL NESHYBA-ROWE
EL 31 DE AGOSTO de este
año, The Washington Post
publicó una opinión no firmada
menospreciando la pendiente nueva
constitución de Chile. Desde la primera
frase, el autor no hablaba acerca de ello
mismo, sino del precio del litio. El mensaje
era que la nueva constitución dañaría
para los Estados Unidos la habilidad de
conseguir litio barato.
Entonces, el rechazo de la constitución
unos días después levantó una pregunta:
Hace cuarenta años, los Estados Unidos
colocaron a Augusto Pinochet como
dictador en Chile, ¿fué este rechazo
causado por los Estados Unidos también?
Para conseguir una respuesta, hay
que entender por qué crearon una nueva
constitución. Hubo en octubre de 2019
un alza en el precio del boleto metro. La
gente — liderada por estudiantes — salió
a las calles. Las manifestaciones fueron
enormes. El 25 de octubre de 2019, más de
un millón de personas fueron a las calles
de Santiago y en el país entero había tres
millones. Casi una por seis caminó por
las calles. El asunto era mucho más que el
metro.
El metro era un síntoma de la
desigualdad penetrante por todos lados de
la vida Chilena. Incluso antes del gobierno
de Pinochet, Chile ha tenido un gran hueco
entre las clases medias y altas y las bajas;
persiste este hueco hasta el día de hoy. Para
colmo, el país aún usaba una constitución
hecha por la administración de Pinochet.
Al fin, el gobierno promulgó un plebiscito
que resultó en un compromiso de formular
una nueva constitución y someterlo en un
plebiscito segundo.
Al principio del año 2022, parecía que
“aprobar” era la opinión más popular.
Según los sondeos, en marzo, 37% se
inclinaban hacia él “sí”, y a 31% al “no.”
Pero en abril, la gente había cambiado
de opinión y terminó en agosto con solo
33% para, y 46% en contra. Si la gran
mayoría de Chile inicialmente quería una
nueva constitución. ¿por qué cambiaron de
opinión?
La causa sin duda fue lo siguiente:
Había salido en abril un borrador de
la constitución, la cual dió a la gente
por primera vez una vista clara de ella.
Al mismo tiempo, las opiniones sobre
los 154 representantes que escribían
la constitución y el gobierno entero,
comenzaron a empeorar.
Conflictos violentos entre la tribu
indígena Mapuche y los carabineros
(policía) en el sur mermaban la
confianza pública. Una otra razón era
que los chilenos más al centro o derecha política no pensaban que los 154 les
representaron — o tal vez ni siquiera
eran serias, como la famosa “tía
Pikachu,” quien se disfrazó como el
Pokémon durante las manifestaciones
de 2019.
Desinformación también se difundió,
por ejemplo cuando el senador Felipe
Kast compartió por TikTok un video falso
en que el presidente venezolano (quien
es impopular en Chile) parecía apoyar el
borrador.
Habían también problemas más
sustantivos con el borrador. Uno era la
propia extensión: tenía un enorme 350
artículos en 170 páginas, y sólo 28% de
chilenos lo leyeron por entero. Y unos de
los cambios propuestos eran extremos, y
por lo tanto espantosos a muchos chilenos.
Por ejemplo, propuso la terminación
permanente del senado. A unos, parecía
también que bajaría el poder del sistema
de justicia.
Ambos cambios contribuyeron a un
nuevo temor de que demasiado poder
estaría concentrado en las manos de la
cámara de representantes (equivalente
al caza de representantes en los Estados
Unidos), y las manos del presidente.
Estos miedos, combinados con la falta
de confianza en los 154, superaron las
partes más populares del borrador,
como los programas sociales como una
mejor sistema de salud que crearía la
constitución.
Aún es posible que los Estados Unidos
interfirieron con el segundo plebiscito,
pero lo que tiene más sentido es que fue
decisión auténtica de la gente Chilena. Los
hechos que, primero, el cambio de opinión
empezó con el lanzamiento del borrador y
segundo, que era un plebiscito — un voto
directo — en que se les exigió que cada
Chileno a votar, indican que el público
miraba y pensaba muy atentamente y
escogieron lo que querían.
Chile está de acuerdo en que no quieren
el viejo, y ya hay movimiento en dirección
de una nueva. Entonces, debemos esperar
pacientemente para que el país escriba
una constitución que realmente
reflejase la voluntad del pueblo Chileno.
By yONAS KHALIL
AS THE EARLY autumn weather
begins to cool down and the air
gradually becomes less smokey,
you may want to go on a couple more
walks through LC’s campus and the
surrounding natural areas before
the cold sets in. As it gets colder, the
remaining arthropods will either die
or go into hibernation in a sheltered
place like in the foliage or in buildings. Arthropods include arachnids (spiders,
mites and scorpions), hexapods (insects
and springtails) and Myriapods (millipedes
and centipedes). Some prime arthropod
spotting locations include the trails that
run through River View Natural Area and
Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Those
who would rather wander closer to come
can examine the patch of flowering plants
next to Copeland Residence Hall’s F-wing
and the flowering plants around Great Plat
Field, the area below the Reflecting Pool. One can also find certain arthropods on
the academic quad and on the walls of the
Olin Center for Physics and Chemistry,
especially near the Olin Mezzanine.
Any avid bug enthusiasts do not even
have to look too far, as the easiest places
to find arthropods at the moment are in
residential buildings. Many types of flies
and moths can be found in the dorms.
River View and Tryon have a diversity of
arthropods such as ants, flies, spiders and
mosquitoes. The flowering plants next
to Copeland and the ones around Great
Plat Field are pollinated by flies, bees
and sometimes even by the occasional
butterfly. These flowering plants support
many beetle and wasp populations as
well. Brown marmorated stink bugs
(Halyomorpha halys) can be found around
one of the trees in the area in front of
Watzek Library. If you look at the right
time of year, you can find many moths
and some other arthropods clinging to the
walls of Olin.
Spiders can generally be found in all
dorms, but are particularly prevalent
near the downhill exit of Copeland’s B
wing. If you look along that wall, you
should find some spiders. If you find a
spider in your dorm, I urge you to leave it
be. Spider populations are on the decline,
which is not good for humans — unless
you like being surrounded by a business
(the formal terminology for swarm)
of flies — or the rest of the ecosystem.
Spiders are generally not dangerous to
humans. The average number of spider
bites you are likely to get across your
lifetime is two, and there are no spiders
that can accurately be considered deadly,
as very few deaths from spider bites
have been reported in recent history and
death is extremely unlikely, especially for
adults who receive medical aid.
The “bugs” you see walking around
in your dorms are generally completely
harmless. If you want to remove insects
from your dorm, I would encourage you
to gently pick them up by the thorax or
abdomen.
If you are interested in finding new
arthropods, here are two that you may
be able to spot on campus this month.
The green insect pictured above is a
Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia
furcata), which I found in my dorm in
Copeland at the end of October 2021.
One fly I found in my dorm in early
September 2021 seems to be in the
subfamily Chironominae.
As winter approaches you will
see fewer and fewer arthropods
outside, and your best chance at
finding arthropods might be to look in
buildings such as your dorm. Early autumn presents opportune
time to hunt for arthropods at LC
This fork-tailed bush katydid was found grazing in a Copeland Hall dorm room. YONAS KHALIL/THE MOSSY LOG
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
This fly beat the heat on the wall of a Copeland dorm room early last September. YONAS KHALIL/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
ARTS 8
Undergraduate gives in-depth critiques of pasta, tacos, quesadillas, brownies available at dining hall
November Portland Art Museum event includes author Robin Pecknold, poet Kwame Alexander
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGZACH REINKER/THE MOSSY LOGStudent reviews Bon Appétit cuisine options
Annual book festival returns, notable speakers attendBy MAX ALLEN
EACH STUDENT has a unique
and distinct experience at Lewis
& Clark, but we are united by a
few things: the longing for a nearer
grocery store, a fast-dying desire to
explore the mysterious tunnels and,
most notably, limited dining options.
Whether to socialize, to satiate the
hunger that gnaws or to find something
to complain about, most of us find
ourselves inevitably drawn to Fields
Dining Room (henceforth “the Bon”)
like so many defunct satellites crashing
into the atmosphere. Many opinions
have flown regarding Bon food, most
negative, some positive and a few
outright bizarre. I have spent the past
two weeks analyzing the Bon’s cuisine
to form The Mossy Log’s first-ever Bon food column. As a vegetarian, I was
somewhat limited in the foods I could
review, so I will leave the chicken and
rockfish opinions to you, the reader.
Without further ado, I present
my assessment of the Bon’s most
prominent meals.
Pasta
Let us begin with a tried and true
classic inside the Bon and out: pasta.
Pasta is simple to cook and simple
in flavor, making it a delightfully
customizable staple. To eat a good
bowl of pasta is to experience primal,
deeply-ingrained pleasure for minimal
effort. So how did the Bon fare with
the task of fulfilling this pleasure?
When I filled my plate with farfalle, I
was struck by the veritable sogginess.
Upon trying it, I confirmed that it was beyond tender, and that the sauce was
runny and otherwise unremarkable. As
a pasta fanatic, I was a bit disappointed
but was able to finish the dish and even
go back for seconds. I give it 5/10.
Chili Verde Tacos
Every so often, the Bon advertises
what they call the “Eat Local
Challenge.” In this challenge, one of
the main courses they serve consists
exclusively of food from nearby
farms. For the most recent “Eat Local
Challenge,” they served locally-sourced
chili verde tacos.
The flavors of the tacos were simple,
with tofu and beans complemented by
a subtle tomatillo sauce. Seasoning was
minimal, which I found unproblematic
and perhaps even preferable, as it
allowed me to enjoy the fresh flavors of the ingredients unimpeded. I was
particularly impressed with the corn
tortillas, whose tender texture and
robust flavor rounded out the whole
experience. This is a typical example
of food made for special events being
consistently better than the daily Bon
food. I give the chili verde tacos 8/10.
Quesadillas
For all the flak they give the Bon,
students have been known to get
inordinately excited about certain
meals. One of these is quesadillas. The
first thing I noticed when I acquired my
quesadilla for this review was that the
tortilla was translucent with grease.
Delving into my first bite, the rich
saltiness filled me with satisfaction and
made my fat-craving American spirit
soar. With every swallow, I felt a new pimple crop up. While the experience
was gratifying, the unhealthy feeling
will continue to deter me from joining
the monstrous quesadilla line in the
future. I give them 6/10.
Brownies
On the topic of unhealthy
foods, let us move on to one of the
simplest and most classic desserts:
the brownie. Thin, flaky and dark,
the Bon’s brownies are remarkably
unremarkable in appearance. Their
flavor is also incredibly on par for
brownies. More cakey than fudgy,
they are easy to stomach and easy to
eat in bulk. Furthermore, if you do
not want to get high, but you do want
to get brownies, the Bon is by far the
most reliable locale on campus. I give
them a 7.5/10.
By MO APP-SINGER
PORTLAND Book Festival (PBF) is
a yearly event hosted by Literary
Arts dedicated to bringing
acclaimed authors to downtown
Portland. This year it is returning on
Nov. 5 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Set at the Portland Art Museum
(PAM) and occupying neighboring
venues such as the Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall, the festival formerly
known as Wordstock is renowned
for its stacked literary lineup. In
years past, attendees have rubbed
shoulders with acclaimed novelist
Colson Whitehead, poet Danez
Smith and Oscar-winner Tom Hanks,
among other high-profile figures.
This year’s lineup includes Robin
Pecknold, the lead singer of Fleet
Foxes, and Newbery Medal recipient
Kwame Alexander. Also, the billed
conversation between members of the
Bronx-based culinary group “Ghetto
Gastro” and acclaimed Portland-
based chef Gregory Gourdet is surely
a must-see. In addition to the lineup,
there will be workshops for aspiring
authors, as well as a market hall with
books and other printed goods for
sale. Per Portland tradition, a host of
food trucks are promised as well.
PBF also caters to a wide array
of genres, not just nonfiction and
fiction novels. Poetry, young adult,
middle grade, picture book and
popup authors are also featured.
One picture book author of interest
is Vanessa Brantley-Newton, a self-taught illustrator who is known for
works such as “Grandma’s Purse,”
“Just Like Me” and “Becoming
Vanessa.”
The event also features early
access to the exhibitor fair the night
before the official start date so festival
goers do not need to lug around their
books throughout the day. The fair
will be located in the Grand and
Fields Ballrooms with music by DJ
Jimbo, crafts with Yuki Origami and
PBF printmaking with Independent
Publishing Resource Center.
With Literary Arts’ return since
the start of the pandemic, some
safety guidelines are in place though
most will be lifted by the time of
the festival. However, events at
external venues may have their own
requirements.
According to PBF’s official online
policy, “After November 1, proof
of Covid-19 vaccine will no longer
be required for in-person classes,
seminars and events, including
Portland Book Festival classes, that
take place at Literary Arts. Masks will
still be strongly encouraged.”
The Portland Book Festival has
been a standout event in years
past, and this year will surely be no
different. The festival will be held
Nov. 5. Passes for the event are $15
in advance and $25 at the door,
with optional add-on events for an
additional cost. General Admission
Passes include a $5 book fair voucher
and entry into PAM for no additional
cost to pass holders.Add-on events include, the Friday
Night Book Market, “Mean Baby:
Selma Blair in conversation with
Esmé Weijun Wang” and “Carrie
Soto Is Back: Taylor Jenkins Reid in conversation with Cheryl Strayed.”
Admission to the night market is
an additional $15, while the two
author events have a sliding scale
of options. For those interested, the festival also sells Umbrella Passes
which are all-inclusive with reserved
seats for the add-on events, signed
copies of their books and an exclusive
PBF tote bag.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
ARTS 9
By MA yA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
THE HIT ROCK musical, “Rent”
premieres at Lewis & Clark on
Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 5.
“Rent,” by Jonathan Larson, opened on
Broadway in 1996. It is a love letter to the
starving artists of New York City as well
as a beautifully tragic portrayal of the
AIDS crisis and its crushing impact on
the LGBTQ+ community. But one has to
wonder: Over two decades and a different
pandemic later, does the show’s message
still resonate? A central topic from which
the show gets its name is, of course, rent.
We asked three cast members about their
housing experiences to see what paying
rent has been like in recent years.
Ethan Sanders ’25 wants you to stop
hating on Copeland Residence Hall.
Sanders has lived in Copeland for two
years. Last year, he lived on an all-men’s
floor, but it did not fulfill the stereotype.
“Everyone has this notion that
because it’s all guys it’s gonna be super
rowdy,” Sanders said. “It was nothing like
that. It was the most chill floor I could
have asked for.”
This year, Sanders is back in
Copeland. He is having what some would
say is a more classic Copeland experience.
Broken showers and a “serial pisser-on-
the-floor” have characterized his return,
along with what Sanders calls a general
“lack of human decency.”
“Within the first couple days,
someone stole my frozen mini corn dogs
out of the communal fridge, which was
frustrating,” Sanders said.
In spite of the challenges, Sanders has
been able to find a silver lining.
“You kind of learn to love the chaos…”
Sanders said. “On one hand it sucks to be
in Copeland because it’s Copeland, but on
the other hand it’s something I’m familiar
with and it’s nice to come back to that.”
Most importantly, Sanders hopes we
can all learn a little Copeland-positivity.
Bryn Bollimpalli ’25 is no stranger to dorm life. For three years of high
school, they attended a boarding
school in remote New Hampshire and
said that it is no exaggeration to “tell
people I went to school in the woods.”
Sanders may have lucked out on
the all-men’s floor, but Bollimpalli had
a more typical experience.
“It’s a bunch of sophomore/junior
boys with their friends … no one was
expecting it to go well,” Bollimpalli
said.
Bollimpalli recalls a memorable
roommate they had sophomore year. He left about a month before the end
of the school year, and when Bollimpalli
and their other roommates were moving
out at the end of the year, they found the
room was littered with his belongings,
including a pair of underwear under
someone else’s bed.
Along with some typical shenanigans,
including the time “someone tried to
grill fish in the middle of the night in the
hallway,” Bollimpalli has fond memories
of their high school residence.
“Lots of pillow fights in the middle
of the night, especially senior year, I remember,” Bollimpalli said.
Grace Wenzel ’23 has lived on campus
all four years because he has liked living
on campus too much to consider living
elsewhere.
“More than anything, I enjoy the
convenience of being right here,” Wenzel
said. Even the best of housing is never
perfect. Wenzel found similarities between
his residential life and that of his “Rent”
character, recalling the winter of 2020
when there was a power outage in the
dorms and students had to gather in
Templeton to beat the cold, just as the characters in “Rent” are attempting to do
in the beginning of the play.
He continued to find similarities,
noting that despite appearing quite
different on the surface, the “eccentric
student body of LC and the eclectic artists
and squatters of Alphabet City” have
more in common than it seems.
“I think that the characters in rent and
our own students would have a common
struggle against institutional silence and
bureaucracy and the sort of ‘oh we hear
you we see you’; that disingenuous faux
allyship,” Wenzel said. “I suppose if the
‘Rent’ characters were here, they would
probably ask us ‘You guys are still dealing
with this shit?’”
Wenzel also noted that he was
disappointed with the housing situation.
With much of the new Class of 2026 living
in crowded overflow spaces, he feels that
the message LC is communicating is “‘We
admitted you because you’re cutting us
a check,’ and this signaling to the new
students that they are a source of capital.”
He shared his hopes that the freshman
class will show resilience in the face of
these challenges.
“I would really urge the freshman
class to not be disillusioned because
there’s going to be tough stuff that
happens and the administration is going
to let you down,” Wenzel said. “You can
wallow in despair about that or you can
say ‘This sucks but I’m going to make the
best of it anyway.’” Wenzel’s final piece
of sage advice for the incoming class:
“Absolutely invest in ear plugs.”
Much like the characters they portray,
these LC students have still found joy
and comfort in their residential lives in
spite of uncertainty, chaos and occasional
broken showers or burnt fish.
“Rent” opens on Oct. 28 and runs
through Nov. 5. Tickets are $5 for LC
students, $10 for faculty, staff, alumni,
senior citizens and non-LC students, and
$15 for the general public. Tickets can be
purchased online or at the box office.Actors of LC’s upcoming main stage production share their highs, lows, advice regarding on-campus livingCast of “Rent” reaccount their housing stories
COURTESY OF MIA WEBSTER
By VENUS EDLIN
This review was previously published
online in June. It is being run again
in preparation for Lewis & Clark’s
forthcoming production of “Rent,”
which will be a less typical production .
PORTLAND CENTER Stage’s “Rent,”
which runs through July 10, is a well-
crafted version of the 1996 Jonathan
Larson musical, perfectly revisited for this
moment in politics. The musical focuses on roommates
Mark Cohen and Roger Davis who come to
the conclusion they should not pay their rent
for the past year. The story features many of
their friends, lovers and others within their
East Village community. Act One comes to
a close with a protest performance by the
artsy sex pistol Maureen Johnson. However,
the second act strikes a more somber note as
beloved Angel dies from AIDS, Mimi nearly
dies from a drug overdose.
“Rent” is very analogous to the current
moment, something PCS is aware of. As labor unions rise and tenets push
for rights, the economic truth of the
narrative is perfect for 2022. Not only that,
but the country is one again dealing with
a public health crisis sparked by a virus.
Additionally, the country has returned
to a moment where queer, especially
transgender, people are at the center of
public controversy.
Although, it is no surprise that a
musical with the lines, “For mommy’s
sake kitten, no more Doc Martens” and
“Dreaming of a white right Christmas” still feels current. These parallels are
beautifully and subtly woven into PCS’s
production. For example, great care
was taken to portray Angel, a character
who blurs the lines between drag and
transness, as well as Mimi who is a Black
sex worker. Will Welhelm portrays Angel
with an innate femininity that validates the
character, and is genderqueer themself.
Similarly, Nyla Sostre brings humanity to
Mimi through compassionate choices.
Such connections are also made
explicit in supplementary materials such
as the prologue talk that comes before
some showings and materials in the
program.
According to PCS Literary Manager
Kamilah Bush’s Behind the Curtain article
featured in the program, “Rent” changed
the theater landscape in many ways.
“Bringing ‘Rent’ to the stage was
several revolutions in one,” Bush wrote. “A
rock musical had not been successful since
‘Hair’ in 1967, the cast was intentionally
multi-racial and reached across both
gender and sexuality spectrums, and in a
country whose president would not even
utter the word AIDS until thousands
had died, this play sought to bring the
humanity of those living with the virus into
the spotlight.”
PCS’s production aimed to highlight these
revolutionary aspects, and succeeded
in many ways, as evidenced by a strong
audience reception throughout the
show. While the rock sound is boundary
pushing and fun to listen to, this particular
production struggled to balance the loud
instruments with vocals, especially at the
beginning. At times, this posed a problem
as “Rent” is almost entirely sung and the
lyrics are critical to the narrative. However,
this did not dull the brilliant performances
from the cast. In fact, the cast was so
strong that ensemble members often
stole little moments of the show, such as
Charles Grant whose movement quality
was alluring and comical, as well as Aléa
Lorén with her belting vocals.
While the daring sexuality still may
make some audience members a little uncomfortable, it is in the best way
possible.
Metaphors about lighting a candle
may be very euphemized, however many
moments are more direct. During the
production, Kailey Rhodes, who plays
Maureen, takes on the role of an erotic
cow, claims “There will always be a woman
in rubber flirting with me” and straddles
her love interest Joanne on stage. These
moments make this performance as
joyously sexy as it is funny.
However, one of the most revolutionary
aspects of this musical is how it has
touched generations of queer individuals,
especially children. Director Chip Miller
brings this up in his note.
“This story and these songs showed a little
kid from Missouri that a whole world of
possibility existed – queer love stories,
artists as anarchists, chosen family,” Miller
wrote. “That it was also the beginning of my
understanding of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
seems a fitting lesson – all of those magical
possibilities live in the specter of death,
disease, and a system not made to support
those in need.”
Bringing this production to youth was
important to the company. Two shows
early in the run were specifically for
high schoolers. Over 900 local students
attended, according to the pre-show
prologue.
Another highlight of this run of “Rent”
was the set design. The depth of stage was
impressive and the scale only seemed
larger with the metal scaffolding on either
side. Seeing characters climb the metal
work, fold one piece down into a stage and
move the entire right side was wowing
every time. The only drawback is the wings
are more visible with this design, which
can be distracting during scene changes or
entrances.
Overall, this is a performance you do
not want to miss. Artistic Director Marissa
Wolf puts it best in her note. “‘Rent’ offers
us a space for communal laughter and
dancing in our seats, a space for catharsis
as we seek continued healing for ourselves
and our community,” Wolf wrote.Portland Center Stage’s production of “Rent” closes past season
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Daniel Neshyba Rowe1996 rock musical seems important, revelant as ever in our current contentious political climateThe cast of “Rent” poses for a group photo in the Fir Acres theater, which is where the anticipated play will premiere on Oct. 28.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
SPORTS 10
By TOR PARSONS
LEWIS & CLARK is a Division III
school, meaning that the college
cannot offer athletics scholarships.
However, this does not mean that LC’s
sports programs cannot scout top high
school athletes and attempt to convince
them to compete for LC. So, what does
recruiting at LC look like?
Head softball coach Shawna Cyrus
described the typical routine for a LC
athletics coach.
“We go out on the road a lot,” Cyrus
said. “Coaches are going to tournaments,
meeting athletes all over the country.
There are recruiting services online that
have videos and all sorts of information,
so we can see them before offering them
a spot on our roster.”
She has a goal of recruiting five to ten
first-year students to the softball team
every year. Almost all sports teams at
LC recruit high school athletes rather
than existing students. With one regular
exception being the rowing team due to
the lack of high school players.
If LC’s teams cannot offer
scholarships, how else do they encourage
athletes to play for them? According to
Jimmy Chau, the head coach of men’s
and women’s tennis, one of the primary
reasons is that LC is a small liberal arts
college in a beautiful natural setting.
“From an academic standpoint, we
definitely stand out,” Chau said. “Small
classes, high academics. We preach
the balance between the two, where
you can develop your tennis game
while also achieving great things in the
classroom.”
He said that LC’s tennis players
are intellectually driven. During
recruitment, players that are both
good at tennis and academically high-
achieving stand out as potential LC recruits, while a higher-division school
looks at a player’s athletic statistics.
“(Our players) have a lot of other interests
besides softball,” Cyrus said, echoing this
sentiment. “We have art majors on the team,
music majors, people who go and work in
the biochem labs after softball practice.”
To some athletes, Portland’s cool climate
is a selling point.
“There’s a special type of kid who likes
Pacific Northwest weather,” Chau said.
He tends to focus his recruiting efforts
on warmer states, where the prospect of
playing tennis in damp Oregon is more
enticing. Similarly, Cyrus notes that almost all sports teams at LC have a surprising
number of players from Hawaii.
Joshua Arcayena ’26 is one of those
players. After playing high school football in
his hometown of Honolulu, he was scouted
by LC and decided to attend the college.
He liked the combination of academic and
athletic rigor, as well as the camaraderie of
the LC football team.
“Everyone’s super cool and fun to hang
out with,” Arcayena said. “We’re just a great
fit.”
LC was not the most prestigious school
to express interest in Arcayena. He was also
scouted by multiple Ivy League schools, which are similarly unable to offer athletic
scholarships and therefore also rely on
touting their sports-and-studying balance.
Ultimately, Arcayena chose LC because it
was closer to home. “I didn’t really want to
be on the East Coast,” Arcayena said. “With
a lot of situations going on, this felt like the
best fit for me.”
Although there is a commonly held
perception that the academic scholarships
athletes receive are thinly disguised athletics
scholarships, all the coaches I spoke to
vigorously denied these rumors.
“(The athletes) don’t get more than the
regular student body,” Cyrus said. “Students ask me, ‘Oh, I heard athletes get
to enroll in their classes sooner.’ Or they get
more money, or whatever. But they don’t
get anything more than what you get. Our
student-athletes are treated the same as the
rest of the student body.”
Many of the coaches view LC’s sports
programs as a supplement to the college’s
admissions programs.
“We’re working with admissions to
bring in the new freshman class,” Cyrus
says. “(The athletes) want to be at a school
like Lewis & Clark, but they might not have
known it until I shone a light on it and said,
‘Hey, we have a great softball program too.’”Coaches face challenges recruiting for DIII school
By ASHLYN LITTLE
ON SEPT.30, the Seattle Mariners
topped the Oakland Athletics 2-1
to end a two-decade-long playoff
drought. Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh led
his team to victory when he hit a walk off
home run. This caused the team to clinch
a wildcard berth in the playoffs for the first
time since 2001.
Raleigh came on as a pinch hitter and
secured the win for the Mariners when he
hit a two-out home run in the bottom of
the ninth inning. This was Raleigh’s 26th
home run of the season, which is the most
ever hit by a Mariners catcher.
Fans erupted in victory, as they
celebrated for 10 minutes on the field.
The fans and players could all feel the
weight of the drought being lifted off their
shoulders.
The celebration did not end there.
Nearly an hour later, tens of thousands
of fans were still cheering and
commemorating the historic victory.
After the team conducted their own
clubhouse celebration, they stepped
back on the field to show their fans love
for their undying support. Manager
Scott Servais gave a speech discussing
the importance behind the memorable
victory. “We did it. These players behind
me are special. They care. They care
about winning the right way. They care
about representing the city of Seattle,”
said Servais via an Entertainment and
Sports Programming Network interview.
Being in the Pacific Northwest, there
are many students from the Seattle area
who are big Mariners fans. One student
in particular, Ben Tallent ’26, has been a
fan of the team since childhood.
“The last time they went to the
playoffs I wasn’t even alive,” Tallent said.
Tallent has grown up watching the
Mariners and recalls “going to friends
house to watch games with them,”
frequently. Tallent also explained how
he has remained a loyal fan despite the
drought that the Mariners have endured.
Tallent has attended several games
this season and has enjoyed seeing his favorite team do well. He recalls the
moment he found out they won, noting
how he “started jumping in the air.”
This triumphant feeling seems to be
widespread throughout the Mariners
fan base after the incredible game.
“I think this team has potential to
be really good,” Tallent said. “If they
can get past the Blue Jays and then take
on the Astros, I think they can go pretty
far.”
The first three playoff games can be
watched on ESPN for anyone wishing
to follow the Mariners postseason run.
The team’s success has been a
culmination of teamwork and several
other important wins leading up to
the final game. As the Mariners head
into the playoffs, the loyal fanbase
have their heads held high and are
ready to take on whatever obstacles
come their way. Seattle Mariners end
20 year long droughtCross-Country
Mike Johnson Collegiate
Men’s placed: 6th
Women’s: 5th
Football
LC v Whitworth: L 28-66
LC v Pacific Lutheran: L 21-47
Overall: 3-2
Soccer
Men’s
LC v George Fox: L 0-2
LC v Pacific Lutheran: L 1-5
LC v Pacific: L 0-1
Overall: 1-9
Women’s
LC v George Fox: L 0-1
LC v Pacific: T 1-1
LC v Pacific Lutheran: L 1-5
Overall: 3-5-2
Tennis
Men’s & Women’s: Northwest
Fall ITA Regionals
McDermott advanced
Allison Gabelman/Sujhad Amado
Aguad advanced
Volleyball
LC v Whitworth: L 0-3
LC v Whitman: L 0-3
LC v Willamette: L 0-3
LC v Pudget Sound: L 0-3
Overall: 1-12
Athletes of the Week
Oct.2 - Oct. 8
Megan Yanagi ’26 -Women’s
Soccer
Wade McDermott ’26 - Men’s
Tennis
Oct. 9 - Oct. 15
Wesley Esparza ’25 - Men’s
Soccer
Johnathan Westlake ’23 - Men’s
golf
SOLEINA ROBINSON/THE MOSSY LOGSTELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOGLC golf team focuses
on growing diversity Scores
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
By AMELIA DOYLE
WHILE ATHLETICS at Lewis &
Clark as a whole want to focus
on Title IX and being inclusive,
this has been a partic2qular focus of
Head Men’s and Women’s Golf Coach
Brad Johnson throughout his career.
When Johnson coached for New
York University’s golf team, he recruited
from all over the world. Even when he
was told to only reach out to players from
the South, while coaching at Millsaps
College in Mississippi, he chose to recruit
players from all across the United States.
This mindset is something that he is
implementing at LC.
“Golf is played all over the world,
and there’s some phenomenal golfers,”
Johnson said. “We won a national
championship at NYU with an almost
completely international team.”
This year was Johnson’s first year
recruiting at LC, and he brought in eight
new golf players. He is also looking at
recruiting internationally next year and
mentioned some prospective golfers
from Spain and Canada.
Johnson looks for players that
are interested in athletics, academics
and the overall atmosphere of the
Pacific Northwest. He loves the diverse
perspectives of the golf team, whose
players are from all over the United
States.
“They get to see people from
different parts of the country, different
experiences, different walks of life and I
think that really is the important part,”
Johnson said.
One of the players, Asiya Kamawal
’23, said that she has really enjoyed the
team dynamic at LC. She has felt very
encouraged and included within the
team dynamic.
“There’s a certain comfort that comes
with that when you know, you’re not
the only one that looks different when
it comes to going somewhere or being
somewhere, where everyone looks
the same and you’re the odd one out,”
Kamawal said. Kamawal is Muslim and spoke
about the islamophobia that she has
experienced on golf courses outside
of LC. She said that she has never felt
more comfortable on the course since
she joined the golf team. Since LC is a
primarily white school, Kamawal said
that she has not always felt a sense of
belonging, but she feels as though she
found her place on the LC golf team.
Additionally, Golf is less economically
accessible than many other sports as
each outing requires the purchase of a
tea time and the use of expensive clubs.
As a result, it has been a predominantly
white sport in the U.S. making what
Johnson is doing particularly important.Small liberal college in Pacific Northwest translates to LC’s recruiting process looking different
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The Backdoor is a work of truth and reality
Queer Student Union leaders publicly feud on Twitter, take turns invalidating each other's identitiesStudent worried peers will
discover cop dad, vice versa
By TOR PARSONS
ANYONE WHO has been on the
Lewis & Clark campus this school
year will have noticed fundamental
changes. Yes, half of the campus is under
construction, and another third seems to
be blocked off. Yes, Maggie’s Cafe is gone,
and has been replaced with an abandoned
café at the location of Maggie’s. Yes, the
newspaper formerly known as The Pioneer
Log is now called The Mossy Log. (Okay,
you probably did not notice that one.)
But the most notable change that has
come over our campus is in the sheer
number of slugs. At this moment, no
matter where you are on campus, there
is probably at least 10 pounds of slug
within 10 feet of you. You think, of
course, there have always been slugs at
LC. But have there ever been this many?
It is not just you. When the hotly
anticipated 2022 edition of the US
News & World Report College Slug
Ranking came out last week, it was
revealed that LC had jumped 17 spots
in the “Slug Density” category, sitting at
number two nationwide with an average of
1.4 SPF (slugs per foot). The only campus
to beat us in this regard was University of
California, Santa Cruz, where the mascot
is literally a slug. Meanwhile, LC took the
top spot in “Average Slug Mass,” with the
average slug on our campus tipping the
scales at a whopping 11 ounces.
LC also led the nation in slugs per
student, with an estimated 46 slugs
inhabiting our
campus for
every one student.
46 whole slugs!
Next time you
are in the Bon,
imagine that instead
of food, every student
has a plateful of 46
slugs. That is how
many slugs there are
on this campus.
A math major, who
declined to give their
name out of fear that
they would be outed as a math major, used math to attempt to explain the
rapid increase in the slug population.
“See, once you have a few slugs that are
reproducing, pretty soon you have a lot
more slugs,” they said, pointing to some
kind of grid with a curving line across
it. “This is called exponential growth. If
nothing reduces the number of slugs, the
number of slugs keeps growing faster the
more slugs there are. At this rate, the slug
population on campus should double every
two weeks. Better invest in some salt.”
The author of this column remembers
learning about exponential growth in high
school, and they are pretty sure it had to do
with math, not slugs. But The Mossy Log
has decided to give this math major the
benefit of the doubt, since none of us have
the means to disprove them.
At the very least, they are right about one
thing: The slugs are reproducing. In public.
In broad daylight.
“The number of students who have
come in seeking counseling after they saw
two romantically entangled slugs has shot
through the roof this year,” said School
Counselor Brenda Gruzzly. “We had to start
an entire support group.”
The Slug Sex Support Group meets
twice a week at the former site of Maggie’s,
since it certainly is not being used for
anything else.
All else aside, nobody seems to know
why there are so many slugs on campus
this year.
“I have no idea. Must be the weather?”
said the vice president for student life.
“There are the same amount of slugs as
ever. You must be seeing things,” said the
dean of the college of arts and sciences.
“It’s a secret,” said the head of facilities.
“I think I know,” said the president. “But
revealing it would violate the terms of the
NDA we have with the
slugs.”Slug population rising
with distressing speed
By EMMA FORD
THE BACKDOOR was made aware
of an anonymous student on
campus needing to vent about their
deepest, darkest shame — their father is
a police officer. Now, we at the Backdoor
are not the school’s counseling services,
but with the knowledge that said services
are typically considered lacking by the
student body, we decided to do our best
to provide peer support in exchange for a
brief interview.
Also, honestly, we thought it would be
hilarious.
Ford: So, how long has your parent
been involved with your hometown police
force?
Anonymous Cautious Academic Being
(ACAB): My whole life. I never used to
think anything of it — he would come to
my elementary school and let kids play on
the squad car. It was just like any other job.
Ford: And now it is no longer something
you feel comfortable making public?
ACAB: No. I had a falling out with one
of my best friends when I said I back the
blue — and it didn’t matter to them that
“the blue” is literally my own father.
Ford: You say you back the blue. You
back all police officers?
ACAB: Obviously they are not all
perfect. But they never gave me any
trouble! I once got pulled over for speeding
and the officer let me off with a warning,
and I don’t even think she knew my dad
that well. She had only been over to our
house a few times.
Ford: I completely understand. In light
of recent shifts in perception of police, do
you feel your perception of your father has
shifted?
ACAB: Not at all. He is my dad. I know
that he has never made a random stop that
was anything other than random. He is
one of those people that does not see color!
Like one time, he was called to a school
over a young Black boy who was having a
meltdown, and he put him in a restraining
hold just like he would with my brother
at home. He treated him like family! That
is what police ought to be like. I just wish
my friends were more accepting, like they claim to be. So much for the tolerant left.
We at the Backdoor were deeply
interested, and pursued an interview with
the student’s father. Luckily, on his state-
mandated donut and Reddit break, the
father had time for us. He also asked to
remain anonymous. However, it was not
out of concern for his child.
Ford: Would you be able to repeat what
you just said now that I am recording?
Police Inspector General (PIG): Yeah, I
do not want my squad finding out I let my
kid go to a libtard arts school.
Ford: Why would that be?
PIG: Are you stupid? All their kids
went to state schools, or better yet, found
honest work. My kid is making me spend
thousands of my hard-earned dollars to
come home with blue hair and pronouns.
It is going to make them soft! I do not even
know what they do all day — eat tofu?
Study critical race theory? It is humiliating!Ford: Did you always feel this way?
PIG: No! People used to respect the
uniform. I never would have liked this, but
at least you liberal elites used to pretendto
respect us. Now, you score points off the
backs of hard-working Americans and
strip away our power against the thugs
and criminals I deal with every day. And
that is not why I became a cop!
Ford: Why did you become a cop?
PIG: … Um, to … help people. Yeah,
that sounds right.
Of course, part of college is being
exposed to new views, but what we can
all take away from a situation like this
is sometimes, being exposed to those
viewpoints helps to strengthen your own
for the better. The Backdoor is thrilled
to report that this student has been put
in contact with proper help, and will
be continuing to keep their cop lineage
where it belongs — to themselves.
SOFIA REEVES/THE
MOSSY LOG
Nonbinary students Rock, Paper, Scissors start brawl
By FRANKIE SPURBECK
A FEW WEEKS ago, all three
leaders of Lewis & Clark’s
Queer Student Union (QSU)
announced their resignation. The
announcement came on the heels of
a brutal, well-publicized Twitter fight
between the club leaders. Now, for the first time ever, The Mossy Log is
bringing you the full scoop — exclusive
interviews with the former leaders.
According to Paper Petrovich ’24,
who held the position of QSU chair
at the time of the digital altercation,
everything began on Twitter. Petrovich is
the roommate of Scissor Martinez-Smith
’24, who was vice chair of QSU. Petrovich alleges that Martinez-Smith had used the
word “folx” within their room, in violation
of their roommate agreement. Martinez-
Smith denies this happened. She told me
“I didn’t say folx, I said ‘folks.’ They sound
the same.”
According to Martinez-Smith,
Petrovich finds the word “folx” to be
“fake woke” and “performative.”
The next incident occurred at a club
meeting the following Thursday. Rock
Anderson ’25, the treasurer for QSU, was
discussing a support group for transgender
students with Martinez-Smith. The two
were discussing logistics of the group
meetings, debating what time and location
would be best, when Petrovich approached
them and asked why they had not been
included in the planning and email threads
regarding the trans support group. When I
spoke with Anderson regarding the incident,
he told me it was all a misunderstanding
that got blown out of proportion.
“It wasn’t on purpose that we didn’t
invite Paper,” Anderson said. “We just
forgot, and she hadn’t responded to the
first email, so she missed some of the
subsequent ones, and by the time we
realized she hadn’t been looped in, she
was yelling at us.”
Petrovich remembers the situation
differently. She believes that she was
not invited to help organize the trans
support group because she uses she/
they pronouns. When I approached
Martinez-Smith with these accusations,
she scoffed.
“Paper is always trying to make it
seem like we don’t take them seriously
as a nonbinary person because they’re
a she/they,” Martinez-Smith said. “We do! They just didn’t get the email. It’s all
a misunderstanding.”
Martinez-Smith then asked me if she
could share something off the record.
Though I told her that it did not work
that way, she continued speaking.
“But honestly,” Martinez-Smith said,
“I don't think they’d even want to go to
trans group, because they don't seem to
experience many aspects of the trans
experience. I’m always out as a trans
woman. I don’t get to pick when people
know I’m trans. Paper does.”
At this point, perhaps realizing I was
still recording, Martinez-Smith trailed
off and declined to comment further.
Tensions were running high. Yet,
the club had one more hurdle to
surmount: the annual queer student
mixer. The event got off to a bad start.
Anderson, who had been in charge of
buying decorations for the hall, was
admonished by his co-leaders for buying
pride flag banners which included
a now-outdated lesbian flag and for
neglecting to purchase any pride flags
catering to LC’s sizable transmasculine
aromantic bisexual T4T population.
Petrovich, who had been in charge of
promoting the event, had not even
posted on the club’s Instagram page
until 24 hours before and accusations
that they had gotten distracted and
spent hours perfecting their Pinterest
“gender board” were flying around the
QSU leaders’ Twitter accounts.
As the event began in earnest,
Anderson facilitated a pronoun circle,
inviting guests to share their name,
pronouns, year and a description of
their gender. For the curious reader, Anderson’s gender “is like if a raccoon
was wearing little fingerless gloves and
riding a skateboard,” whatever that
means.
It was at this point that shit really
hit the fan. Martinez-Smith snuck
away from the event, hid in the gender-
neutral restroom, and began pumping
out tweets, asking timeless questions
such as “can white people even be
nonbinary?” and “what does it mean
to have a gender like a little raccoon
wearing gloves on a skateboard how
are you going to perform that?” and
“how do you ask your roommate to stop
leaving their breakfast dishes on the
floor for days at a time?”
Petrovich and Anderson, who had
also snuck away from the event and
were spread out across other gender
neutral bathrooms on campus, saw and
responded to those tweets.
“I don’t have to perform the little
raccoon,” Anderson tweeted. “I was
joking and even if I wasn’t, if I say it’s
my gender, it’s my gender. Performance
theory is dead.”
Petrovich chimed in, posting a
picture of themself crying in the
bathroom with the caption “they them
pussy hits different.” At this point, all
three switched to direct messaging each
other. Despite my best efforts, I was not
able to retrieve the messages.
The next day, QSU posted an
announcement to its Instagram:
“Hello friends! We are really sorry to
announce this, but all three club leaders
are stepping down and detransitioning,
effective immediately. With love, the
former QSU leadership team.”
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